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MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18
THE TENER ADMINISTRATION
WITHIN a day the administra
tion of Governor John K.
Tener will be part of the his
tory of Pennsylvania. The
record of the Washington county gov
ernor's tenure of the highest office in
the Commonwealth is to be found in
the statute books. Political animosity
and personal enmity, friendship and
admiration can not change what is set
down in the laws of the State. Per
haps the acts will be more eloquent of
,the constructive work of John K.
Tener a dozen years hence than they
ere to-day.
It has fallen to the lot of few gov
ernors to approve and put into opera
tion so many important laws, acts af
fecting so many Pennsyivanians and
so great interests. What he did and
how he did it is a record for all men
jto read. He was governor in a time
jwhen pretty nearly everything in the
governmental line, courts included,
■was subjected to unbridled criticism;
*vhen mere demands for changes were
regarded as sage solutions of great
problems and when comments from
vmusual sources received unusual at
tention. But all these circumstances
cannot detract from or enhance the
record of his administration.
On the final day of the governor
ship of John K. Tener a few of the
things done for the benefit of the
Commonwealth may be cited. They
include:
Enactment of the school code.
Establishment of the Public Service
Commission.
Launching of the several great
■charitable projects, such as theJiome
for feeble-minded, the women's indus
trial reformatory and other matters
now in hands of commissions.
Changes in laws for the dependents
and inauguration of the comprehen
sive survey about to be reported upon.
Supplementing work for elimination
cf tuberculosis, two great sanitoria
having been opened.
Inauguration of the movement for
workmen's compensation, endorsed by
all political parties in the last cam
paign.
Establishment of the State highway
system which the defeat of the pro
posed bond issue makes difficult to
carry ovjt.
Reorganization of the State High
way Department.
Reorganization of the State Insur
ance Department.
Enactment of the soft coal mining
■code.
Passage of the National Guard mili
tary code.
Creation of the private bank license
and inspection system.
Anthracite coal tax law.
Regulation of the escheat laws.
Extension of State vocational edu
cation.
Commencement of the model peni
tentiary.
Inauguration of the farm counsellor
■service.
Development of the State orchard
inspection work.
Comprehensive regulation of profes
sions by the new medical bureau.
The hunters' license act.
New automobile registration law
yielding over $1,000,000 a year.
State College development.
Extension of Capitol Park.
Establishment of the State Bureau
of Standards with its important work
for inspection of weights and meas
ures.
Establishment of the State Fire Mar
shal's Department for the detection of
arson and punishment of incendiar
ism.
Enactment of law designating sala
ries of Capitol care-taking force.
Changes in the primary and gen
eral election laws.
Extension of forest reserves until
•they have passed the million acre
mark.
Establishment of additional game
preserves.
The cold storage regulation act.
Inventory of the water resources of
the State.
Creation of the State Board of Edu
cation.
Extension of the activities of the
State Fisheries Department.
Establishment of the censorship of
moving pictures, etc.
Enlargement of the powers of the
rotate Board of Public Charities.
Extension of powers of the State
Water Supply Commission for control
MONDAY EVENING, "*1
of dams and of obstructions in
streams.
Commission for the Lake Erie-Ohio
ship canal.
Creation of the Department of La
bor and Industry.
Some of these, such as the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry, have just
begun a work which will make them
as notable in their tield as the splendid
department of which Commissioner
of Health Dixon is the head. Other
acts were passed >vhen pressure of
time in the General Assembly did not
permit that close attention to detail
so advantageous to complete legisla
tion. Fortunately, the latter class is
very small and the operation of such
luws so far has been without hardship
in most cases and has demonstrated
popular desires in others.
The retiring governor took up and
pushed through some things which had
been long discussed but never started.
He was forced to meet unpleasant sit
uations. He was compelled to reduce
appropriations passed by one legisla
ture to the unprecedented extent of
$29,000,000 so as to keep within the
revenues. He took broad views and
he made enemies. Twice he was de
feated. but he persevered and secured
one of his great projects and will see
this legislature enact the other.
John Kinley Tener believed in do
ing things. When he took office men
said he was untried in governmental
work and some called him an experi
ment. The records of the State show
him to have been a fortunate experi
ment for some 8,000.000 of people. His
administration is closed, but the books
are open.
TIIE SMAI.L KITt'IIKX
HOUSEWIVES who sigh for the
old-fashioned big kltchon of
their grandmothers' day will
be surprised to hear that a no
less authority than the United States
government condemns it. A com
plete kitchen with a real stove, re
frigerator, sink, work-table and other
necessaries is being sent by the De
partment of Agriculture to San Fran
cisco for the fair. This kitchen is not
a "model" in the sense that every
housewife is to try to make hers as
nearly like it as possible, but is rather
a composite of many possible model
kitchens which is designed to illus
trate various essential principles of
convenient kitchen arrangement. The
American housewife, for whose spe
cial benefit the model has been con
structed. must judge from it what ap
pliances and improvements in arrange
ment will best fit her peculiar house
hold needs—and those of her purse.
But the one general idea emphasized
by the Department s San Francisco
bound kitchen is that the size of the
ordinary kitctien should be small
rather than large, if the room is to
be used only for the preparation of
the meals. Tt enould be as compact
as possible to save traveling back and
forth. Tlie stove, table and sink
should be as near together as is con
venient, and the distances to supplies
and the dining room or pantry should
be short, says the government expert.
On the floor of the model room the
distances most commonly traveled in
preparing and serving meals are in
dicated by straight lines.
So don't worry if your kitchen be
small. In his desire to economize on
materials and room the city builder
has been really your benefactor in dis
guise.
PENNSYLVANIA. A CORN STATE
THE Keystone State annually pro
duces over half the iron and
considerably more than half the
steel made in this country; its
anthracite coal production is un
rivalled and its tonnage of bituminous
coal and of coke and its flow of oil
rise to magnificent totals In values.
They are so impressive that nine
tenths of the people in the State and
most of those out of it do not know
that the State is one of the great agri
cultural commonwealths.
Lest we all forget, let us note the
fact that the values of six crops raised
in Pennsylvania last year, only six, re
member, aggregate a value of one
eighth of a billion dollars. Just what
others amounted to in value the newly
organized bureau of statistics of the
State Department of Agriculture is
trying to ascertain. But it does know
that corn, wheat, potatoes, oats, buck
wheat and rye were conservatively
valued at $1X2.000,000 in round num
bers and that the State had an apple
crop second only to New York and
that it is one of the coming hay States,
with a very respectable crop as to
size and value harvested annuallv.
And here is one of the interesting j
things. The most valuable of the crops ]
on which trustworthy data has been j
gathered by Chief Wible was corn, j
Think of Pennsylvania raising over
fifty-eight and a half million bushels
of corn! And think of that corn being
valued at 145,8 45,000. Incidentally, we
raised $25,000,000 worth of wheat. But
I corn appears to be our long suit. !
Pennsylvania is knocking for admit
tance to the list of the Corn States.
DECORATE
SOME thousands of men from dis
tant parts .jf the Commonwealth
will march through Harrisburg's
streets to-morrow. Rain or
shine they will find themselves as dry-
at the end of their long walk as
when they started. Thousands more
will stand on the sidewalks and see
them go by. These spectators will
not appreciate so much what we as a
city have done '.n the way of street
improvements, but'they will observe
whether or not the houses that line
the streets are decorated. As a mat
ter of home-pride, if for no other
reason, every resident along the route
of the parade, at least, should hang
out an American flag. Harrisburg
should look its best on this occasion,
and if everybody will do his mite the
effect will be pleasing and the deco
rations appropriate.
AX EVENING THOUGHT
Talk that does not end In any
kind of action is better suppressed
altogether.—Caxlysia, '
EVENING CHAT
The mansion whose keys Governor
Tener will turn over to Governor-elect
Brumbaugh late this afternoon and
where the Philadelphia educator will
reside for the next four years lias beeu
the official homo of Pennsylvania's
Governors since the days of Andrew G.
Ourtin. From the days of Simon Sny
der. who was inaugurated December
20, 1813, as the first Governor to take
the oath in Harrisburg, until Civil
War days the State made little or no
provision for the residence of its ex
ecutives. The earliest mention of an
official residence Is in a description of
early Harrslburg about 1 It is
suited that Chief Justice McKean re
sided here, living.ln a substantial log
bouse in North Front street where the
residence of Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert
stands. Mention is made of several
Governors having their homes about
Front and Locust streets, but there
was a change with every adminis
tration. Governor Porter lived in Mar
ket street in a house remembered by
older Harrisburgers. Governor Shunk
lived in Front near Walnut, where the
Gross residence stands, probably the
same bouse. Governors Johnson and
Polleck lived in Front just south of
Market and Governor Blgler in Mar
ket about where I">ives, Pomeroy &
Stewart's store begins. When Packer
was Governor the mansion was located
in the Spieer property in South Second
street where so many of the Pennsyl
vania Civil War regiments received
their colors from the hands of Curtin.
In the early sixties the city of Harris
burg appropriated $20,000 and bought
the property of Wells Coverly at Front
and Barberry. Soon after the adjoin
ing property was acquired and the two
were thrown together and the State,
remodeled them and furnished them,
in ISSo and 190" the mansion was ex
tensively remodeled. Since Curtln's
day it has been the Executive Man
sion, maintained by the Common
wealth.
Many kind .things have been said
about Governor Tener by people con
nected with the State government and
many compliments have been given
him for his action on laws of impor
tance to the State at large, but of all
that has been said to him he doubtless
appreciates very much thanks which
have been tendered him at almost
every turn in the Capitol the last week
by the force of caretakers. It is re
called by many Harrisburgers that
until a few years ago the force of men
employed about the Capitol was in a
more or less unbusinesslike form. Suc
cessive superintendents had endeavored
to get the Legislature to designate the
positions and salaries, but nothing was
done, and men had to be employed
from contingent and other funds. Gov
ernor Tener not only succeeded in get
ting alt of the caretaking force prop
erly listed, but arranged their salaries
on a fair basis. It was the first time
such an act had been passed in many
years and it brought a sense of se
curity to holders of places and of
gratification to others who got increase
of pay. These men and women have
been thanking the Governor for his
interest in their behalf and the Gov
ernor has shown genuine pleasure at
what they have said.
Governor-elect Brumbaugh in the
course of a remark at Philadelphia
the other day cleared up what has
been more or less of a misconception
in the minds of people not familiar
with legislative procedure. There had
been some things printed about his in
augural address and then a reference
to the message he will deliver to the
Legislature. As a matter of fact, the
new Governor s inaugural address will
be also his message to the legislature.
It was so with Hastings, Stone. Pennv
packer. Stuart and Tener. The Gov
ernor has the right to communicate
to the Legislature what he pleases,
when he pleases and how he pleases.
Dr. Brumbaugh is going to follow the
precedent and anything further he will
have to say will go in written form in
a special message as Governor Tener
did with the chestnut ' tree blight
proposition.
People who have followed the in
augural ceremonies of vears gone by
will doubtless reeali the fact that Ben
jainin the man who was driver
of the inaugural carriages of four Gov
ernors in the inauguration processions,
died just about two years ago. Ben
Hoover was coachman for James
McCotmick for years and was known
about the city for his fondness for ani
mals. He was a canal boat driver
when he was a boy and after w*orking
for the Harrisburg Car Company was
driver for the Citizen Fire Companv.
Then he entered the service of William
Calder and was the proud driver of
the four-in-hand carriages at the in
auguration of Governors Geary, Hart
ranft for both terms. Beaver anil Pat
tison in the second inaugural. He
really drove the carriage for Pattison's
first inaugural, but the Governor elect
decided to walk to the Capitol, and the
carriage Went up the street with its
escort without any occupant. In addi
tion to driving these Governors to the
Capitol it fell to Ben's lot to drive the
hearse containing the body of Gov
ernor Geary, who died three weeks
after his term expired. The expert
ness of Hoover's driving was the rea
son for his selection for these duties
Everyone knew how he loved horses
and a story is told of how once when
the ice 011 the Susquehanna broke a
few hours after Hoover had driven
across it with a four-horse sleigh he
almost cried when he thought of the
narrow escape of his horses. "Ben died
almost two years ago to the day and
after he had retired as a driver of
Governors he was always around to
see the manner the gubernatorial car
riage was handled.
Governor Tener declared last night
to a group of newspapermen that he
was qualified for two lines of work in
order to keep the wolf from the door
now that he is going out of office "X
have all the requisites to be a mem
!>er of the State Grange and the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers," said
he. "When I was a kid I threshed
wheat with a flail, and that's inorty
than you fellows have ever done. And
furthermore, I have done it without
hitting myself on the head. And I
have also run a locomotive. X ran one
when I worked in an iron works at
Pittsburgh when I was a young man."
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
, - -Ex-eenator ouyard Henry was
! elected a director of the Pennsylvania
j the day before his birthday.
| —Senator Boies Penrose will not at
tend the inauguration. He has just re
covered from a heavy cold and has
, gone back to Washington to resume
; his work.
'< —R. S. Seigel has been elected to
I head the Industrial Commission of
Bethlehem again.
—Dr. T. C. Zulick, of Easton, has
been elected president of the North
ampton County Medical Society.
—J. V. Thompson, the Uniontown
c oal land magnate, is about to trans
fer some of his enormous holdings to
: the I'nited Statew steel corporation.
I —Dr. McChesney Kad< liffe is the
i head of the Medical Club of I'hliadel
phia.
I 66 V6U KN3W=n
That Harrisburg lias one )f the
finest Slate Capitols In the coun
try ami tliat next inauguration
there -vili be a lilting jwirk tryund*
it?
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
DEMOCRATS HERE SEE
BIG ROW IN PROSPECT
Fireworks Display Starts as Fore
runnel- of Volcanic Eruption
in State Machine
BEAVER COUNTY IS WARNED
Reoragnizer Leaders of That Dis
trict Receive Severe Jolt at
Hands of Voters
—Democratic members of the Leg
islature gathered here to-day were
tremendously Interested In the out
break against the ruling powers in
the State mhchlne on the part of the
Beaver county Democratic commit
tee. For weeks there have been niut
terings over the causes of defeat last
fall, the incapacity of the leaders who
had everything, including the na
tional administration, in their favor
and the manner in which patronage
had been doled out. No one expected
Beaver county, which was a hotbed of
reorganizes, to break loose. But it
did and it has started the fireworks
that will blow out the present bosses
just as the men who ran the machine
years ago were rejected. It is about
time for the Pennsylvania Democracy
to rise in its might and furnish en
tertainment.
—ln all probability there will be
similar revolts in eastern counties and
the next three months should show
interesting manifestations of feeling
among tho Democrats who are dis
appointed, disgusted and disheart
ened at the present leadership, which
they call bossism.
—At Beaver on Saturday the county
committee meeting was largely at
tended and besides serving notice upon
Arthur McKean that they will no
longer "recognize, support or have
any connection with him." gave notice
to S. J. Schletter, another of the big
Democratic leaders In the county, de
manding that McKean resign as post
master of Beaver Kails and that W.
A. Ketterer relinquish his appoint
ment as postmaster at Rochester.
While McKean and Schlelter sat stol
idly in their seats, the county commit
tee practically unanimously adopted
resolutions charging that they distri
buted Federal patronage "selfishly,"
without regard to fitness, capability or
political standing and utterly in de
fiance of the wishes of Democratic
voters. A resolution calling on A.
Mitchell Palmer to resign as national
committeeman and censuring Roland
S. Morris wae offered. This resolu
tion had so many supporters that
there was a tumult of protest when
| County Chairman Joseph I. Reno
declared it had fallen short of suffi
cient votes to carry. Reno said after
ward he wanted to be fair to the State
I leaders "for the present." "What's
[going on in this county," Reno added,
I "can be duplicated in any county in
the State amon£ the Democrats. The
rank and file have been regularly af
fronted and instead the selfish Inter
ests of leaders conserved. A worse
mess could not be imagined in the dis
tribution of Federal patronage than
that in Pennsylvania since President
Wilson entered the White House."
—More post office appointments
were announced on Saturday night
and it is probable that the outbreaks
will start promptly. P. F. Leinlngcr
was named for Myerstown; Thomas J.
.McClelland for Boswell; Robert Mc-
Calmont at Franklin; W. W. Van
Eman at Grove City; J. Edwin Mc-
Cann at Paoli, and It. Morgan Root
at Pottstown. They are still squab
bling over the post offices at Phoenix
vllle and Scranton. When they are
tilled more trouble will start.
—The doors of the Democratic
State windmill were opened to-day
but few legislators entered. The
chances are that not much attention
will be given to the Legislature for a
while by the Democratic bosses.
—Under new arrangements Phila
delphia's common council will con
tain eighty-seven men.
—There are 560 post offices to be
filled in Pennsylvania and about 5,600
Democrats are after them.
I N£W o 5 rT D MIiq
[From the Telegraph, Jan. 18, 1865]
Salute I-'or Fort Fisher
Washington, Jan. 18.—A grand sa
lute was fired to-day in honor of the
capture of Fort Fisher.
Railroad Washout
Headquarters Army of Potomac,
Jan. 18.—Recent heavy rains have de
stroyed 93 miles of the Danville rail
road entirely cutting off the Rebel
food supply for army. Thou
sands of men are at work repairing
the roadbed.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, Jan. 18, 1865]
Salute on Hill
One hundred guns wero fired on
Capitol Hill as a salute for the recent
victory at Fort Fisher.
City Behaving
Police affairs are very dull at pres
ent.
Teachers Will Be Fined
Several important rnsolutions wero
passed at the teachers' institute. One
of them increased the fine to $5, for
nonattendance.
STUDY AND EXERCISE
Study does not hurt a child unless
the study time is taken from time that
should be spent in out-of-door exer
cise.
Overstudy and lack of exercise make
thin, bloodless children. It is a com
bination that provokes St. Vitus' dance.
If your child is thin and pale, list
less, inattentive, lias a fickle appetite
and is unable to stand still or sit still,
you must remember that health is
even more important than education.
See to it at once that the patient
does not overstudy, gets at least two
hours out-of-door exercise every day,
sleeps ten hours out of every twenty
four and takes a nonalcoholic tonic
like Dr. Williams' Pink Pills until the
color returns to cheek and lips and the
appetito becomes normal.
For growing children who become
pale and thin Dr. Williams Pink Pills
are, not only safe but in the great ma
jority of cases they are the very best
tonic that can be taken. They build
up the blood and strengthen the nerves
and assist nature in keeping pace with
rapid growth.
The Dr. Williams Medicine Com
pany, Schenectady, N. T., will send you
. two books on the blood and nerves if
you mention this paper. If your child
is very young ask for the booklet "The
Care of the Baby." Your own druggist
sells Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.—Adver
tisement.
On Account of the Rain!
Our Monday's Special Sale!
| Will Be Continued Tuesday!
All Goods at Monday's Prices!
COME IN BEFORE THE PARADE! ,
|j| AST RICH'S, Market and 4th Sts.
f OUR DAILY LAUGH V
I
//«•' v > * guess their j
honeymoon
/eJllpjk H/jiT She's quit tele
v phoning to him
h"' ' n * ° m<:o
How can I
keep my hair [ ijWk ' •
from falling ou* ? \ *|ffl tuft
Don't do any- V at
thing that an- 1 I ilP.y M
Mn. WEATHERMAN
Hj- W IOK Dinger
Please. Mr. Weatherman, be kind;
Bring weather that is clear.
Or else to-morrow we won't have
A bit good time, I fear.
Inauguration Day, you know,
Don't come each year, so try
To have to-morrow bring with it
A bright and cloudless sky.
I know you're up against a job
That's pretty hard to run;
I know it's difficult to please
The wants of everyone.
But just forget the Democrats
This time, and let there be
A day ideal Tuesday,
You'll please the G. O. P.
WITTICISMS
How old is aoman born -1 years
ago 7
We shall know each other better
when the myths has cleared away.
If Sherman had lived to-day he
would have hunted up a stronger
word.
It is a wise child that knows Its
own father's actual standing as an
athlete without consulting tho rec
ords.
It's awfully funny to see a chronic
grouch look disapprovingly at a dis
agreeable spell of weather, as if he
intended doing something about it.—
Judge.
UNN ECESSARY EFFORT
His Wife—This paper says an army
of one hundred thousand men has
wrecked a railroad in Belgium.
Bailroad Magnate—What a waste
of energy! A board of five directors
could have done it just as thoroughly.
—Life.
\
Personal Service
Every advertisement in this
newspaper- is a distinct and
definite messenger of personal
service.
|t can only profit the man who
pays for it provided he makes
It "pay you.
The man who advertises, can
only succeed by making good.
Promises may make a sale once
in a while, but performances
count for the net profits.
We invite every reader to make
use of our advertising columns,
knowing that they voice the mes
sage of men and things worth
while.
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THESE ARE THE MEMBERS
OF THE
Din
t>lvJ
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19th, at Claestnut Street Auditorium
JANUARY 18, 1915.
| KDITOHIAI. :MMH» VKA It S OI.D
[From the Birmingham In-dger.]
A little more than 3.000 years ago
lan inspired writer composed the fol
| lowing editorial on wisdom, and it
tins come down to us In compendium
lof writings which we call tho Bible.
IA few years ago the Alabama Chris-
I tlan Advocate republished It and
; asked its preachers to tell where It
lis to be found in the Bible. It Is a
beautiful tribute to wisdom:
"But where shall wisdom be found?
And where Is the place of understand-
I ingr? "
! "Man knoweth not the price there
| of; neither Is it found In the land of
the living.
"The depths salth, It is not in r-e;
and the sea saith. It is not with me.
"It can not be gotten for gold,
neither shall silver bo weighed for the
price thereof.
"It can not be valued with tho gold
of Ophlr, with the precious onyx, or
the sapphire.
"The gold and the crystal can not
equal it: and the exchange of it shall
not be for jewels of lino gold.
"No mention shall be made of coral,
or of pearls; for the price of wisdom
is above rubies.
"The topaz of Ethopia shall not
equal it. neither shall It be valued with
pure gold.
"Whence cometh wisdom? Rnd where
Is the place of understanding?
"Seeing It Is hid from the eyes of all
living, and kept close from tho fowls
of the air.
"Destruction and death say. We have
heard thereof with our ears.
"God understandeth the wa<- there
of. and He knoweth the way thereof.
"For He looketh to the end of the
earth, and seeth under the whole
heaflren.
"To make the weight for the winds;
snd He weigheth the waters by meas
ure.
"When He made a decree for the
lightning of the thunder.
"Then did He see it, and declare it;
He prepared It, yea, and searched it
out.
"And unto man He salth, behold, tho
fear of.,thr that is wisdom; and
to depart from evil is understanding."
I EDITORIAL COMMENT]
STARTING OUT RIGHT
[Rochester Union and Advertiser.!
Former Governor Stewart of Vir
ginia, aged 89, has just quit smoking.
How can he ever expect to live to a
green old age without using the weed?
SOME OF US ARE HANDICAPPED
[Columbia State. 1
We appreciate the estimable duPont
deNemours Company's card wishing
"that your share in the new prosperity
of a greater America be large and
lasting," but, unfortunately, we all
can't own big powder factories in war
times.
TIME FOR BRYAN'S EXIT
[Philadelphia Bulletin.]
It is many a day since a Secretary
of State at Washington has shown
himself, by his own acknowledged
words, to hold so low and cheap a view
of tho public service as William J.
Bryan has exhibited in the Vick let
ter.
If President Wilson still cherishes
the opinions which in past years he
expressed on the improvement of the
civil service and tho diplomatic ser
vice, he can scarcely escape a sense of
disgust In his contemplation of that
letter as the product of the chief
member of his Cabinet. ,
It is true that there has already, been
plenty of evidence as to the looseness
and'the unfitness of numerous ap
pointments that have been made at
the Instance of the Secretary of State,
but it now appears that he has ex
pressly avowed to a subordinate a
policy of treating the offices as "re
wards" for "workers" and that he
cannot understand, or at least pro
fesses that he cannot, why anybody
should think the less of him for doing
so.
But if the Secretary of State cannot
really understand the indecency of the
Vick letter, then It is about time that
the President invited him to step down
and out of an office in which he has
given little satisfaction to the country
and in which his own pen now reveals
him as a pap peddler of a peculiarly
offensive type.
Hitherto Mr. Bryan, in diplomacy,
has been largely rewarded as a second
rater in a llrst-rate office, but he now
appears to bo even a third-rater in at
least Ills sense of public propriety.
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