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TRE WINGRAg TIMES, kl'UST 20, 1914
Salting One's Smeke.
.The strangest way of taking his ealt
was probably Dr, Paree, Telfourel
records that he *Used to fill his pipe
halt with the finest tobaceo and laalf
With salt, After that it is not very
surprislog tO learn that he smoked
"with a philosophical calmness." On
one qccasion when the two nut Chariee
Lamb's furious smoking of the strong-
est tobacco filled Dr. Parr with as
tonislunent. Gently laying down his
pipe, he inquired how Larob had ar-
rived at his power of smoking at such
a rate, "I toiled after it, sir, as some
s men toll after virtue," was Lamb's re -
see ply. -London Graphic.
Strychnine.
Strychnine is one of the most power -
fel vegetable poisons known, but it has
very odd effects. Hp to about one
thirty-second of a meiln it is often used
In medicine as a stimulant. Very little
more is required to bring on that pe
-
collar state known as "tetanus," in
which the muscles lock themselves up
Into such hard masses that they are al
rigid. as bone. An overdose, however,
has been known in at least one in.
stance to cure itself. -Exchange.
How He Felt.
"You net as though you thoUght
yourself superior to the government."
.."Well," replied the genial egotist, "I
do feel slightly superior. As a tax-
payer when I owe the government any-
thing I pay. When the government
owes me anything it does as it likes
about the matter." -Washington Star.
Plenty of Hopeless Ones.
.At the age of twenty-five a man can
be forgiven for thinking he knows it
all, but if he hasu't changed his mind
at forty there is no hope for laim.-To-
ledo Blade.
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Ogbalsa (pronounced d,ysit), tQ
gondola of Malta, is a survival, OM
John Wigna.ceurt in "The Odd Man In
Malta," et the oldest vessel ever used
aticl *tellies little in sbape from the
Egyptian boats of the dead. Actually
the eye of Osiris Is still to be seen upon
the prow. It is propelled by two ex-
perlenced oarsmen, ono of whom al-
ways staude. Wheu the Gregale wind
is siveeping the inirbors and tbe steam
ferries are unsafe you min still use the
trusty dglialsa. It is a gay little craft,
Painted in brilliant colors -in this re-
spect a contrast to the somber gondola
of Venice.
Pleasant For the Callers.
Two ladies made a format call on a
distant nequaintanee. The maid ask-
ed -them to wait until be ascertained
whether the person inquired -for was
In. Presently she tripped downstairs
and announced that "the 41ady was not
at home." One of the callers, finding
that she had forgotten her cards, said
to her'friend, "Let me write my name
on your card."
"Oh, it isn't at all necessary, miss,"
put in the maid cheerfully; "I told her
Who it was." -New York Globe.
With an Eye Toward Economy,
Mr. Perry had been out for a
day's fishing. As he proudly dis-
played the contents of his baeket to
his wife she exclaimed:
• "Oh, Alva, aren't they beauties!
But I've been so anxidus for the past
hour, dear."
"Foolish little one!" said Biqa
caressingly. "Why, what could
have happened to me?"
"Oh, I didn't worry about you,
dear," said the woman, "but it grew
so late I was afraid that before you
got back to town the fish markets
would all be closed."
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Cl?igidatiEgrY 'PURE BRED SIRES A POSITIVE CURE
cAsToR
NURSED A HOT TEMPER.
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FOR DAIRY HERD FoR RHEumuism
Something Had to Give Way When
William Morris Drake Loose.
Though explosive tempers may not
be admirable and temperamental ex-
plosions are not always harmlessly, ex-
pended, they are always preferable to
soreness, sullenness, brooding, resent-
ment or cold anger. Arthur Compton -
Rickett in his study of William Morris
-that "jolly vivid man," as be terms
him -relates several new instances of
Morris' violent thunderclaps of temper
and swiftly ensuing sunniness and
sweetness,
Once while he was painting he was
called from the room, and presently his
startled model heard him furiously
anathematizing some one outside
whom he dismissed or ejected and
then returned a.moment later still boil-
ing with wrath. He could not resume
his work, but made wild deshes about
the room, growling and inutteriug, un-
til at last in a culminating access of
rage he took a flying kick at the door
and with a vast crashing and splinter-
ing smashed in a panel. It was too
much for his model's nerves, ancl he
started to Bee, but at that moment
Morris, with his ire entirely gone now
that the explosion was over, turned,
with a beaming smile, and assured him
genially:
"It's all right, it's all rigbt, but some-
thing had to give way!"
1 am grading my cows, up by using
registered Holstein bulla, writes a cor-
respondent of the Kansas Farmer, I
have my second male new, and pay first
half blood heifers are giving as inucls
milk as two -year-olds as their mothers
gave as ,mature cows. Sly plan has
been to buy a registered bull calf in
the fall. My first one at two and one-
half mouths old cost me $50, including
the cost of getting him to my place. I
recently sold this bull off to grass as a
four-year-old, weighing 1,575 pounds,
the price received being $75. Although
sold on n beef basis, be is to be used
by another man as a breeder.
Commenting on the above, the Kell-
en:4 Partner says:
The up grading system beiug prac-
ticed by our correspondent is the surest
as well as the cheapest method of im-
proving live stock that can be prac-
ticed. The use of a high class pedi-
greed sire &Most invariably results in
Producing a bunch of heifers far su-
perior to their mothers from the pro-
duction standpoint. This has been
demonstrated over and over again, and
yet ninny men attempting to develop
FLAVOR OF .FOOD.
tt is an Important Factor In Digestion
and Good Health.
If it were not for flavor we should
not digest our food properly. Epicu-
reanism in eatisig is the handmaid of
good health. FInvor has 'been called
tbe soulof food. The viands that are •
most agreeable to our sense of taste,
those we enjoy most, are those we tire
most likely to digest well and from
which we :tre most likely to derive tbe
maximum of nourishment.
A hook was devoted to this stiltieet
hy . Fleury T. Finek of New York. Els
ea fled it "Foid a nil Flavor," ln a re-
view of it the Scientific. A nterican says:
'The psychic. factor of desire must pre
cede ingestion or resnits will be unpro•
pitious. To each vent spent for num
moot we add live more for flavor. Fla
vor, III short. has an appetizing value.
a health value, a', commercial value.
-The evolution of n discriminating
appetite and the-cshication of the eoue
must go Muni in hancl, But your glut
ton is never au eploure. Rational mas-
tication must accompany the highest
enjoyment of food, awl (t) this enjoy•
o
inent lie perfect assimilati and
health. It is flavor that stimain c 1-„ the
now of the digestive juiees; it is the
digestis'e juices that prepare the food
ft». the extraption of nutriment."
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The Professor Was Wrong.
Several doe:Ides ago a learned profes-
sor delivereil a coarse of lectures, in
ono of which_ he proved to his DWI) sat-
isfaction that the Atlantic) oven)) could
never la) crossed by steam. Steno)
power had been discovered and ap•
plied on land, but he was confident it
could never he applied to the ocean.
Under the peculiar conditions of the
heaving titles, the danger of storms.
the rolling of the title, and so forth
V011 could neVer apply steam to 1.111ri-
gntion across the Atlantic. The book
in which that lecture was published
was on the first steamer that, crossed
the. Atlantic. The captain took it along
ns n sort uf curiosity. That book did
not have a ,,,very large sale. but there
11115 1.een optite a run of steamers ever
since. and the professor ccasecl to
argue thnt steam could not 1)0 utilized
cm the oven n.-Christlan Herald.-
KURIOS FROM KORRESPONDENTS
Q. Flow is a» egg divided? A. Fifty-
seven per cent white, :12 per cent yolk.
11 per cent shell.
Q. What is meant by bloody eggs?
A. Eggs ill WiliCh StrellkS uid
SpOls of blood. These are generally,
caused by rupture of mall blood ves-
sel in oviduct.
Q. What is the most fregarht cause
of soft shelled eggs? A. Overfat.
Q. \VImt IS the ovarian), infindibalum.
the uterus and the cloaks? A. The
yolk cluster, The upper part of ovi-
duct. whore yolk is covered with albu-
men. The middle, where egg is cover-
ed with shell, The 00(1 of ()viand,
whore finished ewr rests n tnoment be
fore entering rectum and from thence
drops into nest.
Indigestion
and Headaches
Arising Prom Constipation, Cured and
Regular Habits Established by Dr.
Chase's Kidney -laver Pills.
In the western Provinces, where oo
many thousands live far from doctors
and drug stores, very many rely on
Dr. Chase's medicines to cure dis-
ease and maintain health and strength.
This letter gives some idea of what
perfect control Dr. Chase's Kidneys
Liver Pills exert over the most com-
mon ills of life.
Mrs. H. K. newer, farmer's wife,
leastburg, Alta„ writes :---"For about
ten years 1 suffered from constipa-
tion, indigestion, headache and lan-
guid feelings. Treatment from two
Or three doctors afforded only tem-
porary relief, so 1 -horned to Dr.
Chase's Miner -Liver Pills, and with
inost satisfactory results. Headaches
have disappeared, reguls.r habits es-,
tablished aftd genoral health Very,
inuCh better. Both my 'hate/bend and
I east speak highly of Br. Chase's
Kidney -Liver 'Pills. as we leave both
been greatly benefited by them." Ono
pill a dotie, Sas oabox, a, i 1.00, all
dealers, or Edtraineon, B &C10.,
Limited, Toronto"'
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The demand for pure bred dairy
sires of the leading dairy breeds has
never been greater than in the past
year. The demand for good grade
and pure bred cows never was
greater than at the present time,
the price never so high and cows
of the high standard so hard to get.
It would seeni from the outlook
that there is a brilliant future for
the breeder of high grade and pure
bred stock of the right type and
quality -the large producing kind,
with good butter fat test, The pure
twed Floistein cow pittured pro-
duced 18,00e pounds of milk In six
months.
dairy herds do not make it a practice
to use the hest sires possible in their
work.
It often happens that a man who is
prinfresSivti eimugh to introduce a high
Mass sire into n commtmity is given
little recognition for his progressive !
spirit. When -it becoines necessary to
dispose of the sire he oftentimes must
sand him to the Innrket for beef. Out
correspondent apparently had a neigh-
bor who recognized lInd grasped the
opportunity to secure a tried sire to
he»d his herd.
It often happens that a man buying
yoting male must dispose of him be-
fore he is in a position to know just
how good he may be as a breeder. A
notable instance along this line occur-
red at the Missouri experiment station
some years ago. A registered Jersey
1)1(11 TINIS sold at an ordinary price fox
a good registered ball, and later it de-
veloped when his heifers came into
full production that he was one of the
most remarkable producers of the
breed.
Where several men in a community
are interested in the same breed such
sacrifices as this need seldom occur,
A good sire may be kept in a conanau•
nity long enough to determine his men
it as a breeder.
Loss on American Wools.
The high quality of American wools
when properly put up, Is generally rec.
oguized by our manufacturers, but so
little attention is paid to the care oi
American wool at shearing time that
It usually sells for less than its real
.vnlue and frequently suffers by com-
parison with foreign wool. Such prao
times as the indiscriminate sacking oi
wool regardless of kind or condition,
the use of improper twine and the use
of insoluble paint for marking sbeee
cause really unnecessary expense and
loss in manufacturing, which has been
variously estimated at from 5 to 20 pet
cent of the original value of the woo)
and for which the producer must pay
by being compelled to accept a reduced
priee.-United States Department oi
Agriculture.
Melon and Pumpkin Seed.
Professor Hills of the Vermont ex-
periment station found that two and
one-half tons of pumpkins, including
seeds, are equal to a ton of corn silage
for dairy cows. The old belief that
pumpkins diminish the flow of milk
-When fed to cows is erroneous and has
been exploded. At least there is no
foundation for such a theory. ThE
value of these succulent foods for feed.
Ing cows with other feeds rich in dry
matter and feeding nutriente is such
that they should be utilized whenever
possible. By far more cows go dry
from not having succulent food than
are turned dry by consuming the seeds
of pumpkins and melons.
Scours In Little Pigs.
"An ounce of preeention is worth a
pound of cure." and everything pont-
ble should be &Me to prevent scours
front starting. The bedding should be
kept clean. Damp, unclean sleeping
quarters often tend to cause this diffi-
culty. The feeding of the aesv should
be watched carefully. No abrupt
changes should be made And no sour or
polled feed should be given. A. feed
of buttermilk to a eow with young
pigs will tten Start the pigs to egotut,
f000--ItatifieS Fanner.
Hundreds a People Have
Found "Fruit-a-tives" Their
Only Help
READ THIS LETTER
Superintendent of Sunday School in j
Toronto Tells How He Cured Himself
of Chronic Rheumatism After Suffer.
ing for Years.
5,5 DovunCotnee Roan, Oct„ rat. re13.
"Vor a long time, I have thought of
writing you regarding what 1 term a
most remarkable cure effected by -your
retnedy "Fruit-a-tives". I sufferedfrom
Rheumatism, especially in my hands.
I have spent a lot of money without
any good results. I have taken " Fruit-
a-tives" for IS months now, and am
pleased to tell you that I ani cured.
A.11 the enlargement has not left my
hands and perhaps never will, but the
soreness is all gone and I can do any
kind of work. I have gained 35 pounds
in 18 months",
R. A. WAUGH
Rheumatism is no longer the dreaded
disease it once was. Rheumatism is
o longer one of the "incurable
diseases", "Ftuit-a-tives" has proved
its marvellous powers over Itheu-
mitism, Sciatica, Lumbago -in fact,
over all such diseases which arise from
,)1110 derm)gement of stomach, bowels,
kid aeys or skin.
"Fruit -a tives" is sold by all dealers
at 500. a box, 6 for $3.5o, trial bize,
25.:. or sent postpaid on recoipt cf
by Fruit-a-tives Litnited, 0
MODERATE DRINKING.
To the Editor: -
Dr. G. Von Bunge, Professor of
Physiology in the University of Basle,
Switzerland, says truly:
"Every drunkard was once a' moder-
ate drinker and every one who leads
others by his example to moderate
drinking leads some of them to immod-
erate drinking. He sets a stone rolling
which it is out of his power to stop. It
is not the drunkard who has to hear the
reproach of seducing others. The se-
dacers are the moderate drinkers, and
as long as the seduction continues, im-
moderate drinking with its conse-
quences, disease, inganity and crime
will continue. Anyone who is not
aware of this does not know the history
of the battle against drunkenness."
"The chief cause of drinking is the
tendency to imitate. The first glass of
b >et- does not taste any better than the
first cigar. Men drink because others
drink. When once they have formed
the habit there is no lack of excuses for
I repeated drinks."
"*From the first glass to insanity,
crin-ie, despair, suicide, there are a
thoufand stages of misery. Only those
who sink to the lowest levels are taken
account of by statistics. We must not
forget also that all of these miseries
spoil the happiness of others. How
much family happiness is lost, how
many tears of innocent fellow sufferers,
how much Ceep rankling pain of which
no intimation is to be found in statis-
tits."
"What shall we say of the man who
thinks to himself: 'Let millions of my
fellowmen every year languish hospitals
and asylums; let millions plunge them-
selves and their families into ruin, so
long as I get my glass of beer?"
(Sgd.) H. Arnott, M.B.,
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Canadian
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PEACE YEtSR
America's Greatest Livestock Show
Acres of Manufactures
Exhibits by the Provinces
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Exhibits by West Indies
Grenadier Guards Band
Dragoons' Musical Ride
Auto -Polo Matches
Circus and Hippodrome
Dozen Shows in Single Hour
Boy Scouts' Review
Canada's Biggest Dog Show
BABYLON
Greatest Oriental Spectacle
ever presented on Continent
Paintings from England, Scotland,
United States and Canada
Educational Exhibits
Goods in Process of Making
Athletic Sports
Aero -Hydroplane Flights
Grand Water Carnival
Creatore's Famous Band
Score of other Bands
Dozen Band Concerts Daily
Chesapeake and Shannon
Biggest Midway ever
Peace Year Fireworks
.I.International Peace Tattoo
to Bands 400 Musicians
Aug. 29 1914 Sept. 14
TORONTO
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of s,
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When a girl jilts a young man she
may do him a great kindness -but he
doesn't realize it until later.
No man ever lived long enough to
understand why his neighbors dislike
him.
Some men will get out of bed at mid-
night and run to a fire who can't be in-
duced to get up at 7 a, m. and start one
in the kitchen range.
IL
INSECT'S SENSE OF SMELL,
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possibly an acre and a half MIAOW
There ere two good reasons or the
change Corn has demonstrated that
it is the crop that produces feed in
greatest abundance and not only in
largest quantity but at leas expense
than roots, therefore, tbe far-seeing
farmer has erected a silo and grows
corn. He gets gocd fecd, plenty of it
and his labor bill for his hoed crop is
eat in half. Why shouldn't he grow
corn? Mangels, as a general thing,
outyield tuinips, aro sown ard hoed
earlier and ars generally preferred for
feeding milk cows and young steeg, and
so, to, they have rightfully shoved the
good old turnip crop down into a small-
er corner. On your next trip over a
long or short distance just te call the
crods of a few years ago and compare
them with those of ti -Jay. and nete how
the live -stock farmer in kt eping abreast
of the times and changed cet,clitions
which demand changes on the farm. -
Farmers' Advocate.
The most valuable faculty possessed
by insects is their•ense of smell. Most
insects hear very poorly, and ants in
particular are absolutely deaf. With
all their batteries of eyes bulging in
every direction these creatures do not
seem to enjoy very good eyesight.
Some of the flying insects can't see well
enough to avoid obstacles which to them
should look as big as a barn.
But when it comes to the sense of
smell the insect world is far ahead of
of any animal. Fabre, the great French
entomologist, confined some female
butterflies in a steel cage far from the
natural haunts of the insects. To his
surprise males of the species came from
miles away and lit on the screen.
He then confined the females in her-
metically sealed jars and placed them
near spots frequented by the males.
No one paid any attention though the
females were visible through the glass.
To make sure of the sense of smell
was the guiding force, Prof. Fabre
brought out some bits of paper and
twigs on which the females had rested.
Males soon appeared and, ignoring the
females in their glass jars, ,circled
about the twigs and paper.
If a strange ant of the same species
is placed in an ant hill he is violently
ejected. Every insect he meets recog-
nizes him instantly as an intruder and
helps in the ejection. If every Lon-
doner could recognize on sight each
stranger in town it would not be so re -
remarkable, as out of town people
might be identified by their clothes,
cut of their hair, speech, etc. The
ants all wear the same shiny uniform
and are deaf and dumb.
If a small mouse dies in a field certain
undertaker insects have been known to
come from a distance of more than a
mile to lay eggs in the body.
The house fly acts solely on the sense
of smell. In his flying about he is per-
petually trying to head in the direction
of each breath of food odor he meets
and dodges the turns with each eddy of
air until he locates the source of the
smell.
Mosquitoes find you in the dark rather
more easily than in the day. They
smell their victims outside the house.
Their sense of smell leads them to
windows, doors or chimneys from which
the man odor proceeds. In they go and
soon you hear their song about your
ears.
II.) not suffer
another day with -
Itching, Bleed-
ing, or Protract.
Ing Files. No
surgical oper-
ation required.
Be. Chases Ointment will roliove you at once
and as certainly euro you. Me. a box; all
dealers, or Edmanson Batt% & Co., Limited,
Toronto. Sample box'free if you mention this
paper arid enclose 2e. stamp to pay postage.
POWER OF THE CHURCH,
(Montreal Weekly witness.)
The church could avert war if its
heart was set in it to do so but the church
occupies itself witilits conventional ser-
vices arid takes little note of what is
going on in the world. Indeed, pitiful
to say, the influence of the church is
Frequently on the side of strife. In
England the parson who reads every
Sunday a prayer for peace has generally
a brother in the army, and his senti-
ents are those of his caste. Yet the
church counts itself Christian. He
whom the church professes to serve is
s ronger than the Northelitfes and the-
Hearsts and the Krupps, but what if
the church through which He must work
on mankind, is against Him, or is supine
in such great matters? It is safe to
predict that when the church becomes
really Christian, the world will soon be.
A. Hebrew preached in Montreal once
said, when Christians become Christian
the Jews may do so also, but that is
not a practical question. A church
genuinely on its knees against war
would be a church militant against war
and would soon be a church triumphant
against war, but while it is mobilizing
too late its spiritual forces for this con-
flict in the world's hour of need it finds
that it has allowed the sensation -mong-
ers to do the work of Him who claims
te have control over the le tgdoms of
the eartie and apparently still has.
Now that war is at the door its voice is
necessarily one of grief rather than of
faith and hope.
When ati irresistible foree meets an
immovable body, or the other way
about, there is bound to be something
doing. While this is going on we had
better get busy on Safety first work.
The first eleetrie locomotives ever
used on an English railroad soon will be
imported from Germany.
Corn, the Crop of Crops.
In travelling over the country from
year to year many changes are noted in
crops and cropping. Perhaps tnost con-
spicuous of all to the casual observer is
the rapid increase in the acreage of
corn and mangets, and the gradual, al-
most rapid decrease in Swede turnips.
Corn is now the main feed crop on hun-
dreds of farms in Ontario where the
Swede turnip formerly was relied upon
to bring the cattle through the winter
tri n healthy and thriving state, and the
mange) crop ie fast crowding the rem-
nant of the turnip acreage of the
farms. It is no uncommon occuranee to
see fields of anywhere from six to fifteen
acres of corn with a strip of from two
to five acres of mangels at one side,
where, under former conditions, the
large acreage would have been turnips
and Swedes with only a small strip,
A PAIR OF SLIPPER'S.
Story of an Eccentric Man and a Curi-
ous Monument.
There stands in 41 church in Amster-
dam an ancient and curious monument
of white marble which always attracts
the attention of visitors, and their curi-
osity is usually heightened by its in-
scription. On the inontitnent are en-
graved two slippers of a singular shape,
with the inscription "Erten Nyt,"
which in English would be "eve» noth-
ing," or, more colloquially put, "noth-
ing else." The story that is told of
this strange devicc is as follows:
A certain rich man whO was very
extravagant in his tastes hemline pos-
sessed of the idea that he had just so
many years to live and no more, and
he calculated that if he spent a stated
portion of his principal every Year his
life and his property -would expire to-
gether.
He wae lavishly generous to others
as well as Indulgent of his own wbints,
and it so happened that he died the
very year he had prophesied would be
his last. De had furthermore brought
his fortune to such a low ebb that aft-
er bis few debts were paid nothing re-
mained of all his possessions aside
from the clothes in which he was to
be buried bot a pair of curious old
slippers.
Some of bis relatives to whom he
had been kind during his life erected
this strangely decorated monument to
mark his burial place. -Washington
Star.
Human Strides.
Many correspondents have been teet-
ing the length 'of their stride, even
those small boys who pace out the
length of a cricket pitch in assurance
that twenty-two long steps make tWere
ty-two yards. But a walker from the
city avers be comes as near as most
men to the yard to the step on n long
walk. He stands five feet eight and
one-half inches, bus a swing team the
hips and has always between tulle -
'
stones stepped front sew to 1.710
paces to the mile. That, of eourse, Is a
solitary walk. In u regiment the pace
must be set by the average of the
longest and shortest steeper. -London
Opinion.
Ancient Enamel
It Is Certain that glazes having
the composition of good enatnela
were manufactured at it very eerie
date. Excellent gle.ees are still pre-
served, and some of the bricks which
have been found among the ruins of
Babylon have been ascribed to the
seveoth or eighth century n.e. The
glaze on the Babylonian bricks was
found upon examination to have a
base of soda glass or silicate nf sodi-
um. Glazes of a similar character
were alsb manufactured by the
Egyptians as early as the sixth dye
natty. There can be little doubt
that the Greeks and ntrtiscans woe
also acquainted with the art, o taw
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