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SCOTLAND NECK, N.C, THURSDAY, APRILS, 1883.
NO. 34.
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Mai.ufucruri-.i2 Cfc!a. PHILADELPHIA,
i t K N E R A L 1) I R E C T U R Y
l'OTIiA.l
May ov W A. Dunn.
Ci iiiniissiov-erfj Noah Biggs, J. R. Bal
lard. K. M. Johnson. J. Y. Savasre.
Meet first Tucsdav in each month at 4
o'clock, P M. '
Chief of Police G W. Dunn.
Assistant Policemen A. David. 1
Shields. ('. F. .Speed, bol. Alexander.
Treasurer II M Johnson.
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To daily meet with those I love, to know
they love me too,
To be convinced by w ords and deeds their
love for me is true ;
To daily work for those 1 love, and work
ing thus to have.
To EARN enough for bodily wants, a lit
tle o'er to save ;
And saving thus to save enough, the
minds to feed as well.
That w e mid music, books, and flowers,
in leisure houis may dwell:
And dwelling thus, to daily learn some
thing before unknown,
(Not slatflers vile or gossips tales) but
that rich 'lore alone
Which to the mind a wider range extends
each pa-sing day :
Tho roanniig o'er new field of thought
I would s.) pick my way
o study fellow mortal's weal, so kind
ly be and act,
That to my home a circle wide of friends
1 could attract.
And learning too. perhaps I'd know, or
better understand
Why troubles form a part of every life
that tiod has planned,
Whst's understood is!sicr borne,
'twould mar it so much less.
If we knew wht. God thwarts our plans
in search of happiness,
i I ask not exemption here, from trouble,
pain or woe.
; t feel mv Maker cares for me, and even
i now I know
! -unshine can't do the work of ram : of
heat rain gives no treasure ;
.'leasure can't do the work of pain, nor
pain the work of pleasuie,
?oth to us will bear some gain Experi
ence Wisdom Health.
VYi'.hout both the ore would hide in many j
MINUS of wealth.
:iut 1 ask that this great truth that "God
does what is best'
lay on my mind forever be indelibly im
pressed. Without the light which this belief, casts
o'er the varied scenes
Through which we pass trou birth to
death, we lack the only means
Of finding Happiness always alike through
night or day,
For night will come, when nought but
Faith avails to light the way.
Former $ Mechanic. ..
CHURCHES
GRAY, THE HERALD OF A NEW DAWS.
BY THE REV I &TIERMAN. D.D.
Thomas Gray, as noticed in a pre
vions article, was intimately connect
ed with the tne of literature that
"t! .. t-Z . T T II il . t rv T-k '
Services every Sunday at 11 o'clock. A.! lls or,Sin m the Restoration.
M., and at 7. P. 31. Also on Saturday j Drvden and Pope, the high priests of
tt'Jr'lrJ; K imoll.-ctual rtevel,0t. were
night. Sunday School n Sabbath morn-1 his models. With, their clearness of j to
i i. ...... l,. t, ,. . .. .,,1 ..-!.., . . . i .;.,. ,l
LiiiKUiiiu, rirguiie ut tr-, aim itioLc j v.mOT iuu , inr 'inciiuic in iiuiicu
ibr classic literature he was in entire
and Sundav morning. ; .sympathy.
Methodist Iiev. C. W. Byrd, Paster, i Ht, unlike n.ost of his associates
This profouurter current in Pnglish
literature is traceable far back : in
fact its flow was never entire! inter
rupted by the dominant literature at
the Restoration. Simple English was
banished from high places, but in ob
scure and neglected regions it con
tinued to flow through all that period
in many a sparkling and musical rill
to freshen and beautifj- the garden of
humbler society. In that marvelous
pnse poem, "The Pilgrim's Progress,"
Bunvan, in his simple, idiomatic style,
his sense of the pure and beautiful,
and his sympathy with men. antici
pated the age in w hie Si we have the
!(ocd fortune to live. Long neglect
ed by trie elite of literature, the genius
of Bunj'au was a crystal spring,
which--the- Philistines of -the --Court
were never quite able to clos up.
The true successor of the Bedford
dreamer was Defoe, whose sympa
thies were invariably ranged on the
popular side, and whose felicitious
fictions more facinate the rea'der than
the most attractive histories, i hese
men of superb genius did something
to hold in honor the people's English
in d:iys when it was despised and
spit upon by the lordly masters of
the Restoration. In spiie of contempt
ami aspersion, -they fought their way
to recognition, and to-day the produc
tions of even the proudest of their
enemies appear mean beside "Pil
grim's Progress" and Robinson
Crusoe.'' The one dealt in beauty
of form, which passes away ; ti e other
in substance, which endures.
By some the place of honor, us the
precursor of the modern age, would
be accorded to Thompson, the au
thor of "The Seasons," rather thati
Gray- But Thompson belongs es
sentiady to the Restoration period,
He wrote, indeed, in a simple, ele
gant st-le, and with a genuine
though not profound, appreciation ol
nature. His pictures of scenery
Loften striking and beautiful, are a
play on the surface ; the color does
not penetrate the material, and gives
one little idea of .the. substance be
low. Like all those of theClassic
Period, his pictures are objective and
distant. The autobiographic element
so pleasing in Cowper and Words
worth, is entirely wanting in them
lu reading his descriptions the sou
never warms and "lows. He is clear
and elegant, but it is the clearness
ana ek-g-.nce' of a white cloud or an
aurora whose corruscations suggest
distance and a rigorous climate. But
in reading Gray's -Llegv" you begin
golw and ethuse ; the author
Primitive Baptist Eld. Andrew .Moore.
ialor Services every third Saturday j
Services at :) o'clock, P. M on the second j anf compeers, Gray sustained impor
ana fotirtn Sundays. Sunday School on , . ,
11... llfnV Kl,...,l .wl ww,n .n,'f-li
'i -nits iftvu tilt; un uvt nun net muu
!ns own tears.
The position of Byron is, in some
Sabbath moi i
Episcopal Kev. II. G. Hilton, Rector.
S.-rvices every liit, second and third
Sundays ut I. o'clock, A. M. Sunday
School every Sabbath morning.
Meeting of Pible class on Thursday
night at the residence of Mr. P. E. Smith.
Baptist (colored.) George Norwood.
Pastor. Services every second Sundav
atli o'clock. A. M.. and 7, P. M. Sun
day School on Sabbath morniug.
o
Superior Court Clerk and Probate
Judge John T. Gregory.
Inferior Court-Geo. T. Simmons.
Register of Deeds J. M. Grizzard.
Solicitor A. J. Burton.
Sheriff R. J. lewis.
Coroner J II Jenkins.
Treasurer E. D. Browning.
Co. Supt. Pub. Instruction D C Clark.
Keeper of the Poor House John Ponton.
Commissioners Chairman, Aaion Pres
cott, Sterling Johnson, Dr. W. R.
Wood, John A. Mortleet,. and M.
Whitehead.
Superior Court Every third Monday
in March and September.
Inferior Court Every third Monday in
February. May. August and November.
Judge of Inferior Court T. N. Hill.
taut relations to the future as well as
lo the past. He was the John the
Baptist of toe incoming poetie dis
pensation, with its freshness and
spirit, with its flavor of nature and
respects, imilar to that of Gray;
though h. did much to' hasten the
revolution in English poetry, he
never came into full' sympathy.witu
ihe new movement. "None of the
writers of this period,", says "Macau
sympathy with man in his higher and p not even Sir W? alter Scott, con.
nobler aspirations. If he failed to! tributed so much to the consumma
comprehend the full s guiticance of t;on as LofU Bvron : vet he contriba
the modern perio;t, he gave expressive
j intimation of the impending change.
Old things were waxing feebly and
were ready to vanish away ; new ideas
and methods were coming to take
their place. Jf mist amdouds still
obscured the sky, the dawn was kin
dling on the horizon affording promise.
as the century rolled on disclosing
ts wealth of literary genius,, of the
tall-orbed and glor ous day! With
Gray the revolution was not so much
a perception or knowledge as ar in
stiuct. He rather felt than saw the
great future that was bursting upon
him. The "Elegy" was a lark-song
a mouthful, as it were, of liquid mel
ody .prophet icof the advancing chorus
that was to fill the Euiglish world
with its music.
The transition from the classic to.
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ted u it unwillingly and with' self-
reproach and shame. All his "incli
nations and tastes led him. to . take
part with the school of poetry that
was goinz out against. the school
which was coming in. Of Pope he
spake with ex ravagant admiration."
He, in fact, belonged to both the old
and new schools. With tastes for
tne one, he was, like Gray-, drifted
toward the other. In his best poetry
Byron is autobiographic. You fee
the man with his spleen and misan-
throplry ; you hear his wails and are
horrified at his curses. (, Extract this
personal element aud the charm of
his writings will have disappeared.
In a word, Byron came only late to.
a position atained by Gray a half a
century before. ;
But the first to- emerge consciouslv
pear in his writings. Gray was the
Mosts who had marched across the
dert, and came in full view of the
Promised Land ; Cowper was the
Joshua who bravely crossed the flood
and displayed his banner on the
other side. The stream once passed,
an army of fellow poets marched in
to obtain full possession of the dis
covered territory ; Burns, that magic
child of Scotland, who gave voice
to the humbles., things; Goldsmith,
an innocent abroad ; B.ron, an in
spired demoniac ; Sir Walter Scott,
"the wizzard of the North ;" Cam
pbell, Moore, Rogers, :tnd, above all
that Big Thunderer. Wordsworth,
with his "Lake Pocs," including
Coleringe, Southey, lie Quincey, and
Wrilson, a magnificent band, who
joieed in the chorus of the new song.
What the meek and undoubting
Joshua was unable t no, was ac
complished by these princes , of "the
vision of the faculty divine." They
went through the length and breadth
of the land ; they put the Philistines
to tribute, and detroed the sons of
Anak.
Without stopping here to charac
terize these individual writers, it may
be proper to notice the broad lines of
distinction between the new school
and the old. In place of the classi
cal themes cherished by the poets of
the Restoration, the new regime, like
the older bards of Chaucer's and
Queen Bess' times, turned with ar
dent sympathy to nature. But it
was nature in her broader and com
mon aspects, as well as in her mar
velous forms. Cowper sang of the
prosiest matters the sofa, the old
clock behind the door, the garden.
One of his tenderest pieces is that on
his mother's picture, in which his
ever-sad life is strangery interwoven
with the memories of his mother.
Wordsworth glorified out door nature.
JJnder the magic touch of his pen
field and forest, river side and lake,
the dusty roadway and meadow take
on freshness and beauty. Until one
reads these modern revelations he
hardly realizes how inlaid with
beauty are the vulgar things about
him. Rufus Choate, the great advo
cate, the 'elegant ssholar, on goinyc
into the countiy exciaimed, "The
common, things, after all, are the
Lbest." So thought our poets, anu
their office was to open their excel
lencies to untutored eyes and unin
spired brains.
iut with our modern poets nature is
animate with beast, bird, fish, insect ;
above all, with man, the under lord
of this ter-estrial paradise. The
Restoration literature magnifies titled
men, the upper class, the elite, and
makes them honorable ; the new learn
ing recognizes the people. In the age
of" Drvden there were no people
After lifting their heads for a moment
under the commonwealth, the return
ing Stuarts scornfully trample them
under foot. None of the great writers
of the period add.essed a general j
public; they wrote for the coterie.
But with Gray a change began, and
all after Cowper addressed them
selves to the great mortem democra
cy. The people's English takes the
place of the King's.
Again, under the old school, form
took precedence of substance ; under
the new, the substance is set forth in
a style borrowed from the old and
improved. The older poc ts were cold,
haughty, supercilious, often scoffing
at the most sacred things : the new
are warm, gentle, and reverent. The
arctic winter which prevailed during
the age of Dryden and Pope was soft
ened b' the warm wave which swept
over England in the eighteenth cen
tury. The religious revival was like
the breath of Spring, which brings
oreenness to the fields and fills the
eroves with ttie music of birds. A7.
Y. Christian Advocate.
the ro . antic or modern period in thejami of get purpose into the ne
uisiory oi our literature was rather
gradual than abrupt. The periods
like the geological age's overlap each
other ; eo that, long before we reach
the closeif one, we have intimations
in the stream of tendency, or occa
sional flashes of genius, of our ap
proach to the other.. Though unaware
of the significance of his position and
work, Gray.ffa.fUkii of' Ihe
modern erai With Ms eye mt st; fre
buentlr turned to the" pas V be was
borne by a deep Wlerqurrerit to the
very borders of a more glorious future.
w age
of English poetry was William Cow
per, who despised the lauguid man
ner, "the creamy smoothness," and
the meretricious ornamentation of
the classic school. He turned from
form to substance. Instead of class
ical subjects, he glorified, by the cor
ruscations of his genius,, the things
of common life. In deep and tender
sympathy with nature, he. infused in
to his descriptions his own spirit. The
poems became, as it were, passages
in his own biography. AH the chief
characteristics of ihe new school ap-
x -
CHINESE AND AMERICANS- A CHAP-
- TER OF CONTRARIETIES.
BY THE REV. SELAH BROWN.
On the opposite side of the globe
from America is a nation of people
who are not only our antipodes in
geographical position, but they differ
from us in a multitude of ways. Not
only re they asleep when we are
awake; not only is their midnight
our noonday, and their sunset oar
amusing chapter. Perhaps, howtver,
we ought to remember, whenwe call
them a peculiar people, that they
call us the same, and say tha. we are
the ones that do things contrariwise.
Still, to us they are a very odd peo
ple.
We shake hands as a salutation ;
a Chinaman shakes hands with him
self ; that is, he stands at a distance,
and, clasping both hands together,
lie shakes them up and down at yon
a good idea when one thinks or"
the numerous skin diseases among
them. Instead of saying. "Good
morning," or "How do you do ?" they
say, "How old are you ?" or "Have
you eaten your rice ?" We uncover
the head as a mark of respect ; they
keep their heads covered, but take
of their shoes as a matter of polite
ness. We shave the face ; they shwe
the head and e3'e-brows. We have
the patriarchal beard before : they
have the long "pigtail" behind. We
cut our finger nails ; they consider it
quite aristocratic to have nails from
three to five inches long, which they
are obliged to protect in silver cases.
When broken on, tnev are used aa
medicine.
In matt rs of dress John China
man finishes where the rest of man
kind b gin. His waistcoat is out
side his coat, and his drawers outside
his pants. We blacken our shoes;
he whitens them. Our ladies com
press thp waist; theirs the feet. Our
women -.ear long dresses; theirs
long sleeves. In China the men
earry the fans, and the women wear
the trousers.
In eatinc, their customs are m
striking contrast with ours. We
have soup as a first course, and des
sert at last ; they have dessert at
first, and soup at last. They ignore
knife and fork and spoon, and eat
with two "chop-sticks," both helrt in
the right hand. They abominate
beef, milk, butter, and cheese ; but
eat puppies, cats, rats, bird's nests.
shark's fins, and snails. Americans
want their wines ice-told ; the
Chinese drink theirs scalding hot. In
our laud we drink our beautifully
colored "Young Hyson ;" in the lanri
of tea they leave out the indigo and
Prussian blue, and wonder at the de
praved taste that demands "doctored
tea." They not only leave off the
coloring, but always leave out the
milk and sugar.
Their Looks are also quite dissimi
lar to ours. Theirs begin just where
ours end. We read in lines ; they
in columns We read horizontally
from left lo right ; they perpendicu
larlv. from top to bottom. Our foot
notes are on the bottom of the page
theirs on the top. Wc print on bot
sides of the leaf; they on only one
but their leaves are always double
We set our volumes up on end in otn
libraries ; they lay th;irs down. W
print with metal type ; ti e with
wooden blocks. In writing we use a
pen ; they a brush. We hold our
jten obliquely ; they perpendicularly.
Our ink is a fluid ; theirs a tiara
cake. Their language has no alpha
bet. Tne written language is not
spoken, and the spoken language is
not written. Two men can converse
in writing when they cannot under
stand a word of each other in speak
ing " A Chinese school is a perfect
Babel. The pupils study out loud,
each one at the top of his voice, and
all cX once. Wnen a scholar recites
he turns his back to the teacher.
This they call "oat king the lesson "
In America, young people pretYr
to do their own courting, an l tu-o-ao-eraeuts
for marriage are made by
the parties most concerned. In
China, the parents, with the help of
"go-betweens," select husbands and
wives for their children, and the
parties often never s e each other
Uill the wedding is over. After mar
riage, instead of a wedding trip, the
bride is sdut up as a priso ler in her
husband's home, and does not go out
for a month. In China, wives are
always sold; in America, soimtime.s
the husband gets " sold."
In China, the funeral customs are
often directly the reverse of ours. In
our country, a codin would not be
considered a very appropriate pres
ent ; in the "Flowery Kingdom," a
coffin is often given to a parent or a
or bench. We go in silence to the inviting the mother to go as company,
grave; they with great noise and or leaving her at home to enjoy un-
confusion. We deposit our dead in molested a much-needed season of
ceme eries ; with them each family quiet. In suitable weather a portion
has its sparate place of sepulture, of the day may be profitably spent
We bury in the earth; they on it nit of doors. There is nothing in the
surface. We put our inscriptions on 'xample or teachings of Christ
the top of a coffin ; thev on the end. nothing in the nature of HU religion.
We choose a shady place for burial ; :t God's requirements, or of man's "
mt no shadow must ever fall on s needs which declare that the Sab-
Chinese grave. With us, black cloth oath can only be kept holy in doors.
ing is a badge of mourning; witl It is to be honored and hallowed, but
them, white garments indicate the 'ts highest observance is a ministra-
oss of friends. I ;.ion to man's highest needs. We hone
But where shall we end this chap md believe that the. day will never
ter of contraries and oddities? In I jome whea Sundav will be seculariz-
that land of opposites it is the ol j d or turned into a gay holiday in
men that fly kites, play marbles. I America, as it is in Europe ; but the
walk on stilts, and play shuttle-cock : progress made toward, a rational
and to keep up their old .way o Christian enjoyment of the day with-
doing things they play the latter witl n tne past fifty years, shows that the
their feet, instead of their hands. In superiority of man to the institution,
China, women do men's work, and ts proclaimed by the Savior, is coal
men are the milliners, dressmakers, iug to be apprehended. Ex.
and washerwomen. With as the
right hand is the place of honor ;
with them it is the left hand. In
dating l iters we place the year last :
they write the year first. Instead o
of saving, "North-east" or "South
west," they sav "East-north" and
Wrest-south." They always speak
of the mariner's compass (their own
invention) as pointing to the south
tiere. a motuer snows ner aneeuon
for her child by kissing it ; a Chinese
mother smells of it. e locate the
intellect in the brain; the- in the
stomach. We pay our physician
when we are sick ; they pay the doc
tor while thev are well, but as soon
as they get sick the pay stops. Here,
men kill their enemies in revenge ; t
Chinaman gets "sweet revenge" b
killing himself. Thev mount
horse from the right side, and when
they want him to go they say
Wrhoa." The men ride side wise,
and the women astride. We usi
lanterns in a dark night ; they earn
more lanterns at full moon than at
anv other time. VTe place
candle in a candlestick ; they pu
the candlestick in the candle. Theii
detectives sound a 'torn torn at
night to give thieves and rogues-
notice of their coming. We ride in
railroad cars; they in wheelbarrows.
We draw canal boats with horses;
they with men. W e sell wood b
measure , they by weight. We vac
cinate in the arm ; they in the nose.
We use a soft pillow ; .they a block
of wood. Our store signs are hori
zontal ; theirs are perpendicular.
They launch ships sidewise, ring
bells from the outside, and actually
turn their screws in the opposite di
rection from ours.
MAKE FRIENDS.
Young man, let us give you a hint,
duke friends. Do not play the dem
agogue, now or ever.but make friends.
l)o not have an enemy in the world
if you can honestly avoid it. Any
.'riend is a good thing to have, even
if it is a frian lly neighbor's dog. Do
iiot fawn, or bend your self-respect,
jr s ;crifice a principle, but act on the
principle that it is your duty a God
requiring duty to produce all the
lappiness in the world of which you
ire capable. What will the result bef
First that you will be happy and bet
er yourself. A man that is all the
ime trying to do good very rapidly
rows to be a very good man. Second
ly, it will give you business success
md promotion. A young man who
las cultivated the friend-making
spirit and manner is a treasure to
ny business house ; and if in busi
less for himself it gives him great
advantage over competitors. 4$ut
inhere is a class of young men who
ire so fortunately situated in life
oliat the- do not fuel the necessity for
personal popularity, and yet it is
uiglily important and deairable to
Jiem as to any others. It is impor
:ant as vastly increasing their in-
.luence for good. It is desirable be-
:j.use in a country of free institution.
; ike' ours, the choisest minds are not
content with success in business and
,,he accumulation of wealth. There
are honors and pleasures of the most
jxquisite quality which wealth can
no more purchase than it can pur
chase heaven. Let a man win such
a place in the confidence and affection
of the public that his fellow citizens
will, in emergencies, turn to him as
to a tower of strength, and ask the
HOW TO SPEND SUNDAY AFTERNOON. 'se of his name for a position of great
honor and trust ; and though he may
It mav be safely said that a person be unwilling to accept political pre-
whose brain is wearied with intellect- lerraem. ne m i. u .t .1
ual work during the week, or whose duty to them to do so, but he will
nervous system is exposed to the have plucked the orightest and sweet-
train of business or professional life, est nower 01 earuny nappiness. ma
ought to sleep, within an hour or two
after his Sunday's dinner, if he can.
It is surprising how muc h like a seven
day clock a brain will wpik, if the
habit of a "Sunday nap" be formed.
Nature will take advantage of it as
reg larly and gratefully as she does
the night y sleep, and do her best to
make up lost tim People, on the
oMier baud, whose wceli of toil is
chiefly physical, may well give their
mind activity, while their body is
resting. Two se. mohs and three or
four hours solid reading are a real
rest io some on Sundav. while to
some such a course amounts to posi
tive Sabbath-breaking. Sunday is a
day of rest not a day of work, re
ligious or otherwise ; it is a day for
rerose uot for exhaustion. But
what the dogmatist on one side and
ihe illibt rals on the other are apt to
overlook is the fact that all men do
nrit rest alike any more than they la
bor alike, and what will help to save
one nnv aid in killing another. After
the Sunday dinner, ther., one should
seek rest, innocent recreations, help
ful happiness, sleep, or re:.d. or go
and help instruct and interest a
mission school, or visit the x'h k and
suffering, according to mr nreds
and your gifts. We Americans havn't
yet fullv learned the art of domestic
pniovment. anv more than the law of
friends for your own better nature's
sake ; make friends for the extension
of vour influence for good; make
friends for the good of your fellow
citizens and your countrj'. It cannot
be done in a day. A man must make
a good friend to others of himself be
fore he can make good friends to
himself of others. A needless offense
to another does not die. It is nearly
iii-possible to kill it, and it is sure to
turn up at some wrong time :
For if we do but watch the hour,
There neyer yet was human power '
That could escape, if unforgivea,
The patient search ami vigil long,
Of him who treasures up a wrong.
' Sdected.
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service to others. More men ouiiht
friend, while they are yet in per feet' to relieve their wives of the sole care
sunrise; but their peculiar manners health. This is kept in the house of young children onun, P,
and eccentric cu&toms form a very ! for yews, and ofUo used as a table.taking town out to walk or ride, aad
Br virtue of an order of IlaJifix Su
perior Court made at Spring Term,
188.1. in the cause therein pendiig be-
tween g'-lo Garibaldi and others, as
plauitirts. and Win. 11. Randolph as de- ,
fondant. I shall proceed to sell at public
auction at the Court House m HaJa
on Monday. hv 7th day of May A.
I) lS.:r that valuable tract of land situ
ated in Halifax c-mnty. X. C. lying on
Roi'uoke River at Pollock s terry, form
i.rly bi loimiii r to Thomas P. Dewraux,
deceased, "known as the Ferry Conoco,
narv ' tract, and containing about two
thousand aci s of laud. Parties desiring
to invest h laud would do well to exatu-n-e
t;r'.-; rr-ci before se. . ,
'T-iti.s: One half cash. Batance.ia
two'eonal ias. ailments, payable January
specrivelv. Ttfl retained
nurfhiirip mowv is paid.
given Jan uury 1st. i SS I. ' rtli
For furfhi-r particulars, apply to MuU.
lenMocrMN"
April a, 1SS3.-p31
til! all of
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