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Washinotox, June 23.—From n i>n«-
sage of Scripture unobserved by most
readers Dr. Talmage in this discourse
shows the Importance of prompt action
In anything we have to do for ourselves
ar others; text, Ecclesiastes xi, 4, “He
that ohserveth the wind shall not sow.”
What do you find in this packed son-
tence of Solomon’s monologue? I find
In It a farmer at his front door examin
ing the weather. It is seedtime. Ills
fields have been plowed and harrowed.
The wheat is In the barn In sacks,
ready to he taken afield and scattered.
Now is the time to sow. But the wind
Is not favorable. It may blow up a
storm before night, and lie may get
wet if he starts out for the sowing.
Or it may he a long storm that will
wash out the seed from the soil. Or
there may have been a long drought,
and the wind may continue to blow
dry weather. The parched fields may
not take In the grain, and the birds
may pick it up, ami the labor as well
as the seed may be wasted. So he
gives up the work for that day and
goes hack Into the house and waits to
see what it will be on the morrow’. On
the morrow the wind is still In the
wrong direction, and for a whole week,
and for a month. Did you ever see
such a long spell of had w’eather? The
lethargic and overcautious and dila
tory agriculturist allows the season to
pass without sowing, and no sowing, of
course no harvest. That Is what Solo
mon means when he says in my text,
“He that ohserveth the wind shall not
SOW’.”
As much in our time as In Solomonic
times there is abroad a fatal hesitancy
—a disposition to let little things stop
us—a ruinous adjournment. We all
want to do some good in the world, but
how easily we are halted iu our en
deavors. Perhaps we are solicitors for
some great charity. There is a good
man who lias large meaus, aud he is
accustomed to give liberally to asy
lums, to hospitals, to reform organiza
tions, to schools, to churches, to com
munities desolated with flood or dev
astated with fires. But that good man,
like many a good man, is mercurial in
ids temperament. He is depressed by
atmospheric changes. He is always
victimized by the east wind. For this
or that reason you postpone the char
itable solicitation. ‘Meanwhile the suf
fering that you wish to alleviate does
its awful work, and the opportunity for
relief is i^tst. If the wind had been from
the west or northwest, you would have
entered the philanthropist’s counting
room and sought the gift, hut the wind
was blowing from the east or northeast
and you did not make the attempt, and
you thoroughly Illustrated my text,
“lie that ohserveth the wind shall not
sow.”
Lout Opportunity.
There comes a dark Sabbath morn
ing. The pastor looks out of the win
dow and sees the clouds gather and
then discharge their burdens of rain.
Instead of a full church it will be a
handful of people with wet feet aud
the dripping umbrella at the doorway
or in the end of the pew. The pastor
lias prepared one of his best sermons.
It lias cost him great research, and he
lias been much in prayer while prepar-
it. lie puts the sermon aside for
u clear day and talks platitudes and
goes home quite depressed, but at the
same time feeling that he has done his
duty. He did not realize that in {bat
small audience the:o were at least two
persons who ought to have had better
treatment. One of those hearers was
a man In crisis of struggle with evil
appetite. A carefully prepared dis
course under the divine blessing would
have been to him complete victory.
The fires of slu would have been extin
guished, and ills keen and brilliant
mind would have been consecrated to
the gospel ministry, aud he would have
been a mighty evangel, aud tens of
thousands of souls would have under
the spell of his Christian eloquence
given up sin ami started a new life,
and throughout all the heavens there
would have been congratulation and
hosanna, and after many ages of eter
nity hud passed there would be celebra
tion among the ransomed of what was
accomplished one stormy Bundny In a
church on enrtii under a mighty gospel
sermon delivered to 1& or 20 people.
But the crisis 1 speak of was not prop
erly met. The man In struggle with
evil habit heard that stormy day no
word that moved him. He went out
In the rain uninvited and unholped
back to his evil way and down to his
overthrow. Had it been a sunshiny
Sabbath he would have heard some
thing worth hearing. But the wind
blew from a stormy direction that Sab
bath day. That gospel husbandman
noticed it and acted upon Its sugges
tion and may discover some day his
great mistake. He had a sackful of
the finest of the wheat, but he with
held it, and some day be will find,
When the whole story Is told, that lie
was ft vivid illustration of the truth of
my teit, "He that ohserveth the wind
shall not sow.”
Not Worth Sowloft.
There was another person In that
stormy Sunday audience that deserved
something better from that pastor titan
extlinporlzed nothingness. It was a
mother who was half awakened to a
sense of responsibility in regard4
household. Site had begun to
herself as to whether It woul
(letter to Introduce Into her h<
llgton that would decide aright the dee*
fipy of her eons and daughters. Her
iiom# had so far been controlled only
t>y worldly principles Hbe had dared
the riot of ib» elements ijuif morning
and had found her way to rburrli, bou
lug to hear something Ihal Would help
her to decide the domestio question
Which was to her a solleltude. A good,
strong sermon under the divine bless
ing would have hd her Into the king
d»m of Hod and afterward her whole
family. The children, whether they Is*-
fanners or mechanics or mer
chants m iirilsts or men of learned pro
fession or wunu-n /Jp* head of house
holds, would have done im-h in a
Christian way and after Uvea of useful-
ftgii fii* cirtii wQuiiUftYt iftkcii iimmii
In heaven. It would have been a whole
family saved for time aud saved for
eternity. But the pastor had adjourn
ed the strong and effective discourse to
n clear Sunday. The mother went homo
chilled In body, mind and soul and con
cluded not to trouble herself or her
household about the future and to let
tomorrow take care of Itself and keep
on doing as they had t>ccn doing. No
God lu that home. No religious con
solation lu time of bereavement. No
formntloo of thornigh Christian char
acter lu the lives of those growing up
boys and girls. They will go out Into
the world to meet Its vicissitudes with
out any sublime re-enforcement of the
gospel. What a pity It was that he did
not put down the manuscript of ids
well prepared sermon on the Bible If
he preached from notes or pour It out
of his soul If he had lodged It there
through careful preparation! No. He
allowed that opportunity, which could
never return, to pass Into eternity un
improved. He observed by the way
the rain dashed against the windows
'of the parsonage and the windows of
the church that the wind was from the
east or the northeast, and he did not
sow or sowed that which was not
wortli sowing.
Hindered by Public Opinion.
In all departments of life there are
those hindered by the wind of public
opinion. It has become an aphorism in
politics and in all great movements,
“He Is waiting to see which way the
wind blows.” And it is no easy thing
to defy public opinion, to be ruu upon
by newspapers, to he overhauled In so
cial circles, to be anathematized by
those who heretofore were your friends
and admirers. It requires a heroism
which few possess. Yet no great re
formatory or elevating movement has
ever been accomplished until some one
was willing to defy what the world
should think or say or do. But there
have been men and women of that
kind. They stand all up and down the
corridofs of history, examples for us to
follow. Charles Sumner In the United
States senate. Alexander H. Stephens
in Georgia convention. Savonarola
staking his life In time of persecution.
Martin Luther fighting the battle for
religious freedom against the mightiest
anathemas that were ever hurled. Wil
liam Carey leadiug the missioanry
movement to save a heathen world
while churches denounced him as a
fanatic and with attempting an impos
sibility. Jenner, the hero of medicine,
caricatured for his attempt by vac
cination to beat back the worst dis
ease that smote the nations. They who
watch the wind of public opinion will
not sow. It is an uncertain indication
and is apt to blow the wrong way.
“Let «s have war with England, if
needs he,” said the moft of the people
of our northern states In 18G1, when
Mason aud Slidell, the distinguished
southerners, had beeu taken by our
navy from the British steamer Trent
and the English government resented
the act of our government in stopping
one of their ships. “Give up those
prisoners,” said Great Britain. “No,”
said the almost unanimous opinion of
the north, “do not give them up. Let
us have war wMth England rather thau
surrender them.” Then William H.
Seward, secretary of state, faced one
of the fiercest storms of public opinion
ever seen in tills or any other country.
Seeing that the retention of these two
men was of no importance to our coun
try and that their retention w’ould put
Great Britain and the United States in
to immediate conflict, said, “We give
them up.” They were given up, and
through the resistance of popular clam
or by that one man a worldwide ca
lamity was averted.
Some of us remember as boys huzza
ing when Kossuth, the great Hun
garian, rode up Broadway, New York.
Most Americans were in favor of tak
ing some decided steps for Hungary.
The only result of such interference
would have been the sacrifice of all
good precedent and w r ar with European
nations:- ‘Then Daniel Webster, lu his
Immortal “Hulsemann letter,” braved
a whirlwind of popular opinion and
saved this nation from useless foreign
entanglement. Webster did not ob
serve the wind when he wrote that let
ter. So in state aud church there have
always been men at tho right time
ready to face a nation full—yea, a
world full—of opposition.
Watcblnv the Weather Vaae.
How many there are who give too
much time to watching the weather
vane and studying the barometer!
Make up your mind what you are golug
to do and then go ahead and do it
There always will be hindrances. It is
a moral disaster if you allow prudence
to overmaster all the other graces. The
Bible makes more of courage and faith
and perseverance than it does of cau
tion. It Is not once a year that the
great (A’ean steamers fall to sail at the
appointed time because of the storm
signals. Let the weather bureau propb
esy what hurricane or cyclone It may.
aext Wednesday, next Thursday, next
Batnrday the steamers will put out
Vrom New York aud Philadelphia pud
Boston harbors and will reach Liver
pool and Southampton and Glasgow
aud Bremen, their arrival as certain as
their embarkation. They cannot afford
to consult the wiud, nor can you In
your life voyage.
The grandest and best things ever ac
complished have been In the teeth of
hostility. Consider the grandest enter-
prise of the eternities—the salvation of
a world. Did the Roman empire send
up Invitation to the heavens inviting
the Lord to descend amid vociferations
of welcome, to come and take posses
sion of the most capacious and ornate
of (lie palaces aud sail Galilee with
richest Imperial flotilla and walk over
flowers of Solomon's gardens, which
were still in the outskirts of^rn^ft-
h*in? No. It struck him with Insult as
loon AS eojjld reach him. Let the
camel drivers lu the Bethlehem cara
vansary testify. Sec the vilest hate
pursue him to the borders of the Nile!
Watch his arraignment as a criminal
in the courts! Sec how they belle his
every Mellon, misinterpret his best
p-ords, howl at him with worst mobs,
West |ilp) ouf with sleepless nights on
cuhl moimtaloal See hlpi Mstcfl Ipto
s martyrdom at which tiu< imombty
cowled Itself with midnight shadows,
'•ml the risks shook Into cataclysm,
and tiiede|^uffi|^Aotn of their sep-
ni’ iu> tiiM** tu
wIs'lng
ilest opposition
on his moun-
l h e
I Shelter, blew
'and sowed die earth w th sytnpaTheflc
tears aud redeeming blood and conso
lation and lielpfuincMH and redemption
and victory. It was an a w4»i time to
low. But behold tin* harvest of church
es, asylums, worldwide charities, civili
zations, millenniums!
Just call over the names of the men
and women who have done most for
our (Hjor old world, aud you will call
the uames of those who had mobs after
them. They were shunned by the elite;
they were cartooned by the satirists;
they lived on food which you and I
would not throw to a kennel. Some of
them died In prison; some of them were
burned at the stake; some of them were
buried at public expense because of
the laws of sanitation. They wore
hounded through the world and hound
od out of It. Now we cross the ocean
to see the room in which they were
born or died and look up at monuments
which the church or the world has
reared to their matchless fidelity and
courage. After 100 or 200 or 300 years
the world has made up Its mind that
instead of being flagellated they ought
to have Ikioii garlanded; Instead of cave
of the mountain for residence they
ought to have bad bestowed upon them
un Alhambra.
Vletorr Orer Obstacles.
Young man, you have planned what
you are going to he and do in the
world, but you are waiting for circum
stances to become more favorable. You
are, like the farmer in the text, observ
ing the wind. Better start now. Ob
stacles will help you If you conquer
them. Cut your way through. Peter
Cooper, the millionaire philanthropist,
who will bless all succeeding centuries
with the institution he founded, work
ed five years for $25 a year and ids
board. Henry Wilson, the Christian
statesman who commanded the United
States senate with the gavel of the
vice presidency, wrote of his early
days; “Want sat by my cradle. 1 know
what it is to ask a mother for bread
when she has none to give. 1 left my
home at 10 years of age and served an
apprenticeship of 11 years, receiving
a month’s schooling each year and at
the end of 11 years of hard work a
yoke of oxen and six sheep, which
brought me $84. In the first month
after l was 21 years of age I went in
to the woods, drove a team and cut
mill logs. I arose In the morning be
fore daylight and worked hard till aft
er dark and received the magnificent
sum of $0 for the month’s work. Each
of those dollars looked as large to me
as the moon looks tonight.” Wonder
ful Henry Wilson! But that was not
his original name. He changed his
name because he did not want on him
the blight of a drunken father. As
the vice president stood in my pulpit
in Brooklyn, making the last address
he ever .made and commended the re
ligion of Christ to the young men of
that city, 1 thought to myself, “You
yourself are the sublimest spectacle l
ever saw of victory over obstacies.”
For 30 years the wiud blew the wrong
way, yet he did not observe the wind,
but kept right on sowing.
Many of us who are now preachers
of the gospel, or medical practitioners,
or members «f the bar, or merchants,
or citizens in various kinds of business
bad very poor opportunity at the start
because we had it too easy—far too
easy. We never appreciated what It is
to get an education, because our fa
thers or older brothers paid the school
ing, and we did not get the muscle
which nothing but hard work can de
velop. I congratulate you, young man,
if to you life Is a struggle. It Is out of
such circumstances God makes heroes
if they are willing to be made. Cut
your way through. If it were proper
to do so, and you should stand in any
board of bank directors, In any board
of trade, in any legislature, state or na
tional, and ask all who were brought
up in luxury and ease to lift their
hand, here and there a band might be
lifted, but ask all those who had an
awful hard time at the start to lift
their hands, and most of the bands,
would be lifted.
Daaffer ot Hesltatloa.
The Earl of Alsatla, a favorite of Ed
ward III of England, bad excited the
jealousy of other courtiers, and one
time while the king was absent they
persuaded the queen to turn a lion
loose In the court to test the earl’s cour
age. The earl, rising at break of day,
as was bis custom, came into the court
yard and met the lion, and the jealous
courtiers from the windows watched
the scene. The lion, with bristling hair
and a growl, was ready fo spring upon
the earl when be, undaunted, shouted
to the monster, “Stand, you dog!”
Then the lion coached, and the earl
took it by the mane and turned it back
Into the cage, leaving his handkerchief
op the neck of the monster and, looking
up In triumph to'the jealous courtiers,
Who he knew were watching from the
windows, cried out, “Let him among
yoo all that prideth himself on his ped
igree go and fetch that handkerchief!”
Aud you, young man, will find a lion
in your way, perhaps turned loose by
the jealousy of those who would enjoy
your ruin. But lu the strength of God
make that lion couch. By God’s help
you can do It and defy, and challenge
your antagonist*. The Earl of Alsatia
conquered the lion by stoutness pf voicp
and glare of eye, but you may over*
come the lion with the proffered
strength of an almighty arm and an
almighty foot, for God hath promised:
“Thou shalt tread upon the lion and
adder. The young lion and the dragon
shalt thou trample under feet.”
Columbus, by calculation, made up
mind that tpere muat be a now
hemisphere somewhere to balance the
old hemisphere or it would be a lop
sided world. And I have found out,
not by calculation, but by observation,
that there is a great success for you
somewhere to L uee your great strug-
g)p, Pfi not thn^ >our case Is pecul
iar. The most favored have been pelt
ed. The mobs smashed the windows of
the Duke of Wellington while his wife,
lay dead in the bouse.
But my subject takes another step.
Through medical science, and dentistry
that has improved the world’s mastica
tion, and stronger defense against ell-
PtotHsa*, anil better unxterstanfi-
tng of the laws of health, human life
has been greatly prolonged. But a
centenarian Is still a wonder. How
many people do you know a hundred
years old? I do not know one. We
talk of a century as though It were a
very long reach of time. But what Is
one century on earth compared with
centuries that we are to live some*
WHfflf tfft BUI-
hen
lion centuries, 'a quintllllon of cen
turies? We are all determined to get
ready for the longer life wo are to live
after our exit from tilings suliliinnry.
We are walling for more propitious op
portunity. We have too much business
to attend to now or too much pleasure
to allow anything to Interfere with Us
brilliant progress. We are waiting un
til the wind blows In the right direc
tion. We are going to sow, aud sow
the very best grain, and we are going
to raise an eternal harvest of happi
ness. We like what you say about
heaven, and we are going there, and
at tlie rigid time we will get ready, but
my lungs are sound, my digestion is
good, the examining physician of the
life Insurance company says my heart
beats Just the rigid number of times a
minute, and I am cautious about sit
ting In a draft, and I observe all the
laws of hygiene, and my father and
mother lived to be very old, uml I come
of a long lived family. So we adjourn
and postpone until, like the farmer
suggested by my text, we allow tin*
seedtime to pass and sudden pneu
monia or a reckless bicycle or on un
governed automobile puts us out of life
with all Its magnificent opportunities
of deciding arigid the question of ever
lasting residence. A Spanish proverb
says, “The road of By aud By lends to
the town of Never.”
Decide Today.
Whether In your life it is a south
wind or a north wind, a west wind
or an east wiud that is now blowing,
do you not fpel like saying: “This
whole subject l now decide. Lord God,
through thy Son Jesus Christ, my Sa
viour, 1 am thine forever. I throw my
self, reckless of everything else, into
the fathomless ocean of thy mercy.”
“But,” says some one in a frivolous
and rollicking way, “I am not like the
farmer you find in your text. I do not
watch the wind. What do l care about
the weather vane? 1 am sowing now.”
What are you sowing, my brother?
Are you sowing evil habits? Are you
sowing infidel and atheistic beliefs?
Are you sowing hatreds, revenges, dis
contents, unclean thoughts or unclean
actions? If so, you will raise a big
crop, a very big crop. The farmer
sometimes plants things that do uot
come up, and he has to plant them over
again, but those evil things that you
have planted will take root and come
up in harvest of disappointment, in
harvest of pain, iu harvest of despair,
In harvest of fire. Go right through
some of the unhappy homes of Wash
ington and New York and all the cities
and through the hospitals aud peni
tentiaries, and you will find stacked
up, piled together, the sheaves of such
an awful harvest. Hosea, one of the
first of all the writiug prophets, al
though four of the other prophets are
put before him lu the canon of Scrip
ture, wrote an astounding metaphor
that may be quoted as descriptive of
those who do evil, "They have sown
the wiud, and they shall reap the whirl
wind.” Some one has said, “Children
may be strangled, but deeds never.”
There are other persons who truth
fully say: “1 am doing the best I can.
The clouds are thick and the wind
blows the wrong way, but I am sowing
prayers and sowing kindnesses and
sowing helpfulness and sowing hopes
of a better world.” Good for you, my
brother, my sister! What you plant
will come up; what you sow will rise
into a harvest the wealth of which you
will not know until you go up higher.
I hear the rustling of your harvest in
the bright fields of heaven. The soft
gales of that land, as they pass, bend
the full headed grain in curves of beau
ty. It is golden in the light of a sun
that never sets. As you pass in you
will not have to gird on the sickle for
the reaping, and there will be nothing
to remind yon of weary husbandmen
toiling under hot summer sun on earth
and lying down under the shadow of
the tree at noontide, so tired were they,
so very tired. No, no; your harvest
will be reaped without any toll of your
hands, without auy besweating of your
brow. Christ lu oue of bis sermons
told how your harvest will be gathered
W’ben be said, “The reapers are the an
gels.”
[Copyright, 1901, Louix Elopsch, N. Y.]
Mr. James Brown, of Putsmontb,
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for years with a bad sore on his face.
Physicians could not help him. De-
Witt's Witch Hazel Salve cured him
permanently. Cherokee Drue Oo.
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It Is with pleasure that we announce to the
public that the shoe business heretofore con
ducted under the firm name of Bridges ft Mc
Craw will he continued by T. G. McCraw ft
Son. We solicit the patronage of the friends
of the old firm and tfie general public, hop
ing by striot attention to business to merit
the same,
T. G. McCraw ft Son.
He same.
6 1118-25
Notice to Eiecutors, Administrators and
Gvardiins,
All executors, administrators and guardi
ans ^ho have not made annual returns to
this office for this year are by law rcuplred
to divso before the first day of July next.
J. F.. Webster,
Probate Judge Cherokee Co.
June 18,21,25,28.
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OFFICE OF
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SMITH « HARDWARE » CO.,
DF.AI.KKS IN
HARDWARE + EXCLUSIVELY.
Gaffney, S. C., Juno 12, 1901.
Mr. Wji.lih, Yorkville. S. C.:
Mr. J. W. Waters, who was one of the witnesses who witnessed
the contest on Humphries’ farm, bought tho machine which was
in contest yesterday. Also Mr. W. L. Smith bought a Deering,
too, and lie is delighted.
Ouryoung Mr. W. F. Smith, who is out in the country, 1 think
has some testimonials, hut we can’t get them all.
This was not a fair contest of machines, because we should
have had an equal showing, and we did not, because we were not
notified until Monday evening at sundown, when the McCormick
man had gone out to Smith’s to spend the night. We hadn’t
time to think or prepare for the occasion at all.
Yours truly,
SMITH HARDWARE COMPANY,
Per Wm. H. Smith.
Fii the last advertisement of the Deering agent* the above let
ter was left out, although they used all others, and for the benefit
of the farmers of Cherokee county, especially those who witnesed
the field contest, we are publishing it, in order that they may
read it and take it for what it is worth.
Please note that they say their’s was no fair contest aud that
they didn’t have an equal showing, as they were not notified of
said contest until Monday evening at sundown, also that they
“didn’t have time to think or prepare for the occasion at ail.”
Now, in answer to this we desire to say for the benefit of those
who were not on the ground, that they were notified at the same
time we were, and that there were a number of the best of Cher
okee farmers on the ground who attested to the fact that they did
have a fair showing; that they had four representatives on the
ground, among them the expert of the Deering Co., and these
same farmers also attested to the fact that they were beaten, not
only fairly and squarely, but beaten badly.
As to their not having time to “think or prepare,” we only
have this to say : First, that their “thinking and preparing” (or
scheming) could not possibly make their binder run any lighter
or do any better work in this contest, and second, that we think
this is a very poor excuse for business men to put up.
We had no more time to “think or prepare/’ than they did,
but we did not need it, as the manufacturers of the Celebrated
McCormick Binders did all the “thinking and preparing” that
was necessary to beat them when they made the machine, conse
quently when we were notified we simply had the machine hitch
ed up and drove out to the field of contest.
As to our agent having spent the night with Mr. A. S. Smith,
we think this an unjust and unfair insinuation on the character
of Mr. Smith and should have been left out of this letter, as our
man only spent the night there in order to be on the spot at the
proper time.
As to Mr. Davis’ references, etc., we simply have this to say.
All those who met this gentleman have, no doubt, formed an
opinion of him. That is sufficient.
We want to be fair aud square with our competitors, as well as
all others, but we can’t help it and are not to blame because we
have the best machines and beat them in every contest. We
don’t write letters to other people and say we were not treated
fairly and then after doing so, have them published in a foreign
paper and then purposely leave them out of our ads in our home
paper. Why did not the Deering agents publish the above let
ter in The Ledger? It was at the top of their ad iu the Yorkville
Enquirer of June 15th. We think it was simply because they
knew no one at home would see it. Of course we may be wrong
in this but it is our impression and honest conviction.
Now, friends, we have fully answered their letter we hope to
your satisfaction, and in conclusion we wish to say, “That as the
lion is king of all beasts, just so is the McCormick the king of all
liarvesting machinery,” and if you want the best, aud machinery
that you can depend upon in all conditions of grain, at all times
and in all places, then you want the McCormick.
The following telegram is additional evidence that the Deering
people are afraid to meet us, as an invitation was extended to
them to be present on that occasion and they promised to be ou
hand;
Forest City, June 18, 8 p. m., 1901,
J. C. Lipscomb <fc Bro.
Deering flunked. Never showed their colors. McCormick
did beautiful work and two sold on ground. • A. J. Huff.
I he McCormick people never try to palm off'out-of-date ma
chinery on their customers. They always furnish them with the
latest aud most improved patterns.
J. C. Lipscomb Sl Bro.
Local Agts. McCormick Har. Machy. Co.
Gaffney, S. C. *
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