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THE NORTE PLATTE SEM1-WEEKM TRIBUNE TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1896. A HUSHABY SONG. Lie still, ok, my baby, and listen and 1 Litem AO ina song or the dream children oomlag to thee! Far off throcgn ths darkness we Eee their cars glisten As they row softly over sleep's beautiful sea. They are coming to thee. They are singing to thee. Xja a till, oh, my baby, and listen an&liatenl There, hush thee, my baby, and, rocking and rocking Far out on the waves of the beautiful sea. We may hear the dream children a-talking and talking Of all the sweet things thoy are bringing to thee. From over the sea They are coining to thee, While out on the waves we go rocking and rocking. So rest thee, my baby: lie still on thy pillow. The breath of the dream children blows over thee They catch thee, they kiss thee, on each shin ing billow As they paddle thy boat over sleep's rosy sea. I give thee, I-send thee. The dream children tend thee. Thou goest to sea on the sail of thy pillow. Anne L. iluzzey in New York Sun. A SLUM .ANGEL. Some one was coming up the stairs as the little district visitor was descend ing. The ascending party struck a vesta, which threw a fitful glare over the damp and filthy walls and the gray gowned form of Hester Moore. Dr. Paul Myland stepped aside, flat tening his broad shoulders against the baluster rail to admit a wider passage for her benefit During the nest two weeks this "Elumming" doctor and the soberly dressed little district visitor met about half a dozen times on their separate ways to or from some den in a crowded alley, and at the end of a fortnight they actually defied criticism and spoke. It was raining a steady drizzle, and through the mire of a muddy court Paul ilayland saw a familiar form in gray ntepping over the puddles without an umbrella. "Please take mine," he said. But she would only consent to share it "These places are not fit for you," said the doctor later when walking with 1 . t LTT I ner uomewara. xou are ioo young, too too-r- Indeed it is scarcely safe for bo young a girl to venture among the criminals that are hidden here. " "But I must," she murmured. "Ah, you are one of those brave wo men willing to risk anything. I had heard of you long before I had the pleas ure of lighting you down those rickety stairs two weeks ago." "You have heard of mc?" she asked, wilh an abrupt sharpness of tone which he did not notice. "3Tes, from the poor wretches whom you have made your devoted friends," he explain en. "It is more often for you they calL in the extremity of their pain than for me." "I am glad if I have done any good, " she said, sighing with relief. "Good!" he echoed. "If the depraved creatures about here worship anything at all, it is the Little Gray Lady, as they have named you." - Dr. Paul Mayland was celebrating his fortieth birthday over a lonely cup of tea. Old Betsy, his housekeeper and one time nurse, had made a doubtful looking cake in honor of the occasion, and her affectionate master was sacri ficing his digestion to please her. It was not often that he was left to enjoy a meal in peace, and today was not an exception to the rule. He was still contemplating a second slice of cake when he received a hasty summons to a case in Lavender court "ThatTs just like him," she growled in monologue. "He'll never be rich while he doctors them paupers for noth . ing. And they takes 'vsmtage of his goodness, they da Now, if Master Jack hadn't turned out a scoundrel" Here, boing a devout Catholic, she crossed herself and mused mournfully upon the doctor's secret sorrow. "Master Jack" was Paul -ATayLmd's youngest brother, his junior by 15 years, who had been left as a sacred trust by their dying mother to the elder's care. Some seed of depravity, perhaps sown in long generations past, early developed in young Jack. After rushing through various vicissitudes of gambling and drink he devoted the remaining part of his sodden intellect to the criminal sci ence of burglary. His distracted brother for several years grieved far his "sacred trust" as a thing lost to him until one night Jack had appeared craving protection from the law. For the sake of his dead moth er, Paul had shielded the boy, who, when the danger was over, broke loose again, and in the course of time his dexterity earned' him, in the criminal world, the sobriquet of "Lightning Jac." At Lavender courtin the room where his patient lay, Dr. Mayland found the Little Gray Lady kneeling by the truckle bed on vbich a consumptive child was dying. 'I sent for you, " she said. "I knew jou would come if you possibly could." She had puzzled him from the first her absolute loneliness and her reserve. There were moments when he wondered if she were tiring cf her charitable work, so obvious to him had been her troubled mind sometimes. Tonight, Walking beside her through the busy streets, he abruptly put his fancy into words. 4 'Yes, I am very tired, " she answered. "I bate tho work. I hate it. " "But it isn't compulsory," he ex claimed. "Why do you do it?" "Because I must," she said bitterly. Paul Mayland was not a rapid think er, and not until they had turned into the street where she lived did he come to some sort of conclusion. Perhaps she was performing deeds of charity in ex piation of some trifling sin, magnified by her tender conscience. Yes, he loved her. She had guessed it long ago. It was in that moment when he had once unconsciously revealed hi3 secret that her work had become sud denly hateful to herself. "Don't go in yet," he said. "I want tc tell you something. Let- us walk back to the end of the street" "I love you, Hester. I love you." His low voice penetrated through the traffic of the street. "I am not a young man, but my feeling for you. is deep and strong enough to last my lifetime, even unto eternity." He caught the sharp gob that was cheked in her threat "Hester," he cried, "look at me L Oh, my darling, what is it?" 'I am so happyl" she said. "That is How long they walked up and down that pavement neither knew. They were jerked back to the reality of things by a faint, hoarse voicelhai'"seemp7rFn 4 have sprung out of the darkness beside them: "Paul for God's sake, save me I It is the last time I shall trouble you. " I "Go to my house by the back door. I will join you in teirminutes." And, catching at Hester's hand, he hurried her along. "You are trembling, dearest That man has frightened you. He meant no harm. It is my brother." "Your brother?" she gasped. " 'Light ning Jack' your brother?" "What do you know of 'Lightning Jack?' Who are you?" "Come with me to my lodgings," she said faintly. "I can't tell you here. ' Hester Moore sat with her arms stretched across the table, her head bowed cn them in speechless, tearless misery. The confidence which she had withheld so long had been wrung from her at last She was no angel of charity, but a person sent from Scotland. Yard to track the burglar "Lightning Jack." "So this is our Little Gray Lady! A human bloodhound paid to- hunt down fallen wretches." Every word lashed her like a whip. In the distress cf that hour he was blind to her pain, blind to justice, blind to his very love for her. "Well, your victim is ready at your hand," he said bitterly to the trembling representative of Scotland Yard. "Of course you will do your duty. " He walked from the room without a backward glance. For an instant she re mained thus, spiritless and dazed. Then a gradual indignation worked its way through her clouded brain. "What had she done to evoke con tempt, to forfeit happiness? Born of a detective father, she had been carefully trained by the clever parent in certain intricacies of the profession, and since his death the work had been to her a means of livelihood. The cheap clock on the mantelpiece struck 11, and she raised her face at last, a wondrous pity looking out of her burning eyes. Why had she considered only herself? His seeming cruelty had been but the outcome of fear for the safety of his brother! When the dawn showed through the chinks of the blind, she threw open the window and leaned out her face in the chilly breeze. "Hester,. I have been waiting for you, hoping against hope that you did not go last night to to Scotland Yard." It was Paul Mayland standing on the pavement He bent his faceclose to hers and whispered. "Thank God!" she said, with shaking lips. Death had spared her a terrible task. "Lightning Jack" had died in delirium in the arms of his brother. One cf the cleverest lady assistants attached to Scotland Yard resigned her past a few weeks ago, on the occasion of her approaching marriage. The pew opener of the Southwark church was heard to remark that "in all her ken" no man had ever looked so proud of his bride as did the "slum ming" doctor who brought back the Little Gray Lady to live with them. Answers. Animals and Fire. Sports Afield says that rattlesnakes won't run from fire, but instead strike till the last at the flames about them. This is true of many animals, especially of horses, who will rush back into a burning barn, apparently blind with rage, striking with their hoofs and switching their rails in great anger. The flight of wild' birds during mi grating time against lighthouses is more like the action of the green bicyclist who rides against a trolley car or Wagon as if hypnotized by it and in spite of his fears. Gorillas, it is said, delight in' fire, drawing closer to the flames as the fire dies Cown and at last wading in the redhot ashes, apparently enchanted and not feeling the burning coals. A little fire built beneath one of the pear shaped paper wasp nests that are seen hanging from low branches will kill every wasp in it, as the insects fly at it one by one in their endeavors to save their home and young. Deer are frequently heard about Adi rondack open camps where the fire flares up from the logs, but a big, hot fire drives the mosquitoes and punkies from the camps as well as smoke. Frogs leap through the flames of a little bonfire time and time again, as if having the most pleasing of fun. It may be, though, that they think the flickering flames to be some new sort of insect The Incautious Critic Almost the last work that Sir Edwin Landseer was engaged on was a life sized picture of 2SeIl Gwynn passing through an archway on a white palfrey. This picture, in which the horse alone was finished, was bought by one of the Bothschild family and given to Sir John Millais to complete. One morning a celebrated art critic called and was much impressed with this work. "Ah, to be sure!" he said, going up close and examining a deerhound, which almost breathed, in the foreground of the pier ture. "How easily one can recognize Landseer's dogs! Wonderful, isn't it?" "Yes, it is wonderful, " remarked Sir John, lighting another pipe. "I finished painting that dog yesterday and have done the whole of it myself." That critic was sorry he spoke. Magazine of Art Xot Inviting More Collisions. "No, sir,' said the man. who had wavered. "I won't learn to ride a bicy cle. I had thoughts of trying it, but I have just heard of a peculiar trait in the machine that caused me to change my mind." "What's that?" "I understand that when you first try to ride, if you see anything you espe cially wish to avoid, you're almost cer tain to run into it" "There's a goo3 deal of truth in it" "Well, that settles the wheel for me. I have enough trouble with bill collect ors as it is." Washington Star. Did You. Ever Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not. get a bottle now and set relief. This medicine has been found to be reculiarly adapted to the relief and ur- of al' female coinplaints, exertinir a wonderful direct rntiuence in aiving strength and tune to the organs. If you have loss of appetite, constipa tion, "headache, ' fainting spells, or are nervous, sleepless, excitable, melancholy or troubled with dizzy sj ells, Electrie Bitters is the medicine you n ed. Health and strength are guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents and 31.00 at Streitz's drug store. " 3 CHINESE EDUCATION. The Standard Has Changed bat little la Two Thousand Tears. They havo no conception of learning as understood in the west of mathe matics, chemisty, geolcgy cr kindred sciences and of universal history. In deed they have a very imperfect knowl- ! edge of geography. Their curriculum of study embraces the Chinese classics and philosophy (a voluminous compilation, especially holding in eminence the teachings of Confucius J, the theory of government and Chinese pcerry and history. It is the standard fixed 2,000 years ago and has undergone little change in tho succeeding centuries. One of our diplomatic representatives tells of a conversation had with one of ' the most distinguished scholars and highest officers in the empire, in which they canvassed their respective systems of education, and he repcrts that his Chinese friend had never heard of Ho mer, Virgil or Shakespeare; knew some thing of Alexander having crossed the Indus, had a. vague knowledge of Caesar and 2?apoIeon, but none whatever of Hannibal, Peter the Great, "Wellington or other modern soldiers, and he was ignorant of astronomy, mathematics or the modern sciences. When the Ameri can minister expressed surprise at these defects in Chinese education, the man darin replied 1 "That is yonr civiliza tion, and you learn it. "We have ours, and wo learn it For centuries we have gone on satisfied to know what wo know. "Why should we care to know what you know?" Yet it must be conceded that Chinese scholars and officials are usually men of decided intellectual ability, and they cannot be set down as uneducated be cause theyhave not followed the curric ulum of study marked out by European civilization. It is a source of natural pride that they possess a literature and philosophy older than any similar learn ing cf the west, and which even at this day are not obsolete, but exercise an elevating moial and intellectual influ ence on a vast multitude of the human family. But no one Gf his race more than Li Hung Chang recognizes the defects of the national system of education. Largely through his influence, the em peror has established at Peking a college with a full faculty cf foreign professors for the instruction of chosen Chinese youths in the European languages and modern sciences, with a view to train ing them for the diplomatic service. So he has also established at Tien-tsiu, for the last 25 years his viceregal residence, schools for military, naval and medical education, manned by European in structors, and his example has been fol lowed by other viceroys. John W. Foster in Centurv. A SCARED TIGER'S LEAP. Caught In a Ifan ow Gully, It Vainly Tried For licape In a Bi2 Tree. Scared animals leap distances and Heights that must surprise themselves at times, just as men in a state of ex citement do things that cstonish thpm when they cool down and begin to think about what they have done. When a man makes a long jump up in the Adirondacks to get across a broGk he is said to have "jumped like a deer," but should the- man havo made a leap, as ; over a high fence or across a broad j brook, being at the time in a state of excitement, as having a bull close after him, he jumps then "like a scared deer, " scared deer making jumps the unalarmed one could not make. Tigers do not ordinarily take to tree3, but they have been known to do so when badly scared at being clcse pressed 1 Captain S. D. Browne tells of an Indian tiger's leap that landed it in a tree top. The captain was waiting for the beaters to drive a tiger his way, when one cf the big cats appeared at the top of a steep, stony ravine close at hand. The big bullet from the captain's rifle knocked tho tiger head over heels down the gully banks. It fetched up against the bottom on its feet Then it made a ' frantic dash across the ravine bottom to ! 1 frnD THio :r?r?nc rvf i ho -fmltf from fnn steep for even a cat to climb, and up and down there were men ready for it The hunted tiger had but a single chancer slim though it was. The tree at which it had dashed might conceal it from the hunters, and up it jumped, landing among the branches over 15 feet above the ground. A few moments later another bullet killed it. New York Sun. The fathers looted on the supreme court ns the great safeguard of liberty, the tribunal to which there was final appeal from the passions and prejudices of poli- . ticians. This is the co-ordinate branch of the government which the Popocrats j would overturn. I The angels that bring: healthy, haopy 1 children into the world are the angelsof health and contentment. Children reflect their parents, particularly the mother. She is responsible for what they are for -what they do. She is responsible if they are puny, sick, weak, useless, rfiser able. It depends on her health. Herhealth depends on her care of it. If she is strong and healthy in a womanly way, she will have strong, healthy children. She maybe sick or well it is a matter of choice. She can be well if she wants to. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will make her well It is the only positive, permanent, infallible cure for diseases of the organs distinctly feminine. It purifies, strengthens, invigo rates. It promotes the regular performance of all the functions. It fits a woman for the duties and pleasures of wifehood and moth erhood. Its most benificent usefulness is in preparing- for the time of parturition. It robs child-birth of pain and danger. Mrs. W. B Duncan, of Arlington, ?io.. writes r "I have used your Favorite Prescription and am never tired of soundiajr its praise. When nxy lady friends complain, I say Why don't you take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription? I told an anxious mother, whose daughter fiS vears old) hadnct been right for five months, about the meaicme. and affcrrtbe young-Isdv bad taken two thirds of a bottle cf "Favorite Prescription she was all right. She had been treated bv two of our best doctors. . JL neighbor took nearly fbur bottles of ' Favor tfe Prescription before Her babv was born. She was themctherof cue child. and had two doctors with her before; and was for nearlv six weeks in bed. almost helpless. She thonghtthat if it were possible she would do something the next time, and last September was delivered almost paic Iesjly of a fine boy. She thinks Dr. Pierce's Fa voi b.e Is.-r-"iiott did it. The mid-wife who was , with her, sax -e had the easiest time she ever I sa-tr a ay one have, and she is as old lady.' A WOMAN'S LOVE. 5e Bared Her Arm to the SBrgeeas Knife Fa? Her Husband's Benefit. The keen stroke of the surgeon's blade along the slender nerves, shooting cur rents of agony to every fiber and tortur ing every muscle, causes the physically bravest of us to quail, even when it is vitally necessary to undergo the pain, and something like Spartan courage is needed when, one voluntarily goes through with the experience solely for another's sake. Dr. Jarnigan tells a story, and it is out of his own professional experience, that has for its heroine a woman who did this bravely unselfish thing. Her husband's arm had been crushed in. the machinery. The hard folds of muscle had been flattened, and the bone had been, crushed. The arm, bruised and discolored, was bad enough to look upon, but it gave no indication of the excru ciating torture of pain the man had to undergo. It wa3 thought at first by the doctors that his arm would have to come off the good right arm that supported the brave wife who stood by his side and the serious, anxious faced children who stood, looking on. He begged them to save his arm, and his wife begged them, and fortunately the condition of the case permitted them to. But the arm did not heal. The skin sloughed away from the wounded sur face and left it raw and sore. The doc tors saw that it was necessary to graft portions of skin to the service to bring about a cure. They told the sick man of it, and they bared his side to cut off the strips of skin to put over the raw arm. The blade flashed into the man's side, the blood spurted out, and with a moan the man fell over in a faint, sickened by the pain. His wife had been watch ing, her sympathetic heart touched to its depths by the sight of her husband's suffering. "Doctor, don't do that again," she begged "Don't cut him any more. He is too weak and has suffered too much. Cut it off me. Won't that doV The doctors told her that it would She coolly bared her arm and told them she was ready. The razor edged blade sank into the flesh and went ripping down, followed by a tiny fountain of blood She did not wince. Dexterously, expertly, the doctors slit out a piece of skin and grafted it over the man's arm Another and another piece was cut out until more than a dozen had been re moved, and all the while the Spartan woman remained standing watching the swift flash of the knife, the springing of the warm blood and the sickening spectacle without shrinking once. The husband's arm, grafted over with prin taken from his wife's arm, is now well, and the arm of the brave woman is fast healing up, leaving many long scars, that will ever bear evidence to the heroism of her love. Atlanta Con stitution. Hard to Wait. "It is so hard to wait.1' She was but IS and betrothed. When she was 20, they would let her wed. And so she stood by the window this April day, the tears in her blue eyes. "It is so hard to wait, grandpa," she said He was eighty and eight Close to the grate fire ha sat and bleared into its depths. 'It is so hard to wait " he thought He had been waiting these many years, yet God was not ready for him. And as he looked into the lire he smiled The girl at the window sighed. Two tears rolled slowly down her cheeks. She looked at the hurrying world, at the crowded street at her feet. The old man was content to look into his fire. He had seen the hurrying world The girl at the window watched a busy wren building a nest Again she sighed. Down the street a hand organ was playing- a waltz. The tears st;irted afresh in tho young girl's eyes as she looked at the world through her window. And a patient smile still played about the face of the old man as he nodded at the great fire. "Ic is so hard to wait," he said soft ly. "It is so hard to wait, " shr sighed Footlights. An Apology. A man who has a reputation for being very careless as to bis toilet was elected town clerk in one of the small towns in his state some time ago, and the local paper thought it would be a good joke toannounce that "Mr. Makeup will wash himself be fore he assumes tho office of town clerk." On reading the notico Mr. Makeup was furious and demanded a retraction, which the paper accordingly made tho following day in this fashion : "Mr. Makeup requests us to deny that he will wash himself before he as sumes the offico of town clerk." And still Mr. Makeup was not pleased How bard it is to satisfy some people! Our Girls and Boys. 3fot Easy. Ethel Why, we must have gone over the same ground? Tell me about your trip.. Mr. Globe Trotter Well, I went to Denver by train, and then crossed the country by easy stages to Ethel Easy stages? Eo. I see we didn't go by the same road, for the stages we took nearly killed all of us. Washington Times. From the time of Solomon the chro nology of the Jews may be connected with that of Egypt, Assyria and Baby Ion and comparative views presented. Over 5,000 species of butterflies are known, and of this number 900 are pe-r tuliar to North America. The German empire has 10,930,000 tomen over the age of 16. The Jeer of a Flebelaa. Laura Miss Backdate is awfully proud of being eligible to membership in the Daughters of the Revolution. flora She has a right to be proud. Just think how narrowly sho escapes being old enough to be a sister instead of a daughter. Cincinnati Enquirer. Men. spend their lives in anticipations in. determining to be vastly happy afc some period or other when thay have time. But the present time has one ad vantage over every other. It is our own. t Galtcii- SOME LEAP YEAR LAWS. A Woasaa .Could Prepose Six Hundred Years Age and the IHan Had ta Accept. In two countries, at least, and more than 6Q0 years ago, laws were passed which gave women the right of propos ing marriage. These enactments went even farther than this. They also stip ulated that if the man whose hand they had sought should refuse he should in cur a heavy fine. A searcher among the ancient records of Scotland has recently discovered an act of the Scottish parliament, which was passed in the year 1288, which runs as follows : "It is statufe and ordaint that during the rein of his maisc blissit Megeste, ilk for the years knowne as Lepe Yeare, ilk mayden Iadyc of baithe highe and Iowe estaefr shall hae liberie to bespeke ye man she likes, albeit gif he refuses ta talk hir to be his lawful wyfe, he shall .be mulcted in ye sum of ane dundis cr Jess, as his estait maybe; except and awis gif he can make it appcare that he is betrothit ane ithcr woman, ho then shall be free." A year or two later a law almost sim ilar to the Scottish enactment was passed in France and received the ap proval of the Icing. It is also said that before Columbus sailed on his famous voyage to the westward a similar privi lege was granted to tho maidens of Ge noa and Florence. There is no record extant of any fine3 imposed under the conditions of this Scotch law, and no trace of statistics re garding the number of spinsters who took advantage of it or of the similar regulations in France, but tho custom seems to have taken firm hold upon the popular mind about that time. The next mention of it is dated nearly 400 years later, and it is a curious little treatise, called "Love, Courtship and Matrimony, " which was published in London in 1606. La this quaint work the "privilege" is thus alluded to: "Albeit ic now becomes a part cf the common law in regard to social rela tions of life, that, as often as every leap yeare doth return, the ladyes havo the sole privilege during the time it contin ueth of making lovo either by wordes or lookes, no mail will be entitled to bene fit of clergy who doth in any wise treat her proposal with slight or contumely." Up to within a century ago it was one of the unwritten laws of Jeap year that if a man should decline a proposal he should- soften the disappointment which his answer would bring about by the presentation of a silk dress to the un successful suitor for his hand A curious leap year superstition is still to bo met with insoine parts of New England, and that is that during leap year the 1 'beans grow on the wrong side of tho pod." Philadelphia Examiner. 3Ilce and Safe In Japan. There are small "deer" on the island that arouse no poetry or gracious senti ments. The mice, those pests of Japa nese teahouses, raced through the doll houses at will by dark, the ornamental traceries and designs pierced in the pretty wood panels above the screens giving them free range cf every room. They ran over my face, scratched my pillow, nibbled my fingers and kept me awake night after night with their rus tling and gnawing. On the third night of mouse carnival I called the servants and had lights brought. The landlord heard the sounds and bustled across the court to Eee what the matter was. "I think there is a mouse in this house," I said. "Oh, certainly, certainly, honor able lady," he said, bowing low and proudly. "Yes, indeed, I have many, plenty of rats at the Mgmiji. " And ho could not at all understand why we should make such a trouble about so natural a thing and object to these sure evidences of abundant prosperity, these companions of Daikoku, tho god of plenty. Eliza Rhuhamah Scidmore in Century. Iwo Handles. Everything has two handles- -the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to bo tonched If, then, your brother .do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by rep resenting to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side and extenuate it as much as is possible by considering the nearness of the relation and the long friendship and familiarity between you obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle Epictetus. The iO goldpicce was authorized by act of congress April 2, 1 7 92, and its coinage was begun in iS. lood Poison, Contagious Blood. Poison has been ap propriately called the curse of mankind. It is the one disease that physicians can not cure; their mercurial aud potash remedies only bottle up the poison in the system, to surely break forth in a more virulent form, resulting in a total wreck of the system. Mr. Frank B. Martin, a prominent jeweler at 926 Pensylvania Ave., "Wash- mgton,L.(,says: I was for a long time under treat ment of two of the best physi cians of this city, for a severe case of blood poison, but my condition grew " worse ail the while, not withstanding the fact that they m S cnargea me tnree V J'-' hundred dollars. vy My mouth, was filled witii eatine sores: my tongue was almost eaten away, so that for three months I was unable to taste any solid food. My hair was coming out rapidly, and I was in a horrible fix- I had tried various treatments, and was nearly dis couraged, when a friend recommend& S.S.S. After T had taken four bottles, I began, to get better, and when I had finished eighteen bottles, I -was cured sound and well, my skin was without a ilernisb, and I have had. no return of he disease. S.S.S.saved me from a life of misery." S.S.S. (guaranteed purely vegetable) will cure any case of blocd poison. 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