Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 January 1896 — Page 3

OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT

CROP OF THE UNITED STATES UNDERESTIMATED. Conservative Intimate of tlic World's Production 2,110 000,000 IiushelsProspcct Slightly Bull itdi-Philadcl-phla's Street Car Strike Settled. May ne 47.",00,000 Kulic. As the cereal year progresses the impression continues to grow, s far as the wheat crop in the United States is concerned, that it has been materially underestimated. According to Uradst reefs the oilicial figures as to tr.e size of the crop, or the interpretations of earlier oflicial wheat crop reports, placed the total probable outturn at about ÖlnVHJUvH") bushels. At the present time trade estimates in very few, if any. instances put the probable aggregate yield at less than 40iMM,iK.0 bushels and the end is probably not yet, in the matter of revised figures. This, in view of comparatively modulate exports of wheat and Hour thus far during the cereal year, contine.es to por1 tnate the dominance of bear inllucncca in the world's wheat markets. Some of our optimistic foreign friends nre even now inclined to think the wheat rrop here may amount to 47.",(XXUM) busheh. as against o:M.h,n bushehi Inst year. Canada conies out with an estimated increase of about 1 0,1 a )M,i! x bushels, and Argentina is now expected to show M.tM)0,t)l bushels, although only n month or two ago CJi.tKMi.tHMj bushels was accounted a high estimate, th" output last year having been rather under ";.0o.fK!u bushels. As against this, however, it is becoming probable that Australia is likely to be an importer rather than an exporter of wheat. In fact, bho has already begun tu import wheat The Crop in Kussnn. In Kusia. a most important source of f'.irply, the minister of agriculture estimates the crop of tlii Fu repeat) provinces at PJ'J.iN M.ma bus!). !. less than last year; but this is d cmcd too low, "s the oilicial estimates usually are," and it is generally supposed that the production of Russia and Poland together will not be more than SS.OOO.OtM bushels less than last year. Itussia generally has a larger surplus from previous cn-p, and it is tiiis reserve which will enable her to keep the balance between exporting and importing countries. One of tho more conservative estimates ! of the world's production of wheat in iS'Xt places it at J. !1;.mm.m:i) bushels, as contrasted with J.öiVMX."4' bushels in 1S). a falling otT of about 1N.kmmxh.U h bushels, the significance of which is gathered from tho fact that tho general consensus of opinion as to the approximate total world's annual consumption of wheat is about L. pNi.n:MUxM bushels. With a prediction this year of only L IH.Ki,0i!. bushels of wheat in the face of estimated requirements am muting to Li,4m.imi ,hh bushels, stocks of wheat carried over from the outturn of ISO I and

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prior thereto gather special significance, ." would do so if they could be known with nny degree of accuracy. The following H Itecrlolims estimate of the surpluses which the chief exporters will have to spare from this year's crops, in comparison witli last year: Estimate. Actual. Importers. 1SUÖ-G, qrs. 1S0M, qrs. T'nited States and Cüiuvia Ilussia Itoumauia. 1mlgaria, Turkey, and Servia Austria -Hungary India ami Persia. Algeria. Tunis, and Fgypt.... i.",ooo,rino is.rion.noo irx,oxi i;,rw,jo) 4,7ro,ooo 2,."..MJ,tMJ 1.2.V),0fK) ::,'jr.o,o)o 1.2.V),0i CHAIRMEN OF IMPORTANT

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THE AUTHOR OF THE

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We OAä it. there'ore, to candor and to the am;cab!e relat'ois c.cs'.'nj between th United SUtes and the allied powers to decline that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend the r system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and sa'ety. With tho existing coionie; or dependencies cf any European pewer we have not interfered ard shall not interfere, but with the Government: who hive declared their independence ar.d maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and just principles, acknowledged, we could not view an interposition for the purpose cf cppiess-

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ether light than as a manifestation of an unfriend! disposition toward the Un ted States. !

Fmm Monro' ps.:ig' to Cougr? in Vceethn', Chili and guay . . . Urur.oo.ooo .rjHMKio fi.WO.OIH) Austral:; si a Argentina . Total surplus. . 4S.(MK).imm r,0.S!MMX j Total Kuri)!us,bu.:,.Sl.tni,(KK -;(. t(sf MMi This estimate wa ; formed when the Argentine production wa- expected to be not much, if anything, over that of last year; but should it amount to NO.tMrt.tWM) ' bushels, then one may take tho available J Furplas for the current year to be about j I(hmnnm)im) busheN. (Jtcat l.ritain re- ; quires to import ITüO.OtMJ.fMK bushels, Prance about - ( ), H X bushels, lleigium, !er:.iany and Holland together about S:;.MtMi.Mti bushels, Italy about -S,kmu bushel, the rest of Europe about ll.mn.mo bushels, and the West Indies, China, itrazi!, etc., nbout !S,tMK.MNi bushels--in all. say -ofoim.JM'O bushels, against a probable surplus on the year's crops of PMio , h i huskcl. This is altogether too close a fit and calls for some examination as to probable stocks of wheat carried over from the preceding crop year. There were, and probably are. large wheat reserves in liussia which enabled that country to export so freely during the fall and winter, while in India and Australia reserves are and have undoubtedly in en relatively small. PriccN Likely to On IT p. The world's available stocks of wheat, those in sight, on land and at'oat, are not smaller this jear than they were last, notwithstanding the heavy decline iu production. Hither thr invisible supplies must be smaller than customary (except iu Kussia, of course, which are believed to be 'large), or there is likely to be, as is generally the case, more than "enough to go around." finite certain is it, however, that LSDÖ-'.Mi is likely to cat well into the world's old and new cereal stocks of wheat, and that the following cereal year, at least, may witness n considerable price stimulus to the cultivation of the cereal. This is not quite as bullish a view of COMMITTEES IN THE LOWER

MONROE DOCTRINE.

their deslirv cy any European power) in any J?3.

J the situation ns many producers! and tra('OO.fif'O ! ders may have been waiting for during POO.otM) : the last few year of depression, but it r,7."i),ttM , is a literal interpretation of the best

avuilab'e statistics. STRIDE IS SETTLED. I'ilndelpUin'rt street Car 7r: ublc Una "" ntMr;ictorly Adjüsted. The j.rn at 1ro!lcy strike in Philadelphia " ended. John Wauannker s the man brought about the settlement, suefeeding u here all l!;ers failed. He was ahhd in the work by members of the Christian League. The basis of iscttleinent follovs: I'irst While tho Union Traction Company will only trat with the workmen iu its employ, it will allow thcin membership in any lawful organization; second, it will tal e up all grievances and give them fail nnd fair consideration; third, it will, so far as it has vai-ant place, immediately put on the old men. and as fast as vacancies arise will give preference to the c'd men yet unemployed, and endeavor to arrange the trips of the ears to favor the old men as far a possible without violating its contracts with tho new men. The questions of compensation and hours are left for futur-' determination. The battle has mainly been fought on the question of the employes' membership iu the Amalgamated Association of Street Kail way I'mplo;, cs, which the company has persistently refusal to recognize. The new men ngaged since toe strike began number neatly 1,Ho. There wero about ii.ino strikers. Wanamakcr ruibmilled the ideas mbrad in the settlement to the striker.. They accepted them, and iu turn submitted them to tho company. N.nsiilcrable cor respo.idenco and many couft reie cs followed, and finally iinnoriiecmcnt was made that both side I.ad agreed to he terms. To properly round out the matters a mass meeting of the strikers was lu l l for the purpose of rattlication. Here the strike was oIIiciaKj ly declared off. all the leaders were called j upon for speechc.-:, and thvre was a veritable love feast. ROEDED DY MASKED MEN. One of I d Corrigaii I'mplovc He licved of the Track KcCiiipta. In San Francisco four masked robbers held up a Mission street car returning from InIcslde and robb d Ken' en Clarke, an employe of the Pacific Coa-t Jockey Club, of the receipts of the day, said to aggregate $.'!.. Clarke and two other men were shot by the robbers, but it is bolievcil none of the wounds would provo fatal, although Clarke' will probably loso one of his legs. The robin ry occurred iu u lonely place eight miles I'toin the city. On the Picket I: no. Xow is the lime to resign from tho militia. As a lion-taiiifr I'ncle Sam is a great success. Cod save the tjueen! She isn't to Manie fer it. In the meantime Venezuela will greatly oblige by not slopping over. It is well to be firm, but do not go oI half-cocked. That is no way to shoot. The present little Hurry will cither retard Canadian annexation for several years or will precipitate it in a hurry. A nation which in the nineteenth century will refuse to arbitrate need not expect to get any sympathy when it is rebuked. Kven if he had no Monroe doctrine to sustain, Uncle Sain would oppose, on humane grounds, the vivisection of A neighbor. HOUSE OF CONGRESS.

PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAINEERS

Thcy Are What Micht lie Called conscientious Moorish I tiers. Moo:!shini:i: is secretly carried oi oi! over the mountains. It 1. th? earnest conviction of those people that they have a divine if not a lawful right to convert the product of their farms iito Ihptor. which tiny can readily dispose of at a better price than liiey can the row products. They still ludd to the principle for which ail western Pennsylvania rcse in arms over a century ago. Put they are no more ancient in this connection than they are in all their modes of life. Within the mountain cabin everything is as primitive as without and round about. Most of these nie cuestory, with a loft above, and contain but iwo small apartments. I'uilt against the log building is the massive stone chimney, and the chink holes between the notched logs of which the cabin is built are tilled Willi mud. All the furnishings are rude and mostly liorne-mado. and the few utensils are of the most :mf inn-Hoi! ivittoro The door is low. ami the windows email and few. Some cabins have stairs to the loft, sonn a ladder, and some only pegs, in the loft the wife has her weaving loom. r:pinnin.-r wheel nnd reel, and here she keeps her llax ami wool. It is here ibat the material for clothing is spun and woven. Tine knots and tallow eandhs furnish the light, l.ui when night comes the family generally goes to bed. Fedstoads are generally made by the head of the fam'"d sometimes we lind a Hashy ' painted sptt-imon. which lias descended from sire to son from lors and tin 'radios ur' liewn rounded suifaci' serves as rockers. If sch(it)llnut"s are the heralds of civilization, then the mountain region is like the country of the Cauls before the oming of Caesar. Way down toward the foot of the range we may see a ISttie battered and faded building, but few, indeed, are the children of the mountain region who enjoy its benefits. We scarcely ever meet a man or woman who is able to rend nnd write ititollightly. and a daily paper i an ntire stranger to the meuntain cabin. Only the weekly papers nach it. and these n.-,t for a month after they are Issit'ii. The mountaineer liar, no occasion to go to the village at the foot of the range offener than once a month. Many of the gray -headed seers have never seen a railroad, and plenty of the strapping youths have never been a dozen miles from home. This is o:m place, at least, where the sports of our grandfathers arc still in vogue, and the highest ambition of a youth or maiden of the region is to attend a log-rolling-, wood-chopping, corn-husking, house or !nrn raising, apple cutting or stonepicking, with their accompanying nights of merriment. When tiie work for which the frolic is held is finished. ",i ii I supper over, the room is leared. tnd the old fiddler appears upon the scene, and scon the strains of such obi tunes as the "Virginia Ibel." "Old Dan Tucker" and the "Irish Washerwoman" fill the evening air. One by ne the couples of tin lice rs take their places, and then t tistics a period of hilarity and uproar that would rival in Indian pow-wow.- Pittsburg Dispatch. A Maker of Clippies, .lames Kdgerbui, M. I)., better known in hobo circles as "Doc" or "Topsy," is ne of the unique impostors in tha tramp army. He took his degree in medicine, but failing to get patients, he eticeivcd the idea of doctoring tramps. He bandiged the her.' cf one fellow who had a broken head, ami proposed that ho go begging, calling attention lo the broken bead to excite sympathy. Tim s-hem! w.k a success, aii'l ihe rt'.e'or's share anioiinicd to a little over S?. Phis led him to exlerul the system. Soon lie bad a small army .r ueggars disolaing splints and bandages and reaping harvests of coin. IVev of his patients were hi. nest enough to divide venly. and to guard against their stealings he arranged a price lis! of the afllictions be could Imitate. Here it is: r.roken arm. S2: broken leg. .'; sprained shoulder, SI. rt(i; sprained wrist. 70 fiits; broken ribs, sprained ankle, ft: paralysis, blindness. $.'. .Most interesting of all is the method if simulating paralysis. This i.s done v a hypodermic injection. The name :f the drug used Fdgerion will not tell. The elTect is startling. The injection is usually made in one or both inns. They quickly become lifeless, md control over the muscles is lost. There Is no pain. The skin loses color ind becomes slightly shriveled. The lails become bluish and seemingly lead. These symptoms sometimes last IS hours, although .".' hours is generally the limit. IMgerton claims that fake oaralytics often make $S or J?10 in a :1a v. No after effect is noticed from the drug. New York World. "Tipping;" In New York. The Duke of Marlborough's announcvinent that he would tip no servant has led to a lively discussion of tite tipping fad. which is by no means confined to the smart set. The consensus of aristocratic opinion is that Americans in general and New Yorkers iu particular tip too frequently and loo freely. There's no fixed scale for tips here, and, i -a result, the man servant or maid j servant who serves you. expects the I highest coin, no matter what the eonlit ion of the payee pocket book may e. Abroad, as all tourists know, the gratuitous fee tendered waiters and others is regulated by an unwritten iaw, ami no more is expected from a ord than is looked for from a laborer. Here it's different. One enters a fashionable cafe and perchance seats himself at a table just vacated by a high ."oiler who 'never leaves less than a quarter or a half on the plate when tlie hecks are cashed in. A nickel or a lime may be one's limit. The waiter tikes the pittance with either a scowl

or a significant smile and you're his victim henceforth and forever. To get gOvMl service liberal and numerous tips are absolutely necessary. The barber ami the messenger boy. ih drink and food servers, the policeman and the elevator boy. the janilre-s and the bath attendant, th. cab man and the bootblack, everybody In similar l!n"s expects a share of your wealth over an 1 above the marker price for their services. Pin his grace the Duke of Marborough has started the anti-tipping ball-rolling, and if it bears fruit in his set It will surely become a fad of tin; masses and the classes, and sotr.e day we may be ab! to eat and drink without paying a premium for the privilege. New York correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch. ONE ON THE CAPTAIN.

lie Discovered t!s;!t th? Sailor Had More AVit than Politeness. Th (aprain of a certain large sailing vessel is probably the most polite otti cor in the whole mercantile service. He ha. however, a great idea of his impor:ance. and loses no opportunity of impressing it upon his crew. In particular, he insists upon being addressed as '"Sir" by everyone on board. One day a new hand joined tho ship, and a short time affer leaving harbor, be;n,j a seasoned old sal;, he was intrusted with the wheel. Tiie tnpiain came up and put the u-tt.il question: "How's her head?" "Nor'-by-cast." answered the old tar, very gt u!l!y. "My man." suavely answered the captain, "on this craft, when one of the crew speaks to me. he gives me a title of respect. Don't yon think you might do so. too"; Xow. how's her head';" "Xor'-hy-east. 1 tell yer," shouted the tar, displaying not :i little irritation. "I'm afraid you don't quite understand me." responded the captain, good huniore liy. "I.e; me relieve you at tin wheel, and 'liien do you take my place and ask " the question. I will then show you fn nv it should be answered." They accordingly changed places. "'Ow's her 'eadV roared the tar. "Xor'-by-east. sir." replied the captain, with emphasis on the "sir." ''t hen keep her so. my man. whilst I goes forrard and has a s:w lie." was the startling rejoinder from the old reprobate, who calmly commenced to suit the action lo the word. For the first linm on record the captain lost his temper. London Tid -Hits. It Finally Pei-rolnteil. I suppose all the t'hauneey Depew stories are old, but here's one I think it comes from ex-Congressman Cobb, of Illinois which is good enough to join the category of things which age improves. It happened on one of Mr. Depow's visits to Fngland. He had made one of his ovn inimitable afterdinner speeches in London. Next day he came down to Liverpool or Is it up to Liverpool? At any rate, he went to Liverpool to sail for home, and just as ho was about to go aboard an Englishman who had heard his speech u night before came up to him. "Dr. Depew," said he. "1 ran down from town to tell you how much I appreciated that story you told last night. I didn't quite catch the idea at first, but the more 1 thought of it the better It seemed, und I couldn't help taking the train down to tell you it was the. boi-t siory I ever heard." Dr. Depew looked at him gravely. "Did you take the freight?" he asked. "Oh, no," returned the Englishman, "I came by the express." And the day Dr. Depew landed in New York he received a cablegram. This was it: "What you said about th freight was capital." Washington Star. Arabiiin Antiquities. In speaking of Dr. O laser's recent Uscovery of ancient, inscriptions in Arabia, Prof. Honimel of Munich says: "It U my c:!ivic;ion thai Arabia liself will furnish us the direct proofs that the modern destructive criticism of i In lYntatetich is absolutely erroneous. Tiie age of the Minean inscriptions runs parallel with that of Ihe so-called code of the priests. If the former are as old as J laser believes them to be and the Arab'an civilization, as I have proved in my article, already existed at the time of Abraham, then the laws of the priests of Israel are als very ancient. The best ptoofs of the historical accuracy of the old testament traditions come more ami more from without, from the inscriptions of the surrounding nations." A Candidate for tin Asylum. "The first time I went shopping with my wife," he begsn. "The lirst time!" exclaimed the company in one voice. "Yea. tlu. first time." "Then you went the second time?" they breathlessly asked. Why, certainly, and t lie? thirl and fourth and " Wleui the company returned to the room, after pitching him out, the chairman remarked: "He shouldn't be allowed to go around loose, but it is the duty of his friends to see to that, not nrs. Hesides. it costs money, I suppose, to keep a man in an asylum." Cost of the Atlanta Imposition. In round figures tlie exposition has cost the city of Atlanta SLTmmh); the national government has spent .fJ !, x x on its building and exhibit; the State of New York, ?20,MN); Pennsylvania. hk; Massachusetts. -Jö.oiN; Illinois, .fJ.'MMMi; Alabama. Sl'imhh); Heorgia !?17.U0 on their State buildings and exhibits, and various other States have spent large sums of money tn their respective exhibits, so that a conservative t stlnu.te of t'he entire cost of the exposition would be ?., mm i,(iix. Constitution. Oitticolt. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie were you iu his place. Boston Transcript.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TOLD. TERSELY Supreme Court Kales Against tlia Corporations Strtrtlii: Murder of an Ascd Widow at Lafayette Kltsicr Pauley Proved Innocent of Murder. T:ix Law In Decide J ValM. Th? corpura lions, by the d. ri-don in tin express company tax case, .e.t their last light against the r.ew sysu-m of taxation iu this State. The ..r.rt ioMs that Tin law of Is'.:, providing that tie- expres-t companies shall be taxed :: i -liier to tin route system, is valid. The companies have maintained all al.-n that th v cnid not be taxed according to the number of niiks of road over wiii- h tin y ran. "out recording to the tangible property they have. The ca-e will be appealed to tho Supreme Court of the 1'nited States, where a!! the other eases b. gun by th corporations in resisting the new lnws have gone. That court has already sustained the Supremo Court of the Stat in saying that the railroads shall b taxed uud"i- the provisions of the law of lJM. Altogether the corporations hav fpetit s vcral hundred thousand, doüar-t trying to overturn the new systei.i inaugurated in iv.U. The State board of tax commissioners believes that after all the cases have been finally determined it will be able to make the barb';! of taxation much lighter to the farce rs. Tables Turned vu a White Cap. Herren Kieh.ardson, former leader of the Sejittcriield white taps, who turned Jitatt's evidence against his eld associates, was charged in the Circuit Court at Anderson with having ptolen several articles, for which crime another of th gang was s"nt to prison. .lu.dge Kilisou ordered that Kichardson be placed on trial, but Prosecutor S an!on refused t try the case, saying that he had promised Ki- hardson iinuiuniiy. Scanlon then left tlie courtroom and the court appointed Uarflctt Campbell to try, tic ease, intimating that Prosecutor Scanlon was iu conttnipt and would hear from his insubordinate conduct later. Sheriff Starr says that in the event of S mii! vi being committed to jail neither he n-r hi deputies will loci; him up. Witpiw Im Killed for tier Money. ' A murder was committed at Lafayetto some time between Thursday night an I noon Sunday. Mr-;. Hester Curtis, a widow, aged i.'l. residing ahme, wru founl sitting in le r artm-hair dead. Her skull was crushed in by blows. Tightly, clasped in her right h ied was her ban!; book, indicating that money had. been demanded, and, to convince her murderer that idle had no cash, she brought out the lunik. The house had been ransa'kel, but th" silverware was no? taken. Iter gold watch is gone. Mr. Curtis had conveyed the impression that s!" had ocfsidernbie money, and robbers undoubtedly, killed her to secure p. One or two arrests were mad", but the men were released. , Idfe Prisoner May Go Free. Khuer Sauley. serving a life sentence at .IcfiVrson vi!!e, charged with killing a - year-old babe, is said to be innocent.' A woman by the name of Mary P.ruigen, residing at Madison, made an antemortem statement, con f.-s-ing she killed the child for the murder of which Sauley is s rving a life sentence. Sauley was a shanty boatman and was convicted Oct. HS. 1N.N7, at Kockp.irt. When seen ho said he had always claimed to bo innocent, but without any e-ond result. Sauley relatives will attempt t se'-nre his pardon. All Over the J-'.tute. (leofge W. Worl'V has b,-c:i ole.-tcd Superintt ndcnt of Schools at KoscinxkCounty, vice Prof. II. .!. MeAipine. deceased. Mansfield MoiTett. of Jtvenshurg. i- arranging to go to Washington, where ho will spi i d the winter in trapping. It has been tngigtd i; thai business for years. Mr. Molfett is SI years old. bat he. is hale and hearty, lie .-it amis live feet eleven in hi-: st ockjngs, ami can hie!: higher than any man iu his township. The journey of :",; o mdes ar.d life on ia frontier has no terror; IV r hita. A. It. Ca'dwel!. of Anders, n. !ia- been plactil under arrest for bigamy. He will be taken to Hush County and prosecuted on that score by his second wife. His first wife, who is living in Canada, will be m the grouml to assist iu the prosecution. She will be '.roeght from Canad i by money raised by the employes in thArt role File Works. At the time of lii arrest Ca Id w 11 was eloping with a va riety actress, lie is the young raati v. h betrayed Iiis f.ien.l. Kiehanl Ititeli. i:c the hands of Ivcnti'.ckv pejiitcnthry e:!ici.ils a few days ago. A sensational arrest for grand br-euy was'made at CrawlWdsville Monday afternoon. William Marl, s m of .beph Far, a merchant, and himself oeeapvin.; a good position in so ieiy. was safely lodged in jail, after :l three hours has through tlie mud and rain by poli'-e and bloodhounds, lie is charged with hning stolen .$"VH) and a diamond ring under vci v peculiar circumstances. Marl has been keeping company with Miss M1: Comer for seme time, and calhd up n her. He insisted that she step from the pari er to the inusic-rooiu ami sing his favorite song. "When Summer Comes Again." She did so, but while she was singing !: softly locke 1 her in the room and proceeded to help hiin.-elf to IS..IH! leloil-iag to her mother and her diamond rhu;. Miss Comer soon saw she was the victim tif no joke and made her escape from a window. She tpuekly summoned bei father from a neiglibm ing house and ii at once telephoned for the police ami dogs. When the police arrived Fail had been gone half an hour, but the bloodhounds took the trail and soon had him cornered in an empty honst, where h was secured and brought to jail. Far!, in sp.it e of his mail tlight. claims he took the money for a joke. The arrest has caused a profound sensation. The Wayne Produce Company, of Fort Wayne, wholesale d alers in tropi'Vil fruits iMid vegetables, hi, j volnntariiy t losed its doors, ami its slo. kholders will liquidate its indebtedness. William Prinknian. the bliml man of Kokomo. whose wife and hired girl aro also blind, is developing int a champion sightless walker, and would lie pleased to arrange a match with s;.au other ambitious sprinter. Mr. Priukniau walked unaided from the Clover Leaf depot to his residence in South Kokomo, a tliitnnee of twenty-one squares, iu uinctceu luinutcn.

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