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And still we boast our bitter
warn!
Still burn and boast and
boost and lie
But God's white finger spins the
stars
In calm dominion of the sky'
And not one ray of light the
less
Comes down to bid the
grasses spring.
No drop of dew or anything
Shall fail for all our bitter-
ness!
—Joaquin Miller.
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THERE is HOPE IN UNITY'.
Samuel Moffett, in Colliers' Week
ly. outlines a vital policy for the re
union of the liberal forces In Ameri
can politics, and points a way by
which it seems possible for democra
cy to triumph in the future.
Union of forces is the remedy he
proposes, and in the following brief
review, he writes a democratic plat
form sufficient for a campaign:
The question of “loyalty" has no
proper place in party relations, he
says. A party is a voluntary associa-
- tion of citizens who think that certain
policies are best for the country. A
citizen who does not believe these
policies best naturally ceases to act
with the party. A party that depends
on discipline instead of on conviction
to keep its members tn line is in a
bad way. What the democracy needs
is a body of genuine principles, in
• which it honestly believes and upon
which it can make an intelligent ap
peal to the judgment of the country.
In boldly taking the liberal plunge,
the democrats would have this fact
to reassure them: The liberal party
in a modem country is normally the
majority party; the
conservative
party is normally in the minority.
This is so from the very nature of
things, because the people who profit
by the abuses which it is the mission
of a conservative party to maintain
are necessarily few in comparison
with those who suffer from
those
abuses.
The conservative party may often
win elections by good organization,
skilful leadership, money, and oppo
sition blunders, but it never rests on
the broad base of popular sympathy
and confidence.
The republicans have been a mi
nority party in this country ever since
the close of the civil war period.
They were a minority party in 1194.
when a million gold democrats let
them into power on a single tempor
ary issue. They are a minority party
today, and Theodore Roosevelt, not
withstanding the fact that he has re
ceived the votes of hundreds of thous
ands of citizens who have no sympa
thy with his political associations, is
a minority president.
The democrats, populists, and so
cialists, all anti-republican elements,
could have beaten him easily if their
forces had not been divided.
What the democracy needs is to
find some way of combining most of
the citizens who are traveling in the
same direction and to cut loose from
those who want to travel somewhere
else.
no higher, no iilaaner. no mors ties
tree partisan blindness
instead of
purifying moral conditions and exer
cising their ballots for the accom
plishment of reforms which they de
mand In private, the Idaho women
embraced the evils and voted their
ticket. It has lost them many a
staunch friend of equal suffrage. They
have not made good their claims of
political purity._____________
Desertion of families is coining to
be one of the commonest crimes on
the calendar, and Oregon has no law
for the adequate punishment of the
wretches guilty of it. Half the vic
tims of the reform schools. poor
houses and aid societies, come from
the desertion of a family by either a
brutal father or mother. The fami
ly does not suffer this crime alone.
It becomes a burden on the state, in
creases taxes by making more de
pendents upon public charity.
and
has a demoralizing effect on society.
It is too easy tor heartless beasts to
shake off the parental responsibility.
It is too easy tor shallow lunatics to
wed. bring their swarms of brats into
the world and then unload them on
the tender mercies of the community.
It is too easy for giggling girls to
elope with some penniless and brain
less "masher," against the protest of
parents and friends. When the delu
sion and the novelty passes away,
this giggling girl either deserts a
family or is herself deserted, and the
enrollment in the poor house, the re
form school and the charitable insti
tution is increased. The community
must
rear the offspring of folly.
Nothing short of five years imprison
ment should be given tor desertion
of a family.
Several Pendleton
churches are
preparing to bring able evangelists
to the city tor a period of spiritual
work during the winter. A few of
those who are interested are hesitat
ing. in doubt as to whether the city
is ready tor such work. Do the forces
of evil ever stop to ask if the time
is propitious for the spread of evil
influence? Do they hesitate to begin
their work at any hour of the night
or day? With equal zeal and mul
tiplied energy, the forces of morality
and righteous government should de
cide instantly that all times are aus
picious times for the beginning of a
crusade against
immorality.
law
breaking and social evils. The forces
of evil never sleep. Should the moral
element in the community ever be off
guard ? Should they ever relax, ever
ask if the hour is propitious? It is
a fact, though lamented, that the
rapid spread of wrong is made while
the forces of right are hesitating,
wondering, debating. Wrong never
sleeps; all times are its chosen times
for work. The same watchful, sleep
less vigilance must be exercised to
offset it. and gain ground upon it.
Of the >7909 necessary to complete
the bronze statue of Sacajawea at the
Lewis and Clark exposition, but J7V9
has so tar been raise.l. The women
of the Northwest undertook this task
and while they have made a com
mendable effort, yet they are far from
the goal! The sculptress has about
completed the model for the figure;
the copper has been spupplied from
the mines of Idaho.—by a pretty co
incidence this copper comes from
ledges lying perhaps across the very
trail she followed in leading Lewis
and Clark through the labyrinth of
the Bitter Roots!
The effort must
not fail of fruition. The Lewis and
Clark fair will be an index to the
enterprise and spirit of the people of
the West, and the women of "Old
Oregon" must exhibit the indomita
ble spirit that Is native to them. In
accomplishing in the highest degree,
this task undertaken by them! Sac-
ajawea, the woman who delivered
Oregon into the hands of the Intrepid
explorers, must be fittingly honored.
It will not be such an easy matter
to get rid of the local option law.
The people who passed It by the Ini
tiative, can alone change it or re
peal It, by the referendum, after first
securing the permission of the legis
lature to hold an election on the law.
A law so passed by the people can
not be toyed with by the legislature.
The people alone can change at and
they must have the consent of the
legislature to put It to a vote for
amendment or repeal. In order to se
cure a vote the people must petition
the legislature to permit such a vote.
The initiative and referendum imend-
ment provides that laws pass**<l by
the people are beyond the reach of
the legislature, except in cases where
the public health, peace or safety Is
involved.
Ml DK I A TOR YET
The Morning Tribune, of thia city,
in its extremity of partisan narrow
ness. says, in an effort to upplnud
President Roosevelt, that the presi
dent expects to tukv an active part In
the election of United States senators
in several different states this win
ter.
The president would severely re
buke such sentiment, were It enter
tained by any considerable number of
people.
He is too Intelligent.
too
broad. too much of an American to
foster for an instant such a policy.
This sentiment Is one of the re J
flames of political anarchy.
mor •
dangerous than Herr Most's wildest
dream of freedom, that flashes up in
all civilized governments at times, ex
hibiting an insane partisan fanati
cism. that would be pitiable were It
not perilous.
Such an interference by the chief
executive in the affairs of a stale
would be resented bitterly by the peo
ple. The president of the United
Stales, under the present constitu
tion. is the servant, not the dictator
of the people. The stales have re-
-erved certain Inalienable rights, cer
tain principles of self-government
guaranteed under the
constitution
which
no president can usurp or
set aside!
Going ba> k to first principles, it
must be admitted that the selection
>f United States senators by legisla
tures is wrong and subversive of pop
ular rights. Hut to permit the selec
tion of senators by dictation of a
president would
be
Immeasurably
more unjust and un-American.
It is disgusting to think of a pres
ident of the United States descending
from that exalted
position in the
machinery' of the government to mix
in luirtisan politics, to besmirch the
•ffice by engaging In a factional
brawl In Oregon. Montana or New
Jersey. In the selection of a United
States senator.
Like any other private citizen the
president can discourage political dis
honesty by voice and pen; but he
must remember that the people yet
.hold their "onstltutional rights, tha.
until the people fall to perform their
duties the chief executive must not
interfere in state affairs—and by all
the sacred traditions of popular gov
ernment. he certainly must not In
terfere as a partisan, using the pow
er he holds as a club to force legis
latures to do his personal bidding'
The United States Is not ready for
a dictator. Such sentiment as that
expressed by the Tribune shows the
willlrgness of a woefully small class
of abject partisan slaves to subvert
every principle of the constitution to
accomplish partisan alms.
were «*<lucated in Culhollu «uhool« In I
Washington.
Twenty-one department stoies ini
New Yolk City cluini to have lost]
$500. Out) through shoplifters during
the past year, and have combined t<l I
abate the evil.
George Murray, i a restauranteur at
Cambridge, M mms .. was beaten tn '
death with a hammer by unknown
parties in a box In the 1 restaurant. I
during broad daylight.
Levi Brisson. <>f Plainfield, Conn.,
Is the father of 43 children by four
wives.
His
17-year-old
«laughter,
Mrs. l.ucilc Leclalre. gave birth to
triplets November 14.
John \ undercook, ,» correspondent
of undoubted veracity, lately visited
Po|»e Plus and avers that hls health
and strength have greatly failed dur
ing the past 16 months.
The wireless
telegraphy
system
between Newport. R. I., and Nan
tucket Island, owned and perfected
by the government, has been opened
for commercial purposes.
More than HSO.OUO horsc-pow«*r Is
used in generating el«*ctriclty for New
York <’lty. and a c|«»u«ly afternoon,
making early
lighting
nec«*MMary.
costs the lighting companies $50.000
extra.
Rev. Philip B. Pendleton, rector of
St. G«*«»rge’M Episcopal chur< h nt
Schenectady. N. Y. and one of the
highest authorities on the history of
(he Episcopal church, is dead, of •er-
ebral hemorrhage.
Near Cleveland. O., a here ran
away With a bugg\ in which i ode
Hanoi Van Cuisc and <L«tighter The
hors»- ran directly over the edge of
x fO-fcot cliff, and horse, man and
woman were instantly kill*'!.
bolt I II« 4 «T MAV-.
ROOSEVELT’S H
Discount
SïÊiji-ÔLoœ
ÖMART
C lothes
THERE IS
Overcoats
MERIT
in every line
II M>l IN I! YD Bl YING
AY Oil K4OAI COMI. AND
«1.1 THE < < T «I ARE MAH
IM, ON THEM
There is
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Quality
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Baer & Daley
On* Price QcCl»en,
m every part
I or tavherv «o4 H,tm
There is a sav
The run of silverMi<ie »almon lx
ibout over. apparently, while th«? »up-
ply <»f halibut I m much greater than
usual.
Robert, the 3-year-old «u»n of J. M
Hinkenthetr. of Westlake. Idaho, fell
into a well Xovember 19 and was i
drowned.
M Summerfield, of the Seattle
Clerks’ I'nlon is a candhh ate for stat-
í
tabor commissioner, with . a show of
winning out.
At Kugen«-. November 17.
M. H.
Lucas was t*adly scaided by the ex- .
plosion of a small engine used In hls
bicycle repair shop.
All the negroes In Reno. Nev . have
be»-n ordered to leave town at once. '
It Is claime I they are becoming an
unbearable nuisance.
Kid Preston was November 19 sen-1
tenced at Seattle to 15 years in the
penitentiary for burglary.
He con
fessed to 4 0 burglaries in Seattle.
John Holmgren, a Spokane carpen
ter. November 18 deliberately suicid
ed by laying on the track In front of
a Northern Pacific switch engine.
The
Maxwell mine.
near Baker
City, will be in operation immediate
ly after Thanksgiving, with
a 10-
•tamp plant
It has long been idle.
Michael F>i*chenger "hot Mari-
S- Miller, near Asotin, Wash . No
vember 19. during a quarrel
over •«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦-♦♦♦♦a
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range. Miller will recover,
Both
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are rtockmen.
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A baby girl was born on the pas-
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Gunther*»
and
Ixtwnry
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lx
»coUte-
arxl
iv»n
Boa«.
Iliklrrth
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senger train between
Riparia and
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It would be a gracious tribute to Umatilla November 17. The names
vrt 'loLaOld fashioned Horritound lrr»>|Y^, (for your evki«.)
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Missouri, if
President
Roosevelt and location of the parents could
♦
should appoint Senator Cockrell to not be learned.
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the vacancy on the canal commis
Boatswain Inlion, of the
British
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For Hot atMl Cold Imink«-
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sion.
It would. In part, atone for ship Mooltan. was assaulted and beat
i verythlng th*- best. All 'Ac latest drinks.
en
at
Tacun>a
November
17.
by
foot
:
the ungenerous and cruel
political
pads. HI.« lower limb» are paralyzed
• Brock & McComas Company
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thrust given to Senator Morgan, in
i
tn consequence.
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replacing him on the senate canal
DRUGGISTS
♦
George Kennedy, an engineer In a
committee, without cause after a life
logging camp near Tenino, Wash.,
time of unselfish service
The step was fatally hurt November 17. by be
downward from Morgan
to Hanna Ing caught between a tree and a log
which hls engine was hauling.
was Immeasurable.
*
Annie Olxon. living four mile» from *
The enterprising merchants of Pen Tekoa, on November 13 lay helpless
lieton will run the excursion train In bed and *a* her 2-yoar-old baby
burn to death In it« clothe*, which
from Walla Walia to this city on
cauKut fire from matrhe» with which
Wednesday. November 23. The peo It »»» plajing
ple of Walla Walla are cordially in
Police Sergeant C. E. Clark and
In <>r>lvr Io better serve our niUomer* ami cure for our
vited to come over and spend the day Patrolmen J. F. Stahl. L. E. Andrew«
mg in every
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price
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CtoTfrs
One
Dollar
This is the
kind we sell
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barred and C. W. Hamerton. all of Oakland.
Cal., have been dl«mi««ed from tbe
force for burglary and theft and will
The horse-whipping given William be prosecuted.
The Spokane Press roars because
Allen White by a Kansas woman, will
be worth thousands of dollars
to the sheriff of that county, at 35 cents
per head per <lay. clears 25 cents per
White from a
literary
standpoint.
head on every prisoner boarded in
Multitudes of his readers will be anx the county jail. Fifty cent« per day
ious to know If the whipping made Is paid for United States prisoner«.
any Improvement.
At Pomeroy. Wash , a trip weigh’,
35 pounds heavy, fell 55 feet and
The socialist vote In Oregon in knocked off the hat and grazed the
Davidson.
creased from 5743 In June, to 7415 shoulders of
Hezekiah
In November. At the same ratio of Davidson was wholly uninjured, but
fainted from fright and nervousness.
Increase, the vote would be IS.090 In
1904. enough to hold the balance of
power in the state.
In a good town. None are
from the excursion.
MOTESTY IS DYING.
Modesty is an ancient virtue which
used to I m regarded as absolutely
necessary in a true woman. It Is sad
to see how modern conditions are de
stroying that beautiful old quality. A
pitifully large proportion of our girls
—who certainly regard themselves as
good women—actually do not know
what modesty is. Of course, they
don't realize that they have sacri
ficed one of the sweetest charms of
their sex—something that
would
make them more attractive and pret
tier If they had it.
Modesty Is not timidity, or bashful
ness. or coyness, or unsophistication,
or prudishness, or coldness. It Is a
quality as definite and distinct and
as delightful as kindness, or sympa
thy. And its manifestation Is unmis
takable. It is as lambent as a bright
smile.
Men recognize It as quickly
as they recognize physical charms.
And they respect modesty In women
as thoroughly as they admire beauty.
The modest woman is the one
whose manner with men is natural,
who does not assume that immodest
air of. "Well, gay sir, don't try your
tricks on me—I'm mistress of the
game and then some!" The Impres
sion of that sort of attitude Is a chal
lenge. It Is a dare. It amounts to
saying it in so many words.—Paul
Thleman, In Denver Post.
Democrats, populists and socialists
all agree that the powers of govern
ment ought not to be used to enrich
a few at the expense of the many.
The populists would go a great deal
further, and the socialists further
still,
but
there is
no reason
why they should not ride on the dem
ocratic car as far as It runa But if
they should find the car off the track
If the public knew what rigid rules
and bumping toward the republican
are provided for its safety and com
terminal, naturally they would see
fort by railroad companies, many of
no advantage in boarding it.
the harsh things would be unspoken.
Recently an O. R. & N. engineer was
There is no nope of purifying the
ballot by giving women a vote, If the given discredit marks in the discipline
result In Idaho is to be taken as a record for tipping a cup of coffee
standard. In that state the lines on from the table in the dining car by
running rapidly around the sharp
the question of Mormonism and
curves.
Some patron of the road
polygamy were distinctly drawn—the
republicans being for and the demo complained of this minor accident,
crats against Mormon domination. It and the company promptly punished
has been felt and believed by a the employe .vho was to blame. The
majority of people that polygamy same patron would have complained
was particularly repulsive to the Gen had the engineer run slowly around
GENERAL NEWS.
tile women and that it the issue came the curves and lost time with the
Ex-Mayor Van Wyck. of New York
up they would be unanimous in their train, so it Is readily seen that the
opposition to it.
Instead of doing public is a worse slave driver than City, has within six weeks past
cleaned up 3500,000 In real estate
this, the republican Gentile women of any corporation dare be.
deals.
Idaho swallowed Mormonism, polyg
The same American coal oil that
Two contests have been brought in
amy and church domination rather sells for 33 cents a gallon on the Pa Kentucky to determine who is con
than exhibit enough Independence in cific Coast, can be bought for 17 cents gressman from the third and ninth
politics to oppose their party bosaea per gallon in Berlin. Germany. The districts.
Ex-Governor Frank 8. Black. of
While they throw up their hands In oil sold at these respective prices is
New York, has been tendered the
horror at the thought of polygamy refined by the same company, at the position of attorney general In Roos
spreading to their homes, yet they same mills, is the same grade of oil. evelt’s cabinet after March 4. 1905.
embraced the polygamous platform That sold in Germany is shipped 7000
W. L. Douglas certifies that his
rather than cast a ballot tor the op miles, and sold to the German consu campaign for governor of Massachu
setts cost him *35,000. He Is a dem
position party, although that party mer at »9 per cent less than the
ocrat.
Roosevelt carried the state.
prorpievd them to check the domina American consumer can buy it for.
Mrs. Frances Washington, aged 74
tion of Mormonism in Idaho poltijhs. 2500 miles from the oil well. And yet years, of New York City, stepped on
Women are human, and follow
they say the foreigner pays the high a parlor match from which her skirts
were Ignited, and she
burned
to
idols of the man of clay. It would protective tariff.
death.
seem that the ballot in her posses
The new postmaster general, Rob
The proposition to Issue *20,000 In
sion is the same thing of prejudice
bonds to build an armory at Tacoma ert J. Wynne, and his wife are de
a’ml selfishness that It is with man, failed to carry.
vout Catholics. Their seven children
HEART
HEART
T.AIJk
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Don’t Forget» Our Fountain
Prompt Delivery
LITTLE
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Will InrniQr anyone who de-irv» It. ab-cdnleiy free, a handwvose
Home Savings Bank
wait until
ran «ave in a wnaU way.
He who drill» into the habil
Ing a» lie goe* will always remain poor.
IT IS WHAT YOU SAVE
NOT WHAT YOU EARN
largely iiM-rea*rd traile, we lune established
Our Own Delivery
\Ac liave our own wagon* and li..r«'« and are not dependent
on the general «yvteni. Our new wagon« will won arrive, but in
the nuanUme we lia ve ica*«l rig*.
*ince moving to our ne v Mure our trade lui« incrca«cd Im-
munarly and we appreciate oar customer*' |>alronage, and are In
Iwticr |>>«ltloii limn ever to «nr them. Illg >e-t clam of good* at
regular price*.
STANDARD
Grocery Company
Evenings at Home
Are Made Pleasant by Games
HOLMES.
“IT.INCH." “PANIC,” “DOWN THE
PIKE
WITH
MRS. WIGGS.'
DI Pl It ATE WHIST TRVAs AND SCORE CARDS.
Combination Game Boards
Corner Court .nul Johnom Street*.
Johnny-on-tl>c.-.|K>l-Dcllvcry.
len to 100 different game« can be pUjed on cacti buanl.
All live newmt book«. m,>«i |»>pular ««urie*. l*te«t luagazlne*
and
We’re in
a Position
Do you rememlier the little thing* that
gave u* -<> much pleasure when w< were ,
young ’ With what ze«t did wi «it down to I
the table after our play waa over and eat the i
muvh and milk our mother put befor> u-
But a* we get
let it take* more n. gne I
u- plca-ure. Mu*h and milk no longer I
ta«te* good to u*. and our dige-tion may t»e
impaired The beat advice we can give to i
av.ch a peraon 1« to tone up the »tornach with I
Dr Pierce a Golden M< <lica! I>i-cov, rT It
i* nature'« m<*t valuable and health giving
agent -made without, the u»e of ale hoi It 1
contain* root*, herb«*and barks anil 1« the j
concentration of nature * vitality ai found ,
in the field« and wood*. This remedy ha* .
a history which »peak* well for it txcauae i
it wa* give n to the public by I»: k V 1
Pierce, founder of the Invalid' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N Y nearly
forty year* ago, and ha* *ince been «old by I
druggist* in ever m< rearing quantities' I
Some medicine*, tonic* or compound* en- :
joy a large *ale for a few year*, th* n di*ap
Prai ftom the public attention, but I>r
ierce'* Golden Medical Discovery ha*
proved such a reliable blood r< medv and
tonic that it often enjoy* the confidence of
•everal generation* in a family anil it* in
creased «ale* year by year coming from the
recommendation* of those who have tried
it. pro«* ha 1.1 1 ng Mnftt ■ • tlml
bottle bear* the «lamp of public upproial
Every other blood maker and tonic for the
stomach that we know of contain* ah I >1
but Dr Pierce guarantt es that no ah < hui
is contained in hi* " Medical Diacovery."
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market affords tn the way
of meats.
And our prices,
you know, are always the
lowest.
We handle only
prime stock. Quality and
quantity guaranteed.
First-
class mutton,
veal.
pork
and poultry equally low.
Can't do better anywhere,
Back at my old stand on
Alta street, opposite Savings
Bank.
PERRY HOUSER
TÀ v
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and ask for the International
Poultry and Stock Food. Uae
Kow Kure for your cow trou
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C. F. Coles worthy
127-129 Eant Alta St.
Agent for lw'» Lice Killer.
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Doo t buy a stove until you see us.
Our stock is ^..plete
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and we have all sixes at money-aaving prices.
levied With a view of gelling only iH-aters Hutt are fuel savers.
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