THE BAD BOY The bad boy climbs the cherry tres And eats, and when he's done Throws cherries at the birds and breaks | The limbs off just for fun; | He knocks the smaller boys around And as you madly chase Him down the street “Ya-a-a-a!” And makes an ugly face. he hollers | The bad boy cuts the hammock ropes And spoils the flower-bed, | And watches for a chance to push The good boy from the shed; The bad boy puts his thumb against His nose and turns to sass ‘ You when you ask him kindly not To run across the grass. ¢ The bad boy gets the smaller boys To run away to swim, And while they splash around clothes Are tied in knots by him; He ducks them till they breath, And, while they try to dress, He spatters them with mud, and thus Is filled with happiness. their lose their The bad boy likes to torture dogs, He ties things to their tails, And what you don't want fastened down He hammers full of nails; He throws things at you when you pass, And if you kinaly stay To give him good advice he calls You names and runs away. The bad boy breaks his mother's heart And makes his father cad; Sometimes he changes, but too oft Keeps right on being bad; And if he does turn out all right And go the way he should He gets three tmes the credit that The boy gets who is good — Washington Star. A SHADOW BARRIER. Alva had always known that David had been engaged before, but his love had been too satisfying, and had been too happy to think very much about the matter. When he asked Alva David told her of his previous engage- ment, and there the subject rested. Al- va had been proud to be too honorable to question him; indeed, she was not conscious of any desire to do so. She felt no resentment against the other woman, for David's love was too com- plete to leave any room for jealousy But one evening, as they sat in the cozy window seat in the library, watch- ing the sunset colors change and glow, there came to Alva the woman's instinct to probe the heart of the man she loves, and lay bare all its secrets, “Do you love me, dear?” she hegan, moving closer to run her fingers through David's hair, “Indeed I do, my darling.” she +. * to marry num before?” “Nes, dear” “That other woman—the were engaged to first—did her?” “Of course, or I shouldn't have asked her to marry me.” Alva’s hand dropped to her side, the man tock it and held it in a clasp. “It seems odd,” mused Alva. “I su poiec you sat by her side and held her hand just as you are holding mine now. Did you make the same pretty speeches you do to me, | wonder?” “Certainly not,” replied David, gently “No man ever makes love to two women in quite the same way.” “No; men are too adaptable for that” said Alva, but there was no malice in her voice; and David, glancing at her quickly, saw that she did not realize how deep the truth of her remark lay. | “Isn't that red sky gorgeous?” he asked, after a moment. “In a little while it will be the faintest pink.” “It's wonderful,” said Alva. “Do you | know, dear, that you never told me which | one of you broke that engagement >” “Didn’t I, dear?” ! “No,” said Alva, “but doen't tell me if you would rather not,” she added softly, | “Somehow I fell sure that you did.” “Yes,” David said, “you are right. 1} broke it.” “I am glad it was you” said Alva, | quickly, “because it makes me feel sure | you Lave no regrets. I never had any | patience with the false notion of honor | that prevents a man from breaking an | engagement. I don’t see how it can be | honorable to marry a woman when you do not love her.” As she spoke Alva looked at her lover | to see whether he shared her opinion. | His face, with the glory of the sunset | full upon it, was very sober, ! He did not speak for some time, and | Alva waited, knowing he would soon tell | her what was in his mind. “I did not break my engagement be- | cause | had ceased fo care,” he said fin- ally, “but the woman I was to marry did me 8 great wrong, and I lost faith in her. I could not marry a woman I did not trust, so I released her. 1 think it right to tell you this, dear.” “And then,” said Alva softly, “you ceased to care.” “Yes, dear, I ceased to care. Not all at once, but gradually. There, now the sky is pink, a pink that would just be- come you, Don't you wish [ were equip ped with wings s0 I could fly up and get you a piece of that cloud for a ball gown?" “Was it before. you met me or after- ward that you ceased to care?” Alva “I hardly lnow. It was before I think, that I stopped caring, but jt took you to fetore ny lost faith in Nomaniin, mA made you forget Alva's Ww gice was hushed with tenderness. one you you love 4 “Yes, dear, you made me forget,” said David in the same tone. “See how fast the pink is fading!” he continued. “It is just as well I could not get you that color wouldn't wash.” Once Alva would have retorted gayly that people didn’t wash ball gowns, but now she gave his hand a tiny pressure and said: “It must have nurt you dreadfully to be treated so. Are you sure the hurt is all gone?” David retuinea the pressure, but he did not speak at ence. Alva looked up and she could scarcely see his face. “It still hurts a little, dear,” he said slowly; “not because I have anv regrets, way | was treated. that in time, but now it makes me angry I love you dearly—better leave a scar, 1 suppose.” “Poor darling!” Alva's free hand went David's head and ran lingeringly through his curls and across his fore- head. With a caressing emotion her ingers touched first lus cheeks and then his eyes Suddenly she against her hand. and her arm dropped to f2it somethi ng her side as David t bad said that the other woman was nothi 1g to him now, but—that Slowly Alva drew her hand seem Lu and h from his notice. clasp, but he did not Presently she hie BC shivered, “What is the he “Are you cold? cow? See, the matter, dear?” Shall I clo pink is only “No. I am not cold.” said All the gorgeous crimson to a dull gray Her heart ached, and her head throbbed. She wanted to be alone—to think it over, “1 have a headache, dear.” fev wy sy be fF vist iH eve i aloud. think if you will excuse me will go to bed. Perhaps it will be better she by morning.” ul hope 80, : $ lover, adding in a whisg go now,” he continue afternoon I'll come 3 . your hands “How thoughtless I was ng beside that open window! These cvenings ars But 1 watching the sunset and did not think Alva sighed. It was not the sun that made him forget, she thought. All night Alva lay awake, staring in to darkness to let 3 you sil so io cool was her lover: Dear Davo mean to hurt you last night. suppose it could hurt you to talk of her But it did, dear, and so although you know it tid aid yes not ould not bring tears to your eyes dear, have you to Ah, u well memory between us, how did for I love you too even a don't know you no Had I shown face. the subject but And 1 sh talk of her to see if it still hurt you, It will casier to endure t f separation than to go through | awful ache in my heart, and [ have not power to heal a hurt that any one cise coul Do t that want to talk of her i WO 4 be he agony A d 10t try to see You can make things harder for me yet 1 must go on thinking of you, al- ways. Good-by, dear, and God bless you. Alive. * . * * - w After this letter was sent, Alva took must be got through with somehow. letter came. Alva clutched heart with a fierce cagerness. it to her She had him go out of her life. Tremblingly she broke the scal and read the letter. My Dear Cuiro—I shall not try to tell a hurt far worse than the hurt of the other night, the one that caused you to write it, I am not going to pleid with you, dear. I am a proud man, and I could not do that, but I am going to ask you to alter your decision. I hardly know how to write what 1 want you to know. There can be noth- ing between us; not even a memory. Once 1 loved that other woman. 1 believed her everything that was good and womanly, and when my confidence in her was shaken I thought that I never could trust any ome again. I believed the depth of my love that made me suffer so, but now I know it was because my trust had been betrayed. I mourned not the woman herself, but the ideal she had shattered. That is why it still hurts me to talk of her, although she is nothing to me now. It was you, dear, who brought back my faith in human nature, my trust in woman ; and your power to do this is the best proof that I love you as | have never loved before. Some people say that a man's first love is his best, but they do not know. Of course, if his first love lasts and be- comes the fuller, rounded love of his later life, it is the best, but each time a man loves he loves against greater odds. His trust has more bitter experi- ences, more cynicism to battle with. There can be no love that is worthy the name without confidence, and the love that can bring to life a dead faith must be fhe greatest love. | I do not think you can realize ths, ¥ dear, you are too young. But try es believe me, and do not send me away from you. I have said that 1 would not plead with you, but I do plead, dear. | You can do what no one has ever been | able to do; you can make me forget my pride, I know how you love me. Your letter told me that, as well as of your pain, I am sorry for the hurt, dear. I under- stand. But, if you send me away now, some day when you are older and hase learned the difference between the trou- bles that are shadows and the cares that must be faced and fought. you will be | very, very lonely, Better the joy of iove, dear, than the | pain of loneliness, | i i i i The messenger is to wait for an an- Will you not say, “Come?” David. “Cry away, dear, it will do you good.” said David an hour later. Alva had said swer. into a passion of tears, i was too much for her self-control “I don't know why I am crying, I am sure,” she said, “for | am glad—oh, glad! without Ledger Monthly. you."—Ina Brevoort in RESPECTED H IS OWN RULE, to His Friend. part The conspicuous { derful development of this | The company 1s probably the only one in the world in which “influence” and “pull” are not permitted to affect pro- motions. A hard and fast rule is down that all promotions must came from the ranks, and that everybody in the employ of the concern must stand on his own merits. Neither | nor any other claim is recognized, either | in obtaining employment or in getting { ahead after a place 1s won. That this not mere talk forcibl | brought home the other day to a Pitts | burgher, says Evening i Post | This man, after a successful | career, recently m n y o . is idle was y he Sarurday with a reverses that a dollar however, probity or on misfortunes stances over et left uw 258 Bes pe ow nothing hi is cum whic! trol. As he was in exc ing and feeling younger than he did not break his spint | that he would begin make a new fortune, he went Andrew ! he had known having been with really was, the ¢ He determined | over again, and As a preliminary, Carnegie, g Ts ‘id ately all hus life, to whom intim him a member of the Dubuque Club and of other organiza | tions. He explained his situation and asked for a position i ah isl rks com. and train n the we mensurate w is position {Ing “1 cannot Mr. Carnegie “You cannot “Simply because I haven't the power.’ give you a position,” said w h ¥ 3 “But you are the chief owner.” “Yes, I am, but Carnegie Company t begin at the bottom and | neither I nor anyone else If 1 should give y such rule it is a hat everyl work can that rule to put ask, if there was a vacancy, | attention would be paid to it—not In fact, any sort of a le it would only do you more harm than 800d. In the first place, it would not i Ret you a place such as you ask, and in the second place, if you did succeed in getting in at the bottom, the very fact that 1 had recommended you would make everybody in the establishment { watch you like a hawk. That is the way influence works in our concern.” | The Pittsburgher went away and got | work elsewhere, but he regrets that he { did not start carlier in life in an enter- prise where merit is so absolutely the i test. Whether the same rule will be maintained under the great conswolida- tion 13 a question that i people, an you a position as even 3: 1 ¢ gu slightest if 1 should give you ttter of recommendation The American Youth's Love of Action. To the American youth the greathst attraction is a life of action, and to him the comparatively stagnant life which, in these modern times, the army officer or the university professor must live is not especially attractive. The very es- sence of the American is his love of of stagnation. A life of action may take young man in our republic who has high ambitions and high intelligence: it is the demands of commerce and indus. try which offer the greatest attractive. ness. These promise to give the great est power and honor, and these lines of industry have in recent years been drawing toward themselves more and more the whole energies of the best minds, the most ambitious natures of the youth of the American republic. As a result, the bright American youths are drawn to the lines of intense activity in. volved in the geaeral term Industrial. It is these active men engaged in af. fairs that advance the world and make a rising generation. Do we not see here a great reason for the rapid growth of our country?--The National Mage- one, Musical Diamond Jubilee. This is the diamond jubilee of the tonic sol-fa movement, «ays the London Mail, and at the present time no fewer than four and a half million children in the elementary schools are being taught this system. SR ———————— The human voice is produced by The assistance of eight pair of muscles, and fifteen other pairs cont =ibute in various | ayn DISSEMINATING SLANG. CLICKING A NEW WORD FROM CITY TO CITY. Slang Travels Faster Than Steam Be- cause it is Telegraphed to Chums by Operators Ingenious Explanation of the Origin of a Phrase Wit by Wire. It is a curious fact that “slang travels faster than steam.” This vaguely ascribed to the telegraph and the oper- ators, but no one save the operators seems to know how quickly catch pitrases are made to fly from city to city All things center in the telegraph of- fices; to them go all sorts of people— theatrical folk, “horsey” men, commer- cial travellers, men about town, mes- sengers, receiving clerks, and, in smal- ler cities, even the operators hear and are quick to “pick up” the “latest” phrases and catch-words, such as will lend themselves to interjection between the messages handled on a busy wire, is those working in them must needs con dense their humor into the smallest pos sible space or go without it; hence tele graphic wit is generally confined to crisp CHLOROFORMING INCURABLES, A Sail Into the Seas of the Future “Ad- ‘vanced Civilization.” “The civilization of to-day has not been ground to that razor-edged keen- ness when the painless putting to their final sleep of incurables would be jus- tified” said a well known Washington alienist to a Stor reporter, “But it does not follow that the civ- ilization of 1,000 years hence may not be such that the power of the state over the lives and property of its citizens will extend to that extent. [ will take two recent instances as a basis for my re- marks: “First, the passage of a bill by the Legislature of Minnesota, which prohib- its the marriage of imbéciles and persons afflicted with one or two other mental and physical diseases of serious nature. Ihe purpose of such a bill is open to discussion, and certain of its features are worfhy of strong commendation, but its practical workings are nullified because such couples may cross the border into another State and be legally married. To real h at are 50 edged with hundreds of miles to other end of the wire. One somewhat vulgar house,” Sarcasm as to the man word, “bu and had a surprisingly quick popularity, On a busy morning, the first wire of a telegraph company between New York and Baltimore out of balance.” In other the delicate currents encountered a enough to them to » actuate the multiplex in struments connected with it. The wire chiefs between Balt were the mstruments went words, i Calse Cease called in, and, after much testing trouble was located in Baltimore's The Baltimore wire chief, found that the by a cockroach, after tumbling an ink-well, with the tat crawled out and dragged its wet the box, try to escape in upon cle trouble was which, 3... 8 flush SC exammation, caused into 3 ne, resistance \ p ARH one of \ y 5. d chi-piug holes a con- rfore many hun ohms resistance thrown acros currents resistance “had a " " which created “wire trou mformation was when wire was told discussed and slang suited t ble This the again The st alx metropolitan office, mented upon, and a new came into being, one just graphic ny HH Com Com y tele . ' uses Variations were settle over the bit of slang was sent fly country ing in wit of the operators found to use it Soon after I was assigned to the St Jouis wire. 1 knew the man in the Mis 54 ur: city personally, and we were much # ¥ ’ ’ ven to other. | joking with each to pas hen ocx ASH Ee W y ’ hy bef $ w opportumity came a difference of opinion arose between he u over $ newspaper ial us. At an interesting point troversy my distant friend calmly ed that IT was house.” get hol The man on spe then passing between in the n oft on Were did yo I asked. He said the Cincinnati wire j u d that >" ust yelled it at me.’ So Baltimore had passed the new slang to Cincinnati. St. Louis got it and probably passed to Ogden, Ogden sent it flying to the Pacific Coast Chicago had it from Cincinnati. passed it to the Northwest. St clicked it to New and Southwest, It rate it nex: it Louis Orleans the maintained in the first fifteen United States hour. and Canada within messenger boys, and the boys bore it in to every nook and corner of their re- spective cities. The next day the smal- ler cities had the new idiom, with varia a week Le, in received it: in threadbare. «GG it Was worn Philosophy of Simon Frost. Children an’ wise men hadn't oughter The biggest pods ain't always got the Blood's thicker ‘n water, an’ some- There's them that likes to laugh at a ain't mighty poor There's always some hope left for the A feller that makes friends too easy There's lots o' things in this world i ' The feller that talks so much about what he kin do often don’t hey aio time left to do it. A penny starts out jest as bright as a five-dollar gold piece, but it ain't long afore it gits tarnished. The world’s like a seesaw: first one side's up an’ then t'other, an’ the middle un stays purty near still.—Padadelphia Record, Opal Luck For Shamrock. Captain Sycamore, who was sailing Shamrock Il, and ran the greatest risk of fatal injury in the wreck, is a great man in his town of Brightlingsea, of which little Essex seaport he is mayor. His official chair is made up of gold oyster shells crossed with silver sprats; and the superstitious will draw their own inference from the fact that it is decorated with a large opal. —Mod- ern Societn “The progeny of a single couple of degenerates and paupers have been to their various ramifications through several generations, and out of have paupers, thieves, convicts, mur- derers, persons of ill-repute and charges upon the public in one form or another male and female alike. Students of this interesting question have made other compilations of degenerate fam- ic and startling SOCial nt ni results “The power of the State to legislate for the protection of the majority against the of the minority is undisputed, acts ontrol and restraint and the seizing and isolation patients. In the advanced »f future centuries this power been greatly extended, no doubt. place an iron-bound re- hie marriage of persons in ' of lu u f lunatics of smallpox civilization will have and uj» tion with the gbject of tl d he humane It is called 1 4 woman in r York, who has iTom paralysis for jority practically dead, and n the beginning of t truthfully and life Her body and nervous In the 1 1 speak ject would probably be chiot- or otherwise humanely disposed of in the 1anitarian to-day in broken her her dead are tially suk game which 1s ut a a leg "to put it out of its misery.’ “Of course, 1s country, suc would properly be considered and it “NG = : ru ld ag mcurabies h an bar- woul "n in tf us, be, but 1.000 hence this type may iff. valueless, uld liv it ¢ for it is with the human bod rhen 1 becomes t discase The reason y would bear of the horse of the same worthle } res son iDiess DY reason 3 that life within such rw os day “While I will admit that the second proposition may be considered radical and inhuman, the first one is the one which commands the attention of the I be- far distant concerted attempt not the time real and that $OMme 1 iieve is when degeneracy, pauperism, disease and crime by striking at the very root of the evil either by the isolation of or the “How or the manner in which it is to be accomplished is the problem which will have to be solved.” Tenacity of Racial Instingts. The white rat in comparison with * wild congener is somewhat less vigor. ous and hardy (especially does not en- dure cold or hunger so well), and has sioughed off some of the timidity and suspiciousness of the wild rat: on the other hand, his senses, with the excep- tion of sight, are as keen, his character- tic rat traits are as persistent, and his adaptability is as considerable. In view of the many generations of luxur- ous idleness of the white rat, this pro- found and enduring nature of spe- cific psychic traits is striking. A perti- nent illustration was furnished by a young rat that escaped from his cage and was loose about the laboratory for several days. He had just been weaned when the accident occurred. Food was rather scarce and he got hungry. Fi- nally one morning he found his way into the chicken pen, and in less than two minutes had killed two chickens, and was upon the third when discovered. The chickens were three times as large as himself. The killing was done by biting through the throat of the victim, and was as neatly and deftly executed as if the executioner were an old hand. The importance of this illustration lies in the fact that this is exactly the meth. od of killing employed by rats. The only ¥ with his fellows. This, at best, slight importance, as he had reached the COMMERCIAL REVIEW, (icaeral Trade Conditions. New York (Special), —R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of Trade” says: Anxiety regarding unfavorable POsEL- bilities in the future rather than any actual present misfortune depressed se curities and caused cancellation of some orders for merchandise by Western deal- ers. Retail distribution of goods will not be curtailed by the labor controver- sy unless it is of long duration, as the men have saved money during the re- cent period of full employment at high wages Beyond advancing prices of sheets and depressing the market for tin, quotations have not been affected by the strike of the Amalgamated Associa- tion Woolen mills are more generally act- ive than at any time this year, orders for heavy-weight goods arriving in large numbers, The light-weight season will soon open, and although it 1s expected that concessions from 5 to 10 per cent. from last year's prices will be made there is prospect of profitable op eration unless the raw material should advance Stability of prices seems assured in the footwear industry. The firm tone is sustained by the steadiness of leather and buyers are not seeking concessions Jradstreet’s says: Vheat, including our, shipments the week aggregate 5.221800 bushels, against 5,016,149 bushels last week, 13. 020,381 in the corresponding week 1000, 3.408.071 in 189g a 2.303.400 in 1898. From July 1 to date shipments aggregate 12,702,455, as against 7.871,- 849 last season and g,177866 in 1800 1900. Corn exports for the week aggre- gate 1,714,081 bushe against 2,800,738 last week, 4,182,159 in this week a year 3.000.204 in 1899 and 28227128 in 1808. From July 1 to date exports ag- gregate 6,008,768 bushels, against 10 013,755 in the season of 1900-1901 and 10,951,433 in 1800-1000 jusiness failures in the United States for the week were 208, as against 19g last week, 202 this week a year ago, 174 in 1899, 188 in 1808 and 220 in 18g. LATEST QUOTATIONS. steel of for Oi rd na i Ag0 ag 1 Gra. aCe Best Patent, Extra, $305 bakers, $2.80a1.00. Wheat —New York, 74ac; Philadelphia, 72¢; Baltimore, 66a6; —New Yorl Philadelphia, Ne (Jats, — Philadelphi timore, No. 2 white, Rye —New York, delphia, No. 2, sb¢c; sic Green Fruits and new, per hali-bb Cabbage, native, per $1.00a%1.50. Corn, Eastern Shore, per Norfolk, per beans, per 19a40c goc. Tomatoes, carrier, fancy, $1.50a1.7%; 2-basket carrier, $1.2521.75; Anne Arun del, per basket, B8s3caSi100. Apples Eastern Shore, Md. and Va., per bbl, choice, $1.%0a200. Peaches, Md. and Va. per box, ordinary, soarysc: Florida, per O-basket carrier, $1.2521.50. Pears, Southern, per hali-bbl basket, goaysc Blackberries, per Raspberries red, per pint, 3a33¥ic Huckleberries, Gar Cantaloupes, North Carolina, per crate, $1.00a1.50. Watermelons, Florida and Georgia, per 100, $15.00220.00 Potatoes. —White, new, Nofolk, per bbl, No. 1, York river, per bbl, No ; Eastern Shore Md, Eastern Shore fa Pr short bacon 10V5¢; bacon shoulders Bijc: sugar cured cured shoulders, 13V:c; large, 13¢; t, $4.45a400; High 24.40; Minnesota our.- Corn more, Vegetables. —On | basket, y0a75c 100, Wakefield dozen, salc; do doz, 6aBc. Cucum bushel, Boca$ioo bus, green, 3%agoc Squash, per basket, 152 Florida, per 6-basket 1.75; Norfolk, per ons PET bers String wax, *" Biic: do clear sides, 934c: do clear sides, Qc; fat backs breasts, 13c; sugar 9lic. Hams—Smali, smoked skinned hams 13%4c; picnic hams, 93c Lard—Best refined, pure, in tierces, 9Vic: in tubs, 0¥4¢ per ib. Mess sork, per bbl, $16.00 Live Poultry. —Hens, r11arrdie; old roosters, each, 25a30c; spring chickens 14a15¢. Ducks, 7a8Yc. Spring ducks pat ic. Hides —Heavy steers, association and salters, late kill, 60 Ibs and up, close se lection, r1oljaridsc; cows and light steers, Qagdgc. Eggs. —Western Md. and Pa, per doz. 13V5¢; Eastern Shore Md. and Va, per doz, 13%4c: Virginia, per doz, 13a13'4c¢: Western and West Virginia, per doz 13a13%2¢c; Southern, per doz, 1234a13c; guinea, per doz, yc. Dairy Products. —Butter—Elgin, 21¢; separator extras, 20a2ic; do, firsts, 10a 20c¢; do, gathered cream, 1Bazoc: do, imitation, 17a18¢; ladle, extra, 15a17¢; la- dies, first, 14a15¢; choice Western rolls, t4a15¢; fair to good, 13a14c; half-pound creamery, Md, Va and Pa, 21az22¢c: do. rolls, 2-1b, do, 20c. Cheese. —Large, 60 Ibs, 93{atoe;: do. flats. 37 Ibs, glga10i4c; picnics, 23 Ibs, 1olatols, - Live Stock. Chicago. — Cattle — Good to prime steers, $5.40a6.20; poor to medium, $3.80 23.20; cows, $270a475; heifers, $2.35 4.90. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $35.70 ab.oo; good to choice heavy, $5.00a6.10; rough heavy, $5.60a585; light, $5.63a 590. Sheep steady to strong: lambs steady; good to choice wethers, $31.00a 4.50; fair to choice mixed, $3.50a390; * Wrern sheep, $3.50a4.00; native lambs, $3.2524.90; Western lambs, $1.735a3.00, East Liberty, Pa—Cat le steady: ex- tra. $585a6.00; prime. $5.350a570; good, $5.20a5.40. Hogs dull and lower; prime mediums and heavies, $6.07 V4a6.10; best” Yorkers and pigs, $608a6.07%; com. mon to fair Yorkers, $6.0026 08; skips, 4750578; roughs, $400a560. Sh steady; wethers, $4.20a4 30; cu and common, $1.5022.50; yearlings, $30c a4.75; veal calves, $7.00a7.50. * LABOR AND INDUSTRY P 1s do not pass th h several Glens “hands.” va bgt 4 By but a rn 12m Wp ne g i one parasol provides a, woman with work or the ot a eek, very spe. cial and beat L :
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