The wonderful cure related below'1s
: by no means unusual with‘Hood‘s Sar-
sapaiilla. This great medicine has
given health to suffeiing childien,
even when health seemed impossible.
I he scolet of its success is that it puii-
flfies, Vitalizes and enriches the blood.
. “I wish to tell of a wonderful cure
*' eflected by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Five
fyears ago my little boy was sudden-
.. ly seized with a severe lameness, appar-
ently in his right knee, which some phy-
sicians said was rheumatism, while others
said it was hip disease and that it was
lncurahle
l During the next 171' inter and spring he
E became rapidly worse. W 9 took Jimmie
: to a specialist, who said it was hip disease.
_ At this time the affliction became so
, severe that we could not move him with-
out causing screams of agony. He be-
1 came reduced in weight to 30 pounds, and
l was but a shadow of his former self. We
‘ had about given up hope when we read of
1 a cure by Hood’s Sarsaparilla of a similar
7 case. We resolved to try this medicine.
~ Jimmie was decidedly improved after
‘ taking the first bottle. He 11' as even
Ietter
latter the second. We have since used
1 over a dozen bottles of the medicine, and
l the change has exceeded our expectations.
iJames is now able to walk without the
. aid of crutches and goes to school every
Il day. He has been wonderfully cured
I' by Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” J. O. RUNDELL,
Oakley, Michigan.
Druggist C. C. Tubbs says he knows the
Randell boy has been wonderfully
Cured
by Hood’s Sarsaparilla and that Mr. Run-
dell is thoroughly reliable. He has a good|
sale of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Hood’s l
Pills, both of which are giving 'perfect
satisfaction. He says Hood’s Pills seem
to be the coming family cathartic.
N. B. If you decide to take Hood’s Sar-
saparilla do not be induced to buy any
other. Insist upon Hood’s, because
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CHARLESTON’S RAH-RAHS.
Mischievbus Little Negro Chimney-
Sweeps and Their Curious Life.
Some of the ' Fantastic Tricks Played
by the Inky Elves—How They
Operate Among People‘s
Chimneys.
“Speaking of city-bred boys w ho gain
a livelihood by doing odd jobs here and
there, the little chimney- sweeps in
Charleston are interesting,” said a
woman who spent last winter in that
conservatiVe old town “1. rom contin-
ually shoVing their way up and down
the narrow ilues their clothes become
one mass of shreds and tatteis, to w hich
the soot clings obstinately. I saw’ a
number of them dancing like imps of
darkness on a street corner one after-
noon. T hey VV ere inky black from head
to heel the soot clinging even to their
eyebrows.”
“Don’ t the people burn coal in
Chm leston. 9”
“Oh, yes. But a great many won’t
hear of using anything but wood in
their sleeping- rooms, and the big two-
story bruk kitchens belonging to the
houses originally bu1lt to accommodate
an army of slaves, but now occupied by
families of more or less irresponsible
negroes, all have open fireplaces, in
which wood, usually lightwood, is
burned. The law requires that each of
these chimneys shall be swept at least
oncea a.month The city is divided into
districts, each district leased out to a
contractor, who engages to attend to
the sweeping, and he in turn hires a
small black sweep, who can easily get
up and down the chimneys to clean
them. 1 think ten cents a story is the
charge for sweeping a chimney.”
“And what. wages do the sweeps get?“
“Anything, nothing, according to
their need or the inclination of the con-
tractor. They make a 11ving, such as it
is, and that is all they expect. They
don't work all day, and as they are full
of mischief they genc1 ally giVeIthe con-
tractoi plenty (Al occupation in look-
ing after them. '1 hey play truant and
all sorts of fantastic tricks, and fie-
quently stop more than once on the
way to some appointment to have a
jig or breakdown in the streets or some
vacant office. The contractor treats
them well, because the oliice of sweep
not being Iin high repute, or much
,sought after, he finds it diificult to se-
cure employes.”
“How do they clean the fines ?”
“They have a short-handlederush.
not unlike a hearth brush, only it has
bristles on both sides, and a three-cor-
nered iron scraper. They rest their
feet. on the projecting, uneven bricks
011 either side of the chimney and climb
up in that way. It is part of their duty
tosing when they get up to the top.”
“To sing?” ‘
“Yes, in order to Show that they
have gone all the way up. They have a
peculiar rhythmic cry, which they re-
peat over and over: ‘liah-r-a-h, rah-
r-a-h!’ People in the neighborhood go
to the windows when they hear this
cry to see the sweep. Grotesque enough
he looks, with half his body protruding
from the chimney; a black goblin up
among the roofs, an army of dislodged
bats and chimney swallows fluttering
about his head.
“ ’linh-rahs’ the children call them,
and many timid little ones are afraid
of them, thinking them something un-
canny.
“It. IS a famous trick with these lit-
tle imps to brush up against pedes-
trians in the most unseemly way in the
world, doing it purposely so as to soil
their clothing. They walk along care-
lessly, to all appearance, with their
heads turned around behind them, and
then are all apologies when the collision
they designed takes place.
“There. was quite an excitement one
day in a house in our neighborhood.
A sweep got st11ck fast in the chimney,
and could neither move up nor down.
The (outractonthought he was fooling
at first, but. afterward a. bricklayer
was sent for and a. hole made 111 the
chimney. through which the little pris-
oner escaped from his irksonie posi-
'ti0n.".—N. Y. Tribune.
WHEN DID I_Tl-1EY ILIVE ?
A Question Concerning 'the Lake ”web.-
are of Pre-Hisgporic:Switzerland.
One of the most interestingqncstions
relating to the early history of Switzer-
land is t-bat of the probable length of
time that has elasped since the people
called the “Luke-Dwellers” oecupned
the curious houses whose remains are
now iound there. A fresh examina—
tion of this question has lately been
undertaken by M. \‘ouga.
The earliest of the lake-dwellers be—
longed to the age of stone, and they
were succeeded by others who made
weapons and implements of 1wronze.
\M' Vouga thi-znl s. that the people who
made the stone implements lived dur-
ing only one, or at most two, centuries
on the shores of the Swiss lakes, and
that for some reason, perhaps lecause
of an inundation, they suddenly de-
serted their homes.
Then for 3,000 years the waters c'on-
tinued to depositIa slowly thickening
layer of mud upon the sites of the aban-
doned villages. At the end of that time
another people, who had acquired the
art of making bronze, appeared upon
the scene, the lakes having in the mean-
time, perhaps, “sunk to their former
level. ~ These people remained there
for two or three centuries, and then in
their turn disappeared, and another
layer of mud, occupying 3,000 years
more in the process of deposition, cov-
ered the remains of their dwellings and
the relics of their'art and industry. g -'
The muddy bottom of a lake forms a.
strange record-book for human history,
but it is bettermthan none at
Youth’s Companion.
-—Thc American farmer will prob-
ably be surprised to learn that there are
10,122 different models of plows 1n the;
patent office, on all of_ which patents
have been issued.-
‘ all.——:
, I’ilot.
' the matter ?”
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
——Evidence.—Husband (in the early
dawn)-—“It must be time to get up."
Wife—“Why?” Husband—“Baby has
just fallen asleep.”——Truth.
—l-lampton Belle—“I wouldn‘t al-
low a horrid man to kiss me, would’
you. 9” Newport News Girl—“0f course
not; I don’ t know any such. ”—N Orfolk
——“\\ hat! You say that Herr Schmidle
the merchant, has gone blind? Here’s
a pretty how d’ye do—I have a bill on
the man which is made out ‘pa-yable at
sight ! ’ ”—Dorfbarbier.
—I.[arold was told to write asentencc
containing the word “copse.” He came
from the city, and the word-had a fa—
miliar sound. His sentence read: “The
boy dodged the copse.”—'Youth‘s Com-
panion.
—“I’ve been told Rivers’ name is in
old llockswort-hy’s will.” “Yes, his
name is in it; he signed it as a witness.
That’s all, and—good gracious! What's
“Nothing, only I've lent
him $500 on the strength of it.”——Chi-
cago Tribune.
——Gotrox—“I think young Cheekly is
a foreign nobleman in disguise.” Wig-
wag —— “What makes you think so ?"
Gotrox—“Well, he has succeeded in bor-
rowing a thousand dollars from me,
and now he wants to marry my daugh-
ter.”—I’hiladelphia Record.
—1{on1autic Miss—“Have there not
been moments in your experience when
life seemed full of unsatisfied wants?”
Mr. llardhead-——“Y—e-s, that’s so." “At
such times I always fly to music for re-
lief. What do you do, Mr. Hardhead?”
“I advertise."—Spare Moments.
——Tl1e mother of a family showed the
ticket collector on the railway a couple
of half-fare tickets for her two chil-
dren. The official, after looking at her
doubtfull y, said: “How old are they?"
“They are only six, and they are twins.”
“A111!” Then, after a moment’s pause,
the man inquired: “And where were
they born ?” “This one was born in
London, and the other inBrighton.”—
Tit—Bits.
ICAPES FOR DRESSY WEAR.
Have -Been Discarded for the
Sleeve’s Protection.
Although the.big sleeve is decried so
much, it has brought us much to be
thankful for. lint for it capes would
not have been brought to so great a per-
fection. Their beauties would have
been undiscmcred, since in that case
coats would hold sway overall ,
Capes should be all a-glltter with
beads or lined with fur. '1 hey should
be soft and dainty, to add a bewitching
look to any lady as she hides herself
within the carriage.
Fish- nct does not seem the proper
Coats
material, and yet it is the foundation
for one of the prettiest capes of the sea-
son. White cloth is appliqued upon it
with gilt cord. The cloth is all a—ght-
ter with beads and pale-green s11k
peeps from beneath the fish-net.
band of white angora edges the cape,
and the lining and collar are of the
same material.
Another is dull- -green duchesse satin,
with a deep edging of chinchilla about
it. To match the fur a scroll work of
steel heads is sewed on the satin. The
collar is'of the .fur and the lining pink
velvet.
As in the illustration, many capes
have huge hoods, out after an 18th cen-
tury pattern. These hoods encircle the
neck and add a quaint air to the gar-
ment.
A cape for the promenade is of tight-
curled, black astrakhan. 1n shape it
is a driving cape, double-breasted and
fastened with large pearl buttOns. A
collar of Alaska sable completes it.
Of still another I could tell, of sable
with velvet points appliqued andjetand
white ribbon. But. of capes, there is no
end—Chicago News.
.1. . The lngleslde.
‘ "The ingleside, which is a bay or re-
cess in hte side of the room capable of
receiving a hooded fireplace and usual-
ly having windows and seats at. the.
side, isI an exceedingly picturesque
feature of the, modern halls. Like
most. picturesque features, it is a
revival. The . old ingle corners
were famous seats in old manor
houses, and were probably the only
ones where the draughts that poured -
in around door and through crevices
did not reach. These recesses in large
halls with high ceilings did not extend
up to the ceiling, but were much lower,
and the front over the ingleside was
furnished with a. shelf for the display
of fine pottery or any curios. In a.
’ dining-room .the shelf was used for the
display of plate. In some recent houses
an ingleside is arranged under. the
stairs. The outside of the house shows
the chimney displayed 011 the outside of
a. bay, or a. projection similar to a bay
window, but with windows at the sides
only. Upstairs above the ingle this
projection is used as a closet, lighted
at the side. —N. Y Tribune. .._
How a Swamp Has Grown.
A correspondent gives the history of
the Lougee morass in Sangerville, Me.,
where 40 yea-rs ago there was but a
small mudhole in the road, which grew
larger until the whole width of the road
was sunk, and a log was land along
the side for people to cross on. At
last the mud became so deep that it
{was difficult for teams to cross, 90
rocks were put in, until at last the
town was obliged to build a bridge 50
feet long. All went well for awhile,
when it was observed that this sin 11c
ture was sinking. Again the to“ 11 had
.1 bridge laid upon this, which VV as then
sunk in the mud and water, extending
several feet >more in length than the
first. As the years passed this bridge
sank in like manner, and then the town
took a' voteto see whether it would
build a road around the. swamp or lay
another bridge. It was decided to build
the bridge, which is 180 feet long. but
this bridge also is constantly sinking.
and will soon have td-be covered by’an-
other, and lengthened -100 feet or more.
—Lewiston (Me) Journal.
A .
TnE‘EvEniuG’oAzana’
IRRIGATION our WEST.
Hard Times of Farmers in the
Arid Regions.
Many Moved Away, and Towns Dwindled
to Hamlets, But a California Man
Demonstrated What Could Be
Done by Irrigation.
In Finney county, near the western
icirder of Kansas, thousands of acres
were planted towheat, and it- seemed
tl;c sanest of projects to build a grist-
111ill. to grind the crop. This was under-
taken near the Arkansas river by en-
terprising merchants in the neighbor-
ing community of Garden City; but the
1.ch institution began and ended with
a millrace. Before the building and
machinery were required, the wheat
crop had surrendered to dry air and
hot winds.
the great plains west of the 100th
meridian, long known to stockmen and
Indians, but denied by greedy land
agents and discredited by eager and
hopeful settlers, had‘again asserted it-
self with unmistakableemphasis. Not
1111 acre of the crop was harvested. The
prairie—schooners set sail and steered
for other parts. Towns dwindled to
more hamlets. All the nebulous in-
dustrial, educational and railroad proj-
ects suddenly descended from the sub-
lime to the ridiculous. And yet the
blighted seed was destined to bear an-
other and far more fateful crop, and the
forgotten millrace on the banks of the
Arkansas to grind a. grist that would
pro V'e, historic.
A few settlers remained to rake amid
the ashes of their ruined hopes. Among
them was a. man who had learned the
m’cthods of irrigation while living in
(‘alifornia and Colorado. It happened
that his land adjoined the abandoned
millraoe, and he readily obtained the
light to turn the we .1er upon a. part
of his i'.arm The result, though not
surprising to the practiced irrigator,
was a revelation to his thoroughly dis-
heartened neighbors.
The soil which had produced nothing
in the previous summer responded to
the new method of cultivation with
enormous crops of all varieties of prod-
ucts. 111 quality they surpassed any-
thing previously grown in that region.
As. these facts became known a new
hope arose. like a star in the night,
against the dark background of past
discouragements. The Garden City
“cxperime-n t” became the Mecca. of stu-
dents of irrigation throughout the
wide region devastated bythe drought.
The ruined crop of the previous year,
and the useless millrace,‘gave birth to
an influence which in 15 years has as-
sumed far-reaching proportions. This
influence. by revealing the need of ir-
rigation in a territory which had hith-
erto depended entirely upon the rain-
fall, extended the known limit-s of arid
America hundreds of miles to the east-
ward and more than 1,000 miles north
and south, thus adding to the empire
of irrigation all the western portions
of. the DakOtas, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla-
homa and Texas, together with eastern
Colorado.
111 this vast district it has begun to
revolutionize both the industrial and
social life of the people. It has com-
pelled the attention of legislatures,
created new laws and administrative
systems in seVeral states, erung a few
‘ln('1g‘PI‘ appropiiations from congress,
and set on foot various industrial and
educational undertakings. The prob-
lems of the semi-arid region are per
culiarly its own, differing materially
from those of the desert states west. of
the continental divide. The movement
which has wrought these momentous
changes alike in public sentiment and
in methods of industry has found its
warmest championship in Kansas,
where it has been reduced to perfect
organization through the instrumental-
ity of press and platform. Throughout
the semi-arid region, but particularly
xin Kansas, there are efleetive state,
county and township associations urg-
ing the adoption of irrigation as the
price of prosperity, and extending, by
means of conventions and popular lit-
(nature, the common knowledge of its
p1 actical aspects. —Vi 1111am E.IIS1I11IytIhe,
in Century. .
Solitary Gum Gatherer-s of Maine.
There is nothing more solitary than
the life of the men who goIinto the
Maine forests to gather gum. Their
cabins are in the most remote town-
ships, even away from the paths of the
hunters and from the camps of the
loggers, for the gum scrapers prospei
principally upon territory which the
lumbermen have not mangled. One of
the moot noted Maine gum harV esters
has been in the woods 18 seasons. He
builds a. cabin in the fall when. he is
about to begin work in a new terntory.
it is generally a small one. but he takes
great pains to make it one that can be
easily kept warm. One year he passed
The months withou t seeing a. singlchu-
man being, and at the end of that time
found that another man had been in a
camp less than four miles from him all
VV1’11ter.They dld not see each other’ s
trucks for the reason that the other fel-
low was trapping and confined his
journeyings to a. valley where a large
stream and its branches gaVe him a
field for his operations. —Golden Day 5,
Agile Animals. .
A hunter in the Rockies of Colorado
came suddenly upon a little flock of
mountain sheep, and» had curiosity
enough to stay his aim to see howIthey
descended from lofty heights. The
general belief is that they jump down
on their horns, but that is a mistake.
This hunter watched thembound from
rock t9 rock, resting but for a moment
on platforms not a foot square, taking
advantage of every seam and rift in the
rocks, always downwards, and“; with
jumps of 20 or 30 feet, 'until in an in-
credibly short space of t1me they were
in the valley below.» The hunter said
he ’never imagined any living _‘ thing
could perform such zigzag leaping.—
Golden Days. - .
The semi-arid character of '
‘ home
UNCLE WILL |_AM’IS WISDOM.
Some Sage Observations on the' Fraaties
of Men.
I have known a few men to pay out-
lawed debts for conscience’s sake, but
every time I have traded horses with
one of them he took all manner of
pains to hide the ring-bones and spav-
ins and git the big end of the deal.
The first political candidate I Voted
fo1 belieV ed in old- fashioned methods
and stole $10, 000. Ever since then I
have been voting for reform candi-
dates, and the. stealings have steadily
advanced from $10,000 to all they could
possibly lay hands on.
When I hear of a man being friend-
Less I do not put it down to any shert—
comings of his. Onthe contrary, I
know that he lent the first 50 five dol-
lars to ten dollars apiece and so es-
tranged them, and the last 50 were re-
fused and thus diiV en toitalk against
him. The world’s friendship is more
to be dreaded than the world’s enmity.
There’s heaps 0’ men who’ll cheer-
fully spend two hours any day teachin’
a dog to jump over a stick, but if their
grown-up children don’t know the al-
phabet they never worry over the fact.
It took the old man Parker ten years
to make 111) his mind that. it- only rained
39 days 'and' nights instead of 40, and
just as he. had it all settled they car-
ried the whole family off to the poor-
house as paupers.
A man makes a fool of himself about
once a month durin’ his natural life,
and ‘yet because his horse bulks once
a your he jumps on his hat and wants
to shoot somebody or somethin’ right
01}? quick
I 121m be mistaken about it, but it
has always seemed to me that the
piincipal object in makiu’ cum]; aign
speeches VV as to gnca a few hundred
men opportunity to lie about those
who couldn’t agree with ’em on mat-
ters in general.
We could probably have bad chest-
nuts without worms .if anybody had
thought to mention it in time, but as
we were all busy askin’ after ’taters
without any pits in cm the chestnuts
were overlooked. ’1 his bein’ the case,
the wiser way is to take what comes
or turn to peanuts.
It isn’t bein’ disapuinted in the big
things of life which hurt a man the
worst. The defeated candidate for
governor gits over it after a few days,
but the man who is kicked while 11,.-
pl yin’ mutton-taller to the sore heel
of a. mule can’t. feel right towards the
world under .12 months—Detroit Free
Press.
AT. ANY COST.
Edith Was Lonely, and offered Big In-
(lucouieuts for Company.
111 wrath and tears Edith Hewlett--
had gone to bed. She had been tucked
in U; cc, gchn u diink twice, kissed
good- -night thiee times, and the lamp
had been extinguished, but the spark
of iebellion still buincd in her childish
soul.
“Momma,” she cried.
“(lo to sleep, Edith,” her mother
said, sternly; “I shall not come in there
again.”
“I want a drink, mamma,”
pleaded. '
“You’ve had two drinks already. Now
go to sleep.”
There was a brief silence, and then
Edith tried again.
“Momma, come and kiss me good-
night.”
“You’vc been kissed good-night, dear,
and I shall not come in again, so go to
sleep at once like a good girl.”
There was another pause, while the
lonely child cudgeled her little brain
for a new expedient.
“Mamma,” she cried, at last, “please
come in; I’m so hungry.”
“You cannot have anything to eat to-
night, and if I come in there again,”
the mother said, with rising choler. “it
will be to give you a good spanking! ”
There was a longer pause, and just as
it began to look as if the evening’s
battle were over, the child’s voice was
heard again.
“Mamma,” she pleaded, “I’m so lone-
ly in here. Please come in and spank
me! ”—Harper’s Magazine.
Edith
He Wrote on His Cuffs.
' An amusing little story is told in
connection with a French journalist,
who, in his early days as a reporter,
had a deep-rooted aversion to the regu-
lation note book of his order, and hit
upon a method of taking notes which
afforded him great satisfaction. He
wore large, white linen cuffs and upon
them, by the aid of a tiny pencil, he
took down his notes and impressions
in all sorts of places, unobserved by
those around him- At first the lau11-‘
dress was greatly puzzled by these pe-
culiar ornamentations, but as time
went on she learned to decipher many
of them, and gathered the news of the
week from her patron’s cuffs, much to
her delight. One night when she took
'the _washing the journalist
chanced to be coming out of his room
as she entered. “Ah, monsieur,“ she
said, dropping a curtsy, “y our last
washing was Very interesting, but we
had less political news than the week
before, is it not so?" —— Indianapolis
.r-fin‘ _.
Sentinel."
The Most Crowded Spot on Earth.
The most crowded spot on the earth’s
surface is that portiou of the city of
Valetta, Island of Malta, knoan as the
“Manderaggio.” In the whole of
V aletta the propertion is? 5,000 human
beings to the square mile, but in the
Manderag'gio there is one locality in
which there are 2,574 persons living on
a~plot of ,ground less than two acres
and a half in extent. This would give
no less than 636, 000 persons to the
square mile, orI.1, 017. 61.0 the ac11e.In
Liverpool; the most crowded city: in
Britain, the most densely? populated-
portnons have only 116. 4 to Ith'e‘ acre.:- ,
Atlanta Constitution. " ,
‘ -——“MuscadinIe” is a diseaseto which
silkworms are liable. It'consists of a
fungus growth in the body, 'which
breaks through the skin and speedily
kills the insect.
'7 THE RAIL-SPLITTER. '
Stories of Abraham Lincoln in Early
Life.
. Abraham Lincoln exercised the right of
majority and started out to shift for
himself. When he left his home to
handed; He was already some months
over 21 years of age, but he had noth-
ing in the World, not even a suit" of
In the summer of the year 1830 i
start life for himself he went empt—y- .. .
respectable clothes; and one of the first '
pieces of work he did Vvas»“to split 400
rails for every yard of brown jeans
dyed with white walnut bark that
would be necessary to make him ‘a pair
of trousers.” He had no trade, no pro-
fession, no spot of land, no patron, no
influence. Two things recommended
him to his neighbors—he was strong
and he was a good fellow.
His strength made him a valuable
laborer. Not that he was fond of hard
labor. Mrs. Crawford says: “Abe was
no hand to pitch into work like killing
snakes,” but when he did work it was
with an”. ease and eifectiveness’which
compensated his employer for the time
he spent in practical jokes and extem--
poraneous speeches. He would-lift as
much as three ordinary men, and “My,
how he would chop!” says Dennis
Hanks. “His ax would flash and bite
into a. sugar tree or sycamore, and
down it would come. If you heard him
fellin’ trees ,in a. 'clearin’ you would
say there was three men at work by
the way the trees fell.” Standing six
feet four, he could outlifi, ontwork and
outwrestle any man he came in contact
with. Friends and employers were
proud of his strength, .and boasted of
it, never failing to pit him against any
hero whose strength they heard vaunt-
ed. Ile himself was proud of it, and
throughout his life was fond of compar-
ing himself with tall and strong men.
He drove the oxen on the'removal
of the Lincoln family from Indiana to
Illinois, he tells us. and, according to
a story current in Gentryville, he suc-
ceeded in doing a fair peddler’s busi-
mess on the route. Capt. William Jones,
in whose father’s store. Lincoln had
spent so many hours in discussion and
story-tolling, and for whom he had
worked the last winter he was in Incli-
anu, says that before leaving the state
thirty odd dollars, in notions. “A sei:
of knives and forks was the largest
item entered 011 the bill,” says Mr.
Jones; “the other items were needles,
pins, thread, buttons and other little
domestic necessities. IVhen the Lin-
(‘izlns reached their new home near De-
.(‘ill‘~lll", Ill,
father, stating that he had doubled
his money on his purchases by selling
them along the road.”—McClure’s Mag-
az1ne.
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