4 5 I 16 work his gift." Then aloud with deep ironv "Visiting our great country for recrea tion and amusement no doubt I suppose you find that traveling in the majestio ex panses of our far "West is-" "I haven't been-West, and haven't been devoting myself to amusement with any ort of exclusi veness, I assure you. In fact, to merely live, an artist has got iff work, not plav. Artist!" said Hawkins to himself, thinking of the rifled bank; "that is a name for itl" "Are tou an artist?" asked the Colonel; and added to himself, "now, I'm going to catch him." "In an humble wav, res." "What line?" pursued the sly veteran. "Oils." "I've got him" said Sellers to himself. Then aloud, "This is fortunate. Could I engage you to restore some of my paintings that need that attention." 'I shall be very glad. Pray let me see them." Ho shuffling, no evasion, no embarass rnent, even under this crucial test. The Colonel was nonplussed. He led Tracy to a chromo which had suffered damage in a former owner's hands through being used as a lamp mat, and said, with a flourish of his hand toward tte picture "This Bel Sarto " "Is thata Del Sarto?" The Colonel bent a look of reproach upon' Tracy, allowed it to sink home, then re sumed as if there had been no interruption "This Del Sarto is perhaps the only orig inal of that sublime master in our country. Tou see yourself that the work is of such exceeding delicacy that the risk could er would you mind giving me a little example of what you can do before we " "Cheerfully, cheerfully. I will copy one of these marvels." "Water-color materials relics of Hiss Sally's college life were brought Tracy said he was better in oils, but would take a chance with these. So he was left alone. He began his work, but the attractions of the place were too strong for him, and he got up and went drifting about, fascinated, also amazed. Meantime the Earl and Hawkins were holding a troubled and anxious private con versation. The Earl said: "The mystery that bothers me is, where did it get its other arm?" "Yes, it worries me, too. And another thing troubles me the apparition is En glish. How do yon account for thai, Colonel?" "Honestly, I don't know, Hawkins; I don't really know. It is very confusing and awful." "Don't you think, maybe, we've waked tip the wrong one?" "The wrong one? How do von account for the clothes?" 'The clothe are light, there's no getting aronnd it. What are we going to do? We can't collect, as I see. The reward is for a one-armed American. There is a two-armed Englishman." "Well, it may be that that is not objec tionable. You see it isn't less than is called lor; it is more, and so" But he saw that this argument was weak nd dropped it. The friends sat brooding over their perplexities sometime in silence. Finally the Earl's lace began to glow with An inspiration, and he said impressively: "Hawkins, this materialization is a grander and nobler science than we have dreamed of. We have little imagined what a solemn and stupendous thing we have done. The whole secret is perfectly clear to me now, clear as day. Every man is made up of hereditiesjong-descended atoms and particles of his ancestors. This present materialization is incomplete. We have only brought it down to perhaps the begin hingof this century." "What do you mean, Colonel?" cried Hawkins, filled with vague alarms by the old man's awe-compelling words and man ner. "This. We've materialized this burglar's ancestor." "Oh, don't! Don't say that! It's hid eous!" "But it's true, Hawkins; I know it Look at the facts. This apparition is distinctly English; note that. It uses good grammar; note that. It is an artist: note that. It has the manners and carriage of a gentleman; note that Where's your cot swbov? Answer me that" "Kossmore. this is dreadful! It Is too dreadful to think ofl" "Sever resurrected a rag of that burglar but the clothes not a solitary rag ot him but the clothes." "Colonel, do you really mean " The Colonel brought his fist down with emphasis and said: "I mean exactly this: The materializa tion was immature; the burglar has evaded rs; this is nothing but a ancestor!" He rose and walked the floor in great ex citement Hawkins said, plaintively: "It's a bitter disappointment bitter." "I know it I know it, Senator. I feel it as deeply as anybody could. But we've got to submit on moral grounds. I need money, but God knows I am not poor enough or shabby enough to be an accessory to the punishment of a man's ancestor for crime committed bv that ancestor's pos terity." ' "B'ut, Colonel," implored Hawkins, "stop and think; don't be rash; you know it's the only chance we've got to get the money, and. besides, the Bible itself says posterity to the fourth generation shall be punished for the sins and crimes committed bv ances tors four generations back that hadn't any thing to do with them; and so it's only fair to turn the rule around and make it work both ways." The Colonel was struck with the strong logic of this position. He strode op and down, andthoughtitpainfullyover. Finally he said: 'There's reason in it; Tes, there's reason Init And so, although it seems a piteous thing to sweat this poor ancient devil for a burglary he hadn't the least hand in, still, if duty commands I suppose we must give him up to'the authorities." "I would," said Hawkins, cheered and relieved, "I'd give him up if he was a thou sand ancestors compacted into one." "Lord bless me, that's just what he is," said Sellers, with something like a groan, 'it's exactly what he is; there's a contribu tion in hiin from every ancestor he ever had. In him there's atoms of priests, sol diers, crusaders, poets, and sweet and gra cious women all kinds and conditions of folks who trod this earth in old, old cen turies, and vanished out of it ages ago, and now by act of ours they are summoned from their holy peace to answer for gutting a one-horse bank away out on the borders of Cherokee Strip, and its just a howling out rage!" "Oh, don't talk like that, Colonel; it takes the heart all out of me. and makes me ashamed of the part I am proposing to" "Walt I've got it!" "A saving hope? Shout it out lam perishing." "It's perfectlv simple; a child would have thought of it He is all right, not a flaw in him, as far as I have carried the work. If I've been able to bring him as tar as the beginning of this centnrv, what's to stop me now? I'll go on and materialize him down to date." ".Land, I never thought of that!" said Hawkins, all ablaze with joy again. "It's the very thing. "What a brain you have got And be will shed the superfluous arm?" "He will." "And lose his English accent?" "It will wholly disappear. He will speak Cherokee Strip and other forms of pro fanity." "Colonel, maybe he'll confess." "Confess? Merelv that bank robbery?" "Merely? Yes, but why 'merely?' " The Colonel said in. his most impressive manner: 'Hawkins, he will be wholly tinder my command. I will make him confess every crime he ever committed. There must be a thousand. Do you get the idea?" "Well not quite." 'The rewards will come to us." "Prodigious conception! I never saw such a head for seeing with a lightning glance all the outlying ramifications and possibilities of a central idea." ,, "It is nothing; it comes natural to me. "When his time is out In one jail he goes to 'the next and the next, and we shall have nothing to do but collect; the rewards as he goes along. It is a'perfectly steady income as Ions as we live, Hawkins. And ranch better than other kinds of investments, be cause he is indestructible." - " "It looks it really does look the way you ay; it does indeed." "Look? why it is. " It will not be de nied that I have had a pretty wide and comprehensive financial experience and I do not hesitate to say that I consider this one of the most valuable properties I have ever controlled." "Do you really think so?" "I do, indeed." 'Oh, colonel, the wasting grind and grief of poverty! If we could realize im mediately. I don't mean sell it all, but sell part enough, you know, to " "See how you tremble with excite ment That comes of lack of experience. My boy, when you have been familiar with vast operations as lone as I have, you'll be different Look at-rne; is my eve dilated? do you notice a quiver anywhere? Feel my pulse plunk plunk plunk same as if I were asleep. And vet, wbat is passing through my calm, oold mind? A procession of figures which would make a financial novice drunk jnst the sight of them. Now it is by keeping cool, and looking at a thing all around, that a man sees what's really in it, saves himself from the novices's unfail ing mistake the one you have just sug gestedeagerness to realize. Listen 'to me. Your idea is to sell a part of him for ready cash. Now mine is guess." "I haven't an idea. What is it?" "Stock him of course." "Well, I should never have thought of that "Because you are not a financier. Sav he has committed a thousand crimes. Certain ly that's a low estimate. But the look of him, even in his unfinished condition, be has committed all of a million. But call it only a thousand to be perfectly safe; 5,000 reward, multiplied by a thousand, gives us a dead sure cash basis of what?55,000,000!" "Wait let me get my breath." "And the property indestructible. Per petually fruitful, perpetually; for a prop erty with his disposition will go on com mitting crimes and winning rewards." "You daze me; you make mv head whirl!" "Let it whirl; it won't do any harm. Now that matter is all fixed, leave it alone. I'll get up the company and issue the stock all in good time. Just leave it in my hands. I iudge vou don't doubt mv abilitv to work it up "for all it is worth." "Indeed I don't I can sav that with truth." "All right then. That's disposed of. Everything in its turn. We old operators go by order and system no helter-skelter business with us. What's the next thing on the docket The carrying on of the ma terialization the bringing it down to date. I will begin on that at once. I think " "Lookhere, Kossmore. Yon didn't lock it in. A hundred to one it has escaped." "Calm-yourself as to that; don't give yourself any uneasiness." "But why shouldn't it escape?" "Let it, if it wants to! What of it?" "Well, I should consider it a pretty serious calamity." "Why, my dear boy, once in my power always in my power. It may go and come freely. I can produce it here whenever I want it, just by the exercise of my will." - w en, i. am truly giaa to near that, J. do assure you." "Yes, I shall give it all the painting it wants to do, and we and the family will make it as comfortable and contented as we can. No occasion to restrainjts -movements. I hope to persuade it to' remain pretty quiet though, because a materialization which is in a state of arrested development must of necessity be pretty soft and flabby and substanceless, and er by the way, I wonder where it comes from?" "How? What do you mean?" The Earl pointed significantly and inter rogatively toward the sky. Hawkins started, then settled into deep reflection, finally shook his head sorrowfully and pointed downward. "What makes you think so, "Washington?" "Well, I hardly know; but really you can see vourself, that he doesn't seem to be pining for his last place." "It's well thought Soundly deduced. We've done that thing a favor. But I be lieve I will pump it a little in a quiet way and find out if we are right" "How long is it going to take to finish him off and fetch him down to date, Colonel?" "I wishI knew, but I don't I am clear knocked out by this new detail this un foreseen necessity of working a subject down gradually from his condition of an cestor to his ultimate result as posterity. But I'll make him hump himself, anyway. v "Eossmore!" "Yes, dear. "We're in the laboratorv. Come, Hawkins is here. Mind, now, Haw kins, he's a sound, living human being to all the family, don't forget that Here she comes." "Keep your seats, I'm not coming in. I just wanted to ask who is it that's painting down there?" "That? Oh, that's a young artist; young Englishman named Tracy; very promising favorite pupil of Hans Christian Ander sen or one of the other old masters Ander sen, I'm pretty sure it is; he's going to half sole some of our old Italian masterpieces. Been talking to him?" "Well, only a word. "I stumbled right in on him without expecting anybody was there. I tried to be polite to him: o'flered him a snack (Sellers delivered a large wink to iiawKins irom behind his hand;, but be declined, and said he wasn't hungry (another sarcastic wink), so I brought some apples (double wink) and he ate a couple of " "What!" and the Colonel sprang some yards toward the ceiling and came down quaking with astonishment - Lady Eossmore was smitten dum with amazement She razed at the sheepish relic of Cherokee Strip, then at her husband, and then at the guest again. Finally she said: "What is the "matter with vou, Mul. berry?" He did not answer immediately. His back was turned; he was bending over his chair, feeling the seat of it But he answered next moment, .and said: "Ah. there it is; it was a tack." The lady contemplated him doubtfully a moment, then said, pretty snappishly: "All that for a tack! Praise goodness it wasn't a shingle nail; it would have landed you in the milk way. I do hate to have my nerves shook up so." And. she turned on her heel and went her way. As soon as she was safely out the Colonel said, in a suppressed voice": " "Come, we must see for ourselves. It must be a mistake." They hurried softly down and peeped in. Sellers whispered, in a sort of despair: "It is eating. What a grisly spectacle! Hawkins, it's horrible! Take me away I I can't stand it" They trotted back to the laboratory. To Be Continued Next Sunday. KAPHTHA m WHISKY.. The rierj- Stun Sold la the low Saloons Is Toned Vp With It-.- Et IOuls Globe-Democrat 2 Some people doubt the presence of naph tha In the worst kind of whisky and other liquor, bnt the bartender in any very low saloon will tell you that a large quantity of worthless liquor is toned up with this horri ble liquid, and that some men positivelv like the mixture. It used to be a common practice in chemical works "throughout the world to adulterate alcohol used in manu facturing with naphtha with a view of pre venting bibulous workmen from drinking it The practice is not so universal now, owing to the discovery thai men with a taste for pure alcohol will drink it almost as readily when thus adulterated as when chemically pure. As to the effect upon the human anatomy, it can be best imagined by pouring a few drops on to a piece ot leather or raw meat and watching the results. For all that, some men will take naphtha witli their drinks lor years, and apparently suffer very little Inconvenience; but if a man not used to hard drinking was to take Iwo or three glasses of the mixture it would well nigh kill him. 'THE - - IN ' A SHADOW LASIX Wonderful Hctures Shown in the Len-Shn Temple of Japan. PERDITION IN TERRIBLE FORMS And Paradise Represented by Pretty Gar dens and Teahouses. THI COKCIPMON OP CHILD-BEAUTT rwBlTTEN rOB THK DtSrATCII.1 NOTHEBday in' Ja-I pan, ana now we stand at the verge . of the great grove. Beyond the trees, what caress ing sun what spiritu al loveliness in the ten der day ! A tropic sky always seemed to me to hang so low that one could almost oathe one's finger in its luke warm liquid blue by reaching upward from any dwelling roof But this sky, softer, sweeter, fainter tinted arches so vastly as to suggest the heaven of a larger planet How ethereally sweet It is! The very clouds are not clouds, but only dreams of clouds so filmily rare they are; ghosts of clouds diaphanous, flimsiest specters, illu sions ! "Ob, Akiral yon must show me some thing more," said I at last to my faithful guide. "I cannot show you much more," answers Akira, smiling at my interest, "but if you will come with me to Kubo-yama, I will show you in one of the temples there pict ures of the Saino-Kawara and of Jizo, and the Judgment of Souls." So we take our way in two jinrikishas to the Temple Bin-ko-ji, on Kubo-yama. "We roll quickly through a mile of many colored Japanese streets, then through half a mile of pretty suburban ways, lined with gardens, behind whose perfectly, clipped hedges are houses light and dainty as cages of wicker work, and. then, leaving our vehicles, we ascend green hills on foot by tortuous paths and traverse a region of fields and farms. The Sine; of the Dead. After a long walk in the hot sun we reach a tiny village almost wholly composed of shrines and temples. The outlying sacred plan with its buildings in one inclosure of bamboo fences, belongs to the Shinzon Sect A small open shrine to the left of the entrance first attracts us. It is a dead house; a Japanese bier is there. But almost opDOsite the doorway is an altar covered with startling images, the shapes of phan tom powers ruling the world of ghosts. But all this is not what we came to see. The pictures of heaven and hell await us in the Len-Shu U'emplc close bv. On the way my guide tells me this: "When one dies the body is laved and shaved and attired in the. garment's of pilgrims (Koromo), and a.wal le (sanebukero), like a Buddhist pilgrim's wallet, is hung about the neck of the dead, and in this wallet are placed three rin. And these coins are buried with the dead. For all who die, except children, pav three rin at the -San-Zu-no-Kaiva, 'The Kiver of the Three Eoads.' "When souls reach that river they find there the Old Woman of the Three Eteds, Sozu-Baba, waiting for them; she hvts on the bank of that river with her husband, Ten,Datsn-Ba; and if the Old Woman is not paid the sum of three rin she takes away the clothes of the dead and hangs them on tne trees.1' bating a Bare Chrysanthemum. The temple is small, neat, luminous with thesun pouring into its widely opened shojis; and Akira must know the priests well, so affable their greeting is. I make a little oflering, and Akira explains the pur pose of our visit Thereupon we are in vited into a J arse bright apartment in a wing of the building overlooking a lovely garden. Little cushions are placed on the floor for us to sit. upon and a smoking box is brought in, and a tiny lacquered table, about eight inches high. Ana while one ot the priests opens a cupboard, or alcove with doors, to find the pictures which are Kake monos or paintings on long scrolls, rolled up on wooden rollers, another brings us tea, and a plate of curious confectionery consist ing of various pretty objects made of a paste of stigar and rice flour. One is a per fect model of a chrysanthemum blossom; another is a lotos; others aie simply large, thin crimson lozenges bearing admirable de signs flying birds, wading storks, fish, even miniature landscapes. Akira picks out the chrysanthemem, and iusists that I shall eat it; and I begin to demolish the sugary blossom, petal by petal, feeling all the while a sense of acute remorse for spoil in;; so. beautiful a theme. Meanwhile four Kakemonos have been brought forth; unrolled and suspended from pegs upon the wall; and we rise to examine them. They are very, very beautiful Kake monos, miracles of drawing and of color, subdued color, the color of the best period of Japanese art; and they are very large, fully 5 feet long and more than 2 broad xuuuuicu upon siut. The Buddhist Idea or Death. And these are the legends of them: First Kakemono In the UDDer part of the rjaint ing is a scene from the Shaba, the world of men; tben mourners kneeling before tombs. All under the delicious soft blue light of Japanese day. "Underneath is the world of ghosts. Down throngh the earth crust souls are descending. Here they are flitting, all white through inky darkness; here they are wading through weird light, tbe flood of the phantom river of the Three Eoads. Further down I see fleeing souls overtaken by demons, hideous blood-red demons, with feet like lions, with lace half, human the physiognomy of the Minotaur of fury. One is rending a soul asunder. Other demons are forcing souls to reincarcerate themselves in bodies of horses, of dogs, of swine. And as they are thus reincarnated hideously they flee away into shadow mysterious shawow, like the darkness of the Future. Second Kakemono: Such a gloom as the diver sees in deep sea water a lurid twi light, an under-world gloaming. In the midst a throne, ebon-colored, and upon it an awful figure seated, Eunna, Lord of Deatbi and Judge of Souls, unpitying, mighty, tremendous. Frightful guardian spirits hover about him like armed goblins. On the left, in the foreground below the W ' " ' ' fC 9W3 PlTTHBTIRGr DISPATGH throne, stands the wonderous Mirror Tabari-no-Kagami reflecting the state of souls and all the happenings of the world. A la'ndscape now shadows its surface a landscape of cliffs and lakes and shipping with figures of pedestrians and sailors. On the right, upon a tnll-sterorned flat stand such as offerings to the gods are placed upon in the temple, a monstrous shape appears, like a double-faced head freshly cut off and set upright upon the stump of the neck. Sonls Awaiting the Judgment. The two fans are the witnesses the face of the woman (Mirume) sees all that goes on in the Shaba; the other fan is the face of a bearded man, the face of Kaguhana, who smells all odors, and by them is aware of all that human beings do. Clo'se to them, upon a reading stand, a great book is open the record book of deeds. And between the mirror and the witnesses white, shuddering souls await judgment. Further down I see the sufferings of souls already sentenced. One, in life time a liar, is having his tongue torn out by a demon armed -with heated pincers. Other souls, flung by scores into fiery carts, are being dragged away by demons. The carts are of iron; but resemble exactly in form those hand wagons which one sees every day being pulled and pushed through, the streets bv bare-limbed Japanese laborers, chanting always the same melancholv alternating chorus Haidah I hei I baidan I hei ! But these demon wagoners naked,blood-colored, having the feet of lions and the heads of bulls, move with their flaming wagons at a run like jinrikisha men. All the souls so far limned are souls of adults. The souls of children are not judged by Eunna. Third Kakemono: A furnace with souls for fuel, blazing up into darkness. Demons stir the fire with poles"bf iron. Through J.he superior blackness white souls are descending, head downwards, into the flames. The Children After Death. Below this scene opens a shadowy land scape, a faint-blue and, faint-gray world of hills and vales, through which a river ser pentines, the Saino-Kawara. Thronging the banks of the pale river are the ghosts of little children trying to -pile up stones. They are very, very pretty, the child souls, pretty as real Japanese children are (it is astonishing how exquisitely is child beauty felt and expressed by the artists of Japan; one would say these men had the souls of women)! Each child has one little short white dress. In the foreground ahorrible devil with an iron club has just dashed down and scat tered a pile of stones built by one of the children. The, infant ghost seated by the ruin of its poor little work is crying, with both pretty hands in its eyes. The devil appears to sneer. Other children also are weeping nearby. But. lo! Jizo comes, all light and sweetness, with a -glory moving behind him, like a great full moon, and he holds out his shakinjo, his strong and holy staff, and the little ghosts catch it and cling to it, and are drawn into the circle of his loving protection. And other infants have caught his great sleeves, and one has been lifted to the angel bosom of the God. Below this Sai.io-Kawara scene appears yet an other shadow world a wilderness of bam boos! Only white-robed shapes of women appear in it They are weeping; the fingers ot all are bleeding. With finger nails plucked out must they continue through centuries to pick the sharp-edged bamboo grass. ' Painting of a Miraculous "Lotos. Fourth Kakemono: Floating in glory, Dai-Nichi-Nyori Kwanoon - Sama-Amida Buddha. Far below them, as hell from heaven, surges a Jake of blood, in which souls float. The shores of the lake are preci pices studded with sword blades thickly set as teeth in the jaws of a shark and demons are driving other naked ghosts up the. ap palling slopes but out of the crimson lake, something crystalline rises like a beautiful, clear waterspout; the stem of a flower a miraculous lotos, bearing up a soul to the feet of a priest, standing ahijve the verge of the abvss. By virtue of his saintly prayer was shaped the lotos which thus lifted up and saved a suffering soul. The priest has found in some mysterious cupboard one more Kakemono, a very large one, which he unrolls and suspends besides the others. A vision of beauty, indeed, but what has this to do with faith or ghosts? In the foreground a garden by the waters of the sea, or some vast, blue "lake a garden like that at Kakemono, full of exquisite miniature landscape work, cascades, grot toes, lily ponds, curved bridges and trees snowy with blossom, and dainty pavilions out-jutting over the placid azure water. Here children are playing, peacocks are strutting. And the walks of the garden lead to beautiful buildings like teahouses, with. white shojis all open to the summer day, and matted floors whereon guests are reposing. And further and vaster, a mar velous magnificence of lofty edifices, rising roof beyond roof to glorious altitude in faint blue haze, in summer vapor, creations all aerial, gracious, light as dreams. The Idea ot Paradise. Whv this is Paradise! The Ookurakn! and all these quiet guests are souls! Well, what afterall is the heaven of any faith but ideal reiteration and prolongation of happy experiences remembered, the dream ot dead days resurrected for us, and made eternal? And if you think this Japanese ideal too simple, too naive if you say there are ex periences of the material life more worthy of portrayal in a picture of heaven, than any memory of days passed in Japanese gardens and teahouses it is perhaps be cause you do not know Japan, the soft, sweet loveliness of its sky, the tender color ot its waters, tho gentle splendor of its sunny days, the exquisite charm and com fort of its interiors, where the least object appeals to tbe sense of beauty with the air or something not made, but caressed into existence.. Latcadio TTtta-r-w, SISAL GBAS3 OF TTJCATA1T. A Wonder! nl Fiber That Will Have an In finite Variety of Uses. The sisal grass of Yucatan is one of the most remarkable vegetable products known)' says the St Louis Globe-Democrat It grows in long blades, sometimes to the length of i or 5 feet, and when dry the blade curls up from side to side, making a cord which is stronger than 'any cotton string of equal size that has ever been manufactured. It is in great demand among florists and among manufacturers of various kinds of grass foods, but as soon as its valuable properties ecome known it will have a thousand uses Which are now undreamed of. Bopes, cords, lines of any description and any size may be manufactured of it, and a ship's cable of sisal grass is one of the possibilities of the future. It is almost impervious to the action of salt water, ana is not readily decayed or disintegrated by moisture and heat, and will, in time, prove one of the most valuable productions of Central America. . e THE BOSTON CIVILIZATION. mow a juirue liiu Disgraced uerseir at a Symphony Concert. G Youth's Companion. " "" The Boston Symphony concerts have be come, in a way, sacred ceremonials, at which even those not born with a musical ear must assist in becoming fashion. One Friday afternoon the little daughters of a certain family returned from the Music Hall "in a state of mind." One of them was evidently scornful, and the other depressed. "What's the matter?" asked some one. "Wasn't the concert fine?" 'The concert was all right," said Ethel, suberbly, "I don't complain of the concert!" "Then what did go wrong? Something. I'm sure." "The amount of the matter is," said the young lady, looking haughtily at her droop ing sister, "that Mildred has disgraced her self. She sneezed in the middle of the symphony!" An Advantage of Age. Harpef 's Young People. J "I'd like to be crown up," sighed Bojbby, "for 'then I'd be helped first to pie, and get through in time to have a second piece." ITEBRTTAHTJ1 THE .RULES OF RANK. Bessie Bramble on the Formalities of Washington Society. SECRETARY PRDDEN'S AUTHORITY. Hen ire as Tad as Women in the Squab ble for Eeats of Honor. THE GUESTS AT A CABINET DINNER rCOHEESPONDEJJCE OP THE PIRPATCH.l " Washington, Feb. 27. Every year when the social season begins in Washing ton they have no end of a wrangle and jangle as to order of precedence and official etiquette. This year the talk and criticism was as to how the guests were seated at the President's Cabinet dinner it being claimed that Mrs. Miller, the wife of the Attorney General, was given the seat that should, by virtue of her rank, have been assigned to Mrs. Elkins. This momentous matter gave a subject for gossip to the town, and much Grundyism was indulged in by the sticklers for forms. Outsiders may look upon this as a 'small matter. They will be likely to think that Mrs. Elkins could eat just as good a dinner, in one suit as another. They will jeer at the idea of court etiquette in a democracy. They will, want to know what this country is coming to anyway. But they will speedily be told that law and order of precedence must be main tained, and that it is quite a serious thing to make a mistake in official etiquette. But tbe many millions of people outside of Washington will be more disposed to laugh over the wranglings and janglings as to place and rank by their representatives than to regard them with the gravity that pertains to such matters in official life. Down to an Exact Science. The friends of Mrs. Elkins claim that her seat should have been above Mrs. Miller's in order of rank at the Cabinet dinner. But Mr. Pruden, the assist-' ant private secretary of the President, who is said to have given .many years of se vere mental labor to a study of this great question, and who claims to have reduced the matter of seatingguests at the State en tertainments at the White House to an ex act science, is highly ind'gnant over the idea that any mistake was made at the Cab inet dinner. The system evolved bv the brains of Mr. Pruden has, he asserts, "been submitted for criticism to some of the finest jurists and formalists of the country." He quotes the late Secretary Frelinghuysen who, be says, was notedfor his fine sense of the proprieties in support ot nis scientino code for the adjustment of the order of pre cedence. The people of the country will likely be interested in knowing how" Cabinet officers rank according to the code of etiquette as promulgated by the learned men who hfve given this subject so much wear and tear of brains. Here it is: First, the President; then, in order of precedence, the Vice President, Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, the Attorney General, the Postmaster General, the Secretaries of the Navy, In terior and Agriculture. Secretary Kusk's place, therefore, is down foot. Tjklnc Care or the Ladlrl. According to the rules, tbe President must have a lady of high degree on each side of him, Mrs. Harrison on his right and Mrs. Blaine on his left Mrs. Harrison, as follows, must be conducted to dinner by the Yiee President, who finds his card at her right hand, while Mr. Blaine finds his place at her left If by reason of "the grip" or owing to the necessity of taking a rest from official duty at Fortress Monroe or "down South" any of the Cab inet officers or their wives should be absent, the whole diagram is upset, and a new one must be substituted with due regard to rank; These changes are what bothers the brain; and vexes the soul of the official who has the administration of the code of etiquette in his charge. The main difficulty in arranging the guests at a White House dinner is because. as Mr. Pruden tells us, the table has two sides. If there were only one, the President would head tbe line and the high officials would go down in regular order, with "Uncle Jerry" as the Iat in the Cabinet row, and the distinguished guests below our boss farmer. But as it is, it re quires deep study and ample knowledge of court etiquette to get matters arranged in tho heavenly harmony that disarms criticism. The President sits in the middle of one side of the table, and his wife opposite, while the guests grade down on either hand. Trouble Comes Prom the Fair. It is said that the women make most of the trouble as to rank and precedence. They cannot be made to realize the stern and solemn fact that thongh Scripture and the civil law have ingrained the statement into their souls that husband and wife are one, the code of etiquette, as held in the White House, is that "the wives of cabinet officers' have personally no official rank whatever." Mrs. Secretary Blank, or Mrs. Senator Jones, br Mrs. Speaker-ot-the House Smith are pronounced upon the high authority of Mr. Pruden to be the most preposterous expressions to be found in print it is dv virtue ot tnelr husband s rant that cabinet ladies are admitted to state dinners and high official functions. To have their claims to title thus disputed as vulgar and pretentious will be sad news to those women who love to be called Mrs. Secretary this, or Mrs. Senator that, or Mrs. Justice-of-thc-Peace Blank. Not long ago it will be remembered that official society in Washington and even in the country at large was all torn up over the question of who was "first lady in the land," and who was first in order of precedence the wife of a Judge of the Su preme Court, or the helpmate of the Speaker of the House. How it 'was decided, we fail to remember, but certainly there was a bill or order of succession passedthat took tbe Speaker of the House out of the royal order of descent Would Like to So a McAllister. Mrs. Elkins and Mrs. Miller were seated wrongly according to some of tbe critics, but Mr. Pruden maintains they were rightly placed under the code of the. White House. He thinks things have come to a pretty pass, indeed, when the newspapers in other cities presume to criticise and arrange those who "live and move and have their being in the very odor of court etiquette, and to whom its forms are the' familiar events of daily lite." tie evidently wants to nave nis code adopted as a supreme law, and like unto those of the Medes and Persians. "Looking back, it will be remembered that the Ian s of etiquette as lived up to at the White House and observed in Washington society did not suit Mrs. Blaine and Gail Hamilton. They thought they should be revised and improved after their pattern. The talk of the gossips at tbe time was that they were so sure that Mr. Blaine would be nominated and elected in 1876, that they had proceeded to formulate a new code ot manners in society that should go into effect when they toot up their residence in the Presidental mansion. Bat when the "Plumed Knight" came home with droop ing, draggled feathers, and no nomination, the proposed new code was abandoned and buried in oblivion. No more was heard of the reforms to be instituted at court If Blaine Bad Been Elected. The defeat of Blain was no more of a disappointment to the Blaine men than to the Blaine women. What the .republican party and the people lost by the failure of their delegates to nominate him at Cincin nati can neverbe estimated. What changes nould have been made in the order of nobil ity and the goings on in society by the com bined genius ana brains of Mrs. Blaine and Gail Hamilton will perhaps never be known, but it is likely they would hive been based less on the customs of European courts and aristocratic precedents, and more 38, ;:i89aiTv---!r 4 - - -- , .., , . , -,.,.-, '"-rgg In accordance with Republican ideas, and pernaps common sense. ZThe ladies will give Mr. Pruden most trouble, he may be sure. They can be as obstinate as were the Cabinet dames in Jackson's day, who refused" to recognize Mr. Eaton in any wayj although Jackson and Van Buren moved heaven and earth almost to make them call upon her and treat her with politeness. This social rumpus broke up the Cabinet, destroyed Calhoun's hopes for the Presidency, and, a Parton says, "changed the course of events in the United States for half a century." But while these tempests in society are usually set down to the women, and they are thought to be most concerned about the order of rank, and to do the most of the gos siping as to blunders, it is notable that they only match the men. At one of the New Year's receptions at the Whit,e House a few years ago the official programme read as follows 'The President will receive at 11. a. m. the members of the Cabinet and the Diplomatic Corps; "at 11:15 the Chief Jus tice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Judges of the Court of Claims: at 11:30 tha Senators and Representatives in Congress, and the Judges of the Supreme Court of the Dis trict of Columbia. These to be followediby the commissioners and officers of the Dis trict" and so on. ' The Men Are Panicky, Too. Now, that reads all right to most people, but they can little imagine what a ruction was raised aoout mat official order. The Justices of the Supreme Court were out raged by the idea that the Court of Claims could for one moment be ranked as their equals. Tbe Senators were roused to wrath because they had to take the dust of the Court of Claims. Precedent had hitherto prescribed that Senators should sbake hands with the President before the Judges of the Court of Claims. In fact, in earlier years they had struggled to take precedence of the Supreme Court itself, on the score that their consent was necessarv to create judges ot the Supreme Court The latter tiuimcu iuai iiieir omces were ior me, whereas the Senators were elected for a term. Then the Senators argued that thev represented sovereign states, and the Judges retorted with the assertion thev were the equals of the Senate, and indeed of the Executive. The Supreme Judge won the point. They could, say, with Mrs. Mali prop, "you may go first, but we'll precede you." But in this case what theycould not stand was to be evened with the Court of Claims. The grievance of the Senators was that they should be insulted by having to follow the Court of Claims, "a mere audit ing board" as they derisively called it that they could abolish at will. Then the fat was in the fire among the Supreme Judges of the District of Columbia. The idea of the Court of Claims going before them was out rageous. To make the long story short every bodyhad a grievance except the Judges of the Court of Claims. Bow Managed In Enzland. In England and other European countries they have got this matter down fine. The members of the nobility know their places. In a recent English novel the inflexible rule as to the order ot rant is shown in that one quiet little worn in, who was poor, lived in a very small house, and could afford to keep but one little servant, was entitled to take precedenceof every woman in the neighbor hood by virtue of her once having been married to a poor paltry lord. It is shown also by the story told of General Grant that when he dined with Queen Victoria the court order of rank gave precedence to every one else in the room, and he entitled to tbe highest honor had the lowest seat at the table ranking below all ot the royal tommynoddies with handles to their names. In his own country Grant would have been at the top of the heap, in the order of true American nobility. But while these" great questions of place, and power and rank, are working the minds of Supreme judges and Senators, and rack ing the brains and tempers of Government officials and the administration generally, it is dreadful to read the awful prognostica tions of the anthor of "The Coming Climax" or "Triumphant Plutocracy." He says: It Is out of tbe power of human language to exaggerate the probable calamities that will betall this country durlnsr Its next financial panic, which may come at any time. The volcano will burst forth. The tfcrer of the proletariat will break his chains. The people's day of wratn will be at band. The modern Huns and Goths will spread dismay and terror among the plutocrats and, aristocrats. In these predicted black 'days to come the order of precedence will likely be lost sight of. If there is anything in all this talk about an "impending crash," "the mutter ings of coming storm," "the approach of a reign of terror," it would be better to dis cuss how to get in out of the rain than how to establish an inerrant order of precedence. Bessie Beamble. HTTUAB BODIES CATCHIHO 7IBX The Theory of Spontaneous Combustion Once Seriously Entertained. Pearson Weekly. J The theory of spontaneous combustion of the human body in former times was held by almost every expert French scientists, in particular, supported it, and several of them published pamphlets in which numer ous cases of alleged spontaneous combustion of the human body were described at length, but there are three ' very significant points to be noticed in connection with such re ports. One is the invariable admission that there was a light or fire in the room where the catastrophe occurred; another, that the alleged instances always happened in fami lies composed of ignorant persons; and another, thatlfrno case was there any actual witness ot the occurrence. Something like 75 per cent of the human, body consists of water; this fact in itself is' sufficient to discredit any of the alleged in stances of spontaneous combustion. It is just conceivable that persons who drink an enormous amount ot spirituous liquors may become so saturated, as it were, with this in flammable material that their bodies burn much more easily than wonld those of peo ple who do not over-indulge in this wav, but it is perfectly certain that the fire would have to be applied from without, forno such thing as spontaneous combustion could be possible in any article containing so great a preponderance of the liquid element as does the human body. sia xnwnrs coumssiov. Sirs. Gladstone Once Encaged Him. to Keep Her Hosband From Talking. Sir Edwin Arnold, in a late letter, tells the following story of a visit to Hawarden: "Dining recently in the company of the distinguished pair, Mrs. Gladstone said to me: 'I commission you, Sir Edwin, to night to keep my husband from talking to the opposite side of the table. He has a great speech to make soon, and his voice is a little hoarse with a hardly departing cold. Engage him as mueh as you can jn whis pered conversation.' "Never did a faithful person more earn estly devote himself to a duty than I to that, r cheerfully allowed my turtle soup to grow cold and .took little or no notice of a delicious mayonnaise while I humbly sought to-lead tbe thoughts and talk ot Mr. Gladstone into paths which I thought would be most alluring. In the moment of appar ent success somebody dropped on the other side of the table the remark that the Phoe nicians were a Semite people. The webs I had woven 'round my eminent prisoner were broken like spider threads. He flew with quick intellectual swoop at the the orist, for he seems to hold the view that the Phoenicians were of another stock, and all I could do was to turn to Mrs. Gladstone and penitently beat my breast, while she smiled a gentle iorgiveuess, and Mr. Gladstone, as is his splendid custom, prenait la parole and kept it, to the delight and profit of the whole table." No Particular Advantage. Harper's Young Peopls. 'Freddy," asked his teacher, "what does leap-rear mean?" "One extra day .of ssfiool," answered Freddy, saaiy. UTASM OF JUDAH By the Great Sennacherib and tbe ' Confusion That Resulted. A TURNING POINT IN HISTORY. The Savage Animal Cropping Out Eetwecn Assyria and Egypt. ISAIAH'S PROPHECY AND THE BESULT ffKllIU TOB TUB DISrATCH.l The subject this morning is .the Invasion of Sennacherib. The Causes of thelnva sion, the March of the Invading Army and the Defeat of the Invaders are the three great features of thp story. Wc will begin with the causes of the in vasion. Why should the great power of Assyria make war upon trie little province of Judea? Why should the mighty King of Nineveh attack the King of Jerusalem? The United States and Chile aflord us no adequate illustration of the difference and disproportion between the combatants. The answer is to be found in the geographical location of the Hehrew province. There were two great powers then in the world, overtopping all others, far more than England and Bussia do to-day, stand ing out lie two stout giants amidst the plgmv nations; one was Assyria, the other was Egypt Judea lay between them. The only road from one of these great kingdoms into the other lay along the highways of Palestine. The Original Sin or Nations. These two great nations had the feeling that was common enough between nations in that day, and, as recent events have re minded us", is not entirely ended yet they desired to fight One of the indications of original sin is this desire to fight For original sin is it not what the evolution ists call our "brute inheritance?" Is it not so much of the savage animal as still sur vives in man? Men used to fight like wolves. In the days of chivalry, in that time which is so much more picturesque in retrospect than it wa3 comfortable or com mendable in reality, the knights were wont to sally forth with lance and shield, that they might exercise themselves in this art of fighting. Sometimes they were able to discover a reason for a fight More often, however, they went upon the good principle of the industrious wolf they fought the first fight able individual thev met The fact that one knight was riding south while another knight was riding north was a sufficient reason for a bout at arms. Each courteous knight who passed a stranger on the way felt it his duty, if he were able, to pound the stranger over the head with a battle ax or prod him with a spear. The Chlvalrio form of Introduction. "Anon, they were ware of an armed knight that came riding against them, and there either saluted other. What knights be ye? said that knight And therewith he gat his spear in his hands, and would have run Sir Tristram through. That saw Sir Palamides, and smote his horse traverse in midst of the side, that man and horse fell to the earth. And therewith Sir Palamides alight and pulled out his sword to have slain him." And what was tbe cause of all this trouble? Why, these chivalrous gen tlemen had never had the pleasure of an in troduction each to the other. And in those times every man who was not your friend was held to be your enemy, and the sooner he could be spitted on your spear the bet ter. We have got past that When this med ieval spirit shows itsejf to-day we hurry it away in a patrol wagon, and give it time for reflection in a lockup. But we have not been successful yet in suppressing pub lic war. We have not yet come to the point where we can see clearly that stand ing armies are but survivals of savagery. We do not realize that the nations of Eu rope are like the mining camps ot the border, where justice was done with the muzzle of each man's musket Law has taken the place of violence between man and man, but not yet between nation and nation. Jndah Was Between Two Powers. In the eighth century B. 0. any such idea as justice between nations was un dreamed of. These two great nations, As syria and Egvpt, like the great wolves, like medieval knights, like border ruffians with bowie knives, wanted to get at each other. And Judah and Jerusalem, unfortunately, lay between them. That was one reason why the Assyrians invaded Judah. They were on the march for Egypt An invasion, however, means more than the march of an army. It signifies hostility. On their way to Egypt the Assyrians stopped purposely and of malice to do hurt to Judah. Why? Judah had sought alli ance with Assyria. The armies of Nineveh had beaten off the beseigers of Jerusalem. The great nation and the small were friends. At least, that bad been the case. sut that had all been changed. No" sooner had the treaty with Assyria been made than a good many people rc greted it The Assyrian taxes were enor mous. Their assessments were out of all reason; and, there was no chance of appear. Opposed to the Assyrian party was an Egyptian party. Egypt was not nearly so eager for a fight as Assyria was. Egypt was neaker than Assyria. It was accordingly the policy of Egypt to win overto her side all the Palestinian provinces. These little principalities and powers would be so many obstacles along the path by which the Assryians must come. They made wide bulwarks for prudent Egvpt "The Egyptian party in Judah desired to overturn the Assyrian alliance ana trust ior neip to these neighbors in the south. Isaiah Again In Opposition. Against this Egyptian alliance, Isaiah set himbelf as strongly as he had before opposed alliance with Assyria. At one time, when the Egyptian party was especially strong, Isaiah for three years walked about the streets in the dress of a captive slave. To this he meant, would the nation come that made joint cause with Egypt That was a sermon three years long; and what an effective sermon! Isaiah knew very well, what Protestantism has for the most part forgotten, that men are made with eves, and that we-learn as much, and more, by the eye as bv the ear. The dullest mind, the least attentive inhabitant of Jerusalem, understood that sermon. We are aU sermons. It is a familiar story how St Francis said one day to a monk in the monastery, "Brother, let us go down into the town and preach." So they went down into the town, the old man and the young man together, and walked about a dozen 'streets and at last turned back, And the young monk said, "Father, when shall we begin to preach?" And Francis answered, "My son, we havebeen preachiug all the time, tor men have, seen our iaces. and have heard our voices, and have taken note of U3 as we passed." AU men are sermons. Isaiah's Srrmon Was Disinterested. AU the sernions of Isaiah are not recorded in his book. Isaiah in that slave dress is a sermon that we need to-day. Here is a man who is profoundly interested, in the welfare of his country. He is not an offi cial, not a politician, not a soldier, not a capitalist. No personal interests of his are at stake in the matter. He is simply a loyal citizen, who loves his country with his whole heart We are in danger of a selfishness which Isaiah meets with re proaches. We are inclined to interest our selves in politics only so far as our own wel fare is concerned. We think first of our selves, then of our country. But Isaiah thought first of his country. To Isaiah the foreign relations of Judah were matters of the closest personal concern. Nevertheless, the Egyptian party tri umphed. Sargon of Assyria died, and Sennacherib came to the throne. At once in East and West there was a revolt In the East the Kinz of Babylon rebelled. In the West, the Provinces of Palestine, nrged by Egypt, cast off the yoke of Nine-, veh. In spite of the protestations of Isaiah, an embassy was sent from Judah down to Egypt Sennacherib, however, w'as strong enough for all his enemies. He routed the Babylonian rebels, and drove their King and leader Into the hiding places of the desert and the marsh. And then he turned toward Egvpt, and on his way he punished the rebellious provinces of Palestine. Thus it came about that the great Scnnpcherib laid siege to the little city of Jerusalem. A Bosk In the British Mnseam. The march of the invading army is de scribed for ns by two cotemporary writers in whose record we may have confidence. One is Isaiah, the other is Sennacherib himself. On pages of clay, after the bcok making fashions of Nineveh, Sennacherib, at the hands of some scribes of his, set down the whole story of his invasion. The books which were once in the Imperial library of Assyria are now in the British Museum. And tbe two sides of the story, the version of the beseiged and the version of the beseigers, lie before ns. The army marched across the wide plains inai separate Assyria trom the sea, and fell first upon the province of Phoenicia, attack ing Sidon. Thence thev turned south against Philistia. Thebeleazmed provinces sent for help to Egypt and an Egyptian army tardily came, and was at once turned back again defeated. The victorious As svrians thus came in all their strength npoa the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah. But the kingdom of Israel had alreadv been plundered from the East, and its inhabitants carried into captivity. Judah alone re mained. The armies of Assyria swept like a pes tilence, like a tornado, over the towns of Judah. Forty-six strong cities did Sen nacharib take, and 200,000 people did he make captives. King Hezekiah ne shut up, he says, like a bird in a cage. From. Lachish he sent to Jerusalem a summons to surrender. Sennacherib Made s Hard Bargain. I have seen a picture of Sennacherib, which ought to be a good one, for he sat for ifhimselll It is cut in stone, and repre sents him as he sat upon his throne at Iiachisb, receiving the homage of these Jewish captives. King Hezekiah sent to Liacbish to purchase safety. And Sen nacherib made a hard bargain with him. Hezekiah had not onlv to empty all his treasure chests to the last farthing, but even to pull off the golden covering of the great doors of the Temple. And yet, no sooner had the Assyrian turned again toward Egypt, with the money ot Jerusalem clinking in his purses, than for some reason he repented him of his forbearance. He got word that Egypt was stronger than he thought He feared, per haps," to leave this fortified city behind him. He had already possessed "hiraself of the wealth of Jerusalem, now he would take Jerusalem also. He stopped, accordingly. and sent a demand for unconditional sur render. Over from Lachish came his officer, the Babshakeh, and a large attachment of men came with him. The people of the city watched them from the walls. Out came the city officials to meet them. In a loud voice, so that all the terrified listeners on the walls might hear, and in the lan guage of the Hebrews, so that all the hearers might understand, the ambassador of the Assyrian king recounted the long list ot his victories. Isaiah's Predicted Crlsll Came. Where had therebeen found a nation that could stand before him? The frightened officials rent their garments. Hezekiah took Sennacherib's letter,andhastening with It into the holy Temple spread it out there in prayer before the Lord, crying out: "See this, and help us!" But how could help be possible. Outside the walls was the ever victonous army of Assyria; and within all hearts failed for fear. The crisis which Isaiah had predicted had arrived. In the presence of this crisis let us note its grave importance. It is not only the fate of that little city that depends upon its issue. We ourselves are very seriously concerned in it It is such a moment as came again at Thermopolse. It is the dan ger which Charles Martel faced when he met the vanguard of the Mohammedan sol diers invading Central Europe. Shall the wild armies ot the East overrun the West? Shall the lower civilization stamp out the higher? Shall the superstitions of Assyria triumph over the true, religion of Judea? Our own civilization, our own religion, seem to wait upon the outcome of this siege. A Tnrnlnsr Point of History. We make a great mistake if we think that this is but a bit of old dead history, which can be shut up between the pages of the Bible, and treated as a matter of no concern to us. The chances are that if Sennacherib had destroyed Jerusalem that day, there would never have been any such eity as Pittsburg here at the meeting of the rivers, nor any such government and nation as the United States of America. Our plsce is np on that old wall, 'looking over at the lines of scarlet shields, and praying for the help ot God against the perils ot the mor row. There was only one man who met this crisis with serenity. That was Isaiah. From the beginning he had declared -the sure defeat of the Assyrians. As their army grew nearer and fiercer, Isaiah grew more fnll of joy and confidence. Every body else was in despair, crying, "Let us eat and drinkt for to-morrow we die." Isaiah alone kept a steadfast heart Isaiah not only prophesied defeat for Sennacherib, but he declared that that defeat would be sudden, strange, wrought by the hand of GoJ. This foresight of Isaiah, this singu lar prediction in tbe face of all probability, is one of the remarkable facts of history. The armr of Assyria, he said, shonld be destroyed in a night The Miraculous Deliverance. And that happened. The day came npon which Sennacherib should make his great attack. His stout hand was uplifted for the mighty blow. But the blow came not. Without an effort on the part of Isaiah without even the beginning of a battle, that great armv of besiegers fell into wild con tusion. The King commanded a retreat Back they went to Nineveh. The fields behind them were covered with priceless booty which they had abandoned, and with dead bodies left nnburied. Was it as the Egyptianrecords say, that an army of field mice gnawed the bowstrings of the archers, and set the host into a panic? Or was it. as the He brew story seems to hint, a sudden pesti lence? We know not Only this we know, that Sennacherib nbandoned his campaign: that he went with all haste ont of those coasts and betook him to his own city, and the soldiers of Assyria were seen in those parts no more forever. The invasion of Sennacherib broke against the walls of the Temple of the most high God as a wave breaks upon a rock. Geokoe Hodges. WHY PI0PLE SHOES. Shirley Dare States the Canses TMth Sug gestions for the Cure. Among the queries from Dispaich read ers to Shirley Dare is the following from Edith: "I am but 35, yet I snore in my sleep, and am anxious to prevent the habit" - Shirley Dare announces that snoring re sults from two or three causes, perhaps all together. The inner membrane of the air passages thickens by disease or advanced years, and will not allow the breath to pass freelv. Or, there is catarrhal obstruction, or a heavy, undigested snpper oppresses the sleeper. To break up the' habit of snoring oae must be very careful to take early sup pers and wholesome ones. To keep the nasal membranes in condition, thin and healthy, draw hot salt water up the nose three times a day, snuffing it for five min utes, as hot as can be borne. Hot water promotes the absorption of morbid tissues. Hot compresses on the nose are also very good. On retiring the nose should-be cleared, bathed and anointed thickly with soft pomade, vaseline or sweet oil, which keeps down obstructions within. .This should always be done in case of a "stuffed cold." Anyone convicted of snoring ought to practice these cures faithfully, which are not too much to avoid becoming a pub Uc and family affliction. i I A M yt'k-iM ftV,;-
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