'REELAND TRIBUNE. EsUtliihei 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY THE 'RIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. Make all money orders, check*, etc., payable to he Tribune Printout Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA., DECEMBER2I,IB99. More About That Alliance. From Philadelphia City and State. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's recent j speech at Leicester, In which he made j very positive reference to the existenco j of some sort of alliance or understand- j log between Great Britain and the j United States, must have a very dis- | turbing effect in this country. It at , once creates a demand for specific in- , formation which the administration should promptly and fully satisfy. The j people of the country have a right to ! know thi' facts. No formal alliance can exist between the two nations, because that would presuppose action by the treaty making power, which is the joint action of the senate and executive. But no such action has taken place. What, then, does Mr. Chamberlain refer to? Does some secret understand ing e.\i9t between the two great nations, both of which are engaged in wars that j show striking points of resemblance— I Great Britain is fighting for the destruc tion of a miniature republic in Africa: the Republican administration, for the extinction of an infant republic in the Philippines. Our object seems to be nearly accomplished, while that of Great Britain, although more remote, probably will soon be attained. Great Britain gave marked encour agement to our Philippine programme— a programme which, let it be noted, was made out by President McKinley virtually in secret, away from the knowledge or approval of our people. This administration programme was a revolutionary reversal of all past American precedent, while at the same time it was strikingly in line with the settled policy of Great Britain. Another fact not without significance is the time chosen by Mr. Chamberlain for forcing his dispute with the Trans vaal to an issue. He did this at the moment when the bloody business in which we were engaged made serious remonstrance from us impossible. How could we cry "shame" to Great Britain just as our own strong fingers tightened to strangulation upon the throat of the poor little Philippine republic? In view of a concatenation of events o peculiar, Mr. Chamberlain's allusion to an alliance or understanding, which, as he suggests, is more convenient and practicable than any written agreement oxisting between the two great English speaking countries, needs some very satisfactory disclaimer from the ad ministration if it is not to result in sowing a fresh crop of suspicions in not oversuspiclous minds. If no such understanding does exist, then so prominent a representative of the British cabinet as Mr. Chamberlain should be more cautious in public speech. Washington's advice to avoid "entangling alliances'' is notantiquated. It never was more lerviceable than at present, when there exists for us a yery real temptation to trip into one. And, by the way, that kind of un written alliance which Mr. Chamber lain prefers, and which we should beware of—the kind we had with Aguinaldo, for example—is exceedingly convenient, since, after gathering its fruits, it can be so cleverly repudiated; its very existence can be denied. Irish and liners. Prom the Philadelphia North American. Tho conduct ot the reservists ot the Royal Irish Fusiliers, who sang "God Save Kruger" and threw away their rifles as they marched abroad tho trans port for South Africa at Cork, has naturally caused bittor resentment in England, but if Englishmen are wise it will also cause thought. England's dealings with Ireland have boen based on naked force. Tho English have not shown that they value the voluntary, heartfolt loyalty of the Irish people, and of course they have not had It. They are learning now that the time may come when undiluted force as a cement of empire may havo its defocts. These are times when good will havo a certain value. 1 Perhaps the same lesson may be re peated in South Africa. Supposo tho Dutch conquered and the whole country from Zambesi to tho Cape wore convert ed into a new Ireland, what will happen in some national crisis when every part of the empire must put forth its own power of resistance to a foreign enemy or cease to be Itritlsh? Will bloody victories now pay for their cost then, or will England wish that her destinies had not been committed in 18'J'J to the keep ing of a man in a hurry? i !■ a [By Deonarfl Oatman 1 They were out on the veranda in the cool of the evening, old Caleb Bor ing in a rocking chair, smoking his corncob pipe; Bertha, his daughter, swinging in a low hammock, and her husband, Edmond Hackett. who was perched upon the wooden balustrade. Wilton Boring was there, too, loung ing iu a canvas chair and smoking a "domestic" cigar. The veranda ran around three sides of a modest frame house, all painted white with the ex ception of its bright green shutters. Edmond and Bertha, recently married, lived there in the outskirts of Wash ington with the head of the family. Wilton had run down from Phila delphia, where he was cashier of the Ranchers' National Bank. They were all grumbling over their meagre in comes. "Uncle Sam," remarked Edmond Hackett, a quiet, steady-going sort of fellow, well advanced toward middle life, "Uncle Sam is not generous to us boys and girls of the civil service. We handle between us nigh upon a million dollars every working day, and give our lives to the mill horse busi ness for a bare existence." "Since I've been cashier of the Ranchers' National," said Wilton Bor ing, "I've had enough money pass through my hands to make me crazy with thirst for it. It's like being—" "Don't like to hear you talk like that, Wilt, my son," remarked old Caleb, with a quick shake of the head, as if a mosquito had settled on him. "Thoughts of that kind sometimes materialize into deeds you'd be sorry for." "Humph! I'm not so sure I shan't one (lay try to pinch something," pur sued Wilton, with a wink at his sister. "But big steals ate the sort to suc ceed nowadays. To make a corner in something or other; to iloat a salted mine, or a bogus building society. That's the game." "Tut, tut!" protested the elder Lor- Ing. with a fierce expectoration; but Bertha mischievously took up her brother's humor. "There's a fine chance now I've got into the counting division at the Treasury," said she. "Say, now, why not make up a family combination? You, Wilton, are cashier at the Ranch ers', and you're constantly having old bills to send into the Treasury for re demption. You 'pinch,' as you call it, a thousand-dollar greenback, and for ward the packet to the Treasury in dorsed as contairiag one more bill than it actually does. That packet comes to me to 1)0 counted and ex amined. I lust pass it as containing the number of greenbacks specified. On It goes to Edmond, my husband, whose duty it chances to be to check my count. Smart Edmond finds one bill short: but, seeing his Bertha's initials On the wrapper, he Just winks a little, and the packet, with, say, 99 bills instead of 109, goes Into the macerator, Uncle Sam thinking he de stroys 100 bills against the new ones to that value which ne sends back in exchange to the Ranchers' Bank through the Division of Issue. 9ee?" "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Edmond Hackett, disposed to enter into any Joke conceived by his adored little wife. "How we could bleed Uncle Sam, and help ourselves to the salaries he ought to pay us!" "Have done! Have done!" burst out the old man. "If I believed my son and ray daughter and my daugh ter's husband were capable of such roguery I'd fetch out my gun and fill you full of holes, every one!" He meant it. His usually placid features were distorted and purpled with indignation, and the stem of the pipe he held snapped in the angry grip of his fingers. Wilton flung him self back in a fit of hearty laughter, but Bertha perceived that the joke had gone too far. "Father! dear father!" she exclaim ed, soothingly. 'You know ns all bet ter than that, sure. We were just poking fun; weren't we, Edmond? Besides, such a combination as I figured out couldn't be, anyway." "Quite Impossible!" averred Wilton, getting over his mirth. "Well, I reckon it's impossible In the last degree," said Edmond Hack ett. "So, as opportunity makes the thief, and we shall have no opportunity," added young Doring. "the whole three of us'll have to be honest, will we, or won't we." "You know, father," urged Bertha, to calm the old man, who muttered and protested still, and seemed to have taken fright at the very thought of a breach of trust, "there are nine i ladies in the Counting Division besides myself, and Wilton's imaginary short packet might go to any one of them instead of to me." And if Bertha did get it and pass It," remarked Hackett, to clinch the argument, "there are plenty of fel lows in the Secretary's office who check the counts besides me, and one of them would spot her 'oversight.' Even if the short packet came to me, it would tie useless for me to wink, for I should only have one-half of the bills. They are cut longitudinally," he added for Wilton's information, turning to his brother-in-law; "one half —the lower section—comes to the Secretary and the upper one goes to the office of the Register to be check ed there." "We should need another confeder ate in the Register's," put in Bertha. "The steal would be caught to a cer tainty in the Register's office." "Unless —by Caesar! we've the whole bag of trioks. The combina tion you figured out is not only pos sible, it is here in our hands. Dad is the senior counter in the Register Di vision. The big bills go to him. This is marvelous. If fortune is disposed to do us a good turn, here's the j method all ready, cut and dried: I | nobble a thousand dollar bill at the | bank, and send a packet of ninety-nine j In to the Treasury indorsed as 100. j Bertha passes it through the Counting Division, Edmond gets the lower half | in the Secretary's office, notes his wife's initials, and swallows the short age with connubial submission; and Mr. Doring, who spots the game in the Register's, out of respect for—" j "His tTUBt his country's confidence, j the honor of JjJs nafno," burst out the ' old man, "reports the matter Instant -1 ly. Yea .gives the lot of you away, to ruin, to disgrace, to the hulks. Ha woros about it! Thai's what I should do, mind that!" Wilton laughed lightly. "The bundles of rubbish; ninety nine or a hundred bills; what would it matter to Uncle Sam? And 1 should send each of you $250. Think it over, Dad." "Think it over? I shall never for get this talk of yours. Wilton. A crime conceived Is half executed. May I never hear more of this com bination of yours, In joke or in fact, will be my prayer from this day to God in heaven." And shaking his head angrily yie father strode into the house. A few days after this conversation Bertha Hackett sat in the office of the Redemption Division assisting Mrs. Dawson, the senior lady of the depart ment to count a package of "big bills." Greenbacks of large denom ination were allotted to the senior lady in the ordinary course, and the juniors would take it in turn to work with her for the sake of becoming ac customed to every kind of note, and by such familiarity detecting any forgery that might fall into their hands. Bertha was serving her ap prenticeship in this department, and that day she sat at Mrs Dawson's desk to learn all that this good lady could teach her. Now, among the packets of old bills sent In from all parts of America to be canceled and exchanged for new currency, it was not unusual for the Ranchers' National Bank of Phila delphia to contribute to its quota. Bertha's bright gray eyes took a side long glance at the heap of parcels be fore hercompanion wondering whether chance would so far realize their fan cied combination as to bring into her hands a consignment from her brother Wilton. Dike a pestilent tune that keeps echoing in the brain, that fam- ily talk of a conspiracy to defraud Uncle Sam could not be dismissed from her thoughts These slips of dirty paper authorizing the payment to bearer of large sums of money, what a pity they should all go to the macerating machine to be ground into pulp! One more or less would make no difference to the wealthy Nation, but would work wonders for an under paid official who found it hard to make both ends meet. She told herself It was horribly wicked to think of mis appropriation, but she could not con trol her thoughts, and they pictured for her persistently the staff of the three departments reduced to herself, her father, and her husband, and figured out the fortune they might ac cumulate by the aid of sticky fingers. While thus musing, she was startled by a remark of Mrs. Lawson, as that lady placed before her a heap of thousand dollar bills which she had been critic ally examining with a magnifying glass. "That's a big charge from the Ranchers' National —a hundred bills of a thousand each. I make them right, but you go over them again one by one, count them in two packets of fifty each, and bind them with a paper band in the usual way for me to initial and pass forward." Mrs. Lawson proceeded with an other packet, so absorbed In her work that Bhe did not notice how strangely young Mrs. Hackett stared for a mo ment at the task before her. With the heap of bills lay the paper band that had Inclosed them when they came from the Bank at Philadelphia. It was Indorsed with the number nnd denomination of the notes, and bore the signature, "Wilton Loriag, Cash ier." Mrs. Lawson vouched for them as correct, and yet Bertha's fingers trembled as she turned them over. She counted half of them backward, from 100 to 50, and made a packet of them, as instructed, and the other half she counted in the usual way, begin ning one, two, three, four, and so on. When she came to the end of this count she paused, and counted this second half again backward. Then she slowly fastened a band around the packet. "You're not very smart at present, my girl," remarked the elder lady, ob serving her sluggish action. "I have to hunt for counterfeits, but 1 should never get through if I took so long as you have done with that simple check. But maybe you reckon to find I've passed a wrong count?" she added with a little touch of irony. "After thirty-four years at this work, my dear, the bills that have passed through Rosina Lawson's hands can he taken as right if she says so." Mrs. Dawson was rather tetchy, and had a good conceit of herself, horn of long infallibility. Bertha in silence wrote her own initials on the wrap pers of the two packets, and this ac tion molified the senior lady for by thus taking responsibility for the cor rectness of the packetH Mrs. Hueket seemed to convey an expression of confidence in her. But something else was on Bertha's mind for she mut tered to herself as the packets were taken away to the cutting machine to he further checked in the offices of the Secretary and the Register, "There is just one chance!" An hour later Edmond Hackett sat at his desk in the department of the Secretary to the Treasury, counting i and recounting a packet of one thou j sand-dollar bills. They were old and I frayed, ragged and discolored, and be i longed to the issues of long ago. They were only half-notes, moreover—the lower halves; and each fragment of paper had two big holes punched in it by a blunt instrument, totally destroy ing the signatures which had made it money, and at the same time reduc ing the half note to the merest rem nant. One by one Edmond turned over these morsels of dirty paper, counting them most carefully. "Forty-one, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty seven, forty-eight and forty-nine! There was not fifty here. And yet they've been passed as fifty In the Re demption Office. Humph! Awkward for one of those clever ladles . A thou | sand-dollar bill missing. Poor Mrs. Dawson! It must he she who's in for this." [ Taking up his pen to make out the report, he glanced at the wrapper up on which appeared the number of bills it was supposed to contain and the initials of the ludy examiner who In | the Redemption Department had counted and made herself responsible for the packet's accuracy. "What!" i The pen dropped from his fingers. "B. H. Great Heavens!" That was i the signature of his own wife. Now this error would mean more than discredit and a consequent check : to Bertha's future promotion. It was I a rule that the examiner who over looked a counterfeit or missing bill should make good the value of It. To ' make good SI,OOO would pretty well ruin the Hacketts and old father Caleb Into the bargain. But It was his duty to make the report to tne Secretary instantly, and with painful reluctance he filled up the prescribed but seldom requisite form. With slow, dragging steps he proceeded with It to the Sec retary's private room, but halted with his hand on the door. Suddenly the frivolous gossip on the veranda rushed into his memory. Had Wilton Lorlng —had Bertha herself stolen the miss ing bill? What then? Should ne turn conspirator and cover the fraud? No, no; his duty was clear. He would not allow himself to hesitute, but knocked at the door and entered. But there was a respite for himself and for his wife. The Treasurer him self was closeted with the Secretary. "One moment, Mr. Hackett! I'm en gaged," was the sharp, peremptory dismissal, and he perforce withdrew, postponing the declaration. As he re turned stupefied to his desk a clock struck the hour of his luncheon inter val. It was the custom of the family to meet at home for their midday meal. He locked up the report and rushed out of the Treasury. Flying home on a cable car he found his wife before him. Bertha sat at the table like one in a dream. She did not raise her eyes from the food that stood un touched before her. Edmond himself could not swallow a morsel, but fur tively watched his wife while the ne gress who waited on them tarried in the room. The moment they were alone he leaned acrosß the table and whispered hoarsely: "You passed a packet to-day—a packet of thousands." The young wife looked up with a start of surprise. The fear that was written In her troubled face gave way to a flash of desperate hope. "It came to you?" "One bill is missing.'' "Thank God, you can pass It!" No word of denial. She instantly assumed his power and his willingness to save. She caught his recoiling baud across the table. "For my sake —for your Bertha's sake—you will, you will!" Edmond Hackett raised his other hand to his damp forehead. "Impossible, child —impossible! You must be saved another way—if it be nut too late. Find the missing bill among some papers, as if an accident had placed it there. But whatever you do, put it forward instantly, in stantly!" "I cannot, Edmond, I haven't the bill." "You did not steal it? Oh, forgive me! Heaven be thanked for that! It's an oversight, then? Bad enough, but not beyond repair. Make out your re port at once and send It In. You are a novice. The delay and irregularity may be overlooked." "I cannot do thaf .Edraond. It would east suspicion upon the cashier who forwarded the bills to the Treasury." "That is his affair. If the packet was short when you counted it " "Edmond, why will you not Ignore the shortage? By a miracle it is in your power to prevent the discovery." "It is not in my power." "How not in your power? The pack et will go from your hands to the com mittee, which does not count it again; and hy it it will be deposited in the macerator, to be ground into pulp. It would never be known that forty-nine instead of llfty bills had been de stroyed.' "Bertha, you forget the other half! I have only a portion of the bills. The upper section of your packet went to the Register's office to be counted there." Bertha Hackett grew white as death and hot tears sprang into her eyes. "We are rained!" she cried, "unless, unless " Her glance from the win dow perceived Caleb Lorlng entering the house. "Here Is father! He will find out who had the count at the Reg ister's." But the old man know already. They read it In his face as be confronted them, closing the door. Whatever hope he had cherished on his home ward way that he might find Bertha unconscious of the storm that threat ened was dashed to the ground the moment he perceived her and her hus band's agitation. The IhsmOry of that evening on the veranda burned In his mind, and In a fury of rage he demand ed fiercely: "Daughter, what infernal thing Is this yon have been doing? Are you mad? Is Edmond in it? Or has Wil ton No, no! For God's sake, don't tell me It is my son'" Then Bertha, to her husband's amazement and dismay, fell down at her father's feet and confessed that she—she had yielded to temptation and stolen the missing bill. She hur riedly stated the miraculous chance that had put Edmond In a position to save her, and, Inferring from her father's knowledge of the affair that the man who had detected the short age had confided to him his daughter's responsibility, with a view of screen ing her, besought him to accept the friendly overture. But the stern Caleb spurned her from him. "I would permit no man's dishonor for the sake of me or mine," he de clared. "For what you have done you must pay the penalty. Your impossible combination has actually come to pass. As the countercheck came to your husband in his department, so It has come to me in the Register's. It was I myHelf who caught the short packet which you had signed for." 'Then, father, you alone know?" "I—and one other." "One other?" repeated Bertha, aghast. "Who in your department should know besides yourself?" "My chief!" replied the old man, with a face of adamant. "You have reported It, knowing that your own child " "Certainly. Fraud or oversight; yours or your brother's; It was not for me to consider. I am, first of all, a servant of the State." They went back to the Treasury, where Edmond at once delivered his ; report. Bertha found Mrs. Lawson imps tlently awaiting her. The Treasurer had sent for the head of the Redemp tion Division to Investigate an error in one of the packets which Bertha I had made up. Mrs. Lawson was hlgh ' l£ indignant. ■ "I counted the Ranchers' yackft my self," said she. "I am positive there were exactly a hundred bills." "If one is missing," began Bertha, but the senior lady Interrupted her. "Missing? No, nothing Is missing at all. There Is said to have been one too many." So many miracles had happened that day that Bertha could only gape at her in astonishment. It was an anomaly in arithmetic that one taken from one hundred should leave one hundred and one. There came another Bummons to the Treasury. Another report had come In of an error from Mrs. Lawson's desk. The old lady was almost in tears, but she carried it off with a show of Jocosity. "Either there must be some con scious money knocking about or Mrs. Bertha Hackett brings a mascot to the Treasury," said she. "Is this an other surplus thousand-dollar-bill, sir?" "But this was the shortage which Edmond and Mr. Lorlng had reported, and it was happily met by the excess In the other packet. So beyond an admonition tempered in mercy for the manifest distress of the girl, Bertha got into no trouble She held stoutly to a theory of the intervention of a most divine Providence, when discussing the matter at home, but her husband swept the precious fancy away. "I reckon Providence don't supply cheating clerks with thousand-dollar bills," said he. "You divided the pack et of 100 into two of 50, as you thought, but you counted the first backward, from 100 to 50 inclusive, and that left you only 49 for the second packet. But why didn't you tell Mrs. Lawson you made one short?" "Fact is, Edmond. that combination chatter of ours had got Into my brain. I thought Wilton had pinched a bill, and I reckoned to do more for my brother than daddy "Would do for his little girl." "Ha!" observed old Caleb, filling his pipe. "Duty first, family afterward, and roguery never at any time, under any circumstances." She Still Smokes. Societies for the study of longevity will find an Interesting subject in Mrs. Mary McDonald, a co'ored wom an, of Philadelphia, now en occupant of the Home for the Aged and Infirm. The date of her birth, November 14, 1770, 1b well authenticated. She remembers of the War of the Revolution, and recalls many of its great battles. She tells a thrilling story of the skirmishes with the Brit ish that were fought across the farm at Valley Forge where she was raised. She herself saw the Amer'can soldiers when they were starving during the awful winter of 1778. and she remem bers the smoke of battle that blew across the very dooryard of her home. Mary was not a slave, but was bound out until she was eighteen years of age to a wealthy farmer named Rese Howell whose grain and farm pro ducts were always at the disposal of General Washington's Hoops. She remembers that during the war she wore a plain calico dress and sunbon net. She never owned a silk dress. She says that she owes her long life largely to the fact that she was brought up on the plainest kind of food and always had plenty of exer cise. She remained with her master and mistress until she was eighteen. She then married, and was blessed with a family of eight children. All of her sons and daughters, as well as her husband, have long since died, and Mary Is now the only one left. She seems to enjoy life In sj.lte of her extreme old age. She has everything necessary to comfort In her declining days, and she employs her spare time sewing carpet balls. Since 1890 she has sewed 133 pounds of carpet rags, and she keeps at her work every day. The Duke's Coolness. 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(Sears, Itoehuck A: Co. are thoroughly reliable.—Editor.) Address, SEARS, ROEBUCK Ik CO. (Inc.) Chicago, 111. AN EFFECTUAL EFFORT. Three-Finger Sam's Eloquence Was Not to Be Withstood. "Talkin' about oratory," said Bron cho Bob, "you ought to have been out to Crimson Gulch last fall, so as to hear some of the real thing." "We .have some pretty luminous | specimens In Congress," ventured the man who felt It incumbent on him to show a little local pride. "Not a circumstance. I've read some | of them kind o' speeches. I've beard ; 'em, too. A feller come from the i East and started in to tell Crimson Gulch what It orter do. Some of the boys allowed things was gettln' ruther slack, an' they says anthin' fur a change; so they took his advice an' blazed away an' organized a city coun cil." "I see. You held an election!" "Nary. We didn't want any Mood abed. We Jest passed the word around that the city council was going to be held,an' made it an open game. Every body was there except Nevada Bill, an' he didn't dare show up, because he was under suspicion of sittin' In a poker game with a private stock of blue chips which he had bought unbe knownst from a store in San Antonio. It wasn't long until, under the Instruc tions of the tenderfoot, we had the city council going in good shape. Only officers were allowed to wear their weapons during the proceedin's, an' everybody was debarred from debate. The first business we took up was the case of Nevada Bill. We reckoned that It would he no more than decent local pride to prevent the importance of any poker chips except the duly recognized authority for said import ance. Rattlesnake Pete said the only way to mnke the law bindln' was to pervidc that anybody breakln' It should be shot at least once. The ten derfoot got riled in a minute. He jumped to his feet, an' got off the most long-winded talk about constitu tionality an' the rights of citizenship an' whereas and therefore that I ever heard. He talked hard, and shewed he had read books. But you orter have heard Three-Finger Sam's historic re ply. It jes' showed how quick a man who has the gift of genuine eloquence kin end an argument. Crimson Gulch has not got through talkin' about it yet. Three-Finger Sam drawed his self up to his full higlit and p'inted his finger at the tenderfoot. 'I don't desire to use no harsher words than Is necessary,' says he, 'but I'd like to know what you mean, you low-down, lop-eared Jack rabbit, by comin' Into this town an' tryin' to tell us whether a man needs shootin' or not. Have we got to wait fur some lantern-jawed coyote to come wanderin' in off the prairie an' tell us what's good fur us? Beware!' says Three-Finger Sam, still p'intin' his finger an' growin' more eloquent every minute. 'Beware, you bow-legged burro. Don't you think you come here an' overawe people because you wear specs. Have a care, or the fust thing you know you'll be travel in' out o' this town with a bunch of pa triotic citizens on your trail, every one of whom is dead anxious to shoot a freckle off'n the hack of your neck!' The tenderfoot didn't have another word to say. an' he left town the np nioruin'."—Washington Star. A Photographic Feat. Probably the longest solar specrum ! achieved at a single operation is one taken by Sir Norman Lockyer, show , ing the lock spectrum of iron, with a : comparison spectrum of the sun thir ty inches long. This was taken with the large concave Rowland grating which Sir Norman now uses for solar spectroscopic photographs; but, owing to the focal plane of this grating be ing considerably curved it is impossi ble to get a sharp pnotograph of the entire spectrum on a glass plate ai only about eighteen or twenty Inches of the spectrum can be brought into locus on the samg plane. MONEY s no d mosey sis! aews,; CI T THIS AD. 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