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r> THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JULY 23, 1800. A CHRISTIAN MOTHER r REV. DR. TALMAGE DRAWS A TOUCH ING AND FAITHFUL PICTURE. Hamiith, tlie Mother <il f-inmul She Wtw au ZnduH?ios:i .Mother- SUo Wax Intcl- llcent, She ’Van a Chrlntian, nml She Was IJewarflcfl Ripe For Heaven. Wasuinoton. July 19.—This radical disccurso will no dor.bt have its pract i cal result in many homesteads through out Christendom. The text was I Sam uel ii, 19,, “Moreover his mother made him a little coat and brought it to him ' from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.” The stories of Deborah and Abipoil arc very apt to discourage a woman’s soul. She says within herself, “It is impossible that I over achieve any such grandunr of character, and I don’t mean •o try,” as though a child should refuse to play the eight notes because he cannot eaoont* a “William Toll. ” This Han nah of the text differs from the persons I just named. She was au ordinary wo man, with ordinary’ intellectual capac ity, placed in ordinary circumstances, mid yet, by extraordinary piety, stand ing out before all the ages to come the model Christian mother. Hannah was tbo wife of Elkanah. who was a person very much like herself—nnromantic and plain, never having fought a battle or been the subject of a marvelous escape. Neither cf them would have boon called a genius. Just what you and I might be that was Elkanah and Hannah. Th<‘ brightest time in all the history of that family was the birth cf Samuel. Al though no star ran along the heavens pointing down to his birthplace, I think the angels of God stooped r.r the coining of so wonderful a prophet. As Samuel had boon given in answer to prayer, El kanah and all his family save Hannah started up to Shiloh to offer sacrifices of thanksgiving. The cradle whore the child slept was* altar enough lor Han- nnh’fi grateful heart, hat when the boy was old enough she took him to Shiloh and took three bullocks and an ephah of flour and a bottle of wine and made of fering of sacrifice unto the Lord, and there, according to a previous vow, she left him, for there he was to stay all the days of his life and minister in the sanctuary. Years rolled on, and every year Han nah made with her own hand a garment for Samuel and took it over to him. The lad would have got along well without that garment, for I suppose ho was well clad by the ministry of the temple, but Hannah could not be con tented unless she was all the time doing something for her darling boy. “More over, his mother made him a little coat and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her hus band to offer the yearly sacrifice. ’ ’ Hannah's Indaxtry. Hannah stands before you, then, to day, in the first place, as an industrious mother. There was no need that she work. Elkanah, her husband, was far from poor. Ho belonged to a distin guished family, for the Bible tells us that ho was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph. “Who were they?” you say. I do not know, but they were distinguished people, no doubt, or their names would not have been mentioned. Hannah might have seated herself in hcrfamily, and, with folded arms and disheveled hair, read novels, from year to year, if there had been any to read; but, when I aoe her making that garment and taking it over to .Samuel, I know she is indus trious from principle as well ns from pleasure. Cod would not have a mother become a drudge or a slave; ho would have her employ all the helps possible jn this day in the rearing of her chil dren. But Hannah ought never to be ashamed to bo found making a coat for Samuel. Most mothers need no counsel in this direction. The wrinkles on their brow, the pallor on their cheek, the thimble markon their finger, at test that they are faithful in their maternal du ties. The bloom and the brightness and the vivacity of girlhood have given place to the grander dignity and useful ness and industry of motherhood. But there is a heathenish idea getting abroad in some of the families of Americans; there are mothers who banish them- selves from the home circle. For three- fourths of their maternal duties they prove themselves incompetent. They are ignorant of what their children wear, and what their children eat, and what their children read. They intrust to irresponsible persons those young im mortals and allow them to bo under influences which may cripple their bod ies. or taint their purity, or spoil their manners, or destroy their souls. From the awkward cut of Samuel’s coat you know his mother Hannah did not make it. Out from under flaming chandeliers, and off from imported carpets, and down ♦ho granite stairs there is coming a great crowd of children in this day, un trained, saucy, iucoinix tent for all the practical duties of life, ready to be caught in the first whirl of crime and sensuality. Indolent and unfaithful mot lx r« will make indolent and unfaith ful children. You cannot expect neat ness and order in any bouse where the daughters w*o nothing but slatternliness .and upside downativeness in their par ents. Lc; Hannah be idle, and most cer tainly Hamui 1 will grow up idle. Who are t he tndm trious men in all our occu pations and professions? Who are they managing the merchandise of the world, building the walls, tinning the roofs, weaving the car pets, making the laws, governing the nations, making the earth to quake and heave and roar and rattle with the tread of gigantic enterprises? Who are they? For the nio-t part they descended from industrious motln rs who in the old honx stead used to spin their own yarn and weave their own, carpets and plait their own doormats ami flag their own chairs and do their own work. The stalwart men and the influential women cf this day, 1)9 out of 100 of them, coinc from such an illus trious ancestry of hard knuckles and homespun. And who arc these people in society, light as froth, blown every whither of temptation and fashion—the peddlers of filthy stories, the dancing jacks of political parties, the scum of society, the tavern lounging, store in festing, the men of low wink and filthy chuckle and brass* breastpin and rotten ae'.ociatious? For the most part they came from mothers idle and disgusting, the scandal mongers of society, going from house to house attending to every body’s business but their own, believing in witches and ghosts and horseshoes to keep the devil out of the ehnrn, and by a godless life setting their children on llie very verge of hell. The mothers of Samuel Johnson and of Alfred the Great and of Isaac Newton and of St. Augustine and of Ilichurd Cecil and of President Edwards for the most part were industrious, hard working moth ers. Now, while I congratulate all Chris tian mothers upon the wealth and the ipodem science which may afford them all kinds of help, let me say that every mother ought to bo observant of her children’s walk, her children’s behavior, her children’s food, her children’s books, her children’s companionship. However much help Hannah may have, 1 think she ought every year, at slenst, to make one garment for Samuel. The Lord have merry on the man who is so unfortunate as to have had a lazy mother! Her Intrlllgnncn. Again, Hannah stands before you to- t.cr as an intelligent mother. From the w rk in which she talked in this chapter, and from the way she managed this boy, you know she was intelligent. There are no persons in a community who need to bo so wise and well in formed as mothers. Oil, this work of culturing children for this world and the next! This child is timid, and it must be roused up and pushed out into activities. This child is forward, and he must bo hold back and tamed down into modesty and ]H)litencss. Howards for oeo, punishments for another. That which will make George will ruin John. The rod is necessary in one ease, while a frown of displeasure is more than enough in another. Whipping and a dark closet do not exhaust all the round* of domestic discipline There have been children who have grown up and gone to glory without ever having their ears boxed. Oh, how much care and intelligence are necessary in the rearing of children! But inthisday, when there are so many books on this subject, no parent is excusable in being ignorant o? the best mode of l>ringing # up a child. If parents knew more of dietetics, there would not be so many dyspeptic stom achs, and weak nerves, and inactive liv ers among children. If parents knew more of physiology, there would not be so many curved spines and cramped chests, and inflamed throats, and dis eased lungs as there are among children. If parents knew more of art and were in sympathy with all that is beautiful, there would not Iks so many children coining out in the world with boorish proclivities. If parents knew more of (’hrist and practiced more of his reli gion, there would not be so many little foot already starting on the wrong road, and all around us voices of riot and blasphemy would not come up with sueli ecstasy of infernal triumph. The eaglets in the eyrie have no ad vantage over the eaglets of a thousand years ago. The kids have no superior way of climbing up the rocks than the old goats taught them hundreds of years ago. The whelps know no more new than did the whelps of ages ago. They are taught no more by the lions of the desert. But it is a shame that in this day, when there are so many opportu nities of improving ourselves in Ihe In st manner of culturing children, that so often there is no more advancement in this respect than there has l>ecn among the kids and the eaglets and the whelps. Her ChrUtlan Character, Again, Hannah stands btfero you to day as a Christian mother. From her prayers and from the way she conse- n ated her boy to God I know she was good. A mother may have the finest cul ture, the most brilliant surroundings, but she is not fit for her duties unless she bo a Christian mother. There may Ik; well read libraries in the house, and exquisite music in the parlor, and the canvas of the best artist adorning the walls, and the wardrobe be crowded with tasteful apparel, and the children be wonderful for their attainments and make the house ring with laughter and innocent mirth, but there is something woefully lacking in that house if it bo not also the residence of a Christian mother. I bless God that there are nyt p any prayerless mothers. The weight >f responsibility is so great that they feel the need of ji divine hand to help and a divine voice fo comfort and a di vine heart to sympathize. Thousands of mothers have been led into the king dom of G»xl by the hands of their little children. There are hundreds of moth ers today who would not have been Christians had it not been for the prat tle of their little ones. Standing some day in the nursery, they bethought tlieiiiHclves: “This child God has given me to raise for eternity. What is my influence upon it? Not being a Christian myself, w can i ever expect him to become a Christian. Lord, help me!” Oil, are there anxious mothers who know nothing of the infinite help of re ligion? Then I commend to you Han nah, the pious mother of Samuel. Do not think it is asbolutcly impossible that your children come up iniquitous. Out of just Hurl) fair brows and bright ey s and soft hands and innocent hearts crime gets its victims—extirpating pu rity from the heart and rubbing out tbo smoothness from the brow and quench ing the luster of the eye and shriveling up and poisoning and putrefying and scathing and scalding and blasting and burning with shame and woo. Every cliild is a bundle of trrinciuh us possilalitii s. And whether that child shall come forth in life, its heart attuned to the eternal hnnnnntM, and after a life of um fulucss on earth, go to a life of joy in heaven, or whether across It shall jar eternal discords, and after a life of wrongdoing on earth it shall go to n home of impenetrable darkness and an abyss of immeasurable plunge—is be ing decided by nursery song and Sab bath lesson and evening prayer and walk and ride and look and frown and smile. Oh, how many children in glory, crowding all the battlements and lifting n million voiced hosanna, brought to God through Christian parentage! One hundred and twenty clergymen were together, and Mvy were telling their experience and their ancestry, and of the one hundred and twenty clergymen, how many of them, do yon suppose, as signed as the means of their conver sion the influence of a Christian mother? One hundred out of the hundred and twenty. Philip Doddridge was brought to God by the Scripture lesson on the Dutch tile of the chimney fireplace. The mother thinks she is only rocking a child, but at the same time she may be rocking tlie destiny of empires, rocking the fate of nations, rocking the glories of heaven. The same maternal power that may lift a child np may press a child down. A daughter came to a worldly mother and said she was anx ious about her sins and she had been praying all night. The mother said: “Oh, stop praying! I don’t believe in praying. Get over all those religious notions, and I’ll give you a dress that will cost five hundred dollars, and you may wear it next week to that party.” The daughter took the dress, and she moved in the gay circle, the gayest < f all tne gay that night, and, sure enough, all religious impressions were gone, and sin stopped praying. A few months .aft er, she came to die and in her closing moments said, "Mother, I wish you would bring me that dress that cost $"00.” The mother thought it was a very strange request, but she brought it to please the dying child. “Now,” said the daughter, “mother, hang that dress on the loot of my bed.” And the dress was hung there on the foot of the lied. Th-n the dying girl got up on one el bow and looked at her mother and then pointed to the dress and said, “Mother, that dress is the price of my soul. ” Oh, what a momentous thing it is to a mother! Again, and lastly, Hannah stands be fore yon today, the rewarded mother. For nil the coats she made for Samuel, for all the prayers she offered for him, for the discipline she exerted over him, she got abundant compensation in the piety and the usefulness and the popu larity i.f her son Samuel, and that is true in ell ages. Every mother gets lull pay for all the prayers ami tears in Ik*. halt of her children. That man useful in commercial life, that man prominent in the profession, that master mechanic —why, every step he takes in life ha:; an echo of gladness in the old heart that long ago taught him to be Christian ami heroic and earnest. The story of what you have done or what you have writ ten, of the influence you have exerted, has gone back to the old homestead—for there is some one always ready to carry good tidings—and that story makes the needle in the old mother’s tremulous hand fly quicke r and the flail in the father’s hand come down upon the barn floor with a more vigorous thump. Bar ents lovo to hear good news from their children. Do you send them good news always? Look out for the young man who speaks of his father ns the “gov ernor, ” the “squire” or the “old chap.” Look out for the young woman who calls her mother her “maternal an cestor” or the “old woman. ” “The eye that inoeketh at his father and refuseth to obey bis mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.” God grant that all these parents may have the great satis faction of seeing their children grow up Christians. But, oh, the pangcf that mother who, after a life of street gadding and go-sip retailing, hanging on her children the fripperies and follies of this world, sees tb(»e children tossed out on the sea of life like foam on the wave or nonenti ties in a world wjiere only brawny and stalwart character can stand the slKx'k! But blessed be the mother who looks upon tier children as sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty! Oh, the satisfac tion of Hannah in seeing Samnc! serv ing at the altar; of Mother Eunice iu seeing her Timothy learned in the Scriptures. That is the mother’s recom pense—to see children coming np useful in the world, reclaiming the lost, heal ing the sick, pifj'ing the ignorant, ear nest and useful iu every sphere. That throws a new light back on the old family Bible whenever she reads it; and that will he ointment to soothe the ach ing limbs of decrepitude and light up the closing hours of life’s day with the glories of an autumnal sunset. There she sits—the old Christian metiii r—ripe for heaven. Her eyesight is almost gone, but the splendors of the. celestial city kindle up her vision. The gray light of heaven’s morn lias struck through the gray locks which are folded back ov'T the wrinkled temples. She stoops very much now under the burden of care she used to carry for her chil dren. She sits at home today, too old to find her way to the; house of God; but while she sits there, all the past comes buck, and the children that 40 yi ars ago tr/joped around her armchair with their little griefs and joys and sorrows, those children are all gone now— some caught up into a better realm, where they shall never dh\ and others out iu the broad world, attesting the excellence of a Christian mother’s dis- eipliiw. Her last days are full of peace, and calmer and sweeter will her spirit Is comc, until the gates of life shall lift and let the wornout pilgrim into eternal springtide and youth, where the limbs never ache and the eyes qever grow dim aixl the staff of the exhausted and decrepit pilgrims shall become the palm of the immortal athlete. Th« Taller'm Hint. Cliollh—How do you account for this suit shwinking so? Tailor—Too much due on it, I 'spcct —Indianapolis Journal. NICHOLAS ITS CBJcCT LiioSON. Ho Ride* on a Htroet Car to Show His Of- flrors That It Isn't • Dlsgrnro. Nicholas II of Ilussia has had sonic trouble in liendinor the stiff necked mili tary etiquette of his St. Petersburg reg iments to suit his rather lilierul i<! a*. He is not popular with the army, as were the three Alexanders, despite ’ms gifts (f reading rooms and dining hahs to crack regiments, and therefore the innovations he recommends are intro duced very slowly. Ever since h< as cended the throne, for instance, he has been trying to discredit the notion that an army officer may not ride with pro priety in a common street car. The army officer in St. Petersburg lias long been supposed to lie too rich and power ful and too far srrperior to civilians to associate with the ordinary street ear crowd. One of the few untitled officers in the Russian capital ventured a few weeks ago to ride iu a street car to his bar racks. It was a presumptuous and courageous act, for he had to alignt be fore the crack cavalrymen's casino of the city. It proved to be a very indis creet net, too, for his fellow officers at once took him to task for disgracing his uniform, refused to listi n to his cita tions of the czar’s remarks on the sub ject, and eventually, after days of per secution, began urging on him the pro priety of his resigning his commission. In his distress the persecuted officer turned to a friend in the ministry of I war, who brought the whole affair to tho czar’s notice. It wa; 4 o’clock in the afternoon when Nicholas hoard tho story. Ho at once put on admit suit, ordered h n adjutant to do tlx - same, and together they went to the spot where the jxTSecuted officer had taken a ear. They boarded a car, redo on it to the barracks, alighted, hoarded a returning car, and went back to the palace. The czar wrote out a brief ac count of this little trip, and added to if the inquiry: “Am 1 still worthy to wear the uni form of a Russian officer?” He signed the document “Nicholas,” and sent it to the colonel of the jwrse- cuted officer’s regiment. .Since then there has been peace iu the office rs’ quarters of that regiment, and the man who rode on a horse car has been treated with the deference belonging to one who pulls wires at court. Perhaps Nicholas got his idea of an object lesson in this case from Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The empt ror heard several years ago that Jus officer* in Vienna were agitated ove r the qix s- tion of the propriety of riding in omni buses. IIo remarked impatiently that thi i was a weighty subject for large brains and should be settled before any body's mind broke down under it. He then put on full uniform, took with him an urljutunt in full unilorm u::d hud an omnibus ride. Tho ride was reported in the newspapers, and the question of propriety was settled. President liruxor'ii Wtf*. 1 have s en T.i:ita Eunna on sovoial occasions and have nofiei d la r orm style. Hho always dresses in black, and the. nt of her gown would certainly not be an advertisement to a west end dressmaker. Comfort, not elegance, is her maxim. Plain though Mrs. Kruger is in tlx mat ter of dress, she has her little vanity. She positively refuses to see a visiter who may happen to cull before she has “tidied up.” The tidying up takes place in the afternoon and consists of putting on her Is st black gown with trimmings. Mrs. Kruger is famous for lu r coffee, with which visitors are always regah d when they go to the presidential ivsi- donee in Pretoria Mrs. Kruger thinks she makes the best coffee of any good “huisvrouw” in Pretoria, and she boasts that she can make a tin of con densed milk go farther than any one else. Mrs. Kruger, while thinking her “maim” the greatest statesman tho world has seen, takes no sort of interest iu politics. She, I believe, does not know what the franchise means, but anything her husband tells Imr in con nection with political math rs she un hesitatingly accepts. In conversation she always addresses her “maun” as Com, and he in rum calls her Tanta. They are a happy couple, although her hus band’s sleeplessness and devotion to the affairs of state in the midnight hours distress her considerably.—Empire. Tyo Pont:icon. Do not poultice an eye under any cir cumstances whatever. Binding a wet application over an eye for several hours must damage that eye, the assertions of those proft using to have personal experi ence in this to the contrary notwith standing. 'Ihe failure to aggravate an existing trouble by binding a moist ap plication over an inflamed (ye, which application is supposed to remain for an entire night, can only be explained by the supposition that a guardian angel has watched over that misguided ease and has displaced the poultice before it had got in its line work. All oculists condemn the poultice absolutely in ev ery shape and in every form. Tea leaves, bread and milk, raw oysters, scrajsd beef, acrapod raw turnip or raw potato and the medley of disgusting domestic remedies popularly recommended arc, one and nil, capable of producing irre mediable damage to tho integrity of the tissues of the visual organ.—New York Ledger. Ilolng Very Well For k Prince. For some time past those who have watched the course of events have had reason to believe that the Prince of Wales was giving himself seriously and earnestly to those good work" which li" within the province of Ins duty. Tlx re are a great many fields of public hLor from which lx is absolutely excluded by virtue of his position. It is only in the domain of pleasure and sport that ov< ry avenue is open to the heir to the throne. But in those lalxirs for the pub lic benefit from which h is not do- barred tiie Prmce of Wales is showing year by year an iucmiscd devotion to duty which cannot be too warmly com mended. —Loudon Speaker. WATERED BY A SPIRIT FORM. Mystery of Two I.ittle Cottonwoods on tho Sontli Dakota 1'ralrte. The construction crew of a western railroad was at work for some days at one phue near Pierre, H. 1)., and the roadmastcr m charge, planted two tiuy cot ion . ..o ! ,moots in tho baked -.oil at. tlx • of the track which was being ce::. ;meted. Nothing was ever known to g. -v v.T.' ie they were planted hut 'lie our hug buffalo grass and th wiry bench grass, which came up with the moisture of Uih melting snows of spring and smi’u withered and curled under tho withenn:' heat of the summer sun, no moisture coming to refresh the baked and pui-ched plain on which tho little shoot* were planted. No guo over expected tho shoots to live, but tho roudmuster devoted a great dial of attention to them while his work kept him in that vicinity. Shortly after this the roadnmster was killed in an accident, and thei trainmen k:pf watch of tho two trees to see how long they would stand the terrible drought which was catling all other vegetation in that part of the world. But they grow and thrived, and from what source the roots drew sufficient moisture to sustain their vigorous growth is one of tho mysteries. All summer long the air is a veritable breath of tho Sahara and the earth is baked and burned, still nev er a leaf dmops or curls. Tho trees have attained a sturdy growth and the engineers who puss them in their night runs d- •. me that a spirit form appears and i ' .is water about them, and tho sectii u uxu who go past the spot in tho nn.rnvg to their work report tho soil about them to show the effects of hav ing hi u watered during the night. Last fall a prairm file burned over tho ground, and everything in its path was supposed to Im destroyed, and it was supposed that the trees had suffered with all else in its track, but they came through without injury. Wliiit mysterious something supplies these trees with tho necessary moisture to keep them growing and flourishing on tb’.i baked plain or what protected them from the ravages of fire when all el o sneottinbed is left to those who delve into tho mysteries of tho hidden world to solve. Tho only known fact in regal'd to them is that they stand and flourish in spite of all known laws of nature in regard to plant growth.—Chi cago Tribune. NOT KIN TO IT. A Novel of the N«*w Woman Qu< s- tion on a Train. “I v.\\.s amused at a woman on a train coining into Washington from the son til,” said a gentleman. “It showed a novel j liio-e of tho now woman ques tion. •‘At Goldsboro a man got on tho train with e baby in his arms. A woman fol lowed, but paid iioutteiition to tho man. The baby was evidently sick, and tlie father, a K( rth Carolina mountaineer, and- down tho car trying to pec. d i:p qui r ihe child. Every lady on the ear err-'j ’ tt;e woman who got on the trait: at Goldsboro was intorosltd. Consiilera hie speculation was indulged in ait to tho father and child, tho confiensm; of opinion being that ho had just lost his wife .‘ixl was taking the baby to its grerdpan nt.v After two i.r three hours f woman who hoarded the train nt tho tr.n o timo the man did spoke to hint, and ho thru passed on, fondling the baby, “A benevolent looking old lady seat cd near tho woman, curious to know something about tho matter, said; “ ‘The child seems to bo sick.' “ ‘Yes’in.’ “ ‘I uaw yen speak to tho father. Do you know him?’ “ 'Over ; he’s my hushan. ” “ ‘Do yon mean to say that you are that ehild'a mother and let the baby suffer that way?’ “ ‘lie's ji•; s as able to tote it as 1 bo. He's jess as much km to it as I lie,’ and tho woman turned unconcernedly to tho window, while the man continued to walk and dandle tho child.”—Wasbiug- l ton Star. Sortie llngrun Flrlil Humor. If was only si year or two ago when Fi'-ld playid his last joke on George GaVcui, the big hearted Italian, who is still in Kansas City mid will sit and read Field's poems for hours. Every year ho seemed to think more of the tinger humorist. When Field went to i*aii I'na;cisco, ho wrote Gaston a letter, briefly telling him of tho fact, as well as; the time raid train which would find him in Kansas City. Field would bo stopped over half an hour at that point. But the worth of the letter lay iu its pieturea. On one sheet tho humorist drew a very bad picture of himself go ing to the train in Chicago. Over on another sheet a train was drawing rap idly toward a station named Kansas ! City; while in tho foreground was a i very excellent likeness of Gaston him self, trudging stationwiud with two baskets, niio on each arm, and both heavily freighted with bottles and cigar boxt,- 1 . Gaiton took the hint, and the bottl * and the cigar boxes and ho were all thue on time. Fo was Field. ‘Today Gaston regards this letter as ono of his proudest possessions. — Washington Post. HUtorj. Mr. Fijrg—What did you learn at school today? Tommy—Teacher told us how the cruel Emperor Nero used to amuse him self when he was a boy by pulling the ' lege. i IT tho flies. Mr Figg—Pulled their lens, did he? \\ ii.it iKrnino of hint? Did he become a prolix .ter ';—Indianapolis Journal. Hires of UetiiU, Thackeray had on enormous head and a notably heavy brain, but smuo one dL< oveicd an idiot who died about the some line and left a heavier bruin, of no id or notorious person)* Mr. Glad stone and Leid Hulisbnry take large hats, and .Sir W liiaut Hnroonrt and Mr. Chamberlain very small ouch.—-Notts and <«Mierio8. There is a difference between me cities and medicines. / Those of to-day, as a, rule, differ from those of the past in many respects. Fully as great is the difference be- tween Dr. King’s mmi SERiETUER and the ordinary medicines of to-day. 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