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A Woman’, Success.
The remarkable success i f Mrs. Frank
Leslie, the head of the great New York
publishing house of that mime, is a notable
example of what a determined woman can
do when she tnaki up her mind.
Ilers lias been a wonderful career and
now that she has suecei ded in thoroughly re
caUbltehing the shattered business left by
her late husband, an 1 has placed her valua
ble interests on a firm end ; r.uitable basis
her triumph over the many obstacles which
wen* in the way of her success, deserves the
recognition to which her imperturbable en
ergy is entitled.
The legacy left her by her husband, at
his death, a few years ago, was a debt of
♦300,000, on the busin of the publishing
house. In a short while she was involved
in numerous law suits, and had to contend
with several claimants for the management
of the gre.,t concern. One suit after an
other was ended in her favor, and after two
yean- in court she found herself the undis
puted head of the Leslie establishment.
THE W EEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER G. 1887.
Iler splendid executive ability and her
shrewd management enabled her to rapidly
cancel the debt hanging over her, but her
last $50,000 came near wrecking her and
undoing all she had done. This final payment
cam<f due w hen she was unable to meet it.
Not to have paid it was to let the, business
pass imto other hands. Fortunately, a
wealthy lady, of Brooklyn, who was im
pressed with her earnestness and struck
with her courage, came to the rescue and
the large, debt was cancelled. I fight was
seen through the darkness and her path to
success was dear. It was a question of
but a short w hile to reimburse her noble
! helper, and she was in absolute possession of
a business worth hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
Airs. Leslie has travelled extensively over
tl e world and has received distinguished
consideration everywhere. She wears the
decoration of the orders of several foreign
governments and is almost as much at
home, in Venezuela or France as she is in
America. She is beautiful, bright, shrewd
and lemarkably intellectual, and her buoy
ancy of spiiitiand generous and sympathet
ic nature w ins admiration for her every
where she is known.
This is the success of the Louisiana
beauty, Miriam Florence, Folline, the
youngest of a family of seven children.
.She is “only a woman,” but hers has been
a wonderful career.
The i'oor New Ingland Farmers.
The Bostorf“Journal intimates that The
f'oxsrt i t tion ougiit to be sorry for the
New England farmer on account of the con
ditions by which he is surrounded. The
Journal says that agriculture in New Eng
land is pursued at best under unfavorable
conditions, of which a Georgian lias little
idea, and it adds: “Most of
the deserted hillisde farms tell
a pitiful story of a long and manly
struggle with a stony soil and western com
petition, which comes very near to excusing
their abandonment. It is altogether likely
that the yaukee farmer lias held on longer
than any one else could in the face of such
tremendous disadvantages.”
We have no doubt this is every word
true; and if there was the slightest*animus
in The l.'u.wt i t chon's article it was occa
sioned by the high and mighty style of crit
icism employed by the New England news
papers in their remarks about southern
progress and soul hern development. Much
that they say is amusing, but some of it is
irritating. The real extent of the resour
ces of the south is not yet fairly known,
even in New England, which seems to be
the headquarters of information, as well as
misinformation. During the last twenty
years the organs of public opinion in New
England have been filled with advice to the
south and comment ou the supposed situa
tion.
All this, however, is not the fault of the
poor New England farmers who have been
struggling along and disappearing gradually
from "the face o’miture,” as Hosea Bige
low would put it. Undoubtedly they have
had a very hard time, as their deserted
homes : how. Olliers arc still struggling on.
Why can they not sell out their unproduc
tive lands ami come to the south where
the soil Is productive, and where all the
conditions ate superior to those in New
England.
We repeat, The Constitution is very
sorry for the poor farmers of New England.
Farming In .lapnn.
Carter Harrison, the distinguished ex
mayor of Chicago, is traveling in the cast
and writing letters to one of his home
papers. He has been studying Japanese
farming, and tells what he knows about it.
lie says everything there is carried on on a
very small scale, and with such wonderful
niceness, that, it is diilicult to realize that
farming is the business of a life and a very
earnest, and hard one at that. There are
no barns or outhouses iu which to store
crops. There are no farm houses. The
people live in villages or in towns. Some of
the farms are not even one acre in size,
and very few contain more than ten acres.
The notable feature of these Japanese
farms is the irrigating ditch. A farm of
two or three acres usually has half a dozen
levels, and the water that irrigates one
field runs down to irrigate another. The
farms have the appearance of American
market gardens. The soil is dry and thor
oughly prepared. The plow is used only
for throwing up the beds, and all the dig
ging is done with spadelike hoes and forks.
No weeds whatever arc allowed to grow in
the little fields, and every foot of ground is
utilized.
The Japanese farmer takes every advan
tage of the seasons, and practices true
economy. One crop succeeds another w ith
unvarying regularity, and the benefits of
rotation are thoroughly understood and
realized. While one crop is ripening an
other one is planted between the rows, and
this practice is carried on even in the tea
plantations. When the tea plants are
small turnips and other crops are
planted between the rows as soon as the July
plucking is completed.
The management of the Japanese farm
ers is so thoroughly scientific that lands
which have been in cultivation for centur
ies continue to produce marvelously large
crops. It is said that Buddhism has dis
couraged the growth of animals within the
limits of the empire, and, as a result, there
are not two millions of horned cattle iu the
country .tin ugh the grasses on the hills would
feed millions. The iu orns and nuts in the for
ests would feed millions of hogs, but there are
no hogs in Japan. "There are no starvelings
in Japan," Mi. Harrison declares. "The
children aie as tat and jelly as little cuily
| tailed pigs; the young lads and girls give
no evidence of not having enough to eat.
They are all rounded in form and lithe in
action, and the men and boys are capable of
. enduring active labor and fatigue as few
| others can do. They are possibly not ns
muscular us our mc.vt-eating men, but not a
I day passes that 1 do not see some man
j w hose muscular development is a source of
i admiration, and ethers whose powers of en
■ dutame are simply man ileus.”
Two l ittle l ists.
In this country the English sparrow is
playing havoc with the fruit crop, and
1 in Australia the rabbit nuisance is looming
!up as the greatest «vil of the day.
The Australian authorities have offered a
j reward of $125,(8 t> for any process that w ill
exterminate the rabbits. Thus far ordinary
’ means have failed. Dogs have been cm-
I ployed, and small armies of men have been
I engaged for years iu fighting Brer Babbit.
Year after year these frisky little animals
! continue to increase. They are overrun
l Hing the country, and the farmers find it
' almost impossible to save a fair proportion
of their crops.
IVhat the rabbit is to the people of Aus
tralia and New South Wales, the Eng
lish sparrow may be to the farmers and
fruit growers of the United States. The
countless millions of these rapacious birds
are multiplying with each season.
The extermination of the rabbits will prob
ably take less time than the destruction of
the sparrows. It is not likely that it would
help us to offer a reward for a practical so
lution of the problem. 'The only feasible
remedy in sight is simply to turn the Ameri
can small boy loose. He is the natural ene
my of the English sparrow, and with a very
little encouragement he will take the field
and sweep it. We must do something
about this matter. If we do not down this
diminutive foreigner he will be tolerably cer
tain to go ahead with his work until he
downs us.
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The Literature of the Anarchists*
Our telegrams last night contained a long
circular from the anarchists of Chicago bear
ing this motto: “Ruler we detest. Freedom
we request. To be equals we aspire. We
will, or we- yyill expire!”
And so the dispatches go on through page
after page, telling how Carl Marx and other
socialistic agitators were convinced that ex
isting social wrongs would never be righted
without bloodshed.
We have thrown the stuff into the waste
basket, and if every newspaper would fol
low this example anarchy would soon be at
an end. The productions of the anarchists
make very flamboyant reading, but the av
erage American citizen docs not feel dis
posed to devote much time to it.
There is one thing worth bearing in mind
about all I his anarchistic matter, and it is
the fact that it is simply a repetition of the
wild publications which appealed during the
French revolution, and just before that dark
and bloody era. Ninety years ago Rousseau,
C'liootz and Marat expressed the same ideas
in about the same language adopted by the
Chicago anarchists and their friends. All
through the writings and speeches of these
men runs a vein of exaggeration both hor
rible and grotesque. It is the exaggeration
of passion. It is inspired by hate, and few
can read it without a shudder.
At the beginning of the t-oubles in
France the utterance of the anarchists ex
cited amusement. People laughed over the
insane talk of such men as Rousseau, and
nobody thought that such doctrines would
ever have any considerable following. But
the appetite for this sort of thing
grows, and in a few years states
men, philosophers, the ladies of
the court and the rabble of the streets left
everything vise to engage in the mad dis
cussions provoked by the new social theo
ries so boldly promulgated by the revolu
tionists. Then came a great red whirl of
confusion, in which millions of people ap
peared to lose every spark of sanity, and
the trouble went on until its culmination.
It will not do to rely too much upon the
common sense of our people, and their law
abiding disposition. If they are to be
stuffed with the doctrines of anarchy, and
are to be made familiar with the ideas of
the gang represented lately' by Spies and
Parsons, there is no telling where they will
drift. We need in every state a revision of
our laws concerning written and spoken
seditious language. There is no sense in
allowing men to go on speaking and writ
ing in favor of anarchy until the actual
outbreak comes. The wiser policy would
be to nip such evils in the bud. Preven
tion is better than cure, and we can prevent
s repetition of the Chicago horror by mak
ing it impossible for the anarchists to print
and circulate their literature. Sooner or
later we must come to this, and the earlier
the better it will be for ail parties con
cerned.
Therefore, we decline to publish any of
this feverish and incendiary matter. If it
is kept from the public and summarily sup
pressed, the cause of law and order and
good government will be greatly benefited.
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Southern Lumber.
The Northwestern Lumberman calls at
tention to the fact that during the past few
months there have been numerous and
heavy investments in southern timber land.
The New Orleans Times-Demociat, refer
ring to this statement, says that the larger
share of attention has been directed to the
long leaf pine lands of Louisiana. Missis
sippi and Alabama. Investments have been
made in these lands by Michigan and Chi
cago men.
The purchases of these large tracts have
not been made for speculative purposes, but
for the development of southern lumber in
terests. The supply of the principal south
ern woods is not equal to the demand, and
it is the purpose' of the investors to increase
the supply.
Congress Must Protect the Treasury.
One of the most important issues which
the coming congress will have before it is
that of settling the pension question.
This occupied much of the time of the
last session, and but for the opportune veto
of the president, the government would now
be paying millions of dollars more than it
now does to an immense class of stipendiary
citizens. That the government should pen
sion those of its soldiers who were disabled
; in service and whose infirmities are attribu
table to the wounds or exposure of war, is
j eminently right and proper. Indiscriminate
' jensjoning beyond this is an injustice to
every tax payer in the country.
There is no earthly r< a.-on why the people
( should be taxed to pay a pension to every
■ soldier who served during any of the wars
of the Union, unless by injury or misfortune
brought about by service, pensioning is de
served ami needed. To give an idea of the
general distribution of the beneficiaries of
the government's pensions, the public prints
only a few days ago noted the fact that lion.
I W. 11. Morrison, of Illinois, Lad written a
letter to the pension department, y ielding
his annual stipend as a pensioner. Now,
Colonel Morrison was a faithful soldier, and
like thousands of others, is on the pension
list of the country, though neither poor nor
infirm. lie very properly refuses to accept
a.pcnsion.
Instead of increasing the immense appro
priation for the purpose, the government
should have the pension list carefully re
vised and only pay those who are really in
need of assistance. This tribute should be
extended to deserving soldiers and to the
needy widows and orphans of those who
were disabled or lost their life in the service
of the government. Beyond this it is the
part of the statesman to see that there shall
be no waste of the public fund, and to this
end congress should give its attention.
Foraker and Fairchild and other loud
mouthed demagogues will try to frighten
congress by an exhibit of the vote which
they claim is back of them, to put its hand
in the national treasury and make a monster
pension grab. They were successful with
the last congress, but the president inter
posed and vetoed the bill. For this act he
has won the increased confidence of the peo
ple and has strengthened himself in the es
timation of the public.
The rank and file of the grand army
should not allow their organization to be used
as the tool of aspiring politicians, ami the
attempt to do so should be rebuked.
The Philadelphia Times well says of the
question:
Sentimentalists go daft on this subject of pen-ions.
Half the men who today hold discharges received
sums of money as bounties that were considered
fabulous in the day of payment. Tjjiese sums, how
ever indirectly, aided in foisting a debt of three bil
lions on the land. To this burden lias been added,
by general consent, a pension system previously un
heard of in liberality. It should be remembered
that we constantly rail at the civil pensions of Great
Britain, and the payments in that tountry of public
money to undeserving people; but, with all the ex
t nt of the British empire, beside which our nation
seems small, the payments for military pensions are
bfit SI,COO 030, and all pensions, civil and military,
amount to but §0,000,000. The whole expense fora
standing army tn France does not double our annual
pension payments. The items of donations, restitu
tions and extraordinary expenditures in France sink
twenty millions below our pension list. All the
pensions of Austria are but §7,000.030, or one-ninth
of America's. All the pensions of Germany are but
§10,000,0 0, or less than one-sixth. The expense of
the Ge nian army, of which we prate continually,
goes but twenty millions, or one-quarter above our
pensions. T he Grand Army of the Republic, through
a nearly unanimous vote, put itself on record as en
tirely dissatisfied with pension payments, which in
1880 rose to §0:1,000,000. The complainants are dis
pleased that the pension bureau, which is now a
larger administration than appertained to the whole
nation before the war, should not spread through
every government building in Washington, and
displace all other inn tions. Like ti e woes of an
o’erfond mother, the generosity of the American
government.promises to return in the plaguing oj
its spoilt chil inn.”
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Concerning Dynamite.
It. may bo that the dangerous character of
dynamite has been greatly over-estimated.
An expert who was recently interviewed
by a St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter, said
that dynamite was perfectly harmless, until
a percussion cap was used with it. In bulk
the stuff can be shipped and handled with
out danger.
It explodes only by Concussion, and a per
cussion cap is used for the purpose. A
dynamite cartridge may be dropped on a
brick floor with impunity. When the explo
sive is fixed up in the shape of a bomb, it
must be fired either by a fuse or a percus
sion cap.
It is well to have these little matters un
derstood, as we go along. In this way peo
ple will escape not a little nervous appre
hension, and they will know how to deal
with dynamite when they have to use it.
The Way Out of It.
The New York Sun predicts that the two
wings of the democratic party will flap to
gether in the next congress in great shape.
Let us trust that they will. Mr. Randall is
a man of brains, and so is Mr. Carlisle.
Both ardently desire the success of the dem
ocratic party, and both know that such suc
cess is impossible if the impracticables of
the Watterson stripe are to have their way.
As the Sun suggests, the question of re
ducing the surplus cannot be made a party
question, for the reason that the republican
senate stands in the way.
The way out of the difficulty is for the
democratic leaders to aetas reasonable men.
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The Corn Crop.
According to the government crop re
port for November, the corn crop of the
whole country will average a little less
than twenty bushels an acre for 75,000,000
acres. The w hole crop amounts to 1,453,-
000,000 bushels. This is 180,000,000 bush
els below the yield of last year. Estimating
this loss at forty cents a bushel, it is a loss
of <71.400,000.
The government report says that the
country has raised but one good corn crap
since 1880, and that was the one of 1885,
which amounted to 1,936,000,000 bushels.
The crop of the present year, according to
the figures of the department, is the small
est of this decade, except that of 1881.
During the past eight years the yield has
been as follows:
Year. Bushels.
18S0 1,717,00<),«X>
18-t 1,195,000,000
18X1 1,517,1T0,000
lss3 1,551,e00.0 o
ix-t i.v.i '.io .too
1885 i,y;>;,in>.vioo
IX<' 1,6 5,003,100
1887 1,453,000,000
The corn crop is the most important of all
our crops. It is more valuable than the
wheat crop, or the cotton crop, or the hay
crop. All the corn we raise is consumed at
hemo, and there are some thousands of
bushels imported from Canada.
The St. Louis Republican, which has
analyzed the figures, says that in some
parts of the south the corn crop is the best
raised for years, and this is very fortunate,
indeed, for the south has heretofore been
buying her corn from the west. Let us
hope that this section will improve the
record in this respect.
Tlie National Poultry and Bench Show.
The extraordinary success of the first Na
tional I’oultry and Bench show, held iu this
city a year ago, will atttract exhibitors and
visitors from all parts of the country to the
second exhibition which takes place iu Jan
uary.
The poultry industry is one of the largest
and most important in tlie country. The
simple fa t that it costs no more to hatch
aad raise chickens that will weigh eight and
ten pounds than chickens that will weigh
four to six pounds, and no more to keep a
hen that will lay 220 eggs a year than one that
will lay half as many, is worth thousands of
dollars to our people. At the exhibitions
are shown turkeys that will weigh from 50
to 05 pounds, geese and ducks twice us large,
hardier and mere prolific thiui the ordinary
i breeds, and chickens that would literally
make four of the regular country chickens.
These are object lessons that make them
selves felt. They are arguments undisputed
by all who see them. The result is more
poultry and better poultry for Georgia and
the south.
A Question of Ivory Supply.
A comparatively new ivory field has been
discovered in the recently developed region
of the upper Congo, in Africa. Ivory
in small quantities has been received
from this section before, but the greater part
of the supply has heretofore been received
from fields which have well nigh become
exhausted. The Upper Congo will now be
hunted for Its full yield, but it will not be
many years at the present rate of use, be
fore the ivory supply will be reduced to such
an extent that it will become exceedingly
scarce and hard to reach.
The activity of the African ivory trader
has almost exterminated the elephant, and
like the American buffalo, the species is
rapidly becoming extinct. Though the
many substitutes now manufactured to take
the place of ivory are coming into general
use, the demand for the real ivory increases
steadily, and as the supply decreases, its
price grows proportionately larger.
The days of the elephant seem to be num
bered.
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The Murder of Young; Hightower.
If there is any law in the land it should
detect and punish the murderer of young
Hightower.
The facts need no comment. A young
man of good character is standing by the
door of his home. A crowd of half drunken
men pass. They ask him, “were you wet or
dry.” He replies, “I was dry.” The crowd
passes on for a few steps, when some one
turns, whirls a rock at him, strikes him on
the head, fractures his skull, and he dies.
This murder was not only unprovoked,
but it was open. There were twenty wit
nesses to the murder. There is no reason
why the murderer cannot be detected and
punished.
What does the chief of police say? What
do tlie city detectives say? What do the
city authorities say? Shall the wanton mur
der of this young man on the open street, in
the presence of a crowd, pass uninvestiga
ed and unpunished?
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John Brown's Place in History.
The Constitution has, upon occasion,
made some very salty remarks in regard to
the attitude of what maybe called the John
Brown “cult” at the north. There are a
number of people in that section who do
not hesitate to compare the career of this
American horse-thief and assassin w ith the
life and character of Christ, and The Con
stitution has not hesitated to criticise this
sacreligious tendency as severely as it
seemed to deserve.
We have been pleased to find a great
number of original abolitionists and mod
ern republicans who arc anxious to
agree with us in our estimate of John
Brown, but none of them have come as
near hitting the mark as Mr. Samuel R.
Rccd, of the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette, who lias been making some remarks
about John Brown's career. Mr. Reed goes
a great deal farther than The Constitu
tion has ever gone, and he is what may l>e
called a typical modern republican—a man
with ideas and with a plentiful supply of
words in which to express them.
He says that if John Brown had a sane
plan in his invasion of Virginia, it was to
incite a general uprising of the slaves,
“with all which such a rising implied of
I the letting loose of the mad passions of the
! blacks in massacre of the whites, and the
i erection of a m gro empire, in san Domingo
j fashion, upon the extermination of the
’ white race.” Mr. Reed goes on to say that
| if John Brown had a sane plan, it was to
precipitate the negroes into a massacre of
; tlie whites, “which would surely be fo)-
, lowed by their own slaughter by a vengeance
‘ from which all mercy had been eradicated,
ami a renewal of slavery, from which all of
the kindly domestic relations that had soft
ened tlie condition would have departed.”
This is, indeed, pretty tough, talk, com
ing as it does from a stalwart republican,
but it is the truth somewhat softened. As
; a matter of fact, if John Brown's plan had
| been a sane plan, and had been successful,
not ten thousand negroes in the whole south
would have been left to tell the story of thd
insurrection. All there was hi the John
Brown movement, as Mr. Reed very clearly’
sees, was the sacrifice of the. blacks to thgj
insane whims of a professional
and assassin.
"Another serious error of the time,” Mr.
Reed truly says, “was a sympathy for’
Brown’s mania because of a report that it
was caused by the killing of his son beforq
his eyes by Missouri border ruffians in thd
Kansas conflict. Even to this day, many
are unwilling to receive the true history that
Brown perpetrated most atrocious
which had no relation to the free-state
cause, nor to the defense of the
To this remarkable description—remarka~
ble because it is the truth wrenched froni
the bosom of one of the most consistent re-. 1
publicans in the country—Mr. Reed adds:!
“He (John Brown) made the disorder ir»
Kansas a cover for his robberies and mur*;
ders, and when these had driven him out,*
he appeared to the abolition sect of the east
as a hero of the free-state cause, which lis
had defamed by his crimes.”
Just how James Redpkthand F. B. San
born will receive this salty restatement of
the truths of history remains to be seen;
but neither of them will be bold enough tfi
traverse Mr. Samuel R. Reed’s facts.
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EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
It is said that Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson
is better looking than American artists make
him out to be. We are very glad to hear this.
According to the New York Herald
iveather prophet we are to have plenty of mild
weather before Christmas.
The papers are asking if it is true, as re
ported, that Mr. Blaine is going to Japan next
year. It is not; he is going up Salt creek, ami
lie can’t well make both t rips in the same year»
At the author’s readings in New York,’
James Whitcomb Riley, of Indianapolis, made
the greatest success. We are glad of iti
Riley is the coming man. What he writes has
the American ring to it.
A recent author says: “The first king of
France was I’horamond, an imaginary being
whomever existed. He was succeeded by his
son.” It is a wonder that such a man was not
succeeded by his daughter.
At least there is one locality in the wide
world where prohibition prevails, and that is
on the waters of the North sea. By an agreed
ment recently entered into by the powers of
Europe, the sale of liquor to fishermen and
sailors in that sea is prohibited.
Senator Balmer, of Michigan, urges the
republicans of that state to make prohibition
the rallying cry of the party. He thinks it is
the greatest issue now before the country, and.
that it can be turned to great advantage by the
republicans. However, that party is loath to
catch on.
Hon. William E. Gladstone, the great
English statesman, will, it is said, visit Amer
ica during the coming year. His physician®
have advised him to take an ocean voyage on
account of his health, and ho has determined
to visit America, tiie desire of a visit to which
he has long since cherished. His dread of the
ocean voyage has prevented him from making
the trip, but ho has now overcome this.
The Standard Oil company is measuring
strength with tlie interstate commission. The
question to bo settled now is, which isihc big
gest the Standard Oil company or the govern
ment. Evidently the former has an opinion
that it is.
Don Carlos, of the Spanish bourbons, now
claims to bo tlie rightful king of France.
Nobody objects to his claims so long as lid
keeps out of France and behaves himself.
When Sir Mobsell Mackenzie, the famoua
English surgeon, made tho dread announce
ment to the crown prince of Germany of tho
nature of his disease, it was received with per
fect composure. Tlie prince, after a moment's
silence, put out his hand and said: “I have
been lately fearing something of the sort. I
thank you, Sir Morrell, for being so frank with
me.”
The New York Evening Post has publish
ed a very ingenious argument demonstrating
that the new voters will turn the tide of elec
tion in 'BB. By r the new voters it means thoso
who have come of age since 1884. Tlie Post,
evidently, takes it for granted that the repub
licans have a corner on this business. “But,”
the Post says, “it remains to be seen whether
this vote will be gained if tho republican
party renominates the man who lost New York,
Connecticut and Indiana in 1884.”
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