TIIJIEE bTAGES OP'LIFE.
Tliore is a time In life
The brightest days of youth
When we arc ever searching
" For something morethan truth ;
"When our hnng nation
Puts beauty ovi-r all ,
Then life IB at its zenith ,
Ere hollow tncck'rles pall.
There Is a time in life
When man Is like the clay ,
Which we can mold with care
Or spoil or throw away ;
For If n careless sculptor
Should take the work in hand ,
He'd epoil that hit of nature ,
Though for a god he planned.
But If It be a sculptor
Who knows the vital art ,
He'll mold tuat bit of day
Into a noble heart.
There Is a time in life
When man looks back and sighs
For something left undone ,
Or something done unwise ;
But then whate'cr betide us ,
Whate'er our lives beget ,
We always leave bchinu us
Some footprints of regret
Jfny J'lciscJimcm.
WITH JUiNE ROSES.
The blue sky smiled down lovingly
and brightly as only June skies can
seem ; birds twittered and sang in the
treetops or hopped about on the car
pet of green in search of food for their
young ; breezes seemed whispering
among the leaves stories of the flow
ery meadows over which they had
come , while the scholars in the little
brown school house which nestled in
the grove like a brown robin in her
leat-curtained nest looked out of the
windows and wondered if noon would
never come.
"i say , Jim , " whispered ono towhead -
head to another , "see that snowbank
up there ? " pointing to a pile of white
fluffy clouds. "Now if I's the little
angel , I'd have a game of snowball. "
Naw ye wouldn't nather , " sai.l
Jim , shying a paper wad at the red
headed girl opposite him. "Yer ma
don't 'low ye to play in snow , hone } ' . "
"Oh , what a whopper ! " exclaimed
the first speaker.
"No such a thing , " remarked Jim ,
preparing paper for another charge.
"Ye know yo didn't play a game last
" * * * tJ
winter. "
"Well , an' what'f I didn't ; guess I
had the whoopin' cough last winter.
an' ma said her brother'd died 'cause
he'd caught cold wen he had the
whoopin' cough , and it went to his
lungs an' killed him. An " "Crack-
ey , " interrupted Jim. "She nearly
caught me that time. I I sa } ' , let's
study our spellin' lesson. I'll just
shoot this one more , an' then we'll
study. " But that one more was the
one too many. It hit the ill-natured
fellow in the corner on his freckled
nose , and ho promptly reported on
James , who was thereupon assigned
standing room by the teacher's desk.
The flrst towhead left to himself di
vided his time between the window
near him and the clock , which to him
did not appear to move at all , "Please ,
ma'am , " said he at length , as though
he had just made a startling discovery ,
"please , teacher , the clock's stopped. "
"No , " said the teacher , with a smile
of sympathy , "I guess the clock is all
right. But you have stopped study
ing , Billy. " Towhead manfully wink
ed , the tears away and dropped his
spelling book out of the window.
"Teacher , may I get my book ? " he
said. "No , Hilly , this makes the
third time you have dropped your
book this week. You may study with
Johny Jones , " said the poor , tired
teacher , striving to speak kindly.
"But something will tear my book up
and I can't have no more till next
term , pap said. "
"What is there out there to disturb
your book ? "
" 0 , " said towhead , after a short
pause , "toads 'n' things , " then added
more excitedly , amidst the laugh that
greeted this ominous list of destroy
ers : "Oh , there's Tom Woodson's
dog , now , 'n' he just hates books. "
"Keep your scat , " said the teacher
quietly ; "I will get the book for you.
Then you must stand on the floor , seas
as not to bo tempted to drop it
again. "
Towhead looked rather blank , but
managed to get him a drink while she
was gone for the book. Thus the
forenoon dragged "its weary length
along. " The" scholars restless and
idle , and the teacher almost too weary
and sad to blame them for it. But at
last the clock struck twelve , school
was dismissed for the noon hour , and
the scholars went shouting and jump
ing away to open their lunch baskets
on the cool , green grass beneath the
trees , and lave their faces in the brook
that flowed near by. The teacher was
left alone. The sad meaning of that
word thrilled her as she turned the
leaves of her registrar , to give Teddy
Mulligan credit for his noon head
mark in the spelling class. Then she
turned to the lunch which the far
mer's wife with whom she boarded
had "put up" for her. The lunch was
dainty , and nicely arranged , as her
landlady had paid more than usual
care to its preparation , remembering
that this was , the little teacher's birth
day , and that it was a sad day , too ,
for the girl who had on this day , six
years before , turned from the grave
of her mother , her last relative , so far
as she knew , homeless and alone , to
find a dwelling place among strangers ,
and earn her living by teaching
school. Yet tempting as the sugared
berries , with cream , and the flaky
rolls upon which the cook quite prided
herselt would have beun at a happier
time , the teacher turned from them
with a sigh to-day , and catching up a
bunch of roses that ono of the
little girls had that morning brought
and placed upon the teacher's desk ,
she "buried her face in their bright
depths and burst into a passion of
weeping. Round a little home far
away the roses had clustered thick
and various in the happy sum
mers of years that were gone. Little
' did the school girl think as she gather
ed that bunch of roses and as a gift
of love iaid it upon the teacher's desk
that morning of the many sweet 'and
precious memories it would bring
about that teacher's heart. But as
the roses , crushed by the pressure of
her face , threw round her their fra
grance the teacher's thoughts sped
back through the years dividing to
the home of her childhood and youth.
On such another June day as this , the
\
last birthday she had spent in that
home , how happy , oh , how very hap
py , they had been. Her mother and
father and their three children , Fred ,
and Benny and herself. Memory
showed her now her sweet brown
haired mother by an open window ,
just outside of which her father stood
pruning a rose that threatened to
throw such thick foliage across the
window as to shutout the light , while
past them through the airy hallway
and out through the yard to the
orchard Fred. , her eldest brother , was
driven by the darling of tlio family ,
little Ben. , still in frocks , but often
boasting of the pants ho is to wear
soon.
"Out on the wide , rose-covered
porch , a cluster of young girls are
chatting merrily , and their laughter
reaching the woman by the window ,
then makes her smile again as if she
felt in their happiness her own youth
renewed ,
In the pleasant dinning room the
table is spread for tea , and soon the
family and the merry girl cousins , who
have come in honor of the day , are
gathered to unite in the enjoyment of
the good things prepared for them.
All heads are bowed a moment as the
father lifts liis voice in words of
thanksgiving and of prayer. That
prayer comes back to the teacher in
the plain country school house far
away from her loved ones to-day. The
father's voice is stilled in death. Lit
tle Ben. and the mother , and even the
merry cousins , full of life and health ,
as they then seemed to be , have each
heard the call to the home wheio it
is always joyful , and the roses never
fade. The teacher believes that Fred.
has joined them there. He went to
the army , while yet the roses of that
June were in their prime , and years
have come and gone , the war is long
since a matter of the past , there is
yet no word from the soldier boy , and
hope so long delayed has given way to
despair. There was another , too , who
went out that happy Juno time to risk
his life at .his country's call ono who
was young , and passionate and hot
headed ; who because of a foolish
quarrel with the girl who loved him ,
herself quick-tempered , and little
thinking how far one litt'e angry word
may go toward embittering a whole
lifetime , thought would soon pass
iway , as many another of their quar
rels had done , leaving him loving her
as much or even more than ever
vent away without one word of peace
or kind good-by , though he still wore
icr fair pictured face next to his heart
and she still retained the engagement
ring he had given her.
After days of weary waiting for him
to come sueing for peace , the village
gossip told in her hearing of his having -
ing joined the army and gone away ,
and the news fell on the girl's angry
heart like a seething branding iron.
But then she had in r father and moth
er and little Ben. at home with her.
Now all were gone. The happy home
gone too. Yet that prayer of the
father for her in whose "honor , that
simple feast was spread her whom
his heart held very dear , and for
whom his soul went out in trembling
earnestness , still lived on.
Even as it came to her thoughts to
day she felt as if not alone after all.
Surely the God to whom her father
had prayed was with her yet. He had
promised never to leave nor forsake.
With Him was no changing no death ,
no anger , that so long as life endured
could not be turned away showing
forth His tender mercy and His love.
No , she was not alone. A sweet
sense of. protection of comfort came
to her heart , and she seemed to join
her father's spirit in the prayer he had
breathed that other day , that God
would take her future into His own
keeping and guide her days according
to His will.
A red rose fell on the desk at her
side , and , looking up in a startled way ,
she saw a face at the window near her
that made her hold out her hands
with a cry , uncertain between fear
and joy. But the great bearded fel
low who sprang through the window
and caught her in his arms just as she
tottered to fall was not uncertain any
longer.
This ivas his sister May. The one
whom he had sought and sought again ,
but could not find until by chance if
there is such a thing as chance in
passing this little house in the grove
he had found her bending over the
roses with a look that he knew al
though the face that held it was sadly
changed from that of the merry sister
he had left at home so long ago.
There was no school in the brown
school house that afternoon. The
children frolicked in the grove or shyly
crept up to the door and looked in at
the happy pair ; some of them even
tiptoed into the school room and
stood listening while the brother told
of the fierce fight that had almost cost
him his life , of the long , dreary sea
son in the hospital , of other fights
that followed , of a time harder than
all the rest when he lay surrounded
by the horrors of Libby prison , of
other fights and other hardships till
the war was ended and he started for
home , only to be overtaken time and
again by sickness , when he must bide
for weeks , sometimes months at some
hospital along his route , as ho was
too poor to hire medical care for him
self. Then , of his reaching his native
village at last to hear that all of his
relatives were dead except May and
that she had gone , no ono knew
whither.
"But how did you find mo at last ? "
asked the happy teacher. "A friend at
our old home , " was the answer , "has
shown me great kindness. He as
sisted me to start in business , and has
done all he could to aid me in my
search for you. When we heard a
report of jour death in a distant state
he refused to believe it , and has al
most froced me to employ every
means possible to find some clue to
your whereabouts. 1 am come to this
part of the country to see about land
belonging to our firm. Wishing to go
to a furm over here owned by a man
by the name of Brown , I tired of the
dirty road and decided to take a short
cut through the grove. Glanced into
the schoolroom through mere curios
ity in passing and you know the
rest. Praise the Lord ! I found my
sister here. "
I hoard with Farmer Brown , " said t
the teacher , after a happy panfo. "I
will call the school together and dis
miss , then walk oyer with you to the
farm. "
Fred , must make haste with his
business and could not be persuaded
to leave his sister hero.
"Find souio one else , to finish her
school , " ho said. "My May must go
homo with mo in the morning. "
Home ! Oh , none but those who
have tried life without it can realize
how much of joy and hope and com
fort that little word signifies. And
the poor , lone , weary school teacher
was going home.
When at the close of the third day
of travel they reached their station
and found a carriage awaiting them
there. May was too tired and full of
other thoughts to wonder who knew
of or so kindly expected their coming.
But * when , after driving : through the
streets of the large town that had
taken the place of the little village in
which she had lived in these old days
she was lifted out of the carriage at a
little wicket gate , just as the sun was
kissing the day good-by and beams of
wondrous glory rested on all the scene
about her , she stood a moment in mute
astonishment and then , turning to
Fred , with a cry of ecstasy , said , "O ,
it is really my same old home1"
Slowly May passed up the walk , as
if treading on holy ground. The roses
clustered in their fragrant beaut } and
about the wide porch as of yore and
May's old fashioned rocker stood
awaiting her as it had used to do in
her days of happy girlhood , "He seat
ed a moment. May , I want to tell you
something , " said her brother. "This
is not my property , " he continued , as
May sank into her chair , with a long
drawn quivering breath , and sat try
ing to keep back the tears and to list
en 10 what he had to say. "I am mak
ing my home here for the present with
the friend of whom I told Vou. He
requested that I bring you "here for
this lirst evening anyway. He it is
who has kept this home for you as near
as possible to its former solf. He has
been waiting against all discourage
ments and failures in our search for
you. Can you not guess who he is ?
Are you willing to forgive and see
him now ? "
A strange , solemn quiet came over
his listener. "It is Philip , " she said ,
"where is he ? " She was white as the
dead , yet put aside her brother's prof
fered arm and found her way as if by
instinct or angel guidance , for she
walked as if not seeing whither she
went , into the little old-fashioned par
lor where love and joy awaited her.
Do I need to tellypu that this Philip
was the hot-headed lover who had
rushed off to the war after their bitter
parting in that June so lonjr ago ?
Do' I need to add that there was a
quiet wedding just after prayer meet
ing at the little chapel across the
street that night ? Do I need to tell
you who were the bride and groom ?
Do I need to assure you that Fred.
found glad welcome with them until
he had chosen a wife and home of his
own ?
I must not tell you too much ; for I
want to end this stoiy , so far as the
celling is concerned , while these three
hearts who have by sorrow been leJ/fc
know thu sure friendship and mercy
of God are in their little home unit
ing in thanksgiving to Him who hav
ing guided them through the days of
their trouble has again loaned to them
the blessings of home , friends and
happiness , has given back the years of
their joy and given joy for all years
with the June roses.
Well-Holes on the Sea-Coast.
In mr childhood I discovered a well-
hole * in a perfectly Hat granite ledije
at Cundy's harbor , on Harpswell
Great island , Maine. This hole was
about the dimensions of a flour barrel
and about live feet in depth and per
fectly round , smooth at the sides and
concave at the bottom. It was told
me at that time that Harpswell Great
island was a favorite winter residence
of Indian tribes , attracted to the place
by the thousands of acres of round
quahaug claims in adjacent flats lying
west of the island and south of Burns-
wick. There were fine fishing grounds
well in shore , near Cundy's Harbor ,
which would be an additional induce
ment an Indian village there. An old
stager , well acquainted with Indian
customs , stated that this well hole
was made by the Indians , by turning
a large stone and grinding the cavity
slo.vlyin the action of sharp gravel
under the revolving stone. It was
used to boil lobsters , fish , and corn by
filling half full of fresh water and
dropping in heated stones until the
water was about the boiling point.
The food was put into the hole and
"
heated stones "frequently added to
keep the water in a boiling state. The
hole was also used as a mortar in
which to pound corn under the weight
of a heavy round stone dropped upon
the corn in the cavity at the bottom of
the hole. I do not consider it possible
that this particular well-hole could
have been excavated by other than
human hands , since at the ledge in
which it was found was very smooth ,
, apparently having been worn by many
feet congregating around the cavity.
In the town of Georgetown , Me. , on
the Riggs farm , some four or five hun
dred feet from and perhaps seventy-
five feet above tidewater , on the Sas-
sanoa river , there are three of these
wells , the largest of which I helped
clear out about thirty-nine years ago.
It is some seven or eight feet in dia
meter and eight or nine in depth , per
fectly round and smooth. The others ,
one on either side , are considerably
smaller. These walls have been visit
ed by a large number of people , among
them many scientific men , who have
never been able to account for their
origin. About two miles to the west
of this I discovered another small one ,
about two ieet in diameter , which I
think is entirely covered by decayed
leaves. In the town of Harpswell
there are three more , situated nearly
as the first described , high above
the water. They are on the flat ledge ,
Cor. Boston Journal.
Tbe wife of a prominent citizen of Lockportl
New York , named S. R. Goddard , having sud
denly became insane from illness , stabbed her
self with a carvlns-knlfe at the breakfasl
table , and then pounded herself with a fiatiron
before she could be quieted.
TIIE TYPE-WIUTEH.
i. Mechanical Contrivance with Unbounded
Popularity.
The click of the type-writer is ono
) f the most familiar sounds to the fre
quenters of down-town offices. In
aearly every largo office ono or more
> f these little machines can bo found
ii constant use and they are still
growing in popularity.
About ten years ago the first type
writer was invented. It was patented
by two Detroit men who sold their
rights to the machine , but drew a
royalty on it for some years. One of
iheso men was a printer by trade , and
Jor years ho had been experimenting
with" writing machine to supplant
ihe pen. He lirst invented a machine
for numbering automatically the
oages of books such as ledgers.
IVhen the type-writer was first Mpon
; ho market it was a crude machine ,
rery different from what it is to-day.
The foot was brought into operation
in it to pull back the carriage upon
which the paper was rolled , some
what like a sewinjr machine. There
were various other clumsy appliances
connected with it , and the machine
was regarded by the public more as
i curiosity than as a practical writing
instrument. A few large offices , how-
3ver , began to use type-writers , and
the advantages of the instrument were
seen where a large number of mani
fold copies were required and it was
desirable to have a very plain and
2asily deciphered copy. Improve
ments were made from time to time
in the mechanism , and as the machine
was gradually being perfected it be
came more and more popular.
Meantime its success prompted oth-
3i * inventors to apply themselves co
the subject of writing machines. One
of the lirst to come out was invented
in Sweden and patent * obtained uponit
throughout Europe. The principle of
this type-writer was radically differ
ent from that of the American ma
chine. Instead of the type being ar
ranged in a circular pocket and fly
ing up to hit the paper , in the for
eign machine the type and keys were
arranged like pins in a pincushion
and the instrument was in the shape
of a hemisphere. With the keys stick
ing out all over its surface it very
much resembled a porcupine. This
machine was very small and could
almost be carried in the pocket. Ic
had many advantages over the Ameri-
maehine , and likewise many disad
vantages.
Hardly had the foreign machine
been upon the market than another
American machine came out upon
some of the principles of the first
machine , the patents" upon which liad
expired. This was followed by anoth
er on an altogether different plan ,
the type being made of rubber and
all together on a little pad.
When writing the letter is brought
over a small hole in a plate and
through this hits the paper , all the
other types at the same time taking
up a supply of ink. On the other ma
chines an inked ribbon is brought be
tween the type and the paper , ami the
ink takes the'shape of the letter pres
sing against it.
This was followed by still another
machine wherein the type , made on
hard rubber in the form of a cylinder ,
revolved in a horizontal cavity and
the paner was driven up against the
type by the release of a small hammer
every time a letter was struck. One
of the advantages of this latter ma
chine is that an infinite number of
characters can be used in it and type
for writing in German and other for
eign languages can be inserted at will.
A member of the Turkish Legation
in the United States not long ago ex
pressed his admiration of the type
writer and his intention of having"one
made that would write in the Turkish
language. There are * thirty-three
letters in this language and Hassin
Eflendi made a copy of them and gave
it to an engraver to make a set of
letters for the type-writer. It was
only at the last minute that he dis
covered that all the type-writers work
"
from left to right , "as the English
language is written , while Turkish is
written from right to left. The ex
cessive cost of altering a machine to
write in this direction decided him
not to get one. A type-writer
writing in any language can be made ,
however.
The manufacture of type-writers is
now an important American industry.
Nine-tenths of all the type-writers
used in the world are made in this
country. The traveller can now find
the American machines in daily use
in England , France. German } ' , Russia ,
and indeed in all the European coun
tries. The English Government ,
which is very slow to make changes
of a radical or progressive nature , has
adopted the American type-writer ,
and in all the Government offices in
India as well those in London and
elsewhere the machine is now in con
stant use.
The Chinise are about the only people
ple who will be left out of the type
writing nations. " There are so many
thousand characters in their language
that it would be impossible to con
struct a machine capable of doing the
work.
There are many thousands of type
writers in daily use in New York City ,
and the instrument has long ceased to
be a curiosity. With the telephone ,
the Wall stre'efc ticker and the type
writer a part of every well-appointed
office , the duties of clerks have indeed
been revolutionized within the past
half centur } * .
Very many authors now write all of
their books and magazine articles on
the tvpe-writer , and among these are
W. D" Howells and Mark Twain. The
Declaration of Independence was not
written on a type writer , but if
Thomas Jefferson lived this in day he
would probably have ticked off his
immortal document upon one of these
little labor-saving machines. A legal
decision has been rendered to the ef
fect that although type-written manu
script is printed it is writing all the
same , and the postal authorities re
gard it as written matter which mus t
pay full postage. One of the openings
for women that are constantly coming
up is copying manuscript on the type
writer , and very many girls and young
women now find it a pleasant and re
munerative business. Short-hand
writers have also found the tpyo-writ-
ors a valuable aid , and lawyers are
beginning to use it for writs and other
legal documents.
There are now nearly a dozen dif
ferent type-writers on the market ,
each , of course , claiming . to bo the
best. The prices range from § 25 to
8100. The sale of the machines is
largo and constantly increasing. New
York Graphic.
FOllREST'S STAUE MANAGER.
Ho Contrasts the Present With the Past In
Stage Decoration.
"Tho stage costuming of to-day is
nothing as it was a few years ago , "
said ono of Boston's best known costumers -
tumers , once a favorite actor. Ho
stood , busily engaged in transform
ing , three bright-eyed , beardless boys
into red-coated soldiers of the Queen ,
in ona of these peculiar rooms , an
cient mediaeval and modern in decora
tion , that often are so fascinating to
the visitors eye.
"If you look at the earlier pictures
of Garrick or Siddons , in Hamlet , Lear
or Macbeth , you will find that , in ev
ery character , they are dressed in the
costumes of Washington's time , the
Continental costumes as they are call
ed. They never made any attempt to
follow the costumes of the period. "
"Who started the reform in this
matter ? "
"It was first introduced in England
by McCready and diaries Keaii. For
merly the actors were cither just what
they happened to have , or just what
the wardrobe woman gave them , and
it often made the most" motley combi
nation you ever saw. I remember
once I was playing with Forrest , and
was stage manager also. Now For
rest was one who was very particular
about his costumes. He would go on
to play his part , and I could see him
casting his eyes all over the stage to
see how his people looked , but he nev
er would say anything. Well , one
night wo opened somewhere with
King Lear , and when I went to get the
costumes from the wardrobe woman I
said :
"What are you going to dress the
doctor in ? "
A domino , of course. We always
play him in a domino. "
"Why , how is that ? " I said. "The
doctor is a gentleman , and should play
in a gentleman's costume. "
"Well , he always has played in a
domino , and ho ca'ii cither use that ergo
go without. " Ivent home and
"faked" up some kind of a costume of
the gentleman of the period , and we
played him in it that night.
"During the play Forrest came
'round to me and said :
" 'Where did you get the idea of
playing the doctor in that costume ? '
" 'The idea is partly historical and
partly my own , ' I told him.
" 'It's a good idea a mighty good
idea , ' he said , with a few of these or
namental words he of ten used ; 'let him
keep it on. '
"That is one instance of how these
little changes for the better creep in. "
"Where do you obtain all your ideas
/jostuming a historical play ? "
" 'Chiefly trom reading and experi
ence. I have a library of works on
the subject , and of general literature ,
I wouldn't take. $1.000 for. Yes , plates
help us a great deal in getting the col
or. We can't gain much information
from the ordinary novelist. He isn't
definite enough. Now there is ono
thing I don't think every one has no
ticed about Henry Irving's costumes
and those of his company. He owns
and .designs them all , as you know , but
there is hardly one of them that has
any gold or silver ornamentation , ex
cept a little on the cloaks. He has
the very richest stuffs- ; and the actor
has no choice but to take what Irving
gives him. I consider Irving one of
the very best stage managers we have
ever had. "
"Do the star actors , as a rule , look
after the costumes of their company ? "
"No : the costumer and the stage
manager attend to that. Lawrence
Barrett , I believe , designs many cos
tumes , and is , perhaps more particu
lar than most of them. The lady stars
have all they can do to look after their
own wardrobes. Sarah Bernhardt ,
though , is simply a marvel of a stage
manager. She "will dodge behind the
scenes and set six different persons go
ing in different directions all at once ,
steps into her dressing-room and
change her magnificent costumes so
quickly you can hardly believe she has
done it , and reappears on the stage
smiling. Jatiauschek , too , when she
brought out Bruuhilde hero for the
first time , procured a lot of copies of
the German stage setting she was the
original Brunhilde in Germany and
the scene painter made up all his
scenes from them , and they were , of
course , accurate. Take it in Hanlon's
Fantasma , for instance. The artists
sent us word that in one scene we
must use only silver and white to
match his scene , and then we know
just how to go to work. "
"Yes , the Germans have the finest
stage settings in the world , simply be
cause they have schools where the bus
iness is taught. But look at us ! We
have nothing of the sort. We have a
great deal to learn yet. " Uoslon
Globe.
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Poisoners ?
The Vienna Municipal Council has
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mation. A motion was debated for
erecting a furnace on trial , and it was
stated that the cost of building a fur
nace available for the whole capital
would be 130,000 florins. The motion
was not rejected , but adjourned. Cre
mation has many partisans in Vienna ,
and yesterday a debate was conducted
in a serious and practical spirit ,
Here , as elsewhere , however , it is
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facilities which cremation would offer
to poisoners. It is agreed that in gen
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