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POLK COUNTY TIMES.
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DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1869.
VOL. 1.
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A P H IL O S O P H E R ’ S O P IN IO N .
W H Y THIS W ORD “ W H IT E ” !
b e a u t if u l e x t r a c t «
Thomas Carlyle, the British philoso­
pher and author, having been inter­
viewed aud interrogated by a curious
Yankee as to his opinion on the “ polit­
ical situation” o f the United States,
gave the following answer:
“ A s sure as the Lord reigns you are
rushing, down to hell with desperate
velocity. The scum o f the world hes
got possessfoA o f your country and no­
thing can save you from the devil’s
clutches.
Not, perhaps,” cried he,
raising his voice to its shrillest notes,
“ a hell burning with material fire and
brimstone, but the wide, weltering, fir-
ey chaos o f corruption in high places,
and the misrule o f the people. A fino
republic, that! England follows in the
traio, and is even now en the brink of
the infernal precipice— and hell below.”
The fleatiaeat so emphatically ut­
tered by Douglas that this was a “ white
man’s govern meat, made by white men
for the benefit of white men and their
posterity,” has ¡latterly been scouted in
certain quarters as aa abominable her­
esy. W hat will those who so furiously
scout tbu idea o f “ a white man’s gov­
ernment,” say to the following, whioh
is a portion o f an address delivered be­
fore a recent Educational Convention
o f colored men, at Louisville, K y., by
P. H. Clark, a negro resident o f Cin­
cinnati :
“ I trust that I shall shock nobody’s
prejudices, alarm ao person’s fears for
my sanity, when I, a colored mau, and
a life-long agitator for colored men’s
rights, declare, as I now do, that this
is a white man’ s country. In all its
wide-spread grandeur o f mountain, val­
ley and plain, o f river, lake and ocean,
o f densely-crowded city and uninhabit­
ed wild, irons sterile, frozen Alaska to
the warm shores o f the Gulf, this couo
try belongs to the white mao, to him
and his heirs forever. It was a white
man’s ship that burst through the
gloom which had shrouded this conti­
nent from the eyes o f the old world for
so many centuries, and it was a white
man who leaped first upon the shore,
claiming the new land for himself and
his brethren. White men have con-
uered this continent.
Its teeming
elds, its miues, its wealth-producing
industries, its thousand cities, belong
to them. This is a white man’s civil­
ization. W e gain enlightenment from
a literature which, in all its varied d e ­
partments— philosophy, theology, phys­
ics, mathematics, poetry and the drama
— white men have been perfecting for
three thousaad years. Our Uniou o f
States, our guaranties o f free thought
and free speech, our method of enaeting
laws by men selected by the people—
all these are his peculiar modes, and
are the crystalised results o f his polit­
ical experience. la numbers, in intel­
ligent energy, the white man stands at
the head o f all the races which have
fouad a home in America,
White
m et have come to us by hundreds o f
thousands each year, by millions every
ten years. They have, do, should, and
will control the destinies o f the people
residing upon this continent.”
W e take the following beautiful ex­
tract from the speech d f ex-Governor
N. 8. Brown, o f Tennessee, ou the
oommmneratioo d a y : I believe in the
oapueity o f the people for self Govern­
m ent Constitutional Governmant is
not dead. L ike Lazarus, it has only
slumbered. I t Bill rise again in all its
fulness aud all its glory. In the lan­
guage o f another, “ Like the last tower
o f a ruined palace, it still holds its head
to heaven, where the walls o f its spleo
dor and the bowers o f its delight lie in
desolation around.” Its germ is still
alive and vigorous, and will re produce
the same venerable tree o f liberty be­
neath the broad, green shadows o f
which all these weary millions, North
and South, will nestle and find protec­
tion and repose. To accomplish all
this requires time and patience, and en­
durance, and charity, and justice.
There never was a civil war yet that
was not followed|by evils and disorders
o f greater or lesser magnitude. Like
the ocean when lashed by the tempest,
the sturdiest art and experience are im­
potent to resist, and when the storm is
over the waves still roll and break upon
the beach, but with less and leas vol­
ume, until at last the humblest bark
can ride with safety and security.
This national ocean o f ours has been
disturbed by a tempest such as we ne­
ver before encountered, brought ou by
fate, or folly, or crime, or passion, or by
whatever other cause. A nd though
its thunders have ceased to roar, its ele­
ments are still in commotion, but grad­
ually yielding to the mysterious laws
which govern human society— laws of
interest, o f justice and o f patriotism,
and quiet aud potent as those which
govern nature in her wide dominion.
This is the opinion o f a keen and
Professional cards will be inserted at $12 0b shrewd observer o f political affairs from
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an elevated standpoint where distance
Transient advertisements must be paid for lends enchantment to the view.
Could
in advance to insure publication. All other
he realize, by an actual personal pres­
advertising bills must be paid quarterly.
ence, the workings, ia ell its sickening
details, o f a system of corruption which
Blanks and Job Work o f every description
has been introduced into our political
furnished at low rates on short notice.
fabric by a recewgeful and proscriptive
radicalism, he would be struck with
T H E P O E T 'S CORNER.
amazement at the infatuation of one
portion of the people and the forbear­
THE THBEE CALLERS.
ance o f the other. Mr. Carlyle cer­
Morn called to the fair boy straying
tainly has no very elevated opinion o f
'Mid golden aseadows rich with clover dew;
She calls— but he still thinks o f naught save our system o f government or the intel­
playing.
ligence or virtue o f our people.
Legal tenders taken at their current value.
And so she smiles and waves him an adieu :
Whilst be, still merry with his flowery store,
I>eems uot that Mura—sweet Morn!— returns
no more.
Noon cometh—but the boy bo manhood growing,
Heeds not the time— he sbes but one sweet
form,
One young tair face, from bower o f jasmine
glowing.
And all Lis loving heart with bliss is warm.
So Noon, unnoticed, seeks the western shore,
And man forgets that Noon returns ne more.
Night tappetb gently at a casement gleaming
With the tbiu »¿relight, dickering faint and
low,
By which a grey-haired man is sadly dreaming
O’er pleasures gone as all life's pleasures go !
Night calls him to her, aud he leaves his door,
Silent and desolate, and retnrns no more.
G E N E R A L M ISC E LLA N Y .
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T o Y o u n g M e n . — You are t ie ar-
chitects o f your owu fortunes. Rely
upon the strength o f your own body
and soul. Take for your motto, “ Self
reliance and industry” ; for your stars,
faith, perseverance and pluck ; and in-
scribe on your banner, "B e just aud
fear not.”
Don’ t take too Much ad-
vice ; keep at the helm and steer your
own ship. Strike out. Think well of
yourself. Fire above the mark you in­
tend to hit.
Assume your position.
Don’ t practice excessive humility— you
can’ t get above your level— water does
not run up hill. Put potatoes in a cart
and over a rough road, and the small
ones will go to the bottom. Energy,
invincible determination, with a right
motive, are the levers that move the
world. The great art o f commanding
is to take a fair part o f the work. C iv­
ility costs nothing and buys everything.
Don’ tdrin k ; don’ tswear; don’ tsmofce;
don’t gam ble; don’ t steal; don’ t d e ­
c e iv e ; don’ t tattle.
Be polite; be
candid; be earnest; be self-reliant; be
prom pt; be generous; be kind ; study
hard; play hard; read good books;
love God, your fellow-men and your
country, and obey the laws; love vir­
tue ; do what conscience tells you to be
your duty, and leave the conseqaeaces
with God alone.
T iie I I e a x t s e a s e . — There is a good
fable told about a king’s garden, in
which, all at once, the trees and flowers
began to wither away; the oak, because
it could not yield aoy fair flowers ; the
rosebush, because it conld bear no fruit;
the vine, because it bad to cling to the
wall and could cast no cool shadow.
“ I am o f no use in the world,” said
the oak.
“ I might as well die,” said the rose­
bush.
“ W hat good can I do,” murmured
the vine.
Then the king saw a little heartsease
which all this time held up its little
cheerful face, while all the rest were
sad.
And the king said, “ W hat makes
you so bright and bkxuning, when all
the rest are fading?”
“ I thought,” said the little hearts­
ease, “ you wanted me here, because it
was bere you planted m e ; and so I
thought I would try and be the best
little heartsease that could be.”
Yonng reader, are yoa like the oak,
the rosebush and the vine, doing no­
thing because yon cannot do as much
as others can do ? Or, will you be like
the heartsease, and do your very best
in the little corner o f the vineyard ia
which God s hand has put y o a ?
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T iie T w o -H e a d e d G i b l . — The
wonderful two-headed girl is still on
exhibition in New England. She sings
duets by herself. She has a great ad­
vantage over the rest of her sex, for
she never has to stop talking to eat,
and when she is not eating she keeps
both tongues ruuning at once.
She
has a lover, and this lover is in a quan­
dary, because at one and the same mo­
ment she accepted him with one mouth
and rejected him with the other. He
does not know which to believe. He
wishes to sue for a breach of promise,
but this is a hopeless experitaeut, be­
cause only one half o f the girl has been
guilty of the breach. This girl has
two heads, four arms and four legs, but
only one body, and she (or they) is (or
are) seventeen years old. Now is she
her own sister? Is she twins? Or,
having but one body (and consequeptly
but one heart) is she strictly one per­
son ? I f the above named young man
marries her will he be guilty o f bigamy ?
This double girl has only one name,
and passes for one girl— but when she
talks back and forth with herself with
her two mouths is she soliloquizing?
Does she expect to have one vote or
two? Has she the same opinions as
herself oa all subjects, or does she dif­
fer sometimes? Would she feel in­
sulted if she were to spit in her own
face? Just at this point we feel com­
pelled to drop this investigation, for it
is rather too tangled for us.
P c d d i n o R i v e r .— A great many
times we hear the question asked as to
how “ Pudding River” received that
name. W hen riding in the stage from
Portland the other day in company with
Rev. J. L. Parrish, he related an inci­
dent of Oregon history that solved the
mystery. Ever so long ago (a third o f
a century at least, for it was several
years previous to 1840, when Mr. Par­
rish came to Oregon), a party o f the
then residents, old Hudson Bay Com­
pany men probably, took an elk hunt
up the Willamette Valley, and killed
several elk on the stream, then known
as the Han-chc-uke, near the point
where it joined the Willamette. These
forest epicures feasted on elk meat and
wound up the orgie with a blood pud­
ding. This delectable dish was not
well made, for it had no salt is it. The
effect on the eaters was quite unsatis­
factory, for it couldn’ t be kept down.
In fact, that pudding worked them so
treacherously aud so thoroughly that
when the story got currency the name
Han-che-uke was no longer preserved
in history, and the name Pudding was
adopted in its stead.— [Statesman.
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I ^ T h e r e is food for thought in the
story that is told o f a young man who
for the first time had accompanied his
father to a public dinner. lUio waiter
asked him, “ What will ydft take to
drink ?”
Hesitating for a moment, he
replied, “ I ’ ll take what father takes.”
The answer reached his father's ear,
and instantly the full responsibility ot
his position flashed upon him. Quick­
er than lighthing various thoughts
passed through his mind, and in a mo­
ment his decision was m ade; and in
tones tremulous with emotion, and to
the astonishment o f those who knew
him, he said, “ Waiter, I ’ ll take water.”
Fathers, take warning, for the decision
o f your sons to “ take what lather takes”
may not come to your ears so oppor-
tunelv.
C h i c a g o — A late visitor to Chicago
writes as follows to his home paper:
“ I went to hear Dr. Hatfield preach;
and pray yesterday afternoon.
He
prayed that the ‘ Lord would remove
from Chicago all intemperance, Sab­
bath-breaking, licentiousness, fraud,
profanity, cheating, and every form of
v ic e ;’ and then I did not hear the next
few sentences, because I was thiuking
what would be lefl of Chicago ! I fin
ally concluded that the Chicago river
and some perfumery would be left, and
so I gave attention to the rest o f the
prayer.”
£6F*Daniel Webster was right when
he remarked o f the press: “ Small is
the sum required to patronize a news­
paper ; amply rewarded its patron, I
care not how humble and unpretending
the gazette he takes. It is next to im­
possible U> fill a printed sheet without
putting into it something that is worth
the subscription price.”
VaB* A friend o f Horace Greeley
called and stated that he wished to se­
cure a place upon the Tribune for a
highly educated young man, urging
that the aspirant for editorial fame had
just graduated from college with all
the honors.
Greeley looked at him
with disgust depicted on his counte­
nance, and bringing his fist down with
emphasis, exclaimed. “ O f all horned
cattle, deliver me from a college grad­
uate !”
I ^ L e t a young woman take the de­
gree o f A - B.— that is, a bride— and
d ie « a y hope in due time to he entitled
tu that o f A . M.
N&"The men who flatter women do
cot know them sufficiently; aud the
men who only abuse them do aot know
them at aR.
RgTThe « a n who gives his children
a trade aud habits o f industry, provides
for them better than by giving them a
JK ^The Princess de Metternich is to fortune.
g& *Four things that come not back—
retire from the diplomatic world o f Paris
for a few mouths. She hopes it will the spoken word, the sped arrow, the
be a boy.
past life aud the neglected opportunity.
What p u tt Rays About the R adicals
In a late letter, Donn Piatt writes:
“ I have no reason to be ashamed o f the
fact that much o f the larger and better
portion o f m y lifo was passed as an ear­
nest, active Democrat. A nd while my
opinion o f the present organization is
not complimentary, I must Ray that in
all the political issues o f the day,
other than those that grew out o f the
extension o f slavery and the late war, I
am yet a Democrat. I believe in a
specie currency, free trade, a strict
construction o f the Constitution, and
an honest and economical administra
tion o f the Government. The belief
has become popular that I have come
to be a Democrat, because, for nearly
three years, I have been loud in my de­
nunciations o f the frauds, thefts, and
unjust taxation o f my own party. I f
this makes a Democrat, I feel sorry for
our own organization. The people are
sick and weary o f this political wrong­
doing, and if to be a Republican in­
volves the necessity o f its support, our
minority will be insignificant.”
Whereupon an exchange rem arks:
W e never saw a man who deserted the
Democratic party, but bragged o f the
fact that he was once a Democrat.
They look back to it as the hardened
criminal does to the days of his inno­
cence— the cyprian to the time when
she was pure. No one ever bragged of
being & Radical— no one ot once being
a horse thief.
Mr. Piatt is sick o f his prosent com ­
panions in politics. Being behind the
scenes, he has seen so much of the cor­
ruption that prevails in the organiza­
tion, that he is ashamed o f his compan­
ionship.
NO. 29.
NEW 8 Iff BRIEF.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS, AC.
— Bonner’s colt Joe Elliott made a
W . D . J E F F R IE S , M . D „
mile to wagon in New York City lately
P h y s ic ia n a n d S u r g e o n ,
in 2:191-
Boia, Oregoa.
— George Peabody died in London,
Special attention given to Obatetriea and
England, on the night o f Nov. 4. The
Diseases
of Women.
Itf
London Times says that the news of his
doath will he read with no common w r-
X» E . d a v i d s o n , m . d .,
s l d e s . ^ t,aBtîc: P h y s ic ia n
and
S u rgeon ,
Sentiments o f regret will not be « e r e
Independence, Ogn,
passing tributes to the munificent bene­
factor.
H e was a New Englander,
T . V . B . E m force.'
who, when the South was bowed down
to the dust, stepped forward and P H Y S I C I A N A S U R G E O N
AM ITY, YAM H ILL CO., OREGON.
claimed the right to succor her. He
was no courtier, yet he was honored by
Uffice at residence.
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sovereigns. He was as profuse in char­
B O Y H A ITI A L A W S O N , ~
ity as he was profuse in philanthrophy.
He was liked and highly honored. Attorneys A Counsellors-at-Law,
There was nothing hard or narrow
SALEM , OREGON.
about his philanthropy. He simply
OFFICE IN THE COURTHOUSE
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did whatever good came in his way.
C. G . C U R E ,
— Miss Laura Ellis, o f Louisville,
Kentucky, is anxious to learn some­ Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
SALEM , OREGON,
thing in regard to the whereabouts o f
her father, C. S. Ellis, whom she says Will practice in all the Courts o f Record and
Inferior Courts o f this State.
is a miner, and lived in Nevada City at
OFFICE
In Watkinds k Co’s Brick, up
one time.
stairs.
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— A woman gave birth to a pair of
H a y d e n & iffyer,
twins on a Pennsylvania railroad train
lately. She said it always did make
A T T O R N E Y S -A T - L A W ,
her sick to ride on the cars.
D alles, Oregon.
— A petition was filed in a St. Louis
OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE.
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Court on Nov. 3, by a woman named
Lucy Hall for a divorce from Ben. C.
SULLIVAN k WHITSON,
Sanford, a wealthy young man of this
city and married to the daughter o f one Attorneys k Counsellors-at-Law,
Dallas, O regon,
oi the first families.
The woman
claims she was married to Sanford in Will practice in all the Courts o f the State. 1
Indiana, in 1865, not knowing that he
J . L . C O L L IN S ,
was a married man, and that three
children are the result o f the union, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
Sanford’s friends assert it is a black­
Dallas, O r e g o n .
mail case. Others believe the woman’s
Special attention given to Collection* and to
statement.
matter» pertaining to Real Estate.
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— The Board o f Education at Cin­ L V C L K O L 8 V I N E Y A R D
JA8. a . TURNER.
cinnati, after a long discussion, has re­
V in e y a r d & T u r n e r ,
solved to prohibit the reading o f the bi-
ble in the public schools o f that city, by A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W ,
a vote o f 25 to 15.
D alla«, O regoli.
— O f eighty-four steamers which ply
OFFICE— On Main street,
eet, one door north o f
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between Europe and America, but five the Dallas Hotel.
are owned by American companies.
J. A. A P P L E G A T E .
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' V A S . MCCAIN.
— Paper petticoats having come into
A p p le g a t e A f f c C a in ,
fashion, the following advertisement
thereof appears in England : “ Mme. A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W ,
Percale begs leave to call the attention
Dallas. Polk County, Ogn.
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o f ladies about to visit the sea-side to
COX & E A R H A R T ,
her new and richly embroidered paper
petticoats at one shilling each. Each
petticoat contains an installment o f a
new novel of great domestic interest,
M OORE’ S BLOCS, SALEM .
by Anthony Trollope, entitled ‘ Tucks
or Frills.’ The story will be complete
Goods by the Package at Reduced Rates
in fifty weekly petticoats.”
WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCERS
mylO 3tf
In W heeling, a few days ago, a pho­
tographer took the picture ot a well- U n d e r w o o d , B a r k e r Sc. C o,
known toper as he was lying upon the
W A G O » M AKERS,
side-walk, and he was soon on exhibi­
tion in all the shop windows. The in­
Commercial street, Salem. Oregon,
ebriate signed the pledge next day.
ANUFACTURE A LL KINDS OF WAG-
— An ingenious man in Illinois has
ONS after the most approved styles and
patented a self-acting water elevator.
the best o f workmanship, on short notice, and
It is about the size o f a quart cup, but
AT PO R TLA N D P R IC E S !
will raise thirty gallons o f water from a
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well or cistern in an hour, and, by the
E . D. S L O A T ,
neeessary piping, will lead it all over
the house.
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C a r r ia g e a n d O r n a m e n t a l
— A mao by the name o f Ecke Eads,
in Greene county, N. Y ., is strangely
SIGN P A IN T E R ,
deformed. He is without cars, and ne­
ver had any.
He gathers sounds Commercial Street,
Opposite Starkey’s Block,
through the medium o f his mouth, and
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can hear anything said to him in an or­
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dinary conversation. And, equally as
strange, his hair is black, with white
spots, nearly as large as the palm o f a
man’s hand, interspersed through it.
S. C. S T I L E S ,
He is about 45 years of age, and the
C o m p e l l e d to go to S c h o o l .— happy possessor o f thirteen living chil Main st. (opposite the Coart House), Dallas«
Connecticut compels her children to be dren. His occupation is that o f a
ANUFACTURER AND D E A L E R I lf
educated. By a recent law, children chairmaker.
Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, • ‘-ollars.
under fourteen years o f age cannot be
— A man and his grandson went out Check Lines, etc., etc., o f all kinds, which he is
employed to labor in any manufactory
hunting in Arkansas. The boy got be­ prepared to sell at the lowest living rate«.
or other business, unless each child
jTSfr-REPAIRING done on short notice.
hind some bushes and whistled like a
shall have attended, for three months
turkey, and his grandfather shot him.
J . H e d g e s,
out o f the twelve, some public or pri­
—
W
hile
the
“
R
ev”
John
Jackson,
vate day school, under the charge o f a
SM ITH ,
teacher qualified to instruct in ortho­ of Ledbury, Herefordshire, England, b l a c k '"
graphy, reading, writing, English gram­ was preaching a few weeks ago, his for­
Main Street, Independence,
mar, geography and arithmetic. Any mer cook walked up to the tup of the
OES WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
person employing such child is liable middle aisle, with a young baby, and
in his line, in the must substantial man­
told the congregation it was the rec­
to a penalty o f $100 for each offense.
ner,
at
short notice.
tor’s.
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- TERM S REASONABLE.
— Human nature is constituted a
A calm blue-eyed young lady down
Give me a call and try my work.
good deal like the donkey. Tell it it
east received a long call the other day,
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shan’ t and it w ill; put on the break
from a prying old spinster, who, after
and it increases in speed; crack the
Frederick H u m ,
prolonging her stay beyond the young
whip and it strikes a h a lt; tickle its
iady’s endurance, came at length to
ribs and it returns a blow on the peep­
the mam question : “ I ’ ve been asked
ers ; stroke its back aBd it hoists its
a good many times i f you were engaged
Main street, Corner o f Monmouth,
tail.
to Dr. C------- . Now, i f folks enquire
IN D E P E N D E N C E .
— Emma W ebb lectured ia Brooklyn
again whether you be or set, what
the other eveniag in favor of womau’s
shall I tell ’ em I think ?” “ Tell * « « ”
A VINO JUST ESTABLISHED MYSELF
modesty, grace and beauty, and op­
in business at Independence, 1 solicit a
answered the young lady, “ that you
posed the strong-minded females.
fair share of business from the citizens o f Polk
think you don’ t know, and that yam are
adjoining counties.
— The ladies o f Austin. Minnesota, aud
sure it’s none o f your business.”
AU kinds of work iu my line done in the beat
are very particular. A man was fined style, tin short .notice, aud at the most reason­
A Rule house well filled, a little $13 for squeezing the hand o f one o f able rates.
fitr Call aud Examine my W ork, 15^
land well tilled, and a little wife well them.
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