Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 September 1910 — Page 3

@ @ i His Masterpiece By GENEVIEVE MARIE BOICE

Paul Worthington stared moodily into ‘the glowing fire; Marguerite Chantry, fair as a king's daughter, watched him in silent displeasure, her slender white-gowned figure wrapped in the ﬁl’myf crimson :thist that arose from the bl;hzin’g logs, .. The tense silence that had fallen between them lasted several minutes and thé girl clutched nervously at the folds of her gown. : - :

Now that the first outburst of emotion was over in which she had told him plainly her opinion regarding his lazy mode of life and idlé pursuit of pleasure, her courage fled, and she stood” by the great organ in the library, one hand resting on its ivoried keys, trembling and afraid.

Meanwhile a mighty struggle .was going on in Paul Worthington’s mind. Had he not bHeen born to the purple and fine linen Fate might have made of him an artist of Bo small repute, for. during his college days he had Ziven evidence of an unusual talent along these lines. But once free from the influence of the halls of learning the€ goddess of pleasure had claimed him for her own, and, binding him with her silken cords, had banished all useful occupations from his mind. " But.now, under Marguerite's scornful discourse on the utter uselessness of his life," ambition stirred within his heart like the ﬁa'mes that sometimes burst from an apparently. burned-out Jog. - Arnid, although he seemed to be Wwatching with lazy interest the sparks dancing up the chimney like a million golden. butterflies, he was secretly admiring the slender gray-eyed girl who dared to tell him the truth even at the cost of thelr friendship. :

His Tfarewell that night was cold and almost formal. He barely touched .\lilrgtkrite's icy little hand and entirely;ignored thezappeal in her wide gray eyes. She longed to speak some word |of encouragement to- him, but

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| “l have found my life work,” he wrote, “and I am determined to carve a name for myself in the world of art. My one ambition now is to paint a canvas worthy of being hung in the .ngal Academy, and for this I am . working from early morning until almost ~ twilight. Daily the picture grows under my touch until I could almost believe it is by magic.”” Marguerite’s eyes shone with pleass ure. After all, was it not worth the ' many lonesome moments she had spent since he had left her in apparent anger to know that he was to make something of his life? She fell to dreaming of the time when his pic_#ure_would hang in the Royal Acadtmy and the world would speak his . name with reverence. i Eagerly she watched for his letters, and the disappointment was keen that

Y TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE

Chicago Lightning Disproves Old No- : tion and Finally Kills an An- }~ cient Cottonwood Tree. - Lightning never Strikes twice in the same place, according to an old saw, but a big cottonwood tree standing \‘»-in Hyde Park, Chicago, last summer disproved this notion altogether. This tree stood_on the south side of Fifty-third street, between Cornell avenue and fhe Illinois Central tracks. "‘ It was nearly fifty years old and one Yof the largest trees in the neighbor- ‘ hood. The late Judge Jameson built his residence at the southwest corner of Fifty-third street and Cornell aveﬁ nue in 1857. There was little or noth- <" ing in Hyde Park at that time—so little, in fact, that the suburban seryjce of the Illinois Cemtral had only . just commenced, and there were only "y three trains a day each way. i " On the Fifty-third street side of the park he planted a row of cottonwoods. ‘They took kindly to the sandy sotl i singylar freaks. s

they were so few and irregular. At another time he wrote:

* = *The work is progressing rapidly. Daily the canvas grows ‘more beautiful, but in this I must accord a share of praise to the girl who is vosing for the figure in the picture, for it is often her quick, kindly smile and soft glances of encouragement that urge me to bring the best art there is in me to the surface. Likec myself, she is an American; and when tbe shadows thicken and it grows too dark to paint, we sit by the studio fire and chat about old friends and home, sweet kome. But for this during the first days the loneliness would have become unbearable, and I think 1 wculd have been tempted to throw it up and go back to the old life and (here the page turned and Marguerite’'s eyves brightened expectantly) all my friends in the land of the Stars and Stripes.” -

Marguerite quietly tossed the letter on the blazing logs with a scornful toss of her head. Not a word about her own sacrifice in sending him away from her to make something of his life, but only words of praise for the girl who had so lately come into their worlg: AT

Spring found the Chantrys in Europe. They lingered longest in fair Italy, the land of azure skies' and zolden sunlight, and the home of the nld masters. Their ancient paintings

had a peculiar fascination for Marguerite, and she often found herself thinking of Paul Worthington with a wistful tenderness, and wondering if his name would ever be classed among the famous painters of pictures. : .

Upon their arrival in Rome" they found the city ringing with the praises of ah unknown artist named Clyde, whose picture was on exhibition in the. art gallery. Even the critics. were silent before it; there was not a flaw in the exquisite painte e .

At the first opportunity Marguerite Chantry visited the gallery and waited patiently until the crowd permitted

her to stand in the line that viewed the famous painting. There were other pictures by the same artist hanging in the room, but it was before this one that the crowds lingered. “This is his masterpiece,” they said softly, almost reverently. Gra}déually"the crowd melted away and Marguerite stood before the wonderful picture. Like a dream sea stretched the field of -snowy daisies

with flaming hearts of gold, as if the dazzling whiteness of their petals had lured the golden sun from its home in

the high heavens and imprisoned it In their hearts, and from this starry carpet, likeé a spirit of the mist, rose a slender gray-eyed girl in filmy white; her arms were filled with the pale, pure blossoms, and half sadly, half tenderly, she gazed: on their snowy loveliness. A butterfly exquisitely tinted and flecked with gold. poised on one velvet petal as if ready to take flight, and yet loved to linger amid such beauty. White wind-tossed clouds were overhead, and the glorfous light of morning tinged the entire painting with an ethereal glow. Marguerite felt as if the ground were slowly slipping from beneath her feet, for the girl on the canvas was herself. Bewildered she sought her catalogue. Opposite the number of the picture she read, “Margperites, By Paul Clyde Worthington.”

A mist swam before her eyes and she swayed slightly. Suddenly the crowd parted and a tall commanding figure stood before the picture. Marguerite felt her icy fingers caught in a strong warm-clasp and a voice vibrant with tenderness whispered, “Marguerite.” In silent wonder they both examined the product of his brush and brain: truly it was his masterpiece. Slowly the truth dawned on Marguerite. It was she alone who had been his model—she alone for whom he had done this thing—and while her fingers trembled in his like a frightened bird, he drew her gently through the crowd to »~r waiting carriage.

Useful.

“May I escort you to the swimming party tomorrow, Miss Ethel?” - ““Why, yes, I'd like to go, thank you, but mother will have to chaperon me.”

“Do—do you think that's necessary?” “Of course I do. I'm never afraid when mother’s along. Mother knows just what to do for eramps, and she can swim 111;e a champion duck!”

Value of Optimism.

It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.—Dr. Johnson.

along the.lake front and soon grew into great trees which, in time, came to be landmarks. Ten years ago the largest of the great cottonwoods was struck by lightning, The bolt seemed to be in the shape of an enormous knife, for it sliced off a large strip of the trunk for seventy feet or more. Such a stroke would have killed a less vigorous tree. But the cottonwood stood the blow bravely, recovered, and went on growing as though nothing had happened, and in time there was nothing but a long, brown scar to prove the visitation of the deadly bolt from the skies. Early in July last the lightning came again. Before the bolt struck the leaves of the old cottonwool, were green and glossy; within an hour after the stroke every leaf was shriveled and had turned brown: all signs of life had departed; the old cottonwood was dead. Strangely enough, this time the bolt left no mark, and yet killed in. stantly. ‘%Nature plays some very

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The wonderful success of Russell Ford, the star pitcher of the Highlanders, is due principally to the development of a freak spit ball curve. Lajoie was unable to find it the other day and did not get a single drive off the young architect. Th_é regular spit ball is thrown by covering the tips of the first and second fingers with saliva so that the ball will slip off those fingers and not take a rotary motion. The ball therefore gets its direction from the thumb and wobbles to the plate in a peculiar jerky fashion. The only trouble with that curve is: the

BRESNAHAN TO PITCH AGAIN?

Manager and Catcher of St. Louis Na tionals Thinks Change Might Benefit His Team.

Roger Bresnahan, catcher and manager of the St. Louis National league baseball team, is quoted by his friends as thinking seriously of going back to pitching if things fail to break better for his staff of twirlers. Bresnahan broke into the game as a pitcher for

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Washington, and it was at Baltimore that McGraw -turned him into a catcher. Only recently in Brooklyn Bresnahan startled the fans by stepping to the slab at a critical moment and warding off danger. :

HOFMAN WAS LONG ON BENCH

Star Centerfielder of Chicago Nationals Was Many Years in Securing : Permanent Job.

Artle Hofman, who is one’of the greatest mainstays of the Cubs, is just about rooted in center field these days, excepting when he cuts in on the first base job, vice Frank Chance. You don’t hear any more of long Arthur as a bench warmer or as a utility man—he has to be in the game all the time, and there is an awful howl when he is disabled. And yet it took years for Hofman to gain this regular occupation. He was so classy as an all'round performer, so clever when placed on any ome of the seven jobs outside the battery, that Chance wouldn’t work him regularly. Artie

McAleer, Bench Coacher.

Jim McAleer has given up coaching from the lines. He no longer dons a uniform, but directs his team from the bench. There is perhaps no doubt that McAleer can be of just as much benefit to his team on the bench as on the coaching lines, but the fans have always taken kindly to the manager who got out and hustled on the lines. They have never displayed a liking for the leader out of uniform. Cantillon was on the lines most of last season, but gave up his uniform late in the campaign and came in for much criti¢clsm as a result. ,

inability of the pitcher to make it break “in” or “out” to the batter according to the wishes of the twirler. Ford has solved that problem by inventing' a way of making the curve break in. Ford found that by moistening the knuckle of his third finger with saliva the bell would slip off from the side instead of the tips of the fingers, and as there is no friction on the right side of the ball it would gradually drop “inside” of the plate. He controls it perfectly. He can also make the ball break outward by moistening the thumb.

had the distinction of being the best | utility man living, but he wanted to be | in the game all the time, and yet( Chance wouldn't put him there. | Chance maintained that Rabbit Slagle, \ with his ability to negotiate bases ong¢ balls as well as timely hits, would be | the goods for the regular center field- i er. But after Slagle passed and Hof-'i man took up the regular work in cen- ; ter it was evident that he ought to | have been there long before. He hit | harder than Slagle, he made more | runs, he covered much more ground | with his long strides, and his throwing | arm was infinitely better. In short, | the Cubs had been keeping a star bats- | man and magical fielder in utility roles [ for years, and never realized that | they were neglecting an element of | power. Queer how baseball works its | ways, isn’'t {t? |

NOILS~ /;; g"« JIAMONL ¥ 7

Davy Jones and Ty Cobb are going along in'a peaceable manner again.

Jack Coombs has already won more games this season than he did all last year. He is proving to be the best man on the Athletic’'s strong staff. : Manager George Stallings of the Highlanders, still tHinks the Tigers are to be in the running for the flag. That is saying a lot for a manager that expects to be there himself. Big Ed Walsh, the star twirler of the White Sox, is disheartened. _The reverses that the “Speed Boys” handed him recently, have rendered the former spit ball wonder bereft of his old-time effectiveness.

Manager McGuire is planning on another switch in the Naps and putting Lajoie back on first. Turner will g 0 to second In that case and one of the youngsters, Peckingpaugh or Knaup, will go to short.

The average baseball scout earns his salary many times over by- keeping bis club from signing dead ones. The general opinion of a scout is that he is sent out to pick every player that is recommended to him. ~

Fred Clarke is far from being too o.a to play the game yet. In Satyrday’s game between the Pirates and tne Doves the Pittsburg leader made two two-baggers, a triple and a single, Not so bad for an old fellow.

Danny Shay is bolstering up hj ing staff in Kansas City vger; g::,g:;:ﬁ: ly. Frank Owen, the old Sox pitcher was secured recently and now he haa. secured Bill Powell from the Pirates Dusty Rhoades was with the Blyes a.li season. :

The Cleveland team has added two more youngsters to the list for 1911, Outfielder Burns of the Danville Three 1 league team and Outficlder Callahan of the Eau Claire team of the Wiscon-sin-Minnesota league were purchased the otner day. .

Business Men Play Golf.

“Fore caddie! Wateh ’em out!”

The great pastime of the worried business man is golf. If you don’t believe it visit any of the links on Saturday afternoon of a warm summer’s day and 10 to 1 you'll find that 90 per cent. of the bright scarlet patches strutting up and down the course are business men out hunting pleasant relaxation and a huge appetite. Golf most certainly brings the flush. of health to the cheek and puts elasticity into the step, as well as enables a 350, pound man to stoop over and tie his shoe once in a while when he’s feeling Uvely. ’

HOW BEEBE GOT HIS START Studied Hard to Become Mechanical - Engincer, But Found Much More Money in Baseball. (By “PRIVENS"” BEEBE. (Copvright, 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles.) - When 2 completed my college course at the University .of Illinois I went out to make my living. My people had sacrificed themselves to send me to college. : Now 1 had gone to Hyde Park high school in Chicago to fit myself for a college career. 1 liked baseball and pitched for the high school team, which was a good one, but was always neglecting baseball in order to study. When I went to the university it was the same way; 1 wanted to make something of myself and planned a mechanical . expert’s career.® They persuaded me to pitch for the Varsity team and I gave it as much time as my studies allowed. When I finished at school 1 felt 1 owed something to my people for educating me. 1 had gained some honors at school and because of this I re ceived an offer of $55 a month tc

work at the profession I had spent three years studying. At the same time a semi-profes sional baseball club was offering me

® 0! l T . S \M | V. 4 4 }%"’ . 453 f & & ‘ s . & g A % ﬂ “Privens” Beebe. three times as much money to pitch two games a week. 1 pitched for a time while looking for a job but made nothing. Once I pitched a winning game and was pald two pitchers’ undershirts and a glove. The prospect was not encouraging. The best offer 1 received from any firm which needed the services of u college graduate in my line was $6O a month. I began to regret that 1 had devoted so much of my time to study and so little to baseball.” Then I received a good offer to pitch baseball professionally and accepted it. Several fellows from the university team had made good in the major leagues and they “boosted” me. The result was I jumped right into the major league and began to forget my other profession. I never have regretted it. I have made more money in seven years pitching than I could- have in 43 at my real profession and when my arm wears out I have my fruit ranch to go to and a lot of pleasant memories to recall.

OTTO HESS IS SUCCESSFUL

Delivery of Leading Pitcher in Southern League Deceptive to Batters— Has Fine Control.

Otto Hess 1s the most successful twirler in the Southern. league . this geason. In fact, there are several reason’s for the Dutchman’s wonderful success, reasons known to the ball players and to the fans and to nearly every one. ;

The main reason of his wonderful success is his fine control.. Otto has been slinging them across the plate this year with reckless abandon. He has been walking very few men for a left-hander and this has had a lot to do with the majority of winnings that he has accumulated. But there is one reason, known only to the ball players, to which his big success can be attributed. Hess, as every fan who has seen him in action knows, is no small man by any means. In fact, he is a six-footer, and this has aided him greatly in fooling the batter. ;

To use the expression of the ball players, they have been “swinging at his motion.” Probably the fans don’t realize what this means. Hess’ height is an answer to ‘the question, though a meager one. To be explicit, Hess {s so tall that when he winds up to deliver the ball, the batters have become accustomed to catching this motion and not the bail when it is deiivered.

Lessons In Athletics. So profound has been the impression by the new type of athlete brought forward in the prize fighting game that the training methods common to professional pugilists are now used, in greater or less degree, by all men wha exercise. Few nations now go in for pßysical culture that develops mere muscle for “show” purposes, says the Denver Republican. The boy who rolls up his sleeve and shows an awe-in. spiring hummock (where his biceps is knotted is quite ayt to be laughed to scorn as out of date. The era of the big muscled man has passed, but what hunianity is losing In its ability to lift huge weights it is more than replacing ‘in suppleness, adroitness and ability to withstand general fatigue. These are life-preserving things, and it should not be forgotten, in this day of prize ring condemnation, that profesgional pugilism is to be thanked for them. : $6,000 for Pitcher. President Joseph Cohen of the Spokane Northwestern league club sold Jesse Baker, his crack left-hand pitcher, to the Chicago American league club. It is understood that Baker is to report to Chicago immediately. The Spokane club, it is said, gets $6,000 and two players for Baker.

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HERE are few places that can i offer more delights to those | who love a ramble o’er -hill | and dale than the Hakone dis- ] trict .of Japan. Its lovoly, wooded lands and mountains, ringing | ‘with the sound of: rills and rivers, cascades and waterfalls, make it a& veritable paradise for a holiday. A | railway journey of two hours from Yokohama brought us to Kozu, whence | we journeyed by electric car to Yumoto, the terminus of the line. Heres we made . a slight detour {rom the‘ main road, to see the cascade called Tama-dare-no-taki. Entering the pret-; ty gardens of a tea-house, we were immediately taken in charge by little smiling musumes, who, with many bows and much giggling at our broken Japanese sentences, toddled along under the maples and led us to the foot of the falling waters. A hundred feathery streams gushed from the mountain-side, falling down the rocky slope into a limpid crystal pool below, where huge gold carp were lazily gliding about in shoals or loafing under the shade of the bridges and overhanging trees. * The road to Miyanoshita, through the village of Tonosawa, disclosed fresh beauties at every turn as it wound its way up the mountainside. On the left was a dense forest of pine and maple trees, and tall bamboos with feathery leaves quivering in the breeze; while on the right were the steep slopes of the roaring Hayakawa, down which scores of streamlets danced their- way to the rushing waters below. There are many charming excursions to be made from here, but the [favorite one is that to Lake Hakone. The road leads along the left bank of the Hayakawa for some distance, and thence strikes off up a steep pathway into the Ashinoyu mountains through the village from which they derive their name. This place is famous for the curative properties of its sulphur springs. Ashinoyu is 2,800 feet above the sea, and is always cool, even in the hottest months of summer. Just before the lake comes into view there are some famous carvings to be seen. The most interesting of these is an immense bas-relief, cut in the face of a wall of rock, of Jizo, the Buddhist god who watches over the souls of little children. This image is said to be the work of Kobo Daishi, a Buddhist saint who lived in the eifhth century, and he is credited with having accomplished the feat in a single night. : The surroundings of Lake Hakone are very beautiful. It nestles among the hills, with the long street of low Kaia-thatched houses of Hakone village at one end, near which is the summer home of the emperor, while in the north Fuyjiyama's shapely crest towers above the surrounding mountains, crowned with a diadem of dazzling virgin snow. Walking through the village, 1 was attracted by the sign, “The Guide Book to Hakone,” in a cottage window. [ bought one, and found the little blue volume embellished with a golden outline of Fujiyama so quaintly interesting that I leave the rest of the description of this region to its author—a Japanese —and quote verbatim from the work. Speaking of the beauties of the place and its approaches, he says: “Owing to toilsome ascent many difficulties must be endured by travelers. The result of toleration is pleasure. There the imperial paalce stands, Hakone Gongen, a Shinto temple, adorns itself with perpetual unchanging dress of forest; the Ashi lake spreads the face of glowing glass reflected upside down the shadow of Fuji, which is the highest, noblest and most gzlorious mountain in Japan, and the mineral hot springs warmly entertain the guests coming yearly to visit them during summer vacation. The purity of the air, the coolness of summer days, and the fine view of landscapes are agreeable to all visitors; for these facts, they do not know how is the summer heat and where is the epidemic prevailing.” A little further on I find another expatiation on the guality of the air, as follows: *‘Draughts of pure air suspends no poisonous mixture, and always cleanses the defilement of our spirit. During the winter days the coldness robs up all pleasures from our hands, but at the summer months they are set free.” The beauty or the view has apparently given wide scge for the full power of the author’s-{magination and opened up an opportunity for a fine display of expression and similes, while a warmth of poetic zeal is awakened which scorms any irifling incon. sistencies. Of it there is this to be said: “Whenever we visit the place, the first pleasure to be longed is the view of Fuji mountain and its summit is covered with permanent undissolving snow, and its regular configuration hanging down the sky like an opened white fan, may be looked long at equal shape from several regions surrounding it. Every one who saw it has ever nothing but applause. It cdsts the shadow in a contrary direction on still glassy face of lake as I have just ~described. Bulildings of Imperial Solitary palzoe, soenery of Gongen, are all

spontaneous . pictures. -Wind ' proper in quantity suited to our boat ro slip by sall, and moonlight shining on the sky shivers quartzy luster over ripples of the lake. The cuckoo, singing near by our hotel, plays on a harp, and -the gulls flying about to and fro seek their food in the waves. All these panorama may be gathered only at this place.” In such a burst of unrestrained enthusiasm it is scarcely to be supposed that such unimportant discrepancies as the gulls flying o’er the waves of a still glassy lake or a cuckoo playing on a harp should be heeded. Not far away is the village Oidaira or “Old Man’'s Plain.” i One of the attractions of the lake is boatiag in summer time, and I read: “The preparation of boats and Japanese small ships is made for the diversion of residents. If the boat excursion on the lake be wished, an order for fittings will be given to boatmen; if the boat race be desired, the waveless part of the lake between Toga-shima and Hatabikiyama will be chosen for; and if we want to go to Übago, the ferry boat will carry us forth at the morning and back at the evening after bathing all day.” Hakone was the scene of many fierce conflicts in feudal times. The latest battle is described thus: *“At

May, of the first year of Mei}i, about thirty years ago from the present, two feudal and military chiefs engaged in battle on Hakone mountain. One of them was Okubo Kagano-kami, the lord of Odawara-Han, and the other was Shonosuke Hayashi, lord of Boshu, and the former belonged to the imperial army and the latter was on the Shogun’s side. One time Hayashi staid at Numadzu and held a good many soldiers. Leading them, he passed Mishima and came to Hakone: He requested to the guardsmen of Barrier gate to let his army pass through it. At that time the guardianship ot the gate was in the hand of Odawara Han, and the request was not permitted by its master Kagano Kami. He durst to pass through it by military power. Then the battle was instigated and instantly guns were fired. All of the dwellers of Hakone were so frightened that they fled out of their dwellings and hid in mountains and- valleys. ~ After short struggle the guardsmer could not conquer him, and retired to Odawara to -shut themselves up in the castle for its defense. Taking advantage -of victory, he advanced his-army to destroy them. -He missed unexpectedly - his_ cogitation. He was defeated very badly and retir¢éd to ¥umoto. Secondly, he ran back to Hakone, defeated by enemy. By violent pursuit of imperial army he was finally obliged to run to Ajiro, about four miles south from Atami, and thence to escape to his . own previous domain. Thenceforth, the construction of perfect imperial government by the revelation of Meiji, placed the nation out of impetuous struggles of feudalism. And the ruin was remained to endless fancy.” . - This is the style of the little volume from beginning to end, and it ranks among the most interesting of my Japanese curiosities. . — ‘HERBERT G. PONTING. Time’s Changes. ' Winkler (who has just returned to town after 15 years of absence)—The ravages of time certainly make some wonderful and surprising changes. Bowlers—To what are you referring? , : Winkler—Most particularly to Miss Johnson. When I went away her hair was black and glossy and her skin was like alabaster, but when I met her this afternoon I was startled to notice that the ravages of time had made her a straw-haired, rosy-cheeked blonde. Afraid It Was Not the Real Thing. Mr. Det}ars (coming suddenly upon his wife and finding her in tears)— Why, what is the trouble, Jennie? Mrs. Detlers—We've been married for .ten years and have never quarreled, and I'm afrald we haven’t truly loved each other. : = Mr. Detlars—Nonsense! What put that thought into your head? . Mrs. Detlars—l was reading today that “true love never runs smooth.” Restraint. _ “So you think a woman has a sensa of tumor.” : “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But she has schooled herself to suppress it. Common politeness forbids a wom-. an to laugh every time her husband says or does something ridiculous.” . Bound to Be Variety. 2 “My comic opera will contain na drunken king, no merry villagers, no bandits.” : : fi “What will it contain?” . “I haven’t thought that far. But I can’'t go wrong. Whatever I 'put in will be heartily welcomed.” & ‘ Fans., i & “What do you think o’ that feller'a stick work?” Sl ' “He's a bird, all right.” c e - “A bird. Why, he can’t bat at alL® “Nefther can a bird™®. =

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