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A PAPER FOR TUF. PEOPLE.

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THE IMPENDING CRISIS.

The present has been by all odds the most interesting week of the reviv al. In some features it has been remarkable, and public attention has been aroused to an extent that even Mr. Hammond could hardly have anticipated ten days ago. That feeling of distrust, or half-hearted approval, which seemed for awhile in some degree to pervade all classes if it has not teen entirely overcome, no longer manifests itself unpleasantly. Last week it was not uncommon to hear from verysineere christian people, comments which those actively engaged in the work could not possibly have construed favorably but an unexpected turn has been given to the work, and the heartiness with which the new lead is Tei»ig pursued, has silenced criticism if it has done nothing more. But it has done more—much more than this. The fact thust be obvious to everybody.

There are many people who found it impossible to give their unqualified approval to the business of working upon the tender imaginations of timid and confiding children, and exciting in their young minds the emotions that are popularly supposed to characterize a religious conversion. There are also those who involuntarily, and it may almost be said, unconsciously, felt a sort of contempt for those conversions which took place among that class of weakly emotional creatures who usually are the first to succumb to religious excitement, and who invariably make the loudest noise about it feeling that if the results of the1 revival were confined to this class, or that first named, that the permanent gain would be so slight as hardly to compensate for the extraordinary exertion. Lastly, there are those who were prejudiced against Mr. Hammond and the number of these, T. T. has reason to know, is not small.

But the death last Sunday of a poor, weak woman—an outcast from society and the most wretched and forlorn of all God's creatures, a homeless, penniless, friendless prostitute*-has changed the whole current of public Bentiment and christian endeavor enlisting the sympathy of the careless, silencing the cavil of the censorious, and inspiring the ontire community with a sincere desire to help forward the work which God's providence seems in an especial manner to have pointed out. The circumstances attending Cora Campbell's death in the station-house last Sunday, are already well known to most readers, and need not be recapitulated here. The impressive story of her burial, and the formation, following it, of the Women's Christian Association with its high and holy purposes, are also familiar. This latter, every man and woman possessing the commonest instincts of humanity must already in his heart have wished God speed. At the very least, so mnch can be* placed to the credit of the revival and alone, it is enough to glorify it.

And now T. T. fears that from this point he shall be regarded as an intruder but there aro certain suggestions he deems of such importance, that even at that risk, be must be permitted briefly to set them down. They may have already been well considered by the ladies themselves, and carefully provided for. If so, so much the better. If they have not, they should boat once. In the first place, he would urge with the utmost earnestness that it will not be enough simply to preach to these women and get from then* a "confession of religion." It will not answer merely to take them from the disreputable haunts and evil Influences to which they have been accustomed, and place them in respectable situations even, if when that is done, they are to abandoned and henceforth forgotten. They have eaten the bread of idleness too long to take suddenly to the husks of wearisome and poorly-paid toil, and continue Indefinitely to subsist on that with entire cheerfulness and satisfaction. After awhile, when the tender and affectionate interest so lavishly bestowed upon them now shall begin to oool, as it andoubtedly will, and they shall find themselves abandoned to daily and never-endlsgdrudg-gery, for a bare existenoe with no frieuds, no companions,no amusements a dreary, hopeless, barren future stretching out before them—then will come the moat dangerous, the most terrible temptation ©f their lives. They will need the encouragement, the counsel, the moral support of their newly-found friends mnch more theu than they need it now. And if those friends who put their chaste arms about them now, and greet them in the morning meetings with sisterly kisses and kind words, shall then, in that dark hour of their fore temptation, pass them by scornfully, or carelessly even, as beings of auother station in life and beneath their notice, God help tho poor creatures, for only he can save them.

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Though T. T. has spoken with some warmth in commendation of this branch of christian effort, he would not be understood as regarding it of sole or overshadowing importance. The Work of rescuing fallen women from lives of stame and setting their feet on tho sure rock of Christianity and faith in God, is a sublime and holy work but it dees not comprise the whole duty of religions people. Mnch, verj much of the work done by those engaged in the present religious movement is just as commend able. But the present results must not be suffered to shrink iuto insignificance when the present exertions cease to receive the public applause or to engage the public attention. By and by the great revival will be a thing of the past then will come the trying hour, the hour which shall prove it. May it stand the test!

The difficulties that attend all efforts towards reforming fallen women are many and formidable, and it is not too much to say that they emanate chiefly from members of their own sex. They are an easy class to reach weakly impressible and impulsive in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred, loathing the life tbey lead and longing for escapa from it, they need often only a helping hand and a kind word to gladly make the trial. As a rule, they are met at the very first step towards a worthier life by a chilling and cruel repulse from their more fortunate sisters, a reminder that they are regarded as moral lepers and if they persevere in their determination to reform, and hold out for years against every form ef temptation, it matters not every woman's face is set against them far all time, and society offers no hope. Reformation under such circumstances is a task requiring more than human resolution or mere force of character.

T. T. understands and appreciates the difficulties in the way of providing these unhappy women with geod homes and humane treatment. They are many and not easily overcome. And yet they must be overcome if movements such as the one now in progress in this city are ever to accomplish any permanent good. It may not be best, or at least advisable to place them in households. where there are young girls growing up, though the danger that the girls would be corrupted thereby is very slight or in households where there are young men notoriously fast or given to dissipation. Yet there are good, respectable, christian families where tbey would not themselves be subject to temptation nor incur the risk ot' tempting others and it is just such families that should promptly come forward and ofler them the shelter of a home.' And christian people after you have opened your doors to these poor women and they have accepted the refuge which you offer, be sure you treat them like civilized human beings, and not make the history of their past lives a constant reproach to them. Remember daily the Golden Rule, and Do unto others as ye would that othere jhould do unto you!

Remembering the melanohely death of last Sunday, and the countless other deaths just as sorrowful taking place unceasingly throughout the land, there comes floating back from the past and touching the heart of T. T. with inexpressible force, Hood's exquisite lines:—

One more unfortunate, Weary ff breath, Rashly Importunate, done to her death

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Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care: Fashioned ao teuderly, Young, and so fair I Touch her not fco.-nfUUy Think of her mournfully, Uently and humanly Not or the stain* of her, All that remains 01 her Now Is pure womanly.

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Make no deep scrutiny -Into her mutiny Hash and undiulful:

Post nil dishonor, Death has left on teer Only the beautiful. •'*,)

Still, for all slips of hers, One of Eve's family— Wipe those poor llpsof hers Ooxlngsoclammlly.^^

Alas! for the rarity Of christian charily® -r' 11nd« the nun Oh! It Is pitiful! Near a whole city full, Uome shehat} uone.^g

Fi terly, brotherly. Fatherly, motherly (Feelings had changed *Ixvc, by harsh evidence, Thrown from the eminence Kvtin God's providence Bee lug estranged. "Where the lamps qnlver i»o far In »he rl ver,

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:Wlth many alight From window aud casement. From garret ti basement,

Hhe stood, with amazement, Houselcm by night. The bleak wind of March Alnde her tremble and shiver

iHiu not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river* Msd from life's hlst«ry, A ilad of death's mystery, Kwifltobe hurled— .Any where,any where -/Out oft he world!

Perishing gloomily. Spurred by contumely, JCold Inhumanity, /J} urn lug Insanity,

Into her rest.— ..Cross her hands humbly, AS if pray lug dumbly, her breast!

Over I OwninahfT weakness. Her evil behavlwr.

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She looked in the street. While her poor heart beat, In its snguisn, grief and pain. She wa9 hungry, celd, sad and alone,

And a tear stole from each eye, As she turned her head And she sighed, and said, My God 2 Oh! must I die?"

The night came on —no light, no fire. She fell on aer scanty bed, '".1 But she never spoke u*

When the morning woke i- it"*'. She was speechless, cold and—dead. The Coroner came and nn inquest held,

Each Juryman held his breath. Theu the verdict came: There's a man to blame, This woman's scorned to death."

Aye! True—too true she hod loved too

And was cast among li'e's wrecksShe was turned adrirt With no hand to lift, •r to save, among her sex, Robbed, deceived, deserted, scorned,

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A father grieved and a mother wept. When they parted with their child

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But when put away 4 In her bed of clay, Then the thief of virtue smiled. But her soul has gone to its home np there*"

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THE BOW OP PROMISE.

All indications point to much brighter prospects for business of all kinds for the coming spring and summer, than we have seeu for several years past. This announcement may be received with incredulity by many who have looked for a change so often and been disappointed that tbey bare almost ceased to hope yet the signs of improvement now are, we think, unmistakable. One can feel it in his bones," as it were like the coming on of spring: you know, at last, that the winter is over. If we are not greatly deceived the winter of business depression and disaster is about to loose its grim hold and give way to dawning prosperity.

It is true there have been indications of improvement heretofore which have, to a great extent, proved delusive, but their failure can be explained. In the first place they have not altogether failed, because there has been slow and gradual advancement for two years past. We expected to recover too soon from the effects of the panic. We did not at first realize what it was or what it meant. We imagined it was a sort of transient, spasmodic interruption of business, occasioned by local failures and would soon blow over. Instead of that it was deep-seated and general. It was the plunge over a national precipice towards which we had been blindly traveling, for along time. The fall was tremendous and broke, as it were, every bone in the business world's carcass. It has hardly been able to get about since. It was but natural and necessary that it should take a long time to recover. It expected to get well too soon. Moreover the political campaign and consequent complications no doubt did much to retard the improvement that would otherwise have come. Everything was unsettled and in confusion. Ill-feeling and wild talk prevailed. Men's minds were diverted from business. Capitalists kept their money and men of energy and enterprise preferred to wait until the politics of the country were more settled. This trouble is now happily ended. The better sense and patriotism of the people prevailed and discovered the method of an amicable adjustment. In a few weeks the new president will be declared and whatever the result shall be the people will acquiesce in the decision and it is certain that whether the choice be Tilden or Hayes, the incoming administration will be a vast improvement in many respects over its predecessor. There will be economy, purity and integrity in the public servants more than there has been. The condition of publio sentiment will render this necesssry.

In short the time has come for better times. Stocks are reduced, supplies exhausted. Men are tired of inactivity. They are beginning to feel the old desire to plunge into things. The business eommunity has been lying on its back now about long enough. It feels like getting up and taking hold of affairs with something of the old vigor. This spirit will prove contagious and when everybody catches it there will be a restoration of that confidence, the loss of which has produced such deplorable results There is no good reason why business shodld not now ^mprove. There has been a sufficient lapse of time to recuperate from the effects of the panic much sooner it could aot have been expected. People are running smoothly in the new charnel ef economy. Small profits are the order of the day. Wages are low but so are the commodities which wages have to buy. Things are almost down to a specie basis. There is a solid foundation upon which real prosperity may be built. The improvement that comes now will be genuine.

Cheer up then and take new courage.

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-TERRE HAUTE, IND, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1877. Price Five Cents

The worst is over and has been for some time. The bright spring sunshine will infuse new life and energy into all departments of business. The wheels of commerce will begin to move more briskly. Men will buy and sell and barter again. Property will rise in value and there will be a better demand for it. Avenaes of employment will be opened and men will not need to be idle unless they choose. And before we know it the old-time plenty aad prosperity will be upon us again!

And what then? Will men be any wiser tban they were? Will these years of failure and depression have taught them anything? Will they be more prudent and careful than they were and not over-speculate and plunge themselves hopelessly into debt again? Probably they will for a time but it wil be but a short time. They will soon forget the lessons they have been learning for the past four years. Tbej will do business without capital, borrow money at double rates of interest, build up fictitious fortunes and in due course of time another panic will roll round and the story of the past few jrears will be repeated. Doubtless there are many ardent greenback men who think such a catastrophe may be averted but the greenback men will all be iorgotten by that time and will themselves have forgotten all the doctrines they are now so lustily expounding. rwj telifrl

Personal.

Ex-Elder Black, of Indianapolis, was in the city Thursday. T. P. Murray is trying the blue glass remedy for rheumatism.

Mrs. Jonas Seeley is reported quite dangerously sick at Newport, Indiana. Mr. Charles Kern, of Chicago, which the same is sheriff, was in the city Thursday.

Prosecutor A. J. Kelley was married Tuesday morning to Miss Martha J. Levecque hfl 1

Mr. S. Frank, of Chicago, Is in the city visiting his daughter, Mrs. Simon Hirschler.

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Mrs. Dinsrnore, wife of Dr. Dinsmore, of Evansville, is visiting Mrs. Hodgin, in this city.

The Arm of Alexander dtSibiey, liquor dealers, has been dissolved, Mr. Wal. Sibley retiring.^

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J. P. McDonald has taken charge of Eckhoff Zimmerman's branch grocery store on Ninth street.

J. R. Adams, formerly in the employ of S. C. Scott, in this cit}', is now traveling for a wholesale bouse in Dallas, Texas.

Messrs. W. S. Clift, T. E. Lawes and J. H. Williams are each testing the blue glass treatment at their respective lesidencee.

Mr. L. B. Root, of Fort Wayne, member of the dry goods firm, Hoberg, Boot A Co., of this city, has been in the city this week. f*".? VY t-Us'4 S ti

Tom. Sibley, accompanied by bis father, left, for Brooklyn Tuesday night to enter the United States Navy as an enlisted man.

The combined avoirdupois of T. B. Snapp, P. Shannon and G. F. Cookerly is 823 pounds. They weigh respectively 276, 274 and 273.

Late advices from Captain Shelledy, who is at Tampa, Florida, are not encouraging. His health has not improved as was exnected 5® as was expected.

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Mr. William Morgan, engineer on the Vandalia railroad, had bis watch stolen Thursdsy night from his room at an Indianapolis hotel. The watch oost fl25.

George H. Wolfe will reopen his meat market at No. 20 north Fourth street, the grocery having been removed from bis building to the corner of Fourth and Mulberry.® M* K*V-

Mr. M. Brlclenthal, ex-cl£y oouincilman, has been quite sick for nearly three months at bis residence at Fountain Station. He is convalescing and was in the city this week. gs-r

On Thursday, Mr. Alexander Ritchcy removed his stock of boots and shoes from 507 Main street to a warehouse and closed bis store. He is carrying out his well-considered intention of retiring from business."

Messrs Philip and George Mebrhoff, of Croton Point, N. Y., are visiting the family of their uncle, Mr. N. Kattenbach, in this city. Tbey are lively young gentlemen and are forming many pleasing acquaintances.

The Indianapolis Journal says that the creditors of William Fremont, of Terre Haute, have commenced proceedings in bankruptcy, and the hearing is oet for February 22, before Register Pierce, of Terre Haute.

Mr. L. Felsenheld returned this week from Cleveland, where he has perfected arrangements for going into business there, opening some time next month. Only seven days more remain before the dissolution of the firm of Felsenheld A Jauriet. Their advertisement on the last page tells what they are duing for their customers in the meantime.

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Bapt. Richard Law, of the IT. S. tfavy, who has been is the city for some* time pait, has received orders to report for active duty at. Norfolk, Virgiuia, the first of the coming month.

Smith & Townley sold over IftOOO worth of farm implements yesterday, and therefore ahould be "counted lout" when it comes toenumerating those who have had any reason to complain of "dull times."j- kerr.l *. 1 "-7 i'i*'»*!?" I -V'ft•,

James Carrigon, the railroad engineer who suffered an amputation of the i^ft leg, below the knee joint, in consequence of an accident on the I. & St. L. road a few weeks since, Is still at tl^e Bronson House and recovering slowly^

Mrs. S. E. Moore, the lady who figured in the Black scandal as the person lit whose house Miss Corrine Yoss spe^t the night while in St. Louis, was in the city this week. She formerly lived in Terre Haute and is well known heri, having been a teacher in the city schools for many years.

Mrs. Emma L. Rossicer, of Newark New Jersey, who has been visiting this family of her cousin, Mr. L. A. Bnrnett, in tbjs city, left Tuesday afternoon for Washington city, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Burnett, where she will remain until after the inaugural of President Hayes.

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A. J. Welch S. F. Thomas, formerly with Soott, Graff & Co., and Geo. Scott, late of Scott, Oren & Co., have formed a partnership tQ conduct the carriage and wagon making business, and have located on the east side of Third, near Walnut. ».

Mr. N. Katzenbach is still confined to his residence by sickness and his physicians do not anticipate that he will be able to attend to business for two weeks yet. His condition has been highly critical, but we are glad to learn is now much less alarming and no doubt is entertained of his ultimate recovery.

Mr. Fred A. Ross has been furnished by a friend in New Orleans with papers containing copious illustrations and descriptions ot the late Mardi-Gras festivities in that city, which give one abetter idea of what the pageant was like tban anything we have so far seen. The illustrations are worthy of careful study and those who are cutious regarding such matters might put in an interesting half hour by calling al Mr. Ross' real estate office, on Ohio street, and looking at them. We take it for granted, knowing Mr. Ross' obliging disposition, that he will take pleasure in exhibiting the papers to his friends.

Mr. W. H. Scudder was married, on Tuesday evening, to Miss Anna Gordon at the residence of the bride's mother, on south Fifth street. The affair was very quietly consummated in the presence of only a few intimate Mends of the two families, and the wedded pair, after con* gratulations and refreshments, proceeded at once to Mr. Scudder's residence, on Cherry street. Rev. Alex. Sterrett performed the ceremony. The contracting parties have a large circle of warm friends/and are held in high esteem by everybody in Terre Haute. Tbey will be the recipients of numerous congratulations.

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MAYO, as Davy Crocket, comes one week from Monday. Our people can do much to elevate and purify the stage by giving liberal patronage to such chaste dramas as this. Mr. Mayo Is in possession of a very flattering testimonial letter from Rev. O. B. Frothingham, who witnessed his representstion of Davy Crockett. The Philadelphia North American says:

Davy Crockett is a play which is unfortunate only its name unfortunate in that because there seems inseparably to attach to the title of the auaintold backwoodsman a flavor of dime novel and corrupted parts of speech which frightens many people from witnessing a drama which, in spite of some apparent crudities ranks mere nesrly as a poem than any of its rivals of the present dav. The author—a gentleman whose early death was a loss to be deplored—has weaved into bis romantic story a thread of sentiment that appeals to the best emotions. The Davy Crockett of the play is a being full of tender and honest impulses, heroic and uncultured, but almost womanly in his gentleness. There urn wolves, and there is blood for the ^allery, but the howling of the wolves and the gory stains of their victim are shuddered at only to be forgotten in the more touching story of a simple, bonest love. Mr. Mayo has made a fine study of the part, and is wellssitedto it, many of his situations rising to a degree of dramatic skill that puts this in the rank of exceptionally good character impersonations. He is never boisterous, yet always earnest and even in the climax, where bis audience Is thrilled into fervor by the excitement of a well wrought sensational scene, be is wise enough to remember that nis own ideal Is vastly strengthened by not yielding it to a natural opportunity for rant. The scenery is all new, and worthy of special mention and the mechanical illusion, showing the wolves rushing down the mountain to join in the expected feast at the hut, was verynaturai, and won deserved applause. The bouse was crowded in every »art, and the audience appreciative and demonstrative.

The Indianapolis Herald says that city seems to have been fovorwd with a shower of babies. You can't turn over a bundle of rubbish in any part of the city without uncovering a dead infant.

People and Things.

Who cut your hair?" is just out in slang. 'IA Only one ex-Cenfederate is on the Commission.

It is rare that genius and good clothes are combined. Moody opened in Boston with a slash at "soggy people."

Worms have died and men have eaten them, but not for love.

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Msody is forty years old, and has not had his picture taken in ten years. Parson Brownlow says he never feels so near hell as when in Washington,

Don't give a beggar a nickle, and then cheat your wash woman out of a dollar. Somebody Says every time you give your girl a true, virtuous kiss, the stars in it I

The only thing alleged against Justice Bradley ao far is that he has a terrible temper.

The doctors say it is no use to roo your houses with blue glass if you have arsenic on the walla in the form of green paper.

Jones says the war on mothers-in-law is unkind. He has nothing much againa his mother-in-law except the fact thai all her children were not sons.

The Medina, N. Y. Tribune, asks 'What caused the hsrd times?" and answers the question by saying "Monejr spent in visiting the Centennial."

No office holder can be free from pub lio criticism. Even the bright little pages of the Kansas Legislature are, taken to task because they chew gun.

Try to be born tbis month, for The February-born will And Sincerity ana peace of uilnd *. Freedom from passion and from car^ ?v?If they the amethyst will wear.

A medical book is now in press which' was nearly ready -a year ago, but the author held it back all tbis time for the* death of a man of whose singular ease is he a a

Dr. Forbes Winslow has printed in| London a book styled SpiritualisticMadness," which finds that epidemic-' delusions, almost precisely similar to modern Spiritualism, have been known in all ages.

Turner's Falls Reporter: The time approaches when a fellow buys for his? chum's sister a highly ornamental valentine, the great centre of attraction off which is a picture of the fabled boy^. who has decidedly more wings tkant* overcoat.tfrlHVLsVfjti# "Un'vr

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Arizona is trying to attract immigration bj enacting the easiest divorce laws lathe Union.

An exchange remarks that the matrimonial fever has broken out again. Oh,. wvrjv* yes the tie fuss, ..as.-# '..•.i-'iMitwi1*

If you have religion you need not tell people about it they will find it out after trading with you awhile.

Mr. Beecher says New England statistics show that clergymen's boys turn out better than other people's.

We breathe easier now. The new counterfeit 91,000 notes now in circulation can be detected by their "greasy feel *.

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New York Tribune: One of the goo&u and manly things told of President* Grant is the story of his generous and quiet benefactions to poor people in Washington—especially tbe educated poor, who are without employment.

Mr. Moody believes that the best place for the advertisement of his services is in the amuiement columns of the news* papers. He finds by experience that many strangers in a city, looking over tl)at column, learn of his meetings, and going to them from curiosity are converted there.

A gentleman in a stage coach passing through Boston and observing* a handso/ne edifice, inquired what, building it was. The driver replied i,,,: "It is tbe Unitarian church." "Unita-^/a rian!" said tho gentleman "and what*^ is that?" "I don't know," said Jehu "but 1 believe it is the opposition line."1

The Siamese only have five commandments—"Do not kill do not steal do not commit adultery do not speak falsely do not drink strong drink." They seem just as well, satisfied, however, as if tbey had the whole decalogue, and no movement has aa yet begun to add to the same by oonstitutional amend ment.'

Tbe New York Times has an article,' written in a vein of persiflage, reporting tbe discovery of phenomenon in natural science even mere important than that of the peculiar properties of blue glass. The new fact is, that music promotes tbe development of all formst .. of life. Under tbe new arrangement* tbe discoverer claims, a farmer's daugh* ter, by simply spending an hour each day in playing her acoordeon to the de-f-lighted pigs, can fatten them to the ex-^« plosive point without the outlay of a single dollar. All this is very amusing, but it will not discourage those who. have tried tbe blue glass, snd have reason to believe in tbe efficacy of its action.

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