The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 13, 1912, Page FOUR, Image 4
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Entered at the Postoffice -,f v*w
^lerry, S. C., as 2nd class matter.
E. H. AULL, EDITOR.
Tuesday, August 13, 1912.
The State candidates are today in
the best town in the world, and this
town is located in the best county in
the- world.
onlv reason the Greenville Pied
mont is not as mean as the Columbia
State is because the Piedmont lacks
the ability.
Custom will soon make it so that
rone but natives of Newberry county
will be eligible to enter the Democratic
nr'marv fnr eovernor.
WThe
Spartanburg Herald's efforts to
get around that Blease two-thirds majority
at the campaign meeting in
Spartanburg are amusing.
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your iavoruss <uiu iuciu
flowe: o, but give every candidate a reBpectl
il and courteous hearing. Nothing
less is expected of a Newberry
audience.
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Sor. e of the newspapers are perspiring
very freely in their efforts to twist
Senator Tillman's utterances into an
endorsement of Judge Jones' candit
dacy.
A dispatch from Chicago says that
Julius Rosenwald, of that city, cele
brated his 50th birthday by giving
birth-day presents amounting to $687,500.
Charity and education received
the entire sum. This is a fine way to
celebrate one's birthday.
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In toe course 01 an caicuucu cuuuiial,
in which it tries to get some coneolation
out of Senator Tillman's card,
the Columbia State 9 quotee Senator
Tillman's language, as follows, in bold
type:
"The State's good name has been
dragged in the mire to the disgust
and s'lp-rie of all right-thinking Caro
linians."
We are glad to note that the Columbia
State has had its attention directed
to this sentence. We hope it now
intends to do better, and that it will
never again give us another dose of
such filth as that it dished up to its
Teaders in the Jno. P. Grace statement.
We trust also that the dispensary committee
of the legislature has read and
that it will heed Senator Tillman's
words. '
% , "BLEASE MEN" AND "COLLARS."
A reporter for the Greenville News
says that an "observant group of men"
in Spartanburg on Friday, when the
State campaign meeting was held
there, watched the crowds, and that
one of the crowd took it upon himself
to estimate the per centage of "Blease
men" that wore cellars. The article
continues that "it is safe to say that
about one out of every 500 was adorned
with that specific article of mod
em dress."
Now, here is a serious charge indeed!
Only one "Blease man" out of
every 500 wore collars!
Using these figures as a basis for
estimating the crowd, if there were
ten "Blease men" with collars, the
'Blease crowd must have numbered
about 5,000. The report of the Spartanburg
meeting carried by the Spartanburg
Journal, however?and our
recollection is that the same estimate
was given in the Greenville News?
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was to the effect that out of a crowd
of 6,000, two-thirds, or 4,000, were
"Blease men." This would place the
number of "Blease men" in the crowd
who "wore collars" at eight.
We confess that we are appalled at
the gravity of the charge. How are
we going to meet an accusation of such
grave import?
Why, the men who battled for American
independence, from Bunker's Hill
to Yorktown, through the dark days of
Valley Forge, could never have won
the victory had they not worn collars.
standing, starched, and immaculate!
Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancel-,
' lorsville, Gettysburg and the Wilder-i
ness would never have added glory to
the history of this nation and to the
annals of the world had the fellows
behind the guns not had collars!
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Pickett's cnarge wouiu ua?c uceu impossible
had not Pickett's gallant men
known that as soon as the battle
smoke had cleared, and evening was
at hand, they would be able to don
their evening suits?with collars, of
ronrse!
In the darkness which, the cloud of
this accusation has thrown around us,
however, there is one ray of light.
The "Blease men" must hav? worn
trousers. At least, we have seen no
statement to the contrary.
EUROPE FOR FELDER.
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A recent society note in the Atlanta
Journal is as follows:
1 "Mr. T. B. Felder, who sailed last
week from Savannah for New York,
sailed today on the Kronprinzessin
! Cecilie for Germany, where he will
join Mrs. Felder and their young son,
who have been abroad for several
months."
This is a "society note" of so mo \v /it
startling nature. It had been announced
in the Columbia State of August
5 that, while nothing of an of5
cial nature had been given out, it was
expected that the legislative committee
would resume "during the present
week" (last week) "its probe into the
affairs of the old State dispensary,"
and that "it is known that additional
testimony is to be presented by T. B.
Felder, the Atlanta attorney. The
meeting to take the Felder-Burns testimony
will be held in Charlotte or
Augusta."
And Felder has fallen down on his
job!
What will the dispensary committee
do in his absence?and just on the eve
of the primary, too?
Certainly no substitute for Felder
can be found, because he is the only
one of his kind?sui generis?the sole
representative of his species.
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Europe for Felder?and the South
I Carolina primary only two weeks off!
i The dispensary committee might go
jto
Germany, but it would not be possible
to get the "testimony" in circulation
here before the primary unless
the /committee should hurry up and
/
take the next boat out and cable it
back.
Another method would be for the
| committee to hold a session at one end
f of a cable in this country and let Fel*
der file his "testimony" at the other
end in Europe.
Or the wireless might be brought in
to piay.
Any of these methods would be
somewhat costly.
But what matters expense when
South Carolina must be saved?and
saved in the next two weeks?and
when, lo and behold! Felder has slipped
off to Germany.
We never would have thought it!
i He didn't even come through South
I
Carolina to bid the dispensary committee
a sad farewell!
To the committee we extend our
sincere and heartfelt sympathy in its
deep bereavement.
Q. E. D.
The Observer takes something over
half a column to answer the question
nrnnnnndpri it bv The Herald and
J JC~ -JT" ? ?V ?
News. The reply of the Observer is j
published in The Herald and News to- j
day.
Says the Observer: "But we sup- I
pose our cotemporary wants to make !
I
the point that because 95 per cent, of
the newspapers accept free passes,
therefore it is right." Admitting for
the sake of the argument that the
passes are "free passes," The Herald
and News wa6 not making any such
contention?in fact, was making no
contention at all.
Here was the point in the question
propounded the Observer by The Herald
and News:
On this "free pass" question, as the
Observer calls it, the Observer is with
a vprv small 'ninoritv nf the news
papers of South Carolina?in the "one
per cent." class, as the Observer calls
it.
On the governor's race the Observer
is with the great majority of news
papers?in the "ninety-five per cent."
class, as the Observer calls it.
Of course oh both questions the Observer
thinks it is right, because we
give the Observer credit for taking a j
I
position only when it believes it is !
I
right. |
^Therefore, the Observer must think ,
i
| it is right both when it is in the one- J
per cent, class and when it is in the j
ninety-five per cent, class.
Wherefore, the standard set by the
Observer in its rhetorical question
won't do to measure by. That rhetorical
question was as follows:
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"YVOUian t 1L De most reiuanvauie anu
wonderful if 95 per cent, of the newspapers
should be wrong and one. per
cent, of them right?"
In other words, the standard set by
the Observer in this question can't be
used, even in the Observer's own case,
for if it were it might embarrass the
Observer. Hence, the fallacy of the
standard.
1
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Of course, the Observer, in its
rhetorical question, was referring to
the governor's race, upon which, \
1 among the newspapers, it is in the "95 i
per cent, class," and not to the "free
pass" question, as the Observer calls it,!
upon which it is in the "one per cent.
class."
No more questions just at present,
I
thank you.
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j it nas oeen so long since 1 nave \
i written anything that I feel like I !
! wanted to s?v ni r> ?* j
jit has seemed to me lately that every- j
| body has been writing and speaking j
land I had concluded that I would hold
I up a little, I believ? it was old Horace
I who said on one occas:on a leng time
jago: 'Scribimus indocti, doctique, poej
mata passim." Well, 1 am not going j
! to write poetry. A long time ago
I 1 T - . T ~ ,J
wiien 1 was you us; i u>?-u l-j nine pi"try
to my best girl, but that time has
passed now and I want to write some j
sense. You know, that is what is needed
in this day more than anything else
?some one who will and can write
sense. You know I can do that if I
want to and whenever I write I want'
:
I to write sense and something that will j
j be- helpful and up-lifting and for the ;
i betterment of ray fellowman and my j
fellow-woman as well.
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i It seems to me that the people have ;
1 ?one crazy. I have been reading the
papers a little?just a little?for 11
don't care to read all that has been
printed, and I have wondered where
; the Federal authorities have been dur_ !
! ing the last few weeks that some of \
| the newspapers were not debarred the
1 privileges of the mail. It seems to me j
i that they have been letting their col- ]
| limns out !<Jr sewer pipes iur sume <ji
| the politicians of the State. In the1
good old days when I was young if
I these things had been said and print-1
ed about people there would have been j
a call to the field of honor and the !
[thing would have been ended. Some-!
!how I can't help but fee] that the news. |
I papers are in a great measure respon- j
!sib!e for this condition, for if they had I
not let the use of their columns amj i
! simply printed the news the people
ithen could have formed their own
j opinions, but when the people come to
. 'haHoir/i i-Viof +110 nowe fnlnmns arp
| mat tuv uv ?f v v?. w
colored to suit the views and desires
of the editor they lose confidence in
the correctness of the news, and do
not know whether to believe what they
read or not. And what the editor may
be honestly endeavoring to accomplish j
acts as a boomerang to the cause he is i
advocating. It is all right for him to
reason with the people in his editorial
columns and to advocate as strongly
as he vnav he able what he thinks is
right, and the people will listen, but
when he does it by . unfair
means his influence is gone. That is
the way it appears to me. I may be j
wrong. I know that I am old and \
somewhat out of date, but I am impar- ,
tial and am looking only at the good
name of the old Commonwealth.
But I promised myself not to get ]
into politics or try to discuss it or i
even to think about it ana i must gei .
off on something else or I will be get- ; 1
ting up a controversy the ,first thing 1 '
know. What matters it. to me whether |)
Blease or .Tones or Smith or Duncan <
is governor. They are not going to ;
he^p me. I have got to go on idling j
a livincr onH nnv mv taxes?that is !
when I get eome property on which '
to pay?I am too old to pay poll tax 1
?and travel over bad roads?when I
can get somebody to take me. They <
tell me that even the mile of government
good road is no longer a good |
road. Why don't some of our would
be statesmen tell us how to get good
roads and advocate something that is
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tor tne oeuenneiu ui me olaic an^ i
her people? Are there no more any
constructive, statesmen? Instead of
going around over the country abusing
one another and talking "poppy-cock"
and trying to inflame the passions of
the people. But there you are again.
More political talk.
?o?
Tho Stfltp pflnriidares?that is to eav
the candidates who are aspiring to fill
the offices in the State house?will be
in Newberry next Tuesday. This is
the home of the governor and the native
county of the other two candidates
for governor and I hope they will re- j
member their raising and behave them* !
selves when they get here and say and '
do nothing to cause any trouble. There '
will be a big crowd here that day?;
that goes without saying?bur they? j
the candidates and the crov. i?must j
behave or the people will give th.?m
a little spanking just like they uid |
when they were in swaddling clothes? J
I mean will spank the candidate's. Cf
course the people will behave. I just
nan't hpln it so T am coins' to nnit .
and try again at some other tine. I
reckon I am going crazy too. I heard i
that Dr. Babcock said the other d^y ihat
he received 180 patients at the Hospital
for the Insane during the month
of July. I believe that I will go back
to my farm in the country until this
thing is over for fear I may be an applicant
to Dr. Babcock before the end
of this month. When I sat down to my
desk and took , my pencil in hand to
write once more I thought I could
Trrito cnmo p-nrvr? r>nmmnr co,n<:a hnf T
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find it is out of the question so I reckon
I have got into that state where, as
I believe old Cicero put it: "Senectus
est natura loquacior." And it all means
nothing. I will try again at some future
time when everything is more
auspicious?I guess that is a good
word. The Idler.
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The Governor's Dictagraph.
Letter in in Exchange. ^
One old lady said it was a' burning I
shame to try to get the governor's
dictograph before he was dead. When
asked what dictograph meant she said
it is what they put on a man's tomb
stone. When some one told her that
was an epitaph she looked at him and
said: "Teach yer granny how to speak!
Eppy is a woman, and eppytaph is
what's on a woman's monument Dick
is er man's name, and Dicktergraph
is what's put on er man's rock." , .
An Imaginary Peril.
Eass Lake, wl^ich is In Indiana and j
is fished thoroughly all summer by j
Ctiicagoans, is a peculiarly sare ooay i
of water. It consists chiefly of a sand J
bar over which water about four feet j
deep is lashed into terrifying wraves !
by little summer breeze. To the Stranger
it presents the appearance of a real j
inland sea, where none but the bst
swimmer should venture.
A Chicago newspaper man and his
wife arrived there on their annual vacation.
It was their first visit. Early
the next morning they were out in the
middle of the lake fishing. The man
leaned over to adjust some tackle, lost j
his balance and began swimming mad- j
ly as soon as he hit the water. In fall- j
ing he had given the boat a kick with |
bolh feet, sending it further out into I
the lake?and his wife could not row.
The woman stood up in the boat and
screamed. The man swam desperately |
toward the shore, praying that his
shoes and sweater wouldn't drag him
under.
He and his screaming wife were
watched by an old man who sat fishing
from a pier, while the wind toyed
with his lavish beard.
The woman in the boat frantically
implored this old man to save her hus. j
band. The ancient fisherman arose j
impassively, megaphoned his hands |
ana snouieu to me swimmer;
"Stand up, you lunkhead!"
Experimenting, the man in the lake
let himself down. Then in water up
to his chin he stalked back to his boat.
?Chicago Post.
Thoughtful Robert.
Robert was about to have another
birthday. In the past, the fun-making
had always been so hard and prolonged
that it left him fatigued at night.
So this year, before he went to bed
the night before, when he had said his i
prayers he began over again. His
mother, surprised, asked him:
'Why are you saying your prayers
:wice, Robert?'*
"Oh," replied Robert, "tomorrow 1
light I'll be too tired to say 'em at
ill."?Everybody's Magazine.
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Wise.
Lottie?How does that candidate on
:he suffragette ticket get so many
rotes? !
Hattie?She addresses her 80-year)ld
constituents as "girls."?Life.
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NOTICE PHI31AKV ELECTION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.
In accordance with the rules of the
Democratic warty, a nrhnarv election
is hereby called to be held in Newberry
county on Tuesday, August 27,
1912, for the following offices:
United States Senator.
Governor.
Laeuienani (governor.
Secretary of State.
Comptroller General.
State Treasurer.
Adjutant and Inspector General.
State Superintendent of Education.
Attorney General.
pAiiimicainnpr nf A o^rioilIt.ure.
VV/II1HA1WW4V**V.* w* ? ?~ ~
Railroad Commissioner.
For Congress, Third District.
For Solicitor, Eighth Judicial Circu
it.
State Senator.
House of Representatives.
Sheriff.
Judge of Probate.
C.erk of Court.
County Supervisor.
Coroner.
County Superintendent of Education.
Treasurer.
Auditor.
Magistrate.
Master. ?
County Commissioners.
No vote for House of Representatives
shall be counted unless it contains
as many as three names.
The managers of election shall open
the polls at 8 a. m. and shall close
them at 4 p. m.
The following managers have been
appointed to conduct the said election:
MANAGERS.
Township No.*l.
Ward 1?L. I. Epting, W. W. Cromer,
R. C. Sligh.
Ward 2?W. T. Livingston,, J. C- Wilson,
Alex. Welch.'
Ward 3, No. 1?Alex Singleton, Lee
Q. Fellers, J. W. Reagin.
Ward 3, No. 2?J. J. Porter, J. A.
Derrick, I. T. Timmerman.
Ward 4?J. R. Davidson, W. W.
Horn^by. J. W. White.
Ward 5?W. P. Hair, B. F. Sample,
i. a. iviDier.
Oakland?T. J. Digby, Jr., E. T. Rivers,
S. C. Hiller.
Helena?B. E. Julien, B. F. Goggans,
W. S. 'Williamson
Hartford?L. E. Summer, W. B. Goggans,
Holland Paysinger.
Johnstone?J. W. Mims, Will Neel,
Quinshaw Halfacre.
Township >To. 2.
Garmany?T. W. Folk, James B.
Buzhardt, Johnnie Suher.
Mt. Bethel?Jno. D. Cromer, Sam
Rikard, J. A. Brown.
Mulberry?Jack Seas?>, .John P.
Wicker, Thos. Murphy.
Towiislim >o. 3.
Maybinton?C. E. Eison, A. H. Maybinton,
J. L. Thomas.
Mt. Pleasant?James W. Caldwell,
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dUiin iViacK, .J. n- Auauia.
Tdwnshln No. 4.
Wlhitmire?F. W. Fant, Boyce Duckett,
J. D. Tid-harsh. I
Long Lane?T. E. Chandler, J. G.
Glenn, M. T. King.
Township >'o. 5.
Jalapa?S. B. McCarley, W. S. Waters,
J. C. Dobbins.
Kinards?E. D. Chaney, J. A. Dominick,
J. D. Johnson. .
Township >~o. 6.
Dominick?Thomas J. Harmon,
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James Wallingzine, M. M. Livingston.
Young Men's (Trinity)?J. A. Schroder,
J. T. Pitts, Fred Pitts.
Longshores (Old Men)?J. W. Wilson,
A. R. Dorroh, W. 0. Sen*.
Reederville?D. S. Satterwhite, J. H.
Dorroh, C. G. Johnson.
Township Xo. 7.
Saluda?J. S. Wertz, T. R. Sanders,
J. S. f!ronch.
Chappells?W. L. Andrews, J. J.
Murran, A. P. Coleman.
Vaughnville?L. H. Senn, J. W.
Matthews, J. 0. .Johnson.
Township >'o. 8.
Utopia?J. M. Nichols, H. L. Boulware,
S. J. Turner.
Silverstreet?L. C. Pitts, N. H. Hendrix,
Claud Berry.
East Riverside?W. L. Buzhardt, W.
P. Paysinger, Fred Lake.
Townshin >~o. 9.
Prosperity?J. A. Baker, J. M. Werts,1
M. H. Boozer.
St. Lukes?N. A. Nichols, J. I. Boozer,
C.'S. Nichols.
Saluda?Geo. Cook, Maxy Bedenbaugh,
L. L. Dominick.
O'Xeall?J. Lindsay Boozer, Pat B.
Wise, Thomson Sheely.
Monticello (Hendrix Mill)?Peter
Counts, Henry Barnes, Bachman
Counts.
Liberty?.T. T. Hunter, J. 0. Moore,
J. M. Lester.
Swilton?Edward Harris, Frank
Shealv, Claud^ L. Counts.
Township >*o. 10.
Little Mountain?J. K. Derrick, J. G.
OtlCUiJ) -n.- V.
Union?M. L. Strauss, J. W. Sligh,
R. N. Taylor.
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Want a Representative
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I right person. Man or woman,
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Jolly Street?B. B. Rikard, M. N.
Werts. J. R. Livingston.
St. Pauls?J. B. Bedenbaugh, J. J.
' Kibler, W. H. Kibler.
| Central?A. L. Aull, Sligh Wicker,
Joe. Counts.
Township No. 11.
Zion?M. H. Folk, Murray Kinardr
Afanov Prnrnfip
I St. Phillips?J. L. Ruff, M. L. Wick|
er. D. E. Halfacre.
Walton?Willie Suber, J. D. Crooks,
.Tohnie Harmon.
Pomaria?H. F. Counts, G. B. Anil,
George J. "Wilson.
The qualifications for voting to be
? rt n f*Al 1 ATTC
iunuuo.
The voter shall be twenty-one years
of age, or shall become' .so before the
jc"cceeding general election, and be a
j white Democrat, or a negro who voted
for General Hampton in 1876, and
has voted the Democratic ticket continuously
since; provided, That no
white man shall be excluded from
participation in the Democratic pri
mary who shall take the pledge required
by the rules of the Democratic party.
No person shall be permitted to vote
unless hi.s name has been enrolled on
a Democratic club list at least five
'days before the said primary election.
At any election when the right of a
person to vote is challenged, the managers
shall place the vote so challenged
in an envelope and endorse thereon
| the name of the voter and that of the!
challengers, and the person so dial
| lenged shall be allowed to vote, and
the challenged votes shall be kept
separate and apart and not counted,
but turned over to the county execu-:
tive committee, who shall at its first
{meeting thereafter hear all objections
| to such votes, and where no person
appears to sustain an objection made
at the polls the ballot shall be removj
ed from the envelope and mingled
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WILD 1X1 tJ rtJguictr ua-iiuus auu tvuuicu,
but where the challengers appear, or
produce witnesses in support of the
{
| challenge, the committee shall proceed
to hear and determine the question,
land in all instances the voter shall
jhave the right of appealing to the
! State executive committee. (Amend
rrient 1912).
After tabulating the result of said
election, the managers shall certify
-t'ne same and forward the ballot box,
poll lists and all other papers relating
to such election to the Court/
Chairman within 48 hours after the
| close of the polls.
Managers will call for the ballot
boxes on and after August 22 at the >
.office of the Secretary, in the 010
; court house, where they will receiveboxes,
ballots and full instructions.
Fred. H. Dominick,
Countv Chairman.
Frank R. Hunter,
Secretary.
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Campaign Song.
The following campaign song is by a
citizen of Oakland. It is to be sung
! to the tune of "Casey Jones," it is stated:
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Come all you rounders if you want t&"
hear,
A true story of the governor here;
just shout and holler as loud as you
please,
The man for governor i6 Cole. L?
Blease.
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Chorus.
Cole. L. Blease bound to be the governor!
(Cole. L. Blease bound to take the chairT
| Cole. L. Blease going to be elected,
| Going to be elected again this year!
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iCome all you people that live on the
! hill,
All you people that work in the mill,
Just shout and holler as Loud as you
please,
For we are going to elect old Cole. L.
Blease.
Weeds in View.
"If he is so dreadful why don't you
get a divorce?"
"I don't believe in divorces."
"You poor thing! I?"
"So I shall just start to do my own
cooking and trust in Providence."
Polished.
Mary?Doesn't Ida keep her hardwood
floors in beautiful condition? y
Alice?Perfect! Everyone who goes
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there is carried oui wuu a iraciuxr vj
a dislocation.?Harper's Bazaar.
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