"If you send me anything *just as good as Ayer's,' I shall send it right back. " I might afford to experi ment with shoe polish, but I can't and won't experiment with the medicine which means sickness or health to me." J. C. AYER. COMPANY, Practical Chemists, Lcwc'.l, Mas*. Ayer'a Saraaparilla 1 Aycr'a Hair Vigor Ayer's Piils Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Ayer's Ague Cure j Ayer's Comatone The Chicago school board h;..> -.ucd the five elevated railroad compan.cs for Beat For the Bowels, No matter what alls you, headache to a •ancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascaiikts help nature, cure ytu without a gripe or pulu, produce easy natural inoveutents, cost you Just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cascahets Cuudy Cathartic, the genuine, put up In metal boxes, every tab let bus O.C.G. stamped on it. lievrare of Imitations. Out of 40,000 vessels entering Chinese ports every year 20,000 are British. Frcy's Verm If 11 go Saves t.lio lives of children. &>c. Druggists and country stores, or by utuil. E. &S. Fbl Y. Baltimoue, MD. Russia's Advance on China. For nearly 30 years the boundary be tween China and Russia remained as agreed upon in the treaties of 1858 and iB6O. But already the commercial and political activity of the Russians was overstepping it. They had established themselves in large numbers in the cities of Chinese Manchuria —in Kiakh ta, Mukden. Kiriti and Tsitsihar, the residence of the Mandarin Governor. The navigation of the Ossuri and the Sungari rivers fell wholly into their hands. The steamships of the Amur Company put Russia in rapid commun ication with Japan and San Francisco. "Scientific Missions traversed China in all directions. At Peking the Rus san colony acquired a continually great er importance and the ambassador of the czar wielded more influence at court than the representatives of any other tertainments.—lnternational Monthly. J.ivcrpool has the largest dockage in Britain. WOMEN MUST SLEEP. Avoid Nervous Prostration. If you are dangerously sick what is the first duty of your physician? He quiets the nervous system, he deadens the pain, and you sleep well. Friends ask, "what is the cause?" and the answer comes in pitying tones, nervous prostration. It carae upon you so quietly in the beginning, that you were not alarmed, and when sleep deserted you night after night until your eyes fairly burned in the darkness, then you tossed in nervoui agony praying for sleep. Mas. A. Habtley. You ought to have known that when you ceased to be regular in your aourses, and you grew irritable with out cause, that there was serious trouble somewhere. You ought to know that indigestion, exhaustion, womb displacements, fainting, dizziness, headache, and backache send the nerves wild with affright, and you cannot sleep. Mrs. Hartley, of 221 W. Congress St., Chicago. 111., whose portrait w<s pub lish, suffered all these agonies, and was entirely cured by Lvdia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound; her case should be a warning to others, and her cure carry conviction to the minds of every suffering woman of the un failing efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham'i Vegetable Compound. Dr. Bull's Cough Cures a cough or cold at once. d* Conquers croup, bronchitis. 4y |ll fg grippe anil consumption. 25c. J FA S M i *3 Con^n'W ■ MII'O 11. NTEVI2NH & CO., Katsb. IWH Dir. t, 817 —Mtn Street, YVAHHINUTON, l>. C. oflicAyi; IHOcako, OflTttbmd uad JJelrutt. ART OF HAWAIIAN COOKS ROAST THEIR FOWL TWO DAYS (N THE EARTH. How the Knnttka Method* of Automatic Cooking May lie Adapted for tlio I'rcjf urat ion of All Sorts of Food in Camps —Tlie Norwegian leather Itox. In the "Cruise of the Cachalot" a story is told of an interesting method of cooking among the Hawaiian Island ers. A hole was dug iu the ground, this was filled with fuel, and when it burned down to live coals earth was thrown over the coal and tramped down. Meanwhile a fowl or animal, having been dressed, was wrapped in a large palm leaf and laid on the earth over the coals. The hole was then tilled up and banked over. Meanwhile Mrs. Hawaii went about her business, invited her guests, and after two days opened the hole and brought out the food, clean and, the writer says, of the finest flavor they had ever known. This is not strange. The simple island er's was really the most scientific meth od of preparing food. The heat was stored in the walls of the hole and iu the coals. With this source of stored heat the food was slowly, automatically and perfectly cooked. The Indian, who leaves the feathers on his fowl, smeavs it with clay and buries it In the coals several hours, secures the same result, food automatically cooked preserving all the juices and flavors. Any gray beard who hasn't forgotten that he was once a boy and used to hook corn and roast it in husks will swear that there never was such corn. He is right. It is very easy to adapt the Hawaiian method of automatic cooking for the preparation of all sorts of foods in ei ni]). Procure a large vessel with a close fitting lid. In the lid lit a tube about a quarter to a half an inch in diu'neter to permit the escape of the steam and prevent the lifting of the lid. Dig a hole in the ground two feet deep and large enough to leave be tween the vessel and the walls a space ol' eight inches. Fill the hole of fuel and let it burn down to bright coal. Cover it lightly witii earth and set your can in the centre of the live coals. Sprinkle about an inch of earth or sand in the bottom of the can. Place the different articles to be cooked in vessels, preferably with loose fitting lids, and set them in the can. You can cook, if you choose, in glass fruit jars; food looks so clean and appetizing cooked in glass. Fit your lid, with its tube, on the large can. Fill up the hole and cover up the can with at least eight inches of earth. Let it alone four or five hours, or all day, or all night. When you are ready remove the dirt, lift out your can, brush off the lid, look within and lo! a dinner a la | Hawaii perfectly prepared. Another simple form of automatic camp cooking is an adaptation of the Norwegian feather box, which Is made with two boxes of such sizes that when the smaller is placed inside the larger it will leave n six-inch space on bottom, top and sides. The space between the boxes is filled with feathers. A stone Jar is placed in the Inside box. Two gallons of boiling water is poured Into that jar. A nicely dressed goose is put into the water, and the box covered With a feather-capped lid. This is left alone for a night, and the morning finds the goose thoroughly and dcli- Clusky cooked, withtwogallonsof gravy or soup stock. To adapt the Norwegian method to practical cninp cooking take a box two feet and a half long, 18 to it inches wide and about 18 inches llgli; or take the lower half of a bar rel. Cover the box with 15 or 2b thick nesses of newspaper. Set within a ves sel holding three or four gallons of water. Fill this vessel with boiling Water. Boil the food to be cooked for two or three minutes in salted water, then put It into email vessels and set the vessels in the larger vessel in the box. Cover the box with a paper covered lid and throw over the lid a piece of carpet to prevent the escape of heat where the lid fits onto the box. In this way all the green vegetables, fowls, meats and eggs can In- cooked. If you want to be forehanded you might do this: Before you start out on your trip make a trunk box and line it with the newspapers, asbestos paper, or with about two Inches of mineral wool, which is the best known noncon ductor of Back this with cooking utensils and food. When yon reach the camp unpack, boil the water, and In an hour's time you can be cooking in your trunk and at the same time fishing, stargazing or visiting with your best girl. The automatic principle of the Hawai ian and Norwegian cooking can be combined with tlie general idea of the barbecue methods as follows: Dig a trench three feet long. 18 Inches deep and 18 inches wide. Fill it with wood and let it burn to live coals. Here is your chance for toasting or broiling. Get a yard square or less of one-fourth to one-half inch furnace screen wire netting. Place two pieces of strap iron or gas pipe or poles across the trench, hay wire netting over it and lay on fish, fowl, bread or steak or po tatoes. Broiling toasting, roasting over, now is your chance for some au tomatic cooking. Smooth the coals town till level over the bottom of the tench. Cover these live coals with ishes or sand, rut in your bread, meats, fish, cereals, ungrouml coffee or what you will. Cover the trench tightly with two layers of boards, or •mo layer and a heavy coat or blanket. The heat stored in the coals and in the walls will cook for you while you tdeep. The ripened product will be waiting for you in the morning. The ideal method of automatic camp cooking is withinatrencboven. 16there is a hillside with clay, cut a trench two and one-halt feet long, two feet wide and walls 20 Inches deep. Across this trench lay three pieces of old iron rods or gas pipes. I,ay over these a piece of heavy sheet iron, 28 inches wide and three feet four inches long, with eight inches turned up at the front Cover this top with a foot of earth or sand. Fill the trench with fuel. The door will be your flue. When the fire has burned down to bright coals you have a rare opportunity to learn what fish tastes like prepared just light. The rarest, most delicate way to broil fish is to toast or plank it before the live coals. Epicures will journey a hundred miles for a planked shad din ner. Get a board, hickory if possible, two feet long. 15 inches wide and two inches thick. Oak will do, but is not so good as hickory. Split your fish, nail with bright nails back against the board, then lean the board before the open front. Have the coals drawn for ward. The fish oils will run out, and you will have a crisp, clean piece of toasted fish, luclous, digestible. In the same way, with a board or a wire toaster hung against the hoard, you can have broiled steaks, chops, etc. A pan at tho bottom will catch the juices of the meats. Now draw the coals out or cover tliem with earth, sand or ashes. You have your stored heat now ready to produce those chemical reactions that we call cooking. What is more and to the point is the fact that stored heat will bring about those necessary chemical changes in a more perfect manner than is possible with an uncon trojable direct heat, no matter how ex pensive a range you might have. You can bake pies, cookies and puddings to perfection. Beans, roasts, oatmeal, light bread loaves, corn pones, etc., are stored away, preferably in stone ves sels with covers. Take two boards and put one against the front of the stove, the other six inches from the front; fill in between with earth, go to bed and dream of "heaven and home-made bread." In the morning the rich, nutty bread is there, and heaven, too if you will, is not far away. Or if it is even ing and you are back, tired from limit ing or casting, what more heavenly than to find your oven full of foods, soups and drinks, hot and wholesome, waiting for you, automatically cooked. —Chicago Times-Herald. THE WATCHMAN AND HIS CAT. Fellna Attachment of Unnaual Uharactoi in a New York liuilUing. Sitting oil the steps of a house under construction on the upper west side was a watchman on duty. Almost at his feet, lying on the stone base of the iron fence that started at the steps, was a cat stretched out there comfortably hut with head erect, and scanning whatever came withiu view—the watchman's cat. It is not very remarkable to see cats around buildings that are going up. Tramp cats find a sheltering place in such structures if they are permitted to remain, as not infrequently they are, and they feed on the crumbs that fall from tlie workman's table; and it may easily be that the men employed on tlie building give the eat something more substantial than that, in the form of fragments of food. Sometimes a cat that thus takes quarters in a building under way is enabled to stay there af ter the building is finished and occu pied. Perhaps, for example, it may catch the fancy of, or make friends with the engineer, and so find in the engine room of tlie building a comfort able, pleasant and fixed home; taking upon itself as its share of the duties of the situation the keeping of the place clear of rats, and staying there, it may he, until it dies, or until the tramp fever once more starts it out into tlie world. But this cat that was sitting there so comfortably and serenely, and yet so alertly, oil the stone base of tho fence at the watchman's feet was not a stray cat that happened along there and stopped. It was the watchman's own cat, which lie had brought from home, to keep him company; and it did that very decidedly. Wherever the watchman went, day or night, there tlie eat followed like a dog. If tlie watchman went around the corner, for instance from the front to the side of the building, in tlie street, the cat went along behind him there; and in side tlie building, wherever he went up stairs or down, the cat followed him just the same; everywhere from top to bottom. There were no rats in the building and so the cat's attention was not diverted in that manner. When he moved it followed him about; and when he settled dowu it settled near by. It was night when tlie watchman and his cat were seen on this occasion, 111 the light shod by the street lamp on tlie corner; the watchman sitting on the steps of the building watching, and the eat, to all appearances watching, too.— New York Sun. A Gentlaman'a Distress. At one time the English public heard ' a great deal about the hidden poverty j of men and women in rich places. It ' is likely to again become a topic of public discussion? For instance, tlie following advertisement appeared in the London Standard: "WILL any Lady or Gentleman who ! has a house in London and have more rooms than they require kindly LET a Gentleman (by birth) have a BED- i ROOM ? Advertiser is 27 years old, J good family, and would willingly take : entire charge of a house (experienced in tills capacity); highest references.—l Cadogau." Romance ot Tail Buildings. i Of course all these men in the tall buildings, whether possessed of creat ive genius or of intelligence enough only to run one of the elevators, are alike Philistines to those persons who find nothing romantic or interesting in our i modern, much maligned skyscrapers, , which have also been called "monu ments of modern materialism," and ev ; en worse names, no doubt, because they are unprecedcnt and unacadcmic. prob ably, as much as because ugly and unre j strained, says a writer in Scribner's. | To many of us, however, shameless as it may be to confess it, these downtown streets are fascinating enough for what they arc to-day, even if they had no £>ast to make them all the more cliarm ; tng; and these erect, jubilant young buildings, whether beautiful or not, I scent quite interesting—from their bright tops, where, far above the tur i moil and confusion, Mrs. Janitor sits j sewing in the sun while the children : play hide-and-seek behind water-butts and air-shafts (there is no danger of j falling off, it is a relief to know, because I the roof is walled in like a garden) i down to the dark bottom where are the 1 safe deposit vaults, and the trusty old ; watchmen and the oblong boxes with great fortunes in them, alongside of wills that may cause family fights a few years later, and add to the affluence of cer- I tain lawyers in the offices overhead. Deep down, 30 or 40 feet under the ! crowded sidewalk, the stokers shovel ! coal under the big boilers all day, and electricians do interesting tricks with j switchboards, somewhat as in the hold of a modern battleship. In the many : tiers of floors overhead are the inetr with the minds that make these high, buildings necessary and make downtown 1 what it is. with their dreams and schemes, their courage and imagination, 1 their trust and distrust in the knowledge | and ignorance of other human beings, 1 which are means by which they bring ■ about great successes and great fail ures, and have all the fun of playing a game, with the peace of conscience and self-satisfaction which come from hard work and manly sweat. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sun light, washing uud rubbing. Sold by all druggists. Alabama has a fine old capitol, set on a hill and rich in historical associa tions, but it has no governor's mansion j and is beginning to think it needs one. "100 per cent, yearly dividends from a gold mine is not uncommon."—New York Herald. Fifty gold mines that liavo paid $<20,000,000 in dividends followed the same plan as wo work upon. Hend for our pros [ pectus. Golden Tree Mining and Milling j Co., 32 Broadway, New York. I Some 2,000,000 pounds of camphor I are consumed in the United States year ly. ' STATE or Onio, CITY op TOLEDO, LUCAS COUNTY, \ M ' ! FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the ! senior partner of the lirm of F. J. 'HKNEY TV . j Co.,doing businossiutheCitYofToledo.County : and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay j the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLL/its for each and overycaso of CATARRH that cannot be ! cured by the uso of HALL'S CATARRH < URE. FRANK J. CHENEY. j Sworn to before me ami subscribed in my —-) presence, this Otli day of December, SEAL > A. D. 1880. A. W. GLEABON, —. —) Nntam Public. 1 Hall's Catarrh ('ure is taken internally, and j : acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces '• I of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. it EN BY IFC Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family I'illsure the best. A burglar stole S6OO from a resident of St. Paul, Minn. The next day he re-! j turned that sum and $250 to boot. I am §urePlso*s Cure for Consumption saved my life threo years aco. —Mas. THOS. HOB BINS, Maple St.. Norwich. N. Y.. Feb. 17. 1900. | Taxon: "Do you have an alarm clock iat your house?" Paxon: "We don't have to have; we've got twins." To CUM a Colli In One I>ay. Take LAXATIVE UROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund tho money If it fulls to cure. B. W. GROVE'S signature Is on each 26a. The present season is reported to 1 have been the finest for rose-growing in England for many years. Novel London Restaurant. There is a famous site in London where once stood the palace of Crom well, Earl of Essex, and afterward the hall of the Drapers' Company. Here will be opened in a few days one of the most remarkable and magnificent res taurants in London, the Throgmorton. It is the nineteenth century develop ment of the old eatinghouses of the city, in which you dived down a few steps, j into a musty apartment, where very plain food, but good wine, was procur able. At the Throgmorton the proprie tors have dived to some purpose. Thev have dived and tunneled, and have con- j structed a restaurant of three floors un derground which apparently consist-; chiefly of long galleries all luxuriously fitted and furnished. The kitchens are a dream of culinary resourcefulness. The cellars are such that the wines can be kept at the exact temperature good for their health, an I the grill- room is something to make one look back with disdain to the old days when the hungry city man used to personally select his chop or steak at Bannister's, the butcher, and hurry off with it in paper to otic of the places where he might have it grilled for a penny, with bread and condiments ex tra. —Cardiff Western Mail. In the last presidential election Mc- Kinley received 142.500 more votes than all his competitors collectively. McKinley's plurality in I<BQ6 295,072; McKinley's apparent plurality in 1900. 293,583. Just one populist vote was cast in Sa vannah, Ga., at the recent State election. vT/ii. hfiufo .vl-ci"^..'C 'SUs, l Sfrfrfft^KLC^T•^ZtLST^TU" ~~ |j jTT\ DON ' T WIN YOUR STOMACH WITH MEDICINE. | 1 fo Himyadl Jfe@s I IS A NATURAL LAXATIVE MINERAL WATER. I* Endorsed nnd used by the most prominent physicians tl Ef\wrsvuSL/ f V in tbft w °rld ftH the best and safest remedy for ois- F EgA \\.Mlfr2=vK. \ ordered stomach, biliousness, liver troubles, gout and r rheumatism. rJ b Cures Constipation! ' Takeonc-hnlf glassful on arising in the morning and I ] IH|||r you will feel (he remarkable effects in half an hour. I 1 BfeM s ASKI LOOK{• m " Hunyadl J&nos." | Centre Panel. |*i | Sole Exporter, Firm of Andreas saxlehner, 130 Fulton St., N.Y. j*i ST. VITUS' DANCE Three great and complete cures effected by Dr. Greene's Rervura Blood and Nerve Remedy, Mrs. J. A. Fcrre, who resides near 90S Main Street, Hartford, Conn., says: ♦. i ly , da . U .L hter ** u, r U J beoatn t. ver >' 111 with st - vitus danc e over a year ago. She became so bad that she lost the use of her right arm and side, and we thought at one time she would lose her S?e ? w tongue was almost naralyzed. She was so bad she could not feed herself, and at night she would get so nervous I had 10 sit and hold her. I tried several doctors, but thev did not do her any good. I dul not find anything that would help her until I tried Dr. Greene's Nervura blood aud nerve remedy. She is uow, by the use of this mediciue, eutiiely cued." C. H. Bailey, Esq., of VVaterbury, Vt., writes; "I am more than K lad to write about my little daughter. Until a short time ago she had al ways been a very delicate child aud subject to sick spells lasting weeks at s time. She was very nervous aud our family doctor said we would never raise her, sl.e was so delicate and feeble. We tried many remedies without the least good. We felt much anxiety about her, especially as no doctors could benefit her, and had great fear for her future I. earning of the wonders being done by 1/r Greene's Nervura blood aud nerve remedy, 1 determined to give it to her. She soon 1 commenced to improve under its use, mid rapidly gained in every respect. She cats and sleeps well, and her nerves are strong The medicine has done wonders for her and it is the best we : ever knew. I recommend Dr. Greene's Nervura, blood and nerve remedy, to everybody." Mrs. J. Learmonth, of 776 Broadway, South Boston, Mass., says: "At ten years of age tny daughter became affected with a nervous condition which soon de veloped into St. Vitus' dance. It was pronounced by the attending physician to be a very severe attack. The mouth woo].l tw drawn spasmodically far to one side, the hands uud arms were rest, less and constantly twitching, ller liinbs also were weak; her ankles bent under her so that it j was almost impossible to walk. She was so nervous that she would scream almost like a maniac and then have fits of crying. After two months' treatment without a cure. I concluded to try \ u reene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. Three bottles entirely cured ber. bhc is now thirteen year, old, aud baa beta weil ever since, and to-day is u picture o'f health." Remain; ol an Ancient Galley. I The remains of an ancient galley have been found six feet below the surface at I Tottenham Marshes, during the excava tions for the new reservoirs of the East London Water Company. The vessel is 50 feet long, and has a beam of 26 feet. Its timbers are of oak and elm, and, from the form of the rivets used, it is supposed to have belonged to the Danes who were defeated in Lea Valley by King Alfred in 804 A. D. An an tique sword and some bones of animals now extinct in England were also dug up, and have been sent to the British Museum. There arc 120 firms in Germany en gaged in the acetylene industry. Most of the burners are made at Nuremberg. There are no fewer than twenty-six small towns in Germany lighted by ace tylene gas. Tlie first plant of this kind for lighting small towns in Germany was erected at Hassfurt, a town of 2,500 inhabitants. There is only one sudden death among women to eight among men. J j 1 I | Beware oi Them g X There are two afflictions which § V perhaps give the most pain X X •ua trouble, viz; V Sciatica 5 and X Lumbago X Both disable and cripple, X X but y 1 St. Jacobs 01! | X is their best cure. x 00<H>0<W001>11<K>00<100<HJD<10 Indian widows in Sitka go into mourning by painting the upper part ol i their faces black down to their mouths. A dyspeptic Is never on good terms with himself. Something I- always wrong. Gel it right Ly chewing Beeman'e Pepsin Gum. To prevent obstruction to traffic in : | the main streets of Boston in the day | time, all the repairs are ipade at night. There is no other ink "just us good" as Carters Ink. there i only one ink that is best of ail ami tuat is Carter's Ink. Use it. Including Formosa, the mikado rules over 46,000.000 subjects. Tho Best Prescription for Chills and Fever Is a bottle of Gltovtt's TASTBLBSS CllltL ToniO. It Is simply iron niul quinine la a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Fries SOo. One hundred thousand tons of apples are raised 011 British soil yearly. Fits permanently cured. No (its or nervous, ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat Nerve Restorer. S3 trial bottle and treatiss tree. Dr.U.li.ki.i.\K.Ltd.l)3l Arch St.l'hila.Pv The number of persons cremated in 1 Germany from i8~<) to 1899 was 3,110. M rs. Winslou's Soothing Fvr up for children toothing, softens the gums, reduces iutlam mo tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 3.1 c a bottle. About 7,000 of the inhabitants of Nor way die every year of consumption. Bar id". 'f UNION MAE The re.il worth of W. J*T~ Is. * :;.<)<> ;• ml Jr.l_ s3>so bltooM couipureil I? m with other makes is jlfli 84.00 to 8 .00. py >^v Our.B-1 filli PACJX pM cnimot lie equalled at qj —✓ any price. Overl.OOt),- F 000 satisfied wearers. *§ WE it FAST P $3 or'tTSO'.hoas will Jx EYELET I ; O^vP° outwear "lVeare tho larfjost makers of men's 8.7 find ©Jt.fSO SIKH'S in the world. We make and sell more *;> ;! „,i 83.50 shoes f lian an other two mnnnfu'nrers In tho U. S. Tho reputation of W. L. pC<JT OOURIIUI t-1.00 and f.1.50 shoos for nCOT LJLwI Style, comfort. And wear is known nfcol evory where throughout the world. viQ RH ■*y Ii tveto nivo bettor satisfm VpWiuU tioa thun other niakos hccuuse Cbu.Ull iMiflf I h- nl.ay, |,„„ ViU SKOE. y-i'AA/vy.y, nv: SHOE. thm they can get olsowht re. TWE s H1..11 W 1.. linn; itto f1 a in] SM.SO inwjjre r.",') ;! ,n>i ■ -in r nmke is because |;v ARB TUB II ~.. keep ■? *. W3 ® 0 "'-' "• r ®*i'ltiMivo su!e in each town. I iilic mi liitisiifiilo! Insist on hnviiiK W. I Jt rioujfis.s shoos wit); ii.trio and rnec stumped on bottom. JI your uei.ler will not jjet tiiein for von. stnd direct to factory. e„e|oßi„R price and s.v i-itr* for corrm K e. Btate kind <ll nther. em\ tin.l width, plain or nip toe. ! foes will reach vm fi.iywh.ro. a , ir free. WsJLs. X • Hiektwu, MIMIC D^CPSYS,?!SS:::! cisea Book of v .monialn an/ 10 du vg' tinutmoti| X'rce. Dr. H. U. G&K£t< h So.td, Box a. Atlanta, Go, T. X. U. 4R, 1 irOO.
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