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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT May s,i9o: Lincoln's Progressive Store. Special Suit Department Offers Stylish Fashions Always Headquarters Here. Our Suit Department Always a Busy Center. We never before offered such great Values as these. $15.00 Suit Bargain. A handsome suit made of basket weave cloth, 5-gore skirt with grad uated flounce, new blouse jacket, double breasted, skirt effect ou jacket, colors gray and tan, a splendid $18.00 value........ $15.00 $3.75 Waist Special. 50 waists made of good grade taffeta silk,1 hemstitched and tucked front, tailor stitched strap to center caught with crochet ring, tucked sleeve, long front, black and colors; a splendid $o.uu value.. $3-75 Dress Skirts at $6.50 Fifty dress skirts of plain black cheviot, with deep graduated flounce, finished with 2 bands of satin, fancy stitched, good percaline lining and velveteen binding Walking Skirts $4.50 Thirty-five walking skirts made of basket cloth, 5-gore flare, tailor stitched, colors, oxford gray and blue; special. i i 1 S4.50 1 $6.50 Silk Dress Skirts $15100 Twenty-five beautiful black silk skirts, handsomely trimmed, worth $20.00.. Linen Colored Umbrella Petticoats, . " with 9 in. ruffle and 3 French tucks , i - and dust ruffle, each Wrapper Special 98c 15.00 98c Ten dozen Mother Hubbard Wrappers, made in figured lawns, braid trimmed yoke, 10 in. flounce, a most comfortable wrapper. ........ k .. . . . 98c MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. SEND FOR 68-PAGE CATALOGUE. FREE EXPRESS CHARGES ON ALL ORDERS OF $2 AND OVER. sat RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS lion. "M. F. Harrington Addresses a Letter to the State Board Ioterestlng Figures on Railroad Value. Michael F. Harrington, of O'Neill, has addressed a letter to the state board of equalization touching upon the assessment of railroad property and franchises, which we reproduce below. Heretofore the question of rail road assessments has been argued to a great extent without reference to the value of railroad franchises, with the result that many people honestly believe that the railroads are paying taxes on as high an assessed valuatioa proportionately as other property owners on the average. This is doubt less true if the right of way be valued no higher per acre than farm lands adjoining, and the rails, ties, cars, lo comotives, etc., be valued according to what it would cost to replace them. But a railroad should be valued as an entirety, "not as a scrap heap," as Prof. Bemis puts it. Its value as an entirety can be ascertained either by "capitalizing" its net earnings, or by reference to the actual or market val ue of the stocks and bonds. And when this done, it will be found that its value as a railroad is very much greater than Its value as a scrap heap. The difference between the two valua tions shows the value of its franchise. This is brought out plainly and force fully by Mr. Harrington in his com ments on the Burlington road. The whole question has been covered at some length in recent issues of The Independent, and the taxpayers of Ne braska are beginning now to under stand that there is something peculiar connected with the valuation of a rail road that does not hold good in valu ing a farm or a stock of goods, or any business which does not enjoy "special privileges." . Mr. Harrington's letter is as follows: O'Neill, Neb., May 9, 1902 Hon. E. P. Savage, Hon. William Steufer, Hon. Charles Weston, Lincoln, Neb. Geu tlemen: In common with many other taxpayers of the state I believe that the valuation placed upon the railroad property within the state for taxation purposes during many years has been entirely too low. I don't claim that a railroad company should be compelled to pay a higher proportionate tax than is paid by other citizens but I wish to point out to you briefly that gross favoritism has been exercised, at least in recent years, and probably always, in the assessment of railroad property. In the year 1S89 there were ' in Ne .braska 5,031 miles of railroad and the total valuation placed thereon by Gov ernor,, Thayer. Auditor Benton an. Treasurer Hill was nearly $30,000,000. By May of last year the railroad mile age had been Increased some six hun- WHOLESALE PRICES TO THE CONSUMER $S.OO Kitchen Cabinet. $2.93 I, mi I 'II Thl Cabinet (Use J wi cut) la varnished. Wtfl I . .. V I holds lou lbs. of floor, - lr 25 ' I Uu top drawer, bread - 8 1 ?, 3 board, blua, etc. Size. i,l f ifcH ln.htgh.26 In.-wida. iiMi, J 42 In. long. It net eat- I j . ti n wtaeiory, money ic- H Ola funded.- bend 5c Id y '""8 postage for one of cmr ft w General Cataloene. ' ' We tutristte onr Price ;u be LESS than any Mai Order Bocae !n the World. Webip cabinet racked f. o. b. cars, Indiana uuuiry. We do not Issue catalogues wlUiln a radius ot 2s miles of thlsclly. SprtagSeid, 111 i03RSI0H-flAICflE2 CQ dred miles, but you gentlemen assessed the railroads of the state at only about twenty-six million of dollars. While the railroad mileage had been In creased about six hundred miles you actually reduced the assessment of tho roads more than three million dollars. Your fusion predecessors had also made an assessment plainly too low, but it cannot be denied that the rail roads of Nebraska were worth more last year than they were the year be fore and are worth more now in the market than they were a year ago. Out of their earnings the railroad com panies have been improving their road beds; have been putting on better rails; have been buying larger en gines and cars of greater capacity; they have replaced wooden bridges with stone structures; they have built new and costly depots; they have in creased the capacity of their yards, and in numerous other ways have in creased the value of their property. In addition to this, the railroad earn ings in the state are larger tban ever before and the profits larger and the value of the railroad for taxation pur poses should be determined like any other property, by Its fair market value. In 1889 the Burlington & Missouri railroad was assessed at $11,800 a mile, and you gentlemen in your last as sessment reduced this valuation more than $1,000 per mile. At the time of this assessment th stock of the C, B. & Q. railroad whictt now own3 practically all tne Burling ton system, was Felling at about ISO per share. Today that stock is worth $200 per share, and still you gentle men have reduced the assessment of the road although Its stock is today selling in the market for cash for more than twice the amount it sold for iu 1889, but this alone is not even the most outrageous feature of the as sessment. The entire Burlington rail road is worth in the market today, for cash, about $52,000 a mile. Any man at all familiar with the cost of rail road construction and equipment knows that the value of the road and equipment and its other property, ex clusive of franchise, does not exceed one-half of $52,000 per mile. To put it plainly, one-half of the cash valua of the Burlington, railroad is made up of the franchise which it gets from the public and for which it has never paid; anything. The bondholders and stockholders of the Burlington rail road are collecting freight rates and passenger rates high - enough to pa j dividends not only on the actual valua of the railroad and equipment, but also on at least $25,000 per mile rep resented by the franchise sriven to it by tho public and for which it gave norhing in return. This Is an advant age rot possessed by any private citi zen find the least , that the corporation so favored should, do is to pay a rea sonable tan upon its property an I franchise. But the portion of the road which you have assessed at the figure I have named is only that portion of It running from Plattsmouth to Kear ney. That portion of it extending through Hamilton, Hall, Buffalo, Cus ter and other counties was asse3sel at only $4,000 per mile although it is a component and remunerative portion of a railroad which can be cashed in the market for $32,000 a mile. In other words, you assessed that portion of the road at one-thirteenth of its value. Do you j honestly believe that the farmers, laborers and merchants of Hamilton, Hall, Buffalo and. Custer counties pay taxes on only one-thirteenth of the value of their property? Take the Rock Island road as an other example. You gentlemen as sessed it for less than it wa3 assesso.l at per mile, ten years ago.. Yet those of us who have kept any track of such matters know that a few years ago you could buy stock of the Rock Island railroad as low as $54 a share, and to day it is worth $170 a share. To be explicit, the stock of this railroad wi! sell for cash today for more than three times as much as it would sell for a few years ago, and yet you act ually 'assess it for less. Do you know of any private citizen iu whose behalf such gross favoritism has been ex ercised? The cash value of the Union Pacific railroad in the market is about $80,000 per mile and every person knows that the very best portion of the Union Pa cific railroad is in Nebraska, but a few years ago the common stock of the Union Pacific railroad could be bought for a few dollars a share. In fact, it had actually no value. Today the common stock is selling for $104 a shan?. The stock of this company will bring ten dollars In the market today where it would bring one dol lar a few years ago. And yet you gen tlemen have actually assessed it for less than it was .assessed ten years ago. Do you have in mind any plai n taxpayer who has been relieved of such a burden of taxation? The Elkhorn railroad was assessed ten years ago at $5,000 a mile. By de grees it was reduced to $3,500. The fusion administration increased it only $100 a mile, so that the valuation with the beggarly Increase added was only $3,600 a mile. The market value of this road is not so easily deter mined. It Is stocked for $25,000 a mila and bonded for $16,000, making in all $41,000 a mile. None of its stock is in the market because it is all owned by the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. But it constitutes a part of that great system and the stock of the North western is today selling for twice p.s much money in the market as it sold for a few years ago. Those of us fa miliar with the Elkhorn railroad will know that the road is today doing a very much larger business than ever before. The territory along its line is being filled in for the last few years with new settlers and they are build ing up homes, farms and ranches. This all means more lumber, nails paints, hardware, groceries, dry goods, boots and-shoes, cattle, hogs and grain to be hauled by the railroad company. But while all this increase is going on and while the railroad is being im- proved and new cars, new rails, new tiesa nd an improved road bed are all being paid for out of the. money col lected for passengers and freight, still you have refused to increase Its as sessment a dollar, and your fusion pre decessors added insult to injury by tae nominal Increase they made. The Pacific Short Line, now. oper ated by the Great Northern, was as sessed ten- years ago for $4,000 per mile. It sold in fact about the close of the panic at $15,000 a mlie. You have assessed It at only $3,000 per mile. And it is now a part of a most extensive railroad system and it runs through one of the most fertile por tions of Nebraska. Are you gentle men aware that the Great Northern railroad running through a rich and well settled farming country in Ne braska is assessed at less per mile than the branch lines of the Northern are assessed in the wilds of North Da ¬ kota? The Missouri Pacific railroad stock was selling in the market seven or eight years ago for twenty dollars a share. It is now selling for one hun dred dollars a share. The stock of this railroad today will sell for five times as much as it would sell for a few years back, and yet in the face of this you have actually reduced its as sessment. Surely when George Gould travels through the state in his pri vate car he must have a high regard for the intelligence of the people who will thus relieve his railroad of taxa tion and heap the burden upon the toiling people of the commonwealth. In conclusion, permit me to say that as a citizen of this state I do not de sire mr expect that a corporation shall pay a hieher proportionate tax than an individual. I do not want them to pay a higher tax upon the value of their property in proportion to - Its value than my neighbors end myself pay upon our property. The constitu tion requires, and your oath of office to support the constitution requires, that this property should be assess? d the same as other property In the state and that there should be no fav oritism extended to these corporations. If you gentlemen have any doubt that the the values I have given you of these different railroads are the correct value. I shell be pleaded to furnish you the proof. But permit me to say that Poor's Railroad Manual, the rec ognized authority in this country on the financial standing of railroads, will furnish you all the desired informa tion on the value of each road and the'amourtt of its bonds and stocks. Very truly yours. "'; M. F. HARRINGTON. Railroad Assessments ' Monday was the day set for the first meeting of the state board of to asses? the railroad companies. The board took no action, but listened to th-? 'plaints of the various tax commis sioners, who asked that no Increase be made in the assessment. Of course none will be made. The Missouri Pa cific was represented by S. Li. Highley man of St. Louis; C, St. P.. M. & O., by E. E. Woodman; Union Pacific, by A. W. Scribncr of Omaha; B. & M., by R. D. Pollard of Omaha; and the Pullman Sleeping Car company, by Tommie Benton, ex-auditor. It must require plenty of that qual ity known as "gall" or nerve or cheek for a .railroad tax commissioner to come before a Nebraska board of tax ation and ask that the assessment shall not be raised. Right at the very time they were making a poor mouth to the state board . the newspapers were i putting In type nearly a column of statistics 1 showing the. - enormous siclhieo Sick headache, nervous head ache, tired headache, neuralgic headache, catarrhal headache, headache from excitement, in fact, headaches of all kinds are quickly and surely cured with DR. MILLS' Pain Pills. Also all pains such as backache, neuralgia, sciatica, rheumatic pains, monthly pains, etc. "Dr. Miles' Pain Pills are worth their weight in gold," says Mr. W. D. Krea mer, of Arkansas City, Kan. "They cured my wife of chronic headache when, nothing else would." "Dr. Miles' Pain Pills drive away pain as if by magic I am never with out a supply, and think everyone should keep them handy. One or two pills taken on approach of headache will prevent it every time." , Mrs. Judge Johnson, Chicago, I1L Through their use thousands of people have been enabled to at tend social and religious func tions, travel, enjoy amusements, et c, with comfort. As a prevent ative, when taken on the ap proach of a recurring attack, they are excellent. Sold by all Drusciat, 25 Dosti, 23 cents. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. net earnings being made by the roads. The "bankrupt" Burlington's reports showed as follows: Nine months, ending March 31, '02 Earnings $40,615,756 Expenses .... .... ...... 24.925,610 Net earnings $15,690,140 The "pauper Union Pacific was also in bad shape: Nine months, ending March 31, '02 Earnings $36,189,303 Expenses '...',- 18,907,539 Net earnings ....... . $17,281,769 The Burlington's net earnings, as given above, are only a trifling $1, 541,241 greater than they were for the corresponding nine months ending March 31, 1901. But, of course, a road whose business is growing at that rate i3 too big to pay taxes, especially if it owns the. state; board. And the Union Pacific increased Its net earn ings only $2,796,034 in the same period. And that road, too, had the gall to co ant in its taxes as "operating ex penses." '-i.rt ji';,:, ' THE LIBERTY BUILD1K6 " "Justice" Uses it to Illustrate the Slagle Tax "Justice," a single tax paper pub lished at Wilmington, Del., devotes a column to The Independent in which it attempts to 'show that the editor ought to be a single taxer because The Independent is engaged in extending its circulation sufficiently to erect Liberty Building. We quote the edi torial: "The Nebraska Independent, a paper published at Lincoln, Nebraska, and devoted to the doctrines of populism has recently got into a controversy with some single taxers. The editor, who seems to be a fair-minded man. has not been convinced that the single tax Is the remedy for social wrongs, and like the slave who wants to be free yet rejects the means of freedom, this editor has even? attempted to de fend the institution of landlordism. "Now comes a striking Illustration of what the single 1 taxers have all along been contending, namely, that before labor (in whatever form It takes) can secure access to land It must first reckon with a landlord. "It appears that the owners of the Independent have been renting the place where the paper is printed. They say that this has 'handicapped' them ; that 'rent charges have heavily depleted their earnings ; that they could not get 'many necessary and needed conveniences;' and that their landlord is 'a very wealthy man who differs radically with the political policy of The Independent and looks upon it as a menace to the rights of capital. Fearing this landlord, and apprehensive lest he might be spurred on by the political machine to annoy and cripple them still further, tbey now desire 'to buy a little spot- uf mother earth on which they can fear lessly champion the cause of good government and defend the plain peo ple from the aggression of organized greed, and from which they cannot be driven by the order of some pluto crat. "In other words, the owners of The Independent desire to be landlord journalists instead of tenant journal ists and to this end they ask sub scribers to help increase the circula tion of The Independent so that Its owners may buy a piece of land and erect thereon a 'Liberty Building' suited to their, requirements. "We judge that the price of the land selected is about. $5,000. In which case its annual rent , would approximate $300, for the selling price of land Is the annual rent commuted. "Now will the owners of The Inde pendent assert that it would be easier for them to pay $5,000 down as pur chase money, and in addition pay all taxes on their building, their presses, their paper, and everything else that the assessors can discover, rather than pay one tax only, namely, the rental value of the bare land In lieu of ex , elusive occupation so long as they continue to pay the rent or tax? "Certainly not, yet this is the plan which single taxers advocate and which The Independent opposes. vThe owners of The Independent ex pect to escape some : of the evils of landlordism by becoming landlords themselves. They will then be rel atively free, and should their new site increase in value, they will become the beneficiaries of an institution the evil effects of which they now find in their own case so irksome. The In dependent has our best wishes. We hope that their expectations will be realized. At the same time, conscious as we are of the somnolent effects or participation in : the profits of mon opoly, we cannot refrain from ex pressing tl - hope that the ownership 6f a piece of 'mother earth' will not blind The Independent to the utter absurdity of private property In land and the monstrous wrongs which spring from such an institution. - 'We further hope that The Indepen dent will remember that there are others who cannot escape from the slavery involved in landlordism oth ers who cannot, as the owners of The Independent are doing, buy their free dom; that The Independent will, In time, come to . a realization of how the ownership of land carries with it the ownership of men; that it will come to see how close the analogy Is between landownership and chattel slavery, and that it will then lend its aid to the great emancipation of which the single tax is but the means." ? , . The Independent does not controvert the statement that "before labor can secure access to land it must first reckon with a landlord." This would be true under the single tax, but th state would be the landlord. Primar ily The Independent wishes to own its building, because it can then make such inside arrangements and improve ments as best suits it. It needs a se cure tenure to the land on which that building stands, no matter wnether that tenure is called ownership or the mere right to occupancy. It would not care to erect a building on state owned land unless it could be assured that it could have a continuous tenure as long as it wished. The land on which the Liberty Building is to stand will be useful only because buildings cannot well be built up in the air. "Justice" assumes that under the single tax $300 per year would be about the rental value of a $5,000 lot of bare land, and that the owner of a building on such a lot would have only $300 a year to pay in taxes. That would be the outside cent and would be in lieu of all municipal, county, state, and federal taxation. Certainly that would be much cheaper than under the pres ent system; but can it be demon strated that such a tax would provide sufficient funds for the maintenance of government? That $300 tax would not remain constant, year after year at that rate, surely, because the very ob ject of the single tax would be de feated. As the land increased in value, the single tax must also increase as suming, of course, that governmental expenses also increased. ; Now, the building itself would not be subject to taxation under the Henry George plan, yet its erection would in crease the rental value of the land on which it was built, and thus, in spite of the single taxers' contention other wise, the land tax would "be a bar to progress and take some portion of wages or interest on capital Invested." Although much may hi said in favor of the tax on land values, yet any sort of tax whatever must come out of the income of . the person who pays it. In the final analysis all taxes come out of the products of labor, and while it is true that the single tax might be preferable to present methods, be cause of the certainty surrounding its levy, it by no means follows that it wotVd not be "a bar to progress" by taking part of the products of labor. Land itself pays no taxes. Messrs. J. R. Ratekin & Son, the seed corn growers, of Shenandoah, la., send us a letter' recently received by them from Mr. A. D. Shamel, of th-3 university of Illinois, Urbana, 111. As will be seen, it speaks very highly f the germinating quality of the seed they have been furnishing readers of this paper this season: "The 'Im perial White corn which the agricul tural college, university of Illinois, received from you has been tested and has shown a sufficiently strong vital ity and power of germination (96 per cent) to warrant its use as seed. I thank you for your co-operation with us in our work in seed testing." The Messrs. Ratekin add the following in formation which will be of interest to our readers: "It might not be out of place to here state that we have sold this season oyer 20,000 bushels of seed corn . in Texas, most of which wa3 planted during the last half of February, and we have had a great many ; reports from our customers there, all uniformly, without excep tion, stating that they obtained good and perfect results from our. seed." THE OLD, OLD STORY Mr. Harrlaon Sagffasta That the Indepen dent Diaeuas the Faodamea tale . af Populism With the subscriptions to The Inde pendent coming in at the rate of one hundred a day the editor Is frequently puzzled to know exactly what sort of matter to make most prominent in the paper. The following letter will il lustrate very well the difficulty: "Editor Independent: Seeing that you are getting a great many new subscribers wouldn't it be a good plan to quit answering the arguments of socialists, single taxers, etc? And in stead give the new readers of your pa per a few pointers on how national bank notes are issued and upon what they subsist. Also the plan of govern ment money, etc. I find a good many here that don't know any. more about these subjects than a hog knows about war. Mr. Editor, this is merely a sug gestion I make. J. B. HARRISON. "Jollet. 111." With the greatly increased subscrip tion list one hardly knows what par ticular theme will appeal to the great est number of readers, and The Inde pendent endeavors to cover as much ground as possible in order to give all its readers something Interesting. It has a great many subscribers among the single taxers and socialists and others who are not populists. The main thing to be accomplished Is to ascertain the truth and ; to find put what will prove the greatest good to the greatest number. The Indiepen dent cannot ignore the claims of the single taxers and socialists simply be cause it does not see things in the same light as they do. The principle involved in the Issue of national bank notes is simply this: Say the bank owns $50,000 in govern ment bonds. These bonds bear Inter est at from 2 to ; 4 per cent payable quarterly In gold. By depositing then with the treasury department at Wash ington and paying a small fee for the expense of printing the bank receives $50,000 in unsigned bank notes which, when properly signed by the president and cashier, can be loaned the same as any other money. These bank notes are money, that is a legal tender, in all transactions between the govern ment and individuals and between different national banks. They are not a legal tender between Individuals. The first and chief objection is that the Issue of money is a function of the government and that which ought never to be delegated to any individ uals or corporations. That is to say all money should be Issued direct by the government. The second objec tion is that the bank receives interest on its bonds and interest on its bank notes at the same time. At present owing to the high premium on United States bonds; this double" interest is not particularly profitable, but thera was a time5 when the banker got in exchange gold coin at a large premium for greenbacks, then exchanged the greenbacks dollar for dollar for United States bonds, then deposited the bond 3 and drew bank notes on which to do a loaning business. The profits, then on circulation were enormous. About the strongest objection to the issue of national bank notes is that whenever business begins to get pros perous the banks expand their circu lation, thus Increasing the volume of money in circulation and tending io still further increase prices. Finally, the climax comes and prices begin to fall and then the bankers begin to con tract their circulation and thus in tensify the falling prices and produce a panic. j Populists and democrats differ upon the railroad question. The democrats advocate "government control." Pop ulists believe In public or government ownership and operation of the rail roads and kindred utilities, urging that control cannot be had without the ownership and operation. From time to time The Independent will try to treat some of these subjects as they were treated-by it years ago when its subscription list was smaller. The old subscribers who have been on the list for years understand the fundamental principles just as well as the editor and it was his fear that constant re iteration of these fundamental facts might finally prove, wearisome to those who understand them so well, j How ever, with the large number ot new subscribers it is possible that the old lessons in populism should be brushed up and presented again. 5,500 PEOPLE EMPLOYED THINK OF THE VALUE OF AN IN STITUTION, OR A DOZEN IN STITUTIONS WHICH CAN AND DO SUPPORT 25,000 PEOPL This Number Derive Their Support from Insurance Companies in Des Moines,, Iowa. ; A glove factory, a cigar factory, an envelope factory, a box factory or any other kind of a factory employing 50 to 100 men will be welcomed to Omaha with open arms. This is right, but business men should not forget that one well managed life insurance com pany will give employment to more persons than any ordinary manufac turing establishment. THE BANKERS' RESERVE LIFE is now employing 50 persons regularly. It supports 250 people, It collects and disburses more money annually than an ordinary factory. It grows faster than the most successful of factories. It turns more money into trade chan nels than the ordinary factory. In the city of Des Moines, the great insurance center of the west, it is claimed 5,500 people are engaged in the insurance business. The largest assessment life insurance company in the world, with $100,000,000 AT RISK, j is located there. The backbone of Des Moines ia Its local insurance compa nies. They bear the same relation to that enterprising Iowa metropolis as the packing houses bear to the cities of Omaha and South Omaha. The Bankers' Reserve Life Is organized un der the laws of Nebraska, which were copied verbatim from those of ; Iowa. What has been done in ,Iowa can be done In Nebraska. In the. face of Io wa's experience It Is folly to force Ne braska to the background. " B. H. ROBISON, PRESIDENT of the Bankers' Reserve Life, says: "I see no reason in the world why Ne braska should not take rank with Iowa r as a life insurance center. The best risks are offered. The people are prosperous. The companies are In existence. They need simply a loyal support to make them succeed. They are entitled , to a friendly Insurance department with fair,, liberal supervi sion, and THEY WILL HAVE IT. ( , "The people are In no humor for pettifogging and pestiferous Intermed dling of alien agents or companies. They propose In these years of pros perity to provide at home for the lean years of possible panics." Write for information on the ques tion. B. H. ROBISON, President, ' rmahfl ' Veh TAPE "A tape worm eighteen feet long at least came on the scene after my t&kint'two CASCAKETS. This I am sure baa caused inv bad bealtb for tbo past tbree years. 1 am still taking Cascarets. the only cathartic worthy at notice by sensible people" Gso. W. BOWLM, DainS, Ult. 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