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An hour later men, trembled and looked hollow- eyed, Fury let loose - the shrielte and iiereams of 10,000 devils—the bellowing of legions of tierce bulls! It was e grand, big ship, but she was a chip la that huge cauldron of froth, no more than a grain of sand in that roaring, screaming hurricane. She groaned and lamented at every surge ; a thousand prisoners seemed beating at her hatches to escape as she lifted wearily over the great seas. Around her iron spars, through her wire riggiug, over her and around her screamed the gale, and every breath of it which struth iron or wood sent out a hun- dred other shrieks. In the long, wide cabin were gethered'150 people. They were awed—silenced—hum- bled, The children no longer wailed aloud. The women gasped and choked as families gathered together. Men may fear, but they do not weep. They may feel the terror, but they are dumb. In the broad light of a June day—with the coast a thin line on the water—with a great world about us—with heaven's sun tattling as brightly as man ever saw it shine —mon, women and children felt the shadow of death creeping out from behind the sun —advancing with the fury—bubbling up from the depths of the treacherous sea, They felt it, and they t row nearer together. They felt it, and they prayed to God to spare them. by and by there was a sudden shock. The great vessel lurched heavily, righted herself slowly, and next instant men were shouting in alarm. The shaft had broken. She was helpless. You have read of the troughs of the see— the great hollows between the waves. They are the graves of ships, dug by the hands of the howling gale --covered up by the hands of the calm. These graves are never marked. Tho waters of the sea cannot be written on. There are neither tombstones nor eulogies. In a day the grave has van- ished—gone none but the waters can tell where. , t And now the steamer's head fell off and we were presently rolling broadside to the hurricane. She was in the trough of the sea, and her grave had been dug. • While some of the crew worked to get a drag over the quarter, others went to the boats. They had no heart. Terror was shriveling their courage as paper shrivels in the fire. Fury laughed derisively al the idea, Puny man fighting a hurricane blowing a hundred miles an hour 1 Mortal man striving to conquer an enraged ocean! No,boat could live in the tunnoil. No make -shift could bring that groaning, complaining steamer's head back to the wind. When they,real- ized I his all hope died out of their hearts, Men crowded together to, die in company— some went away te be alone when the last moment came. , There were life -preservers. A few glanced at them and then at the sea. Mockery 1 A, hunter with ,but a single shot thinking to save his life against the denieens of an Indian jungle 1 To be smothered in the angry foam—to be buried under tons of rushing water—to be flung about as a toy— strangled, drowned, bruised—swept out to sea a bloated corpse, to become food for sharks: . .And now the end was nigh. The merci- less waves were pounding 'at the steamer, breaking, bruising, sweeping awsv. rsid. men curse and women shriek? I ed eau pray and women weep? Did chiluien moan , in their awful fright? No ! Not a voice was 1 raised—not a murmur heard. Death was I „sousing. The shadow of the terrible hand rested over the boat. There were no cow- ards, or all were cowards. At the last mo- ment faces grew paler, lips were more tight- ly drawn, eyes had such a hunted, tortured expression that you felt to pity. Families drew apart from each other, hands were clasped, and. there was only a mement to wait. As the steamer reached the crest of it wave she staggered, shook herself, and then fell over on her side. At the last in-. stant, just as she turned, there was one awful chorus of shrieks and prayers and shouts for mercy. Even the howls of thei hurricane could not drown that sound, but ' it was caught up and shattered and scatter 1 ed, and next moment half a dozen strong t men, battlingwith the desperation of despair for two or three minutes more of life, were , the only remnants of the awful wrath. I That black shadow had enveloped all the rest. I ITAEMIT NOUS. ••••••••V, 4*nerfeamate have been nuide to Halt the Britiah buses Witla pleetrieka ' Singe the accident in the. •Theatre 0ent- he1rt4 the provineial theatreinettrenee have 'only empty galleries, -. He httd been calling on her regularly for a long time, but would never stet° the ob- Oct of Ws vistte. .Laet night he 'nnuitered up sufficient courage. " you be my wife ?" he asked, simply and earnestly.' f, Yes, Henry, I will," she replied, all in a tremor of blushing excitement. "Ah, thanks," he sai4. 1 bet Charlie Brown a packet of cigarettes that you would say The priest of Canioatti, it large town in the province Of Girgenti, Sicily, recently eaused to appear beside hint in the pulpit it young man whose face was blacked, whose head was fernisbed With two largo horns, and who had it long tail from the eud of which crackers went off. The priest in- formed his flock that this flame was the devil, and it great panic ensued. Women and children present et this unieemly comedy were lefured in the crush. In Algeria there is a small stream which the ohemietry of nature hes converted into true ink. it is formed by the union of rivulets, one of which is very strong• ly impregnated with iron, while the other, meandering through a peat Marsh, imbibes gallic acid, another ingredient in the formation of ink. Letters and other menu. script it -lettere are satisfactorilywritten with this singular natural compound of irou and goalie acid. Those who know Africa unite in discredit- ing the story of Stanley's death ; but popular feeling is that there is likely to be some- thing in the rumor. .A strange.part of it is that a repert of Stan14's death was being whispered around in city circles on Wed- nesday, whereas Beuter's dispatch from St. Thomas containing the statement did not reach London until Thursday. It is recalled with an indefinable sense of mystery, that on three previous occasions fatalities iu 1 Africa have been known itemettow in the 'city of London before tbe press news fir- ! rived in the regular channels—the death of Prince Imperial in 1879, the shooting of James Carey in 1883, and the death of Gen. Gordon in 1885. How the intelligence is thus obtained is a secret, and this is proba- bly at the bottom of the fear now that, despite all the maps and the explanations of I African experts, there is something in the report. 1 The cholera in Sicily and Calabria is of a more virident type apparently than Italy has known shace 1884. Thus gar only s or - Liebe; nicompletereports are obtainable, but, as the spread of the infected area is inces- sant, we are likely soon to hear a good deal . of it. The strongest phase of the thing is that it should reappear for the ttird con- I ; secutive year, practically on the same terri- tory, which hitherto has been unheard of. I Physicians in Londore are growing nervous' about the poasibility of the plague getting a foothold in the metropolis, owing to the unprecedentedly favorable conditions. Dur- ing the heated term of the past six weeks I the weekly deaths from diarrhea in the London district have gone up by leaps from ; 9 to 312—of this latter number 265 being infants under 1 year of age. The Lancet points out'that one of the surest precursors of cholera in a given district is the tendency to diarrheaic fatality, and urgeslhe utmost 1 vigilance. ' , Russia now follows Germany in rescinding the order forbiddingthe exportation of horses , so that the last remaining sign of a Spring war scare vanishes. As for the complica- itions which induced that scare, they seem ' about the same as they were Prince Fer- dinand'continues not to occupy his alleged throne in Bulgaria with success and the Germans and French keep up their war of arrests on the frontiers with great pertina- city. The latest series of seizures in Ger- many are of more than usual importance. Eight Alsa,cian soldiers in the Mainty gar- rison have been arrested. Correspondence with M. Derouledes, of the Patriotic League was said to have been found on them. If this ix, the ewe the rnen of course will be shot. A proceeding which maaes some- thing of a stir is the mysterious rumor from Metz that a party of German officers from the garrison there went in citizens' clothes to Nancy on the 14th to watch the French fete review of troops, and nothing has been heard of them since. The belief in Metz is that they were recognized and imprisoned, but nothing of that sort is reported from Nancy. Origin of the Gorge of the Mississippi. The Falls of Niagara are familiar to all . and came to exist through causes natural I and easy of explanation, inasmuch as the whole secret lies in the character of the I How Lost HOW Res ore a crust made up of from sixty to one buns i formations over which the river flows, viz., I We have reeentiv published a new edition of DR.CTILITERWELL'S CELEBRATED E 8. 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Isfeivtripaper ActIkertieing Bureinx„ t41) Sprtitisi St .i NOW York. Send SOcits, tor 1130+Pflet Parngittiet, cired feet of comparatively hard limestone lying in a nearly horizontal position, be- neath which is a deep deposit of shales and sandstones. Whenever the river in wear- ing its channel back reached the point where this arrangement of rocks began, the hard limestone would naturally resist the erosive action of the waters, while the underlying shales and sandstones, offering less resistance, would be rapidly cut away, until:a vertical fall such as is now seen would be the result, with a constant re- cession going on, leaving below the broad canon, walled on either hand by the lime- stone crowning them. These few reflections as to the falls and gorge of Niagara, fully demonstrated by forces now in active operation, we shall apply to the Mississippi. Here also it mighty water -way has been cut out by erosion, a fact which is aniversally con- ceded, but no definite explanation of the process has heretofore, so far as we have been able to learn, been advanced. It re- inainecl for a geology -reading inventor by the name of Robert Bates to suggest it theory which, illuminated with what little investigation we have been able to give it promisee to offer a solution of the question, or to assist in its toletion. The theety briefly it, that the erosion was accomplished 1337 means of a mighty cataract which began far down the river near Hi original mouth, and by gradual retheeessien dug out the valley -like gorge whiaell ie so marked a feature in the upper patt of its course, Mad left the high bluff walla on eithee hand, at the sante time depositing heavy beds of fiend at the bottom of the canon) the pro- duct of the erosion above, and that St. Anthony Falls are the ever cleareasing astid reeding retnnants of the once most stupen- dous cataract the world ever saws haeneg perperidkalar deheent Of pethapssbt hundred fed. The Crops. These are anxious times. Farmers all over tbe country are asking themselves what will the harvest be, and men shake their heads when answering. It is many years since such a drouth has been experi- enced as we are having now. A month ago rarely have been the prospects so bright. To -day things have entirely changed, and in many parts of the Dominion the question is becoming quite -serious. The pastures are dried up, the fields are parch ed, the water supply is giving out and both stock and crops are beginning to suffer. The drouth is having a serious effect, too, on fruit and vegetables, and altogether the outlook for the farmer cannot be said to be the most cheering. Every day that passes now without rein means the loss of many thousands of dollars to the farmers of this and other Provinces, as well as the neigh- boring States, where excessive dryness is reported, Along the Atlantic coast and in the North-west matters are not so bad, but throughout southern and western Ontario and in the inland northern and western States the lack of rain is severely felt. For five or six weeks now there has been no rain of any consequence and the tempera- ture during all that time has waged very much above the average for recent years, Copious rains are seriously needed through- out a large expanse of territory, where the aridity, at present so severe,rthi eatens to be- come alarming. He Was Willing to Quit. A good sthry is told of an interview of the governor of it certain prison with oue of the prisoners. Some of theprisoners were at work lathing a room during a recent official visit of the governor, and the latter was in- specting the progress of the work. After contemplating the process for a few min. utee, the governor remarked, " See here, my man—you are loyieg those laths toe near together ; that sort of work will never The prisoner calmly laid down his tools and said, "Governor, I ern willing to be turned off and discharged, if my wofk don't suit, I never applied for this job et situa- tion ; and, if my work isn't satisfactory) I am willing to go," An old colored preacher, after exhausting himself on an attempt tn'describe heaven, Wound tit) thus t ‘‘ I tell you, my brethren, it IS a very Kentucky of a place:" ai 4.41113 owe everythingto my ;nether," How niany men at ability and renotru ilaVe used words like theae t We (vote them pow front ast address meth) recoutly at the Shef- io1 Selma of Art by Sir John' Millais, who amide iet the bead of guglish painters. We eau scarcely walk the Ore* ef any 'large oity of the world, still leee .enter a well decorated heuse, without seeieg eitgraviags cif his more famous pietures. Oharles Dick. ens, t -ho was for Many years warmly at- tached to Millais,expressed some indigna- tion on one occasion that so great an artist had received no reooguitiou from the gov- erument of his country. Englend, be said, is the only land in Ell - rope where a Millaiswould be allowed to re. maul plain John Millais, without a decor - :tam in his buttonhole or a handle to his name. This "handle" has been supplied since the death of the novelist, He is now John to his brothers aud Sisters, Sir John to London society, and Millais to the rest of the uetverse. And he owes everything to his mother i The artist told his young bearers a little story of his mother, which shows that she was a woman of great prudence and fore- sight. Like many artiets, the boy began to draw as soon as he could hold a pencil, and, as a mere child, he drew pictures which made people say to his parents You must bring that boy up to be aai artist." The family had long lived on the island of Jersey, but the boy was born at Southamp- ton, and when he was nine years old, his mother resolved to go to London with biro, aud endeavor to ascertain from competent authority if his drawings indicated such de- cided talent as to make it safe and wise to give him an artist's education. So to London they went, father, niother,1 and boy, riding from Southampton to the metropolis on, the top of a coach. He re- members the coachman's laughing at the railway, just begun, and how they all thought the coechman, waa right, and laugh.' ed with him at the idea of trying to travel in so ab`surd a way. " But -at that time," said the artist, "a coachman was a great man." The day after reaching London, his mo -1 ther took the boy to the very head and source of artistic knowledge, Sir Martin' Shea, President of the Royal Academy, who received titer& with cordial urbanity, and I kindly listened to the mother's statement of ner errand. 1 "Madam," said be, "yon had better bring the boy up to be a cnimney-sweep." This remark was disheartening, and it was also brutal, but the mother did not give up the euterprise. " Surely, Sir Martin," she said, "you t will look at the boy's drawings before y ou decide." The portfolio was brought up, and the president examined its contents with some' care. At length, placing his hand gently ' upon the child's head, and looking him' steadily. in the , eyes, he asked, "You did ' all these drawings youtself, my little man?", The boy was too much agitated to reply, ' and Sir Martin, turning to the mother, add- ed, "Madam, it is your duty to bring up this boy to the profession." The little fellow was at once placed in the. most accredited art school near London, • where he had forty or fifty companions, all older than himself. He worked hard and gained rapid improvement, winning a prize in his second year. Being the youngest pupil, the duty was assigned to him to go . out at noon and buy lunches for the schocil. "1 had," said he, "to collect from for 7,1 to fifty pence from my companions, and go , with that hoard to it neighboring baker's and purchase as many buns. I had an eye to bilsiness, even in those days, for I got a. commission on the transaction. I alwayss got a bun for myself, gratis, and the good.' natured baker gave me his best bun, a Bath bun, value two.pence." ' In this simple, straight -forward, and old- fashioned way was Sir John Millais's splen- did career begun. He has known little but success, which has left, at the age of fifty- eight, a genial, modest, and friendly man, one of the inost honored citizens of England. 1111-.411114111111.-, Matt's Chiefest Weakness, Sydney Smith often wished he could sew. He believed one reason why women are se much more cheerful generally than men is becau-e they can work and vary more their employments ; and he is on record as saying that all men ought to learn to sew. At an evening gathering in a pretty American city less than a month ago the writer of these words heard a lady say she always pitied men because they were unable to take up fancy sewing in their leisure hours at home. " My 1" she exclaimed, "1 couldn't get along at all without my sewing." To a limited extent all men certainly should know how to sew—not necessarily as an employment, or even as a pastime, but as a part of the practical education which the necessities of the age demand. Even the man of family, whose practical sewing is done for hins by the willing and nimble fingers of his loved ones—vehose shirt but- tons are nursed and teneed with alert care, and whose raveled buttonholes are "made as good as new" from time to time—goes sometimes away from home. What annoy- ances he could avoid, and what economies he could practice during those presumably hart -breaking absences had he been timely ,taught to skillfully handle the indispenea- ble needle and thread. Had all men learn- ed to sew how many humiliating prints of " old bachelors" pathetically or comically struggling with an off button or a rent gar- ment we should have been spared Even the horrors which that immortal Song of the Shirt celebrates might thus have been mitigated or at least shared. Moreover, could all men sew, it is more than probable that crime would sensibly de- crease, for they would not, surely, take their sewing to the saloon ; and is not the saloon the cradle of crime? This is logic. So one might go on indefinitely catalogu- ing the blessings sure to spring from it gen- eral masculine knowledge of the art of sew- ing, ignorance of which has driven so many otherwise happy and contented men to mar- riage by -way of defense evilest abject help- lessness in the face of buttonless wristbands and other such bachelor afflictions. Nay, then, if man will but intelligently consider his duty to himself and learn the gi•eatest (because usefulest) lesson of self.rehence he must forthveith learn to zew. Slavery Abolished in Brazil. Slavery is on its last legs in Brazil. There is no doubt that the bill now before the Parliament of the Empire providing for the final stages of emancipation will pass. h grants freedom to all slaves registered under the Act of 1871, the number Of snob being about 1,200,000. They must serve two years longer, btzt they can redeem them. thi.VCS foe about $200 each, Slanes over fifty years of age need net thus serve, and if one Of a niarried ample secures his ar he freedom the other also becoines free. ist simosa. Aber The honey bee ie a regular merchant, 1± dena dorabo for a living. VOODOK$14 an'ta Sonia or 4bo b4rosso liollors st fitn Santhevia A'fogtaak In spite of the eonstant intercourse of the negro with the white race the former Imo never relinquished the fetishism that clings to its Christianity aud forms a strange) com. pound of religion and superstition. What a negro does believe io hard to tell. No one evee knot's. aud be nevtr ClearlY anderatands his belief himeelf. Signs and omens, incan- tations and superstitious charms peculiar to the savege have been amalgamated into their religious obsetwittiena to suolt an exteut that their worship appears to be a Phrietien simplicity of faibli—their real belief a con- stant reliance to the fate expressed in every unexpected accident. Over the door of every log cabin that stands in a cornfield or tobac. co pata is seen h rusty home shoe suspended from a nail, and yen rarely meet a negro Man who does not carry in his Ted pocket the left hind foot of a rabbit as it kind of MaSe0t. For a hen to crow is the sign of death in the family and the ambitious fowl generally made up by gracing the dinner table If it rooster stands with his head in the door and crows, it is the sign of the coining of a sister; if his tail is fleet it means news of a death. A rabbit crossing oue's path entails misfortune unless the charm be broken by an immediate return home. To leave it row of seed half planted is bad luck ; to pick up a pin or to put Ono's stockings on wrong side out is good fortune. The appear- ance of bubbles on the surface of a cup of coffee means a present of money. For the palm of the hand to itch, if one "scratch it on wood, get something good." If the nose itobee it visitor is soon doming; if on the left side a gentleman; on the right a lady. An important personage among the ne- groes, arid one who holds about the same position as the medicine man of the Indigua, is the ioputed conjuier. She is generally an old woman living alone in her cabin, surrounded by her powerful charming work- ing herbs, and is greatly feared by her neigh- bors. Like the witches in Mecbeth, she is supposed to concoct strange messes from outlandish ingredients, to be able to put anyone under a spell, or induce a lingering disease and death. There is no wonder, consequently, that she is an object of fear and veneration. One of her spells is given by administer- ing the dried head of it scorpion, which be- ing taken unconsciously in food generates a new species of the living animals ia the body of tbe unhappy victim. Some of the charms are supposed to induce sleepless. nese, others the withering up of a limb, and others stiange diseases. One of tlee most potent is that of taking the dust froth a foot- print, mixing it with pepper a,nd some un- known powders, then replacing the earth on the spot from which it was 'taken. It is said that one treated thus is unable to stay long at one house, but Salathiel-like, wand- ers from one place to another constantly. Negroes have a great respect for Sunday, which is inspired 'partly, I suspect, from their dread of doing any work on that day. To cross one's legs or sing on Sunday is re- garded as a heinious crime; but to "lift" chickens from it neighboring henroost is an insignificant offense. I remember hearing of a band of colored men who "got religion and had to relinquish music as sinful. Among the converts at a recent revival were many boys who were afterwards found to be addicted to the incurable vice of playing ball and marbles. Shocked at such evidences of depravity in his flock the sable preacher hurled against them the anathemas of ex- communication. The experiences of those who get religion are often wild tales of im- aginary adventures in Heaven of the lower reigioii, and surpass Baron Munchausen for lofty flights of imagination among the im- probabilities. When a camp meeting is in progress the nogroes are in a state of great excitement and flock from miles around the country to hear the preacher's passionate harangue. When worked up to the highest pitch of religious enthusiasm they are often frantic from excitement and contiaue in this state until they fall from exhaustion. On awak- ing from the fainting tit brought on by ner- vous prostration they relate the wonderful tales of their adventures in supernatural worlds. Taken all in all, the religion of the aver- age oormfield darkey in the Southern States is as strange a compound as one would wish to see. The Hottest Place in the World. The hottest region on earth is tropica- Africa, where the mean equatorial tempera, ture of the air is 85 0 10', the same equat- orial temperature being 820 0 91' in Asia, and 8090 96' in America. The great bulk of Africa, to the extent of three-fourths, or even four-fifths, of the whole lies within the tropics. Under any circumstances, therefore, it very high temperature might be expected to prevail on this centinent.. Its physical conformation favors and inten- sifies this tendency ; the vast expanse of unbroken land in the northern division, the slight elevation of the surface, and the aridity of the Sahara, all tend to make Africa the hottest region in the world. It is pre-eminently the "tropical continent." The extreme of heat is found au 1 under the e uato? itself bat in the nei Aborhoocl of the northern tropic, in the Nubian Desert, where food may be cooked by being buried in the sand. The saying of Arabs is, "In Nubia the soil is like fire, and the wind like a flame." On the coast of the Red Sea, the mean temperature of Massovvah is 88 0 and at Mourzoult, in Fezzan, the summer heat reaches 13080 in the shade. It must also be borne in mind that local circumstances increase both heat and cold immensely. Thus Sir J. Herschell observed it super- ficial temperature of 159 ° in soil at the Cape of Good Hope; and Sturt says that, on the Macquarie River in Nett South Wales, "the ekound was almost a molten surface, and a match falling upon it was immediately ignited." 140 0 F. has also been registered at Colorado ; and near the Euphrates, Capt. Griffiths found the ther- mometer standing at 156 (a in the sun, and 139° in the shade. At Calpee, in the Etta Indies, the thermometer on one occasion was observed to stand at 150 0 in the open air half -an -hour after sunset, The Afghan Boundary Settled. After two years of negotiation the Afghan boundary question has been sottiea. The chief matters in dispute, it Will be remem bered, were the posseseion of the F'enjdeh oasis, betweeh the Knish and Murghab Rivers, and the Ameer's claim to Badak- shun and Vakhan, hi the norbh-eastern pot, tion of Afghanistan, t he new Inetniclary. gives Tarkestam which hi friendly to Rue. I sia, 7,000 square miles of territory on the west, claimed by the latter, including the valleys of the lVfurghab and Rush, litussia's claim to Vakhan on the east and the exclu- sive control of the 'Upper Oxus is surrendet- ed, As it was admitted that her. Claith to the district itt the West Wee well /minded this settlement should he satisfactory to the i ThitiBh .(levetninent. I Humors, Erysipeias, I de pot helleYe •that Ayer's Sarsaparilla has an Mal itii a remedy An, • Scrofulous Hu, 'mars, • It . is pleasant to hike, gives • StMlgtii nod vigor to the body, iota produces 0 mere permanent, lasting, re- sult than nay ItleMMe I- 'ever used,—N. Hain* No. Litultile,O, I hove Oed Oct's , Sarsaparilla, in iny.fam- tit') for Seroftilei 'mei Ithow, if it IS Iltkell f. it i t li f !al l y , it w i Il 0101.04 0 e rad i e ate this terrible disc:we. — 1Nr. F. Fowler, X. D., 0 recoville, Tenn, . . ., For forty years 1 have suffered with Ery- slpelas; I ha . taied as.) all sorts of re: edies for my complaint, but Lound no relief in il I o 0 ni 'noticed ising Ayer's. Sarsaparilla-. After taking ten bot- tles of this medicine 1 tun completely cured. —Mary C, Amesbury, Rockport, Me. I have suffered, for years, from Catarrh, which was so severe that it destroyed my 0 appetite and weakened my system. After try - ink other retnedieS,, and getting no relief, I began to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and, in a few truintlis,was 'enred. —Susan L. Cook, 90b Albany st., Boston Highlands, Mass. `1. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is superior to any blood purifier that 3. have ever tried. I have taken it for Scrofula, Canker, and Salt- Ithetuit, and received much benent from it. It 1 good, also, for a weak stomach.,.Millie Jane Peirce, South Bradford, Mass !. Ayer s Sarsaparilla, Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Canker, and Catarrh, Can bo cured by purifying the blood with PrIco 311; six bottles, $0. • The Great English Prescription, .A. successful medicine used over sO years in thousands of cases, aurae Spermatorrhea, Nervous Weakness, Emissions, impoteney and all diseases caused by abuse. tarspoteg indiscretion, or over-exertion, tense] Six packages Guaranteed to Cure ;Shen all others Fail. Ask your Druggist for The Great English Prescription take no substitute. One package El. 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