Zurich Herald, 1923-05-17, Page 3ire
�,r� �L�s�t�rs of :art o� liar
Did you know that the bee le a pant tion, This organization, ae my re• '',
master .ie. the art of war? Aid reel pearoh work has proved ;conolaidaely,
picots Goat .every drive of bees' is e4 has its vanguard of elioolt troops, ftp
thoroughly arg'aeleed. •dist its entire I reviler fighting legions, its dentists,
•
Pea ilatiee of 60,000 to 100,000 re- engineers, and a hundred and one other
epoxide almost instantly to a call for
con:filet wheneYei' an Meader ap-
proaches? •
The authority for this information le
Michael W.Barrett, Boston's bee ex*
pert, internationally known as the "bee
king' 'land reputed to be one of the -
foremoat authorities on bees, both
from the theoretical and practical
standpoints, in Amerika.
Mr. Barrett has been studying and
emperimonting with bees for forty-five
years -ever since his boyhood days
He went to the United States from Ire-
land at the age of 7 and has since
• made hist home in Beaten, For years
he traveled through America and Eur—
ope with a "circus" composed of more
than 100,000 bees, His bee farm in
the Hyde Park section of: Boston Is a
mecca fee thousands of visitors. •
"Next time you go near a bee hive..
look Closely and you, will see Several
bees flying around in a wide circle,"
Saye Mr. Barrett, If you made an et-
tort to approach el -cheer to the hive
some of the bees in this group. would
attack you and the rest would hurry
• to the hive to warn its entire popula-
tion of the approach of an invader. If
you continued to walk towards the
hive an army of Cl use: da of bees
would ({warm out of it to attack you.
"The bees. oonstantly flying about
outside the hive are sentinels, or out -
goats. They are the exterior unit of
the . bees' superior fighting organize -
Sunshine and Shadows.
In the spring when the days are just
beginning to be warm how pleasant it
is to walk out in the bright sunshine!
All round you the fields are golden;
all nature is, cheerful. Then suddenly
there is a change. The earth turns
dull, and the air is chill. It is as if the
happiness had suddenly gone out of
the world.
You • realize in a moment what has
happened, and instead of stopping to
examine the earth you turn your eyes
up -toward the cloud that has drifted
between you and the sun. In a little
while it has gone by, and you see the
big shadow flitting across the . fields
and watch the plowman in the distance'
turn his eyes. upward just as you turn-
ed up yours•. '
Why is it that in life we often look
downward wbeu shadows darken our
Phwa
There is
no male reason
at
? Y Th
to do it in the journey of life than "in
the walk •,n the fields. A cloud ,can: do heights;
no: more than. hide the sun for a littleso flows the good with equal law
llfhile; . it cannot destrog it. We are Unto the soul of pure delights.
,ciootn, • iiids;of
at
. Neither
c
an,
Lie
dsetroy tliebrigitmeaao
.The stars. eome nightly -in .the sky;
(#a.. a: ce,•. which shines continuously, The tidal wave comes to the .ear;'"'"
here is nothing really wrong .with Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high 1
the world ` when there 'are' shadows Can .keep my own away from me.
the fa -
overhead. is the same world
the sun is elaining: 'The friends . mous naturalist:
Where Coldness Is Cordiality..
Winkelton, the bore, had gone, The
whole family recognized himas� a bore,
but Mrs. Taskett knew what was in -
kinds ot! units that � to snake lip Its
fighting force, just the same as a ua-
tion of humane,"
Investigation in the warfare' of bees
had convinced Mr, Barrett that no sort
of en animal small enough to enter
their hive •is, a thatch for them. The
arouse, toe example, always fights a
losing battle ween he enters a bee-
hive. If the animal remain,& in the
hive a few seconds he is stung enough
ugh
times to kill him.. The body
oo
heavy for the bees to drag out, So
the body, for sanitary reasons is, sealed
over entirely with wax.
It is ,not an unusual thing to see a
mouse ox other small animal oomplete-
ly sealed over with wax on the floor of
a bee box when the cover is 'lifted,"
said Mr. Barrett.
In discussing. the safeguards, the
precautions bees take to .protect them-
selves and their homes, Mr. Barrett
says:
"They are not setiafled with.outside
guards. Inside the entrance a squad is
maintained constantly. They are flank-
ed by a squad of fleeting bees, pre-
pared to give battle at a moment's no-
tice.
When a powerful invader appears
the whole hive joins in the fight
against him. Each bee has a certain
duty to perform under such conditions.
The bee knows Instinctively what the
task is and precisely when it should
be up."
•,-ANf
9
Waiting.
•
Serene, I fold my hands and wait,
•
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor am,
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For, 10! my own shall come to me.
I stay my heart, I make delays,
For what avails this eager pace?
h' sterna ways, plorer, suffers.
s mine shall know mY hen he is at home: On hie expediand 'it never had occurred to him that hope,.. it means ambition, a determina•
tions he says., he scarcely notices. It the limited resources of my wardrobe Home came to hi In 1823 Charles tion to "maks gambi
require- ve in the Young moat
A
way round!him to altar this into a libretto for Nor wind can drive my bark astray, Mr. Hilaire Belloe, the author, once "us; did. dicatian of many sterling qualitae
Nor change the tide aS destiny. served in the French army as a gun '{ ,Father had a happy thought! Why opera, the music for wiiicn was com Business men naturally reason that 1A
i should I not go in his• old evening suit, .Posed by Henry Rowley Bishop. This
What matter if I stand alone? ner.payee did, introducing his poem a Young man iso saving his money, he
the shipping mag- t hehad been mar i lsa saving his energy, his vitality
I wait with joy first worked in a rope and canvas.
ried i ' Well,we found the old broad � Sth teem being wasted, heart shallreap Iduced and
My had colored bot
sown, up in the world, And garner up its fruit of tears. 1 When he was practising- at the tlegreen,�and I put it on. Mother was 1823. Latterly is long-headed,. wise; that he s
mod to and sul at Tunis, where he died in 1852. not to sacrifice the larger gaiatl
tee, . lt`V �o --- .
Val
Si.
i
one, Sweet nonce
Haig Cheered Humanity fix Goo e Huns red Yeaa,l.
A 1V/entree/ business mau en route
Poi°onto only this spring Was ogee.
heard saying to a travelling eoni-
panion: "Last night I wet home com-
tpletely fagged out. I put. on rny siloiip-
re-
peri,, lit the grate fire, put a
cord of 'Home, Sweet Home' on the
phonograph, and stat back' in an easy
chair to rest my brain, -bode and
nerves, Do you knew; before the piece
was finished, T Gould just feel a sooth-
ing feeling coming over. That old song
will never die, will it?"
Many each . e, compliment las been
paid to that song, the one hundredth
anniversary of the Arch public per-
formance of •which fell on May 8th,
and as such that date• was made some-
thing of in many eeetions of the Eng-
lish. speaking world, This number
finds a place in every folio of home
songs" from the oldest volumes in our
grandfathers' homes to the mast re-
cent collections, of songs for corn-
munity singing. It has been eung on
the concert platform by primendonnas,
from Patti to Galli -Curet. It has been
performed by the - world's leading
violinists. and 'cellists. Almost every
boy has chosen it for his first attempt
on the mouth organ.
The words of "Home, Sweet Home"
were composed by John Howard
Payne, who was born in New York
City, at 33 Pearl Street. He wanted to
be an actor, but his father discouraged
it. Young Payne became a clerk in a
counting house, tried his hand at jour-
nalism, but afterwards, through' the"
assistance of a novelist, he took a col -
fro birth, who furnished the mueSe teeI
„Roane, fiereet 'lame," did ee.t olabu,
that the 10o1o4Y wa'd hid own, Tie alt's
nouneed that the nielo4Y wee Oat off
an old Calabrittn peasant.eong' familiar
for generations to the mountlbin folio
of Slelly. Another claim, however, 1s
that Bishop composed tits music t4,
meet the geode of a Arlie qt publisher+i.
who were iseuina a beolt df rational
melodies of all oountrlee, and witch!
lacktus :N Sicilian melody, oon:miesionl
ed Bishop to write a tune that woitid
pass as • a Sicilian air,
Hishae was ittt'igated in 1842. Ha
Personal Tit -Bits.
The Ameer of Afghanistan finds, hie
The Borrowed Dress Suit. lege course, His father having got in -
Many a man has borrowed trouble lege and went on the stage, of which
to financial difficulties, Payne left tol-
chief amusement in cooking and is when he borrowed a dress suit. But work he made a great success for a
said to be a better chef thin those,' in sometimes a man has to borrow; in time.
his• palace kitchens, ( sued„ a case he should choose wisely Later Payne went to London and
Lord Leverhulme sleeps• in a cage in, and shun the kind of suit that Dr. W. I Paris and wandered to other parts of
the open air, both winter and sumsner,l S•. Rainsford once borrowed when the the world. He made good money at
being convinced that fresh air Is one'.Doweger Duclilese of Grafton invited times with his writings, but was any -
of the chief necessities for health. him to meet her nephew. thing but thrifty. On a dull October
Captain Amundsen, the famous ;ex My father, says Dr. Rainsford in his day in old London, when he was feel -
occupied musical chalet in Edinburgh
and Oxford. ;Ilse was a prolific Brae
matte oompaaer, produeing ova, eights
operas, faroes, ballets, oto. He alei1
won fame as a writer of glees,
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The Bank Book Habit.
There Is an impresxsivc+ fact in tit
Gospel story of the. Prodigal Son. Th
statement "he wasted hiissubstance ii
riotous living" means more than than
he wasted -his, funds. It implies, tha��
he wasted himself. And the most serif
ous phase of all waste is not the wattttaC�i
of .substance but the waste of self, of
one's energy, capital, the lowerieg o
morale, the undermining of character
the loss of self-respect whish thrite
encourages and promotes,
Thrift le• not ouly one of the found
tion stones of a fortune, but also on
of , character. The habit of thrift i
proves the quality of the character,
The saving of money usually means
the saving of a man. It means, outiting.
off indulgences or avoiding vicious
habits, whish are ruinous. It ofte
means health in the place of dissip
tion. It 'often means a clear instea
of a cloudy and muddled brain.
Futhermore, the saving habit indii
carts an ambition to get on and up ing
the world. It develops' a spirit of i&
dependence, of self-rellance. A little,
bank account or an insurance policy;
indicates a desire to improve one's
condition, to look up in life. It niea-ne
id t 1 terribly from the cold autobiography, had accepted for me,
ing depressed and the pinch of lack of
funds, the words of "Home, Sweet
m. ,
Kemble bought Payne's manuscripts,
and among them was a poem,
I stand am
And what i
face.
awake, s night or day, temper he put& on his: hat the wrong meats,• ,Evening dress could be hired who, without eve mean or •peg ma
The friends I seek are seeking me; L if you knew where to go, but none of l the Maid of Milan. Kemble libretto
f rdan , saves a part of his income. It is i n in,
by ly meet the "Clara People belie
Asleep,
When Sir James Barrie is 1n a bad ;Could not posit
h o the coming years; Lord Inchcape, e s rP a the one in fact that a ee
"Home, Sweet Home," and it was pro- s ted that ' is lbokin �
where it ha nate, r o n. uced at Covent Callen on May
factory cloth suit whichagonot down; that ha
he was American Con- i dpthet
g Lord Birkenhead was accustomed mined doubtful, Mather was hopeful, a Sir Henry Bishop, a Londoner by
The waters know their own and draw work from five o'clock in the morning
was miserable! It was woefully short 1 of the future for the gratification an
in yonder t midnight. era
that springsuntil g
The
brookpas
dsotight
in
the chest that a was• afraid, to stand
the
our.
(t, oak an
•
in the
arms
and
b
• tie bank account will add
d
little
t A
g
h as Written by John Burroughs,
we meet ar3 the same true friends, and
duty' is the` same duty. Moreover,
neither clouds, of the air nor clouds of
the soul can stay long, for they are al-
ways moving; and when they are gone
life will be as bright as it was before.
Look upward in the shadows, good cumbent on her as a hostess fame
friends. That is where the sunshine for her courtesy.
comes from!
Deaf, Not Indifferent.
It appears that solitary elephants,
not necessarily "rogues," may be met
with in all jungle country frequented
by. elephants. A "solita.ry,'ait seems,
is rather fond of taking up hie resi-
dence in the neighborhood of a vil-
lage, and helping himself to whatever
strikes his fancy.
Elephants in Ceylon have in general
acquired a contempt for the presence
' of the ordinary villager, and will walk
through a fence as soon as look at it, —
and help themselves to growing crops
in spite of the owner's presence, his
shouts, or his gun. A good deal of this
rank indifference le due to
possible, p d li to submarine pmost of
There is `told the story of an ole cies timbers of Spanish argosies., Though the Pacific's share of ahfe goat sorosiup Spa;nishhscnoorlex• • The
crew
The wrecks
phant that wee making havoc among en gold is said to be nearly
of Peruvian treasure ellipse siirnk
lemon in the great swamp of es which millions of unsalvaged few have braved the difficulties which
freesbootiangd �1 iirel followed ton is
the cattlemen beefs hardly
Diwulani, and had been "prociaftried"' dollars from wrecks more recent: it offers to treasure diversAt
be so soh of r set her shoe with a shot in
tor distinction, An official had made Will the sea forever keep this toll any given point can its depthenemies and ,heretics, the Spaniards with hope, a. forced march by night in faint moon• of gold? much as guessed, as far does the bot- her Stern, Though close to a entail iso sank the seventeen treasure slaps.
urge of which hie walk -d the renegade pirates were unable I h t
li ht, in the co Perhaps. E!adh of the last' fifty tom seem beyond the longest
city area to beaclh; their vessel. The blaze Six od them sank in shallow water, th
(z I t d
seemingly
this fact that there are many seat ele- censer of all that•age of dauntless sea -
h is to be found all over the come
"My dear Beryl,' she said, In a gent-
ly chiding voice to her pretty daugh-
ter, "I think you -cannot have realized
how cold your tone was when you said
'GeV. evening' to Mr. Winkelton."
"No. mother, perhaps I didn't,"- ad-
mitted Beryl, "but I am sure, on the
other hand, that neither you nor father
had any'idea how warm your tones
were when you said 'Good night' to
him,"
London's annual dish of meat is
about 400,000 tons.
~— tip,,. But what better could any one of
us •i , : `^ y 11,end mY' hos
• ess• wiao•evaggracious` and tactful, was'
Blossoms me at my ease,
eLegend end of i and Am,e duffer ,; a, t
S
IY! '` bent on putting. the
A tale is told of how a Spanish nephew was much too great a "swell"
King once prized an orange tree to take any notice of me other than.
that grew in his garden. politeness to his aunt made necessary.
Now the King's gardener had I was beginning to forget my clothes
a lovely, daughter Janine who when Puy very forgetfulness brought
loved a Spanish! nobleman but about the catastrophe. Asi I leaned
could. not marry hire because sere forward in the middle of the dinner to
had no dowry answer a question of my hostess, with
There •came one day to the a dull but quite audible rending the
court a French Ambassador who wretched goat burst asunder from col-
coveted the orange tree, but the lar to Mill I really wonder how I did
King refused to give it to•him. it. I have muddled many a critical
Janine, eavesdropping, over- situation since then, but that terrible
heard the conversation. That time I did the right thing and did it at
night she crept under cover of o Li "Duchess," I said, "it is my
darkness into the garden, pluck- the Pat. Wedding coat. I have not any
Net.,
ed a branch of the coveted, tree evening suit of my own, and I had to
and bore it to the French! Am- put it on or refuse your most kind in-
bassador. As a result, the Am- vitation."
bassador gave her a purse of 1 All joined at, once in a kindly gener-
gold" al, laugh including my
So Janine was married and on
her wedding day wore a coronet
of orange blossoms.
• and everyone-
, self forgot.the coat, and I had a very years ago in Covent Gardens., Lonrdon.
I' pleasant evening. Till her death the The anniversary is being celebrated
Dowager Countess of Grafton. was one Ian over the American. world. The author was
_'d I of my' warmest friends.
r ;snug .
to your self-respect and self -cent -1
dence,•becauss it shows that you haves
.practicality and good. judgment, sound a�
horse sense. ' obi s t
To get the "bank -book habit"
conserve your funds, to protect your
character, to bring order into your lifer
and defy the ravages and revenges, oft
time.
Why not start the habit to -day? No
matter how few your dollars at the
start—make the ,start. The possession
of a bank account, however srmali;
gives a wonderful sense, of independ-
ence and power. The consciousness
that we have a little ready money adds'.
greatly to our comfort and increases a
hundred per cent. our assurance and
self -confidence. --O. S. Marden.
Lord Sleeps a Cage. r
Wrote "Home, Sweet Home." Lord Leverhulme, the eminent Eng
John Howard Payne, author of what lash, philanthropist, sleeps in a cage in
is probably the best known song in the the open air, both winter and summer,
world. It was first sung one hundred being convinced that fresh air ie oneq
of the crhdef necessities for health.
The wisest habit is the habit of
never being foolish.
�• A Billion Dollars
at the Bottoms of tine Sea ::
radio, that the scientists will attempt
f th Pacific men,
BILLION dollars at the bottom
a!
of it at least as' lain
for longer than a century
— irate plunder deep in mud, slime -
an
try. Let an elephant, however, 0000 of the se to gauge the fathoms o e
become aware that he !a being hunted, Half h 1 1 over its whale tract. This, if accent- while Morbe
en was i ter the
l o tat
and he becomes as wary and alert as there plishe•d., will be of incalculable value
explorers for treasure. colony of Panama twenty e,1 his made
become
ever succeeds, the prize is $24,000,000.
In 1702 a fleet of seventeen galleons
brought cargoes of three years' ac•
cumulation of gold, silver• and jewels
from the colonies. of South America.
At the mouth of Vigo Bay a combined
Dutch and English squadron lay wait-
ing to attack.
The Spanish convoys were besten in
the battle, but rather than let a prize
of $140,000,000 full into the hands of
gold altar candelabra presented to the
Huron Mission by Louis XIV.
One morning 11 was announced then
the chest had been sounded by a mag-
netic diving Ped invented by Edward
Jeffrey, one of the expedition's lead
ers, An excited crowd gathered au
the banks to see the treasure brought
up. A movement of the dredge, how.
ever, caused the first attempt to fail,
but the hearts of the divers beat btgh
h e The dhnensdone of the ob-
ject sounded were precisely those of
o lost treasure o es ,
Four days later the thin; was sound-.
Ad slap into an elephant in a dark, years almost has seen some effort to ling line, It was no
held by diose roaolred the magazine and while s•Pars entg and years afterward wore raised an
hollow, and he' never knew 'drag this wealth from the infinite early a enrperstitio
swampy 1 about $20,000,000 recovered. But there
the more startled, f its ca tor. Some one early voyagers that: the ocean went and rirates in hue ads er# easure remain in the bay the hulks of eleven
-which of them was stronghold o p 1
tie or the pachyderm. Anyhow, the has estimated that more money has ,through the centre of the earth to its sank to the bottom, Thera it has lain great galleons holding a treasure that,
beset nia'de record time front the
been spent in these mostly vain efforts opposite side. depth finder" works, by dicot 1871, ac
I Th s •c d p t
cording to official record, is $120, -
Yet each year ,tire ingenuity
jungle, and the man sat down unsteady
fly to let his nerves recover a bit. Un •
hl vibrations once y
d t 1 h t
thehave the long-distance arm
R!cliest of Treasure sunk off Tobermory Bay, Scot-
ed egain. Captain Bob Carson got
himself into a diving suit and went
down, Abaft a half hour later he re-
turned with a mo:s-covered. object
about two feet square by a foot and a
of the rho insertion into the water of a s ee i 'ilhie year may
are sent ii some one of the standing offer inr•ang countless atli.er prizes i,s the half thick.
1 that was a sea a ep • an , i•e hunters and the r a h ed tilt Government to pay Genbaal Grant, sitian of which It was a rock. Bowled the captain in
oitbted y, t lin le I forth Thee vibrations ar ec of tl 4p
,. . 1 d w P who h b t Gently been located ;"Up anchor,'
3n• snaking the sea lis• from the bed of the ocean, pe cws
enacts to std mined b measuring the will ,iaiseg Che.sunken galleons in. Vigo near the Auckland Islands. Th ri disgust, When he had seen It. "Get utt
h ear that Clar• ergs its. treasures• � I depth is dater Y � `R15 000 000 and ae rout ar hare'"
tt w.as !n� his Court Y g' � orad .trine taketr f•or the sound wave'., to Bay,
reasu i lilies the disc from w 2 the pe,
e o re ati
scientists, have ecus ops ne" " 7 anti the . r nt. of the salvage to anyone hulk as u re
The City Boy.
e Ge
anal moved to the country, forres We av i
d ided that the lint' slat b ri 'nd radio 1 travel•downward and back.
ti
eral Grant is worth ,
ds, 1 ey be said of the Florentine, There is, on the other• hand, the re»•
cure Be void
son that his parents decided
« ,This is Pe
the face for e; growing Possibly sex or more. expeditions � The other expedition,
� 14, ie that of a(
city was not p • of these agen- New York on January I bed
mach
m of the British salvaging crew,
tv the.su ma ne a still
1
perhaps the richest single � land—rather rites either than the' which in three years raised 400 vee -
with one allor t.eatsia in the world, Ta whom- Lusitania. peels from wrlidch was recovered $$ti0,-
bay, In fbds• conclusion, howeuer, they. equipped to dozen or more salvaging corporation, bound for the 1
of the approval 01 dlarentr3. Cies will set mitA thrilling busine&S for ally one this 000,000.
had n atithdee during 1028 Two coast of Ohne in the 'hope of recover -
i the r' stayin re 1 t r •, treasure hunting. During � i , d . A f:ew weeks .since Ing. some $1,000,000 I r ! If the Jesuit fain that Constxnt,ly two naval metal belongs to the y
L the p This wealth of
fell•—Clare was forced to remain cisco to tires G t tont It went clown Arid d y
windows to look out upon the down
1 fleet day of his treitaU worGb of tongs ei
Wintry -0, very long-de•y indeed, i have gone a sea y a.n Fran- ate capper sunk its 200 feet of water. ria'
•
the al destroyer s lett S
reast�tx w "the •ear's' at the spring,
ntin:. There is always the
element of doubt and danger and pos-
sible disappoiutn'ient, even when one
goes hunting in rivers and lakes.
Ontario Treasure Hunt,
'i'liere 'was the incident at Penetan-
guishene, only last summer, A dredge
Mid several divers were 'taken to the
Porto lice Prize.
1 J rit treasure chest was a
myth, --which has not yet been proved
—there remains the Santa Margarita,
another Spanish treasure weep, such
off Porto Rica tend worth $7,000,000.
In 1898 a number of Harvard melt
definitely located the wre�ek of tale
' by sur r a
o I e the depth of: the a- s e ,
eco a Chilean . over in • sat the morn
k the c• to attempt, in tact, 1i, mal? of the ;Chi bin Morning's at serosa"
trills o c'Ifl with the bargee th4•it were .cony Y g
it to 'Valparaiso during an unprece-
dented storm.
Seventeenth Century • Romance.,
indoors. He inade many
bottoin'of this supposedly "bottom -
tell, less" ocean.
•
-, "WIl , isn't ''f'he "Bonk Depth f=inder;"
"Mother," he demanded, �' destroyers were mem
—
vented
'Miffs 'query he 1.0 On board theeven mord romantic; is the :ease
any one going by
It- But
times,. Then he shitted seri of the faculty Of the n called I th" Mor" ori gold', 'whit& lies alight
jieatect manytitins and a lrew invention called the of e g
to: :. % •, " a development at 'fathoms below the surface of the
r b ? No ,r cafe depth finder, p , f a�ot,!elrt•eenth•
borne now, her. Y , s submarine Oatili eine Rtudents e
'When is the wary :the sribrnas
aWant to fiat Child of :sntbei' Sir
eftlr,ei, 1 t � Watery Will rs'twt ,
agoing0Towith aratus, el, century
ouei.
go. (tacit its Toronto," be concluded detector: It is withis trap
#frfnty'y lied 40 both the seistnat;grapli and the Henry Morgan, ora the b�oldr5st 'bac-
',The hilteide's 'dew -pearled;
The lark's on tho wing;
The snail's on the thibrti;
lad's in This Iteaven•W `
life right with the world!
..+F,rorti "Pitrpa Pa.sseL" by
Robert 1!3rowlttmg,
Wye
Ttiver , tolocate the chest of gold galleon, But their yacht was itc!elt
the Santa Margarita, and after cart
rowly escaping With their lives the
yearn; MOO abandoned the, adventures,
ed there in 1650, when the canoe blown upon the same rock that sant
..copp
Of two JcsIlit in'ssia•nari53 wee 'aver-
turn.ed. It was known to have can-
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