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LIFE IN THE KLONDIKE.
HOW THE PEOPLE KEEP HOUSE IN
THE CREAT COLD FIELD.
Winter ainl Summer Habits ami Customs
—All Trmllnjf Done in Gold Dust—The
.llosqultoes Are There lnteresting
T Facts About the Na t i ves of That Region.
From all accounts, it would seem
That the Klondike region is a sort of
earthly paradise; no fighting no shoot
ing, no lynching, no theft.
It’s curious, too, for there are in
Forty Mile Post, Dawson, Circle City
and other mining towns, saloons by
dozen, gambling hells, few women and
plenty of men just like those who used
to die with their boots on in California.
No one ever locks a cabin door. You
can leave a few thousands in gold dust
lying around loose, and no one will
steal it. This forbearance is not so
remai-kahlo as it seems. If a thief did
steal when there is nothing to break
through he couldn’t spend his money
or leave the country unsuspected.
The upper circles of the Yukon Val
ley usually dwell in commodious homes
of boards well banked up with tail
ings to keep the cold out, and measur
ing some twelve feet by fourteen. A
common household ornament is a hole
in the floor, through which the owner
can descend and dig pay dirt in the
frosty bowels of the earth when he has
time. Cooking is done on sheet iron
stoves, very light and small, lugged
over the Chilkoot with other belong
ings. There isn’t generally much to
cook on the stove except the three
“Bs”—bacon, beans and bread. In
summer there is fresh fish; in winter
also, if a man cares to brave cold feet
by standing on the ice to fish through
a hole chopped in it. Besides, the
bole has a way of freezing up again
rapidly.
The cold is not so terrible a bugbear
as many imagine. The air is very dry,
and it causes no discomfort to work
out of doors with the thermometer at
thirty below. General humidity makes
the cold as well as the heat worse to
bear.
Miners generally wear in winter the
native dress of skin trousers and
parka, with boots of seal or walrus
akin, made by the coast Indians. The
iiliiu trousers are made of woodchurch
pelts or fawn-skin trimmed with white
wolfskins. Women wear the parka, or
skin coat filched from the fawn or
wolverine,hut they have to deny them
selves the pleasures of dress reform so
far as to wear light short skirts over
their leather breeches and boots. In
summer one can dress as in New
York.
Housekeeping is most primitive.
Men are in vast majority, and it is
customary, as it was in California, for
them to select partners and live two in
a “shack,” or cabin, to save house
work and divide expense. In winter
there are no means of bathing without
extraordinary trouble. The snow
seldom lies more than three feet deep,
there are no thaws to make crust on
its surface, and all winter traveling is
done on sboeshoes.
Prices are extraordinarily high, and
vary according to circumstances, so
that one can hardly tell what they will
be next spring, when the new crowd
gets into _ the diggings. Beef at fifty
or seventy-five cents a pound is per
haps a fair example. Last winter, be
cause the preceding summer had been
a bad one for salmon, bacon had to
be fed to the sled dogs at a cost of
twenty-five or forty cents a pound.
And there have been times when a
dog was wortli S3OO to]ki!l to keep
some miner with plenty of “dust”
but no “grub” from starving.
There aim physicians in the Klon
dike ami there will he hospitals at
several points, established by the Sis
ters of Mercy from Montreal. Last
winter there was a benefit perform
ance in Circle City, when a quarter of
beef “snaked” into the country on a
dog sled, was rallied off for S4OO for
the hospital. Now Circle City is
pretty well deserted, and the hospital
will be needed more somewhere else.
There is still a post-ofliee at Circle
Oily, and mails come and go every
month in winter, by carrier to Juneau.
In summer what a change there is!
The thermometer rises frequently
above ninety. Men work sixteen and
eighteen hours a day, sluciug out the
dirt they have been digging out all
winter, and drop dog tired into their
bunks at night to dreamless sleep.
They can vary their food only a little.
Fresh salmon are usually plenty, but
game is not. Hence the great bane of
the country is scurvy. It is avoided
by drinking a great deal of lime juice.
A.better way would be to get fresh
vegetables into the country, and there
is no doubt that they could he grown
with perfect success, not perhaps at
Circle City or Dawson, but four or five
hundred miles farther south, on the
Tagish or Teslin Lake, and boated
easily down stream towards autumn.
'True, the season is short, but growth
is very rapid while it lasts. Many
vegetable crops require but a short
time to mature. The Danish settle
ments in Greenland, quite as far north
as these lakes, have pretty fair vege
table gardens. The men who first get
into business as market gardners, sup
plying the . Yukon basin with fresh
vegetables, will need no gold mines.
Surveyor Ogilvie thinks that there
may be room in the upper Yhikon re
gion for 2000 fairly good farms. Gen
era] farming will never thrive in this
' region, in his opinion, but tbe special
industry of supplying fresh vegetables
and meat, under admitted difficulties
compensated for by high prices—that’s
not the same thing at all. The day
hasn’t come yet when you can get a
nice Georgia watermelon in Dawson
for twenty cents. Indeed, water
melons can’t be raised on the Yukon.
Mr. Ogilvie’s thermometer showed
frost four times last August. So far
as cattle are concerned, they can he
driven into the mines, and kept fat on
bunch grass all the way.
Gold dust is the money of the Klon
dike. It is reckoned at sl7 an ounce,
but is hardly worth so much, the sam
ples assayed iu San Francisco running
rather lower. Nobody, seller or buy
minds about enough gold dust to be
worth a dollar or so. Nearly, every
man carries a. pair of scales.
Gambling is the great passion of the
miner everywhere. “Easy come, easy
go,” says the philosophical miner who
loses at the table the dust he got by
aching toil with the pick or at the
sluice.
There are children in Klondike noyr,
wud a school is to be ready for next
season. There has been a school at
Circle City and another at Forty Mile.
With all its faults, with all the dirt
and privation and the sordid stvifo for
gold, there is something simple and
Hue about this mining society. There
are no snobs iu it, no liveries except
the livery of toil; no very rich men
and few extremely poor; no thieves
except those who practice the permit
ted theft of the gaming table. One
man is in literal truth as good as an
other; there is chivalrous regard for
women, kindness for misfortune and
ready courage for emergencies. It is
primitive society with its faults and its
virtues, which are not the faults and
virtues of the festering towns. There
is manliness, at any rate; and there
are genuine human women, with the
charm that comes of open air living
and plenty of exercise.
The curse of the country—as of any
gold region—is its instability. There
is no use making pleasant homes in a
mining camp. If it succeeds, the resi
dents all expect to “make their pile”
and “mosey for the States.” If it
fails, every one will lie off for fresh
diggings and leave the shacks pathet
ically deserted. At one time the finest
house in all Alaska was in Circle City.
It cost S3OOO to build, but its owner
was probably as ready as any one else
to desert the place when the news of
Klondike came.
There can be almost no hooks or
pictures in the Klondike, or the Yukon
fields generally. Freight charges are
high on the St. Michael’s route, and
weight is eliminated as far as possible
from a man’s pack when he tackles the
dread Chilkoot pass. The dreary land
scape, the almost perpetual sunshine
of winter, which compels the resident
to use snow glasses, if he would not
be blinded, makes life weary and lack
ing in variety. There is some relief
when the magic summer brings out the
scanty vegetation at a bound, further
up the Yukon, but in its middle
stretches the forms of flower and tree
are monotonous, indeed, almost be
ginning and ending with moss and
scrubby little trees. Nature’s poor
attempts at landscape painting are, at
the best, soon marred by man. There
is no occupation that spoils a country
faster than mining. The great heaps
of “slickens” or tailings disfigure
every stream, and the face of nature
is all cut and gashed and hacked with
prospect holes.
Mosquitoes are the plague of life
throughout Alaska and the Northwest
Territory. Schwatka says they sting
the bears so as to drive them crazy.
When the poor animals are driven by
hunger down to the river iu mosquito
time they are so bitten about the eyes
as to become blinded, when they die
of starvation.
The late E. -T. Glave wrote of the
pests: “A liberal daubing of bacon fat
and pitch around the eyes and ears of
our animals kept those sensitive parts
free from the pests, and when my own
head grew so bumpy I could not get
my hat on I applied the remedy to my
own anatomy with a good deal of suc
cess. When not feeding, our horses
would leave the sheltered places and
seek the open stone to avail themselves
of whatever breeze was blowing; they
would then stand in couples, so that
each would have the benefit of the
other’s tail as a switch.”
Cattle are so maddened by the mos
quitoes that they will gallop half a
mile at top speed against the wind in
an endeavor to shake them off, and
then graze until the mosquitoes force
them to make another dash for life.
As the miners’ camps are necessarily
always in lowlands along the creek bot
toms the suffering from these pests is
considerable.
Slavery and human sacrifice were
common among the Chilkoot Indians a
generation ago. These people remain
a savage, brutal race, and the average
miner has more direct dealings with
them going in or out over the pass than
he is apt to have afterwards with the
Yukon tribes.
. These coast Indians are the fellows
that pack miners' outfits over the Chil
koot Pass at twenty cents a pound.
They are tricky and dishonest, and
main:- use of ali sorts of devices to
cheat the traveler, and they lord it
unmercifully over the Indians just be
yond the divide.
The Indians of the middle Yukon
are a more friendly ami humane, if not
more intelligent lot of people. The
miners see much of them. They will
sometimes hire out to do day labor in
the placers, hut prefer fishing, and
stolidly keep on in their old ways, in
spite of the rush and flurry of the gold
fever. They are very superstitious
and believe that iu parts of the coun
try distant from them dwell superhu
man monsters who eat people and are
very fierce and cruel. These Indians
are now generally fairly well-behaved
and contented under the Canadian
Government.
A perennial charm of Y'okou society
is the fresh and youthful vigor of the
men found there. Probably the aver
age age is less than thirty-five. “An
old miner” does not need to be an old
man. A pioneer in the region may
have had but ten years’ experience and
be but little past thirty. The few wo
men in the mines average even younger.
The unfortunate there are, but not the
aged, and poverty takes its ills philoso
phically, having seen too many of the
ups and downs of life to despair of a
turn in the luck.—New York World.
From Brickyard to Premiership,
The late Sir Henry Pai-kes, Premier
of New South AVales, was the son of a
small farmer in Warwickshire. His
career offers encouragement of the
good, old-fashioned, l'apidly disappear
ing sort, to ambitions small boys.
His family moved first to South Wales,
and afterwards to Birmingham; and
young Parkes was sent to work
when he was only eight years old.
First ho was employed on a brick
field, and afterwards as a turner; but,
having married, he at last decided to
better his condition by emigrating,
and landed in Sydney in 1839 with a
wife, a baby and three shillings. Fif
teen years later he entered the New
South Wales Parliament, and at last
became Premier of the Colony. Asa
boy he was passionately fond of read
ing.
Stamp Denominations.
Of the 250 stamps which have been
issued the values have ranged from
one cent to SSOOO. Five dollars is the
highest value among postage stamps,
but newspaper stamps reach the SIOO
mark, while a revenue stamp may
representssooo.
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR,
LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
Ambition’* Apogee— Even So—Not Fitted
For the Task—Pure Love-Solved at
Laftt— Bottling It Up—The Ruling Pen
al on—The Safest Way—Not Expert, Etc.'
The kiss of Famo and art for art’s suite
wore his goal
When Chromer, painter, with the world
first wont to cope;
But now ho barely pays for bread and board
and coal
By making lurid posters for Van Applo’s
soap.
—Town Topics.
Not Fitted For the Tusk,
“He can’t hoe his own row.”
“No. He has been a rake all his
life.”—Life.
Even So.
Gold is yellow, but there is a great
difference between gold fever and yel
low fever.—Judy.
Bottling It Up.
“Johnnie, I hope you are not be
ginning to swear.”
“Oh, no, not till I am as big as
pupa!”—This Witty World.
Pure Love.
She—“Mr. D’Auber is wedded to
his art.”
He—“ Well, there’s nothing mer
cenary about the union. ” —Life.
Tin* Safest Way.
“Why do you say we are perfectly
safe if we elope on a railroad train?”
“Because papa won’t pursue us un
til he can get a pass.”—Chicago Rec
ord.
The Irony of Fate.
“It’s hard,” said the menagerie lion.
“What’s hard?” asked the kangaroo.
“To be starved when I’m alive and
stuffed when I’m dead.”—Piek-Me-
Up.
Solved at Last.
Jawkins—“Why do they always call
sailors ‘tars?’ ”
Pawkins—“Because they’re so ac
customed to the pitching of the ship.”
—Punch.
The Way He Lost Them.
“I have never yet lost a patient,”
said young Dr. Doce, proudly.
“I can’t say that much,” replied
Dr. Paresis. “I often have a patient
get well. ” —Life.
The Bicycle Back.
“Our landlady had to lower the din
ner tables three inches.”
“Why did she do that?”
“Nearly all the boarders are scorch
ers.”—Chicago Record.
The Haling Passion.
Ho—“ That fellow is going to charge
me only a dollar for this boat for the
whole day.”
She—“My! it’s a regular bargain
sail; isn’t it, dearie?” —Judge.
Some Difference. •
Hewitt—“ How did you come out on
your bets yesterday?”
Jewett—“l broke even. How did
you come out?”
Hewitt— ‘ ‘Even broke. ” —Truth.
Absent Presents.
Mamie—“ Trust her? You surely
don’t think she could keep your
secret.”
Jack —“Well, I’ve trusted her with
other things and she kept them.”—
Town Topics.
Unanimity of Opinion.
“Fellows, you wouldn’t take me to
be a member of a millionaire’s family,
would you?”
“Frankly, we would not.”
“Neither would the millionaire; I
asked him last night. ” —Brooklyn Life.
Not Expert.
“I told her I was afraid to kiss her
while we were on the tandem, for fear
we would both fall off.”
“What did she say?”
“She said she hoped I didn’t call
myself an experienced wheelman.”—
Topeka Capital.
In Her Name.
Margins—“l heard that Kosutcli
Wyrde has failed.”
Bearish—“ Yes. He lost all his
money. ”
Margins—“ Who got it?”
Bearish—“ Well, his wife got most
of it.”—Up-To-Date.
Telltale Buttons.
“Matilda, I wish you would ask that
young Mr. Peters to have his cuff but
tons replated.”
“Why, mamma, what do you mean?”
“They seem to leave black streaks
on the back of your shirt waist every
evening. ” —Cleveland Plaindealer.
Earned His Reputation.
First Spectator (at the ball game)—
“He is considered one of the most
impartial umpires in the business.”
Second Spectator —-“Is he?”
First Spectator —“Yes; I’ve noticed
that in nearly every game he is de
nounced with equal vigor by both
sides.” —Puck.
Finale and Encore.
He (trembling)’—“l have one last
wi-wish to ask you before we part in
anger forever.”
She (sobbingly)—Wha-what is it,
George?”
He—“Wi-will you me-meet me next
Th-Thursday, as usual?”
She —“I wi-will, George.” Tit-
Bits.
Married Men Preferred.
Mrs. Henpeck (with a self-satisfied
air) “I notice that whenever Hard,
Cash & Cos. advertise for clerks or
salesmen, they always say Married
Men preferred. ”
Mr. H. (an employe of Hard, Cash
& Cos.) —“Yes, the old tyrants. They
want men who are Used to being
bossed.”—New York Weekly.
Not In His Set.
“Fudhams, do you know Scorjel,
the druggist?”
“Only in albusiness sort of way.
He is not exactly in our set, you know.
One has to be rather careful how one—
Alq Scorjel, good morning. Fine
day.”
“Yes, it’s a fine day. Mr. Fud
hams, would it be convenient for you
to pay me that sls you borrowed about
six months ago?”—Chicago Tribune.
Ahead of the Game.
“It’s too bad!” ejaculated Hercules,
throwing down sis paper pettishly.
“I ’syas b?rh too soon. I was a man
ahead of my ago. I ought to hare
lived to-day, when I’d have a chance
to be celebrated and get my picture in
the papers.”
“Why, aren’t you famous enough
as it is?” asked Mars, surprised.
“No,” grunted Hercules. “Just
think what a grand centre I’d bo on a
football team.” —Life.
A Ilomloo.
“It’s jes’ my luck,” said Farmer
Corntossel gloomily. “I’m the wust
guesser a-goin’. The only way fer a
man to get along is to make up his
mind wliut he’s a-goiu’ ter do an’
keep on doin’ jes that.”
“Have you had bad luck?”
“Nothin’ else. Last year I raised
wheat when I orter hev tuck in sum
mer boarders. This year I tuck in
summer boarders when I orter hev
raised wheat.” —Washington Star.
Show* All tl Fire* In a City.
The toposcope is a machine that ex
hibits to the eyes of the observer a
whole city and all the fires that break
out in it. It is now in use in Vienna,
Austria. The toposcope consists of a
good telescope, which is solidly at
tached to an arrangement of lovers,
while graduated sections of a circle
are arranged horizontally and verti
cally iu such a way that the moving of
the telescope sideways or up and
down results in a change of the posi
tion of the hands attached to the
levers in reference to the graduated
scale.
It is obvious, the stability of the
apparatuses being assured by their
being firmly fastened, that whenever
the telescope is focussed upon the
same object the hands will point to
the same figures on the horizontal and
on the vertical sextant, and, since an
index of the whole city has been made,
it is a matter of but a few seconds
when a flare is discovered at night to
direct upon the spot of the toposcope
on the respective side, to read off the
numbers, to read oil' the numbers, to
look up the object and to wire it to
the central fire station, with all the
details observed.
Local conditions are necessary for
the successful operation of this appa
ratus. but in this case they are almost
perfect. St. Stephen’s tower is over
500 feet high; the great area of the
city is situated in the broad valley of
the Danube, allowing an uninter
rupted panorama to the city limits.
The atmospheric conditions are also
favorable. The toposcope up there
works so accurately that even at night
the exact house and number were
often given to the central by the
watchman on the tower, while the
next fire alarm box, being at a dis
tance of three or four blocks, could
not have givji the exact location of
the fire, and this would have delayed
the arrival of the fire department ac
cordingly.
A Malay Forest.
These forests are among the won
derful things of the earth. They are
immense in extent, and the trees which
form them grow so close together that
they tread on one another’s toes. All
are lashed and bound and relashed in
to one huge magnificent tangled net
by the thickest underwood and the
most marvelous parasitic growths that
nature has ever devised. No human
being can force his way through this
maze of trees and shrubs and thorns
and plants and creepers, and even the
great beasts which dwell in the jungle
find their strength unequal to the task,
and have to follow game paths, beaten
out by the passage of innumerable ani
mals through the thickest and deepest
parts of the forest. The branches
cross and reeross, and are hound to
gether by countless parasitic creepers,
forming a green canopy overhead,
through which the fierce sunlight only
forces a partial passage, the struggling
rays flecking the trees on which they
fall with little splashes of light and
color. The air “hangs heavy as re
membered sin,” and the gloom of a
great cathedral is on every side.
Everything is damp and moist, and
oppressive. The soil, and the cool
dead leaves under foot are dank with
decay and sodden to the touch. Enor
mous fungous growths flourish lux
uriantly, and over all, during the long
hot hours of the day, hangs a silence
as of the graveyard. Though these
jungles teem with life, no living tiling
is to be seen, save the busy ants, a
few brilliantly colored butterflies and
insects, and an occasional nest of
bees high up in the tree tops. A lit
tle stream ripples its way over the
pebbles of its bed, ahd makes a hum
ming murmur in the distance; a faint
breeze sweeping over the forest gently
sways the upper branches of a few of
the tallest trees; but for the rest all
is melancholy, silent and motionless.
—Court and Kampong.
Wire, a Protection Against Lightning.
“People living in cities‘are prone
to believe that the increasing number
of telephone, telegraph and trolley
wires increase the danger from elec
tric storms,” writes Edward W. Bok,
iu Ladies’ Home Journal. “On the
contrary the maze of wires is a pro
tection, and lessens the danger, since
it is shown that where the wires at
tract the electricity they hold it, and
discharge it only at the end of the
wires iu the central station. The fact
is that of the 200 lightning accidents
every year only an average of forty
occur in the cites. The trees in the
country are a far greater danger; they
account for the proportion of four
cases in the country to one in the
city.”
Field Glass Range Finder.
An improved range finder for field
glasses has a flat dial plate, subdivided
to correspond with the focus of the
glasses, rigidly attached near the rear
end of the adjusting screw; a fixed
pointer secured near the screw to the
frame of the glasses indicating the
adjustment upon a dial. A small
wheel upon the adjusting screw turns
it so that it will readily focus the
glasses for various distances, and en
abling the user to also estimate cor
reotly the speed of advancing or with
drawing objects.
Royal Oculist.
The Royal oculist, Duke Carl of Ba
varia, has already done nearly 3000
operations for cataract, and .every one
of these operations has been per
formed between the morning hours of
6 and 8, as the Duke declares his
nerves are strongest at this early hour
and his h^nd_ most etaadjA
A NECKLACE OF PEARLS IJPjB|
Is a beautiful possesion. If a woman owns teg WB; >■?.:
one, and if a single pearl drops off the string, W
she makes haste to find and restore it. ■
Good health is a more valuable possession A—V NeC JmP'Y
than a necklace of the most beautiful pearls, '
vet one by one the jewels of health slip away, t I
and women seem indifferent until it is almost 'wl l
To die before you are really old is to suffer
premature death, and that is a sin. It is a sin
lieeause it. is the result of repeated violations
Pain, lassitude and weariness, inability to
sleep, dreadful dreams, starting violently from flnV
sleep, are all symptoms of nerve trouble.
You cannot have nerve trouble and keep
your health. In ninety-nine cases out of a / ■Sw’,
hundred the womb, the ovaries and the bladder j I WBKV
are affected. They are not vital organs, hence I j
yfrs. Lydia E. Pinkliam’s Vegetable Com- • '
- | pound, by building up the nerves and restoring woman's
organism to its natural state, relieves all these trouble
some uterine symptoms. In confirmation of this we. by
permission, refer to the following women, all of
whom speak from experience: Miss Cki.ia Van
1© GdKffiilßa Horn, 1912 Sharswood St.. Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss
J(l| Grace Comoro, 1434 Eastern Ave., Cincinnati, O.;
Ypy. Jk 4/ Mrs. Newki.i., 50 Ryerson St,, Brooklyn, N. Y.: Mrs.
f )"1 Isabel, Obebo, S2O Chestnut St., Woburn, Mass.,
WjTwjr )o£? i Mks. A. 11. Com:, New Rochelle, N. Y., and many
I others
• ” a For special symptoms Mrs. Pinkham has prepared a
<sß 'Sanative Wash, which will cure local troubles. Give these
w medicines a trial.
j Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., if you are not quite
/ satisfied ; you can address private questions to a woman.
Football and Matrimony.
“There’s one thing,” said the expe
rienced one, “that I’ve been thinking
about.”
“What’s that?”
“The influence football will have on
matrimony in the future. What young
fellow will have the courage to ask a
papa who ever played on a college
eleven?”—Philadelphia North Ameri
can.
His Real Mean Meaning.
Harper—lsn’t it wonderful! I don’t
see how some of these magazines can
he sold for ten cents.
Brantwood—But look at the adver
tising they have. That’s the way they
make their money.
Harper —You misunderstand me.
What I can’t see is why people will
pay the ten cents.—Chicago News.
Excusable Jealonsy,
“It fills me with envy,” remarked
the man who wants an appointment,
“to see that schoolboy trudging to
his studies.”
“You long for the pastimes of
youth?”
“No. I don’t care for them. But
I’d like to be able to pass a civil-service
examination as well as he could.”
Out With It.
Mrs. Ginger —How dare yon talk to
me in that way? I never saw such im
pudence. And you call yourself a
lady’s maid, do you?
The Maid —I was a lady’s maid be
fore I worked for you, ma'am. —Bos-
ton Transcript.
Baby’s Sore M*al
and chafed skin are quickly cured by Tetter
ins. Don’tl et the poor little tiling scream it
self into spasms when relief is so easy. Every
skin trouble from a simple chafe or chap to
the worst case of Tetter or Ringworm is cured
quickly and surely by Tetterino. Atdruggists,
or by mail for 50c. in stamps by J. T. Shuptrine,
Savannah, Ha.
When a man’s tongue is at a great rate his
thought is generally out of sight.
CHRONIC DISEASED ■—l
ot nil forms
SUCCESSFULLY TREATED.
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Palpita
tion, Indigestion, etc.
CATARRH
of the Nose. Throat and 1/tings.
DISEASES} PECULIAR TO WOMEN.
Prolapsus. Ulcerations. Leucorrhea, etc. Write
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