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MrB. Fidelia Fapa, who ia visiting
friends in Cleveland, is the widow of
the famous Dario Papa, one of the
founders of the new Republican, party
in Italy and the owner and editor of
Zi'Italia Popolo, one of the foremost
papeis in Italy and the organ of the
Republican party.
Miss Trill "I love to hear the birds
sing." Jack Downright (warmly)
"So do I. They never attempt a
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' The Caretaker.
I Caretaker Is a word aJopted into raodsra
use aud moans one who takes care of, audi
'ia very geuerully applied to those employed
to tafcd care of things committed to their
. keeping. The way some people have of tak
ing care of themselves is very suggestive
"of tha need of a caretaker. The human
tody to such Is a mansion filled with
Ipreuious things uncared for, where thieves
jinay break in and rust doth corrupt. Pains
-aad aiilies are thieves, aud the body left un
jCared for to their spoilage will be robbed of
all its comforts and despoiled of its peace
of yftiind and happiness. It is a bappy
thught to look upon St. Jacobs Oil as a
yftretaker, to employ it as a, watchman
fcgafust such intruders. There is hardly an
nohe, from a toothache to a toeache, that
it can't take care of and effect a cure, and
pains the most violent are conquered by its
use. Its office as a caretaker is to prevent
the spread of aches and pains into a chronic
stage Keep a bottle of it in the handiest
place and be assured of good care and coin-
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Dre than 5000 ca'
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the sum of one hundred dollars forSXft?"
a ti 1 pvpru paeA tf riTiRRH that. rn.nni.4. uu
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r Hall's Family Pills are the best.
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Sovereigns were usually styled "Highness."
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!will make a sickly child strong and healthy;
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Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
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!2Jew Year's Eve, is called Hogmanay.
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tiess aiter tirst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
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! Before he preaches a sermon Dr. Parker,
of the City Temple, London, takes a cold
feath.
! Mrs. Winslow's Soothinoj Syrup for children
: teething, softens the gums, reduces intiamma
iiou, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c.a bottle.
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' The longest tunnel in the world is in
(Hungary. It goes under ground for over
itn miles.
Chew Star Tobacco The Best.
Smoko gledge Cigarettes.
. A butcher in Morrisville, Vt., kills all hi?
Icattle by stating them with a rifle.
: I have found Plso's Cure for Consumption
;sn unfailing medicine. F. R. Lotz, 1305 Scott
jSt, Covington, Ky., Oct. 1. 18!i.
j" In England one woman in every sis earns
her own living. .
f Don't anoint the cuticle, but use Glenn's
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iKill's Hair & Whisker Dve. black or brown.50c.
Look out for colds
At this season. Keep
Your blood pure and
Rich and your system
.Toned up by taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla. Then
You will be able to
Resist exposure to which
- A. debilitated system
Would quickly yield.
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SEEMONS OF THE DAY.
RELIGIOUS TOPICS DISCUSSED BY
PROMINENT AMERICAN MINISTERS.
"Christian Cheerfulness" Is the Title of
the Eighth Sermon In the X. Y. llerald'g
Competitive Series By a Brooklyn
Minister Dr. Talmace on Home Life.
Text: "Eejoiee in the Lord always: and
again I say, Kejoice. rhilippiaus, iv., 4.
What is so common among men as the
disposition to see only the dork side of the
events of life? Many of us have a tendency
to exaggerate our ills which amounts al
most to melancholia 1 If it is not -always
high tide in our course of fortune we sink
into a condition of morbid despair. We are
too apt to forget that In nature the tide
must fall as well as rise. We do not realize
that it is the part of wisdom to make the
best use of the opportunities we have. We
compare our circumstances with-tnose of
others who are more fortunate and brood
over "the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune."'
The tenden-jy to dwell upon our ills grows
with time. In the beginning it -can be
checked easily, but in time it becomes like
a torrent gaining impetus with its descent,
until it is beyond control. Now and then
we receive the sad news that one whom we
esteemed as upright and godly has allowed
this morbid tendency to obtain such head
way that it unseats the reason and with it
the sense of moral responsibility. Then we
learn of the self-destruction of such a one
and we are not surprised. It was almost
the inevitable consequence of a false, one
sided view of life that ia supported by
neither common sense nor religion.
With reference to the character of the
mind men may be divided into the matter
of fact and the exaggerative. While the
former are liable to be unsettled and dis
contented occasionally, the latter are apt
to be so as a rule, because their minds, be
ing imaginative, create for themselves
ideals which they seldom, if ever, attain.
Nevertheless, the normal condition of life
is one of cheerfulness. God teaches us
this in nature, which, as a rule, is bright
with sunshine, gay with color and filled
with joyous sounds. Laughter and song,
harmony and beauty are the radiant fig
ures of that living picture whereby our
Heavenly Father points out to each the
road to happiness. It is the desire of
every earnest man to please God. There
is no better way to do so than by showing
ourselves satisfied with what He gives us.
A preacher once said: "We do not please
God more by eating bitter aloes than by
eating honey. A cloudy, foggy, rainy day
is not more heavenly than a day of sun
shine. A funeral march is not so much
like the music of angels as the songs of
birds on a May morning. There is no
more religion in the guant, naked forest
in winter than in the laughing blossoms of
the spring and the ripe, rich fruits of au
tumn." '
How few cultivate a sunny disposition!
How fflw mnk nn AfTnrl: tn hn honrfnl
vhen they feel unhappy! There are some
tJie hard lines of whose faces never break
jVto a "smile. There are others who know
oily that mirth which is provoked by arti
neyal means, such as a Joke or a ridiculous
jnttident. Some are cheerful only when
theY have driven a good bargain. You all
knoy the business smile worn by those who
are jinxions to gain your good will or your
neonlefrhr wortr r nTfcsk of cheerfulness
for the outer world anlTa&ask of terror
for their homes.
Little do they who go through ISat
isfled and cheerless know how mueiThey
lose of that which is sweetest in humai?
perience. Not only thov but all with whon
they come in contact are robbed of a Dor-
tion of the blessing of existence. We owe
It to our families, our friends, in fact to all
our fellow men, as well as to ourselves, to
make brighter, not gloomier, this human
life. St. Paul's example shows that even
in distressing circumstances cheerfulness
is possible. His injunction, "Kejoice inthe
Lord," was literaliy obeyed by himself.
The consistent Christian must be cheer
ful. Even when the knowledge of his sin
fulness weighs heaviest upon him he be
lieves that God is forgiving and merciful.
The bitterness of his sorrow is sweetened
by the promises of God. The gloom of his
soul Is illumined by the light of God's love.
However forbidding the darkness by which
he is surrounded, however great the suffer
ing to which he is subjected, however mer
cilessly the hand of misfortune may tight
en its grip, he knows he shall be higher in
the esteem of his God and more fit for his
destiny if, with patience and a cheerful
heart, he bears these things. The conso
lations of his religion will never fail him if
he appeals to them. Gloomy Christianity
is a misrepresentation. However well
meaning those may be who dwell only on
the sufferings of Christ, only on the wrath
of God and the punishment of sin, they do
God an injustice and teach only half the
truth. There is nothing to gain from such
a repulsive presentation of religion. It is
not natural, necessary nor fair to our follow
men to minimize those features of our re
ligion that God has made most prominent.
There is a bright side which it is of the ut
most importance to emphasize in order to
win men to religion. The dawn of redemp
tion and the joy of spiritual triumph for
ever obliterated the sorrows of Calvary.
The justice, mercy and love of God irradi
ate prismatic light on the sombre picture
of sin and judgment. James B. Nies,
Iiector Church of the Epiphany, Brooklyn,
N. Y,
HOME LIFE;
Dr. Talmage Preaches On the Cares of the
Household.
Text: "Lord, dost Thou not care that
my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid
her, therefore, that she help me." Luke
x.,40.
Yonder is a beautiful village homestead.
The man of the hou.se is dead, and his
widow is taking chargo 'of the premises.
This Is the widow, Martha of Bethany.
Yes, I will show you also the pet of tho
household. This is Mary, the the younger
sister, with a book under her arm, and her
face having no appearance of anxiety or
care. Company has come. Christ stands
outside the door, and, of course, Jhere is a
prood deal of excitement inside the door.
Tho disarranged furniture is hastily put
aside, and the hair Is brushed back and
the dresses are adjusted as well as, in so
short a time, Mary and Martha can attend
to these matters. They did not keep
Christ standing at the door until they had
elaborately arranged their tresses, then
coming out with their affected surprise, as
though they had not heard the two orthroe
previous knockings, saying: "Why, is
that you?" No. They were ladies, and
were always presentable, although they
may not have always had on their best, for
non of us always has on our best; if we
did, our best would not be worth having
on. They throv7 open the door and greet
Christ. They say: . "Good morning. Mas
ter; come in and be seated." Christ did
not come alone; He had a group of friends
with Him. and such an influx of city visi
tors would throw any country home into
perturbation. I suppose also the walk
from the ci'ty had been a good appetizer.
The kitchen department that day was a
very important department, and I suppose
that Martha had no sooner greeted the
guests thnn sho fled to that room. Mary
had no 'worriment about household affairs.
Khe had full confidence that Martha could
get up the best dinner in Bethany. She
seems to say: "Now, let us have a division
of labor. Martha, you cook, and I'll sit
down and be good.", Ho you have often
seen a great difference between two sis
ters. There is Martha, hard-working, iains
taklnr, a good manager, &ver inventive of
Zwtry, or discovering something
wijrvnrM liouskeeping.
frnti'.n.
ethics she has no time to attend to tii
questions of household welfare. It is noon,
Mary is in the parlor with Christ.. Martha
is in the kitchen. It would have boon bet
ter if they had divided the work, and then
they could have divided the opportunity oi
listening to Jesus; but Mary monopolizes
Christ while Martha swelters at the fire.
It was a very important thing that they
should have a good dinner that day. Christ
was hungry, and He did not often have a
luxurious entertainment. Alas, me! if the
duty had devolved upon Mary, what a re
past that would have been! But something
went wrong in the kitchen. Perhaps the
fire wpuld not burn, or the bread would
not bake, or Martha scalded her hand, or
something was burned black that ought
only to have been made brown; and Martha
lost her patience, and forgetting the pro
prieties of the occasion, with besweated
brow, and, perhaps, with pitcher in one
hand and toDgs in the othor, she rushes
out of the Kitchen into the presence of
Christ, saying, "Lord, dost Thou not care
that ray sister hath left me to serve alone?"
Christ scolded not a word. If it were scold
ing, I would rather have His scolding than
anybody else's blessing. ' There was noth
ing acerb. He knew that Martha had al
most worked herself to death to get Htm
something to eat, and so He throws a world
of tenderness into His intonati as He
seems to say: "My dear woman, do not
worry, let the dinner go; sit down on this
ottoman beside Mary, your younger sister.
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and
troubled about many things, but one thing
is needful." As Martha throws open that
kitchen door I look in and see a great many
household perplexities and anxieties.
First, there is the trial of non-appreciation.
This is what mado Martha so mad
with Mary, The younger sister had no esti
mate of her older sister's fatigues. As
now, men bothered with the anxieties of
the store, the office and shop, or coming
from the Stock Exchange, they say when
they get home: "Oh, you ought to be in
our factory a little while; you ought to
have to manage eight, or ten, or twenty
subordinates, aad then you would know
what trouble and anxiety are!" Oh, sir,
the wife and the mother has to conduct at
the same time a university, a clothing es
tablishment, a restaurant, a laundry, a li
brary, while she is health officer, police
and president of her realm! She must do
a thousand things, and do them well, in
order to keep things going smoothly; and
so her brain and her nerves are taxed to
the utmost. I know there are housekeep
ers who are so fortunate that they can sit
in an arm chair In the library, or He on the
belated pillow and throw off all the care
upon subordinates who, having large
wages and great experience, can attend to
all of the affairs of the household. Those
are the exceptions. I am speaking now of
the great mass of housekeepers the wo
men to whom life Is a struggle, and who,
at thirty years of age, look as though they
were forty, and at forty look as though
they were fifty, and at fifty look as though
they were sixty.
You think, O, man of the world! that you
have all the cares and anxieties. If the
cares and anxieties of the household
should come upon you for one week, you
would bo fit for the Insane Asylum. The
half-rested housekeeper arises in the
morning. She must have the morning re
past prepared at an irrevocable hour.
What if the Are will not light; what if the
marketing did not come; what if the clock
has stopped no matter, she must have the
morning repast at an irrevocable hour.
Then the children must be got off to school.
What if their garments are torn; what if
they do not know their lessons; what if
they have lost a hat or sash they must be
ready. Then you have all the diet of the
day, and perhaps of several days, to plan;
but what if the butcher has sent meat un
mastleal la, or the grocer has sent articles
of food adulterated, and what it some piece
j,e eBcked, or the roof leak, or tho plumb
ing fal!or nnv ono a thousand things
occur vriiJinust ready Spring weathbr
cornea, andutojn,ust b0 a 'evolutioa in
the family waru7tbe; or autumn comes,
and you must shutWlih9' D0IhT
but what If the mothS5retf ded yu
k ht. i JTriuSiifi year, the
-rri., Ttot last
year; wuat it tne lasmons nave changed
Your house must be an apothecary's shop;
it must be a dispensary; there must be
medicines for all sorts of ailments. You
must be in half a dozen places at tho sama
time, or you must attempt to be. If,
under all this wear and tear of life, Martha
makes an impatient rush upon the library
or drawing-room, be patient, be lonient!
Oh, woman, though I may fail to stir up
an appreciation in the souls of others in
regard to your household tolls, let me as
sure you, from the kindness with which
Jesus Christ met Martha, that he appre
ciates all your work from garret to cellar;
and that the God of Deborah, and Hannah,
and Abigail, and Grandmother Lois, and
Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah More is the
God of the housekeeper! Jesus was noyer
married, that he might be the especial
friend and confident of a whole world of
troubled womanhood. I blunder; Christ
was married. The Biblo says that the
Church is the Lamb's wife, and that makes
me know that all Christian women have a
right to go to Christ and tell Him of their
annoyance and troubles, since by His oath
of conjugal fidelity He is sworn to sym
pathize. Again there Is the trial of severe econ
omy. Nine hundred and ninety-nine
households out of a thousand are subjected
to it some under more and some under
less stress of circumstances. Especially if
a man smoke very expensive cigars, and
take very costly dinners at the restaurants,
he will be severe in demanding domestic
economies. This is what kills tens of thou
sands of womeu attempting to make five
dollars do the work of seven. A voung
woman about to enter the married state
said to her mother: "How long does the
honeymoon last?" The mother answered:
"The honeymoon lasts until you ask your
husband for money."
How groat are. the 'responsibilities of
housekeepers. Sometimes an indigestible
article of food, by its offset upon a king,
has overthrown an empire. A distinguished
statistician savs that of one thousand un
married men there are thirty-eight crim
inals, and of ono thousand married men
only eighteen are criminals. What a sug
gestion of home influence! Let the most
1)0 made of them. Housekeepers, by the
food they provide, by the couches they
spread, by the books they introduce, by
the influences they bring around their
homes, are deciding the physical, intellec
tual, moral, eternal destiny of the race.
You say yourlife is one of sacrifice. I know
it. But, my sisters, this is tho only life
worth living. That was Florence Night
ingale's life; that was Payson's life; that
Christ's life.
FRANKFORT LOTTERY CLOSED.
Legal Fight of Twenty .two Years Ends In
Abolition.
The forty-one offices of the Fraokfort
Lottery scattered over Louisville, Ky., were
closed for the first time in twenty-five
years, and no drawings were mado at the
principal office at Third and Green Streets.
Tho lottery is closed for good.
The mandate of tho Supremo Court has
not been received, but the owners of the
lottery felt that nothing would be gained
by keeping open, as Criminal Judge
Barker announced that his first act would
be to proceed against the lottery without
waiting for official notice. Thus'has ended
a fight that has been waged for twenty-two
yars against the policy shops of Louis
ville. The company had two drawings
daily, and its profits averaged $1(000 a
day.
Quail a Test.
McDonald County (Missouri) fanners re
cently issued a general invitation to hunt
ers to come and kill quail, tho birds having
become so plentiful as to be a past.
Postage stamps in England 'ara gummed
' . HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES, i
, ; OIl Kid Makes a Good Loop, ,
It is the ouggestion of tin experi
enced housekeeper that a piece of, old
kid makes the best and strongest loop
to sew ou winter coats and wraps to
hang them up by. Use au old kid
glove, cutting a narrow strip iu the
best part of the leather, roll into thu
apiece of course string, sew togeth'ei
neatly, and attach it to the garment
with strong thread.
Homemade Zwieback. '-,
Zwieback, which is often the most
digestible food for children and dys
peptics', may be made at home. It is
a sort of Geriuau cake, and calls foi
balf a pound of sugar, five eggs, and
one pound of rlour. Ktfend' this well
together until quite stiff, roll the
dough out flat about three inches wide,
brushing the mixture over with the
white of an egg, place in a moderate
oven, and bake for half an hour, then
take it out, a:id with a sharp knife cut
into thin pieces while hot, dust it
lightly with sugar, and place it again
in the oven until both sides are a -light
brown color. New York Tost.
How to Manage the Lamps.
Here are rules Avhichwill make lamp
light a delight, and not a smoking,
iily nuisance:
Never let the wick grow very short.
3npply a fresh one when the old
Dne seems clogged and stiff.
Do not cut the wick. Eub the
sharred portion from it with a soft rag
each day.
Fill the oil tank with fresh oil each
Say and never fill it quite full. Let
there be at least an inch and a half
tree at the top of the-tank.
Wipe the outside of the oil tank and
pf the whole lamp perfectly dry. The
oily exterior is a frequent cause of dis
igreeable odors.
Wash the chimney every day and
the shade, if it is of glass or porce
lain, at least once a w eek. Dry the
jhimney with the regular drying cloth
ind polish with soft newspapers or
chamois.
Once a month boil the burners in
rinegar. The smoke, the oozing oil
wd the dust form a disagreeable com
pound which can be removed only . by
the action of the acid. A burner
treated to this bath and dried thorough
ly, supplied with a fresh wick and
good oil, gives a light by which it is a
iistinct pleasure to read, write or sew.
Keel pes.
Apple Salad Use tart green apples
jut iuto dice; cut one-fourth as much
jelery into squares. Mix all carefully,
md pour over it mayonnaise dressing.
Apple Pudding One pound of su
gar, one pound of butter, one pound
of stewed apples, twelve eggs beaten
light, flavor to the taste. Bake in
puff paste. Potatoes (sweet or Irish)
and mush can be used instead of ap
ples. Lemon Pudding Yolks of eight
eggs, eight teaspoonfuls of butter
melted, eight tablespoonfuls of sugar,
flavor with lemon and stir, but do not
beat, bake in puff paste and make a
tr- Micno of three whites and three
pTSsiiwivs of sugar. This quan-
uiuiebpuoaiu and ia ft m6st
titv mnks miH t i iin"rmin in
" i-"-w w--Df,
delicious lemon pudding
Veal Loaf with Tomato Sauce
pound of veal chopped fine, three Bos
ton crackers rolled fine and sifted, salt
and pepper, one egg well beaten.
Work until thoroughly mixed, form
iuto a loaf with the hands; butter a
tin, place the loaf in it, rub a little
butter on top, pour over this a cupful
of tomato catsup. Bake for one hour,
basting often. Serve cold with water
cresses. Fried Potatoes These two ways are
excellent: Slice them the long way,
dip into egg and then into bread
crumbs, and fry in deep lard. Or chop
cold boiled potatoes, season well with
salt and pepper, put into a skillet with
very hot fat, and cover. Stir freauent-
ly, then let a brown crust form on thei
l. i. i. i.'fi ii . . . . .r
uuivum, an, xnis, ana stir again. JLJu
in a cupful of milk, cover tightly until
the milk is hot, then Berve immediate
ly.
Scrapple Take the amount of meat
you wish to use, two pounds of beef
and one and one-half pounds of fresb
pork. Cook in plenty of water till
tender; remove the meat, stir corn
meal into the liquor ns you would
make mush. Cook until done. Chop
the meat very fine; season with' salt,
pepper and a little sage; stir this into
the mush, and turn out into dishes to
cool. Fry as you do mush for break
fast. In cold weather this will keep
for a week or more. Watch it that it
does not mold.
A Curlouti Town.
The most curious town in England
is Northwien. There is not a
straight street, nor, in fact, a straight,
nouse m the place; every part of it ha?
tho appearance of having recently
suffered from the visitations of an
earthquake. Northwieh, as every one
knows, is the centre of the salt indus
try. On nearly all sides of the town
are big salt works, with their engines
pumping hundreds of thousands 'of
gallons of brine every week. At a
depth of some 200 or 300 feet are im
mense subterranean lakes of brine,iinJ
as the contents of thjse are puuped
and pumped away, the upper crust of
earth is correspondingly weakemed.
and the result is ayi occasional 'sub
sidence. These subsidences , have, a
"pulling" effect on the nearest build
ings, which are drnwu all ways, giving
the town au upsia down appearance.
London Sun. ,'
Lord Kelvin c;
ber of molecules
gas is 100, 000, 00:
and in each of t
leulates that the nnra
in a cubic inch of any
,000,000,000,000,000,
iese molecules there
are several atoms moving among them
selves at the rateVoi seventy miles
minute.
VHin
r i- ? ' A Huge Python.
A python twenty feet in, length, that
iied in the reptile house of Jthe Lon
ion Zoological Society last month,
was the largest reptile ever confined
ihere. ; There ia a general imprecsion
that pythons reach a length of forty
feet or more, an absurdity made mani
fest when the authorities assert that
the female Indian python still in the
gardens, and but a trifle ovr eighteen
feet long, ia the longest snake in cap
tivity of whioh there ia any record.
General impressions as to the length
of these great reptiles are due to the
absurd picturea that formerly decorat
ed geographies and other works msed
sometimes as text books, showing a
picture of a python in the act of crush
ing and swallowing an Indian buffalo.
That was a ridiculous picture' that
was the father of many (of the "freak
journalism" ' pictures of the present
day. The London python, which was
a real instead of a fabulous reptile,
was just over twenty feet in length.
It was obtained in Malacca, and was
presented to the society by Dr. Hamp
shire on August 29, 1876, and had,
therefore, lived ' rather more than
twenty years in England. During
that period it had been fed principally
with ducks, of which it sometimes
swallowed four or five at one meal.
Its food was offered to it once a week,
but it sometimes refused to eat for a
month together. ,The specimen will
be mounted for the Tring Museum.
Some Tricks of Heredity.
' Dr. Conklin gave many peculiar in
stances of family characteristics run
ning through many generations. In
one family it was noticed that three
extremely long hairs appeared on the
eyebrows of the children generation
after generation, and in another family
a small mark on the earwasreproducod
for three generations by actual knowl
edge. Twins and triplets usually ap
peared time and again in the same
family, and while the marked heredi
tary characteristics might be latent in
one generation, they would appear in
the next. He said that in Italy many
hundred years ago a son was born
who had six fingers and the number of
his descendants who were similarly
affected was countless. The facial ex
pression, the color of the eyes, the
hair, the carriage, and many little
oddities appeared and reappeared. In
his own family he noticed a peculiar
manner of crawling on the floor in
childhood was repeated in descend
ants and could not be corrected.
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