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INSPIRING RELIGION. ? Dr. Talmage Preaches on Solomon's Wisdom-Sweet Spices of Christianity. lt Counteracts All Trouble ?? No Dolorous Music Needed. t Cops-right 1901.1 . ' Washington*. D. C.?Ia this discourse Dr. Talmage corrects some of the false notions about religion, and represents it at being joy inspiring instead of dolorous; text, II. Chronicles ix, 9, "Of spices great abundance; neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." What is that building out yonder, glit? tering in the 6un? Have you not heard? It is in the house of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon has just taken to it his bride, the Princess of Egypt. You see the pillars of the portico and a great tower, adorned with 1090 shields of gold, hung on the outside of the tower,. 500 of the shields of gold manufactured at Solomon's order; 500 were captured by David, his father, in battle. See how they blaze in the noonday sun! Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne, between twelve lions in statuary, and sits down on the back of the golden bull, the head of the huge beast turned to? ward the people. The family and the at? tendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the palace have to provide every day 100 sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and pawing of 4000 fine horses in the royal stables. There were important officials who had charge of the work of gathering the straw and the bar? ley for these horses. King Solomon was an early riser, tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak, and when in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of nil the realm and followed by | mounted archers in purple, as the eaval- i cade dashed through the streets of Jem- j salem I suppose it was something wnrth getting up at 5 o'clock in thc morning to look at. Solomon was not like nome of the kings of the present dav?crowned imbecility. All the splendors of his palace and retinue were eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with foreign fish and aviaries with foreign birds, ana tradi? tion says these birds were so well tamed that Solomon might walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitted about him. ? ? 3Jore.than this, he had a great reputa? tion for the conumdrums and riddles that he made and guessed. He and King Hi? ram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour and ask riddles, each one paying in money if he could not answer or guess the riddle. The Solomonic navy visited all the world, and the sailors, of course, talked about f he riddles and enigmas that he made and solved, and the news spread until Queen Balkis, away off south, heard of it, and sent messengers with a few riddles that she would like to have Solomon solve and a few puzzles that she would like to have him find out. She sent, among other things, to King Solomon a diamond with ahole so small that a needle could not pen? etrate it, asking him to thread that dia? mond. And Solomon took a worm and put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to fill it with water that did not pour from the sky and that did not rush out from the earth, and immediately Solomon put a slave on the back of a swift horM and galloped him around and around the park until the horse was nigh exhausted, and from the perspiration of the horse the goblet was filled. She also sent to King Solomon 500 boys in girls' dress and 500 {[iris in boys' dress, wondering if he would ie acute enough to find out the deception, Immediately Solomon, when he saw them wash their faces, knew from the way they applied the water that it was all a cheat. Queen Balkis was so pleased with the acuteness of Solomon that she said. "I'll just go and see him for myself." Yonder it comes?the cavalcade?horses and dro? medaries, chariots and charioteers, -jing? ling harness and clattering hoofs and blaz? ing shields and flying ensigns and clapping cymbals. The place is saturated with the perfume. She brings cinnamon and saf? fron and calamus and frankincense,and all manner of sweet spices. As the retinue sweeps through the gate the armed guard inhales the aroma. "Halt!" cries the char? ioteers as the wheels grind the gravel in front of the pillared portico of the king. Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere be? witched with perfume. As the dromeda? ries are driven up to the king's store? houses and the bundle3 of camphor are unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon and the boxes of spices are opened the pur? veyors of the palace discover what my text announces: "Of spices, great abundance. Neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." Well, my friends, you know that all the? ologians agree in making Solomon a type of Christ, and in making the Queen of Sheba a tyne of every truth seeker, and I will take the responsibility of saying that all the spikenard and cassia and frankin* cense which the Queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon is mightily suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities and angular facts and chro? nological tables and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense and to cassia, but never to nightshade. Jt is a bundle of myrrh. It is a dash of holy light. It is a sparkle of cool foun? tains. It is an opening of opaline gates. It is a collection of spices. Would God that we were as wise in taking 6piceB to our divine King as Queen Balkis was wise in taking the spices to the earthly Solo? mon. The fact is that the duties and cares of this life, coming to us from time to time, are stupid often and inane and intolerable. Herc are men who have been battering, climbing, pounding, hammering for twenty years, forty years, fifty years. One great, long drudgery has their life been, their faces anxious, their feelings benumbed, their days monotonous. What is neces? sary to brighten up that man's life and to sweeten that acid disposition and to put sparkle into the man's spirits? The spic ery of our holy religion. Why. if between the losses of life there dashed the gleam of an eternal gain, if between the betray? als of life there came the gleam of the un? dying friendship of Christ, if in dull times in business we found ministering spirits flying to and fro in our office and store and shop, everyday life, instead of being a stupid monotone, would be a glorious in? spiration, penduluming between calm sat? isfaction and high rapture. How any woman keeps house without the religion of Christ to help her is a mystery to me. To have to spend the greater part of one's life, as many women do, in planning for the meals, and stitch? ing garments that will soon be rent again, and deploring breakages, and supervising tardy subordinates and driving off dust that soon again will settle, and doing the same thing day in and day out and year in and year out until the hair silvers, and the back stoops, and the spectacles crawl to the eyes and the grave breaks open under the thin sole of the shoe?oh, it is a long monotony! But when Christ comes ta the drawing room, and comes to the kitchen, and comes to the nursery, and comes to the dwelling, then how cheery becomes all womanly duties I She is never alone now. Martha gets through fretting and joins Mary at the feet of Jesus. AU day lon? Deborah is happy because she can help Lapidoth: Hannan, because she can make a coat for young Samuel; Miriam; because she can w.Uch her infant brother; Kachcl. because she can help her father water *'ie stock; the widow ot Sarepta. be? cause I ? cruse of oil is being replenished. I Km. confess that a great deal of the relipion of this day is utterly insipid. There is nothing piquant or elevating about it. Men and women go around humming psalms in a minor key and cul? tivating melancholy, and their worship has in it more sighs than raptures. We do not doubt their piety. Oh, no! But they are sitting at a feast where the cook has forgotten to season the food. Every? thing is""*riat in their experience and in their conversation. Emancipated from sin and death and hell and on their way to a magnificent heaven, they act as though they were trudging on toward an everlast? ing. Botanv Br.v.. Reunion does not seem. tb'agree with them. It seems to catch in the windpipe and become a tight strangu? lation instead of an exhilaration. All the infidel books that have been written, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spencer, hay not done so much damage to our Chris? tianity as lugubrious Christians. Who wants a religion woven out of tho shadows of the night? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronementT Come out of that cave and sit down in the warm light of the Sun of Righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy and Hervey VMeditations Among the Tombs!" I have to say also that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our relig? ious teaching, whether it be in thc prayer meeting or in the Sunday-school or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air nnd sunshine in our lungs nnd our heart and our head. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being converted when you find so little vivacity in the pul? pit and in the pew? We want, like the Lord, to plant in our sermons and exhor? tations more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words, and when we talk about shadows we do not want to say adumbration, and when we mean queer? ness we do not want to talk about idiosyn? crasies, or if a stitch in the back we do not want to talk about lumbago, but, in the plain vernacular of the great masses, ' preach that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest, victorious and free. In other words, we want more cin? namon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lord calls us. I promise a high spiritual blessing to anv one who will sing in church and who will sing so heartily that the people all around cannot help but sing. Wake up, all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco and across Christendom! It is not a matter of preference; it is a mat? ter of religious duty. Oh, for fifty times more volume of sound than has yet rolled up from our churches! German chorals in German cathedrals surpass us, and yet Germany has received nothing at the hands of God compared with America. And ought the acclaim in Germany bo louder than that of America? Soft, long drawn out music is appropriate for the drawing room and appropriate for the concert, but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous and resonant congregational singing ap? propriate for churches when in listening to the temple service of heaven he says: "I heard a great voice, as the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thun? derings. Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" Join *vith me in a crusade, giving me not only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting of your voices, and 1 believe we can, through Christ's grace, sing 5000 souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk down, but a 5000 voiced utterance of praise to God is resistible. Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her spice laden dromedaries into our church music. "Nei? ther was any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." Now, I want to impress you with the fact that religion is sweetness and per? fume and spikenard and saffron and cin? namon and cassia nnd frankincense and all sweet spices together. "Oh," you say, "I have not looked at it as such. I thought it was a nuisance. It had for me a re? pulsion. I held my breath as though it were a fnalodor. I have been appalled at its advance. I have said, if I have any re? ligion at all, I want to have just as little ot it as is possible to get through with." Oh, what a mistake you have made, my brother!' The religion of Christ is a pres? ent and everlasting redolence. It coun? teracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow ot sickness, lt catches in the burtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter medicine and throws a glow on the gloom of the turned lattice. It is a balm for tbe aching side and a soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. It lifted Samuel Pvutnerford into a revelry of spiritual de? light while he was in physical agonies. It helped Richard Baxter until, in the midst of such a complication of diseases as per? haps no other man ever suffered, he wrote "The Saint's Everlasting Rest. And it poured light upon John Bunyan's dungeon, the light of the shining gate of the shin? ing city. And it is good for rheumatism and for neuralgia and for low spirits and for consumption. It is the catholicon for all disorders. Yes, it will heal all your sorrows. Why did you look so sad this morning when you came in? Alas, for the loneli? ness and the heartbreak and the load that is never lifted from your soul! Some of vou go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote, "If I had another month of such days as I have been spending, I would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the ground, like a weary factory child." And there have been times in your life when you wished you could get out of this life. You have said, "Oh, how sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valley!" and wished you could pull over you in your last slumber the coverlet of green grass and daisies. You have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in the tomb! I wish I was there!" I see all around about me widowhood and orphanage and childlessness, sadness, disappointment, perplexity. If I could ask all those in any audience who have felt no sorrow and been buffeted by no disappointment?if I could ask all such to rise, how many would rise? Not one. A widowed mother, with her little child, went West, hoping to get better wages there, and she was taken sick and died. The overseer of the poor got her body and put it in a box and put it in a wagon and started down the street toward the ceme? tery at full trot. The little child, the only chiid, ran after it through the streets, bareheaded, crying: "Bring me back my mother! Bring me back my mother! ' And it was said that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in the box in the wagon, all she loved on earth?it is said the whole village was in tears. And that is what a great many of you are doing-*-chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all this sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the thought of resurrection and reunion far beyond this scene of struggle and tears. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Across the couches of your sick and across the graves of your dead I fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis, driving up to the pillared portico of the ? house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as exhales to-day from the Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweet? ness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfac? tion, this gospel I commend to you. May God grant that through your own practical experience you may find that re? ligion's ways are ways of pleasantness and 'that all her paths are paths of peace; that it is perfume now and perfume forever. ;And there was an abundance of spice; "neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." Cak.nl Tells ft Problem. The fluent?un of tolls on the Isth? mian canal it not so simple as it was In th*) casu of the Suez, writes a cor? respondent of the New York Post. We have a much greater "marginal traffic" to consider?one which may be con? trolled by the rate of toll. The west toast of South America, in its dealings with Europe, ought to furnish abom one-third of the available traffic of thc new canal, if opened in 1915. All thal traffic practically could pay a toll of $1 a ton. Between the west coast ol South America and the eastern port? of the United States the traffic coule pay a still heavier toll, as the savins; over the route "round the Horn' would be still greater. On the princi? ple of charging whatever the traffic could bear, certain cargoes going through the canal could doubtless af? ford to pay $3 or $4 a ton. To grow old nicely is a great art, and old people ar* quite mistaken in imagining that they must necessarily be bores to the young, though som* eMerly pecple_ara certainly trying. DUR HORSES FOR BRITISH /IOUNTS FOR THE CAVALRY THAT CHASES DE WET. Cathrop In Missouri ls More Prosperous Than Ever Before and the Ilesidents Hope the Boers May Keep at It For? ever and Erer. Every dispatch that tells of one of DeWet's successful manoeuvres adds anywhere from Sf5 to f 15 au acre to farm land lu this immediate vicinity. Lathrop is in the heyday of its glory, Bini the fervent prayer of every man, woman nnd child of its 1200 popula? tion is that the Boers will fight for a generation. The military department of the Brit? ish Government has transferred its headquarters for the purchasing and stabling of horses for the Transvaal war from New Orleans to this point on the Burlington Railroad, forty miles north of Kansas City, and the activity -which was noted in the pur? chase of horses at the beginning of the war seems to increase with each mouth. Horses are being shipped to South Africa from Lathrop at the rate of 2500 a week. The six veterina? rians employed by the British Govern? ment brand and vaccinate between 400 and 500 horses a day. and all of these are kept here instead of at New Orleans, and shipped only as needed to load the vessels bound for South Africa. To feed these horses the Brit? ish Government pays thirty-five cents a head a day and the little item of feed for the horses alone costs on an average of $1000 a day. But this *s a small proportion of the revenue which Lathrop and the farm? ers hereabouts are deriving from the necessities of war. Before the horses are inspected, branded and vaccinated they are pastured by Guyton _ Har? rington, the St. Louis-Kansas City firm, which has a five years' contract to supply the British Government with all the horses and mules required in Ihe South African war. This firm, which baa already grown rich, has bought something like 1600 acres of laud near its stables, and ls negotiat? ing for more. But the land owned hy? the firm is not sufficient to accommo? date more than a small percentage of the 10,000 horses and mules in stock, and all the available pasture land in every direction has been rented. As their necessities increase, the farmers, with true Yankee thrift, advance the price of pasturage. All of these clever financial coups have shavpened the Clinton County mind aud as the wise men of the town seek the shady corner of what was once a bank, but is now a barber shop, one can hear repeated each half hour lu the day this learned deduction: Now, you see the British have got to keep up the fight. It would never do for England to admit that a handful of Dutch farmers could lick the empire. So as long as the Boers continue to fight the British will have to fight if it takes every dadgasted man in the country." Number Two?Ain't them Boers stayers for you ? Every, boy in town that knows how to ride cnn get a job breaking horses brought from the plains of Idaho or Wyoming. Every man with a team can find employment hauling feed. There are no unemployed who can and will work. Although the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad has miles of side track here it must build more switches. There are no days when gossip flags. What with the es? timates of the amount of money Guy? ton & Harrington are making, the possibilities of love affairs with the English officers, the cockney accent of some of the "doctors," stampeded horses and negotiations for new tracts of land, every day in Lathrop is one of circus-day activity and explains why the most welcome news that is brought to town is the report of a Boer victory. "_?'fore the change was made trans? ferring the headquarters of veterinar? ians and inspectors of the British Gov? ernment from New Orleans to Lathrop the stables on the "Y" connecting the Burlington and branch line of the San? ta Fe at this place were sufficient for the business of Messrs. Guyton & Har? rington. On this tract they had erect? ed a mammoth stable for the accom? modation of the horses and mules pur? chased in Missouri und Kansas for shipment to New Orleans. When the Indications began to point unerringly to a continuation of the fighting and experience had taught that the life of a horse in South Africa was on an average about three months, the Brit? ish Government began to prepare for a protracted struggle which included a fresh supply of horses and mules. Just as the big packers have located their packing houses near the base of supplies, so the British established their headquarters. The horses supplied the British Gov? ernment do not compare with these accepted by Uncle skua. The price, too, ls about one-half. Although the contract between Guyton & Harring? ton and the British Government is a secret, the estimate here of the price paid is $75 a head. Nearly all tho horses nov/ being shipped CKM from the ranges in Idaho, South Dakota and Wyoming. Nobody would ever offer them for sale to the United States military authorities. They come by thc carload almost daily. From the time the horses are unloaded until they are inspected, branded and vac? cinated, the entire train travels nt a breakneck speed. The feed and freight wagons move nt a fast trot with never a let-up during the day. The horses when headed for a pas? ture go at a fierce gallop with horse? men riding like mad to head them off from diverging lanes. Now and then there is a stampede and a hun? dred wild horses dash down Lathrop's business street. The Government's equipment for branding horses is complete. As a herd is to be branded it is driven to a lot adjoining the immense stables. The fences run in a semi-circle and gradually approach each other until n lane is formed just wide enough to accommodate one horse. The lane is made of heavy timber and as the horses enter it sticks of timber are run in front of their forelegs through apertures built for the purpose, and again at their hips. The untamed Western range horses rear and endeav? or to plunge. Even when thus fast med it ii impossible to brand them i on the jaw unless their heads are fast? ened with halters. On inspection days thc officer in charge ls in the heydey of his glory, The horses are inspected at the Guy? ton & Harrington stables in town. All that part of town in the vicinity of the stables is practically under martini law. Nobody is permitted to coi_<* near the animals which are to be passed upon. The commanding officer is a more or less petulant person, who creates the Impression that he labors under Um* constant fear of a Boer spy playing the role of a Clinton County citizen. Ali the branding and vaccinating is done at the hospital farms, northeast of town. An arrow head branded on the jaw, shoulders or hips oenotes the grade of the animal, while the hoof ls branded to indicate whether the animal is intended for thc mounted infantry, yeomanry or cavalry. The horses are vaccinated, their tails are tabbed and the animals are ready for shipment to New Orleans. If 10,000 horses a month are shipped from Lathrop, the present average, the cost to the British Government for horses alone would be approximately $12,000,000. To feed 3000 horses and mules, which is. about the average of the stock kept on hand wbicb has been Inspected, adds $305,000 more for this item. Clinton County farmer* have disposed of $04,000 worth of laud and negotiations are pending for almost as nuch more. The amount spent for the rent of pastures cannot be ascertained, but it reaches ? hand? some figure. But despite its prosperi? ty the citizens of Lathrop, every one of whom claims to be au expert judge of horses, expresses his contempt whenever the opportunity presents it? self, and frequently when it doesn't, for the kind of horses the British Gov? ernment is buying. "If I was a soldier mounted on one of those horses," said a Lathrop judge of horseflesh, point? ing to a herd from Wyoming, "and the Boers would get after me I would dis? mount nnd take to my heels. I would stand a better chance of getting away." "You haven't got any kick coming." said his neighbor, "we're exchanging all our poor horses for good British gold."- Kansas City Star. _H7f j i I_Z %7l cv/riov. Xu t f( I . FArTV lt. TACKS %^.'_f*>___: -yal High heels had their origin in neither fashion nor pride. They were introduced into Persia for the very practical purpose of raising the feet from thc burning sands of that coun? try. A mathematician who was curious to know about it has figured out that the weight of the air which encircles the earth is equal to that of 581,000 "cubes of copper, each 1093 yards square. Many countries have curious meth? ods of raising money to reduce taxa? tion. In Hesse, Germany, a tax has been put upon the bachelors, who now have to pay twenty-five per cent, more in taxes than married men. The result has been that mauy well-to-do bachelors have emigrated to Prussia. A curious custom was revived at Great Oakley, England, where parish lands were let by "pin in candle." Thc local clergyman presided. A pi il is inserted in a burning candle, and so long as it remains iu its tallow rest? ing place bids are taken. The last bidder before the pin drops is declared the tennnt for the year. A progressive wholesale and retail clothing house has introduced a dem? onstrating ciass'for the benefit of its customers, anent the woolen manufac? turing industry. The various pro? cesses of evolution undergone by the wool In transit to the wearer are ex? plained and illustrated in detail. The use of shoddy, mungo, waste and other forms of wool stoc_ is expounded. Perhaps the most picturesque and de? lightful form of picnic is that which obtains at the "Isle Robinson," on the outskirts of Paris. Dinner is served in the branches of enormous tress which stud the island, and waiters may be espied hurrying through thc treetops, conveying food and drink to the arboral revellers. These picnics in question afford unbounded delight to thousands of Parisians, as well ao foreign visitors. A primitive surface for the recep? tion of literary composition is the com? mon oystershell of thc familiar dust? bin. It is recorded of thc Greek phi? losopher, Cleanthus, that he wrote hie notes from the lectures and discourees of his master, Geno, on small shells, being too poor to buy more expensive material. In Greece, too. votes were inscribed on oyster-shells (ostraca), and it was by these votes that an ob? jectionable person might be banished the country, or "ostracized." Later, cither oyster-shells or potsherds were used indifferently, and afterward potsherds alone?which were still called "ostraca." Georgia's Giant Sycamore Tree. Dougherty County now lays claim to the champion big tree of Georgia. It was discovered several weeks ago by employes of a lumber company who were engaged in cutting timber. It rears its head from amid a thick swamp where hardwood trees abound, and to this ls due the fact that it was not discovered sooner. This giant of the swamp is a syca? more. It ls on a little knoll, and ex cept in seasons when a great deal of rain has fallen its trunk is not reached by water. A foot from tbe ground its trunk is forty-four feet in circum? ference. For twenty feet above the ground the body of the great tree is round and symmetrical, but at thnt point it branches into four sections, any one of which would make a giant tree if standing alone. The four arms of the big sycamore do not spread out as would seem natural, but reach skyward, almost perpendicularly. The tree is pronounced by all who have seen it a curiosity and places "in the shade" all the known trees in Georgia. -_tlant- Constitution. A Gentleman Indeed. "You can always tell a gentl-ii-i. I thorough gentleman, wlicne. er you m:et him," observed the fat man with the blue nccktie to his smoking acquaint? ance. "Yes, I think you can," was the reply. "I came down from Boston with one thc other day. He was ' interested in electricity, and I told him all about the new trolley line through our town." "Is it different from any other line?" "No: but as one of thc city aldermen I helped get the charter through." "Why. he never asked me what the rompany paid for my influence." Those l>it:u-,-i'otu SclioolinVams. "Do you remember that schoolmarm that I was so much mashed on when we went to school together down at thc Forks?" "Yep. Where is she now?" "I left her at my home half an hour ago." "Then you married lier, after all?" "Not much 1 didn't! She married my youngest boy!" Perhaps He'll Fp.ak. Tess?She's got such an awful sore throat she can't speak above a whisper. But she's just tickled to death about it. Jess?The idea! Tess?Yes; you sec that timid yo'tng Milyuns is to call on her this even ng, and lic'il have to sit close to her on that account. Free lt loud (ure, Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) earea blood an<l (kin humors like ulcers, eatin:: s ?rc**. eczjma, itching; skin, a?ing bones IB?Joints', boils, scrofula, blood j.oison. cancer, etc. U. B. B. cures nil malign int b'onl troubles, old deeps' a od oaios, neils every ?oro. makes thc blood pure and rici. 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