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Dust Bathx For Hen*.
Do not forget while the weather is
fine to eather some finely powdered
road dust to make dust baths for the
hens during the winter. It can' be
supplemented then -with coal ashes,
but the dirt dust bath will be preferred,
as it does not muss the hens'
feathers so much.
Sarcalent Feed For Sheep.
If the shepherd desires to bring his
flock to the best condition iu winter
he must use some succulent feed .such
as roots or ensilage, or such feed as
oil meal, bran or clover. In most
farming localities few feeds cau be
raised cheaper than corn and corn
fodder. These can be used to good
advantage in maintaining a flock, and
if the silo 13 properly niied, win
furnish sufficient succulent feed.
Killlni; Oft Yoang Roosters.
The great plague of the beginner in
poultry, whose object is to produce
the greatest number of eggs, is the
large proportion of non-layers that
are found in every flock that were
spring hatched. It is, we think, the
rule that later hatches have a still [
larger proportion of cockerels. But
be they few or many, all except the
one or two that are to be kept for
breeders should be killed and marketed
when of broiler size. Their 1
sex can then be determined easily by
any one used to poultry, and in the
late summer tho broiler will sell for :
? ? ' 1* ?v?a?*aw ft a if ttt nnl/1 *
1U1 as U1UUU UlUiiCJ "O ?? ^ Mtvf
bring when fully grown, besides saving
the feed and care required to keep 1
until that time. ^
For Moulting Hens. j
Fill a bucket with two parts of good i
wheat bran and one part of shelled '
oats. Boil a beef bone, with some <
meat adhering to it, in a two gallon 1
vessel. Put a potato or two and as <
many onions, if convenient, in a pot, <
and when cooked pour the liquid into |
the bucket of bran and oats, cover it i
over, and let it stand for twenty or 1
thirty minutes to steam, soften and i
expand. Then feed the mixture to i
the hens. Give them the bone to 1
pick over, and also the cooked vegetables.
Do this once a day, and a
goodly lot of eggs will be obtained
from even a flock that is moulting. '
for there are always some hens that '
are not as far advanced in the shedding !
process as others, and they will lay
iKfl /.fhofO oro nAmnlflfilUT tllA
TT UUO kUV " KOV* W M* V vv ??Q - ? ?
process They should also have some
. gravel.
The Hog and the Brook.
Experience has shown that the
1>rook is a dangerous adjunct to the
* hog pasture. This is especially so iu
most of the prairie States, where the
land is so level that a brook winds
sluggishly through many townships,
and must need receive the drainage
from many farms.
When hog cholera breaks out on
one farm it often, in this way, distributes
the disease to all the farms
further down the course of the stream,
wherever the hogs depend on the
brook for drinking water. Investigations
have shown that some of the
worst outbreaks of hog cholera have
come in this way.
In a mountainous country, where
the streams are many times so short
that thoy are known from source to '
final out-flow they are comparatively J
aafe for the watering of all stock; for *
the reason that it is not possible for a 1
disease to exist there without its c
presence being known. But in level
States the length of the streams pre- ^
eludes this knowledge. In every sec- J
lion of level country where hog *
cholera exists at all, the hog and the
brook should be separated. This precaution,
if widely taken, will lessen
the disease named by a large per cent. I
?Farm, Field and Fireside. 1
c
t Talcing Honey From the Hive. , j
To remove comb honey from the r
hive great care should be taken. After t
one has produced a case of nice fancy ;
grade honey it is important to know g
how to take it from the hive and not j
have the bees puncture the white r
cappings. This is often permitted j
and the honey is rated as second i
grade. When ready to take off honey t
approach the hive with the smoker ?
going well, send in a few puffs of ?
emoke at the entrance, then raise the
back end of the super and puff in a
little smoke very gently. Do not
lrighten the bees by rough handling
or jarring the hive in any way, for
v then they will run to the boxes of nice
honey and puncture the cappings and
?11 themselves.
After raising the super about six
inches on the back end with one hand,
elip the bee escape under it with the
other hand and adjust everything in
its place. The bees will all make
their exit through the escape in the
board one by one, and your super will
be ready to come off the next day. It
is best to put on escapes toward evening
so the bees in the super will not
be too hot. Now if you have been
judicious and expeditious in all your
manipulations you may carry off your
super of nice comb honey the next
morning without-a puncture or scratch.
i A Floor For Ilorsa Stall?.
Where mares are kept a tight floor
I? ?K?'0>?li _.-_n :
au iuo oiaii ao uuii co|jct.iuii v luuvcui*
ent, but with horses the case is otherwise.
For them such a floor as is
shown in the accompanying illustration
is best suited for keeping their
coat3 from becoming staiued. The
?table floor beueath the flooring of the
stall should slope a little so that the
liquids that run through the openings
in the stall flooring will be conveyed
down behind the stall, where tbey
may be absorbed in the litter. The
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A STALL FLOOR FOE THE STABLE.
pieces of which the stall floor is
mauts may be five inches wide laid
one-half inch apart. They are shown
farther apart than this in the cat in
' ,W.,, . - .
order to make the matter plain. There
should be four cross bearings under
the stall floor if two-inch staff is to be (
used.?JNew .Lngiand iiomesteau.
Insects Injurious to the Currant.
The insects attacking the curranl 5
are the imported currant-borer, th?
American currant-borer, the imported
currant worm, the native saw-fly, ano
several others of more or less importance.
The two borer* are in some f
sections a serious in pediment to sue- j
cessful currant culture. The moth of c
the imported borer lays its eggs iD 2
June, singly near the buds, where in
a few days they hatch into small larva, c
which eat their way to tie centre of ^
the stem where they burrow up am} J
down, feeding on the pith all through j'
the summer, enlarging the channel iu :i
they grow older until at last they haw !l
formed a hollow several inches in
length. When full grown the larva 1
is whitish and fleshy, with brown head f
and legs and a dark liue along the j'
middle of its back. r
When the hollow stems do not breat S
off, indications of the presence of the 1
borer may be found in the sickly look J
of the leaves and the inferior size of ?
the fruit. t
The only remedies are to cut oul *
and burn all hollow caues, or to cap- j
ture and destroy the moths, who are s
Bluggish in the cool of the morning. r
The American current-borer differs t
from the above in being of smaller e
size and without feet. Sometimes as s
many as eight or ten of these borers "
are found within one cane. The cut- j
ting and burning of the infested stalks l
is recommended in this case as for the i:
imported borer. The insects attack- "Q
ing the leaves of the currant are the n
imported and native currant worm, 5
and the currant span worm.
There are numerous other insects t
that commit depredations of minot I
importance, but the three mentioned L
ire all that are likely to be trouble- ?
3ome. The first two can be kept iu i
subjection bv the use of powdered 1'
liellebore in the proportion of an ?
)unce to a pailful of water, sprinkled u
jr sprayed on the bushes at theii v
irst appearance. For the span worm, J1
i hellebore is used, the liquid should
be made three times the usua* r
strength. Paris green is more certair c
ind effectual where there is no objec- J1
ion to its use. K
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Self-IIejisterinjr lien's Nest. H
The cut shows a nest for confining t
iach hen as she goes on to lay. Sev [
sral times a day the nest can be ex j,
imined and those hens which hav? p
,aid can be liberated, after taking the c
aen's number and marking her egg ^
T 7 <
I
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AN AUTOMATIC NEST. si
p
Phus one can find the best layers, and "
>reed for better layers each year. The e
test tilts enough when the hen steps u
>n the euge of the opening to tip down' c
he thin door that will shut her in. jj
die wedge behind slips down and ji
lolds the nest firm, so it will not rock n
>ack and forth.
Pulverizing the Soli. 6
The value of pulverizing the soil re> ?(
>eatedly is not generally understood n
>y farmers who cultivate large acres Ii
>f land, but the market gardener, whc ?
jas only a small space on which tc M
nake a living, shows by his methods l
hut he realizes the importance of thi? P
vork. Incidentally, pulverizing the "
loil meaus good culture of plants, but j,
)lants can be cultivated and the soil ii
nay not be pulverized. The finer we v
>ulverize the soil around plants the ^
jetter is the mechanical condition of
he soil for making the plants grow ?
ind resisting dry weather. "When we
itudy the subject from a scientific v
joint of view we can understand bet- fl
;er the effects of what is good culture.
Everybody in this age understands the t
;heory of the evaporation of water n
rom the soil, how the water rises from *
;he subsoil or underground springs by
:apillary attraction, and if not taken 0
lp by the plants passes off into the V
lir. This evaporation begins on the ?
suriaoe, ana extends gradually down- t
vard. If the soil is too thick and ii
jompact the moisture has difficulty in 8
ising up, and the top layers dry very
dowly. Such 'and is usually wet and t
nuddy in ordinary rainy weather, and c
t is uufit for crops. In order to fa- (1
militate capillary attraction the soil t'
nust be so pulverized that the air v
spaces in the soil are small. This en- H
ibles the soil to rise gradually and ?
jontinuously. By good cultivation on 0
;he surface the plants are kept well ii
mpplied with moisture all of the time, *
ind every fresh stirring of the top soil
itarts up new reservoirs of water from c
;he subsoil. r
Gardeners have what they call a ^
lust mulch, which is simply another 0
lame fo.v good, thorough surface cul- f>
:ivation. They stir the soil around r
;he plants every week or few days, and *
;be soil becomes so thoroughly pul- v
rerizatl tlint nanillarv attraction is in 1
:apiu progress all the time. It has | j
jeen demonstrated that on the right | <j
iincl of soil garden plants can in this ! >
tvay be brought through the driest j J
weather imaginable, and without a j j
irop of water artificially supplied. ; t
rhe dust mulch is better for the plauta j
than an artificial one of leaves and lit- i J3
ter, although the latter are not to be j ]
neglected where it is impossible to give 1
the thorough pulverization required, j ?
rhe stirring of the surface soil is more i [
importaut when the plants are young | j
than when they get half grown. Then j i
hV> rtrr ollnda li a /inm'inr] (lP.Hinil tVl A I ^
ouuug iUC ^4 UUUU MkW'*?v. W J
roots, and form a protective moisture : t
bolder that helps them through the c
liot weather. After all it is the young, f
immature plants that we have to care [
For and tend, and if we succeed in n
Seating them started aright the crops *
ire pretty well assured.?A. B. Bar- ^
rett, in American Cultiv,^r
DK. TALMAGES SERMON.
UNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
iubjec '.lie Divorce Que.-tlon?Domestic
Disorder* a Subject of National Iin
at TllvArnn I.ttiri
IMU'tailCC? L UUUl UIUJ ... .......
la the Various States Suggested.
[Copyright, Louis Klopech, T89P 1
Washington, D. C.?Dr. Talmage in tbis
liscourse discusses a question of national
mportauee, which is confessedly as diffi ult
as it is urgent.' The ext is Matthew
cix., 6, "What therefore God bath joined
ogether let not man pat asunder."
That there are hundreds and thousands
if infelicitous homes in America no one
rill doubt. If there were only one skeleton
n the closet, that might be locked up and
ibondoned, but in many a home there is a
keletou in the hallway and a skeleton in
;11 the apartments "Unhappily married"
,re two wotds descriptive of many a hometead.
It needs no orthodox minister to
trove to a badly mated pair that there is a
if 11. They are there now. Sometimes a
rrand and gracious woman will be thus inarcerated,
and her life will be a cruciIxion,
as was the case with Mrs. Sigourtey,
the great poetess and the great soul.
Sometimes a consecrated man will be united
o a.fury, as was John Wesley, or united to
i vixen, as was Jonn silicon, somecirues
ind generally both parties are to blame,
tnd Thomas Carlyle is aa intolerable
crumbier, and bis wife has a pungent reort
alwavs ready, and Froude, the histolan,
pledged to tell the plain truth, has to
mil a?ide the curtain from the lifelong
quabble at Cralgenputtock and 5 Cheyne
Off.
Some say that for the alleviation of all
hese domestic disorders of which we hear
asy divorce is a good prescription, God
otnetimes authorizes divorce as certainly
is He authorizes marriage. I have just as
Quch regard for one lawfully divorced as
have for one lawfully married. But you
:now and I know that wholesale divorce
s one of our national scourges. I am not
urprised at this when I think of the influences
which have been abroad militating
igalnst the marriage relation. For many
ears the platforms of the country rang
rith talk about a free love millennium,
.'here were meetings of this kind held in
he Academy of Music, Brooklyn; Cooper
nstltute, New York; Tremont Temple,
loston, and nil over the land. Some of the
?omen who were most prominent In that
aovement have since been distinguished
or great promiscusity of nffectlon. Pjpuar
themes for such occnslons were the tyrnay
of man, the oppression of the rnaria?e
relation, women's rights and the
fflnitiea. Prominent speakers were
romen with short curls and short
ress and very long tongue, everustingly
at war with God because they
rere created women, while on the platorm
sat meek men with soft accent and
owed demeanor, apologetic for mascuiiuty
and holding the parasols while the
ermagant orators went on preaching the
ospel of free love. That campals?u of
bout twenty veurs set more devi s into the
carriage relation than will be exorcised In,
he next fifty. Men and women went home
rom such meetings so permanently conusod
as to who were their wives and liusands
that tliey never got out of the perlexity,
and the criminal and tbe civil
ourts tried to disentangle the Iliad of
roes, nud the one got alimony, and that
ne got a limited divorce, and this mother
:ept thrt children on condition that thi
;ither could sometimes come and look at
hem, nnd these went into poorhouses,
nd those went info an insane asylum, and
hose went into dissolute public life, and
11 went to destruction. The mightiest war
v>*r m^de against the marriage institution
ras that frea love campaign, sometimes
nd9r one name and sometimes unde: anther.
Another influence that ha3 warreJ ipon
he marriage relation has been polygamy
a U:ab. That is a stereotyped caricature
f the marriage relation and has poisoned
he whole land. You might as well tnlnk
hat you can have an arm in a state of inoriflcation
and yet the whole body not be
ickened as to have any Territories or
tates polygamized anil yet the body of the
ation not feel the putrefactiou. Hoar it,
ood men and women or America, that so
>ng ago as 1862 a law was passed by Conress
forbidding polgamy In the Territories
nd in all tie places where they had jurisiction.
Thirty-seven years have passed
long and nine administrations, yet not
ntii the passage of the Edmunds law in
392 was any active policy of polygamic
uppression adopted. Armed with all the
oiver of government and having au army
t their disposal, the tlrst brick had not till
b?n been knocked from that fortress of librtinism.
Every new President tn bis inaugral
tickled that monster with the straw
ondemnation.and every Contrress'stultifled
self in proposing some plan that would
ot work. Polygamy stood In Utah, and
x other of the Territories more intrenched,
lore brazen, more puissant, more bragart
and more internal than at any time
1 its history. James Buchanan, a mud.
bused man of his day. did more for the
ztirpation of this villainy than all the
ubsei.ueut administrations dared to do up
o 1332. Mr. Euchanau sent out an army,
nd, although it was baited in its work, still
e accomplished more than the subsequent
dmlnUtratlous. which did nothing but
#lk, talk. talk. Even at this lute day and
rith tho Edmunds act in force the evil bus
ot been wholly extirpated. Polygamy in
rtab, though outlawed, is still practiced
1 secret. It Ims warred against the marlage
relation throughout the laud. It is
npossibleto have such an awful sewer of
liquity sending up its miasma, which is
rafted by the winds north, south, oast and
rest, without the whole land being affected
y itAnother
influence that has warred
gainst the marriage relation in this counry
has been a pustulous literature, with
:s millions of sheets every week choked
rith stories of domestic wrongs and indelities
nnd massacres and outrages uuil
it is a wouder to me that there are any
ecencies or any common sensn left on
he subject of marriage. One half of the
ewsstands of our great cities reek with
be filth.
"Now," say some, "wo admit all those
vils, and the only way to clear them out
r to correct them is by easy divorce."
fell, before we yield to that cry let us And
lit how i>a?v It iifjw. I lidve looked
ver the laws of all the States, ami I Hurl
hat, while la some States it is easier tluiu
i others, in every State it is easy. Tho
tate ot Illinois, through its Legislature,
fdtes a long list of proper causes for
ivorce and then closes up by giving
o the courts the right to mako u deree
of divorce iu any case where they
eem it expedient. After that you are
ot surprised at the announcement
hat in one year there were 833 dlorcej.
It you want to know how easy
; is yon have only to look over the records
f the States?in" Massachusetts, GOO diorces
in one year; in Maine, 473 in
no year, in Connecticut, 401 divorces
u one yenr; in tho city of San
'rauclsco, 333 divorces in one year; in
!ew England in on** year, 2113 divorces,
nd in tweuty years in New England, 20,00.
Is that not easy enough? It the same
a'.io continues t he ratio of multiplied diorce
and multiplied causes of ilivoree,
re are not far from the time wben our
ourts will have to set apart wliolo da>s
ar application, and all you will have to
rovo against a man will he that he left his
Uppers in the middle of the floor; and all
ou will have to prove against a woman
rill Le that imr husband's overcoat was
luttonless. Cause of divorce doubled in a
?w years?doubled iu Frauce. doubled iu
luglaud ami doubled iu the United statu?.
?o show liow very easy it is, I have to tell
ou t'uat in AYastern Reserve, Ohio, the
roporttou of divorces to marriages eelerated
was iu one voar 1 to 11: iu Rhode
slaud. 1 to 3; iu Verinoat, 1 to 14. Is not
bat easy enough?
I want you to notice that freqnoncy of
livorce always coo* along with tne dissouteness
of socletv. Rome for 500 years
lad not oue case of divorce. Those were
ler days of glory and virtue. Then the
eign of vice begun, aud divorce became
pidemic. If you want to know how riif>dly
the eirpire went d<>wu, ask Gibbon.
.>0 you know liow the reign of terror was
utroduced in Frir ee' By 20,000 cases of
livorce in one year in Paris.
What wo want is that the Congress of
' e United States move for the ehauging
if the national constitution so tu.it :i i.iw
nn bo p:i.?.?eil which shall bo uniform all
ivor the country and what shall be rtght
u one State shall be riarbt in all the 8'ates
ind what is wronc In one .State will be
irons iu all the !State=. How Is it now?
f a party in the marriage relation yets
lisiatisfled, it 13 oaly necessary to movo to
another State to achieve liberation front
the domestic tie, and divorce Is effected sc
easily that the first one party kaow9 of II
is by seeing it in the newspaper that Rev
Dr. Somebody a few days or weeks afterward
introduced Into a new marriage relation
a member of the household wtio went
off on a nleasure excurslou to Newport 01
a business excursion to Chicago. Married
at the bride's house: no cards. There are
State., of the Union which practically put
a premium upoa the disintegration of the
marriage relation, while there are othet
States, like the State cf New York, which
has the pre-eminent idiocy of making marriage
lawful at twelve and fourteeu years
of age.
The CongresT of the United States needs
to move fcr a change of the national constitution
and then to appoint a committee ,
?not made up of single gentlemen, but of
men of families, and their families iu Washington?who
shall prepare a good, honest,
righteous, comprehensive uniform law that
will control everything from Sandy Hook
to the Golden Gato. That will put an end
to brokerages in marriages. That will send
divorce lawyers into a decent business.
That will set peoDle agitated for many
years on the question of how they shall get
away from each other to planning how they
can adjust themselves to the more or less
unfavorable circumstances.
More difficult divorce will put an estoppal
to a great extent upon marriage as a
financial speculatiou. There are men who
jro Into tue relation just as tuey co mio |
Wall street to purchase shares. The female
to be Invited into the partnership of
wedlock is utterly unattractive and in disposition
a suppressed Vesuvius. Everybody [
knows it, but this masculine candidate for
matrimonial orders, through the commercial
agoncy or through the county records,
flnds out how much estate is to be inherited,
and tie calculates it. He thinks
out how lonj? it will be before the old man
will die and whether he can stand the re- ,
fractory te-mper until he do?3 die, and then
he enters the relation, for he suys, "If I
cannot stand it, then through the divorce
law I will back out." That process Is go- J
Ins: on all tile time, and men enter into the I
relation without any moral principle, withouthuy
affection, and it is as much a matter
of stock speculation as anything that J
was transacted yesterday ia Union Pacific, ;
Wabash and Delaware and Lackawanna. !
Now, suppose a man understood, as he
ought to understand, that if he goes into
that relation there is no possibility of his
netting cut or no probability. He would
| be more slow to put his neck in the yoke, '
I He should say to himself, "Rather than a
Caribbean whlrlwlud with a whole fleet ot ,
shipping in its arms, gke me a zephyr off
fields of sunshine and gardens of peace." 1
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder '
women from the fatal mistake of marrying !
men to reform them. If a young man, by
twenty-five years of age or thirty yeare of
age, have the habit ot strong drink fixed
on him. he is as certainly bound for a '
drunkard's grave as that a train starting
out from the Grand Central depot at 8 ;
o'elock to-morrow morning is bound for
Albany. The tcaln may not reach Albany, 1
for it may bo thrown from the track. The i '
young man may not reach a drunkard's i ;
grave, for something may throw him off I;
the Iron track of evil habit. But the proba- i :
bllity is that the train that starts to-mor- j
row morning at 3 o'clock for Albuny will j!
get th^re, and the probability Is that the ;
young man who has tho hablc ot strong ;
drink fixed on him before twenty-five ;
or thirty years of age will arrive | ;
at a drunkard'* grave. Sbe knows I ;
he drinks, although he tries to hide it j
by chewing cloves. Everybody knows ; 1
he drinks. Parents warn; neighbors | .
and frleads warn. She will marry mm, j ,
she will reform him. If sho 'is unsucce3s- |
ful iu the experiment, why, then, the di- | '
vorce Ihw will emancipate her, because I '
habitual drunkenness is a cause for di- I .
voreo in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Con- t:
necticut and uearly alt the States. So the j
poor thing goes to tho altnr of sacrifice. If
you will show me the poverty struck :
streets in any city, I will show you tha 1
homes of the wumeu who married men to I i
reform them. In one case out of ten thou- 1
sund it may be a successful experiment. I 1
never saw the successful experiment. But 1
have a rigorous divorce iriw, and that
woman will say, "If I am affianced to that ;
man, It Is for life, and if now, in the ardor
of his young love and I the prize to be ;
won, he will not give up his cups, when he
has won the prize surely he will not Rive 1
up his cups." And so that woman will say
to the man: "No, sir; you are already mar- '
ried to the club, and you are iparried to j
that evil habit, and so you are married '<
twice, and you are a bigamist. Go!"
Let me say to all young people, before
you give your heart and hand inboly.illiauce,
use all caution. Inquire outside as J
to habits, explore the disposition, scrutin- ;
ize the taste, question tho ancestry and j
find out the ambitions. Do not take the
heroes and heroines of cheap novels for a j
moilel. Do not put your lifetime happi- ;
ness in the keepfng of a man who has a '
reputation of being a little loose in morals :
or in the keeping of a woman who dresses
immodestly. Remember that, while good 1
looks are a kindly gift of God, wrinkles or
accident may despoil them. Remember
i that Byron was no mpre celebrated for his 1
beauty than for his depravity. Remember ]
that Absalom's hnlr was not more splendid 1
than his habils were despicable. Hear it! jj
Hear it! The only foundation for happy
marriage that ever has been or ever will
be Is good character. Ask the counsel of !
father and mother in this most Important j }
step of your life. They are good aavisera. i;
Tiiey are the. best friends you ever had. j
They made more sacrifices for you than ! 'j
any one else ever did.
And let me &av to those of you who ore ' j
tu happy married uniou, avoid llrsc quar- *
rels; have no unexplained correspondence
with former admirers; cultivate no suspicions;
Id a moment of bad temper do not
rush out and tell the neighbors: d j not let .1
any of those gadabouts of society unload '1
In your house their baggage of gab and 3
tittle tattle: do not make It an invariable :t
rule to stand on your rights; learn how to t
apologize; do not be so proud or so stub- ii
born or 90 devilish that you wiil not make :
up. Rememb-r that the worst domestic )
misfortunes and most scandalous divorce .<
cases started from little infelicites. Tue J
whole plied up train of ten rail cars tele- 1 :
scoped and smashed at the foot of an em- ; 1
baukment 100 feet down came to that ca? S
tastrojhe by getting two or three incbej 1
off the track. Some of the greatest domes- ;
tic misfortuuos and the widest resounding :
divorce cases have started from little mis- *
understandings that were allowed to go on 1 '
and go on until home and respectability I 3
and religion and immortal soul vrent liowu I .<
iu tli? crash. :
Fellow citizens n.9 well as fellow Chris- . a
Mans, let os bavo a divlco rage ngaiust J
anything that wars on tlie marriago statu.
Blessed iustitutiou! Instead of two arms
to llgut the battle of life, (our; instead of ' li
two eyes to scrutinize the path of life, four; I li
instead of two shoulders to lift the burden j II
of life, lour; twice the energy, twice the i t
courage, twice tho holy .-imbitioc, twice II
the probability '>! worldly success, twice t
the prospects of heaven. Into that niatrl- t
nonlal bower God fetches two souls. Out- n
side the bower, room for all contentions, l
and all bickerings, atfd all controversies, I
but inside that bower there is room fot t
only one guest?the ang*?l of love. Let I
that angel stand at the floral doorwav of i r
this Edenic bower with drawn sword to L
hew down the worst foe of that bowereasy
divorce. And for nvery paradise lost
may there be a paradise regained. AuJ
alter wo quit our home here may we have ,
a brighter home in heaveu; at the windows ?
of whlcn, this moment, are familiar faces ^
watching for our arrival and wondering ''
why so long we tarry. j
t
UttUVC rrtl33IU(\?Klci KJU I.
Serious Anil-Voi'daru lUoti Occur In '
Central Aoin. j ^
Tei'jrrams have been received at Shane:- w
hai. Cliiua, announcing that several IJritisit j ,j
missionaries have been driven out ot t!? > j ,
city oi I'aotijjau, lf>) iv.i.'es across the 1 {
border iu Ando:i?) Province. '1 iiibe:. Ab
3'JQ'J Lamas resili t!ier?, the jn ijoriry oi
wUoai joluej the auti-forcicrn de-uonstration.
j.
The missionaries included Mr. and Mrs.
Shields and Mrs. Macbeth. For several
week? previous to the llual riot the mis- ^
sionaries were compelled to stay indoors.
Details are not known further than that
the mission was destroyed and the mis- '
sioiari's barely escaped at niijht. f
Near Islians and Chun Kilty an nntiCaiholic
uprising was causing by the kid- I v
napping of children. Childre i have been j j
.stolen aiaiosi by the wholesale by wander- | I
iu? sypslos. but tii-t naiies beliuvo tli.it |
tlioy we m ontou by tlin liute.l [oreiijaers. | (
A uumbi.T of uativo Catholics bavo be-a i
killol. At Fuoliow two natives wore oxu- J;
cutod for cir.'uiaticg ropjrts against tlio ?
loroitfucri. ,
s
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
the drink evil made manifest
!n many ways.
Clr?t and Chance Saloon?Temptation*
VClitch Beset Wn^e-Earnlng Boys
? ue;in by "Kiiitiing" the Can For
Other* anil End at Drunkards.
ft. chance la now offered to travelers this
wav,
A. flr?t chance and last chance the signs
clearly say.
Io travelers one way a first chance is made
known,
ro travelers returning a last chance is
shown.
But words of the 9iRn are a warning to me
And I hasten ray steps, from danger to flee.
'TIs chance to" surrender my honor and
wealth,
A first chance to endanger my comfort and
health,
A first chance to turn from the right to the
wroug,
A chance to sow tares for my reaping ere
long.
A chance to bring shame upon kindred and
frlanrl
A chance to bring death to my soul in the
end.
Least chance it may be to redeem a good
name,
Last chance for salvation from sorrow and
shame,
Sol pass quickly by and shuWer to think
The Jast ohan:e of hope, may be first
chance to drink.
?Ham's Horn.
Intemperate Children.
"There is one source of intemperance to
which I do not remember having seen attention
called in all the long and varied
discussion of the subject," says Florence
Kelley, Secretary of the National Consumers'
League, and a temperance advocate.
"This is the temptation to which
wage-earning children are exposed while
at their work. In many factories it is
customary (or the youngest lad to go to
the naarMt snlnnn onrrvlnp a lonrr noln
with pegs on Its side, and a tin can banging
from every peg. On the return trip
the pole lies across the lad's shoulder, and
he cans, containing beer, swing as he
ivalks. He 19 paid for bis trouble In sips
Df beer. The 'beer boy' is a part ot the
equipment In all large smithies, and, tnleed,
wherever work Is done at an excessive
temperature. The workmen, full grown
ind able-bodied, and engaged at steady
svork, take their beer as food or refreshneat.
Buttbey have no realizing sense of
;be effect on the little lad's growing body
ind mind of the sips which they give him.
'A far larger number of children form
:he habit of drinking from exhaustion,
rhey work out ot all proportion to their
strength, endure the same extremes of
aeat, cold, noise, dirt, discomfort and exhaustion
as the men among whom they
pork, and feel the need of something?they
io not know what. The mo3t accessible (
ind instantaneous means of comfort Is a
Irlnk, and the habit is easily and quickly
ormed. Even where boys are restrained
'rom drinking by the fortunate habit ot
:artylng home all their earnings, a pracice
widespread and beneficent, the ex*
laustlon of the long working day, heavy j
ind indigestible luncheon, and long jourley
to and from work in all weather^, ultl- '
nately bring a-cravingfor stimulants. And
vlien a raise ln> wages comes, whenih? lad
s fifteen or sixteen, it often happens that
he old wage is carried home and the dlf*
erence spent in drink. The example of
he older men counts for much in this, but
>byslcal exhaustion counts for more.
"Mow stiau tne evil De reacnea? mere
s only oue hoaest, effective way to reaoh i
ill the evils tbat afflict wage earning chll- |
Iren. That la, to take the children bodily
lut of the stores and factories, the work*
hops, glassworks, sweatshops and all other
>laces in wtiich growing .children are
turned in body, mind ana character, and
ceep them in school. When we Dually set
eriously about removing the causes of the
iravlng for stimulants, we shall see to it
bat the children, all the children, are well
ed, well olothed, and kept In school until
bey are sixteen years old. Then wLen
hey leave school, with years of temper- j
icce teaching and years of manual trainDg
welded into their character, the most
iangerous time for acquiring a permanent j
ihyslcal craving for stimulants will have |
lassed forever."
"Open For Business."
That was the announcement on a sign 1
usnended over the entrance to a showy
milding tbat had just been completed In
me of the bu9v thorouebfares of Chicago.
?be vestibule wa9 finished in marble. The
rindows were artistic and beautiful. On
ilther side of the stops were shining brass
landrail*. Through the open door could
ie seen polished woodwork and glistening
cirrors, and furniture of latest pattern and
Inest jlnlsh.
"Open for business!" What sort of buslies&?
Is the newly-furnished place to be a
tore or office? Is some branch of legitimate
business to be carried on? Are perons
who enter to trade there assured of
n equivalent for the dollars they expend?
fay, nay.
"Open for business!" The business of
mptylDg men's pockets, debauching their
icdles, dethroning their reason, despoiling
heir homes, starving their children, eflacDg
the image of God from the soul and
ilottlnsr out all hppe of heaven. Yet this
stheklndof business that is flourishing
.3 no other business is. The rum-selling
msiness is the worst kind of business.
Word* to Be Heeded.
"I wonder the Africans do not shoot with !
lolsoned arrows every white man that i
mids upon their coast, for they have |
Tou<?ht them rum and are still bringing j .
t; ami in a few decades more, if the rum j j
raffle continues, there will be nothing left ! j
o Africa for God to save. The vile rum in (
his tropical climate is depopulating the .
ountry more rupidly than famine, pestience
and war, and I um only waiting for a
aan to All my place at Mublenberg Mission
o come home and take the ulatform \
gnlnst the liquor traffic; for I can do {
ifrica more good warring against the liq- j
or traffic here than I can preaching and
eachlug the gospel there. Africa, with .
he simple gospel of Jesus i9 saved, but J
ifrica with rum is eternally lost; for the t
bw missionaries that can survive there can s
lot overcome the effect of the river of i v
trong drink that Is being poured into elm j c
ountry."?Rev. David A. Day, a Mission- ;
ry In Liberia. j
Times Have Changed.
Since the day Noah got drunk and cursed f
lis grandson, good people have been try- i ^
os to save drunkards. Everybody be- ! J
leves it bad to get drunk, whether he j .
eaches school or not. Men have been 2
igUting tue liquor evil lor suuu ycnrs, uui | 3
lie methodsjof attack are cbanjjini; as [,
iroe progresses. In London 100 years ago i a
, mau was refused an Insurance upon bis c
ife because lie did not drink moderately. 5
t was tbe belief of insurance companies at p
bat time that men ou^ht to drink to pro- 3
on# life. Now it is tbe contrary, and
uen have to pay higher Dremium to obtain
usurauce.?l'vov. A. C. Dixon.
American Civilisation.
Every visitor to Cuba, Porto Rico and
ilanlia says that drunkenness has in- 1
reused among each of those peoples at an
lartuing rate siuc? the United States in- 1
timed control, which, if true, and the
lovern.uent takes no measures to arrest
lie ovil, will be to its everlasting disgrace.
Only One Way.
n??nry H. Faxon says: "The only oer- 1
am re iiedy for iutemperanrto is to shu:
ip/ti-.o rum shops. L'nder any other col- t
lit ion save that of prohibition, drunkeni**?
must prevail to a greater or less ex- (
eiit."
The CriUittle in Urief,
Tiie liquor trulllj has many defenders,
lut uo defence.
Salooukeepers complain because tbev
anno: sell liquor to private soldiers in
2uoa. !
Tares saloonkeepers at Sullivan, III.,
lad damage suits aggregating S2000 tiled
igaitst them iu one dav lately.
Women of Norway have procured a law
rhlcli prohibits a liquor seller from en;(loving
any women in his business, except
iis'wlfe.
The most tragic question for France at
he present moment is the terrible pro- ,
jress that drluk, or alcoholism, is making
itiil, truly speaking, the nbseuce of efforts
o stay the plai;ue. Lunacy is one of the '
vorat aided of the aeaurge. ,
' i ' .
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR OCTOBER 8.
Subject: Hainan's Plot Against the Jews,
Esther 111., 1-2?Golden Text: Rom.
111., 31?Commentary on the Day'*
Lesson.
Connecting Links. In lesson twelve ol
?ast quarter we left the people at Jerusalem
still at work on the temple. "When it was
finished there came a pause of nearly sixty
years In the history of the Jews. During
this time the Medo-Peraian empire became
larger than any previous kingdom in the
world, so that Its ruler was surrounded
with splendor and wealth almost beyond
imagination. Its ambition was to conquer
Greece, and extend its sway over the known
world. This empire in its whole extent,
from India to Ethiopia, must have contained
a population of at least 100,000,000.'When
Cyrus was king, and his edict was
Issued to the Jews, fifty thousand returned
to Jerusalem; these rebuilt the temple, and
were planting the renewed kingdom of
God again In Palestine. But there were
lar/e numbers still remaining In tbe lands
of their captivity. These were engaged in
business, had homes, and rahst have attained
considerable wealth. It was those
Jews who were scattered throughout the
Dledo-Persian empire whose lives were in
danger at the time of our lesson, though it
Hainan's plot had been carried out he
would most likely have sought to destroy
even these at Jerusalem. '
1. "Ahasuerus," A royal title common
to several Modo-Persian kings. This was
Xerxes the son of Darius Hystaspesi Xerxes
is the shortened word for Ahasuerus.
''Haman." The kings of the Amelekites
were called Agag. It is likely that Haman
was the descendant of that Agag spared
by Saul but destroyed by Samuel, and on
the ground might have a hatred for the
Jews. "Advanced him." Made him his
prime minister and put all the officers of
state under his direction. Such a distinction
in seats was counted of vast. Importance
in the formal court of Persia.
2. "King's servants reverenced him."
These were a higher class of officers than
porters, who were in attendance at tho
Kate to receive the commands of the king.
Most probably the homage required by Haman
was idolatrous. "Gave him divine
honors," as to a deity, for such were given
to the kings of Persia, and might be to
their favorites, "the king had so commantled
him." To bow the knee and give
revefence to all great persons was a common
respect due to them, and there needed
not a particular command from the. king.
There was therefore more implied in the
reverence commanded than what proceeded
from a mere civil respect.
4. "They told Human." They desired to
know whether he and the Jews would be
allowed to observe their singular customs.
"He had told them that he was a Jew."
This proves that he vindicated himself oa
the ground of bis religion, and It implies
that he expected the king would admit this
plea, which favors th? supposition that
Persian kings used to excuse their Jewish
servants from such obeisance as thoy could
aot conscientiously render.
5. "Then was Haman full of wratii." It
made bis proud spirit rage and fret and
boll within him. He was u man of n weak
and vainglorious mind and intoxicated with
prosperity.
6. "He thought scorn to lay hands on
ftlordecal alone." It is a penal la this court
aot to worship Haman, as It was in Nebuchadnezzur's
not to worship the sroiden
[mage; but his single life Is nothing toward
satisfaction. Thousands of innocent and
valuable lives must be sacrificed too. Here
Id appear Haman's Intolerable pride and
unsettled cruelty and the ancient hatred of
an Amaleklte to the Israel of Qod. Nero's
barbarous wish was his that they had all
Dut one neck.
7. "They cast Par." They cast lots to
And which of the twelve moaths would be
the most favorable for the execution of Hainan's
design, and the month Adar was
taken?the last month of their year?the
same as our February. Then the lot was
:ast for the ante, and the thirteenth day
was ohosen. It was the first month of the
year when Haman began ?to cast lots, and
the time for the execution of the Jews was
delayed until the last montb, which plainly
shows that though "the lot be cast into the
lap, yet the whole disposing thereof Is from
the Lord." Prov. 16:83. A year Intervened
between the design and its execution, which
?avo time for Mordecal to acquaint Queen
Bather with it, and for her to Intercede
ivith the king and thereby prevent the coniniracv.
8. "A certain people." In bis eyes mean
ind contemptible, not worthy to be named.
'Scattered abroad and dispersed In all
:he provinces." Who therefore, if tolerated,
nay poison all thy subjects with their
principles. "Their laws are diverse from
ill people." Stich they certainly were,' for
they worshiped the true God according to
Sis own laws; and this was not done by any
ither people then on the face of the earth.
3ne great purpose of many of their rites
ind customs was to keep the Jews separate
!rom the heathen. "It Is not for the
iing's profit." A pretense of interest In the
ilng's prosperity and authority. He would
represent the Jews as fugitives and vagalonds,
dlsaffe'cted to the government and
Ikely to stir up rebellion. He will offer
lis advice and service to bring about the
lestruction of these people.
9. "Let it be written." By this he would
:hrow all the odium off himself and put It
in the king and his counselors; for he
vished the thing to pass into a law In
Thioh bo could bave but a small share of
:he blame. "I will pay ten thousand talents
if silver." He fcids high for leave to deitroy
all of tbem. This shows how he was
lent on the destruction of the Jews, but
indoubtedly Haman expected to get that
>um and much more by seizing on all their
;oods. He had said before that it was not
lor the king's profit to spare the Jews; but
lere ho is obliged to acknowledge that
here will be a loss to the revenue.
16. "The kin* took his ring?gave it
into Haman." Without anvexamination
nto the condition of the people he conented
to their destruction. By the delivery
of his signet rioi? he delegated to
iaman the po-.ver of life and/lealh.
11. "The silver Is given to thee the
>eoplealso." If the people wore a detrlnent
to the natlou, as Haman had said,
hen it would be worth something to the
:in?r to bava them destroyed; and if Haman
vould undertake the business he should be
ewarded in the same measure that he
sfTered to enrich the king. Blind was the
;!ng to see in this no personal scheme
igalnst the Jews. "Do with them as it
eemeth good." What inhumanity was
his?to give so many people unneard to
leath to please a favorite! We see in the
saltation of Haman, and in his subseluent
fall, that God sometimes permits
aen to arrive at the highest degree of honor
ind power, but that Ho soon brings them
ow and exposes them to shame and
oisery. Here is seen also the sin and folly
if Ahasuerus in giving crodit too easily to
iaman s saggesuuu ukuiusi mo
rliicb well-nigh led many million* of iano.
ent nersons to Derisb.
THE PATENT'S HICHT TO DIE.
Dr. Klckerson, of Mcrlden, Conn., AduilU
Shortening Life In Hopeless Cases.
Dr. Nehemlab Niclierson, of Meriden,
Conn., has declared that be actually bad
practised what Judge Simeon E. Baldwin,
of New Haven, preaches, by administering
obloroform toeudthesufferlngsof patients
111 beyond hope of recovery.
"When a person is suffering from an incurable
disease," he said, "and a diagnosis
by competent physicians results In the verdict
that there is no help for the pit/out,
there Is no reason wby the sufferer should
not be given chloroform, if he requests
suoh action, and be assisted to pass out.
"I have administered chloroform under
such conditions and have always thought
that I was doing a humane act. Whya
?oVirti.M ha nhlloori to suf^r hr thft
yci 5UU 3UVUIU MV wvnv. ?
uid of meilicui skill Is mors than I can see.
"According to ray mind i person hfcs a
pcrfect rlgtit to say what shall be done
with his life. He may live or dlu. Suicide
is justifiable iu mauy cases, provided the
suieido has no obligations. I have advised
persons to commit suicide, telling them to
drown themselves rather than tako acid,
but so far as I know no one has followed
my advice, not taking me seriously.
'I do not believe a doctor should hasten
a patient's death without full consent of
nil near relatives and of the patient himself."
Dr. Nickerson is a member of the Merlden
Medical Society and one of the best-,
known physicians la Connecticut.' He onjovs
au extou3ive practico among tho'
wealthy olass and u credited with jmtq
sound judarmont.
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. M
PRCCNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS.
The Spirit and the Flesh?The Trne Aim
of Life?Christianizing; the Philippine*
?The Spirit or Humility?Bible Prophecy
and Jew?? Uinlonariei In Jxpab
luto the clorioua world I came. . .'Jh
The free-born of tho wind ami flame.
I bound to me for good or ill
A body-serf to do my will.
Though Le was frail and prone to rest,
I snatched him from his mother's breast,
And bade him serve me. What would you?
I had a great King's work to do;
Wrong to make right; comfort to bring
To those In trouble sorrowing. y.jvjs
I needed one both swift and stroug;
Great was the load, the journey long.
Yet this my slave was weak and lame;
Faltering at my behest he came; '
So, when his strength was almost gone,
I took the scourge and urged him on. - '
Vet hurry as I might to keep
The minutes' pace, both food and sleep
My slave must have. Impatiently 'Vtsa
I saw the glorious hours pass by.
(i coma not leave him. ror we must
Have hands of dust to work with dust) * r1 <-5
At last he roll and would not rise.
He called me with imperious eyes. .
And bade me pause. *
Thl? small white room, this cot of snow,
Ministering forms that come and go?
I crouch here listening for his breath.
And with my hands I hold back Death,
My work neglected and undone.
tf be but beckon, swift I run
This worthless erf of mlno to sare. . ~
H6w hard they toil who serve a slave!
?L. B. Brldgman, in September Century.
The True Aim of Life.
What is education? Bightly understood
it is the strengthening and enlargement of
life. How large should be the scope of
education? As broad as life. On what
should most stress be placed? On those
things which are most central In life.
Should nil education be honk education?
Yes, if we ate to lire all our lives In *
world made up exclusively of books. No.
if we are to live in a world of men and
things. Should all education be of the intellect?
Yes, if man is nothing bat an Intellect
No, If the intellect represents only
a single contingent of his great nature.
If education is to be as broAd as life it
must include all that promotes life. It
must include physical culture, to the endthat
man's body may be stroDg. and thue
nn adequate foundation on which to build
the edifice of the spiritual; it should include
intellect culture, to the end that he may
know, and thus gather into bis hands the 'M
keys of power; it should include conscienceculture,
to the end that he may always do
tbe thing that is right. It should include
beurt-culture, to the end that ne may relate '
himself sympathetically with bis fallows,
and in loving obedience to his Creator.' We *
sometimes mistake and measure life by its
length, as if a mere continuance of existence
were life. A better measure is by its
breadth, and especially by Its depth. Many
a s&ort life Is very rich; while many a long
life is verv barren. Oualitv of life?content
of life-*perfection of life?wealth of life?
these are man's true aim.?Rev. J. T. Suaderland.
Chrhtlmliin; the Philippines.
We bear much about Christianizing thePhilippines
and other countries in the far
East, but the probabilities are that the fol
lowers of Mohammed will In the immediate v ."yjf
future win more victories than the soldiers ,
ft the Cross. The reason for this Is evident,
and Is Identical with that with which.
some of our orthodox friends so kindly suggested
as an explanation of the popularity
of unitartanism in Japan. Being itself &
form of religion but little removed from
heathenism, they said it was natural that
the heathen should prefer it to anything so
far advanced as evangelical Christianity.
Mohammedanism as a social and religioua
system takes the native of Asia or Africa as
he is. It does not impose upon him a code
of morality too severe.for his virtue. It sets '.-$9
him free from fear of his gods, and reveals
to him one Supreme Being,~4n whose name
nil desirable things are promfeed as the reward
of obedience. The laws of progress
as revealed in history do not justify the ex- 3
pectatlon that nations which belong to tho 1/ "Jj
lower grades OI civilization win uuanmaiiui :
and accept tbe religion which represents
the highest form of intellectual progress.?
Christian Register.
The Hplrlt of Humility.
Tbe real Pharisee is he whose heart le
ruled by pride. This is apt to flud expression
in display, but it need not. He wha
self-comfOacently assures himself of bis owe
virtue and is unconscious of bis sbortcom*
ings; be wbo, whether he openly avows o?
concealsjhis feeling,illustrates haughtiness 01 \
contempt for those whom be regards as less
holy, be is at the opposite pole, as nearly
as any one, from tne true, humility and
spirit of consecration which befits tbe
Christian. It was this spirit of humility oo
account of which, more tban anything else.
the publican was justified by our Lord. II yM
was because be put no confidence whatever
in his own attainments and excel?
lences. We need not assume that be under*
valued them. If be did be was mistaken.
T?... i ii?j l? ha rwam , $5
?>Ul UU IC1IIUCU luoc 1U JjllK VI tuvuu MV .
guilty in the sight of God, that at bis best
they so lar prevented bis approximation tc
the divine ideal that he was comparatively
worthless and mast depend wholly upon
tbe abounding mercy of his heavenly Father.?Congregationalism
Elble Prophecy and tbe Jews.
Mr. Moody, in a recent sermon, spoke
about the prophecies in the Bible and thei*
fulfillment. "When a mau says be does not
believe what is contained in that book," he
said, "I would ask him to put bis linger oo
any promije contained in the Biblo that has
not been fulfilled. He cannot do it." He
went on to speak of tbe prophecies about the *Jews.
The Jews were a scattered people and
bad no nationality. Bring a Frenchman, a
German or a Scotchman to this country and
in a few years he becomes nu American and
his children are Americans after him, but
bring a Jew here and let him and his offspring
remain for a thousand years and they
will still be Jews. "I don't mean to cast
odium on the Jews," said Mr. Moody. ' ]
love them, becatis* they were once th?
people chosen of God, and I believe they
are the coming nation and will be in the i.
true fold. Hut at present the Jew stands
alone and fulillls the Biblical prophecy."
>?!
Missionary Work in Japan.
Jnpan's new law regulating all faiths and
beliefs has goue into effect, and much comment
has arisen in consequence. All sects,
pagan and Christian, are placed under the
absolute control of a local governor. Without
bis permission even a church cannot be
built or meetings held. The regulations
even go so far as to demand detailed information
regarding the pastor. Before commencing
religious work propagators of a
faith must go beforo the governor witL .all : ^
a f fnlth tyi naf- F 11
UCbUIISi AUO "J VI tutku luuah wv . UOJ , ,
explained, church finances accounted for
and the personal and religious history of
the applicant, preacher and members outlined
in writing.
To tbe ear of God the sound of the sea of
humanity in cities, beating on the rocks of
pitiless environment, is a grander and more
sign! (leant and majestic music than the
thunder of ocean waves on mighty cliffs.
God's judements are not subject to any
man's review.
MALE SERVANTS ARE IN DEMAND.'
Chlcajjoans Find Them Easier to Get
Thau Women.
Men for housowork, both light and heavy
?men to lumber nrouud In the tracks of
the deft servant girl and fill the place ol
j the skirted handmaiden as best they may,
! ?are now in domaud at the employment
| agenoy In Chicago, and are culled foif
I every afternoon in the "want ad." columns.
In many of tbo residence districts fam
I iltes arc taking taoir meais nc restaurants
through utter inability to secure a satisfactory
cook. Other families, despairing
' of ever obtaining tho propor kind of fej
male servants, are reaching out for men
and flnding them much mere easily gol
I than women.
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