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T Jf - Pogg. Amon the pests of the farmer tfca iojr holds a high, if not the bighact, place. Not that the .dog Is necessarily injurious, any more than some human beings arc, but it is the untrained, neglected, and consequently vicious, dogs -which are. a pest to the farmer, as it a the uneducated, neglected and idle youths who become pest of society. A well-trained dog, kept in proper sub jection and under control of its owner, may be useful in more than ons capacity, while its kind, docile and friendly disposition and its wonderful sagacity may make it an acceptable companion. " But when left to itself, like the erring child we read of, it ia sure to bring its owner to shame and grief. A Tennessee farmer who has suffered gives some ligures which might be duplicated in every other State with great ease. He says that his State possesses SOO.OOO dogs "that are idle, vicious and worthier. Each of these dogs consumes as much food as would make 100 pounds of pork if fed to pigs, which, in the aggregate, is equal to 30,000,000 pounds of bacon annually, worth $3,000,000. This is the direct cost of them. The indirect los3 con sists in the prevention of the keeping of 2,000,000 sheep, the vearlv profit of which would be $6,000,000," so that the whole loss to the State by reason of the keeping of worthless dogs in a state of ferocious savageness is equal to $!),000,000. The schools of the State cost $3,000,000. So that the keeping of the dogs costs three times more than the education of the children. The farmer might well have added to his productive crop of figures all the various losses and damages direct and indirect from the sadly defective educa tion of the children for which only $3,000,000 can be afforded on account of these dogs. But it is bad enough, because this is only a very small part of the whole damage which is inflicted upon the public bv worthier dojrs. or rather through the criminal neglect of the owners of them. For if a man should keep a wolf or other wild ferocious beast ami .sutler it to go at large to prey upon hi neighbors every night he would commit an offense for which ho would be amenable to the laws; and it is equally wrong for him to keep a dog and suffer it to become a beast of prey. There is no lawful reason why a man may not keep a wolf or a bear, or a tiger even, if he keeps it in secure con finement. Society does not prohibit this pleasure and gratification, and a man may keep a dog with equal pro priety if he will only prevent it from injuring or destroying his neighbor's flock. But certainlv every man should be obliged to do this, and farmers who sutler damage have a clear right to in sist upon it and to ask for sutlicient leg islation to enforce it. N. Y. Times. Grafting Wax. We wish it could be said with truth that every farmer and owner of a garden knew how to graft all Ihe "different kinds of fruit and ornamental trees, or even the most common species in culti vation. JJiit we regret to say that.only a very small proportion of those who cultivate trees know anything about the different methods employed in their propagation still, -the number-of -persons who do their own grafting and budding of fruit and ornamental trees is increasing every year, and will prob ably continue to do so until these pro cesses will no longer be considered the special property of nurserymen or pro fessional grafters. Occasionally a rZvinirCvri t: bctterdrantageby booking them and grafter workingjnhu orchard..will be-, w' ti,m8in ',: J? tn tUa some satisfied that he can peform the Yankee Marlines. Nine-tenths of the sardines consumed hi the United Slates come from Maine. Very few of the real French fish are imported now. These Yankeo sardines are nothing but small herringput up in boxes with gaudy labels and Trench in scriptions. In Eastport there arc nine teen places where they turn out sar dines, beside three at Lubec, two at Jonosport, and one each at Millbridge, Liamoine and Kobbtnston. In lob a New York firm' did a lucrative business packing" Russian sardines" in East fjort. These were little herring packed n small wooden kegs and preserved with 6pices of different kinds. It oc- curred to one member of the firm that .these little fish might be utilized to manual part of the operation as well a3 the man he is employing: but if be seeks information regarding the com position of the -wax used in covering'the wound made in the tree operated upon, he is very likely to be informed that it is a trade secret, which will,be divulged for a certain sum, and this usually puts an end to further investigation in that direction. We do not suppose, how ever, that those professional grafters who go about the country seeking em ployment, know anything about their business that has not been published a thousand times; but those who do not read agricultural and horticultural Journals and books are not aware of the fact, and therefore inclined to think (hat there may be some professional packing them in olive oil, like the French sardines. The experiment had been tried several years before without success. The diflicultywas to eradicate the taste of -the herring. This gave , rise to the couplet:. You may spice and may call it sardine if you will, But the taste of the herring- will cling1 to it still. It was easy to cook the herring, pack them in olive oil in tin cans, anil seal them air tight, but when they were opened they had not the rich, spicy ilavor of the regular French sardines. After a great many experiments, one of the manufacturers succeeded iu pro ducing a mixture of oils and spices which removed the difficulty. The herring used for making sardines are about four inches long, and are lecrets not usually disclosed to the pub- I taken in great quantities along the Maine oinpcH anu -cv -orunswicK. coast. uvy can The American Girl. The American girl is champngny. She is glittering, foamy, bubbly, sweet, dry, tart in a word, fizzy! She has not the dreamy, magical, murraun- lovableness of our Italian girl. And yet there is a cosmopolitan combination in the American girl that makes her a most attractive coquette in her frankness, in her pardonable frivolity, in her being & phenomenon of verbal intrigue! You may lose your head with her easily in a week, and in the way of recollecting what you had said to her yesterday, for she is gifted with memo ry; but your heart jamais! It takes a longer time for that. But be sure she will have both sooner or later, and, like a true belle, will sing to you amid sighs and smiles: Be glad while ye may. Nor lake heed of the morrow; The sweets of to-day FLet us taste while' they lasti or life is too short From tbe future to borrow: Dull care, like nn ort, Flins away to the past! I don't believe she is half as merce nary as she talks, in the vein of "what female heart cau gold despise?" Yet she rives a strong impression that the alpha and omega of life is a modiste and a millionaire. My impression of the American girl is one never to be forgotten. She is bright, brisk and business-like. To be concise, I would call the Amer ican girl a sort of social catechism full of questions and answers. In many instances she omits the answers, and bocomes an incarnate "?" I nevei experienced such a pleasurable witness box position in all my life. Italian Paper. . m The History ot Cards. (ie, and that one of these is the compo sition of the various kinds of grafting wax or other unctuous compounds. The primitive composition used for povering wounds and cuts made in grafting was clay and cow manure. Any good kind of " clay was taken, and two parts of this was mixed with one part of cow manure, all well beaten to gether in'order to make it as tough as possible. Sometimes a little liuelyi chopped grass was added to give it toughness. This composition was iu common use more than 2,000 years ago, and is still used by gardeners in grafting certain kinds of plants that have a soft sponge-like bark that might be injured by compositions containing oil or grease: The composition of grafting wax is almost as variable as the ideas of the men who use it, and there are scores of recipes for making it. One of the old est, and, we think, one of the best for outdoor use. is composed of four parts of common rosin, two parts of beeswax and about one and half parts of tallow; all are melted togethorover a moderate ; fire and well stirred before the mixture cools. If it is to be used in very cool ' weather add a little more tallow, or if i in warm a little less. In Europe, Bur gundy pitch is more generally used in making grafting wax than" in this ' country. Some of the French nursery men recommend the following: ilelt to gether two pounds twelve ounces of rosin and one pound and eleven ounces of Burgundy pitch. At the same time melt nine ounces of tallow, pour the latter into the former while both are hot and stir the mixture thoroughly. be bought of the fwhermen for about $5 a hogshead, although when the hsfc are scarce, as the' often are in the spring, they bring as much as $15 a hogshead. To catch tbe fish small trees or brush are thrcst into the sandy bottom of the sea, arranged In a line running out from the shore some 75 or 100 feet, and then curved back like a horse's shoe. Inside this trap is a net. When the tide is falling the net is raised and the fish are taken out with huge scoop nets. The catch is always very uncertain; sometimes only a bushel o'r two will be taken, aud-often so many are caught as to endanger the net. Then is another way of capturing the fish. Herring, like 'mackerel, go in schools, and, for some reason, always follow a light. Two or three fishermen provide themselves with torches mado of cotton batting saturated with kero sene, andon dark nights row along the shores with a torch in the bow of the boat. When a school is found the herring dart after the boat, cominr so close that they are dipped up in nets attached to' short poles. .After being captured the flsh are taken immediately to the factory and laid in heaps upon long tables." The first thing is to decapitate and clean th'e fish. Trre dexterity with which this op eration is performed by the children who are employed is remarkable. On an average seventy-five fish are cleaned and decapitated every minute by each child. Both operations are performed with one stroke of a sharp knife. A box holding about a bushel lies at the feet of each operator, and as the clean 1 A. J A.t 1 ! 1 A .1 SCHOOL AT?D CHURCH. There are in Iowa four Methodist Conferences, more than live hundred pastors and over 80,000 members. An Indian student at a school in IIuntsville.Tex., was recently expelled for packing his clothes in a trunk on Sun'Itiy. Ch icago Times. V the '2.G16.S71) pupils at element ary schools in Japan only 734,691 are girls. At the high schools there are only 204 female pupils out of 12,315. The Brooklyn City Bible Society was organized forty-three years ago. It distributes Bible3 in Brooklyn at the rate of 3,000 a year at an average an nual cost of as many dollars. A Scotch clergyman at Ayr, a few days ago, prayed: "O Lord, bless the Established Church, and the Free Church, and the United Presbyterian Church aud all the other ciiMrohes thou knowest the various nicknames, Lord, by 'which thev are called bless them all!" A". Y. Hernld. Henry Ward'lJeecher said recently: "All the assaults made upon religion have in the end exalted it, purified it, made it more practical," aud "that statistics showed that the best men and best citizens are children of devout members of the church."' Prof. K. J. James, while ou a visit to Germany, last summer, asked the professors of twelve (Jerman universi ties: "Do you think that too many young men are studying at the universi ties? Almost uniformly the a us we r was: "There is no doubt of iu" "Ger many," said one of the professors, "is! fostering the growth of a class of pro fessionally educated men for whom there is no room in the professions and who are too proud to go into business of any sort. 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Pettes esting lecture on Saturday evening at the Mercantile Library Association rooms, corner of Tremont and West Uewton Streets, on "The History of Cards and an Analysis of Whist," to a goodly number of members and their gentlemen and lady friends. The lect urer said that the first known of cards was in Hindostan some twelve cent uries ago, when they were made of a sort of canvas" bearing fig ures and emblems of various sig nificance, and that some of these are yet to be seen in the Punjaub, although Very rare. In the reign of Charles VII.. cards similar to those of the present day were used in France, although the court cards were known by different names, and in the reign of Edward I. of England charges for cards are found in the royal accounts, while in 1702, in the reign of Queen Anne, 40,000 reams of paper were used for making playing cards. The use ol cards was made to afford information and pleasure to the heathen, and it was Christian Europe that debased their use by the introduction of gambling aud sharping. Whist probably took its name from a game called whisk or swabbers, although the two were very dissimilar, the one being noisy and the other quiet and a thinking game. In England, Lord Folkestone and friends revised the ancient game of whist, aud made the present long game of ten points, and this was published iu Ed mund Hoyle s treatise in 1742, but hti was not the father of the game, being only the patron saint of gamesters. The game of short whist was conceived b John Loraine Baldwiu, of England, in 1864, and rules were then made for its phny, but the lecturer condemned it as being far inferior to the full long game, as also a game of live points, excluding honors, which is sometimes played, and which he called a mongrel game. Mr. Pettes claimed that whist, properly played, was one of the most scientific of games, which, while it re quired close attention, was a rest from active business for the player, and was peculiarry a game whit-h "showed the disposition of every man who played it. Boston Herald. Then add eighteen ounces of red ochre, ing is completed the fish slides into this dropping it in gradually aud stirring box. The pay for this work is ten cents per box, ana some ot the children make a dollar and a half a da'. After being washed the herring are pickled for half an hour and are then laid upon trays and placed in a large drying room heated by steam. After the fish arc dry they are thrown into large shallow pans of oil and thor oughly cooked. They are then packed in tin" boxes by girls and women, and in each box is poured a quantity o! the patent mixture of oils and spites. Covers are then fitted to the boxes and sealed on by men. As air must be ex cluded, the cans, when sealed, are placed in a tank of boiling water, where they remain half an hour, and are then removed and placed on an inclined plane so that the air inside rushes to one corner of the box. This corner is punctured with an awl, the hot air escapes and the can is made air-tight b' a drop of solder. The boxes are theji ornamented with attrac tive French labels, stating that the en closed are Sardines a la Francaisef some arc labeled "a V buttle d1 olive." Tho oil used is cottonseed oil, such as is made in South Carolina. It is not always the best quality of oil. The best oil is used, however, for the fish sold as "prime." There are prepared at thc-c factories other varieties of fish known as "mus tards," "maranees," and "sea trout" The mustards are prepared like the sardines until they are put in the cans. They are packed in a preparation made of mustard, vinegar and oil, with a soup con of spice. The mustards are larger fish than the sardines. The maranees are packed in a sauce made of vinegar, spices, lemon and sugar, and the sea trout are large herring put up in oval boxes with still another sauce. Almost tbe entire product of these factories is shipped to New York, whence it is sold to retailers all through the country. One of the Lubec houses prepares about 4,200 boxes a day. The actual cost per box, including expenses, is about five cents. Tho profit made by the packers is from live to seven cents. The difference between these prices aud what the consumer pays for the tish at the grocery goes into the pockets of the roceryman. Aastporl (Mc.) Uor. A. Sun. the mixture at the same time. After the composition has cooled sufficiently vork it well with the hands. For out door work in cool weather this wax is rather hard, but if carried in a vessel where it can be occasionally warmed it is readily applied and is quite durable. All the above kinds of wax may be, spread upon cloth or tough paper with' a brush when warm, and after it has cooled the paper or cloth may be cut up into narrow strips of any convenient size. In what is called splice or whip grafting, these strips of waxed cloth are very convenienWor wrapping about the parts united. A French mastic known as "Lcfort's Liquid Grafting Wax" is made by melting one pound of common rosin over a gentle fire aad adding one ounce of beef tallow, tho latter to be well stirred in. Take it from the fire, let it cool down a little and then mix iu eight ounces of alcohol. The aleohol will cool down the mixture so rapidly that it may be necessary to put it on the fire again. The utmost care must be exercised to prevent the alcohol taking fire This mastic is highly recommended by the nursery men of France, and it has been used to ome extent in this country for several years. It is imported in tiu boxes and usually kept on sale at seed stores, We might give many other recipes for making grafting wax and mastics, ..but believe that the above are the best, and that the one made simply of rosin, beeswax and tallow is as good as any ever invented. Some nurserymen of late years have substituted linseed oil for tallow, and while it may answer for some kinds of trees, we are inclined to think it is injurious to those with very thin bark. We havo known several instances where losses have occurred that were attributed to the use of oil in making the wax used in grafting. N. Y. Sun. People are beginning to ask them selves whether the millions theyannually give for public education, a sum which is all the time increasing, are so ex pended that they produce the best re sults; and the question is becoming a leading one in other cities besides New York. The conclusions reached are everywhere substantially the same. They are that iu trying to do too much we are marring the effect of the whole ; and that we should produce better re sults at much less expense if the iu-i .strunlion given by tiie State was rudi mentary only, but thorough so far as it goes. X. Y. Sun. When the late Professor Sophocles was a proctor in Holworthy Hall, Har vard, one night a tipsy student, rolling up to bed, fell against his door, and upon being interviewed was anything but respectful iu his language. Next morning, awakening with remorseful stomach and an aching head, the of fender felt it to be the part of discretion to go to the proctor and apologize. He had not proceeded far in his halting explanation, however, before the other interrupted him with the words: "Not yourself, sir? You were drunk, sir! drunk! But you were so drunk as to be a curiosity, and therefore 1 shall uot report you."' Boston Post. Y& WlXi r MILL X4 IT IVr Wrm w t r i O P PS -it Misr i. i .--.- irr. - .: rsor. !- s&i OD 9 m PUNGENT 1'AIMURAPHS. the mummies in have false teeth the Brit on gold No Excuse. An absent-minded Austin Justice ol the Peace, whose customers are prin cipally inebriates who are brought be fore his court, was called ou to marry a couple. He did not make an mistake until he asked the bride if she took the groom to be her wedded husband. "I do." "And what are the mitigating circum stances, if any," inquired tbe absent minded justicel Texas Sitings. mm The respectable Chinese in New York are trying to suppress gambling .among their fellow countrymen there by inviting those with a weakness for gambling to join them, keep Match on one another, accept rewards -for re 'porting delinquents, and pav fines when detected in play. There "is shown a knowledge of human nature in this plaa tbat is really superb. N. Y. tot, An Eccentric Funeral. An old woman named Mary Robin son, who is said to have been well known throughout London as "the queen of the costermougers," was buried yesterday in Finchley Cemetery. She at one time' used to have a stall iu Somerstown, and of lateyears had been a vendor of cats' meat It is stated that she amassed a fortune of 60.000. It was her custom to lend costermongers nionej' on Fridays and Saturdays to t to market wUh.'they paying her for th'e loan a shilling in the pound. She was a most eccentric woman. She paid, twenty years ago, to Mr. Sharman, of Caledonian road, 20 for her funeral expenses. Owing to the rumor that the deceased in her will had ordered that her remains should be carried to the grave by four men wearing white smocks, and that twenty-four young women should follow wearing violet or purple dresses. Paisley shawls, hat. with white feathers in them and white aprons; that some money was to be .spent in drink for costermongers at certain public nouses sue named, and that there was to be a band of music in attendance, some thousands of persons congregated in Bemerton street where she lived, along the Caledonian roadt and along the route to Finchley Ceme .tery. The concourse of people blocked the streets for a time, and in some cases persons paid for windows to see the procession. The coffin, which was of handsome polished oak, bore a brass plate with the inscription, "Mary Robinson, aged 71, died Januarv 1, 1884." It was reported that the corpse was shrouded in white satin, and that round the 1 ead was a white wreath. The funeral-car was covered with ex pensive wreaths and crosses. There were in the procession, besides the rela tives and friends of the deceased, a great number of pony-carts, donkey barrows and cabs, all being overfilled with costermongers. The deceased, it was said, left a sum of 10 to be spent in drinks and ten shillings for pipes and tobacco after the funeral. St. James1 Gazette m . m A woman who desires a clear com plexion must give up having a sbmH waist, unless she has it without laciag. Tight lacing gives oe a redneee! Aad wno wouiQ not rather have a waist and a white nose than a waist and a red nose? Tight lacing also prevents regular circuaUon, ia dncing chills, heartborn, aad aaaore of diseases which are far wene, aad mate nngtaaa a r 09 Some of ish Museum plates. "When in society, never talk of yourself,"' is the injunction of an author ity on etiquette. People in society never do thev run down other people. Philadelphia Call. The late Dr. Wood is said to have once condensed a half column poem into two lines: "Do you love ine?" "No." "Then I go." N. Y. Graphic. A woman in. Georgia wants a divorce because her husband refused to to let her know the combination of his safe. For the sake of keeping peace in the family a man should let his wife kuow the combination of his safe and keep all his money in bank. Ex change. Ayonngman who had been going with a Vermont girl for some time, and had made her several presents, asked her one day if she would accept a puppy. He was awful mad when she replied that her mother had told her if he proposed to her to say no. Boston Post. An individual applies to the cab company for a situation. "Do you ia 11 CO 2 3 zn K. CO r-H CO CO CSJ I JEL? tf-j feT-i-'at JJjSk jBfBiMffeBttBV - - jis-rfSfcfcfcft v.B'Rn. BBBF ' 3aalaBBlasBBlSBi &&& Jla AWMaP iEBaMSHI 4MEavawNfvf saw?Baatiza cafiBiaaaavaaaaBii JUAKISLj&D3BBBVrK: a bhBB1BBB1 ,(? sagyjgMsgMi;PiiaaiMwaaaawsitese s nUm ?j&&wBalXPBmk2ssiKM ISfdaBBBBBsBBES2Bw5 -. lyryl vEaX&MSr-' BbbVSbVIHHISK Lkii. wJ'PJri" -i-im. . MawBwB3BawBBBBBWW aBfflBSal9liBSal8la9f ft M a CO en wz en K W CD K 0 (D 30 no -4 m CO T I I i it I ra a w f a x a r a . . . it iNtw uft&AUAY is tne lightest draft and easiest handled ? plow in the market V -HALLIDAY- WIND MILLS. XabuAalB Thme errs sztsssest a rev op tbx Goods Haxufactcuo bt thz Wind Mills! AND- Yalue of Olive Products. The importation of olive oil from France and Great Britain into San Francisco for the j'ear ending June 30, 1879, was 33,8:7 gllous. valued at $59, 942, aud 17,ol3 cases of pickled olives, of which I estimate the value at $72, .522. In a few years this importation will coast and this money will be saved to our people. In ten years, if our farmer.-, see proper, California can sup ply the home demand and export olive oil and pickled olives. The present tariff oilers overy inducement for the planting of these trees, as all olive oil imported into the United States must pay a duty of one dollar per gallon. The olive trees of the old mission and the orchards planted from this stock at San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barba ra and San Jose prove that our climate Is favorable to the growth of this val uable tree. The oil from these trees and orchards that has come to this market during the past year, is of tine flavor, of most superior qualit', and ol that peculiar light green color possessed only by fresh an unadulterated olive oil of the first class. I do not fear con tradiction when I say that there is not a gallon of olive oil imported into San Francisco from France, Spain and Italy that is not more or less adulterated with refined lard oil, peanut oil, or some cheaper harmless and edible in- gredient. The owners of our few olive earing orchards have not yet learned the adulteration of olive oil," and so far California olive oil Is absolutely pure. B. B. Reading, California. The War Cry, the official gazette of General Booth's Salvation Army, is published in English, French, Swedish and several other languages. They sent out last year 250,000,000 copies, and $85,000 worth of musical instruments, 'uniforms and badges. The grand army comprises 6$0 corps, ISO of which are abroad. a m A caterer in Buffalo cooks angle worms. He feeds them on milk for a , dusts them with Hour, and c burning oil or ia drawn butter aMWorcaster- (If. T.J Florist. ttwdaji B9PnBiBtoasaB Mfareserfid know how to drive?" "Yes, sir. "You know that you must be polite with all your pas'sengers?" "Ah!" "And honest. For example, what would you do if you should find in your cab a pocket-book containing $10,000?" ''Nothing at all. I should live on my income." $. Y. Independent. I has alius heard it said dat if yer'll arnly stick ter yer business yer's boun' ter win, but dis ain't true in ebery case. When yer tries ter keep a ole goose from settin' yer may take ae aigs er way an' 'stroy de ncs,' but de goose keeps on er settin' jes az close ter der nes az she ken get. Dis shows mighty fine 'termination but mighty po' sense. Uncle Remus. ' Cruel Eflie (to Mrs. Belweather, who has just been speaking of Mr. B.): "Whv, Mrs. Belweather, lthought you hadn't any husband!" Mrs. B.: "Why, of course I havct Eflie. Do you meano say that you don't know Mr. Bel weather?" Eflie: "Yes, but I didn't suppose he was your husband. I thought you hadn t any. Papa said you married for money,"and that was all you got." Boston Herald. "Grandpa," said an intelligent little fellow, "who made those great ditches in your forehead?" "God, my dear." "What did he make them for?" "I don't know, Willie. Don't ask silly questions." Willie was thoughtful for a few moments, and then said: "I know now! Father can tell how old his cows are by the wrinkles on their horns. Is that what God put wrinkles on your brow for, grandpa?" Chicago Times. m . m A Mysterious Ambassador. One of tbe most remarkable histori cal mysteries on record, rivaling that of the'ideptity of the man in the iron mask, is that "of the sex of the Chevalier d'Eon, who was French envoy to En gland in 1761. He acted as private agent to Louis XV. and lived in London for fourteen years. He was a hand some man, of rathej effeminate appear ance, and was noticed to be very shy of the ladies, and to avoid general so ciety. While he was there the story got' about that -he was a woman, and scandal thus aroused caused King Louis to recall his embassador and order him to assume his proper dress, that of a woman. This she did, and was always afterward known as Mme. d'Eon. A life of this remarkable personage stated that she assumed the dress of a youth in order to secure higher educational opportunities, and thus entered the Col lege Mazarin at Paris, and afterwards became doctor of laws, was the author of several learned volumes, and was in troduced by Prince de Conti t the King. It was said that the King knew die secret of her sex; but for nerre narkable talents selected her to under iake a secret mission to Russia, which was so well performed that she was afterwards sent to London. Daring the French revolution Mm. dZon went again to England, where she died in 1810. After her death k was asserted that the character of a womu was a disguise, and that Mme. cPoa was a man, after all. But the facts im the case are not regarded as proven either nray. This curious persenage, it might be remarked, never contracted a mar- rjaga m tne enaracter oi nuw WmOkaM Review. SUCTION, FORCE AND Lift PUMPS. Grand Qetour R&oir Qqmfxhy UEGOm I lifts GAS PIPE. 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