in Two Townships Are pried to and From School — Attendance ami Higher Fare rentages Among the Benefits Secured. Pr. HH. Longsdorf, of Camp HI. in. by request of the Commissioner Schools and Agricultural Secretary ansyivania, has been Investignt ye workings of the rural central. : of Ohlo. w England States, likewise Ohio districts, a town sys . hy which children living in conn localities are transported to the tt e¢ for educational pur: sen employed; but a «tom by which the schools rural township, remote from a ré combined into one central school, is used In tut ws of the United States, Green, uships throughout Oblo arc heir eyes to the fact that n is a practicable method country pupils to better nal advantages. Last April. a e law to provide for the cen on of township schools nnd high sohool for the same was Ohio Legislature. The contralization as a “Hrs wis in a township providing Heliment of all subdistrices smyevince of pupils to pad tral school” Tt requires fon of centralization he to & vote of the qualified of a tervnship. If the “veas” majority, ft then becomes the ¢ the Board of Education to d at once to the centralization township schools. Board of Edocation under ten school management consists of perahers elected at large in 8 hip. It i required to support a course of instroction and fore transportation to and from se hool pupils living more than three of a mile from the cetitral snd (Gustavus have sold at thelr “little red school houses” ti find have supplanted % handsome new building in of exch township. “a FUMIO edifice of brick ven with stone trimmings is abou! need be desired In the way of | school Baliding. Tr contains ma, besides an alcove, library, s and spachous balls, It is team and has many of ts of a miodern city ot teachers have been hired (ry. intermediate. gram | Nigh school grades, which yy & room. years of instruction are Io. the high school course. A hepetrom will be admitted tescher goes the rounds of | building twice a week that sing generation of Greene may how to sing. ne povered vans, having glass win t front and back, 100 pupils of ¢ townslilp are carried to gohoot, ps driver announces by the abeifl | hiv arrival at a home minutes ix the Hmit of to tardy children at h #10 place. Usually punetu- | pass through a door at the rear & wagon to take their places ou d along its siden. on the mowent of 8.30 of a day moraing eight vans rumble ve leading to the central & Having backed against a rm the wagons onload their bur the children pass dry and clean the sheltering baven of (their rooms, : the dismissal of school at WAgOns are waiting by the : thelr passengers. drivers are in the main am farmers of Greene, anxious to their slender pocketbooks. They de thelr own vans and receive farm work presses, the women farm | & hand in driving the vans. ht school routes of Greend pn apportioned as fairly su : The wagons covering tho and five mile routes carrying tha . puplts. winter, when the air blows cold! 3d are rough, the children will till be snug in their tedious journeys 10 and from school; for heavy carpets, eaps of blankets and hot bricks will 244 to the furniture of the “kid” wag: ‘yan (rivers have specified rules jd sutbority over their passengers, nsually keep them fairly quiet and Il behaved. I not stir from this spot until you are all quiet in your seats.” a Woman driver threatened one night. The sar | children desisted from thelr ‘and the horses went on. crude method of rural mall de that has been established In » and Gustavus by means of the 1 school routes is proving satis tory. For a small compensation each van driver gets the mail from the » at night for the families g his route and delivers It. An approximate estimation of cur expenses in Greene, makes the t of maintaining her central school annually, $700 more than the expenditures under the sub: ar hight: ct 8 oo! But as partial offse puplis. { donis, paying tuition, are enrolled in the new school than in the old ones, | extra months of instruction. : it the way I wanted fo, : fo the bakery 3nd bought my ple 100 wrest a fortune from the Ozark hills enix part of the Unitad States 46 1a while high school puplls enjoy two ean ve Gustavus maintaing her central | school for about $400 more than the annual enrrent expenses of her sub district system. After pearly two years of sxperiment Gustavus peonie ave almost without an exception in favor of centralization : The advantages it offers to country | children peed pot be pirticnlarized. where there are either so few pupils | no interest san possibly be awakened among them. or else so DIAUY tho one teacher 18 overwhelmed by classon, with a good graded school haviag competent teachers for each grade will readily discover the benefits to be derived from centralization. Tardiness or atacnee from school bes | cause of bad weather are hack num- bers. : Property of Greene ariel Gustavos has increased appreciably in value | «ince the establishment of thelr cen | tril schools. Farmers are eager to bay | or rent land in townships, offering su parior educational advantages to their ehilldren, estar mn The Case Was Entirely Different. “Papa.” asked the little boy, “do you remember the first money you ever earned 1 i ayes” said papa: “it was a mics, srw, shiny five-cent piece that old Mr. (rege, the grocer, gave me for doing about a quarter's worth of work in carrying a load of potitoes into his | coflar. 1 worked all Riurprday afiers noon to earn that nickel, and when he pald me I ran three Blocks home, tired as 1 was, to show jt.” “Armd did you put it in your Hitle hank?" asked the little boy. “Np: 1 got father's permission to spend it just as | pleased. However, 1 kept it for three or four days, just to Bave the satisfaction of having peney of my own, earned hy my own exertions. And if 1 could have hosight 411 the things I thought of buying with | that nickel I would have bad aboui ten dollary worth of books, toys mar 3 en and what not np my mind. What do you think T mught #7 “1 wm sure 1 can’t gpoesa” said the fittle boy. or Finally I made “tint did von bay, papa: dnstard ple” “Why, papal And ya said grand: xa always bad custard pie at home and let you have a slice of It 38 soon #% you got home from. school.” “Yes I nsed to get slice, but not a whole ple. and she never Jet me eat Bo 1 went borrowed A spoon from the baker, and ate all the custard and left the ornst. I never had anything tgste so good in all my life” “You never allow nie to eat cnstard ‘ple that way. papa” said the Hetls hoy. Loan! That's different)” sald Indianapolis Press, hwervations, Curiosity is one of the vides verbosity its visible form, A young man harried 8 a Young man married. Real virtue is the ability to defeat evil. Sham virtue the ability screen it. : A neglected child of sfiuence Is poorer than a beloved Little beguar. Rociety and heaven alike demand that those who enter shall have cuit vated the talents vouchsafed them. But there the parailel ceases. | Who paina & child by a lie sins: who | comforts it by suppressing the ruts shall be forgiven. Wotnen love and lowe; men lose and papa. — | of age; 1 An apborisni to be good must be bad, an aphorism is no joke. Lite 1a real. but no longer earnest save to those who bave a goal to | make. : Many a born fool has died a phils | osopher. according to eulogy — Phils ; deipbin Record. Bottled Jordan Water, i A German contemporary is responst- | bie for the statement that a smart American business ran has lastalled | an extensive pumping plant on the banks of the Jordan River, in the : neighborhood of the Sea of Galilee. By | means of 4 number of modern Ameri { ean pumps the venerable oid river of | Palestine Is deprived of such a quan- | tity of its holy water as to supply all | the churches of the world with it. The | water is being bottled on the spot in | bottles of different sizes, and brought | upon the market as the “Only Genu- | ine Jordan Water.” — Philadelphia Press. She Was Alive st the Time. In a contest over a will, the hushan of the deceased was on the stand. Dur ing the cross-examination of this wit. ness, a leading lawyer asked the wit | ness, sternly: i “IMd the transaction take place be i fore you married the dead woman » The witness, who was a small man with a shrill voice, piped out, fondle nantly: “¥No, sir, she wasn't dead when I married her "Green Bag. Our Fruit on the Ocean. The science of keeping fruit bas been | evolved to a high degree of perfection | when the great ocean liners--no mat. ter what flag they fiy no longer pat t ronise the European fruit market for thelr supplies for the return voyage to | | cat Sai Smee Pera tio of Anyone, hy comparing a rural school | (0 ‘ing day -one-fourth of this being man- Lntactured goods | In some parts of the country rialn acl | iy estimated that in this | three-quarter hours 1.500.000.0600 cubic feet of water, equaling 42 000 D0 gross | | toms. fell upon the area of Philadel | of information concerning this great sred by the Manufacturer, which pro- | ing alive ses hovel? | Dg the great | gpecding along on an apparently fevel | C14 feet high? rains in Westerns North Carolina , waters of the Atlanih: ocean fave the shores of Eirope iso “1 went to the bakery and bought 3 world, writes a Forsyth, Ma, ! spondent. While, of course, the grout | ast returns will come to those Who efi | remains that a man fay set | fn a few years with po capi | hands and his | One war in which this [aw follows Lsrek LC emndnneted OBB sotenritde £ alt { wuts has been in a slipshod PWR | yrought to the surface only the big. AY AER according to the majority. And yet: ei ov { writes a Washington correspondent. | has come to De almost an understood | i thing that additions are in order every ger is put on the roll as “laborer.” i ig pecoming an important industry the islands of Adnan, ier are now pecuphind for | The foxes wilh which breeding is gun cost from $150 to $260 a pair. {to date there have been practically no i rafuras, but | have pow more than 1 | only be a short tims before the : 4 financial point of view, \ the females being America, but stock up right here 18 | qq age” | the New York market for the whole | roy skins may (TRY. ONE-FIFTH OF THE a i UR. BIG COU IT HAS WORLD'S WEALTH, sd A a lige tn doulie ¥ | warm waters of the Guif of Mexico ex- | tend for 1.000 miles on | Cnousdary, and part of our northern | | hoardary consists upon which vessels may sall for 1.800 | cmliag | fee amounted ton 1900 cannot now bs «given in exact figures. but jt probably | the World's Popula- Our Borders Eighteen fimndired of Atlante Bors Freight than Al Other Countries tka Miles idan Ud Comat AG ei ; fasptioth of the Bo nia + of ths world, the United Stal with over one-B0h of 8 tise wealth in the word. Begi dam Ltigtiog alow that in the year ospding - Sune 30 1300. our exports averages over $4000 000 in value for each work- | The topography ot the United States ranges from 270 feet sain to 15.000 feet above sea level dom fails: in others rain is deposited of nearly every day in the year. On Aug 3. 1598, more rain fell in Phila Adelphia in one and threa.quarter hours than i8 precipitated in a whols year in some parts of the United States It one and phis. These and other interesting bits and glorious country hive been gath- ceeds to inquire: “Do you realize that Chicago and | Ather lake cities. also Pittyburg, are | shout the elevation of William Pesan s | hat on thé Philadelphia public build. | That In cross plaind of Neliraska, prairie, you are higher than the croats ‘ns the Allegany mountains in Penn | ivivania® That Salt Lake our Dead Qea is 4.200 feast alos ocean tuwinl ? That many of the peaks in the Rocky ; manntain and Blerra ranges are over | Or that the moun are ; as | The i which tent | against our toast Line Hf 1 R00 miles | from two to three times as high air Alleghanies in this stile? reo the rocky islands of Maine to the Florida Keys The Pacific octan 1s As a fold tor poor men who desire to squaled Hy any mineral region in the sorT | gage in the business on An SXtRnRIYE | grale and employ machinery, the fact “ok heros 1 but his work. san Be done is Cutside of the Joplin die | where most of the mines are now basis pearly | dane Rerea- E carvloss When a bucket of mineral was Hingness 10 ow 3 Phar the mining Bb | gest jumps Warh picked out, the rest | being cast aside as too small to bother | Carli | wil heap in Missouri, Kansas and Ar- | | yansas is full of lumps of | sine ranging in sae from the size of | a pea to that of a plum or peach. Lead The consequence 8 that “ery | lead and | fove. % ‘Some United States senators ars be- | ginning to think that a hair shouald i tie called on extending the pay roll | It: year, and it 8 noticenble that in the present session additions are boing made every day. Ancient habitasa of the capital declare that when the roll is finally made up it will be shown | that more men are drawing pay from | the contingent fund in the senate than ever before in the history of that b wy. Even the official reporters of the sen- f ste have Deen fixed by special reselu- tion at $1,440 a year. The term "mess enger” covers nearly everything in the | senata below the rank of clerk. Ev ery senator has one or mors, and now | the official reporters are to bhava the service of one. Occasionally a messeft- i in o~ POAT FOX FARMS, A } Breeding These Animals for Their Pets | in Alsaka. The breeding of foxes fur t ita an No less than | rg heir pe . 35 islands, says tha Cineinnat Enqguir- | Big purpose. | es Lis thie tabands exn vis aw from faxes ind £35 AMEE foxes as three ¥ ture will turn out gaiisiact ars trapped and the skins taken bee tween November 2 snd January 30 all released. The “"kill- | ts about 18 mouths although | be had at eight months, | 3 Pro 1 oon ing for the wants of parealyves ata ih transported 900 miles fod of American mechanics olally industrial countries i 172,600,000 long | snrs with caboose, engine of track. ction of uents against | on $k Ethie futon Alaska for propagation. part ours, for its breakers roll on 08 Fluttery, ot western coast from Cape | the Straits of San Juan de Fuca, 1.200 miles to San Diego. in Southern Call- fornia. and if we add the Alaskan coast | that dletance. The | agr southern if a chain of Iakes | Just what our Great Lake traf f jefed 40000000 tons, The Average frig nna ton of freight on i simutes cight-tenths of mill per nile, and eon] haz Deen 46 sents por transport within States more fon. We annually the area of the Inited freight than all other eountriea com- Within this area is over ones i af the ratiroad ond one-half of | af the world. locomotives to bined. third the telegraph mileage In the construction of han) cars cver these roads wo have made marvelogs development; 2.453 wera built in 1898 and the handiwork {s seen all Even the few spe | have Deen Civer 118000 railroad cars in 1889. In 1898 in the United States tons of bituminous coal apd 52.900000 long tons of an ‘hrielte cotl-- approximately one-third | of the world's production. The total valite of tbe coal mined was close to $254 000,000 These quantities indicate { shat every working dey this country af surs produces 760000 long tone of coal representing trains ARErogating 7.506 twenty lon cars Allowing 40 and tender to a train, the total fength of trains representing one day's shipping. stand- int end to end, would cover 234 miles lig the soar 1598 the produc- | pig iron in the nited States wus the largest anpaal output avery | rocnrded By any country, the total be over the world. invaded, ware constructed thers were mined ing pearly 13.820.000 gross tons, valued at $245,000.00. This couniry of ours produced in 1868 106 tons of gold, 1.- “1% pons uf silver 361706 gross tons of copper. In Michigan are ths deep | sar mines in the world, one vertical shift having reached a depth of 4000 feet. while several others ara below the wa & ssssnenes) ‘1 worth $50 a ton at the mim sine & great deal more, The right to work over these tall heaps may be se cured on a 10 per cent royalty, and on : this basiy any indnstrions man may : sally make from $10 to 320 a day. His : snly equipment is 5 garden rake and a spade. He will have 0 camp oat amd live on frugal fare but he will grow hurdy In health and make HONEY. t Those with a little sapital may take 1pnses Of ground. either for a cash | rartal or for a royalty, and open shafts on thelr own account It lakes from rent three mien 10 operate 4 shaft, ape to do the digeing and the other th Hoist up the buckets of soil containing the mineral In many instances iomd and zine deposits are struck six foal from the surface; in others the digger nak to @b dows 15 or 20 fest, the rich. tess of the find locreasing with the depth of the hole From one to three fons of metal a day is not 20 UDCOm- mon yield from the best of theses halla which event his salary is just half that of the rasa whose oficial title is more tgnifled, but whose functions are the same as those of the “laborer.” The explanation of this sudden increase of senate employes ls curious, if aot in- | teresting. [1 is that the grave and | reverend seignors of the Upper Cham- | her ars providing numerous constit- the long stretch of “rainy days” that will intervene Dbe- tween the adjournment of the Fifty- aixth congross in March and the as gemblipg of the Fifty-seventh congress next December. Nine months of vacs- tion of congress is hard on many peo- ple in ‘Washington, but so long as the senate’ contingent fund holds out life at the national capital will be made | | bearable, if not a continuous round of pleasure, to such of its citizens as command sufficient “pull” to get their names placed on the senate Day roll | as “messengers or “laborers.” i 1 mals are sometimes killed at that time. i he semi-domast ication of fur-hearing animals seems the only way of prevent ; ing the early extermination of species which now provide the most costly and Juxurious wearing apparel. It seems reasonable to suppose that the Alaskan | fox isslaasry. in which $130.000 is now investi. may be the beginning of a | great and profitable business the inl ands of Alaska being particularly fitted tor the experiment and very few of sf the least value for any other gurposs, It 1s thougst Ly experiencod fue omen that it might be femuible to | inereatnee the Russian sable and other mare valuable marten species | of Lhe hh SiR A man who 18 the unhappy victim af home rule says he would gladly ex- change his better hail for more satis. factory quarters.—Chicago Newa, i | qui pad fare [ogtontes) better wow. on the river Trente, when Lous {1 really would be very funny if crocodiles ate bread and honey, 3 While ons tigers. wolves and bears | Preferred to sup on phims and pears. it would be really very quaint {f monkeys loved to drink green paint; if sucking pigs should call with squeals For lobster salad and stewed eels. it really sould be strange, indeed, if birdies should forsake their seed, ; And at the bakeshop window twitter, “Wa should so like an apple fritter.’ But stranger far than this tyrould be It when the children sat at tea, They really all preferred to take Dry bread, to frosted chocolats cake AA SIAR TA A @ust os =» Rainy Duy. ft was the second day of Miss Neale's house-patty and the program was all ott of doors, but what's a pro gram when rain comes |ike that? “Look 4 it” cried Josie, and lugu- hriously aighed, The braskiast talk was half drowned by splashing, and the piama’s tin rool made more noise than all | thro | and where 1 Isy fully an | his home and planted in a ft | tarthen pot. which dow will, where 1 | und bright sun, and to add to my com forts he watered me every day when | he returned from schoo. So Rt i not long before | ing wad a Uiny sprout appea rod, and | found myself being held tightly in | ground by little plant | bad to be transplanted in the gar- | den, ‘where | grew rapidly. and finally | pore an elegant ear of fat yellow corti. ilke 1 was when I the horse trough. One when he saw me he that he knew of ! graing of | escaped from | day the man | the garden, and i informed the boy hour bafore a Jitil: boy. who was passing at th time, plexed me up and declared he | would take me home and plant me, | ax lie had often i plant of bis own, and pow that be | had secured what | 0f cotrse he Wok put me | hie rolght be more sure wished to bave & carefully in his pocket. that le red was set on his wi had plenty of sir iy of his treasure I felt myself burst roots: | was At last | becmme so large thet cams to cot the rust as if nothing else were got: | some pullic gardens that wanted speo- ting wet” Bess sald severely. : “As to the tennis court,’ grumbled Joe. “its a marsh.” The hosts looked around on their solemn {aces and smiled “One cantiot teat or brite weath- er. you Jinow,’ she sald We'd bel ter compromise. How about a hunt? sradpode®” groaned Ned “nat wala?” came anxionyly Frou, “Both, if you Hie Neale Chat you need nol ambraila or get wel. “In the" “in the Bhrary. ¥ from apuwiresd Miss he 1 SE ome. Ther iroopad after her ard giaoesd | AL ® f Ee keenly shout the room | ;arth, which be had brought for this | purpose. The boy was given his mon- and | was taken away to (he gare den where [| was planted In a large “Ia the creature wild?’ Josis in: HY. Already the roar and splash outside Ware falling into background, curios- | ty to the fore “Shall we Bunt a wild cragtnre?” said Mus Neale, smiling. “Bamething powerful and dangerous?” “ah, fehightful’ eried Buss, “if we do not catch him or he ne “all we'll begin with one that's ax old ks the hills,” snnotinoed Mins Neale hut still as powerfel and dan gorons as ever. There wis a nan given lim far in the frozen north ty the Vikings. They fared him Lirave ie ther wets, for lie wine ke ships. aud mercilossly haffeted nerve. There wa8 Do 000 guaritg bm They admired aod wondered. You see, he was puch grand foe’ So finally they praved 18 him." HER" pemonsteated Bess “You They resized their weak. peas, those great Vikings, amid the grandears of the aniverse and they worshiped the strength of It, incom- prehensible, unconguerable forces such as fire and thunder, and storm winds. They valled them gods Jolans, anil bowed down. . “Poge-or things.” mursiured Josie “1 wonder if we should have dobe any »e “Wa are still afraid,” sald Hugh, “of the Jituns.’’ “ami the nama of thi—the crea are we hunted?” asked Bess. “Ph sea-temupest! It was called Aeger, now eager.” Neale “And Carlyle tells how mem: ory of the old jotun clings, how evel dangerous eddying awirl comes, old bargemen cry, “Have 3 care, thera | is the eager coming'"” “Yat the dictionary” thus Hugh, in swiden contempt for that learned book, “has tamed it to be just desir “fut know the history’ cried Josie. “and you see it reaching out 10 oO quer. “Ara there Bens maked. many story-words!” Migs Neale nodded. 8he had taken & pencil and a card from her desk. “Hire are four’ she said, writing. “Consult the books about them while [ am gone.” The doors closing behind her was echoed by the opening of bookcase. the | drawnell, and roared to wwoskon the answered Miss La go | strange man came | ask] for the little boy, who cams | down and (oquired of the man what : | he wanted, whereupon be told the boy 3 ; this garden to look at me. | exnniined me thoroughly, and even wal | grass off the ear which 1 held #0 | proudly in the air and eat them to test shel favor. He finally decided to bay § i bles, when | withersd and died of the cold, teat the grains of corn from my ob which | had once held so proudly were § % | digterent colors. of a thie enrds from the table Intorsst was apabated when ahe caine again, “Wa are catching ideas, sie. ~ said Jo. | “And growing them.” added Hush. | i “What a fortunate rain” sald the C hostess. sain ®™ cried Bass, “where is i» Then they saw that ahe was dabbling her hands in a Heit of sunshine fallen aeross the room, and the tin roof was | ntill. i ornate the WAY. with disagreeableos, | Tod remarked. putting on his most tearased air "Show then you dunt mind, and they go. <igur f wou do mind? gosta. sehen hunt” commanied Josie] so they laughed and began to bubt rialis } her shoes, : The words on the cnn Disaster, | euy. sincere, and mercurial—By BE. E | Larne. Bess sug ri Edventnress of a Grate of Cnr %¥ As far back as I oan recollect 1 Was : an a cob with many other grains of corn the same as [Al harvest time | the cob was pulled anc husked, und | wea being extracted froma it, were put : with many otaers in a horse trong | | mens of different fowers and vege { tables, and that they would give him sd price for we. The next day & to the house and he had come to see if Bis corn plant wis worth buying so they cams into so far as to pick some of the nue. so they pulled me 9p DY Wy roots : ard placed me in a pot filled “with oy, fli, where thers grew many vepels- | was cared for until winter, plgisted the next year to become plants like I was and perhaps to - perience greater adventures, AS Menagerie Usme Wild animals in menageries always faterest young folk, and indeed old golls au well 3 ered for sport on one of these gape may be made from cardboard of it they iptired from mothers | hasket they may be made by means of pencil and a moment's work ! Here is 3 game which pay be called “menagerie” full of i animals as it is. which is quite sure i to entertain the social elrcle gathe witer evenings. The cards for this SE calling-cara ihould be Afty cards, divided into sete of five, same color, or if all are white those This will allow ten to play. All cards in each set should be of the of one set should be marked with the tame character—a large. clear A for oe sone set. B for snother, ste. The cards dre mixed and distributed among the plsyers, who hold them in a heap, out - of sight. Neither the player himaselr por his companions must know which card he will play until it appears om the table Each player chooses the name of an animal, and sach player must remember the animal name of all others. No 1 then lays a card { face up on the table in front of him, and is followed quickly by Nox 2, 3 and #0 an, until it is seen that two cards of a set have appeared. Each of the players who has played one of tliese mates must then try to call the animal same of the other first. The ane succesding in calling the name gata all of his opponent's heap of The game ends when the sets are all played, and the ame holding the largest number of cirds is the winner. When two of a sit have appeared and the cards are awarded the game is resumed as if go interruption had octurred Another game with lots of fun in # iis, as one bright girl puts it. “to play football with an eggshell” The der scription, however, is hardly accurate Place a book at each corner of a large table. the hooks of uniform thickness | a little greater than the diameter of an egg. Tie a thread to one jeg of | the table stretch it upward and oves the two books at one side, and then down, where it is tied to the opposl leg. Repeat this at the other side the table and you have finished the two goals for the game. Divide the | company into (WO groups, one group lieing seated at each side Place in i the center an eggshell from which the contents have heen blown. Each side now tries to blow the eggshell under | und bevond the enemy's string. { yrs may rise and lean over the string § iQ touched in any way except to place i it under the string. Plags blow. but the shell must not be esos AAA A ASS Many Ascend Mount Blane. One hundred and forty-one tourists | have this year been success ful in mak- {ing the ascent af Mont Blanc Gwigs head the Hast with 39 climbers, The af whom two were ladies; France somes next with 3% then England with 7 germany 15, United States 13, Aus trin 5, Italy § Canada 4 Russia 3, Bed. gium, New Zealand and Egypt, ong for » horses dinuer. but fortunately | each.
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