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■UMORIPTION. BI.M MR ANNUM.
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VOLUME XVII.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 29, 1896.
NUMBER 17.
NEWS SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Local Happenings Portrayed for Omars!
Miloatim sat Isneswt.
E. 8. Kinch visited In Sioux City
Monday. _
Mrs. Cress went down to Sioux Citv
Monday morning.
Miss Rose Merithew is visiting friends
in Atkinson this week.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Dressier,
i Monday morning, a son.
Rev. B. Biain will preach in the M.
E. church next Sunday morning.
Court Reporter King went to Keys
Paha county Sunday evening to attend
court. __
Charlee F. Lantes and Edith P. Cor*
. nish were married by Judge McCutchan
Tuesday. ■__
Bernard Kernan has recovered suffi
ciently from his recent illness to be
around again.
C. B. Oldfield, of Sioux City, pres
ident of the American Chicory Co., was
in the city Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McHugh are re
joicing over the arrival of a baby girl
at their home Friday morning.
John McNichols came down from At
kinson Saturday to'spend a day with his
mother before she departed for the west.
There will be a meeting of the fire
department Monday evening at 8 o’clock
in McCafferty’s hall. A full attendance
is desired.
WANTED—A girl to do general
housework. Will pay 88 per week to
* competent girl. Enquire of
Mbs. E. Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Smith returned last
Sunday evening from North Platte,
ftwh., where they had been visiting
relatives. '
The Ladies’ Working Society will
meet next Wednesday afternoon at the
residence of Mrs. J. H. Meredith at 2
o’clock, _
Corbett> photo studio and dental
parlors will be open from October 23
to 80, 1808, inclusive.
0-5 A. H. Corbett.
Mrs. McNIchols, mother of Steve and
Dave, left Sunday morning for Aspen,
Col., where she will remain during the
winter visiting relatives and friends.
Will Mullen, who has been attending
school at Lincoln the past year, came
home Saturday evening and will spend a
k few weeks recuperating among friends.
J Dr. C. H. DeLong. the Omaha dentist,
will arrive in O’Neill November 4 and
will remain a few days. He will be
prepared to do all kinds of dental work.
A hacking cough is not only annoy
ing to others, but is dangerous to. the
, person who has it. One Minute Cough
.Cure will quickly put an end to it.
^Morris A Co.
Mr. A. Snyder, of Wyoming, 111., was
in the city last week looking after his
landed interests. Mr. Snyder says Ill
inois will give McKinley an overwhelm
ing majority.
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is an an
ticeptic, soothing and healing applies
tion fot burns, scalds, cuts, bruises, etc.,
and cures piles like magic. It instantly
sto0s pfcln. Morris & Co.
lion—ABogi last Thursday, between
the Checker barn and B. A. DeY arman’e
residence, a pair of child’* mittens, blue
with black cuffs. Finder please leave
of the age. One Minute Cough Cure
acts speedily, safely and never fails.
Asthma, bronchitis, coughs and colds
are cured by it. Morris 6 Co.
Hon. Albert Watkins, of Lincoln, and
Hon. W. R. Patrick, of Omaha, will
address the people of O’Neill tomorrow
evening on the issues of the day from a
democratic sound money standpoint
All are invited to attend.
There is ao flour, at any money, as
good as White Satin, and there is no'
flour for the price that equals G. A. R.
They cost no more than other flour of
the same grade, but will give better
satisfaction. ll-4 J. P. Mann.
“ you get hungry waiting for the re
turns election night come to the Millard
building. The Ladies’ Aid will serve
lunch and oysters from 9 till 12 p. m.,
and they will also have a good chicken
pie dinner the next day. Everybody
come. Com.
Speed aifal safety are the watchwords
Social at McCallerty’a ball next Mon
day evening._
Dr. Scopgin, dentiat, Monday, Octo
ber 26, 27, 28, 29 and 80. Fine gold
fillings, gold crown and bridge work a
specialty. 16-1
The social and entertainment whioh
was to be given by the ladies of the
Catholic church at McCafferty’s hall this
evening has been postponed nntll next
Monday evening.
Dr. Scoggin, the Norfolk dentist, will
again visit O’Neill, Monday, October,26,
27, 28, 29 and 80, prepared to do work in
all the branches of dentistry. Office at
Hotel Evans. 16-1
Word has been received from Mrs.
Welton at Mankato, Minn., that her
daughter Ada’s health is improving
slowly and that she is thought to be
out of danger, a fact her many friends
here will be pleased to note.
Now is the season when you want a
good gun and want it cheap. I have a
line of guns that cannot be beaten any
where and am going to sell them cheap.
Come early and get first choice. I also
have hunting coats and sell them cheap.
7tf Neil Bbbknait.
McClure's Magazine for November
will contain the first installment of a
five or six part story by Rudyard Kip
ling. It is Kipling’s first long story of
American life, being a tale of stirring
adventure among the Gloucester fisher
men on the Grand Banks. It will be
illustrated with drawings from life by
1. W. Taber._
Henry Haynes and Mrs. Julia Lyons
were married by County Judge Me
Cutchan last Wednesday morning at the
residence of Mrs. Lyons in this city.
Several invited guests were present to
witness the ceremony. They have the
best wishes of a host of friends for their
future happiness. Thk Frontier ten
ders its congratulations.
A young man in thia city who be
came enamoured by the accounts of
army life in Cuba, wrote to the Police
Gazette and ashed the following ques
tion: “Where can I go to join the
Cuban army." The reply was received
through the columns of the paper and
was a very terse and truthful one. It
Is as follows: “O’Neill is a good place
to stay. Spanish bullets are hard to
dodge.”
The handsome young man in epaulets
on the cover of the October Midland
Monthly (DesMoines, Iowa), is none
other than Grant at the age of 22 The
first installment of Col. John W. Em
erson’s "Grant’s Life in the West," re*
moves all questions as to the liability of
the author to interest and as to his per
sonal knowledge of the character and
career of the greatest soldier in history.
This is a work one should read from the
tart. __
There is trouble in the camp of the
retail grocers and a broad smile on the
faces of their customers, while the «"«•*
chants are pounding each other ou_t£e
back with cut prices. We wsut to tell
our customers, and everybody else, that
we are strictly in the deal and selling
groceries at any kind of prices to get
trade—ain’t particular about profit, and
samply make prices to get biz. regard
less of cost or the price the other fellows
make. 10-2 J. P. Mann,
About twenty-five members of the
O’Neill ladies’ McKinley club went up
to Atkinson Tuesday evening to attend
the rally. Several members of the Mc
Kinley and Hobart club were also in at
tendance. The parade was one of the
largest ever seen in Holt county. The
meeting was a very enthusiastic one and
was addressed by O. M. Lambertson, of
Lincoln, who presented our present
issues in a clear, logical and convincing
manner, and was applauded heartily
throughout the course of his remarks.
Previous to the speaking the ladies from
this city rendered an original campaign
song that captured the crowd and they
were loudly cheered. The meeting was
a hummer. _
John McBride on Monday started for
Park City, Utah, where he has accepted
an important position in the office of
Thomas Kearns, a large mine owner,
and one of the bolting delegates to the
republican national convention. We
knew Tommy Kearns when he was a
"poor Irish laddie,” starting out in the
world to seek a fortune, borrowing 930
to take him to Utah, If we mistake not
McBride furnished the money. That
was only ten years ago. But Tom struck
k rich and is now rated "away up there.”
Wealth does not make him a snob, how
ever. He is the same genial, open
hearted Tom, and puts lots of money in
the way tb help relatiyes and old friends,
and is ever ready to do a kind turn. The
F. P. wishes McBride good luck in Utah,
trusts that life among the Mormons will
be congenial and profitable, and that
Kearns will find him too valuable to part
with.—Stuttgart Free Press.
A PIMMOTUBE!
Bryuite Fallacies Exposed T*
Public Inspection.
UNABLE TO STAND THE TEST
Xis theories Bested tad tamlM it
Saod lam.
You are loo late, Ur. McCafferty, with
your claim for a patent on the unlimited
16 to 1 fake. “Silver Dick" bad “done"
filed bis caveat ten or twelve yenra be
fore 1888, tbe year you waked up Billy.
And Billy, too, where wai he playing
Rip Van Winkle up to thla late date?
Both of you are anywhere from ten
yeare to ten, decadea behind the age on
principlea 6f civil government. But it
is doubtful Whether your claim on Billy'a
conversion la any better eatabliahed than
your claim to Dick Bland’a place in the
drama, at least Billy never manifested
violent aymptoma of the craze until the
silver syndicate, it is said, made him a
stock holder in the World-Herald com
pany. Up to that date he howled with
a voice like a caliope that prices were
too high, all on account of the “robber
tariff." But the American people repu*
diated his theory, and Nebraska repudi
ated himself. Now prices are too low,
and unlimited coinage the cure. What
next, I wonder? Yes, John, very likely
they will call you “proud.” A man who
has pride to throw away on Billy must
have a superfluity of it.
i suppose it is ss well to suffer ps*
tiently the fantastic capers of this
literary merry-Andrew, as it is a mere
waste of time to try to improve him.
Atter giving what Jeremy Bentham
would call an "abomuiable" defi
nition of ‘‘goyernment,’* which, be
ing immaterial, I will pass by, he comes
at us with this piece of logic: "There
fore if a majority of the (People say, by
their votes, on the Sd of November, that
sixteen ounces of silver is equal in value
to one ounce of gold it will become a
‘fiction of our mind* and will be later
on ratified by an act of congress and
signed and made law by the stamp of
President Bryan’s signature”—allow me
to breathe.'
Readers, I will not insult your intel
ligence by commenting upon this quint
essence of idiocy. I will, however,
call your attention to one statement in
the above strangulation of the syllogistic
principle, and which is the central idea
around which Bryanism revolves. It Is
that the relative values of gold and sil
ver are determined by the government
stamp, instead of depending upon eotn
mercial principles. If you put the ques
tion to them squarely as to whether they
believe this "principle" or not, you need
not expect a direct answer. They will
“answer your question by asking an
other.” It is only in a stuttering man
ner, as above, that you can catch them
at it. But here we have it from the
■^patriarch” (self styled so) himself, the
"oracle” of the "rehabilitation of silver”
as be claims to be ( regardless of Bland’s
ten years’ seniority ) that sixteen ounces
of silver will, in the event of Mr. Bry
an’s success, be made "equal to one
ounce of gold." Now, I submit the fol
lowing question: If the fixing or reg
ulating of values can be effected simply
by enscting a law to that effect, why
can we not make the legal coinage ratio
between gold and silver one to one, or
even up? Or why can we not give
copper a chance and ring it in upon an
equality with both gold and silver? Or,
in order to make money still more plen
tiful, why not rehabilitate iron? and so
on down to the cheapest material. If
the question of fixing values be a mere
question of statutory law, why cannot
the cheapest commodity, and the small
est quantity of it, be made equal in
value to any quantity of gold? Bryan
ism affords no answer to thesf questions.
Still his dupes will tag after hW tail and
shout "hurrah for Bryan.”
section 1 of the coinagf actof 1878,
and section 2 of the act of 1888-90 is
good enough authority upon the equality
between the gold and silver dollars for
anyone but a Bryanlte. But what care
they for the law! "The Mohammedans
used to shout: ‘There is no Ood but
Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet!'"
The Bryanites might shout: “There is
no lawgiver but Billy t” etc.
Both gold and silver are legal tender
m Mexico. Why are they not at a
parity? Because there is practically no
limit to the coinage; and the govern
ment, if it were disposed to do so, could
not keep them at a parity no more than
could our own government under such
circumstances.
I don’t blame you much, John, for not
being capable of distinguishing between
matters of fact and matters of opinion.
You seem to think that quoting Brown’s
or Smith’s opinion upon some question
is stating a fact. You are so prone to
using other people’s judgments, instead
of your own, that you hare lost the
power to diacriminate. And, by the
way, strange aa it may seem for a Bry
anite, nearly all Mr. McCafferty’a
authorities are “foreigners,” end nearly
all English, at that Attd he asks where
I get the word “gllbe-tongued dema
gogue.” And It must be in English, that
U, I (mppoae, 1 must tell him In English,
•■o you, see John it patriotic when he
would establish a system of coinage—
unlimited 16 to l—that must be distinct
ively ' American. But everything else,
even opinions lit favor of the above
scheme, must be English, yon know.
Such hypocrisy it beneath contempt.
ftoW, John, I will say, in the first
ptaoe, '‘gllbe-tongued demagogue” art
two wfiHIa, not ope. They come about
as near being one word as "three-legged
stool * But I don't think you will find
the latter in the dictionary—you might,
however. The letter "e" ingllbe should
Cot hate been .used. It is a mitg-spell
ing. Horace Greeley, they say, spelled
"door" d-o-a-r-e. But that does not jus
tify me In outraging the delicate literary
taste of a polished literateur—(pardon
me, John, this word is not pure English)
like Jobh—who "knows nothing about
'Jargon.* ( Nor about anything else, I
will add on the quiet.) Of course a
common dod-hopper, like your humble
servant, nan pass, not merely wrong
spelling,, but the grossest violations of
rhetoric and grammar without suffering
anetvous thockor even making a re
mark about them. For instance: "Six
teen ounces is,” etc. "Strictly in It.”
"Where ie-he at?” Theee are part of
polished John’s vocabularly. "Haven't
you 'hots' (gold) on the brain,
too?” These illustrations could
be increased almoet indefi
nitely, but I don’t wish to offend
John’s sensitive taste. John “strains
At (hi ffBftt. hut fivtllrtwi thm mkioI **
John, with his usual consistency,
brings McOuUongh u n witnesa, and
again brings the same McCullough to
impeach him. That la, "he appeals
from Peter drank to Peter eober.” The
Bryanitsa lore to dwell on the per
capita of 1804, when there was not a
dollar in coin in circulation, and when a
paper dollar was worth aa low asthirty
fl«f cents .in coin. But the Bryanitea
claim, vMa It answers their purpose,
that the prices of products depend upon
the amount of "primary” money in dr*
culatfon. They also cite 1804 and there
abouts aa the era of our greatest pros
perity. Hence, the era of greatest pros
perity that the country has enloyed was
when there was not a dollar of "pri
mary” money in sight. And hasn't Mr.
McCafferty figured out that the United
States at that time lacked several mill
ions of having any money at all In cir
culation?
Your question, "What prevents the
money of the country from circulating,”
John, is an easy one. The owners pre
fer to hold It until they are assured, by
the election of Mr. McKinley, that they
can invest it with safety. Choke off the
howling mob of Tillmans, and Waites,
and Altgelds, and their ilk who are now
engaged in goading the people of the
country into riot and discord, and you
will quickly find the millions of capital
now lying idle seeking investment.
You ask what do I know about the
Gresham law. It seems to be something
new to you. You are like the Bryanite
who said to his opponent, who used the
above principle to confirm his argument:
"When - Bryan is elected we’ll repeal
the darned Gresham law.” But it is not
a civil enactment—not a law that can be
repealed. Briefly stated it is, “bad
moner drives out good money." Mr.
Gresham was the first to annunciate it
in England, it aeems, as Newton wifi
the first to give formal expression to the
law of gravitation. Of course it is
natural for you to think that the valid*
ity of a principle or of a natural law
dependa upon the political creed of him
who gives expression to it—that is.if he
is in sympathy with the Bryan schema,
it is all right whether it is or not. But
if he is out of harmony with that arch
demagogue, then it is all wrong upon
general principlee. Nit so, John.
Judge Bradley’s opinion may carry
great weight on questions of law, but I
prefer McKinley on questions of states*
manship. Here again you confound
opinion with fact. But if it were a
matter lol opinion McKinley would be
entitled to preference, in accordance
with the maxim governing the compe
tence of a witness: "Trust each person
in his own specialty." But it is not a
matter of opinion. It is a fact that the
mints were open at least from 1880 to
1878. Did they furnish a single dollar
toward carrying on the general business
of the country? Not one. flow was it
about the factories? The industries
of the whole previous history of
the country taken together is
insignificant in comparison with the re
sults of manufacturing and commerce
lor those ten or twelve years. The mints
were open during Buchanan's adminis
tration, but the bonds of the United
Statu, bearing six per cent. Interest,
went begging for purchasers at a dis
count of from six to ten per cent. A
few months ago our flee per cent, bonds
commanded a premium of twelve per
cent., with bide for nearly half a billion
dollars more than wuneoeuary to cover
the Issue, and this at a time when the
“mints are closed to silver” and when
charlatans are bellowing from the curb
stones and through the press that “there
is not enough money in the country.”
Mr. McCafferty does not deny that there
Is sufficient money In the country. He
thinks we are suffering from financial
apoplexy, in fact. He wants this
money to get into circulation, as we all
do, but, like every other quack, his
remedy is worse than the dlseue. Your
comparison is not a happy one, John.
A better one would be to compare the
condition of the country to a wmtern
town surrounded by a gang of highway
men, In which case every prudent owner
of wealth would conceal it u best he
could, and allow it to remain in hiding
until the outlaws had dispersed and he
could withdraw it with security. Mus
cle the gang of incendiaries that you
haye running at large inciting the peo
ple of the country to rebellion and
making the investment of capital dan -
gerous, and you will soon find that the
trouble will cease, under republican
mangement, and that the “circu
lation" will resume its accustomed,
natural condition.
jonn lines to ape toe manerltma or
hla god, Billy, and other* whom ha eon*
aldarahla superiors. “I hare here be
fore me the report of the commtaalon,”
etc., quoth he. So far aa hla commenta
ahow be would auffer leaa confualon if
the document were behind him. The
condition of thoae poor creaturea whom
you repreaent aa eking out a mere ex
iatence la pitiable, indeed. But you
would not acruple to make their con
dition atlll more Intolerable by reducing
the purchasing power of their pittance
to one-half Ita preaent capacity. Again,
he hypocritically, like Bewail and St.
John and the reat ot hla millionaire
frienda, etripa hla teeth to ahout "money
changera,” and rehearaea the paaaage of
acripture misconstrued, corrupted by all
thoae of hla ilk., and. then Uirna with
a grfn to look for the uaual applause.
The queation Involved la: Why doe*
your party engage the uae of other peo
ple’* money or property under the
falae promise that they mean to pay it
back or return It when, at theaame
time, perhaps, they are concocting
schemes to defraud him out of all or a
part of it? Ia there a defense, either in
law or moral*, for such decaption and
dishonesty? And, referring to the scrip
tural text: "And, entering into the tem
ple, he began to cast them out that sold
therein, and them that bought.’—Luke,
19-45. It ia not neoesaary to say that
it was wrong, a sacrilege, to carry on
commerce ot any kind in that sacred
edifice. But who, except one demoralized
by a constant perversion of facta, would
construe this "buying and selling” into
the lending of money? It might be
taken to meau the buying and selling of
hardware or other merchandise, but not
money-lending. Those hypocrites, too,
have nothing but anathemas for those
who lend money for a profit, except he
be one of themselves. Men and com
panies of large capital and where money
ia plentiful, put out money as low aa 2+
per cent, per annum, and sometimes
leas. How ia it withethose engaged in
the mercantile business? Let the "peo
ple” who are driven to Montgomery
Ward St Co .’a ana wer. When they don’t
me a man ■ wares mey pass nim oy. it
would be well (or thoae Bryanitea to do
likewise or they may have a stone
thrown into their own basket of eggs.
No well-regulated Bryanite hatangue
Is complete without a vilification of the
nami of Sherman, although they cannot
point their finger to a dishonest or dis
honorable act of his during his whole
public life. Things have not gone just
to suit them. Some of their leaders said
something went wrong at some time and
that Mr. Sherman was the cause of it,
and then the whole kennel take! up the
howl. But Senator Sherman has out
lived the barking of the big dogs among
his enemies and he will be likely to sur
vive the yelping of the poodles.
Mr. McCafferty would also like to dis
tort Major McKinley’s expressions in
favor of as large a use of silver as is
consistent with a sound monetary policy
into an approval of its unlimited coin
age. This trying to steal in the names
of eminent authors in approval of fal
lacies which they would indignantly
scout, is too old a dodge. Mr. Me.
Certainly, John, it was because the
silver dollar did not circulate that it was
dropped from the list of coins in the act
of ’78, and It did not circulate because it
was worth more as bullion, and hence
tbe stamp did not “fix its value," and
hence how stupid the parties to the
“crime" to drop it from the list so that
they might receive payment for their
bonds in dollars of leu value, and
hence the melicioueneea and villainy of
thoee who wilfully, knowing their char
gee to be false,. slander the names of
honorable gentlemen who took part in
the passage of the act—and a whole lot
of other "hence*.” Give yon rope
enough and yon will do the rest. But
silver did not last long above par after
the act. Like other products, it is sub
|ect to the inevitable law of anpply and
demand, (which even Bryanitee recog
nise, except when applied to silver) and,
in spite of the favors bestowed upon it
by a too-indulgent government, it landed
where it is to-day at about half its
former value. And the "chumps,” (John
does not deal in "elang words or (ar
gon”) as John calls us, are eaddled with
a debt of several millions of dollars, on
their bullion purchases, made for the
sole benefit of the mine owners, who
now pay them back with curses for
their pains.
John wonders that nearly all the
bankers are on one side of this question.
The answer is that thoee who are on the
sound money side only show their
good sense.
After quoting from Horace White's
catechism to some extent and confound
ing prices with values, as be con
founds opinion with fact, John has
discovered an argument that will "knock
the gold bugs to smithereens.” In his
endeavor to unfold his tale (or perhajna
tail; he may be the "missing link” In
disguise), however, he becomes as hope
lessly entangled as the traditional
"raveled hunk of yarn” and vehemently
calls npon Student to extricate him from
his trouble.
ai joana request la somewhat in the
nature of a peremptory demand, I with
to etete In the flret place that he haa no ‘
valid claim upon my aaelatance. The
faot that he ie ao mentally blind aa to be
unable to perceive any other than a
flctidouB cauie for the explanation of
certain effecta, ie no proof that aome
other and real came doea not exist.
This is what Is known as the "argument
ignorantiam," which means that your
position is correct it your opponent can
not prove the contrary. It Is his place
to support his conclusion by valid jnae*
oning, not to rest it on my inability to
prove the opposite;' ' But; la the Beat
place, as It is the first time that either of
these twin sisters, with whom I have
been coquetting for the last couple of
months has laid down a scientific print
ciple as a basis for any part of their
"argument,*’ notwithstanding my per
sistent and urgent demands for such, I
will fake advantage of the opportunity
and in a few words remove the mask
from one of the Bryanite principal ar
guments.
John lays down the principle that
“every effect must have a cause.” There
ie nothing truer. Be says, too, that aa,
decline in the pricee of agricultural ‘
products is the effect of the appreciation
of gold as a cause. Now, if a decline
in Reprice of products is the effect of
an advance in the value of gold, then it
necessarily follows that an advance in
the prices of products is the effect of a
decline in the value of gold, and that to
eay there is no change in pricee of
products is tantamount to saying there
la no change in the value of gold. Let.
us now examine a little into this matter.
Agricultural products 1 in general are
such commodities ar are usually pro
duced by a farmer in the line of his
business as such. For the last year or
so there has been a general decline in
the price of wheat, but the prices of
| cattle have advanced from fifty per cent,
to over one hundred per cent., while the
prices of horses remained about station
ary. Therefore, the value of gold has
advanced and declined and remained
about stationary at the same time. But
this is a contradiction, as the value of
gold cannot advance and decline at the
same time—that is, a thing cannot be
and not be at the same time. This ar
gument holds good for any other product
of the farm and for any period of time
in the history of commerce. ,
I nave now refuted your claim that
the creating of value is a mere matter
of legislation, by reducing it to aa ab
surdity (reductio absurdum); and your
claim that appreciation of gold is the
cause of decline In prices of products,
by direct sylogism. These two claims
are the foundation stones of Bryanism,
and their removal upsets the super
structure.
Several other facts go to prove that
all you need to convict yourself is suffi
cient privilege to talk. For instance, to
prove that the decline in the price of
wheat is caused by the gold standard,you
make your starting point 1887, when the
country had been on a gold basis for
fourteen yesrs. and when wheat brought
a higher Oprice in gold than it
did immediately before the "crime”
of *78. This shows that if
the gold standard had any effect at all
upon prices it was a beneficial one.
Three or four years ago the price of
rye on the Chioago market advanced to
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