The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 18, 1899, Image 8
HAD A KICK TO MAKE.
.AND HE MADE IT RIGHT TO THE HEAD
OF THE FIRM.
The Kicker Went Ahout'Xandingr His
Protest In a Rather I'nconventional
I Manner, hat the Chances Are He
. Got "What He "Was After.
"Yes,"" said the tail, loose jointed
man at the telephone, 4'that's the nnni
terl want-229.1 '
"Double two nine'"' queried the
Toice at the central office.
''Well I don't know that den ble two
.nine is any better than the plain, or
dinary two, two, niue, but if you insist
cn that style suppose we say double
two single nine and get it exactly right.
Hello ! Is that Spotcash & Co. 's ?"
"Yes," responded the voice at the
other end of the wire.
"Is Mr. Spotcash in?"
- "Is it something important? He is
much occupied. "
"So am L Yes; it's a matter of some
importance, and I wan i co talk to Mr.
Spotcash personally. Yes; I'll hold the
wire-that is, I'll hold the phone"
"Hello!" snapped somebody at this
junctura
"Hello! Is that Mr, Spotcash?"
"Yes. Whoisit?,w
"Yon are the head of the firm of
Spotcash & Ca, are you not?"
"Yes," was the impatient answer.
'What do you want ? Who are you ?"
"GwiTliams, 1195 Pumpernickel
street I want to enter a complaint."
"What about?"
"I bought an icebox at your store a
few days ago, and"
"Call np the household goods depart
ment, confound you ! I have no time to j
spare to look after such things. "
"You've got as much time, perhaps,
as I have. I haven't any complaint to
make to the household goods depart
ment The head of the firm is the man
I want to talk to. I bought an icebox
at your store a few days ago for $16.75.
I might have got it cheaper somewhere
else, but that isn't the point. Having
"bought it and paid for it, I had a right
to expect it to be delivered within a
reasonable time and in fair condition.
It didn't come for four days, and when
it did come77
"Say, you, I employ men to hear
complaints of this kind"
"I have no use for them You're the
responsible man of the house. The sys
tem is yours. If it doesn't work smooth
ly, it is your fault When that icebox
came four dnys after purchase, one of
the castors was missing, the varnish
was scraped off the outside surface in
more than a dozen places, and it looked
as if it had gone through a hard season
at a cheap boarding house"
"If there's anything wrong with it"
roared Mr. Spotcash, "send it back 1 I
can't take up my time"
*'Stand a little farther away from
the phone. Mr. Spotcash. Your voice
sounds as if yon had your mouth full
'of mashed potatoes"
"Who the devil are you?"
"I think I gave you my name and
address-Gwilliams, 1195 Pumpernickel
street next door to Lazarus J. Spill
horn. You don't know me from a
staffed ' alligator, but you may have
heard of Spillhorn. Don't you allow
yourself to get hot. Mr. Spotcash, over
sn icebox. The incongruity of sr.ch a
thing onght to be apparent even to the
head of an overgrown junkshop"
"If von were here. sir. I should kick
you out of my office"
"You would probably need some help.
. If that icebox had simply been defaced
a little, I shouldn't have made any fuss
: about it. but the stupid ass you sent to
deliver it"
"Haven't you sense enough, j'ou in
fernal idiot, to know that I don't look
personally after the little details of a
business amounting to millions of dol
lars a year?"
"If you don't grasp every detail of
that business, you Cheap John notion
peddler in a gilt binding, you are not
fit to be the boss of it! Don't try to
crawl out of the responsibility by
throwing the blame on some boy. If
that icebox had simply been defaced a
little. I repeat, I shouldn't hav made
any russ about it. but the fellow you
sent to deliver it didn't have any more
-.sense than to tumble it on the side
walk"
"Bring it back, blank you"-?
"Look here. Spotcash. that won't do.
you know. You are not allowed to talk
in that style over tne telephone. Exer
cise a little common sense, Spotcash.
You know it isn't my place to bring
that icebox back. The proper thing to
. do, you thirty-third degree haberdasher
and toy vendor, is to send me a new
icebox and take the damaged one
back"
"You blank foo!, do you think you |
can tell me"
"Again let me tell you, Spotcash, !
not to use such language over the tele- j
phone. Some remete ancestor of yours |
may possibly have been a gentleman.
Try to emulate him. Spotcash. In the
meantime please accept the assurances
of my distinguished consideration, and j
the icebox will remain in my dwelling I
subject tc your order If it is replaced
properly and within a reasonable time, I
you will not hear from me again. If it \
isn't, I shall cali you up. Spotcash. per- j
sonally a dozen times a day through all
the public telephones in town. I have j
not the patience to call at your store to j
make the complaint Your system of j
making exchanges is t<x> complicated, j
and I believe in going to headquarters
with ail kicks anyhow Never allow
yourself to think, Spotcash. that you
are too big a man to listen to a com
plaint from your meanest customer. I
think that's all. Good morning. Spot
cash ! ''-Chicago Tribune
als Generosity.
Manager-(to actress, who has made a
hit)-Bravo, my dear; VU raise your
alary
Actress-Oh, how good of you
Manager (continuing)-On the four
sheet posters, from $200 to .$300 per
week; but, as this will involve a little
printing bill, you will have to stand a
small cut of $13 a week until further
not ice." -Cleveland Leader.
ELEPHANTS' TEIGES.
HOW THE AWKWARD ANIMALS ARE
TAUGHT TO PERFORM.
Some Are Too Dall to Learn Any
thing;. "While Others Are Quick to
Catch an Idea - Forcible Method*
tsed In Their Training.
"Scores of people ask me everyday,''
said Keeper Snyder of the elephant
house in Central park recently, "how
anything so stupid looking and thick
skinned as an elephant can be taught
anything. I tell them all that elephants
are not unlike children. SOTO are too
I dull to learn anything, and others can
catch an idea quickly. Tom," ho went
on, pointing To the large elephant who
was busily engaged in throwing hay on
his back "although irascible indisposi
tion, is quito intelligent. The first trick
I taught him was to lie down. This
was not so easy to accomplish as it
might seem, for it took a block and fall
at front and-rear, with a gang of 15 or
20 men at each end. I stood at one
side, and as I said 'Get down!' his feet
were drawn oui; from under him. This
had to be'repeated only a few times be
fore he learned what 'Get down' meant
for him.
"To teach him to stand on his hind
feet and on his head a block and fall on
a beam over his head, a snatch block i
and two'dead men' in the floor and the !
services of another elephant were all !
required. As I saic 'Get upi' the ele- I
phant in harness walked forward, and
Tom's front feet went up, while his
hind feet were chained together. When
I said 'Stand on your head I' his front
feet, which had been previously chain
ed, remained on the floor, while his
hind feet were drawn np nntil they al
most literally 'kicked the beam.'
"These were his first lessons. When
he learned to dril! to 'right about, face,'
and 'left about, face, ' I stood on one j
side of him and another man on the
other, and we each had a prod. As I
commanded 'Right about, face!' he was
pushed over to the right, and 'Left
about, face!' he was prodded in that
direction. I taught him to waltz in
much the same way, only as we pushed
him back and forth we made him go
clear around, and now he is one of the
best waltzers in the country. He learn
ed to ring the bell and fan himself in
one lesson. Both require the same mo
tion, and they are really the same trick,
although people never think of that.
Yes, he knows which is which and
never picks np the fan or napkin when
I tell him to ring the bell I only had
to put each, one at a time, in his trunk,
and with the fan and bell I shook it
and with the napkin wiped first one
side of his mouth and then the other.
He took to hand organ grinding like a
Mulberry street Italian. It is one of his
favorite tricks.
"The elephant is the only animal
whose legs all bend the same way. His
hind legs bend in, and the position re
quired for creeping is not very comfort
able, but he does it as well as a baby.
His. performances on the harmonica
are the most surprising to onlookers,
but the fact is that all the intelligence
required for that is holding the instru
ment As he must breathe through his
trunk, every breath moves it back and
forth. I discovered that he holds his
breath when he stands on his hind legs
by trying to get him to do that and
play the harmonica at the same time,
but his front feet are no sooner up than
the sound ceases until they are dcywn
again.
"His tub is about 22 feet high, and
it took me about an hour to get him to
mount it the first time and as long to
get him down from it once ho was up.
I had finally to improvise a step from it
before he would come down. He went
right up again, however, and came
down and repeated the movement sev
eral times in the first lesson. Now he
mounts it and stands on his hind feet
his front feet, his side feet and waltzes
and changes on it
"People all seem to think that an ele
phant has no sense of feeling because
his skin is thick and coarse. The fact is j
that his skin is as sensitive as a baby's,
and if you tickle him with a straw you
will find it out The feet of the ele
phant have to be repaired frequently,
for they aro as susceptible to corns and
stone bruises as the feet of people, and
they have to be cut and trimmed. You
wouldn't think it, would you. that
twice around Tom's front foot, when he
is standing with his full weight upon
it. is equal to his height ? It is true, j
and it is a rule that seldom varies an j
inch in any elephant
"The African elephants have only
four toes, and their ears are very large
The Asiatic elephants have five toes,
and their ears are smaller. There are
few African elephants in this country
-not moro than three or fonr. Not
long ago, at an exhibition in this city,
there was a skin of leather with small
ears and comparatively fine texture (the
hide from all elephants has too large j
pores to make it of use), and it was |
labeled, 'Hide from an African ele
phant. ' People don't know anything j
about them."-New York Post.
Bathing; and Xose Blowing:.
A number of people come home from i
the seaside quite deaf, and very many, j
if not deaf, are much harder of hearing j
than when they left home. The cause ]
of (his is blowing the nose after bath- ;
mg.
Of course ono blows Ins nose because
there is some salt waler in it, wliich j
makes him uncomfortable. This water
he forces into the little eustachian tube |
that runs from behind the nose to the
ear. Here the waler remains fer davs, i
and the particles d' salt set up inflam- j
mation. The next ste} is that the eu- :
stachlan tube gets blocked and remains
more er 1<>SS s<> permanently, causing :
partial deafness.
You should always wait some time
after your bath before blowing your
nose, and then you should do it gently.
What folly to proclaim a love for hu
manity which no one has for the ma
jority of individuals composing it!
Conservative.
......
PAID BY UNCLE SAM.
!
[ Some of the Odd I'xponses the Gov
ernment Has to Hear.
j
! Even* one knows that it costs almost
: $400,000,000 a year to run the United
j States government in times of peace
j and that the department of war and
i the navy, the Indian and pension l>u
I roans absorb the larger part of this
amount, but in the course jf years a
large number of dependents upon- Un
cle Sam's purse have come into being
of which the general public knows lit
I tlc.
j Such, for example, aro the intema
! tiona! bureau for the repression of the
j African slave trade, located at Kr s
sels, a highly laudable institution, to
j the expenses of which our government i
contributes $100 a year; the interna- j
tional bureau of weights and measures, j
also at Brussels, to which $2,270 is con
tributed, and the International Geodet
ic association, the expenses of which
our government shares to the extent
of $1,500 yearly.
As a leading member of a group of
nations specially interested in humane
and philanthropic work we subscribe
$325 a year to a lighthouse service on
the coast of Morocco, about $4,500 to
be divided among citizens of , other
lands for service rendered to ship
wrecked American seamen, $500 a year
toward maintaining a hospital for sail
ors at Panama and $9,000 for keeping
and feeding American convicts impris
oned in foreign countries.
Among the unfamiliar purposes in
the home country for which money is
appropriated from the federal treas
ury is the maintenance of the Wash
ington monument costing $11,520 an
nually, and the provision of artificial
limbs for soldiers calling for $547,000
a year.-Leslie's Weekly.
DANGER IN CHEAP GLASSES.
A Great Many Eye Ruined by At
tempts at Economy.
Looking back now to the time when
the itinerant quack doctor and the
wandering dentist spread misery and
destruction over the land, we wonder
at the ignorance or carelessness of our
fathers in trusting their teeth or even
their lives to hands so untrustworthy.
A very similar thing is done today by
people who buy spectacles or eyeglass
es from men who sell them on the
streets or hate their eyes fitted by op
ticians who have no qualifications for
doing the work.
A surprising number of people buy
their glasses from venders on the
streets. They get glasses for 50 cents
which seem TO them just as good as a
pair they would pay $5 for having
made on an oculist's prescription, and
j they think they have saved money.
Glasses acquired in all sorts of ways
hy inheritance or exchange from a
friend or even glasses found on the
streets are used to the detriment, even
to the destruction, of the wearer's
sight
"People seem to think glasses are
like clothes." said an old oculist the
other day. "aid if they are fairly com
! fortable and look well they ask no
! further questions."
; Another way in which people dam
age their eyes is through carelessness
in trying to remove dust or cinders
from them. They try . themselves, a
friend tries a rub. the nearest drug
store and the nearest optician are call
ed on, all before an oculist is consult
ed. The result is that the eyeball is
often badly cubbed and scraped, and
in many instances permanent injury is
done.-Xew York Evening Post
One Child For Each Hour.
Henry Bloch, a business man of
P-rooklyn. ca's breakfast at half past
Rosie, goes to breakfast at 15 minutes
to Gabriel and retires for the night at
Achilles. Mi*. Bloch has 12 children.
0 girls and 3 boys. Ile is fond of his
family and in order that lie might al
ways have them in mind had a watch
made with the miniature photograph
of one of the children m the place of
each of the hours on its dial. Thus
where the fic.rure 7 would be on an or
dinary watch dial the pretty face of
his daughter Rosie looks out The face
of the boy Gabriel represents 1 o'clock,
that of Freda 2 o'clock and so on
around the dial. At his home Mr.
Bloch has a large clock, on the dial of
which the figures are represented in
the same way.
The Der con and the Prayer.
"I didn't like your prayer very much
this morning" said a fault finding dea
con to his minister.
"What was wrong with it?"
"Well, in Hie first place, it was too
long, and then I thought it contained
two or three expressions that were un
warranted."
"I am very sorry it meets with your
disapproval, deacon." the good man re
sponded, "bi t you must bear in mind
that the prayer was not addressed to
you."-Ohio State Journal.
A I*n>i Isn't Ilumoroi:*.
She-How dare you say women have j
no sense (.f humor? I know a girl wiio j
can make lovely puns all tin- day long.
He-What has that i< do with the'
argument? -Indianapolis Journal.
Love and Conce .
"Aren't you miserable when we are
separated, I arry?"
"No: it makes mo happy to think how
miserable you arc because I am net i
with you/*-Chicago Record.
For a Dall Ap pet ixe.
"is that your fm lier's grindstone?**
Yes. sir. He's a grinder and sharp
ener."
"Oh, lie is. is he? Wei!, can lie put I
an edge rn dull appetite?"
"Easy. sir. if you'li turn the stone." I
-Cleveland Phi in Dealer.
\o Longer De.Mirahle.
"We shall not invite Mr. Towper to
dinner again."
"Does he tell old stories;"
"No; but he has quit laughing at
Henry's old stories."-Chicago Record.
A. Sure Winner.
A buzzard, who found a freshly killed
hare and vras about to bear it away to
a tree top TO be eaten at leisure, was
addressed by a fox who caine running
up with:
"Ali, now. but I mistook you for the
eagle and wanted a word with you."
The buzz.-,rd was flattered and offered
reynard the h<-ad of the hare. As she
did so the wolf came up and observed:
"Well, well, but who ever saw the
buzzard looking so fierce and so proud
as today? Really, now, but I took you
for the condor."
That tickled the buzzard again, and
to show her.good will she divided the
body of the liare with tho wolf. She
had said that she must be off. when
the jackal came trotting up and ex
claimed:
"Upon my word, but I must lui ve
dust in my eyes. I was sure that my
friend here was the ostrich, and I was
going to ask her for a feather. Mrs.
Buzzard, my compliments!''
The buzzard grinned and giggled
and tried to look shy, and meanwhile
the jackal ate up the other half of the
hare.
"Here-how's this-where's my
part?" exclaimed the buzzard, as she
got to see what had happened.
"Oh. we took the meat and you have
the taffy!" replied the jackal as he lick
ed his chops and walked off.
Moral-When craft will not avail
and argument goes for naught, flattery
will always win.-Buffalo News.
Tlie Influence of the Flat.
The flat has made its mark on the
conditions of modern life. A good illus
tration of this fact is the following
story of a bright Kenwood j-oungster
"going on G." The boy heard a visitor
say to his grandmother, "Well, I sup
pose you feel very proud these days,
with three of your sons married and
settled?"
"Only two," corrected the boy, who
was not supposed to understand any
thing at all about the subject. Just ' J
see what his idea was his grandmother
and her visitor cross examined him.
The conversation ran like this:
"Why do you think only two are mar
ried, John? There's your Uncle Jim
he's one."
"Yes ma'am. And he lives in a flat."
"What's that got to do with it? And
there's your Uncle Fred-he's two."
"Yes ma'am. And he lives in a flat
too."
"Why, yes; certainly. And there's
your own father-he's three."
"Xo. ma'am," cried the youngster
triumphantly. "My papa isn't married.
I know he isn't 'cause he lives in a
house."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Bear Baiting: In Olden Day .
So popular was bul! baiting in x>lden
days in England that riots followed
the attempt to suppress it in the large
towns. Bear baiting was more popular
still, if that could be. In various places,
Liverpool especially, it made part of
the festivities at the election of the
mayor, being held before his worship
started for church. Ladies commonly
attended in great numbers. There was
a famous bear at Liverpool, which
showed such grand sport in 17S2 that
certain fair admirers presented it with
a garland, decked it with ribbons and
carried it to the theater, where a spe
cial entertainment had been "com
manded." which Bruin sat out in the
front of their box. But of gossip about
bull and bo~r baiting there is no end.
Enthusiastic lovers of Shakespeare
read with interest the petition of the
royal bear warden, addressed TO Queen
Elizabeth in l : .">. complaining that his
licensed performances had been neg
lected of late because every one went
to the theater.
Favor and Favour.
Xow I am not going to argue about
the matter, but it may interest the
reader to know that the iirst canvass
ing card which Mr. Gladstone ever is
sued, when he was a young Tory can
didate at Newark, was printed in this
way: "Mr. Gladstone to solicit the favor
of your vote and interest."
So those misguided creatures who
say that "favor" is a modern Ameri
canism must explain how an ultra blue
Oxford Tory, educated up to the eye
brows, came to use that form of spell
ing nearly 70 years ago.-London
Leader.
Pulsations of the Earth's Crust.
A delicate instrument designed by
Mr. Horace Darwin will indicate slow
tilts and pulsations of the earth's crust
of less than one three-hundredth fot a
second, or an angle less than au inch
in a thousand miles. It consists of a
circular mirror suspended from brack
ets by two wires of very unequal
length. Slight tilting of the upright
causes exaggerated motion of thc mir
ror. The spot of reflected light will
vary half an inch when a finger s laid
on the support of the apparatus.
Tlu- Cause.
"Have you a last request to make?" i
asked liv kins: of tho Cannibal islands. !
addressing the missionary.
The latter glanced at his august maj- i
esty <so called by reason of his sam- j
m .-" attire), and replied::
..Yes. Great One. When I left my na- i
live heath. I promised to write t*.> a j
brother in this line of wor and tell j
him how I liked the country: If your 1
majesty pleases, I should like to write !
hin: a few words."
The king reflected for a moment.
"There can be no objection to that, so
far as I can see. y.in may proceed/'
The missionary's hands were untied,
and there upon a piree ..j' bark lie in
scribed the following words:
Dear Friend-This i< a delightful country.
There is but one objection i > i . and that, I fear,
will account for the :.:<?: Chat 1 >'...: never sveyou j
again; There i-; plenty ral here-but :' .. cook
ing will kill :;:<?. Farewell.
This being finished, the king directed
hl< slaves to stir tin." caldron :in<l the 1
preparation of the meal proceeded.
One way to hear a pin drop \s to
heat it red hot and drop it into a keg
of powder.-rhiladelphia Record.
A Year's Interest.
_
I Assistant Secretary Yanderiip bas !
i decided >o aoricipate t h s ioterest tor the \
! cotiro fiscai year, tbs period coding !
j with Joly 1st, 1900 The ioterest due j
j November 1st will bc paid in iuil with - ;
j oat discount, but if holders of bonds !
wish to take advantage or the offer to
anticipate interest due af. subsequent j
dates, a discount at the rare of two- i
tenths of one per cent a moarb will be I
exacted. The amouri: of interest iduc !
from now until rho end of the fiscal ;
I year is about 30,000,000 The pay
I ment of tbi > amount wiil. it is believed j
J be a relief of much importance to the j
preseas stringent money situation ;
white on the other hand, the discount
?SPil 1 be a saving of a iarge amouot to j
the government. The treasury is io a l
position to advance these ioterest.
j payments without the least embarrass- j
I ment.
The interest due November 1, is j
made up of the three per cent loan of!
1898, the fives of 1904, and the fours j
of 1925. There is 1,600,660 coupoo
interest which will be payable at ail
sub-treasuries October 13 The books
j for the registered bonds of 1904 and
1925 do not close uotii the fifth. The
checks for the interest on these register- j
ed bonds will be maiied October 25,
and the checks for the ioterest on the
registered 3's will be maiied October
26. The total prepayment of Novem
ber interest is 4,363,244.
Jj CUBAN OIL cures Cuts,
Burns, Bruises, Rheuma
tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts.
Sold by Hngb8on-Ligon Co.
There is a rubber demand now that
is great. More is needed than is pro
duced. It pays well to grow it, as it is
worth 1 a poacd. The newspapers
are now urgiog southern farmers to
engage in its production, believiog that
it is well adapted to climate and seii.
It is of South American product aod a
rubber-producing' orchard would pay
the farmer well for the experiment and
roil It is believed that Florida and
Louistaoa particularly are excellently
adapted to the prodaction of raw rub
ber, it should be weli tested. Every
new product helps.
Judge Brazel La Place, 3 well
known man in Louisiana, was killed
at his plantation near La Place by a
mob on Tuesday night.
There has been a decrease in the
number of yellow fever cases in Key
West and New Orleans during the
past few days .
Rear Admiral Howison has been
retired, and there has been a promo
tion of officers as a result.
The United States treasury will
anticipate interest on ail U. S bonds
for the fiscal year ending July 1st,
1900.
Schley made his way to Sampson
at the White house reception and
cordially greeted him, shaking his
hand A dispatch to the Pniledel
phia Record tells how the real hero
acted :
"When Admiral*Schley appeared,
according to etiquette. Sampson
i ehouid have come forward to greet
him, as Schley ranks him two num
bers Instead of doing that, Sampan
pushed himself back into a corner
! and endeavored to avoid recognizing
j Schley. The latter, with a good
natured emile on his face, threw
naval traditions to the winds by
himself bunting up Sampson, who
was behind him. But Schley found
it. He grasped it heartily and shook
it, still with that smile. Sampson
blushed a fur : as red.';
At a meeting of "the Tropical
School of Medicine'' in London a
doctor created a stir by saying that
?'Cholera was water borne, malaria
mosquito borne and the plague rat
borne " The presentire6 against
these were "the teakettle, mosquito
net and rat trap " If his vie vs are
correct, the real trouble lies behind
and are unreached They are to be
avoided by exterminating the car
riers of the disease germs
Some horticulturists of Orlando.
Fla., have been experimenting in
producing seedless fruit, and are said
to have succeeded in producing a
few seedless peaches, which have a
delicate flavor and are more luscious
than the peach with the seed in
it
- mu Hi ^0^""~
The Bt i b foreign (mee report ha
this to soy about our Southern
cotton goode : "Of cheap cottOD .
goods. 75 per cent come fr. m Gr; ar
Britain ; ibero is no cbropeiitioo of any j
consequence. Or' heavier goods, such
KS dooks, driti^, sheetings, gray-?, ere , j
the United States produces as cheap
and a* good ao ar'iele, though oct so;
advantageous on account af the awk
ward widths aod set assortn:eot cf
prices and patterns which American j
firms say they cr.noot alter v
New York. Ost. 13.-Fire today
de*troyet: two four-story warehouses at
thc foot of Forry-Seoood Street, Rrook
Ivn, owred bv the But;h company,
limited, and 18,000 bains of octtoD
which were stored in it.. Loss will be
500.000, principally OD tbe cotton,
wbich was well insured.
^5 CUBAN RELIEF cures Colic,
J V Neuralgia und Toothache in
five minutes. Sour Stomach and
Summer Complaints. Price. 25c.
Sold bj Hogbson-LigDn Co.
(richman mw .Southron
SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.'
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jnoe, JSftS
Consolidated Aug. % ISSI.
SUMTER S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.1899.
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