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LOVE IN ASHES.
BY SAKAII J CLARKE.
"Scant of nine, and the washing all out,"
mused thrifty Mrs. Cbutter^li she scrubbed
the porch. "Deacon, I'll get you to set the
big tub down cellar, if you will."
"Certain, wife," responded the deacon
!rom his cart in the door-yard.
"There comes Kendall's new basket wagon,
with two women in it," pursued the lady,
wringingher mop. "Isn't that the horse that
balk";-'"
Being in the critical act of emptying a
four-gallon bucket of soap, the good
man vouchsafed no reply. When the jellied
mass had quivered and splashed into the
barrel in waiting he looked up just in season
to see the. gay little pony shy at the cart and
50 tearing down the road.
. "They'll upset! they'll be killed! Run
ifter 'em! Do something!" shrieked Mrs.
Chutter.
"Don't get excited, wife; they're all right
aow. That girl drives like a man."
And picking up his bucket, the moderate
deacon marched off for a second supply of
soap. But though tbe little incident "had
failed to shake his nerves, it did make him
oblivious of his wife's wash-tub poised on
the landing of the dim stairway, and as a
natural consequence he put his foot in it.
The tub rolled; the deacon swayed like a
pestle in a mortar; there was a lively suc
cession of bumps, followed by a clatter and a
thud, and deacon, tub, and bucket strewed
ihe cellar floor.
"Adah andablbu!" ejaculated the fallen
int, with sinful energy.
a "What's up, uncle." cried an anxious
foice overhead.
"I can tell you what's down," was the
jrim response. "Come and brace me while
[ try to step."
The owner of the voice, a fine-looking
fouth ot one-and-twenty, was already groping
ais way among the debris, his aunt in the
•ear with the camphor.
The deacon's attempted locomotion re
sulted in a groan.
"I must have sprained my ankle, Harvey.
If I'd postponed this tub race till alter I'd
sees my rounds, 'twould have been better
calculation."
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about my rounds,
uncle. What'B|tbe hurry?"
"My customers expect me to-day, that's
the point. I hate masterly to break my
word. Now there's the widow Cleaves wait
ing for me take her ashes, so she can scrub
after me with the boiling suds, and up at
Kendall's they're clean out of soap."
"And not clean without it, eh." laughed
the young man. "See here, uncle; since
you are going to feel so uneasy about disap
pointing the people, why not send me in your
stead."
"You, in your fine clothes! I should
smile," mumbled Mrs. Chutter, with the
stopper of the camphor bottle between her
teeth.
"Why can't my uncle's mantle fall upon
me, auntie? I was intending to borrow the
frock."
"Well, if I do say it, you've got the Vance
common-sense. Some young men of your
bringiug up would be ashamed to drive a
sn;i) i cart."
"Humph! Some young men would by
fools," said the deacon, with warmth. "No
i ' ly has any call to be ashamed to deliver
JttC soap as I make. If you've a mind to
....i the team to-day, Harvey, I shall be
.(bleeged to you.".
Fifteen minutes later the worthy deacon
,vas extending his aching length upon the
sitting-room lounge, and gazing through the
open window after his youthful proxy, who,
duly initiated into the mysteries of the cull
ing, was driving away in the big blue cart.
Behind jounced and creaked an empty ash
bin, flanked by two covered barrels of soap;
but the swinging seat was clean and comfort
able, commanding a fine view of the sur
rounding country.
A half-mile and more the road wound
through his uncle's fertile acres, for Deacon
Chutter was withal a farmer. Farming, in
deed, was his chief vocation, soap-boiling
being an accessory venture growing out of
sundry extensive experiments In the use
of leached ashes as a fertilizer. It was one
of those tuneful mornings in early June
when all nature joins in a glad doxology.
The newly arrived bobolinks, tipsy with glee,
carrolled in the meadows. The orioles,
hanging their hammocks in the elms, could
scarcely work for singing. Gay breezes
whispered love to the graceful young clover,
then danced away to flirt with the coy hill
side birches. Everywhere were life and
motion irradiated by tbe benignant sun. For
Harvey Vance's study-weakened eyes there
was too much glare, too much flutter. He
lost no time in putting on his blue goggles.
••Who cares if they do make me look like a
hog." mused he, as he settled them astride
lis aristocratic nose. "Thanks to them, and
tochange of air, my poor optics are undoubt
20?}- improving. I shall be back to college
oy fall. Ha! Hal if the fellows could only
aee me now'."'
And here, to the infinite surprise of staid
Dobbin, his new master broke into a rollick
ing elass song—a song abruptly ended as a
tarn in ihe road revealed a near farm-house.
"If I peddle soap, I'll peddle it with due
decorum," soliloquized the youth, knocking
upon the back door with the handle of his
whip.
To have seen the capable air with which he
measured ashes bushel by bushel, giving in
exchange money, or gallons of soap, accord
ing to the customer's desire, one would have
pronounced him bred to the soap business.
Since his month's rustication at his aunt
emitter's he had made the acquaintance of
most of the farmers along the river, and
these expressed their gratification at meeting
"a judge's son that wasn't afraid to work,"
but outside the parish limits his triumphal
march terminated. He was a stranger in a
strange land. One man asked if he had
bought out the deacon; a second hoped he
rasn't proposing to run an opposition team;
Uid the loyal widow Cleaves could hardly be
persuaded to surrender her ashes, because,
lorsooth, she preferred to trade with Deacon
Chutter.
Obedient to his uncle's instructions, at her
cottage the young man took a cross-road to
Kendall's a summer hotel, familiarly styled
"The "Eyrie."
"You'll find it a long three miles," had
been Mr. Cleaves's parting remark.
"Three miles, and not a neighbor between
here and there: I couldn't blame the widow
if she should want to change her situation,"
mused the deacon's deputy, scanning the
western horizon. "Should'nt wonder if that
:loud yonder meant business. I thought the
*un was too bright this morning. Well, a
little high-toned thunder will drown this ev
erlasting racket."
Facing about to wedge in position an emp
ty soap barrel, he observed two ladies driving
up the the hill on a basket pha?ton.
"That looks like Kendall's team that gave
auntie such a panic this morning," thought
he. "Those ladies are some of the boarders,
I suppose—Tom Calender's mother and ais
ter, for aught I know. I have heard they
vere stopping' at the Eyrie. Goodness!
wouldn't it be a joke if I should fall in with
them to-day?
Meanwhile the younger lady in the carriage
was merrily commenting on the quasi-soap
man's active figure, conspicuously and am
ply clad in the deacon's canvas frock and
overalls.
"I hope he isn't a preambulating maniac,
mamma."
"It's the very cart that frightened the
pony!" was the terrified response. "Do let
me get out, Lila! Oh! Oh!"
But already the horse was backing down
the hill. Harvey sprung from the cart, and
grasped the refractory animal by the bridle
just in season to prevent the carriage from
overturning in the ditch.
"Thank you, sir—thank you very much,"
said the girlish driver, the color rushing back
to her face. "Now if you'll be kind enough
to lead our pony past your cart we shall be
yet more obliged."
"A pretty girl—stylish too, but abomina
bly patronizing," thought the young Sopho
more, stalking resentfully at the pony' head.
"There, now your cart is behind us, we
shall have no further trouble. I am sorry to
have detained you, sir. Infinitely obliged."
In leaving the ladies Harvey mechauical
ly raised his hat, the deacon's hat—alas!
yellowed and frayed by farm service. The
touch set flying the ashes upon its brim, giv
ing our receding hero the effect of being
caught away in a cloud. A, little blinded,
but laughing behind his goggles, he went
back to old Dobbin, and waited for the ladies
to go in adyance.
But what ailed that surprising pony? The
young lady chirruped to him; he would not
budge. She snapped the whip; he stood as
.he wooden horse of the Trojans.
"Oh, daughter, daughter, he's balking!"
jrled the elderly lady, who Appeared to be an
invalid. "If fere's anything I'm afraid of
it's a balking horse."
"Allow me, madam," said Harvey, again
advancing.
He twisted the animal's ear a moment to
divert his attention, then took him by the bit
and led him several paces.
"See, mamma, the pony has got over his
sulks. Thank you, sir."
The young lad resumed the reins; the
fractious quadruped promptly refused to
stir.
"Let me get out, Lila I won't go another
step with him."
"He doesn't seem to be going," said the
daughter, with a vexed laugh. "You know
you can't walk a rod. You'll surly have a
relapse, mamma, if you don't sit still."
Again Harvey led the pony. Again the
tantalizing nag stiffened in his harness the
instant Miss Lila took the reins. Many
times was this farce repeated, and many were
the minutes wasted. Meantime the sky had
become overcast, and thunder was muttering
in the distance.
"My mother has been very ill. If she is
acnght in the shower she may get her death,'
cried Miss Lila, in distress. "Oh, what shall
we do?"
"If you'll pardon the suggestion, I might
drive you to the Eyrie, if that is your destin
ation," said Harvey, with a deprecatory
glance at his masquerading costume.
•Oh, will you? But there is your horse and
cart:*'
"I could come back for them."
"And with all mamma's shawls and pil
lows, the phaeton is hardly wide enough for
us two."
"That is true; it Is a Lilliputian affair."
The youth was gravely testing its light springs
and braces.
"Is there danger of breaking down? Then
you will go with mamma, and I'll drive the
cart."
"Lila Cavender! The idea!" expostulated
the invalid.
"Tom Cavender's mother and sister, by
the ashes of my uncle I Confound it, what a
scrape!" was the young soap merchant's in
ward ejaculation as he awaited the ladies'
pleasure.
•What better can I do, mamma? I shall
ride famously. Unless you're afraid to trust
me with your horse," the young lady added,
with a glance toward Harvey.
"Not in the least. lie's far from being a
tiery BucephaluB."
Struck with the incongruity of the remark
from such a source, Miss Lila lost all control
of her dimples.
"That seat is suspended between the
heavens and the earth, like Mohammed's
coffin, mamma," she jested, by way of cloak
ing her untimely mirth.
"One ought to be shot into it out of a cat
adult,"
To aid the young lady in mouuting, Har
vey silently extened a hand, whose exceed
ing smutttness was Intensified by a ring that
glittered upon the little finger. Miss Lila
glanced curiously at the fine cameo with its
quaint setting. Who was this anomalous
being who sported costly ornaments and
quotedfrom\the classics? Aud where, had
she seen that peculiar cameo before, or one
Just like it; Ah! now she recollected: Tom
had worn it home last vacation, when he and
his chum had exchanged rings. But how
had this scap-man become possessed of it?
Could it be that he and Harvey Vance were
identical? Tom had said that Harvey was
spending the summer in the ncighbornood.
This must be he. Yes, she was sure of it.
Obedient to the young man's will, that un
accountable pony darted away on the wings
of the wind. Close behind, head down, tail
up, followed old Dobbin in a heavy canter
which seemed to shake the very leaves on
the trees. Charged upon by the empty soap
barrel, Miss Lilla slipped to the other side of
the scat, and clung to the ash-bin. A mile
was passed, two miles. The gable-joofed
Eyrie loomed in the distance. On sped
the pony; on lumbered old Dobbin; on
swooped the storm-cloud. A dozen guests
crowded out upon the hotel piazza to witness
the exciting race.
"How white Mrs. Cavender looks!" cried
one. "Wlierc did she pick up that fantastic'
driver?"
"Is that Miss Lila in the cart?" exclaimed
the gentleman addressed. "Well, she's a
girl of mettle! Ha, here comes the rain !"
As the phaeton dashed up he rushed out
with an open umbrella to escort Mrs. Caven
der into the house. In mounting the steps
she turned toward Harvey.
"You have done us a great service, sir, I
assure you we are grateful. My daughter
will see that you are recompensed for your
time and trouble."
"The dickens she will!" thought the dea
con's indignant substitute.
Standing beneath the dripping caves, with
rivulets of lye coursing down his cheeks, he
assisted the moist young lady to alight. "I
am—we are deeply indebted to you," she,
stammered, blushingly. "My mother—"
"Has taken no cold, I trust" said he lofti
ly. "Good-afternoon."
And horse, cart, and driver disappeared
kitchenward.
In putting the cart, to rights that evening
Harvey discovered a grimy object caught be
tween the seat and the ash-bin.
It proved to be a lady's pocket-handkerchief,
bearing in one corner the name of "Lila
Cavender." He handed it to his aunt for
bleaching purposes, and received in return
a letter from Tom.
"My mother and sister have perched at
the Eyrie, on Emden Hill," it ran. "My
mother is getting up from a fever, and is
bound to get as high up as she can. If
you are anywhere near their secluded nest,
do peep in upon them. They'll be charmed
to make your acquaintance."
"I believe I'll take that handkerchief to
Miss Cavcnder to-morrow, auntie, and have
it off my mind," remarked Harvey, careless
ly, as he folded the letter.
"Well—or you might send it by the stage."
But Harvey was deaf to the suggestion.
The next evening, faultlessly attired, and
minus spectacles, he presented himself at the
Eyrie, and was cordially welcomed by both
Mrs. Cavender and her daughter. Con
vinced that he was not recognized as squire
of the soap cart, he saw no necessity for pro
claiming himself such. In making his first
call why should he introduce himself as a
clown.
"You've made quite a visit," was his
aunfs salutation when Harvey entered the
sitting-room. "Was the girl glad to get her
handkerchief?"
"To tell the truth, auntie, I didn't give it
toher."
"Humph! Strange how a handsome
young woman will weaken a chap's memory,"
observed the deacon, slyly, as his wife band
aged the offending ankle, "I don't see but
Harvey '11 have to call again."
He did call again, and again, and again.
Indeed, his rides to the Eyrie grew so fre
queut that his uncle teasingly counselled him
to buy a second saddle-horse.
"Orget a carriage that will hold two,,"
amended his aunt. At which the youth
flushed guiltily, confirming Mrs. Chutter in
his private opinion that he was "very far
gone."
He went further yet that evening—even to
tbe length of proposing to Miss Lila.
The little coquette only langhed, and bade
him not to be absurd.
Absurd! He would really like to know
what she meant.
Oh, they were both so young.
Harvey looked hurt, and intimated that he,
at least, was nearing the down hill of life.
And he didn't know her well enough.
The youth eagerly protested that he knew
her weil enough to love her.
"Besides, I'm not sure but I love another
young man better."
"Oh, if you care for somebody else, why,
then —why, in that case—" Harvey found
the English tongue terribly intricate, and
rose with precipitation. CVZj
"I met him first, you know^' said Miss
Lila, dropping her eyes apologetically, "and
I am under great obligations to him."
"Oh, it's all right. You're all right, I
mean; but I think Tom might have told
me."
"Tell you what?"
"About this other fellow."
"There isn't much to tell," said Miss Lila,
demurely. "He hasn't come forward." Harry
drew on his glove with a mystified air. "But
I am looking for him any day now, for the
Eyrie is nearly out of soap."
"You bewitching little tease !"
Miss Lila's cheeks were eddying with dim
ples deep enough to drown a man's heart.
Perhaps they made Harvey's head swim. I
can't say. I only kuow that he laid hold of
the young lady's hands at that moment in
the most giddy fashion,and she seemed quite
willing to let him steady himself in this man
ner,
"Well, Harvey, I expect to be on my legs
again to.morrow," observed the facetious
deacon, at breakfast; "and when I cali at tbe
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1884.
Eyrie I guess you'd better let me give that
young woman her "handkerchief."
"Thank you very much: I attended to that
last night."
"It didn't seem just right to keep her out
of it so long, Harvey," remarked his aunt,
dryly, as she passed his coffee. "You ought
to have paid her Interest."
••Humph! don't you be a mite concerned,
wile.-' said the deacon, with a mischievous
wink. 'Depend upon it, Harvey has squared
accounts with that young woman before this,
and taken her note of hand. He's driven
business since that day I set him up in the
cart,"
CHARLES AND LOUIS BLANC.
The. Rescmblanees and Differences of Two
Rrothers.
Charles was exuberant, passionate, even
violent; but easily resigned, amiable at bot
tom, and above everything good—a reed,
painted like Iron. Louis, on the contrary,
was gentle, humble, timid, polite, almost
obsequious; yet beneath this mild exterior
tenacious, resolute, rebellious—iron, painted
so as to resemble a reed. In the fond com
panionship of these two beings, 60 different
in character, the young one was almost im
petuous devotion, the elder was all tender*
ness, and exhibit that vol
untary and touching submissive
ness which the protector feels toward him
whom he protects —formingthe weakness and
gracefulness of strength. The one adored,
the other loved; and to determine, as it were,
the shades of their mutual affection, it is suf
ficient to mention that when they spoke of
each other, Charles said: "Mon frere;"
Louis- ••Mon Chariot." Born almost at the
same time, brought up together, later on
struggling side by side, they were in a way
wedded together in spirit, as some twin* are
in the flesh. If you wish to understand
them, you must separate them. Their moth
er, a woman of unusual distinction and
southern piety, belonged to the family Pozzo
di Borgho. Their father, an inspector of
finances in Spain under the first empire, was
in the service of King Joseph. Their pater
nal grandfather, an ardent royalist, had been
guillotined for his loyalty during the revolu
tion.
From the moment they entered life the
young brothers had to reckon with it. On
Napoleon's fall their father saw his political
fortunes collapses, and his political fortunes
were all bis fortunes. This situation entailed
that kind of privation which is concealed on
the surface by foregoing the necessaries of
life. Even the education of Louis and
Charles was a problem long unsolved. At
length, toward the middle of the restoration
period, thanks to the protection of Baron
Capclle, then counselor of state, later on
minister of Charles X, and a signatory of the
famous ordinances, they were enabled, both
of thpm, to enter as bursars the college at
Rodez. When they left it their position, al
ready bad, was still worse. Their mother was
dead, their father was suffering from the first
attacks of the malady from the effects of
which he was to lose his mind. He was not
only incapable of protecting them, but he
needed to be protected himself. His only
resource—a surprising and a curious one
was a pension granted by King Louis XVIII
to the ex-functionary of Joseph in his cap
acity of son of a refugee. Privation became
poverty. What should they do? Alas! what
everybody does and always will do—go to
Paris; undertake the starving pilgrimage of
unsatiated ambition and-ill-regulated appe
tites. For Paris is a kind of holy city in its
way; the Mecca whither from the four corners
of the earth the true believers come, once in
life at least, to offer up their devotions to the
almighty being called Success.
A Dog Bring* About a Wedding.
[Cincinnati News Journal.]
"Do these boats always remain at one
place with their occupants?" inquired a re
porter of a captain, upon seeing at tbe river
bank a number of living boats. "By no
means," replied tbe veteran; "these boats
are adapted to various uses. There is a kind
called tlie 'pirate,' which is floated down the
river by its occupants, who are usually dis
honest and desperate. Then there is the or
dinary flat-boat, which is loaded with pota
toes, corn, flour, or bacon, or any other
Northern commodity, and floated to the
South. Again, there is the coaster, trading
boat, in which a man and his family make
their homes, and trade with the people who
live along the banks of the river. Once upon
a time one of these coasters, which started
from a small town in Indiana, was lying
near Vicksburg. Its occupants were the
owner, his very handsome, rosy-faced daugh
ter, and a large black Newfoundland dog.
The captain of a steamboat that made regular
trips from Vicksburg up one of the tributar
ies of the Southern Mississippi had frequent
ly noticed the dog sunning himself on the
forward end of the coaster, and took such a
fancy to the animal that he one day ran his
boat in close enough to the shore to ask the
father what he would take for the dog, where
upon the daughter suddenly appered upon
the scene, and called out, defiantly, "If you
take that dog you will have to take me too!'
This was the beginning of an acquaintance
that ripened into friendship, and then a
sentiment more tender, and resulted in the
young lady becoming the wife of one of the
most prosperous and respected steamboat
man in the Southern waters, who also became
possessed of the dog."
Andrew Johnson's Last Letter.
The Nashville American prints the last let
ter, or fragment of a letter, written by ex-
President Andrew Johnson. It was as fol
lows :
"greenville, Tenn., June 6, 1875.—
Jonx M. Carmack, Esq.—Dear Sir: Your
letter of the 9th ult. has been received and
and read. I confess I was somewhat sur
prised when I received your account of Vice
President Wilson's conversation with Gov.
Isham Harris and others in regard to what
would have been the policy of President Lin
coln, if he had lived, etc. In your letter you
state that H. Wilson, vice president,—"
Here came the fatal stroke. The word
"president" was the last ever written
by the hand of Andrew Johnson. The letter
is written with a lead pencil on ordinary
printing paper, such as is generally used for
"copy" in newspaper offices, and the ex
president was evidently preparing it with the
expectation that it would be published.
Judge Carmack, oi Memphis, to whom it
was addressed, was an old and warm person
al friend of the great Tennesseean. He was
a prominent member of the Tennessee bar,
and one of the most zealous and effective
leaders in the movement which, headed by
The Memphis Avalanche, secured to ex-
President Johnson the support for United-
States senator of the Shelby county delega
tion to the legislature. The county con
trolled ten of the one hundred members, and
their votes turned the scale.. Judge Car
mack, who was a cousin of Capt. J. R. Mil
ler, of Little Rock, died In 1883.—Little
Rock Gazzette.
Death of The Thunderer's" Editor.
[New York World.]
The death of Thomas Chenery, the editor
of the London Times, is announced. Mr.
Chenery was fifty-eight years of age. He
was born in Barbadoes and at the time he
succeeded Mr. Delane as editor of the Times
had just given up the Professorship of Ara
bic at Oxford. He was celebrated for his
Oriental knowledge, but was not regarded as
a thorough journalist. He had learning but
no practical knowledge and the Times under
his editorship has steadtly lost ground. Of
the London newspapers it is fourth or fifth
now in the matter of circulation, and its ad
vertising patronage—the bulwark of the con
cern—is begining to show decadence. The
Times is unable to keep up with the modern
journalistic competition, and unless new
blood is infused into it another generation
will find it far in the abject rear. And yet
the Times was once thought to be the news
paper Gibraltar as well as the Thunderer of
the world. The people who were attaehed to
it are dying off, and the new constituencies
are being gathered by the more active and
incisive journals.
Mr. Holman.
The N. Y. World says: "Mr. Holman,
we observe, was again engaged yesterday in
pushing through the house an appropriation
for the relief of the flood sufferers in the
Ohio valley. Mr. Dana says that this is all
wrong, highly unconstitutional, ete. But
the Ohio river washes the end of Mr. Hol
man's district and he knows what he is
about. A short while ago the Sun consid
ered Mr. Holman too good to waste in the
coming contest for the presidency. Can it
be possible that he has now drowned his
presidential chances in the ragiDg Ohio?" '
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
Efforts are being made to establish a weath
er service in China, with the Hong Kong
Observatory as its center. Meteorological re
gisters are to be systematically kept at the
principal ports of the country, and it is ex
pected that the Government Astronomer,
who is at the head of the project, will ulti
mately be able to give forecasts of the weath
er and to furnish information to marines
which will greatly lessen the dangers of their
voyages.
In 1881 the International Polar confer
ence was organized in St. Petersburg, and
planned the scientific expeditions whieh were
sent by various governments to fourteen
points within or near the Arctic circle.
These expeditions were to make meteorolog
ical and other observations during the year
ending with August, 1883. A meeting of
the conference is to be held at Vienna in
May of the present year to receive reports
of the work done by the observers.
Mr. C. W. Heaton, an English chemist,
has analyzed a sample of water from the fa
mous Hagar's Well, at Mecca—to which
thousands of Mohammedan pilgrims resort
annually—and reports that the water is a
most dangerous compound, containing an
extraordinarily large proportion of filth. The
total amount of solid matter found in a gal
lon of it was more than twenty-five times as
great as that found in a like quantity of the
water from the Thames river.
Physicists have lately been trying to deter
mine by experiment whether the electricity
of thunder storms is generated either by the
evaporation of water or by the condensation
of vapor. Freeman and Blake have each ob
tained results which indicate that no elec
tricity is produced by the evaporation of
pure water; and Mr. S. Kalischer has sinee
made some investigations with delicate appa
ratus which have failed to show that con
densation of vapor or the formation of hail is
a source of atmospheric electricity.
The pulse-beats of a criminal during ex
ecution by hanging have been recorded.
After the rope was adjusted the pulse-rate
was 121; immediately after the drop it fell to
54, 52, 39, 20, and 10, and to 0 in the fifth
minute; but the sixth minute it rose to 70;
then to 73; eighth minute, 0; ninth, 34; after
this no pulse was perceptible in the arteries,
but the heart beat two or three times between
the ninth and nineteenth minutes, and once
in the nineteenth minute. The death was
from strangulation, the neck not being dis
located.
Our stock of knowledge of the animal
kingdom is increasing very rapidly. The
number of mamals is now estimated at about
1200, of birds 7500, of reptiles 2000, and of
fishes 10,000 —making a total of about 20,
000 species belonging to the higher classes.
Near the close of the seventeenth century
these groups of animals —now known as ver
tebrates—were thought to include a total of
about 1600 species. As naturalists have be
come familiar with the invertebrates their
list of those creatures has become enormous.
Of beetles alone the museums of the world
contain over 100,000 species, while the best
estimates place the total number of distinct
forms of insects at more than 500,000. The
whole animal kingdom is believed to em
brace about 1,000,000 species.
The results of a hydrographic survey made
in the Straits of Sunda since the volcanic
eruption of last August have been given by
M. C. van Doom. It appears that the south
ern part of the peak of Krakatoa yet remains
unchanged, and rises', with an almost per
pendicular northern edge, to a height of
more than 1500 . feet above the sea. The
northern part of the island, however, has en
tirely dissappeared, and soundings on the
place where it has stood reached a depth of
1800 feet without touching bottom. The
last ground of Krakatoa is evidently found a
few wiles to the nortH, where the depth of
the water has been greatly diminished and
one old island has been much enlarged,
while several new ones have appeared above
the surface. The entire examination of the
north of Krakatoa suggested the idea that the
surveying ship was above a crater which had
been filled with water and quenched by it.
Out of the 700 species of solanum known
to botanists, according to a paper read by
Mr. J. G. Baker before a recent meeting of
the Linnean Society of London, there arc
onlv about six which produce tubers, and
only one of these, the common potato sola
num tuberosum, has yet been cultivated.
The native home of the potato is in the dry
and elevated parts of Chili. In other por
portions of the same country is found anoth
er species, S. Maglia, which should be much
better adadted to general cultivation, as it
grows in moist places. As long ago as 1826
the cultivation of this species in England was
attempted, with most promising results, but
was believed to' be identical with the com
mon potato. Another species, S. Commer
soni, from the eastern part of South Ameri
ca, is now being cultivated experimentally in
France, and is likewise suitable for damp
soil; while a third wild species, S. Jamesii, is
being tried in the United States. This last
species is the one which Mr. J. G. Lemmon
discovered in southeastern Arizona in 1881.
A French meteorologist has planted in the
ground near his house two bars of iron, from
which wires run to a telephone receiver.
The earth currents which are indicated by
sounds in the telephone never fail to give
notice to the observer, who consults the ap
paratus several times a day, of the approach
of a storm from twelve to fifteen hours in ad
vance.
Narroto Escape of a Cunarder.
[Letter to Boston .Journal.]
The leaning of the pttblie mind toward a
determination to find a victim for public cen
sure who shall be held responsible for the
loss of the Columbus inclines me to send you
a statement that may in some way modify
the existing state of things concerning tbe
late wreck. In the summer of 1867 I took
passage in the China, of the Cunard Line, for
Liverpool. We had a very dismal run across
the Atlantic, rain alternating with thick fog
for twelve days, the ship rolling incessantly,
and every night becoming a new horror in
the constantly increasing fear that some
thing would happen to the steamer. Fastnet
Light, off the coast of Ireland, was seen for a
few minutes during a fog-lift on the evening
of the thirteenth day, and the captain told us,
one and all, that our wretched passage would
soon be over.
The night that followed was densely black
and very stormy, but the ship was under full
sail, and was driven through tremendous
seas with all steam on. I turned in about 10
o'clock and slept, I should say, two hours,
when an irresistable—and to this day unac
countable—influence compelled me to get up
and dress myself. The ship rolled fearfully,
but I managed to reach the deck and to grope
my way, hand over hand, by the deck railing
to the smoke-pipe, where I stood a few min
utes, thoroughly appalled at the blackness of
the night and the mad plunging of the ves
sel.
Suddenly this terrific cry came up from the
deck below me:B"God Almighty help us!
we're going ashore. Put the ship about." I
faintly saw the white waving of an arm in a
shirt sleeve, and the next minute was thrown
from my feet by the sudden change of the
-ship's course, brought about by an officer's
telegram to the the wheelhouse.
Everything was in instant confusion, not
bettered by the fact that the dark rocks of
the Irish coast were plaiiily visible to many
of the •frightened passengers. The ship
shook like a reed in the fierce wind that
blew, for every sail was aback, and headway
seemed utterly impossible to make. It was
a long time before the vessel answered her
helm, and nothing but tbe naval discipline
of the sailors saved the China from becoming
a total wreck.
I may here mention that the captain of the
ship Three Bells—the savior of the San Fran
cisco's passengers after she was dismasted—
was with us, and he assured us that in all his
long life as a sailor he never had so narrow
an escape from instant death. The ship
was nearly upon the rocks, and at the rate
she was going she would have smashed her
self to pieces in a very short time.
-After breakfast the next day Mfene one
said: "Let us have up the man who gave the
alarm;" for we had learned that the man I
saw at midnight was s steerage passenger:
and soon he appeared among us, a gnj
haired son of the sea, seventy years of age,
or thereabout, who modestly said to us as we
gathered about him: "Good friends, give
thanks to God, and do not praise me. I
only smelled the land growing nearer and
nearer, and was but His humble instrument
to save you."
The fact is we were drawn in some mys
terious manner eight miles ont of onrcourse-
Captain Hockley was widely censured by the
London papers, and has never been seen, so
I have heard, upon the ocean since. Possi
bly the magnetism of the land, or the effect
of the iron and steel in the ship's construc
tion, or some powerful element of the stormy
atmosphere, produced a deviation of the
needle of the compass, and perhaps counter
currents or other contrary forces of resistless
tides made the great ship a plaything for the
treacherous seas,
SHAMMING FOR TWENTY YEARS.
Fanny Jordan's Remarkable Imposture
Investigated by an English Coroner.
| London Standard.]
Mr. T. T. Delasaux, coroner, held an in
quest yesterday at Whitestable, on the body
of Frances Wood^ alias Fanny Jordan, aged
thirty-five. She had for over twenty years
carried out the imposture of pretending to
be a confirmed invalid and bedridden, and
stated that she had been stricken black in the
face by a marvelous visitation. She elicited
much sympathy and charitable help in this
way.
Harriet Jordan, mother of the deceased,
said that her daughter was au illegitimate
child, the father being Edward Jordan, wit
ness' husband's brother. Witness' daughter
had never been very strong. When she was
fourteen years of age she was afflicted with
typhoid fever, and when she got better she
went to a situation, but did not stay
lon_f. When she was 15 years of age she had
fright. A deaf and dumb man used to come
to the house, and she was always alarmed at
him. On one occasion she saw him with a
large knife in his hand, and she was so
frightened that she was never well afterward.
She was for eight weeks an out-patient of the
Rent and Canterbury hospital, and after that
she took to her bed. She could not eat any
thing that was solid, but lived upon wine,
brandy, custards, jellies, sponge cakes, and
oysters. She vomited everything, aud bud
other peculiar symptoms. She was apparent
ly paralyzed, with the exception of one hand
but with this hand she could write letters.
For many years her face had been almost
black, with the exception of a white streak
down the nose. Witness had never sus
pected all this time that her daughter
had been practicing a wicked deception, but
a fortnight ago she confessed that she had
done so, and had carried on the imposture
for twenty years. Witness happened to
say to her: "Fanny, you don't seem happy,
have you anything on your mind?" She
said she had a load on her mind, and then
she confessed that she had never been par
alyzed, that she had the use of both hands,
and that the dark line on her face was arti
ficialty produced, she having blackened it by
means of burnt cork.
Replying to the jury, Mrs. Jordan said the
blackness ol her daughter's face disappeared
all at once, and when witness questioned
her about it the young woman attributed it
to the shock she sustained upon learning
that her brother had been committed to
prison. All these years witness detected no
black marks upon the sheets or pillows of
her daughter's bed. She always wore a
handkerchief over her face and head, and
witness never saw her put it on or take it off.
She always threw her handkerchief into the
hand-basin herself. Witness never noticed
any discoloration of the water. Deceased
would have no difficulty in getting corks, be
cause she frequently had ginger beer and
other bottles. She also had a piece of candle
always on hand, as she rubbed her side with
tallow. Witness admitted that she had never
washed the deceased. Witness used to take
water to her daughter for that purpose, but
never remained while she washed. Several
medical men had seen the patient,
but not of late years. Witness did
not seek their aid because she thought
they could do her daughter no good. She
remembered Lady St. Vincent calling to see
deceased on one occasion. Witness under
stood that her ladyship expressed the opinion
that the young woman's face was painted,
but witness took no steps to satisfy herself
whether or not such was the case. Witness
declared emphatically that the deception
practiced by her daughter had not been car
ried on by her connivance. She had no sus
picion of it until her daughterconfeiMed.
The coroner said that in his lonjr experi
ence as a coroner this was the most extraor
dinary case that had come under his notice,
and he was bound to say of Mrs. Jordan
what he has never said of a witness before—
that he did not believe a single syllable of
her evidence.
Dr. Hayward said he had made a post mor
tem examination of the body, and found
tubercular disease of the lungs, showing that
the woman had suffered from consumption,
but of not long standing. If she had re
ceived proper treatment her life might have
been prolonged. The body was extremely
emaciated, and there was not a vestige of fat
to be seen, and the muscular tissue had near
ly all disappeared. The intestines and blad
der were perfectly healthy.
Alfred Reeves, a member of the Plymouth
Brothers, who had visited the deceased for
many years, deposed to a confession made
voluntarily by her to him, which was in veri
similar terms to that deposed to in Mrs. Jor
dan's testimony. Deceased said to him:
"Mr. Reeves, I do declare to you before God
that my mother knew nothing of this."
The jury returned a verdict that the deceas
ed died from disease of lungs and consump
tion, and they expressed the opinion that
gross deception had been practised, as well
as neglect shown, in not providing sufficient
medical attendance.
David Dudley/ Field's Birthday.
[Washington Letter.]
Justice Field, of the supreme court, cele.
brated the seventy-ninth anniversary of the
birth of his brother, David Dudley Field, of
Sew York, by a dinner party February 13.
The table was laid with twenty covers and
decorated with roses. The menu was printed
on satin and the gilt-embossed name cards
bore colored fruits in relief. Mrs. Field sat
at one end of the table, with President Ar
thur at her right and Chief Justice Waite at
her left, and Justice Field, at the opposite
end, had Senator Edmunds at one side and
Speaker Carlisle at the other. Mr. Cyrus
Field and Rev. Henry Field completed the
group of brothers, and Mrs. Dudley Field,
Jr., was the only lady at the table beside the
hostess. The other guests were Justice Har
lan, Senator Gibson, Representative Dors
heimer, Justice Gray, Secretary Freling
huysen, Justice Blatchford, Representative
Randall, Representative Randolph Tucker
and Senator Bayard.
Becoming Acquainted.
[From the Arkansaw Traveller.]
Two old negroes become acquainted in a
way that shames formality. Meeting for the
first time, they look at! each other. Then one
remarks so the other can hear him:
"Doan' belebe I knows dat man, but his
face is mighty 'miliar."
Then tbe other one says: "Seed dat man
somewhere, but kaln't place him. Howdy do,
generman?"
"Porly; how is it wid yesse'f ?"
"Porely; thank yer. Whar does yer lib?"
"On der Pryor place. Whar does yerse'f
'zibe."
"On de Avery place. How's all yer folks?"
"Porely, thank yer; how's all widyesse'f ?"
"Porely, bleeged ter yer.'^
After this they are old acquaintances, and
never fail to greet each other as friends.
An experienced buyer of silks says that a
good test to secure one from being deceived
in the quality of black silk is to pinch a spec
imen on th.e bias and afterward pull it in an
opposite direction. H the crease made by
the pinch looks like a similar fold in a piece
of writing paper, reject the piece unhesitat
ingly. On the contrary, if the mark smooths
out and is hardly distinguishable, it is safe to
purchase. It is also advised that before
making up a silk it is an excellent plan to
open it the full length, and heap it up in
loose folda on a spgre bed or large table..
Every few days the silk should be lightly
tossed about, and drawn through the hands,
by which means the "store 7' creases made
by folding the silk flat, and which are the j
first parts to cut, become less accentuated, j
nd a pliability is produced that greatly in- j
creases the chances of satisfactory wear.
CITY NOTICE,
Notice for Judgment
Ofttcf. of the Citt Treasurer, I
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 18,1884. f
I will make application to the District Conrt,
in and for the county of Ramsey, and State of
Minnesota, at the special term held Saturday,
March 8, 1884, at the Court Hoow, in St. Paul,
Minnesota, for judgments against the several lots
and real estate embraced in a warrant in my
hands for the collection of unpaid assessments,
with interest and costs thereon for the hereinaf-*
ter named special reassessments.
All in the city of St. Paul, county of Ramsey,
and State of Minnesota, when and where all per
sons interested may attend and be heard.
The owners and description of lots and real
estate are as follows:
Reassessment for Paving Waba
shaw street, from Third street
to College avenue.
Davidson & Merriam's Sudivision of Lots 1 and
2, Block 22, St. Paul Proper.
Supposed owner and Am't of
description. Lot. As*'mt.
R D Sherman 2 $120 UO
St. Paul Proper.
Supposed owner and Am't of
description. Lot. Block. Assm't.
E P Lewis, S23H ftof N73>j
ft of 1 8(
Same. S88K ft of N 73M of 2 8 ) 108 00
Pat Kei^her, N 30 ft of S 50
ftof 1 8|
Sam.-.N lit) ft of S 50 ft of.. 2 8 ) 130 75
B Jc C II Sherman, N 100 ft
of 8 9 )
Same, X 100 ft of 7 9 ) 454 50
R P Lewis, X 19 5-12 ft of S
59 5-12 ft of 8 0 )
Same.X 195-12 ftof S595-12 V 90 00
ftof 7 0)
John Sutton, S 30 ft of N 50
ftof , 9 C I
Same, N 50 ft of 10 G\ 130 75
Bazille & Guerin's Addition.
Supposed owner and Am't of
description. Lot. Block. Ass'mt
B F Sherman 1 11 $225 00
P Mc.Mamis, S .1 of E % of 8 11 112 50
D H Valentine 7 7 075 00
Frank Breuer ,N 3* of S 54 1
of 1 8
Same, N U of S y t of .2 8 \ 225 00
Same, N »/ 2 of S Jtf of 1 8
Same, N »/i of S X ot 8 8 J
3 W Cunningham, N 25 ft of 1
S 100 ft 12 8 V 112 50
Same, X 25 ft of S 100 ft of 11 8 )
Xininger & Whiting 1 2J
Same 2 2\ 750 00
I Achilles S;J7 l/j ftof 0 1 j
Same, S 37! i ft of 5 IV 187 00
Same, S 37 .j ftof 4 \)
All in the City of St. Paul, County of Ramsey
State of Minnesota.
50-54 (;EORGE REIS, City Treasurer.
WASHINGfONfl;M.
Insurance Company.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, BOSTON, MASS,
Isaac Sweetser President.
A. W Damon Secretary.
Agency iuoftlce of St. Paul Fire ic Marine Ins. Co.
Cask Capitai7$l,000,000.
i. aaana.
Loans secured by mortgages on real
estate $84,960 00
Market value of all bonds and stocks 1,125,310 31
Loans secured by bonds and stocks
as collateral 102,400 00
Cash on hand and in bank 148,490 I IS
Premiums in course of collection... 134,0').-) 98
Allother assets 4,784 00
Total admitted assets $1,595,550 32
II. LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid up $1,000,000 00
Reserve for reinsurance 270,770 40
I'npaid losses 113.4-12 00
Other liabilities 21,571 88
Total liabilities, including capital $1,411,789 73
Net surplus 183,700 02
III. INCOME in 1883.
From premiums received $505,434 77
From interest and dividends 49,890 98
Total income $555,331 75
IV. EXPEXDITURES IN 1883.
Losses paid $319,980~09
Dividends 20,000 00
Commissions and brokerage 80,519 58
Salaries of officers aud employes.. 18,552 22
Taxes 11,996 03
All other expenditures 25,242 04
Total expenditures $482,291 70
V. MISCELLANEOUS.
Total risks in force Dec. 31, '83.. .$37,345,500 00
BUSINESS IN MIXXESOTA IN 1883—EIRE.
Risks written $794,995 00
Premiums received 11,939 30
Losses paid 1,050 84
Losses incurred 10,415 84
STATE OF MINNESOTA, 1
Department op Insurance, V
St. Paul, February, 1884. )
I, A. R. McGill, Insnrance Commissioner of the
State of Minnesota, do hereby certify that the
Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Company
above named, has complied with the laws of this
state relating to insurance, and is now fully em
powered through its authorized agents to trans
act its appropriate business of fire insurance, in
this state for the year ending January 31st, 1885.
A. R. McGILL,
Insurance Commissioner.
New Hampshire Fire Insurance
Company.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, MANCHESTER, N. II.
J. A. Weston President.
J. C. French Secretary.
Agency in office of St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.
Cash CapihT$500,000.
I. ASSETS.
Loans secured by mortgages on real
estate $88,246 86
Market value of all bonds and stocks 680,092 00
Loans secured by bonds and stocks
as collateral 88,629 17
Cash on hand and m bank 70,348 50
Premiums in course of collection.. 25,84:. 40
All other assets 5,988 00
Total admitted assets $905,147 93
II. LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid up $500,000 00
Reserve for reinsurance 227,985 28
Unpaid losses 31,000 00
Total liabilities, including capital $758,095 28
Net surplus $206,162 65
III. INCOME in 1883.
From premiums received $437,792 07
From interest and dividends 45,544 40
Total income $483,336 47
rv. expenditures in 1883.
Losses paid $254,245 05
Dividends 40,000 00
Commissions and brokerage 85,099 00
Salaries of officers and employes... 16,731 10
Taxes 14,099 91
All other expenditures 24,889 57
Total expenditures $435,004 75
v. MISCELLANEOUS.
Total risks in force Dec. 31,1883. .$37,874,200 00
BUSINESS IN MINNESOTA IN 1883—FIRE.
Rijks written $548,600 00
Premiums received 6,600 01
Losses paid _. 5,061 69
Losses incurred 8,109 04
STATE OF MINNESOTA, )
Department op Insurance, /■
St. Paul, February, 1884. )
* I, A. R. McGill, Insurance Commissioner of the
State of Minnesota, do hereby certify that the
New Hampshire Fire Insurance Insurance Co.
above named, has comp. ed with the laws of this
state relating to insurance, and is now fully em
powered through its authorized agents to trans
act its appropriate business of fire insurance, in
this state for the year ending January 31st, 1885.
A. R. McGILL,
Insurance Commissioner.
A TRIUMPH OF SKILL.
Dr. Frieda
■"special «
EXTRACTS
Prepared from Select FruiU
that yield the finest Flavors.
Have been used for years. Be
come TJie Standard Flavoring
Extracts. None of Greater
Strength. None of such Perfect
Purity. Always certain to im
part to Cakes. Puddings, Sauces,
the natural Flavor of the Fruit.
MANUFACTURED BY
STEELE & PRICE,
Chicago, 111., and St. Louis, Mo.,
Baiter, af Lupulln Ytait U«n>, Dr. Prlca's Cr*ua Btklsg
Powdrr, sad Dr. Pries'! Catqa* .Vr fum...
WE MAKE NO SECOND CRADE COOOS.
DAPILION
ICOUGH CURE
Can be administered to Infant* without the illghteit
danger. It does not contain drugs or ehemlcali, but It
b harmless vegetable syrup, very delicious to the taite,
that relieves and positively cures
WHOOPING COCGH
at once, and Is a permanent cure f;.r Bronchial or Win
ter Cough. Bronchitis and Pulmonary Catarrh.
FAFILLON j-LOOD CURE.
For all diseases of the Liver. Stomach. Bowels and
Kidneys, this medicine Is au absolute cure. Especially
for Sick Headache. Constipation and Female Weak,
ness. It docs not nauseate or derange the stomach.
PAPILLOH CATARRH CURE.~
_/_ unfailing means of curing Nasal CaUrrh. by Insuff
lation. Ordinary Catarrh. Cold iu the He:.J, Bronchial
Catarrh and Hay Fever, yield almost Instantly to thl*
sovereign remedy. It does not Irritate the nostrils.
FAJPlliOlTsKINCUl^
Plmples.Redneas.Blotches. Scurf and Roughness, vanish
as if by magic; while old enduring Skin Disorders, that
have plagued the sufferers for years, however deeply
rooted, this remedy will successfully attack them.
Sold 1n this city. Price $1.00 per bottle, six for $5.00.
Direction* In ten languages accompany every bottle.
f' Vi'lULOS MFC CO.. CHICAGO
For sale by Kd. II. P.igtis, Mi Musters AUettp,
B. & E. Zimmerman, A. 1\ Wilkes and Clark &
Frost.
INSFRANCE.
TRAMS INSURANCE CO.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE CHICAGO, ILL.
B. Buckingham President.
I:. ■.'. Smith Secretary.
Agency in Ofliro of St. Paul Fire & Marine
Insiinmre C».
Cash Capital, 8500,000.
I. ASSET".
Value of real estate owned $137,195 <*rf
.Market value of all bonds and stocks 872,02'. :>o
Cash on hand and in hank 08,837 42
Premiums in eoarae of collection... 46.318 M
All other assets 41,078 84
Ttftnl nrtmlttrfl niaoti $l,105,378 10
u. liabilities.
Capital stock paid np $500,000 00
Reserve for reinsurance 217.462 40
Unpaid losses 44408 81
Other liabilities 41,999 01
Total liabilities, including capital $803,5C:_ 72
Net surplus 301,814 38
III. INCOME IN IMS:!.
From premiums received $412.3X0 40
From interest aud dividends 38,927 70
From rents and all other sources... !____: 0,000 00
Total income $-157,308 21
IV. EXPENDITURES 1*^083.
Loues paid $217,659 62
Dividends 30,000 00
Commissions and brokerage 71,002 06
Salaries of officers and employes... 87,868 01
Taxes 14,260 4:
All other expenditures 11.9.2 -'J.
Total expenditures $:.92,760 10
V. MISCELLANEOUS,.
Total risks in force Dec. 31, 1888 §30,759,900 00
BUBIXasS IX MINNESOTA IX 1883.—PIKE.
IJisk- written $1,034,711 00
Premiums received 21,018,73
IN'LAND,
Risks written $48,724 00
Premiums received 202 88
Lo»M8 paid 7,988 01
Losses incurred 13,751 31
STATE OF MINNESOTA. I
Department op Insurance, >
St. Paul, Febrnary, 1884. )
I, A. K. McGill, Insurance Commissioner of the
state of .Minnesota, do hereby certify that the
Traders Insurance Company above named, has
complied with the laws of this state relating to
insurance, and is now fully empowered through
its authorized agents to transact its appropriate
business of lire and iuland insurance iu this state
for the year ending January 31, 1886.
A. It. McGILL,
Insurance Commissioner.
U. S. BRANCH
LANCASHIRE
Insurance Company.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, SEW YORK CITY.
Henry Robertson U. S. Manager.
Agency in OHicfl or St Paul Fire & Marine
Insurance t'o.
I. ASSKTS.
Market value of U. S. bonds $1,360,464 12
Cash on hand and in bank 30,349 77
Premiums in course of collection.. 58,500 73
Total admitted assets $1,455,314 02
II. LIABILITIES.
Reserve for reinsurance $652,411 83
Unpaid losses 117,081 33
Other liabilities 13,724 91
Total liabilities $318,818 07
Net surplus 041,490 55
III. IXCOME ix 1883.
From premiums received $1,091,435 63
From interest and dividends 59,860 57
Total income $1,151,316 20
IV. EXPENDITTRES IN 1883.
Losses paid $766,483 41
Commissions and brokerage 167,448 32
Salaries of officers and employes... 153,288 17
Taxes 28,152 38
Total expenditures $1,115,372 28
V. MISCELLANEOUS.
Total risks in force Dec. 31,1883. .$119,253,200 00
BUSINESS IX MIXXESOTA IX 1883—PIP.E.
Risks written $1,214,915 00
Premiums received 20,914 33
Losses puid 18,360 02
Losses incurred 31,757 02
STATE OF MINNESOTA, |
Depaktment of Insurance, >
St. Paul, Februry, 1884. .
I, A. R. McGill, Insurance Commissioner of the
State of Minnesota, do hereby certify that the
Lancashire Insurance Company above named, has
complied with the laws of this state relating to
insurance, and is now fully empowered through
its authorized agents to transact its appropriate
business of fire insurance, iu this state for the
year ending January 31st, 1885.
A. R. McGILL, .
Insurance Commissioner.
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