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ABOCf CONSUMPTION.
la Dcciarcd to Ea ft Contaioaa
Dlsoaaa.
Ivint Theory Jtratawal
mlitlti lavaatlcatkow !
ThitawLgaa
Frort-
alma AfilMt Ceuc4
Can
f He rh;i1!;bi f'rcT Mli-al so
ciety las petitioned the board of
heeitb of thnt to pat eorjsan.pt.oo
ofthelaErontfce lit of coatjo
":! -a-s. srs tie Baltimore San. The'
request has awaie&ed inter! in the
,!d ijaeftion of the eonta?iousne of.
on.amition ar. i intiAentadlf on the
peneral tubvect of Ufeetiin and cod
.jjr;, Some of the disease wLich
fit-la is heir to re contagions in everr
nie of the word. A contact
y,l yht that it Joe not even reach itin
contact, trat merely with the air which
roanrKix patients breathe, is anficient
to ra.ise 6mailpox in man. So, t-o,
tceciato contact that i to aay. the
Jjsdlir? by the well of material
touched by the tick ha i been pruve-1
to be the cause of many i-:--"- of
tvnkh ervsipelas and tsarlet few may
tw cited is exmp'.es. The prc-!scts of
:rrtaia other diseases trphoid fever,
f.,r example require to be taken into
lb economy to become malefic-cut.
.ktiil others, bach a piaaaers, Bt
he introduce! into the blood current
i. self before they are ilanjreroo. These
facts hare been provi-d by lonf -vrration
and are not to be dispated.
A horvman treats a case of p lander
p-ith r-rf,-ot security, provi.ied his
akin is whole or is protected. A mrse
ar a 1x::t ttays f-r hours in the room
of the typhoid'patient and seffers do
hurt. I'm older doctors, therefore,
iet these diseases t one side as ia
f . ctloas, but not contagions for it was
; :-ia:iy evioert that they were carried
from patient to patient, not through
Ue air, but through other, and to
ti.eta unknown, means.
The discoveries in bacU-rio'.ojry have
setCed many questions, bnt have un
settled many others which were tun-j-sed
to bare been fixed forever.
Artec? other things it has broken
:oxn the barriers between contagious
iuu inf..-;-tiou diseases. All the dis
eases, which Lave been mentioned are
tv,w believed to be caused by perms of
evjretal origin, soaje of which are
kso-K-xt, others of rrhich are only sus
p:?'.ed. The ejrplana'.on of the bae-..-rMopa
ss to the difference in their
;7et t on the human jrranism is i-im-p:y
tlutt of the Bible. Nme jerms fall
.a fro-:! gr.and and muHip'y. others on
?.i;;v pround and fail to prow, or
tritiier at once. When a typhoid perm
is breathed into the lung's it perishes
jst as do the myriad of other perms
which we daily treathe. It is far other
wise if it is swallowed with the food
T drink, and fiuds after mnninp tha
fanntiet of the jaices of the stomach a
suitable place for prowth in the intes
tines. The prm prows and multiplies,
:.nd trie ordinary phenomena of the
disease result- This will pive a p"n-
ral idi-a of the simple and apparently
complete answer to many of the vexed
oueatioas which pozzled the older doc
tors. l"nfor:r.::r;tt-!y the practical diffi
culties are not entirely removed by
ti.e theoretical explanation, and espe
risily is this true cf coDsr.T-ption.
Even if it is granted that the cis-a al
wars originates from a penn. and that
this perm came from some previous
rase of the disease, the fact that so
mar.y escape where almost all are ex
po sj shows that there must be other
iactors than the perm alone which
cause the disease, or at least aid in it
fT"papation. So far these o'her
!) are alm-.t unknown.
That consumption was con'asrous
was an old theory, and the pniaris
recturies apo were in the habit of de
st roving the beddinp and bclonpinps
:f consumptives, and in some caws
tven the houses in which they lived,
f jr fear of the spreading of the plairne.
That it is not rery actively contatriotis
is proved sufficiently by the fact that
the dwellers in cities are alive at all.
for statistics prove that from cne-tentli
tjone-tfthof all the deaths in larpe
rlties are due directly or indirectly to
the disease, and that consequently a
:':mber of sufferers from the disease
must be present in every lar-e paihcr
irip of people. Except in the later
stapes the palicLt is not ocCned to
1 is bed. lie minples in t'l the social
-nd industrial avocations of life. Not
infrequently he is '-the life of the
f arty" or the "hardest worker of the
ofiice." In the present state of society,
r.t least, such men caaoot be con
demned to a leper camp nor fent
apainst their wills to a sanitarium,
however excellent.
The peneral fact that consumption is
a disease which, under certain circniu
Mances, may become contapious or in
fectious, should be admitted. A suf
ficient number of cay s are known
svhere the carrying of the disease from
the ill to the well is clearly proved to
'.cmonstrate the pem-ra! truth that
Consumption is sometimes cuntapii'tia.
This should lead to the most scrup
ulous care on the part not only of the
physician but of the inteilipcnt pa
tient to prevent the spread of the dis
ease. But any attempt to prevent sm-U
infection by quarantine repulalion
n.ust almost neees-sardjr prove abor
tive CATH OF A NOTED GIANT.
1 lit tainaiuaa Ctia&s. V ha Ws A at lu
Itii ii.r IhI la Il.ciit.
The fara-;:s t i.ir.cse piant, Chan?.
" '. at lKHiraeirtout li. ljiklaD, N.
: etiiljer .1. Thaiij bad b-on won several
S::j)-s ia AajiTica, say Jiie New York
lloraid. Ik-causc of a prevails? sjj i-r-.:iliMi
amoi! tl-.e t hinese jM-.-.ple
Lis height was never mrasun-d, a
they believed that death would imtm--
i:ately lolioor the measurement. Hat
there are none wbo Iwivc obs-rved hira
or wbo have stood ct beside l.im .v!o
estimated fcis stature at les than nine
fvt. Ili physical pnportions were
very symmetrical and his strentrtli was
bercr.!van. Iiavinp travelexland exhib
ited ttror.pjiout the cirilied plobe he
acqaircu and spoke wiih flaenry five
different lanpnag-es Enplish, Ger
man, French, Italiaa and Spanish. He
was a ery rompacionable man and
iieliphted to meet and converse with
inieilipent laes and women.
Chanp was bora in 1M7 ,t VTaang'
Iluc, Bear I'ek in, China. His parents
svho are still Evinp, are larje tea and
:lfc prowcrs, and are Independent.
There is not ainp in their constitution
1KT that t their progenitors to indi-
aie the possibility of transmitting
jripantie prop.rtions to their extraor
dinary son. ' u the contrary, t"harp"s
ivan-nts are about the averape eszo of
hinese people, who are well kno-rn
t-i be rather ander the ordinary s;ze.
At bis birth there was nothinptoin-dk-ate
lhat he was to prow to his pres
ent stature, and up to the ape of nearly
six years his beipht did not exeed
most rhildrenof his ape. Aftera shirt
illness he bepan to assume such pigan
ic proportions that hU parents were
nch alarmed at the prow th of their
loj son. At the ape of tweiv he
v3 eal to the heipht of his father
-md th generality of the neiphborinp
j'ople. TX phenomenon of bis beinp
s tail as a raaa. and yet showinp all
ile habits and actions of a child.
s-anse4 him to become the wonder and
astonishment of the neighborhood. At
ttie sa:Ke time he suffered preat per
ianal discomfort, for the men would
HJt Associate with bim and the chil
dren meld tiot play with him. At the
apef Spkrtec he eommeaced to ex
biUil hiaaxtlf in public
Chaap was iiere in ivm. in 15, as4
in lsss. After tis last visit here he re
turned to fcis native land to marry a
4 "bines beauty. It was his intention
at that time to come back to Amwk-
and to settle down in the west. U
used ta wear a watch pivea bkn by
Vueea Victoria which weiphed two
pounds and a half, ami bad a chain
tiine feet Ionp. which barely reached
around his neck and down to Lis vest
Ihicket- lie had a Lare stuck of iAiv
r I
jtt) J jewelry presented to him by royal
.and other distinguished personapes.
WAS PREPARED TO DIE.
ret
IVkee tsw Tuh Caasa Bis nom
faliad to Coma Trsa.
6o3k tixe 6JXK, say tie Kw York
Telepram, a certain fanner in ths mid
dle of this aUte, as eccentric old fel
low the neighbors said, had a vis ion
Some bod v appeared to him, a spirit,
s iobsrotiii cr what not, and informed
iia that he h4 only a fe-e months
jit. The da"s fixed was in Novem
ber. The fanner took the matter very
beriottslr, bnt he had no fears. He
told hia'friend that he was about to
depart, and bepaa to pet ready. lie
paid all his debt, which is more than
even death can induce every one to do,
and offered bis farm utensils and his
stock for sale. He wanted to clean
thicps op handsomely, as every hon
est man should do, and leave no en
tanp'.ements behind him. Amonp oth
er things to be disposed of were two
cows, but as he wanted to live com
fortably while he did live he concluded
to hold on to those cows until the last
moment.
Oddly enooph, now that the time of
his exit is close at hand, he has had an
other vision. A new set of phosU or
hobpob'.ins have appeared to him and
informed him that arrangements have
been made to allow him to stay in this
wicked world a little lonper. He was
rather relieved at the postponement of
Lis funeral, but stiU felt a degree of
cmlarrassm-nt.f or pretty nearly every
thing he had, wagons, horses anil har
nesses, rakes, hoc, axes, sunt cords of
wood behind the house, had all been
pot rid of. and the farm looked as
thon?h it had jnst been abandoned.
The old fallow is a b't riled, how
ever. '-This vision busin.-ss." lie said
the other day, -has ot me dear," and
he has been beard to Use some rather
stronp expressions about hobroblins
in peneral and this particular hobgob
lin that seems to have been piarinp a
practical joke on him.
He is specially plad that he didn't
sell those ccari They are about all he
has left, but they will serve as a nu
cleus for the thiups he will have to
bay in order to run the farm. V hen a
stranper comes alon:? nowadays and
sys he would like to take a peep at
those cows with a view to purchase
them, the farmer comes as close to pro
fanity as a country church deacon
ever pets, lie thinks the su tar words,
but bites his tonpue and remarks that
l;e hasn't iny cows for (-i.lc, but i
thhikinp of buvinp a herd and roir..'
into the dairy business
The moral of this is that lwibpobiia
are very useful creatures in their way;
that w hen they tell you to pay your
debts yea had better follow their ad
vice, but if tlv.-y tell you vou are poinp
to die you had Wtter take camomile
tea and send for the doctor. At any
rate, don't part with your cows.
ELEPHANTINE LIFE.
trj I tW Takra t FrT-it Its Wanton
DrltnirthM.
One of the pressinp questions of the
day in Africa relates to the preserva
tion of the elephant, which will be
come extinct there at no distant date
naiess means are taken to stop the in-tv-scriniinate
slaughter cow poinp on.
There has been a prevalent notion that
the African elephant is inferior to his
Indian cousin iu intellipnce and docil
ity, but it d.ies r.ot seem to be founded
on solid observation. It is tow pointed
out that the Eomans and Carthapicians
used the African beast to pood purpo-e.
and Mr. V. L. Slater, of the Ior.don
Z-x!opical sxxiety, declares that they
have had African elephants in their
par.icns for more than twenty years
and have fo:nd them quite as inieili
pent as those of the Asiatic species,
aiihoupU perhaps not quite as do-iie.
AycuBifmale African cow about f.mr
te n years of ace is dailr enpapeddur
ir.tr the snramer months in carry inp the
children and other visitors alut the
parden and there has never been an
accident wilh him. Mr. Selater ex-pr-sses
the opinion that the African
elephant should be preserved as the
proper beast of burden to open up the
trade routes in the interior uf the Afri
can continent, and sc-pest that a
kbeddah of Indian elephants and their
attendants be transported to the east
African coast and that the Indian ele
phants be f-et to work to capture and
tame their African brethren. It i
noted, moreover, that tlen. (iordon,
jufct before the fall of Khartoum, wrote
a letter in which he stronply advocated
the domestication and use of the Afri
can elephant.
A FORTUNE EASILY MADE.
How a Viceroy of India Mad Quarter of
a Milltoa Dollars oa Kxchncftis
The story which I pave last week of
the viceroy who remitted home the
whole of his salary at the privileged
rate of 'Js C-d per mpee. reveals only a
port ion of the possibilities thus opened
op. says Labouchere in Indon Truth.
I have tdnee heard it narrated of one
recent viceroy tliat he first remitted
home his salary at the above rate, mak
inpout of his io.fxcj -J.os3. He then
had the totai of a;7.0s3 remitted back
ppain, makiiip on this transaction 17
pcr:X. or 4.5rJ0. The total profit on
the two transactions was thus iC,C73
pe r annum, and on his sum, I am told,
his lordship, leinp a nobleman of eco
nomical habits pretty well lived. He
was thus enabled to save an enormous
sum, estimated from 00.0u0 to 73,000,
durinp Lis tenure of office, and it is as
ierted that at the end of his time he
fv-mi'-ted the whole of this to Enpiand
tt the privileged rate, makinp some
thing between 4.(Kj0 and i'y,(X.-J more
on that tran;,actlou.
A I'nltsx People.
The enrions fact has been mentioned
by ; Samuel Iaker that anejrobas
never been known to tame an elephant
in- any wild animal. The elephauls
e mpl'H-fd by the ancient Carthapinians
and Kotiinns were trained by Arabs
and Ciirthapiniins. never by negroes.
ir Samuel wa distressed l y the utter
Jack of pet animals anion? the children
in Africa: and he often offered rewards
for youup clepliants, but neTcr suc
ceeded iu j,-ctticp one alive.
SHE TENDED STILL.
treat a RTa oowr Diacovawd la taa
Sort Carolina Moastain.
For mac fears Eph Honeyeutt, of
Mission. Stanley cotuity, has conducted
a brandy distillery, and had a reputa
tion throughout that country f- mak
ing the best brandy to be had. says ttL
Charlotte News. The distillery was
always conducted in an orderly way,
rhieh is rot the ease with all of them.
The other day a revenue officer went
down to th Htii to mark up the bran
dy, and lo. ana btholdl a vooian waa
attending to things. The officer in
quired of the woman as to liouevcutt s
whereabouts.
"He's not here; does not stay here."
replied the woman.
'Well, who runs the stiHT"
"Why, I do. of course. I have been
attending to it for these many days
and can make just as pood brandy as
Epb Honeyeutt can.
Well, who are yon, and who doea
thia distillery lelong to?" asked the
officer in astonishment.
"The whole thing, including myself,
belongs i Ejih Honeyeutt, for I am his
wife. I attend to things for him, be
cause he has tha farm an4 other mat
ters to look after."
And then she went asottad to
"chunk" up the tire and squeezed t
Cancel strainer in the "doubling kfg
to see If the "singling" were strong
encugh.
Brit tmar'a kUaetric Llc-af.
An electric light of forty million
ndie wwer almost surpasses cotn
JTXyension. t this great mass of
Ljl.t is tp issue from a lighthouse
tower on I'enmarch point on ti .coast
of Jlrittany. The beam will be seen
twecty-tive miles before it strikes the
horiron. and after that it will be re
flected on tha tky for a distance of
thirty-eight miles further. The Urges
light on the coast of the United States
can only be seen twentj-elght miles la
cleaf weather,
A MIGHTY MOOPw
Appd&racso and CharacterlHtlcs of
the SXtan of Morooca
Tba Ewty Pay of staler !!
fTka I al PresMtt Kacae4 la
a Warlara watt Spaaaik
CalonWta.
Althocph Mnley. Hassan, the sul
tan or chief cf Morocco, wields bnt a
nominal authority over the Eiff tribes
nen now at war witi t"-i Spaaisl
colonial settlement at Melilla. on tN
northern Mediterranean coast of Af
rica, he is nevertheless the sovereipa
of that repioa. and he will be held by
Spain responsible for the consequences
of the present warfare.
Muley Uasnan is fifty-five years old.
His demeanor is grave and majestic, as
becomes a man knowing the impor
tance of his doable character, as em
peror and pontiff, and a successor to
the prophet, of whom he is a descend
ant. His dark eyes are larpe and ex
pressive. His Moorish physiopnomy,
adorned with a flowing black beard, in
which are seen some white hairs, re
Teals that in his Teins runs the blood
of the nepro race nnited to that of the
Arabs. He thows at the same time in
his physical traits the evidence of an
extraordinary firmness, mixed with a
certain shadow of melancholy and las
situde. He receives foreipn ministers and
shows himself in public with fastidious
solemnity, says the New York Trib
une. One of the emperors serv
ants holds over his head a large para
sol to screen him from the rays of the
sun. Others are busy fanning him, in
order to chase away the files so abun
dant iu that hot climate, and all look
at their lord as if he were a pod rather
than their bovereipn- Edmnnde Ami
cu who saw Muley Hassan during a
reception of the Italian embassy, de
scribes him as follows;
"A vestment as white as the snow
covers him from head to foot; the tor
Kan is covered by a high hood; the
f-srt are bare and inclosed in yellow
slippers. His horse is of hiph stature
and very white, with preen reins and
pold stirrups. All this whiteness and
tie wide, floating vestments pave him
a sacerdotal appearance, a royal grace
fulness and amiable majesty, in accord
with the very penile expression of his
physiognomy."'
( Hi account of the intolerance pre
vailing in the Moorish empire, the
function of a religions chief is the
most important of those which belong
to the sultan. If he did not show ab
solute respect for the Mussulman or
thodoxy of thedoctrines of Mohammed,
a revolution would soon turn him from
the throne or travel compromise his
sovereignty. Malcy Hassan observes
therefore, rigorously all religious prac
tices of the Moslem liturgy. Like all
members of his court, he pets np at
three o'clock a. m., in winter as well as
in summer, to make the firt prayers.
After that his chaplain reads bim some
pares in the books of ltokhari, the
famous Mussulman theologian, who
is. in the opinion of all Moors, the best
reiipior.s authority after Mohammed.
The sultan and his ministers pive
audiences between five and sis o'clock
a. tn- and it is at such a matinal hour
that he receives Europeans. The mid
dle of the dav is piven to rest and sleep,
business being resumed only at four or
f.ve o'clock p. a., to stop si the hour
cf the evening prsyer.
When the sultan pets cp in the morn
ing and when he has slept duriDg the
"siesta" in the middle of the dav his
women help him to dress. Their n u ra
in r is verv considerable. Some people
eftlrm that there are two thousand of
them in each of the three capitals of
the empire, which a-e fez. Mequine.-.
ard Morocco. Ent ainc.nallthefcwivos
the one who is really the favorite and
the tirit in the heart of the emperor is
Circassian of marvelous and fascinat
ing beauty, who is thirty years old and
v, ho has succeeded in nominating
Muley Hassan, thanks to her talents,
smartness and high culture. She has
a European education, speaks French
and Spanish, and aspires to make her
son Abdelazis the successor of th pres
ent emperor.
TO LIFT NAPLES.
Aa Italian Kalaeer Would C-uutroet aa
aJovated EaUvay lliera.
If the scheme elaborated bv an Ital
ian engineer for the construction of
an elevated railway in Naples is car
ried into execution Italy will, accord
ing to the Electrical Ileview, possess
cne of the most remarkable structures
in the world. As far as length is con
cerned the projected line is not oi
preat importance, but the boldness of
the idea and its originality are strik
ing. Let the uraginz.tioo conceive the
hilly portion of a town connected by
means of viaducts and towers, wilh
that part lying at a low level, and the
substance r.f A. Arena's project will
then be readily understood. The hand
some and populous part of Naples,
radiating irom Via Iloma. has only
coinmunlcalion with the Corso Vi.
torio Emmaauelc, the San Martin
hill, and the at a still higher level;
new liione del Vomero by means of
narrow, tortuous streets, many o:
them being impracth-able for carriage
trariic. It is between these two ex
treme localities that the proposed ele
vated railway is to form a connection.
The line is to be carried.on two metal
lic viaducts, each divided so as to form
a double ucy, one tor the operation of
electric cars and the other for pedev
irians. A raa-sonry tower 525 feet hig-i
is to be built in the Via Roma, an i
from this the first viaduct, 1,160 fivt
long,. i iij be carried to the Corso Vit
lorto Kt:iuaiiude. where it will termi
nate in th.! base of a metallic tow. r
400 feet in bright The second vi..
duct, CO'J feet long and branching ont
of this tower sotne dlstapce below th
summit, will pass over the San Mar
tino hid and end in the ground level
at the new Dione del Vomero. The
via lueti will be carried on pyraniidieat
metallic toners having masonry foun
dations; and the masonry tower at
the beginning of ;te first viaduct and
the metallic tower, connecting th
two viaducts, will each be provided
with staircases and capacious lifts for
conveying passengers up and down.
ras-npers entering the cars at either
end of the line wiil not be compelled to
change their seats on arriving at th:
metallic tower, as the cars wiil be au
tomatically placed on the lifts for as
eeoding or descending from the high
est viaduct, when the ears will con
tinue thoir way to either terminus
Generating stations will be provided at
each terminus for prodacing current
for lighting and power pnyposas. The
undertaking, a concession for which
has been granted, would provide i
splcfidid view of the whole of Naples.
TUa Oaadlr Kojara Dmit
, party of cattlemen out on the Mor
Jave desert recently came across the
trad of two men and two burros. The
aimless, algzag course of the trail
showed that tbosa who had made it
were lost and the cattlemen at once
set out to find them. Here and there
along the palh Liken by the wanderers
holes of from t'iree to five feet In depth
had been dug in the dry sands. I-ate
in the evening the cattlemen came
upon a young man lying under a mes
nitc bash, beside a hole dug six feet
iu ttfQ sand, murmuring in delirium
and af the point of death. He had
bee a without water more than three
days and bad Jain down to die. A mile
further frtt they overtook an old man.
who, delirious, ar Cfaviing on bands
and knees toward a pool i,f brackish
water, beside which stood the two bur
ros. The burros, being released when he
gave np, had fonnd their way to water,
and the old man had followed them In a
last despairing burst of strength. The
i.o men were miners, wbo had lost
thetr'way a week before. Both men
recovered after a ftjy .days of care at
the ranch, but mummified corpses and
bleached bones oftca met with in the
desert tell of many travelers whose
similar experiences have had no such
hacD end: Mr.
ENGLISH THE WORLD SPEECH.
Tba Car
' tha G-nerml Stady of
tat CoanJae;
In an article on the importance cf
istrodBclng irto the schools the sta-iy
of a universal language lYVe'U-prache)
which recently appeared in the Pre as
sise he Jahrbuecher Dr. Schroer advo
cates making the study of English ob
lijtTf, not Beecs&arily to the exclu
sion of the c'assjcal tongues, but at
least in conjunction with them.
-This" he says, "is not a question of
taatc or rivalry between the "moderns'
bs' the "ancients;' it is simply a his-turv-1
r.eeessity." The learned pro
fessor properly condemns all attempts
however scientific, to e.-nstnict an
arliSciat world speech, l'ke Vwlapuk.
In bis opinion a language which pos
sesses neither literature, historical de
velopment nor linguistic relations can
never serve as a medium of general
communication, for the res-son that no
one will take the trouble to acquire it
inertly as a 'tool of trade," until it be
comes universal; therefore it can never
become universal Such attempts how
ever, are not only aimless, because
they can never obtain the peneral con
sent of mankind, bot they are needless
for there already exists a universal
language L e., a language which, by
its spread over the whole earth and
by the ease with which it may be
learned, has gained such a long step in
advance that neither natural nor arti
ficial means can deprive it of its as
sured position as the future medium of
international intercourse. And this
language is the English.
lrof. Schroer is careful to warn his
readers not to get their aim too high,
for to learn to speak and write fluently
and correctly a language which holds
so high a place in the scale of culture
and refinement as the English is diS
calt. but for the average man this is
not necessary, for even the average
Englishman has but a limited com
mand of his mother tongue, and the
daily intercourse of life requires but a
small and easily acquired Tocabuiary
This is true of every language, but the
absence of puzzling genders and inflec
tions and synthical forms renders the
English easy in comparison with
others "The English lanpuape, con
cludes Prof. Schroer. "is the world
speech, and will, to all appearance, be
come more and more so every year.
During the present century the Eng
lish-speaking population of the world
has increased fire-fold, from possibly
twenty-five million at its beginning to
at least one hundred and twenty-five
million. No other language has ever
been so rapidly developed, no fact in
civil history is more significant than
this In every quarter of the
world English is the conquering
tongue. The wide spread of the Hrit-
ish colonial svstem, the marvelous
growth of the United States and the
facility with which it absorbs every
foreipn element bear witness to this
great fact, and onr cousins in Germany
are of too practical a turn of mind to
be jealous or forgetful of it
A DOUBLE BASS CLUB.
Scheme to avoid Laec'BC tka Big Boll
Fidiilra Aroaod.
A po'd-laced person pot on a crowded
Prooklvn trolley car and hung a bass
drum over the brake-handle, says the
New York World. The car lurched
and the man next to him stepped on
the gold-laced person's toes and, being
thus introduced, began a conversation
about the drum.
"Heap of bother carrying a drum
around, isn t it
"Yes, but not so much as a double
bass, one of these big bass fiddles you
knowbull fiddles.
"Are they much trouble?"
"Well, they are this much trouble,
that they won't let you get on a car in
lirooklyn with one. In New i ork von
have to get a permit to carry one, just
the same as if it was a concealed
weapon. Once, here in Brooklyn, I'd
have to take a earriapefor it Hut now
I belong to a double bats club.
"Have pretty pood times I snnnose'
You' pet together and fesnoke and have
some beer and play solos on your doable
bases
The pold-laeed man looked down
and laughed silently. Well, it is kind
of funny to think of a lot of men sit
ting around and playing solos about
two octaves below the singing voice.
oniaf! ooruf .
"No," said he af ter a bit "All the
feiloTS that play the double bass be
long to this club and pay two dollars a
year dues. They have a lot of insti-n
ments and every place they have to po
to play there is a chtset containing a
bass to which only members of the
;labs have keys There is a book ia
the closet and every time a fellow uses
the bass he marks down his name
They have thorn ia all the halls and
theaters, end in the summer time on
all the barges and excursion steamers
The two dollars from each member
poes for repairs"
So that's the reason why yon can't
remember having seen a double bass
on the street cars no matter how hard
yon try.
Onyrhopbasy.
M. Bcrillon, a French doctor, who
has been directing his attention for
some time past to the study of nail bit
inp, or, as he calls It, onychophagy,
finds that habit or disease extremely
common. In a pnblie school in Paris,
says the London Times out of 20.1 pu
pils examined during the month of
April last, siity-three.that is to say,
nearly one-rourth, were addicted to
biting their finger nails Curiously
enough, results vary greatly in differ
ent districts and in different schools in
the T-amc districts It seems that pirls
are u.ore given to the habit than bovs
In one jprls school in the deartment
cf Vo:ice eleven ont of twenty-one
were confirmed nail biters In anoth
er girls' school the proportion was
siaty-onc ont of 207 pupils and of tlior
si-ty-ona fifteen were fonnd to be in
tha habit of biting the nails of both
hi.aiV, and the others of bi'ing culy
those of one hand. M. Herulon recog
nises that urrrousness has much to do
with the btbit andh'! proposes to cure
it by irieaus cf "suggestion. '
Lec-UlaOva lotellisenre.
The intelligence of a member of the
Kentucky legislature has at times been
called into question, but it U hardly
fair to that distinguished body of
statesmen to have any doubt on this
subject In testimony whereof is this:
Two newspapermen reporting the pro
ceedings at Frankfort were disputing
over the spelling of a member's name.
"By George," contended one, "I tell
you it is spelled with an a."
"I'll bet yon a dollar it is an e," in
sisted the other.
"I know better and we'll leave It to
bim."
The other gave a long whi .tie.
''Leave It to him, nothing," he ex
claimed; "he doesn't know how to
spell his name, and I've seen hira run
his tongue out four inches trying to
write It"
Trnpnttrt ol Sa;U Turrt:.
For twenty years tha S iss Eoxeru-
mcnt has been making obseivatians
through Its forestry stations on tha
temperature of the air. of the trees and
the soli In the forests These observa
tions show that the temperature in tha
forests is aluay below the tempera
ture outside. The temperature also
varies according to the trees com posing
the forests. A beech forest Is always
cooler than a forest of larch. As to
the trunks of the trees they are
always cooler than the surrounding
air. Itegarding the temperature of the
soil, ft is found that in the forest the
iehj-ralure is invariably below that
of fiie alT- Outside the forest the soil
is always warmer than the air in sum
mer and colder in winter.
PtRUaawtit of Matrietara.
Some tri1es of North American In
dians punished matricides by hanging
them by their hands to the limits of a
tree at a height jast mfficiect to per
mit the wolves to reach them from the
ground. Tb( y were then 1 f 1 to bo
eaten alive, -
THE ISLAND OF HAYTL
Dasolaiion of a Cue Wealthy aai
A 3tloa That la la capable ef lf-Coa
crmaest Tha Koltna Ara BluodtlUnir
Trrsnu aad ibo Paapla llata
Wait Meav
Not the least interesting fcatnre of
the place is the barracks where is
quartered a portion of Uippolyte" val
iant army, says a Hayti correspondent
of the Providence JoornaL The only
attempt at nnlforra is a suit of blue
overalls generally in the last stage of
dilapidation, and a cap ornamented
with red. yellow or blue braid, accord
ing to the fancy of the wearer. Some
few have shoes or straw slippers but
the majority are barefooted.
Tbey are armed, however, with fairly
good muskets and many of them carry
ugly looking knives I saw larpe num
bers of the "soldiers" on the plaza, or
public square, some playing at dice or
cards some talking, other sleeping
and all lary, dirty and ragged. This
plaza, which was originally well laid
out and which actually boasted an an
cient fountain in the center, was lit
tered with refuse, rooted np by hogs
and filthy with house offal and dung.
The ancient paved walks which origin
ally traversed it were badly broken
and the loose stones were wildly scat
tered by the hogs
Vatside of the town and as far as tha
eye can reach extends a hilly country
covered with forest In a Jong tramp
through this CMintry we taw no cul
tivated land. Anuyet this land is said to
be extremely fertile and to yield large
ly any tropical product that is planted
upon it From an examination of
an outcropping U- Jge of rock I decided
that the soil was cnderlaid with lime
stone, and such a soil is nearly always
rijh. Hut the richness of this islaud is
wasted. For even the old plantations
which were well set with coflee,
oravsges and cocoannts are grown np
to tropical forest and yield next to
nothing.
Eight in the midst of a jungle of
wild trees and bushes I found traces
of an old orange and mango grove, in
dicated by the remains of straight
rows ia which these trees were origi
nally planted. And with the decline
and ruin of the plantations has de
clined everything ia connection with
then. Even the old carriage roads
which originally traversed the island
and formed a channel for conveying
the produce f t" -. ,rt are cow only
bridle paths being completely over
grown with forest and bnshc-s And
this is Hayti. the Hispaniola of Colum
bus the pride and plory of the great
admiral! For it wiil be rememliered
that, after examining the other lsrge
i:JanLs cf the We t Indies Columbus
decided that this one was the richest
and bet And later, when under
French rule, it was one of the fairest
and wealthiest spots in the civilized
world.
The whole republic, in fact is
a gigantic farce. No nation has
ever shown itself more utter
ly ineapa1 le of Eelf-government
than the black republic. Ia some
eighty years of Haytian in lependen e
there Lave been more than ninety
revolutions The children, with a few
exceptions gro-.v tip in absolute igno
rance, and with a deep, inborn hatred
of the white man. The rulers ore
bloodthirsty tyrants and the country
has degenerated into a tropical wilder
ness
GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT.
IIrl;ht of a Chimney Iarreaard Without
Stopping Factory Work.
A remarkable feat has been recently
accomplished at the Kotisecour spin
ning works at Nancy, says In ...':3
and Iron, namely.incrcasing the height
of a chimney about one hundred feet
high by about thirty fi-t without step
ping the work for a single day.
Owing to the power being increased,
the existing chimney did not have suf
ficient draught for the existing num
ber of boilers and one of two altera'
tions had to be faced either to build
a newchimney alongside the old one, or
to increase the height of the latter.
Augustus Bartling, of Uernberg (An-
halt), offered to increase the height of
the old chimney without interfering
with th. work of the mills .
Aided ty another man, whose agil
ity and nerve were equal to his own,
Mr. ltartling fixed a series of light
steel ladders to the chimnev bv means
of iron hooks driven in between the
courses of the bricks, erected a pulley
at the top of the chimney and a flight
of scaffolding all round, and then hav
ing lowered the cornice surmounting
the chimney, they built on to the top a
the rate of about four to five feet per
da.
1 ha whole work occupied eight days
end was perfectly successful. Whilj
this Is the first chimney dealt with in
this manner in France, Mr. Bartling
states that he has carried out similar
operations in Germany, at the chemical
at Thane, and at the works at the Mul
house Gas company.
An Old-Time Opeaa Fire.
It is a fact not generally known that
the L nited States government label
placed on t very box of imported cigars
sold la this country bears a fine steel
plate engraving t f the steamer CJty of
t a -iiinton, a sister ship to the ill
fated City of Hoston, and noted in her
day us en ocean flyer. In the year
1--G1 the City of Washington, then ply
ing between New ork and Liverpool,
covered the passage to the westward,
in January, in fourteen days fifteen
hours; April, twelve days twenty-one
hour;; Jlay, thirteen days twenty-ono
honrs; July,, thirteen days August
thirteen days; September, thirteen
d;:ys twenty hours nd December,
fifteen days ten hours In December,
the made the trip from Sandy
ilook to Queenstown in what was then
the remarkably fast time of nine days
tiinctcen hours and thirty seconds The
City of London made several passages
to the castTvard in 16C3 and 1(S in less
than eleven days
HE WARMED UP.
Tba Bank Praaldcnt Lost That Cntll
Feelinc; Verr Suddenly.
A well-known .contractor walked
into a bank In this city the other da
to eash a check for forty dollars says
the Washington Post The paying teller
looked at te check a few minutes
then counted out four hundred dollars
and handed it to the contractor, who,
although he noticed the error, said not
a word, but rolled np the bills and
wadded them down into his pocket
ThU happened in the morning, and
about two o'clock the same afternoon.
before the officials of the bank had an
opportunity to discover the error, the
contractor walked into the office of the
president of the bank.
"Is this bank responsible for the
errors of its clerksThc asked the pres
ident
"If it can be proved that any of our
clerks have erred." replied the presi
dent in a very chilly manner, "we will
make the correction."
"Well, nolody saw this error made
but myself," continued the contractor.
and my word ought to be sufficient
proof, I think. "
'I am sorry, sir," said the bank pres
ident "but we shall have to have ad
ditional proof. We require this In order
to protect ourselves; that Is alL"
Very weli, air," replied the con.
tractor, rising to leave. "I am sorry 1
cannot furnish what you demand. The
error I referred to was the payment of
four hundred dollars for a check that
called for only forty dollars; bnt as
no one saw me receive the extra three
hundred and sixty dollars I suppose
yon will not want to correct the mis
take:. Good day, sir."
"Hold on! Come backr shouted the
bank president who by this tiros wm
very wide-a wake to the abyss to which
he had been led.
The matter was soon adjusted satis
factorily, and now when any person
reports an error at that bank the first
Question asked is: "In whose favor?"
A FLKAMASTSVSmnE
it ia stir f jt yon wt-eo yo-j
U.T i.r Um i x-waaai.: 1
lets if vou vmr toe tCT
cn-'C-iT liver pUi, t-Z
I.jii-v, tco, yoi. i fr-
yt-MS a g'lOd U-L-V. spe
i..v ali-a ;t m s-i-.ir-"' '"'
Unv" as rail-vl taej bus
tct'v effective. Utter tama
t-ais eo-ah tha s15?""
toe bwt in liver pilia bonce,
Pkswoat IVika".
If v-xi ara trouuW wtta
JviiJ'-'jn. 1 or.stitte. Bil
irorass IVwua Htssoacfaw.
and a hau-irei and ona u.s
waiea HJ cpna Bliw
tie livi-r. trB Dr. rVrces
Pei!eC. its tneas piiM yoa
rjt nt oniy tempurary reiitf
LaS a poli- nwr , iuc w
nm.iratre4 to aivo satisfac
tion or jour n-.om.-y at ra
fctroed. For fat popU wbo suffer
from indi-sttiou. tor fcufct
eat-ars and tush bTerstbosa
b keri ara sl-i'h, toa
pill is what is moat aeedeo.
Take PU dinner.
CURTIS K. GROVE,
SOMERSET. PA
rXiISS !XiGE3 CASSiaGEo
SPRING WAG05S. BTCK WAGOX"
7 EASTDm 5D WKSTT.SV5 WOkS
Tirnwiyt as Skjti Sk
Painting Done os Short Tixn
work is BJKJe oul M TlamtQiii SnttatA IFana.
rA the Bat bxm mat Mrei, 8ubuasdai
Contracted, Xe&Uy Fialahed, s&
Warrants to five -tataf action.
Scspioy Csly Firs: Class Tarznss
'v.-airilig Ot Ad Kilid ill Llllt lioox Ot
bort Vatic er!r RF. S11VT3L wl
ll Work Warranted
mi mud titmiTi- m -l. uiU Lmn. Knco
V 3B-WTS .Hi, fumi -art "'"
4aF th P'.s 't
CURTIS K. GROVE.
af iMin Houaa
in r.
A. H. HUSTON.
Undertaker and tmbalmer.
A. GOOD HEiYRSE
and thing pertaining to fairerajs Jura teed
Somerset, Pa.
91-in
lOCl DOLLARS
fl.&U PER MONTH
In Your Own Locality
mad? essily and honorably, without capi
tal, during your spare hours. Any man,
woman, boy, orpirl can do the work h.-.nd-ily,
without experience. T-Iin:r ua-liecess-iry.
Nothing like It for money
makinjever oaV-red Ixfore. Our workers
always prosier. No time wasted ia
leaminz the hiisiness. We teach you in
a niuht how to u-eecd from the rt
hour. You can malio a tri.l without ex
pense to yourself. We start you. furnish
evt-rythins neeiled to earrv on the bcsl-
; sueressfui'y, and puarantee yon
a a: nst ianure u you out joiiow mr
simple, plain instructions. Header, if
you are in ne J of ready money, and
want to know ail aho'it the best paying
business before the puidic, send lis your
address, and we wi'.l mail vou a doca
j incut giving you ail the particulars.
TRUE & CO., Box 400,
Augusta, Maine.
CONDENStL- TIME TABLES.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Somerset and Cambria Branch
SOUTHWARD.
Jvkr.Artr Jf'iiJ E.-vrm. Roe k wood t 5) a. m.,
li.mersei 10. -lorcsloan t V. ilonrrrsviiie
Jotwtowu. b:ik.
JohttHan XiH Crjrrm. Rock wood am..
nxrrKrl 1:1 siuyttown l:ia, Hauvvrari.ie
1:57, J'jblis:owo zJt) p. ci.
J'JtOrm AcrtmmodrjUj Rockvood 6-20 p bl,
Smer-t fc:4-t p. m., i"tfrewa T:I1 p m..
HouverkUiia l ii p. bl. joaoaOwn a; 15 p. ra
Smdi.y Accomm&iLji'jn aUa?kaoud li bS a m
aoioenet,
SOtTHWABD
MiH Johcatmrn 7:40 a m., HooverwriUe tJX
trtiiye-loau a-iu, gumcnel n il, Rutkwood
ai.
Eiprat Jcihrstoim !fc p. m.. H.wersrflie 4.1S.
storeclown t-M. Suziieistt ix-l. Ua kaood
&..
&nrfcv Oru'y Jihrslowu fi.c'Oa. m., HooveTsriTle
9 6 a. m,, a:oTr:oa y t) a eomeiset
10.1 a m , Euikabutl lu i a m.
S!r.y Afwnwuyla.'ic Somerset 5:01 p.
kockaooaxu p
Dsily.
JJEXX
SYLVASIA RAILROAD.
ECHrOCXK IN EFFECT DEC 18, lOi
EASTERN STANDARD TIME
DISTANCE AND FARE.
Mile.
Fare.
JohnOwnto Alumna..
II 14
Htmurt
5 1
1 Phti.;j.i.-
' B airsnUe lut
' Oranrrx,
2T
27
a Jt
7s
1 41
" fie ri
2 M
Baiiimorv
WarUlcKion
7 6.".
7
COXDEXSED SCBKntXC
Train, arrive and depart from tha atatiaa at
jwiawwa aa iuuw :
WESTWARD.
Poothweateru Ezpraa.
Weaiera Espnsau .. .
Johunown An-mmoUatioa-
i.3 a.
trt a.
Exrec
9.0 a. m
l i; a m
Partfl Eip!
Way Paakcnjrcr. .
3..Ua
Mail .
Mian
:.V a n
JuiiiMnara Eicpraa ..
fast , .,,
4a.DV
EASTWARD.
Kerrtone Extre"i..
. 5:ts a m
Sa shore Exrts
. S 40 a. at
. -4 a. m
liarTFtar Accoaiac-lUn..
I sit Exprr-f .
A uyua Zt re. .
. l15a.
U-W p.
Mail Excrtsa
. 4 )l p. m
. 7 f p. m
JntiiiM.a a ta-wnmodition
Phi ia-leipbi. . '
. 7 16 p.
r aM Line
10: p.H
For rate, mart. Ac an la T i kM kwrrt ar ai.
dree.Tb. E. f.AW.U, U0 HAh Ave-
nw r-.u-hanrh. i'a.
a M. 1'KaVne.T. J. R. WOOD.
wbi Manager. Gen'l ra. Agt
XotJin?On Fariinvill
Sheridan's Condition Powder!
KEEPS YOUR CHICKEN3
Stroag and Healthy ; Praventa all Diaeaa.
Cra4 ft Moulting Urn.
tit, , asacl: rta mil a Oay. u4Vf uaMnt:M
SrHY a mrry-Te. "(JM arc, M f4 u
w-T io pfrm r p m a on, -i i 1 im i .
1L. n. mNaNimirppara.L UW X M 1ft.
a. J aatil. ,i at .i amrr- .iana aramid.
L,",1'at'"T'" Tn illr PatMsrat-u Im.
L a .)HA a U. Cuioaa iu Jl, aoaaea, llaaa
I ' I r A ICS
LVd Uhl
mm
It is to Your Interest
TO BUY YGCR
Drugs and Medicines
OF
J. H. SHYDER.
rcCaCvaoK to
Biesecker k Snyder.
Son bat the purest and best kept in ttewk.
and waen Drugs beioaie inert by rtano
nr. aa eenain of thea do. we d
troy them, rather lb an iro
pose cn our cisronera
'ou ran depend 00 bavin; yoa
PRESCPJPuGNS 4 FAMILY RKEIPTS
b)rf. an it, -ai- ur pno arr aa
ant arther BrsKlasa houj anl
-tiany otic!a miieh ltiw
I rw-rpl t hiirtuct ii u. ii,..at
Ihib. and nave piven aa a ianr h arr uf tbeiT
patronage and 'iall iil eint'ni: xo&rr
?rm th a-- rn asui (t thtw rtw.
not fiin.'"4 IlaJ nun teiait J
PITTING TKITSSE.S
SPECTACLES AND EYE-GUSSES
in great variety ; a fall set of Test LemaL
Come in and Lave your eyt& eiA.-un.ed. So
charp for ezami aation. and arenr!6.Vnt
ar- Tin aiiii jou Oom aid o
Btctfai:
JOHN N. SNYDER.
Jacob D. Swank,
YS Irhmakrr and Jeweler,
Xext door west of Lciheraa Char a
Somerset, Pa.
I am now prepared to sup
ply the public with clocks, watches
and jewelry of all description?, a?
cheap as the cheapest.
REPAIUIXG -A. SPEC1.VL.TY.
All work guaranteed. Look at
my stock before making; yoar pmr
chasea. JORDAN L HINCHMAN.
iC'ioajs of ai! fety i-s. a-i rveryf tjir? ? ?
irt;n!p) to a rst o'sls l-oiw ii t or-
ar.J b; witR ,if-rMi a' i.'t-M: i'c-jrt-s (VI
JOBBAS & HINCHMAN.
77' -272 Mam ?tr-f
Johnstown, Pa.
GOOD LIQUORS !
and Cbap Liters
Bj caliia al ti" Old tjacor Stajre.
Ia 300 Hi m St, and 106 CHatoa t,
Johnstown, Pa,
all kinds of tha Chot-teet Lj-ioora In market can
be baai. i my ui4 cuv-uuera iui u a itJ
know a (act. and tu all 'ihers craTiiuitiC prarjf
arUl be f-lrcn. Is n't (br-grt that I ktsrp 03 band
he grralct Tiria'.r of Liq 10m, lie elktsc
brasaia asi! at U.e a est prica.
P. S. FISHER.
HARDWARE !
HARDYARE !
I am now prvnansJ io avorooi!t tSe nnb-
licwua auy act eaerTUiina in the Kar-Jware
line br lb a'l-i!tion rs?cn:!5 milf to my former
larxe 4ck. I krr alt ktad4 M arucli-a ia aar
laiicaadmy pneta e-a'lcaaje ti-iiit li'joa. i!
voa want a rm. a rt-vclver. a k r a aaw. a
f:miet. an aarr. a bicyr ie. a pair h Hur
ts, arr. ba. ... h. 1-? ate-., haxse bitieu, or
anything Use m hardnaTe at lowest pnees ca.1
on nse.
Herman Bantley,
Clinton St, Johnstown, Pa
wavt uraLTM Tvr ttytaj aturr r iw oarra.
P) TI,5CVi I SIC ?i TK-T
Cares tbnnAnds annnkllrof LXrrrCma
p'ainta, Billoatness. Jannd.ce, Prsptv
aiit, Cocstipatfoa, Malaria. J'c-re Ilia
reilt from an TnhealthyUrerthanany
othercanse. Why n(T,-r wrhen yoa can
be cured? Dr. Ssnfnrd'a LiT-r Ir.TiRor
atr ia ft r'i-a'l f--;'T rf "dn.
vera B:;i t;cisf . ill ar voc.
CAVEATS.
TBADaT Hl.irl.
DniCat aa-raai-ra
corrsicHTs. teJ
-n 1 aai
For luf' natation and frw Haaduxk wnw to
alt J C 4 Bk ai.at. Mw vKj
MtO
arrary pavtma tak'a o-it l y la bisihi bt.ar
tMpotaueaf aiautaoe f ivaa irae of aaawsaaiLaa
rienttfic amcwan
VuraO. kplaDatulir llluatraiaai. o irtu-riaa
maa 1VX111I ba wtthnoa It. ffat'r axon a
yaaa-1 klWala Bauatba. A'tdnaa MINN A I Q
I'L al inn ra s 3i. htonwu. Xtn f !xk Ulj.
IMrOBTAXT TO ADTXSTISKKS.
TtlirTfaa ett fhm asmintrv annrsaaM I a Cm.I
U Ewaintrtoo'a County beat LL-u. Shrew 4
01 wfiich caa be had of Jietning-too
na, of Sew York k PSiulrj.
BUGGIES st I Prica
f.&L4S CAials A iaJUIla.wwaw.a
aa.l-kaan.4. M l"f 1 aj.J
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t - -V ta lat aacxaa. raVasoatwi.Ta.
my a K.d Can . a kai (o
Ajr -hw
Haneaa. M al tnr. ara a r
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'I 7 Tmaa " f.: pr..lM.
ra-r M :a Hartaiaaaaaaa
fwaa, aljrwaa aaddla, tk m-X t riaa
r.f. RIMT ACtkTCe.
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4 Scientific Aaiericaa
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JAMES B. H0LDERBAUM, Somerset, Pij
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Tlemorial Work
WM. F. SHAFFER,
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WM. F SHIFFEK.
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Favcrits TTith Pe:pls h Ssarch. cf
FRESH AHD PURE DRUGS,
Medicines, Dye Stuffs, Sponges, Truw,
Supporters, Toilet Articles,
Perfumes, Xt.
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And a Full Line of Optical Goods aJVays oa hand. From sach
large a5ortaient all caa be suited.
THE FffiEST BBAHDS OF CIGABS
Always on hand. It is always a pleasure to display our soed
to intending purchasers, whether they bay
frora us or elsewhere.
J. M. LOUTHER. M. D.
MAIN STBEET .... SOMEBSET. PA
Somerset Lumber Yard
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Ofiice and Yard Opposite S.&C. R.R. Station, Somerset
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Drug Store,
Somerset, Pa.
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