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STEAMBOAT NOTICE !
Stv. E. jNT. COOKE,
Win leave OREGON CITY for PORTLAND
every day Except Sunday, at 7H o'clock,
-. m. K-'turning, will leave I'ort land for
Oregon City at 2M o'clock, P. M.
tr. ALICP,
Will leave OREGON CITY for CORVALT.TS
every Monday and Thursday of each week.
Str.DAYTON,
. ill leave OREGON' CITY for MoMINN
li 'JjAi' AYfrrTE nd I'aYTOX, and
nt.r?in w'.'11- every Mondav. Wed-rh,M?nn?d.?da-Vof
achweek. leaves
with 8 .:?,ocfe. A- m., and connect
with the train at Canemah at 9, a. m.
Stv. ALBANY,
evcrv w t E and aH intermediate points
leaves OREuovnTVf
all intermeulate rSIJ Cr ALBANY and
erv week e Plnts betweon twice ev-
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CALL AND SETTLE.
fully requested to eall I?,c, ar" "ereet
counts to the ll of Vanunr viV- th,ei'
all my accounts closed mk' 1 desire
the New Year, and those ? ng of
seU-es indebted will conferl th"m
me by making early pavrneT VOr on
janl5if i '
J " N ORRIS.
notice;
MM WIFE. MARTHA J. STFWit'
havinc left my bed and Vd
out fust cause or provocation, all nereis
are hereby notified not to harbor w t n?
her on ray account, as I shall nav J?Z
debts of her contracting from and aftiS
thtsdat?. . R. E. STEWART
Dec. 30, ISTl-lw. AKL
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ViU Ha!
A.LEVYS
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY,
Tlie Snuff-colored Suit.
I scarcely know how it happened,
but a timber must have fell and
struck me on the head.
The first thing that I realized after
it was that I was straight and still
on something hard, and when I tried
to move myself and speak, I found
it impossible to do so. I concluded
that I must be in some very dark,
tight place, for I could not see; in
fact I soon learned that, though per
fectly concious. I could do nothing
but hear. A door opened and foot
steps approached; but I felt a cloth
taken from my face, and a voice
which I recognized as that of Mr.
J ones, the father of my wife that was
to be said:
"lie hasn't changed much," and
his companion, whose voice I knew
to be the village undertaker, Hop
kins by name, said lightly:
"Better looking dead than alive.
How does Jerusha feel about it ?
Take on much ?"
"Oh, no, she had her eyes on an
other fellow anyhow, and a better
match, too, except the money part.
Though I had nothing against Ben,
only he didn't know much, and was
about the homeliest man I ever knew.
Such a mouth; why it really seemed
as though he was going to swallow
knife, plate and all, when he opened
it 2t tanner,
said the cheerful voice of
, ,
Honkins "he'Jl never open his mouth
again," and then he proceeded to
measure for my coffin for it seemed
that I was dead, or they thought I
was, which was all the same to the
greedy pocket of the undertaker. J
had heard of undertakers who always
whistled when they got a measure,
but I never believed it before. But
that man actually whistled a subdued
dancing-tune while he measured me,
and it seemed to me that three or
four -icicles were rolling down-my
back to tho music of his tune.
His duty done, they covered my
face again and left me to my own
reflections, which were not particu
larly comforting, although I had
often heard it remarked that medita
tion was good for the soul, and this
was the best chance I had ever had
for trying it.
An hour must have passed when
the door again opened, and two per
sons came whispering along to where
I lay, and the voice of my promised
wife fell upon my ear.
"I dread to look upon him, Bob;
he was so mortal homely, alive, he
must be frightful dead."
I ground my teeth in imagination,
as I remembered how often she had
gone into raptures, or pretended to,
over my noble brow ami expressive
mouth, and how she had often de
clared that if I were taken away from
her she would surely pine away and
die.
One of them raised the cloth, and
I knew they were looking at me.
Bob was her second cousin, and I
knew he was that "other fellow," her
father had mentioned.
"Seems to me you don't feci very
bad about his dving, 'Rusha, remark
ed Bob.
"Well, to tell the truth," said my
dear betrothed, "I don't care much
about it. If he had lived I should
have married him, because he was
rich and father wanted me to; but I
was getting about sick of my bargain
for I knew I should always be asham
ed of him, he looked so much like a
baboon."
"But you loved him," remarked
Bob.
"Xo I didn't! Mv affections were
wasted long ago on one who never
returned my love;" and my fast-fading
idol sighed heavily.
They had covered my face by this
time, and were standing a few steps
fromjwhere I la-.
"About how long ago 'Rusha?
asked Bob.
"A year or such a matter," with
another deep sigh, which ended in a
fit of sneezing.
"About the time I went away?" in
terrogated tho cautious Bob, cough
ing a little.
"Well, yes, some'res near," assent
ed my dear affianced.
"Now, Jerusha, you dont mean to
insinuate that I "
"I don't mean to insinuate any
thing, Bod Smith!"' and the angelic
sweetness of her voice was same what
sharpened.
"Now see here, 'Rusha, I've loved
you ever since you Ave re knee-high
to a gopher, but I thought when you
came home that you was sweet on
that other chap; but I swan I believe
you liked me all the time!"
"Oh, Bob!" said my was-to-be, in
a gushing sort of way.
"Mine own 'Rusha!" remarked
Bob.
Then I heard a subdued rush, ac
companied by violent lip-explosions.
I tried to kick, or grate my teeth, or
do something to relieve my outraged
feelings, but not a kick nor a grate
could I raise. It was an awful fix to
be in, but I had to stand it, or lay it,
so I laid still and let 'em alone until
they got tired of it, and then they
went out, and I was again left to my
own nleasant reflections.
Nicrht came, and so did a lot of
voting fellows with their girls, to sit
up with me; and they had a jolly
time.of it. although it was against
my principles to enjoy it on so sol
emn an occasion.
It seemed an age until morning,
but it came at last and they went
away. I heard them say I was to bo
buried that day at 2 o'clock, and I
was beginning to feel decidedly shaky
when jerusha and her mother came
into the room and began arrangiug
for the funeral.
"'Rusha," said her mother, "here's
that snuff-colored suit of poor Ben's;
of course he will never have any
more use for clothes, so just put
them awav among vour carpet-rags;
they'll make a splendid stripe." -
-v thai particular feUit of clothes
was just the neatest one I ever
owned, arm-holes, collars, waist
bands, buttons, all just the thing,
and my blood boiled to hear them
talk so coolly of using them for
stripes in a rag carpet. They kept
on talking as they swept, dusted and
cleaned up the room. '
Bob says he will take the Martin
farm to work this year," sum Jeru
sha, cheerfully, "and as soon as we
are married we shall go to house
keeping in that little cottage Close to
the road. Now I must get my car
pet done, as soon as possible, for 1
want it in that nice little front room.
These duds of Ben's will mase out
enough rags, I guess. His folks
live so far away they will never in
quire about his clothes. iow, if it
wasn't for the looks of it, we could
ask old mother Smith about coloring
yellow; she is sure to be here, to
day." I was getting very mad now, in
deed. I felt that the crisis was near,
and that I should either die or ex
plode, if they did not let my snuff
colored suit alone. Jerusha picked
them up I knew it, for I heard the
buckles and buttons jingle and
made for the door. I tried to shake
my list and 3rell at her, but all in
vain. I laid there, outwardly as
quiet as a lamb, inwardly boiling
with wrath. It was too much; the
deepest trance could not have held
out against tho loss of that suit.
With a powerful effort I sprang up
and screamed. Jerusha dropped my
clothes and her mother the duster,
and both fled from the room, and the
house, never stopping until they
reached Dr. Brown's across the street.
With difficulty I managed to get my
clothes'. I had just got them fairly
on. when Mrs. Jones and her daugh-
ter, followed
oy a numerous com
women and children,
cautiously . into the
pany of metl,
came peering
room. 1 sat on my poaru anu look
ed at them. Such a scared-looking
crowd was enough to amuse u2 owl,
so I laughed; I knew it was unbe
coming, but I couldn't have helped
it if they had chucked me into my
coffin which the undertaker was
just then carrying past the window
and buried me the next minute. I
laughed until I jarred the chair out
from under one end of the board,
and down I went with a crash. Then
tho doctor ventured into the room,
saying, rither dubiously:
"So you are not dead yet, Bon ?"
"Well, no, not exactly," I replied;
"sorry to disappoint my friends
about the funeral, however."
"Yes," he said rather absently,
"bad, rather that is ahem!"
'Fooled out of that snuff-colored
stripe!" I thought, as I looked at
Jerusha.
"Go and speak with him," said her
father, "He's got the stamps, and
you had better marry him after all."
They had began to gather around
me and congratulate me on my es
cape. I noticed that they cried a
great deal more now than they did
when I was dead. Jerusha came
and hung around my neck, sniveling
desperately. I gave her a not over
gentle push and told her to wait next
time until I .vas safely buried before
she set her heart on my old clothes.
"O, I'm so glad!" she said sweetly,
not appearing to notice what I said
about the clothes, "that you are not
dead, Benny, dear. My heart seem
ed all withered and broken to see
3-ou lying all cold and white. I wept
bitterly over your pale face, my be
loved." "Yes," I replied, "I heard you and
Bob taking on t terribly. It was a
lucky die for me."
"Could you hear?" she gasped.
"I rather think I could some," I
replied.
She looked toward tho door, but it
was crowded full, so she made a dive
for the open window and went
through it like a deer. She shut
herself up in tho smoke-h6u.se, and
would not come out until I had left
tho house.
Bob woulc. not fulfill his promise
of marriage with his cousin because
she tried to make up with me again;
so she is living a life of single bless
edness. While I am writing, my wife is
cutting up my snuff-colored clothes
to make a stripe in a new carpet for
our front room.
A "Republican" Form of Got
eminent. Some modern politicians appear to
think, remarks tho Philadelphia In
quirer, that when the Constitution
says that "the United States shall
guarantee to every Stato in this Un
ion a republican form of govern
ment," it means a government by
the Republican party. Sucli is evi
dently the idea of Marshal Packard,
of New Orleans, who informed the
Congressional Investigating Commit
tee, the other day, that he "did not
believe a Republican State Govern
ment could maintain itself in this or
any other Southern State without
the aid and protection of the United
States troops." It is a very obvious
remark that a government which can
only be maintained by military force
is scarcely "republican" even in
"form," in the sense contemplated
by the Constitution, and most people
will be disposed to sav that a gov
ernment which can only be thus
maintained ought not to be maintain
ed at all.
Not Adversity. "Ah. Sam. so
l.nA Uaah in T-rf-mt a lioro TTrtTl 9"
"Yes, Jim, yes. w eu, wen, cneer
up, man; aaversuy tries us, buu j
slmvrs nn our best finalities." "Ah.
but adversity didn't try me; it was j
an aid vagabond of a judge, and he ;
showed up my worst qualities.
When
was the greatest freak of !
When Mary had a litt'e
nature?
lamb.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOPJJIA,
FEBRUARY 12, 1675.
Confronted by History.
From the San Francisco Examiner. .
Lee surrendered April 9th, 1865.
President Lincoln lost not a moment
in commencing the work of recon
struction, saying: We have con
quered them with arms; we will now
conquer them with magnanimity."
His assassination, six days after the
surrender, was the greatest calamity
that could have befallen the country.
The Radicals said: "God has re
moved him because his heart was
softened toward rebels.". They were
exasperated at President Johnson for
adhering to Lincoln's policy, and.
at the convening of Congress in the
following December, seats were re
fused the Representatives of recon
structed States which, after having
"abolished slavery forever, declared
secession null and void, and repudi
ated the rebel debt" had been rec
ognized by the President, and whose
Representatives were willing and
ready to take the "test oath." Two
States Louisiana and Tennessee
were virtually restored under Lin
coln's Administration; and on the
ISth of December, President John
son informed Congress that eight of
the late insurrectionary States had
reorganized their State Governments,
and were yielding obedience to the
laws and government of the United
States." With this message was a
confirmatory report of the General
of the Army Grant.
The condemnation of the Lincoln
Johnson policy by Congress, the
appointment of the Reconstruction
Committee, and the evident deter
mination to repudiate the acts of the
Predecessor caused Seward and
Johnson to hasten the execution of a
design to nationalize the Union par
ty, in anticipation of the reorganiza
tion of the Democratic party on a
national basis. It involved general
amnesty, the rehabilitation of the
"eleven States," and affiliation with
the white men of the South in oppo
sition to oppression, and to the doc
trine of Universal Suffrage.
With Grant's co-operation, no dif
ficulty was apprehended concerning
the former but the latter was deemed
impossible, so long as advocates of
universal suffrage were recognized
as leaders in the party, or exponents
of the principles of a considerable
part thereof.
Grant willingly co-operated; and
Senator Doolittle, it will bo remem
bered, ostensibly assumed lea
dership in organizing the National
party, which culminated in the Phil
adeljihia Convention. Excepting
Doolittle, few, if any, knew or sus
pected the complicity of the Presi
dent, Seward, or Grant, with the
movement.
A trap was set for the advocates of
universal suffrage in Congress, to
isolate them from the National
Union party, and the Administration.
Grant was sent South, on a tour of
inspection, with orders to report to
theP resident, which he did, Decem
ber 17, 1SG3. He reported the Freed
me'n's Bureau corrupt, and advised
the abolistion of all its sub-agencies,
and that the duties thereof should be
assigned to small garrisons of white
troops, conveniently stationed, so
that, at the same time, they might
guard against outbreaks by the ne
groes, growing out of their sudden
transition from slavery to freedom;
that the leading men in the South
had accepted the situation in good
faith, and were anxious to retnrn to
their duties under the Constitution
and laws of the United States; and
he recommended the rehabilitation
of the Southern States. In short, his
report was a full justification of the
Lincoln-Johnson policy, and furnish
ed the frame for the platform of the
National Union party.
The President kept this report in
his pocket. Accompanying his Mes
sage to Congress, December ISth, he
sent another report from Grant,
made " after a tour of inspection
through the South," and which re
ferred exclusively to the subject
matter of said Message. In other
words, Grant made two reports, one
for the President to use when it
might best serve the interests of the
National Union party, and one for
immediate use.
On the 14th of February, 18CG,
the President vetoed the Freedmen's
Bureau Bill. To Congress it was a
" clap of thunder in a clear sky." It
caused much excitement in Wash
ington, but none elseichere. The more
conservative of the party members,
asked, " Why were we not consult
ed?" The extremes cried out from
their seats in Congress, "He is a
traitor!" Seward went to New l'ork
and made a speech in defence of the
veto. His services were instantly
forgotten, and he, too, assailed. This
was the springing of the trap, and
part of the programme. Had the
President published Grant's report
at that time, the National Union
partv would have lived; but it was
ill-advisedly withheld for another
purpose. However, the Democratic
vote,- with the votes of eight Con
servatives, sustained the veto. On
the 27th of March, the Civil Rights
Bill was vetoed. Meantime, the
Radicals had made such headway
against the Administration, four
Conservatives were from its support,
and the bill was passed.
Grant's report was still withheld
from the public the President and
Seward relied upon it to administer
the coup de arace to the expected re
port of the Reconstruction Commit
tee, and to rally the people to the
support of the Administration. But
the committee's report was not pre
sented until the latter part of June,
or the early part of July. When it
was in print, Grant's report was pub-
lished. which not onlv eave it lh
hed, which not only gave it the
falsehood, but showed that the Pres-
ldents policy was based upon-?
f irant s views, as lieneral of thA A r-..
erai ot tne Ar- f
. fact that Sew-i
t,rith Grant's;
my. ana exposea tne
jrvl and flip Prpsii Iftnf
co-operation, were the prime movers
in promoting the organization of the
National Union party. But, alas!
the trap set for the few, caught the
many. The document was terrible.
There were but few members of the
so-called Union party in Congress,
who had not severed themselves so
completely from the Administration,
that it was vain for them to expect
position in the National party, and
what;c-uld they do? .. '-
1 Caucus after caucus was held, be
fore they could contrive a way out of
the dilemma; but, finally a general
course was agreed upon. First, the
Report of the Reconstruction Com
mittee should be verified; second,
the white men of the South, on whom
the National Union party depended
for its existence, should "be disfran
chised, and the suffrage be conferred
upon the negroes with whom they
would affiliate in nationalizing a Rad
ical party.
Thus, before the sun rose thrice
and set again, a majority of the so
called Union party in Congress, who
had been (as Avere their constituents)
opposed to universal suffrage, es
poused that doctrine as a dogma of
their political faith, and proclaimed
it to be a "great necessity !
To discredit Grant's report, and
verify that of their own committee
it was not enough to compile and
publish, at public expense, an octavo
volume containing eight hundred
pages of one-sided testimony which
said committee had collected; but it
was necessary that some great outrage
should be committed by the South
ern people, as evidence of their dis
loyalty. Poor Lonisiana was selected by
the Reconstruction Committee, as
the target-field, and, through the
direct agency of said Committee, an
attempt was made to revivify and re
assemble the Constitutional Conven
tion of 18G4, that had been functus
officio for more than two years, for
the avowed object of disfranchising
"rebels," and conferring suffrage up
on negroes a revolutionary proceed
ing which they knew would cause
bloodshed.
The negroes were made wild by
the exhortations of the scoudrel Dos
tie and others, and they marched
through the streets, Bhouting, yell
ing, and brandishing such weapons
as they could obtain. Mayor Monroe
waited upon thoDistrict commander,
General 13aird, and informed him of
the revolutionary proceeding. He
requested that sufficient troops might
be sent into the city to preserve the
peace; that he intended to arrest the
ringleaders by civil process, etc., etc.,
and that, without troops, it would be
impossible to preserve the peace.
General Sheridan, commander of the
department, was away, and Baird
telegraphed to the Secretary of War
(Stanton) for instruction. Stanton
suppressed the dispatch until after
the riot, as President Johnson in
formed Congress. Sheridan was
back in New Orleans two days after,
and telegraphed to General Grant
that the leaders were revolutionary
men, and that he had made up his
mind to arrest them as such, had he
been there.
These extracts from history are
sufficient to impress those who read
them, with the unexampled turpitude
of both Grant and Sheridan, incit
ing the New Orleans riot of 18GG, in
defence of their recent attempts to
subvert the civil law in Louisiana.
What can Oregon Exhibit I
Department 1, in the coming exhi
bition, consists of materials in their
un wrought condition minerals, veg
etable and animal; and group ten of
this department will be devoted ex
clusively to minerals, ores, building
stone, metals and metallurgical pro
ductions, including miscellaneous
and systematic collections of miner
als, iron and eteel, copper, tin, lead,
&c, &c, viewed as materials.
It seems almost like a waste of
time to call the attention of our peo
ple to the importance of improving
so favorable an opportunity of ad
vertising to the world in a tangible
form the immense undeveloped
wealth and mineral resources of our
State. Doubtless many will say,
"O, we can't make any show com
pared to California, and it's all fool
ishness to try." Grant that in the
display of gold and silver we cannot
compete with California, is this any
good reason why we should neglect
to make known to the rest of the
world by exhibition that we have the
precious metals in quartz, placer and
sand-beach " diggings" in almost all
parts of the State. The ignorance
existing in the older States relative
to the mineral resources of Oregon
is well illustrated by an item we saw.
in an Eastern paper a year or two
ago, giving the wonderful informa
tion that "lead had recently been
discovered in Oregon, and as that
State had no auriferous districts
within its territory tlm discovery is
one in which our people were greatly
i
interested.
This is but a single instance in
multitudes of cases that might be
quoted that would go to show the
want of some reliable plan by which
to make our State known to older
countries. While a single county in
this State has produced its millions
of gold, Oregon, for lack of making
herself known, has, and will still
continue to have, as a general rule,
her gold and silver productions cred
ited to California, unless our people
take pains to make our resources
known to the outside world.
In the display of precious metals,
what would erive a State more noto-
! riety than a fine gold brick from our
1 beach diggings, with
specimens 01
' sand from which" it w
sand from which" it was taken, ana
f a statement (which can be easily au-
thenticated) that gom exisseuiu uU
heoeh Rands, ana m u uuuw
Deacn sanas, anu m
places in. paying quantities from our
southexn Wndry to '.the moutlx of
NO.- 16.
the Columbia river. What could be
more creditable or a better adver
tisement to our State than speci
mens of quarts and free gold from
Jackson, Josephine and Douglas
counties, with a statement of the ex
tent of territory these mines cover;
and also similar specimens and state
ments from our eastern counties, as
"well as quartz containing beautiful
thread gold from the Santiam mines.
An exhibition of this kind, although
not expected to overshadow the dis
play from California, would place
our State in its true light and induce
foreign capital to be invested in de
veloping onr mineral resources that
now lay untouched and unproduc
tive for want of means and skilled
labor.
Add to our gold and silver exhibit
specimens of native bronze and cop
per, from Josephine; lead from San
tiam; marble, lime and brown sand
stone for building purposes, from
Douglas; coal from Coos; iron from
Oswego, and asplialtum from Grant
and Wasco; Xnd we doubt much if
California or any other State would
make a better display or would re
ceive greater benefits from their dis
play, than would be derived to the
people of Oregon.
I might here add that the mineral
and geological cabinet of Prof. Con
don, which for wealth of scientific
geological history, and rare speci
mens, no other State has ever pro
duced within its own bounds, would
not only be a credit to our own State
but a grand acquisition to geological
science and an honor to our whole
nation.
The Centennial Exhibition is sure
to transpire in 1876. 1st importance
is attracting the attention of tho
thinking part of the community in
other States, as well as the entire
civilized world. Shall our State be
represented there in its native mate
rial wealth?
OUR FISnEItlES.
Group 17, department 1, in the
Centennial Exhidition, is devoted
to fish and aqnatic life and fish pro
ducts, comprising fish for food, fresh
and preserved, oysters, shells, coral,
sea-weed, whalebone, &c.
In some of the articles in this
group, we believe Oregon can and
should surpass any other part of the
world. It is true our Tisnenes can
not be fully advertised by a practi
cal exhibition of their products
without systematized effort and a
small expenditure of money; but
what would this be in comparison to
the benefits that would accrue to
those who are engaged in this branch
of industry, by practically exhibiting
to the world the superior quality of
their wares.
Our bays, inlets and rivers teem
with salmon of the finest quality for
hundreds of miles along our entire
coast, and although our export the
present season will amount to be
tween fifteen and twenty million
pounds, we venture the assertion
that nine-tenths of all that is con
sumed in the Eastern States is sold
by the retail dealers as "the beauti
ful canned salmon from California."
While in Chicago, in the spring of
1873, we accepted an invitation to a
private dinner, where, among other
delicacies, the guests were treated to
some "beautiful spiced salmon from
California," and when we informed
our hostess it was from one of onr
extensive fisheries in Oregon, she, as
well as others, expressed great sur
prise to learn that the canning busi
ness was carried on in that distant
country, where the awful Modocs
were so dangerous. But if our fish
eries are credited to our sister State,
and our mining, mechanical, grazing
and agricultural resources develop
slow, or remain unproductive for
want of skilled labor and capital to
adopt the course pursued by other
new States, and give a practical dem
onstration to the outside world that
we have the material here in abun
dance to see our State increase in
wealth and population, and prosper
ity greet us on every hand. The
extent and importance of the fisher
ies of Oregon,- when' fully developed
and systematically worked, are scare
ly comprehended by our own people,
and this branch of industry at no
distant day will become one of our
staple exports and return millions
annually to our State.
Then let us place before other
States and countries at the coming
exhibition specimens of our salmon
as well as our mountain trout can
ned, spiced, dried and pickled in the
most approved style, and in the best
possible state of preservation. And
let this be accompanied with a full
sized salmon and the largest trout
that can be obtained, preserved in
alcohol, and exhibited in glass cases.
An exhibit of this description
could be prepared and sent forward
with trifling cost, and at the close of
the fair would sell , for more than
enough to reimburse the doner for
all his oains. A condensed state
ment of quality, quantity, manner of
procuring and preparing,
with the
capacity of the State for producing
and supplying the material should
accompany all articles intended for
exhibition.
These reports will be compiled and
bound and form the basis for com
puting the productive capacity of
the whole United States.
A. J. Dtjftjk,
Commissioner for Oregon.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, the
handsome and accomplished wife of
General Fremont, and a daughter of
Thomas Benton, has begun a series
of sketches of distinguished persons
she has known for the New York
Ledger. Her list of notables thus far
includes Chief Justice Marshall,
Taney and Chase; Presidents Pierco
and Van Buren; Charles Summer
and others, all of whom she gossips
.
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