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J. A. ANSI EY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY.
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
Clothing Store, Americus, Ga.
After a brief respite 1 return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will be
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
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Dr. J. F. Stapleton
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and another matters pertaining to his pro
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Americus. - - - Georgia
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of a thorough education, embracing Primary,
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BYMPTOM3 OF A DISEASED LITER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
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le head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
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which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
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feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
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and, although satisfied that exercise would oe bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try k—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
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have occurred vfyen but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has shown the Liver to
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Persons Traveling or Living In Un
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A Governor's Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
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J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
non. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga.,
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“The only Thing that never fails to
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1883.
Written for the Republican.
CRUOTBLINC TOWER.
E. E. FORT.
Curfew did not ring sweet maiden,
At that lonely twilight hour
When with heart so heavy laden,
You climbed thatold and crumbling tower.
Never once the cost you counted,
As you struggled high and higher,
Till the topmost point surmounted—
Yet no thought of the task to tire.
With trembling hands, hut heart yet true,
One struggle more, the rope was caught,
The pitying angels looked on you,
Your efforts could not be for naught.
No sound the evening stillness broke
As listening ears for Curfew’s knell,
Were strained to catch the first sad stroke,
That would of Basils hard death tell.
E’er faithful to his twilight task,
The sexton old, but in purpose firm,
Fulled steady on, though none would ask
Him why his duty was not done.
With heaving breast, twixt hope and fear,
The maiden hastened from above,
To meet stern Cromwell, then to hear,
The fate of him so dear so loved.
Those blood stained hands that earnest face,
Spoke volumes for the cause she plead
Which left on Cromwell’s heart no trace
Of ought hut blessing on her head.
Said go, sweet maiden let your story,
Be rehearsed in coming years,
I though Cromwell, give you freely,
Him you love then cease your fears.
Fable of tlie Wounded Ox.
An ox who was one day passing
along the highway fell and broke his
leg. In a short time along came the
Horse, who halted and called out;
“Mercy on me, but what has hap
pened?”
“I have broke my leg.
“Too bad—too had! I assure you
that you have my heartfelt sympa
thies.”
When the Horse had disappeared
along came the Mule and inquired:
“How now, my old friend—what’s
the trouble.”
“Broke my leg.”
“Dear me! but that’s unfortunate!
You were always an honest, hardwork
ing Ox, and I am deeply grieved that
this accident has come upon you.
The mule pursued his way, and the
next animal to stop was the hog.
“Hello! What does this mean?” he
grunted as he checked his pace.
“B’-oke my leg.”
“Is that possible! It isn’t six months
ago that yon had a lame shoulder, and
to have this misfortune come upon you
is enough to discourage the best Ox in
the world. If you don’t recover from
it nluMliro rnmomK— *•' ‘
warmest sympathies.
After the Hog came the Goat, who
halted at a safe distance and called out:
“Anything contagious?”
“No; I have broken my leg.”
“Oh, that’s it. Sure it’s broken?”
“Yes.”
“And you’ll probably he laid up for
months even if the Master doesn’t
knock you on the head and make beef
of yon.”
“Yes.”
“Well, I’m sorry for you, and if you
happen to get well I shall he highly
delighted.”
The Goat had passed out of sight
when along came the Rhinoceras on his
way to the pool.
“Hello! What’s up now?” he asked
as he looked over the bank.
“Broke my leg.”
“Is that so. Well I never had an
introduction to yon nor heard your
name spoken, but here goes to help
you. I’ll get you up, help you home
and see you through as far as I can. It
issufficient for me that you are in dis
tress and need help. Have you no
friends.”
“Oh, yes. They have all extended
their heart-felt sympathies, but left me
lying in the ditch.”
MORAL.
“Sympathy, my friend,” said the
Rhinoceras as he aided the Ox to
stand up, “sympathy sticks in the ear
and lets the stomach starve. Depend
upon your friends no longer than they
can depend upon you. Come, now—
here we go.— Detroit Free Press.
Pretzel Oxpressions.
A rolling stone vas der root ol all
evil.
Every woman’s tongue vas called a
peech organ. Dots yoost vot I dink,
but it don’t got some ehtops too.
Before dot I got married, I did
made an idol of mine frow—now she
vas idle all der virile.
A tinly wiseman vos never in lofe
at der same times.
To make trouble, dot vos hooman—
to forgif, dot vos bully.
A thorn in der hush vos more vorth
as a bushel in der hand.
Got raairied und der two vos one,
but pooty quick you dond could dell
vich vos der one.
I would rodder make five cents to
told der troof, dhen to loose fife tollers
in telling a lies.
I dond could schecp a mouthful last
night.
Dond you denk dot dose cidies, ex
pressly does vestern towns, vhere dere
vos a greatsr number of vimmins and
childrenss, as dere vos inhabitants, dot
der towns vos more pigger as der seh-
I mailer places of der same size, dot con
tains a greater number of populating?
False hair, false teeth, false cheeks,
false eyes; alas! poor mans, how hard
your lot is. Inshtead of vooman’s—
Ler only vooman’s charms—you em
brace dot in robber, wool, jute, twine,
whalebone and cotton.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
B? REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
SONS OF A GORILLA OR SONS
OF GOD?
“Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools, and changed the glory of the
incorruptible God into an image made like
to corruptible man, and to birds, and four
footed beasts’ and creeping tilings.”—Ho
mans i., 22-23,
A full length portrait of an evolu
tionist who substitutes the bestial origin
for the divine origin. Sons of a gorilla,
or sons of God? is the great question
of the day, and every intelligent man
and woman must be able to give an
intelligent answer. I showed you last
Sabbath that evolution was contradict
ed by the Bible, science, by observation
and by common sense; that the Bible
account of the creation of man and brute,
and of the world, and the evolutionists’
account collided with each other as cer
tainly as two express trains going in
opposite directions at thirty miles the
hour, their locomotives meeting on the
same track. I showed you that all the
evolution scientists, without any ex
ception, were pronounced infidels; that
evolution was a heathanism thou
sands of years old; that among the best
scientists of our time—among them
Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Faraday
and Dawson and Dana—there were
men who had for that doctrine of evolu
tion unlimited contempt; I showed you
that their favorite theory of the “sur
vival of the flttist” was an absurdity
and an untruth, and that natural evo
lution was always downward, and that
there had never been any improvement
for man, or beast, or world except
through the direct or indirect influence
of our glorious Christianity. And in
tlie closing part of that sermon I told
you I was not a pessimist, but an opti
mist; that instead oi being 11 o’clock
at night it is half past 5 in the morn
ing.
This morning, I go on to tell you, it
seems to me that evolutionists are try
ing to impress the great masses of the
people with the idea that there is an
ancestrial line leading from the primal
germ on up through the serpent, and
on up the quadruped, and on up through
the gorilla to man, They admit that
there is a missing “link,” as they call
it, but it is not merely a missing link—
it is chahi gone. Between the
animal and the physical construction
of the lowest man there is a chasm as
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolu
tionists tell us that somewhere in Cen
tral Africa, or in Borneo, there is a
creature half way between the brute
and the man, and that that creature is
the highest step in the animal ascent
and the lowest step in the human crea
tion. But what are the facts? The
brain of the largest gorilla that was
ever found is thirty cubic inches, while
the brain of the most ignorant man that
was ever found is seventy. Vast dif
ference between thirty and seventy. It
needs a bridge of forty arches to span
that gulf. Beside that, there is a dif
ference between the Gorilla and the
man—a difference of blood globule, a
difference of nerve, a difference of mus
cle, a difference of bone, a difference of
sinew. The horse is more like man in
intelligence, the bird is more like him
in musical capacity, the mastive more
like him in affection. That euligized
beast of which we hear so much, rep
resented on the walls of ancient cities
thousands of years ago, is just as com
plete as it is now, showing that there
has not been a particle of change. Be
sides that, if a pair of apes had a man
for decendant, why would not all the
apes have the same kind of decendant?
Can it be that one favored pair only
was honored with human progeny? Be
sides that, evolution says that as one
species rises to another species, the old
type dies off. Then how is it that there
are whole kingdoms of chimpanzee and
gorilla and baboon? The evolutionists
have come together and have tried to
explain a bird’s wing. Their theory
has always been that a faculty of an
animal while being developed must al
ways be useful and always beneficial,
but the wing of a bird, in the thousands
of years it was being developed, so far
from being any help, must have been a
hindrance until it could be brought into
practical use away on down in the ages.
Must there have not been an intelligent
will somewhere that formed that won
derful flying instrument, so that a bird
five hundred times heavier than the air
can mount it and put gravitation un
der claw and beak? That wonderful
mechanical instrument, the wing, with
between twenty and thirty different ap
parata curiously constructed—does it
not imply a divine intelligence? does it
not imply a direct act of some outside
being? All the evolutionists in the
world cannot explain a bird’s wing, or
an insect’s wing. So they are confound
ed by the rattle of the rattlesnake.
Ages before that reptile had enemies,
this warning weapon was created. Why
was it created? When the reptile far
back in the ages had no enemies, why
this warning weapon? There must
have been a divine intelligence
forseeing and kuowing that in the ages
to come that reptile would have enemies
and then this warning weapon would
be brought into use. You see evolution
at every step is a contradiction or a
monstrosity. At every stage of animal
life, as well as at every stage of human
life, there is evidence of direct action of
divine will. Besides that, it is very
evident from another fact that we are
an entirely different creation and that
there is no kinship. The animal in a
few hours or months comes to full
strength, and can take care of itself.
The human race for the first one two,
three, five or ten years is in complete
helplessness. The chick just come out
of its shell begins to pick up its own
food. The dog, the wolf, the lion, soon
earn fheir own livelihood and act for
their own defence. The human race
does not come to development until 20
or thirty years of age, and by that time
the animals that were born the same
year the man was born—the vast ma
jority of them have died ot old age.
This shbws that there is no kinship,
there is no similarity. If wa had been
born of the beast, we would have had
the beast’s strength at the start, or it
would have had onr weakness. Not
only different but opposite. Darwin
admits that the dovecote pigeon has
not changed in thousands of years. It
is demonstrated over and over again
that the lizard on the lowest formation
of rocks was just as complete as the
lizard now.''•lt is shown that the ga
noid, the first fish, was just as complete
as the sturgeon, another name for the
same fish now. Darwin’s entire sys
tem is a guess, and Huxley and John
Stewart Mill and Tindall, and espe
cially Prof. Heckel, come to help him
in the guess, and guess about the brute,
aud guess about man, and guess about
worlds, but as to having one solid foot
of grouud to stand on, they never have
had it and never will have it. I put
in opposition to these evolutionist theo
ries the inward consciousness that we
have no consanguinity with the dog
that fawns at our leet or the spider that
crawls on the wall, or the fish that flops
in the frying-pan, or tlie crow that
swoops on the field carcass, or the swine
that wallows in the mire. Everybody
sees the outrage it would be to put be
side the Bible record that Abraham be
gat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and
Jacob begat Judas, the record that the
microscopic animalcule begat the tad
pole, and the tadpole begat the poly wog,
and the poly wog begat the serpent, and
the serpent begat the quadruped, and
the quadruped begat the baboon, and
the baboon begat man. The evolution
ists tell us that apes were originally
fond of climbing the trees, but after a
while they lost their prehensile power
and therefore could not climb with auy
facility, and hence they surrendered
monkeydom and set up in business as
men. Failure as apes, successes as
men. According to the evolutionists a
man is a bankrupt njonkesJ J-vJ'u.t.V
--cle and bone and mental faculty and
spiritual experience, does not realize
that he is higher in origin and has had
a grander ancestry than the beasts
which perish. However degraded men
and women may be, and though they
may have foundered on the rocks of
crime and sin, and though we shudder
as we pass them, nevertheless there is
something within us that tells us they
belong to the same great brotherhood
and sisterhood of our race, and out
sympathies are aroused in regard tc
them. But gazing upon the swiftest
gazelle, or upon the tropical bird of
most flamboyant wing, or upon the
curve of garnderst courser’s nook, we
feel there is no consanguinity. The
grandest, the highest, the noblest of
them ten thousand tathoms below what
we are conscious of being. It is not that
we are stronger than they, for the lion
with one stroke of his paw could put
us into the dust. It is not that we
have better eyesight, for the eagle can
descry a mole a mile away. It is not
that we are fleeter of foot, for a roe
buck in a flash is out of sight, just
seeming to touch tlie earth as he goes.
Many of the animal creation surpass ns
in fleetness of foot and in keenness of
nostril and in strength of limb; but
notwithstanding all that, there is some
thing within us that tells us we are of
celestial pedigree. Not of the mol
lusk, not of the rizipoo, not of the pri
mal germ, but of the living and om
nipotent God. Lineage of the skies.
Genealogy of heaven. I tell you plain
ly that if your father was a muskrat,
and your mother an oppossum, and
yonr great aunt a kangaroo, and the
toads and the snapping turtles were
your illustrious piedecessors, my fa
ther was God. I know it. 1 feel it.
It thrills through me with an empha
sis and an ecstacy which all your argu
ments drawn from anthropology and
biology and zoology and morphology
and paleontology and all the other ol
ogies can never shake. Evolution is
one greot mystery. It hatches out
fifty mysteries, and the fifty hatch out
a thousand, amf the thousand hatch
out a million. Why, my brother, not
admit the one great mystery of God
and have that settle all the other mys
teries? I can more easily appreciate
the fact that God by one stroke of His
omnipotence could make man than I
could realize how out of five million of
ages He could have evoked one
putting on a little here and
taking off a little there.
it would have been just as great a
miracle for God to have turned an
orang-outang into a man as to make a
man out and out —the one job just as
big as the other. It ssems to me we
liac 1 better let God have S little place in
our world somewhere. It seems to me
if we cannot have Him make all crea
tures we had better have Him make
two or three. There ought to be some
place where He could stay without in
terfering with the evolutionists. “No,”
says Darwin; and so for years he was
trying to raise fan-tailed pigeons, and
to turn these fan-tail pigeons into
some other kind of pigeon—or to have
them go into something that is not a
pigeon—turning them into qnail, or
barnyard fowl, or brown thresher. But
pigeon it is. And others have tried
with the ox and the dog and the horse,
but they stayed in their species. If
they attempt to cross over it is a hy
brid, and a hybrid is always sterile
and goes into extinction. There has
been only one successful attempt to
pass over from speechless animal to
the articulation of man, and that was
the attempt which Balaam witnessed
in the beast that he rode; but in an
gel of the Lord, with drawn sword,
Soon stopped that long-eared evolu
tionists. “But,” says someone, “if we
cannot have God make a man, let us
have Him make a horse.” “O! no,”
says Huxley in his great lectures in
New York several years ago. .No, he
does not want any God around the
premises. God did not make the
horse. The horse came of the plio
liippus, and the pliohippus came from
the protohippus, and the protohippus
came from the mionippus, and the mi
onippus came from the meshohippus
and the meshohippus came from the
orohippus, and so away back. All the
living creatures we trace in the line
until we get to the Moneron and no ev
idence of divine intermeddling with the
creation until yon get to the Moneron,
and that, Huxley says, is of so low a
form of life that the probability is it
just made itself or was the result of
spontaneous generation What a nar
row escape from the necessity of hav
ing a God? As near is I can tell, these
evolutionists seem to think that God
at the start had not made up His mind
as to exactly what He would make,
and having made up his mind, partial
ly, He had been changing it all through
the agrs, I believe that God made
the world as He wanted to have it, and
that the happiness of all the species
will depend upon their staying in the
species where they were created. Once
upon a time there was in a natural am
phitheatre of the forest a convention of
animals, and a gorilla from Western
Africa came in with his club and poun
ded “order!” Then he sat down in a
chair of twisted forest foot. The dele
gation of birds came in and took then
position in the galleries of the hills
and tiie tree tups. And a delegation
of reptiles came in, and they took their
position in the pit of the valley, and
the tiers of rocks wore occupied by the
delegation of immediate animals, and
there was a great aquarium and a ca
nal leading into it, through which
came the monsters of the deep to join
tiUc <TC I ot. it fcHUC VV Clli ivy
mal germs nnder a glass case, and in
a eup on another table of rock there
was a quantity of protoplasm. Then
the gorilla of the African forest, with
his elub pounded again, “order, order!”
and then he cried out: “O! you great
throng of beasts and birds and reptiles
and insects, I have called you together
to propose that we move up into the
human race and be beasts no longer;
too long already have we been hunted
and caged and harrassed; we shall
stand it no longer.” At that speech
the whole convention broke out in
roars of enthusiasm like as though
there were many menageries being fed
by their keepers, and it did seem as if
the whole convention would march
right up and take possession of the
earth and the human race. But an old
lion arose, his mane white with many
years, and he uttered his voice, and
•when that old lion uttered his voice all
the other beasts of the forests were still,
and he said: “Peace, brothers and
sisters of the ferest. I think we have
been placed in the sphere for which we
were intended; I think our Creator
knew the place that was good for us.”
He could proceed no further, for the
whole convention broke out in an up
roar, like unto the House of Commons
when the Irish question comes up, or
the American Congress the night of
adjournment, and the reptiles hissed
with indignation at the leonine (lam
betta, and the frogs croaked their con
tempt, anl bears growled their con
tempt, and the panthers snarled their
disgust, and the insects buzzed and
buzzed with excitement, and though
the gorill of the African forest with his
club pounded “order, order,” there was
no order, and there was a thrusting out
of adderine sting, and a swinging of
elephautine tusk, and a stroke of beak,
and a swing of claw, until it seemed as
if the convention would be massacred.
Just at that moment, at the door ot
this natural amphitheatre of the for
est. the curtain of the leaves lifted, and
the bolts and bars of tlie tree branches
were shoved back, and there appeared
Agassiz, and Audubon, and Silliman,
and Moses. And Agassiz cried out.
“O, you beasts ot the forests! I have
studied your ancestrial records, and.
you always have been beasts, you al
ways will be beasts; he contented to
be beasts. And Audubon aimed bis
gun at a bald-headed eagle which
dropped from the gallery, and as it
dropped it struck a serpent that was
winding around one of the pillars to
get up higher. And Silliman threw a
rock of the tertiary formation at the
mammals, and Moses thundered: “Ev
ery beast after its kind, every bird af
tfer its kind, every fish after its kind.”
And lo! the parliament of wild beasts
was prorogued and went home to their
constituents. And the bat flew out
into the night, and the lizard slunk
under the rocks, and the gorilla went
back to the jungle and a hungry wolfe
passing out ate up the primal germs,
and a clumsy buffalo upset the proto
plasm, and the lion went to his lair,
and the eagle went to his eyrie, and
the whale went to his palace of crystal
and coral, and there was peace—peace
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in the air, peace in the waters, peace in
the fields. Man in his place, the
beasts of the earth in their placeß.
But my friends, evolution is not on
ly infidel and atheistic and absurd; it
is brutalizing in its tendencies. If
there is anything in the world that
will make a man bestial in his habits
it is the idea that he was descended
from the beast. Why, according to
the idea of these evolutionists we are
only a superior kind of cattle, a sort
of Alderney among other herds. To
be sure, we browse on better pasture,
and we have better stalls and accom
modations, but then we are only South
downs among the groat flocks of sheep.
Born of a beast, to die like a beast;
for the evolutionists have no idea of a
future world. They say the mind is
only a superior part of the body. They
say our thoughts arc only molecular
formation. They say when the body
dies, the whole nature dies. JThe slab
of the supulchere is not a milestone on
a journey upwards, but a wall shutting
us into eternal nothingness. We all
die alike—the cow, the horse, the
sheep, the man, the reptile. Annihi
lation is the heaven of the evolutionist.
I rom such a stenchful and damnable
doctrine turn away. Compare that
idea of your origin—an idea filled with
the chatter of apes, and the hiss of ser
pents, and the croak of frogs— to an
idea in one or two stanzas which I
shall read to you from an old book of
more than Demosthenic, or Homeric,
or Dantesque power;
“ \\ hat is man that Thou art mind
ful of him? and the son of man that
I lion visitest him? Thou hast made
him a little lower than the angels, and
hast crowned him with glory and hon
or. 1. hou madest him to have domin
ton over the works of Thy hand; Thou
hast put ail things under his feet; all
sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of
the field, the fowl of the air, and the fish
of the sea,and whatever passeth through
the paths ot the seas. O Lord our Lord,
how excellent is Thy name in all tlie
earth.”
How do you like that origin? The
lion the monarch of the field, the eagle
the monarch of the air, behemoth the
monarch of the deep, but man monarch
of all. Ah! my friends, I have to say
that I am not so anxious to know what
was my origin as to know what will
he my destiny. Ido not care so much
where I came from as where I am going
to. I am not so interested in who were
my ancestors ten million years ago as I
am to know where I will be ten million
I am interested in the appendix to my
grave. I do not care so much about
protoplasm as I do about eternasm.
The “was” is overwhelmed with the
“to be.” And here conies in the evo
lution I believe in, not natural evolu
tion, but gracious and divine and heav
enly evolution—evolution out of sin in
to holiness, out of grief into gladness,
out of mortality into immortality, - out
of earth into heaven! That is the evo
lution I believe in. Evolution, from
evolvcre. Unrolling! -Unrolling of
artributes, unrolling of rewards, un
rolling of experience, unrolling of an
gelic companionship, unrolling of di
vine glory, unrolling of providential
explanation, unrolling of doxologies,
unrolling of rainbow to canopy the
throne, unrolling of anew heaven and
anew earth, in which dwelleth right
eousness. <>, the thought overwhelms
me! I have not the physical endur
ance to consider it. Monarchs on earth
of all lower orders of creation, and then
lifted to be hierarchs in heaven! Mas
terpiece of God’s wisdom and goodness,
our humanity, masterpiece of Divine
grace, onr enthronement. I put one
foot on Darwin’s Origin of the Species,
and I put the other foot on Spencer’s
Biology, and then holding in one hand
the book of Moses I see our Genesis,
and holding in the other hand the book
of Revelation I see our celestial arrival.
For all wars I prescribe the Bethlghem
chant of the angels. For all sepulchres
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For all the earthly griefs I prescribe
the hand that wipes away all tears from
all faces. Not an evolution from beast
to man, but an evolution from contest
ant to c*nqueror, and from the strug
gle with wild beasts in the arena of
the amphitheatre to a soft, high, bliss
ful seat in the King’s galleries.
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