HONORS AND WORTH.
Absnnlllv of TIiIph Tluii llrmcnd
Front Fnlher to 111. (
When you find a 111:111 11 must e.irel
lent runner, poet, surgeon or murium',
you give hliu due lespeet for bi skill.
If lie Is very eminent, bin occupation
esteemed and you ibanro to lie some
ruling power, lie may receive a title.
You do not rotifer this title because
ef Ills snindnuitbex, and you do not
make the old lnily a duchess or Indeed
pay tier any particular attention. This
omission does not rellect discredit on
the grandmother. It Is obvious to her
mind Unit to make her a peeress bo
fnuse not she, hut some one else, has
4one something "good" would be as
absurd as giving her twelve mouths'
lard labor If he hnd done somethlug
tlierwlse.
Still less rational would It be to make
the man's son n peer. The old lady
Bus given the world this grandson.
I'erliaps she Is In n measure the cause
ef his greatness, just ns she might be
to a certain extent responsible were
Be a criminal. Itut the son of the mau
did not make his father. He Is not to
be moro greatly praised for what his
father has done than for what William
the Conqueror did.
The world seldom or never gives a
man a title because his father earned
one, but It does an equally silly thing
when It allows a son to inherit such on
"honor," says Home Notes.
Until a man can transmit merit It Is
absurd to allow him to transmit a tes
timonial as to merit. And, If there be
ao pretense of claim to exceptional
worth, what solid reason can be ad
vanced for a man receiving a designa
tion that commands deference?
TOOTHPICKS.
A Vlftlt to London Hnd a Utile Lea
ton In Etiquette.
"I ran over for a short visit to Lou
don," Bald a globe trotter. "On tuo
boat was a pretty widow from Altona
who disgusted and amused all hands
one day by saying:
" 'I am surprised that a fast and ex
1 pensive boat like this should fail to
supply us with toothpicks.'
"She thought toothpicks indispensa
ble, like napkins or forks. For think
ing so we set her down ns a hecker.
But wait.
"I dined during my visit In London
at Prince's, In Piccadilly, and at thu
. Bavoy, In the room that overlooks the
mbnnkment and the river, and at the
Carlton, where I paid a dollar for a
plate of soup, and at all these restau
rants, which are admittedly the finest
and the smartest aud the most fashion
able In the world. At all of them there
were toothpicks on the table, each
toothpick doue up In a sterilized en
; velope. ,
"This taught me a lessou. It taught
tne that it Is narrow and provincial to
despise people for their disregard of
eertaln small rules of etiquette. The
tilings we despise them for. which may
Be glaring errors In Seattle or New
York, may be again, as like as not, the
" correct thing In Pnris and Tendon."
J'ew York Press.
How Snnnd Karri Move,
The speed with which sound waves
are transmitted through the atmosphere
depends on several conditions. When
the temperature Is at 32 degrees F.,
sonuds move with n speed of 1,000 feet
per second, the velocily increasing with
the temperature at Hie rate of about
one foot of speed per second for each
degree above the freezing point. Then,
again, in damp air sound moves with
a greater velocity than it does in dry
air, iij odds If the dry air be warm and
the damp cold. In water sound moves
more than four times as fast as it does
In air, or, say, at about the rate of 4,700
feet per second.
Wooden tfnoona.
A curious industry In Itussla and one
which nevertheless finds employment
for thousands of men Is that of mak
ing wooden spoons. In the district of
Semenovsk, where they chiefly come
from, no fewer th;.u 7.(K!0 men make
a living at tlio trade. T!r. spoons are
generally made from hirchwood, and
a skilled Tvorknmu can turn out sev
eral hundred a day. lower than
12,000,000 spoon are manufactured
during the course of the year, which
are sold nt 0 to 8 rubles per thousand.
They fliv.t a ready market and pene
trate as f ir ns P.-m'hIii. Khivn. Rokhara
and KbokniHi.
ilualmiida.
A woman who shall ho nameless fur
nishes the following essay on hus
bands: "There nre three kinds of husbands
the young husbands who make us un
happy because we are so jealous of
them, the middle aged husbands who
break our hearts because they would
rather make money or play golf than
devote any attention to us and the
Id husbands who sicken us with their
Billy objections whenever we turn to
look nt younger men." Chicago Trib
une. Dlll'ercnt Tltnca.
Snrasate once found his memory de
serting him nt a recital, but he discov
ered the reason of the mishap In time
to prevent n failure. A lady was fan
ning herself in the front row of the
stall.;. The violinist stopped playing.
"51a dam." he v.'.d "how can I play in
two-four time when you are beating six
clg!t 5" The 1:l y shut up her fan, and
the recital was concluded successfully.
IuijKltlrnt Don;.
A dog had tin ; mlueity to bark at the
deputy coinmisf'Mier of Purulia, in
Bengal, when he cam, to the house of
the master of the dog ou a bike. The
owners of the dog were sent up for
trial under section 289, and one of
them, ICarusha, was Dued 20 rupees.
Lahore Trlbur.o.
POWER OF MIND.
Alnnr V11I1111I1U' Aaxrt In rrfi.
me of HitiiKiT.
I'reseuce of mind is always au as'
set. It Is especially valuable In pres
ence of danger such as springs from
the presence of men Intent upon mur-
, tier. This was never better exempli
! lied thau when a gnus of men set out
I to take the life of Mazzlul. lie got to
I hear of their project. All the precau
' lions lie took was to get ready a stoiv
of very excellent cigars. The nilllans
presently appeared at Ills address.
"Come In, gentlemen," he said and
produced his cigars. To each mail lie
handed one. Taken aback at their
reception, they seemed abashed and
confused. "I know that you came to
kill me," he said. "Why do you not
proceed to your task?" This was too
much for even this bloodthirsty depu
tation. They could not kill the man
whose cigars they were smoking and
who Invited them to carry out their
task. Muttering some excuse for hav
ing interrupted his studies, they shuf
fled out of the room and troubled him
no more.
Knell man has his own method with
would be assassins. With Napoleon
It was the eye which counted. While
lie was visiting the Duke of Saxe-Co-hurg-tiothu
one of the duke's retainers
made up his mind to slay film. He
had so frequently heard the great man
('.enounced ns the curse of Europe that
lie felt Impelled to seize the chance to
destroy hi m. He was a common sol
'!ier at the time and had to do sentry
duty in one of the corridors of the pal
ace along which Napoleon passed, lie
(it his linger to the trigger as the
('.like, accompanied by Napoleon, drew
In si lit. He alined for Napoleon's
heart. Napoleon saw him. He said
not'iiii'i, but simply fixed Ills eagle eye
upon the youth. The latter seemed
s; ellboiiud. He let the musket full
with a crash to the door of the stone
orrldor. He felt, he suld, us If he
must have swooned. Napoleon took
no further notice, said no word, pass
ed upon his way ns if nothing had hap
pened. That one Hashing glance hud
saved his life. He knew Its effect
and value. St. James' Gazette.
LANGUAGE EVOLUTION.
I of tltc SulH 1 "l.rnm" In Verba,
Nouna and Adjective.
Many wiil remember that some years
ago there went on a violent contro
versy about the word tireless. The
discovery had been mode that "less"
was a sutllx which could properly be
appended only to nouns; hence the
form must be discarded, and we must
all take pains to say untiring. The
I'.uty of so doing was preached from
scores of professional and newspaper
pulpits. No one seemed to think or
care for the various other adjectives
similarly formed and therefore liable
to the similar censure which they
never received. Hostility was direct
ed against It alone. The actual flaw
which vitiated the arguments against
tireless Its censors never knew or took
Into consideration. Tills was that the
l.'.ncleil rule covering the creation of
Mich words had practically long ceased
to be operative whenever tt new forma
tijn struck the sense of the users of
language as being desirable.
Unquestionably In our earliest speech
the suffix "less" when employed to
form adjectives was joined only with
:1011ns. Hut the general sloughing off'
of nominal and verbal endings which
went on 111 later centuries reduced a
great proportion of substantives and
verbs in the speech to precisely the
same form. In consequence the sense
of any fundamental . distinction be
tween tlie two bro!;e down In many
ways lu one way in particular. There
Is nothing easier in o:ir speech than to
codvert a verb Into n noun or a noun
Into a verb. It Is u process which has
taken place constantly in the past aud
Is liable to take place at any time in
the future, either at the will or the
whim of the writer or speaker.
Thomas U. Lounsbury in Harper's.
A Home Story.
Our Dumb Animals tells a reniark
.'uile story about thu intelligence of a
uinre who saved her coit from death
'y stopping a train 0:1 a railroad lu
T'aC.s. Tlia colt had fallen with its
e,M through a railroad bridge, and the
.;:ulher started dowu the track to meet
.he coming train. As the trnin came
r.; she stood on the track whinnying.
'.".1 train sto'viod, a::d then the mare
trotted ahead of it as it moved slowly
: '":j brU'gn. Here the colt was dis
covered and extricated from Its peril
ous position. The story was vouched
for by the engineer, railroad men nnd
I .issengers In th? train.
He Warn at t'hurrli.
Saunders, the village slater, was a
very poor nttendcr at the church. Ono
day the minister met lilm and said:
"Come, now, Saunders, why Is It you
are never nt church nowadays?"
"Never at -the kirk?" replied Saun
t'crs. "Ye're quite wratig there, sir;
I spent the hale o' last week on the tap
o't."-Glasgow Tillies.
Thin Warn In 1NII1S.
Says the London Times of May, 1800:
"A decently dres .ed woman was last
night brought out Into KmilhfloUl for
sale, but the brutal conduct of the bid
ders induced the man who was, or pre
teiided to be. her husband, to refuse to
sell her; on which a scene of riot nnd
confusion highly disgraceful to our
police took place."
There's a lleanun.
Bill lie used to be a lawbreaker, but
he's changed now. Jill-Keeps within
the law, now, does he? Bill Oh yes.
Keeps within 1I10 Jail too. Yonkers
Statesman.
A man cannot escape In thsiight, any
more than ho can In language, from
Uie past and the present
THE CHILEAN "YAPPA.""
M la Similar to the "Lttsjnluppe" of
New Orleuns.
Itesldents of New Orleans and north
ern readers of Cable's stories of the
clly are familiar with the Interesting
and gracious custom of small trades
men of giving hignlappe. The word,
commonly pronounced "lanynp," refers
to the small present which tiie dealers
nuke to their customers as a sort of
Inducement to call again. The custom
Is so l'ni nly established that the people
nre lu the habit of waiting for their
little present after I hey have made
their purchases, and children ask for
It. Mrs. Hurt lu her book "The Garden
of the Pacillc" describes a similar cus
tom In Valparaiso. The Chileans, how
ever, call the gift n "yappn," which one
readily sees Is kindred to the word
used in New Orleans.
"I used to frequent the fruit market,
which was well stocked. The fresh
figs were the largest uud sweetest that
I had ever seen or tasted, uud I nuiile
a point of daily bringing some home
for breakfast.
"The lirst time I selected the number
which I wanted the girl placed them
between leaves In my basket aud then
laid another half dozen on the top. I
supposed that she wished me to buy
an extra quantity and shook my head
In the negative. She smilingly ex
plained that it was for a yappu. As I
had nothing more to pay, I was agree
ably impressed by the custom.
"The Chileans exact the yappu as
their due. We were in n confectionery
shop one day wheu a small child came
In and held up 11 centuvo. (halfpenny)
for some sweets. The man handed
them to her. She held up her other
hand nnd lisped out, 'MI yappa,' and
got It." New York Globe.
THE SAIS OF EGYPT.
A Warning: Itnnner Who Mellows
Like Bull na lie Goea.
The sals Is a runner who keeps In
front of n carrl.ig.' and warns common
people out of the way and who beats
them with n Btlck If they do not hurry
up about It.
It Is obvious that to do this he must
run quickly. Most men when they run
bend their bodies forward and keep
their mouths closed In order to save
their wind. The sal? runs with his
shoulders thrown back and trumpet
ing like an enraged elephant. He holds
his long wand at his side like a mus
ket and not trailing I. his hand like a
walking stick, and he wears u soft
shirt of white stulT und a sleeveless
coat burled In gold lace.
He hi 11 perfect Ideul f color and
movement, und as h runs he bellows
like n hull or roars r.s you luvo heard
a Hon roar at feeding times In a
menagerie.
There are sometimes two of them
running abreast, dressed exactly alike
and with the tipper part of their bodies
as rigid as the wand pressed against
their sides and with the ends of their
scarf and the long tassel streaming
out behind.
As they yell nnd bellow donkeys and
corrlnges and people scramble out of
their way until the carriage they pro
cede has rolled rapidly by. Only
princesses of the royal harem nnd con
suls general nnd the heads of the orniy
of occupation and the Kgyptlnn army
are permitted two sals; other people
may have one.
When Thaekerny Struck.
A letter written by Thackeray to the
proprietor of Kraser's Magazine is
quoted under the head of "When
Thackeray Went on Strike." As a
mutter of fact, Trackeray, so far from
acting ou the principle of unionism,
acted ou precisely the opposite prin
ciple and asserted ills right to Individ
ual preference. "Well." he says, "I
dare say you will -be very indignant
and swear I 11111 thu most mercenary of
individuals. Not so. P.ut I nm a better
workman than most of your crew nnd
desire n better price." He ends ami
ably, "'ou must not, I repeat, lie angry
or, because we d liter ns tr.idiMinen,
break off our connecllon ns friends."
London News.
A'tlarhnrona Poller.
After the Dutch had taken the Mo
luccas from the Portuguese they In
troduced the cultivation of the clove
Into their own possessions, cut down
all the clove trees of the Moluccas and
pronounced death 011 any one who
would plant 11 slir-le clove bush or
gather or sell a pound of the product.
Expeditions were sent from their other
eastern possessions every year to cut
down any bushes that might have ac
cidentally started In tho Molucca Is
lands. This barbarous policy made the
islands a desert, for, deprived of their
forests, the volcanic soil wns washed
away, and the population starved or
wns deported.
Ilia I'nlr Share.
The Chinese always have understood
the great art of making the punishment
fit the crime. Man or Joss. If he of
fends, gets exactly his deserts. Vice
roy Shum, who was anxious to see the
end of the heavy rainfalls, wns very
angry with the guardjan joss of Can
ton, who remained deaf to nil prayers
to bring about a little sunshine. A
Wciyucn wns dispatched to the tem
ple with orders to uncover tho roof
over the joss' head nnd lot him have his
fair share of the rain.
LoRlcnl,
She I think wo should bo able to
live nicely on $15,000 a year. lie But
my salary Is only $2,000. She I know
it, dear, but my clothes come to $1,000
a year, and I have enough now to Inst
for the first twelve months.
Wonmn'a Love.
"Which of tho two do you think yon
vlll love the longest, Peter or Paul?"
"Tho ono who will forget me the
4ulckest." rnrls Figaro.
THOUGHTLESS TRAPPERS.
Torture to AnlmnVi mid Ruflitena
Ifc.Ntrurtlnu of l::im.
Topic who have mt seen can form
no Idea of thu sulTe: !:ig trappers cause
uor of their rutlile-H destruction of
panic. Nothing escapes them.' Even the
squirrels are sacrlllced to bajt traps
for niarteii nnd fisher, nnd not only the
squirrels, but all klml:i of bli'ils, wheth
er game or song bints.
In trapping mink, otter, beaver und
a few other fur bearing uniuials (lie
trap Is nearly always se( near the
water, where the animal when caught
can drown Itself, thus ending Its suf
fering. Hut wllh bear, marten and tidier It Is
different. The hear must drag u heavy
clog about until It catches lu some root
or bush. There be must wait until the
trapper comes to kill 111 ill, and this lu
some cases Is not Cor days. The bones
of the leg are almost Invariably broken
by the trap, and (he leg swells to in
credible size. One trapper In one day
shot nineteen large blue grouse merely
to try n new rllle. The birds were nest
ing, lie had no use for them, and not
one did lie even bring to can p.
Years ago in British Columbia an old
trapper camped near our bear hunting
party. He shot everything he could
find, even little ducks and marmots. A
gout he killed fell over a cliff, and as
It was harder to recover It than to shoot
another he shot another. He was
trapping beaver out of season and
boasted of having caught one that was
about to become a mother.
I have. seen the spot where a bear
fast in a trap bad been caught for more
than a week in a thicket through which
It was Impossible to drag the trap and
clog. I once knew an old French trap
per who shot seventy-three moose and
elk In one winter for bear bait for the
sprlug catch. 1 asked why he killed so
many. He said that he wanted a big
stink In the spring so as to bring the
bears around. All of the animals he
hnd slaughtered for a spring stink were
shot with a revolver, for they were
suow bound and could not escape. He
told me that lie dropped five big elk In
one pile. This frightful destruction by
trappers has exterminated the game.
World's Work.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Don't save your money and starve
your mind.
Vigorous thought must come from a
fresh brain.
Tens of thousands of people fall be
cause they love their ease too much.
"Keeping alive that spirit of youth,"
Stevenson used to say, was "the per
ennial spring of all the mental facul
ties." A mau may build a palace, but he
can never make of it a home. The
spirituality and love of a woman alone
can accomplish this.
If we nre contented to unfold the life
within according to the pattern given
us we slmll reach the highest end of
which we are capable.
By proper training the depressing
emotions can be practically eliminated
from life nnd the good emotions ren
dered Veriniuiontly dominant.
Every time you crowd Into the mem
ory what you do not expect It to re
tain you weaken Its powers and you
lose your authority to command its
services. Success.
John Wesley and Rean Naah.
In a book about Buth is set forth a
story about John Wesley. Beau Nash
had told Wesley (hat his preaching In
the street was 11.1t only contrary to law,
but It "frightened people out of their
wits."
"Sir," said Wesley, "did you ever
hear me preitchY"
"No," said the master of ceremonies.
"How thin can you Judgo of what
you never heard?"
"P.y common report," snld Nash
stoutly.
"Common report Is not euough. Give
me leave, sir. to ask. Is not your name
NaFh?"
"My name is Nash."
"Sir," said Wesley. "I dare not Judge
of you by common report."
Mrs. Portly-P'ufHngton (proudly) We
can trace our ancestry back to one of
the Saxon kings.
Visitor Indeed?
Mrs. Portly-Pufflngton Oh, dear,
yesl We have been descending for
generations. Puck.
I don't want to brag, but I've got
my health and my friends, so what on
rartli mora do J want? Deland.
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FAMOUS BALLET DANCERS.
, Stoclea or I. a TnRllonl, Fanny Elsoler
. uud I.nlu Monies.
I It has been asserted that the grand
ballet died when the famous Tngllonl
; retired in 1S-I.1. At any rate, the ballet
1 today Is chlelly a spectacle of dress
j nnd colored limelight. Except for a
! very few performer, dancing ns a
. high art has vanished.
I There is 110 one now to set beside
La Tngllonl, who was the queen of the
stage. Balzac Introduced her Into his
novels. Even Thuckeray condescended
to notice her and declared enthusias
tically lu "The Newcomes" that the
"young men of the day will never see
anything su graceful us Taglloul lu
'La Sylphlde.' " At that tlmo she was
the rage. Stagecoaches and great
coats weie named after her.
Lu Taglloul owed her charm to a
wonderful lightness and grace. Her
style was rather Ideal than reulistlc
uud voluptuous, us was then the vogue.
Thu hldeou,s ballet skirt of today she
never wore, but a skirt that reached
nearly to her ankles. It was one of
the principle of her father, who taught
her nil she learned of the art, that the
dancer should be modest in dress, In
movement and lu expression. -
Another famous muster, who called
himself "l.e I lieu de la Dause," always
told his pupils to uso ull tho coquetry
they could.
Vestrls, who founded the famous
Vestrls family, was au eighteenth cen
tury celebrity and quite remarkably
conceited even for a dancer. "There
are but three great men alive," he used
to say, "myself, the Prussian Fred
erick and Voltaire." (It is Interesting
to compare Southey's remark that a
male dancer deserves to be ham
strung.) That profession of which be
was so proud is Indeed an arduous one.
Vestrls used to practice for about six
hours a day. A dancer must be ex
tremely strong and supple.
A curious story Is told about Fanny
Elssler, a German dancer with coal
black hair, which Illustrates the ex
treme muscular strength a dancer re
quires. She was crossing to America
when she entered her cabin one day
and discovered a thief abstracting the
jewel case which she kept bidden un
der her pillow. Before he could attack
ber she planted her foot full In bis
chest and killed him on the spot
It is curious that no Englishwoman
has ever achieved supreme success as
a dancer. It Is possible, as foreigners
assert, that they lack the dramatic gift.
It Is certain that a lifelong devotion
and arduous apprenticeship are essen
tial to any expression through the me
dium of dancing. The "rats," the be
ginners at the Paris Opera, are arti
cled for five years, and then, unless
they have danced from their cradle,
they cannot hope to attain the first
rank.
Another quality essential to the great
dancer Is Infinite puticuce. The only
English dancer who ever gave prorals !
of attaining the trout rank failed in
this respect. Lola . Monte, was the
somewhat foreign 1111 1110 she had taken.
She lost her temper one day with the
manager at rehearsal uud expressed
ber feelings so dramatically as to
break an umbrella over his bend. Man
agers will endure much for art's sake,
but this was too much.
Carlotta Grlsl Is another famous
uanie of the old opera. It was she
who first introduced the polka Into
England a Bohemian dance that came
to stay. It was for her, too, that
Uelue, Gnutler and Adolpbe Adam
collaborated In writing "Giselle."
There were a score more famous
names that were familiar words in
those days. Of tho twelve leading
dancers engaged at the King's theater
in 1824 for a two mouths' season five
were a sufficient attraction to receive
more than 1,(I(;0 each. London Moil.
HIT l:.net Meanlnx.
Bellelleld What (!!.! you mean by
saylnc that Flpllliiis was n man of rare
liitelli-jence? That Isn't the way in
which he Is anully regarded. Bloom
flelil I mca.i !i it his gleams of Intelli
gence are si far apart ns to be very
rare Indeed.
A Flrnt V.mnay In llouaekeeplno;.
Mr. .loiiesV.'hnt Is It. my pet? Mrs.
Jo'-es This r:ibblt (sob) I've been
plucking It (sob) all the nftercoon, and
It hn't half done ! Punch.
Somctbinij View and Wonderful is
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COMPARISONS.
Am Soon aa We Bruin to Make Them
We Ilea In to S ii Iter.
We would not have to strive so for
courage If what we vaguely call
"things" wore more evenly distributed
among us, for no one's lot would then
seem to hint au evil one. If we were
nil humpbacked or lame or blind;
If every husband were unfaithful and
every child u cross; If we were all poor
and no man had any more than anoth
er; if nobody's son died In his early
strength and nobody wns loved while
we sot neglected, then who of us
would know what sorrows and afflic
tions were? We would take each of
them for granted, as a Chiuiimnu takes
his yellow skin and an Indian his red
one.
It Is because we see our estate differ
ing from that of our fellows that we
are tempted to comparisons, and it Is
In (he making of these comparisons
that a sense of our sorrows, like the
knowledge of our afflictions, is first
born. How would we have known that
we were poor unless we hnd seen some
one else who wns richer or that our
son was unsuccessful unless the son of
somebody else were making a great
mark In the world? Would our little
children be unhappy with only one
dress had they not seen other chil
dren with two?
It comes to this, then: When we be
gin to make comparisons, we begin to
suffer. Tills may seem to be a hard
saying, but It Is a true one. Llllie
Hamilton French In Harper's Bazar.
STAG LEGENDS.
Ancient Storlea of the Anlmal'a Aa
tlpnthr to Snnhea.
There Is no beast in the world to
which more hgendary virtues are at
tributed than the stag, partly owing
to the tale of St. Hubert, partly to
supposed antipathy of stags toward
serpents, partly to n p?culiar mass of
gristle In the shape of a cross which
Is found In the animal's heart. A
whole book ml.tht be written on the
miraculous power of the heart and the
efficacy of different parts of him
ugnlust the troubles of this evil world.
I'willloux, In tbe sixteenth century,
gives a long list, and Master Robert
Topsel fills p:: upon page with them,
but our author In his solid English
fashion is chary of accepting such
stories.
Men say, be admits, that when a
aiag Is right old be lieateth a serpent
with his foot till she be wroth, and
then eatetb hr, and then goeth to
drink, and then runneth hither and
thither till the water and venom be
meddled together, and maketh him cast
all his evil humors that he had In his
body, and maketh his flesh' .come all
anew. But, be adds, with the solemnity
of Herodotus himself, "Thereof mftke I
none affirmation." And this phrasaT
occurs again and again, far the Comte
de Fols Is too great and nobl'j a hunter
that any as.-i?rtlon of bis should be
laughed at. Maemlllan's Magazine.
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