Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 December 1891 — Page 4

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Siebah and had been off to tohttte, and when they came bach they WfrrO asked what kind of people they had seen. They Answered that the people had a royal appearance; “each one resembled the ohildren of a king.” I Stand to-day before many who hare this appearance. Indeed, they are the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Though now in exile, they shall yet come to their thrones. There are family names that stand for wealth, or patriotism, or intelligence. The name of Washington means patriotism, although some ot the blood of that race has become very thin in the last genefaton. The family of the Medici stood as the representative of letters. The family of the Rothschilds is significant of tgealth, the loss of forty million dollars In 1848 pnttting them to no inconvenience; and within a few years they have loaned Russia twelve million dollars, Naples twenty-five million dollars, Austria forty million dollars, and England, two hundred million dollars, and the stroke of their pen on the counting room desk shakes everything from the Irish sea to the Danube. They open their hand and there is war; they shut it, and there is peace. The house of Hapsbnrg in Austria, the house of Stuart in England, the house of Bourbon in France, were families of imperial authority. But I come to preach of a family more potential, more rich, and more extensive—the Royal house of Jesus, of whom the whole family in Heaven and on earth is named. We are blood relations by the relationship of the cross: all of us are the children of the King. First I -speak of onr family name. When we see a descendant of some one greatly celebrated in the last century, we look at him with profound interest. To have had conquerors, kings or princes in the ancestral line give luster to ihe family name. In onr line was a King and a Conqueror. The star in the east with baton of light woke up the eternal orchestra that made music at His birth. From thence He started forth to conquer all nations, not by trampling them down, but by lifting them up St. John saw Him on a white horse. When He returns He 'will not bring the nations chained to His wheel, or in iron cages, but I U;ar the stroke of the hoofs of the snow-white cavalcade that bring them to the gates in triumph. Our family name takes luster from the stars that heralded Him, and spear that piereed Him, and the crowff that was given Him. It gathers fragrance from the frankincense that was brought to His cradle, and the lilies that flung their sweetness into His ser-, . raons, and the box of alabaster tbat broke at His feet. The Comforter at Bethany. The Resurreetor at Nain. The supernatural Oenlis at llethsaida. The Saviour of one world, and the Chief Joy of another. The storm His frown. The sunlight nis smile. The spring morning nis breath. The earthquake the stamp of His foot. The thunder the whisperof His voiee. The ocean a drop on the tip of His finger. Heaven a sparkle on the bosom of His love. Eternity the twinkling of His eye. The universe the flying dust of His chariot wheels. Able to heal a heart-break, or hash a tempest, or drown a word, or flood immensity with His glory. What other family name could ever boast such an illustrious personage? Henceforth, swing out the coat of arms! Great families wear their eoat of arms on the dress, or on the door of the coach, or on the helmet when they go out to battle, or on the flags and ensigns. The heraldic sign is sometimes n lion, or a dragon, or an eagle. Our coat of arms, worn right over the heart, hereafter shall be a cross, a lamb standing under it and a dove flying over it. Grandest of all esenteheons! Most significant of al^family “coat of arms.” In every battle I must have it blazing on my flag—the dove, the cross, the lamb; and when I fall, wrap me in that good old Christian flag, so that the family eoat ot arms shall be right over my breast, that all the world may see that 11 locked to the Dove of the Spirit, and clung to the Cross, and depended upon j the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Ashamed of Jesus—that dear friend, On whom my hopes of life depend; No! when I blush be this my shame— That I no more revere His name. Nest I speak of *the 'family sorrows. I If trouble come to one member of the ; family, all feel it It is the custom, after the body is lowered into the grave, for all the relatives to come to the verge of the grave and look down into it First those nearest the departed come, then those best of kin, until 'they have all looked into the grave. ' So, when trouble and grief go down through the heart of one member of the family, they go down through them all. The sadness of one is the sadness of all. A company of persons join hands around an electric battery; the two persons at the end of the line toueh the battery, and all the eircle feels the shock. Thus, by reason of the filial, maternal and paternal relations of life, we stand so elose together that when trouble sets its battery all feel the thrill of "-distress.- hi the great Christian family the sorrow of one ought to be the sorrow of all Is one persecuted? All are persecuted. Does one suffer loss? We all suffer loss. Is -me bereaved? We are all bereaved. For human guilt and mortal woe. If you rejoice at another’s misfortune yon are not one of the sheep, hut one of the goats; and the vulture of sin hath alighted on your soul, and not the dove of the spirit. Next. I notice the family property. After a man of large estate dies the relatives assemble to hear the will read. So much of the property is willed to his sons, and so much to his daughters. and so much to benevolent societies. Our Lord Jesus hath died, and we are assembled to-day to hear the will read. He says: “My peace I give unto you.” Through His apostle He says: “All are yours.” Whatl everything? Yes, everything! This world and the next In distinguished families there are old pictures hanging on the wall. They are called the “heirlooms” of the estate. They afe very old, and have come down from generation to generation. So 1 look upon all the beauties of the natural world as the heirlooms of our royal family. The morning breaks from the east. The mists travel up hill, above hill, mountain above*mountain, until sky-lost. The forests are full of ehirp, ajd buss, and song. Tree’s leaf and bird’s wing Butter with gladness. Honeymskers in the Jog, and beak against the hark, and squirrels chattering on the rail and the call of the hawk out of a clear sky, The sun, whteb

thCr gave us the picture and hung it on the sky in loops of fire. It is the heirloom of our family. And so the night It is the full moon. The mists from shore to shore gleam like shattered mirrors; and the ocean, under her glance, comes up with great tides, {Hinting upon the beach; mingling as it were, loam and fire. The poor man blesses God for throwing such a cheap light through the broken window pane into his cabin, and to the sick it seems a light from the other shore which bounds this great deep human pain and vroe. If the sun seem like a song full and poured from brhzen instruments that fill Heaven and earth with great harmonies, the moon is plaintive and mild, standing beneath the throne of God, sending up her soft, sweet voice of praise, while the stars listen, and the sea. No mother ever more sweetly guarded the sick cradle than all night long this pale watcher of the sky bends over the weary* heart-siek, slumbering earth. Whose is the blaek-framed, hliack-tasseled picture of the night? It is the heirloom of our family. Ours, the grandeur of spring, the crystals of the snow, the coral of the beaeh, the odors of the garden, the harmonies of the air. You can not see a large estate in one morning. Yon must take several walks around it. The family property of this Royal House of Jesus is so great that we must take several walks to get any idea of its extent All these valleys, the harvests that wave in them, and the cattle that pasture them—all these mountains, and the precious things hidden beneath them, and the crown of glacier they cast at the feet of the Alpine hurricane—all these lakes, these islands,, these continents, are ours. In the second walk, go among the street lamps of Heaven, and see stretching off on every side a wilderness of worlds. For us they shine. For us they sang at a Saviour's nativity. For us they will wheel into line, and with their flaming torches add to splendor of our triumph on the day for which all other days were made. In the third walk, go around the Eternal city. As we come near it, hark to the rush of its chariots and the wedding-peai of its great towers. The hell of Heaven has struck twelve. It is high noon. We look off upon the chaplets which never fade, the eyes that never weep, the temples that never close, the loved ones that never part, the procession that never halts, the trees that never wither, Abe walls that never can be captured^ HI sun that never set^untU wp can no longer gaze, amt we^hufe- ohr eyes and exclaim: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear beard, neither have entered into Ahe heart of man, the things which Gold Hth prepared for them that love Him!” As these tides of glory rise, we have to retreat, and hold fast lest we be swept off and drowned in the emotions of gladness, and thanksgiving and triumph. What think you of the family property? It is considered anhonor id many into a family where there is great wealth. > The Lord, the bridegroom of earth and Heaven, offers you His heart and His hand, saying, in the words of the Canticles: “Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away;” and once having put on thy hand the signet-ring I of IRs love, you will be endowed with ail the swealth of earth, and ail the honors of Heaven.

AlUUAk 10IUUJ ‘V H homestead—some country-place where | you grew up You sat on the door-sill. You heard 4he footstep of the rain on the garret-roof. You swung on the gate. You ransacked the barn. You waded into the brook. You threshed the orchard for apples, and the neighboring wood for nuts; and everything around the old homestead is of interest to you. I tell you, of the old homestead of eternity. In my Father’s house are many mansions. When we talk of mansions, we think of Chatsworth, and ; its park, nine miles in circumference, and its conservatory, that astonishes the world; its galleries of art, that contain the triumphs of Chantrey, Canova and Thorwaldsen; of the kings and queens who had walked its stately halls, or, flying OTer the heather, have hunted the grouse. But all the dwell-ing-places of dukes, and princes, and queens are as nothing to the family mansion that is already awaiting our arrival. The hand of the Lord Jesus lifted the pillars and swung the doors, and planted the parks. Angels were i there, and the good of all ages. The ! poorest man in that house is a millionaire, and the lowliest a king, and the tamest word he speaks is an anthem, and the shortest life an eternity. It took a Paxton to build for Chatsworth a covering for the wonderful flower, Victors Regia, five feet in diameter. But the lily of the valley shall need no shelter from the blast, and in the open gardens of God shall put forth its full bloom, and all Heaven shall come to look at it, and its aroma shall be as though the cherubim had swung before the throne a thousand censers. I have not seen it yet. I am in a foreign land. But my Father is waiting for me to come home. 1 have brothers and sisters there. In the‘Bible I have letters from there, telling me what a fine place it is. It matters not much to me whether I am rich or poor, or whether the world hates me or loves me, or whether 1 go by land or by sea, if only I may lift my eyes at last on the family mansion. It is not a frail house, built in a month, soon to crumble, but an (fid mansion which is as firm as the day it was built. Its walls are grown with tbe ivy of many ages, and the urns at the gateway are abloom with the eentury plants of eternity. The queen of Sheba hath walked its halls, and Esther, and Marie Antoinette, and Lady Huntingdon, and Cecil, and Jeremy Taylor, and Samuel Rutherford, and John Milton, and the widow who gave two mites, and the poor men from the hospital—these last two perhaps outshining all the kings and queens of eternity. A family mansion means reunion. Some of your' families are very much scattered. The children married, and went off to St. Louis or -Chicago, or Charleston; but perhaps once a year you come together at the old plaery How you wake up Hie old piano that has bees silent for years! (Father and mother do not play on it.) How you bring out tbe old relics, and rummage tbe garret, and open old scrap-books, and shout, and laugh, and ary, and talk over old times, and. though you may be forty-five years of age. act as though you were sixteen! Yet soon It Is goodby at the ear window, and good-by at tbe steamboat wharf. But how will we net at the reunion in the old family mansion of Heaven? It is a good while you parted at tbe door of the There will be Grace, and Mary. Martha, and Charlie, and Liszie, all the darlings of your household

If there were ho tears there how He wipe them away? They can hot tears of grief or tears of disappointment Thejr mnat he tears of gladness. Christ will come and say: “What! child of Heaven, is it too much for thee? Dost thon break down under the gladness of this reunion? Then 1 will help thee.” And, with His one arm around ns and the other arm around our loved one. He shall hold us up in the eternal jubilee. While 1 speak some of you, with broken hearts, eah hardly hold your peace. You feel as if von would speak out and say: O blessed day! speed on. Toward thee 1 press with blistered feet over the desert way. My eyes fail for tbeir weeping. I faint from listening for feet that will not oome, and the sound of voices that will not speak. Speed on, O day of reunion! And then, Lord Jesus, be not angry with me if after Ihave just once kissed Thy blessed feet, 1 turn around to gather np the long-lost treasures of my heart. Oh! be not angry with me. One look at Thee were Heaven. But all these reunions are Heaven encircling Heaven, Heaven overtopping Heaven, Heaven commingling with Heaven!” 1 was at Mount Vernoo, and went into the dining room in which our first president entertained the prominent men of this and other lands. It was a very interesting spot But oh! the banqueting hall of the family mansion of which I speak! Spread the table, spread it wide; tor a great multitude are to sit at it From the tree by the river gather the twelve manner of fruits for that table. Take the clusters from the heavenly vineyards, and press them into the golden tankards for that table. On baskets earey in the bread of whieh, if man eat he shall never hunger. Take all the shot-torn flags of earthly conquest and entwine them among the arches. Let David come with his harp, and Gabriel with his trumpet and Miriam with the timbrel; for the prodigals are at home, and the captives are free, and the Father hath invited the mighty of Heaven and the redeemed of earth to come and dine! QUEEN VICTORIA'S MEMORY. An Example of Her Majesty’s Methodical Ways. It is said that Victoria has a wonderful memory and can retain thousands of faces, as well as the pedigrees of all of England’s aristocracy, the whole of Germany’s reigning families, the exact layers of everything in a chest of drawers locked up a twelvemonth ago and every civility or slight offered to Prince Albert during twenty-two years of happy married life. As an example of her jqslhddH&l ways an English so- , aUty journal quotes her as saying to an attendant: “You will take this key and the moment yon arrive at the castle you will ask for the chief usher of the back stairs and the deputy comptroller of the front bed-rooms. Under their escort you will proceed to a large gold-handled mahogany wardrobe in the light-blue dressing-room, and then open it From a hunch of keys hidden away under the dresser on the lower shelf, way back to the left, select the smallest and then open the workbox at present placed on the top shelf to the right. You take out an-, other hunch of keys, and the* largest size belongs to the middle drawer in the chest opposite the wardrobe. In this you will find the celebrated miniature of his late royal highness at the age of one, which I have just decided to lend. You will then rearrange all those keys in exact order as yon found them, being sure to replace the right hunch in the box. Then proceed straight to London with the miniature. When safely deposited you must telegraph to that effect, and return •without further delay.”—Chicago Post.

Christ's Cost Those who have been trying to keep up with the times by reading the press dispatches concerning the holy coat recently pnt on exhibition at Treves, the old town in Rhenish Prussia, have failed, of course, ftt finding the infori mation that wonld natnrally be most interesting, viz.: How and where the sacred garment has been kept during the past nineteen centuries The purpose of this note is to enlighten readers on this important point. The coat is said to have been spun by the Virgin Mary herself from t% wool of a lamb and woven into a gray coat by St, Helena on the Mount of Olives. It came into the hands of a Jew soon after the crucifixion, who threw vt into the sea because the blood-stains would not wash out. A whale swallowed it. The whale was eaught by a fisherman and the gray coat found in its belly. It was next sold to Orendel, son of Eygel, a Christian king of Treves, for thirty pieces of silver. Orendel deposited it in a stone coffin. Being discovered it became a sacred relic and has since been kept at the cathedral of Treves.—St. Louis Republic. The impression existing in someminds that American girls are willing to exchange their beauty, grace and winsome youth for the prestige of a foreign title, be the bearer of that allurement ugly ityr or old as the bills, is not as a sat; borne out by the facts. To the credit of our girls, and to their innate good sense and sc If-re spec t, it may he said that the exceptional instance only proves the rule that the suitor who would gain one of our fair republicans must commend himself to her by something lees meretricious than the rank -which is hut the guinea’s stamp. May and December are not fitting mates, and venerable years are ill-adapted to please the woman whose rounded cheek glows with the rose tints of the spring. Lady Mary or Countess Edith will be happier as plain Mrs. John Smith, consultug her heart's dictates, than as the wife of a foreign nobleman who might be her grandfather.—Harper’s Bazar. Tfc* Ftr*» Pretest Against Slavery. The first public protest ever made in America against slavery or the holding of human property was pnt on record April 18, 1888, at Germantown, Pa., bj the members of the Mennonite church of that settlement The protest rum as follows: “There is a saying that we shall do* to all men lieke as we will he done ourselves; macking noe different of what generation, descent or color they he so ever. And those who steal or rohb men. and those who hay or purchase them, are they not all alieke? Here in thb land is liberty of Con science, wch ii right and reasonable, here ought to he likewise liberty of ye body, except ol evil doers, wch is another case, as ■»] be plaine to see. But to bring men here from where whatsoever Und sell then agalast their will after they have beer robbed from their country, wo stanc against.”—St Louis Republic. —The world will be nearer rtgbl when a man has learned to laugh « little lets at his neighbor’s trouble* anc a litthj more at Ml own.—Atchisor

____duty hareably reduced upon the manufactures he produces. It was dertsflnly very in Mr. Carnegie to lavish upon a measure from which, as he assures ns, he derives no benefit Next to steel rails, his most important manufactures are beams, rafters, joists, columns, and other forms of structural iron. U pon these products the former rate of duty was $23 a ton. In pretended deference to the complaints of house-builders against this moat exhorbant duty, the McKinlev tariff reduced the rate to $18 a ton. It* was believed that this reduced rate would be sufficient to ward off competition with the structural iron combination on this side of the Atlantic, and the expectation has not been disappointed. The price maintained by the American Beam association, to which Mr. Carnegie belongs, is 563 a ton for most if not all forms of structural iron. In Belgium the selling price of the same manufactures is 120 francs per metric ton, or $21.08 per ton of 2,000 pounds. At the mills in Germany the price is $33.73 per ton. Adding the duty of $18, the price Of Belgian and German forms of structural iron would be, when laid down in Philadelphia, $30.03 and $40.72 respectively, exclusive of freights and commissions of importers. Making the most liberal allowance foir the difference in wages, these comparative figures show the extent of the extortion that is practiced upon the house-builders.of this country by Mr. Carnegie's American Beam association under cover of the tariff. Although the importations of structural iron are so insignificant as to receive no mention in the treasury returns of trade, we are reliably informed that Belgian and German beams are effered to-day in New York and Boston at $46.50 per ton. This is the price for forms of structural iron made by foreign works for their home trade. For patterns required by American consumers the price is $52 a ton. Underthe discouraging infi nence of the tariff upon the import trade the American Beam association is enabled to swell its enormous profits by charging the builders of this country $10 a ton more for its products than the highest price of the foreign .article, with duties, freights, commissions and all included. While Mr. Carnegie's disinterestedness is not very apparent, his ground for extolling the McKinley tariff is qnite obvious. Yet, notwithstanding the high duty, the wide margin in price between American structural iron and the foreign article affords an oppor- . tunity of saving money of which builders should avail themselves. We are assured that if foreign beams should be carried in stock by American merchants there would be a large market for them in this country, in spite of the duty of eighteen dollars a ton. Importers are unwilling to take the risk, however, because the American Beam association could drop its prices below the lowest rate of the foreign article and still have a considerable margin of profit. Thus the McKinley tariff, in obstructing the imports of structural iron nearly as effectually as did its predecessor, amply justifies the warm praises of Mr. Carnegie. It is evident that a further redaction in the duties of structural iron is demanded by the interests of. American consumers. The change in the McKinley tariff has had no effect in reducing the priee3 of the beam monopoly. But if the duty on structural iron should be reduced to $9 or $10 a ton there would be abundant “protection” for the home manufaetnrer, as prices and the cost of production demonstrate, while there would be some protection of American consumers from monopolistic rapacity. By roduciug the duty, and with it the cost of this material, it would enter far more extensively into house building, and thus give h healthful stimulus tp a great variety of industrial pursuits.—Philadelphia Record.

THE SALT COMBINATION. Organization or a Salt Combine In Nen Yuris to Control Production and Trade Results In a Raise In Frees When the McKinley hill was being considered by the ways and means committee at its puhlie hearings, several interests were represented which demanded that salt be pnt on the free list. This created great alarm among the producers of salt in New York » state. They at once sent a committee to Washington with petitions and protests, the gist of which was that if salt were made" free their works would hare to be closed, la supporting their demands they pointed with pride to the fact that they had never taken advantage of the opportunity which the tariff gave them to eoraer the market, and that they had never organized a trust to control and regulate the output and advance prices. Oae of their committee, Sr. Kerr, said: “Had it not been for the American salt, and had our works been under a trust, people woul% have been paying considerably higher prices for their salt to-day.” lly such a show of philanthropy the salt men prevailed and the McKinley bill became law, with the dnties on salt retained as they were in the tariff of 1883. Just as soon as the hill became a law these salt producers, who had so long abstained from forming a trust out of pure philanthropy, held a meeting and formed what they chose to call the Western New York Salt Manufacturing association. They also issued a circular which declared that the object of the combination was to “maintain uniform rather than high prices,’ and then they proceeded deliberately to advance the market prices. , The effect of this advance is shown in the following table, which gives the prices prevailing a year ago and the present prices These orices were furnished by one of the largest dealers in salt in Boston: August, October, 1890 1891 5-oou ,<1 bore*... 10-pmnit um».. jo-gmm t buses.. repo, n t bugs. Barreto of So pounds in S.'bb OSti .lift *.e tt .‘9 .14 .14 balk... 19-pound b :gs per barret of 25 bags; 150 1S3% 1.75 Does this short history of the salt industry under the McKinly tariff bear out the famous assertion ot the New York Tribune, “This (the McKinley tariff) is a trust-killing tariff, men and brethren.”_ It is a little odd, to say the leash when American tin plate mills—in the columns of republican newspapers—are i as thick as manufacturing lobbyists is Washington when the tariff is to be re- | vised—it is a little Odd under such cir cumstanees that the volume of imports of tin plate should he steadily rising. The McKinley schedule for tin plate went into effect July 1 of this year. During July 100,000 pounds of Welsh tin {date paid duly at the Chicago custom house. In August 993,000 pounds were entered and in September 638,518 pounds, or almost as tnneh as was imported in June, when importer were straining every nerve to ge t stocked up before the McKinley gate was shut— Chicago Times

to I*- D*.«b Wvcreconsidering the exposure to ttt «re»t_ scidental to patrol duty, the tadless is not an unhealthy one, observes ihe New York Times According to ihe report of the department for 1890 t appears that in a force of 8.3D2 of all ‘anks there were but forty-one deaths fhe death roll includes three sergeants three detective sergeants and thirtylive patrolmen. The chief causes of leath were, as might be expected, pneumonia and consumption Eleven leaths resulted from the former and sine from the latter disease. There were four deaths from heart disease, three from Bright’s disease and two from bronchitis Two policemen only met violent deaths and they were killed by falls When asked to explain the low rate of mentality in the force one of the police surgeons said that it was not surprising. “The men when appointed,” he said, “must be in perfect health, else they could not pass the stringent physical examinations by the police surgeons and the doctors of the civil service board. They have plenty of outdoor exercise, which tends to keep them in good physical condition. Their hours for rest and meals are as regular as clockwork except ^when an emergency arises, snch as a long-continued strike or other event tending to breed disorder, or a large fire, when, for a few days, perhaps, this regularity is broken in upon. “The sleeping-rooms at the station house are large and well ventilated. The' policemen are required by the rules to be warmly clad in winter and lightly clad in summer, and they are compelled to supply themselves with rubber clothing to wear in stormy weather. They mnst keep themselves clean. They can have medical attendance free when they are sick, and every possible precaution is taken to keep the force in a healthy condition “A policeman gets only half pay while on the sick list, and. consequently, there is very little malingering If the policeman only keeps away from ‘rum,’ which causes more trouble in the department than anything else, there is no reason why he should not enjoy better health than the average man There is a good deal of talk about the hardships which a policeman has to en dure, but they are fully discounted by the cotpforts he enjoys above those in the same social scale.” FUNNY SAILORS. But They Answered All Purposes sad Manifested Much Activity. Paul made a little sailboat, says the Cincinnati Commercial-Giufiqtte. ^Ilegot Elsie to hem_ the srffts, which’she could do verjrwell, for she was a good sewer “You could sew, too, Paul,” said Elsie, “if you would learn to use a thimble.” “It is handy to know how to sew sometimes," admitted Paul; “but I wouldn’t use a thimble- Hoys never do.” “Why don’t they?” asked Elsie, boldly; “they could sew easier if they would. Don’t sailors sew? They’re men. Don’t they use thimbles? Paul was busy fastening on the sails, and didn’t answer The Flirt was ready for the sea “She’ll go splendid!” he cried, proudly “What shall 1 do for sailors?” Just then Herbert came in with a tin cup full of—what? Potato bugs! They had brown and yellow stripes down their backs, and were really pretty, except to people who don’t think any kind of a bug pretty. “Just the thing!” shouted Paul. So he manned—or potato-bugged —his eraft, and started it on the raging ocean, which filled a washtub outside the kitchen door. The sailors swarmed ail over the ship, up and down the rigging and masts and over ropes of cotton thread. They looked very busy It wa6 a successful eruise. The ship sailed gallantly from side to side of the tub, and the actions of the active sailors called forth shouts of laughter from the three children. Hiram, coming in from the potato patch, tired and dusty, stopped to see the fun. “Good use for ’em,” said he. “Get all you can. boys. Never mind if a few fall overboard sometimes. Plenty more.”

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