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They cannot legally low more than ten per cent of their capital stock to an one person or corporation, and must always have twenty-live per centol their capital stock on hand. Nation; al bank examiners can at any time drop in and check up the institution or the comptroller can at any time ask for a sworn statement of the bank's condition. But of late yean large trust companies .have gone into the banking business so as to avoid this government control and government examination, tor the laws as they now are do not reach these trusts. At the next session of congress, which opets the first Monday in December, laws which will remedy this evil will un doubtedly be passed. In last week's Commoner Mr. Bryan announces himself as being willing to accept the democratic nomination lor president for a third term. This an Bouncement is, of course, no surprise to anyone everybody knew it. Jven if Bryan were dead sure he would be defeated, he would want tne nomina tion, for the notoriety and advertising this brings, makes him all kinds 01 money. Bryan commands a big price as a lecturer, and as a chauiauqua speaker, and as a newspaper letter writer. The announcement is called the "Barkus is willing letter." In it he says nothing about government ownership of railroads, free silver ai sixteen to one, but he will accept the nomination without a string or thread tied to it, and of course he will get it, and of course will be defeated next November. In twenty counties out of .the ninety in this state, the democrats and popu lists failed to put up any county ticket of any kind at the last election. This is largely due to the new primary law which compels every man that wants tone a candidate, or some of his friends who want to be candidates, to make a cash payment for the privi lege, and if the nominations in all humaa probability means defeat, peo ple are inclined to be backward about coating forward in order to show themselves as office seekers. Under the old convention system it was dif ferent. A noniination tendered, and aosaetimet forced upon a man by friends and neighbors, was an honor that could not be easUy refused, even if the chances of election were hope less. Platte county republicans can sympathise with there democratic trisads in those twenty counties. fWtijjy.rwigffffitotjlMyiiir tertka Ska nM for aa antnd, fa aaM VwrtMaMaHteM5&iiwk f infill iMewawt iIIiih gfnmmmmmmmmmmmmms .SmaBBBBBBBBWSSSBBBBBBBwjaw' - You can't aaaBBBBsw' eeeBSBBBsW w afford not to 'm It is so much easier to pay a little k. -m at a time. k 'J That's why We decided to sell Victors on the R. m easy-payment plan. -B H Ton ought to have a B m your home to day. Ton can afford .mK V 'A it. In fact, under thecircum- MBm smW -' -stances, you can'tafford not to. M' MM L For sale by RF gmmmt-Br x mnsr ,mw a nsKki w. Y SKfafmBHlHkv ' aaaji-JjsL masaw aaaVmaVaasVnaf aswswawataVaiBKsEaEsVawawafmamnnamm jPassmawmawjWr Clintsisw" - " " - v - If railroad emnkrjas are lata lojal, to their employers than tkey were a few,years ago, who k to blame? Tke will toll jdK that employers have to reward "men of the line"; that the college man has beeastep nuu? in over the heads of the men edu "..... . catedin tne business usurping posi tions that formerly went to those schooled and tried in the service. The employer will tell you a different' ntory. , The employe says that system, also, has had much to do with the changed conditions. With greater corpora tions and properties of greater size to manage, the management of railroads has ceasunUy trended toward making machines of men; putting definite tasks before them and holding men respon sible only for the performance of these tasks. The employers will hold that the labor union has had as much to do with making men machines as the management of the property, and that the labor unions uniformly have in sisted on definite tasks and the hold ing of men responsible for no more than that called for in the schedule or the book of rules. In times past, not far distant, rail road employes were loyal, as a rule, to the corporations they served. In those day 8 the railroad president, the general manager or the superintend ent, were referred to reverently, ami their word was law. In these days the labor union grievance committee has taken their place in part, and the man who has a grievance goes to his union committee for relief The employer is ignored. The employe will tell you that the newer way brings justice to a greater number of eiuploye&; the employer avers that good and capable men are kept from rising to their proper level. The men made the choice not their employers, and they have chosen to be loyal to the labor union rather than to the men managing the machine that brings bread and butter. The situtation presents a new problem quite as ditiicult of solution . as the millionaire and the distribution of wealth. The problem is growing. J. Adam Bede says problems are solved as they grow. Lincoln Jour nal. PURE FOOD UW UTFOKCE- The deputy food commissioner has suggested a conference of county at torneys of the various counties in Ne braska to take up the question of pure food law enforcement. Such a con ference may be of some advantage, although it is extremely doubtful that it will be fully attended, or, even il io, agree upon any concerted plan of action. .. i ,. aavMmmmamm ;Whilethe;pure food law devolves upon the county attorneys the duty ol beginning prosecution for its violation, the deputy food commissioner has taken it upon himself to determine in first instance what constitutes a viola tion, and so far as he has gone in this direction he seems, in our opinion, to have woefully misconstrued the pur pose of the law. '" The Nebraska pure food law was enacted not to annoy manufacturers and dealers or to interfere with estab lished, trade customs) but to protect the public against fraud, misrepresen tation and adulteration. The purpose of the law is to assure the consumei when buying an article of food by the pound that he is getting a full pound and that the article he buys is also ex actly what it purports to be. But il the article is not sold by weight or measure' and no false statements are made as to ' quality or quantity, no fraud or misrepresentation is worked and no offense committed against the spirit of the law. In the enforcement of the pure food law the Bee wants to repeat what it urged at the time this legislation was pending, that Nebraska should do nothing by far-fetched construction that would put our manufacturers and dealers at a disadvantage with their competitors m other states; that all manufucturers -of food products are jix?r 7m 7 " - '.: .- "-S v. J rr-i .- 'i -i - ,: - ,tf.l 'i- 7 ', 7vi Ay 1. -'J"-, .' v $f: V- ft --3-.' t .-'.W "A ! '. Fruits Produce Eleventh Street. alike subject to the provisions of the nstJMtfil pure food law and that the state laws- should be applied as far a possible in uniformity 'with the na tional law. It is not up to the deputy food, com missioner to read into the law what he thinks should be there, but-to apply the law as the legislature made it and with its. real, purpose constantly , in vie wr-Omaha Bee. OOMGllGKE MA1TSIOJIS Henry Phipps, the wealthy steel manufacturer who, in 1905, gave $1,000,000 for the erection of model tenements in New York City, is great ly interested in the possibilities of the two-family concrete houses planned b) f nomas A. Edison, the inventor, and which, itiis claimed, can be built with in twelve hours at a cost of $1,000 to 81,200. , -. l--asa.' Mr. Edison will haveMthe moid.for a full sized double residence cast this winter, and as soon as the frost is put of the ground next spring he will buiiu one of the houses near his laboratory. If it proves satisfactory Air. jfhippe, probably in co-operation with othei wealthy men, will erect a large num ber of these houses near New York City, a city of concrete. Mr. Edison said: "Mr. rhipps and his experts have been here investigating my cement house. He is seeking, as ami, to hel the man who works in the ditch auo who can only afford to pay $9 or $10 a month rent for a two-room apart ment in some slum tenement. "Mr. Phipps thinks as I- do, that my house will solve the problem. It is for me to build oue of these houses, to create the unit. JSome one else must build the city, and Mr. fhippt seems to be the proper maiMo put it. up. Whether his plans are to form a corpotation or to handle it himself 1 don't know. He is just gathering data." JHE MKKTFA&Mm. If the farmers were compelled to sell their wheat and their cattle we might be witnessing some reductions tn the prices of bread and meat. But tbe refusal of these necessities to come down in price is explained by the fact that the independent farmer, when he goes to market and finds that the rates on wheat and cattle do not please him, turns around and goes back home,' taking his grain and his cattle witli him. Or perhaps he does not go to market at all, keeping an eye on quo tations and refusing, to take his stu out of the barns and the pastures at long as prices are down. - If this is the correct explanation for the prevailing high prices of things to eat in a timevwhen, judging by other conditions, prices ought to be lower, it simply proves that the farmer is in a well intrenched position. He does not sell, because he does, not have to sell, thereby proving his own prosperity even at the expense of those who would like to buy at prices somewhat below the high figures which the shops now display. The farmer wears the smile that won't come off, and as long as this is true there is little cause for worry in this agricultural' state of Ne braska even on the part of those who suffer temporary inconvenience. Lin coln Star. Mr. Bryan as an itinerant orator will be amazed to hear that Gover nor-elect Crothers of Maryland, who carried his state by a plurality of 9,369, did not make a single speech during the campaign nor circulate among his fellow citiaens. On the. day he was nominated Judge Crothers came down with typhoid lever and had to fight for his life while his claims to the office of governor were being presented to the people. Never thekss they preferred him to a man whowas able to take and keep the stamp and was himself am enrimsble citisen. Daring Jadge Crothers' long period of immobility and ailence I Mr. Bryan depended upon his grand spsciic of talk Ibr election results and hnnnVan im- wwamm ajun urwcncd vegetables ismmmmmmsF orrec- ffe faileito fredeem" Ne- dktrict by votes. r'It fred out thai the'railroads fin the United Ssates: pay out seventy nullione oTtaxeB;yearly.- Now, if tbe government' would .pwn "and operate them, as Mr. Bryan andTHr. Howard advocate, the govmeat-Aould be exempt frbnr plying 4 .'these ' taxes. Platte county would lose atxmt $30, 000 or more annually. Will Mr. Howardkuidly enlighten us as to how he would raise.this sum. . LOKCCK HAS NO LOCAL PRIDE ' Sritish ' Newspaper Takes Whirl at Big Mttropslis. Blindfold a Londoner of the cen ter, put him down In the Caledonian road or on Brook Green or at Heme Hill, then take off the, bandage and ask htm where he is. The chances are ten to one he will have no notion at alL They might Just as well be in the provinces. Practically they are in the provinces. They are not inhabited by Londoners la the true sense, but by people whom accident or necessity h3 brought within the metropolitan area "and .who would be just as happy 200 .miles away. Their atmosphere is not metropolitan. They are not of the center. They are on the fringe. That is why London has so little local pride. It is not a community. It is a congeries of suburbs, each with its separate narrow interests, grouped around a little city whose citlsens have so wide a horizon that they can spare next "to no attention for local affairs. How can 'civic patriotism e expected from a man who spends all his week-sndR at a house in the' coun try, the spring on the Riviera, the autumn "in Scotland or the Mediter ranean? London is to him only an in cident with boundaries probably smaller even tbaa those which I have suggested. The real Londoners are those who would not consider life worth living anywhere else. The real London is the small space wherein are to be found the interests which fill their lives. Hundreds of thousands of sub urbans have never seen a picture in London, never been to the opera or the play, could not tell St. Paul's from the Abbey or distinguish between St. James' and Grosvenor Square. Per contra, few real Londoners know any thing about the regions 'on the fringe. The immensity of London is the constant subject of bewildered com ment. It is the littleness" of London which astonishes me. London World. THE MULES WON. Judge Decided That They Couldnt Possibly Make a Sudden Start. "Men in the east," said a well-known westerner, while talking to some friends in the lobby of a downtown hotel here Irct week, "appear to me to be mostly short and stockily built, except the down-east Yankee, who is usually long and lank. Q , "Now, out in God's country you sel: dom find a man under six feet, and broad in proportion. But I'll admit it sometimes pays to be small. "I remember that in the early 70s," the speaker went on, "a man lived in my town who was over six feet four, and he was about as broad as he was, long, and weighed 400 pounds or so. "In those good old days the festive mule pulled the street cars. "Well, my friend brought suit against the street railway company for damages sustained by their sud den startiag a car in which he was standing. ."During the trial the company brought two of their mules into the courtroom as-witnesses for the de fense. "The Jury viewed the complainant; took a casual glance at the mules, and at once brought In a verdict for the company on the ground that the sud den start was plainly impossible." Washington Post Where Howe Led. Discussing Washington and his birthday John Kendrick Bangs said: "I have made a study of ghosts, as my 'Houseboat on the Styx' and other stories show. And I once dreamed, or saw In a vision, the ghost of Wash ington and the ghost of Gen. Howe conversing. "The two ghosts seemed on ex cellent terms. Howe insisted that Washington was taking on weight Joked him about it and finally said: "'George, 111 run you a mile for a shilling.' "Washington gave Howe a mocking smile. "No, thank you,' he said. 1 was always behind ou when it came to running."' Vanity and the Drug Habit. When a woman is seized by a de sire to better her complexion or her figure by imbibing medicines, the qaaatity of stuff she will swallow in a given time is almost incredible. Vaaity Is the strongest weakness of the gentler sex, bat the physiological effects of the course of drugs, self prescribed aad self-administered, are Mieniated in the end to make tne LTaJmert women regret her methods of self-improvement Edwin's Explanation. Edwia, aged three, who fondled his small cat overmuch and unwisely, ap peared before his mother oae day, his little face guiltily pained aad a scratch upon his hand. "What happened?" she asked. "I bent the kitty a little." he said, briefly. Pays. Tne future ia to the people who are strictly sober. The Japanese, osscers aad soldiers, fed oa rice, aad dariag the great war from' which they issued victorious had only water to appease their thirst Henri Rochefort in Lla- FIRST I Aii a..-;.Vi TRAINS DRAWN BY MCRSZS THE YEAR 129. ' IK Charter Obtained In 122 for Railroad That Was Never Built Lscsme tive Net a tuccssa en Its Trial Trie. la 1822 the first charter was obtain ed for a railroad ia the United States, says Henry C. Nicholas in' the Van Nordea Ifagaziae. It vwas for a line from Philadelphia to a point on the Susquehanna river, bat was never built Oa the announcement of the project some one asked, one of the Baltimore aewspapers. "What is a railroad, anyhow?" and the editor was forced to reply that he did aot know, but that "perhaps some other 'corres pondent can telL" Seven years, later, on the little wooden track along tie Lackawaxen creek, the first locomo tive had its trial. The experiment was far from successful and for a number of years afterward the trains on most of the railroads, continued to bedrawn by horses. The first loco motives on the Baltimore & Ohio rail road had sails attached, as did also the cars, which were hoisted in fair weather when the wind was blowing in the right direction aad thus aided the locomotives in hauling the trains. Owing to the absence of any brakes there was always rude Jolting wheu the trains either started or stopped and the shock was of ten scarcely less se vere than would be caused by the col lision of a modern vestibule train. The cars were usually coupled together by chalns, leaving from two to three fee: slack, and when the locomotive start ed it took up the slack by Jerks, with sufficient force to throw the passen gers from their seats .entirely across the car to the opposite side.. The shock on stopping was even more "se vere and never failed to send the pas sengers flying from their- seats. At first the entire. reliance for stopping the train was upon the engineer, but this, was soonfound to be Insufficient It is stated that on the New Castle & Frenchtowa railroad &e braking of the train when near the station was done at the signal of the engineer by raising his -safety valve. There were -no whistles in those days and signals were made by rais ing the yalve stem on the dome with the hand and allowing the steam to escape with a. sudden loud, hissing noise.' When this, signal was made, the slaves around the station would rush to the train, seise hold and pun back, while, the agent, would stick a piece of -wood through the wheel spoke. A New England writer refers .to -this method of .stopping a train. "which .gave' one, when approaching his station, such a Jolly stirring up. and never let up until he was landed wide-awake and half seasick on the platform." The frequent collisions and blowing up of engines during the early 30s. while it apparently did not affect the volume of traffic, did affect to some extent the nerves of the more timor ous passeage'rs. Some of the southern railroads, solicitous for the. safety of their passengers, introduced ' what they' called a "barrier car between the .locomotive and the passenger coaches of the train. 'This barrier ear consisted of a , platform oh. wheels upon which were piled six bales of 'cot ton and it was claimed It would safe guard Nthe.' passengers in two ways' h would 'protect them from the blow ing up of the locomotive and'woHld form a soft cushion- upon which the passengers could .land in 'the event .of a collision. There is no record of bow this experiment worked out ..The Humble Freight Car. It is the freight car that makes the Pullman possible. ;. It was the freight car that last year earned $55,000,000 for the New York 'Central, as against aa earning of 128000,000 to the credit of . the - passenger car. It was the freight car that last year earned $110. 000,000 for the stockholders of the Pennsylvania, as against an earning by the passenger car of $31,000,000. And It Is because the homely freight car meaas so much to the big systems that a new rule has gone into effect whereby a railroad that holds the freight cars of another will have to pay a penalty of 50 cents a day for every day it does so, instead of one dollar a day after the first 30 as here tofore. Railroads in Germany. At the beginning of the year 1906 the total length of the standard gauge railroads in Germany aggregated 34. 124 English miles, an increase of 21.3 per cent over the mileage length of ten years ago.The area of the Ger man empire Is 208,780 square miles and It contains a population of 62,125. 000. For every 100,000 inhabitants this would give 6.1 miles length of trackage. The receipts from passen ger traffic for the year 1905 amounted to $163,773,750, exceeding by 6314 per cent those of the year 1895. The pas senger and baggage traffic contributed 28.19 per cent to the total receipts. Cost of Electrification. -Careful estimates recently made for the electrification of 78 miles of steam railroad iadicated that there would be a saving of 21 per cent In the operat ing expenses of the road. Lewis B. Stillwell and Henry St Clair Putnam, two eminent engineers, have made ex haustive calculations which show that taking the entire 216,950 miles of steam railroads in the United States, a re duction of operating expenses to 83 per cent of the present outlay would be made by electrification of all the raftroads. This would mean a net saving of $887 a mile in one year. Married in Sackcloth. Ia order aot to lose a legacy of $25.0M left to her by aa eccentric auat a young lady was, in some little time ago, married tag a wedding dress which, though of fashloaable cat, waa asade ef sackcloth. Fsdisii "Our train struck a bear an the war down." "Was he on the trackr "No; the train had to go iato tan woods after aim.- Louisville We Now Have the ; Exclusive Agency FOR- aMBnT t BniBBBllSsnBsSBsl nMnw'BBBBBJ nsBnBBBsfllBMnw nMBnw M llTffMnBBwTiHILn ! na m AHKjKKE3MSSBEM nMBnwan nV T!TJi-Mi2wsr GtobcWemkke "Elastic" Bookcase I irfailiMkiwUriilMkiK Willi mi m I I HSi&TiT-srt Gass 1 1 j I BJ B B BJ 219-21-23 West Eleventh Street BothJPhones. I nuw TO WIN BATTLES. Men Who Hit Are Determining Factor in War. Otfc things being equal, good shooting is the determining factor in war. Poorly drilled and hastily or ganised bodies of men can-give a good account of themselves if they know how to shoot and hit what they shoot at In our war for independence, says Army and Navy Life, the colonists were woodsmen. They carried and used their arms to supply their homes with food, aad to .protect them from the Bavage. As marksmen they vast ly outclassed the British, and that more than anything else gave Wash ington the final victory. Again, in our great civil war, mark the effect of a general knowledge of firearms. In the south were sporting people; they were fond of riding and hunting, shooting at target and at game entered into their sports and pastimes. The north was commer cial. Its men knew nothing of firearms. save the flintlocks of their grandfa thers, objects of curiosity in their shops or homes, except in the far west where the life of 1776 was still being lived. The result was that in the east the southern troops were gen erally victorious for a couple of years until the northern troops learned to shoot . What little success the north had was ia the west, where they were little better than a standoff. A Paying Crop. P. W. Burbridge, M. A., of Dublin. In his opening address at the narcis sus conference, held in 1896, said: "An acre of wheat or potatoes may be put down as worth from 20 to 50, according to locality. ' variety, etc., but an acre of choice daffodils or narcissuses may be worth anything from 50 to 500, or even more." The advisability of blending bulb growing with the culture of flowering roots of all kinds is increasingly ap parent and thus the chance ef suc cess is widened. In addition, flower production may be regarded as a very natural aid to the enlargement of tbe scope' of the bulb grower. There is an astonishing demand in large cities for the very commonest kinds of bios soms. and many a grower is adding substantially to his annual turnover and profits by the production of these ordinary flowers. Dundee Adver tiser. Net a Welch One. Rev. Mr. Preuder of Philadelphia, was tavited to dine at the house or a friend whose wife went into her kitchen to give some final orders. In cidentally, she added to the servant: "We are to have a Jewish rabbi for dinner to-day." For a moment the maid surveyed her mistress ia grim sHeace. Then she spoke with deci sion: "All I have to say is," she announced, "if you have a Jewish rabbi for dinner, you'll cook it your self." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Taking Her Pick. The following was told at a smoker recently, and it la not so bad, either. The aarrator told of another little feed he once attended, where eight atea were sent home ia one hack; aad the driver simply rang the door bell aad whea a feminine voice called from the upper window: "Who is therer the Jehu replied: "Missus, will you be aa kiad as to come down aad pick oat your habvr 'JaaJaw cott's. A Pooer for Ma. William Did the baby come from heaven, ma? Mamma Tea dear. William I say, a, that kid didat know when he waa well oa. did he? Boston Transcript, ABTICLKS OP INCOKPORATIOll OP TBS GEKHABZ-FLVHN CO. Know All Men By These Praaeata: Thai we. Frank J.Gerharx of CeJaaaa.aa Jeha FIyaaofSoathOmaha.au of the state ef Kebrawka. do hereby assaeiatt oaraelvea togeta-1 or car ia awraoaa es tier B(liuaecontaBce with the Malates of the atat of Nebraska, and hereby adopt thtt follow, iaic Articles ot lncwrporatioa, to-wtt: AkTicLKl. The naate of this corporation hall be the tlerhiuz-r'tjna Co. AkticlkII. Tho principal place of trawact ibx the beaiae of thia corporation hall be in the city of ColHZBbB.4 ia Platte coasty, state of Nebraoka. Akticlz III. The general Baton ot the baal- aeaa to be transacted thall be general BMrclian diitiBg. which shall inclade, aaoomc other things, the aale of clothing, hata and cape, luraishlnin and kindred lia-a; the beyimr and Belling ef notes and mortgage, the leasing, baying and holding of each Mai and personal property aa may be neceaaary or inculental to the conduc tion of its basineaa; leasing. Bab-lettiag. mort gaging. Belling aad conveying of Baca real and personal property of the corpoiatiou, and to do and perform iach other acta aa may bo inci dental or at oeaaary to the maia powers ef tao corporation. Amticlk IV. The amount of tae capital stock of thia lorporatioa shaU be tea thoasaad dollar (1U.U.(.) divided iato oae haadred shares (100) of the par valae of oae haadred dollarH t$lUi.UU) each, which stock whea I weed shall be faUy paid and non-aesiable. Said stock cen. at aay Ume. be divided into common and pre ferred stock as the board of directors shall di rect. !aid catHlal stock shall be oald ia at sech times ana in such amounts and apoa such condi tions as the board of directors shall direct. Article V. The highest amonat ot iadebted nesa or liability to which the corporation shall at aay time sabject itself, shall aot exceed two thirds (,S) of the capital stock. AumcLK VI. The attaint of this corporation shall be managed by a board of three (3j to five (3) directors to be elected by ana f rem the stock holders, and a preskieat and vice president, a secretary and a treasurer, each to he elected by the board of directors. Aay two ottcea may, at any time, be held by oae and the same persoc. Vacancies ia the board of directors my be filled by the board. Ahticlk VII. The time of commencement cf this corporatiou shall be at the time of filing ot these articles as reqaired by law, aad the corpor atiou shall continue for a period of thirty (JL) years aaless sooner dissolved by law or by mu tual consent. AR-ncucVIII. The board of directors shall have fall power aad aathority to make all rolts ad by-l.wa for the proper government aad coe trol of the basiaees affairs ot taisscorporutioc. and may by maioritT vote of all the memhem of the board of directors alter aad amend the sum atpleasare. abticxe ia. no stockholder shall be liable for the debts of thia eorBorrtiesi in aav Mutant greater thaa his unpaid sabscription. ABT1CLK X. Thene Articles of Isronmnitinn may be amended onl b two-thirds ) vote of all stock issaed or subscribed and only at a reg alar meeting of the stockholders, or at any spec ial meeting called for that purpose by order f the board of directors. Ia witness whereof, we have- hereanto set oc r hands and to one other original this 14th day cf Aagast. A. 1. IWi, ia the city of Commons, coBBty of Platte aad state of Nebraska. Vbabk J. Gebharz, Joan Flyxh. STATE OF NEBRA8KA, Coanty of Platte, f Beitkaowa,taatoa the llfh day of Angast A. D. 1907. before me. J. G. Becher. a notary public, wittua aad for the coanty ot flatte, aad state of Nebraska, personally appeared ia the said coaaty. r rank J. Uerharz aad Jon VI.... above earned, who are personally known to me. aad they severally acknowledge that they eae cntod the above Articles of lacorporaUoa of their free aad volaatary act aad deed. jb uaumeay waereor. 1 have hereanto sab scribed my aame and aSued my notarial seal the day aad year last above mentioned. (1) Notary Pablic Underwood Standard a Typewriter For Speed ft Safety, Stfrety a . 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