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PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, JANUARY J2, i90G.
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Almmgii city ani i'orcst. and field and
glen.
J rush with the roaring train;
.My strength is the strength of a thousand
men,
My brain is lny master's brain.
I borrow the senses of him wiihifi
A ho watches the gleaming iine:
Ilis pulses 1 feel t!irciijrh my frame of steel,
" His courage and will are'inine.
ItiE LITTLE
GRAY WOMANl
Written by
DID not nolipo that Brand
was in the smoking room
when I denounced Lis new
novel. lie pretended not
to hear, but I saw hitn color
I
ten
'-V. ite 100k no notice or me, when 1
left the clu'o just behind him, till 1
touched him on the ami.
"You heard what I said about your
look'.'" I renuirked.
"Yes,"' he said, "I heard. I knew
you luulu't seen rue, so you needn't
apologize."
'No." I said. "I didn't see you, but
I wasn't going to apologize. It is a
bud book." I looked at him, but he
would not look at me.
"It's true to life," lie asserted.
"And what has that to do with it?" I
asked. "There's poison, but you
needn't give it to people."
'"People needn't take my . poison un
less they like. Apparently they do.
It's run to 33,000 already."
"I am sorry you are poisoning so
many."
"It isn't my fault if life is poisonous.
I didn't make it what it is."
"You're helping to make it what it
will be. 'People can't touch pitch, or.
. read it, without- the usual conse
qticnces." You've no right to ea'.l it that," he
protested. "There's nothing coarse or
repulsive in the. book."
"That's why I condemn it! Yice that
. looks .' like vice only appeals to the
vicious. Yice that looks like virtue
contaminates the virtuous."
"I tiidu't invent the virtuous -looking
vices; only described them as I found
Them."
"You didn't describe them as vices."
"Preaching isn't my business or
. yours."
"Photographing vices in fancy cos
tumes is Hie devil's business," I told
. him. "The things that you force upon
. people' notice wouldn't enter the mind
of a good man if there is such a per
son. Anyhow, there are good women.
' ami they don't suspect that problems
like those in your book exist."
"They can't help seeing them unless
they shut" their' eyes."
"Then they shut their eyes. Would
your mother- "
"My mother belonged to a past gen
oration," he interrupted.
"Good women . are the same In all
-fenerations. We'll take one of the
present day. Would your wife t-"
He grasped my arm roughly.
"I won't discuss my wife," he said
harply.
"I m not discussing your wife. I'm
discussing you. 1 was lonu or your
father. Brand, and I've known you
since yu were a little chap In petti
coats. You used to play with the dog's
head on my stick. I suppose I didn't
know you all the time. I never sus
pected you had it in you to -write as
.you do, or that you would if you could
You can write. There's no doubt
.about it. The less excuse for wasting
.your powers on these 'men and worn-
en' stories." t
"I shall be grateful If you can dls
orer a third sex to. write about" lie
observed.
"Men -and women are good enough
to write about, if you write about the
good in. them. You only give us the
bad Adam and Eve's legacy that man
hood and womanhood have fought
.against since Eden. I don't say you
can give us all good. They-wouldn't
be real men and women if you did, but
take the writer's privilege, and give
us something just a little better than
poor humanity."
"I can't make humanity what it
isn't."
"You can avoid mating It worse."
'.'There's no harm in the book," he in
sisted doggedly.
"My boy, there is. Don't take my
word. I'm an old man; old enough
for sin to be saltless. I haven't been a
,'-aint. either, but I've been an honest
sinner. I-never passed off wrong for
right, even to myself. Ask one of your
own generation. Ask" I laid my hand
011 his shoulder "ask your wife if she
(would like to have written that book."
lie stopped walking and made a
queer little gulp in his throat.". His
wife was a bold card to play against
him, for she was a colorless little per
sonsome one had called her "the lit
tle gray woman" and I knew of no
. reason why he should value her opin
ion, except that he had married her.
As she couldn't .bave won him by, her
I hear, as I swerve on the upland curve,
The echoing hills rejoice
To answer the knell of my brazen bell,
The laugh of my giant voice.
And, white in the glare of the golden ray
Or red in the furnace light.
My smoke is a pillar of cloud by day,
A pillar of flame by night.
Arthur Uuiterman, in Four Tracl
News.
Owen Oliver."
y
looks or" external attractions, I credited
her with some charm of character.
"My wife is proud of my books," he
said, after he had wiped his face with
his handkerchief.
"You're wife Is proud of you. She
takes your books on trust blind trust.
If you put her instinct as a woman to
the test her instinct as a good
woman "
"I won't discuss her, I say. He
raised his voice angrily. "You can say
what you like? about me."
"Then I say that you are doing tho
devil's dirty work. I'm an old citizen
of the world, knowing its weaknesses,
and a little more tolerant of them than
I ought to be, but I wouldn't have writ
ten that book. Men that are worse
than I wouldn't have written it. A
good woman couldn't even have
thought of it."
He turned from me in a rage and
walked away.
As I have said, I am no better than
my fellows, and I have tolerated many
a bad. book in my time; but somehow
this book of Brand's weighed upon
my mind. The press blamed it, but
the public bought it. A noted play
wright dramatized it and put its evil
into concrete form. I could not stop
the harm which it had done; but
thought perhaps I might induce hi
wife to stop him from writing like it.
So I called upon her.
She rose to greet me with a friendly
smile. She was one of the women that
elderly men like, because they have a
kindly feeling for elderly men.
smiled at her, too.
"I wondered when you were comin
to congratulate me on Charlie's book,'
she said. She always imputed kind
intentions to one.
"I'm afraid I haven't come for that,'
I owned. "My dear, I don't like Char
lie's book. You see, I'm an old fash
ioned man."
"I see." She flushed slightly. "You
don't believe in problem stories?
"I believe in them? Oh. yes! I'm
old, and my C3es have been open for
some years, but I don't want to open
other people's. I don't want to open
yours, my dear. I'd rather you believe
the world was good. It's the belief of
you good little women that makes it
better. Charlie believes in you, and I
want you to make him better. I don't
mean that he's bad. He's a very, very
clever man, -as the book shows. He
sees things that most of us miss,
We're better for missing them, .my
dear. We don't want to be told about
them. -He's told us. That's what's
wrong."
She worked furiously at the embroid
ery which she had picked up.
"Is there anything in the book that
you had missed?" she asked quietly
"I!m afraid not. but I want the
world to be better than myself, you
see!"
"It isn't. It sees things just as you
do, and pretends that it doesn't Just
as you pretend
"Concealment implies condemnation.
Evil isn't so dangerous when it's kept
out of sight. Speak of the problem
story!"
"The pretence is threadbare," she ob
jected. I was surprised, that she ex
pressed herself so. well. "There are
hundreds of published problems, and
many of them are far more lurid. The
book is, at any rate, refined. Its prob
lems are such as come to good men
and women; such as leave them some
of their virtues."
Yes." I dropped my hat in ray
eagerness, "les. That is -why the
book is so dangerous. Other - tales
show worse evils, but they show them
as evils; as temptations that the frac
tion of goodness in us fights against,
even when it is overcome. Your hus
band has brought in the Towers of
L'ght to fight for the Powers of Dark
ness. The plain man shrugs his
shoulders at the other books. He
shudders at this. Even the club smok
ing room condemns it. Some of the
best men go so far as to avoid the au
thor." She looked up over her work. Her
face was white.
"Does Charlie realize this?" she
asked. I nodded.
We were talking about it the other
evening. He overheard us. He must
have known before Of course he
knows." . .M '
Have you spoken to him:" 'she 'in
quired.
"Yes, He left me in a temper be
cause I counselled him to put the mat
ter to you. You have a great hold
over him. I am sure. A good woman
always has a hold over a man. I am
certain that, at the bottom of his heart,
he is ashamed of the book, but "
"But" she hu'd down tho work.
"He didn't write it. I did!"
"You?" I cried. "You!"
"I. No. I am not saying it to shield
him. It is quite true. I I wonder if
you could understand? You see, I am
not pretty or attractive People gener
ally left me alcne. So I used to sit
rnd watch them; and see things. I see
a great deal. I can't help it. It is my
nature. I dare say I looked too much
for what was bad, but it Is hard for, a
woman when she is not attractive. .It
makes her look for defects in others.
I was very bitter against people then.
I'm not bitter now, because Charlie
finds me attractive. If wouldn't occur
to you that I can be, but I can. It
didn't occur to him r.t first. He came
and introduced himself to me out of
sheer pity for my loneliness. He's like
that. A lame dog, a man who's down
on his luck; even a 'little gray woman
you see I know my name he can't
pass them. He came and talked to me
just because he thought I wanted some
one to talk to. I made up my mind
that next time he should come because
he wanted to talk to me. Do you
know I almost screamed with my anx-letj-
to attract him. And when he was
going he gripped my hand and nearly
broke it you know how he does with
people he likes and said, 'What a lot
people miss by not talking to you.'
And I began to cry. 'I've been lonely
lonely lonely!' I told him, 'and
every one thinks I'm stupid and dull.'
And he said, 'You needn't be lonely if
you'll let me talk to you. No! Talk to
me, you bright little thing!' It was
the first compliment I ever had the
very first! Well, that is over now. I'm
not a bit spiteful to the world. I even
like a few people. I like you. But you
see I'd got into the habit of studying
the defects in people, and I'd grown
curious about them. Women always
are. I knew others would be curious.
So I wrote .the books. They succeed
ed. I knew they would, or I shouldn't"
have used Charlie's name.
"And he was willing to borrow your
success?" I said nuskily. It hurt me
to lose my good idea of him.
"No. He wasn't. I made him do it.
I don't think 3-ou realize that I am
clever enough to manage Charlie quite
easily. I told him that I didn't want
success for myself I don't very much
and that my greatest desire in life
was success for him. That was cer
tainly true. I declared that I hadn't
the courage to publish the books un
der my own name. That wasn't true
at all. I pointed out that I should rind
it difficult to study people if they knew
I wrote. I persuaded him that the
books would do good, because truth
always does good. That, of course, is
false. I don't think he was quite per
suaded at the bottom of his mind, but
he thought the bottom of his mind was
wrong, because he believed in me. I
believed in myself. Well, you've shown
ma I was wrong."
She snatched up the work and sewed
again for a few minutes. 'Her eyelids ,
flickered and I supposed she was
going to cry, but she did not. So I let
her tight out her battle alone. I
thought she was using heavier artillery
than I ;ould bring to bear.
"I suppose," she said, presently.
"you expect me to say that I'll own up
to the books and clear him? If so,
you re mistaken. I shall not. I won
der" she laid down the work again
"if 3-ou'd believe me if I told you
why?"
"Yes," I promised. "I shall believe
you."
If I owned the books the blame
would fall on me. I shouldn't' care, but
Charlie would. You see" her face lit
up, and I saw at last that sheUiad at
tractions "Charlie is very, much in
love with me. He would rather peo
ple attacked him than attacked me. I
shall get my punishment in knowing
that he is hurt. You need not fear
that I am going scot free. I don't
think you want me to be hurt, though?"
I picked up my hat and rose.
"No," I said, "I don't. You are a
good woman, in spite of the book. God
bless you! You'll come out all right,
my dear."
"Yes," she said. "It is the belief of
you good men that makes women bet
ter. I shall come out all right. You
will see."
I saw," when the next book appeared
under his name. It was a great, good
story, and it took the world by storm.
The hero was a man who sacrificed
himself to shield a woman and I knew
she meant him. The heroine was a
woman who learned the lesson of life
from her love's sacrifice and I knew'
she meant herself. Her father-confes
sor was a kindly old gentleman who
triept to spread the butter of benevo
lence over the bread of the world. She
thought she had portrayed me, but
she had only succeeded in picturing the j
man I ought to have been! The clever-
st of women subordinate reason to
feeling, and "the little gray woman."
whose charm society is beginning to
find out. lias an affection for my un
worthy self. If the blessing of an bid
sinner can benefit her, she has it
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NDU5TRJA
J. W. Johnston, of Rochester, N. Y.,
formerly a Itocky Mountain photogra
pher, has invented a camera which,
takes a photograph as the camera
swings in a circle.
The chinch bug is notabiy a wheat
pest, although its-damage to other cer
eals and forage crops Is very consider
able. The losses from the depreda
tions of this insect on wheat in single
States have ranged between $10,000,
000 and $20,000,000 in one jear.
The rare peculiarity known as hae
tnophily, or "bleeding sickness," has
been brought to notice anew by Dr.
Boehme, a German physician. It con
tinues for generation after generation
in certain families, and is character
ized by an extraordinary tendency to
hemorrhage, making the extraction of
a tooth a dangeraus operation, while
even a pin-prick may lead to severe or
fatal bleeding.
A correspondent at Winnipeg, Can
ada, reports that scientific circles arc
interested in the discovery of a process
fpr welding copper, which has been
made by a local blacksmith. It is said
the process has been thoroughly tested
and found perfect, and that copper can
be welded to copper or to other metals
without impairing tho electrical con
ductivity and other properties of the
metal.
Writing in the Scientific American
Dr. Alfred Gradenwitz calls attention
to the fact that any menial process is
attended by some alteration in tho phy
sical state of the body. He tells of
an electrical invention of a Swiss engi
neer that indicates the conductivity, of
the human body when undergoing men
tal changes. When anybody enters
the room the resistance of the body is
greatly increased, while any sensation
or einotion will reduce the resistance.
One of the most ingenious applica
tion of thermit, the remarkable heat
producing material manufactured at
Essen, Germany, by Dr. Goldschmidt.
is the prevention of the formation of
cavities in largo steel castings. A box
of special' prepared aluminum and
oxid of iron or thermit, the ignition of
which is capable of producing a tem
perature of 3400 degrees Fahrenheit, is
attached to an iron rod and pushed
into the ingot just as the crust is be
ginning to form. The heat of the
metal being cast is sufficient to ignite
the thermit, which disengages a vast
quantity of heat, sufficient to keep the
metal liquid where the piping occurs
and permit more liquid . metal to be
poured in to till the cavity.
FrojrHsh of llairalian "Water.
The frogfish at the Aquarium held
quite a. levee all the afternoon. This
fish was bought from a Japanese fish
erman by a resident and presented to
the tankeries.
In appearance tho frogfish looks like
a shapeless mass of slime covered
coral, with lots of warty projections
all over it. This i3 the first impres
sion gained while the creature is in re
pose. When it commences to move one
realizes that it is a lisb. and close in
spection will result in the eyes and
mouth being located.
If a more repulsive object assists in
peopling tho waters under the earth it
has yet to be discovered.
The chief peculiarity about the frog
fish other than its unspeakable ugli
ness Is its feet. It isn't an expert
swimmer, but a a submarine pedes
trian it holds the record.
Its tootsies number fur and are fan
like in shape, with well defined toe
nails. If Its legs were only a little
longer the frogfish might enjoy the
satisfaction of scratching its own back.
Honolulu Commercial Advertiser.
Cannibalism of Black East.
I quote from the Fox Lake represen
tative the following instance of canni
balism on ihs part of black bass:
"Fred Lorenz, of Milwaukee, caught
111 black bass here in less than an
hour Sunday. This may sound pretty
heavy, but it is an actual fact. Ho
caught a black bass that when dressed
was found to have 110 little black bass
about an inch long in its stomach.
Talk about doghVsh eating fry and
spawn, it looks like bass were about
as bad cannibals as miy fish in tho
lake. It is possible that the bass swal
lowed her own brood of little ones to
protect them from other fish, but if so
she forgot to 'cough up' again and the
brood was destroyed."
There is no doubt that the black bass
will eat its young. Some writers say
that it is the female and others that it
is the male which remains on the
spawning bed to protect it. . It would
seem, however, that in eating 110 small
bass this particular lish was acting the
hog. Forest and Stream.
Queen Alexandra has in all fifteen
ladies in personal attendance on her, j
the- first being mistress of, the robes,
then the ladies of the bedchamber and
n14j filler. -
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SOUTHERN :
J TOPICS CFIUTERZSJ TO THE PLANTER. STOCKMAN ANO TRUCK C3GWER.
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win It Py?
W. n. It. Jackson, Tenn., writes; I
have some shoats that wpuld weigh
about 100 pounds gross, that I can get
four and a quarter cents for and have
corn that I can get sixty cents for. I
have a Japanee clover pasture. Which
would pay best: To sell now or feed
for six or eight weeks when I can prob
ably get six cents or more net. Would
It be best to grind the corn? What is
the best ration for brood sows with
pigs one month old?
Answer: If 3-011 have good growing
Phoats and are quite sure of getting
six cents a pound for them in the
course of six or eight weeks, there is
no reason why you should not feed
corn at sixty cents a bushel, to them
at a small profit. If the price of pork
drop and you could not get more than
five cents a pound, it would pa3T 3'ou
best to sell the corn and the hogs. Of
course by selling the hogs now you take
no risk from the feeding, but four and
a quarter cents is a low price for pork,
and as you say you have good pasture
there is no reason why the hogs should
not make a gain of a pound to a pound
and a half per day on clover and a
ration of corn or corn and bran,
though it is not so essentoal to feed
bran when they are on a green crop.
As a" rule with a fair price for pork,
which six cents would certainly be,
it is best to finish the animals on the
farm and get the top market price
rather than to go to the expense of
selling the hogs and corn separately.
Then, if you feed, the corn at home,
you keep the chief part of the fertil
izing elements contained therein on
your land and that is a considerable
advantage, more sometimes than we
credit it with.
It would not be necessary to grind
the corn for the hogs unless it is par
ticularly old and hard. They will shell
it for themselves, and if it is this year's
crop digest it quite thoroughly be
cause it is comparatively soft.
Brood sows with pigs one month old
can be fed to advantage on a mixture
of one-third corn, one-third oats, bar
ley and bran, and one-third middlings.
A fombiimtion of corn and bran, or
bran and middlings, or corn and mid
dlings will prove satisfactory, pro
vided the sows have the run of a good
pasture, and you can be guided in the
purchase of the foodstuffs largely by
the market price. If you have any
skim milk available let the sow have
what she will consume, but do not al
low her to gorge herseif, and feed her
several pounds of meal per day, according-to
her condition and the draft
which the pigs make on iicr. Knpx:
ville JC"arnal and Tribune. .i(
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Colton Seed anil Meal.
The cotton seed problem is now be
fore the cotton growers. Shall they
sell to the oil mills for cash, or ex
change for meal, or keep on the farm?
They will do one or the other. What
is best? Consider some of the facts
connected with seed and their pro
ducts. The following figures are ap
proximately correct:
A ton of seed, 00 2-3 bushels, will
yield
740 pounds of meal.
300 pounds of oil.
000 pounds of hulls. 1
40 pounds of linters.
20 pounds of waste. ,
The cash value of these products at
the mill, where the meal shows seven
per cent, nitrogen, is about $22.00.
When the mill pays seventy-five cents
a hundred pounds for seed it has a
$12.00 margin to work on.
Suppose the farmer should exchange
his ton of seed for meal. How much
should he receive?. The usual price
of meal at this season is about $22.00
a ton cash equal to the value of the
products of one ton of seed. At that
rate be -would receive 1360 pounds
of meal for his ton of serd. I that a
profitable trade, or not? The hauling
both ways is worth $2.00.
A ton of cotton seed contains
70 pounds of ammonia.
23.4 pounds of phosphoric acid.
23.4 pounds of jMi;iNh.
The commercial value of that at a
port is $13.23.
The experience of many good farmers
is that seed used as a fertilizer are
more satisfactory than the meal, or
commercial fertilizer. The commercial
value of the plant food In one bushel
of cotton seed Is twenty-one cents.
Should the farmer sell at that price
he will lose his hauling and trouble.
He will lose if he sells his seed for
less than twenty-five cents a bushel.
In exchanging for meal he should get
at least 1300 pounds for one ton of
seed. No farmer can afford to sell his
seed for cash with the expectation of
buying commercial fertilizer on time in
the spring.
Chemists will tell yon that the seed
are worth as much as food for cattle
as the meal. The mistake that most
farmers make is that they give -too
much seeu. By feeding the seed to
cattle aud saving all. the manure the
ereatest.beneat U thrived. Let arni-
fA flM 0TES.
5
1 in in 1 1
ers test the value of seed and meal for
wheat. fUse thirty bushels of seed on
one acre, and the same value la meai
or commercial fertilizer on another
acre, 'and see which is better. Charles
Petty, Spartanburg Co., S. .C.
Food Valnn of Alfalfa.
Alfalfa will enable a farmer to cut
down his feed bills. It is a great sub
stitute for bran, offal and other mill
feeds. It is the best feed for the dairy,
for all kinds, of young stock. Ilogi
winter well on it, with but little grain.
The following is'a summary, of a most
interesting test by the State Experi
ment Station in feeding alfalfa to
cows:
1 The cost of producing milk and
butter can be greatly reduced by re
placing part of the concentrates .in the
daily ration of the cow with some
roughness rich in protein, such as alf
alfa or cowpea hay.
2 A ton of alfalfa or pea hay can be
produced at a cost of $3 to $3 per ton.
whereas wheat bran costs $20 to $25.
As a 3'ield of from two to three tons of
pe.a hay and from three to five tons of
alfalfa can be obtained from an acre
of land, it is to see the great advantage
the utilization of such roughness, int
the place of wheat bran, gives the
dairyman.
3 In substituting alfalfa hay for
wheat bran it will be best in practice
to allow one and one-half of alfalfa to.
each pound of wheat bran, and, if the '
alfalfa is fed in a finely chopped condi- '
tion the results will prove more satis
factory. . '
4 When alfalfa was fed under the
most favorable conditions a gallon of
milk was obtained for 5.7 cents and a
pound of butter for 10.4. cents. When
pea hay was fed the lowest c.ost of A
gallon of milk was 5.2 cents,, and a
pound of butter was 9.4 cents. ; In lo
calities where pea hay grows well it
can be utilized to replace wheat Jjran,
and in sections where alfalfa can be
grown it can be substituted for pea hay;
with satisfaction. '
5 These results, covering two years
tests with different sets of cows, fur
nish proof that certain forms of rough-'
ncss rich in digestible protein can b
substituted with satisfactibn' for the
more expensive concentrates, and
should lend encouragement to dairy
farms. G. AV. Koiner, Commissioner
of Agriculture. Ilichmond, Ya.
Pertinent Question For rarinnrn.
How much do you suppose it costs
you a year to, repair your wagons and
your harness on account of bad roads?
How much does it cost you a year for
shoes and clothing that are ruined by
j'our children wading through the mud
to school? How much docs it cost you
a year for medicine to cure your chil
dren's colds contracted in wading"
through the mud to school and-church
How much of a damage a year to you
is the mud that prevents your children
from attending school, or damage to
them, rather, in the loss of an educa
tion? How much damage to you is our
bad roads in preventing your reaching;
market with your produce? You are
perfectly willing to spend plenty of
money in the buying of reapers and
mowers and other farm machinery.
You are willing to purchase fine car
riages and harness. At the prkv pota
toes are to-day one load would be thev
average farmer's tax for ten 3-earg for
good roads; at the end of that time th
roads would be good and you couhl
vote to rescind the law if you wanted
to, and you would have good roads and
no tax for thirty or forty years, the bal
ance of your life. 11. A., in Southern
Cultivator. L.aTlac Clover With Too Much Top.
J. A. L., Tazpwell, Ya.. writes: "I
have a fine clover lot and the roots ar
full of nodules. The second growth isr
heavy, and my purpose is to let it fall
on the ground. Will this smother out
and kill the clover for next crop? 1st
the fact that this land is well suited to
clover any assurance that it is also in
oculated for the successful growth of
alfalfa?"
It is not advisable to let second crop
ciover remain on the land during th
fall and winter, as it is almost certain ,
to smother out the crop. It would be
better for j-ou to cut it for seed and
thresh and feed the str:iw and chaff to
sheep and lambs during the winter.
They will do well on it, and there will
then be little danger of smothering out
the stand. The fact that the roots of
your red clover plants show a large
number of nodules is not an "insuranee
that the soil is inoculated for alfalfa.
It seems that there is some specific dif
ference between the bacteria which in
oculate red clover and alfalfa, and so
far as we know at the present time the
one will not act favorably on the roots
of another plant. It would therefore,
be wise and expedient for you to pro
vide special Inoculation if you intend
to sow this land to alfalfa. Answer bj
Professor Soule.'
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