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New wieas in Heavy
Awit Sweaters, Turtle
Neck, and Vest Sweat-
ers. Colors: — White,
Black and Oxford
AT BOLTON'S.
Men's Furnishings, Hats and
Shoes.
Packer Ave, Sayre.
FIRST “gank"
wn $70,000.00
GENERAL BANKING
Both Phones.
Paid on Time Deposits.
DIRECTORS.
RK PF. Wilbur, J. N. Weaver,
W. A. Wilber, J. W. Bishop,
W. T. Goodnow,
Seward Baldwin, F.T Page,
R. FP. Page, Cashier
Collecting
Renting,
E. E. . Reynolds,
For sale in Athens,
REAL ESTATE Zr hoe
xcaiacnt [INSURANCE
Accident
Property Bought, Sold and
—Exchanged —
Investments Loans Negotiated
117 Packer Ave.,
Valley Phone 230x, Sayre, Pa.
ALEX D. STEVENS,
INSURANCE AND
REAL ESTATE.
Loans Negotiated, Insurance
Written, Houses Rented, Rents
Collected, Taxes Paid. :
ROOM 7, ELMER BLOCK
LOCKHART ST., SAYRE.
Estates Managed
Just the thing for Baby's
Bath
SOAP
“LaPerla Brand.”||
18 cents a pound, 4 pound
bar, 65 cents.
HAROLD L. GILLESPIE
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST.
30x Lockbart St., Sayre.
The one
surpassing quality of
is its
ABSOLUTE PURITY !
One bottle of it will
do more to convert
those that don’t know
than any argument of
| talk or print. Try it
today; light or dark;
| ‘same price; prompt
delivery,
mm
G. W. Perkins Defles Legis-
lative Examiner.
pr ————
HINTS AT FEDERAL SUPERVISION.
flughes Warne Witacss That Missing
Volume Mast Be Prodeced—De-
tails of Advances to Agents
Caused Sensation,
NEW YORK, Sept. 20
Perkins, partner of J. P Morgan &
Co. and view president of the New
York Life Insurance
the legislative
when Lie
George W
company,
surance
declared he would not pro
duce a certain book belonging to JP
Morgan & Co
He had testified that there was a
defied
Ginmitiee
memorandum of the famous naviga
tien bond transaction in
Perkins and Perkins whereby $S00.000
worth of securiths were kent out of
the New York Life's report t
Fuperintendent of lusurance
“You will please produce that book,
Mr. Perkins,” sald Attorney Hughes
“You have a copy of that memoran
dum, Mr. Hughes,” snapped the young
financier
“You will bring that book here” de
clared the attorues
“I'N bring a copy
dum."
“1 shall have to demand the produc
tion of that book.” And Hughes glow.
ered angrily
“You are talking about J. p
& Co now.
later”
The passage at arms ended with a
inl between
» the state
of the memoran-
Morgan
We'll take this matter up
would have to be produced
In the course of his testimony Mr
Perking, questioned about the differ
ence In the statement of “profits from
securities” in the Massachusetts report
of the company and of “net profits
from securities” lo the New York re
port, said:
“When we get national supervision
the different states.”
Mr. Perkins nlso testified to a num
ber of trapsactions In which he repre
sented Morgan & Co and the
New York Life lusurance company as
the purchaser
Another sensation was sprung later
when Vice President Thomas A. Buck
ger of the New York Life Insurance
company detalled the advances made
(to agents and which were carried In
the report to the state superintendent
of insurance as “committing revewal
premiums” It was brought out as a
matter of fact that these advances
were loans, but were not carried as
puch. Mr. Buckner testified that ad-
rances were made to agents sometimes
is inducements to leave other compa
bles and enter the employ of the New
York Life
A situation of conflict in Buffalo In
1801 between the Equitable and the
New York Life was brought out, and
in order to get agents of the Equitable
Away from that company liberal ad-
vances and liberal
made by the New York Life. Mr
Buckner testified that these advances
to agents In the Buffalo branch of the
New York Life In 1902 alone exceeded
Oy $48,000 the amount really earned by
these agents. Later Mr Buckner ac-
tnowledged this was most extravagant
and sald In 1003 this was cut down by
aif and by still another half In 1904
A copy of a coutract and a confiden-
tial letter to David H. Desbecker of
Buffalo, one of the agents lu question,
thowing the luducements held out for
Sim to enter the employ of the New
York Life was introduced and read.
Ibe letter said In part:
“Referring to your agreement with
this company of even date herewith
tnd subject to all its terms and cond!
Hons, it Is agreed that if the business
tlosed and pald for by you between
his date and Dec. 81, 1003, term In-
furance excepted, equals $400,000 you
will be eutitied to a bonus of $1,000 In
sash, If you write and pay for $800,-
)00 in that time you will be entitled to
tn additional bonus of $1,000 io cash
as seller
will be entitled to and be pald a stil
further sum of $1,000 In cash, and If
the amount equals $1,000,000 you will
be entitled to an additional $1,000,
making a total in that event of $4,000."
Sullivan Opposed Reception,
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 20.—At
8 special meeting of the city council
Sere Alderman Sallivan opposed the
resolution to appropriate money for
hi¢ entertainment of President Hoose-
reit when he comes to Montgomery,
stating that he would oppose a dollar
i the people's money going this way.
Acting Mayor Mclutrre, who is also a
nember of the couunecll, walked out
luring the proceedings, leaving no quo
mum, and the resolution was laid over
Fairbanks Gets an Thenter.
SPRINGFIELD, O, Sept. 20. A deal
sas been closed whereby Vice Presi
ent Fairbanks, his brother, N. W.
Fairbanks, and a company of local cap
talists came (nto possession of the site
of the old Fountain Square theater
jere. They paid $02.000 for it and an-
ounce that they will begin at ance the
ection of ap eight story office bulld-
ng and theater
Colonel G, C. Judd Dead.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Sept. 20.
Colonel George C. Judd, former com
pamdiant of the Michigan Soldiers’
some, Is dead here after a Hogering I1-
sexs following a stroke of apoplexy.
Samus Lost Thelr Horses,
Rept. 38. ~The insne-
RAILWAY MEN'S VY. M.
international Conference Opens at
Detroit, Mich.
DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 29 Nei)
| LA delegates were seated In the ag- |
ditorfumn of the Central Methodist
Episcopal church here at the opening
session of the twelfth
C. A
Hyered by John RB. Howarth. presi
aent of the local branch of the Young
Men's Christian association, and Cold
spade 1
hen followed a sermon by Rev
took for his subject The Nource of
Power For Christian Life and Service.”
Dir. Potts won the sympathy of his
railroad audience at the outset by lik.
ening Christian ministers and other
claring that po minister or worker
should be allowed ia commission un-
less his steam was up to 18) pounds
that the source of power for Christian
ehideavor was to he found ouly in the
spirit of Ged
The deleg
in the Youug Women's Christian asso-
clatiou building where Miss Helen M.
Gould of New York was the guest of
honor. With Miss Gould in the re-
ceiving line were a number of prom-
Inent women of Detroit,
A mass mecting was held at the
Light Guard armory
wade by Robert E. Rpeer of New
York and Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD.
Edan, Tex.
EDNA, Tex, Sept. 20 Mrs
Counditt and four children, a danghter
of thirteen and three boys from six to
ten years old, have been found mur
dered In cold blood at thelr home pear
here
The mother and daughter were as-
saulted and their bodies brutally dis |
figured
A baby about two years old was the
ouly one left alive
All of them seemed to have been
murdered with some blunt Instrument,
their Leads were crushed and
throats fut with a knife or razor. The
girl and mother were killed in the
I'ie boys were killed about 100
| yards away,
Mr. Conditt wns working in the rice
fields. A negro Loy about twelve years
‘old was plowing in a field near the
hoyse
man,
Louse. Being afraid to go to the house,
be had seen
The person Informed ran to the place
family killed
at once
Officers were informed
ln search of the murderer. It is
{supposed that there were two persons
{ who committed the crime Dogs have
Somebody Stole $380,000,
NEW YORK, Sept, 20. Securities the
present market value of which amounts
to £350,050 were stolen from an office
in Wall street, according to an an-
nouncement seut out over the news
the detective agency, por would the
name of thelr holder at the time the
theft occurred be made known when
inquiry was made at the office
May Be General Lockout,
BERLIN, Sept. 20 —The labor 4iM-
suitles In the Berlin electrical industry
threaten to spread to the entire metal
industries of the city and suburbs. The
Assoclation of Metal Worklug Estab
lishwents of Berlin, which embraces
tll the Important firms, voted last
night to lock out the entire working
force at a suitable moment provided
the threatened general lockout in the
{ tlectrical branches takes place.
| Convention Renominated Atkinson.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 20. —At the Dem-
ocratic state convention of Maryland,
which was held In Ford's Opera House,
Comptroller of the State Gordou T
| Atkinson was renominated and a plat
{form adopted which, excepting a para-
administration of the present Demo-
eratic governor, Edwin Warfield, is
wholly devoted to the advocacy of the
sroposed constitutional amendment to
restrict negro suffrage.
Cost of Living Will Be Lower.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Secretary
Wilson of the department of agricul.
dairy products, poultry and other ue
Pesxities of fe. He says the relief for
ihe householder will come from the
enormous yields of small grain and
torn in the great grain territory of 11li-
Bois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa,
Nebraska aud Kansas,
Big Crowd at Trenton Fale,
TRENTON. N. J, Sept. 20 ~Govern-
sr Stokes, United States Senators Kean
and Dryden and hundreds of polit
the Interstate fair. All previous at
teadance records were smashed, and It
{1s estimatinl by the management that
[there were 00.000 persons on the |
| grounds,
Hotel Man Hert by Explosion,
BARATOGA, N.Y, Rept. 29 James
H, Riley, owner of the Lakeside hotel
Ln was seriously burn-
ARMY NEDICOS TALK
| Major Beaman Criticises Our
Medical System,
RAPS DEWEY AND'CUBAN WAR CHIEFS
tee
Much Praise
of Treating nded and Sick In
Late War [ig the Far East,
"Aa Large dy
! DETROIT, Sept. i Major Seaman
i at the congress of military surgeons
ere read a paper to the
follows -
Lent Saved,
asseliibiy, as
“A dispatch received in Loudon gn
Sept, 21 giving the statistics of the war
10 the far east to date reports
“Killesl, 46,180; died of Wottnads, 10,
970; died from sickness 15,04x:. This
percentage of deaths to sickness was
less than one-fourth of the total de aul,
which Is a revord not paralleied in the
annals of war
“When contemplating these marvel
| ous figures with what a ghastiy and
{ melancholy smile the berv of Manila
must recall his action in censoring the
{ cablegram of dis chief surgeon, who
i had requested fifty additional medical
{officers and 200 more nurses when the
! hospital wards were overcrowded, he
| cause such a dispatch would prove the
{ falsity of his claim that he bgd the “sit.
{ uation well in hand.’
“Months afterward the surgeons and
nurses were provided, but uot unt} the
i horrible condition was lutensifled aud
taps had sounded the requiem for
j many a poor boy whe had Jolued the
| great majority
“Perhaps the same delight may sol
{ ace the contemplative commauder in
{ the Cuban campaign when Le recalls
| bis famouz order at Tampa directing
| the unloading of a ship lied with we!
| lcal and hospital supplies for Santiago
i and the substitution of a load of mules
| instead.
“Or of another major general during
{ the war who on Leing walted upon by
| certaln medical officers with a protest
| agalost the use of certalu water sald
| lu respotise to their cowplalut: “When
I waut your advice [ will send for you
Until I do you can attend to your own
| business.’
“Or even If the them secretary of
{ war, who when luspecting the camps
{at Montauk Poiut with the president of
the United States said on looking at a
| glasa of water furnished the troops of
| wedical men bad pronounced to con
tain germs of disease:
* ‘Why, It looks all right to me’
“Until the line and staff officers of
the American army Js taught the ne
cessity of sanitation and the medical
officer Is given rank and authority to
enforce= fur medical depgrtment
must remain a bumiliatiog allure. Its
continuance under present conditions
i i8 no less than au evidence of national
imbecility.”
Dr. Seaman declared during the dis
cussion of Lis paper that the surgeon
general of the army aud Kis two prin
cipal assistants bad stated to him with
of the arwy sjuce 1848 to prevent a re
currence of the sanitary and bygienle
failures of the Spanish war,
Travis Won Golf Medal.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. —At the Nas
wost promineut golfers ln the east as-
semble to take part In the annual
open tournament of the club. The race
for the gold medal prize for the Jowest
SCOre was wou rather easily by Walter
J. Travis of Garden City, the furmer
national and British champion, with a
total of 149. He was closely followed
by Jervwe D. Travers of the local club
who was once interscholastiec c¢ham-
pion, with a totai of 153
Taft on Tour In West.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20 —Secro-
tary of War Taft and a few members
of bis party are ou a trip up the Sacra-
mento river as the guests of the recla
mation committee. The secretary will
examine Into the site of the drawbridge
over the strait of Carquinez as pro
posed by the Southern Pacific, and he
will also make au examination of the
reclamation work that is Lelng done
along the river
Socialist Party Not In It.
BOSTON, Sept. 20. —By n decision of
{ the board of election commissioners the
| Socialist party 18 no longer a municipal
party in Boston and cannot participate
[In the coming city primaries. ‘Ihe ul
lng results from the fallure of the So
| cinlists to poll 3 per cent of the entire
| vote for governor in 1004
Teacher Dropped Dead,
DANVILLE, RKy.. Sept. 29. - Profess
or L. Eddy, the oldest teacher at the
Kentucky State School For the Deaf
| bere, dropped dead while In the school
room. I'rofessor Eddy was seventy tive
[years old. Ile was noted as an astrono
| mer,
Hudson Banker Dead.
| HUDSON, N. Y., Sept. 29.-F
{roll Haviland, who for forty years had
| beens connected with the Farmers’ Na-
{tional bank and had been cashier since
ISSS died bere last night .
Mahar Nominated ant Albany.
ALBANY, N.Y, Sept. 29 - 1homas
{| F. Mahar was nomlunted last night for
member of assembly In the Third dis
(Arict of Albany county on the Repub
Hean ticket,
Democrats Nominate Mosher,
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Sept. 20. —
The Demociata of the Fultou Hamilton
TRIUMPH STAKES.
tus Eater, a 10 to 1 Shot, Won
a Drive.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 ~The Triumpt
stakes for two yearohls, oue mile, the
first of its Kind to be run in the east
Was won in a drive by the 10 to 1 shot
[.otus Eater irightan Beach Ano
dyne was se 1. and the rank ont
sider. Mami wns thin The race
run by Lotus ders] a
gem] pefformandc © carries} 107
perunads and 1
fhe Trivmp
fair lt of tw
Whitney entry
favorite at 3
Gest ja den
1 ta Nib
allicr star
and O° Ne
reat, fo
tus Eater tf
back
two lengths f
siretel % = was
(hakiawn, nha raced
inte second plaice a head before Battle
nx
breecighths of a wile from the fin
i=l it looked as If the stable would
rian one, twa, but at the turn
stretch all the leaders
the (rallers closed, and
Burns landed Lotns Eater a winner by
ofie and a half lengths
ote aud a half lengths before Hamil
car, who in turn was four lengths In
front of Battleax
Jockey Diggins was suspended by
the stewards for the rest of the meet
ing for Lis ride ou Toots Mooks sev
eral days ago Kiamesha was the ot iy
winning favorite, Summaries
First Race St. Esteplie, first: Op
tician, second, Water Dog. titind
Sevotk] Race — Kinmesha, first; Clirys
site, second: Fiala, thind
Third Rao Ewbarrassent, first;
Hippocrates Lord Badge
third
Fourth Race Lotus Fater. first;
Anadyne, second; Hamiblear, thin
Fifth Race Knight Errant, first;
Israelite Uncle Urigh, third
Sixth Race —Tyron, first; 8 H. Har
ris, second; Baron Esher, third
stopped and
second,
sevond ;
BASEBALL SCORES.
Games Flayed Yesterday by the Nao
tional and Americas League Clubs
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At 8t Louis
New York ¢ © v e 0 0—¢
St. Louls i 8 0 0-1}
Hits New 101) st a 3 Errors
New York Lout ¢ HBatteries-
MeGinnlty aad Brown and
Und
Pita rs
Bro Kiyo
Pittsburg
Hits Hrook!
Brookiyn, 3
Strickiett and
ahd Gibson
Al Ulntinnati-—
Philadelplila
Cincinnati )
Hits—Philadeiphia
rors—FPhiladeiphia
tertes— Nichois and
Schlel
At Chicago
Basten
Chicago
Hits— Boston
Boston, J. Uh
wid Needhun
Cincinnati
8t. quis ?
ful ix
41
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At New York
Cleveland
teries—Jouss an
Washing!
y
Wash Et
Hits 5t
rors St
terics
Hes dor
At Hioston—
Boston
Hits~Detroit
trait, 1, Boston. O
Warner, Young an ibirus
TABLE OF PERCENTAGES
AA
Philadelphia ..
Chicago sans
Detroit
Cleveland
Boston
New York .
Washington .e i
8t. Louis fl
Cory Defeated Carncgle
BROOKLINE, Mass With
the exception of the defeat of last
Andrew Carnegie 11. of
there were no surprises
in the two rounds of match play in
sept 20
Years winner,
Essex county
nship
out of the running bw CB Cory of
we Wallaston cluby by a score of 1 Ip
Devout Won at Loulaville,
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. 20 Devout,
the heavily played favorite, wou the
Willard Hote handicap, the
race at Churchill Dawns, beating La
Sagitte and White Plume in a bard
drive. Jim Tyrell, the well backed a
vorite, was beaten by Class Leader In
the steeplechase event
feature
Lewis Outelnnsed Dorman,
CHELSEA, Mass, Sept. 29 Harry
Lewis of Philadelphia won over Jack
York in the fourth
round at the Douglas Athletic club last
uight I'he match was scheduled to go
fifteen rounds, but Referee Crowley
stopped the contest lu the fourth round
Lewis outclasscs! the New York man
Lumber Mill Rurned.
HARDWICK. Vi. Sept 29- A large
lamber mill owned by Stevens, Gra
ham & Kinuey, near this town, has
been destroyed by fire. Employees of
iy, saved most of the large stock
er lu the ,
WRECKED T1ir. PIER,
Steamer Grenada at
Speed Rammed Wharf.
GREAT . STOREHOUSE
Unique Accident nt New York—-Work-
men Buried t nder Tons of Debris,
Capiain and Wife Tmpr lonely
by Falling Noot
NEW YORK Kunn ing at
full spews] into t © pler
where she to her
wrth 3 ted] sf uship Grenada
ujured a
ut the
plier k iI in i f dnd tum
down up. Lowe who were at work
below before they had any opportuni
ty ton thelr éscap Four wen
© bay In order to escape
rescued
with ditliculty
When the crash, entirely without
ird by the longshore
1 the pier the Grenada
cut through the pier bLalkbead to the
end of the
men working
warehouse structure. Cut
which is M0 feet long and 150
feet in width, the roof of the ware
house came down with a nolse that
could be heard across the river, while
the walls swaved for a woment and
then fell sidewavs into the
elther side of the pler
Mingled with the cries of the wound
ed wen on the pier could be heard the
hoarse shioiis ind curses of thie
water on
fsrena
trying to back
the steamship out from the gap that
she Lad cut into the per bulkhead
With the reserves from the nearby
police stations came the ambulances
from Long Istand College
St. Mary's and St. Peter's
The work of rescuing those
covered by the debris on the pier was
first begun. Some one had turned in
an alarm of tire. aml the firemen who
responded. while they had no fire to
da’s niet, who were
Broskiyn
buspitais
who were
fight, dill effective work in dragging
away tous of debris that Lindered the
meu who were trylug to reach those
who had been burled under the ware
house shed
Captain Michael Williams and his
wife were on board the lighter Mott
Haven of the New York Central line,
which was lying In the dock at the in
nerinost end of the slip. The roof of
the pler shed tumbled right over the
Mott Haven, sud the captain and his
wife were imprisoned under the mess
until! Polleemian Coney chopped
the roof that cove
his wife and rele
perilous position
Nelther Captain Murchison of the
Grenada nor Pilot MeCarthy would
make any statement after the collision
away
red the skipper and
ised thew from thelr
Auto Ran Aviay Near Stamford
STAMFORD, Coun. Sept 20 While
going down a shor iil west of this
Hace the wned by Rich
ind Sideuberg of New York became
unmanageable through the breaking of
the steering gear and, plunging down a
four foot embankwent into a bowler,
threw all the occupants out Miss
Adelaide Wallach of New York sus
talued a broken collar bone and a bad
scalp wound and was the most serous
ly Liurt, She will recover. The oth
érs in the automobile aside from the
chauffeur and Miss Wallach were a
daugliter of Mr. Sidenberg and Miss
Elsie Borg. All were slightly injured
True Bill Agninst Mrs. Cobb,
CARNESVILLE, Ga, Sept 29.-A
true Lill was returned by the grand
jury bere against Mrs. Amanda Cobb
who has been under bond charged with
King ber himsband, Professor WW. I]
Cobb, the county school commissioner
and ex state senator The BIN charges
murder The slotting of Professor
Cobb several weeks ago proved a sen
sation. It was stated at the time that
be was taken for a burglar by his wife
automobile
Owner ot Salt Case Found,
BOSTON, Sept. 20 —1n the suit case
mystery here the police announced that
the original owner of the sult case was
E 1. K Noyes of Somerville, a specin
agent of a securities company of this
City Noyes leutiied the suit case
and explained to the police that he
sold It to Jou Berkman, a pawn
broker, last February He stated that
repmicrs on the suit case bad been wade
somewhere out west
Ol Stove Baploded
OGDENSBU RG, N.Y, Sept. 9 An
oll stove way
Ellen Nic!
Nit I of
she died last night. She was eighty
years of age and very feeble IH
daughter, an invalid, was alo Ig the
room amd saw her wother fatally burn
ol without boing able to remder assist
ance
nu the sickroom of Mrs
cxXplodted il Mrs
son Was so seriously burned that
Keen Ansley For Nisan,
WESTFIELD, N. Y., Sept. 29 —The
report of the physicians lu attendance
om Speaker 8. Fred Nixon last night
was fur from encouragiug and caused
Kees anxiety among bis many fricuds
here It contained the
Lews that the congested area of the
right Jung had extended and that the
left lung had become slightly affected
Huawelcome
Senntor Margan Declined.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept 20 Sen
ator John T. Morgan of Alsbama bas
writtem a letter to Chaloinan Shonts of
the Panama canal commission deciin
Ing the Invitation to accompany the
The senator
thinks nothing will be accomplished by
the trip.
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Weather Probabilities.’
winds, . £ ¥
is
PRICE ONE CEN
Saturday
Corsets
New shapes, he avy coulil and well
bone: 1, supp rters attached. Satur
| Monday 20¢
een:
Une cass
Ladies’ Fleece Linsd
extra heavy aveight,
thtly imperfect bul you
detect it, well
25¢. Special for Saturday and
day 1%
Dress Goods
A 46 in. storm serge, all wot
good firm heavy weight, all the pew
and staple shades. Saturday and
Monday he
—t
A 46 10. all wool Granite, worth
: Sat urd ay and 'd Monday a0c.
Outing Flannel
Best known make outing, §
everywhere for 10. Our price 8
irday and Monday ¢
Collars
Some of the new things in
dainty silk and braid creations wi
rich trimmings, very pretty,
Table Damask
Mill ends; only 500 yards of tl
60 in. wide, extra heavy. @
judges of Linen are invited to
them. Saturday and Monday 28¢
Hosiery
We recommend the “No
stocking for boys, linen knees, he
and toes Guaranteed to wear lo
ger than any hose made,
Silks
Newest weaves and colorings in
fancies, plains and changeables. W
have some of the most: exalusiy
silks to be found outside New Yi
city for less money than yougp
there
Dress Goods
An excellent line carefully ck
Ly a corps of competent buyers
vears of experience. Bought d
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are not urged to buy.
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can scarcely
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If you want a first-cl
_ RANGE
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