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THE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

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16. No.

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Mond-class mail matter. W. 8. MONTGOMERY, Publisher and Proprietor.

Circulation This Week, 2,725.

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SOME of THE people are inclined to think that the men who handle flour have not heard of the decline in the price of wheat. Wheat is now selling at 55 cents per bushel and flour at 40 per hundred. The rise in the price of wheat made flour sell higher. Now let the drop bring prices down.

THOMAS TAGGAP.T is a fall-fledged candidate for Mayor of Indianapolis and in an interview says: "If I am elected Mayor there will be no persecution of any particular class." That means that Taggart wants the support of those who desire to do business unlawfully among the iloon men and gamblers. Enforcing the law is called persecution by the lawless aud those who cater to them. The better element at Indianapolis should bury the law breakers and the demagogues who cater to them beyond the hype of political resurrection.

DURING the year beginning July 1st, 1894, there was a net shrinkage of $60.000.000 in the circulating medium, $5,000, 00 a month is a goed deal of money to i-.ke out of circulation. The total cculation is now $1,604,131,968. The peripita now $22,96 or $1,37 less to each person than they had one year aso, foa while the currency decreased the population increased. Stating ths amount peroapita however does not cut much of a figure as the vast majority of people do not have their proper proportion, it is cornered in the hands of a few, thus enabling them to largely control the business of the country.

The glass workers have decided to ask for a raise of twenty-two and one-half cents on their wages, which was unjustly taken off by the McKialeyitet—Hancock Democrat.

The Democrat evidently means the 22X per cent, (not 22^ cents), which was taken off the wages of the glass-workers by the late, but not lamented, Democratic Congress. Neither glass-workers nor any other workers in this country had anything to complain of in the McKinley bill. The complaining came from wage-workers in Europe and Democratic politicians in this country, whose principal work was "working their jaw." We are glad to have the Democrats acknowledge that the glass-workers were unjustly treated by having the 21% per cent, taken off.

THE scheme of Mayor Pingee, of Detroit, for people to cultivate crops, especially potatoes, on the vacant lots and unemployed land around the city, has failed. Meu who owned the lots aud land very liberally donated the use of the ground and the city appropriated money to furnish the seed. There was, however, a third and more essential element than either of the others to make the plan a success, and that element, which was work, failed to materialize. Few potatoes were planted, as the poor did not want them that way. The people there who stand in need of potatoes do not care for them ualess some one else furnishes the seed, the land and the work necessary, and then deliver the potatoes right at their door ready for use. Such people are poor, always have been poor and always will be. Even the Lord does not help people who do not help themselves. It is the refusal of many people who need help to do anything toward helping themselves that disgust people. If all would remember that "'Thoss who don't work cannot have" they might cease their growling and grumbling and get a hustie on themselves.

A WINDOW glass trust has been formed jffcich takes in nearly all the factories west of Pittsburgh. It controls 350,000 of the 380,000 boxes now stored, and has advanced prices 25 per cent. The Greenfield factories are not mentioned as being in the trust. They will get the benefit of it however and sell all their glass at the advanced price and a good profit and yet not being in the trust, can start up in the fall when they desire and make good money before the other men get. started. The Greenfield and Columbia glass works belonging to the Wells Bros., we believe have the best management of any works in the country. The efficient superintendent, John Borrey has the best class of men, and they always turn out a superior quality of glass that meets a ready sale when other factories are storing glass. Mr. S. R. Wells superior management was shown when the orher glass men were powerless to do anything with Congress, he iu company with Hon. Ephriam Marsh, of this city, secured concessions from Coagrcsi on the tariff question that "made hundreds «f t.housvds of dollar* lor the gin** woi^eieuyi. LMio country

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The Indianapolis People in Bad Kepute lluled Out Under a New IiRW.

Last Saturday Mayor Duncan of this city and the Mayors of Richmond and Muncie prohibted the sale of the Indianapolis People injtheir bailiwicks. Mayor Armstrong of Rushville has joined the procession and ordered the marshal* to notify the local agent of the People that he will be subject to arrest for further circulation of that paper. Their action is taken under the new law of 1895, which prohibits the publication and sale of pernicious literature in the state, reading as follows: "Section !.

Thomas Bice

John A. Craft

it enacted by the state

of Indiana, that it shall be unlawful for any person to sell,. or offer for sale, or print or publish, or bring into the state for the purpose of selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of, or to circulate in any way, any paper, book or periodical, the chief feature or characteristic of which is to record the commission of crime, or to display by cut or illustrating crimes committed or the act or pictures of criminals or desperadoes, of men or women in

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or improper dress. "Section 2 That, any person guilty of this act shall be fined not less than $10 and not more than $200.

Similar notice will be given the agents of tha Police Gazette, Illustrated News and other pictorial papers.

This is a first class law and the officers should see that it is duly enforced. Such filthy papers do a great deal toward contaminating the mind of callow youths and some gay maidens read them on the sly and are made no better by them. Let the sale of such

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Number of Voters in Jackson Townsliip.439 Barnes of Voters Over TO years of age.

JULY 1, 1895.

The names of all the men and ages in Jackson township 70 years and upward: Years John Addison Ira Bevel John S. Barrett James Bickman 1

William Ballard 85 Frank Chandler '1 B. B. Clift

Elisha Earles 81 Jeremiah Goddard Thomas J. Hatfield '5 Robert Hill George Kinder Joseph A. Loudenback ?2 I£aac Leamon David McClarnon 88 James McClarnon, Sr 90 Thomas McClarnon 72 Morgan Miller S3 Nathan Parker 91 Pleasant Riley Elias Roberts §3 Anthony Smith 71 El wood J. Starbuck 79 William Thornburg 75 William White 71 Richard Ward 75

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY, JULY 18 1895.

THE UNPARDONED SIN

REV. DR. TALMAGE THINKS IT IS NOT COMMITTED TODAY.

No One Now Swears by the Holy Ghost. But There Are Other Sins That In Some Respects Are Irrevocable—A Category of Awfnl Sins.

NEW YORK, July 14.—In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still in the west on his annual summer tour, chose a subject which has been a fruitful theme of theological disputation for centuries past—viz, "The Unpardonable Sin." The texts selected were:

All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. Aud whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him, but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.— Matthew xii, 31, 32.

He found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. —Hebrews xii, 17.

As sometimes you gather the whole family around the evening stand to hear some book read, so now we gather, a great Christian family group, to study this text, and now may one and the same lamp cast its glow on all the circle.

You see from the first passage that I read that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which a man is never pardoned. Once having committed it, he is bound hand and foot for the dutigeons of despair. Sermons may be preached to him, songs may be sung to him. prayers may bo offered in his behalf, but all to LO purpose. He is a captive for this world and a captive for tlxe world that is to come. Do you suppose that there is any one here who has committed that sin? All sins are against the Holy Ghost, but my text speaks of one especially. It is very clear to my own mind that the sin against the Holy Ghost Was the ascribing of the works of the spirit to the agency of the devil in the time of the apostles.

Indeed the Bible distinctly tells us that. In other words, if a man had sight given to him, or if another was raised from the dead, and some one standing there should say, "This man got his sight by satanic power the Holy Spirit did not do this Beelzebub accomplished it," or, "This man raised from the dead Was raised by satanic influence," the man who said that dropped down under the curse of the text and had committed the fatal sin against the Holy Ghost.

Not Possible Today.

Now, I do not think it is possible in this day to commit that sin. I think it was possible only in apostolic times. But it is a very terrible thing ever to say anything against the Holy Ghost, and it is a marked fact that our race has been maryelously kept back from that profanity. You hear a man swear by the name of U/ie eternal God, and by the name of Jesus Christ, but you never heard a man swear by the name of the Holy Ghost. There are those here today who fear they are guilty of the unpardonable sin. Have you such anxiety? Then I have to tell you positively that you have not committed that sin, because the very anxiety is a result of the movement of the gracious Spirit, and your anxiety is proof positive, as certainly as anything that can be demonstrated in mathematics, that you have not committed the sin that I have been speaking of. I can look off upon this audience and feel that there is salvation for all. It is not like when they put out with those lifeboats from the Loch Earn for the Ville de Havre. They knew there was not room for all the passengers, but they were going to do as well as they could. But today we man the lifeboat of the gospel, and we cry out over the sea, "Room for all I" Oh, that the Lord Jesus Christ would this hour bring you all out of the flood of sin and plant you on the deck of the glorious old gospel craft!

But while I have said I do not think it is possible for us to commit the particular sin spoken of in the first text I have, by reason of the second text, to call your attention to the fact that there are sins which, though they may be pardoned, are in some respects irrevocable, and you can find no place for repentance, though you seek it carefully with tears. Esau had a birthright given him. In olden times it meant not only temporal but spiritual blessing. One day Esau took this birthright and traded it off for something to eat. Oh, the folly! But let us not be too severe upon him, for some of us have committed the same folly. After he had made the trade he wanted to get it back. Just as though you tomorrow morning should take all your notes and bonds and government securities and should go into a restaurant and in fit of recklessness and hunger throw all those securities on the counter and ask for a plate of food, making that exchange. This was the one Esau made. He sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, and he was very sorry about it afterward, but "he found no place for repentance, thongh he sought it carefully with tears."

There is an impression in almost every man's mind that somewhere in the future there will be a chance where he can correct all his mistakes. Live as we may, if we only repent in time God will forgive us, and then all will be as Well as though we had never committed sin. My discourse shall come in collision with that theory. I shall show you, my friends, as God will help me, that there iS finch a thing as unsuccessful repentance that there are things done wrong that always stay wrong, and for then you may seek some place of repentance and seek it carefully, but never find it.

Irrevocable Mistakes.

Belonging to this class of irrevocable mistakes is, thefplly.of a misspent youth. We xhay look back to our college days and- think howwe neglected chemistry or gedldgfy oir botaht or mathematics. We may be sorrv about it all our dajd. .T9 ev3- £.t t--: dial, line oar

the advantage that we would have had had we attended to those duties in early life? A man wakes up at 40 years of age and finds that his youth has been wasted, and he strives to get back his early advantages. Does he get them back—the days of boyhood, the days in college, the days under his father's roof? "Oh," he says, "if I could only get those times back again, how I would improve them!" My brother, you will never get them back. They are gone, gone. You may be very sorry about it, and God may forgive, so that you may at last reach heaven, but you will never get over some of the mishaps that have come to your soul as a result of your neglect of early duty. You may try to undo it you cannot undo it. When you had a boy's arms, and a boy's eyes, and a boy's heart, you ought to have attended to those hings. A man says at 50 years of age, "I do wish I could get over these habits of indolence." When did you get them? At 20 or 25 years of age. You cannot shake them off. They will hang to you to the very day of your death. If a young man through along course of evil conduct undermines his physical health and then repents of it in after life, the Lord may pardon liim, but that does not bring back good physical condition. I said to a minister of the gospel one Sabbath at the close of the service, "Where are you preaching now?" "Oh," he says, "I am not preaching. I am suffering from the physical effects of early sin. I can't preach now I am sick." A consecrated man he now is, and he mourns bitterly over early sins, but that does not arrest their bodily effects.

The simple fact is that men and women often take 20 years of their life to build up influences that require all the rest of their life to break down. Talk about a man beginning life when he is 21 years of age talk about a woman beginning life when she is 18 years age! All, no! In many respects that is the time they close life. In nine cases out of ten all the questions of eternity are decided before that. Talk about a majority of men getting their fortunes between 30 and 40! They get or lo^e fortunes between 10 and 20. When you tell nie that a man is just beginning life, I tell you he is just closing it. Tho next 50 years will not be of as much importance to him as the first 20.

Cannot He Undone.

Now, why do I say this? Is it for the annoyance of those who have only a baleful retrospection? You know that is not my way. I say it for the benefit of young men and women. I want them to understand that eternity is wrapped up in this hour that tlie sins of youth we never get over that you are now fashioning the mold in which your great future is to run that a minute, instead of being 60 seconds long, is made up of everlasting ages. You can see what dignity and importance this gives to the life of all our young folks. Why, in the light of this subject life is not something to be frittered away, not something to be smirked about, not something to be danced out, but something to be weighed in the balances of eternity. Oh, young man, the sin of yesterday, the sin of tomorrow will reach over 10,000 years—aye, over the great and unending eternity. You may after awhile say: "I am very sorry. Now I have got to be 30 or 40 years of age, and I do wish I had never committed those sins." What does that amount to? God may pardon you, but undo those things you never will, you never can.

In this same category of irrevocable mistakes I put all parental neglect. We begin the education of our children too late. By the time they get to be 10 or 15 we wake up to our mistakes and try to eradicate this bad habit and change that, but it is too late. That parent who omits in the first ten years of the child's life to make an eternal impression for Christ never makes it. The child will probably go on with all the disadvantages, which might have been avoided by parental faithfulness. Now you sc3 what a mistake that father or mother makes who puts off to late life adherence to Christ. Here is a man who at 50 years of age says to you, "I must be a Christian," and he yields his heart to God and sits in the place of prayer today a Christian. None of us can doubt it. He goes home, and he says: "Here at 50 years of age I have given my heart to the Saviour. Now I must establish a family altar." What? Where are your children now? One in Boston, another in Cincinnati. .tlier in New Orleans, and you, my brother, at your fiftieth year going to establish your family altar? Very well, better late than never, but alas, alas, that you did not do it 25 years ago

Too Late.

When I was in Chamouni, Switzerland, I saw in the window of one of the shops a picture that impressed my mind very much. It was a picture of an accident that occurred on the side of one of #he Swiss mountains. A company of travelers, with guides, went up somo very steep places—places which but few travelers attempted to go up. They were, as all travelers are there, fastened together with cords at the waist, so that if one slipped the rope would hold him, the rope fastened to the others. Passing along the most dangerous point, one of the guides slipped, aud they all started down the precipice. But after awhile one more muscular than the rest struck his heels ito the ice and stopped, buj the rope broke, and down, hundreds and thousands of feet, the rest went.

And so I see whole families bound together by ties of affection and in many cases walking on slippery places of worldliness and sin. The father knows it, and the mother knows it, and they are bound all together. After awhile they begin to slide down steeper and steeper, and the father becomes alarmed, and he stops, planting his feet on the "rock of ages. He stops, but the rope breaks, and those who were once tied fast to him by moral and spiritual influences go over $he precipice. Oh, there is such a thing as coming to Christ soon enoiigh to save ourselves, but not soon enough to save others.

How inuz:.~ farauU wake np 'iJi'the

latter part of life to find out the mistake! The parent says, "I have been too lenient," or I "have been too severe in the discipline of my children. If I had the little ones around me again, how different I would do 1" You will never have them around again. The work is done the bent to the character is given the eternity is decided. I say this to young parents, those who are 25 and 30 or 35 years of age—have the family altar tonight. How do you suppose that father felt as he leaned over the couch of his dying child, and the expiring son said to him: "Father, you have been very good to me. You have given me a fine education, and you have placed me in a fine social position, you have done everything for me in a worldly sense but, father, you never told me how to die. Now I am dying, and I am afraid."

Unkindness to the ^Departed.

In this category of Irrevocable mistakes I place also the unkindnesses done the departed. When I was a boy, my mother used to say to me sometimes, "De Witt, you will be sorry for that when I am gone." And I remember just how she looked, sitting there with cap and spectacles and the old Bible in her lap, and she never said a truer thin3 than that, for I have often been sorry since. While we have our friends with us we say unguarded things that wound the feelings of those to whom we ought to give nothing but kindness. Perhaps the parent, without inquiring into the matter, boxes the child's ears. The little one, who has fallen in the street, comes in covered with dust, and as though the first disaster were not enough she whips it. After awhile the child is taken, or the parent is taken, or the companion is taken, and those who are left say: Oh, if we could only get back those unkind words, those unkind deeds! If we could only recall them!" But you cannot get them back. You might bow down over the grave of that loved one and cry and ciy and cry. The white lips would make no answer. The stars shall be plucked out of their sockets, but these influences shall not be torn away. The world shall die, but there are some wrongs immortal. The moral of which is, take care of your friends while you have them. Spare the scolding. Be economical of the satire. Shut up in a dark enve from which they shall never swarm forth all the words that have a sting in them. You will wish you had some day—very soon you will, perhaps tomorrow. Oh, yes. While with a firm hand you administer parental discipline also administer it very gently, lest some day theie be a little slab in the cemetery and on it chiseled, "Our Willie," or "Our Charlie," and though you bow down prone in the grave and seek a place of repentance and seek it carefully with tears, you cannot find it.

There is another sin that I place in the class of irrevocable mistakes, and that is lost opportunities of getting good. I never come to a Saturday night but I can see during that week that I have missed opportunities of getting good. I never come to my birthday but I can see that I have wasted many chances of getting better. I never go home on Sabbath from the discussion cf a religious theme without feeling that I might have done it in a more successful way. How is it with you? If you take a certain number of bushels of wheat and scatter them over a certain number of acres of land, you expect a harvest in proportion to the amount of seed scattered. And I ask you now, Have the sheaves of moral and spiritual harvest corresponded with the advantages given? How has it been with you? You may make resolutions for the future, but past opportunities are gone. In tho long procession of future yeara all those past moments will march, but the archangel's trumpet that wakes the dead will rot wake up for you one of those privileges. Esau has sold his birthright, and there is not wealth enough in the treasure houses of heaven to buy it back again. What does that mean? It means that if you are going to get any advantage out of this Sabbath day you will have to get it before the hand wheels around on the clock to 12 tonight. It means that every moment of our life has two wings, and that it docs not fly like a hawk in circles, but in a straight line from eternity to eternity. It means that, though other chariots may break down or drag heavily, this one never drops the brake and never ceases to run. It means that while at other feasts the cup may be passed to us and we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it, the cupbearers to this feast never give ns but one chance at the chalice, anu rejecting that we shall "find no place for repentance, though we seek it carefully with tears."

Loit Opportunities.

There is one more class of sins that I put in this category of irrevocable sins and that is lost opportunities of usefulness. Your business partner is a proud man. In ordinary circumstances say to him, "Believe in Christ," and he will say, "You mind your business and I'll mind mine.'' But there has been affliction in tho household. His heart is tender. He is loolung around for sympathy and solaco. Now is your time. Speak, speak, or forever hold your peace. There is a time in farm life when you plant the corn and when you sow the seed. Let that go by, and the fanner will wring his hands while other husbandmen are gathering in the sheaves. You are in a religious meeting, and there is an opportunity for you to speak a word for Christ. You say, "I must doit." Your cheek flushos with embarrassment. You rise half way, but you cower before men whose breath is in tlwir nostrils, and you sag back, and the opportunity is gone, and all eternity will feel the effect of your silence. Try to get back that opportunity! You cannot find it. You might as well try to find the fleece that Gideon watched, or take in your hand the dew that came down on the locks of

the Bethlehem shepherds, or to

find the plume of the first robin that Went across paradise. It is gone—*it is gone forever. When an opportunity for personal repentance or of doing, good passes away, you may hunt fot it you saiiccS find it. Yon' m-j ,for Xi if

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will not take the hook. You may dig for it you cannot bring it up. Remember that there are wrongs and sins that can never be corrected that our privileges fly not in circles, but in a straight line that the lightnings have not as swift feet as our privileges when they are gone, and let an opportunity of salvation go by us an inch—the one hundredth part of an inch, the thousandth part of an inch, the millionth part of an inch—and no man can overtake it. Fire winged seraphim cannot come up with it. The eternal God himself cannot catch it.

I stand before those who have a glorious birthright. Esau's was not so rich as yours. Sell it once, and you sell it forever. I remember the story of the lad on the Arctic some years ago—the lad Stewart Holland. A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the time of a fog, and it was found that the ship must go down. Some of the passengers got off in the lifeboats, some got off on rafts, but 300 went to the bottom. During all those hours of calamity Stewart Holland stood at the signal gun and it sounded across the sea—boom, boom! The helmsman forsook his place the engineer was gone, and some fainted, and some prayed, and some blasphemed, and the powder was gone, and they could no more set off the signal gun. The lad broke in the magazine and brought out more powder, and again the gun boomed over the sea. Oh, my friends, tossed on the rough seas of life, some have taken the warning, have gone off in the lifeboat, and they are safe, but others are not making any attempt to escape. So I stand at thio signal gun of the gospel, sounding tho alarm, beware, beware! "Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation." Hear it that your soul may live.

Mr. Isaacs' Imported Cactus.

That ardent student of floriculture, Colonel A:f. od Isaacs, is not so passionately absorbed in the flora of foreign lands as he used to be. Tho poppy and tho pallid pelargonium aro good enough for him, ho says. Mr. Isaacs is a government collector in the office at the foot of Main street. Along tho top of his desk sits a row of alligator pears and somo sweet potatoes blooming in bottles of water. The other day this display was increased by the arrival of a queer looking plant in an earthen flowerpot. A note attached to the plant described it as a Hawaiian cactus and very rare. "Those fellows at the Oceanic dock are getting good iu their old :'ge," remarked Mr. Isaacs as he poured a cup of water 011 the cactus and placed it in the warm sunlight.

In size and shape the Hawaiian cactus resembled a penholder covered with a thin grayish white foliage. The upper end of the plant was tied to a stick inserted in the soil of the pot. Taken as a whole, the cactus was not a promising object, but Mr. Isaacs attended to it with loving care. Twice a day he watered it, according to instructions, yet the cactus did not appear to thrive. "It must be the climate," said Mr. Isaacs.

But the hot weather of the past two days aroused the latent energies of the Hawaiian specimen to a remarkable extent. It began to shed a fragrance round about that made Mr. Isaacs sick and drove sea captains out of the office. The aroma of thut imported cactus was simply asphyxiating, so much so that the sagacious collector said: "I am beginning to smell a rat."

Mr. Isaacs was right. He pulled the cactus up by the roots and exposed a rat, which should have been buried deeper or thrown overboard two weeks ago, and now Mr. Isaacs is trying to find out who palmed off a rat's tail as a Hawaiian cactus.—San Francisco Chronicle.

What tho South Can Io.

It is evident that the south has at hand, and therefore cheap, all the raw materials entering into manufactures that its labor and cost of living are cheaper than at tho north that it can, in consequence, manufacture goods of all kinds at less cost than the north or the west that it cannot only supply the home demand, but also export goods with profit that in the finer lines of manufactures it is extending its operations with success, and that, to compete with it, wages in the north must be reduced. With all these advantages on its side the fault will be with the south if it fails to reach out its hands and take what nature has so kindly offered.— From "IndustrialFuturoof the South," by Frederic G. Mather, in North American Review.

A Porclno Oddity.

I. K. Persons, a farmer of Red Mills, Ark., is the owner of a pig that completely lays all other freak porkers in the shade. It is perfectly devoid of hair and has a double set of eyes, feet like human hands—even to the nails—one very large car and a face which looks more like that of a young baby than it does like that of a regulation pig. From between the upper set of eyes projects a proboscis like that of a young elephant. This proboscis has two holes through its entire length, and it is through them that piggy gets his supply of air. Mr. Persons values the freak at $1,000, and his neighbors say that he takes greater care of it than all of the rest of the Btock on the place.—St Louis Republic.

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arms some 80 feet in length each. Eight tons or more of powder are to be put in these side tunnels, the main tunnel cemented hp and thej/big charge touched off. It is expeot^d the explosion will mnlrft 0.rook pilfe of the mountain.—

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