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8 TTTE TIKE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. APKTE 12. 1011. WHEN PASS WAS THE THING Eecollectioni of the Joy Riding Era of YeRr Gone By. SIGN OF THE ELECT BAJHSHED Brrrrhoiir lh Pull Worked It (krap'r tn RIH Tk to tr t Mom" Hf form Wortk Millions. Pv ysr tisv elBisrl slnr th cruel an1 Inliiimnn Hi'"-n taking- a stranglo hold on the railroad. r-fmirell1 them to foign their pl-aiinK practise of handing nut pawe tn all romtri, and, Instrart, to erupt real mony for the privilege of hauling the clilznnn of tills fair land. In those five yearn more free-horn Amerl rsna have Stayed at home than tn any other ten years since railroads ware In vented. staylnir at home aggravates, rather than xtlflfg. wanderlust, yet time mercifully mel low all aorrowa After five year. It Is poMslble to contemplate the passing of the psM with outward compiaure. though not without Inward emotion. Lt u. then, take from the bureau drawer the little pass that waa cut off In Its prime, rendered null and void, and hark hack to the blesned time that lithographed formula recalls. What delightful memories mingle with the odor of lavender flowers In which that Pmks Is emhlatned: What visions of Joy rides from coant to coast, and from lakes to aulf. It conjures up! And It was all so eimple and Inexpensive. To he seen at the ticket window In the good old days buying railroad transpor tation was equivalent to making public con fi slon that you controlled no vote but your own. that you had no social aspirations, no political ambitions, and no commercial BiandlnK. for everybody who was anybody tiaveled on passes, and they wanted every body else to know It. ' The- "tain of the Klert. To pontes a pas was equal to a place In the four hundred. The only distinction between the common herd of the eminently ' respectable nd the elect was that the lat ter carried a wallet full of annuals Instead of traveling on trip passes. One runic MKher up the ladder. Pullman passes were sdded to the annuals. Those who really Knew the ropes, also carried a dining car frank, and cracked a Joke with the porter In lieu of a tip. In the good old days before 1906, a certain riillioad out of New York City ran a Grafters' limited. It was a special train to the state capital to accommodate pass holders. It is said that tickets were so rare on that train that when the conductor chanced to discover a passenger with that form of transportation his hand trembled fo that he punched holes In hla thumb mMead of the pasteboard. Then he would hurry on to tell the flagman, the head brakeman and the baggageman that. t "That hed-headed, speckle-faced cusa In the third seat on the thumb-hand side In the smoker is rldin' on a ticket. Say, If business keeps on plcktn' up this way the company ought to be able to stand a raise fur us fellers." Then the trainmen to whom these sensa tional disclosures were made would parade l ack and forth through the smoking car to gape sidelong at the speckled-faced phe nomenon, while "Peanuts" fell over his own feet In his haste to reach that gentleman's side. Without a moment's delay, "Peanuts" proceeded to find a diamond ting right un der the ticket holder's feet, a half Interest In which, he declared with unparalleled fairness, belonged to the latter. In the excess of his desire to play fair, "Peanuts" wound up with an offer to renounce his own claim tn the find for the small sum of $1. If the ticket holder did not fall to that, there was the short change racket to ''close a transaction In figs or literature; or. as a last resort, there waa the shell Kama, Oh, It was a great distinction to travel on a ticket In the old days! A committee of the Iowa legislature. In an exhaustive report on passes submitted In 1SK.', declared that the legislative' pass was regarded as a "heritage." An Inter ference In the enjoyment of this heritage was regarded as unwarranted presumption on the patr of the railroads and waa rA eented as such. When Marked O." The Chicago A Alton found this out, when In 1901. It had the effrontery to send members of the Illinois legislature passes stamped: "Not good In compartment cars," "Not good on the Alton Umlted," "Not Ootid locally between Chicago and Jollet." Naturally, these Railing restrictions roused Indignation In the breasts of the statesmen. They Immediately started an Investigation of all wrecks on the Alton for the preceding six months, but thought better of It when passes commensurate with the dignity of statesmen were sub stituted for the offensive pasteboards. Kvery once In a while an upstart railroad had to be taught Its place. Une such rati road in Ohio had the Impudenoe, not to say the indiscretion to refuse a pass to . the chlet of police of one of the larger cities In the state. Immediately thereafter, tialns pasxlng throng), that city were fre quently stopped and their crews were ar rested for violating the ordinances against whistling, bell ringing, exceeding the speed limit, blocking crossings and similar crimes These stoppages caused so much delay and confusion that the service waa demor alised. Observing this, the chief of police remarked that he "rather guessed there'd be something doing In the way of passes before long." And tie was light. One of the softest snaps congress ever struck came about through the Indiscretion of the Pennsylvla railroad In encroaching on a public park when It built its old sta tion In Washington. Every year an In e,uirv was started as to the right of the ' railroad to occupy a part of the govern ment's land. This continued until the Pennsylvania came down with a liberal bunch of pasties for all hands. Then an adjournment was taken until mora trans portation was needed. Some Who Wouldn't Hla Free. There were a few eccentric Individuals who did not appreciate the privilege of being able to bestow free rides In other people's cars. A Chicago alderman re- s'gned In dlnguet. in ltW. because he wss pestered to death by constituents In quest of railroad passes. He said there were never fewer than fifteen dally applicants for passes at his office, while the number not Infrequently rose to Tjrty. Hut there were actually politicians who would not accept a pass. The most remarkable case was that of Ansel Baecom. a member of the New York legislature In 1MB. who would not even accept a pass for himself from,th Albany and Rochester railroad, but re turned It with a letter to the president n the road, saying that he went to Alban to represent the people, and not the Alban ,- It., cheter railroad; that It was part c his duty to watch the railroads to see they did no wrong, and. In consequence, It ould be a ft and on the state to take th pa a. ltaacom's Spartan Self-denial made him a public chsran-r for a brief season, but he scon dropiM-4 Into oblivion. Think of what he mltcht have become had he but helped himself to the good thlnae In his way. Mill, you never can tell. In the nelgh burliig stat of Uaaeachusetts ther waa a legislator who wss not so self sacrificing as Bascom. yet when ho went before the people for re-election he wss defeated. As he said afterward, he could not under stand how It happened, "because he al ways got passes for his constituents who asked for them." Htn Iteqnesfs Were Worded. For a federal Judge to ssk In the first person singular for a railroad pass would not only have violated the etiquette In sti"h rases made and provided, hut it would have stained the ermine to an extent that would have kept the dry cleaners working overtime. No. Indeed. The private secre tary or a clerk wrote a courtly epistle in the third person In the Judge's behalf, thus: "His honor, Judee CJraft. will spend a portion of his vacation In California. He has already been kindly supplied with an annual for himself; but, if the rules of the company permit, he would be glad in have the courtesy extended to his family of eight persons who will accompany him." For a governor, this form wss all to the sand dome: "His excellency. Governor Pedhed wishes to take n trip to the seashore with his wife, four daughters, three sons, a niece, two slsters-ln-la w. five maids, a valet, nursei governess and coachmHn. He has ben tendered a private car on the N. O. line, but would prefere a special train over your route. Kindly send me trans portation for the governor and twenty from Sorkettoum to New York and re turn." The way not to do It was beautifully exemplified by the prosecuting attorney In a Western state, who wrote a ion, threat ening letter to the president of a railroad company reminding him that he had fa vored the Judges In his territory with an nuals, whereas "I have daily to grant the favors of the law of a great slate for your railroad. Your men are all liable to prose cution for running trains on .Sunday, also for letting trains stop across public streets and In Other ways." Impossible to Iteekon rasa Values. How could such a man be Riven a pass? Or. how could the lieutenant governor of another slate get what he wanted when he had the bad taste to write: "In appointing my committees, I have favored the railroads, believing that the Interests of the state demanded It." What possessed the chairman of a cam paign committee. In asking for pastes for twenty-one men to canvass the state, and hold out the hope that, in event of suc cess, "we may be able to do you some substantial favors?" A No one ever knew, nor will any one ever know, the money value of free transpor- atlon given away hy the railroads. No railroad report ever referred to the subject. possibly no railroad management has ever kept any statistics, for a contemplation thereof surely would have given the board of directors several kinds of shock Search all the reports of all the state railroad commissions from cover to cover, and you will not find so much as the words "passes" or "free transportation," to say nothing of any Information about the quantity Issued. The Interstate Com merce commission's voluminous literature s silent on the subject. The nearest approach to definite Infor mation from any authoritative source la to be found In such fragmentary assertions as the distribution of free transportation by the Pennsylvania railroad to the value of el.0OO.000 a year In the Keystone state alone; that a certain railroad In Pennsyl vania distributed 2.5(iO passes for a single state convention; that a western railroad resident boasted that he had been able to effect a saving of $1,000 a flay merely by regulating the Issue of passes. Not stop ping. Just regulating! Millions In It. It Is related that a Philadelphia banker. who has been a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania railroad for many years, assured a group of friends that the cost of deadhead traffic to the company from 1S.: to 1W6 almost equaled he aggregate cost of tho tunnels under he Hudson river and the new terminal In New York City; and that the deadhead passenger, freight and express service to federal officeholders and their families had been not less than $X.0O0.non. In the absence of any definite statistics, the next best thing Is an estimate by an expert. To secure this, 1 asked the presi dent of an eastern line, one of tho pioneers In the anti-pass movement. What the dead heads used to cost the railroads of the nation. He said that If all free transportation had been paid for, pas.-enger revenues would have been Increased la per rent. In the ten years before the Hepburn law went Into effect, the passenger revenues of all the railroads aggregated S.1.S3K.&u6.921. Fifteen per cent of this would amount to fT:,73,R38, or an average of VJ,WS.33 a year. This would have paid 5 per cent In terest on an Investment of tl.M1.S2T.tsi0; and. no doubt, It would have been, welcome, for as late as 1W8 one-third of the railroads In the I'nlted States paid no dividends. To put It another way, the cost of deadhead transportation would have built and equl- ped 13.2b! miles of railroad ae an average1 ped of HO.OOO a mile, which Is a liberal rate. Every Une la Klve a Deadehead. This estimate would seem to be very con servative, from the fact that In 16. when the deadhead was In full possession of all his perquisites, passenger revenues on all railroads aggregated t486.43o.s02, while two years later, In 1307. after the rigors of the Hepburn lew had set In, they were t4,- 718,578. This extraordinary Jump of tSS.297, TS, or M per cent. In yearly earntngs'ln so short a period would seem to Indicate something more than natural Increase In traffic This natural Increase would be more than offset by the elimination of the mere Joy-riders. When they had to pay for every mile they traveled, people ontv wan dered from their flresddes when driven hy grim necessity, whereas traveling on passes used to be cheaper than staying at home. It Is doubt lc well within hounds to say that, formerly, one passenger in every five was a deadhead. That Is. In 1902, when the average number of passengers on a train as forty-two, at least eight were dead heads. I-assenger earnings. In 1K. aggregated tf)7,H3.l. Fifteen per cent of this sum the amount the deadheads would have been entitled to under the old regime would be rSS.7M.i40. Now. tssodO.OtO is worth taxing, a fact which Is generally recognized by the statesmen at Washington. At the last ses sion of congress, no fewer than eight bills were Introduced to compel railroads to carry free, as of old. various classes of deadheads, ranging from war veterans and milkmen to Insurance agents. That makes a good start. Kven with no Increase In the rate of legislation, eight billa a session will soon get us all back within ths free-transportation fold again Railroad Man's Magaxine. Moat Food Is Poison to the dyspeptic. Klectrlo Hitters cure dys-l-epela, liver and kidney complaints and de bility. Price 50c. St4d by lleaton lrug Co. Copper Mrrurr awe I'oktponed. NEW VOKK. April 11 -Hy agreement of counsel the hearing on the leiltiou of G. ,M. Hyams of New York for a temporary injunction to prevent the consolidation of the Calumet and Hecla and nine other copper mining companies has keen msl poned until April 11 The raae was to havo come up today betjre L'mied blues ii Utci Juvlce kM. NOTED LEADER OF RED MAN Remarkable Traits of Halfbreed Chief of Comanches. ROMANCE OF HIS PARENTS Me, rhllosonber nnd Friend of Hie Race, a Peacemaker and Protector In Dealings Tilth Whites. The most picturesque figure In the ah- orlglnal life of the southwest and he int of the great leaders of the red rare in that quarter," summarizes the tribute paid tn the memory of Quanah Parker, deceased chief of the Comanche Indians by Frances K. I.eupp In the Moston Transcript. In his capacity as commissioner of Indian aff.Vrs tinder Roosevelt. Mr. Ieupp came in direct contact with this most remarkable leader of red men. and learned to appreciate Ms honesty, Integrity and uns?lfish labors in behalf of his kindred. What he aeom pllshed and how. his characteristics end his parentage are thus detailed by Mr. Leupp: The father of Qtianah u a notable Fn among the Cotnanrhes; Quanah has repeat edly spoken of him to me as a chief, hut I have heard this i-.lnlm denied, though ev eryone familiar with the family readily accords him a hlsh rank. The mother -.van a white Kirl taken captive by the tribe In one of its forays. Her name was Cynthia Parker and she lived In Chilllcothe, O.. or. rather. In the then wild region which Inter furnished a site for the present city. She was about seven years old when a hand of Indians -found her at play at some c"s tance from her father's house and kid napped her. This was In the latter end of the eighteenth century. The disappear ance of Cynthia and an elder sister, who was taken at the some time, aroused great excitement among the settlers In that part of the frontier, but the searching parties sent out at once were unable to find a trace of the children or their captors. Discovery of the Captive. A whole generation had 'passed wien one day, on the plains of Kansas, a com pany of white troops surrounded a band of hostile Indiana and swept down upon their camp, where she was found, In the tepee of the head man of the band, a fine looking woman In Indian costume, with the Indian carriage and address, but obviously not of Indian blood. Although she could speak no Knglish, having forgotten her mother tongue through long disuse, the commanding officer discovered through an Interpreter that she remembered some of her child history, and she was soon Iden tified as the stolen Cynthia Parker. She was taken back to Ohio, where a number of her relatives recognised her and did all they could to Induce her to stay with them; but she could not reconcile herself to (the change from the free life of t.i Indian camp to the restrictions of the modern social order, nor could she bear separation from her Comanche husband and the children she had borne hlm. one of them being the baby Quanah. So, after a year's vain struggle to adapt herself to the ways of those about her, she was per mitted to return, and thenceforward fol lowed the fortunes of her adopted people. This Is the story as I nave had it from Quanah's lips, with many details not neces sary to rehearse here. Quanah was always very reverent of his mother's memory and used to say that his faculty for getting along with the white men's government was due to the white strains of blood which he drew from her. Of his father, most cf his stories had to do with humorous Inci dents. ' A Poser. Nobody among the Comanches of our day ever attempted to contest with Quanah his authority In the tribe, which was king like both In Its scope and In hts manner of exercising It. The national government early recognized this trait as a valuable asset In transacting business with his peo ple, and made large use of It. Ho really continued to rule long after It had been made known to the Indians that the era of chiefs had passed away, and that their fealty was now to he given to the Great Father at Washinaton. When n payment of money was to be made to the Coman ches per capita, he always sat at the head of the pay table. Identified the men and women as their names were announced, verified the numbers and sexes and agea of their families respectively, maintained or der when any trouble threatened, and In every way proved a useful coadjutor to the atient and his clerks. It was the same way when Individual Indians wished to lease their lands to white farmers;, Quanah was able to furnish the leasing officers with whatever information was needed about the circumstances of a would-be lessor or the condition of his household. Family disputes within his following were referred to him almost every day, to set tle like a benevolent police magistrate; and to his credit it should be said that, although In morn ways than one he re sembled an oriental cadi, he usually con trived to do substantial Justice in matters which would have sorely puszled a white Judge unskilled In the Intricacies of aborigi nal ethics. He had a quaint way of put ting things which sometimes upset the grave conclusions of men better educated than he. Secretary Nohle, during ths Har rison administration, set himself the task of breaking up polygamy among the In dians. Some of the chiefs affected resented his Interference, and threatened mischief. Others sulked and plotted. Quanah re ceived with perfect good nature the lecture on his sinfulness which the secretary de livered to him In person, and then re sponded: "Mr. Secretary, I have three wives. I love them all the same. I don't know which two I should put away. You tell me, and then 1 will go home and do It." As he had cleverly foreseen, his adver sary was posed. The secretary rubbed his forehead, played a little with his eye glasses to kill time, cleared his throat, cententtously, and pronounced his Judg ment that Quanah had better keep all his wives as long aa they lived and behaved ! themselves, but not take any more; but bade him bring up his children, and the young men of his tribe, to the practice of monogamy. Heap Like W hite Mast. Quanah's function as universal referee among the Comanches won him the good will of a number of the white cattleman of Oklahoma, where the tribe had its res- ervatlon. These men used to get pennls- slon to graze their cattle on the common lands of the Indians, paying a certain yearly stipend for the privilege. All the negotiating and all the paying were done t . IMtOX Are recognized everywhere on a brotherhood basis of uniform quality. Fof tale at out ageocias reary whoa. through Quanah before the government established Its more modern svstem of handling these thins. When trouble arose bet Keen lessors and lessees, growing out of alleged trespass or otherwise, the cat tlemen were quite content to leave the case to Quanah to seltle. and he always treated them fairly. After the passage of several esrs they subscribed to a fund with which they built hlm a fine large house, and he set his peopie the example of living In It. believing that this would be one of the symptoms of advancement which the Oreat Father would most ap preciate In them. A member of the white group who had been absent when the hat was passed wished to contribute his share, too, and asked Quannh what form It had better take. Quanah promptly answered that he would like a roller-top desk and swivel chair. His white friend exclaimed In astonishment at this, as the chief could neither read nor write. So Quanah ex plained himself. "You see," said he. Illustrating with appropriate gestures as he went along, "me open desk and sit down In chair so and lean back, and put feet up on desk, and light big seegar, and hold newspaper up in front of me, all same white man sabe? Then, by-m-bye white man he come in and knock at door, and he say: 'Quanah. me want talk t' you a minute.' And me swing 'round In chair so and puff lots of smoke In his face, and me say; Go 'way! Me ve'y busy t day!" " Ilamnr on Tap. Quanah's humor was always on tap. even when he was engaged In serious business. When the ghost dance furoie broke out In the northwest, somewhat more than twenty years ago, the news of It spread Into the Oklahoma country, and the Comanches. with their neighbors, the Kiowas and Apaches, became more or loss excited by It. Quanah took the matter calmly, and it was largely through his in fluence that the three tribes sent a Joint committee to Dakota to Inquire Into the business. When they returned the emis saries united In explaining that the cause of the uprising was the report, generally believed anion the northern Indians, that the Messiah was about to come back to earth, restore to the Indians their ancient heritage and drive the whlteB away. The Apache committeeman was pretty well convinoed that this was true, ana disposed to counsel his fellow tribesmen to prepare for the great event. The Kiowa member was a trifle uncertain, especially as a tribal election was Impending in which ha had something at stake, and he waa anx ious to propitiate both radicals and con servatives. But Quanah chuckled a little when called upon for his opinion, and de livered himself thus diplomatically: "Mebbe-so Messiah he come; mebhe-ao no. Any way, me going keep one hand on Messiah and one hand on Gov-ment then me safe!" It Is needless to add that the Messiah crane wrought little havoc among the Comanches. A Red Proa-resslve. Quanah was a progressive, without being a reckless Iconoclast. He uniformly advised his followers to adopt the ways of civiliza tion, employed white physicians when he was 111, sent his children to school and tried to make his home a radiating center of rational modernism. He even joined a Christian church In his later years, though I suspect that he would have found It dif ficult to expound the grounds of his faith beyond a simple wish to lean on something unseen, and higher than himself, now that the worship In which his fathers Indulged had been largely swept away or so adul terated aa to be hardly recognizable. He remained, through all his cultural vicissi tudes, si loyal lover of the old things, even after he tad entirely ceased to regard them with awe. One of the last talks I had with him waa about the changes time had wrought In the white man's Ideals as well aa the Indian's for that waa a firm tenet of hla philosophy; and he framed hla argu ment so aa to compel support of the plea of some of the older Indians that they might be allowed to gather now and then for a big dance In the costumes of a former generation, sing their songs of war and the chase and self-glorification, and gen erally live again for a little while the life of their traditions. Referring to this very Washington's birthday season for an Illus tration, he Inquired what harm It did the white man to dress himself up once a year In the costume of the Continental troops, and have shara battles with a mock enemy; and he reminded me that he had been to the theater on some of his visits to the east and seen white men perform in plays where they went back to a far remote and barbarous period for their armor and their weapons, and In which the action was chiefly fighting. And what answer was possible to such logic? TREASURE LOST IN MAILSACK Thirty Yen re Between ArciMtUa and Vindication, and Mow It Came. The vindication of the Rev. Mr. Bur dette of Springfield, Mass., from the sus picion of stealing t3.600 contained In reg istered letters thirty years ago is complete, but it Is a recoil on other agencies. In 1KS1 he, as postal clerk In Peoria, 111., received and put Into a mall bag twelve registered letters containing t3.M0, which were en tered In the registry book. But the rail may mall clerk failed to find the letters that the book called for, and reported the loss. Suspicion fell on Mr. Burdette, but nothing positive could be proved. He studied for the ministry, served on foreign missions and la now preaching In Spring field. A few days ago tn an old mall bag sent to the San Francisco poatofflce shops for repair the twelve letters with the tt.MO were found in the leather lining. It had been traveling around the country for thirty years. Presumably the bag had been Tiled and emptied some ten thousand times, but ths letters remained In their hiding place. Mr. Burdette Is vindicated except from haste and carelessness In put ting the valuable letters Into the bag. But It leaves Inferences as to the care of the I service, which would be damaging If it were not the exceptional case out or scores of millions. How waa It that the first railway clerk I when he found 13.600 that should have ben " the bag missing did not examine I the bag thoroughly enough to find the ! valuable letters that were there? Think of the thousands of other mall clerks who hsve emptied the bag day after day and , year after year, but never carefully enough to And the letters. Next to Mr. Burdette the one thing vindicated Is durability of the mall bag, which, though in IBM, waa In Mats such had repir as to lt the twelve let ters slip back of the lining, stuck to them during the vicissitudes of thirty eai s postal sevrli . Pitlsburg IMspatch. USE CHANGES QUOTATIONS! Polishlnsr Process of Common I e Im proves the Thonahts of t.reat Men. At the recent centenary of Horace Greeley's birth the newspapers very gen erally, Including the Journal which he founded and which he edited for a third of a century, quoted hlm as urging In his paper, "tin to Hiclimond!" Instead of "on" a much more aggressive word was em ployed. Here is the entire expression in which these words figured: "Forward tn Richmond! Forward to Richmond! The rebel congress must not be allowed to meet there on the 2nth of July. My that date the place must be held by the national army." This paragraph appeared at the head of the New York Tribune's editorial columns on June 2i, Wl. and was repeated for sev eral days. Vhdoubtedly It was one of the Influences which Impelled General Mc Dowell to advance before he was ready, and the disaster at Bull Run on July 21 was the consequence. Greeley afterward denied that he was the author of the slo gan, but as editor of the Tribune he ac cepted responsibility for its publication. In the school books of long ago we were thrilled by the response. "Millions for de fense, but not one cent for tribute," which was ascribed to Charles Cotesworth Plnck ney. one of our special envoys Palis, when he was told by a represci..d.tlve of the directory, which governed Fiance at the time, that Immunity by our merchant vessels from attack by French warships could not be gained by us except by paying for the favor. What Plnckney did say was, "No. no. no; not one sixpence." The fictitious answer, however, lends Itself bet ter to sonorous declamation and has per sisted. "If a due participation of office Is a mat ter of right, how are vacancies to be ob tained? Those by death are few; by resig nations none." This Is what Jefferson said when the merchants of New Haven protested against his removal of the federalist collector, Goodrich, and the appointment of FTshop. democrat, in his place. As descriptive of the clinging characteristics of the average federal office holder these words, In mod ern speech, have condensed themselves Into "Few die and none resign." This phrase la neater and more compact than the other, but It is not Jefferson's. Harper's Weekly. The Omaha Bee's Great- Booklovers Con test Thirty-nine prizes. You can enter at any time. IBIRAMOIEI! STOKES f fill get A Boys' $7.50 Strictly All Wool Blue Serge Confirmation Suits at $5.50 The coat is double breasted, the pants full cut and fully lined for the smaller boy. The advan tage of getting two pairs of fT C A knickerbockers to each coat, at . Vww V 1 STORES n - limsrrsuiMuise 'i tvwvuvn ikuuiji i Housewife, when all f family are gathered for J" ' ss ? .a . r LmmJ T n -1 B in 3 r; and treat them to a palate acrprue. 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