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"I know you will, Nelly. Well, den -
stet, in tate irst place, promise me never
to bar malice against anyone for my
deebh. Will you promise ibis? Iietnem-
ber, it is my dying request!''
"Oh, Willie, that II very' heed, very
hard to 01 Bat I will promise you to
pray daily for grana to forgive your de-
etroye s, ii cilia."
Jtecondly, bring up our children
in the knowledge and the fear of the
Lard!"
s. "i will els 1..hati to thb best of may
it , Wi 'ie, if I liens But, ohs a shall
it 7f1tt for the ,children, I wish 1
On will 'il not die ddrest, youwill
.tire for your children, and every year
you will grow atrouger and firmer, and
better able to guard and guide them.
Now you are youthful, and tender, and
tienaittve, and grief penetrates you
through and through, but, after a while
you will have more fortitude and resist-
ance. God will give it you. God will sup-
port and strengthen you. And now, love,
n• must all kneel together for the last
tt a on earth, and ask God for comfort
an support, in this, our parting 'tour.
An then, dearest Nelly, you must go
he o, and take careof our child, and
lea me here with rather Goodrich, Ho
halt promised to remain with me to the
iasis) Nelly." And. ho gently unclasped
her ruts front around his neck, and sat
neer' own and beckoned the priest,
Father Goodrich came, and they all
knelt alpd prayed together -except
Nor -e
a rte too, h a not to disturb them,
knelt, but did not pray. And it was well
they could not rico her face, so full of
anguielt and rebellion. At last they
arose, strengthened and comforted -ex-
cept. Norah i -who would not ask com-
fort, who would have hurled it back in
the face of angels, had it been offered.
-•A..fewominutes after this, the turn-
key's tap a£'the..tloor warned them that
the final moment` -'of separation had
colpo. The priest weift and spoke a few
rwoments with that officer,' then came
and told O'Leary to get the parting ,over
as, soon as possible -the sooner it\was
done, the less painful it would bqq; he
said. William got up and approadched
Nelly.
• "Come, dearest," he said, "you. must
say goof -bye, and leave mo nein," and
'he drew her to bis bosom, in'last em-
brace.
She threw her arms arournl his neck,
clasping him convulsively, end dropped
her face upon his shouldet, to try to
smother the bursting sob;'
"God bless you, Nelly1 God in heav-
en bless you and sus in you, my dear-
est wife," he said, t pressed her closer
to bis heart; b . er form felt heavier
in his- arms, a was slipping from them
before be pe ivod that -she had faint-
ed. "It is ter even so," he said, and
laid her e the arms` of Father Goodrich,
who, •ly affected, bore her from the
cell
ary went Oa his mother, and,
kneeling upon one knee. said:
"Now, dearest and best mother. bless
me, and embrace me, and leave 'me to
Heaven."
"And do you think` that I will leave
yhink thea ?" asked Norah. "Do you
twill leave you while a pule°
beats in your heart? No, William, no!"
"Dearest mother, do not talk so, you
roust go, alas!"
"And do you ithink that since they
will kill you, my boy, tbat any power on
eartNehall tear me from you? Nol Not"
she exclaimed, wildly; "I will stay with
you while you live, an. .lehhe+ith y'ou •
fn better for
alive if ot"
night, and followed, closest behind him
when they led him forth to die. And
the crowd that tttended him, the °Hi
cers, reporters, clergymen and others,
that shuddered not to see that pale
youth led forth to death, shuddered to
see that dark and' terrible woman in
such a scene yet dreaded to interfere
With, her. There was a, calm and ele
vated heroism. in. William CYLeary's look
and step tes he mounted the scaffold; it
was net the. party, or -politica', or patri
otic heroism that bas often sustained
men in the presence of death -it Wail
higher than either of those -it was sim
ple Onristian heroism-4irm and patient
accerithame and endurance of the will of
Minna attended him to the scaffold,
atta !toed below When he mounted the
platfotrn; a 'wild, frantic hope of a re
prieve, hope of some miracle that
ehould manifeet his innocence, or change
%he froxatue,ble determination of the
Governor, distracted her to the last.
She 11947 the clergyman and sheriff's of
ficers grouped exound him on the plat
form; she taw the cap drawn over histhe priest shake hands with him, anddestieud the steps of the platform, Shesaw hint staading alone upon the 'drop,and still slse madly hoped -and whileform convulsed in the agonies of the -violent death, isnd then hope and reasonfled forever! hating the sunlight, cursing the earth. blasphercting Heaven, she. fled, tha wows a maniac and a wanderer•It was good priesigge took chargeOf the peter remains of InifIliam O'Leary,and saVi theta decentlY interred. Nelly,half dead, but resigned, attended theprivate burial. Arid the last care of thegood Man, alter an ineffectual search forNorth, wee to convey Nelly back to herCHAPTER VrtXitniel Meter, like the majority ofour moat distinguishea men, In everydeparttnent of fame, sprang, as has beentreed, from. the very humblest of the peopls. His immediate progenitor was aeeturtry blacksmith, in one of the western and mountainous districts of Wee -,the father of eleven children, sixe of whom the future Governor oflefe-- was the third, end five damghIn week while Daniel Hunter' was yot,e, laWyer's clerk that tho mostng and important event in hisdnoseirtie life occurred. It wtts this. Ilebeim rant by his principal on core,Mission to the city of A --.journeyed from his furtive mountainsthe country to 11-' e Thencetoe& a packet down the bay to theof his destination. Itailvvays andboater were not hi use then.On. hhr return up the bay, the cabinDes small pteket was thered by twopleseengers, an. old man of feverclerical appearance, and a littledeo mourning,eyetj,- the cord adjuited, and still sheevildly-hoped. She saw the sheriff and
Sho was about eight years of age,
but her superior height, the regal cast
of her regular features, and the masses
of long, jetty ringlets hanging down
eneb side of her pale face, made her look
two years older.
So strongly was Daniel Hunter at-
tracted toward this beautiful, pale child
that he spoke to her, thinking it no
breach of etiquette to address a strange
little girl on tho deck of a packet boat;
but the little lady deemed otherwise.
slight
t
Raising her jetty eyebrows with g
surprise, and glancing at him from the
corners of her long, almont almond-
ebaped eyes, she moved slowly off.
when tiro
The next afternoa i packet
was • entering the mouth of the P ----o
River, they were overtaken by one of
those sudden squalls so frequent upon
the bay. The skipper put his heath clown
to the gangway, and vociferated to Dan-
iel Hunter and the old man, his fellow -
passenger:
"Come, came and help us, or we shall
all be in h-1 in five minutes!" z
Daniel Hunter sprang at once upon
the deck, But before a sail could be
reefed, the little vessel was driven fur -
lonely toward the shore and capsized,
They were in the water, the skipper
and the three men that formed his crew,
buffet' • tho waves like lusty swim-
mers, and striking out, for the shore.
Daniel Ilunter looked wildly around the
heaving,' foaming waters for the old man
and the child. The old man was never
thrown
h child was
seen again, butt o
up to the surface of the tossing waves.
Daniel Hunter saw her cast her white
arms wildlyu
and
uttering
a
strang-
ling
tra
n -
ling cry, sink again. le struck lc out likeg
lightning for the spot where she arose,
caught her as she was sinking, and,
throwing her upon his shoulders, so that
all but her faeo should bo under water,
he swam to the shore. The skipper and
his throe men wore already there. There
was no one missing -no one lost except
the old man. Daniel Hunter left the
crew on the beach to wait till the squall
,should pass, and right their vessel if
they could, and, carrying his prize with
him, ran across the barren coast toward
a pine grove, from the midst of which
he saw smoke ascending. Here he found
it farm house, where every kind atten-
tion was given to the half -drowned child.
•It was with strange emotion that the
youth gazed upon his "prize," as he in-
stinctively considered her to be. All
that he knew or guessed of her was
that she was the child of the old man
who had perished -the child of his old
age -and that both were foreigners just
arrived. From certain signs of penury
in their dress and conduct, ho had judg-
ed that they were without means, and
probably without friends. And now he
believed that the little, beautiful crea-
ture just cast upon.his care would neeer
be reclaimed from him again. And at
that thought, despite the catastrophe
that had given her to him, ho felt a
strong thrill of joy, of the proud joy of
possession, such as, in boyhood, he had
once felt in capturing alive, a beautiful
eaglets And standing over the sofa
where she lay sleeping, he lifted the rich
black - ringlets and traced the pretty
eyebrows, black, sleek and tapering as
water -leeches, with the same sort of
earnest delight that he once drew out
the wings and gazed upon the bronzed
and burnished plumage of the eaglet!
He resolved tbat nothing on earth, short
of the legal cl:Iim of some near relative,
should snatch his prize from his bosom,
and he did not believe in the possibility
of such a claim being made. No, this
beautiful creature was his own; the
only human creature that he owned. His
mother, his sisters, were very dear to
him, but they were not his own; this
beautiful little stranges was. The farm-
er's wife took charge of the child for
the night; they also provided her de-
liverer with a lodging. In the morning
the little lady was quite recovered. And
as her clothing had been dried and ironed,
she appeared at the breakfast table quite
herself. She appeared to have retained.a
distant recollection of all that had
passed, yet was ignorant of her father's
death; for, after breakfast, ince came
forward to Daniel Hunter, and, with the
air of a little queen, placed her hand in
'itis, saying:
story of the egualI and the eapsized ves-
eel with surprise And curiosity, and re-
eolved the little orphan with ranch
maternal tenderness,
As months slid into yeer, anti no
letter had, been received from England,
the little girl1 waita sent
to a cone
t
school for a long terns of years, and
Deniol Bunter, engrossed with his pro-
fession, and with polities -his passion --
did not see his protege during all these
years, It is true that he had not in-
tn
totted to abandon
her; he had pure
posed to visit her every year; but after
missing the first annual visit it was
easy to forego the succeeding ones. Be-
sides, the formal half -yearly reports of
the mother superior assured him of the
health and progress of his little girl.
In the meantime, five years slipped
away; Augusta waa now nearly seventeen
years of age. And at the close of the
term, the mother superior, instead of
sending her bill for the next half-year in
advance, wrote to remind Mr. Hunter
that the time for which he had entered
Ida ward was up, and to know whether
ho intended to enter her for another
term. This letter startled Daniel Hunter
from his temporary forgetfulness. Ile
had lost all interest in Augusta as a
child and a plaything. The only remain-
ing interest he felt in her was the gen-
erous ono of a benefactor for the helpless
object of his benevolence.
It was wimingled feelings be
set
out for the school to bring her home,
Augusta had grown up, yet as he sat in
the parlor of St. Joseph's awaiting the
entrance of his little girl, tho image of
a child was in itis mind. The door open -
cd, and a most beautiful dark woman,
of easy and dignified air and address,
entered. Yet he recognized her at once]
The unique character of her noble coun-
tenance had not changed, except to
mature in beauty, and there were the
same long, jetty ringlets, only longer
and more abundant.
He arose, smiling, to receive her.
She advanced and placed both her
hands in his, and raised her eyes to his
majestic countenance, instinct with power
and goodness, and an overwhelming but
delightful sense of gratitude thrilled her
heart, and spoke in eloquent light from
her dark eyes. It was a gratitude that
could not be put in words -that must be
lived and acted opt -so her speaking gaze
said before it sank under his eyes. Ho
drew forward a chair for her use, and
then seated himself. She inquired with
interest after each member of the family,
and testified much pleasure in hearing of
their health and prosperity. They talked
of several things, and then Augusta be-
came grave and thoughtful, and, finally,
after a little hesitation, said:
"Mr. Hunter, I have been reflecting
that I ought to snake another effort to
open a communication with my aunt,
Mrs. Percival. I would not do it with-
out consulting you. But do you not
think it is probable that the two letters
you wrote to her nearly nine years ago
might have miscarried 7"
"I do not think it probable that both
could have been lost. It is at most
barely possible."
"In consideration of such a possibility,
had I not better write?"
"If you think proper, Lady Augusta."
She slightly started, and even looked
disturbed, at hearing herself addressed
by a title she had lost for years, and he
saw it, and added: •
"Yes, upon second thoughts, I think
you had better write, Augusta."
She smiled gently and seemed satis-
fied. And then they arranged their de-
parture for his mother's house.
One morning a month later a foreign
letter, directed to "Lady Augusta Per-
cival," and dated Florence,'was put in
her hands. It was from Mrs. Percival,
who stated herself to be an invalid, and,
for the benefit of her failing health, was
living in Florence, where her niece's
letter had been forwarded to her. She
further said that her niece might get her
friends to procure her a proper escort,
and come at once to Florence, where her
aunt would be happy to receive her, and,
having no children of her own, might
possibly adopt and make her her heiress.
The letter endorsed a draft for five hun-
dred pounds for travelling expenses. Au-
gusta read this letter to her protectress,
and then inclosed it at once to Daniel
Hunter, who was absent on business.
Two days after that Daniel Hunter sud-
denly arrive home.
Augusta thought she had never seen
his look so pale and anxious. He sought
an interview with her at once.
"Well, Lady Augusta -this letter?" he
said.
"I have not yet answered it"
"Why? You will go!"
"Do you wish me to go?" she asked;
then added: "Mr. Ilunter, no one in the
world has a right to dispose of my des-
tiny but you -my deliverer, my bene-
factor, my friend."
"Nay, Lady Augusta, you must forget
all that."
"Never! Do you wish me to go?" she
asked, in a depreciating voice.
"Nay, Augusta, do you want to go?"
"No, no!" she exclaimed, hastily, earn-
estly, and then her face was suffused
with sudden blushes, and her eyes- drop-
ped beneath his searching gaze.
He drew her toward him, saying:
I thought you did, my love! I
thought my eaglet pined for her native
sphere. Else, why did you write to
your aunt?"
"I do not know; it was in the uncer-
tainty and anxiety I felt about the fu-
ture."
"Augusta, will you share my future?
It is not needful to tell you, dearest love,
all that you are to me; you know it
well in a word, will you share my fu-
ture?" He encircled her form with his
arm, and for an answer she dropped her
head upon his shoulder. But he wanted
words -the unreasonable man! And lie
persisted. "Say, Augusta, will you share
my future? It will be an unsettled,
wandering, tempestuous career -but will
you cast your lot with mine?"
"Through life and through death, if I
may!" said Augusta, lifting her head up
for a moment, and then letting it drop
again.
Three weeks later they were married.
Not long afterward, by the death of
her stunt, the Honorable Mrs, Percival,
Augusta came into possession of the
princely fortune.
1To he continued.)
"Sir, I am very grateful to you for
saving me; and, sir, my father will be
too, and will tell you so better than I
can."
"Miss Augusta—" -
"Lady Augusta," amended the little
One.
"Lady Augusta, then, you father was
----„ Ho pasued. Iow could he meet that
earnest, inquiring, yet confident gaze,
and tell her that her father was lost?
He concluded thus: "Your father, Au-
gusta, has not been seen since yester-
day."
Her start of wild alarm, her gaze of
intense anxiety, almost unmanned him;
but be saw that the only thing proper
to be done was to tell her the worst at
once. He did so, as gently and consid-
erately as possible, quite prepared for the
wild outburst of sorrow that followed.
And after this first outbreak of passion-
ate grief it was pitiable to see how the
little lady strove to maintain self-pos-
session in the presence of strangers.
In the coarse of the day she said to
him:
"I will ask you, sir, to be good enough
to write to my aunt, and I suppose these
good people will let me remain here until
I hear from her -she will send for me,
and pay them for their trouble."
The youth trembled for his "prize."
Ho felt that under some circumstances
it was possible to bo guilty of an abduc-
sized vessel had been righted, the little
girl's relative, and at the same time in-
formed her that sho must accompany
hint home- and remain under the are of
his parents until her natural protectors
could be heard from. This Augusta at
first politely but peremptorily refused
to do, persisting that she would remain
under the protection of the farmer's
wife until she could put herself under
that of her aunt. Nor was it until the
farmer had totally declined such a charge
that she consented to accompany Daniel
to his father's house. When the cap-
sized vessel had been riughted, the little
girl's trunk had been rescued, and the
farmer's kind wife had opened it and
overhauled its contents, and dried and
ironed them, and then repacked them,
to be in readiness when the travellers
should set out again, In kind considera-
tion of hie charge, Daniel Hunter de-
clined going upon the water again, and
Mired the farmer's Barry -all to take them
to where they entered the stage-
coach, whieh conveyed them the re-
mainder of the journey to St. Inez.
Daniel Hunter's mother listened to the
TO TRY IT ON THE P00,
Butcher Didn't Like Inference in Doing
A.eked for Meat for Canine.
Until recently a gnocetyman int the
neighborhood of Thirty-second and
v
t i 't of
t in Isla
hes nt stet l been t bi.
G t tt street* ee
bee
filling itis customers' meat orders from
I, neighboring butcher shop. Lately he
sub -let a portion of his store to a friend
who is a butcher, and together they have
filled the ostlers of Mr. 13'a. customers
without assistance fram the butchery
er
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across the way, the proprietor of which
seems to have been somewhat piqued.
.A. few days ago a customer sent her
servant for 10 Bents' worth of moat for
the dog. A piece similar to the sort the
lady was in the habit of purchasing was
not in the ahop, and Mr. Groeer stepped
briskly across the street and asked for
10 cents' worth of dog meat.
The answer flashed back: "We don't
keep dog meat."
Air. Grocer (mildly) -I'll take ten
cents' worth of neat for tiro dog."
Butcher (with knife poised provok-
ingly) -Shall I wrap it up, or will you
cat It here?" -Philadelphia Record.
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CONUNDRUMS.
Why did the firefly? Because it caw
the match -safe.
Why did the lobaeter bluetit Because
it saw the haled dreseing.
What happened to the hired girl who
put koroeene on the fire? She hasn't ben-
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Why would some enakee make good
story-telierst Because they get off a
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Hour Glass for Pulpits.
The twenty minute sermon is a purely
modern invention, as is proved by the
number of pulpit hour glasses that are
still to be found in many old churches.
In the register of St. Catharine's, Ald-
gate, the following entry, dated 1564, ma
cure: "Paid for an hour glass that hang-
ed by the pulpit, where the preacher
doth make a sermon, that he may know
how the hour passeth away, one shil-
ling "
& modern pulpit glass -probably the
only one of its kind -is to be found in
the Chapel Royal, Saxony. It is an 18 -
minute glass, and was placed in the chap-
el on its restoration in 1867. -From the
Westminster Gazette.
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Better Days.
Eve was calling on a neighbor.
"Ni," she regtarked, "when we lived
in the garden we never had to borrow
rubber plants for our entertainments."
Thus she started the seen better days
habit.
Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia.
The Decline of Bank Burglary. .
Previous to 1895 there was seldom a
year that the losses through bank bur-
glaries did not amount to $100,000, and
in a number of years the losses amount-
ed to several times that amount. Tho
decline of professional bank burglary
dates from 1895. In that year the Am.
erican Bankers' Assooiation formed a
protective committee for the entermina-
tion of bank burglars, and a contract
was entered into with one of the lead-
ing detective agencies in the country.
In 1895 the banks of the country lost
more than $200,000 through burglaries.
Of the 8,383 members last year, having
an aggregate surplus, capital and de-
posits of more than $12,500,000,000, only
four members suffered losses from bur-
glaries, the total loss of these four mem-
bers amounting to only $4,217. These
four burglaries wero committed by yegg.
men, there not being a single profession-
al bank burglary during the year. The
extermination of these yeggmen is now
the chief work of the protective com-
mittee, -From the Van Norden Maga-
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LEARN DRESS -MAKING BY MAIL
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To enable all to leant we teach on
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personal rSqnal G aSa at Khoo! once
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month, These lessone teaches how to cut,
fit and put together any garment from the
plainest bhirt waist suit, to the moat elabor.
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one course. We have taught over seve
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thousand dress -making, and guarantee to
give five hundred dollars to any one that
cannot learn between the age of 14 and
40. You cannot learn dress -making as
thorough as this course teaches if you
work in shops for years. Beware of imita-
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school. This is the only experienced Dress
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Vaccination Facts, _
rhotatist'
s rca of the nurses, in small-
pox hospitals, are very interesting. In
the epidemic of 1871 there were 110 per-
sons engaged in actual attendance on
them
smallpox sick in the Homorton Fever
Hospital
in England. All these, with
two exceptions, were revaccinated before
being aIIowed to begin their• work, and
all but these two who had evaded the
regulation in the matter, escaped small-
pox. In the same hospital five years
later, all the revaccinated • attendants
escaped smallpox, while the only one who
had not been revaccinated took smallpox
and died from it. A committee was ap-
pointed to report on the question of the
occurrence of smallpox among nurses in
England. Of fifteen hundred persons in
practical attendance on cases of smallpox
forty-three elontrael'ted smallpox, "and
not one of these forty-three had been
revaocinated," Of 734 nurses and at-
tendants in the Metropolitan Asylums
Board Hospitals, in London, seventy-nine
had had smallpox and did not take the
disease. Six hundred and fifty-five wero
revaccinate(' e cernated on entrance,
and all of
them escaped infection. en were not
revaccinated, and every one of them
took smallpox. -New York Independent.
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Famous Landmark to Disappear.
On an early date the elated elleet
Lothian landmark known as knock -in -
Hair is to be pulled down. It was a
signal station at the time of Napoleon's
threatened invastion. The tower derived
its name, says the London Globe, from
the strange circumstances that women
used to congregate around etl, when
watch -fires were kindled within its dome
and as they witnessed the wreck of
fishing boats containing their breadwin-
ners they dashed their heads against its
walls.
A Remarkable Fountain.
In the gardens attached to the Houses
of Parliament, Melbourne, there is an
elaborately sculptured fountain, embel-
lished with human figures, birds, flow -
era and various other ornamental work
.In stone. ,This fountain has a remark-
able history. It was constructed entire-
ly by a convict named William Stanford,
within the walls of the Melbourne jail.
When a young man of twenty-one Stan-
ford, in a weak moment, joined a band
of bushranging desperadoes, wits cap-
tured, and eenteneed to terms of impns-
onmtent amounting in the aggregate to
twenty-two years. One day Colonel
Champ, the Governor of Melbourne jail,
was astonished to find a beautiful an-
gelic figure which Stanford had carved
out of a meat :bone. Ile showed it to
the leading sculptor of Melbourne, who
deelated that the • young convict was a
natural genius. The senlptor visited the
jail and gave Stanford some lessons in
the art. A petition for pardon was in-
fluential)yy Signed, and Stanford was re-
leased. He became one of the most suc-
cttsful seuiptors in Melbourne, and com-
pletely lived down his juvenile erithinal
escapade,
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Limitations.
She was versed in Greek and Latin,
She was versed in German, too;
She was versed in all the classics,
And the poets, old and new.
She had studied art and tnusie,
And in culture se was graced;
Rut I note her weary husband
Had to button up her waist.
She could talk of bygone heroes,
She could tell offhand their names;
Sho could tell when Rome was founded,
And the date it fell in flames.
She could tell of styles and fashions
At a mile -a -minute rate;
I3ut she had to ask her husband
-Detroit Free Press.
If her hat was pinned on straight.
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Roman Art Find.
A Roman villa has been discovered at
Perigny, in France, by M. Emile Chanel,
a professor of the Bourg Lyceum. There
wer- some mural paintings of great beau-
ty, and many objects of bronze, iron
and lead. Six columns were intact with
bases and capitals. Some pottery was
also found. The smaller objects will find
a place in the Communal Museum.
SEASONING TELEPHONE POLES.
The Government and the Companies Are
Both Experimenting,
The scarclty of timber suitable for tole -
Phone and telegraph poles ban of late as-
sund criupropertions,
ear,*
the Ameri-
can •relepbontrr Journal,
Latest reports of the Census Office show
that there wero Ut operation 1n 7.903 approxi•
nvately 700,005 miles of polo lite. Subcerloeat
additions, however, together with certain
railroad hole tines not reported, Would eu-
large thio figure.
oper-
ation
there*re in
�•u o h
t
It is oto a��m
earl
at present fully 500,000 mires of line.
Tito average tine contains about forty poles
a mile, so that there are approximately $l,
000,000 poles in use.
Assuming that the average life of a pole
la twelve years, It follows that for the main-
tenance of the linos now in operation thero
are needed each year more than 2,00,000
poles. Such an enormous demand must soon
deplete tho available supply. This 1e fully
recognized by the different companies.
The American Telephone and Telegraph
Ccuupeny, in co-operation with the 'Busted
Stntee Forestry Bureau, has been carrying
on elaborate experiments to determine the
best means of prolonging the lite of poles,
These experiments show that seasoned tim-
ber in contact with the ground will outlast
o
unsoasoned, and that dry wood is more re -
captive for preservative fluids than grain
wood.
itxperiment stations were ostabitshei at
Dover, N.J., Thorndale, Pa., , a part of the Pisgah, NMee,
ane Wilmington, N. C.
terms of co-operation the American Tele -
Phone and Telegraph Company supplied a
fixed number of poles oh mouth,
10,
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Baltimore, Md., Nov. 11, 1903,
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited'.
Sirs,-/ came across a bottle of your
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one of the students at the University of
Maryland, and he being so kind as to let
me use it for a very bad sprain, whieh
I obtained in training for foot races,
and to say that it helped pre would be
putting it very mildly, and I therefore
ask if you would let me know of one of
your agents that is closest to Baltimore
so that I may obtain some of it. Thank -
Ing you in advance I remain,
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Are Cards Undermining the Church.
A sensational attackcc
on card -playing
was made at Winona Lake, Indiana, the
other night by Mrs, A. B. Sims, of Dea
Moines, Ia., in the presence of four thou-
sand people. Mrs. Sims is the woman's
whist champion of the United States,
but site has seen a new light, and has
abjured her once favorite recreation com-
pletely. Site stated that she had burned
her forty packs of cards, becauso they
had absorbed. so much. of her time and
energy. Frequently she had played from
10 a, m. to 11 p. m, She also thought
that excessive card -playing on the part
of women was undermining the church. --
From Leslie's Weekly.
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For very young girls there is nothing
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front and brought back over the ears
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braided, looped and tied with a broad
ribbon. Fair hair always looks well so
dressed, but dark hair will be equally
pretty and girlish -looking if the front
portion is tied on top of the head in a
pompadour effect, then braided and
looped and fastened with a ribbon, tht
other half of the hair to be braided in
the nape of the neck and arranged as
above. This looks neater than the wavy
fluffiness at the sides of the face -so
picturesque -looking when the hair is fair
-and neat effects are always beat for
dark hair.
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I T sI or spare
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T One Result of the Strike.
(New Haven Register.)
One result of the strike may work
permanent harm to the telegraphers. By
the stringency of the occasion, the com-
panies and the managers were forced to
an exhaustive test of automatic tele-
graphy, and have found it to prove sur-
prisingly efficient... They will not forget
this,. but will through this test, it may
be, be led to install the machine and dna
place the man faster than they might
otherwise have done.
People who lay their sins on the old
Adam are not anxious to have their
successes attributed to him.
I?reedeli "Pedestrian Catcher.'"
ear 1 r
Four years says the E est coal
Engineer, the City Council of Dresden
offered prizes for the most effective form
of "pedestrian catcher," a devke to pre-
vent accidents from swiftly moving
tremears in crowded streets. Over 400
specimens have been tested, and one of
them, invented by a Dresden merchant,
hae received the first prize. It is easily
attached to ears, does not get out of
order, and picks up and tarries along
life-size leather mannikins, living doge,
and even bottles filled with liquid.
ITQF1
Mange, Prairie Scratches and every form of
contagtoue Itch on human or anlmtAs cured
in 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion.
It lover fails. Sold by drugglatc,
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Added to Itis Prayer.
Old Dr. Ryland, clergyman and edu-
cator, was greatly beloved in the South,
and his visits were always enjoyed by his
former pupils and parishioners. In his
later years it was his custom to offer
prayer whenever he made a ministerial
call. On one occasion he called wt a
house where three of hie former pupils
were staying. These ladies were all past
the thirtieth year mark, but in the eyes
of the old gentleman they were still girls
-which explained the petition he offer-
ed:
"Lord, bless these dear girls, just bud. -
ding into sweet womanhood."
This was too muoh for one of the num-
ber, who, taking advantage of the doc-
tor's deafness, added this clause, sotto
voce: "Alas, Lord, budded, bloomed, fad-
ed and still unpicked!"
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-and all dogmaand bo el d'
w larders,
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50
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Esperanto in Schools.
The Southport, England, Education
Committee have decided to form classes
for the study of Esperanto, subject to
the usual condition regarding the num-
ber of students. For the purposes of
fees and salary to a teacher the classes
will come under the heading of "general
and literary."
�V e,
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Spanking does not cure children of bed-
wetting. There Is a constitutional cause for
Chte troubluo. Mrs. M. Summers, Box W. 6,
Wiladsor, Ont., will send free .to any mother
.her successful home treatment, with fu11 in-
structions: Sena no money but write her to-
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Don't blame the ohild, the ohances are it
oan't help It. This treatment also cures
adulta and aged people troubled with urine
difficulties by day or night.
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Remaking the Glaciers.
The heavy snowfall and storms in
the Alpine, region during last winter and
late into the spring of the present year
forcibly illustrate the proverb of its
being an ill wind that blows no good.
For the past half century there has
been observed a steady diminution in
the area of Swiss glaciers, and jere-
miads not a few have appeared in print
as to the dark prospect should tourists
once turn their faces in other directions.
The rigors of 1906.7 have changed all
this. According to all the authorities
they have left a deposit which will go
far to rehabilitate the prestige of the
glaciers.
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bottle. Warranted the most wonderful
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Daughter -She seems to have gotten
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Father -Yes, but her second husband
hasn't.
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THF FLOOER SHOWY,
(By Bab Soutar.)
"Oh, We had a great day o't a'tltt►gither
10 Drumlie last tiettertlay, for than wee
the day a' the flooer show, an' the flooer
t chow Ftnae entre
Olegrwt us. Mgrr
,toone may crow tis theylike user mg
thing ale nither,ulah,
I'm thinkin',
girt ye raked the hale o' braid Scotian
wi' a Smits kaine yell no' hip' anther
o
toon that cad bawl a cauula tae us for
flooer shavesThe
no I1 ce was fell thraug,
:n
K,
I'm tali)! ye, for a' the folk frau tarnt
the kintrysido were there, au' a hes
maim Of coorse we were there, It wad
be nae richt funkshon wantin' Rab, ye
ken. No' that 1 was sae fell keen on
gaun, but on a day like title na,etiting
but midden daitlt, or the want of a new
sunnier 'costume an' a brave hitt, wad
Wiener Marget an' the lassos froo befit'
there, an', (Tod, gin they ltao them, they
want tae let ither folk ace that they
lune then. The way that they harriet
an' worrier me on Settcrday forenune is.
somethin' by speak' aboot. Gin they
sent don wee Willie tae ince if I was
comin' up tae be dressed aiuee, they sent
him loon a hunner an' fifty time, I
was vexed for the laddie, for hie feet
upn
mann hae been lair rinnin' an'd00
time stairs. An' when it got tae twine
o'clock they begood tae come doon thetn-
sol's. An' Mrs, MaeLarty care in for
her buits, for I was meadia' them tae
lat her' vin tae the show, •1'nt tallin' ye
1 never lino aide a time o't wi' weetnin in
a' my born days, They jist chart me
oar the shop, an Iockit the door on me,
an' I'tad tae gang up.
An' as sune 59 I wits in the hoose the
chesin' begood again. It was "nab,
whaur are ye?" "Hurry up, farther,"
"Here's your necky." "Pit on y rb Bute
Feth, gin I waena dementit by the
I got oot the hoose, it says to lot for
the pooerfu brain and the kindly temper
that the Soutars are kent in a' places.
The show was held in a park in the
grins o' the big hoose. They had a great
big tent oreckit an' it was to there that
a'- the fruit au' flooers an' Alter things
were. Oh, we were there in plenty time
for a' their hurryin', although the wfu'
was maist knoekit rot o' see a'thegither.
The laird an' his leddy an' a wheen
n n •L
r
• e
gentry mair othege Y \ier n tite n
:vee pieltcrnu at the held o' i!:s tent.
As Anne as they saw the comin' in.:ine
o'- gentlemen it an' mum-
bledthe two, three wstaindsppit thatfurrI eouldna
richt mak oot. Then the leddy cam' fur-
rit an' there was a lauchin' glint in her
bonnie e'e. Oh, she didnae say very
ntuekle-it wisnae her man she was
speakin' tae -but jist in two -three wirds
said that the show was noo open for
inepecshun, an' the company a? broke
up an' had a walk roon' the tent.
Of worse Marget an' me had a iuik
roon' as weel. Ye may be sure that by
this time the lasses had fun ither com-
pany that was main tae their min' than
their faither an' mither, an' o' a' the
hoosefu' that cam' tae the show there
was jist Marget an' me left, for even
wee Willie skippit awe' as sune as Mar -
get loused her hand n' hint. But it was
a gran' display. There's, nae dont abode
that. A' roon' the sides o' the tent were
floo' ers o' every color o' the rainbow,
an' the sweet smelt n' titer' jist filled
the air an' made ye happy in the very
brightness o' it a'. Ye coujdna help free
lukin' at them nee mair then free ad-
mirin' them. "Jist look at thud' floo'ers,
Rab." said Marget. "Due they no' beat
a'? They're fanr rnair naiteral than the
paper floo'ers we mak' in the Guild. Tian'
it's wonnerfu', tae, hoo they can grow
thee things better than a body can mak'
them." Oh, they were braw. There were
roses of every color, an' carnasbt:ns, an'
cactus, dallies, an' a hale lot d ithers
wha's names ate no' in the dickelionar',
an' I canna spell theta. But yell ken
yoursol'.
Then we turned tae the tabic deckora-
shuitis. "Rab! 'lab"' You could hear Mar -
get a' ower the place. "Come an' bee at
lurk at this. Whit dee ye think o' thee
tables, noo?" There's nae doot they were
bonnie. There was a big fancy thing wi'
dt bab o; floo'ers in it, in the middle of
the table, an' floo'ers a' roon' it. They
lnikit Weer on the white tablecloth. But
I may as weel teil ye the thuith aboot
it. It didnae a thegithes satisfee ate,
in I thecht there was somethin' awan-
in'. " W eel," I said, "it's a' richt sae
ftur res time floo'ers gang, an' there's
nae doot they're bomiie au' a' that, but
I'm thinkin' theta' sutnethin' gey faur
u -rang wi' thee tables." "Wring?" said
\target. "Witit are ye haiverin' about?
Whit could bo bonnier than that? Thae
' floo'ers jist warm a body's he'rt, an'
they're that weal set oot." There's nett -
thin; wring wi' the floo'ers, Marget'.
They're bonnie, as you say, but folk's no'
hunrinin' birds, nae leevo on floo'ers. Dae
re see that?" and I pyntit tae the table.
'\Veal, whit about it?" "Fedi, Marget,
I thocht a wumnman that has brooht up
it family an' kens whit it is wad see
that" "It bats me a' thegitlter, Rab,
tae ken whit ye wad be at" "`Veer, it's
jist this. They nae put that unony floo'-
ers on the table that there's nate roo t
left for the meat" Of coorse, Marge t
turned up her nose at this. In pitblick,
tae hear them, ye wad think that wee -
min reeved on fresh air an' drinks o'
water, an' I daursay there's some young
bi:ies o' that opeenyon. slut .trait till
they hae a family o' grown dockers an'
they'll ken better. Ay, Marget was fair
disgustit wi' me for menshunin' sic a
.nbjeck in she grata' company. "It jilt
like st man tan think on neethin' but his
etaimmack" 13ut the laird, wha was
pnssin' at the time, an' heard my creeti-
e;snt on the tables, slappit me on the
-Lootber. "Ye're richt, Rab, for ainee.
;lye atten' tie the inner man, for gin
u e diva we'll no' grow atony floo'ers.
raid day true ye, Sirs. Soutar
Oh, he's a braw, franc chief, the laird."
We gaed roo' the show, staunin' at
'he grapes, nn' the melons, nn' the ither
things, the jist made your teeth water.
I3ut the Coiuytee kent Drumlie, an' were
leawin' naethin' tan chance. They had
vire nettle a' roon' thee fancy things.
slut, forhye then, there were leeks alt'
ingans, carrots nn' turnips, an' I canna
tell ye what a'. Margot had a guid luik
it the scones au' the cakes, an' I'tn tell -
in' ye she had plenty o' faits tae fin'
wi' them. It ta'en me n' my time toe
-et her awe', an' I'm thinkin' .he was
weeshiu' sonic o' her ain bakfn' was
emang them. Oh, 1'll no' say but whit
she wid hae got it prize, for sties' n
gnat baker, tlarget. Pil say that for her.
I kept pu', pn'in' at her, for I wantit oot
for a smoke, an' after a wee she cant'
neva'.
Feth, but if it was gran' inside it was
four better.00tside, They ]tad ro(,it in a
pairt o' the field, an' on this Ott they
were haudite the sports an' the t;etuutes.
We jist got rot in time tae see the stairs
o' the seek race for boys under sixteen.
Man, it wee a droll affair a'tltegither
Inc see them comin' wahblin' slang, an'
tome o' them every twa-three init utts
turnip' heids ower heels. "Rab,"' said
Margot, "whit die ye think o' their"
Fath, it was Jimtie, rowed tip in n seek,
wabhlin'alang wi' the lave o' them, Oh,
it WAS a keen race. "Gaup, Jitvsie!"
skrefehed Marget, an' shook her uar-
brelly at him. When he heard the anon'
,
O n
her vyee he turns mon' r
d rot far n R,c,nd,
are then he fair hoppit up the the tape
like a hen on a het girdle an won tiro
race. 01, the boy was gide at ill T
ken hoo whit's been keepin' hint oof, art
nicht,-People's Journal,
e
ir
1
1
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WIN' IPRO
]re Lsaaberd.1,
VEft
J.
THF FLOOER SHOWY,
(By Bab Soutar.)
"Oh, We had a great day o't a'tltt►gither
10 Drumlie last tiettertlay, for than wee
the day a' the flooer show, an' the flooer
t chow Ftnae entre
Olegrwt us. Mgrr
,toone may crow tis theylike user mg
thing ale nither,ulah,
I'm thinkin',
girt ye raked the hale o' braid Scotian
wi' a Smits kaine yell no' hip' anther
o
toon that cad bawl a cauula tae us for
flooer shavesThe
no I1 ce was fell thraug,
:n
K,
I'm tali)! ye, for a' the folk frau tarnt
the kintrysido were there, au' a hes
maim Of coorse we were there, It wad
be nae richt funkshon wantin' Rab, ye
ken. No' that 1 was sae fell keen on
gaun, but on a day like title na,etiting
but midden daitlt, or the want of a new
sunnier 'costume an' a brave hitt, wad
Wiener Marget an' the lassos froo befit'
there, an', (Tod, gin they ltao them, they
want tae let ither folk ace that they
lune then. The way that they harriet
an' worrier me on Settcrday forenune is.
somethin' by speak' aboot. Gin they
sent don wee Willie tae ince if I was
comin' up tae be dressed aiuee, they sent
him loon a hunner an' fifty time, I
was vexed for the laddie, for hie feet
upn
mann hae been lair rinnin' an'd00
time stairs. An' when it got tae twine
o'clock they begood tae come doon thetn-
sol's. An' Mrs, MaeLarty care in for
her buits, for I was meadia' them tae
lat her' vin tae the show, •1'nt tallin' ye
1 never lino aide a time o't wi' weetnin in
a' my born days, They jist chart me
oar the shop, an Iockit the door on me,
an' I'tad tae gang up.
An' as sune 59 I wits in the hoose the
chesin' begood again. It was "nab,
whaur are ye?" "Hurry up, farther,"
"Here's your necky." "Pit on y rb Bute
Feth, gin I waena dementit by the
I got oot the hoose, it says to lot for
the pooerfu brain and the kindly temper
that the Soutars are kent in a' places.
The show was held in a park in the
grins o' the big hoose. They had a great
big tent oreckit an' it was to there that
a'- the fruit au' flooers an' Alter things
were. Oh, we were there in plenty time
for a' their hurryin', although the wfu'
was maist knoekit rot o' see a'thegither.
The laird an' his leddy an' a wheen
n n •L
r
• e
gentry mair othege Y \ier n tite n
:vee pieltcrnu at the held o' i!:s tent.
As Anne as they saw the comin' in.:ine
o'- gentlemen it an' mum-
bledthe two, three wstaindsppit thatfurrI eouldna
richt mak oot. Then the leddy cam' fur-
rit an' there was a lauchin' glint in her
bonnie e'e. Oh, she didnae say very
ntuekle-it wisnae her man she was
speakin' tae -but jist in two -three wirds
said that the show was noo open for
inepecshun, an' the company a? broke
up an' had a walk roon' the tent.
Of worse Marget an' me had a iuik
roon' as weel. Ye may be sure that by
this time the lasses had fun ither com-
pany that was main tae their min' than
their faither an' mither, an' o' a' the
hoosefu' that cam' tae the show there
was jist Marget an' me left, for even
wee Willie skippit awe' as sune as Mar -
get loused her hand n' hint. But it was
a gran' display. There's, nae dont abode
that. A' roon' the sides o' the tent were
floo' ers o' every color o' the rainbow,
an' the sweet smelt n' titer' jist filled
the air an' made ye happy in the very
brightness o' it a'. Ye coujdna help free
lukin' at them nee mair then free ad-
mirin' them. "Jist look at thud' floo'ers,
Rab." said Marget. "Due they no' beat
a'? They're fanr rnair naiteral than the
paper floo'ers we mak' in the Guild. Tian'
it's wonnerfu', tae, hoo they can grow
thee things better than a body can mak'
them." Oh, they were braw. There were
roses of every color, an' carnasbt:ns, an'
cactus, dallies, an' a hale lot d ithers
wha's names ate no' in the dickelionar',
an' I canna spell theta. But yell ken
yoursol'.
Then we turned tae the tabic deckora-
shuitis. "Rab! 'lab"' You could hear Mar -
get a' ower the place. "Come an' bee at
lurk at this. Whit dee ye think o' thee
tables, noo?" There's nae doot they were
bonnie. There was a big fancy thing wi'
dt bab o; floo'ers in it, in the middle of
the table, an' floo'ers a' roon' it. They
lnikit Weer on the white tablecloth. But
I may as weel teil ye the thuith aboot
it. It didnae a thegithes satisfee ate,
in I thecht there was somethin' awan-
in'. " W eel," I said, "it's a' richt sae
ftur res time floo'ers gang, an' there's
nae doot they're bomiie au' a' that, but
I'm thinkin' theta' sutnethin' gey faur
u -rang wi' thee tables." "Wring?" said
\target. "Witit are ye haiverin' about?
Whit could bo bonnier than that? Thae
' floo'ers jist warm a body's he'rt, an'
they're that weal set oot." There's nett -
thin; wring wi' the floo'ers, Marget'.
They're bonnie, as you say, but folk's no'
hunrinin' birds, nae leevo on floo'ers. Dae
re see that?" and I pyntit tae the table.
'\Veal, whit about it?" "Fedi, Marget,
I thocht a wumnman that has brooht up
it family an' kens whit it is wad see
that" "It bats me a' thegitlter, Rab,
tae ken whit ye wad be at" "`Veer, it's
jist this. They nae put that unony floo'-
ers on the table that there's nate roo t
left for the meat" Of coorse, Marge t
turned up her nose at this. In pitblick,
tae hear them, ye wad think that wee -
min reeved on fresh air an' drinks o'
water, an' I daursay there's some young
bi:ies o' that opeenyon. slut .trait till
they hae a family o' grown dockers an'
they'll ken better. Ay, Marget was fair
disgustit wi' me for menshunin' sic a
.nbjeck in she grata' company. "It jilt
like st man tan think on neethin' but his
etaimmack" 13ut the laird, wha was
pnssin' at the time, an' heard my creeti-
e;snt on the tables, slappit me on the
-Lootber. "Ye're richt, Rab, for ainee.
;lye atten' tie the inner man, for gin
u e diva we'll no' grow atony floo'ers.
raid day true ye, Sirs. Soutar
Oh, he's a braw, franc chief, the laird."
We gaed roo' the show, staunin' at
'he grapes, nn' the melons, nn' the ither
things, the jist made your teeth water.
I3ut the Coiuytee kent Drumlie, an' were
leawin' naethin' tan chance. They had
vire nettle a' roon' thee fancy things.
slut, forhye then, there were leeks alt'
ingans, carrots nn' turnips, an' I canna
tell ye what a'. Margot had a guid luik
it the scones au' the cakes, an' I'tn tell -
in' ye she had plenty o' faits tae fin'
wi' them. It ta'en me n' my time toe
-et her awe', an' I'm thinkin' .he was
weeshiu' sonic o' her ain bakfn' was
emang them. Oh, 1'll no' say but whit
she wid hae got it prize, for sties' n
gnat baker, tlarget. Pil say that for her.
I kept pu', pn'in' at her, for I wantit oot
for a smoke, an' after a wee she cant'
neva'.
Feth, but if it was gran' inside it was
four better.00tside, They ]tad ro(,it in a
pairt o' the field, an' on this Ott they
were haudite the sports an' the t;etuutes.
We jist got rot in time tae see the stairs
o' the seek race for boys under sixteen.
Man, it wee a droll affair a'tltegither
Inc see them comin' wahblin' slang, an'
tome o' them every twa-three init utts
turnip' heids ower heels. "Rab,"' said
Margot, "whit die ye think o' their"
Fath, it was Jimtie, rowed tip in n seek,
wabhlin'alang wi' the lave o' them, Oh,
it WAS a keen race. "Gaup, Jitvsie!"
skrefehed Marget, an' shook her uar-
brelly at him. When he heard the anon'
,
O n
her vyee he turns mon' r
d rot far n R,c,nd,
are then he fair hoppit up the the tape
like a hen on a het girdle an won tiro
race. 01, the boy was gide at ill T
ken hoo whit's been keepin' hint oof, art
nicht,-People's Journal,
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