Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 February 1895 — Page 4

1 TIE DANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23. 1895.

WHtHE SMUUCiUNU IS EASY. J^l^URE BUREAl

Hit* Go«h1 Tim<*« FI rano Ladlo-* nn«l ToarUtfl Have Chopping la Juarea.

Correspondence*. ]

El Paso, Tex., Feb. 31. — Whoever has a hankering after a coutiunons performance of farce comedy might, with entire satisfaction thereof, spend his days on the single mule power street cars that connect this town with Ciudad Juarez, across the river, in Mexico. The petty smuggling that is constantly going on lias more funny things connected with it than anything else ho could find in many days' journey. And the whole thing seems to bo treated as such a good joke by customs forco, smugglers and everybody else that the sight of it is enough to euro melancholy, dyspepsia or g at.

WHERE CONGRESSMEN GET TABLES TO ADORN THEIR SPEECHES. Danger of IP.iiltlhig on Figure* Iiu*Uly Con?pllt*tl - The ThegaurtiH of Senator JU>ne»— I’ronpectH For tli*’ Farmers A

Handy Chart For the Voter. | Special Correspondence. |

Washington, Fob. 31.—Away up iu tho fifth story of the Adams building, on F street, opposite tho Ebbitt House, Mr. Worthington Channely Ford and h:s 84 clerks and assistants burrow in the deep mines of figured facts and turn out those Wi nderful compilations which are the delight of men with wheels in their heads and are painfully apt to de-

Tho customs inspectors at the I nited velop wheels where there were no wheels . . i ..c .i... i—; .. ... u;., ' . .. .i . — i» . ca. - a. i ...

Stans end of the bridge across tho Kio Grande are men of polite manners and charitable hearts, and tourists always remember them with affection, because they are entirely devoid of impertinent curiosity. When a streetcar comes from Juarez, tho inspector looks in, smiles blandly on everybody, and then goes back to his office, politely oblivious alike to the packages in tho laps of the ladies and the curious humps that disfigure their forms. Ho seems to bo a thorough believer in the principle that if ho asks them no questions they will tell him

no lies.

Juarez is all Mexican, except its curiosity and dry goods stores, which are larger and more numerous than those of El Paso. They are kept by Americans, who frankly advertise in El Paso papers for the American trade, by which they are supported. And most of their sales are smuggled across the lino. In each one is a dressing room where ladies retire to conceal their purchases

upon their persons.

Tho customs

every woman is a born smuggler and would rather smuggle than get goods honorably, eviii when she doesn't make anything by it. I am afraid they are

before. This is tho United States bureau of statistics, a branch of the treasury department. Eero are piles on piles of pamphlets containing the latest conclusions of every statistician in tho world; here are stacks on stacks of bine books and red books showing the relative numbers of men, women and children, of buildings and livestock, of gold, silver, palter and everything of a monetary nature in the civilized world, with all

you at any minute a tame snowing tno rise and fall of prices since IK.iO, tho relative production of silver ami gold, the increase or decrease of wealth and poverty, of debts, tax- s and mortgages. Senator Jones' long spe' h is tho tbeosaurua from which many thousand silvers to orators and writers have taken their materials. Into it as the great reservoir flowed all pre-existing streams of monetary faet, and out of it his successors have drawn their main supply, each merely bringing the figures down

to his own date.

Senator Quay’s long and I must say v ry tedious speech consisted largely i f statistical tables, but he prepared non of them himself, and most of thumw. re read for him by othey senators while ho rested his throat. It is generally believed that Senator Sherman has tho j best arranged collection of statistics in his lino and a correspondence of immense value, and that liS will edit and publish them when ho retires at the end of his present term, after 84 years in tho senate. As members and senators quoto 1 largely from those who preceded them, Tho Record is greatly cumbered, and i many elaborate tables have within a few years lioon published therein as often as

| twenty times. A Pnrk Outlook.

P ME SALE! BOSTON STORB

liraunhited SugarJ'i e a pound, I’nekslge < ettee la e a pound. Flour I e a pound.

—AT—

W. H. Burke's One Price Grocery, COR. WASHINGTON AND VINE.

you and $1,00 in

B

argain

bupt-ers

Ib ing ibis list with

cash and get

Order No. 1. I pds <iranulated Sugar 8 *• Kidney Beans ’ 1 “ California reaches j 3 ** ” Prunes 3 " Hominy Flake 3 •’ ('aliforuia Raisins i 1 doy. Fancy Lemons 8 bars Town Talk Soap ! L. pd Climax Baking Powder.

Order No. 2. $1.00 in cash will buy 1 pd package coffee 1 “ California peaches ... 3 “ Navy Beans 3 •' t aliforuia Prunes

10c . 15c . ,10c .. 10c .. 10c . . 10c . . 15c ..10" . . 10c #1.00

. ,. | Mr. Ford, chief of tho bureau of sta- J c ''n < .ilil"iiii.i peai In ?

kinds of guesses at the corresponding , tigticg i(j a IU , at allll very clerical look- ' , * aKu, Bu,ln8

facts among tho uncivilized. Hither ! come the congressmen for those wonderful tables which are supposed to adorn Tho Congressional Record. Hero one can post himself on almost any subject, can stuff himself with statistics and just

wallow iu figures. I i£iirrn Will 1.1*-.

Most important of all perhaps, this is the place to get conclusive proof that figures will Ho. Out of the same reports

1 do/ Fancy Lemons...

ing gentleman, a little below the medi- ;-j ,,,1 California Raisins.

urn size, and the top of his head is “away above the timber line,” as we used to say in Colorado. He was born in New York city in 1858 and was long a journalist there when appointed to this place in 1893. “We got,” said he, “some 20 reports per month from each of the 135 ports of tho United States, and these are tabluated in three moutlily reports as to tho principal articles, such as cotton, bruadstuffa, oils andpro-

'4“ Baking Powder..

..15c .. 10c .. 10c .. 10c . . 15c . . 10c . 15c . . 10c . . 5c #1.00

obtained hero the Prohibitionists proved

several years ago that the per capita visions, and the whole iu a monthly bnl

inspectors declare that HoTawid T^Wedls ! l0ti,, • A11 in tho

proved that it only seemed so because the revenue was mor.i closely collected. Henry George proved that the land was being owned in larger bodies, and dozens

posite of tho truth. Tho mental ooudi-

I met recently a party of four ladies | I'f,.!"I",,''" .I’b'l't'l!it ll .h. , ! i ,' 1 rr' ! ',H'v

who had come to El Paso for tho express purpose of shopping in Juarez. They told me they had “such lots of fun” in the dressing room concealing their purchases. Among these were materials for fine dresses, half a dozen piec‘ 8 of china silk, corsets, gloves, ribbons, laces, drawn work, opals, stockings and a box of cigars. When they finally started home, their figures were preposterous. Even the tallest and thinnest looked remarkably well developed and waddled like a fat goose. One young woman, become inordinately plump, had set the box of cigars boldly atop of her bosom under her cape, where its parapet roso to her chin. In tho street car they made fun of one another’s appearance, and when tho inspector appeared they burst into a gale of laughter. Ho gave one glance at tho fortress under tho young lady’s chin, took in the wonderful figures of all four and laughed outright. Tho whole car joined iu tho merriment, and that was tho end of it—except for tho young lady with tho cigars. Her sweetheart, fur whom she had bought them, was a good young man and disapproved of smuggling. When ho learned how she hail got them, lie reproved her for engaging iusuoh wickedness, and, of course, since then they do not speak. But the young woman declares she wouldn’t have missed that day’s fun for two engagement rings. An El Paso lady, who had recently brought a servant hither from tho north, told me that from tho first tho girl’s heart was fired with tho desire to buy something in Juarez and smuggle it over. So she went across tho river and bought a little alarm clock, which she suspended from her waist at tho back, so that it hung a little alxtf’o her knees. All went peacefully until just as the inspector entered tho car, when, with a whiz, bang and clatter, that alarm clock went off, and continued to go off,

annual report on commerce and navigation. It is notpossiblo, however, to give tho percentage of increased bulk of export necessary to maintain the value, though many congressmen want it. Take cotton, for instance. Tho exports for tho

site. One party proved that tho currency calendar year 1894 were much larger in had been contracted, another that it had puik, but much smaller in value than been expanded, and as to what has been several years ago. Some things mainproved pro and con on tariff, gold and t a j u a wonderful evenness, especially

silver 1 might go on for columns, but ! barley. ”

for the elect’s sake tho details are short- J “Well, I will ask the great question | enod. The moral of it all is—don’t j day, What hope is there that our monkey with figures unless you know | f arni ,, rs w ill soon get better prices?” how, for if oven one important fact be 1 ••None whatever that 1 can see. On left out they may prove the exact op- (bo contrary, it seems certain that Rus-

SESATOll JOHN P. JONES.

tion of some congressmen who havq rashly builded on an array of figure, hastily made up reminds mo of tho ex? perienco of a miner friend in Utah wiy had never had time to read and w> ashamed of his ignorance of curreij literature. One happy day ho “strucf chloride” in Ophir canyon.

And l reckon five nanghts Was the worth of that strike.

Having sold, ho hastened down t ( Salt Lake City, bought a complete sotc| Dickens, Thackeray, Bulwer, Georg Eliot and the rest and resolutely rea straight through the lot for six mouths

sia and Argentina will greatly increase their exports, though they are making the same complaints about producing at a loss Wheat and meat should be steady in price, as they constitute the strongest foods and are in general demand. Nor is there any overproduction of either. In fact, tho world is right now greatly in need ot wheat and meat, and the consumption is cut down only becanse people cannot buy. Tbo world is going through a prolonged liquidation, and farmers and debtors suffer.”

llo:ir<l«Ml Gold.

“And what is tlio cause of it?” “Nobody knows. There is such a combination of causes that no one can master them. We have had a com ulsion about once iu ten years, and this one would have come on in 1M)1 had it not been pustpunod in this country by the failure of crops in Russia, but prices have gone so low ns to nul-V'v fdl ral--v ’ A

Can make it pay by calling at the BOSTON STORE this week. 1000 yards CALICO in remnants at 3^ cents per yard. 200 yards DRESS GOODS in remnants, beautiful patterns, we will oiler this week at 25 per cent below cost. It will pay you to look after THESE BARGAINS at once for they will not last long. Special offerings this week in FRENCH and DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. We show the largest line of LACES, EMBROIDERIES and INSERTIONS ever seen in Greencastle.

Order No. 3. $ I ini in cash will buy 25 pds Hums Vandalia Flour 25c 1 sack of meal 15c 2 iloz Rickets 10c 1 [id Evaporated Apples 10c 2 " Crackers 10c I “ Large California Erunes 10c 1 can Ruby Tomatoes 10c 11 can splendid Corn 10c

$1.00

Order No. 4. This list for $5.u(l or 1 for $2.5(1 25 pds Granulated Sugar $1.00 | 10 “ Crackers 50 j 5 “ ('aliforuia Reaches. .. .. .50 11 “ Large Rruues 50 (Scans splendid Corn 5(1 0 cans Iloosier Tomatoes .5(1 12 bars Burke’s Magic Soap .50 2 cans 8 pd apples 20 2 cans Rerless Riiinpkin. 20 1 pds Evaporated Apples .50 1 1 " Imp. Tea 10 (’iistomers not ui-hing to eonffue themselves to Hie above lists ean seleet anything from our stock to make out die required amount of eaeli order except the first item in each order. Special List. 0 5 gal Oil Rump ( ans $LlHleach 12 “ “ Jacket “ 40 “ 1 doz 1 gallonGlass cans 30c doz k, gal Glass “ 25c. 50 pieces Glass and Queens half price ' Stoneware 7 c pr gallon. Wood Rulp Water Rail- 85c; Flax 25c: < Vdar 25c. Large stock Brooms from 15 to 30c. Toilet Snap- Ics- than cc -t. Other goods at surprising low prices. We arc making these prices simply to reduee stock not as a cut -ale. To last ten days or until surplus stock is disposed of. This sale to be strictlv cash. W. II. Bi iiki..

T. Abrams Sc Son.

Wost Sitlo Square.

. 12:22 a m . H:42 a in .12:49 |i m

lj*ocal 1 ime Gard.

BIG FOUR. GOING EA0T.

No 10* Wstibuird Express 5:$3 p xl No 21 I ndianapolis Accommodation. .8:42 a .a No 1«* Southwestern Limited 1:52 p ju No 8* Mail 4:115 p id Noli* 2:50a m

GOING WKST.

No 7* Vestlbuled Express No 9* Mail

No 17* Southwestern Limited .. . No Jit 'Ferre Haute Accommodation. 8:23 p in Noli* 12:58a m

* Daily t Except Sunday.

Train No. 14 hauls sleepers to Boston and rolumhiis, sleepers and eoaehes to Cincinnati. No. 2 connects for t ide ilto, Cincinnati < !• vcland and Michigan division points. No 18 hauls sleepers for Washington via < . A: O. sleep r for New York and connects for Columbus No. 8 connects for < ineinnuli and Miebbom division points at Wabash. No. 10, “Knickerbocker Special** sleepers for New York. Nos. 7, IE 9 and 17 connect in M. Louis Union depot with western roads. No. 9 connects at Baris with Cairo division for points south, and at Mat toon with I. C. for points

north.

E l\ Hitestis. A treat

and kept on going off. as alarm clocks 1 nu:t hl J ,n f 10 n " xt su " ime 1 r ’ 11 will when they have bee. tigl.tly wound ha< 1 1 a vaguo .dca that Hetty feorol wa np. In an instant everybody understood, I Hednce< * * ilkms M.eawber and g,

and inspector and passengers burst out

laughing together.

A negro waiter in a town not far from j El Paso told mo how ho and another man fixed up a scheme to make their iurium : y ■ .miss’h’S "igrtrs the ! lino. Tho other man furnished tho capi- j tal, and Sam was to get the cigars across ’ wiluout ykldii.* ap tril-d-. Tic f-It very successful and confident w hen he j finally Bottled himself in the street car with a big valise full of cigars between his feet. But us tho car approached tho inspector’s office conscience or something else began to muku his heart go like a trip hammer and his eyes bulge

out like two white onions.

“I uou’.’.a’t ’a’ be")) wotsm sknered ef I’d ’a’ beencotohed already, ” said Sam. “And when that inspector opened tho dour it comeovah mo that I was a gone niggnh. 1 just know he'd nab mo in another minute, i yells out, ‘I ain’t got nothin,' anil throws my valisa ouo way

even with the uoblo Lothario by sboo j ing Clive Newcomb, the ward of thi* Kenolm Chillingly who was disinhurir ed by bis father for voting for Catholi emancipation, went to South Africa discovered Monte Ctisto, returned in tie*. Uiui-ph ,-f ft inu’tiuulHenaire and mar-

ried Sarah Gamp. ftturirut. of Statistics.

Ot all tlierop.osontatiwti'WhouM'i statistics freely, Mr. Dingley of Mainu probably does it most cautiously and successfully. From our gallery ono may see him almost any hour bowed over bis desk, his dark and sallow face almost touching the paper on which ho is figuring like the mo<lel boy iu a grammar school. * bn* day Tom Reed called his near neighbor’s attention to Mr. Dingley in these words: “Look at that calculating machine. He just naturally enjoys that sort of thing which would kill me in six weeks”—all this with that Yankee drawl which makes his

K. F. JOSblN i I a n T 08 the llitfhcHt Drink* Brazil BIock

S! IIBIIME IE

. Ajccrpr*

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Iinagiiiation fools our ,><><'1.1 r books once in a while. For instance many people imagine it i* int| ihie to buy a

piano—g .od, honest, first class piano— In effect Sunday May 27.1833. for lc-s than •*. MMI, $500 or $(!(M); that's j \ 0 4* i hleaau Ma| t | rH .? 0 . LN .?.' just where their imagination fools t liom. 1 N*> n* ” Express As an example look at the piano in mv 1 TB Local

-Iiow window, a STL’ Y V ESA N'T that !

sell for

I

SOUTH BOUND/

No JU Louisville Mail N .» 5* Southern IJ \ prees No 48t Local • Daily, t Except Sun«la».

. 1:20 a m .1 :05 p :n .12:05 p m 2:17 a in . 2:22 p 111 . 1:45 p m

-»mi the Bust Pittsburgh and Anthracite*, yard opposite Ynndaiia freight office,

Coa

JURIES F. FEE,

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' ” ‘ VANDALIA LINE. j 1 ash, or tor $2.> more In monthly pay-' TrainsIcaveUrccncastle. lad.. In effect Jar

incuts of $10. Examine it carefully. 1 critically : sec its si/e; 1 ft'i in high. I Double veueeeei! cnee, uitre rieh tone. A reach rr/tniting action, lire yearn guarniiteeil. It is a peerless piano placed in the I’eaell of the people at a popular priee. (’ertiiinly the stool and a scarf ami a year’s free tuning go with the piano. She Dig Hargain CIoihIs are going like hot cukes. Still -ome left. < all in ami iospec' them, especially the line

of Organs.

F. G. Nawhouse, Successor to E. Marquis.

No 15 No 7 No 1 No 21 No 5 No 3

No 4 Vo 20 No 8 No 10 No 12 No H No 2

2‘», 189:»

FOR THK WKST.

Ex. Sun 8:40a in, for st. Louis. I 1 > ... 12:21 :i m, !'••!• M Louis. Daily .12::»2 p in. for M. Louis. Daily 1:36 j) in, for ^t. Louis. Daily 9:01 a in, for St. Louis. Ex. >un 5:28 p in, foi Tern* Haute

rOB Tin • \21

Ex. Sun —8:40 a m, for Indinnat p m. *• Daily 3:35 p in, “ M Ex. >un 8:28 p m, “ ' • Daily 2:JiT) a ni, ** ‘ Daily 3:32 a m “ Dally 6:10 pm** •*

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INSURANCE AGENT, CENSION : ATTORNEY 1 () ] () ] j CENT.

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and jumps tho other for tho back door lightest utterances humorous. Mr. Rood and run for Juarez.” ! rarely troubles himself with statistics. The tourists are the people who get 1 Ho has ono of thoso happily constituted

tbo most satisfaction out of smuggling. They buy in Juarez inferior opals and worse turquoise and all manner of Mexican kuickknacks and pay more for them than they would iu El Paso shops. Then they conceal their purchases and go back feeling very triumphant. The inspectors never disturb them because they know how beautifully the confiding creatures have been skinned already. I suspect the customs officers arc lenient toward this petty smuggling because they know they would not have the support of public sentiment in bagging larger and more important game, of which there is a-plenty, if they kept all feminine El Paso angry and indignant by meddlesome questions about its pur-

chases iu Juarez.

The man who spends his days at the El Paso end of the Rio Grande bridge certainly ought to reach a hale ami hearty old age, for he lives on the sunny side of Easy street, with a circus going on all the time before him. Florence Finch Kkij.y.

intellects which are not obliged to toil slowly up to a conclusion over rising steps of tabulated facts. When many

V r . « . t awiVy with, tho rust of the story may ho true, hut my guess in that tho Lhiiieso indomnity will have to bo paid in silver, ! because thete is nothing elso. It is not j rooui'do.l that Clive, Hastings & Co. | left most of tho gold they captured in India. ” An Interentliig Chart. Much more of interest in this connection did Mr. Ford give, but congress has recently made this subject a trifle stale. This bureau was instituted in 1800, with Mr. Alex Delmar as commissioner. Ho is now nuiuov. hat noted as a writer on bimetallism. Tho organization, however, was by General Francis A. Walker, and ids forms and tables remained unchanged till two years ago. His successors have been Messrs. Edward Young, now United States consul at Windsor, N. S.; Joseph Ninnno, now a iuruior iu Now York, William F. Switzler, at present an editor at Booueton, Mo.; S. G. Brock of t he same

NOTARY PUBLIC.

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE IT?

Then buy your

i I3rif Goods,

Pension Vouchers. Deeds and Mort- / > i 4. • cuees. Correctly ami expeditious!) I X . 1 V./i ( > 1 11 , { f,

ecuted. Mats, OnpS,

Olfiee in Central Bank Building.

Groencastle. inu.

W’ Nllc ■".••the jto rend thl* type *4 tnelic* from ’ * the face, you ha*l better go to Dr. U. W. Honsj and bar*, yo*”’fttod «»**») « nair of Knaflt.nC'***.

The largest Stock of

opinions have been expressed and ooufu- 1 state, and after him tho present incum

sion reigns, he seems able to steer straight across an ocean of sophistry and strike tho right point on the other shore. His system is much like that of Chief Justice Marshall, who used to say, “I could not answer the reasoning of such a one, but I knew that his conclusions would not do. ” Mr. Holman is, of course, compelled to study tho statistics and ^.o very close figuring on his specialties, but ho rarely ventures outside of them, and tho same is true of the members of the two leading commiuees, apprupiiations and ways and

means.

All tho Populists, however, are groat on figures, and the silverites are even more so. Whatever may bo tho merits or defects of their various schemes, they have done a wonderful work in collecting and tabulating the facts throwing light thereon. Any ouo of them can give

bent. In addition to its regular bulletins and annual reports, the bureau now issues a chart which is ono of the most complete, convenient and interesting things of tho kind I ever saw. On a slip of paper 30 inches long and one foot wide is printed, “Condensed summary of the financial and commercial statistics of tho United States, 1867 to 1893. ” It is tho very essence of all the censuses and statistical reports, and every disputatious voter ought to have u copy

tacked up in his house.

J. II Beadle. „

Mrs. M. B. Brown of Washington, N. C., has given to tho state council of King's Daughters her beautiful home, to be used as a home for imbecile children. There are said to be 4,000 in the »tate, and the legislature will bo asked to make an appropriation for its support.

£

Hoots, vSllOQS,

Groceries, Glassware,

Qtieenswa ro, W 00 den ware a nd A'i n wn ro.

At Hie

Globe Slope

l*l-:oi:i A DIVISION Leave Terre Haute.

No 7!» Lx Sun 7:05 a m. lor I’-'orla. No 77 *’ ■’ 3:55 p m. for Decatur. I or complete time cnnl, jrivn.|f all trains am! Htallona. and for full Information as to

rates, through ears, etc., address

J.S. Dowlino, Agent,

W. L Brpnnkh, tireencastle. Asst, tleo’l I’ass. Agt.st. Louis. Mo.

Travel Is best ac^ commodated in the Through Pullman B’jffe* SU-raine Cars rcnnlnit over the lines ol the Louis* ville & Nashville kaiirouC.

South Greeucastle. J. ifjtis tr

SRIJRANSKI.

Ever brought to the County. Do not trust your eyes to Peddlers or Jewelers. G. W. BExNGEv. iWl-lyr-e. o. 41-lj r-e. o. w.

COLD WEATHER. Doesn’t hinder plastering when done with Adamant. Sec R- B- HURLEY For further information. BOX 773

L. M. Hanna, M. D., PHYSICIAN A SURGEON Office No. IS Walnut Street. First Door East Engine House Ucaidcncc, llrlck House on same lot.

REMEMBER THAT T m BQoore

Will supply the people with firstclass GKOCLKIKS at the lowest living prices. 1 also keep "a full line of Glassware and Ijueeiiswnre. Decorated Dinner Sets, fowls and Ritchers, and Tin ware of all kinds. Salt by tin* barrel. I keep a line line of Toilet Soaps. All kinds of Fruits, Nuts and Candies for Holiday Trade. Last but not least, will give with every box of Mascott's Baking Powder—priee 25 cents—a child's quadruple silver act. embossed knife, fork and spoon. Just the thing. J. \V. Moore,

N. Side Square. Abram’s Old Stand. 44-3m

When it. comes to the genuine article of news the Banneu Times has it.

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This line runs double daily (mcr-ing and evening depari* ure) trains from Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville, and St. Louis to the principal Southern cities. This line affords two routes to points in the Southwest, via Memphis and via New Orleans. This line has double dally sleeping car service to Jacksonville, and the only through line of Sleepers to Thoniasvillc and Tampa. This line has three daily trains to points In the Southeast. The passenger equipment of this line is not excelled In the South.

Winter Tourist*’ Tickets ot tow round trip rates on sale from about November 1st, good till

May 31 st.

Full information cheerfully furnished

upon appiicHiiun to

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