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x'is,eonsistiag of Flowers, Ribbons, velvtts, dress
trimmings, Ac., Ac We will sell the cheapest goods
ever sold io t hiseity. We can accommodate all our
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with a call. All kinds of work in our line done to
OTir. Perfect, aa, faction given or no charges,
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G K. MeCALLULI,
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I' LA TTSMOUTH, NEBIIA SLA.
A s-ood assortment of machines and mehine find
ings kept on hand. JCj-Offire at Stadelmann's
Clothint Store. Iec. 4 ti7
Machines repaired on short no'tce.
Plattsrnouth Ulills,
C. HEISKL, Proprietor.
otikU running order. Custom work done on short
notice.
lOO.OOO ISiishcls of Wheat
Wanted Immediately, for which.the .highest marke
price will be paid. aug2d tf
SHANNON'S
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STABLE.
Main St., Plattsmouth.
I am prepared to ac.i mmoJate the pnblic wtt
Horses, Carriages and Buggies,
Also, a nice Hearse,
On short notice and reasonable terms. A Hack will
run to steamboat landing, and to all parts of the
city when desired.
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FURNITURE!!
THOMAS W. SHRYOCK,
CABINET EV3AKER,
AND DEALER IX ALL KISDS OF
Furniture and Chairs.
THIRD STREET, (2Tear Main,)
PLA TTSM0 UTII, NEBRASKA.
Rernring and TarcUhing neatly done.
t3 Funerals attended at the shortest notice.
nil.
Wm. Stnricliiiaiiii A: Co ,
One door -west of Donelan's Drug-store,
Dealers in
Ready-made Clothing,
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
HATS, CATS. BOOTS. SHOES,
TIUXKS, VALISES,
and a general stock of
OUTFITTING GOODS
For the Plains; also, a large lot of
RUBBER CLOTHING, REVO LI -ERS
AND NOTIONS.
We bought low and will sell cheap for cash. Cal.
and eamiiieour stock before you buy any where else!
Jyl 'CO Wm.SIADKLMJN.N A CO.
W. D. GAGE.
W. R. DAVIS.
CENTRAL STOKE:
Dry-Goods,
Groceries,
Provisions,
HOOTS and SHOES
Main Street, two doors above Fourth,
Where the public may And
THE BEST OF GOODS,
and prices as low at can be found in the city.
We re'n'o fnankj for the liberal ption;ewe
have received, and hope to merit its consonance.
Oct. 'C7 CASE i JJATIS,
TEMMESSEE.
A FREE TALK WITH FORREST
He Thinks he Could Raise lO,-
uuo Men 1 ii t ire aays.
Hair a Million Ku Klux in
the South
PROSPECT OF A CIVIL WAR.
Special Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial
Memphis, Tiss., Aug. 28, C8.
To-day I have enjoyed "big talks'
enough to have gratified any of (he
fauioua Indian chiefs who have teen
treating with General Sherman for the
past two years. First, 1 met Genera
N. 13. Forrest, then General Gideon
J. Piliow and Governor'Isham G. Har
ria. My first visit was to General For
rest, whom I found at his office at 8
o'clock this morning, hard at work, al
though complaining of an illness con
tracted at the New York convention
ine rev i oncers must be a hard set
I T -wr t is.
indeed, fur I have not met a single del
egaie from the Southern S:ates who
nas not been UI ever since be went
there, lut to Gen. Forrest. Now
that the Southern people have elevated
him to the position of their great lead-
er ana oracle, it may not Le amiss to
preface my conversation with him with
a brief sketch of the gentleman..
I cannot belter personally describe
him than by borrowing the language of
one of his biographers. "In person,
he is six feet one inch and a half in
hight, with troad shoulders, a full chert
and symmetrical, muscular limbs ; erect
in carriage, and weighs one hundred
and eighty five pounds dark gray
eyes, dark hair, mustache, end beard
worn upon the chiu ; a set of regular
white teeth and clearly cut features ;"
which, altogether, make him rather a
handsome man for one forty-seven
years of age.
Previous to the war in 1So2 he
eft the business of planter, and came
to this city and engaged in the business
of "negro trader," in which traffic he
seem to have been quite successful. for,
by 1561, he had become the owner of
two plantations a few miles below here,
Mississippi, on which he produced
about a thousand bales of cotton each
,ear, in the meantime carrying on the
nfgro trading. In June, 1SG1, he was
authorized bv Gnv Harris - .--uii a
regiment of cavalry for the war. which
he did, and which was the nucleus
around which he gathered the armv
which he commanded as a Lieutenant
General at the close of the war
I said : "Sir, I will publish only whnt
you say, and tnen you cannot possibly
be misrepresented. Our people desire
to know your feelings toward the gen
eral government, the Slate government
of Tennessee, the Radical party, both
in and out of the State, and upon the
question of negro tuflrage."
"U ell, sir, said he, "when I sur
endered my seven thousand men in
SGJ, I accepted a parole, honestly.and
have observed it faithfully up to to-day.
have counseled peace in all the
peeches I have made. I have advised
my people to submit to the laws of the
State, oppressive as they are, and un
constitutional as I believe them to be.
was paroled and not pardoned i ntil
the assurance of the last proc'amati'jn
of general amnesty, and therefore did
not think it prudent for me to uke any
active part, until the oppression cf my
eople became so great that they could
not endure i , and then I would be with
them. My friends thovght differently
and sent ine to New Yotk, and I am
glad I teem there."
In the event of Governor JJrown-
ovv's calling out the militia, do you
think there will be any resistance offer
ed to their acts ?M I asked.
"That will depend uponcircumsiances
f the militia are simply called out.and
do not interfere with or molest any one
do not think there will be any fight,
f, on the contrary, they do what I be-
ieve they will do, commit outrages, or
even one outrage, upon tne people.
they and Jtlr. Biownlow's government
will be swept out of existence; not a
Raaical will be left alive. It the militia
are called out, we cannoi but look upon
l as a declaration of war, because Mr
Brownlow nas already issued his proc-
aination directing them to shoot down
the Ku Klux wherever they find them,
and be calls all Southern men Ku
Klux."
Why, General, we people up Norih
have regarded the Ku Klux Klan as
an organization wnich existed only in
the frightened imagination of a few
politicians."
"Well, sir. there is such an organi
zation, not only in leunessee, but all
over the South, and its numbers have
not been exaggerated.''
"What are us numbers, General?
"In Tennessee there are over forty
thousand; in all the Southern States
ihiy number about 550,000 men."
"Wnat ia tL cbarncter of tne organ
ization, may I inquire."
'Yes, sir. It is a protective, politi
cal, military organization. I am will
ing to show any man the constitution of
the society. The members are sworn
to recognize the government of the
United States. It does not say anything
at all about the government of the State
of Tennessee. Its objects orisinaliy
were protection against Loyal Leagues
and the Grand Army of the 'Republic,
but after it became general it was found
that political matters and interests could
best be promoted within it, and it was
then made a political organization, giv
ing its support, of course, to the Demi
ocratic party."
"Hut is the organization connected
throughout the State ?"
"Yes, it is. In each voting precinct
there is a captain, who. in addition to
his ether duties, is required to make
out a list of names of men in his pre
cinct, giving all the Radicals and al
the Democrats who are positively
known, and showing also the doubtfu
on both sides and of both colors. This
list of names is forwarded to the Grand
Commander of the State, who is thus
enabled to know who are our friends
and who are not."
"Can you, or are you at liberty to
give me tne came ot tne commanding
officer of this State ?"
No, it would be impolitic "
Then I suppose that there can be
no doubt of a conflict if the militia in
terfere with the people; is that your
view ?"
l es. sir; it tne attempt to carry
out Governor Brownlow's proclamation
by shooting down Ku Klux for he
cal's all Southern men Ku Klux if
they co to hunting down and shooting
these ineu. there will be war, and a
bloodier one than we have ever wit
nessed' 1 nave tola tnese Kauicals here
what they mijrht expect in such an
event. J. nave no powder to burn Kill
tng negroes 1 intend to kill the Kadi
cats Fhave told them this and more; there
is not a Radical leader in this town but
is a marked man, and if a trouble should
break out, net one oj them would be left
alive. I liave told them that they wre
trying to create a disturbance and then
slip out and leave the consequences to
fall upon the negro, but they can't do
it. Their houses are pickeUd. and when
the fight comes, not one of them would
ever get out of this town alive. We
don't intend jhey shall ever get out of
the country. But I want it distinctly
understood that I am opposed to any
war, and will only fight in self-defense.
f the militia i Hack us, we will resist
to the last, and if necessary, 1 think I
could raise forty thousand men in five
days, ready for the Jield.
'Do you inink, Oeneral, trif wu
Klux have teeu oi any benefit to the
State."
"No doubt of it. Since its organi
zation the Leagues have quit killing
and murdering our people. There were
oine foolish young nie-n who put masks
on their faces and rode over the conn
try, frightening negroes; but oiders
have been issued to stop that, aud it
has ceased You may say further.that
three members oj the Ku Klux have been
court martialed and shot for violations
of the orders not to disturb or molest
people."
Are you a member of the Ku Kiux,
General ?"
I am not; but am in sympathy and
will co-operate with them. I know that
they are charged wiih many crimes that
they are not guilty of. A case in point
is the killing of Bierneld. at Franklin,
a few days ago. I sent a man vp there
especially to investigate the case, and
eport to me, and I have his letter here
now, in wmcn tie states that they had
nothing to do with it as an organiza-
I
j
ion.
What do you think of negro suf
frage ?"
"I am opposed to it under any and
all circumstances; and in our conven
tion urged our par:y not to commit them
selves al all upon the subject. If the
negroes vote to enfranchise us.I da not
think I would favor their disfranchise
meut. We will s'.and by those who
help oi. And here I want you to un
derstand distinctly, I am not an enemy
to the negro. We want him here
among us ; he is the only laboring class
we have and more than that, I would
sooner trust him than the white scala
wag or carpel bagger When I entered
the armv, I took forty-seven nogroes
into the army with me, and forty-five of
them were surrendered with me. I
said to them at the start: This fight
is against slavery ; if we lose it you
will be made free; if we whip the fight,
and you stay with me and'be good boys
I will set you free. In either case you
will be free.' Those boys staid with
me, drove my teams, and better. Con
federates did not live."
"Do you think the Ku Klux will try
to intimidate the negroes at the elec
tion r
"I do not think they will. Why, I
made a speech at Brownsville the other
day, aud while there a lieutenant, who
served with me, came to me and in
formed me that a band of Radicals had
been going through the country claim
ing to be-Ku Klux, and disarmed the
negroes, and then selling their arms. 1
to'd him to have the matter investigated
and, if true, to have the parlies arrest
ed." "What do jou think is the effect of
the amnesty granted to your people."
"I believe thai the amnesty restored
all the rights to the people, full and
complete. I do not think the federal
government has the right to d sfranchise
any man, but I believe that ihe Legis
latures of the States have. The obiec-
tion I have to the disfranchisement in
Tennessee is.thal the Legislature which
enacted the law bad no constitutiona
existence, and tne law, in itseir, is a
nullny. Still I would respect it unti
chanced bylaw; but there is a limit
bevond which men cannot be driven
and I am ready to die sooner than sac
rifice my honor. This thing must have
an end, and it is now about time for
tl at end to come."
" WLat do you think of Gen. Grant?"
I asked.
"I regard him as a great military
commander, a good map, honest and
liberal, and if elected will, I hope and
believe, execute the laws honestly and
faithfully. And, by the way, a report
has been published in some of the pa
pers, staling that while Gen. Grant and
lady were at Corinth, in 1G2, they
look and carried off furniture and oih
er property. I here brand the author
as a liar. I was at Corinth only a short
time ago, and I personally investigated
the whole matter, talked with the peo
pie with whom he and his lady lived
while there, and they say that their
conduct was everything that could kave
been expected of a gentleman and lady.
and deserving the highest praise.
am opposed to Geo. Grant in everything.
but L would do him justice.
The foregoing is the principal part
of my conversation with the General
I give the conversation, and leave the
reader to form his .own opinion as to
what Gen. Forrest means to do.
think that he has been so plain in his
talk that it cannot be misunderstood.
A New Disease. A western news
paper notices the prevalence or a new
disease called the pipsynipsy, and
thinks it oeculiar to that section. We
do not know that the exact disease has
made its appearance yet, but the reme
dy is in gei.eral use. The disease is
described as follows:
A sudden depression of the collipsis
dinix, a caving in of the spinality of
the backonibus, and a feeling of slim
ness in the immediate vicinity or the
diaphragm, may be regarded as symp
toms thnt the complaint is coming on
The following remedy will afford in
stant relief :
Spiritus vini Otard, z i.; sugarum
whitum q. s ; icibus coolus.ti r.; shak-
te violenter ; addus spngus in.ntus
duus, and suckite cum strawum. We
have heard it said that it is-worth while
having the disease for the sake of the
remedy. There are other prescriptions,
however, which may be of use. Thus
for the squimpus, which manifests by
an alveolar exchrushment of the flu-
bellic, and a sudden explosion of the
sclopulum among the minor deltoids of
he guyastrupus. we should take:
Tine, Peruvii barki bitters, 1 oz.
Sugarialbi, vel sweetningus, consid
erable bus.
Spiritus frutnenti, vel old reyeus, ad
b.
Waterus pumpus, non multum.
Nutmegus, spnnklibus.
Governor Sermour During tlie
uar.
A correspondent of the Meriden
(Conn.) Republican says : "In Decern"
ber 1861, 1 was in New York stopping
at the bt. JNicholas Hotel. Al 1U o cl k
m. I went into the dining room to
get a cup of tea, and opposite me at the
able sal two gentlemen.- One of the
gentlemen said to the ether, 'What do
you think of Grant's campaign?' (The
General was then before Richmond.)
The reply was, 'The most stupendous
military failure in the. world.' 'How
ong, said tbe gentleman, 'do you think
the war will last? "Four years long
er, was the reply, 'four years longer
unless concessions are made to the
South.' I whispered in my waiter's
ear: "Wrho is that gentleman ?" indi
eating the one who had replied.- rle
aid, 'Governor Seymour. It was the
only time I ever saw the gentleman, but
the incident made so strong impres
sion on my nima that l made a note ot
l, and here for the first time reproduce
it. It was not much for a private indi
vidual, and would only at that time have
marked him as a notorious Copperhead
But now, as we asked to make Gov.
Seymour President, every ine'dent be
comes of consequence when it indicates
his past character."
What can be more unfortunately im
pudent, transcendantly ridiculous, than
for a party like the Ku Klux Klan,
which got the country into such a fright
ful scrape in 1660, a pain to appeal to
the intelligent people of the country for
support in 1868? After perpetrating
all the crimes in and out of the deca
logue in 1SG0, they are begging and
pleading for a chance to do the same
thing and commit the same shocking
crimes now.
chance. Ex.
But ihey won't get the
Let every boy in blue who starved
and suffered at Andersonville, who saw
his comrades torn and mangled by Reb
el hounds or shot down at the dead line
by ihe Democratic sentry, or who saw
the thirteen thousand graves of com
rades who perished there by Rebel in
humanity, remember that those who
perpetrated these barbarities will sup
port Seymour and Blair to a man.
There is only one difference between
Seymour and Blair; Seymour favored
the last rebellion; while Blair favors
the next rebellion.
Ot'It lUTLKE.
Au Eloquent Speech "by Gener
al Sherman
Contrast the following extract from
Lieut Gen. Sherman's speech, at the
annual reunion of the Army of the
Teneessee, at St. Louis, last Novem
ber, with Frank Blair's revolutionary
letter :
"How has this punishment been par
titioned by the result of this war ? We
of the North have to mourn the loss of
fathers, brothers, sons, and friends, and
are burdened with a vast national debt,
binding on us in tact, in law, and hon-
or, never, a nope, to ue questioneu ny
any honorable man in America till ev-
eiy cent is paid.
".L.00K to me Doutn, ana you wno
went with me through that land can
best say if they, too.have not been fear
tuny punished. Alouming in every
household; desolation written in hard
characters across the whole face of their
country ; cities in ashes, and fields laid
waste : their commerce gone ; their
system of labor annihilated and des
troyed ; ruin, poverty, and distress e7
erywhere, and now pestilence adding
the cap-sheaf lo their stock of misery;
her proud men begging for pardon ;
and apnea'ing for permission to raise
food for their children ; her 4.000.C00
of slaves free, and their value lost to
ihtir former masters forever.
"How any Southern gentleman, with
these facts plain and palpable evtry
where staring him in the fate and re
corded forever in the book of history.
can still beast of his "lost cause or
speak of it in language other than that
of shame and sorrow, passes in? under
standing ; and instead of being revived,
know that their lost cause will sink
deeper and deeper into infamy as time
more keeuly probes its hidden myster
es and reveals them to the light of cay.
"Now tnat slavery is gone, and gone
forever, with its unhappy wrecks left
behind, and all danger is passed of any
set of men again appealing to war
when they have courts to secure their
rights and redress their wrongs,! would
trust our national destiny again to those
grand old natural laws which raised
our country through the long, tedious
vassalage of colonization ; which car
ried us safely through the ordeal of our
Revolutionary war, made our flag fam
ous on the bigh seas in 1812, led our
conquering army to the gates of Mex
ico in 1531, ana nas dotdu u glorious-
y through four years of as hard a war
as ever te?ted the mauhood ol any peo
pie.
Ltt
us revive, as far as lie-
in our
ndividual power, that system which.
Bancroft tells.guided cur father.- before
the Revolution the system which has
been revealed in JcdJa me sys em
which Cf mbines and perfects the sym
bolic wisdom of the Orient, and reflect-
ve genius of Greece the system con
forming to reason, yet kindling with
enthusiasm ; always hastening reform.
yet always conservative ; proclaiming
absolute equality among men, yet not
uddenly abolishing the unequal insti
luti.ms of society : guaranteeing abso
ute freedom, yet involving the inexor
able restrictions of duty ; in the highest
egree theoretical, yet in the 1 ighest
egree practical ; awakening the inner
man to a consciousness of bis destiny.
and yet adapted with exact harmony to
the outer world ; at once divine and
human. This system was professed in
every part of our widely extended
country and cradled our freedom.
"With such a spirit pervading all our
country once more ; with our population
increasing thirty-three per cent, every
ten years ; with our national wealth
developing in even a greater ratio:
with our frontiers pushing back in ev
ery direction ; with farms and villages
and cities rapidly covering our vast do
main ; with mines of gold and silver
and iron and coal, pouring out wealth
faster than ever did the cotton fields of
the South ; with 40,000 miles of finish
ed railroads and other thousands in
rapid progress can any one doubt our
present strength or calculate our future
destiny? If our friends at the South
will heartily and cheerfully join with
us in this future career, I for one wo'd
welcome them back our equals, but not
our superiors applause, and lend them
a helping hand ; but if like spoiled
children, they will cling to the dead
past, and shut their eyes to the coming
future, I would only call their attention
lo thnt wave of emigration that has
swept over our land from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and must soon turn back
and flow South. Applause. They
may oppose, but their opposition will be
as vain as it was for them to try to stop
the Army of the Tennessee, which
swepi me lengm ana breadth or their
land. The next wave of Northern in-
vasion will not desolate their land, but
will fructify and regenerate it."
Gen. Sherman declares for Grant as
our next President, to secure the bless
ings he desires for the country.
Amos Lawrence said, when asked
for advice. "Young man, base all your
actions upon a principle ; preserve your
integrity ot character, ana in doing this,
never reckon the cost."
Grant has revived his famous saying.
and it now reads thus:
I propose to fight it oat on thi line if
it takes all Seymour.
The Demecratic Platform is in favor
of paying off thejnational obligations in
greenbacks, when not otherwise stipu
lated. There are something over two
thousand million of these obligations.
When greenback to this amount, or
half ot it, are issued, what will they be
worth? A paper dollar has a value
in proportion to the capacity of the is
suer to redeem it in coin. Wrhere is
the coin wherewith to redeem this
greenback flood ?
,
Old Rogers was visiting a friend,
who had a fine little girl, about three
years old. who was remarkable for
smart sayings. As usual, she was
shown off before our esteemed friend.
"What is papa?'' said ihe parent, in
order to draw out the precious reply.
"Papa is a humbug," said the juven
ile.
"I declare," said old Rogers, "I nev
er in ray life saw so young a chi'd with
so mature a ludgment.
Impcdext. A paper at Desmoines
says that the grasshoppers recently ate
up a half acre of Tobacco for a man
near that place and when the owner
went to look at it, they sat on the fence
and squirted tobacco juice in his eyes.
Precepts are poor stuff tew bring up
young ones on, it is like sending them
down cellar without enny kandle tew
learn them tew see in the dark.
Hipokrasy is one ov the vices yu kant
konvert; yu might az well undertake
to git the wiggle out a snake, or the
grease out ovjfatpork.
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THE TWO SOLDIERS.
'Let!tb,9 President elect disperse
the carpet-bag State Governments."
Gen. F. P. Blair.
"Let us have peace f" Gen. U. S,
Grant.
The copperheads here are woful'y
despondent. Their faces are as long
as they used to be after news of a
Union victory. Coming events cast
their shadows before.
We like to see a farmer increase the
growth "of useful plants and shrubs,
around his home, but do not like to see
him use rails, poles and boards o pop-
a scale wiin
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O. F.
One of the complaints against the Re
construction laws is. that thiw hr'
taoiisnea an equality in the politicalpow
er of the white people of theNortb and
South. New Hampshire has a popula
tion of 325,579, and South Carolina 261,
oou. oouin tjaronna nas a uiacs popu
lation of 412,S2C. Under the rule of tha
Democratic partv, the U'Jl.OOU whites ot
South Carolina may elect 0 representa
tives to Congress and lave 6 votes for
President, while th 325,000 white people
of New Hampshire can only elect two
members of congress, and have two votes
for President. Each white man in South
Carolina under that rule has thiee times
the political power of the white man at
tho North. Reconstruction breaks up
this inequality, and places the white men
of both sections on tlfe same footing. It
provides that if the State wishes to count
her blacks for one political purpose, she
must do so in all political senses ; that if
the colored race is to be represented in
Congress they shall have a voice in the
choice of their representatives. Is that
not fair and right? Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Seymour, the great statesman
whose statesmanshipVould have destroy
ed the htate, says that "our people are
harassed by the heavy and freqt ont d i
mands of the tax gatherer." True, an 1
these demands were caused by a Rebel,
lion of Southern Democrats, doubled by
the sympathetic aid of Northern Copper
heads, and would be rendered twice as
heavy and fraquent as they need be by
the polioies of revolution introduced into
the Democratic platform by Wado Hamp -ton
and Pendleton, adopted by the Con
vention with tha same .wild Rebel yell
which used to salute the ears of our
troops wben they were pressed back on
the battle-field, indorsed by Seymour and
B'a:r in their lette 8 of acca, tan:'-, ard
now put forward as the creed of the Dem.
ocratio party. iV. Y. Tribune.
RETKEXCIIMENT.
-The expenses of the navy since 1862
show whether retrenchment has been go
ing on or not. The figures are as fol
lows :
1862 $ 42,674.509
1863 53,211,105
1864 83,733,292
1865 122,507,776
1863 33,324,118
1867 31,034.004
1808 2o,775'502
1809 appropriated 17,300,000
The New York Tribune say : 'Thus,
from the day in which the Republican
party was formed, we have never lost
th'n State (New York) on a full vo'e,
never lost twice in succession, and never
lost it twico in the same Presidential
term. We are confident that thiB year
will establish no exceptions to the above
rules."
After a long march, -daring the lata
war, a captain orderd, as a eanitaryjpre-
eaution, that the men should change their
undershirts. The O S. suggested that
half the men only had one shirt each.
The captain hesitated a moment and then
said : Military orders must be obeyed :
let the men change with each other,
A Copperhead candidate for Congress
inMissouri by the name of Oliver acknowl
edges tha'Jhe has ntgro Hood in his rteirr.
Yet this is to be a white man's govern
ment !
nsw consistent the Democracy areget
tin? to be.
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