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THE NATIONAL GAME. Tho American League pennant struggle is not much in the way of a close race. Donlin, of Baltimore, has been benched by President Johnson for dis orderly work The Western teams won twenty-cnc games on their Eastern trip and lost twenty-seven. Pitcher Donovan is about the ouly mau Manager Xiaulon can depend upon at present. Irwin, the Cincinnati third base man, says wild pitches have lost more games lor the Itcds than poor fielding or batting. It is estimated that flic National League is out nearly $300,000 as a re sult of' the uuprecended list of post ponements due to rain. Instructions have been sent out in the American League, according to re port, lor tne catchers to play up be laud the bat all the time. Fieldci A. Jones, of the Chicago American team, has played on four champion teams in his six years' base ball experience. Will this make his fifth? Of all the holes m.ulc in National League teams by defections to the American that made In the Boston team by the loss of Collins and Stabl appears to be the biggest Matthewson is just the kind oi a player that the New York public can enthuse over. lie is a clean, intelli gent lad of good appearance His sue cess lies in the fuct that he- has the Tare traits of speed, puzzling curves, change of pace, an abundance of nerve and a level head. The Brooklyns, seemingly are find ing the pace set by the other National League teams too warm to keep up well. They are out with a bowl to the effect that they are gcttiug the worst of the umpiring, that umpires have been instructed to give close de cisions against them. Columbus and His Salary. in the building known as the "Lon ja" at Seville, Spain, are preserved the archives of the Indies—the early Spanish colonies in America—from the time of their discovery until a few years ago. There is a mass of papers, books and coriespondence which would fill a train of cars, and it is piled away upon the shelves without luueh order or system. A few indo lent clerks are engaged in overhauling, arranging and indexing tho papers and the Society of the Amcricauistes has •boon granted permission to publish any that have an important bearing upon history. Every little while some Interesting paper is discovered and puidished in the reports of that so cle;}'. The latest discovery is the ac count of the payment of tho crews of the caravels of Columbus upon his lirst voyage. The minister of finance In Ids report shows that there were 83 men under pay. Columbus himself, with the title of admiral, received a salary of .8:130 a year. The captains of the three ships received respectively $lO. 818 and $lO a mouth. The sailors received from $2 to $3.40 a month, In cluding their subsistence and two suits of clothes a year. All postal moneys sent between the I'nited States anil Canada will now go at the domestic rate of three-tenths of one per cent, instead of the Inter national rate of one per cent., as for merly. This is regarded as a most important concession. Tinpjoiela's Groat Itlohos. Venezuela is a country where nature makes millionaires; and some of the best of the money is now i iming tc citizens of this country who have been down there and used their eyes to good advantage. The greatest com pany of Venezuela has a capital of $30,000,600, and its headquarters are in Minnesota. There are gold mines which havft produced $35,000,000 and paid $23 000,000 to their shareholders. The riehuess of Its forests Is beyond calculation, and they will last for cen turies. It has gold, silver, precious stones and a hundred things which mean wealth and which the world wants; and as a matter of fact its re sources have scarcely been touched, so groat are they. Preffld *nt Lonbet Is Forgiving. President Loubet of France is a mat who bears no malice. When a mem ber of the nobility smote him on the head v. 'th a stick as he was peacefully sitting in the race course at Auteuil, the courts sentenced the cowardly of fender to two years' Imprisonment. The president wished to pardon tho culprit at a very early stage of his imprisonment, but the ministry repre sented that, however lightly M. Lou bet, the man, might regard the offense, it was against public policy that the assailant and insulter of M. Loubet. the president, should escape with a nominal punishment. } IN UNDRESS UNIFORM, i i 4 V BY IL H. BENNETT. Sergeant Bob leaned liis rifle against the stack and sat down on an up turned empty soap box in the shadow of the tent, with a sigh of relief. He unbuckled his belt and mopped his hot faco with n red cotton handkerchief. "There," he said, "that's done for one while! I shall uot have any more guard duty for at least twenty-four hours, thank goodness, though we've got none too many men and extra guard duty is becoming the rule." "Thought you liked it?" grinned the other seageant, looking up from his occupation of poking a little sharp ened stick into the recesses of his rifle-hreecli in search of dust. "Like it!" Sergeant Bob ejaculated ironically, with a disdainful wave of a grimy hand at all the surroundings. From the scrubby hills to the east a dusty country road ran across the nar row valley, and disappeared in the hills to the west. The sides of the hills were covered with underbrush and second-growth timber, with here and there a little whitewashed house set down box-like in a clearing. The val ley was a marsh, with coarse grass and weeds; here and there a pool of stag nant water or a ditch-like stream; lit tle hummocks of drier ground rose from it, covered with brambles and wild roses. Through the centre of this valley ran the long black line of a railway em bankment, crossed midway by a wagon road. In one of the angles formed by the crossing stood a country store, a one-stored box of gray boards. In an other angle was a great coal-tipple, its skeleton frame black against the sky. From this a little railway straddled across the marshy ground on the high legs of a trussle, running back to where the dark mouth of a coal shaft yawned in the hillside. Around the tipple were great piles of slack, waste coal dust, screened from the dump. The store was built on slack; the railway embankment was made of slack; grimy hills of slack, cut through by the railway and the wagon road tilled all the neighborhood of the tipple. Some of the murky hills were on fire, smoldering at the base. They bad been burning for years, and from them rose noxious gases. The stream that ran at their base was polluted by the drainage of the slack, and on the sur face of the water floated an iridescent, metallic scum. Along the wagon road, on either side, stretched rows of tents; another row was placed on a little strip of level ground at the foot of the railway fill; more tents stood in the shadow of the coal tipple. In lront of the store a tent held a telegraph instrument, placed on a barrel; and here a blue clad operator listened to the busy tick lag of tno receiver. The brazen sun a? a hot June day shone in a sky of Burning blue. The thermometer, hung ia the telegraph tent, registered 34 degrees. Now and then a long coal train rushed by, raising black dust in swirls, which settled again on tents and tipple and store. A wagon, drag ging its slow course along the road, was half hidden in a gray cloud of dust. In the shade of the tipple or in the hot shadow of the tents lounged blue-clad men, with blouses unbut toned or cast aside, each one trying to get a breatu of fresh air in that val ley furnace. Four imantry companiss and a bat tery of the National Guard were en camped here; four miles down the railway were two othercompanics, and four miles in the other direction were two companies more. Sixteen miles of railway were held and guarded by these two battalions. Beyond them were troops of other regiments, scattered liere and there along 60 miles of road, until the railway reached the waters of the broad Ohio. Night and day sentinels paced the track and squads of guards watched the bridges, the coal tipples and the mine buildings. Night and day watch ful pickets along the hills waited with loaded rifles. When the troops had reached the narrow valley, three days before, bridges and tipples were burning; loaded cars had been overturned and wrecked, and not a train was running on this section of one of the great rail ways of the country. All this was the j work of rioters who found opportuni- i ties for mischief in a strike of coal I miners. The majority of the rioters j were alleged, by the coal miners, to be ignorant foreigners, deluded and | misled by mistaken men. But the great, danger of this strike, ! which has now been a matter of his- j tory for some years, were at an end. | Now the bridges and buildings were ' safe; long trains thundered over the rails, and the men who had brought about order panted in the sweltering heat by day and shivered in the misty, chill air by night. By night, too, the rioters from the foreign settlement came across the hill and fired into the camp and at the sentries. The first night this was done the bugle blew "To arms!" and the whole camp roused itself to repel the attack: now, even the pickets did not notice the firing unless the men came too near, or tried to cross the lines. Then it was: "Halt! Who goes there?" "Halt! Halt! Who goes there?" "Halt, oi I'll fire!" followed by the re port of a rifle, and then the crashing of bushes as the intruder fled. "I w'sh we had been detailed for the tipper post!" growled Sergeant Bob. who had got rid of his blouse and his I leggins, and was now meiitatlvely re- \ gardinn his Tasty shoes "Why? You don't hear any newt up there; this is headquarters," said the other sergeant. "Headquarters indeed! You can get passed up there to go into the town and get a bath. You don't have to loat around in an atmosphere of coal dust all the time. And they have a barrel of ice water in the camp." "What! Ice water! You don't mean it?" "Yes, I do!" grumbled Bob. "The major's orderly told me so when he came down here. He had a bath yes terday, a regular swim, with plenty of water. We have to tramp a quar ter of a mile to get drinking water, and not much of that! I tried bathing in one of these ditches. Steed in a wash basin to keep from sinking in the mud. It wasn't a success, and I've got clean things in my knapsack, too. By George, we always get the toughest detail of the whole lot!" "Oh, quit your growling!" "It's all very well for you. You're not a duty sergeant, and don't go on guard." "No; but I have to stay here, and it's 'Sergeant, do this, that and the other' all day. Then there are the reports and requisitions; and every time one of you fellows wants to grumble you come to me. Yesterday you wanted to know why I did not give you coffee after dinner!" "I didn't! I just asked you if you expected us to live on canned beef all the time. Say, we got fired on three different times at the bridge last night." "Any one hurt?" "No." "Did you shoot any one?" "Don't know. We fired back, but I guess we didn't hit anything. Speer of Company H, night before last, shot a man who tried to run the line; at least, that is what Speer reported in the morning; but I notice that Com pany I-I's eating fresh mutton, and the commissary hasn't issued any, either. Why can't one of our fellows shoot one of Speer's men? Lazy beggars!" "Bob," said the other sergeant, "I'm dead broke, and my credit is not good at the store over there. They don't know me, and" "They do know you!" chuckled Sergeant Bob. "Keep still! As I started to say, I have no money, and I'm tired of the food myself. I want to buy some crackers. Now if you have any cash, and will get a box of crackers, I'll tell you where you can get a bath, wasli your clothes, and feel like a man and a brother once more." "Sergeant, the crackers are yours! Where is that corner of paradise?" "Hold 011! Don't be in such a hurry. You go up an persuade the commissary sergeant to give you a bar of that im ported yellow soap, while I go and use my influence with one of the hos pital corps to get a couple of big tow els." "Your influence! You've got about as much influence as a lance-corporal, and that's nothing. Besides, I have a towel." "So've I; but we want to do this thing in style. We'll take our blan kets for togas, and do the Roman sen ator while our duds are drying. And my influence is all right, because the big towels are hanging behind the hos pital tent, and the fellows are at the surgeon's tent, hearing a lecture on bones. Skip along after that soap, now." "Where is this place you're talking about?" "Robert, you pain me! Can't you take it on trust? There is a well " "Yes, at home. And I wish 1 had a barrel of water from it now." "Don't interrupt my eloquence. There is a well, a deep well, with clear, cold water, on a hillside near a ruined log house. By that well is a quarter section of a hogshead, once used for watering cattle, now convert ed by my genius into a bath-tub. A big elm spreads its umbrageous arms over soft grass, where " "That will Jo! I'm going for the soap on a run," and Sergeant Bob struggled into his blouse and de parted. An hour later two blanket-draped boys lay on the grass under tlio elm. The camp was out of sight behind a shoulder of the hill. On a fence near by various garments were drying. Flecks of sunlight struggled through the leaves overhead, and made a goll and green patchwork of the grass. A barren corn-field, with last year's stalks cut close to the ground, stretched away up the hill to a fringe of hushes, the advance guard of the forest. An old well, wilh a rotting rlied above a rough stone curb, was near the free. Against the well-shed least- J two rifles, with bayonets, belts and cartridge-boxes hung on the ram rods. "Now this is luxury," said Sergeant Bob; "but if that fat lieutenant of the guard caught us outside of the lines, we'd get into trouble." "This is worth it, isn't it? As some one said once, you cannot take away the dinners we have eaten, and not even the fat " B-z-z-z-t! Something sang through the air like a bee, and struck the tree trunk near by. B-z-z-z-t! Another singing through the air, and two white streaks arose from the enveloping blankets and sought cover hurriedly. From a patch cf bushes on the edge of the corn-field 1 little puff of blue smoke floated lazl ,y upward. "Now, who on earth can that bo? try one mean enough to fire at two peaceful children—Are you hurt?" asked Sergeant Bob, from behind a tree. No, I'm not, but I'm very uncom fortable." "What's the matter?" "Why, look at me!" said the other sergeant. "Here I am. lying in a pud dle of ice-water." "Why don't you get out of it, then?" "Get out of it? These old well boards won't stop a ball, and I have to stay flat on the ground behind this curb. I don't want to get shot. This Is where you tipped over that bucket of water. I wish I had that villain!" A shot from the thicket answered him as he shook Ills fist beyond the corner of the well. Sergeant Bob leaned against the tree and laughed; then he stopped laughing and won dered how long the unseen marksman would keep them there, and if their absence from camp would be noticed at noon mess. Every movement, it seemed, brought a shot from the bushes. Once in a while the man In the thicket turned his attention to the clothes on the fence and shot holes In them, while the owners howled at him from their cover. "Well, I guess I can stmd it as long as ho can," commented Bob. "Yes; you're not exposed to the wintry blasts as I am!" complained the other sergeant. "Wintry blasts! Why, man, the sun's burning patches on me till I look like a tiled floor!" "Well, you aren't lying in a small lake of well-water that is 'way below zero. Part of me is frozen; when I turn over the other part freezes, and a crash towel is small slothing, and I'm dirtier than when I came up here. Wouldn't I like to get a crack at that fellow!" "Say," begun Sergeant Bob after another half-hour, "can't you get one of the rifles? The little snap of his gun can't be heard at camp, but If you could tiro one of ours, the bang would bring the guard up in a hurry." "I can't reach them from here. Every time I stick my hand out that reprobate shoots at me. Wait a min ute! Is your rifle loaded?" "No; but the box is hanging on it with the belt, and there's 20 rounds In it." The other sergeant looked round and found a stick. Then he reached over and poked the stick through a crack In the boards, sawing it back and forth until he got it against one of the rifles. The gun came rattling to the ground, and lie pulled It behind the curb. This brought out more shots from the man in the bushes. "Is that my rifle?" asked Bob. "Mine, and the best one in the com pany, too!" "Well, you'll get your shoulder kicked off. Y'ou've got uo clothes for padding." "This rifle don't kick. No rifle does If you hold it right, and I'll make a pad of this towel. Of course you fel lows who shut both eyes when you lira and hold the butt two inches from your shoulder get kicked, and no wonder." "Shut both eyes? Who got the sharpshooter's bar, I'd like to know? But go ahead! Blaze away into the hill! Noise is all we want." Bang! went the rifle, and a crack from the bushes answered it. Half a dozen times the sergeant shot, as fast as he could load and fire. "That will do, I reckon," he said, rubbing his shoulder. "They'll think there is a battle," and the two chuckled as they waited for reenforce ments and relief. "Hi, there, you men! What are you doing here?" It was the fat lieuten ant, coming from behind the old log house. "Get hack, lieutenant!" both boys cried. "You'll get shot!" "There's a villain six feet tall up In the bushes there, with a Winchester! He's kept us hero an hour," explained Sergeant Bob. "Hey!" and the lieutenant dodged behind the log hut. From back of him the grinning faces of half dozen of the guard looked out. "We'll get your man for you. We reeounoitercd, saw from where the shots came, and I sent a squad up ovor the hill. They'll come down on his roar. But what I want to know Is what you two are doing outside of the lines?" "Taking a bath, sir." "Taking a bath, eh? Well, I might overlook you coming out for such a commendable purpose, especially since you've been penned up already; but you've made me run up this hill in the sun, and you ought to be court-mar-; tialed. Hello! The other squad has | your man." There was a commotion in the bush es; then the corporal and the rest of the squad appeared. The corporal held in his hand a dingy little Flobert rifle. Two of the men ltd a small, shock-headed, dirty-faced boy. The lieutenant shouted with laugh ter. There's your six-footer and his Winehester! Kept you here an hour! Oh, my!" and the rest of the guard snickered audibly. Sergeant Bob and the other sergeant■looked at each other and said nothing. "What docs lie say, corporal?" "Says he did it for fun, sir, and that ho did not shoot to hit." "He did it for fun, eh? Well, just bring along his rifle and keep it; box his ears and send him home. As for you two, get into your clothes and come to camp at once. When you get there report at guard headquarters— that is, If you don't torget It," and the lieutenant smiled as he departed. "Guess we'll forget it, won't we Bob?" asked the other sergeant. And they did. —Youth's Companion. The man with a clear conscience sleeps well, likewise the fellow whe hasn't any conscience at all. I Pjpl IMB • j ABOllTi==a Bijj ISnrq let by a Woman, The largest banquet on record in history, it is claimed, was that given j to the mayors of France in tho Gar i den of tho Tulleries during the Paris J exposition. This banquet was entire j ly managed by a woman 2G years old, 1 Mile. Potel. The number of guests | was 23,460 and the total number of | employes was 24,080. This included I wagon drivers, detectives, caretakers ; of silver, ice cream men, dishwashers, waiters and cooks. On the day of the banquet Mile. Potel was on the ground 1 in a magnificent costume, surrounded by a small army of subordinates and boys on bicycles to carry her orders. —Chicago Chronicle. Help for the Women of Tmlli. 1 An English woman, who has gone to India to practice medicine, states in a letter to a friend that it has been 1 proven that only through the enlight enment of the high class women of In dia can help come to tho Indian worn- I an of lesser rank, and the medical work of English women is evidently to be the greatest and most powerful lev ■ er for raising the iron door that shuts tho eastern women from western free dom and culture. Further that it is at unfortunate fact that there are no nore strenuous opponents of any change in the position of Indian wom en than most of tho women them selves. It Is known to be no uncom mon thing for the mother of the fam ily to refuse to eat and make herself and everybody else wretched if one of her daughters is merely allowed to go to school. Tlio Sleevo of Summer* The sleeve should receive special consideration in making summer gowns, and certainly the variety is great enough to allow every one to se cure a particular type suited to her requirements. The long sleeve is a sort of mutton-leg shape reversed so that the fulness is all at the wrist, where it is gathered Into a cuff, is a favorite style, and elbow sleeves, va ried In finish, will be a feature of thin gowns, while the modified bishop sleeve, finished with a turn-hack cuff, will be chosen for the late spring tail or gown. An association of fabrics is | essential to the beauty and good style of these dressy sleeves. Fine sheer ba tiste In white or a deep cream tint is finely tucked, shirred or run with lace Insertion to make the under sleeves that are worn with the foulard j or veiling dress which has sleeves in elbow or three-quarter length; and a vest front and deep sailor collar of the same fabric, ornamented with rich lace, are frequently added to accentu ate that idea. Chiffon, mousseline de sole and all-over lace are also util ! ized in this fashion, when a very vdressy effect Is desired. , Stringing Band- lor Pin Mousy. ! It is considered quite smart to malio money nowadays—provided, of course, one can make it in ornamental ways. The threading of beads and gems 011 1 chains and necklaces Is one way to keep busy the fingers and fill the purse of the ornamental worker. It Is said that four fashionable women make these barbaric baubles for prt -1 vate clients and the shops—one with the laudable desire of purchasing for herself with the proceeds a diamond tiara! The great difficulty scorns to he to hit upon something really new. One makes a special point of very fino and narrow gold braid, threaded at in tervals through queer Japanese beads and little toys, such as whistles and peep-shows, and also of big lumps cf turquoise treated in the samo way; and another started her career with SSO worth of beads and pearls, both regular and irregular in size, and re lies upon the changes her ready wit can ring upon rubies, emeralds, gold beads, amber, crystals, orientals, Ve netian and the rest, to produce pretty designs. Hundreds of dollars can bo spent 011 the gold-mesh bag, studded with real jewels and dependent from a jewelled frame; but less expensive models are lovely and not so keen a source of sorrow if lost. —New York Commercial Advertiser. Woman ami the Bootblack. "This chair reserved for ladles," Is the sign that a w*est side bootblack has stuck over one of his seven chairs. Tho sign attracts attention but not nearly so much as the member of the gentler sex who has the courage to climb to the elevated perch to havo her hoots cleaned and dressed. The matinee girl seems to be tho greatest patron of tho reserved chair, and she is seemingly unabashed as men and boys half a dozen deep block up the sidewalk and stare. This gap ing crowd is the arch enemy of tho boss bootblack, who realizes that bis fair customers invariably fall to come back after being stared at in this way. "The sign Is all right, but I'm afraid the chair is a little ahead of the times," said the bootblack. "The rnv woman Is a great and glorious insti tution that has come to stay seeming ly. She'll fight for her club, her theatre tickets, her political rights, her reserved seats In the restaurant and even her right to pick her hus band's typewriter, but when it comes to sitting down at a corner shoestand to have her hooks looked after she balks wrose than the mare that David Har.um sold the deacon. The new woman can't stand being placed upon an elevated chair and stared at as a museum freak. Her courage is not screwed up to that point. At least not yet."—New York Sun. Kilwnrd VII (mil Harriet I ane. "During the Prince of Wal is's stay in Washington (upon the occasion of his visit to America in 1SG0) he was i President Buchanan's guest, and oc cupied apartments of the executive mansion looking over Lafayette square," writes William Perries, in the Ladies' Home Journal. "One even ing when an elaborate display of fire works was given in his honor he stood ! on the balcony of the White House, j together with Mr. Buchanan and Miss I Lane, amidst great cheers. When din ing with his hosts he would escort Miss Lane to the table, seating him | self at her right. His manner was somewhat bashful, and most public ceremonies apparently bored him. But | while he was with Miss Lane and the coterie of beautiful women of her set i it was noted that for the first time since he had been in this country he : seemed to show the manner of a gal j lant young gentleman desirous of pleasing. One of the merriest morn ings she had with him was at a gym | nasiitm in Washington attached to a | female seminary. On the brass rings suspended from the ceiling he swung j himself one by one across the room, ; and the whole party laughed heartily ; at his pranks on the rope ladder. Then ' he fell to playing tenpins. Miss Lane and the Prince together succeeded in conquering Mrs. Thompson and the Duke of Newcastle; it was next the turn of the victors to play against j each other, and Harriet who was one of the most robust girls of the day, speedily outbowled the Prince and put his muscle to shame." A Means or Livelihood. There is a great deal to he said for ! poultry raising, both as a means of livelihood and as a pleasurable occu pation, especially for a woman who i lives out of but adjacent to the city, j If she be not of very robust health I this occupation may be the means of i making her well and strong, for it i means an open-air existence to her. | As a business investment, very lit , tie capital will bring excellent returns. A woman is more fitted for this vart j ety of work than a man, for. though I she may lack physical strength, there are the many little essentials—care fulness, tender treatment, thrift and attention —which are the backbone of success in poultry raising, which she i alone is capable of handling. As an Investment, besides the rais ing of poultry for the market, the eggs are to be considered. It is bet ter for the beginner to attend to but one branch of this work, and which branch will prove the more remunera tive, depends upon one's market. To raise poultry one must be in close proximity to a city, but that is not so j absolutely necessary if eggs alone fig | ure in one's investment, for these may | be shipped. j As to the fowls themselves, pure- I bred or first-cross fowls are better lay ers than the average barnyard birds, and very little more expense is en tailed in stocking a place with such. Of the non-setters, leghorns are tha | best layers. Wyandottes are also good | layers and moderately good setters, and both the Plymouth and rocks are | excellent birds. Cochins and brahma 3 are very disappointing. It is not nec essary for the amateur poultry farmer ; to lay in a large number of birds. A few birds of good laying strain, and i with eggs from these hatched for the following season, will be all that is necessary. Give the birds plenty of room and liberty and keep their nest runs clean and they will thrive.— I American Queen. kS) TO RVo^.M"'s^r Panne frieze is a new material that Is supple but has a rough surface. ' Hairpins with jewelled heads are one of the noveltines for hair decora ! tion. ! The latest French coiffure shows j the hair coiled low on the nape of the neck. I French silver buckles are very I stylish and compete in popularity with ] the largo turquoise buckles. White pique gowns are strapped ! with bands of white suede cloth by j way of r.cvelty rather than for practi j cal use. The new veiling displays gold spots, which is a pretty fashion, but r.ot one ' that i 3 likely to be approved of by ' the oculist. L'Aiglcn stockings are the latest. Silk stockings, of course, with yellow eagles in a line running up over the i-ten. and on either side of them violets. Gay little low shoes have red heels, , the front part of the shoe, in which the eyelet holes for the laclng3 are set. being red and the lacings light drab silk. Mourning pprses or pocketbooks— unfortunate misnomer—come In black leather finished with gun metal, the design simple and having only a fine beading at the edge. Handsome flowered silks are made with a satin selvedge about half an Inch wide in a contrasting shade. The stripe Is really too pretty to lose and some modistes manage to util ize It in the costume some way. The thin lace is so much more satis factory, say the women who consider a gown a real work of art. "I like the delicate texture," says one, "and It has more the effect of real lace." The latest shirtwaist sets show studs with single stones set in gold with the tiniest of safety pins, also with the same stone to fasten the 1 stock collar in the back and front
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