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One Dollar and a Half a Year! * BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1915! Established 1891.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENING!
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around th<
^ County and Elsewhere.
Ehrlutrdt Etchings.
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The dry weather is making som<
of the farmers blue; can't get thei]
crops up.
Mr. Edgar Fender and .Miss Llewel
lyn Zeigler were married Sunday af
ternoon at the home of the bride'!
brother, Mr. Jasper Zeigler, by th<
, Rev. F. N. K. Roof.
Mr. Leinwand has returned an<
opened up his store.
Prof. S. C. Paysinger has been call
ed to his father's bedside. From re
ports it is doubtful of his recovery
t Prof. Harry E. Copelana has beet
taking his place in the schooi room.
La^t week, during the warm, dr:
days, ice was in good demand.
Mr. Ivan Zeigler is hard at worl
and will soon have the depot a
Yankville, S. C., ready for use.
Gardens are backward so far, ot
account of the dry weather.
It is reported that there are som<
cases of smallpox in the country, bu
think it will turn out as usual?chick
en pox. Hope it will prove no mor<
* t than chicken pox.
What next! Memorial day haj
passed, baseball is about all th<
amusement that we can have thes<
hot, dry days. So we will have t<
make the best of the games that w<
can.
It's too dry for the toad to sounc
his plaintive notes, the dust gets ir
his throat and it don't sound clear
Suppose Mr. Toad is waiting for nrn
There are a few corn fed hor;?j
about town yet; had two or thn*
runaways last week, happily no da n
age done.
Our mutual friend, Byrnes, 6pent <
while in town talking to his fri nd<
on his way from memorial at Riven
Bridge, to Walterboro, where Mr
Byrnes spoke to an audience.
JEE.
f Fairfax Fancies.
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The last meeting of the U. D. C
chapter was held at the hospitabU
home of Mrs. Fred Lightsey. Ar
enjoyable programme was rendered
Mrs. Lightsey served delicious two
course refreshments.
The Civic league met at the hom<
of Mrs. M. F. Craddock on Wednes
? day of last week. A number of busi
ness matters were discussed. Plan;
t
were made for the holding of a Maj
carnival on the 12th of May. A.
queen will be elected by vote anc
crowned on that day. The ballo
box will be placed at the Knopf
? drug store and voting will begin th<
r 1st of May. The carnival will be hek
in the park. There will be a Maj
pole dance and other features of en
artoinmont Tt ift OXDP.Cted that th<
voting for the queen will be spiritec
and exciting. At the close of th<
business meeting of the league, Mrs
Craddock, assisted by Misses Bell<
and Ida Compton, served a deliciou!
sweet course.
A revival meeting is in progress ai
the Baptist church. Rev. D. P. Mont
gomery and his two sons, Paul, <
^ gospel singer, and the other a per
sonal worker, are assisting the pas
tor, Rev. E. A. McDowell. Mr. Mont
gomery and his sons have been mos
successful in revivals and much gooc
is expected from the meeting. Pau
Montgomery is a singer of much pow
er, as well as a fine chorus conductor
It is expected that the meeting wil
V be largely attended.
The commencement exercises o
the graded, school will be held Fri
pvpnin? Snndav morning anc
Monday evening, May 28, 30 ant
31. On Friday evening there will b<
exercises by the grammar grades. Oi
Sunday at 11 a. m. Dr. McCollough
of Columbia, will preach the sermon
On Monday evening Dr. Snider, o
\ Wofford, will deliver the address t<
the graduating class. Bearden's or
f che6tra, of Augusta, will furnisl
f music during Monday evening. Th<
school is closing a successful year un
der the direction of Prof. F. C. Chit
ty and his splendid staff of lady teach
ers, Misses Riser, Rebecca Walker
Delle Loadholt, Sue Albergotti an<
Alma Knight.
Mrs. O. J. Youmans spent somi
time the past week with relatives ii
Columbia.
Mrs. F. C. Chitty has returne<
from a visit to relatives in Georgia
Mrs. W. W. Anderson is homi
again after a successful operation a
a sanitarium in Charleston.
There have been a number o
j match games of baseball on the horn
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HOOYKIt WICITKS
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Chairman of Belief Commission K\,
plains Work in llelgium.
Columbia. April 27.? Herbert C.
Hoover, of London, chairman of the
? commission for relief in Belgium, has
sent the following letter to Governor
Manning. State chairman for South
Carolina:
"I have received from Mr. Lindon
2 Bates copies of certain correspondr
ence with regard to relief for some
villages in the province of Antwerp.
* I have forwarded these communica*
tions to Belgium. Being, however,
3 rather intimate with the position of
2 Belgium, I may mention that there
is a very natural desire on the part
* of every burgomaster to get some
thing special for his particular vil*
lage, and in consequence, burgomas"
ters make sometimes patriotic efforts
to raise funds for their own people.
1 We have no objection to their doing
anything they can in this line, and
" we are glad to remit money to any
particular burgomaster. Any moneys
: paid to us will be in turn paid over
1 to any designated person in Belgium.
We cannot, however, disturb our en1
tire system by making special remittances
of foodstuffs or clothing.
i "You may be interested to know
1 that we have a complete federal sys"
tern set up in Belgium, in which buri
gomasters in each arrondisement belong
to an arrondisement committee.
This arrondisement committee conducts
the work in his district, so that
the needs of any special village have
1 only to be transmitted tnrougn us
i own delegate. I do not, therefore,
believe that these villages have been
' in any way overlooked."
1 The letter was sent from London
under date of April 1 2.
g diamond lately. In most of the
; games the locals have been victorious.
. The third nine, composed of the
youngest "leaguers" in town, desires
t the public to know that "they have
5 met the enemy and they are ours."
5 Also that they need more rooters at
their games.
Cop? Culiings.
Cope. April 26.?On Saturday afternoon
little Miss Wilhelmina
Stuckey entertained with a rook par
ty her little friends, Margaret CleckJ
ley, Eloise Kirkland. Rita Barton and
1 Evelyn Henerey. Refreshments were
' served and a most enjoyable time was
spent.
Capt. W. A. Riley and daughter,
Miss Xina, of Bamberg, spent yesterday
with Dr. and Mrs. Ed Kirkland.
Misses Flossie and Janie Griffith,
of near Bamberg, attended church
here yesterday afternoon.
L Mr. C. C. McMillan, of Greenville,
I is here on a business and social visit
1 among friends and relatives.
f Mr. W. M. Hughes and wife and
i Misses Clark, Kennerly and Gilliam
1 spent yesterday afternoon here among
7 relatives and friends, they having
- come over from Orangeburg by auto.
i Work was commenced on the new
^ brick store of Mr. W. M. Hughes this
- morning. Contractor Chesnut, of
Orangeburg, is building it.
* Farmers are getting anxious for a
5 little rain. The oat and grain crops
would be greatly benefited thereby,
t and cotton cannot come up on ac
count of the extreme dryness of the
i top soil.
Barn Burned at Cope.
t Cope, April 21.?Yesterday afterj
noon during a thunder storm lightj
ning struck the large barn of Mr. E.
E. Ritter, wno lives aouui iwu umw
from Cope, and same was burned to
j the ground. Besides the loss of the
barn Mr. Ritter lost a quantity of
, corn and fodder, also two buggies and
| some farm implements. It is heard
, j that Mr. Ritter had a little insurance,
, j but nothing to compare with his loss.
* Lightning also struck a tree in Mr.
\V. D. Cope's yard. Mr. Cope is a
near neighbor.
Ground was broken a day or two
1 ago for another brick store. Mr. W.
\V. Hughes will build back on the
old corner where he was burned out
^ on Thanksgiving night. This will be
a the fourth brick store in town. Mr.
\V. Frank Gray is finishing up a
dwelling, he bought partly constructed.
It will be quite an addition to
the town.
J Denmark Wins Game.
a nonmark Anril 23.?In a same
i yesterday, somewhat poorly played,
but exciting, the Denmark high
i school defeated the Barnwell high
. school, 6 to 5. Denmark's work was
s done principally in the last half of
t the ninth inning, when advantage
was taken of the weakening of the
f Barnwell pitcher. In this inning
e Denmark scored four of the six runs.
j BOKX XKAlt YAl'GHXVILLK. 1
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, Xegtt) is More Than Seven Feet High
am! Weighs 850 Pounds. ^
The State recently contained a
, story of Eda Williams, a negress who
| was born and raised near Vaughn-'!
j ville, this State; and who is rememj
bered by the people of that section
j because of her great height. When
! she left there, though, she was of the
bean-pole variety of architecture, and
has accumulated her thickness and '
avoirdupois since she became a mus- *
j ical ce'eority. *
The State says:
"One of the celebrities of English
music halls and European variety 1
theatres is in Columbia. She is Ella |
William3, a negro woman, whose ]
height is seven and one-half feet and
whose weight is 350 pounds. She 1
created a mild commotion when she
I WaiKea up .waill Slieet ;caiciua;
morning. (
"Ella is probably the highest wo- i
man in the world. She said yester- i
day that she had heard of only one :
woman in the show business whose
! height was anywhere near her seven ,
and one-half feet. Ella has undoubt- .
edly traveled more than any other .
negress ever born in South Carolina.
She has made three trips all over (
Europe, tours through Australia,
Xew Zealand, South America and .
other countries. She is known pro- ,
fessionally as Arboma and is 'headlined"
by managers of European (
theatres. ,
"The giant negress hae returned
from England because the war broke
up her tours of the "alls." She said (
yesterday that she was going to open '
a dress making shop on Gervais street (
'to pass away the time' until the
war ended and she could go to Eu- ,
rope agajn.
" 'I was born near Cross Hill, in
Laurens county' said Ella yesterday.
'None of my sisters or brothers are ]
unusually large. x For years every
! time a show man saw me he would
want me to sign a contract, but I
never could make up my mind to j
leave Columbia. Finally in the fall ]
of 1896. while I was cooking for a i
prominent family in Columbia, Man- (
ager F. C. Bostock got me to sign
up for a tour. He took me to New |
York and sent me to England. I \
worked in the theatres over there un- 1
til 1897, when I came back to Co- ;
lumbia. I went to Europe again in
1898 and stayed until 1899. Then ;
I returned to Europe in 1900 and ]
have been there in the British colo- i
nies and in South America for the ]
last 15 years. I will never stay away i
from Columbia and my people as
long as that again.' i
"In the European theatres Ella ,
sings 'coon' songs, which are especially
popular in France and England.
Then she shakes hands with people ,
in the audience.
" 'The children like me, and managers
are always glad to get me on
their bills because it means that the
boxes will be filled with whole families,'
said Ella yesterday.
The negress has a locket given her
as a souvenir of the day when his 1
majesty the king of Saxony came to 1
a theatre in Berlin to see her.
Some Historic Marches.
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The prodigious marches accomplished
by some of the German
troops, especially before the battle of
Tannenberg and in the last battle of
the Masurian lakes, have moved a
Berlin historian to make interesting
comparisons with famous marches of
other days. He concludes that no
troops have ever before made such a
record in this respect as the soldiers
now in the armies of the east.
An average march, he says, is 20 ,
to 21 miles, but after three days a ]
day of rest is observed if this pace .
has been kept. On the famous re- i
treat of the 10,000 Greeks under ;
Xenophon, after the battle of Kunaxa
in 401 B. C.. from near Babylon
to Trapezunt on the Black sea, the i
average day's march was 16 3-41 j
miles, but this average was secured I .
by several forced marches of 27 1-2
miles, and the normal day's march
was about 15 1-4 miles.
A striking accomplishment was (
that of Napoleon's Guards, who cover- (
ed 110 miles in six days on their (
march to take part in the battle ofj.
arirf tVint over had roads!
through the Thuringian forest. The '
Ninth German army corps with exhausting
marches behind it, covered
4 6 miles from the vicinity of Blois to
Orleans in 36 hours in 1870, and over
muddy roads and was ready to fight
the next day.
i One East Prussian regiment marched
122 miles in five days to join <
! Hindenburg's army, and took part in
s the battle of Tannenberg in the af:
ternoon of the fifth day without stop- '
ping to rest. <
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The city of Lancaster has awarded
i contract for the paving of .Main
street, the cost being $21.">00. The
contract calls for 11,500 square
cards of asphalt paving.
The South Carolina Dental association
is in session in Coluipbia this
week. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the
pure food expert, made an address
before the association on Wednesday.
Tim Ponnloo Ronlr r\f Rriincnn hajS
been commissioned by the secretary
of State. The bank is to have h capital
stock of $25,000. The petitioners
are J. W. Campbell and J. E. Puerifov.
Frank E. Dudley, of Florence, arrived
in West Africa this week after
a voyage of 34 days. He has gone on
a timber ^Inspection mission for an
American lumber concern, and will
spend a year in Africa.
An unknown negro Saturday night
attacked a white woman at Traveler's
rest, Greenville county. The name
of the negro is not known. The officers
fear that if the negro is captured
he will be lynched.
Elizabeth LeRoy, the two-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Still,
of Blackville, died at the home of
the child's grand parents in St.
George Wednesday of last week. The
u'oro hnriori a t Rlaolrvillo
rhursday. '
T() OUST BLIND TIGERS.
Magistrates of Jasper County on the
War Path.
Ridgeland, April 21.?Yesterday
all the magistrates in Jasper county
met at the office of Sheriff H. H. Porter.
The meeting was held at the request
of Governor Manning, who had
written each magistrate to meet at
the sheriff's office, there to form
themselves into districts in order to
be able to enforce the laws better
and to especially stamp out the
"blind tigers" in Jasper county.
Every magistrate was present with
his constable, and each stated at the
meeting they would make it hard
tor any "blind tiger" to live in the
territory assigned to them by Sheriff
Porter. It would be hard to find
a more determined set of men with
one purpose in view, and that purpose
being to enforce the law, than
those who left the meeting yesterday.
It is expected that much good
will result from the meeting.
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The Future of India.
What will be the status of India
in the British empire after the war?
Even in the press of instant needs,
that question mugt cros6 the minds
of thoughtful British statesmen, but
it is doubtful if the most farseeing
among them can give it anything like
a full or certain answer, says the
Hhipacrrv Tmirnal Onlv nnp thinS" is
sure: India will claim and receive
a. larger measure of self-government
and fuller participation in imperial
affairs than she has had before.
The loyalty of India has been one
of the great, surprises of the war.
Instead of bursting into a flame of
revolution the moment Britain was
involved in Europe, India has come
forward with voluntary offerings of
money and troops, suspended all agitation
for political changes until after
the war, turned a deaf ear to the
persuasions of kaiser and 'sultan.
Sikhs and Gurkhas are on the firhig
line in France: native princes have
offered their personal services in the
field.
Provinces and principalities which
have proved their value in this fash
ion in time of war cannot be relegated
to the status of lesser breeds without
the law in time of peace. But
what other status can they assume?
Can India be trusted with self-government
like that which prevails in
Canada and Australia? Can Europeans
and Asiatics henceforth work
side by side, instead of tandem, as
hitherto? Will the islanders who
developed and the Orientals who have
bowed to the personal sway of foreign
masters for centuries find that
after all they have a common ideal
in the enmire.
Recruiting Officer?You want to
?nlist, eh?
Irish Recruit (enthusiastically) ?
Yes, sir?for the duration of the
war, or longer, if it lasts?London
Opinion.
STRUGGLE UNDER GROUND
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FRENCH EXPLODE MINE UNDER
GERMANS.
Wrecks of Human Forms Scattered
Far and Wide and Earth Works
Torn to Pieces.
Paris. April 26.?The following
official review of recent events at the
front was given out at the war department
today:
"In the Voges as in Champagne
and the Argonne, and at Artois (department
of Calais.) the proximity
of the French and the German
trenches and the strength of the defensive
works forced the adversaries
to have recourse to sap and mine.
East of La Fontenelle, at the summit
of a hill, we organized a very
powerful line of resistance.
"The Germans began to besiege
this hill toward the end of March.
Suspicious noises led to the belief
that a subterranean contest had
started. The hottest kind of actions
developed thereafter.
"During the entire night of April ]
10 our infantrymen fought, using
grenades and destroying earth bar- t
riers the Germans sought to erect, ]
the combat occurring beneath the
level of the ground, the surface of
which was swept by quick-firers.
Called on to Surrender.
"On April 13 toward 8:30 o'clock
in the evening the Germans, profiting
by the darkness, attempted a decisive
action against the right section of:
the works. With bombs and grenades
they crossed the space which
separated them from the French, J
and believing they had surrounded
the defenders of the trench, they
pried to the Frenchmen to surrender.
But the evening before we had dug
a new branch of the underground
works which permitted the defenders
to evacuate the post, which previously
had been mined. x !
"As soon as the Germans were installed
there the order was given toj
explode the mine. A man delegated)
to fire the mine was put out of ac- ;
tion by a grenade while lighting the <
wick. His companion immediately
replaced him. !
"A violent detonation shook the
entire works.. It was followed by
cries of terror and pain. One hundred
kilograms of explosive had
blown up the position and the old
branch of the underground works, j
"We immediately established a
barrier against which the Germans
hurled themselves. Their officers
could be heard during the night urging
the men forward, vbut the men,
terrorized by the explosion, answered,
'Nein, nein.' |
"Our artillery, guided by searchlights,
opened fire on the enemy's
jvorks. Upheavals of the ground
showed the effectiveness of our fire.
At daybreak the effects of the explosion
could be judged. Human debris
hung on our accessory defences
and bodies were scattered about, j
Thus ended at La Fontenelle the sapping
of the Germans."^
PROPERTY WORTH $60,000.
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.Judge Moord Gives Decision in Abbeville
Will Case. j (
A UUA,m1'A K 07 T o
AUUCV l',lC? Apill mi, ill CL UCViOlUU (
rendered, by Judge Moore, filed with
J. L. Perrin, clerk of court. John and
I
Frank Kerr were declared the owners
of the property of the late Mrs. Jose- (
phine E. Sloan. The property in
question is valued at about $60,000, ,
and much interest was manifested ,
in the case. * j'
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According to the testimony, Mrs.
Sloan several years a!go made a "will!
in which she agreed to give John and'
Frank Kerr all of her property, pro- -J
vided they would take care of her
and look after her property'for the
rest of her life. It developed that;
she destroyed this will and made an-!
other, giving all hei1 ' property to ^ 1
charity. The question at issue was !
whether such contract was made and 1
if so did the Kerrs carry out their '
part of it. According to the decision !
the contract was established. 1
COL WATSON HEADS CONGRESS. 1
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Headquarters of National Body W ill |?
Be Transferred to Columbia. <
Chicago, April 26.?E. J. Watson, I
commissioner of agriculture and industries
of South Carolina, was elect- (
ed president today of the National :
Drainage congress at a meeting of
the congress board of directors here. '
Headquarters of the congress were 1
ordered removed from Chicago to
Columbia, S. C.
The board decided to hold the In- 1
ternational Drainage and Flood Pre- '
vention congress at San Francisco i
later this year. i
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CHANGES HEATH SENTENCES.
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jiovemor Saves Two Men From Electrocution.?Eife
terms Instead.
Columbia, April 27.?Governor
Manning has commuted the sentences
jf James Gowan from electrocution
:o life imprisonment in the State
penitentiary at hard labor. Gowan,
;vho is a negro, killed his brothern-law
some months ago, and at the
March term of court was tried, found
juilty and sentenced to be electrocut- p
Jd on the 30th day of April, 1915.
rhe unusual circumstances connected
DL-itVi (TMntinff nf thic nlpa fnr
commuting of sentence was the very
'air and candid statement made by
3eo. T. Motlow, an attorney, of
Sreenville, who acted as counsel for
the defence by appointment of the
:ourt, Judge Devore. Mr. Motloty is
:andid to say that he went into the
?ase on two hours' notice without being
prepared, through an over-zealDusness
to obey what he thought was
the wishes of the court, and, more- '
:>ver, that this was the first time that
he had ever attempted to speak in
the court of common pleas and general
sessions before a jury, and that
he was so excited and his. nerves
were so overwrought on account of
the excitement caused by this being
his first jury trial in this court in
which he ever undertook to speak
to a jury or to examine a witness before
a jury, that he broke down and
that on this account he feels that the
lefendant has not received the presentation
that he was entitled to re
ceive in a trial for his life. The petition
that the sentence be commuted
?
was signed by nearly all the members
of the Greenville bar who heard the
case, by all members of the jury, and
Judge Devore wrote that in his opinion
the ends of justice would be met
oy commuting the sentence. Solicitor
Bonham concurred. The board of
pardons examined into this case
thoroughly and recommended that
the sentence be commuted from
electrocution to life imprisonment at
hard labor.
Second Case.
Another sentence that Governor
Manning has commuted from electrocution
to life imprisonment is that
of Will Goggans. Goggans was convicted
at the March term of court,
1913, in Newberry county, for the
killing of Spurgeon Johnson in the
previous October. He has been respited
from time to tim& by Ex-Governor
Bleaee, and the last time by
.
Governor Manning to give the board
nt norHnnc a phanpo fn fhnrnil?hlv
examine into this. case. The jurors
who tried Goggans were petitioners
that the sentence be commuted, setting
forth that since the trial considerable
doubt had arisen in their
minds as to the guilt of the conlemned
and that they had come to the
conclusion that it would be unfair
to themselves as jurors and unjust
to Goggans were the sentence not *
commuted "so that if time shall prove
his innocence he will not then be beyond
the help of man."
In passing on this case the board
of pardons said: "All twelve of the
jurors asked that this negro's sentence
be commuted from electrocution
to life imprisonment. In addition
the judge hearing the case joins
in this request. While we do not
consider it the province of the board
of pardons to retry cases we have
?one into the records of this case very
carefully because the life of a human
being is at stake. The case against
Goggans is, in our opinion, extremely
weak and we unhesitatingly recommend
to your excellency that the
sentence be commuted from electrocution
ta life imprisonment."
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n.vin.n'inu.i ma iiv.iuoui'.
Llabama Officer Comes for Man Wanted
in That State.
Columbia, April 26.?Governor
Manning this morning honored an
extradition from Governor Hender- ,
son, of Alabama, for the return to
that State of Jim Johnson, wanted
in Jefferson county, Alabama, to answer
to an indictment of violation of
he prohibition laws. The man is said
to be at Neeses, in Orangeburg county,
and the Alabama officer, J. W.
Levings, left for Orangeburg on the
ifternoon train to present the extradition
papers to Sheriff Salley and
?a.
lu get :na uiau.
In the election on Saturday Robert
McKorrell, of Hartsville, was chosen
major of the 3d battalion of the
1st infantry, N. G. S. C., over W. J.
Tiller, of Chesterfield, by a vote of
S to 4.
The governor has appointed Pat
Wall, of Port Royal, and M. G. Elliott,
of Beaufort, members of the
Beaufort county dispensary board,
their terms beginning on the 20th
instant.
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