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J. Iff. KELLY,
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any description call on or address him
at Columbus, Neb.
John S. Christison, ill. D.,
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pital, Blackwell's Island.
Otllcc on Olive St., two doors south of
Cockbum's Store, Columbus.
FOE SALE 0E TBADE !
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SAEfB,K? ICKVaUS, wild or broke,
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420 GEHKAUD&ZEIGLER.
Chicago Barber Shop.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
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specialty. IIENKY WOODS,
472 Jim Proprietor.
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left at the post-oflice. Kates reapon
able, f 2 to A Ibion. 222.1 y
GOOD CHEAP EEICK !
AT MY UESIDENCK.on Shell Creek,
three miles eat of Matthis's bridge,
1 have
70.000 soot!. linrrt-Imrnt lrlclc
for sn.l,
which will be sold in lota to suit pur
chasers. -ItS-tf GEOUGEHENGGLEK.
Columbus Meat Market!
WEBER & KNOBEX, Prop's.
KEEP ON HAND all kinds of fresh
meats, and smoked pork and beef;
also fresh lis.lt. Make sausuge a spec
ialty. 23ritemember the place. Elev
enth St., one door wot of D. Ryan's
hotel. 417-tf
DOCTOR B0NESTEEL,
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coLUJtnus, : neijraska.
OFFICE IIOUKS, 10 to 12 a.m., 2 to
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E. .1. llaker's grain ollice. Residence,
corner Wyoming and "Walnut fctrects,
north Columbus, Nebr. 43.'i-tf
Dictrlclfss' nioat larkct.
Washington Are., nrarljr opiKislte Court Honsc.
OWING TO THE CLOSE TIMES,
meat will be sold at this market
low. low down for cash.
Host steak, per lb., 10c.
Rib roast, " 8c.
Roil, ' Cc.
Two cents a pound more than the above
prices will be charged on time, and that
to good responsible parties only. 267.
MRS. V. L. COSSEY,
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2 Door w,st of StttlinanV. Dm? Store.
Dresses and shirts cut and made to
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GiTC me a call and try my work.
425-ly
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beds 10 cents. J. 11. SENEC AL,
H mile cast of Gerrard's Corral.
HENRY GASS,
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Walnut Picture Frames. Mends Cane
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33? All work warranted. Shop on
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Columbus Nebraska. 447-ly
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Men's and boys' suits made in the
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very low prices. Men's suits Jti.00 to
$!UH), according to the j;oods and work.
Boys' suits ?3.00 to $1.00, according to
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2S7"CLKANING AND RKPAIKING DONE.JPJ
Bring on your soiled clothing. A
whole suit renovated and made to ap
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Repairing Done on Short Notice.
EsKics, Wajct:, r::., Uiio to Crier.
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They also keep on hand
Furst & Bradley Plows,
SULKY PLOWS, CULTIVATORS, &C.
Shop on Olive Street, opposite Tatter
sall. COLUMBUS, NEB.
WM. BECKEE,
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GE0CEEIES,
Grain, Produce, Etc.
I.
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Goods delivered Free of Charge,
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Corner of 13th and Madison Sts.
North of Foundry. 397
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MMaiEM
THE MORTGAGED FARM.
"Six o'clock I" said Marion Ilil
yard, looking up suddenly, as the
tall, old-fasliioncd clock in the cor
ner rang out its shrill announcement,
"six o'clock, and oh! mother, here
is Jemmy Lane, punctual to the very
moment. Now we shall have good
news from Jack, I hope."
She ran out to the gate, flushed
and eager, to recciye tho letter from
the couutry carrier; and, returning,
seated herself on a low stool at her
mother's feet, and broke the envel
ope. On the first glance at its contents,
a shade of disappointment dimmed
her bright face.
Instead of reading the note aloud,
she glanced hurriedly over the brief
Hues, and then silently, with quiver
ing lip, placed it in her mother's
hand and turned aside to a window.
This is what Mrs. Hilyard read:
Deau Madam: I saw your son a few
days since, when, to my surprise, he
expressed himself reluctant to apply his
money to the redeeming of the mortgage,
saying that he required it for a specula
tion which promises to he more profita
ble to him than the holding of the farm.
1 have, therefore, been compelled to
dispose of the mortgage to a gentleman
of my acquaintance, who proposes to
take immediate possession, and consider
it my duty to inform you thereof, in
order that "you may lose no time in mak
ing arrangements for removal.
Very respectfully,
A iixEit Harris.
Mrs. Hilyard returned the letter
to its envelope with a trembling
hand and a dazed, bewildered look,
as though unable to realize the blow
which hnd 60 suddenly fallen upon
them.
Her eyes met Marion's, and tho
girl threw herself upon her knees by
her mother's side, and burst into a
passion of tears.
"Oh, mother, mother! what 3hall
wc do ? "What will become of us ?"
"The Lord will provide,'" said
Mrs. Hilyard, raising her overflow
ing eyes to the motto on the wall,
embroidered by Marion's own hand.
"Where is your faith, my child, that
it should fail you in this the very
hour of need ?"
"Mother it is not so much the loss
of our home, nor the poverty and
trial in store which grieves me, but
that Jack your own son, my own
brother should have 60 changed.
Oh, mother, I know that our Father
in Ileavcn will not desert us, but to
whom on earth can we turn when
even Jack can become worldly and
heartless?"
At this moment a little blue-eyed
girl burst into the room with:
"Mamma Marion ! here is Miss
'Melia Anderson at the gate, in her
buggy. She says will you step out
a miuute, for she wants to tell you
about old Mr. Millard being sun
Etruck; and she daren't leave her
horse without, somebody to hold it."
Marion was in no condition to
listen to Miss 'Melia the greatest
gossip in the neighborhood ; so Mrs.
Hilyard, drying her eyes, was in
civility compelled to see the inform
al visitor. Marion, her head resting
upon tho window-sill behind the
screen of clinging roses, could have
heard every word spoken ; but, ab
sorbed in her grief, she paid no
attention until tho name of Wat
Ilinton struck upon her ear.
"It's true, for certain ; for Maria
had it from his own sister, Aggie
Ilinton. Says Maria, in her wild
way, 'If he comes back with all that
money' you know his Uncle Sam
uel loft him most of his property
last year says Maria, 'if he come3
back rich I mean to set my cap for
him.' Ou which Aggie answers,
'Oh, you needn't ; for he's to be mar
ried before long, and to a real nice,
pretty girl.' Of course Maria want
ed to know all about it; but Aggie
only laughed in her mysterious way,
until Maria says, 'I believe you are
joking!' when Aggie replies, 'If
Walter isn't married before winter
I'll make you a present of my new
ear-rings which he has sent me.' So
you see it's a certain sure ; and no
doubt he'll bring his bride to visit
his family, and then, tell Marion, wc
may look out for a grand party.
When the Iliutons undertake to do
things they always do them haud
somely." Marion stayed to hear no more.
Gliding out of a side door, she cross
ed the garden, passing little Myra,
who was fondling a snow-white calf,
her great pet aud treasure, and who
called out to her to "see how Snow
ball was growing."
Poor little sister! It would be as
hard upon her as upon her mother
and herself to leave the dear old
home, with all the scenes and ob
jects endeared to them by the asso
ciation of their lives. For in that
ample, pleasant, old-fashioned farm
house Mrs. Hilyard had been born
aud married, and here her children
also had first seen tho light.
Two years ago her husband who
had been too little practical to make
a successful farmer had died sud
denly, leaving his affairs in a very
embarrassed state, aud tho farm bur
dened with a very heavy mortgage.
Then Jack, good son and brother as
he was, had thought it best to go to
the citj', taking advantage of a sit
uation offered him by a distant re
lative, until tho mortgage should
be paid.
Only two weeks ago he had writ
ten chcerfullysayingthat the matter
would bo speedily settled to their
satisfaction ; and now, just as they
were expecting to hear that their
home was their own again, came
this cruel letter.
As Marion had said to her mother
not even the loss of their homo went
to her heart with so sharp a pang as
did this evidence of the change in
her only brother.
That Jack should have- grown so
worldly and heartless as to consider
his pecuniary advantage before the
gratification of his mother's comfort,
that he should allow them to be ac
tually turned out of the dear old
house, and go to reside in the strange
city, where they could never feel at
home oh, this was the bitterest
pang of all !
So Marion had thought upon first
reading that letter; and, it was not
until hearing Miss'Mclia's words to
her mother that she awoke to the
consciousness that fate could have
even a greater sorrow than this in
store for her.
One year ago she had parted from
her accepted lover, Wat Ilinton, in
mutual anger on both sides. Wat
had become jealous, and had spoken
sharply to her, and in a manner
which she considered herself justi
fied in resenting.
Wat was too proud to apologize,
and Marion too proud as well as too
delicate to make advances looking
to a reconciliation, and so they had
drifted apart, both miserable, until
Wat had broken tho last link by
going to the West.
She heard of him from time to
time through his family, but no
word or message to herself ever
came. In all thi3 while she had
looked forward with a faint, yearn
ing hope to the possibility of his
some time returning, and of all be
ing made up between them.
But now this last hope was rudely
stricken to the ground. Wat was
going to be married. He had for
goltcn her, and was lost to her
forever.
"Oh, it is hard so hard to bear!"
thought Mnriou, as, with hands un
consciously lightly clasped, she
passed slowly under tho apple
boughs of the old orchard. "Life is
bitter. It has taken all from me.
It can have no more to give. Only
my dear, dear mother, and Myra !
For their eakes I must be strong,
aud try to bear it all."
On the verge of the orchard.wherc
the high bank sloped abruptly to the
meadow, she came to a mass of
tangled honeysuckle, fashioned into
a rustic arbor. Wat bad made it for
her, and here, in fact, it was that
they had last parted.
Down in the meadow ran a little
pathway, leading by a short cut to
Wat's home, a couple of miles away.
How often she had sat here on au
evening and watched for him!
She could scarcely look back upon
any object now before her eyes
which was not connected with some
association of Wat.
There was the walnut tree which
he and Jack used to climb, and
there the laughing brook In which
he had taught her to steer the little
boat which he had made for her,
laden with grain, down to Jack's
famous water-mill, at the roots of
that old willow.
Further up was the real "grist and
paw-mill," which Jack had always
been so desirous of owning, and
which everybody said would be
such a good investment for ono who
could manage it properly.
And then Marion, seated on tho
bench in the rustic arbor, turned
and looked long and yearningly at
the old farm house peeping from the
great beeches across the orchard.
No other place on earth could ever
be homo to "her. And her mother?
Oh, it would bo harder still for her,
whose whole life of fifty years had
been spent under that roof.
A sudden sound aroused Marion
a sharp whistle as of some one call
ing to a dog, and she saw through
tear-dimmed eyes the figure of a
man hurrying along the pathway in
the meadow. She drew back be
behind the screen of the honey
suckle. The path led past tho arbor, but
at the foot of the steep bank sho
would not be discoved in her retreat
So she thought; but a momcut or
two after there was a sound of foot
steps ascending the band, a rustle
of the honeysuckle branches, and
Marion saw standing in the entrance
of the arbor the figure of a tall
young man who looked almost as
much startled as herself.
For a moment they gazed at each
other Marion pale, and the 6trangcr
with a flush rising on bis handsome
face. Then ho said, as ho held out
his hand, "Marion, don't you know
me?"
She gave him her hand in silence.
It was Wat. And suddenly with
the sight of him came the full bitter
ness of sorrow, in the consciousness
that he was lost to her forever. She
wa? nothing to him now, and he
must bo nothing to her.
"I am glad to have so unexpect
edly found you here in this dear old
spot," ho said. "I arrived at home
only an hour ago, and could uot rest
until I had seen you."
Sho met his eyes, bent upon her
with a strango earnestness, and her
pale cheek fain til y flushed, but she
could uot have spoken a word.
"Marion," he said suddenly, "have
you no welcome for inc? Is it pos
sible that you cannot forgive mc?"
"Forgive you?"
"Yes ; for all my absurod jealousy,
and pride, and folly. I have never
had a happy moment since I parted
from you, Marion, and I have come
back at last to beg your forgiveness,
aud to beg, too, for the love which I
forfeited, but which I cannot live
without."
"I do not underdtand you, Wat.
I do not know why you should
speak thus to me, when when you
arc going to be married."
"Who told you that of me, Mar
ion ?"
"It camo from Agnes, your own
sister."
He smiled.
"Aggie knows my wishes. It was
she who encouraged mo to come
back. She thought you would for
give me. Will you, Marion, darl
ing?" She had averted her face to hide
her tearful eyes, but ho now took
both ber bauds, and, as he drew her
toward him, a great tide of unspeak
able joy rushed over her aud she
could only murmur, faintly: "Oh,
Wat!"
When they were both calmer she
told him of the heavy grief that
had just fallen upon them. They
must leave their dear old home,
which had passed into the hands of
strangers.
"Of strangers, Marion? Do you
call rac a stranger?"
"You Wat?"
He looked supriscd in his turn.
""Did you not know it was I who
have purchased the dear old farm.
Did you not receive Jack's letter?"
"Oh, Walter, it canuot, cannot bo
true."
He took from a pockctbook a pa
per, which he opened and placed
before her. It was tho mortgage
which her father had given Mr.
Abncr Harris.
"And the placo is really yours
now?" she said, looking up radiaut
ly through sudden tears.
"Not mine, but ours, darling."
She was too happy to speak a
word in answer.
"You see, dear," Wat said, "Jack
and I talked it over the other day,
and we agreed, as he was so anxious
to purchase the mill and had not
means sufficient for both, that I
should take the farm, and leave him
at liberty to invest in the mill pro
perty. It is the very best thing for
Jack and for his mother, as I ex
plained to her, if only she had re
ceived his letter. Jack is not fitted
for a farmer, and could never have
made much of the farm, ns he cer
tainly will do with the mill. He
came up with me in order to attend
to the matter. Forgive me that I
neglected to inform you, but I left
him behind in the maple-field, talk
ing with Aggie."
Marion started up with a glad cry.
Coming down the opposite declivity
of the meadow was somebody, joy
ously waving his hand, and in two
minutes she was sobbing in her
brother's arms sobbing from a full
ness of joy such as she had never in
her life before known.
They hastened to tho house, all
three eager to gladden the heart of
the mother.
Jack sprung up to the steps and
took her in his arra9, while Wat
lifted Myra, who had run to meet
them in frantic delight.
As Marion crossed the threshold,
the old clock rang out a welcome
chime. "Seven o'clock!" said the
girl, softly.
Her heart was full, and she turned
away and went quietly up to her
own room. As she passed the clock,
she looked up at it with an expres
sion almost of awe.
"What a lifetime of misery and
happiness in one hour!" she mur
mured. An old lady who has been for
near upon twenty years hoarding
silver in a tea pot has been obliged
to sell out her $450 of accumulations
at par, when she might have made a
hundred per cent, duriug the war.
Proving Vp IIoiiiCMteatL.
Hereafter, all persons wishing to
prove up on homesteads will have
to comply with the following law,
approved March 3, 1S79. Home
steaders should be very careful and
not wait until their two years limit
expires to prove up, as it may cause
them trouble :
Be it enacted bit the Senate and
House of Jieprcsentatives of the
United States of America tn Con
gress assembled, That boforc final
proof shall be submitted by any
person claiming to enter agricultur
al land9 under the laws proving for
preemption or homestead entires,
such person shall file with the regis
ter of the proper land-office a notice
of his or her intention to make such
proof, stating therein the descrip
tion of lands to bo entered, and the
names of the witnesses by whom
the ueccssary facts will be establish
ed.
Upon the filing of such notice,
the register shall publish a notice,
that such application lias been made,
once a week for the period of thirty
days, in a newpaper to be by him
designated as published nearest to
such land, and he shall also post
such notice in somo conspicuous
place in his office for the same pe
riod. Such notice shall contain the
names of the witnesses as stated in
tho application. At the expiration
of said period of thirty days, tho
claimant shall be entitled to mako
proof in the manner heretofore pro
vided by law. The Secretary of the
Interior shall make all necessary
rules for giving effect to tho forgo
ing provisions.
Approved March 3, 1S79.
A Cheerful I'ccc.
Carry the radiance of your soul in
your face. Let tho world have the
benefit of it. Let your cheerfulness
be fell for good wherever you arc,
and let your smiles be scattered like
sunbeams "on the just as well as on
the unjust." Such a disposition will
yield a rich reward, for the happy
effects will come home to you and
brighten yonr thoughtful moments.
Cheerfulness makes the mind clear,
gives tone to tho thought, adds
grace to the countenance. Joubcrt
says, "When you give, givo with
joy, smiling." Smiles are little
thing3 and cheap articles to be
fraught with so many blessings, both
to the giver and receiver; pleasant
little ripples to watch as wc stand
on the shore of everyday life. They
arc the higher and better responses
of nature to the emotion of the soul.
Let the children have tho benefit of
them those little ones who need the
sunshine of the heart to educate
them, and would find sympathy for
their buoyant nature in the cheerful,
loving faces of those who need
them. Let them not be kept from
the middle-aged, who need the en
couragement thoy bring. Give your
smiles also to the aged. They come
to them like the quiet rain of the
Summer, making fresh and verdant
the long, weary path of life. They
look for them from you, who are
rejoicing in the fulness of your life.
A Few Word of Wisdom
For all who arc seeking new
homes in the West. If you arc
going to change your location, by all
means you should keep on about
tho "same latitude" as where you
formerly lived, in this way you will
escape the sevcro climatic changes
in the weather incident to the ex
treme North or South. Having
none of these things to contend with,
yourself and family are healthy and
you become a producer at once,
sonsequently soon independent; on
the other hand should you listen to
the glowing accounts of the sunny
South, or the mild climate of the
North, aud thus be induced to try
your fortunes, there you will find
the reality is not all your fancy
painted it to be. If you go South,
it usually takes about two years to
become acclimated, during which
time, not being able to work, your
self and family are consumers,
besides being, constantly exposed to
the malarial fevers which abound,and
the experience of man' is that they
return discouraged, leaving not
a few lovely ones beneath the sod in
the sunny South. Thoreforc, iu
going West, kocp ou about the same
latitude which will secure health
and happiness.
A man passing through a gateway
in the dark ran against a post. " I
wish that post was in the lower
regions I" was his angry remark.
" Bitter wish it wa3 somewhere
else," said a bystander. " You
might run against it again."
Hard words are like hailstones in
summer beating down and des
troying what, if melted into drops,
they would nourish.
The Christian.
Tho happy man was born in tho
city of Regeneration, in tho parish
of Repentance unto Life. He was.
educated in the school of Obedieuco
and ho now lives by Perceiving;
notwithstanding he has a largo es
tate in the city of Christian Con
tentment, and many times docs odd
jobs of Sclf-donial. He wcara tho
plain garment of Humility, but has
a better suit to put on when ho goes
to court, called the robe of Christ's
Righteousness. He walk9 in tho
valley of Self-abasement and some
times climbs the mountains of Spir
itual Mindcdncss. He breakfasts
every morning on Prayer and supa
every ovening on the same. He has
meat to cat that the world knows
not of; lii3 drink is the Sincerity of
tho Word. Thua happy ho lives
aud happy he dies, and happy is ho
who haa gospel submission in hia
will, due ardor iu his affections,
sound praise on his lips, sanctifying
grace iu his soul, real Christianity
in his breast, true humility in his
heart and the Redeemer's yoke ou
his neck and a vast world under his
foct and a crown of glory on hi3
head. Happy is this mau's life,
which all may attain by praying
faithfully, believing firmly, waiting
with patience, working kindly, liv
ing holy, dying daily. Watch your
heart, guide yonr sins, redeem your
time, love Christ and long for glory.
May I that happy person be in time,
and throughout eternity.
IUCIIAEC AXX rnKTTYMAX.
D.ctter from Win. Pcnn.
The following letter by William
Pcnn, written previous to hi3 em
barkation for America, is highly
characteristic of tho simplicity and
purity of the man :
"JlyBear Wijeand Children:
"My love, which neither sea, nor
land, nor death itself, can extin
guish or lessen towards you, will
abide with you forever; as I am ta
one a husband, and to the rest a
father, if I should never sec you
more iu this world.
"My dear wife! Remember thoa
wast tho love of my youth ; the most
beloved and most worthy of all my
earthly comforts. And now, dear
est, let me rocoramond to thy caro,
our children, the sweat pledges of
our mutual affection. Above all,
breed them tip in the Iovo of virtue,
and that holy plain way in which
wc have lived. When marriageable,
sec that they choose worthy per
son.", of good fame for piety and
understanding.
"My children, be obedient to your
dear mother, a woman whose namo
is an honor to you. Lovo her as
she loved your father, with a deep
and upright love, choosing him be
fore all her many suitors. Bo sure
to live within your compass ; bor
row not, neither be beholden to any.
I charge you before God and hia
angels, that you bo diligent and
tender. Avoid idleness, and mako
yonr habitations pleasant and de
sirable. Farowell.
"Yours forever, Wm. Pknx.
"Fourth ofsixth month, W&2."
Old John Walsh was a banker,
and also a money lendor. He waa
accounted a greedy, close-fisted old
chap, yet he possessed a sort of
grim, rigid humor, which, in somo
case, was really fnnny. One day a
dashing, reckless young man of tho
period called upon him. "Mr.
Walsh," said he, "I want to borrow
five hundred." " For how long?"
" Six months." " What security
can you give mc?" The young fel
low drew himself proudly up. "My
own personal security, sir," ho re
plied with a flourish. Old John
turned and opened a, stout irou
chost by his side. " Get in here,
sir," said he. The young blade look
ed first at the chest and then at
Walsh. "What for?" said he.
" Because hero is where I always
keep all of my personal securities."
Philadelphia Exchange.
Conversation ns un Educator.
Children hunger prcpetually for
new ideas. They will learn with
pleasure from the lip3 of pcoplo
what would be drudgery to learn
from books ; and even if they havo
the misfortune to be deprived of
many educational advantages, they
will grow up intelligent, if, in child
hood, they hear doily the conversa
tion of intelligent people. Hcnso
the importance that tho teacher
should be an intelligent person.
The child comes home and says,
" What do you think my teacher
told us to-day?" The daily effort of
the teacher should be to render
herself fresh aud bright to meet her
class; not to think, " How shall I
repress ond bottlo all this energy?"
Citizens of Agusta, Ga., will havo
to carry their revolvers in plain
sight hereafter. The Common Coun
cil has passed an ordinance making
it the duty of the police officers to
see that all persons who carry con
cealed weapons aro prosecuted to
the extent of the law. This. is a de
cided infringement on Southern
right3.
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