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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA I L. C. HAYNE, Pres';. F. G.FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided fiuillii } $110,000. , Facilities of our magnificent Kow Vault containing 410 Safety-Look Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and the public .at 93.00 to 810.00 per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR/1 EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY 7, 1900. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. HATHZ, President. TY. G. WABDLAW, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. f. xv ipprv WAT.irp.n THE TRAC With head bont low and shouldor? stooped, And slow, home-keeping eyo Pixed on the rails, a silent shape, The trnok-walkor goes by. A five-mile strip ot grimy stones, Edged with an iron baud. Is ali his world. June snows that drift In daisies o'er the lund He heeds not, nor red autumn flakes That raslie down the'air Bali, bolt and bur to keep in place This is bis only care. He quits his task three steps before The rocking tritln shoots past, Thea stoops, while still the pebbles whirl, To make a loose bolt lust. The ruin bid in sudden flood, mow rust und silent frost V j A Shaken J 4 THE ASSISTANCE OF AN EABTHQI 4 - ?BY HARRY : v aaa/W W W The cannery cook looked nervously at his watch. Quarter past eight and no fruit 1-He stooped to the tank-cock, aD.i three experimental jets of steam sputtered up in impatient bubbles through the cold water. Somewhat relieved, he shut the valve and glanced at the clock on the wall. Apparently it had stopped like the rest of the works. "The slowest gang of girls I ever saw!" he snorted. Dave was a high pressure boiler, but he frequently let ott. A youngish, brown-whiskered man, in a pink golf shirt, jumped on the edge of the tank and balanced there perilously. He was the manager of , the Califoruia Consolidated company. Restlessness and vehemence boiled down, he often raid he paid Dave extra wages to help him fume. One reason why the manager managed everything so well was becanse he knew so well how to mauage the manager. "Hang it, D.-.ve!" said he, "the minute a girl gets to be good for - any thing, she quits and marries. If I could keep my best help, life would be worth living. Come, girls, come!" It quickened the workers across the half-partition, this clarion call and the glimpse of the manager's tense face. "The boss is gowing cranky," said a brown-haired girl with rubber glove fingers on, hurriedly poking a half apricot through the little round hole in the top of the can. All the packers had their fingers protected against the cruel curve of the tin. White cot: rags would do. . "Have you noticed how tho ::< has duded np lately?" asked blonde, who sozzled the syrup the packed cans with the rubber ' hose that came down from tho * the attic. She was rather state ambrosial, and reminded one o on a frieze irrigating her row bf gods with sweetened water. Tho California Consolidated had damped a ton of Bngar into its nectar pots that very -morning. "Don't you sabe?" asked another girl. "Jessie did, pretty pronto." Spanish adapts itself elegantly to slang m tho southwest "Oh, you're locoed!" rejoined Hebe swishing the nectarious nozzle from oue little tin god to another with an elysian disregard of the spill. "The manager will look above Jessie!" she added. "You see!" Dave had turned the valve again, and the steam roared into one of the big tanks. Another hissed and growled, and the conversation of the girls was inaudible. The packers had caught up with the process-room, and the apricot factory was in full blast. How deftly the sealer blistered the yarn of solder around the can tops, which spun on the revolving disks in front of him. The metal string ran down fr .m a coil over his head, tho whirling can caught it, and the hot iron tied the knot The other workers might fall behind, but the sealer could stand in his track?, hold his hands over the whirligigs, look pleasant and keep caught up. The manager drew a breath of sat isfaction as he saw the platform of cans lowered into the hissing bath. "Give 'em forty-five minutes this time, Dave," he said, and passed into the labeling shed. If there was anything that pleased the manager more than another it was bis labeling department; and perhaps he could not have told whether his labels or his labeler gave him the more pleasure. To the eye they were equally inviting. The cream-and yellow undertones of the enameled wrappers appealed to one's imagina tion; they tasted good. Upon them the designer had ripened two juicy apricots, suggesting that the only bite in the world worth taking came from the fabulous orchards of California. :"It's the label and not the stock thut sells the pack, " the manager would admit in a confidential moment. The golden apples of the Hesp?ridos would have humbugged more people than they did had there been lithographers in those days. Jessie's left hand picked np a glis tening label and her right seized a can of fruit; one end of the label flirted daintily through a little pool of paste at the end of her bench; the can re volve)! once and rolled itself into the wrapper-done! An ugly tin had turned into a thing of beauty. Jessie had merely beckoned and it had jumped into its yellow jacket. Small wonder was it that the q?hor girls thought she had beckoned the man ager into his pink shirt. He stood for a moment and admired her. The lines of her fair young face and blooming figure had not been hardened by the months she had spent in the cannery, earning her dollar and sixty cents a day. "I wonder if I shall lose her, too!" the manager said to himself. It would be bard to tell all that was in his thoughts theo. Most of the time he was thinking of the success of the company and the difficulty of keeping good help. "By Jove!" he went on, his countenance lighting up with a business inspira- . tion, "I'll put her picture on the new pie label!" This enthusiastic intention was in tended as a compliment and perhaps more. With his absorbing devotion to the fruit trade and his glory ia the K-WALKER. 'Tis his to fend; and men ride by In cushioned ease, at cost Of his long march and lonely watch, Nor give a backward thought To the bent shape and ploddiug feet Whose toil their safety bought. Morn ls to him a sentry beat To tread through sim and rain, His noon a place to turn and sturt Back into night again. A,ceaseless traveler all his days, New lands he ne'er may roam in yonder orchard is bis bouse, Here 'twixt the rails, his home. Unmounted, un m Used, be dies to find (The last lone miles all trod) That whoso walks a railway track Aright-has walked with God. iilliam H. Woods, in Youth's Companion. \ttachment. JAKE IN A MOMENTOUS DECISION. E. ANDREWS. TrTF'VVVVVVVVVV standing of bia brands, possibly tbe manager could not have thought of a happier distinction than having one's face stamped in green and gold on the glittering labels of the California Con solidated No. 1 Pie Apricot. And, in deed, bas not la diva been flattered into serving the less gorgeous designs of tooth-powder aud soap? There was a little hiss, an audible fermentation, then a pop and a slam. A pyramid of cans toppled over and a splash of yellow lusciousness was flung upon the manager's golf-shirt. Jessie wiped a sticky blotch from her rosy face. A box of freshly labeled tius was in disgrace? "Cussed carelessness!" exclaimed the angry manager. "See here, Dave!** .'Sir?" "Another burst. Can set away with a leak in it, again. "Why don't you stop such slovenly work?" "The mender went over'ern all," muttered Dave. "With his eyes shut," commented the manager, savagely. "Accidents will happen," the cook persisted. "If there's another in your depart ment, there'll be a shake-up." Tho manager's tone closed the con versation with a sort of bang. It burt Dave as though his finger had been caught a.-ainst the door-jamb, and the worst of the pain was that Jessie had heard. The manager had not said anything so very bad if he had not . .. * r" * - T-Dave wondered it .\ <> ?*. - -r:r':-\.:?:u fbv .. .. ?.i?;-.' gos -u ttl." k '..*? Huirr. KU? , ul? shat, lu it; ' --wi ir ?augneu. oes ^ .??giiett, too. The manager was in his office, seriously divesting himself of apricot juice and sugar. It seemed cooler in the steamy kit chen, though the mercury was rising. Through tho open door Dave soon saw the manager strolling among tbe hur rying cutters. Some of the girls could halve the 'cot and flip out the pit with one quick twist of knife and thumb. The motion seemed simple, but you could not understand it at first sight. "Have 'em look a lit!le sharper after their sorting, Miss Bnmble!" the manager called, after a flash of his quick eye*around the room. "Ali right, 8ir!"said the "forolady," who waa clicking a hole with a ticket punch in the tag of a fat and wheeziug cutter, who bad brought her pile of pits to get credit for having finished a box of the 'cots. A hole in her tag was worth six cents to her. "My, ain't it bot!" she puffed, wiping her face with ber apron. It was late in July aud the suu beat remorselessly on the corrugated-iron roof. The fat woman wondered why the manager had not set some eucalyptus-trees around the works, as she stood in the doorway for a moment and gu zed longingly at the mountains half hiddeu by a gray gauze of dust. "Looks like a Sauta Ana," said the wheezy one. "Trays!" sang out a shrill trio of sopranos in the cutting room. "Always short of trays! I believe the boys eat 'em!" growled the man ager, parsing through to the kitchen and shaking things up all along the line. The manager spent more time in the kitchen than in his office, not altogether to the gratification of Dave. The cooking was a critical process; and then from the back door of the kitchen the manager could keep one eye on the labeling. ? Privately, Dave had expostulated to Hebe that it didn't do the help any good to eye 'em all the time; whereat Hebe winked pri vately and luminously at the sealer. The last batch of the forenoon had been put into' cook, and Dave scanned the water closely to see if a tell-tale bubble was escaping from a leaky can. Suddenly the water quivered. Dave felt a little jar, and heard a crash as if a tall stack of loaded trays had top pled over in the cutting-room. True to his trick, the .manager leaped up and stood astride a corner of one of the big tanks, peering across the half partition, to see what the mischief There came a creaking sound. The building swayed, the partitions heav ing and the boards grinding against each other. There was another jar, as if a freight-shifter had bumped into the cannery-then a tremeudous splash, and sprays of water hissed upon tbe sealer's bot irons. A second of staring, startling pilen ce was.followed by a chorus of shrieks that overwhelmed all things. .After tho earthquake was over, the girls had time to be frightened. "Merciful powers!" yelled the sealer, "the boss is parboiled!" For if quivering moment the whole cannery seemed horror stricken, then all rushed.for the tank. One woman fell in a faint, and the others swept by ber. Dave stood as if paralyzed, but with a queer look on his face that was either lunacy or amused self-pos session. There were sounds of a strug gle in the tank, but no cry was beard. With blanched face the sealer brushed by Dave and reached for the steam valve. "No," said Dave,holding bim back, "that's a cold tank." The manager Wal clambeiiti? dut, rejecting courtesies. He was dun?t?j pale, unreconciled. It was his weak ness to take himself too seriously. If nobody else laughs nt him, a man should jolly himself once in a while. There was only- one titter, aud it came from the labeling'Shedi The manager turned, Cdldred, bit ?li? lip, hud wfiirig Citt ?is br'owd ?id?-whis-" keri. T"lie One word of fire" ?'scap?'d him, and he hurried off, tho piiik shirt clinging to him like a shiny sticker on a can. When the new pie label came out.it Was decorated with a striking figure of a motirit?in lion showing his teeth aud crouching foi ft ?pritig-w'hicli was at ouce busiuess-Jike and appeti zing, the manager said to the artist. "jessie," Dave whispered as they sat ou the porch one September even iug, after she had put ou the ring, would it have been any different if there hadn't been any 'quake?*' Jessie- laughed. "Who knows?" she evaded. Jessie was always rather elusive; but Dave caught her in his arms aud took several satisfactory a .swers.-San Francisco Argonaut. THE ART OF SNOW SHOEING, No Man Is Born to It and Only, Faithful Practice flink?-? Perfect. When Captain Glenn of our army was sent with a detachment of soldiera to carry ont some extensive explora tions in Alaska, last year, he found that snow shoes would have to play au important part in the work. An incideut occurred one day,that proved to him it was high time to break in al! the men who bad not learned the art of snowshoe travel. The spectacle he and his party witnessed was amusing to all except the unfortunate person who supplied the fun. lt was before tho party had started inland. Tho hospital steward was in structed to cross a certain glacier aud report to Lieutenant Leamard. It was necessary to wear snow-shoes as the weather was not cold enough to form a crust that would bear tho weight of a man. So he put on the togs and Captain Glenn avers in his report, which the war department has just published, that no one was ever seen who was so utterl}* helpless with such footgear attached to him as this hospitai steward. He persisted in sticking the toe of his shoes into the snow and his error kept him in trouble. Then about every third pace he would ?-tep on one shoe with the other and keel headlong over into the snow. - lu this situation he was a mere mass of helplessness and do what he might, he couldn't arise till somebody came and boosted him to his feet. It took him eight hours to travel two miles and before be ft A~-!.->.' . - -? euiuk went torin LUUV tuc tn^.i. ? ?i'i every other man who bad not pre viously acquired this knowledge shonld use snow shoes for a walk of five miles every day till all were profi cient. All Arctic explorers have testified that snow-shoeing is not easy to learn and that it is still more diilicu.lt to master the Norwegian ski. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. At Harborne, England, laborers ex cavating to widen the road, unearthed the skeleton of a man with a wooden stake driven through the breast boue. The skeleton was evidently that of a suicide, who, in accordance with the custom of the old days, had had a stake driven through his heart and then been buried at the dead of night at cross-roads. An unusual weddiug took place lately at Phillipsburg, N. Y., when a couple whose combined ages repre sented 150 years were married in the First Baptist church. Both parties had entered the state of matrimony before, aud there were present at the wedding breakfast seven children, twenty grandchildren and two great grandchildren. A curious case of lightuiug destruc tion took place at Gatchiua, an impe rial summer residence, not far fr?m St. Petersburg, Russia, where stood a stone column fifty feet high, held to gethfr by iron angles. When rain fell n.or J or less water penetrated the stones in the iuterior of the monu ment. One day it was struck by light ning and instantly the whole column disappeared from view, killing a lone sentry on guard. The only explana tion is that the heat of the lightning instantly generated steam on coming in contact with some of the water and the terrific explosion followed. The Rev. E. R. Johnson of Mul berry, Ind., one of the oldest ministers in that part of the state, was taken sick a few days ago. His illness re calls the fact that he was once de clared dead, and while lying in his coffin he heard his funeral sermon preached by a brother minister. Mr. Johnson had Buffered an attack of cat alepsy. He was conscious of what was taking place about him, heard the physician pronounce him dead, and witnessed the preparations made for his burial. The spell was broken just after the eulogy had been pronounced. His restoration to health followed. According to the American Consul at Chingting, China, the people of China are not so far behind the pro cession as may be thought. At least, Mr. Smithers gravely reports to the stale department at Washington that, in the department called Yuugpei, Chih-li-T'iug, gold is found in abun dance by washing in the valley near the city. The inhabitants of the neighborhood keep largo flocks of geese to work thu gold fields for them. When the geese are found to be very heavy they are killed, and their craws ' emptied of tho gold contained therein. A flock of geese is sometimes worth n good deal of money, but geese dressed ready for eating aro very cheap, in deed-from 15 to 20 cents each. There are no return checks used in Chinese theatres. They stamp the band each evening, a different colored ink being u ed. If Uncle Sam could collect*! pair of birds and reptiles -which inhamf?his nev ho would have a, zoological "biggest she markable ones are shown in the accompi grotesque of Oriental animals/ its eyes and its feet and ankles dre tiflCovored* flying fox, is a bat. It lives on^tut. ( should beware of importing. ' The zibet ceros rhinoceros, who imprisons; his m wall over the entrance hole, so that she nesting season, is the oddest of Philipp: wife through a small hole all the while hammers down the wall and lets lier out most gorgeous birds in the world, The I Modern War MecM$i L??| Searchlights, Steam Ploughs and % Heliographs in South Africa. ' ?s might be expected, the English are using in the South African war the most modern military appliances that can be had. They are thoroughly up to date in the matter of guns and am munition, and even the surgeons are using now meaus of developing X rays. The War Office has negotiated with Marconi's business representa tives for wireless telegraphic outfits, and by this time the apparatus ought to bo in service. Moreover, a num ber of other appliances that are not necessarily instruments of war . have been put to use in the contest with the Boers. Ono of the most striking instances of this kind is the employment of a steam plough for digging trenches. The ploughshare and pruning hook are particularly typical of the arts and spirit of peace, but now, for the first time in history, the former implement has become a military weapon. The steam plough is not in itself any novelty. It has been used for years j on,a 1-~" lX'n r,flfl^i'n vc rsi.tA?fc KIMBERLE? SEARCHLIGHT. < (A powerful electric light ls installed on t the shaft head nt the De Beers mine. By i this light! signals were exchanged bo tween Kimberley and tho force under Lord Methuen.) ture is conducted on the wholesale plan. The particular plough used in South Africa was designed by Colonel Templer, of the Boyal Engineers, and differs only in trifling details from / that with which the Amerioan wheat ? grower breaks up the surface of the > fertile prairie. The superiority of this means of digging trenches is so manifest that one wonders why it was . never thought of before. A three ? wheeled "traction engine," such as is i employed in hauling heavy wagons < from town to town or in operating i itinerant threshing machines, drags < the steam plough of Colonel Templer ] through the soil. Two of the wheels i are large and broad, and the third, j out in front, carries only a small part 1 of the load, and is used mainly for J steering purposes. l There is nothing especially Dew in | the resort to telephony. The Ameri- i can Signal Service has long had ample < equipments of this kind for field work, i particularly in the dissemination of i BltlTISII SIGNALING LAD Ti orders from headquarters and the re- ? ceipt of reports from subordinates i during an action. It is not at all ? likely that the English are ahead of ] the United States in this respect. ] However, some interesting features 1 are presented by one of the instances j S IN THE PHILIPPINES, specimens Qi edah species of beasts, riy acquired Phi'iip'pine possessions >w oh earth." Some of fi? ?aost re laying cut. The spectre is the most i are like a great pair of spectacles bone fofmations. The kaguau, or fha Mongoose ii a pest which we h is fi y?riety of civet cat, The bu ate "in a hollo-rr bf building a piaster cannot leave tbe Hatti/ during the ?ne fowls. Father Hornbill feeds Jais . When the e^gs aro hatched h* . The paradise major is one of the i buffalo is used as a beast of all work. oi telephony in South Africa just de scribed in the dispatches, After arriving on the field cf battle it Eland8laagte, General French suw the necessity of prompt reitJf?ree caents. In his army were sever?? telegraphers, who were provided with portable- telephones, batteries and in sidontal apparatus. A regular tele ifrcM.eyjt, uy a metallic hook or clip at he top of a lighf, portable sliok, one Hid of another wire. The latter ei erded downward to a box containing i telegraph key and sounder, two or hree cells of battery, and a conveni mt combination of telephone trans nitter and receiver. To make the'ap jaratua work, it was further neces lary to run the lower end of the bani ng wire into the ground. Thus a regular "circuit" was formed, the ?arth affording a return route for the mrrent. Either a telegraph key or a ;elephone could be used, according to ;he convenience of the operator. A convenient substitute for 3\Iar joni's apparatus has been found at Kimberley in the powerful electric searchlight there. It is a mistake to inppose that such a device is service ible only at sea. Although the uses HOW BOERS DESTROY RAIL WATS, ivhicb it haB in the navy aro somewhat Afferent from those thus far found for it on land, it certainly has its value jn terra firma. At Kimberley it has performed a double office. It has as listed in the watch for an enemy, and t bas furnished an excellent means of telegraphing. By switching the cur rent on and off the light can be broken ap into dots aad dashes, to form tele graphic letters. The enemy might iee these signals, but as a secret code tvould doubtless be employed, the sig nificance of the flashes would not be understood except by the initiated. Searchlights have been made whoso .ays could bo discerned at a distance )f fifty or seventy-five miles. At Kimberley it was known that Lord Methuen's army had come within twenty or thirty miles nearly a fort ugh; aga, No difficulty should have been experienced in sending messages concerning tho situation in the be leaguered city, therefore, although a reassuring- response could not so eas ily be transmitted. The Boers, toc-V are learning to ase modern methods. A small contingent hare realized the uselessness of mere' Jy tearing up a section of railway and throwing the rails into a stream-the usual Boer method of destroying a track. What they now do is to heat the centre ol ? section to a white heat and carry the rai) by its two cool ends to the nearest tree ont telegraph pole, round which they twist it in such a way that it is absolutely impossible to use it again for railway purposes. When the usual plan is adopted, the British troops merely search for the missing sections and replace them. A rateable method of communicate ing. which the British are using in South Africa, is the heliograph, such as our army has long employed on the Western plains. General Buller, while at Frere sta tion, communicated daily with Gen eral White, at Ladysmith, about twen ty miles away, with the heliograph. Sun rays flashed baok and forth told the besieged army to be of good cheer and assured tho relief column that the garrison, though hard pressed, was cheerful. Th? Chrjiantlifinum. The National Chrysanthemum So ciety was instituted just fifty-three years since, in 1840. The flower ? which it has taken under its patron I age, upon whose aggrandizement it ? has bestowed so successfully such patient and ingenious caro, has been established among ns only a little over ? century. The first time it was thought worthy of a "show" all to it? 2?ii? u.uuuuii LI unstated. *- .. . generic name of the plant, the "gol den flower," at first so pertinent, has lost its distinctiveness. There are golden chrysanthemums still, it is true; yellow blossoms incomparable for purity and brilliance; but what of ail these other colors not less brilliant and pure, these rich damasks, royal purples, flushed pinks, this dazzling white that puts a snowdrift to shame, at last actually a bloom that is just sea green? Color, size, form, growth, all have undergone a chauge that half a cen tury ago it entered into no man's heart to conceive. And the end is not yet, it may be; tho last wonder has not yet been revealed for us; so limit less in its possibilities and potency it that "affectation of Men to gratifie the Pleasure of their Eyes, inciting them to push on things to more and more Perfection."-The Saturday Be view. . Mormons' Curious Alphabet. An alphabet intended for exclusive use in Mormon literature was de signed by Orson Pratt and W. Phelps, both contemporaries of the great apostle of the Latter Day Saints, Brigham Young. The Mormon abece dary consists of forty letters based on d 3 0 0 0 0 f 4 % 'd' ^ At 'AV 52, JL, ?a A? AW > y J. Jj dWVf/ 0 C? t Ot OW U WOO IX H P 8 1 6* C *V Q 'O P C ?' s T ocKcO KCAr vrnt U M $ l"v 1 I N mt 6 2 E3H ZRK R L M H NG SECRET SPELLING SYSTEM. a sort of phonetic system. It has never come into very general use, but is employed when secret intelligence is transmitted from ono head of the church to a distant apostle. - A South Sea Island Bride. The bridal procession was ap proaching. lu front, walking abreast, came the wedded pair-tall, hand some, and of an excellent tawny hue. The bride, a beautiful young girl, ex hibited a ludicrously absurd appear ance. Her shapely legs and feet were naked. She wore a low bodice^of scarlet satin, bedecked with shoulder knots of brilliant blue. Bound her body so many robes, some of the paper-like barkcloth, others woven of the native grass, were enwrapped, that her aspect, instead of. impressing us, as it doubtless did the natives, with respect for her wealth, merely made comic suggestion that the poor child was parading iuside a barrell Her pretty head, running over with close rings of tan-tipped hair, was uuoovered; and her neck and limbs glistened with oil.-Blackwood. An Auk Cuines South. It will be quite a surprise to many who have visited Billings & Freeman's store in Lebanon and seen what they supposed was an eagle, to learn on the authority of the Rev. C. A. Downs that it is but a little auk, or foolish gilliemot,' a bird that is almost a per fect stranger so far inland as where it was captured. Few particulars are knowu of this species, which is very rare, and has its home in Greenland and as far north as Spitzenberg. In Greenland it is called the ice bird. It is not by nature a crafty bird, and is sometimes easiiy captured. It is, when seen, usually on the seaooast, and has very peculiar habits in feed? ing.-M&nchsster (N. H.) Union? t?, Vf ALACK. Walker & Walker. COTTON FACTORS, 827 REYNOLDS ST., AUGUSTA, GA. STRICT PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL BUSINESS. THE BEST FACILITIES FOR HANDLING AND SELLING EITHER SQUARE, RECTANGULAR OR ROUND BALES. MODERN STANDARD FIREPROOF WAREHOUSE. LIBERAL ADVANCES ON ALL CONSIGNMENTS. BAGGING AI TIES ALSO FOB SALE. i If You "Want KE/NTCJCKCJ WHISKEg, ORDER IT FROM KENTUCKY. Send Us $3.00 and TVe Will Ship You Four (4) Full * Quarts of The Celebrated Old Mammoth Cave Bourbon or Rye. Expressage Paid (To any point in TJ. S. East of Denver). Secure ly packed without marks indicating contents, AUG. COLDEWEY & CO., No. 231 W. Main Street, Louisville, Ey. EST. 1848. REFERENCE, ANY r^u^T-^T^ m??> wwi il so, write to the boutnern rami i/oiupaujr ui xxutsuiou, J?, v/., cure their price list. 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