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REVIEW OF SPORTS
Artfnl Dodges Indulsjed in by the
Leaders of tho American
Association.
TTHIGH IS THE UXFAIR PARTY?
The Affaire of the local Ball Club and
Something About the Signing
of Flayers.
JACK 1TAULIFFE AS A MODEL B0X1B.
Corbettt Offer to the Irish Chinplon tai General
Gossip About PcgUum.
In no branch of sports has there been
anything bordering on the sensational dur
ing the week, except it may have been
among the trotters and their followers.
Outside of rumors, and lots of them, there
lias been nothing to attract the attention in
baseball as far as any definite happening is
concerned. But the rumors hare been
great and important, and if one-half of
them are true, we will be lucky if we have
anything at all left of the National League.
According to the Association malcontents
and thunderbolts, this organization, if such
it can be called, will wave its flag in every
League city next year, and the poor old
League will soon be done for. All the
"star" players of the League, we are told,
will rush to those wild-brained men who
claim to have done eo much for the national
game; I mean that fraternity in the Asso
ciation whose motto is to rule or ruin.
"But theyhaveallbeen there before," and
cot very long ago. Let us look the matter
square in the face and see what it amounts
to and also see, if we can, what is and
what is not reasonable connected with it.
"While I don't believe that the Association
magnates intend to do half of what they
say, I do believe that they intend, or at
least would like to put a club into Chicago.
They would like to do this from mercenary
reasons and mercenary reasons alone, just
es thev acted the part of traitors, wreckers
and blackguards to get a club into Cincin
nati. In order to have some kind of a pre
tense to put a club into Cincinnati they lied
and altogether were guilty of conduct that
was despicable in every sense of the word.
I am not exaggerating facts when I say
what I am now sayirg. The American
Association got into the hands of a few
ignorant, conceited, and at the same time,
wild-eyed individuals whose great object
was to pose before the world as baseball
macnates of great potency. Failure after
iailure had followed the Association. Every
now and again its circuit was being re
arranged as some of its cities were complete
failures. On every side the dire effects of
bad general local management were seen
and altogether the Association's condition
was a bad one. The Xational League came
to its rescue and gave consent for an Associ
ation club in Boston which was one of the
great things desired by the Association.
But the depraved greed and cunning of such
characters as have recently had charge of
the Association soon showed itself. They
warned to have Cincinnati also and were
rcallv persuaded by some small-brained
people thrt if they would put a team into
Cincinnati it would soon knock the League
team there into oblivion as Cincinnati was
an Association city.
X.ow Ivind of Scheming
Well, these Association degraders of
baseball stooped to the very lowest kind of
trickery in order to get their team into Cin
cinnati. They made a claim on certain
players who had been legally signed by the
League. They knew beyond all doubt that
they could not by any moral or civil law
obtain these players rightfully; they had no
valid claim to them whatever. But these
Association wreckers did not want these
players; they 'wanted to be refused their
services so that they could turn round and
say: "'We'll never get fair play here and we
had bctte.- just go and help ourselves.'
Of course, we all know that they went'
s.t once to Cincinnati and went with joy
and Ehouting. They had been led to believe
that no matter how they got into Cincin
nati they would be the great people there.
But their trickery failed as it always has
done and alwavs will do They t ere glad
to get out of Cincinnati, and their iailure
there was just one morepioofof the utter
inability ot Association leaders to manage
affairs. "Well, then we have these same As
sociation characters plotting and scheming
to get a team into Chicago under circum
stances and condition just as disreputable
as those under which they tried to capture
Cincinnati. Dreams of the money there
will be in Chicago during the World's
Pair have prompted these persors to even
stoop lower, if need be, thau they have in
the past to try and pocket some of that
monev, and it seems certain that every per
ron connected whh tho Association will
combine to place a team in Chicago.
And in their efforts to locale a club there
the Association people are circulating all
kind1: of false rumors so as to induce good
ball players in the League to desert the
latter. Doubtless the naiiiei of one or tti o
players have been secured as an attraction
to start with. For instance, Pfeffer may
hae given his name, anl l would be sm
r,
irked if be did not, because there is noih
ug on earth that he would stand aloof irom
if he thought there was any notoriety in it.
lie has a predominating love of promi
nence, no matter ho.v tint prominence is
obtained; his deire to be bomething of .1
baseball Magnate is so strong that he would
lace death lWlt in trying to attain his de
sired end. Depend upon it jrr. 1'fefler has
not been trying tor two or three years past
to ruin old "clubs and establish new ones for
the good of the game or because of princi
ple It has been onlv to tatify his own
101'teited notions that lie should be "sonic
thing" and that he should travel about the
country as a labelled baseball magnate. 3Ir.
"Pfeficr is indeed a wondeiful man, and ob
ject to anybodv outroaring him in fame.
Why, when John M. "Ward wrote his book
on baseball, didn't Piefler also produce one?
I think 1 know the gentleman who wrote it.
1'icUcr wanted the glory, end his name was
put on it as the author. "What slaves to
conceit some of us are. But it is noteworthy
that all thee baseball players who busy
themselves p much in trying to ruin the
2satioi...l League are the very persons who
at all times receive most money from the
Leaiue. This prompts me to say that if
our puuefi-up Pefiers were made managers
they .onld never forsake the League as
long as their teams held together, which I
fear would not be long. The League ought
to be clad to get rid of all such men as
Kcffer
Some Artful Dodging.
Amid the efforts of the Association
worthies to pilfer and carry on a system of
free booting, their latest President, Zach
Phelps, is daily repeating the "chestnut"
of the League's unfair dealing with the
Association in the past. Now let us see
where the fair dealing and unfair dealing
has been. The League was before the pub
lic first, and made a territory for itself; it
cultivated ihat territory. Then came the
Association and it took a territory for it
relf.and subsequently the two organizations
joined hands in carrying out a common pur
pose, viz: the playing of baseball pro
fessionally. For awhile things went on
irell, but the brains and business talent of
the League soon began to telL The League
prospered wonderfully, and someot its clubs
became rich. But the League never thought
or interfering with the Association, either
by tampering with its players or its cities.
The League was going along as gaily and as
successfully as a new ship before a spanking
breeze. But the Association, with its beer,
Sunday games and miserable management,
was going from bad to worse. Its wiseacres
could not keep together a profitable circuit
even, although they were afforded material
assistance by the League. The latter was
prospering and the Association was failing,
and this gave rise to the envy of ignorant
minds.
Finallv it culminated in the Association
failures making a resolve something like
this : "We have seen that we cannot make
headway by confining ourselves to the con
ditions "under which we started out. "We
cannot make our cities pay, and those
League fellows are raking the shekels in by
cart loads. Now this is what we must do :
"We must shut our eyes to all lair play
and all pledges of honor, and go straight
on to League territory and help
ourselves to the good things they have
built up by their genius." I claim that this
is a modest and fair representation of the
case and I claim that is absolutely true in
fact In view of facts of this kind is it not
amusing them to hear Phelps and other
people talking so glibly about unfair deal
ing? This kind of artful dodging ought to
to have no influence at all withtnepubliclf
the Association had made a success in its own
cities depend upon it we would never have
heard a word about the defects of the Nation
al agreement or anything else. Kank fail
ures caused the Association to break all
rules and honorable pledges and try to steal
the result of the League's labor. "Unfair
treatmentl Let those who charge the League
with any such toward the Association go
and bury their faces in shame.
Another Little Dodge.
But the latest President of the Associa
tion, Mr. Phelps, had attempted another
little dodge, lie has tried to persuade the
public that the League has been an op
pressor of the players. It's a fact he really
has attempted that Just fancy it; a Presi
dent of an organization that is poverty
stricken; that has not paid as much money
to players during its entire existence as the
League has done in one or two seasons and
an association whose general tendency is to
degrade players; just fancy, I say, its Presi
dent talking about the League's treatment
of players. Bosh. But Mr. Phelps also
tells us that the Boston American Associa
tion team are champions of the world. Mr.
Phelps does not believe any such thing: in
fact in a moral sense I don't sec where they
should have any standing at all. The two
organizations made an agreement or com
pact The Association violated it and
trampled it under foot
Despite this fact they want recognition
from those whom they deceived. I would
like to know what claim at all anybody can
have to championship title who violates
the very first condition made regarding the
contesting lur iu -Lecuuicaiiy speuKjiig. 111c
Boston club is disqualified from competing
for the title at all, as it has deviated from
the recognized conditions that have guided
and regulated previous contests of the kind.
It is useless to talk of "only one party hav
ing that agreement" The agreement or its
conditions have become a law by custom,
and they are in vogue until others supplant
them.
Affairs of the Local Club.
Matters are not going along very pleas,
antly in the local club. There still con
tinues to be that diversity of opinion among
the directors that has ever been the great
barrier to the club's success. It is, indeed,
amusing to note day by day the conflicting
notions that emanate from these directors.
During the week we have had some of the
most interesting from a standpoint of con
flict; at least the directors have been so re
ported in the daily papers. "We were told
that one director said there would be no ad
vance money given; we were told that an
other director said there would be advance
money paid, and then we were told that still
another director said nobody would be
signed until after the club's annual meet
ing. The latter is exceedingly interesting
in view of the fact that Manager McGun
nigle is at present busily engaged trying to
sign players, and that he was specially
elected to sign players for next year as soon
as possible.
Isn't all this verv, verv funny, and does
it not all tend to show that the Pittsburg
club has a very wonderful Board of Di
rectors? I cannot believe for one moment
that players are not to be signed until it is
known who the President of the club for
next year is going to be? "What in the
world ha3 the President to do with it?
Have good players to be ignored now be
cause there may be a change of President?
Can a good player signed now under Mr.
O'Neil, or by Mr. O'lfeil, not be a good
player under any other gentleman who may
be President next season? The thing is
ridiculous. "Why, some of the best players
on the present team were signed by the
present President But really the matter is
too absurd to argue, and I would hardly
have mentioned it had it not been to point
out the very evil effects of 'he directors be
ing so much divided among tnemselves.
The truth is if there cannot be more unity
of action among them they had better dis
pose of their club entirely and let other
people have it who can make it
play. If there was any sound
reasons for all these bickerings and bad
fetling they might be excusable, butlknow
of none except a few trivial personalities
that business men in business transactions
should not "notice. But there is another
feature in the matter of signing the players
at once. If those who are her-? are signed
before they leave for their homes won't
there be considerable expense saved? If
the Manager or President of the club has to
travel about the country signing tho old
players after the Decemb-r meeting, won't
there be good reason for complaint about
unnecessary expense? Certainly there w ill.
If the directors of the club would for once
get down to common sense business princi
ples all would be well. There is not a man
on the board but what means well, but un
fortunately there is a spirit of mistrust
abroad that must be quelled if things are to
prosper.
A Very Pleasant Aflatr.
Along with about oO or GO other people I
had a reai pleasant time of it the other
evening at the Hotel Duquesne, the event
being a banquet tendered to the baseball
team cf the East End Gymnatic Club for
winning the County League Pennant Of
course it is invariably pleasant to be the
guest of winners, but the evening referred to
was an exceptional occasion. The banquet
not only served the purpose of allowing
well deserved compliments and congratula
tions to be paid to the ball team, but it af
forded opportunity for the saying of many
interesting things about the East End Gym
nasium. The Gymnastic Club has quite a
history, and since 1 know the heroic efforts
of those who established it and who have
struggled until it is the fine organization we
find it to-day, I have a higher estimation of
it than ever." I always had a good one. But
the members of the Gym are a deserving lot
of fellows, and if there is any meaning in
the word "hustler" they are hustlers, in
deed. Xot only is there an excellent ball
team connected with the club, but there are
many very good athletes members of it,
some of whom have a national reputation.
There was one very interesting fact stated
during the banquet that is worthy of promi
nence. It was that not one of the players
of the baseball team that is the winner of
the County League pennant have reccied a
cent for their services during the season.
There is always great hope for purity and
earnestness in sports and pastimes of any
kind when those who participate in them
do so only because their love of them. I
trust the East End Gyms in all its depart
ments will continue to flourish and I feel
certain it will do so as long as it is managed
as it has been in the past.
Important Trotting Events.
The week has been an important one in
trotting although it has not been so import
ant as was expected. Every fall the meet
ing at Lexington is becoming more import
ant and the meeting just ended is probably
the most important of alL And I anticipate
that next fall a greater meeting than has
ever been held in the trotting history of the
country will be held at Lexington. The
TEE
owners of all good horses and of. extraord
inary horses now send their champ'onsto
Lexington, and in some instances J'lay
cosh" for that meeting. A-f erf vears ago it
would have been thought impossible to hold
a trotting meeting in any part of the coun
try equal to that just concluded at Lexing
ton, which forcibly goes to show how prom
inent and popular the trotter is becoming.
It is not unlikely that next fall there will
be a stake race at Lexington worth ?50,000
or ?C0.000. Of course all events of this kind
will add to the importance of the trotter.
But as I have just remarked, although the
events at Lexington during the week have
been excellent there was still great disap
pointment at the non-appearance of Nancy
Hanks in a contest The race be
tween that famous mare and Aller
ton had been looked forward to
with the greatest possible interest by all
persons at all interested in trotting. The
mare became indisposed and could not race.
It is a pity, because I am very much in
clined to think that she would have lowered
Allerton's colors had she been all right
As it was the stallion from Independence
had something of an easy thing in a match
race against Delmarch. The latter was
beaten in three straight heats, and was not
by anv means a "foeman" worthy the steel
of Allerton. According to rumor, Nancy
Hants was sold for $40,000, a very large
sum for a mare. But it is thought by many
that she will beat the record of Maud S, and
if she can do that she is worth every cent of
the big sum named. But it may be safe to
say that she will not beat the record this
year.
About the Cricketers.
Lord Hawke and his cricket team have
about ended their tour of the United States
and they have taught us one thing very em
phatically, viz., that cricket playing isn't
our forte. "With the exception of the first
match at Philadelphia the visitors have
made a miserable show of our teams where
ever they have met them. This shows that
cricket playing is not as firmly established
in this country as many people think. I
can never believe that any sport is well es
tablished when the participants of that
sport seldom practice, in fact, do not care
about practicing at all. "Well, excepting in
Philadelphia, we'll find very few people
practicing cricket playing in this country,
and when the followers of that sport do not
firactice and show an interest in it there is
ittle or no hope for the success of that
sport This is just about how cricket play
ing stands in the United States.
The visit of Lord Hawke's team may
have done good, but it would have been
much better for the sport had the team came
here in the spring instead of the, fall.
"Whatever enthusiasms may have been
caused by the team will surely banish at
once as the season for cricket playing is al
most over.
Among the Pugilists.
"We have Jack McAuliffe with us this
week, he being engaged to give sparring ex
hibitions at the Academy of Music I know
of no more interesting and accomplished ex
ponent of the "manly art" than McAuliffe.
He has an extremely attractive style of box
ing, but the better, or I may say the best
points of McAuliffe's boxing can only be
seen when he is engaged in a, battle. I saw
them when he faced Gibbons, and I don't
hesitate to say that he is one of the finest
leaders off I have seen. Of course, I stated
my opinions about McAuliffe as a fighter
when I had my say about his contest with
Gibbons, but what I want to say now is
that if any man wants to become a good
boxer he need only become an adept in Mc
Auliffe's atyle. He is worthy of imitation
from feet to head as far as boxing is con
cerned. A day or two ago I had a conver
sation with the famous lightweight Of
course, he feels muca disappointed at not
receiving the. stake money of his contest
with Gibbons, and until lie gets that he
does not intend to have anything more to
do with Gibbons. In this lie is perfectly
right But I have an idea that McAuliffe
will not fight verv'often.
It is a great difficulty for him to get to
weight now, and this difficulty will increase
as he gets older. During his talks
with me he seemed io share this
opinion, as he remarked that,
now" he was out of .it, Jimmy
Carroll was the best lightweight living. In
this McAuliffe may be right, but I would
hesitate to say that Carroll is the superior
of the better man between Jem Carney and
Dick Burge. True, Carroll tis a remarkable
man. and I have alwavs argued that he was
in the front rank. My readers will re
member that just before Carroll and Mc
Auliffe fought I said it was an even thing
between them, with McAuliffe for choice.
But Carroll is a game man to a very con
siderable extent, and that is what has made
hi'11 a prominent fighter more than any
thing else. And let me sav here that Mc
Auliffe's battle with Carroll certainly goes
to show that he is a stayer, which fact
knocks on the head all the bosh of Gib
bon; about Austin making a "waiting game
ot it" w Ilea he faced McAuliffe. In a few
weeks' time w e shall have Carroll in the
ring again. Thio time he has to face
Myer, and if all is well I don't see why
Carroll should not defeat Myer just as he,
Carroll, defeated Andy Bowen. But the
contest is a distance off yet and we'll have
time to talk about it later on.
The Heavy Weights.
Since Maher, the Irish champion, arrived
in this country the heavy-weight pugilists
have commenced to talk. James J. Corbett
has been heard from, and, as he has made
up hi3 mind to desert San Francisco and
locate in New York, he talki from a very
high pedesdL He states that he could not
think of condescending to fight the Irish
champion, but he will match Jim Daly, of
Philadelphia, to fight him. Daly, by the
way, is the same Daly who had the encoun
ter with Pat FarrelL Well, this is the
man whom Corbett wants to back against
the maa Billy Madden has brought here to
meet anybody. Surely, Billy must take
this as an insult from Corbett And Gus
Lambert has also loomed up. He wants to
tackle the Irishman again, and doubtless
Madden will hear from a dozen or two of
second and third rate men who want to
tackle his imported pugilist. But Billy
wants to tackle high game, win or lose; bet
ter lose against a prominent man than an
obscure one. Corbett also reminds the world
that he is waiting for the arrival of Charley
Mitchell or F. P. Slavin. It alway puzzles
me to know why Corbett is so anxious to
meet Slavin or Mitchell and steadily de
clines to settle the old score between himself
and Jacksou. Taking Corbett's perform
ance against Jackson into consideration I
don't sec why he should be so anxious to
tackle Slavin or even Mitchell.
During this week we have had Pat Killen
once more brought before our notice. This
time he has been contesting 3gainst a rough-and-ready
stockyard man at Chicago, named
Bob Ferguson. The battle was one of the
brutal kind and I only refer to it to point
out the truth of what I have always said
about KUlcn. In my estimation he has
always been a coward and on many occa
sions proved this beyond a doubt In his
recent fight with Ferguson he fouled his
man in the most cowardly and brutal way.
Strange to say, he was declared the winner,
but the press of his own cit-condemns him.
It makes one laugh to think that Killen is
the man who at one time w as counted on as
a worthy opponent of Sullivan. Glove
contests have brought many frauds to the
surface and Killen is one ot them.
Pringle.
largest Plank In the "World.
The largest plank in the world, according
to the -A'. W. Lumberman, is a red wood
plank that is 16 feet 5 inches wide, 12 feet
9 inches long and 5 inches thick, and is
about 90 per cent clear. It was taketffrom
a tree 35 feet in diameter and 300 feet high,
which, according to its rings, was more
than 1,500 vears old. The tree was cut 28
feet from the ground, and the plant was
hewn out of the stump, representing' a sec
tion taken from near the heart to the
bark. After it was displaced, it was lowerd
by block and tackle, with a locomotive for
power.
Parlor furniture reupholstered,
HAUCir & Exenan, 33 Water street.
-.PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
HOW DEPEW WORKS.
A Great Genius and One Who Knows
the Way to Get the Results,
KETER KNOWN TO BE FLURRIED.
When He Is to Speak IIo Reads Macauley to
Get Inspiration.
INTERVIEWED ON A BPEEDINO TRAIN
rconsMFOUDzitcE of Tira dispatch. 1
New York, Oct IT.
HAD a long chat
t o-d ay with
Chauncey M. De
pew on after-dinner
speaking. He
is the greatest
after-dinner ora
tor in the United
States and he is
one of the most
remarkable men
in this country.
As a lawyer, he
stood for years at
the head of the
New York bar.
He has refused the
United States
After Dinner.
senatorship and has declined the request of
the Republican party of his State to have
his name put before its national convention
as its candidate for the presidency.
Chauncey Depew has all his life been
associated with monopolists and capitalists,
still the masses and the laboring men look
upon him as their friend, and though he
is a strict Republican, the Democrats de
light to listen to his speeches. He is one of
the busiest men in the United States and
apparently one of our greatest business men
having the most leisure. He attends more
dinners perhaps than any other great rail
road president in the country, and makes
more speeches than any professional lecturer
or noted statesman. In these speches Mr.
Depew never repeats himself. The only ex-
Elanation of it is that he is a genius and
e knows how to work his genius so that it
will produce the greatest results.
DEPEW AT HIS DESK.
I called this morning at the New York
Central offices. Mr. Depew's room is sim-
ly furnished. He sits at a rolling top
e'sk in the center and at some distance
away are tables occupied by his two stenog
raphers. Mr. Depew's desk is littered with
papers, and you note by the postage stamps
on his letters that his mail comes from all
parts of the world. Here are cables from
England and France, there is a package of
social letters and before him lies atabulated
statement showing the working and progress
of some of his latest railroad manipula
tions. "He receives," said Mr. Duval, his pri
vate secretary, "an average of 50 personal
letters a day, and his business mail runs up
n
Chcnmeey M. Depew.
in the hundreds. Some of his mail he
never sees, a part of it he answers by sten
ographers, but the most of his personal let
ters receive replies in his own handwriting.
He is a very rapid writer, is rarely at a loss
for a word to express his meaning and he
dictates quite as rapidly as he writes. He
gets to his office between 9 and 10 o'clock
every morning, and first takes up his mail
and his newspaper clippings. He is a
patron of the clipping bureaus and he "often
pays these bureaus as high as 5100 a
month."
HOW CHAUNCEY DEPEW SPEAKS.
In speaking he uses the conversational
tone, seldom makes a gesture and has no
mannerisms nor trick-cards of oratorv. His
speaking makes me think of Joe Jefferson's
acting and he says he got his first ideas of
good Epeaking from "Wendell Fhillips, who
simply talked to the brains of the
people in front of him. He looks more
like a preacher than a club man, and as he
stands swinging his glasses in his hand,
looking out of his sober blue eyes up and
down the table, his cultured, clerical face
makes you wonder when he stepped out of
the pulpit and whether after all it is not a
mistak: and he is not about to ask grace.
He begins to talk. His word? come freely
and naturally. He smiles a little as he tells
a good story, and his blue eyes twinkle as
he wittily replies to the sally of one of the
men from the other side of the table. As
he goes on, his face beams with good fellow
ship and you note that his 58 vears have not
made him old, and that though his hair and
beard are frosted silver, his soul is as voung
as that of any boy about the board. As he
continues you find that his speeches ai e
more than" stories. You note that he has
ideas as well as wit, and you realize that the
speaker is not only an orator, but a man,
and that'a great one.
AN INTERVIEW ON THE TRAIN.
But to return. I waited for several hours
4a 1. rn nn intoFPiom at Tito tfC.n ..t- .
perative work kept .piling up and it was 3
o'clock before I got access to him. At 3:15
he had to make the train for his summer
home at Pawling, two hours from New
York; his engagements were all full for to
morrow, and" he finally suggested that I
jump on the cars and run up to Pawling
with him, and we could have our talk on
the train. He ordered a pass for me and
ten minutes later we were seated in a chair
car on she New York Central Railroad, the
train going at 40 miles an hour and Mr.
Depew talking in response to my questions
at the rate of 150 words per minute.
"Mr. Depew," I asked, "how do you find
it possible to get your mind away from your
business and railway down to your after
dinner speech?"
"It is hard sometimes," replied Mr.
Depew, "but I have the faculty of leaving
my business at my office, nnd such success
as I have had in life I attribute largely to
the fact that I can drop my business and
get rest by thinking of other things. As a
rnle, -whatever be the cares of the day, ten
minutes after I have gotten to my house, I
have dismissed them nltogether, and I do
not take thom up , again until tho next day.
I have a peculiar theory oftho workinof
the mind, and that is that it tends to keep
up the same pace In which It has been run
ning when it entors a new fleld.
READS MACAULEY FOR INSPIRATION.
The troublo with most men Is that they
have only one pace and they nevor get out
of it. They confine themselves to thinking
about three tilings, their business, tlienv
selves nnd heir families. Now, tho piano
of the dinner-table is a higher one than that
of business life, and in preparing for a
speech I una 1 must first get my inind on a
different level from tho ono I have been
working on all day. I do this by reading
Macauley's Essays. Ten minutes reading
turns my thought into a new channel. 1
cast on the clothes of evervday work and
my soul seems to be rehabilitated into a
more intellectual and critical garb. I can
then think of the audience 1 am to address,
and by remembering tho people I am to
meet adapt my remarks to tnem. It doesn't
seem to make much difference which part of
Macauley I read, and a few minutes changes
the plica " "J ""uu t-ntireiy."
i.tvi vnu writa nut. a. 1. ,r-
Depewr
Not my after-dinner speeches," was the j
SUNDAY, OCTOBER ' 1$'
reply. "I only write out such aa I have to
make for Important occasions. This is the
day of after-dinner speeches," he added,
'but the platform orator of to-day who
speaks more than one hour at a time is a
fool, and no after-dinner snoech should ex
tend over -0 minutes. Twenty minutes is
better than W
PRAISES THE PRINCE OF WALES.
Mr. Depew is a close friend of the Prince
of Wales. He knows Gladstone intimately,
and there is hardly a prominent man in Eng
land with whom he has not been more or
less associated. I asked him to give me an
idea of the Prince of Wales. Said Mr. De
pew: "The Prince of Wales is more of a man
than ho gets credit for being. The English
Government is so constituted that he is not
able to show what is in him. His speeches
have been excellent and he is noted for
being able to say just the right thing at the
right time. He has a good memory for faces
and names, is personally very popular and
he is a man of areat common sense and of
good average abilities. H is whatwe would
cull an ull-around good fellow. He is natur
ally very industrious and he has not a lazy
hair in his head. Had England a different
svstcra of treattnc her to-be rulers, she
might have made" of him the greatest bu
icancrat in Euroue.
' Suppose the Prince of Wales on arrivine
at his majority had been ti eated as the son
of one 01 our great railway manacers isl
treated. Tho railwayman's son is given a?
place low down in the offices of the road.
After he has learned this, ho is advanced
step bv step to tho operating department,
and if he shows himself worthy, ne contin
ues to advance until he learns tho whole
machinery of the railway and is flttedat last
to take charge of tho road."
VERSATILITY OP GLADSTONE.
"Hot did Mr. Gladstone impress yout" I
asked.
"Mr. Gladstone," replied Mr. Depew, "Is
undoubtedly a very great man, hut I do not
think hew ould be as great in America as he
is in England. He is in some lespectsthe
most wonderful man I have ever heard of,
and he is the most versatile man I have ever
known. We have no one here now, nor in
onr history, who compares with him. The
nearest approach to him was Edward Ever
ett. Daniel A ebster was a great orator, but
Interviewed on the Train.
he confined himself to politics. Roscoe
Conkling was another great orator, but he
never spoke except on politics. Our great
est preachers never get out of the pulpit, but
Gladstone can make great speeches in half a
dozed different fields and surprise you by
his w onderful ability in all."
"I remember," Mr. Depew went on. "an
evening I spen t with Mr. Gladstone. We sat
two hours at the table, and during the meal
Mr. Gladstone talked of the great questions
of European and American politics, and I
found him thoroughly versed in all the
issues relating to this conntrv. During the
opera that evening Mr. Gladstone was ab
sorbed. He did not speak nor take his eyes
off the staze. Betn een the acts he talked of
music. He showed an inexhaustive and
critical knowledge of all the great com
posers. Ho entertained us with a lecture, as
It were, on the present opera and its rank
among the other great operas of the world,
and he left me surprised at his wonderful
knowledge of music. It is the same in art,
and I doubt whether there is as versatile a
man in the woild to-day as he."
GERMANY'S YOUNG EStPEROB.
"Did you ever meet the young Emperor of
Germany?" I asked.
"Yes," replied Mr. Depow, "I met him four
years bofore he became Emperor. I was
then very much impressed with his strength
of character. I regard him as a great man
and a strong one. No one but a strong man
would have acted as he has done since he
has come to the throne. Tho policy of his
grandfather's and his father's administra
tion had been dictated and controlled by
ono man. Prince Bismarck, ne was in fact
the Emperor, an his ability and statesman
ship was looked upon as the greatest
in Europe. As scon as the young
Emperor was crowned he began to
think for himself. He criticised
the policy of Bismarck in that
the workingman was oppressed nnd kept
down as a nationnl foe. He wanted to give
him a chance to see what he could do for
himself. Ho wanted to give lilm more lib
erty, but Bismarck told him it would never
do, an that if he acted so he would lose his
throne. Bismarck insisted upon this, but
the i oung Empeior thought differently, and
told"Bismarck that he intended to try it.
" 'In that case,' replied Bismarck, 'I hand
you tnv resignation.
" 'All right,' replied the Emperor, 'I ac
cept it.'
"This, in plain, evcry-day language," con
tinued Mr. Depew, "is the story of the trou
ble between Bismarck and the Emperor.
"A weak man would have submitted. Only
a strong one would have refused, and I be
lieve that strength here was allied to great
ness." A NEW STORY OF LINCOLN.
I asked Mr. Depew something as to his
connection with President Lincoln during
the War. I was Secretary of State for New
York and went to Washington to toko the
vote of onr soldiers, and I think this voto
carried Is ev York for Lincoln at his second
election. I heard n nnmberof stories of him
at this time, some of which have never been
published. One I remember related to John
Ganson.a War Democrat from Western New
York. In the darkest days of the struggle,
when calamity followed calamity, and when
Congress was asked to vote money and men,
only to see tho first apparently lost and the
latter destroyed, many of the members be-
Ilans, Why Don't You Shave t
came anxious to know what the President's
policv was. Ganson was among them, and
lie called at the White House. Now, Ganson
was peculiar, in that he had not a hair on
his head, and his face, whether from shaving
or from nature, showed not a bristle. After
you know what I've done for you and for
the Union. I don't want you to do anything
forme, but I do want you to take me into
your confidence. You're n lawyer and I'm 11
lawyer, and you know you can trust any
secret to mo. Now, won't you tell mo your
P "As Ganson said this, his bare sober face
became more sober than everand the serious
look in his eyes seemed to craw 1 up over the
forehead until his old bald cranium became
the personification of anxious Inquiry. The
President looked at him half a minute and
then his homely mouth twitched, a laughing
look crept into his eyo and he leaped over,
and putting his hand on Ganson s knee, said
in the most quizzical tones, these words:
'Gans, why don't you shave?
"This was all Ganson could get out of him,
and there was in fact no more cautions Pres
ident in our history than Abraham Lincoln."
By this time tho train had leached Paw
ling. As Mr. Depow stepped acioss tho
street to the hotel, Mrs. Depow, ti couple of
bright-looking little girls and young Chaun
cey Mitchell Depew were on the steps to
meet him. As 1 stood on tho steps ot the
car going hack to New York, I s.iw him kiss
them all around, and as the cars whisked
me away, his hearty laugh mingled with
that of his children rang out, and ho seemed
as far away from capitalists, railroads, poll
tics and society a though these things were
not In existence and his only world was
nome. Toaxx G. CAnrsyrot.
Badges for lodges and societies at Mo
MahonBros.', 62 Fourth avenue. bu
ili'rW I 'i w
1891'.
AN AETIST AT BUNKO.
The Reputation That Bill Eye Got on
Bis Return to New York.
OLD ACQUAINTANCES GET CHILLY.
Break of a Prisoner Who Objected to a
Judge's Talk on Clothes.
THE FEEAKS OF A DIME MUSEUM
rconnMFOXBENCJ: or the dispatch.1
New York, Oct. 16. After an entire
summer in the pine clad hills and fir-trimmed
valleys of North Carolina, New York
seems to me more vociferous than ever. To
a pastoral person like myself, interested in
the growth of plant life, the mean annual
artificial rainfall and the growth of glanders
in equestrian circles, the exposed bowels of
Broadway as I may be pardoned for saying,
I trust, since,that street so forcibly reminds
me, with its open expression and exposed
pipes, conduits and canals, of the man on
the title page of the zodiac Broadway,
with its hurry and rush and business
and omitted dividends; its torn and dis
figured surface; its crowds of young
men who brag about being snch rooeys, as
the French say, when in lact they are not or
they would not blow so much about it; its
flocks of beautiful girls with bright, new,
becoming frocks; its gangs of patient
toilers, who are putting in the new cable at
a rate which makes the old moss covered
street opener of New York crazy; its re
turning troops of brown nnd beautiful chil
dren, fresh from the fields where the black
eyed Susans and the bluebells grow, all, all
bewilder a rustic from the woods of Bun
combe county, N. C, and cause him to buy
new clothes for himself so that h"l will not
so readily attract the green goods man.
MEETS AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
This time, somehow, when I am busier
than ever, I think I am more than usually
annoyed by these people. A verv disagree
able thing occurred to me not loug ago. It
was different from anything I had ever be
fore experienced. I was in the well-known
Tht Rnstic Buneombt.
publishing house of the Scribners, looking
at new books in the salesroom and especi
ally admiring a beautiful volume of ''Hia
watha," illustrated by Eemington, who
makes such truthful frontier horses and I
had almost said such truthful Indians.
"While I was thus engaged I saw at a dis
tance a Chicago gentleman who published a
book for me once. I met him when we made
the contract, about five years ago, and ex
pected to see him every 60 days after that,
at which time 1 was to receive statement
and check, but instead of all this he began to
build and also bought ft team. "Well, for
those reasons I did not see him any more,
and so was not quite sure that it was he
in tact it was not, but I felt sure it must be.
However, I wa3 well dressed and wished to
let the Chicago man know that we New
Yorkers are a courteous and kindly race of
people, so, as I looked well and had my new
fall hat, I thought I would ask him up to my
club, blow him off, as it were, have' dinner
with cake and preserves, and practically
have a time of it, allowing bygones to be by
gones. TAKEN FOR A BUNKO MAW.
I sailed gladly up to him and assumed a
well-bred attitude which my coachman has
taught me on rainy days this summer.
"Good morning, Mr. Skeezix," I said.
Skeezix was not the name of the man I
knew, but it ought to be. "Good morning,
Mr. Skeesix. "When did you leave Chi
cago?" He looked at me as one does who has been
bunkoed only a week or so before and whose
festering wound is torn open afresh by a
new bunko man. He turned a little pale and
and put his hand to the pocket which con
tained his pass. "With the other hand he
felt for the bright, new and massive watch
chain with the gold norse hanging irom it
as a charm.
"That is not my name, sir," he said, with
dry lips and husky voice. "The man you
want is coming this evening. He has a car
load of watermelons."
"No," I said, "he is not in the watermelon
line. He is a publisher. Are you not Mr.
Skeezix?"
"No, sir; I am not Mr. Skeezix, and I am
not going to tell you who I am so that you
can go around the corner and tell your part
ner either."
Just then Mr. Scribner came along and
said "good morning," as he called me by
name, and we chatted on pleasantly about
books, of which I am passionately fond, buy
ing almost everything of value that has a
pretty binding, so that now I have one of
the prettiest little libraries in the East.
ErFECT OP A STRAIGHT TIP.
As we talked I saw the keen student of
humanity who had done me the cruel wrong
to take me for a bunko man. He was evi
dently asking the salesman something.
"When he had gorged his curiosity for eight
or nine seconds ne went out of the door
hurriedly, leaving a large 518 Bible which
he had paid for but forgot to take with
him.
The above is substantially true. Once I
met a gentleman at a dinner in St. Louis
and we talked for half an hour, being
neighbors at the table. A year afterward I
was in New York and did not know a single
human being; and, I may add, only one
married one.
Suddenly on the 6treet oneday when I
was walking walking in imitation of a
man who is walking toward some place
which he has in his mind, and not succeed
ing very well with the imitation all at
once, when I would have given ?20 for the
sight of a familiar face, no matter whose, I
saw my dinner acquaintance coming.
I need not say that I was glad. I hailed
him with a welcome that was no doubt a
little too boisterous for New York. It was
too unstudied and glad. But yon must re
member that a measly landlady who was
constantly borrowing money of me and
weeping on my vest was the only one in the
city whom I knew, and I wauted to meet
some one who was healthy and normal and
who could talk with me.
HE LIED ABOUT HI3 NAME.
He drew himself up to his full height,
which made his little tan colored box coat
look like a Garibaldi waist on him, and said
in deep chest notes ice chest notes: "I beg
your pardon, sir, but you are mistaken. I
do not know you, sir."
I can still remember how nice and white
his teeth were as he said it, and how he
looked like a man who is having a three
quarter picture taken to send to one he
loves. He was a good-looking man, and as
I stood there I fell unconsciously into com
paring his snuff-colored derby of the newest
block with my hat, which was of course
clean and decent, but itfras a soft and
shapeless little thing with no self-assertion
about it. I knew that, but still I did not
think he would freeze me for that.
It got colder and colder, though. I told
him who I was as I rubbed my chilblains
and felt his icy manner calling forth the
goose eruptions on my peachy surface. He
said he had never seen mo never. I finally
asked him if his name were not Mr. -.
He said it was not. He lied.
I went to his hotel. It gave me something
to do. I was glad of it. I discovered that
I was right. There was onlv one way to ac
count for it. He thought very likely
that I wanted to borrow money or I
would not have given him a "Western wel-
LugMf ''
The FeUoin Simply Lied.
come in a citv where it is not the custom. I
was too glad to see him. That was all.
Since then, in the light of a riper experi
ence, I guess he was right. The indications
were "agin" me.
A. HOMILT ON CLOTHES.
But we ought not to judge people by their
clothes. "We do it, of course, unconsciously.
Clothes do not make the man, bnt they fin
ish him up somehow. There was a"Western
Judge once who reprimanded the defendant
in court for wearing such a ragged and rep
rehensible pair of trousers.
"Judge, said the prisoner, "you must
not judge me by these poor old worn trou
sers. It is unjust to me, Judge. It is not
fair or generous. My pantaloons may be
poor, Judge, but they cover a warm heart."
This is often the case.
I have just received here, since I came
to New York, Mr. Kobert P. Porter's little
brochure containing some of the most thrill
ing statistics that I have ever read. I am
delighted with the work, though pained to
read that during the past year death has
robbed us of 765,211 horses and asses. It
should be a lesson to those of us who are
still spared as monuments of mercy, and
we should so live that we may be always
ready when our own summons comes to
meet our fate with a glad and resonant
bray. Bo you not think so, Brother
Porter?
ONE OF HIS YOUTHFUL EXPEBIEN CES.
Yesterday I visited the wonders of the
museums. They are delightful. All dime
museums resemble one another in one re
spectthey smell the same. "Why should
art suffer so? I am greatly interested in
every little jeie de sprit of nature, such as
the two-headed girl, the boy with various
limbs and only one head, etc. As a boy I
walked 12 miles to see the Siamese twins. I
remember it because it was the first time I
ever ordered a dinner from a printed menu
at a high place resteraw, as we called it. I
look back on that dinner with horror. Pre
serves and terrapin, I think, constituted
one course. The waiter early began to read
me, as did the young man who waited on
David Copperfield when he was on his way
to school.
He helped me order things. People
came from a distance to see the goods I
had ordered. The order was kept for years,
till the restaurant burned down. If it
had not been destroyed I would not have
had the courage to rise and win a deathless
name.
At one of the museums a group of wax
figures has a breathing apparatus connected
with it.- A man with a spear in his watch
pocket and a gaping wound with roof paint
oozing out of it is breathing his life away
by means of nice new rubber lungs, the
only kind that can stand the stilling and
poorly ventilated air of the place.
Une man said to the keeper, " bir, the air
here in this museum seems fixed, does it
not?"
"Yes," said the museum lecturer, who is
is a great wag; "it was fixed by Soodoo, the
six-legged calf that died Thursday and is
being embalmed to-day. "We should have
done it sooner. This figure, ladies and
gents, is that of Eva Hamilton, the actress,
who rose to sudden histrionic prominence
by means of her fraud in babies. She did
not receive that recognition by the profes
sion which she thought she deserved, and
the press was real mean to her. She looks
a little bilious in this figure as you see her
here, thus showing that her liver did not
act any better than she did.
"The figure was formerly that of Mary,
Queen of Scots. The artist who done it
over regards it as his great chief do over."
Bill Nye.
GHAVE TELLING IK CHINA.
Ceremonies frith tVhich the Celestial
Selects His-Final Itestlng; Place.
The queerest indnstry in the ghostly lin
in China is "grave telling," writes William
E. S. Pales, the Chinese expert now in the
Orient. "When the average Mongolian
reaches manhood's estate one of his first
ambitions is to have a nice and comfortable
grave. The moment he has the requisite
cash, he consults one or more "grave-tellers."
These are old scholars, whose scholar
ship has not been appreciated by the public
at large, or who have fallen from grace by
gambling, opium smoking orothervices.and
who earn a precarious living from astrology,
clairvoyance and similar "supernatural"
sciences. The philosopher, after receiving
a fee whose amount is proportional to the
wealth of his client, consults his mystic
books, draws an incomprehensible diagram
with points and straight lines and an
nounces the day on which it will be fung
suey (good luck) to visit certain cemeteries
and burial sites.
The day arrived, the parties are on hand
no matter what tricks the weather may
play. I have seen them in a rocky pass
where the thermometer was 125 and in a
marsh knee deep in mud when the rain was
an ice-cold deluge. They come dressed in
their best clothes, newly washed and shaven.
The grave tellers are equipped with books,
diagrams, paper and a forked rod, strangely
resembling the divining rod with which
our ancestors sought springs .and veins
of ore. The search begins with
prayer and then comes a weary walk and
talk, sometimes lasting hours. The site is
finally picked out. Olten two or three sites
are selected, so that in case the use of one is
prevented bv unforeseen circumstances an
other one will be ready. The client arranges
with the owner of the land and the author
ities, and is then prepared to die in peace.
The practice is universal and as old as Chi
nese civilization. Its influence upon the
people'is something tremendous.
TVhy Boulanger Killed Himself.
Mr. Phillip Borisse, who served three
years under Boulanger, in a St. Louis inter
view the other day said: Boulanger's aid
told me fn Italy, before Solferine, that
Boulanger drank a full pint of neat absinthe
every night before he retired and consumed
two quarts of champagne at dinner. He
also smoked at least 100 cigarettes a day
and took great quantities of chloral and
morphine. He was marked by the men
who were with him 30 years ago for a sui
cide, or, at least, nobody ever expected
him to die from natural causes.
ACROSS THE EQUATOR.
Sailing the Great Pacific to Australia
on the Good Ship Monowai.
THE ODD SIGHTS AT HONOLULU
Old Neptune's Tribute Prom Those Who Had
Heier Been Over the line.
TO BED MONDAY TO EISE TOIDNEBDAI
rCOSKESTOTroiNCE OT TUT DMr ATCBVt
Steamship Monowai, Pactfio Ocean,
Aug. 12. We shall have one more oppor
tunity for mailing letters before our arrival
at Sydney, which will be at Auckland,
where, "if nothing breaks," we expedt to ar
rive to-morrow evening at 9 o'clock. Wa
have had perfect weather, without a storm
and with but a few light showers while
crossing the tropics. These showers to ona
who has seen little else but water for nearly
a month, do not cut the same figure as they
would to another who had been tramping
the alkali plains of our dear old United
States for the same period of time.
We left Honolulu Friday, July 31, after
stopping there about five hours, which time
we used in seeins as much as possible of
those wonderful little islands, which on tho
map seem nearly "out of sight," as they say
in "the States." We made up a party of
eight persons from the steamer, chartered
two horses, breed and pedigree unknown,
except that we knew thev had but little if
any Kentucky strain in their breeding', and
with a fairly antiquated vehicle, called by
courtesy a carriage, started out to do up the
place and astonish the natives, but I am free
to confess that the natives performed mors
of the astonishing act than did the eight
"tenderfeet"
THE TOP OF AN OLD CRATER.
Our first object of interest was th
"Poli," an old crater from the summit of
which I beheld the finest view, I think,
that I have ever been privileged to witness.
While I do not wish to disparage or belit
tle the grandeur of our own rugged moun
tains, the White, Adirondack!, Alleghenies
and .Rockies, yet the novelty of the scena
here, the diflerent surroundings, the atmos
phere itself, the seemingly endless ocean,
and finally the flowers and vegetation about
which a word picture fails to give one even
an approximate idea, all tended to produce
in our minds a sensation before unknown.
We were enveloped in a most decidedly
moist cloud, while below us stretched the
most bewilderingly beautiful valley I have
ever seen. We were looking down a pre
cipitous clifl of 1.E00 feet into the valley
below, where were growing luxuriant
palms, cocoannt trees, dates, bananas, sago,
and most beautiful flowers, roses and orange
blossoms in profusion.
I assure you, the natives look queer
enough. The women all dress in "mother
hubbards," and sit astride the donkeys.
We met many going to town with heaping
baskets of flowers and fruit. We passed the
handsome dwellings of Ministers and Con
suls from nearly every nation in the world.
After visiting an extensive ostrich farm,
where we saw hundreds of the beautiful
birds, we returned to the steamer. I think
we crowded more experience in this four
and a quarter hours' excursion than ever
before in the same time. While this is a
beautiful place, I feel that I should never
feel content to make it my home.
MISSED THE SAMOAN ISLANDS.
We sailed away at 2 o'clock in the after
noon on rough seas, and with a sick-looking
crowd aboard for that day, but the next
morning found us all right again. We are
getting to be good sailors. Our next stop
was at Tutuiila, and we were unlucky
enough to reach there at night, so we could
not see the famous Samoan Islands,
which I very much desired. JIiny of
the Samoans came on board to see us, and
when we tailed again some of them re
mained on board nntll we were three or four
mile? uut, when they Jnmpea overboard and
pulled lor the shore. A little swim of three
or four miles is a small matter to them.
Since our last stop we have been steaming
along counting each day, and longing for
sight of land once more. On Sundaymorn
Inj; we sighted the Friendly Islands, bnt
they were far away, and only served to re
mind us that we were not lost. Crossing tha
line was verv much dreaded by many of us,
and especially by those who had been under
the equator before. I think we were air
agreeably disappointed, as we were blessed
with a cool and pleasant breeze. Yet wa
were glad to seek the convenient shade of
the awnings to escape the rays of the burn
ing sun.
CROSSING THE EQUATOR.
The usual ceremonies pertaining to this
great event were performed with the at
tending pomp, tinsel, false beards, red lights
and hilarity. This fun was reached at night,
when our afternoon teas and Jolly dinners
had put everybody In good humor and mads
all of us expectant, the wives anxious and
willing to see soma other woman's husband
sacrificed to the demands of Father Neptune.
Our fun was greatly enhanced by tha
anxiety and self-solicitude of a gentle
man from Boston by the name of Iiennle,
who ii going to the colonies to repre
sent a life Insurance company. This
gentleman U the proud and happy pos
sessor of a somewhat diminutive wifa
and a very bright 6 months' old baby named,
Philip, who is the pet or thotpasscngers by
day and the other thing at night. He Is a
darling, though, and has learned to say
Mamma" in three different langages slnco
leaving Boston, thus early showing the intel
lectual influence of his Dlrtbplace. May his
shadow never grow less and his sleep at
night much greater.
NEPTUNE'S MIRD DEGREE.
In the meantime we are crossing the Una
at a 14 knot gait and Xeptune, his wife, six
policemen, tho doctor and the barber, ara
coming over the side of the ship. Neptune
has a. list of the passengers who have never
crossed before, and who must participate In
the exercises or go ashore. Ono by ono tho
names nro called, and as the victims ara
sized by the "cops"' they reluctantly coma
forward: In a shamefaced and dazed manner
nnd patiently submit to the ordeal. Tha
electric lignts are snining Dngniiyanu ihb
shouts of the spectators may be heard for
miles.
The victims, one at a time, are placed upon
a platform, seated in a chair and lathered
with a big whitewash brush all over their
faces, and then shaven with an immense
wooden razor. When this operation is about
completed their toilet Is finished by sud
denly tipping them over backward into a,
large tank of water. The candidate has thus
received his third degree, and is entitled to
all of the rights and privileges pertaining
thereto. For some unexplained reason, all
or the candidates were from the second-class
pauengers.
ADVANTAGE OP HAVING A BABV.
After a time It became noised about that
Neptune had our Boston friend "on his list."
1 was sorry for this, and sorry for little
Philip, as wo learned afterward that when
the rumor began to circulate Kennle rushed
below, hustled little Philip from a, sound,
sleep and contrvled to keep his eyes open
and gently squalling while pacing tha nar
row limits of his stateroom-untll the equa
tor was five hours behind our wake and
Philip was rour hours ahead of his wake.
Hence tho moral how hard It Is to shave,
and "tank" n Boston life insurance mart.
His resources are boundless, and extend,
from our own funerals to his own progeny.
This voyage has been a great experience.
"We bave not met a single boat to see it since
we sailed. The t o we passed at night were
"out of sight." We have seen a couple of
whales, though, and any qunntity of flying
fish. We have enjoyed the novelty of losing
or dropping out a day, as, for Instance, we
retired on Monday night and awakened on,
Wednesday morning, a pretty long sleep lor
eight hours. We have a Jolly company on,
board, mostly English. you know. The ladles
dress a great deal for dinner at night, have
their 4 o'clock teas every day, most of the
ladies having their individual tea sets. We
expect a rougn passage irom Auckland to
Sydney, as it Is now the middle of winter.
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