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A Democratic Journal-rDevoted to National and State Politics, Literature, Foreign and Domestic Hews, etc VOL. III. AVIjNSTO", ISrbllTiI-C.XlOI,IaSr5 FEIDAY5 OCTOBER 1,1858. No. 17. i . f i i 1 t. J. -i " ft 5. f t" f the PUBLISHED "WEEKLY BY ALSPAUGH & BONER, Editors axd Proprietors. Terms of Subscription. "TnE "Western Sextixel" is published every Friday morning, and mailed to subscribers at two dollars a year, in ad vance; two dollars and a tialf after six months, or tiltcee dollars after the close of the subscription year, " To' any one proenriug six subcriberSj and paying 'fTTe"" cash in advance, the , paper will be furnished one year, gratis. Terms of Advertising in tne Sentinel. 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There is the homely story of the farmer's wife, who when her husband had settled in a new country, declared, "that she did not wish to be rich that, all she asked was to be comfiti'tabU" Time passed on, and when the old farmer told the story on his spouse, he said : "I am now worth a hundred thousand dollars, and 1113' wife is not comfortable yet!" A truer illustration.of human na ture was never found. Let a man begin life with ever so moderate an estimate of ;t ir2rt?TB- w it iiH&kiixill be contented the passion "grows with" . what it feeds upon ;" and just so surely as success leads him to the point contem plated, he will still cling to her hand, and compell her to lead him to farther and farther heights. Most men, except the few who begin life (very unfortunate ly) upon inherited wealth, start oif with the wish to acquire a "competency. But "competency" becomes a tiling as uncertain as the possibility of the old la dy's becoming "comfortable." Men deem themselves justified in giv ing themselves up, body and soul, the lirst few ears of their business lite, to ac quire enough to warrant a living. "Prov idence demands it," "emergencies must be provided against." All most true. A life of idleness and want is unjustifiable. The only difficulty is in the setting of a wise and sensible boundary to the desired living. The modest home that lay, sunny and beautiful, bathed in the love-ljght of the eye of youth, before his vision grows apace into a palace; there arc far-stretching lands about the palace and cosily de corations within. It lies even farther awaj- than the charming dwelling did ; but it must be attained, for his neighbor, a little older than he, has already become the master of such an one. Ambition prompts him not to linger behind. It is true, his neighbor has other lines and wrinkles in his face than the kindly hand of well-treated Time would have placed there tell-tale prints of anxious hours, of untiring hurry,' -of sharp speculation, perhaps of dishonorable thrift and unholy covetonsness ; but his follower sees .nothing of these ; he sees only the marble and the gilding, the broad lands, and the smiles with which all the world greets the successful aspirant - for its favor. If there is anything dark in the history of the accumulation of that fortune, be sure the glitter of the gold plays before it, and nobody cares- to drag it to the 1' ht. "I will not dp just as this man has done," says his follower : "I will not allow my affections to wither ; I will keep a little time to myself for the culture of the beau ties and amenities of lfe ; I will not forget to be charitable ; my generosity shall in crease with my means ; the richer I am, the more good I can do." So with self deception he bends himself to the work, which grows upon him and demands more of his energies, tillinind and strength, are given to its accomplishment, and all the nobler part of his nature, lies decaying from disuse. This is the great curse of the pursuit of wealth. It becomes so ab sorbing, so fascinating that "all other pur pursuits are swallowed up, - T Look upon the faces of the men of busi- ness who are so rapidly growing rich.- "What of God's glory, illuminating the im age of man, lingers there unshadowed.- I)o those keen, inquisitive glances seem familiar with searching into the beautiful mysteries of life and death, the present and .the -future ? Do those brows . wear the calm reflection of qniet . hours 6pent in earnest. uplifting to the broad heaven? or those months wear the seal of the sweet ness impressed there by hearts full of love for their kind, and'simpathy with the uni verse? Most persons will turn upon you with surprise, if not with a sneer, for ask ing the question : it is a kind of "nonsense" they cannot comprehend. They know of but one honorable, discreet and sensible object in living, and that-is to get rich and not only rich, but richer. The sweets of nature, and the holier depths of the springs of the heart are untasted by them piirity and the love of the beauti ful are stranger guests in their souls. : It may well be a reason why ?womeri are such housekeepers substituting cere mony, and cold, metallic glitter, for the simplicity and sunny warmth of the true home. It may be that the earnest love, the out-gushing of fresh feeling, the inno cent pleasure in music aud flowers, and the blue sky and the green earth, which they would fain share with their husbands, are chilled and die in the atmosphere of this vitiated passion. They learn to value what he values. If the husband gives up his soul to the acquirement of money, what better can the wifedo, than to spend it upon things that remind people of mon ey ? If she is deprived of his society, which he gives to his ledger and his plans, how can she better amuse herself than by making a grand display of what takes so much that is due to her to acquire ? If the pretty ornaments her own taste furn ishes, and the air of peace she diffuses over the house do not satisfy her husband, there are plenty of elements in the femin ine character which will urge her on to a more extravagant taste. Her fancy, her desire to please, her personal love of adorn ments, and many other qualities, which would be harmless or even charming un der the sway of a loving, but less impres sible nature, may all be made the instru ments towards effecting a heartless passion for display. ' A -man usuallv wants an excuse for do voting himself so exclusively to the acqui sition of fortune. A very common plea is, that he is working for the welfare of his children--he wishes to leave them a com petency. And the mother is so foolishly ibnd, so weakly inconsiderate, that she joins in the plea, ana gives encourage- merit to .the plan. A fatal foil v ! by which 4ly.cltildrpuf ,so. tenderly cared for, suffer the most se-verelyr bays a writer : "There1 is an inconceivible depth of weakness,' mean ess and wickedness, m the conduct of the father, who, for a little career pitiable vanity, re lis his offspring of of all that is really valuaule in lite, and leaves them an useless waste of drawing-rooms and pallors knowing that his death will be a signal for their expulsion." This lan guage is not too severe. And even when there is enough left for all the children to support the luxury in which they have been reared, the case is no whit better; for sloth, and selfish ease, Soft indulgence, and the pride of the purse, form a hot-bed in which real strength and goodness sel dom grow. We believe there is something more en nobling in life than the more accumula tion of money. Milton has represented Mammon, 4'Wiih down-cast look bent on the earth.1' as anion": the mots degraded of the fallen angels. The history of nations has always been that when they increased vastly in wealth, and gave themselves up to a lux uriant splendor, then they fell. Our hope for America, is, there being no system of primogeniture here, there is not so much danger in building up immense fortunes. In the course of afewyears they must be scat tered again. So the burden of the riches will be continually shifted, and no fami lies have a chance to become thoroughly corrupt and enervated. But we wish we could see less of the grand passion ; that we would see our fellow-creatures living to die well, instead to die rich. Some plead that war is a necessity. Some plead that it is better for the world generally that vast riches should : be acquired by the few ; else the fine arts, the master works of geni us, the productions of. Very elegant and costly fabrics, etc., could not be patron ized. - v - . - We believe there will a time -come when war will not be a necessity ; but we hope the time is already come when it will not be necessary to. rob the many in order to agrandize the few. All of the objects which trite men have at heart for the 1 welfare of society advance more surely and rapidly if the eager pursuit of inordinate gain is allowed to usurp less of the: soul ; and hapiness, puri ty, beauty, will enter every household when llcnne is the talisman instead of wealth. Ocean Ice. Large bodies of ice have been observed in the Atlantic ocean re cently. - One was enormous in size, being two hundred feet long. ' At this season of tire year ice is seldom seen by voyagers, and the probability is the summer within the Arctic zone has been very powerful in setting free the mountains of ice in that region. , .- .. '-'..'?. ,: '.;'" ;.'- v... -. - " We may set it down as an axiom that young ladies cannot know everybo dy's names, when it is utterly impossible for them to know what their own raav be ia twelve month afterward, 1 :. Napoleon's Old; Guard. Napoleon's "Old Guard" gained, by their many desperate instances of bravery, an immortality in history f but their grand crowning was their desperate charge at Waterloo, which has few parallels in an cient or modern warfare. They fought for their adored Emperor, and to retrieve the evil fortunes of the day, and they, fell as though to do so would secure them immor tal erlorv and eternal bliss in the world of spirits. :; Tli e , mostLgraplxic.4ind stimBgi??f count of that last fearful and fatal struggle that we have seen, is from a recently pub lished French work. It reads like war itself this is it : "During the day the artillery of the Guard, under Drouet, mantained its old renown, and the Guard itself had fre quently been used to restore the battle in various parts of the field, and always with success. The English were fast becoming exhausted, and in an hour more would doubtless have been forced into a disas trous defeat, but for the timely arrival of Blucher. But when they saw him with thirty thousand Prussians approaching their courage revived, while Napoleon was filled with amazement. A beaten enemy about to form a junction with the allies, while Grouchy, who had been sent to keep them in check, was nowhere to be seen. Alas ! what great plans a single inefficient commander can overthrow ! "In a moment Napoleon- saw that he could not sustain the attacks of so many fresh troops if once allowed to form a junction with the allied forces, and he de- lermiueu. 10 oiuie 1110 ltiic vn -w uwi-t v-aoij and endeavor to pierce the allied centre with a grand charge of the Old Guard, and thus throw himself between the two immense columns, which were to meet in the British centre. Those under Reille no sooner entered the fire than it disappeared like mist. The other was placed under Ney, 'the bravest of the brave,' and the order to advance given. apoieon accom panied them part of the way down the slope, and Halting lor a lew minutes, 111 a hollow, addressed them a few words. He told them the battle rested with them, and that he relied on their valor, tried 'in so lyJif ft., ., yivft PgBSSSjgiLj ed him witli a shout that was lieard aoove the thunder of artillery.. "The whole continental struggle exhibit ed no sublimer spectacle than the last ef fort of Napoleon to save his sinking Em pire. The greatest military skill and en ergy the world possessed had been taxed to the utmost during the day. Thrones were tottering on the turbulent field, and the shadows of fugitive kings flitted through the smoke of the battle. Bonaparte's star trembled in the zenith now blazing out in its ancient splendor, now paling before his anxious eye. The intense anxiety with which he watched the advance of that col umn, and terrible suspense he endured when the smoke of the battle wrapt it from sight, and the utter despair of his great heart when the curtain lifted over a fugi tive army, and the depairing shriek rung out, 'The Guard recoils !' 'The Guard re coils!' makes us for a moment forget all the carnage in sympathy with his dis tress. "The Old Guard felt the pressure of the immense responsibility, and resolved not to prove unworthy to the great trust "com mitted to it. . Nothing could be more im posing than its movement to the assault. It had never recoiled before a human foe, and the allied forces beheld with awe its firm and steady advance to the final charge. For a moment the batteries stopped play ing, and the firing ceased along the Bri tish lines, as, without the beating of a drum or a bugle note to cheer their steady cour age, they moved in dread silence over the field. Their tread was like mufilled thun der, while the dazzling helmets of the cn riassier's flashed long streams of light be hind the dark and terrible mass that swept in one strong wave along. The stern Drou et was there, amid his guns, and on every brow was written an unalterable resolution to conquer or die. The next moment the artillery opened, and the head of that gal lant column seemed to sink into the earth. Rank after rank went down, yet they nei ther ' stopped: nor faltered. Dissolving squadrons and whole battalions disappear ing one after another in the destructive fire affected not their steady cou rage. The ranks closed up as before, and each tread-, ing over his fallen comrade, pressed un flinchingly on. ; ' S J : "The horse whicli Ney rode fell under him, and scarcely had he mounted another before it also" sank to the earth, and so an other and another till five had, been shot under himl ! Then, with drawn sabre, he marched sternly at "the head of his column. In vain did the artillery hurl its storm of iron into that living mass.'v Up to the ve ry muzzle they pressed, and driving ..the. artillery frcm their 'pieces, pushed on through the English lines. .' But just as the victory seemed won, a file of soldiers who laid flat on the ground, behind a low ridge of earth," suddenly rose and poured a" vol ley into their very face. ' Another and an other followed, till one broad sheet of flame rolled on their bosoms, and in such a fierce and unexpected flow, that they staggered before it. .Before the Guard had time to rally aain and advance, a heavy column of infantry fell on its left flank in close and deadly volleys, causing it in its unsettled state, to swerve to right. At that instant a whole brigade of cavalry thundered on the right flank, and penetrated where the -cavalry had never gone before. "That intrepid Guard could have borne up against the unexpected fire from sol diers they did not see, and would have rolled back the infantry that had boldly charged its left flank, out the cavalry fin ished the disorder into which they had Linden momentarily thrown, and broke the snafcerrranKa Detore they had time td re form, and the eagles of that hitherto in vincible Guard were pushed backward down the slope. It was then the Army, seized with . despair, shrieked out, 'The j Uuard recoils! Ihe (juard recoils! and turned and fled in wild dismay. To see the Guard in confusion was a sight they had never before beheld, and it froze every heart with' terror. "For a long time they stood and let the cannon balls plow through their ranks, dis daining to turn their backs on the foe. Michel, at the head of those battallions, fought like a lion. To every command of the eneiny to surrender, he replied, 'The Guard dies but never surrenders,' and with his last breath bequeathing this glo rious motto to the Guard, he fell a witness to its truth. Death traversed those eight battallions with such rapid footsteps that they soon dwindled away to two, which turned in hopeless daring on the over whelming .number thatpressed their re tiring footsteps. "Last of all but a single battallion, the debris of 'the column of granite' at Maren go, was left. Into this Napoleon flung himself. Cambronne, its brave comman der, saw the Emperor in its frail keeping. He was not struggling for victory, he was intent only on showing how the Guard should die. Approaching the Emperor, he cried out, 'retire ! Do you not see that death has no need of you V and closing mournfully yet sternl'- round the expiring eagles, those brave hearts bade Napoleon an eternal adieu, and, flinging themselves on the enemv, were soon piled with .the enemy at their feet. . - "Many of the officers were seen to des troy themselves rather than suffer defeat. Thus greater in its own defeat than any other corps of men in gaining a victory, &&xjLa vxuaru passed if oin its , sage"ana the curtain dropped upon its strange' ca reer. It had fought its last battle." Terrific Adventure in the Mammoth Cavo. At the supposed end of what has always been considered the longest avenue of the Mammoth Cave, nine miles from its en trance, there is a pit, dark and deep and terrible, known as the Maelstrom. Tens of thousands have gazed into it with awe whilst bengal-lights were thrown down it to make its fearful depths visible, but none ever had the daring to explore it. The celebrated guide Stephen, who was deem ed insensible to fear, was offered $000 by the proprietor of the Cave if he would de scend to the bottom of it, but he shrank from the peril. A few years ago, a Ten nessee professor, a learned and bold man, resolved to do what no man before him had dared do, and, making his arrangements with great care and precaution he had himself lowered down by a strong rope a hundred feet, but at that point his courage failed him, and he called aloud to be drawn out. No human power could ever have induced him to repeat the experi ment. A couple of weeks ago, however, a young gentleman of Louisville; whose nerves never trembled at mortal peril, be ing at the Mammoth Cave with Prof. Wright, of our city, and others, determin ed, no matter what the dangers and diffi culties might be, to explore the depths of the Maelstrom. Mr. Proctor, the enter prising proprietor" of the Cave, sent to Nashville and procured a long rope, of great strength, expressly for the.' purpose. The rope and some necessary timbers were borne by the guides and others to the point of the proposed exploration. . The arrange ments being soon completed, the . rope, with a heavy fragment of rock-affixed to it, was let down and swung to and fro to -7-, : ' 1 t-t dislodge any loose rocks that would;- De likely to fall at the touch. Several were thus dislodged, and the long continued re verberations, rising up like distant thun der from below, proclaimed the depth of. the horrid chasm. en the young nero of the occasion, with several hats , drawn over his head to, protect it as far as possi ble against any masses falling from above, and with a light in his hand and the rope fastened around his body, took his; place over the awful pit, and directed the half dozen 'men who held the end of the rope, to let " him down into the Cimmerian' gloom. ' " y ' - ' - . - . We have heard from" his own lips an ac count of his descent ; Occasionally masses of earth and rock went whizzing past,,but nonestruck", himThirty .or forty feet, from the top, he saw a ledge from which, as-he judged by appearances two or three avenues led off in different directions. About a hundred feet from the top, a cat aract from the side of the pit went rushing down the abyss, and," as he descended by the 6ide of the falling water and in the midst of the spray, he felt some apprehen- sion that his light would be extinguished,' but his care prevented this. He was land ed at the bottom of the pit, a hundred and ninety feet from the top. IIe found it- al most perfectly circular, about 18 feet in diameter, with, a small opening at one point, leading to a fine chamber of no great.extent. He found on the floor beau tiful specimens of black silex of immense size, vastly larger than were ever discov ered in any other part of Mammoth Cave, and also a multitude of exquisite formations as pure and. white as virgin 'snow. " Mak ing himself heard, with great eiff t, by his friends, he at length asked them to pull him partly up, intending to stop on the way ana explore a cave that he had ob- served opening about forty feet above the bottom of the pit. Reaching the mouth ot tnat cave, fie swung himself with much exertion into it. and holding the end of the rope in his hand, lie incautiously let it go, and it swung out, apparently beyond his reach. The situation was a fearful one ; and his friends above could do nothing for mm. boon, however, he made a hook of the end of his lamp, and, by extending mmseii as iar over tne verge as possible without falling, he succeeded in securing the rope. Fastening it to a rock, he fol- lowed tne avenue 150 or 200 yards to a point where he found it blocked by an impassable avalanche of rock and earth. Returning to the mouth of this avenue. he beheld an almost exactly similar month oi anouier on tlie opposite side ot the pit but, not being able to swing himself into it, he refastened the rope around his bod-; suspended himself again over the abyss, and shouted to his friends to raise him to the top. The pull was an exceedingly se vere one, and the rope, being ill adjusted around his bod-, gave him the most ex crutiating pain. But soon his pain was forgotten in a new and dreadful peril. When he was 90 feet from tlie mouth of the pit, and 100 from the bottom, swaying and swinging in the mid air, he heard rap id and exciting words of horror and alarm above and soon learned that the rope by which he was upheld, had taken fire from the friction of the timber over which it passed. Several moments of awful sus pense to those above and still more awful to him IkjIow ensued. To them and him a fatal and instant catastrophe seemed in- wun a Dome ot water : Deiongmg r to turn self, and then the party above, though al most exhausted by their labors, succeeded in drawing him to the top. He was as calm and self-possessed as upon his en trance into the pit, but all of his compan ions, overcome by fatigue, sank down up on the ground, and his friend, Prof. Wright, from over exertion and excite ment, fainted and remained for a time in sensible. The young adventurer left his name carved in the depths of the Maelstrom the name of the first and only person that ever gazed upon its mysteries. Louisville Journal. Sxivelization. Whithersoever we go we meet with the sniveler. lie stops us at the corner of the street to entrust us with his opinion. He fears that the morals and in telligence of the people are destroyed by the election ofj some rogue to office. He tells us just before church, that the last sermon of the transcendental preacher has given the death-blow to religion, and that the waves of atheism and the clouds of pantheism are to deluge and darken the land. Iu a time of general health, he speaks of the pestilence that is to be. The mail cannot be an hour too late, but he prattles of railroad accident and steam boat disasters. He fears that his friend, who was married yesterday, will be a bank rupt in a year, and whimpers over the tri als which he will then endure. He is rid den with an eternal nightmare, and emits an eternal wail. Recklessness is a bad quality, and so is blind and extravagant hope; but neither is so degrading as inglo rious and inactive despair. We object to the sniveler; because lie presents the an o maly ofa being who has the power of mo tion without possessing life. : Ilis insipid languor is worse than : timid strength. Better that a 'man should rant than whine. The person who- has no bounding' and bouyant feelings in him,: whose cheek ne ver": flushes at; anticipated7 good, whose blood never tingles and fires at the con templation of a noble aim,' who has no as piration and no great object in life, is on Jy fit for the hospital or the bandbox.' Enterprise, confidence, a disposition to be lieve that all good has been, : these consti tute important elements in the character of every man who is of use to the - world. We want no. wailing and whimpering about the5 absence of happiness, but a strong determination to; abate misery. Whipple. '.- :-. ' .-' At a festival, a pretty Miss waited upon an editor with a pie plate of "antique man ufacture," in the centre of which he' espied the following interesting couplet : .j b , , -'One-sweet kiss rs .'' Is the price of this.'r j ; -" ' This excited his feelings, and as soon as an opportunity presented itself; he motion ed the young lady to bL side, and pointed withvh'ig knife to, the' .lines and ? said : 'Your pay is ready when yon present your The Turn of Life. From forty to sixty, a man who has properly regulated himself may be considered as in the prime of life. His matured strength of constitution ren ders him almost impervious to the attacks of disease, and experience has given his judgment the soundness of almost infalli bility. His mind is resolute, firm, and equal ; all his functions are in the highest order, he assumes the mastery ' over busi ness ; builds up a competence to the foun dation he has laid in early manhood, ; and passes through a period of life attended by m any gr atifi cations:" Havrn g gone a yenr or two past sixty, he arrives at a critical period in the road of exisience, the river of death flows before him, and he remains " at a stand still. But athwart this river is a viaduct called "The Turn of Life," which, if crossed in safety, leads to the valley of "old age," round which the river winds and then flows beyond without boat or causeway to effect its passage. The bridge , is, however, constructed of fragile mate rials, and it depends upon how" it is trod den, whether it bend or break. Gcut, ap oplexy, and other bad characters also are in the vicinity to waylay the traveller, and thrust him from the pass; but let. him gird up his loins and provide himself with a fit ting staff, he may trudge on in safety with perfect composure. To quit metaphor, "The Turn of Life" is a turn either into a prolonged walk or into the grave. The system and powers having reached their utmost expansion," now begin either to close like flowers at sunset, or break down at once. One injudicious stimulant a single fatal excitement, may force it be yond its strength whilst a careful supply" of props, and the withdrawal of all that tends to force a plant, will sustain it in beauty and in vigor until night has entire ly set in. Reiiaiikable Works of Human Labor. Niuevah was fifteen miles long, eight wide and forty miles round, with a wall one hundred feet high, and thick enough for three chariots abreast. Babylon was fifty miles within the walls, which were seventy-six feet thick and one hundred high, within fifty brazen gates. The tem ple of Diana at Ephesus, was four hundred and twenty feet to the support of the roof. It was a hundred years in building. The largest of the pyramids was four hundred ' and' eig$?y and fifty-three on the sides ; its oase - coy ered eleven acres. The stones are about sixty feet in length, and the layers are two hundred and eight'. It employed 330,000 men in building. The labyrinth in Egypt presents ruins twenty -seven miles round, and one hundred gates. Carthago was twenty-nine miles round. Athens was twenty-five miles round and contained 320, 000 citizens and 400 slaves. " The temple of Delphos was so rich in donation that it was plundered of 50,000,000, and Nero carried away from it two hundred and ninety statues. The walls of Rome were thirteen miles round. Scott Clubs in Massachusetts. The Boston Post gravely assertsHhat a niove ment is on foot for the organization of po litical .clubs in various locations, for bringing forward Geueral Winfield Scott as a candidate for the Presidency 1SG0. It is stated that ample funds are provided and that it is the intention to run him as the people's candidate. fggPIt is said that the editor of the Chronicle soon after commencing to learn the printing business, went to see a preach er's daughter. The next time he attended a meeting, he was considerably astonish ed at hearing the minister announce as his text--"Jly daughter is grievously tor mented with the devil." Gentleman to a boy driving a donkey : , 'Say, boy, clear outtof the way ; my horse can't bear a donkey.' - 'Can't he? Why don't he kick you off, then?', . v ' . ' Exit gentleman, in a hurry ears po lite, not relishing vulgar conversation. "Sam, why am lawyers, like de fishes?"- .- Y. . . vv: :,.-: : "I don't meddle - wid dat subject, -Pomp." - v 3 - ' fWhy, don't you see nigger, kaze dey am so fond ob de bate'." . . ; A Caphal Retort.- 'I knew Mr. Lin-' coin in early life ; he commenced his life as a "grocer Douglas. The only difference between Judge Douglas andmys3lf on the grocery ques tion is, that -while I have stood on one side Of the counter,-he has been equally attentive on the other.' ; ; . . ' . "--." Lincoln. Pedagogue "Well, sir, what does h-a-w x , spell" Boy "Don't know." Pedagogue ''What have you got on your head ? , . Yyoy "I guess it's a skeeter bite it icbes like thunder.".; v Jo . :'v.- Portland, Me., Sept. 25.- Coh John-... ( son,-Democrat, who came here from - Bel- . fast! to-day, claims his election in j the 3d -; Congressional District, and says his oppo- . nents cannot count him down, below 22 majority. ; "" 1 (i 15 I', 11 1 . f il .a t i jk'. i iV . -" - i
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