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Goods Are Cheap. I Will Sell and Do Not Propose to Carry Over Any Fall Goods. With such a condition of affairs, the business 1uan is put to his trumps to study out the most effcctual way of meeting the people and sharing their burdens, to remedy the bad effects caused by any turn in afnuirs which op erate adversely to the people. It is unnecessary to in troduce myself to the readers of The Times, they know me, and thev- know full well that my many years of ex perience, both as a farmer and a merchant, give me a de cided advant-age over many others. I have used my ex perience that it may count for the best interests of my business. In doing this I had to study the needs and and wants of my patrons, studying their condition as well as their welfare, because upon their welfare de pends my success. Every business man, to keep up with the progressive spirit now pervading this country must study the markets just as a lawyer or doctor must study his books. This must be done or he cannot buy his goods to meet competition. I have made deals by which I can sell goods at prices that cannot be duplicated anywhere, and I am going to do it. A visit to my store will convince any buyer that my immense stock has been selected with the greatest care, and contains everything that can be used in the family, or on the plantation. There is no store in this section of the State that has a more varied assortment of Foreign and Domestic Dress Goods, Notions, Fancy Goods, Trimmings, Clothing, Hats, Gents, FurnishingGoods, Shoes, Hardware and Cutlery. Sadlery, Harness. Crockery, Glassware, Wood and WVillowarle. Dress Making Department Up-Stairs, My Grocery Department is thorough and complete; I buy direct by the car load from the best mills and packers. Sagars, Coffees, Teas, and everything in the Grocery line in such quantities purchased to give my patrons the advantage of wholesale figures and can save my pa trons money. I am paying all the market will permit for cott,>n and in a position this year to make it advantageous for the people to bring their cotton to Manning. I solicit a continuence of past favors. YOURS TRULY, J.W. fkeod. FIRST SPECIAL SALE For the Season of 1899 75 dozen guaauted 4-ply Linen Collars, tcsHereii U oos3 all styles and sizes, at 5c. ice,2 -c 40 dozen guaranteed 4-ply Linen Cuis, icsWo li rs od t2c both lints and plain, all sizes, at 11c. iesWolPidD ssGost2c 5 dozen Newport Garters, assorted cal- picsD goaeta alat3i-. ors, at Pc.3peesP isxtavlat9. 50 doz Sox, assorted colors, 4c per pair. 1picBleJiinie,2i-c S0 doz Sox, assorted colors, 4c per p air. Nay le rgs49,Scnd 21-. 50 doz Sox, assorted colors, extra heavy,, 4ichsFnelnalcorat3. at 7ke per pair.5.nhLde'coh nalclra 9 25 doz Sax, Black and Tan, at 7.ic per pr. OesitPtrn ae$37,5.2,$50 25 dcz Sox, Black and 'ran, at 9c per pr. 07 n 9 Wool Sox at 22ke. 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O repargainol Gloves.eCounter fa pters apes)etai assoe colors, e a llOC , o whanets a t getly w tohree 0,fti s sle,25c prie for pai we.ptte nti one 31.es.n Boys' S Ovr.as THE SPEED OF A SHIP METHODS BY WHICH ITS KNOTS PER HOUR ARE MEASURED. An Interesting Description of the Mechanism and Ume of the Log, With a Truthful Red Sea Shark Story At tachment. "How do you ascertain the speed of a vessel?" is a question frequently ad dressed to naval men, and an explana tion will therefore probably be of inter est to many readers. There are several methods, the commonest and most an cient being by the use of the "log." This instrument consists of three parts -the logship, the line and the marks. The logship is a piece of wood about half an inch thick and shaped like a quadrant, with a piece of lead let in round the circular edge to make it float perpendicularly in the water. It is slung by lines at each angle, the three lines being joined together about two feet from the logship. Two of the lines are securely fixed to the ship and the other has a bone peg at the end, which, being pushed into a hole in the ship, tempo rarily fastens it there. From the point of juncture of the three lines a sufficient length is measured, generally about 100 feet, to take the logship well clear of the ship's wash. This is called the "stray line" and is marked with a piece of bunting. From the bunting is measured 47 feet 3 inches, and the line marked here with a piece of leather. Then another 47 feet 3 inches is measured off and marked with two knots, then another space the same length, and marked with three knots, and so on as far as seven knots. Halfway between each batch of knots one single kuot is made. The log line is then ready for use. The space between the knots is found from the simple little rule of three sum: As 3,600 seconds (number of seconds in an hour), 2S seconds (length of sand glass), 6,080 feet (number of feet in a nautical mile); length of line required -which works out to 47 feet 3 inches. To use the log four persons are re quired-two men to hold the reel on which the line is wound; tho quarter master, to hold the glass, and the mid shipman of the watch, to heave the log. The last named puts the peg firmly in the logship and then gathers three or four coils of line in his hand, sufficient to admit of the logship being thrown well clear of the ship. He asks, "Clear glass, quartermaster?" "Clear glass, sir!" comes the reply, and overboard go the logship and line, the reel rapidly revolving. Presently the middy feels the piece of bunting passing through his hand, and he gives the order, "Turn." The quartermaster turns the glass and watches the sand while one "reeler" holds the reel well over his bead, so as to give the line fair play. When the sand has run out, "Stop!" cries the quartermaster. The midshipman grasps the line, as sisted by the other reeler, and looks for the nearest knot, finding a single one close to his hand. Then the line is haul ed in, and four knots appear, which eignify that the ship is going four and a half knots through the water. The jerk of the line draws the peg from the logship, which now floats on its flat side and is easily hauled in. When a ship is going over four knots, a 14 sec ond glass is used, the speed being double that shown by the knots on the line. Another method in use is the patent log. This is altogether mechanical and consists of a long cylinder with clock work inside it and four fins on the out side. It is towed astern of the ship by a line made fast to a swivel in the head of it. As it is dragged through the wa ter the four fins make it revolve, actu ating the clockwork inside, which regis ters on a series of dials the number of knots run. This log has to be hauled in every time one wants to read it, but there is another kind where the fan is towed astern and the dial is a fixture in the ship. This is called a "cherub." These logs are not always accurate, and are constantly verified when near land by cross bearings-that is, the bearings of two well known points are taken, and the position so obtained is marked on the chart, the time of obser vation being noted and the reading on the patent log. After an interval has elapsed the position of the ship is again taken by cross bearings, when the straight line joining the two places on the chart will show the direction of the course steered and its length the distance run. A comparison with the readings by patent log will give the error of the machine. To finish here is a patent log yarn, as told by an old messmate. I give it in his own' words: "When in the Crocodile in the Red sea, just after taking the reading one night at 8 o'clock, the quartermaster reported, 'Shark taken the patent log, sir!' I got another one over at once. At 9 :30 next morning we stopped for half an hour. To amuse the ladies I tried for and caught a shark On opening him we found our patent log, and," he added gravely, "strange to say, it registered the same as the one in use. The line had jammed between his teeth, the fan working all the time ,he followed the ship. He had swum just 122 7-10 miles."-Navy and Army Illustrated. A Good Spurgeon Story. Here is a story about Spurgeon. He once passed a stonemason who, after each stroke of his hammer, cursed and swore. Mr. Spurgeon laid his hand on his shoulder and, looking kindly at him, said: "You are an adept at sweg~ing. Can you also pray?" With another oath he replied, "Not very likely." Holding up 5 shillings, Mr. Spurgeon said if he would promise never to pray he would give him that. "That is easily earned," said the man, with a fresh oath, and put it in his pocket. When Spurgeon left, the man began to feel a little queer. When e went home, his wife asked him what ailed him, and he told her. "It is Ju das' money !" said the man, and on a sudden impulse he threw it into the fire. The wife found it and took it out and discovered who had given it to him. The man took it back to Spurgeon, who conversed long with him, warning him, and at length was the means of saving him. He became an attached member of his flock. Couldn't Quit Gambling. Driving a cab in the streets of Lon don is a young man who has literally thrown away ?80, 000. The son of a wealthy family in Yorkshire, he went into the army, but soon became distin guished by his gambling propensities. He ruined himself and had to leave his regiment. A short time ago while living in a garret news was brought to him that he had been left ?80,000. There was a condition attached to the legacy--that the money was to immediately pass to another person, named in the will, if the legatee was ever found gambling. A detective was set to watch the ex captain and saw him enter a well known club one evening, where he lost the sum of ?300, which he had raised on his expectations. He forfeited his ?80, 000 before he had ever laid hands on it. -Tnann Tit-flits.-a TOWN WIPED OUT BY FIRE. Only Two Business Houses Standing at Thomasviiir, .41 MOBILE, Nov. 3.-A special to The Register from Thomasville, Ala., says: At 1 o'clock this morning our town is in ashes. A fire started last night at 11 o'clock in the cffice of N. B. Boyle's large store, and every iLusiness house in town except H. Morningstar & Co. and J. P. Turner & Son is burned. The suf ferers are as follows: J. H. Kinbrough, general merchan dise; Thomasville Drug company; N. B. Boyles, general merchandise; David son & Dunning, general merchandise; J. W. Trann. groceries; Roberts' bar ber shop; Drummers' hotel; Thomas ville bank and Postal telegraph office; 0. F. Hill, general merchandise; E G. Day, general merchandise; Thomasville Argus newspaper office; A. Gunn, gen eral merchandise; J. V. Adams, general merchandise; several unoccupied busi ness houses. Very few goods were saved from any of the buildings, as the fire, under the impetus of a high northwest wind, spread with fearful rapidity. Eighty bales of cotton on the public warehouse platform, which had been receipted for by the Southern railroad, and 500 bales in the warehouse, belong ing to the farmers in the surrounding country, were burned. The insurance, except on the 80 bales of cotton on the platiorm, was practi cally nothing. At this hour, 1 a. in., the fire has burned out. The postoffice and residence of Post master Tabb were also destroyed, but most of the contents of the postoffice were saved. COTTON MEN IN SESSION. Resolutions Adnpted Favoring an Open Door Iii China. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 3.-At a meeting of the Southern Cotton Spin ners' association in this city, between 80 and 60 miils being represented, the following resolutions were adopted: "Resolved, That we urge upon the president of the United States and our senators and representatives in congress, the following measures: "1. The preservation of the integrity of the Chinese empire, of all our treaty rights with that empire and the main tenance of an open door policy in China with the commerce of all nations. "2. Vigornus prosecution of the Phil ippine war to a conclusion and the res toration of order in that territory by our government. "3. Construction, without delay, of an isthmian ship canal. "4. Construction of a cable from the Pacific coast to Hawaii, Japan, China and the Philippines and other Oriental points." Prices were raised for the entire list of yarns. Every cotton manufacturing state was represented at the meeting and several commission men were present. HE CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE. Dillard Herndon Ad:nits the Killing of John Loving-good. WAsmxoToN, Ga., Nov. 3.-Dillard Herndon, who has been charged with the killing of John J. Lovinggood, the young merchant at .Pistol, ten days ago, confesses that he did the killing, and says: "Mr. Lovinggood accusad me of forg ing an order for some goods and we had some hard words about the matter. He called me a liar and seized a cheeseknife. As he raised it end was in the aCt of cutting me I grabbed my gun, which was near, and shot him. It was in self defense. Lovinggood was drunk at the time and I can prove it." The trial conies up next week at the November term of Wilkes superior court. As yet Herndon has employed no coun sel. His family connections are well to-do people in this and Elbert counties, but they seem to have no interest in ferndon's fate. N w Trial For a Rioter. SAVANNAH, Nov. 3.-Judge Seabrook has granted a new trial to William Jen kins, one of the Darien rioters. In the other cases new trials were denied. These oases grew out of the Delegal riots at Darien in which Deputy Sheriff Townsend was killed and another dep uty wounded, and for the suppression of which a regiment of troops was called out. Thirty-two rioters were sentenced to the penitentiary after trial. Macn M-rchxan Ms3urdered. MACoN, Nov. 3.-A. A. Powell, a well known merchant of this city, was found dead in his room over his store on Cot ton avenue this morning with his skull crushed to a jelly. He had been dead several hours when found and the mur derer left no clue. The motive for the murder is a mystery, as the dead man is not known to have had any enemies, and $80 was found in his pocket. Big Waterway Convention. MEMPnms, Nov. 3.-Many letters are coming in at the headquarters of the waterway convention commission, a number of which are unqualified ac ceptances. They are from governors, mayors, executive bodies, business men's organizations and associations, saying that they-had selected, or were preparing to select, large delegations to attend the forthcoming meeting. Cow Wrecks a Log Tra in. COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 3.-A log train of the Atlantic Coast Line Lumber com pany, running on the Georgetown and Western railway, struck a cow yester day. Six oars were overturned, the great logs rolling over and grinding three men to pulp, while three others were perhaps fatally injured. Wed on Brief Acquaintance. GADSDEN, Ala., Nov. 3.-Robert Cun, ningham, a popular conductor on the Chattanooga Southern rai'road, met Miss' Sallie Freeman at a friend's house last night for the first time and before the evening was ended they were married. Lynching Neur Courtland. DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 3. - Andrew Sloss, a negro, has been lynched at Courtland for attempting to criminally assault Mrs. F. M. Bussey near that place. Another ioa( and MULES ju plough stock. es aRiloig the I ItHA SH.e, ,H. ct THE CYCLONE. Hew This Wonderful and Destruce tive Air Fury Is Formed. To get an idea of a cyclone's forma tion imagine a large circular pan or tub with quite a large hole in the middle of the bottom. With this bole plugged, fill the vessel with water; then draw out the plug and watch. There is first a rush of water from all directions toward the hole and a turbulent effort to get through. Then the water surface above begins to sink and swirl, the particles gradually circling around and around and rushing, ever faster, toward the center. At last there is actually a hol low space through the center, around which all the water in the tub is whirl ing, sluggishly near the rim, but with more and more violent rapidity toward the middle until it rushes downward through the bottom. Now, if that water were air, you would be watching a little cyclone turned upside down, for the air rushes upward instead of downward. In the cradle of cyclones during the summer months, when the land and the water grow hotter and hotter because of the longer days than nights, a layer of air, hot, light and full of vapor, is for a time held down by denser air above it. Restless, expanding, tumultu ous, it moves about like a beast at bay until a thinner place in the air above is found. Then up it madly rushes and into the vacuum left behind the lower atmosphere hastens from all directions, pushing and twisting and pouring up ward until it has fallen into a regular spinning around a common center. The cyclone, once formed, rushes away from the tropics toward the pole, and begins its career of destruction, bruising, wrecking and sinking the luckless ships which happen to be in its path. More and more of the sur rounding atmospliere is drawn into the whirl until the storm often covers an area nearly 1,000 miles in diameter. Sometimes it flings itself upon our At lantic coast and tears fiercely through forests, fields and cities. Then again it sweeps away across the broad ocean and dashes itself upon the coasts of Europe. Once in awhile it so adroitly avoids the land that we never know it has passed until ships come in torn and broken.-St. Nicholas. BACKBONE OF OUR NATION. The Brain Power of Our Country Comes From the Farms. 'It is from the farm and the country districts that the great brain power of the country has come, is coming today and must come in the future," writes Edward Bok in The Ladies' Home Jour nal. "Instead of deprecating country life and saying that'to live in the coun try means to live out of the world,' in telligent people know that the free, un trammeled life of the country unques tionably gives broader views. The hu man mind always grows to suit its out ward surroundings. Originality and a de velopment for great things have naught to check its growth where one can look with earnest eyes from nature up to na ture's God. To speak of 'the ignorance of the rural regions' is to stamp oneself as an ignoramus, not the country peo ple. There is a soundness of core and an intelligence in the back country of this nation of ours that people who live in cities and think themselves wise never suspect. We can talk all we like of 'social revolutions' and kindred evils that are supposed to threaten this na tion. When they do threaten our insti tutions, the danger signal will not come from the back country. Such thoughts are born and fed amid the foul atmos phere of the cities. In the clear coun try air of the farm nothing threatens this country, and when anything in the shape of a socialistic, anarchistic revo lution does menace this land the true voice which will stamp it out will come from the country. The backbone of this land rests in the country and on the farm." Pianists Practice Too Much. "While studying with Rubinstein, Josef Hofmiann practiced three hours a day," writes Mary B. Mullett of the famous pianist in The Ladies' Home Journal. "He believes that most stu dents make the mistake of overpractic ing. When he came to this country the first time, he was practicing an hour a day. For two years after his return to Germany be practiced two hours a day. During the next two years he averaged four hours daily, and after that, until e went to Rubinstein, six hours daily. This he regards as excessive. "'One's mind grows stupid and con fused,' Hofmann says, 'and one's fingers follow the confusion of the brain. An other mistake of young pianists is that they use too much force in practicing. One should play just hard enough to keep the fingers and wrists from getting stiff. One is not aiming for artistic re sults as one is in concert playing. It is the fingers which need constant prac tice.'" Hair Powder. The cause of tho general disuse of hair powder was the high price of flour. It was thought little less than criminal that dlour, which was almost beyond the reach of seine of the very poor, should be used by the rich as a mere fashionable luxury of dress. Voluntary associations were formed, the members whereof bound themselves not to use hair powder. In a similar way the abolitionists bound themselves not to use any sugar whose production involved the employment of negro slaves.--Notes and Queries. China's Great Garden. There is an immense garden in China that embraces an area of 50,000 square miles. It is all meadow land and is filled with lakes, ponds and canals. Irn the orange fields of New Zealand the crop has been known to net as high as $1,000 an acre. Russia has about 1,000,000 titled per sonages out of a population of 100,000, 000. st in, but notall Some nice driv orses. & RBY, L1899. Hard on the Gentler Sex. There is much of the slave and the tyrant hidden in the nature of woman. Thus woman is not yet capable of friendship, but only of love. In the love of woman is injustice and blindness to all that she does not love. There are two things a true man likes-danger and play. He likes wom an because she is the most dangerous of playthings. A man should be reared for the voca tion of a warrior; a woman for the rec reation of the warrior. All else is rub bish. A woman's principle of honor is to love more than she is loved, so as not to be second. In any game where love or hate is not at stake women play a mediocre part. All women behind their personal vanity cherish an impersonal contempt for woman. As a rule, a mother loves herself in her son more than the son himself. The chief danger that besets artists of genius lies in woman. The worship ing woman is their ruin. Hardly one has character enough to resist his ruin when he finds himself treated like a god. Man is a coward in face of the ewig weibliche, and no one knows it better than the small woman. Women indulge in literature as they commit a.little sin, glancing round to see if any one is looking-i. e., to at tract attention.--Henry Nietzsche in Academy. The Minnow Trap. The minnow trap used for cating minnows for bait is of glass, shaped like a jar or a bottle without a neck and of a capacity of six or eight quarts. The bottom of the trap rises in a cone, like the bottom of a champagne bottle, but instead of being solid the top of the cone is cut off, making an opening in the trap. The top of the trap has over it a metal cap on a hinge. The cap is perforated with a number of holes to permit of the circulation of water through the trap. The minnow trap is slung horizon tally in a wire holder, which has a han dle on top, to which a rope is made fast. Suitable bait to attract minnows is placed in the trap, which is then low ered into the water. The cone with the opening at the inner end in the bottom is in effect like the opening into an eel or fish trap. It is easy for the minnows to get through it into the trap in search of the bait, but hard for them to get out. When the trap has been raised, the captured minnows are got out by opening the cap at the other end of the trap.-New York Sun. Vegetarian Crocodiles. A report by George Hoare, one of the officials of the British Central Africa protectorate, summarized in the local gazette, contains some curious details of the crocodiles of Lake Chiuta. They would seem to be strict vegetarians, for not only have they never been known to attack the men fishing in the lake, but their tracks were shown by the natives to the writer at a distance of several miles from its shores, whence they are said to travel overland in search of roots. This is contrary to the habits of all known species of croco diles, which are, in the first place, purely carnivorous, and, in the second, so helpless on land from their inability to turn, except in a large circle, that they never leave the immediate vicinity of their watery or muddy home. Efforts will accordingly be made to obtain a specimen of this abnormal type of the formidable amphibian.-London Tablet. Strange Tastes. One day while at Versailles during the French war Lord Odo Russell went to call on Bismarck, but found him closeted with Count Harry Arnimn, who was known as the "Ape, " from his fan tastical ways. Before long Arnim came out, fanning himself with his handker chief and looking as if about to choke. "Well," he gasped, "I cannot under stand how Bismarck can bear that smoking the strongest Havanas in a stuffy little room. I had to beg him to open the window." When Russell entered the room, he found the chancellor fanning himself beside an open casement. "What strange tastes some people have !" he exclaimed. "Arnim has just been with me, and he was so overpoweringly perfumed that I had to open the window." Don't Worry About the Editor. The editor has a charter from the state to act as doormat for the commu nity. He will get the paper out some how and stand up for the town and whoop it up for you when you run for office and lie about your big footed son when he gets a $4 a week job and weep over your shriveled soul when it is re leased from its grasping body and smile at your wife's second marriage. Don't worry about the editor; he'll get along. The Lord only knows how-but some how. -Exchange.. Victims of Gambling. The list of persons who have killed themselves because they have been ruin ed by the Vienna Municipal Lottery is a long one. The other day a woman who had spent all her money in buying tickets and had never won a prize hanged herself. Nevertheless the citizens of Vienna look with favor on the lottery, as it keeps down taxes. A Spoiled Child. " What are you crying about now, deaie?" asked the fond mother. "Is there something mamma's sweetest wants?" "Yes." "What is it?" "I-I don't know ! That's what I'm crying about !".-Indianapolis Journal. The Morning Meal. "Now, children," said the teacher, "what do you call the meal that you eat in the morning?" "Oatmeal," promptly responded a number of the class.-What to Eat. FagotsJ to Burn Heretics. Were aequests for the purpose of buy ing these at all common? One such was left (I speak from memory) by the wid ow of a city freeman, who bequeathed a tenement, the rent of which was to be applied for the purchase of fagots for the aforesaid purpose. For many years I believe the rent went into the pockets of the parochial clergy. It is now applied for the purchase of coals for the poor, "to warm their bodies in stead of burning them," as it was wit tily said.-Notes and Queries. P'ertinient. Caughey-Who on earth is trying to play the piano, Caroline? Mrs. Caughey (proudly)-It is Ara bella. She is learning to read music. Caughey (testily)-Well, ask her if it is necessary to read it aloud.-Stray Stories. The temperature for December, tak ing the average for ten years, in the Klondike is 40 degrees below zero. Ostrihes are fond of waltzing, ao cording to a writer in The Popular cence Mnnthly. L. B. DuRANT, Hardware, - Cutlery - and - Crockery, SUMTER, S. C. In order to accommodate my growing business, I have moved my quarters into the spacious store lately occupied by the Ducker-Bultman Company ,and I am prepared to fill all orders. Call or write for what you want. My stock is com plete. in fact larger than ever before, having added to my im mense stock of Hardware, Stoves, Housefurnishing Goods, Harness, Saddles, Leather, etc., A Large Line of Crockery. I also handle in large quanties Paints, Oils and Window G lass. My store is headquarters for Guns, Pistols, Powder, Shot. Shell and all kinds of Sporting Goods. Engine and Mill Supplies. All of our Stoves warranted. L_. E. DU ANT, SUMTER, S. C. Watches and Jewelry. I war~t my fritnds and the prblic generally to know that when in need of a Wedding, Birthday or Christmas Present, rhat in the future, as well as the past, I anm prepared to snpply them. My line of Watches Clocks Sterling Silyer Diamonds Jewelry Cut Glass Fine China Wedgewood Spectacles and Eye Glasses s complete, and it will affbra mc pleasure to show them. Special and prompt attention given to all Repairing in my line it priccs to snit the timis. Atlantic Coast Line L. ~ C I A SUMTER. Watch Inspector. L W . FOLSOM, "S.C. Take Care of Your Eyes. We take this method of informing our friends and the public generally that we have just received a nice assortment of the best Glasses made, and are prepared to furnish our customers with accurate and scientific aids to vision. Our prices are on the "Live and Let Live" plan; hence you can, with a small sum, buy from us a p&ir of good glasses. We have Spectacles and Eye Glasses of all styles, grades and prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. W. I. BROCKINTON. Ts Hlha50.0an TEEBU RACK DAEAIM Y*OU !ni.. E~i~hiiEAS.DOD QUARTEpciaAWODferAPrice $15.5 a Adde~t hresschn wihs SEAR.unaaRO fECg& O.wInc)hcao saife.Wsl ifra .adgadeoen Whcin e el righting th getet ae.ceroReedb ayLos. B W S tismens~ofcingunkwamacine u erarius nams inze andol erR arig duermeat. Write ome fr~Andidonecaproanptlyuuata.livelandesletealine I. S S A DE MACH RE -ADE. WIT TIL an DEETSO OR. L. 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