The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 28, 1908, Image 6
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New Methods Have Changed
the Woik ul Gathenng.
PEARLER WELL EQUIPPED
With a Suit of India Kubbcr Coppei
lii'wuilpluli's, and Lcadcti \Veij;ht?
He Descends to the Bottom of tin
Seax?Spends From Six to lCl^ht
Hours There.
The Sorvilla pearl given by J11 liiib
Caua>ai lo Brutus' mother was said to
huve been worth (175,000, says Lou
don Tit-lilts. For a pearl an inch
in diameter a Persian shah of the
wicuicviiUl U'iil(ll) l!S MlIU IU Mil V ?:
paid $320,000. The pearl market U
Somewhat lowdr nowaday.s, but prices
are Ktill high enough to make diving
profitable.
The era of naked divers exposed
to peril from sharks has passed
a way. Modern progress equips Hit
pearler with a suit of India rubber
co j) per breastplate, with leaden
weights back and front; helmet, glusr
panelled and w it it telephonic attach
' ments; air pipes, life lines and b
submarine searchlight. Thus equipped
the pearl diver may spend six or
oiglu hours at the bottom of the sea,
whereas in olden times three minutes
made a record.
Although pearls are found In nearly
all mollusks and even in univalves
like the Australian liallotis, a kind
of barnacle, true pearls are produced
only by the pearl oyster or mothet
ot pearl shell. The latter is reail.v
the diver's bread and nutter. Tht
shells uie as big as dinner plates and
weigh two pounds when cleaned
They fetch from $T>00 to $7f)U u ton
The ancient fisheries were chief!)
In the Indian Ocean and Persian (full
l?ut nowadays the best pearls com;?
from Ceylon and from Australiai.
waters, especially Torres Straits.
Pearl fishing in Ceylon is a govern
meat monopoly. In March the Heel
starts for two pearling grounds, each
vessel with twenty or thirtv diverr
and their assistants. But the head
quartern ot pearling are to he found
in the den date country extending
l'rom Exniouth Gulf to King Sound
In Western Australia.
A glistening white coast line i?
this, whose monotony is broken onlv
by mango I ringed salt water creeks
and scorching deserts of spinifex and
*and. Long heforo inland gold was
dreamed oi roving natives fished
these seas for pearls, and they paid
many visits to Roebuck Bay and
what is now the pearl town ol
liroome.
Chinese and Malays as well as
tribes of native black fellows aio
there to-day, but the old nude div?rs,
the reign of terror and piracy
when a large haul was made these
and similar conditions have passed
away, giving place to Meets ami luggers
carrying modern diving outfits
and representatives of the inevitable
capitalist in the person of the inastei
pearlers. Here are six hundred
miles of coast line, with perhaps five
thousand hardy adventurers engaged
In the pearl trade.
There are some thousands of Jap
anese, Maniiamen, Malays and men
of other races acting chiefly as crews
for the vessels. The vessels are
schooner rigged and from seven <.0
founteen tons burden. Each carries
a master diver and a crew of four,
one of whom is the diver's assistant
and workH the air pumps. Another
holds the life line and pays attention
to signals; another Is catching lis!)
or peeling potatoes for dinner, ami
it may be a third has gone off in the
dingey for fresh water and lire-wood
The shells are found on ledges
about ninety feet down in the ** #.
but they are far more plentiful at
greater depth. Foitune awaits the
Inventor of a diving apparatus which
will enable the pearler to work in
comfort one hundred fathoms down.
The lugger has a low freeboard to
allow the diver with his heavy dress
and gear to be easily hauled jii
board He carries a net holding tin
ahells wiilt bun, and w'lien tins
full he has it hauled up so that he
himself may run no risk of entangling
life nne or air pipe.
When the pearler works at, say.
twenty fathoms he moves easily, notwithstanding
his forty-pound boots,
amid groves of coral trees, interlaced
with fluttering, fern-like plants,
among whose branches swim gorge
ous tropical fish and sinister water
snakes, which seem to resent the intrusion
of so strange a monster.
A good day's work is anything
more than two hundred pairs of
shells. The business is absolutely
speculative. One diver may gather
ton after ton of shells without securing
anything of greater value
than a few seed pearls, while another
may take a fortune out in a
day's gathering.
The most famous pearl discovered
in Australia of late years is known
as the Southern Cross. It consists
of a cluster of nine pearls in the
shape of a cross. This freak of nature
was picked up at low water on
the Lacipede Island by a beachcomber
named Clark, who, after burying
it for some time for superstitious
reasons, sold it for $50; later, it
brought $50,000.
The pearl diver of to-day, protected
as he Is by every device known
to modern submarine engineering, is
exposed to many perils. He may lose
bis life by the tearing of his dresa
lippn the sharp coral rocks.
SENT HACK HOME.
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The Times Says Florence Police Aid
in Kcscue Work.
The Florence Times says a very
sad ease was brought to the attention
of the town authorities there Sunday
morning when two young girls, Maggie
Smith and Lillie Campbell, ages
about 16 and IS years appealed to
the police to help them get bttck to
their home in Columbia.
Lillie Campbell told the story to
OlHcer Cain of how she ami her
friend had been pursuaded to come
to Florence by a woman who lived
there. Saying that everything had
been misrepresented to them. They
were told that this was a tine place
to live and that they could easily
obtain employment and would get
along well.
Lillie accepted Iter story and came
down here with this woman Friday.
When they arrived tit ttiis woman s
house they at once realized that they
could not be satisfied at such a plae ;.
They became dissatisfied and wanted
to leave and were ill treated by this
woman who tried to force them to
stay. They said that they wero. determined
to leave that place and go
back to their people in Columbia if
possible.
They went to the residence of a
citizen about 10 o'clock Saturday
night and were allowed to spend the
night. The next morning their case
was reported to t lie police and the
result of the whole tiling was that
the woman who had pursuaded them
to come down here was made to pay
their way back to Columbia.
JOHNSON'S PLATFORM.
Please Wall Street anil the Thieving
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The Springfield Republican says
the platform adopted by the Minnesota
Democrats in placing (iov. Johnson
before the country as a Presidential
candidate, is manifestly keyed
to suit the Eastern and Southern conservative
wing of the party, while]
containing compliments and concessions
calculated to concilate the following
of Mr. Hr.van. No one who
was ignorant of Gov. Johnson's record
in Minnesota would know from
this platform how much of a radical
he bad been in his present otllce, for
the platform contains no bint of
some of the policies which, as Governor,
he has advocated.
This appeal to the conservative
wing of tho national Democracy is,
however, the kind of politics which
Gov. Johnson's President ial candidacy
now forces upon him. lie must win
I lie nomination, if tiiat be possible,
not by competing with Mr. Ilryan in
bis own line, but by setting himself
up as a contrast. Gov. Johnson's
Presidential candidacy had its origin
in the growing desperation of those
Democrats who could not endure the
thought of another Bryan candidacy
or the thought of Bryan in the White
Mouse, and its chief dynamic force is
ueriveu iroin me niu.erness leu lor
Bryan by the elements represented
most conspicuously by the New York
World.
The Johnson platform will not.
displease those elements. They are
making a stubborn contest in the
hope of taking advantage of the twothirds
rule, and it is upon that alone
that, practically speaking, Gov. Johnson's
hopes now rest.
NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS COSTLY.
Amounts Spent by Parties in Presidential
Election Years.
Recent debates in Congress on a
national publicity bill have revealed
some interesting facts, not the least
of these being that as far back as
1800, when Lincoln and Douglass
were the opposing candidates of the
Republican and Democratic parties
respectively, tremendous amounts of
money were expended for campaign
purposes. In only two Presidential
elections sice 1800 has the Republicans
spent less than the Democrats.
Those two years were in 1884, when
James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland
were the candidates, and in
1892, when Harrison and Cleveland
wore the nominees of their party.
The following, which Is believed to
be as accurate as It Is possible to
make It, shows the total expenditures
of both the Republican and the
Democratic parties since 1860:
I860, Abraham Lincoln, $100,000;
Douglass, $50,000.
1864, Abraham Lincoln, $125,000;
McClellan, $50,000.
1868, U. S. Grant, $150,000; Seymour,
$75,000.
1872, U. S. Grant, $250,000; Iloronn
/"ItAAA
187G, R. B. Hayes, $950,000; Tilden,
$1)00,000.
1880, Garfield, $1,100,000; Hancock,
$355,000.
1884, James G. Plain, $1,300,000;
Cleveland, $1,400,000.
1 892, Harrison, $1,850,000; Cleveland,
$2,350,000.
1896, McKinley, $16,500,000; Bryan,
$675,000.
1900, McKinley, $9,500,000; Bryan,
$425,000.
1904, Roosevelt, $3,500,000; Parker,
$1,250,000. <
"What made you kick Jimpson?"
"He called me an ass."
"Oh, well, kicking is a characteristic
of asses, but I shouldn't think
you'd want to confirm Jimpson's
statement so quickly."
\*o so.\r xi:::i>ir> ix haititi d.
Wonderful Spring hi the California
Desert?!'!tt!illc P.rttorn.
Pov in the .'allforiPa desert. 1"?
m i. fro'n I i Av.9r.en. an'1 si::
'u ?' * fro t. Ilr.e " *h*? 11* "
Pac. : rui.'road are the remnant i or
what was ace the "(lard' n of C-' a."
Some twee,ty-flve vers ago some St
Loui. and ICvansvllle capitalists coil
"elv the Idea tliat the desert 'and
coulo ho utilized, and by Irrlgat.on
could lie ma do a gin it fruit-pro lacing
country.
Accordingly the> set out an Immense
orchard of young tre.?^ ? nnr!cot.
lemon, orange nnd citron built
substantial buflnings for their overs?
'T ami workmen, laid artltlual
walks and oenutlfied the grounds
w th shrubbery and flowers.
They made n contract with a cornpan.
which owned a reservoir on the
San Bernardino mountains, and soon
th * Iic|tiid life from the uplands wat
flowing Into the garden, beautifying
and transforming every growing
thing. This went on fpr several
yeac and from that sandy waste
grew Into promiso and beauty, a love
ly orchard.
Llo sanguine were the promoters
thai they incurred the expense of a
narrow gunge railway from their
property to the Southern Pacific,
making connection at Palms Spring
Station. The grove was now at almo?
the hearing point and the Investors
were looking forward to quick
dividends, when, as a result of an
altercation between the grove owners
a .ci the water company, the latter
cut oft the water supply, and long
berr the matter could be adjusted
by the courts the flowers had with
er'c\ the trees had died and the
whole estate had reverted to the
lesei , with only the stump of a tree
ro and thorp "to point the moral
I tiiirl adorn the tale."
A few miles from this wreck, says
the Louisville "Courier-Journal,"
around the spur of a mountain, is a
little valley, owned by a canny
Scotchman, Dr Murray. The doctor
has or ought the water from tho
mountain near by and has created an
"oasis in the desert."
tie has about ten acres in orange"
and alfalfa, ant. nothing could bu
lore pleasant to the eye. after ranging
over a sandy waste, than this
' harming little valley.
An Indian reservation adjoins tho
doctor's ranch, and from them he
lenses for $100 pei annum, a rare
spring. The pool formed by thkt
spring Is about as large as a good
sized room and is covered by a rude
shack. The uniform temperature ol
the water Is 100 degrees, and it I?
said to have many healing properties,
being especially efficacious in nil man
no o. Idood and nervous troubles
When you first enter this pool youi
feet strike a soft, san lv bottom and
you are apparently in water abut!
IS lacnes deep. All at once a rip;>!<
go s over tho surface, much as If
stone had been thrown in, and neat
von ' ou not'ee tin* sand has opened,
disclosing a hole as large as the cir
inference of your hodv, but hovJ
op >ou arc fraid to think.
m.t 1110 doctor mils there Is nn
din per and vo i t;iko your life hi
: >ung hands and plunge in. Down
you ko up to your neck, and, fonrin.}
a quick sand, you call out to the doc.,
tri, hut he, smiling irnperturhlv, bids
vou keep quiet and await results.
I'resently you feel a soft impae:
upon the soles of your feet, an I
slowly hut irresistibly you feel your
self being forced to the surface. Wlt'i
in the space of three minutes you
are again standing in eighteen Inched
of water, and the hole has disappeare'',
only to appear a few feet further
on.
i on hasten to it. plunge in and
a ain reach the surface as before,
Only one hole is formed at a time,
and between th- closing of one and
the appearing of another, there is
an interval of about five minutes.
In this wonderful hath you do not
reqr're any brush or soap, but when
you come out your skin is smooth
and spotless, here and there appearing
upon your body minute scales of
silica. After dashing a bucket of
'd water over you you feel wonderfully
Invigorated and refreshed.
People come hundreds of miles to
a.he ii. these healing waters, and i'
! twk rlnnf ah oaii 1 -I /\r? I n I"
. uu vv/u iu 111 kj v t' hi >n
spring to Los Angeles lie could make
iiis fortune in a fow years. The Indians
(the Mission tribe) attach
great value to the water and use the
overtlow of the pool for bathing and
drinking purposes.
U. 8. Cemetery In Mexico.
"' 'hough very few people are aware
of the fact," said an army officer the
itiier day, "the United States Government
owns and maintains a nation'
al cemetery in Mexico. It is locate.1
at ban Cosme, near the City of Mexi'o,
and was purchased and establish?d
in tire year 1850 for the purpose
>f interring the remains of soldiers
>f the United States who died or
vere killed in that vicinity during
ho war with Mexico and also for interring
the bodies of citizens of the
United States who have died in that
'icinity since that period."
"See here," asked the cautions
trangor, "if I decide to stay here for
? week, how much is it going to cost
ne?" "You can answer that best
ourself," replied the clerk of tlio
'<Moi da hotel. "Hov much have you
,jt?"?Philadelphia Press.
Immigration has almost stopped,
t is reported from the East. So long
is it brings in Black Hand gangs ij
eems desirable to have It cease al*
ogether,
Actaemi * *'Og8 A*?ain.
The Socialists of the Eighth Congressional
district, of Ohio, are jubI
ilant over the news that two English
j duchesses have agreed to stump that
district in the interest of their "an!dictate
for Congress. rneoe uuchI
esses have plenty of money and fluent
tongues, and will appeal especially
to the negro voters. There advent
bodes no good for the Republicans
of Ohio. The negroes are
among the most susceptible people
in the world to the influence of money,
fine clothes, and fine phrases.
They may yet be drawn into the
ranks of the Socialist party, which
was born of the protective policy of
the Republicans. And, in that case,
we shall have another instance of Acteon
devoured by his own dogs.
We Shall See.
The Charleston Evening Post says
it does not believe that a serious effort
will be made to pass the bill
reducing the representation of the
South in Congress and the Electoral
College because the more liberal
minded people of the North, though
thnv rln nnt ?ltnirr?thnr nnrlnrst^irul
our problem, have an instinctive sympathy
with us in our efforts to solve
it and do not wish to make it more
difficult than it is by nature, and
public sentiment will not support
an undertaking to punish the South
for maintaining the barriers of race
integrity.
The Post thinks the Crumpacker
amendment was passed at this time
for campaign purposes and it would
not be surprised if it acted as a
boomerang upon the Republican
party by arraying against it intelligent
men who do not approve of
playing with solemn thingsand who
do not favor oppression of the
South for its'refusal to vield an instinct
that is common to all white
men of right mind in the land.
The Republicans have no serious
notion of enacting this amendment
into law at this time. It was
passed by the Republican Congressmen
as a feeler, ai d if they win the
fall elections by decisive majorities,
they will accept that as a<i endorsement
of their war on the South and
proceed 10 enact me amendment into
law. The trusts recognize the
fact that if the Democrats ever get
in power they v ill be made to toe
the mark, and theiefore they have
instructed their active agents, the
Republican party, to rob the Democratic
South of one third cf its representation
in Congress and the
Electoral College and thereby materially
lessen the chance of the
government falling into the hands
of the people. But as the Post says
it will prove a boomerang.
The Republicans say thev will revise
the tariff after the election.
They want to wait and see how liberally
the trusts will contribute to
the campaign fund so as they can be
rewarded according to their liberality
in furnishing money to defeat
Bryan at the polls in November.
It is about fixed that Taft will be
nominated for President on the
first ballot by the Republicans. He
may lack a few votes now, but he
will tap a fresh barrel at the convention
and the colored delegates
from the South will fall over
one another in an effort to get to
A \ 1 . .
tne pie coumer.
Senator Tillman's contention
that the solution of the race problem
is the disfranchisement of the
negro has been endosed by every
Republican Congressman by voting
to reduce the South's representation
in Congress and the Electoral
College because of the property and
educational qualification for voters
in this section.
The so-called currency bill as passed
by Congress was fixed up by
the conference committee to suit
Wall Street and the frenzied financiers.
So these enemies of the publicDhave
things in their own hands.
We would rather lose one-half of
our Congressmen and half of our
rpnrpspnt atinn in thp Elpptnral Cnl
lege than to see the return of the
days of "good stealing" that held
sway in the days of the carpet-bagger
and scallawag.
The present Congress has done
nothing for the people of real value.
It stood pat and squandered over
one billion dollars.
Don't discourage the boy when he
comes to you with his cares or troubles.
Sympathize with him, and
thank God he confides in you.
The sweetest, purest ornament
that a woman can wear, and of which
she should feel proudest, is the
clinging necklace of her baby's
arms.
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Warring on the South. ,
The passage by the House of Representatives
on Friday of an amend- [
ment to the publicity bill providing i
for a reduction in Congress and in |
t'?e Electoral Co logo of the representatives
of those States wt.uh
abridge the suffrage in violation of
the fourteenth amendment to the1
Constitution is a direct blow at the
South. The measure will not be-1
come a law at this session, but if
the Republicans carry the elections
this lall with decisive majorities
they will no doubt pass this measure
as a punishment to the S >uth for
not voting the Republican ticket and
helping that party uphold the Trusts
and other diabolical schemes for robbing
the people. This is the first defiinite
step taken to enforce the alternative
provision of the fourteenth
amendment since the failure of the
main provision of that amendment
in the killing of the force bill several
years ago.
The adoption of this amendment
s a concession to the sentiment of
the South on the race question and
agrees with Senator Tillman's contention
that the negroes should be
disfranchised. Its adoption by the
Republicans would be an acknowledgment
on their part of their
abandonment of the negro, as well
as the abandonment by the Federal
government of the undertaking to
enforce negro suffrage in the Southern
States. This solution of the
race question has no terrors for the
South. As it has been said frequently
this section is prepared and is
willing to pay the price of maintaining
white supremacy in politics, to
the extent of conceding a reduction
of its representation in the national
government. This abandonment of
the negro in the South by the Republican
party means his ultimate
disfranchisement and loss of all political
rights by the enactment of new
laws on the subject.
"If the worst comes to the South
in a choice between negro suffrage
and reduction of rpnrnspntfltinn
there will be no hesitation on its
part in choosing to be shorn of a
part of its political power in the nation
rather than to share that and
its home government as well with
the black man," says the Charleston
Evening Post. Put, we agree with
the Post, that no such choice should
be offered in this day of civilization
anil progress to such a people as
those who have redeemed the Southern
States and have made them to
flourish and grow rich in the face of
terrific odds. But the Trusts are
badly frightened and it is no telling
what they may do to perpetuate
their power in the government. If
they order the Republican party to
make a political raid on the South
or have their campaign contributions
shut off they will make the
raid. So we need not be surprised
at any thing the Republican party
does to please its lords and masters,
the iniquitous and theiving Trusts,
llogus Reform.
One "of the chief clauses of the
railroad rate law passed by the last
Congress was "the commodity
clause" which went into effect on
May 1 of this year. There has
evidently been collusion between
President Roosevelt, his
Attorney-General, and the Interstate
Commerce Commission to nnllifv
the clause by refusing to prosecute
those railroads which are openly disobeying
the law. The provision
that railroads after May 1 could not,
without being law-breakers own or
sell commodities which they
controlled, was intended especially
to cover the mining and selling of
coal by the so-called coal roads.
That provision was added to the
law in defference to the united public
opinion that for the railroads to
own and also transport coal was a
monopoly that was undesirable and
added greatly to the cost of coal to
the people. When the law was under
consideration by Congress, President
Roosevelt and a majority of
the .Republicans in Congress were
insistent that the commodity clause
should be added to the law. But
the law is a dead letter, and has
been nullified by the Executive officers
of the government refusing
to eniorce it. Yet the Republicans
claim to be reformers.
There is a good deal of talk about
idle money, but it is all nonsense.
It is just about as hard to get a dollar
now as it was when the panic
was in full blast.
The negro can now see how much
the great Republican party cares
for him. Every Congressman of
that party has voted to abandon the
negro to his political fate in the
South.
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Scared to Death.
Some of the Republican members
of Congress fron. cltjpe and doubtful
districts are almost scared to death
at their political prospects because
of the do-nothing r ecord of Congress.
Some of the Western memoers i
were so frustrated that they pre- $
sen ted an ultimatum to Speaker
Cannon, the dictator of the Republican
party, that they would j??in the
Democrats in voting not to adjourn
unless an anti-injunction bill was reported
from the Committee on the
Judiciaey and an opportunity given
to vote upon it. They also demanded
that they be allowed to make an effort
to save their piditical scalps by
being allowed to viuk for the passage
of the campaign publicity bill
which was before the Housa on a
favorable report. The Republican
leaders immediately got together
and agreed to let the last bill come
to a vote but so loaded down with
absurd amendments that it would
have no chance to pass even if the
Senate would stop to consider it at
this late stage of the session. So
this biil was allowed to come to a
vote on Friday with an amendment
that the vote of the &outh be cut
down because of the disfranchisement
of the negro vote in
this section. Cannon and the other
conspirators knew that the Senate
would have the excuse of not having
sufficient time to consider such a
measure at this time, so the bill will
have to go over as Cannon knew it
would when he allowed it to come to
a vote in the House.
Wall Street Supports Taft.
There may be some doubt about
how great the revolt of labor will
be against Secretary Taft, but that
Wall Street interests will warmly
support him with its money and
votes seem certain. That representative
Wall Street banker, Jacob H.
SchifT, the partner of that "malefactor
of great wealth," Mr. Harriman,
has accepted the Vice-Presidency
of the Taft organization of the
State of New York. He declares,
"that with a rigid insistance for due
and proper regard of the law, all
classes of our citizens will, with Mr.
Taft as_ President, become readily
convinced that every legitimate in- f
terest will be safe in the hands of
their chief executive." From this
we may assume that Mr. Taft will
receive the united support of the
Wall Street influence, and that
bankers and railroad managers will
vie with each other in filling the
"dough-bags" of the Republican
party. The malefactors of great
urnnl f ! > Viol,r oo M?
ITVUI bll 1IU1V. VTlUVllllJf CIO 1TI I . OL'tlll
says: "Become readily convinced
that they 'will be safe' in the hands
of Taft."
The Spurious Congress.
t
The Sixtieth Congress will pass into
history as the Spurious Congress.
It has done nothing worthy of a
great representative body. In its
appropriations, it has been more extravagant
than any of its predecessors,
and will leave the government
$60,000,000 in arrears on the first
day of Julv next, and $160,000,000
in arrears on July 1,1909. solthat
money will have to be Aorrowed
even for running expense! It has
refused to modify the tariff^even on
wood pulp and print paper. It has
enacted currency legislation of the
worst possible type, legislation not
in favor of the interests of the people
at large but of Wall Street. It
has upheld the President in his wild
and dangerous assertion of the supremacy
of the military over the
civil power. Its sins of commission
and its sins of ommission are equally
flagrant, because both are as
bad as possible. Its early adjournment
should be welcomed by the
American people. The only defect
in our Constitution is that it requires
this Congress to meet again
before its dissolution.
A Reformer Quizzed.
A very pertinent question was
asked Medill McCormick, of the
"Chicago Tribune by Representative
Ryan, a Democratic member of the
Committee investigating the Paper
TVnaf 1 "
a a uo v xx oiiiuitu uuuuiuons snouia
be shown to exist in other industries
should the tariff affecting them not
be revised also?" Mr. McCorrpick
declined to express an opinion other
than through the editorial columns
of the Tribune. As the Tribune
has been noted for exploiting | tariff
reform in "off years" and then supporting
standpatters for election, it
really hinders tariff revision more
than helping it.
There takes place many a slip
after the cuq has been to the lip.
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