EVENING bulletin. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19.1866. TO ADVERTISERS. In order to secure the insertion of Ad vertisements in our regular edition, it is absolutely necessary that they be sent to the office before 12 o’clock, noon. The paper must be put to press at a particular moment, so that supplies to agents in the country may be sent off by the earliest trains in the afternoon, and with our present large edition, we cannot dela-y for advertisements or anythingelse. Cmr friends will therefore please semi tjieir advertisements at as early an hcrnr in the day as possible. Those se at after 12 o’clock are likely to be omit'^ed. the CASE OF JACOB S'AIDER, JR. There are thousands of persons in who remember Jacob Sni der, Jr., formerly a vine merchant, in Walnut street, below Fourth. His mental quickness, his genial social ■qualities, his readiness of tongue and pen, his conisoisseurahip in the fine art of gastronomy and the finer art of paint ing-—these tare all gifts of his to make j him the sutQectof pleasant reminiscences. to many readers of this paper. Itseditors have also reason to recall his staunch •Americanism; and his thorough loyalty to the Union, which never faltered during the four years of rebellion; for he wrote frequently from London to this Office, during that trying period, exposing the infamy of treacherous Americans in England, and the perfidy of the English government and people towards the United States Government, incite time of trial. All such as thus remember their old townsman will take a certain personal interest in the article copied into this day’s Bulletin from Miss Braddon’s new magazine, published in London,; called Belgravia. The writer was a per-; -sonal and.intimate friend of Mr. Snider, ■ and his narrative is the first clear and intelligible one that has appeared, con cerning his claims upon the British go vernment, hiß treatment by the War Office authorities, his trials, sufferings; illness and death. It is a painful story, and when the sensitive nature of the man is remembered, there will be abet ter appreciation of the acuteness of the distress he must have endured. The British army is now supplied with arms altered according to Mr. Snider’s inven tion. But the British Government not only failed to pay him, but neglected him in every way, and at last suffered him to die in utter poverty and misery. GREENBACKS AND GALLANTRY. Mr. Secretary of the Treasury McCul loch is, it is rumored, contemplating a wholesale removal of all the female em ployees in his department. This change, it is further reported, is not in conse quence of any unfitness of crinoline for clipping and counting currency, the inability of petticoats for posting ac counts, or the failure of water-falls to manage warrants. All must go by the hoard because, forsooth, there are so many skirted applicants for places near Uncle Sam’s strong-box, and because so much outside pressure has been brought to bear upon the Secretary, in order te secure the coveted places, that he has j grown tired of it, and has concluded to make a martyr of Martha because Phoebe wants her place, or one like unto it, and because some Congressional Matthew or Paul back up both in their claims and pretences. This is certainly strong reasoning, and by the same token, as there are always five hundred male applicants for every place in the gift of the government, and live hundred-pounds-to-the-inch-pre3- sure brought to bear to secure the berth for each applicant, ergo there should be no more wearers of pantaloons appointed to office! The fact is, women have no votes, and they do not carry their wards nor rule their precincts, and therefore they have no merit in the eyes of an Administration that hungers dreadfully for the votes that come not, and for the support of wards and precincts of wards where voters decline to “come up to the 'scratch.” It has beensagely remarked that if the ballot were placed in the hands of the ne gro,there would be no morepessesutions of the race,no moreSouthem auto da fee, no more Dead Babbit huntings down and shootings of unoffending darkies, and no more systematic detraction in quarters where there is more intelli gence, but quite as little principle. The colored individual, it is argued, would be a power in the land, and those who wanted his vote would take care not to damage their chances of getting it by any little folicksomc playfulness in the way of burning his school-houses and his orphan asylums, hanging him occasionally and compelling his wife and little ones to ride on the front plat form of a railway car, or “foot it.” The ballot, it has been urged, would change all that, and the probabilities are that it would have some such effect. Upon the same principle, the Women’s Bights’ people are politic in demanding the ballot for the American daughters ofJEve. It is a safe assumption to say that if the right of female suffrage was general, Secretary McCulloch would not be so especially restive concerning out side pressure to secure appointments in the Treasury Department. As there is .no such right, and no considerable body demanding it, ordinary generosity .should shelter, in their humble places, these whom the instincts of common manliness .teach us to protect and aid. The journeymen tailors of a western city recently “struck,” and among the (Chief of their published grievances was the fact that females were employed in making vests and pantaloons, and until J&ese maids and matrons were tamed THE DAILY. ‘EVENING BULLETIN.—PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, PECEMBEK 19.1866 —TBIPLE SHEET out of their plac' the male schneiders would not go tr y work. Have the hun gry disciples f jf Andrew Johnson deter mined to fo]’ iOW this.'- appropriate leadi and resolv to invoke the powers that be to ti jrll ' out feminine delaines and crinolir ie to: make Mom for masculine dough t ajyj copper in the Treasury De part- Auenfc? . THE PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS. It Is a curious fact that while the cost <of production has probably been in creased to a greater extent than of any other commodity or thing since the days before the war, when prices were low, the newspaper is almost, if not the only article that has fallen in price. The Evening Bulletin, for ex ample, was established in 1847. It was then, and for $ number of years after, but a single sheet, with columns the same length as at present, and contain ing twenty-four columns in all. Occa sional double sheets were published; but the capacity of the paper* was not dou bled by the operation, the size of each page being lessened on “doable sheet days.” About seventy or seventy-five per cent, was pmbably added to the double sheet over the single ditto. Some time after the establishment of the paper, double sheets were made the rule for the Saturday editions, and single sheets only were furnished to subscribers ■upon the other five days of the week. Some time before the war double sheets were published daily, and triple sheets were made the exception, just as double sheets were the exception when single sheets were the rule. Until the enormous advance in price of paper and all other newspaper producing commodities caused by the war rendered an increase necessary, the Bulletin was sold at two cents a copy; the price was put up to three cents during the war, and it continues to be sold at that price, al though it scarcely pays for the white paper upon which the doubler-sheet is printed, and involves a direct loss on every triple-sheet sold. Of course, this loss is more than compensated for by the advertising patronage of the paper, er the proprietors would be in the situa ation of the old lady who sold all her goods at less than cost, and only escaped bankruptcy by doing a very large busi ness. The double sheet Bulletin of the present time is just twice the size of the old single sheets, and forty-eight columns are given where but twenty four were furnished formerly. Taking the size of the sheet alone into consider ation, the purchaser of the double sheet Bulletin of 1866 gets the paper at a reduction of twenty-five per cent, on the price paid for a single sheet in 1847. Add to this the advantages in the way of copious news, and a vastly increased amount of literary matter, editorials, &c, t and he gets his paper fully seventy-five per cent, cheaper than he did nineteen years ago. Paper is more than doable the price per pound that it was in 1847; wages and salaries have advanced enormously; the extension of the magnetic telegraph all over the world has added very largely to the cost of publishing a newspaper, and enlarged news facilities bring with them increased expense to the publishers. Thus while the expensiveness of the newspaper has been increased to the publisher, the quality has been improved and the price lowered to the purchaser. ANOTHER THEATRE BURNED. The New Bowery Theatre, in New York, was burned last evening, making the second theatre that has been de stroyed by fire, in the United States, within less than a fortnight As in the case of the burning of the Orleans Thea tre, there was no audience present in the Bowery at the time of the conflagration, or there would probably have been a sad story to tell this morning. The pub lished reports of the burning of the Bowery state that the fire spread with frighful rapidity, and although it was early evening, nothing could be rescued from the blazing structure. The fact that the roof fell, in within an hour after the first discovery of the fire furnishes sufficient evidence of the rapid spread of the conflagration. In the case of the Orleans Theatre there was the same fierce rush of the fire through the building and the same rapid reduction of the whole to ruins. This peculiarity of fires at theatres is of course a necessity of their construction and condition. A vast open space, without intervening walls, for the fire to pouf through; scenery, drapery, etc., almost as combustible as turpentine; and with light boxes and galleries to act as trains to convey the flames into all parts of the interior with almost lightning speed. It is no wonder that they go off like a flash. These theatre-burnings should ad monish the managers of such estab lishments not only to exercise in creased cautiousness to avoid firei but also to omit no means to secure the speedy egress of an audience in the event of a conflagration during a per formance. There is one custom that prevails in some theatres that should be frowned down. We refer to the placing of camp-stools, chairs, &c., in the pas sage-ways, after all the ordinary seats have been filled. There are very few of our public buildings that are well adapted to a rapid clearing of the house in the event of fire,and in the best of them these extra seats would prove terrible barriers to the escape of an imperilled audienee. This custom should be for bidden by law. Theße frequent fires at theatres teach a lesson that should not be neglected. The next may happen when a crowded audience is within the WfilJs of the doomed building; . THE HEW IRONSIDES. , The call of Mr. Brandegee, of Con necticut, for an investigation into the destruction of the New Imnsides, cannot fail to excite the suspicion that the gen tleman from New England is not so anxious for information as he is to re new the war upon the League Island Navy Yard, in favor of the scheme of establishing the Iron-clad Depot at New London. The fitness of League Island for a na val depot has been so long and. so fre quently demonstrated, and the action of the House has been so decidedly in its favor,that that the adverse action of the Senate seems almost unaccountable. The delay to pass the bill has cost the Go vernment the loss of the finest iron-clad war vessel in the world, and the only one of her class afloat. Mr. Brandegee’s proposed investigation can only result in proving that the New Iron sides was destroyed either by accident or design, and in either case the blame fairly attaches to those who have main tained a factious opposition to the League Island bill and compelled the Navy De partment to establish a mere temporary refuge for the iron-clads, wheje they are necessarily exposed to such casualties as that which has just occurred. If Mr. Brandegee simply wished to get at the facts of the burning of the New Iron sides, they would all be reached by the investigation which the Navy Depart ment wijl of course order. If he wishes to manufacture new political capital against League Island, bis inquiry will probably prove to be a sword which will cut both ways. SENATORIAL AMENITIES. Hon. Garrett Davis has not been a very successful member of the United States Senate. His dißloyal sentiments have occasionally been expressed with sufficient bitterness and violence to at tract temporaryattention, but the notice of a speech from him empties the cham ber, of every Senator who can decently escape his long-winded and exceeding dry orations. Mr. Davis has been long voted a supreme bore, and an attempt by him to engage in anything like a skir mish with, another member was pretty certain to result in a mere piece of stupid blundering on his part and a prompt set tiDg-down by the assaultedparty. Mr. Daviß undertook yesterday to get off a ponderous piece of Barcasm upon Mr. Trumbull, whom he charged with making a speech to promote his own re election to the Senate. Mr. Trumbull’s reply was as calm and dignified and crushing as Mr. Dayis’s speech was in temperate,ill-considered,ungentlemanly and silly. It is very unfortunate for the dignity of the Senate thatit is disgraced by more than one or two members whose notions of the proprieties of official in tercourse are so very limited, and who are so often betrayed into personalities which in disgracing themselves, reflect also upon the high character of the body of which they are such unsuitable mem bers. THE PASSENGER GAR CASES. The first of the prosecutions of the city passenger railway companies for exclud ing colored persons from the cars, took place yesterday,before Judge Thompson, sitting in the Nisi Prius Court The case was a clear one, but was decided, as wss expected, for the railway company. Judge Thompson could hardly be ex pected to take such a view of the law as to enable him to charge the jury other wise than against the plaintiff, and the verdict was rendered in accordance with the charge. In this case the plaintiff was an orderly carrying despatches from Camp William Penn to General CM walader. Another case of an equally aggravated character will be tried in the same court to-day, and will probably be disposed of in the same way. The result was not unexpected by tho3e who have given their attention .to these cases. The object aimed at is to get the decision of the highest tribunal of the State upon this impor tant question of the rights of a large por tion of our population, and as these cases will now go to the Supreme Court in banc, it is believed that such an ad judication will be made as will remove .from Philadelphia’s fair escutcheon the blot and stigma which the ignorance and prejudice of a portion of the com munity still impose upon it. 80VTHEBB DECENCY. Noticing the accountof the burning of “the Yankee Iron-clad,” New Ironsides, the Richmond Times says: “The Southern people will be able to bear this disaster the more philosophically when they refleot on the fact that the iron-dad in question was a very prominent actor in the events of the war oh the Southern coast To us the most touching, pathetic line in the account is the last—and. she 'cost over ’Bl,- 000,0001’ Southern pockets wili be taxed to make thisgood.” If they could be taxed to make good all the expenses of the war it would be a just retribution; for Southerners need lessly began the wan They are the authors of the national debt, the heavy taxes and the high prices charged for everything. There are few true Northern men that can avoid thinking of thin when they pay their government taxes, or their bills for dry goods and all the necessaries of life. The Southerners should have the decency to avoid exult ing over the loss of a “Yankee Iron clad,” and to say little about the taxes, whieh are chiefly paid by the Yankees, though the Southerners were the cause of them. Such newspaper talk does not help the cause of speedy reconstruction. T>BBSISTENT SOAP BUBBLES OP GREAT X strength and durability. They will last ibr many hours, may bejumctnred without.breaking; and can be blown to twenty Inches In diameter, showing the most brilliant nrisinaUc colors and foraishlnea de. hghtftil entertainment ibr adults andfchUdren. . Bblu* tlon sold by Queen, Porter and Booth; dfcc,, and by the manufacturer, • • * ° decll»rptfg JAMES T. SHINN, Broad and Spruce streets. rpo REN T.-DESK BOOM ON THIRD, NEAR X Chestnut. Address QI\PICE, Box 1047, P. G; Tit* VITI BROS’ GREAT SALE OF BRONZES AND OTHER OBJECTS OF ART WILL CONTINUE TO- MORROW MORNING, DEC 20TH, AT II O’CLOCK PRECISELY, AT NO. 1 1219 CHESTNUT STREET, CONCERT|HALL BUILDING. B. SCOTT, JR., MINCED MEAT. JOSHUA WRIGHT, & W Cor. Franklin * Spring Garden Wholesale anil Be tail GBOCEB. BisNe Pins Ultra MINCED MEAT, made of the purest and best articles, under his own eye, sustains its well known reputation. Families Would Stndy their Interest by buying the Ne Pins Ultra. Sold by all the Grocers in the City. del 9-St? ; - The American Sunday-School Union, HO. 1122 CHEBTNUT STBEET. PHILADELPHIA, Has sn unusually large variety ot beautifully printed, profanely illustrated, and handsomely bound '"New and Superior Books SUITABLE FOB Holiday Gifts. Also, an extensive assortment of BIBLES AND DEVOTIONAL BOOKS. Complete Catalogues 01 the Society’s Publica tions furnished gratuitously. dels 6t AND CANES Are acceptable and valuable HOLIDAY PRESENTS. A large and complete assortment, for tale at reduced prices, by WH, H. BICHABDSON, delMt No. 500 MARKET Street. CAIHOLIC PRAYER BOOKS Suitable fbr HOLIDAY PRESENTS,Aom the plain est te the richest style of binding. Those baying Catholic friends, and who dealnt to make them » suitable present at tnla season will And a choice stock to select ftnm.snd at (he lowest prices. JOHN R. DOWNING, 139 Sooth EIQ OTH Street, deiatfrpl Two doors shove Walnut. Millicery'Jor the Holidays A CHEAP AND BTJBSTAHTIAL GIFT ls called to my elegant asaortmentof I USkIBBONp. suitable for scarfa. FEATHER-. LJeg FLOWERS, BONNETS and YOUNG LADIES’ HaTS. prepared expressly for the Holiday Season, and selling at greatly reduced pi ices. MODEHOISELLE KEOGH, nos-mwf Sm rpi No. 90* WALNUT Street. g m KS9 *l4 CHESTNUT STREET. 111 k» 10c5-tf4p W. H. DUTTON. _■ ENGLISH AND FRENCH BILK UM BBELLA «i, ou Paragon and Steel names. Nice handles, 'SaUaM JOSEPH FUSBBLL, 3 and 4 North Fourth street, del7-dtrpi Philadelphia, - EMERSON PIANOS. |E&S The new style Cottage Square Plano, fall 111 kl I seven Octaves, beautiful Carved Oases, the most charming tone. Low Price, guaranteed durability, >l4 CHESTNUT Street. OCS-tf4p W. H. DUTTON, A. D'HUYVETTER’S Third Special Sals HIGH CLABS IMPORTED OIL PAINTINGS, TO BE SOI DAT EGOTT’SABT GALLERY, 1030 Chestnut Streets Wednesday,- Thursday * and Frida; Evenings, Dee. 19,20 and 21st, at 71-2 o’clock. NOYJ OPENFOB EXAMINATION. B. SCOTT, Jr,, Handsome Goods for Holiday Presents. AUCTINOEER AUCTIONEER. 'Handsome Silks at low prices. Handsome Shawls at low prices. • Handsome Balmorals at low pries®# Pim’# Itiih Poplin*, choice shaioi. Fine French Merinos at low prices. Eine French Poplins at low prices. ; Handsome Bright Plaid Poplins, At $1 25; coat over (1 50 to Import EXTRA CHEAP DRESS GOODS. Plaid English Poplins, at 25,2 a. sic. Do do - do at 87,40,63 c. Double-width Silk Plaid Poplins. 50a. . I?on* of tbe above goods are trashy, but of very good quality, and cost nearly double tbe price we are selling them at to import. Embroideries for Christmas Presents A large assortment of Sets, Collars. Undeuplteves. Dace edge and Ehxib’d-corner Hdkfs. Silk, Cashmere and Woolen Ecarfs. Chlldi en’a 'White and Scarlet Cloth Gloves. Fine q'nelitlefl Dadtes’ Cloth Gloves, GENTLEMENS’ JOUVIN * BOFVTN KID GLOVES BLANKETS FOB CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. All-wool Blankets, at (4 (4 60, $4 75. Do do at 15 50, (6 50, t 7. Do do at 17 50, Is, {8 50, $9. Do do at *lO. JIl (12 (14. Do do at *l5. ( 16, (22. Inorderloglveperßonsan opportunity of purchas ing who cannot conveniently do so during the day, we wUi keep our Store open until 10 o’clock Every Even ing until Christmas. H. STEEL & SON, Nos. 713 and 715 North Tenth St. LIFE INSURANCE. It is a religions duty, because we axe taught "If any provide not for his own, and especially for thoseof his own bonse, he hath denied the faith and Is worse than an Infidel”—! Timothy, v, 8. NOTICE. To persons Intending to effect INSURANCE upon their LIVES, THE PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSUfiANCE COMPANY, 921 Cheitsnt Street, Philad’a., Offers lnducementsequal to any other Company, and superior to many. . The return premium has averaged larger than most of the other Companies. The Insured participate EVERY ykAR In the divi sion of surplus, while In some Companies no return Is ever given for the first year’s premium. AT.T, THE SURPLUS BELONGS TO THE INSURED! there being no Stockholders to claim a share. The Security Is ample. The Assets are well and Safely Invested, and In proportion to the amoont of Liability. INSURE NOW! All policies Issued previous to Ist January will share in the January Division. Assets, 5U500.000. OSSES PAID PROMPTLY. MEDICAL EXAMINERS. EDWARD HARTSHORN E, If. D„ No. 1439 Walnnl Street. EDWARD A. PAGE, M. D„ No. 1415 Walnut Street. In attendance at the Office of the Company from 1 to 2 P. M. dally. JAMES TRAQUADS, President. SAMUEL E STOKES, Vice President. JOHN W. HOBNOB, A. V. P. and Actuary. HORATIO S. STEPHENS, Sec’y. n024-s,w,Strpi CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE MfcURANGE 00. CAPITAL, ..... $13,000,000 ANStAI INCOME, ... 6,000,000 Annual Dividend to Policy Holders, 60 Per Cent. Persons Insurlngnew will participate In the Dividend o' FKBRUAKY, 1867, and will also be allowed a credit nf one half the premium In anticipation of the Divi dend, Applications and examinations for membership dallyfromSA. SI. to 5 P. SI., at the office, 4C4 Walnut Street, Fbiladelphle. - WALTER H. TILDEN, Agent. dels’g,w t 2mrpg . • T 3FE-SIZE PHOTOGRAPHS IN OIL TAKE THE Xj place of oil-palDted Portraits, and are valuable Pictures, and embellab a parlor. Reeort to B. F. REIMRB’S Gall try. C 24 Arch street. OKATES. CUTIEHi , BRITANNIA and Japanned O Ware; Fine Walters and Trays. Feather Busters, etc. £. A. WIXDMAN & BRO., House Furnishing Store. No. 10U SPRING GARDEN st. de!9w,th;s.3t« A. DHOY VETTER’S Third Special Sale HIGH CLASS IMPORTED OIL PAINTINGS, TO BE SOLD AT SCOTT’S ART GALLERY, 1020 Chestnut street, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Evenings, Dec. 19,20 and 21st, at 71*2 o’clock. NOW OPEN FOB EXAMINATION. Be SCOTT, Jr.j CROSBY OPERA HOUSE AWE THE SUBSCRIPTION WILL SPEEDILY CLOSE ~ THE CROSBY OPERA HOUSE,. Worth more than half a million dollars, will oertalnly be awarded to a NEW OWNER. “THE LITTLE WANDERER,” "GATHERING APPLES.” "WESTWARD, HO.” "IRVING AND HIS FRIENDS,” "MERCY’S DREAM, 1 ” Of the splendid Chromograph recently completed! "THE AMERICAN AUTUMN.” A Christmas Present for j onr Parent A Christmas Present for your Sister, One certificate, 1 with "The t ittle Wanderer.” and the chance of premiums worth from (500 to |aoc.OG£,u A Christmas Present for your Brother. AUCTIONED H, ASSOCIATION. But a few weeks yet remains Poiitively no Farther Beley. Ghiist mas Gifts for All, January 31, 1867, The purchasers of certificates may procure the {bl owing fine Engravings: - PRICE OF CERTIFICATES FIVE DOLLARS.. One certificate, with “The Apple Gatherem” - and the chance of a premium worth IS9O.CC&' One certificate, with the new engiaving "Westward, Ho 1” and a chance of possessing the Crosby Opera House,- A Christmas Present for your wife. Two certificates, with “Irving and his Literary Friends.” and two chances ol premiums worth from 1500 to $OOO,- - 000. A Christmas Present for yonr Daughter. Three certificates, with Huntingdon's "Mercy's Dream,” and thechance of becoming worth more than half so million.' A Chrlstmis Present for yonr Son. Four certificates. with theebromograph, "The American Autumn,” and fonr chances of premiums worth from (500 to (600, A Christmas Present for the Dear One. One or twenty certificates, wlth one or twenty chances of making her almost A mll.ionare. As fellas a chance of becoming the possessor of A BLERSTAD C, worth (20.C05. A CONSTANT MEYER, worth (J,090. A LEUTZE, worth (1,000. A CROPSKY, worth (8,000 A QIQKOUX, worth (3.000 b A HART, worth (5,000. A SCHUBBELE, worth (5,900.. A BEARD, worth (4,C00. VOLK’S BUST OF ABBAHAM LINCOLN, worth $2 000. Or hundreds of ether pietttres, by the leading Artists .in America. Remit, if possible, by Draft ox Postoffice Order, all Letters containing currency. Direct to U. H. CROSBY, Actuary. PRINCIPAL EASTERN AGENCY, THE ABT INSTITUTE, No. 625 BROADWAY, N. Yi. BOLE AOBNT IN PHILADELPHIA. T. B. PTJGKES* 5£W BULLETIN B u uDIXGw AND GALLERY, NO. ISO* del9 w&s it ARTISTS’ FUND SOCIETY. In order that the public may have a longer opportu nity to examine the fine works In the new Galleries oT THE ARTISTS’ FUND SOCIETY, tfce sale has been POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY, 1867. The precise day will shortly be announced. The. pictures will continue upon Free Exhibition, at the- Booms of the (society, 1334 Chestnut Street, ftnm 9 A.M. till 7 P. M., until further notice. By order of the iloelety. delß-e’rn. SKATES! SKATES! EXTBA UDALTITES, For Indies and Gentlemen, of the finest cast steet. Skates msdetoorder. Also, Skates sharpened and repaired at the shortest notice. J. J- TEUFFEL, No. 103 South EIGHTH Street, Three doors below Chestnut. de6-2m rp A. D’HUYYETTER’S Third Special Sals HIGH CLASS IMPORTSD OIL PAINTINGS, TO BE SOLD AT SCOTT’S AET GALLEEY, 1030 Chestnutstreaty fWednesilay, Thursday and Friday* Eveniugg, Sec. 19,20 and 21st, at 71*2 o’clock*-- HOW OPEN FOB EXAMINATION. Jr.j BTBEBT. W. H. WILLCOX. Chairman of Committee. SKATES I ATJCIIOHBIR
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