WAS IT A SACRIFICE.
John Griffith, a rich English manu
facturer, tat in a room in hU elegant
mansion one da; in autumn. To judge
by hit face, his retketions were of an
agreeable nature.
"The prospect is," lie said to himself.
Iltat my income for (lie present year
will reach fifteeu thousand pounds.
That is a tidy sum for one who sta-ted
as a poor boy. . And I am not so old.
either. Just turned of sixty! There is
more than one nobleman in the klnc
dorn that would be glad of John 'Grif
fith's income. My Katy will havt u
rich dowry."
He was interrupted here by the en
trance of a servant
"Mr. GriflitlL" he said, 'there are
three men below who would like t see
you."
Three men T
"Yes, sir. They are not gentlemen,"
said the servant, who understood the
question. "They are men from the mill,
I'm thinking."
"Very well; show them up."
It was a holiday and the works were
not in operation, so that the operatives
nere off work.
Then was heard the tramp of heavy
boots on the staircase and presently en
tered three men, whose dress anil ap
pearance indicated clearly that they be
longed to the class who are doomed to
earn their daily bread by hard and un
remitting labor.
"What is your busineKs with me, my
men?" asked Mr, ('rili'illi. rising and
surveying them with Interest. "Are
you employed in tho mill?'"
"Yes, sir, said the foremost, Hugh
Roberts; "yes, Mr. (Iriflith, sir, we are
employed in the mill, and it's about that
we've coiue to see you."
"Very well." said John ('rilliHi, re
Hiiming his seat, "speak on, whatever
you have to say to me."
"It's this, Mr. (irillilli, sir, and I hope
you won't bo offended at what 1 Hay.
We came here to humbly beg that you
would be pleased to raise our wages."
"To raise your wages!" exclaimed Mr
,f Iriflith in a displeased tone.
"Yes, sir. I hope you won't be of
fended." "Don't I give as high wages as are
paid In other mills ?',
"Mayhap you do, sir; but it's very
hard to get along on three shillings n
day."
"J5ul if I should pay higher wages
than others they could undersell me in
the market."
"I don't know, sir, but 1 think wo
should work more cheerful and do more
in a day if we felt that we had a little
more to live on, so that the wife and
children needn't have to pinch and go
hungry."
These words were uttered in a manly
and straightforward tone, and there was
not a little pathos in them, but it seemed
lost upon Mr. (iriflith.
"It's only six peuse more a day we ask,
ir,"said Hugh Roberts pleadingly.
Mr. (irillith made a mental calcula
tion. He had three hundred men in his
employ. He found that sixpence a day
additional would make a sum total dur
ing the 'year of over two thousand
pounds. This reflection hardened his
licari agaii.st the applicants.
"No," he said, "your request is un
reasonable; I cannot accede to it."
"Hut, sir," said Hugh HoU rts, "think
what it is to support a family on three
shillings' a day."
"It is hard, no doubt," said Mr. (irif
lith; "but J cannot alTord to make the
. advance you desire."
"Tlien you refuse, sir ?"
"Ido. If you can do any better of
course 1 won't prevent your bettering
yourselves."
"We can't do better, sir," said Hugh,
bitterly, crushing his hat between his
toil hardened fingers. We have no
other way to live, except to work for
you and take what you are pleased to
.pay."
"Think it over, my men," said Mr,
Griffith more good humoredly, for he
had carried his point, "and you will see
that I can't pay more thau other manu
facturers. I've no doubt your wives
and children will earn something to
help you along."
The three men departed with sad
faces, looking as if life were a weary
struggle, with little to cheer it.
Scarcely had they left the room when
Kaly Urifflth entered.
Horn when her father was compara
tively late in life, she was his darling
gsjtlielirfht of his existence. It was
"ferer that he wished to become very
tSSh, that he might make her a match
for the highest, as he was wont to ex
press it.
"They will overlook old John Grifiith's
pedigree," he said to himself, "if his
laughter has a good hundred thousand
- pounds to her dowry."
- Katy entered, a bright eyed, attrac
tive girl of 15, of whom her father
might well be proud.
"How ore you, my darling?" said her
father, smiling fondly upon her.
Tin always well," she said lightly;
nana who were those poor men
that I met on tho stairs? Had you been
scolding them ?"
"What makes you ask, Katy?"
"Because they looked so sad and dis-
eoarafid."
"DMtheyrwked Mr. Griffith, with
monM&Ury compunction,
."They were men from the mill, Katy." ;
"And what did they come for? Do
you tell them about the work V
"Xo; the overseer dots that."
"Then what did they come for ?"
"You are very curious, my darling."
"That isn't telling me, papa," said the
young lady persistently.
"Then, if you mut know, it was to
ask for liiglier wages."
'Of course you gave it."
"Of course I didn't Why should I V"
"ik-cause they need it. How much
do they get now?"
' Three idiillinj3 a day."
"Only thrr-e shillings a day: ex
claimed Katy, "and have to support
(Lei.- families cut of that?"
"Yea."
"() papa, how can you pay tliem such
mean wages y"
"I pay as high wages as other manu
facturers," said her father.
"Hut they can't live on three shillings
a day. poor n.en. J low much more did
they ask for?"
"Sixpence a day."
"Only sixpence a day. and you re
fused?' said Katy reproachfully.
"Hut consider, my dear, on all my
workmen it would amount to more
thun two thousand pounds a year."
'And how much do you make in a
year, papa?"
"J his year," said Mr. (iriflith, proud
ly. "I think I shall make nearly
lifteen thousand pounds."
"You don't surely i-pend all that,
papa?".
"Not more than four thousand
pounds."
"And the rest?"
"I lay up for my Katy."
"Then "said Katv. "as it is to be
mine, pay the men a shilling more a
day. There'll he enough left for me. I
shouldn't enjoy money that was taki'n
from so many poor people. Think, papa,
how much good tho extra shilling
would do to your poor men, and how
little difference it would make to me. I
shall be as rich as I want to be. Come,
papa, you were once poor yourself,
You should pity the poor."
At those words Mr. (iriflith recalled
the difficult struggle he had early in
life and the selfishness of his present
treatment of his poor operatives struck
him forcibly. His own heart Joined
with liis daughter.
"Are you in earnest, Katy, in what
you say?" he asked.
"Surely, papa."
"if I do what you ask it will make a
considerable difference in your fortune."
"lint I shall feel so happy when I
think that tho men are more comfort
able. "Won't you do it, papa?"
"Yes, Katy," said her fatlier! "I will
do as you say, Other manufacturers
will think I have gone insane, but if I
please my Katy I will not care,"
"I love yon better than ever now,
papa," and the warm hearted gill threw
her arms round her father's neck.
A servant was sent to Hugh Itoberts'
cottage to bid him come to the great
house. He was sitting in moody silence
in his poor cabin, which was pervaded
by a general air of want and discomfort.
He did not understand the summons,
but thought he might be going to re
vive bis discharge in return for his
bold request. Again he was ushered
into the presence of his employer.
"I have been thinking of your request,
my man, said 'Mr- r,mui in a kiuu
t.ne, "and though I doubt whether any
other manufacturer would grant it 1
have made up my mind to do it."
"Rless you, sir," said Hugh lioberts,
his face lighting up. "Heaven will re
ward you, Then we shall have three
shillings and sixpence Ik rpafter?"
"You shall have four shillings."
"Four shillings? Are you really in
earnest, sir?"
"Truly so. The overseer shall receive
my instructions tomorrow."
The workman burst into tears, but
they were tears of joy.
"The men will bless you," ho said,
smiling, and the words had a pleasant
sound for Mr. Orillilh. A hearty bless
ing is not to be despised.
It was found on experiment that the
profits of the business 'were butliiue
affected by tho increased wages, for the
men now worked with a hearty goon
will which enabled them to accomplish
more work in a day, so that Kr ty's sac
rifice will be less than was supposed.
Kvery day she re joices over the addi
tional comfort secured by the extra
shilling paid at her instigation. Hora
tio Alger, Jr., in Yankee lilada.
Home Costly Woodwork.
An interesting relic is the woodwork
of tho boudoir of Louise de la Valliere,
wall panels, dado, ceiling and doors, all
painted a soft cream white and adorned
with paintings of cupius aim roses uuu
fluttering blue ribbons, relieved with
light arabesques of gold. These have
been set up and put in place, s that the
effect of the dainty little room can bo
fully appreciated. The panels for the
walls of another boudoir, of the reign of
Louis XV, were in palo pink satin, em
broidered with the line silk cord crlled
cordonncref, with garlands of flowers
mingled with birds and butterflies, the
work being so beautifully executed as
to resemble a water color drawing in
its grace and finish. This set is valued,
if 1 remember rightly, at6lW.-r,l
Letter.
of
Why
(Should a Woman With
Irettr Hand Cover
Them Up.
Mrs. Cleveland is said to have in
augurated a custom in receiving her
guests at her afternoon receptions with
ungloved hands, although she wort
evening costume.
Jt may be that there is some settled
conviction and Duroose in this, and it
may not. Hut why should there not j
be? asks the X. Y. Hun. Why should j
women wear gloves with eveninj
dress? Mark the inconsistency of it j
neck and shoulders and npier arms
bare, and the lowtr ?rms from elbow
to wrist closely cased in suede. If i
woman's arm is beautiful, it is beauti
ful right down to the tapering finger
ti. And why should she crowd the ;
lower half of it into a cover of kid
several sizes too small, and that trans
forms the delicate, shapely beauty of
her hands into the semblance of a
stuffed pincushion?"
Some women's hands, like some wo
men's faces, are not fair to look upon.
To these, no doubt, gloves are a bene
faction. Hut if a woman's hands are
pretty, and she kuws it-as of course
she will why shouldn't she have, the
candor to confess to that knowledge
by leaving her hands ungloved?
The writer once knew a charming
young girl whose hands and wrists
were most exquisite in curve and color,
and who never gloved them even on
the street, save in severe weather.
When a;ked once for the reason of her
departure from the ordinary, she re
plied with fearless frankness; "He
cause my hands are pretty. If they
nere not J suppose I should want to
cram thorn into gloves as other women
do, but as they are, 1 keep them bare
just because I like to look at them, and
because I really do led that 1 have
no more right to mar the beauty of
my hands by putting gloves on than I
would have to mar the Venus ot Mile
by putting a skirt upon her.
A Ycrv Old Xewsnnper.
The oldest paper published in the
English language, except The London
Gazette, is the Llyod's List, which made
its lirst appearance iu a dingy little
London colfeo houso in 1W2. There is
no paper more generally read by ship
pers and marine merchants than the
Lloyd's, and yet few of its readers
know its remarkable history, or that of
the great commercial business that lias
grown up with it
About WT5 there was a coffee houso
in Tower street, London, kept by one
ICdward Llyod, where a knot of mer
chants gathered at noon to discuss
business and gossip oyer the threaten
ing Romanism of James JL From
this small beginning has grown up one
of the greates ai)d most powerful com
mercial organizations in the world, not
the least important feature of which
is aii intelligence department, which
for wideness of range and efficient
working has no"parallul in tho history
of private enterprise.
As early as KW8 Tho London Ga
zette contained a flattering notice of
Lloyd's shop, and four years later the
proprietor, who seemed to have been a
rousing good business man, moved his
establishment to Lombard street, then
the center of London's wealthy and
i mtiuenuai lliercii.iui, "umiucu. j lie
astute coffee house proprietor at this
time began the publishment of his
News, a weekly paper filled with com
mercial and shipping information, and
it became very popular with those
seventeen century men of trade. It
subsequently changed its name to
Lloyd's List, and ever since that time
has enjoyed an uninterrupted publica
tion. Throughout the greater part of the
Eighteenth century Lloyds was t!ie
most popular place known to London
merchants and underwriters. Lloyd
himself probably died in the early part
of the century, but his name and his
nanor had ineffaceably marked the
Ibusiness of that time, as it marks that
of tho present day. London s great
business of marine insurance owes its
existence to the printed form of policy
issued by the Llyod Association of
Underwriters, an association that has
never been known by any other name
than that of the poor but popular coffee
house proprietor and editor. The whole
superstructure of marine insurance
rests upon The List, which for 200 years
has embraced the collection, publica
tion and diffusion of every form of in
telligenco with respect to shipping.
New York Times.
nintlnctloti Without Difference,
Smith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly: Walk
ing on the beach at Coney Island I met
two Irishmen who were admiring the
observatory, which, after doing duty at
tho centennial, was removed from
Philadelphia and set up on the island
"Oh, Jemmy," said one, "jist look at
the high thing!"
"Niver mind the height, Pat, but get
onto the length av It!"
Heard on th lloulcvard.
"Is necessity the mother of inven
Hon?"
"Yes, it is said to be."
"Well, then, I would lire to marry
necessity."
"Why?"
"Because I. would not have a mother
in-law. Necessity knows no law, you
know." Munsey's Weekly.
tale of Sacred Tree,
j Thepaim, the oak and the ash are,
accordingtoa timely and interesting
ertlele in the Deutsche Rundschau, the
ihree trees which, since time iinnie
norial, were LeW to be sacred trees.
tm first among theni which figures on
the oldest monuments and pictures of
the Egyptians and Assyrians is the
date palm (Phoenix daetilifera), which
was the symbol of tlte w-rid of
reation, and the fruit of lii't'i
(he faithful w ilU d'viiie s'.rei'glh anJ
prepared them for the pleasure of im
mortality. "Honor," said Mahomet,
thy paternal aunt, the date palm, for
in paradise it was created out of the
tame dust of the ground."
tVnotlier Mahometan tradition of a
later period says that when Adam left
Paradise he was allowed to take with
iin three things a myit!e, because it
was the most lovely and the most
fceuted iiower of ths earth, a wheat
tar, because it has t'.ie most nouris'i
uieut, and a date, because it was the
most glorious fruit of the earth. The
datelfrom Paradise was in some mar
velous way brought to the Heiuz: from
It have come all the date palms in the
world, and Allah destined it to be the
food of all the true believers who shall
onquer every country where the dale
f.alm grows.
The Jews and the Arabs again looked
upon the same tree as a mystical alie
goty of human beings, for, like them,
It dies when its head (the summit; is
cat ofT und when a limb (branch) is
once cut off it does not grow again.
Those who know can understand the
mysterious language of the branches
on days when there is no wind, when
whispers of present and future events
are communicated by the tree. A bra-
ham of old, so the rabbis says, under
stood the language of the palm
The oak was always considered a
'holy" tree by our own ancestors, and
Ubove all by the nations of the north
bf Europe. When Wiuifred of Devon
shire (WO 75-1 A. D.) went forth on his
wanderings through Germany to preach
the Gospel one of his first actions was
to cut down the giant oak in Saxony,
Which was dedicated to. Thor jt;d wor
shiped by the peoplo from far and
pear, Hut when he had nearly felled
the oak, and while the people were
cursing and. threatening the saint, a
supernatural storm swept over it, seized
tho summit, broke every branch and
dashed It, qusl superni motus solalis,
with a tremendous crash to the ground.
The heathen acknoweledged the mar
vel, and many of them were converted
there and then. Hut the saint built a
chapel of the wood of this very oak
and dedicated it to St Peter.
lut the sacred oaks do not seem to
have always done their duty. Thus,
for Instance, a f anions oak in Ireland
was dedictcd to tho Irish saint Colum
ban, one of the peculiarities of the tree
being that whoever carried a piece of
Its wood in his mouth would never be
hanzed. After a time, however, the
lioly oak of Kenmare was destroyed in
storm. Nobody dared gather tho
wood except the gardner, who tanned
some shoe leather with the bark; but
when he wore tho shoes made of this
leather for the first time ho became a
leper.'and was never cured.
Jn the abbey of etrou, In l'arttany,
stood an old oak tree which had grown
out of the staff of St. Martin, the lirst
abbot of the monastery, and in the shade
of which the prince of Hrittany prayed
when ever they went into the abbey,
Nobody dared to pick even a leaf from
this tree, and not evan the birds dared
to peck at it. Not so the Norman pi
rates, two of whom climbed the tree ol
Ht. Martin to cut wood for their bows.
Both of them fell down and broke their
necks.
The Celts and Germans and Scandi
navians, again, worstnp tne mount
ain ash (Fraxinus), and it is especially
In the religious myths of the latter that
the "Askr Yggdrasil" plays a prominent
part. To them it was the holiest among
tres. the world tree," wnich eternal
ly young and dewy, represented heaven
earth and hell. According to the Edda
the ash yggdrasil was an evergreen tree.
A specimen of it (says Adam of Bremen)
grew up at Upusla, in front of the great
temcle. another in Dithmarschen, care-
U11V euarueu ov a railing, ior n was in
v mystical way connected with the fate
it the country, vt lien oiiumarscnen
ost its liberty the tree withered, but
i magine, one oi ine ikhv imuiiih-bjiii
irds of the north, came and built its
iest on the withered tree and hatched
ive little ones, all perfectly white, as a
sinn that at some niture time tne
country would regain its former liberty
Unlovely UooUnena,
Shrewd observer, looking lately at
the portrait of a woman famous for her
histrionic power, said, "I knew her well,
rhe was unloving to her husband, un
last to her children, and merciless to
Ihe poor. Her only redeeming quality
was her malignant virtue. '
In how many people' set apart ns
types of the Christian life by the world,
U virtue " malignant r 1 outh s Com
(anion.
i Her Opinion of Jonea.
' A cautions old woman when asked
What she thought of one of her neighbors
pf the name of Jones, with a knowing
look replied: "Why, I don't like to say
anything about my neighbors; but as to
Mr. Jones, sometimes 1 think, and then
bgain I don't know; but, after all, I rath-
r guess he'll turn out to bo a gool deal
uch ft sort of man as I take him to be
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Holy - Child - Jesus,
Linooln, 2N"o"hiasli.a.
This institution is conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Child Tesus
from Sharon Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., will open as a Hoarding and Select
Day School for young ladies,
Monday, Soptomtoor Gtla, 1 BOO.
Parent will find in thi Academy ail the featartw of a epclndtot and refined home for their
danfthtera. A thorough, useful and accom ilit-hed education in imparted, and particular car i
uetotow d on tne moral improvement of Uie papila.
vucnuw ui aufcMju no uu. i n,i iu iie miiniHPion 11 j i i ; i ! i ror parucuiani auoreaa,
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I88S -
UNION LIFE OF NEBRASKA.
Solid Mutual Insiiraneo at About One-Half Eastern Bates.
Death Claims Paid, -' $48,000.00
Capital and Reserved Surplus, $ 1 1 3,000.00
Insurance in Nebraska, $2,000,000.00
FULL PAYMENT OF
Orer a Million Dollars went out of
could have been secured at home for half
It is a duty you owe your family to
a cash value to your estate.
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Itisks in Title Insurance.
Tho prominence which real estate
title guarantee companies have reached
iu matters affecting searches has given
rise to a good deal of curiosity among
real estate dealers regarding the possi.
ble losses that such companies may
have had to sustain through insurances
Of title whieh they have issued. These
companies have been in existeiiee only
a few years, but in that time, by reason
of methods of economy and a sort of
co-operative system, they have man
aged to divert a great deal of the busi
ness which was formerly monopolized
by lawyers, and the gentlemen who
have thus seen their revenues dwin
dling are naturally prone to throw
some suspicion upon the results, if not
upon the methods, of business employ
ed by the guarantee companies.
Iseforc the guarantee companies came
into existence the amount ot money
spent by purchasers of property in
searches was something almost fabu
lous in this city, It is said to have ag
gregated during certain years as much
as f '1,000,000, and there ore reports
more or less trustworth that in some
years it has greatly exceeded that sum.
Most of the money thus expended went
into the pockets of lawyers. How
much may have been diverted from
this course it is not easy to calculate
but from the fact that several title
guarantee companies seem to be doing
a prosperous business it is a fair .infer
ence, perhaps, that they are enjoying
a good share of the revenues which the
lawyers formerly had all to themselves.
" It is of course little short of im
possible to get the oflicers of these com
panies to admit that they have ever
made mistakes, but some of them are
sensible enough to see that it would be
folly to claim to be infallible, and in
conversation recently they have ad
mitted that it has been necessary for
them in some cases tobuy off claimants
to property after they have passed title
upon it and insured the title. There
was one case in liroadway in which a
claimant insisted upon $15,000 in order
to satisfy his rights in certain property,
buthe finally compromised and signed
a auit claim deed for 3,000. Ouite a
number of cases have come to the at
tention of real estate dealers in which
the title companies were called upon to
uav a few hundred dollars at a time.
but this liroadway case is the only one
which has involved any considerable
amount, according to common report
and according to the admission of the
oflicers of the guarantee companies.
Jn every office of these companies
there is no hesitation in saying that in
the course of their" searches they fre
quently come across flaws in titles, and
that they are obliged while acting as
agents for buyers or sellers to clear up
such doubt as may thus be thrown
upon titles to property. These admis
sions are of course in no way to their
discredit, but are rather complimentary
to their skill in detecting clouds upon
titles which had passed unnoticed in
former searches which had been con
ducted by lawyers privately engaged.
It is positively claimed by the olllcsrs of
all the guarantee companies that in the
searches they have made, involving
values to the amount of many millions,
the mistakes for which they are ac
countable have not amouuted alto
gether to $25,000. Considering the
vast amount of business that they have
done, this sum may be considered very
small, and the fact must be unques
tioned that with the experience that
they nave gathered in searching titles
they have equipped themselves so well
as ferrets that a flaw in a title must 19
Convent of the Holy Child Jesus.
1890.
POLICY GUARANTEED.
Nebraska in 1839 for Life Insuranosv that
the money.
carry a Life Policy every polioy
.
Y. N. U.
York, Neb.
very well concealed indeed to escape
their notice. New York Times.
The Coming of Death.-
Tho signs of impending death are
many and variable. No two instances
are precisely identical, yet several signs
are common in many cases. Shake
speare, who observed everything else,
observed and recorded some of the pre
monitory signs of death also, Iu tho
account of the death of Falstaff the
sharpness of tho nose, the coldness of
the feet,- gradually extending upward,
the picking at the bedclothes, and the
playing with flowers are accurately do
scribed. For some time before death indica
tions of its approach become apparent.
Speech grows thlcic and labored, the
hands, if raised, fall instantly, the
respiration is difficult, the heart loses
its power to propel the blood to the ex
tremities, which constantly become
cold, a clammy moisture oozes through
the pores of the skin, the voice grows
weak and husky or piping, the eyes be
gin to lose their luster.
In death at old age there is a gradual
dulling of all the bodily senses and of
many of the mental faculties; memory
fails, judgement wavers, imagination
goes out like a candle. The muscles
and tendons get stiff, tho voice breaks,
the cords of the tabernacle are loosen
ing. iSniall noises irritate, sight be
comes dim, nutrition goes on foebly,
digestion is impaired, the secretions are
insufficient or vitiated or cease, capil
lary c irculation is clogged. Finally the
central organ of the circulation comes
to a stop a full stovi and this stop
page means a dissolution. This is tho
death of old age which few attain to.
II any people have an idea that death
is necessarily painful, even agonizing,
but there is no reason whatever to sup
pose that death is a more painful pro
cess than birth. It is because in a cer
tain proportion of cases dissolution is
accompanied by a visible spasm and
distortion of the countenance that this
idea exists, but it is as nearly certain
as anything can be that these .distor
tions of the facial muscles are Hot only
painless, but take place unconsciously.
In many instances, too, a comatose or
Kemi-comatose state supervenes, and it
is altogether probable that more or less
complete unconsciousness then pre
vails. We have, too, abundant evidence of
people who have been nearly drowned
and resuscitated, and they all agree in
the statement that after a few mo
ments of painful struggling fear and
anxiety pass away and a state of tran
quillity succeeds. Thoy see visions of
green fields, and in some cases hear
pleasant music, and so far from being
miserable their sensations are delight
ful. Hut where attempts at -resuscitation
are successful the resuscitated per--sons
almost invariably protest against
being brought back to life, and declare
than resuscitation is accompanied by
physical pain and acute mental misery.
Iieath is a fact which every man
must personally experience, and conse
quently is of universal interest And
as facts are facts the wisest course is to
look them squarely in the face, for
necessity is coal black and death keeps
no calendar. Medical Journal.
Height of Luminous Clouds.
A series of experiments have been
conducted in Germany during the past
year with the object of determining the
height of luminous clouds, and a large
numlier of photographic impressions
have been secured. From these a valu
able fund of information on cloud
phenomena has been gained. The re
sult of comparing the various results
obtained at different observations goes
to show that these clouds have the ex-,
traordinary altitude of fifty-one an
one-half miles above the sea ami
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