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.THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL,-ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1913.
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The printers gave me exactly five
times as much land as I can legally
claim. Two acres is what I am try
ing to call, my own, and I am about
to decide that two acres is about all
that a woman can manage, unless she
has a plowman in the family, or one
permanently fixed on the place. I can
plant cabbages, cut potatoes, dig the
furrows, but I am sure that the plow
would wobble and the animal go its
own gait. I heard of some people who
went to Florida from Chicago and that
one man sat on the horse and guided
it while another held the plow. • Don’t
all speak at once, for the position of
“guide, philosopher and friend,” for I
have only two acres and have let half
of that on shares for a potato patch.
The little hand-plows are fine. My
neighbor has one and has kindly of
fered it to me. I hope most sincerely
I won’t have to use it. The chickens
and calf* are enough. Yesterday I
would have .sold “the crop” for the
proverbial thirty cents. My cabbages
have attracted the rabbits. My neigh
bor has -a flourishing patch of peas,
but nothing but young cabbkges ap
peal to this rabbit. Then a big dog
began at one end of my one row of
early peas and had scratched up half
of them before he was discovered. The
day before that, when I came from
town I found all sorts of holes in the
lettuce bed. “He i^ looking for moles,”
a neighbor volunteered to inform me,
“but if I were you I’d kill him.” If
he would hunt rabbits it would please
me more than anything else. I count
ed nine dogs not worth feeding, all
in a stone’s throw', and I think that a
heavy tax on unfed dogs would be a
help to the sta'te.
The many interesting personal let
ters that I have received since my new
venture was recorded is very gratify
ing. There is a touch of the farmer
in almost all of us. Deep in the hearts
of most of the people grubbing for
the almighty dollar or for fame, there
is a plan to go back to the farm or
village some (jay. The main trouble
with many is that they put it off too
long. The villiage grows to be a town
or even a city, and when the return
is attempted the crowd has changed
and few of the old associates are there.
The store that used to stand at the
crossroads, a great convenience to the
whole family sometimes, and a regu
lar clearing house for gossip (oh, yes,
men do gossip), has changed into a
group of stores, find a younger set is
doing the whittling and talking.
Automobiles are taking the horse’s
place and free delivery is putting the
daily paper where the weekly used to
hold sway. The papers and travelers
ought to put a stop to the gossip, but
as long as life lasts there »will be a
certain class of people to tell things
and to make trouble. Envy, malice and
all ’uncharitableness thrive in empty
minds like mushrooms in a bad cellar,
and all suph minds brew trouble.
But we won’t talk about gossips, it’s
so much nicef to ignore them. When
one finds that you will take the story
to headquarters and find out the truth
there is all sorts of “hedging” done. No
story is told twice alike. So the best
thing to do is to attend to one’s own
business and be serenely unconscious of
the hurly-burly that Satan's emissary is
making.
A neighbor has interrupted to say:
“Please find out what to do for the
rats that eat young chickens.” Last year
one dear lady, a grandmother, had at
least seventy-five eaten. One lady had
fifteen eaten in a night. Rats are wary
creatures and hard to kill or catch. I
heard the gentlest sort of girl say that
she nerved herself to where she ac
tually caught one and w'as going to
singe it and turn it. loose, as she had
heard that would make all the others
leave the place; but in her excitement
the creature got away from her and
she has never been able to get an
other. Marion Harland says that if one
is caught and dipped in tar and turned
loose it will drive off the others. I
don’t know about, that; but I do know
that my brother-in-law has killed
enormous' numbers and about the time
the odor leaves that side of the place
a fresh army camps there.
When I went to Japan they were
walking about the school yard as bold
as pets, the Buddhist do not counte
nance shedding blood and our window
frames were badly disfigured. There
was a Japanese law against selling or
buying poison so I didn’t do a thing
but send to San Francisco and get a
box of rat poison. The imported article
was a new dish for Mr. Rat and they
ate it voraciously. If it has not hap
pened to an accident since I came away
there is a pink rose bush that owes its
vigor to the fact that at its roots I laid
the many victims of that American dish
that the rats enjoyed. Our cook was a
Japanese woman who had been with
some one or other of the missionaries
for twelve years. She rejoiced over the
rats’ departure for, as you know, the
natives eat, sleep and sit on the floor,
and rats are a terrible nuisance to
them.
Bubonic plague made its appearance
abroad and rats were accused of being
active agents in spreading that dread
disease, so the government offered a re
ward for all rates dead or alive. The
Japanese is loyal, so Buddhist, Shinto
and Christian joined in the crusade
against them. Every morning* the traps
were set just outside the gate with the
rats in them. A policeman would come
along and put them out of the way of
doing any more harm, and I suppose
settle with whoever caught them. Un
til they were accused of spreading dis
ease they were everywhere. Once I was
invited by one of the little girls attend
ing school to go to her home and see
the doll display. There were pieces of
silk, handsome brocades, that were used
to cover the set of steps or whatever
you might call the affair on which the
dolls sat, and one especial pieoe was
ruined by the rats. Not an effort had
the family made to etxerminate them.
And mosquitoes were treated in much
the same manner. I’ve seen them
brushed off as casually as one would a
speck of dtist. The idea is as you know,
that one’s relative might have lived such
a life that the next state, instead of
being better, might have been to be
come a rat or mosquito, and who would
be heartless enough to slap one’s de
ceased relative or try poison on one’s
ancestors? *
I midly suggested once that one might
be a help to the unfortunate relative by
AN EVENING’S MUSINGS
Dear Miss Thomas: I am always glad to
get The Journal and read the interesting let
ters. I enjoy them hut I wish more of you
would tell of your homos. Some live in the
states that others have never visited and could
tell us many Interesting things.
1 have always lived in the country and en
joy it. When 1 go to see my relatives I soon
begin to feel like a bird in a cage. I long for
the fields, the bird# and the wild free life
of my country home. 9
Every year I work in the garden and enjoy
it. too. My mother is not well, ' and for
five years I have had to assume the responsi
bilities that were hers. With the help of
my two little sisters I do all the work for a
large family. When I realized that 1 had to
quit school 1 was bitterly disappointed, but I
sometimes find tune for a little study and
sometimes do a piece of embroidery or crochet,
and am not letting my disappointment sour my
mind for the every-day duties. Nobody realizes
more tjian I do that life is what we ake it.
J he idea of any one saying that they have
nothing to live for. The world is full of people
who need them.
Some one asked for a remedy for Indigestion.
My brother finds lime water a good thing to
put in his sweet milk, lemonade and fruit
juices. He never eats not bread, and is brave
enough to let tilings alone when he finds that
they tin not agree with him. »
Sitting alone this evening writing to you
brings up the joys of my chlldnood. I don’t
believe that many city children have the free,
nctiye games we played, l’lay was the supreme
thought, we cared not f0r fame or fashion and
when we heard the grown people talking about
such things we left them for the alluring out-
of-doors. Well, we knew where tne birds nest
ed and some we fed with ripe red berries. We
wadeu the brooklet and splashing races ran,
and our soiled and dampened clothing entered
not into any plan. We tricked old Mr. Craw
fish, where he dug his well and the falling
of his emmney wds a joke. We fished for lit
tle minnows, caught them with our hands; we
had a pool to stock all lined with jiebbles, and
*5011 know these caught with pins would never
do. We were merciful, for we turned them out
rit night, and watched them swim away.
Ah, those childhood days I Few are the joys
of maturer years that can equal them. Or, so
thinks one who is happy now in quite a dif
ferent role. Very truly yours,
ALABAMA GIRL.
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CONCERNING THE NEW HOME.
Dear Miss Thomas:
Your last Chat has kept you almost con
stantly in my mind, especially while I have
been transplanting some strawberries. Of
course, I eujoy all the Chats, but when you
write one that tells where you are, and what
you are doing that is the one I love best. I
imagine 1 know just hoiv you feel after trans
planting those cabbages unless you are more
nimble tiiag most of us. I hope yours will
grow as never cabbages did before as a re
ward for your labor. The cow got to my one
low and now I have “some” or “a few.”
I do wish that I had been a mind reader
and could have known that you wanted Buff
Orpingtons. Just about that time I had to
sell forty-one. I was visiting a friend today
who has White Orpingtons and Rhode Island
Reds. She finds it hard to keep two varieties
on a small lot. Some one asked her which she
would sell and the answer w»s either, said
that only one week this winter was she with
out eggs. The Orpingtons furnished the' early
eggs, but when the Reds began they tried to
make up for their delay. Do you know that a
little cotton seed meal in a mash of shorts is
a help to laying Ijens?
Aren’t you waiting for me to tell you of a dog
this town might contribute? I have been over
stocked. The bird dog came back and went to
his usual flower bed. I opened the gate with
a walking cane in full view and he “vamoosed.”
The convenient dog, no good at all unless you
want to catch a chicken or chase cows came
home Sunday night from a farm fiftoenn miles
away. Just the week before he had been sent
nine miles in another direction. As soon as the
block is taken off back here he comes. He has
earned the right to stay.
One old lady lets her little dog sleep in her
room, saying that he would make a good burg
lar alarm.
Don’t let that be your last chat about your
new home. Put the biddies to bed and tell us
more about them. Love and best wishes for %
healthy, happy and prosperous future.
Sincerely,
EMMA.
THOUGHTS .Of IJOME.
(To Miss Elizabeth Dorn.)
A spreading oak and a shady tree,
A glismpse of yellow leaves
And the sunbeams glide to the under side
Where the withered foliage cleaves.
Dear thoughts of home come crowding in
Lover faces sweet and mild,
The noisy play at the close of day
And the lagb of a little child.
The good-night kisses going ’round
The song and evening prayer.
The little bed with its snowy spread
nAd darlings resting there. /
The rose-leaf crock with “its draught of milk
For the baby boy so fair.
The tick of the clock, * the cradles rock,
And the night-lamp’s flickering flare.
The last good-night to the larger babes.
The wee little ladies brave.
In grateful rest in their own room nest,
For the Father above who gave.
REBECCA L. WHITAKER JENKINS.
IDLENESS AND EXTRAVAGANCE
Dear Household: How swiftly times does
fly; here it is nearly March and I have worked
harder than I ever did, yet I can see nothing
I have accomplished. So I’ve decided to call
on ye Householders this windy evening.
Since I have kept so busy and can see noth
ing done, the thought popped Into my mind,
“How can any one get along in this world
who idles away the time?” Yet there are
thousands of men and women who spend more
time in idleness than in work. In my short
life 1 have seen a lot of harm done in idle
moments. When God sent Adam forth He
'Said that he must live by the sweat of his
brow; but there are people who do* live and
do not work—but how? Just living off of
some other man’s work. I have seen large
families that did about as much work as one
man ought to have done—yet they had some
thing to cat and a little to wear. Mow dhl
they get it? Why, the merchant credited them.
In the course of time they find out that they
have strained their credit—and have a set of
children that will steal before they will work,
simply because they have been brought up in
idleness. An idle brain is the devil’s work
shop. Hands and brain work together. Right
now theje are men puzzled to know where the
money is to come from to buy corn for their
Deople. Of course last year was an unusually
bad year, but if the people had been at work
when they were fishing or going to town or
to places of amusement (waiting for their
land to dry off for an excuse), they would
have made more corn and more cotton, and
thus have been {ar happier. There were
plenty of people that could have brought their
corn from the field in a hamper basket yet
they have gone through the winter sQmehow.
| The merchant is to blame, for be has credited
| the negro as well as the trifling white
set too much. The mule dealer has sold him
a mule. The buggy dealer has sold him ' a
buggy, and the merchant has let ■him have
his supplies—in most cases without any security
; only his word. The negro can do as he pleases,
| work when it suits him and ride about when
! it suits him. The mule dealer is busy, the
| buggy dealer is busy, the merchant is busy,
i up in town, selling to every one who will buy—
; doesn’t have time to come to the country to
see after his idle creditors. Don’t you see
they are encouraging idleness and hardly realiz
ing it till pay day comes—and surprised to
find that the purchaser has hardly made the
rent.
That is the way things went last year: there
is where the merchant has* made a mistake.
While the farmer makes many mistakes, but
a big one is buying on time, paying credit
prices for everything he has to have and at
the end of the year finding that he cannot
pay for what he has consumed. If he had lived
sparingly and paid ns he went, he would have
had a surplus. Another mistake is hiring
hands and paying extravagant prices per day
or month; one dollar per day is far too much
for farm laVir, fifteen or twenty dollars per
month is enough. Such expense will eat up
the reward. If a farmer would count out his
expenses he would not get twenty-five cents
per day for his labor the year around, so why
pay such extravagant prices for labor, and
reap so- little? Encouraging idleness, yes, they
are receiving for one day what you ought to
have two days’ work for. We weakly women
can’t get our week’s washing done under
fifty or seventy-five cents, when we could do
the work in one-lialf» day. Some will sit in
idleness before they will work at a reasonable
price. The negroes are combined, and the
white farmers ought to unite, too. In fact,
every organization is combined but t?fc white
farmers, and they arc working against each
other and hardly realizing it. They will say,
“I don’t need much hired labor,” and they
think they can afford the high. prices for a
few days, but it counts in the end.
With many good wishes, very sincerely.
A MASON’S WIFE.
Mistrial Declared
/<Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., March 5.—A mistrial
has been declared in the case of J. L.
Carver, charged with resisting an of
ficer.
For March 9. Gen. 19:12-17, 23-29
Golden Text: “Come out from among* them, and he ye separate, salth
the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.”—2 Cor. 6:17.
A few more than twenty years after
Lot had separated from Abram and
pitche/1 his tent toward Sodom, God ap
peared to Abraham in the plain of
Matnre as he sat in his tent-in ..the
cool of the evening. Abraham had re
mained faithful to God, and God had
prospered him greatly. He was still the
wandering sheikh, with no continuing
city.
Lot, on the contrary, had become a
city man. He was prominent in Sodom.
He had become one of the leading lights,
and “sat in the gate”—an expression
signifying that he held a high official
position in the city’s political affairs.
His children had married in the city;
all but two daughters, and they were
thoroughly tainted with the city’s sin.
ANGELS UNAWARES.
While Abraham sat in his tent, three
men stood by him. With kindly cour
tesy and genuine hospitality he invited
them .in, and saw that a meal was pre
pared for them as quickly as possible.
It was worth all the effort it cost him.
Two of them were the angels who went
from there to Sodom to destroy it. Was
the third God*incarnate? They ate their
meal ,and then asked the whereabouts
of Sarah. Then God promised Abra
ham a son of Sarah, the following year,
even though he was then ninety-tw r o
years old, and Sarah ninety, since noth
ing is “too hard for Jehovah.”
Having rested, they now arose to take
their journey toward Sodom, and, with
Oriental courtesy, Abraham went with
them a part of the way. As they were
walking one of them, the Lord, said:
“Shall I hide from Abraham that thing
which I do, etc?” God’s confidence in
Abraham prompted Him to tell him His
secrets. Are you such an one in whom
God may repose shch confidence?
So while the two went on to Sodom,
the Third remained to talk with Abra
ham. Oh, that T had the power to de
pict that scene so vividly to your mind
that you, too, vyould enter into such
fellowship with God! There was God
revealing to Abraham His plans concern
ing Sodom, and Abraham pleading with
God to save Sodom. Of course Abra
ham’s interest in Sodom was Lot. He
loved his nephew in spite of his selfish
ness and lack of spiritual wisdom. I
have thougth that possibly Abraham had
in mind that surely there would be Lot’s
family and enough others Lot had in
fluenced for God to make fifty righteous
persons. Then forty or thirty or twen
ty. There were at least ten in Lot’s
immediate family, and Abraham got
down to that number. Had he dreamed
that less than that were righteous he
would not have stopped, . but he had
that much confidence in Lot’s influ
ence.
How wonderfully gracious God w'as!
He consented to every request Abra
ham made; and would have saved the
city for the sake of one righteous man
in it, if Abraham had persisted in
prater for it. Abraham stopped too
soon. Did/you ever stop too soon?
There was not one Righteous man in
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Stork and Cupid
Cunning Plotters
Many a New Homo will Have a Little
Sunbeam to Brighten it.
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Ifrit, thanks to a most remarkable remedy
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There are thousands of women who have
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it, however, for Lot was saved for
Abraham’s sake, not on his own ac
count. (Gen. 19:29).
THE TRAGEDY.
Let us leave Abraham on the hill
top with God, pleading for Sodom, and
fellow the tYtfo men to Sodom. At the
gate of the city they find Lot, the
them, he had still enough spiritual dis
cernment to see that they were noi
like the men with whom he was asso-
gave his hospitality. He made them a
feast, and showed his perception of
their spirituality by serving unleaven
ed bread—sacramental bread—as leaven
always is a type of sin in the Bible.
The men of Sodom showed their
calibre by the rudeness of the mob that
gathered at Lot’s door before bedtime,
demanding an audience with the may
or’s guests. They were being silently
judged. They wefe having their op
portunity, their chance to be saved, and
were losing it rapidly.
Lot was very loyal to his guests, but
the horrible degeneracy he displayed!
His residence in Sodom, his covetous
ness, had taken the keen edge off of
any sense of morality that he had had.
The men of Sodom were condemned
—they knew full well that their life
was not what it should be. They ap
preciated that these guests of the
mayor were judging them, and that
they could not stand the light of pub
licity. They ignored Lot’s outrageous
proposition; they demanded that their
judges be turned over to them to deal
with as they would, and, moblike, tried
to set the mayor aside, and take the
matter in their own hands. 1
They had not reckoned with their op
ponents, however, for the men pulled
Lot into the house, shut the door, and
smote the men outside with blindness,
so that they wore themselves out find
ing the door.
Lot still had a spark of spiritual
life left. "When he realized the ganger
in which his family were, he went out
in the night, and urged his sons-in-law
to- get out of the place, for the Lord
would destroy the city. But he seemed
to his sons-in-law as one that mocked.
A man’s words count for very little un
less his life is the right kind of back
ground for it. Emerson said truly, “Hew
can I hear what you say when there’s
always thundering in my ears what you
are?” Lot had outlived his influence
with his sons-in-law.
The reason for this is very clearly
seen. Lot could not put enough force
into his plea, for he didn’t want to
get out himself. In the morning the
angels, had to hasten Lot, and even then
he lingered till they laid hold upon
his hands and pulled him - out of the
city forcibly. It would seem that Lot
had had enough of city life with its
sin, but instead of escaping to the
mountains as told, he begged that he
might stop at the smaller city of Zoar,
and the sin could not be so great there.
Lot was not willing to take God’s best,
so God had to give him his second
choice. •
“God hag his best things for the few
Who dare to stand the test.
God has his second choice for those
Who will not have His best.”
God was very gracious in dealing with
Lot and granted him His request, al
though He would have like to have done
more for him if Lot would have let
him. “Hasten there,” he said, “escape
thither, for I can not do anything until
thou come hither.” Abraham’s prayers
for Lot had tied God’s hands, so far
as Sodom was concerned, until Lot was
out of danger. Think carefully over that
statement of God’s. The power of the
Omnipotent One is held in check by
the prayers of a righteous man, at least
temporarily.
With Lot there escaped his wife and
two unmarried daughters; they were
saved reluctantly. , Lot’s wife had be
come so attached to the city that when
she was nearly saved she looked back,
and became encrusted with a cloud of
salt, losing her life. This is one way
was the greatest tragedy of all. The de
struction of Sodom and Gomorrah and
the other cities of the plain was terri
ble, but they had had their chance and
failed. It was distressing to Lot to
lose the accumulation of his life time;
but it was tragic beyond expression that
'his wife came so near complete salva
tion, but failed because she stopped.
Be sure that you do not stop short in
your progress toward the hill country!
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BY VID A SUTTON.
The oldes't and most representative
suffrage societies in the United King
dom are those which were started in
1867 and united the 'following year
into the National Union of Women’s
Spffrage society. Mrs. Millicent Gar-
ratt Fawcett, widow of the Hon. Henry
Fawcett, M. P., and worker in the cause
for over forty years, is the president.
The union has never weakened in its
conviction that constitutional agitation
would prove most elective in the long
run. They believe that what is gained
in a free way is better than twice as
much forced.
Recently a high dignitary of the
church 'sent in his resignation as vice
president of one of the societies be
cause of his disgust at the militant
methods of other societies. The policy
of the union is illustrated by the letter
which the secretary sent inducing him
to reconsider. She asked him if he was
also relinquishing his connection with
Christianity because he disapproved of
the actions and methews of some Chris
tians.
The faith of the National union holds
that no reformer is fit for his task if
he suffers himself to be frightened by
the excess of an extreme wing, which
may always be expected in any politi
cal revolution. For no great advance
in human freedom has ever been gained
without some show of violence, though
the example of the male revolutionists
too often is an example of how not to
do it.
The National union is a very large
organization, having 300 suffrage affili
ations and over 1,400 affiliations with
representative organizations of women
workers. A weekly paper, The Common
Cause, is its official organ.
Besides the National union there are
thirty other separate societies. The
Countess of Selborne, daughter of Lord
Salisbury, is president of ti.e Conserva
tive and Unionist Franchise association,
which has fifty-three branches and
whose work is detailed in a quarterly
review.
The Earl of Lytton; one of the most
earnest of the younger peers, is presi
dent of the International Franchise so
ciety.
Miss Elizabeth Robins, whose recent
book on the white * slave question has
created such a stir, is president of the
Women Writers’ Suffrage association.
Mrs. Forbes-Robertson (Gertrude El
liott) is president of the A^tre.«*««?’
Franchise association and there are
teachers, artists, professional, industrial
associations, with which many promi
nent people arc connected, as well as a
Protestant Church league and a Catholic
society. There are five men’s leagues,
one militant, one of Cambridge univer
sity, and an international league, the
second meeting of which takes place at
Budapest in June, 1913.
A majority of the members of the
house of parliament * are in favor of
some form of woman suffrage. Lloyd
George, the chancellor of the exchequer,
of whom a recent biographer said it
was his ambition to go down in history
as having brought woman suffrage to
England, is its chief political advocate.
Sir Edward Grey and C. M. Dickinson
are Its advocates in the*Liberal party,.
and Mr. Cameron Grant, author of the
amendment to the white slave bill of
the Conservatives, and Keir Hardie, the
well known Labor party member of that
party.
It is impossible to mention the dis
tinguished people whose names are in
some way connected with the suffrage
activities. Bernard Shaw conducted a
debate on the subject recently, and need
less to say be wiped the floor with his
adversary. John Galsworthy, the author
of “Justice” and “Strife” and other
plays of social reform, is a stanch ad
vocate. Israel Zangwill is president oT
the Men’s league. Miss Ellen Terry gives
her services most generously in benefit
matinees. Mrs. Garratt Anderson, the
first woman mayor in England, considers
it a great anomaly that she should
have 'been twice elected mayor of Ald-
burgh and yet not have a parliamentary
vote. Sydney Webb, social historian,
says that the whole theory and practice
of government in England demands that
women should not be excluded. Edward
Carpenter, the Walt Whitman of Eng
land, declares that democacy cannot re
fuse the franchise to women.
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propriation Bill-Congress
Adjourns Sine Die
WASHINGTON, March 4.—President
Taft today vetoed the sundry civil ap
propriation bill, carrying $113,000,000,
because of its provision which prohib
ited the department of justice from
using its anti-trust appropriation in
prosecution of labor unions and farm
ers’ organizations.
The house at once repassed the sun
dry civil appropriation 1)111 over Presi
dent Taft’s veto by a vote of 270 to 50.
Senate leaders did hot believe an at
tempt would be made to repass the bill
in the upper body. %
The sundry civil bill rei?hssed in the
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was still filibustering.
An attempt to repass the sundry civ
il bill over President Taft’s veto was
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been' accomplshed in the house.
The senate of the sixty-second con
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