DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD; DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA.
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THE LAND-HUNGRY
It Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.
Woftcrn Canada Is tho Mecca ot tho
Iruirt-hhugry man who wishes to earn
i row living fioin the soil and save up
money 10 take euro of lilm Iti his old
jifco without paying a fancy price for
thu privilege.
Western Canada Is tho groat wheat
producing faction of tho North Amor
lean continent, with an uvcrago pro
duction of more than 30 bushels to tho
acre as compared with nn uvcrago of
17 bushels to the acre In tho btutes.
Wheat raising enn hardly bo made
profitable on land that costs from $0
nn acre up unless such land will pro
duce n much higher than a 17 bushel
average, or unless the price of the
(,'urctil reaches an excessive figure.
The Initial Investment of 550 an acre
1s more than tho average innii can af
ford to make If he expects to rnlsn
wheat and to make a success of It.
A good homestead of 100 acres can
tlll bo secured free In Western Can
ada and additional land admirably
milted to the raising of wheat can bo
secured at so low a coHt per acre that
It can be mado extremely profitable.
No other part of tho world oilers
Mich tremendous opportunities at tho
present tlino to the ambitious young
farmer as the three great provinces of
Western Canndu.
It Is worth tho whllo of the land
hungry man to cease his depressing
search for local cheap land or for
land that Is not entirely worked out by
' long cropping and to look outside his
own district. Western Canada Is a
country that should receive the con
Mdemtlon of all such men. The West
ern Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche
wan and Alberta are essentially agri
cultural territory.
(Jut of -178 million acres thfto are
ISO million acres of first-class agricul
tural land actually available for de
velopment n block throe and a half
KliMRS as large nn the total laud area of
.Mlmic-ROtct, and equal to the combined
triad aieas of .Minnesota, Iowa. Wis
consin. Illinois and Indlaun.
Milt Whereas the population of the
live states mentioned Is liftmen million
people, (he population of Western
CniiiKla Is only about one and thrco-
tUi(rter millions.
It has been said that the average
ylfoW pur acre of wheat In tho United
iilntes last year was 17 bushels. This
invuwgB does not, of course, represent
tho '(Boloney which may have been
-nftU'hcd 'jy Individual fannpis or by
Individual states. , Ilowover, place
ughlust this figure the fact that tin
11)1,1 Wehtern Canadian average the
uvcrago from nearly twelve million
acres -was over .'10 bushels. In the
case of the Provlneo of Alberta, the
uvcrago reached .'12.S1 bushels per ncre.
There are already a largo number of
-AniBl'lcan farmers In Western Canada.
-so that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the same
Hnnguago Is spokenfeel himself In an
wllen country. Thero hcems, In fact,
ii tendency to establish llttlo colonics
' composed of those coining from the
hanie sectluns. The characteristics of
tho country, and 'the cllmato and
Kcnson, nro very much the same as In'
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
conditions bear a family resemblance.
Kducatlon Is free, and Is good; Its cost
tinliit? ilofrnvcd on r LI v bv taxation.
partly by grants from tho Canadian
Government, from the sales of school
lands, of which, when tho country was
rllrst surveyed, two sections In every
township were allocated. Taxation In
overy rural district, In many towns and
cltles. Mi based practically on land
values alone, Improvements of all kinds
"TTelng exempted. Advertisement.
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The City of Numbered Days
By FRANCIS LYNDE
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ggU CHAPTER XIX m
The Man on the Bank
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nroulllard, chief engineer of the Nlrruoln.
IrrlBntlon dam, meets J. Wesley Cort
wrlght nnd explains tho reclamation work
to him. CortwrlKht organizes a company
and obtains government contracts to fur
nish power and material. Stove Massln
tralo threaten to start a cold rush If
liroutllard doeii not use his Influence to
brlns a railroad branch to tho place, thus
oponlns an easy market for tho "Little
Husan'r mine oro. Broulllard tells Amy
Masalngalo of his need for money to pay
off his dead father's Uobts. Sho tells htm
to bo truo to himself. He decides for the
oxtonslon. Mlrapolls, tho city of num
bered days, booms. Cortwrlqht porsuodes
Ilroulllard to become consulting onBlneor
of tho power company In return for $100,
IW1 utnrk. Htonnn.cn of work on the rail
road threatens a panic, nroulllard spreads
the MasHlngulo story of placer gold In
tho river bed and starts u gold rush,
which promises to stop the reclamation
project. Amy tells Hroulllard that her
fnthor Is In CortwrlKht'n nnanclal
clutches. Ho tolls her ho lias made J100,
000 ur.l doclarcs Ills love. Slio loves him,
but pIiowh him that he lias become demor
alized. A real Bold find Is made. Broull
lard sells his Block but does not pay his
fitthcr'n debts. CortwrlRht's son shoots
Stfvo MasslnRalo. Hroulllard threatens
Cortwrlght with exposure If he pushes
Mfisslngalo to tho wall. Tho magnate
promises to glvo tho old man a froo field.
Htorles of the dam's abandonment revive
rornolosuro on tho "I.lttlo Susan" Is lm-
fianufng' und nroulllard loans Davo Mas
slngalo his $100,000 to cloar him. MaBsln
galo gambles away tho ontlro amount.
H-"XMXXX'X4
X
2 Onco more Broulllard Is X
5 tempted by Cortwrlght. If ho
X accepts Cortwrlght'o offer he X
5 can mako money and etand o
A chance of defeating the crooked X
v capitalist's purposes In tho long v
.A run. If ho refuses, ho loses not X
v only his Job but phis savings. Y
What would you do consider- X
' Ing that acceptanco Is wrong? x
XX-XXX-'
CHAPTER XVIII Continued.
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Flfty-Flfty Deal.
A number of politicians woro attend
ing a convention In Chicago a shmt
tlino ago when one of tho number was
approached by an old acquaintance
who wan plainly down In his luck
jyidjng up to the politician ho said;
"May. .lack, lend uio'ton, will youl
Vin xhurt.".
The big fellow went down Into his
.luicfeor. Hashed out n big roll und Iinntl-
$kl a tlve-dollar bill to tho down-and-
Oilier.
f '"$uy. .lack," said ho of tho "touch,"
"l said ten."
"I know you did," replied the poli
tician, "but I think this way Is fairer,
'You lose live und I lose five."
' Important to Ntothora
Examlno curofully ovory bottlo ot
CASTORIA, a Bafo and euro remedy for
Infants and children, and boo that It
Deara tho
'Signature
In Uso for Over 30 Years.
.-Children Cry for riotchcr'a Caatoria
What the Tea Levea Tell.
Do you know how to tell fortunes
iAu n teacup? It furnishes a great deal
of entertainment at a party. This
Chinese rhyme explains itt:
'.'Om- leaf, alone you'll bo;
1'wo together, the priest you'll see.
Three together, your wish will guln;
IKour. a letter from loving swain.
4 H''lve,,good news tho letter will bring;
VKIx lii a row, a song you'll blng.
Seven together, good fortune awaits,
tKo say to you the teacups' fates.
Tun leaves large and tea letives tall
(Tni-lug you company, great and small.
H'oa leaves many und scattered lino
"Mw of bad luck the surest sign
Wm !fvuH tow und near tho rim,
?)ur cup of Joy o'crflowB tho brim."
For tho bettor part of a fortnight tho
tidal waves of prosperity, ns evinced
by Increasing spoculutlvo values, kopt
on rolling in, each ono apparently a llt
tlo higher than Its lmraodlato prede
cessor. Then tho flood began to sub
sldo, though ho slowly that at first It
was only by a careful comparison of
tho dally transfers that tho recession
could bo measured.
Cauaca and conscquoncea extraneous
to tho city Itself contributed to tho .al
most lmpcrcoptlblo reactionary ten
dency. For ono, tho Buckskin Mining
and Milling company reluctantly aban
doned Us pastime of plowing barren
furrows on Jack's mountain, and a llt
tlo later wont Into liquidation, as tho
phraso ran, though tho eastern bond
holders probably called it bankruptcy.
About tho Bamo tlmo tho great ccmont
plant, deprived of tho govornmont
market by tho Blackonlng of tho work
on tho dum, roduced lta output to less
than ono-fourth of Its full capacity.
Most portentous of all, perhaps, was
tho rumor that tho placors at Quad
Jonal woro boglnnlng to show signs of
exhaustion. It wub oven whlsporod
about that tho two hugo gold dredges
roccntly Installed woro not paying tho
oxpousos ot oporatiug thorn.
Quito naturally, tho pulso of tho
Wondor city beat sonsltlvo to all thoso
doprcBslvo rumors and lncldonts, re
sponding olowly at first but a llttlo
lator In nccoloratod throbblngB which
could no longor bo Ignored by tho most
optimistic blddor at tho "curb" exchanges.
Still thoro was no, panic. As tho ac
tivities in local sales foil off and tho
Mtrapolltans thomsolves woro no long
er crowding tho curbs or standing In
lino at tho real outato olllcos for tholn
turn at tho listings, tho prudent ones,
with Mr. Cortwrlght and his chooon
associates far in advanco ot tho flold,
were placing Mlrnpolla holdings tempt
ingly on vlow in distant markots; plac
Inu thorn and soiling them with
blazonry ot advertising worthy of tho
onvy of thoso who havo called thom
solves tho suburb bulldors of Greater
Now York.
It was after thlB invasion of tho dis
tant market was fully in train that
Cortwrlght onco more sont for Hroull
lard, rocolvlng tho onginoor this tlmo
In tho newest ofllcoo of tho poWor com
pany, on tho many-tlmos-bought-and-old
corner opposite Uongraa'.
"Hollo, Broulllard l" said tho mag
nate Jocosely, indicating a chair and
tho covor-absont opon box of cigars in
tho Bamo gesture. "You'ro getting to
'bo as much of a strannor as a man
might wish his worst onomy to bo."
"You Bent for mo?" Broulllard broko
In torsoly. More and more ho was
coming to cknowlodgo a dull rago
vhon ho 'joard tho call ot his master.
"Ycb. What about tho dam? Ib your
work going to start up again? Or 1b it
going off for good?"
Broulllard bit his lip to koop back
tho exclamation ot astoundmont that
tho blunt inquiry throatouod to ovoko.
To assumo that Mr. Cortwrlght did not
know all thoro wub to bo known was
to credit tho incredible
"I told you a good whllo ago that I
was only tho government's hlrod man,"
ao repllod. "You doubtless havo much
better information than any 1 can glvo
you."
"You can tell mo what your ordors
are that't" what I want to know."
Tho young chief of construction
frowned first, then ho laughed.
that you own mo, Mr. Cprtwrlght? I
havo often wondored."
"Well, I might say that I havo mado
you what you aro, and "
"That's truo; tho truest thing you
ovor said," snapped Broulllard.
"And, I was going to add, I can un
mako you Just as easily. But I don't
want to ho savago with you. All I'm
asking is a llttlo Information first, and
a llttlo Judicious holp afterward. What
are your ordors from tho department?"
Broulllard got up and Btood over tho
stocky man In tho odlco chair, with tho
black oyes blazing.
"Mr. Cortwrlght, I said a moment ago
that you havo mado mo what I am,
and you havo. I am infinitely n worso
man than you aro, becauso I know bet
ter and you don't. It is no oxcuso for
mo that I havo had a motlvo which I
haven't explained to you, because, as I
onco told you, you couldn't undorstand
it in a thousand years. Tho ovil has
boon dono and tho consequences, to
you, to mo, and to ovcryono In this
cursed vnlloy nro certain. Facing them
as I am obliged to faco thorn, I am toll
ing you but what's tho uso? You
can't mako a tool ot mo any longer
that's all. You must cook your meat
over your own fire. I'm out of It."
"I can omaBh you," said tho man in
tho chair, quito without heat.
"No, vou can't ovon do that," wag
tho equally cool retort. "No man's
fato is in another man's hands."
He was moving toward tho door, but
Cortwrlght stopped him.
"Ono more word before you go,
Broulllard. It Is to bo war between U3
from this on?"
"I don't say that. It would bo awk
ward for us both now. Let is bo
armed neutrality if you like. Don't in
terfere with mo and I won't interfere
with you."
"Ah I" said tho millionaire. "Now
you havo brought it around to tho
point I was trying to reach. You don't
want to havo anything moro to do
with mo, but you aro not quito ready
to cash in and pull out of tho garno.
How much money havo you got?"
Tho cool lmpudcnco of tho question
brought a dull flush to tho young man's
faco, but ho would glvo tho onomy no
advnntago in tho matter ot superior
self-control.
"That Is 8carccly a fair question
ovon botwoen armed neutrals," ho ob
jected. "Why do you want to know?"
"I'm asking bocauso you havo Just
proposed tho noa,lntorforonco policy,
and I'd Uko to know how fairly you
mean to' llvo up to it. A llttlo whllo
back you Intorforcd in a small bus!-
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Broulllard Got Up rind Stood Over
the Stocky Man In tho Office Chair.
"What has glvwi you tho Impression
ncss matter of mino vory pointedly.
What bocamo of tho ono hundred thou
sand dollara you gavo old David Mas
slnualo?" "How do you know I gavo him a
hundred thousand dollara?"
"That's dead easy," laughed tho man
in tho pivot chair, onco moro tho gonial
buccaneer. "You drew a check for that
amount and cashed It, and a few min
utes lator Masslngalo, whoso account
had boon drawn down to nothing, bobs
up at Schormorhorn'B window with ex
actly tho same amount in looso cash.
What did ho do with it garablo it?"
"That Ib his own affair," Broulllard
countorcd briefly.
"Well, tho future noxt month's fu
tureis my affair. If you'vo got money
enough to interfere again don't.
You'll loso it, tho samo as you did bo
fore. And perhaps I sha'n't tako tho
socond Interference as good-naturedly
as I did tho first."
"Is that all you havo to Bay?" Brou
lllard asked impatiently.
"Not quito. I don't boliovo you woro
altogether in earnest a minuto ago
whon you expressed your dosiro to call
it all otf. You don't want tho Mlrapo
lls woll to go dry right now, not ono bit
moro than I do."
"1 havo been trying pretty hard to
mako you understand that it is a-mat-tor
of utter Indifference to mo."
"But you haven't succooded vory
woll; it isn't at all a matter of indiffer
ence to you," tho magnato insisted per
suasively. "As things aro shaping
thomsolves up at tho present speaking,
you stand to lose, not only tho hun
dred thousand you squandered on old
David, but all you'vo mado besides. I
keep In touch it's my business to
keep in touch. You'vo been buying
bargains and you aro holding them
for tho Blmplo reason that with tho
present Blowing-down tendency in tho
saddlo you can't soil and mako any
money."
"Well?"
"I'vo got a proposition to mako that
ought to look good to you. What wo
need Just now in thlB town is a llttlo
moro activity somothlng doing. You
can rcllovo tho oltuatlon if you fool
llko it."
"How?"
"If I tell you, you mustn't go and uso
it against mo. That would bo a low
down wclchor's trick. But you won't.
Sco hero, your bureau at Washington
is protty well scared up ovor tho pros
pect here. It is known in tho capital
that whon congress convenes thoro is
going to bo a dead-open-and-shut fight
to kill this Buckskin reclamation pro
Joct. Very well; tho way for you fel
lows to win out iB to hurry finish
your dam and finish it quick, before
congress or anybody elso can get action."
For a single Instant Broulllard was
puzzled. Then ho began to under
stand. "Go on," ho said.
"What I was going to suggest Is
this: You prod your people at Wash
ington with a hot wire; toll 'em now'a
tho tlmo to strike and strlko hard.
They'll sco tho point, and if you ask '
for an increaso of a thousand men
you'll 'get It. Mako It two thousand,
just for tho dramatic effect. We'll
work right along with you and mako
things hum ngaln. Wo'll start up tho
cement plant, and I don't know but
what wo might glvo tho Buckskin M. &
M. folks a small hypodermic that would
keep 'em alivo while wo aro taking a
few snap-shot pictures of. Mlrapolia
on tho Jump again."
"Let mo get it straight," said Broull
lard, putting his back against tho door.
"You fully believe you've got us down;
that eventually,, and before tho water
is turned on, congress will pass a bill
killing tho Niquola project. But in tho
mcnntlmo, to mako things lively, you'd
llko to havo tho reclamation servlco go
nhcad and spend another million or so
in wages that can bo turned looso in
Mlrapolls. Is that It?"
"You'vo surrounded it vory neatly,"
laughed tho promoter. "Onco, somo
llttlo tlmo ago, I might havo felt tho
necessity of convincing your ccruples,
but you'vo cut away all that foolish
ness. lt'B a llttlo tough on our good
old Unclo Samuol. I'll admit, but it'll
bo only a pln-prlck or so in comparison
to tho monoy that is thrown away
ovory tlmo congress passes an appro-
piratlon bill. And, putting It upon tho
dead practical basis, Broulllard, its
your own and only salvation person
ally, I mean. You'vo got to unload or
go broko, and you can't unload on a
falling market. You think a,bout it and
then got quick action with tho wire.
Thoro is no timo to loso."
Broulllard was looking past Cort
wrlght and out through tho plato glass
window which commanded a viow of
tho great dam and its network of forms
and stagings.
"It is a gambler's bet and a rather
dospernto one," ho said slowly. "You
stand to win all or to loso all in mak
ing it, Mr. Cortwrlght. Tho town is
balancing on tho knlfe-edgo of a panic
at this moment. Would It go up, or I
down, with a sudden resumption of
work on tho dam?"
"Tho careless thinker would say (
that it would yell 'Flro!' and go up In-1
to tho air so far that it could nover i
climb down," was tho prompt roply.
"But wo'll havo tho medicine dropper
handy. In tho first placo, ovorybody
can afford to stay and boost whllo
Unclo Sam Is spending his million or
so right horo In tho mlddlo of things.
Nobody will want to pull out aud leave
that cow unmllkcd. In tho socond
placo, wo'vo got a mighty good antl
doto to uso In any sure-enough caso
ot hydrophobia your quick dam build
ing may start."
"You could let it leak out that, in
splto of all tho hurrah and rush on
tho dam, congress Is really going to in
terforo before wo aro ready to turn
tho water on," 'said Broulllard musing
ly and as if It wero only his thought
slipping into unconscious speech.
"Precisely. Wo could make that prop
hold it you wero actually putting tho
top courso on your wall and making
preparations to drop th stop-gato In
your spillway."
"I see," was tho rejoinder, and It
waB mado in tho samo half-absout
monotone "But whllo w aro still on
tho knlfo-blado odgo ... a llttlo
push . . . Mr. Cortwrlght, if there
woro ono solitary righteous man loft
In Mlrapolls"
"Thoro Isn't," chuckled tho promoter,
turning back to his dosk whllo tho on
ginoor wa3 groping for tho door knob
"at least, nobody with that partlcu-
Broulllard, WAlklng out of Mr. Cort
wright'B now offices with his thoughts
afar, wondored If it wero by pure coin
cidence that ho found Cnstnor appar
ently waiting for him on tho sidewalk.
"Once more you oro Just tho man I
havo boon wanting to see," tho young
missionary began, promptly making
uso of tho chance meeting. "May I
break in with a bit of bad nows?"
"Thoro is no such thing as good
news in thio God-forsaken valloy, Cast
nor. What's your griot?"
"Thero iB troublo threatening for
tho Cortwrights. Stephen Masslngalo
Is out and about again, and I was told
this morning that ho was filling him
self up with bad whisky and looking
for tho man who shot him."
Broulllard nodded unsympathetic
ally. "You will And that thero is always
likely to bo a second chapter In a book
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"There Is No Such Thing as Good
News In This God-Forsaken Valley,
Castner."
of that sort If tho first ono isn't con
clusive." "But thero mustn't bo this tlmo,"
Castner Insisted warmly. "Wo must
stop it; it is our business to stop it."
"Your business, maybo; it falls right
in your lino, doesn't It?"
"No more in mino than in vours,"
was tho quick retort.
"Am I my brother's keeper?" said
tho engineer pointedly, catching step
with tho long-legged strldo of tho ath
letic young shepherd of souls.
"Not if you claim kinship with Cain,
who was tho originator of that very
badly outworn query,"- camd the an
swer shotltko. Then: "What has come
ovor you lately, Broulllard? You aro a
friend of tho Masstngales; I've had
good proof of that. Why don't you
care?"
"Great heavens, Castnor, I do care!
But If you had a cut finger you
wouldn't go to a man in hell to got it
tied up, would you?"
"You mean that I have brought my
cut finger to you?" '
"Yes, I meant that, and tho rest ol
it, too. I'm no fit company for a do
cent man today, Castner. You'd better
edgo off and leavo moalono."
Castnor did not take tho blunt Inti
mation. For the little dlstanco inter
vening botween the power company'a
now offices and tho Niquola building
ho tramped btsldo tho young onalneor
in silonco. But at tho entrance to tho
Niquola ho would havo gouo his way if
Broulllard'had not said abruptly:
"I gavo you fair warning; I'm not
looking for a chance to play the Good
Samaritan to anybody not oven to
Stephen Masslngalo, much lees Vnri
Bruco Cortwrlght. Tho reason Is be
causo I havo a protty decent backload
of my own to carry. Como up to my
rooms If you can sparo a few minutes.
I want to talk to a man who hasn't
parted with his soul for a, money
oqulvalont if there is such a man loft
in this bottomless pit of a town."
Castner accepted tho Implied chal
lenge soberly, and together they as
cended to Broulllard's offices. Onco be
hind tho closed door, Broulllard struck
out viciously.
"You follows claim to hold tho koyn
to tho conscience shop; nupposo you
opon up and dole out a llttlo of tho
precious commodity to mo, Castner. Is
it over Justifiable to do evil that good
may como?"
"No." Thoro wns no hesitation In
tho denial.
Broulllard's laugh was harshly do-
risivo.
"1 thought you'd say that. No qualifi
cations askod for, no Judicial wolghing
of tho pros and cons tho ovil of tho
evil, or tho goodness' of tho good
Just a plain, bigoted 'No.' "
Tho young missionary loft his chair
and began to walk back and forth on
his side ot tho office dosk.
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Will the clean-minded young ?
missionary persuade the engl-
neer to refuse Cortwrlght's of-
fer, or will he see the ultimate x
possibility of Broulllard's win- x
nlng and counsel him to accept? X
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ao be co:-rri: rj&D.)
Shop Witticisms Inflicted on Every
Newcomer That Joins the Ranks
of the Real Workers.
You have no doubt all heard of the
"left-hand monkey wrench" which ev
ety new apprentice in a wagon worka
Is sent after, and of the "Italic thin
space" which the printer's dovll usual
ly Is sent to get, but William S. Coy,
county superintendent of bchools, bit
hard on one not quite so well known
when he nssumed his duties as a book
keeper in u plumbing shop during one
of the vacations of his high school
days.-
Thero was grumbling among the
hands because of something that n
neighboring plumber had borrowed
and which he had failed to return.
The bookkeeper finally decided to help
out and offered to go to the borrower
and secure the needed article. Ills
offer wus quickly accepted.
"What Is It?" he inquired.
"We want our pipe stretcher," an
swered one of the hands.
The bookkeeper went to the other
shop nnd to several others looking for
this particular article before It joc
curred to him that It would be a pe
culiar kind of a tool, indeed, that
could stretch an Iron pipe Columbus
Dispatch.
Wedding Presents.
"I want to get something suitable
for a wedding present."
"Yes, mn'nm. Miss Brown, plense
show the lady something for about $11
that will look as though It might have
cost $10."
The Fme
W nr.
the delicate taste of malted
barley blended with the
sweets of whole wheat
is sufficient, reason in itself
for the wonderful popular
ity of
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
But it is more than de
licious it is the finest
kind of toncentrated nour
ishment to thoroughly sus
tain body and brain tissue
a food that benefits
users remarkably.
A short trial proves
"There's a Reason"
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
People who do not believe all they
hear are fond of repenting It.
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