VOL. XX.
SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
PITTSBUGH^POSIWMJ
SOCIETY.
OPEN from SEPTEMBER 6 to OCTOBEK 13, 1883.
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A RAILROAD CENTER.
Under the above heading the Pitts
burgh Com-Gazette <»f a late date con
tained a very interesting account of all
the railroads running into the two
cities, with their connections and
branches, and from this article wo
make the following extracts which are
of local interest :
Railroads depend on their tonnage
for success, and it is this fact that has
turned the eyes of the managers of al
most every large system operating in
New York, Pennsylvania, the \ ir
ginias and Ohio to Pittsburgh. Fne
tonnage of Pittsburgh is acknowledged I
to exceed that of any other city in the
United States, and consequently all the
great carrying companies are anxious
to receive their share. This fact with
in the past few years has inaugurated a
regular railroad boom in the attempt
to reach this city and the coal territory
contiguous thereto. Coal furnishes
one great part of the immense tonnage,
and a number of lines have been con
tent to reach after it, but the great ma
jority have ruled that to come thus far
means to come entirely, until to-day
there is hardly an accessible avenue
between the "hills leading into Pitts
burgh and Allegheny but that is occu
pied, if not with a railroad, at least
with a charter for a railroad.
THE GREAT RIVALS.
At present there are three great sys
tems of railroads operated through
Pittsburgh or in course of construction
and positively assured. The first of
these east and west is the Pennsylvania
railroad and the Pennsylvania Com
pany system, the second tho \ ander
bilt, and the third the Baltimore k
Ohio and the Pittsburgh k Western
system combined. Dependent branch
railroads are as plentiful as mush
rooms, and a network of independent
lines has completely surrounded the
approaches to this busy industrial cen
tre. Other trunk systems are creeping
in, either by independent lines or by
excellent traffic arrangements with
what would ordinarily be competing
lines, but who are gladly extending
terms in order to keep new lines out.
The importance of Pittsburgh as a
railroad centre, unknown to a great
majority of the general public, has
prompted this sketch, aud the facts
given balow were secured directly from
officials of the different roads by a re
porter. The different systems and
their connections are described inde
pendently, and the growth of the past
year separately, so that the increase of
railroads in this section within the past
year can be easily comprehended.
The parent of all Pittsburgh rail
roads, the Pennsylvania railroad, has
not seen fit to lay behind its younger
competitors, and while the new pro
jeeets were building their main stems
the old reliable was constructing its
branches and fortifying itself for a con
tinuance of a greater part of certain
traffics. In addition to this the Penn
sylvania railroad has been preparing to
enlarge its facilities and improve its
capacity by improvements to road-bed,
the building of additional track and the
creation of stems for handling the over
flow freight from the main line. This
necessity is not strictly confined to the
Pennsylvania railroad proper, but has
also been recognized by the Pennsyl
vania Company's lines going west from
Pittsburgh, which are being double,
treble aud quadruple tracked essential
distances. These improvements have
mostly been commenced or completed
within the past year and have cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars. In
addition, great freight engines have
bean added to the service and other
improvements made in the motive
power. Of the great improvements to
the main line, the preparation of the
West Penn railroad for transfer of
through Pittsburgh freight from Boli
ver to Allegheny without passing
through Pittsburgh is most important.
The West Penn railroad as at present
operated is sixty-six miles in length
from Allegheny City to Blairsville in
tersection, which is fourteen miles
longer than the main Pennsylvania
railroad line from Pittsburgh to Blairs
ville intersection. Tbe cause for the
compromise, in addition to the press of
business on the main line, is to make a
low-grade division. Between Pitts
burgh and Derry station the main line
has grades of fifty-two feet, but from
Derry to Conemaugh a comparatively
low grade is used. The West Penn
road from Allegheny to Freeport,
where it crosses the Allegheny river,
is a low-grade, but from there to Blairs
ville intersection the grades are also 52
feet and over. Tho improvement in
volves the reduction of this grade to a
maximum of twenty-one feet to the
mile. The difference of elevation be
tween Blairsville aud Blairsville inter
section makes a low-prade line imprac
ticable, and it has been necessary to
extend the West Penn from. Blairsville
through the l'acksaddle Gap to a con
nection with the main line at Boliver,
eight aud a half miles long.
OTHER WEST I'ENN CHANGES.
'The heavy grade between Roaring
Run and Saltsburg necessitated a new
route, which followed the Kiskimine
tas river and the line of the old Penn
sylvania canal. Near Salina the river
makes a series of bends, and in order
to get a short line with good nline
ments, the Salina tunnel was built
through a point above Salina and a
bridge thrown across the Kbkiminetas
river at its eastern terminus. The
Salina tunnel is one-fourth of a mile
long and was built by Thomas Rutter
k Co., of New Vork. Two-thirds of
its length is on a six degree curve and
the remainder is on a tangent. It is a
great piece of tunnel building and it
has probably the largest section of any
double track tunnel in the world, being
twenty-eight feet wide at the springing
line.
The road is single tracked, but has
double fuck masonry, tunnel aud
bridges. A bridge has also been erect
ed at Boliver and the road generally
completed Iwtween Boliver and Blairs
ville. The improvements have taken
two and one-half years in building un
der the personal supervision of J. X.
Dußarry, third Vice President of the
P. R. K. Samuel Ilea is the engineer
in chief. The work is virtually com
pleted now, but the dressing up of the
line will defer the opening until Sep
tember 10. After that date through
West bound freight will leave the
main liue at Boliver and continue over
the West Penn to Sharpsburg, where
a traffic arrangement with the Pitts
burgh & Western railroad allows the
use of its river front tracks through Al
legheny to Wood's Run, where the
Pittsburgh Ft. Wayne & Chicago
tracks are entered upon. The present
passenger service over the West Penn
road will be continued.
A branch of the West Penn railroad
extends from Freeport to Butler, But
ler county. On Thursday evening,
August 9, the extension of the She
nango and Allegheny railroad from
Hilliard to Butler was completed. The
Shenango & Allegheny is now a road
running from Shenango, on the Erie k
Pittsburgh and the New York, Penn
sylvania k Ohio to Butler, and will
give a through cut-off from Pittsburgh
between North-western Pennsylvania
and tbe East.
yanderbilt's HAND.
The second great trunk system as
sured to Pittsburgh is the Vanderbilt.
The Philadelphia k Reading railroad
gives entrance to New York and Phil
adelphia and Ilarrisburg. The Pitts
burgh k Lake Erie railroad passed in
to Vanderbilt's hands during the year,
and gives him connection West with
his Lake Shore k Michigan Southern
railroad. The Ilarrisburg & Western,
220 miles long, will be built by the
Vanderbilt-Gowan syndicate, who
promise the contracts for grading will
be let by September 15. This road
will run direct from Harrisburg to a
junction with the Pittsburgh, McKees
port k Youghiogheny railroad near
Broadford. A half million dollars
bridge will cross the Susquehanna at
Ilarrisburg, and ten tußnels between
Ilarrisburg and Broadford will run
the cost of the road up to SIOO,OOO
per mile. This road has been described
so frequently of late that more extend
ed notice is unnecessary. It is the
last link remaining to be constructed
of the system, as the Pittsburgh, Mc-
Keesport k Youghiogheny is practic
ally finished and will be opened before
the end of the present month. The
Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Yougho
gheny railroad has its Pittsburgh ter
minus at a junction with tbe Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie tracks at the foot of South
Twentieth street, and follows the river
bank to Twenty-sixth street, where it
enters a peculiar tunnel or covered
wav. This tunnel passes under Jon<;s
k Laughlin's great iron works and is
1,(529 feet in length. It is built en
tirely through cinders and other mill
refuse and at no place is the summit of
the covered roof more than eight to
eleven inches below the surface of the
ground above. Overhead the mills
are working day and night and a fifty
ton engine with train passes over this
thin partition hundreds of times daily.
The tunnel is forty feet in depth and
thirty feet wide, double tracked. The
tunnel was built by first bracing the
crumbling sides by timbers aud as tbe
borings proceeded 'bulk-heads were
placed to hold up the cinder. The side
walls are twenty-two feet high and 7i
feet thick at the base, resting on a bed
of concrete feet thick. The tracks
rest on an inverted arch of concrete
covered with eighteen inches of ballast..
Tbe work is supported with heavy iron
girders, arched with double lines of
brick and covered with concrete. Work
was commenced on the tunnel August
1, ISB2, and it is about finished. It is
built on a two-degree curve and re
quired the removal of 80,000 cubic feet
of cinder. In its construction 12,000
cubic yards of masonry were used, 4GB
iron girders, 1,000,000 bricks, 14,000
barrels cement and 7,000 yards of con
crete. The tunnel cost $400,000,
which includes the cost of repairs to
Jones k Laughlin's mills.
THE B. A O. SYSTEM.
The relations between the B. k O. and
the Pittsburgh k Western are the most
cordial. The first named sees in the
latter a short through route to the
northwest, and the last named in the
B. kO. a direct through liue to the
east. These peeps into the future have
so far crystallized that the building - of
the Pittsburgh Junction, railroad is
now in progress. Anticipating the
construction of the Junction, an in
clined plane to the river is being built
by both roads to connect them by
water transfer until the Junction is
completed. This transfer will be com
pleted next month. The Pittsburgh
Junction railroad will connect the
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie on the south
bank of the Monongahela by a bridge
across the river at Glenwood with the
B. kO. Four mile run is then fol
lowed across the country lying between
the Monongahela and Allegheny riv
ers. When Neville street is reached
the tunnel, a fraction over six thousand
feet long, is encountered. This fol
lows the line of Neville street, sixty
feet under ground, and emerges a short
distance from the Pennsylvania rail
road at Miilvalc. The Junction passes
under the Pennsylvania railroad tracks,
and the sight of the Pittsburgh East
End railroad passing the Pennsyl
vania railroad overhead will be seen
when the latter road is built. The
Junction continues down Skunk Hol
low to the corner of Thirty-third and
Liberty streets, where it takes to a
bridge, crossing Penn avenue overhead
and continuing to the Allegheny river,
crossing that stream on the same struc
ture to the Pittsburgh <fe Western
tracks ou the north bank.
THE JUNCTION BRIIXIE.
This bridge will be more than one
mile in length, and the construction of
its piers has been commenced. The
contract for building the junction was
let to Stearns, Shaw k Morris in
March, and the work has been indus
triously prosecuted since. Its length
will be about lour miles, which in-
eludes two branches, one paralleling
the Allegheny Valley railroad up the
river and the other paralleling the
same road down the river to Eleventh
street. The contract lor a portion of
this work has been let. A joint traffic
arrangement between the Baltimore
k Ohio and the Pittsburgh & Western
warrants sufficient traffic to insure the
investment from the date of opening.
The road will be in operation by April
next.
The Pittsburgh k Western to-day
comprises in its system a standard
gauge line from Pittsburgh to New
Castle, and the Pittsburgh, Bradford
Buffalo railroad. The third rail on
this line to Callery junction makes the
road also a narrow gauge into the city.
Its river front terminal extends for one
mile along the Ohio river and along the
north shore of the Allegheny river
from its mouth to Sharpsburg, a dis
tance of four miles. Two months ago
the merger of consolidation of the Pitts
burgh, Bradford & Buffalo railroad was
filed in the State Department, which
gave the P. & W. 206 miles of road
complete, and since then thirteen miles
have been buildiDg. The Standard
gauge branch to New Castle, that part
between Wurtemberg, Beaver county,
and New Castle, was built during the
present year, giving sixty miles of
standard gauge main line. At New
Castle connection is made with the
Pittsburgh, Cleveland & Toledo road,
now building, with the Buffalo, New
York k Philadelphia, and with the
Sharpsville railroad. The Pittsburgh,
Bradford & Buffalo railroad is a first
class example of ttfb narrow gauge sys
tem in Pennsylvania. The road com
mences at Foxburg properly, but has
been extended to Callery Junction on
the main stem. From Foxburg out
the first branch is at Clarion Junction,
six miles of road extending to Clarion
The main line then passes through the
lumber regions of Clarion and Forest
counties into McKean county at Kane,
eighty-two miles from Foxburg. On
the 13th passenger and freight traffic
was opened into Kane. The most im
portant work on the Pittsburgh &
Western at present underway is the 12
mile branch to Mt. Jewett, where the
road will connect with the New York,
Lake Erie & Western railroad over
that portion used by the Rochester &
Pittsburgh. This connection will be
completed by October 1, and arrange
ments have been made for laying the
third rail into Bradford. This will al
low the three roads to use the one line
into Bradford, and will result in Pitts
burgh business over the Erie and the
R. k P. being divided there for the
Pittsburgh <fc Western and the Alle
gheny Valley. Of the entire length of
the P. k W. narrow gauge system,
there is only about forty miles of it
which cannot be made standard gauge
by widening the track. Twenty-five
miles of this distance is between
Clarion Junction and Allegheny and
fifteen miles between Parker and But
ler.
"De Sun Do Move."
BY REV. J NO. JASPER, OF RICHMOND, VA.
When 'de history run afoul ob de
Amelikites, an' Joshua be made de
sun stan' still for de rest ob de day,
how could she hab stood still if she
hadn't a been a-goin ?'
"From the rising of the sun unto
the going down of the same the Lord's
name is to be praised ' But if some
body says de sun don't rise an' go
down, he robs de Lord ob his praise,
like all dis yer blasphemin' science.'
' 'The sun hasteth to his place where
he arose ;' but what a fool to t'ink de
sun c'uld be a hurryin' up to get ready
t.o rise, if de sun couldn't move!"
' 'The sun returned ten degrees, by
which degrees it was gone down.' If
de sun didn't move, poor Hezekiah
would neber got well, on' had no mo'
hope in de name ob de Lord dan dese
modern scientifiking fellows what are
goin' to be sunk deeper dan de Jehovah
fat Valley fur dar awful lyin."
Brother Jasper's indignation was
especially fiery against such men as
'dat yar Mister Copper-nicus and Mis
ter Snewtons what tells us dat de arth
am rouu' an' a floatin' on noffin' when
de Bible says it's got foundations.
Guess I'se been as near de bottom ob
de arth as any ob dem folkses ; seben
huner an' fifty feet in a mine shaft, an'
gib my word ob honor, dar was no
sign ob gittin' through it; not a wink
ob daylight from de udder side. O,
de irreb'rince ob sayiu' de arth am
roun,' when de Lord say in Reberla
tion dar am four angels a-stannin' on
de four corners ob de arth a holdin' on
to de four winds ! Dese scientifiking
men can lie so as to make black white;
but dey can't make what's got four
corners onto it roun ;' dey can't square
de circle in dis yer respect."
—The wives of W. J. Florence, of
the late Barney Williams and of
George Brown, of theatrical and chop
house fame, were the Pray sisters, who
were dancers on the stage before they
became regular actresses.
—Mr. W. W. Thomas, of Maine,
the new Minister of Sweden, is a lineal
descendent of George Cloves, who
founded the city of Portland, Me., in
1830- He is 44 years old, a graduate
of Bowdoin, and a lawyer.
—Let us beware of losing our enthu
siasms. Let us ever glory in some
thing, and strive to retain our admira
tion for all that would enoble, and our
interest in all that would enrich aud
beautify our life.
Did She Die?
"No; she lingered and suffered along,
"pining away all the time for years,
"the doctors doing her no good; and
"at last was cured by this Hop Bitters
"the papers say so much about. In
"deed! indeed! how thankful we should
"l>e for that medicine."
—King raised a rum
pus in his realm by introducing a
short weight dollar, oil which he no
glected to put a pious maxim to atone
for the deficiency of silver.
HOW THE HEATHEN SEES US.
American and Chinese Customs
Contrasted—Wah Hing says
the Chinese are not Idola
ters—the Missionary's
Game.
From the Chicago Herald.
A Herald representative lately rode
from Chicago to St. Louis in company
with Wah Hing, a Chinese student,
who is en route from an eastern college
to his oriental home, the orient being
west nowadays. Mr. Wah is a de
lightful little gentleman, who per
mitted the reporter to give his curiosity
full swing and answered his questions
with a gravity that made him feel
somewhat abashed.
'How do you Chinamen tell each
other apart ? You all look alike to me."
'Ah, that is not strange. When I
first came to America I could not get
acquainted with many, for everybody
looked like everybody else. Especially
did the women bother me. I suppose
it was because the general appearance
of their dress was more similar than
that of the men. But I had trouble in
identifying men. I think, perhaps,
the same is true of all people. Ne
groes still look like each other to me;
and I am almost sure I never could
learn to tell Indians apart. Don't you
think it takes a goodj while for a per
son to overcome the tendency to look
at new things in too general a way ?
Now, babes all look alike to me, even
those of my own nationality. I think
when you have become acquainted
with a few Chinese persons you will
cease to look at their yellow skins and
almond eyes and long hair as the only
features worth seeing.'
'Tell me, Mr. Wah, or Mr. Hing,
which is your family name?'
'Wah is my family name. Hing is
my given name—what you would call
my Christian name.'
'Why do you Chinese have your
names upside down ?'
'We don't; it is you whose name is
backward. What was your name when
you were born ?'
'Blunt.'
'Well, when did you get your other
name ?'
'About three months afterward, I
suppose.'
'Then why do you place the one got
last ahead of the one you got first ?'
'Gracious,' mentally ejaculated the
reporter, 'are the heathens coming over
here to give us a reason for everything
they do ? If they are I don't wish to
argue these cases with them ?'
'Yes', continued Mr. Wah, 'you
A mericans are a sort of wrong-end-up
people in more ways than one, judged
from a Chinese point of view. When
it is day in China it is night here.
When we are walking about with our
heads up you are sticking to the under
side of the earth like flies on a ceiling.
Nature seems to have intended to have
us in a direct contrast with you, and
so most of our customs are reversed.
Your boys do all the playing, and your
old men are quiet and sedate. In
China the old men fly the kites and
play the games and the boys stand
and look on. Here you have abomi
nably hot dinners and freezing cold
wines. At home our wines are served
hot and our big dinners cold. When
you meet an American he takes off his
hat; when you meet a bare-headed
Chinaman he will cover his head as
quickly as possible. When you salute
a friend here you shake his hand and
squeeze it, perhaps, until it hurts him.
I don't wonder your handicraftsmen
are not as cunning with their fingers as
the Chinese; they have all the delicacy
squeezed out of them by shaking hands
in this barbarous fashion of yours. In
China we salute a friend by shaking
one of our own hands in the other, and
we are very careful not to squeeze it
until the fingers stick together, as you
Amei'cans sometimes do. In your
art, too, I notice that you think only
of perspective ; in Chinese art there is
hardly a thought of perspective. We
make figures without distance, you
make distance without figures.'
'ls there any such thing as music in
China ?'
'Oh, yes, we have some excellent
music ; but you could not appreciate it
until you had learned our language.
There is a very close connection be
tween language and music. Before I
learned your language your music was
simply a jumbling of deafening noise
in my ears. The first piano I heard
in San Francisco nearly drove out my
wits, and when I heard a brass band I
wondered that the law suffered such
an unmusical mob to walk in the
streets. Now that I know the language,
I like the music of this country and
Europe and can play a little on the
piano. But still a Chinese orchestra
is better, I think, though you would
probably think it made only a very
poor quality of racket.'
'Are the Chinese idolaters ?'
'Certainly M>t. The Buddhistic re
ligion is very much like the Christian,
except that it is a good deal older and
has suffered the priests to ring in a few
more superstitions. The Confucian re
ligion is really only a code of morals.
By the way, Confucius lived five cen
turies before Christ, and taught just
about the same things. Might not
some of the Christian ministers defend
thoir plagiaristic practices by referring
to Christ's golden rule, which was al
most identical to the word with the gol
den rule of Confucius—'Whatsoever ye
would not that men do unto you do
ye not so unto them'? Takeout the
'not'and you have the Christian text.
Now, as for idolatry, I can tell you
where that idea came from. In almost
every house in China there haugs a
picture of an old man and a young child.
The one national wish of China is to
be as wise as age and as innocent*as
infancy. Instead o( the morning
prayers that Christian families have,
the Chinese bow before these pictures
and renew their resolutions for another
day. Missionaries who don't object
to being pretty well paid go to China
and send back word that this is idola
try. Kven Catholics, who kneel be
fore their crucifix and call it holy, de-
Clare us idolaters because we bow be
fore an embleru of wisdom and inno
cence. In some parts of China there
are temples with stone or metal god 3
in them, but those gods are no more
sacred than the statues of Christ or
the paintings of Mary in many an
American church. They are represen
tations of an idea, that is all.
'Speaking of religious, I must tell
you what I thought of America when
I first came here. Hiding on the rail
road, I noticed crosses stuck in the
ground every few rods beside the track.
They were held in place by wires that
ran from one to another; though I
supposed, of course, that they were re
ligious emblems until I learned that
they were telegraph poles with cross
arms for the wires.
'I wrote home some wonderful things
about this country when I first came
here. As we were coming through
lowa the train was stopped at a little
bridge over a creek, and the engineer
went down and found a girl baby in
the water. lat once wrote home that
Americans had a barbarous habit of
drowning their surplus female children.
Not long after that I heard for the first
time that some such story bad gained
currency in America about China. I
suppose it started in somewhat the
same manner.'
'ls it true, Mr. Wah, that the
Chinese give away their babies ?'
'lt is just as true as that they drown
them. No, they do not eive them
away. I suppose that story started
from the fact that Chinese mothers
very often change babies for weekS and
months at a time. You know they be
gin training children there almost as
soon as they are born; and as there
are no schools for infants the mothers
trade babies, because it is a well-es
tablished fact that a mother's love
blinds her to the faults of her own chil
dren which others can plainly soe.
Then, too, the child is apt to have the
same faults as the mother, and you
know we do not see oar own faults as
others see them.'
State, Press Notes.
—The Catawissa A/eics-Item says
the ten dollars a day which Legislator
Hines draws is wasted on a dollar and
a half man.
—The Indiana Messenger thinks
the over-flowing State Treasury will
cheer the hearts of the ten-dollar Leg
ißlatu r e for some time yet.
—The Williamsport Qazette and
Bulletin wants to know if Chairman
Ilensel proposes to assess the Demo
cratic Governor and teu-dollar-a-day
legislators for campaign funds this
year.
—The Pittsburgh Dispatch is of the
opinion that for a good fat sinecure the
position of members of the Pennsyl
vania Legislature in this year of our
Lord is equaled by few and excelled by
none.
—Chairman Hensel's Lancaster In
telligencer is advising the Democrats
not to yield another inch in the mat
ter of apportionment, but if they can
get no concessions from the Senate to
adjourn and relegate the matter to the
peopte to decide.
IIARRISBURO, August 10—The House
met and adjourned until Monday eve
ning. No business was transacted,
owing to a want of a quorum. The
Republican Senators had a grand jubi
lation last night over the breaking
away of Coxe and the others, and it is
freely predicted that the Legislature
will get away on Tuesday, August
21st, the day set in the Senate resolu
tion for final adjournment, but the
Governor may throw a bombshell into
camp by vetoing the appropriation bill
on the ground of no work no pay.
Should he do this the average Legisla
tor who has sat not exceeding three
hours per day during three days in the
week would get little sympathy.
—The Philadelphia Record tersely
suggests that those representatives in
the Legislature who find it impossible,
in consequence of party fealty, to obey
the mandate of the Constitution re
quiring them to apportion the State
into districts should resign their places.
This is the only way to honorably es
cape the performance of an oath-bound
duty.
—Mr Frederick Singer, Slackwater,
Pa., says: "I had dyspepsia for six
years. I used Brown's Iron Bitters
and felt immediate relief."
There are nearly six thousand
Americans residing in Paris.
Even when trade is rather dull in
other lines, there is generally a bustle
in dry goods stores.
—Mrs. Zachariah Chandler, of Mich
igan, is now living in Maine with her
daughter, Senator Hale's wife.
|CgTTast, brilliant and fashionable
are the Diamond Dye colors. One
package colors Ito 4 lb3. of goods. 10
cents for any color.
—A calculation made at the Post
office Department shows only one reg
istered letter in every 13,000 is lost.
who worked in the right way ever died
of work.
Peruna.
This medii-ino was introduced to
the medical profession and to the pub
lic at large by S. B. Ilartman, M. IV,
in 1877, after he had prescribed it to
over 40,000 patients in almost every
disease to which flesh is heir.
It wholly composed of numerous
vegetable ingredients, each one of
which is acknowledged by the medical
profession to be the most potent of all
the herbal remedies known to medical
science.
But its grate virtue is mainly attri
butable to the new and peculiar pro
portions in which the harmonious in
gredients are combined, and to the ex
treme cave exercised in its manufac
ture, using only the pure, active prin
ciples, and excluding all that is crude
or irritating. No one should be with
out I'eruna.
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