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RESEARCH.
BY CHARLES L. HILDRETH.
Come closer; let your breathing fan my cheek;
Look bravel}’ up and let me search your eyes.
W hat fool was that who said your sex was weak ?
This tremor in my soul tells me he lies.
What fear is there in death but man may face?
What dread is thereof heaven but man may brave?
But who defies a woman's rneek embrace
Is senseless clay, with ne'er a soul to save.
So I,that dreamed great dreams and would have trod
On youth and youth's best gifts to win my game,
Who worshipped fame and power, a dual god,
Am turned a slave, and quiver at your name,
Where is your power ? In the little hand
Whose slender fingers I could crush in mine—
Is it their touch that leaves me all unmanned,
And drugs my sterner hopes with blood-warm wine?
Or in your love-moist eyes, that meet my gaze
And cling to it like an eternal kiss—
Clouding my soul with a mid-summer haze
That enervates me with a golden bliss ?
Not in your lips; for I have made them mine
By perfect conquest of your heart and soul.
Not in your ardent face, where every line
Bears witness eloquent of my control.
All mine are you and more than yours am I;
Both woven in a spell that makes us one.
Thus far I'vesolved the glorious mystery—
This side of heaven there's nothing to be won.
Street Scenes in Paris,
BY MRS. ALFRED MACY.
I am in Paris. Our house on the Rue de la
Victoire is but a few steps fiom the house to
which Napoleon took Josephine as a bride. Our
apartment, like all of its class, has peculiar
properties. It is a ‘trio’ in capacity—a parlor,
bed-room. dining-room; ‘he dinner is the one
meal that is never taken there. At first sight,
there appeared to be two, and but two, doors,
—good iexpectable doors. By degrees, myste
rious quivers of the wall paper disolcsed one
‘secreUipening’ after another until the number
instead of two is six. We scarcely dare lean
against either side of the room, so much we
fear a precipitate introduction into some ‘Gen-
evra clcset.’
In other respcc s, our apartment is faultless.
The fire-place, to be sure, seems intended to
keep all heat to itself, being very small. . Bel
lows, tongs, shovel, brush and andirons are
suggestive, and, shutting our eyes to the ex
travagance, we make our quarters cosy with a
good bright blaze.
We light our room, that is, we light a spaoe
two feet radius, and that spaoe is occupied by
onr table, with oandles. Just at dusk, every
Saturday evening, (we each furnish an individ
ual candle) I rush out for my fresh paokage,
having delayed up to the last moment.
I first took a store at random, since which I
take it from an interest in the owner. It is on
the Rue Fontaine, not far from the residence of
M. Thiers its keeper a fine specimen of a
French woman. In onr oountry, a woman of
her powers, learning and competency, would
scarcely carry on this kind of busing sv. The
establishment had been that of her husband,
who dying, left the whole in her hands. She
had always kept his books. In very many oases,
the wife of a Frenchman, in this respect, is his
helpmeet. Her goods are arranged neatly; her
stock very valuable, the whole of which she
owr.s. She is the possessor of the whole build
ing, one story of whioh is devoted to her stores.
Her sign reads -Choioe Wines & Liquors.' By
her side, not nnfrr quently, are her two sons,
whom she assists in understanding their les
sons' Though she speaks notawordof Eng
lish, she is quite at home upon Amerioan poli
tics. While she approves of a Republic, hav
ing a profound admiration for ours, she adds,
‘but Paris ! Paris needs a tyrant! Franoe must
fear the rod held over her. Let up the power
and behold the lawless commune.'
At times, she would describe the reckless
works of this lower class, many scenes having
oome under her own observation. She had her
self seen little children dying with cans of ker
osene and other explosive oils, which they
threw upon certain buildings indicated by the
ferocious women who toroh in hand preceded.
Th<se women were known by their dress, the
back breadth of their skirts being drawn to the
front, and so confined as to give free motion to
the limbs.
I often imagine I can tell by the ory of the
women as they pass through our street with
:h )ir fish and vegetables which were participa
tors in the riots of 1871. M st of them are aged
Some have ‘musical voioes,’ others ‘cracked
notes,’ while many have almost a ‘war-whoop.’
As I came out of Notre Dame one day, I ob
served standing, with arms akimbo, one ot
these gigantic females. She was studying with
great interest the statues whioh adorn the por
tils. She was evidently taking in every minute
detail with tar more artistic discernment than
I, when suddenly she gave—no other term will
express it—a wild yell—at the same time dart
ing off in a tangent. Can I ever forget tba‘
voice, several ootaves higher than the ‘natural,'
r< qniring not only her own breath, but taking
nearly the whole of my own ? Involun arily
instead of repeating ‘I am in Paris,’ 1 felt you
are in the very jaws ot the commune !’
Even after learning her not bad intentions, it
took some time to restore my i quilibrium. She
proved to be a ‘vender of meats.’ She had one
of those drays which only strong men are ex
pected to contei d with. Harnessel to this was
a huge diaf:-hOise, one of the most democratic
ofbis species. He wore the collar common to
all his class, a kind which rises loftily above
the head of the animal and terminates in a flat
board, i s height measuring some three feet
Over this trapping is thrown, as if to keep it
warm, a sheep-skin of the stereotyped blue
oolo’ 1 .
By the side of this combination, this terrible
womaD, with wooden shoes on her feet, and
leather whip in hand, olattered along, at inter
vals crying the untranslatable names of her
viands. Arriving at the Notre Dante, she had
remained some time, lost in admiration, when,
sail suddenly remembering her neglected vo
cation, she brought forth the 'voila' a little too
high, and a great deal too loud.
She was soon out of sight, but the circum
stances led me to rtfleet upon the street-call
ings of Paris. In almost every town, included
in our j jurney, I had already been attracted by
the names of the streets and alleys and lanes
and places.
For instance, in Belgium, one lane was ap-
pelled Eggs,’ another, Bread,’ etc. In many
places ‘Heaven’ is found to mark ‘tome lowly
wav.’ We have met with •I'Enfer' but once, and
this in rather a cheerfal region. 'Conscience,'
‘Harmony,’ ‘Ave Maria,’ Sister Rosalie,’ etc.,
are commonplaoe, compared with ‘Chairs,’
‘Scissors,’ ‘Parrots,’ Serpents,’ Fishes,’ 'Bread-
rolls,’ Bad-boys,’ 'Good-gir’s,’ Fourth of Sep
tember’ and ‘Twenty-ninth of July,’ all ot
wl ich named streets are in the capitol of
France.
We are roused every morning by the bells
and trot of thne small donkeys. On the back
of one, always the same animal, is a covered
punier. Many day6 we have tried to liDd why
only < ne of these demure animals should be
thus burdened. We have, at last, decided.
They are all similarly equipped when they start
from acertain bake-shop. By the time they a -
rive in our neighborhood, only the one bask t
remains, the others having been left at castor -
ers. These three donkeys appear to carry < n
thtir own trade. I have never seen a driver or
keeper.
Before breakfast, I have often been out upon
the St Ilonore tor a walk. E ich morning, I see
old women sitting on the curb stone, presiding
over oacs of boiling milk. Boys, girls, men and
lads cluster around her, e'-co with a cup, fill
ing which and paying a sous therefore, tuey
either drink on the premises or lake it home.
Back of this arrangement is generally a cheese
or butter store—two trades in no way connected.
The old woman has a fool-Steve of burning
coals, or one of those leather bags, lined witti
fnr, into which she thrusts her feet, while her
head is philosophically kept cool.
Leaving this scene, later in the forenoon, we
meet old men trundling barrels iron-hooped
and horizontally placed on wheels, the whole
painted bine. Beneath, hang two clumsy heavy
pails, while above is a long b sin. Asking an
explanation, I was told it was the only means
the inhabitants of apartments have of getting
warm water for baths—that these were ‘hot bath
Cold Water Cake.—Three and a ! a'f cups of
flour, two ot raisins, chopped fin*; two of sugar,
aenpof butter, a cup of cold water, the yolks
of six eggs, well beateD; half a teaspoonful each
of cloves, cinnamon, and s >da. and a little nut
meg.
Transparent Pudding —Beat up eight eggs
with some nutmeg, one half pound of butter,
one-half pound sugar; put into saucepau and
stir till it thickens, then cool; line the pudding-
dish with rich crust, pour in the pudding and
bake in a moderate oven.
Black Walnut Polish.—A quarter of a pint
or *aw linseed oil, one tablespoocful of muriatic
acid, a r .d a little vinegar.
Jamie inquires how to treat geraniums in the
spring, after being hung io ihe cellar through
the winter. As soon as ail danger of frost, is
over cut hem back one-half of last year’s
growth and set them in the ground, and they
will take care ol themselves.
Y-s, you can plant yrur roses out and take
then up in the fall, keeping them in the cellar
through the winter, and plant out aga n the
n< xt spring. S'ugs are not apt to trouble roses
when planted in the open ground"
No after cultivation is resorted to, as no stock
are allowed upon the field. After sowing, no
harrowing is n Q oes«ary in the spring. The grain
is allowed to g* t full ripe, an! is carefully har
vest -d, shocked and threshed from the shock.
A sulky rake is passed over the field after the
removal of the shocks, and the yield often in
creased by tb : s two to three bushels per acre.
For the na«t five years the crops have not fallen
b“low 35 bushels per acre, and th it with 45 to
110 acre crops. It has reaohed 40 bushels per
acre.
Mr. Hearne never grazes his wheat, and only
occasionally sows salt on it.
In full dress- the Prince of Wales wears a big diamond
medal lion on his bosom.
George Caswell, of Nashua, N. H., aged eighteen, is
dead from too much wrestling.
Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes declines to join the Grant
excursion to San Francisco June 1st.
Rev. Dr Ingraham, who died at Shetland recently, was
doubtless the oldest minister in the world. He was 103
years old.
At Andros, one of the islands of the Greek Archipela
go, there are over a dozen priests who have passed the
100th year of their age.
HOME DRESSED.—(From Demorcst for May.)
merchants with their supplies.’ Sometimes,
two other backets are added, to convey the
waste water back to the street. Leisurely and
steadily these men carry their two pails of wa
ter up six flights of stairs (there are no eleva
tors), and as leisurely return. This is contin
ued day after day, week after week, through
the whole year. An American would Iransport
them just once. On his way up, he would in
vent a patent helper, and on his return, seeing
a fortune in the distance, he wonld resign his
occupation.
Home and Field.
An Excellent Cake.—One enp of butter, two
of sugar, the whites of six eggs b -aten to a
froth, two cups flour, half cup of cream, one
teaspoon of extract vanilla. Bake one horn
slowly.
Milk of Roses.—Put into a small bottle two
ounces of rose water, one teaspoonfnl of oil if
Bweet almonds, ten drops of oil of tar. Snakt
toe bottle until the whole iscombiued, and you
have a nice cosmetic to apply to the skin aftei
wasning.
Dress Wash.—A very nice thing for a lady to
keep is a bottle of this on ner dressing table al
ways, for little spots od her garments; One qu ri
of boiling water, half an onnee of camphor, one
ounce of borax; after cooling, ha.f a pint of al
cohol.
Repelling Moths.—If fine cut tobacco be
sprinkled under the edge of carpets, and undei
those plac; s where bureaus, bookcases and the
like make it dark, the moths will be prevented
from laying their eggs in them, as it will drive
them away
Sick Headache.—This distressing complaint
can generally be relieved by soaking the teetin
very warm water, in which a spoonful of pow
dered mustard has been stirred. Soak as long
as possible, or till the water gets cool; it draws,
the blood from the head.
To Renovate Black Grenadine .—Take strong,
cold coffee, strain it, and wring the grenadine
out of it quite tight, after which shake out and
fold up. Then iron it with a moderately hot
iron over a piece of old black material.
Heavy Washings.—A lady writes: 'To wash
quilts, comfortables, tickings and sackings, soak
in pure oold water twentyfour hours or more;
then rnb through warm water with a little soap,
and rinse well.’ It is worth trying.
Preparing Fish.—To prepare mackerel, put
good sized fish .n soak Friday night, change the
water Saturday mom'ng, and again at noon if
necessary; at night hang them up to drain. To
cook them put some drippings into a pen, and
when hot lay in the fish, skin side down
sprinkle with flour, and place bits of good, sweet
butter over it. Put in a brisk cun, ba te with
gravy, two or three times, take half an hour,
pi *oe on a platter, add half a cup of swett cream
to the gravy, let it boil up cnce, and pour over
the fish. I think these who try this cnee will
never want to boil mackerel again. It is sup
posed that butter, pickles, etc , will be on the
table at each meal.
Molasses Cakb.— Pat in a ccffee enp one ta-
blespoonfn! of lard or butter and one tei.sp >on-
ful of soda; put oa four table poontuls of boil
ing water, and fill the cup with molasses; stir a
Ibtle, then add nearly two cupfuls of floi r; stir
well, and bake in warm gem par s in a moderate
oven. Good either hot or oold.
With the beginning of the spring's work on
the farm, there is rent wed activity and energy
r< quired in the house. The breakfast must bt
readj just 83 soon as possible, in order that the
good man and his help may not be hindered in
the day's business, and the best way to manage
this is to do as mnch as possible the night be
fore.
The potatoes (if there aie to be any cooked)
can be washed and pared, and covered with cold
water, or if to be warmed, they can be sliced,
the meat ent and put in a convenient place, and
even ccffae can be ground, now that eggs are
plenty.
Add p>rt of an egg to the ground coffee, stir
until it is all wet, and leave it in a covered
bowl, and there will but very little of th6 aroma
escape. If the cook stove is cold at night bs-
fore going to bed, the kindlings and wood can
be put in place, and then when pater famiiias
arises it will hinder him but a moment to strike
a match and light the fire.
For the convenience of those who ‘don't know
what to get for breakfast,’ I append a list for
one week, of such articles as can be easily had
in most farm honses;
Sunday Morning.—Baked potatoes, boiled
eggs, baker mackerel, graham gems, cold yeasi
bread and c> ffee.
Monday Morning.—Broiled ham, boiled po
tatoes, stewed dried apples, fried mush, lighi
bread and o> ffee.
Tuesday Morning.—Hash, corned beef, pota
toes, graham buttercak.s, with syrup or honey,
ginger snaps and ccffee.
Wednesday Morning.—Sausage, warmed over
potatoes, hot muffins, stewed apples, light bread
and coffee.
Thursday Morning.-Fried ham and eggs,
toas*, canned raspbe.ries, bread and c ffee.
Friday Morning—Cream toast, cold boiled
ham, catsup, stewed dried fruit, crackers and
ccffee.
Saturday Morning.—Dried beef cooked with
cream gravy, baked potatoes, graham gems, dry
toast and coffee.
Forty Bushels of Wheat to the Acre.—Mr.
Hearne, of the Cloverdale model farm near Lex
ington Ky. teils hew it is that he usually aver
ages forty bushels of wheat to the acre upon his
land. He says he plants the best, not the poor
est land npcn his place early in good wheat
seed. There is nothing special about the culti
vation, except that it is thorough and the seed
always drilled. Tb6 land is well plowed and
pnlver.zsd—clover and timothy sod being pre
ferred and seeded with about one bushel oi
select seed—all defective and small berries be
ing removed. Great care is taken that the drill
does net lap, and that no space is lost between
th6 rounds. Stumps are removed as so; n as
they are sufficiently rotted, and, until they are
the wheat is carefully sown close around then.
— the idea being that a foity acre field will not
produce the greatest crop v here any portion oi
it is in nse.
PLAY PEOPLE.
Galveston (Texas) amateurs are rehearsing
“Pinafore.”
Nilsson Has a magnificent black dress studded
with blue lets.
Last week Forepaugh’s great show was in Ken
tucky and Indiana.
At the benefit to be tendered Madame Richings-
Bernard at tbe Concordia Opera House Friday even
ing, May 2d, will be produced Victor Masse’s fine
opera, “Les Noces De Jeannette,” for the first time
in public. An efficient chorus and orchestra will
assist in the rendition, and the event now gives
promise of unusual interest.
The “Passion Play” managers of San Francisco
lost £2,000, but are talking about trying it again, de
spite the city authorities.
Florence Davenport is in her eighteenth year, but
who will dare assert where Fanny is in the matter
of years. *
Dan Rice has gone to San Antonio “to put the
Mexican Circus upon its pins again,” as he told a
Houston reporter,
Charley Banks has made a contract with Haverly,
to do ‘'Grant’s tour Around the Word” with the
Mastodons. Banks is to receive £250 a week for his
services aHd the piece.
At last little Lotta Crabtree has got to'Boston.
She commenced an engagement there on Monday
evening last at what is known as the New Park
Theatre.
An exchange suggests that the Count Johannes
and Dr. Landis, go play in Marshall, Texas, where
another Currie may relieve the earth ol their pres
ence.
Mary Anderson has leased Maggie Mitchell’s Long
Branch cottage, and if Maggie will sell on reasona
ble terms, may purchase the cosy and delightful
dwelling.
A granddaughter of Camp Meeting John Allen,
the Down East eqhorter and singer, has gone on
the operatic stage. Her new name is Giglio Nor-
dica, the old one was Lillian Norton.
The Jewess ADtonia Link, for some years a favor
ite actress in Vienna, has left the stage in order to
marry Herr Dessauer, a director of a bank there.
Gossip, in unwittingly honoring a shoemaker by
declaring her to be his daughter, maliciously adds
that she went upon the stage with the avowed pur
pose of “making a good match.” It is admitted
that she has succeeded.
The Louisiana Constitutional Convention, on the 21st
inst., was called to order by Governor Nicholls. In a
brief address he alluded to the responsibility of the
work which lay before the com’ention; the pressing
needs of the State for competent and efficient legislation,
and a cessation of the internal troubles with which she
was now afflicted.
A keg of gold, amounting to 312,000, was lately recov
ered from a mill-pond, in Wilkes county. Ga., where it
had been hidden for fourteen years. A guide who was
with Jefferson Davis when he was making his flight
through Georgia, stole the keg of money and rolled it
into the pond. On his death-bed at the penitentiary,
where h was soon afterward sent, he disclosed the local
ity of the treasure.
The Largest Southern Tree.
The ‘big tree' in W shingtoo, Ga., is probab
ly the oldest and largest in the Southern States.
The town of Washington has always been the
home of culture and refinement, and Robert
Toombs, Alexander Stephens and other Geor
gia celebrites have, from its borders, pa sed
their names into history. In visiting various
points of interest round the place, we walked a
mile or so through the beautiful unbroken
forest, crossed a valley meadow with its wind
ing stream, and ; scended an eminence, tbe foot
stool of the torest monarch. Some distance
from the big tree is a giant brother, whioh,
toweriag broad and high above its neighbors,
and concealed at a distance by foliage, impress
es yon on its appearance as being the monaroh
himself; but when you reach the little knoll,
with its open spaoe, on whioh stands the com
pact mass of bark and timber, and gaze aloft on
the huge limbs, themselves larger than sur
rounding trees, yon stand before the largest
representative of tbe vegetable kingdom in the
Southern States. Tn6 tree, which is on tbe
grounds of Mr. Adam Alexander, a prominent
otizen and devoted elder of the Pr sbvterian
Church, is a Tulip-bearing Poplar iLiriodendron
Tulipifera) with a height of 155 feet a diameter
of 9 t'eet, a circumference of about 28 feet and
its lowest brandies are 55 feet from the gronnd.
Mr. Alexander told me that one day, while
riding, he and M j. ADthony Porter drew up
their horses sidewise on the opposite sides of
the tree, and could not, around it, see even the
tips of each other's horse’s heads or tails.
This gtove was God s first Preshvh rian temple
in Georgia, for about the year 1790 the South
Carolina Presbytery sent delegates, who held a
meeting and ordained Rev. William Springer,
the first Presbyterian pastor in Georgia, nnder
the branches of tLis tree. Among the cfficatirg
members of this open air Prisbytery w s Rev.
John BrowD, D. D.. the fir-t President of F ank-
lin College, now the University of G<* rgi*.
Dr. Brown and his friend, Dr. Lorei zo Taylor
of the Baptist Church, were both eminent for
their piety; both were fall of animal spirits,
and both were great musicians, Dr. Taylor be
ing able to play any instrument from an organ
to a Jew’s-harp. Being together on one occa
sion, Dr. Brown called tor. music, whereupon
Dr. Taylor seized his fiddle and asked what he
would have. -Well,’ replied Dr. Brown, I ‘sup
pose something devotional.’ ‘All right.' an
swered Dr. Taylor, striking up a jig, ‘I oan get
just as mnch devotion out of a Sootoh reel as
any other style of music.’
In the month of July, 1865, the big tree was
struck by lightning, shivering its top and blast
ing its vitality for some distance below, und
occasionally a limb, whioh the blight of decay
has re ched, com> s rattling and dashing down.
But still the guarlea and powerful branches
s'retch their shade over the ground of sacred
associations; still men approach the massive
trunk with revereuje, and gaze np into the
fronded spire whose anointing has not been by
cruse of oil, but storm and tempest, and on
whose tresses the lightning flung its glittering
coronet
Trees spring up and die beside it; com{ anions
of its youth have all faded and fallen away. But
summer and winter, seed time and harvest, it .
stands grandly and peer'essly on on its oentn-
ried foundation, and will long retain its distinc
tion— the leafy monarch of the Southern forest.
J. S. Bean, Jr.
Thrashing' a Scnrrillous Story Writer.
The Editor' Rose, whom Will Taft, son of ex-
Attorney General Alphonso Taft, beat in the
streets of Cincinnati conducts a sheet called
the Sunday News. It is a paper of the
wretched, criminal kind to which the Police
Gazette and others belong, and which, as
the pabulum ot prostitute miserables, are
found in most large cities. The story that caused
the trouble contained no names, but the news
boys went about crying: All about the soaudal
in the T. ft family.’ Will and Charlie Taft heard
the boys and asked who gave them the name
‘Taft.’ They all laid it to the tongue of R se.
The two young men went to the News office.
Rose was standing on the front step. Charlie
stood back while Will took the man by the ears,
kicked him, knocked him flit on the pavement
and, seizing him by the hair, battered his head
one the bricks until Rose was insensible. No one
interfered, and parties who understood the
matter clapped their hands as the Taft boys
passed along home.
A Mississippi Letter.
All who are interested should read carefully.
Columbus, Lowndes Co. Miss., April 20, 1879.
Mr. B. M. Woolley, Atlanta Ga.
Dear Sir:—I have been intending to write to
yon for some time, and will delay ro longer. In
the early part cf last year, I left off taking your
Opium Cure and since that time I have taken
no opium in any shape or form whatever, except
one time. I had a severe spell of sickness and
during the time I took, I suppose, half dozen
doses of morphine. But on my rec .very I felt
no bad effects from it, and with that exception
I have not touched opium in any form, nor have
I any desire to do so. I consider myself com
pletely AND RADICALLY CURED OP THE OPIUM
habit. Sinoe leaviDg off the cure, my general
health is much better every way, thin when
usiDg opiates. I do not care to have this pub
lished, but if by so doing you can :eclaim one
poor wre'.ch from a thraldom worse than death
itself, you are at liberty to do so. You may
refer any one to me when you think it will do
good. Yours Very Truly,
A. B. Sturdivant.
CLUB FEET.
It "s a great wrong to allow a child to grow up
with a crooked foot when by proper mechanical
treatment a perfect cure can be affeited.
Below we give Mr. Kitchen’s acknowledge
ment as to the efficiency aDd thoroughness of
the treatment by the Surgical Instim e of de
formities of this class. This is one of hundreds
of certificates given this Institute in similar
cases:
Surgeons National Surgical Institute, Atlanta. Ga:
Dear Sirs- My little boy’s club toot is now
perfectly straight. This has been done so well,
and with so little pain, that the child does not
know which foot was crooked. I can never
thank the Institute enough for this great work.
I am yours as over,
John W. Kitchen.
Fayetteville, Ga., August 20, 1877
A bloody row occurred in Nashville on the 20th inst.
Thomas R. Baker went into Miss A. M. Singleton’s gro
cery and treated several persons to beer. Having failed
to pav for it she demanded the money, and on his still
refusing locked up the doors and commenced striking
Baker over the head with a billet of wood. Her brother,
A. M. Singleson, shot at Baker three times, one ball mak
ing a slight wound in his side, when the latter shot Sin
gleton through the neck with a navy revolver killing
him instantly. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict
of justifiable homicide.
Seven hundred violators of the revenue laws appeared
before the United States Circuit Court, of Nashville, on
the 21st inst. One hundred and seventy-five accepted
Attorney General Deven’s amnesty, and the rest will fol
low suit.
Since it was announced that the body of the late A. T.
Stewart had been recovered by Judge Hilton, the Stew
art Memorial Cathedral at Garden City, L. I., wherein
the body will finally be interred, has been overrun
visitors.
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