Terre Haute Daily News, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 March 1890 — Page 2

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1. A. HARPER, Managing Editor.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1890.

Two thousand shirt makers have gone I out on a strike in New York. The women want equal wages with the men for the same work and both demand a day of ten hours instead of fourteen as at present. We think the public will be willing to sustain the terms of this strike if they have to go without a shirt to their back. _______

NIHB vagrants were arrested yesterday and the taxpayers who have to furnish their board and lodging will be glad to know that they were put to work upon the rock pile this morning. It hardly seems fair, however, to make this discrimination between vagrancy and drunkenness. If a man is arrested simply as a tramp he is put to work, but if he can manage to get drunk he "lays out" his fine in jail. In other words it is to his advantage to add viciousnesa to idleness.

Tins Terre Haute delegates to the state encampment of the G. A. Ii. covered themselves all over with notoriety yesterday. TUB NEWS does not consider that any amount of patriotism can excuse the profanity of Capt. Power in his address from the platform as reported by the Associated Press. Such language is an insult to the old soldiers who are supposed to have the instincts of gentlemen. His remarks would have been out of place at a caucus of ward heelers and were in exceedingly bad taste before an intelligent and highly respectable state convention.

TrtH advertisement for bids on an aerial fire truck will doubtless attract a number of competitors. The council has the right to reject any and all bids. It is generally believed they will reject all of them and simply take this method uf getting themselves out of their predicament. If, however, they accept a bid and contract for the purchase of a truck, injuction proceedings will in all probability be commenced. It is to be hoped the matter may be delayed until after the next election when it will doubtless le dropped. But should there be an attempt to force this purchase upon the city it will be in order for the taxpayers to protect themselves.

THK Senate yesterday withdrew its attention from the subject of news leakage long enough to make an innovation on a custom that lias been much abused. A resolution was adopted censuring a Senator for altering his speech, made in the Senate, before it was printed in the Congressional Record. This practice has been carried to a ridiculous extent and the speeches pot upon the Record and sent out to gullible constituents have been revised and amended until the original would hardly be recognised. Mem-' bens will be more guarded in their remarks and exercise more control over their temper when thoir language must stand ia black and white, an unimpeachable witness against them.

TICK board of immigration of Florida, consisting of the governor, secretary of 5 state and cotnmsssioner of agriculture, have made arrangements to import one thousand servant girls for that state.

They will be brought from Norway and Sweden atid will noft come under the head of alien contract labor. This seems a peculiar phase of affaire in a state swarming with negroes and poor whites who can scarcely sustain life. We have enough of the poorer classes throughout the country to furnish all the domestic service that is Manured and thus afford a mu$h needed both to themselves and the multitude of overworked houkeepers* But such is their u^ shutleeeness, their dislike for work «u»« their lack of training that it looks aa if we must add to the already vrrcrowded population of our ciUce by importing the necessary household

Tits attendance at the primaries for the election of delegate tho township convention to be held nexiSatur* day was much l«gw than present upon such occasions, and inaicafce the awakening of the peo|

On the contrary the oflfcs towmoip trustee is ono of th* most iiajr^ant in STgift ol the psopte, bilWr exceptions he handles more wy tin.

Bittai for good or ©wl. Th* ds*ag«tes should carnally con«ki«srthe charter a id a tonds tc our township aflsurs is ol vastly BGOT6 ta.port«*» lh" think. It »»k« W hW. HOmaa about hi. po)M« Mhwh.ywsf— offensive jartl-Mfciri* J**®"*?

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assessor is also of considerable consequence, as he touches our pockets very perceptibly and needs to be a man of judgment and honesty. Even the justices constables are worth considering as they have many occasions for using their official power for the good or ill of the community. We trust that both parties will make a judicious selection and that the voters will carefully examine the two tickets and cast their votes for the moat reliable men without any regard to party affiliations.

THK time honored idea of the duello dies hard with the southern brother. Senator George's remarks on the subject vesterday come under the head of the humorous although intended to be pathetic. He declares "it is no longer evidence of spirit, no evidence of courage for a senator to get up and use abusive and insulting language to another senator. Nor is it evidence of a want of spirit or courage that the senator about whom such insulting and personal language was used does not call the other senator to a personal account. The duello was entirely out of the question now. Personal conflict was also out of the question. What was to be done?" It is indeed a lamentable state of affairs when a senator can walk about the senate chamber all day with a chip upon the senator's shoulder and no other senator will knock it off' There is a great decadence of public sentiment according to the ideas of southern chivalry, when Johnny cannot get his gun and defend his personal honor. The southern senators ought to appreciate the advantage of the new regime of free speech. According to the old custom if their weapon missed fire their adversary had a big advantage but under the present order of things if their opponent gets the best of them in debate they can retire to the solitude of their chamber, write out all the brilliant and sarcastic things that they might have said and have them published in the Record-just as if they had been fired off on the spur of the moment. The southerner will learn in time there are many improvements on the shot gun policy.

Pillow* Mat« of L»v® Tetters, flie latest device of girlhood is a fancy tor stuffing pillows with their old love tetters. There is one thing about the contents of these pillows that can bo depended upon with a marked degree of certainty—they are sure to be soft. Now, the question naturally arises, must the pillows be stuffed with lettera from a single person, or may missives from John and Jack and Algernon be tumbled promiscuously in together? Ia it a test of loyalty that when once a girl really falls In love, or thinks she does, she discard from her pillow all the lotters save those of the object of her deepest affection? And how does marriage affect the fate of the pillow? Do huabauds enjoy having their wives' faces buried in a mass of soft nothings that other men have written to them? And what dreams may come, and what skimpy, flat little pillows some poor girls must have but how nice it is for the men to reflect that their adored ones slumber softly on their words of love.—Chicago Tribune.

His Only Haven.

All women are in league against the bachelor—the married women from sympathy with their unmarried sisters and the unmarried from a desire to lessen the number of spinsters. With this league against him, offensive and defensive, the unmarried man may find peace in heaven, but he can scarce hope to find happiuess on earth—this side of marriage. However, once married, all the bachelor's troubles are over. He is no longer the subject of interested or designing attentions—except the attentions which proceed from love. True, the bachelor becomes on his marriage, if not an object of commiseration to the knowing ones, an object of comparative indifference to all women but one but the superior love of that one atones for all, and his added dignity and completeness as a man and citizen make hinvwon how he pro* viously existed, as ouw half a pair of scissors without the other half.—Woman's Cycle.

From Prohibition Ntnte. "You are a Kansas man, sir," remarked the gentleman on the other side of

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STONE FROM THE TEMPLE.

A GREAT CURIOSITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Tit* History of a Block of Marble That formeA a Part of the Tempi* Iucloeare at Joruukleta at the Time of Christ'*

Birth—Copies for Collejpes. Among the most valuable and interesting of

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museum is the cast of a Greek inscription, discovered at Jerusalem some years ago. The University of Pennsylvania obtained possession of this cast, in connection with its Babylonian expedition, through the efforts of the Hon. O. S. Strauss, formerly United States minister at Constantinople. The University of Rochester made an attempt to secure a cast of this inscription, and, by interesting ex-Secretary Bayard, permission was obtained from the Imperial museum at Constantinople to have a cast of the original inscription made and forwarded. Fhe cast, however, arrived in such a broken condition that it was practically worthless.

Since then Professor Millington, of Roberts college, at Constantinople, and ex-Minister Strauss have secured two additional casts for this country, one hav-| ing gone to the University of Rochester and the other to the University of Pennsylvania. The copy belonging to the University of Pennsylvania was badly broken in the transportation, but has been sufficiently mended to have new casts made. Harvard and Yale, as well as the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mt. Airy, and the Protestant Episcopal Divinity school, have applied for facsimiles of this cast for their libraries.

HISTORY OP THE INSCRIPTION. An interesting story is connected with the discovery of this inscription. On the 26th of May, 1871, the French explorer, Clermont-Ganneau, who spent many years in Jerusalem, and to whom the Louvre in Paris owes a number of its best specimens, was examining the partially ruinous walls of the old Mohammedan school in Jerusalem, near the Via Dolorosa, about 160 feet north of the Haram wall. The Frenchman, with the searching curiosity of an archroologist, was scrutinizing every stone that showed evidence of having been cut or chiseled by human hands. While he was thus engaged ho noticed on a large block of stone, projecting a few inches above the ground, several Greek letters. Early Greek inscriptions in Jerusalem are exceedingly rare, and, accordingly, he assured himself that no Mohammedan was watching him, and then proceeded to lay bare part of the stone.

To excite no suspicion he did not remain very long, and before leaving filled in the earth about the stone as it had been before. The next day he returned with the proper implements, uncovered the stone and found that it was a block of marble, with an area of 8 by S feet, carefully chiseled and showing seven lines of a well preserved Greek inscription. The interpretation presented no difficulty, as the characters were large and legible. Tho inscription read as follows: "No Gentile is to enter within the incslosuro of the temple. Whosoever disobeys this rule will incur the penalty of death."

Ganneau immediately concluded that this stone must formerly have belonged to the Temple of Herod, and a few years before the birth of Christ was part of a wall that formed an inclosure about the sacred fane of the Jews. Josephus relates that on the southern and eastern sides of the Temple, parallel to the porticoes erected by Solomon and by Herod, there was a wall several feet high, in which, at certain intervals, there were Greek and Latin inscriptions, forbidding Gentiles to enter the court of the Temple. The workmanship and the size of the stone discovered by Ganneau correspond precisely with the description given by Josephus, and the peremptory style of the inscription leaves little room to doubt that the stone actually formed part of the wall surrounding the Temple.

AN INTERESTING ILLUSTRATION The prohibition inscribed on this piece of marble thousands of years agu forms an interesting commentary to the story related in the twenty-first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles,where it is said that the Jews of Asia stirred up all the people against Paul because he "brought Greeks also into the temple and hath polluted this holy place. (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus, an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul and drew him out of the temple and forthwith the doors were shut,"

The wrath of the Jews is much more itgurly underet nl and seems quite natural when ste by this inscription how jealously they guarded the entrance into their temple, an. what a severe penalty they influ-u-d upon Gentiles for entering even the outer court or inclosure.

Retfe«TK*» is made to the same fea&re in the second chapter of the ^pistieto the Ei 'aosians, where Paul says that Christ is ur peace, **who bath made both (Oh iles and Jews) one. aud hath broke- :own the middle wall of partition,**

It was natural that the discovery of this interesting a! could not be kept secret, and accordingly Ganneau made it known in a letter to The Athenaeum, and Wrote* a si-onograph on the meaning and historkt&l value of the inscription. But when an attempt was made to secure the stone for the Louvre, at Paris, the poaseesor of theachool boese where it was found, under the impt ion, which la very prevalent In the «*gt,that every lutWokgjc&l object fc worth an intf* nv. .--.aaof r.v-rjey, demanded $10,000. When the Turkish governor i*f Jerusalem beard of the discovery of the atone he had it dug up aadBrooght to Mi palace, when he blmadif offered it for sale at 11*but

was no tayer. Ste&le&ly

t3** Appeared* and no trace of tt «ot. tad aiijwJieiras. When* tlifer* t., iter ti Dr Mordtmaim, of agtannttoo well known Semitic w&» on* daay examining the tare ire® in the Turkish museum, Tshlk, in Coastanttnopfe, be dhwovered the lost staw and published Ids discovery in the Journal of German »P*ia*mi aooetr original stone i#Witt fa*j*inth»museum, *1wch

TERRE HAUTfi DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12,1890.

chseologist, Hamdi liey, who "became known several years ago by his extensive excavations of sarcophagi at Siden.

The cast which the university has obtained ia in every particular a faithful fac-simile of the original.—Philadelphia

Devil's Lake.

Devil's lake is a body of brackish water of uncertain size, according to the weather, but covering about 200 square miles on an average, and having an outlet by a marshy stream to the Cheyenne river, only in wet seasons. Though the water is too saline for a stranger to drink it, yet it abounded with fish in

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natural state and even now,

in the dead of winter, one may see groups of wiry old squaws here and there on the ice (four feet thick at the least!) "working the dip seine" and bringing out at each haul two or three pickerel, which are thrown on the ice to freeze solid in a few minutes, after which they are handled like stones or billets of wood. To see the poor old creatures kneeling on the margin of the holes they have cut through the ice, and with one arm, bare nearly to the shoulder, thrust under the edge of the ice to spread the seine—thermometer from zero to 80 below—is a novel and interesting sight to the tourist that is, if he is well wrapped in a fur coat and has thick moccasins or "German socks" over his heavy boots.

The lake in one place is almost cut in two by a sort of peninsula, with a spoon shaped extremity running out into the lake and there the Indians in the "good old times" used to make their great buffalo drive. Stampeded by mounted men, from a large section adjacent the animals fled to the lake and were gradually concentrated on this peninsula the hunters then advanced by boat or along the land and shot them down at leisure. At length the white man broke in the great Turtle mountain buffalo raids began for seventy miles in a line the prairie the next summer was a Golgotha—whitened with buffalo skeletons—and old settlers still tell of the "big money" made by gathering their bones. In five short years every buffalo was gone, and the Indians had to starve, fight or emigrate. They fought and were whipped part emigrated and the rest are starving.—J. a B.

An Honest Car Conductor.

A prominent citizen of Union Hill boarded a street car in Hoboken and handed Conductor Spencer a coin. Spencer felt the milled edges, and, thinking it was a fifty cent piece, he put it in his pocket without examining it and returned forty-five cents change, which the other man quickly put in his pocket. A few minutes later the conductor was making change inside the car and discovered that the supposed fifty cent piece was a $10 gold piece. He put it back in his pocket and asked the Union Hill man the denomination of the coin he had given him. "It was a quarter," the Union Hill man said. "I gave you twenty cents more than you are entitled to," Spencer remarked, quietly.

The Union Hill man laughed, but did not offer to return the change. "I'm satisfied if you are," said Spencer.

Nothing more was said until the car reached the top of the hill at Weehawken and the man had shown no sign of returning the twenty cents.. Then Spencer said: "If you keep my change I'll keep what you gave me and call it square."

The Union Hill man put his band in his pocket and exclaimed: "By Jove! I gave you a $10 gold piece." "You did," replied Spencer, "and you intended to swindle me out of twenty cents. Here's your $10, but you don't deserve to get it back."

The prominent citizen pocketed the money and got off the car at the next corner.—New York Sun.

A Unique Newspaper.

Lying on the desk of Mr. W. B. Somerville, in his cozy office in tho big Western Union building, a reporter espied a very strange newspaper. At first it looked like a large piece of foolscap closely written, but upon closer examination it proved to be a real live newspaper written by hand. This unique newspaper is published at Prince Albert, a small hamlet in the center of the Canadian northwest territory, and is called The Prince Albert Critic. Its size is four pages, four columns to the page.

The paper lias a circulation of several hundred copies and is a specimen of what can be done by an enterprising journalist without a font of type. The mode of issuing it is rather peculiar. The matter, instead of being set in type, is written in ink with an electric pen on prepared paper, the rest of the issue being imprints of the original sheet. The paper is newsy for its size, contains qdite a number of advertisements and is the official paper of the hamlet.—New York World.

How to Make Good Paste.

A transparent mucilage of great tenacity may be made by mixing rioe flour with cold water and letting it simmer gently over the fire. Another way is to dissolve a teaepoonf ul of alum hi a quart of water. When cold stir in as much flour as will give it the consistency of thick cream, carefully beating up all the lumps. Stir ia half a teaspoonful of powdered rosin. Pour on the mixture a teacup of boiling water, stirring it well. When it becomes thick pour in aa earthen vessel. Cover and keep in a cool place. When needed for use take a portion and soften it with warm water. It will last at least a year. If you wish to have a pleasantodor stirin afewdropsof oflof wilifcergreen car doves.—New York Journ«l.

ilstlsattf for LsSiW Us*.

The swell note paper just now is either light cream. English bine-gray, or old French rose. Tiwseare all ligbt tiats. The piper should be medium-sized, to fold over and fit the rather large and almost square envelope, which, of mwm, matches the pqper in tint. Vk»tet ink is the choice. There are.many reaso why vktetink has attained its great Pop* nlariiy. It dries quickly, flows freely, and does not chanfe color srifik timfr— three *©ry good reasons. It comes highly perfumed, and imparts a delighlM odor to the M$er. These perfumed inks come high, but all the swetifi ate using them just at present.

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MINING FOR A PYTHON.

A Snake Tbat Refused to Be Drawn from His Hole by a Bope and an Elephant. It was during the cold weather, -whan snakes are partially or wholly torpid, that this adventure happened had it been in the hot weather, when snakes are lively, the story might have had a different ending.

Gen. Macintyre and his party went one day to examine a hole or crevice under a rock where it was supected a python lay hidden, and sure enough it was there, for they could see a bit of the tail end protruding from the hole. They let it alone at first, thinking that, when the sun shone, it might come forth to bask in its warmth. In this, however, they were disappointed, for on the following day the snake was not to be seen but, on closer examination, the tail was found sticking out as before. Various efforts were made to dislodge it. Afire was lit in front and the smoke fanned inward, but this had no effect.

The earth was even scraped away and the hole widened, when they could see the coils of the monster as thick as a man's thigh but except that their operations were occasionally interrupted by the startling presence of the creature's head, which it occasionally poked toward the entrance, darting out its little forked tongue, it gave small signs of animation. They had even determined to try to draw it. We all three, therefore, proceeded— somewhat nervously, I must own—to lay hold of its tail. To this familiarity it showed its objection by a decided incli-nation-to wag its caudal extremity, which had such an electrical effect on our nerves that we dropped it like a hot potato, and—what shall I call it?—retired. A shot would in all probability have induced the snake to quit-its refuge, but then the shot must have torn and disfigured its beautiful skin, which the general wished to

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imen. In the meantime more efficient toola for digging had been sent for, and these now arrived borne upon an elephant.

A bright idea now struck the party— they might draw the snake out with the elephant! Sufficient rope for the purpose was loosened from the elephant's pad, and this rope, about the thickness of a man's thumb, was hitched around the python's tail, its remaining length brought up again to the pad and fastened there, thus doubling its strength. Now came the tug of war! A sudden jerk might have torn the skin the mahout was therefore warned to put on the strain gradually. Little did we know what a tough and obstiuate customer we bad to deal with. Tighter and tighter grew the ropes, when "crack" went one of them. Still the strain was increased, when "crack"—the other had snapped also, leaving the snake in statu quo.

The snake was finally dislodged by counter mining and killed with a charge of buckshot. When measured it was found to be twenty-one feet in length and about two feet in girth.—Chambers' Journal.

A Bride at 03.

When a woman of the age ofK92 years marries it must be because she wants to marry, and that is just what happened in the history of "Aunt Katy" Currie, who died at Warwick, Orange county, at the extraordinary age of 107 years and 8 months. Her maiden name was Catharine Woodruff, and she was born in the adjoining town of Monroe. When she was 82 years of age she married Joseph Currie, a prominent and well to do farmer of Warwick, with whom she lived until his death, in 1872. "Aunt Katy" is entitled to the singular distinction of having gone to the altar as a bride after she had entered upon her 92d year. The bridegroom, James Nelson, was 68 years old, and the marriage took place two years after the death of her first husband. Before contracting this second marriage "Aunt Katy" tore the record of her age from the family Bible, and always declined afterward to tell her age. It is known positively, however, that she was born in 1782.—Toronto Empire.

Servant Girls In MontAna.

The most thoroughly disgusted people at the lack of women in Montana are those who employ domestic help in the cities. Hundreds of girls come to Helena and Butte each month looking for work, which they secure wiihout difficulty at wages ranging from $20 to $40 a month. After spending a month in the city, they learn that they can get better wages and have a much better chance of securing a husband and a home of their own by going out to some one of the numerous mining camps, which they immediately proceed to do, and the housewife is forced again, perhaps for the thousandth time, to initiate another pilgrim domestic.—San Francisco Chronicle, mmmmm wmssm tug

A Male as a V«k Horn. MSfjj

Jupiter can boast of the most intelligent mule on record. The mule is 21 years old. Every night he proceeds to the life saving station. It is customary for the man on watch to discbarge his coston signal (a red light) when vessels come too near the beach. The mule has "caught on* to what this signal means. So every night at 8 o'clock the sailor's four legged friend proceeds to walk the beach, and if a vessel comes too near the shore he sends forth a neigh that makes night hideous. Fori or starboard your helm is the order on the ship, and away sail the jolly tars in safety and with grateful heart to the four legged patrolman.—Savannah News.

stood for the Sex.

"Now,*1 plaintively perorated the perspiring preacher, "is there a man in this congregation who never spoke crow to his wife? If thens is, let him rise." Dead silence, in the midst of which a fat, red faced man of 40 solemnly rose to his feet. -Can you truly say," said the preacher, with a warning look in his eye, **that yoa never spoke a single cross word to your wiM"" "I can," said the fat man, emphatically, "lam a bachelor." Sensation, succeeded by giggling on the back seats and a smothering sensation In the choir.—Genesee •News. .o

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Old Uncle Ben retired to the back of the shop, as usual, without giving any sign of his smart, and I followed him to see him shake with laughter. There was no Bhake this time, however. The old man called me to him and said: "See here, my boy, you run out into the back yard and get me a lump of cold, wet clay from the well side." I dldflso, and he sent me away again, saying that he wanted the clay to stuff up a rat hole with. I hid behind a barrel, however, and saw him clap the clay to hia mouth, take his head in his other hand, and stamp around and swear to himself, tilt I got scared. Then he took out some ball blue from a box, wrapped it up in his handkerchief, dipped it in a pail of water and rubbed it on his lip till he looked like an Indian on the war path. Finally he (mimed down, washed himself off, and came out looking sourer than ever.

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The next day the boys found a most promising victim,, and were preparing to play the trick on him when Uncle Ben came out and'shouted: "Now, then, you lazy rascals, I won't have you driving off my customers with your scurvy tricks. The first boy that touches that bees' neat will get a cowhide over his back!" And the darkies never could understand what caused the old man to change his mind so suddenly about a trick that had amused him so many times.—-New York Tribune. ff

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This trick, when successfully carried out, was one of the very few things that tickled old Uncle Ben, and he would watch ite performance with anxiety lest it should fail, and would thon retire to the back part of the shop and shake for ten minutes with internal laughter, which only found outward expression in his quivering stomach and shoulders ^nd snapping black eyes. This had been repeated scores of times, when one day there came a hitch in tho proceedings. One bee lit just on the old man's upper lip, and gave him a sting that raised a lump as big as a pigeon's egg there in about one minute.

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One of the brightest advertising men in Chicago made his rise through the fall of another. It was some years ago when as a mere boy he was tramping the streets of Chicago in search of any sort of a job which offered. His last nickel had gone for food, and one afternoon he walking through a down town alley tired and disgusted. Happening to glanco upward be saw a boy leaning out of a window. In a moment the boy lost his balance and feU to the ground with the customary dull, sickening thud. The discouraged man hastened to the boy's ride and discovered that death had been instantaneous. Looking up at the open window from which he bad fallen the man counted the irtoi te* and then sought the stairway near by Mounting the •fffarfin he dashed Into the editors room, for it waa the oflk» of The Prairie Farmer, and blurted out: "Do you want boyT Looking up in surprise tbe editor answered* "No, we hare a boy," thai the man said. "Ill bet you haven't —your boy just fell from the window and Is dead. I want his place." Investiga* lion fooiidtbai the man was right, and ha was engaged for his pushing way. Since then be luw risen by degrees and made money, and very tew of his friends know bow he gained his place.—Chicago Herald.

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