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TheDaily Exanriner

‘FEBRUARY 10, 1886.

Failures !

Tae Monetary Times of last week gives the following interesting table of the failures othe Domiuion from 1882 to

1885 :—

Province, No. 1832. No. 1883. Amount. Amount, OUtATED oo cteess til $3,829, 195 wT $4,702,134 Quebec..........240 3,133,018 38 G4A73,901 Nova Scotia . & 681,859 ) 1,068,827 New Rrunsw'k. 45 4! } {8 "47.159 P. E. Island 13 I 0 5 40,300 Manitoba... 25 218.400 239 2,869,000 Total ote $8, 4S8/ 3 «1379 «= $15, 901,361

Province. No. 188! No. 1885. Amount, Amount. Ontario | $9 GO? 202 600 $1,088,217 Quebec... AO 4,766,180 407 2,710,605 Nova Scotia iw » DGS S50 108 615,579 New Brunsw'k. 73 1,570,237 Gt 594,655 . EB. deland.... 7 146.000 2 11,700 Manitoba.. 7 736,001 66 722,447 Total.....1308 $18,939,770 1247 $8,743,059

And The Monetary Times remarks:

“The ficures for Prince Edward Island are yery striking. I utistics can be relied on the trade of the island must be in an uncommonly healiny

osition. If we could bring up the whole Domin jon to the standard of this little Province we should present a most creditable record to the world, and business would be freed from the in- numerable worries that are inseparable from it

when failures are so numerous and important as they have been for some years back.”

This is the summing up of an inde- pendent commercial paper on a review ot the most reliable statistics that can be obtained. It is a high compliment to men of business ic this Province, and a sufficient answer to our army of local croakers.

O( late there have been some evidences of over-competition and extravagance, but we hope that prudence and careful- ness will continue to prevail in all the branches of our Provincial trade.

Grits.

‘* if the Telegraph objects to the term ‘Grit,’ as applied to the party said to be led by Mr. Blake, why does it not furnish the public with another name by which to designate the party! ‘The Canadian Oppo- sition ismot Liberal in policy, nor ia it composed of Liberals. It is led in this province by a Conservative and in Nova Scotia by another. Its leading politician after Blake is a Conservative. Bat the Canadian Opposition could noi correctly, as a body, be called Conservative. They are neither Conservatives nor Liberals. This beiny the case, in defanlt of another name, we think it not impolite to apply the title whieh Mr. Mackenzie was well pleased to wear, to the remnant of the party which Mr. Mackenzie once led.” —St. John Sun.

Tue Grits in P. E Island are pre- cisely the same. They are neither Liberals nor Conservatives. They are an amalgamated party of old Tories and a few old Liberals, who, as anti- confederates, formed a party in opposi- tion to Confederation under the leader- ship of the present Chief Justice, who ai that time was Attorney-General, and a Tory of the Tories. The editor of the Patriot himseif was ia former days a Tory, as were also several of the leading | mea of the present Grit party. The| origin of the word Tory is a debatable

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The Fine Arts in Canada. AN exhibition of paintings, and drawings by Canadian artists is now being held in Ottawa by the Royal Canadian Academy. [t is pleasing to note in the list of exhibi- tors the names of Messra. Robert Harris, aud W. ©. Harris, jr., of this city, and to seo that their work is highly appreciated by the press and people of the Upper Pro- vinces. Of Mr. Robert Harris’ exhibit the Ottawa Journal says: ‘‘As we enter the door the first picture that meets the eye is Mr. R. Harris’ fine painting, (156) entitled ‘“‘Moeting of the Trustees in a back Settle- ment school; the teacher talking them ver.” Thisis a thoroughly representative Canadian painting, by one of the cleverest of Canadian artists. It will go to the heart fany one who has ever had to struggle with the narrow-minded ignorance of those petty educational tyrants, who beset the path of the teacher, in outland places like this, where the school is some- thing to be carefully watched and ragula- ted. The four trustees are seated .in the schoolroom., The teacher is a young girl, and she is doing her best with them. The figures are all genuine ; their faces are all irawn to the life. Her task is evidently a heavy one. The only serious faults in the pictare are that the forms of the men stand out too much from the canvas. They seem to have been put there too much for their own sakea, and without suflicient re- gard to the surroundings. Aliso there is not enough dramatic interest given to the figure of the woman. Mr. Harris has missed somewhat of the poetic possibili- ties of his subject. Nevertheless this is in some respects the finest painting in the exhibiiion, and wo are almost sorry to turn from it to his other great picture “By the Shores of Gaspe”’ (125) whichis the second largest onexhibition. It represents alove making scene between two of the fisher folk of that remote coast. After the other it is disappointing. It seems to ns, despite the beauty of the figures and color- ing, unreal and theatrical. The characters are not genuine love-makers, but like people who have dressed up for a play. The surroundings also lack interest and are scarcely trae to nature. Mr. Harris has two other works on exhibition, ‘‘An Indian Squaw and Papoose” (174) and ‘‘a Prairie Indlan’’ (177) both valuable pictures. Bat Mr. Harris’ painting par excellence in his ‘School Trustee,”

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“A Nigh; with Scottish Poets.”

EXCELLENT as was the Rov. James Carru- thers’ former lecture, the entertainment of Jast night was even more delightful. I: consisted ofa lecture upon Scottish Poets, with illustrations of their poems, read by the Reverend Lecturer end illustrated by ballads, singing by Mrz. Roome, Mrs. Strickland, Mra. Malcolm McLaod and Mrs. Dustan, and instrumental mausic by Measrs, Earle and Watson. The ballads represented the heroic aspect of Scottish music, the homely life of Seotland’s crafts- men, aud the deserved love of her northern swains. Barns, Scott, Hogg, Tananahill, Motherwill, and other posts were criticised by the lecturer, who toyed with his hearers’ feelings as he led them in delightful transi- tions from pathos to amusement, through interostiag fields,» and ended his lecture with perhaps the most touching extract ever heard in Charlottetown, “The Last Look at Wee Davie.”

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King’s County Liberal Conserva- tive Association.

question. It is generally admitted, | however, that it is derived from the | Gaelic word * Toabh-Righ” which moans | “oa the side of the King,” thereby dis- | tinguishing the Tories of oldea times, from the enemies of order and good} government. The man, therefore, who| is a Liberal-Conservative iu this Canada | of ours, or a Tory, according to the) Patriot and other Grit organs, veed not | be ashamed of the appellation.

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United Action.

Ir has been suggested that united | action be taken in the establishment of an | Agricultural School or College in some! central section of the Maritime Provinces | Such a school would undoubtedly be a} very great benefit to the rising generation | of farmers. But how can it be founded | and maintained? Government aid would |

' ‘ ss Todenend At . 9 ‘ at first be necessary ;and it is almost;°” ' ntl af ~ nour @ a ) ee ' an . ..,/one hundred Chinamen haverbeen put o certain that the different Provincial |; i Provincial ‘board. An attempt was made by the riot-

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The London Bread Riots.

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must sound strangely in the ears of the thousands who are starving in the Motherland. “A free loaf” is, it appears, of little avail, if the people have not money with which to purchase it; and the money cannot be obtained because the products of English manu- factories are hampered in foreign mar- kets. Wheat is plentiful everywhere ; and men are starving in Free Trade Engladd! There is evidently something wrong. ;

— The conclusion of Mr. Bent's ex- cellent paper on “ Imperial Federatios,”

etc., is published in this issue of Tuz

Examiner. There are, of course, two or more sides to every great question ; aud it will be admitted that Mr. Bent has presented the reverse side of Iraperia!l Federation with great force and clearness. Mr, Full’s peper on the

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in London will add to the! complications and difficulties with which | the new Goverument has to contend. | time in which troops could be transported The cry of “a free breakfast table’’| is seven hours, and even if they should start

The annual meeting of the King’s; County Liberal Conservative Association | will be held at the market Hall, at George- town, on Tueedsy, the 23rd inst., at 3}

As this will be the meeting for the election of officers, and as import- | ant business will be transacted, it is expest- | ed that as great a number of Liberal Gonger- |

vatives as possible, including the delegates | from the several polling divisions through- out the County, will be in attendance. Cyrus SHaw, Secretary. New Perth, Feb. 6, 1886.

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The Chinese Must Go.

A Portland, Oregon, despatch of. the 6th inst., says the Chinese are being rapidly driven out of settled Washington territory. It is understood that the Knights of Labor are atthe head of the movement. The Chinamen are marched to a steamer lying at the wharf and the strikers pay steerage passage for San Francisco for eaca one put

ers to force other Chinese on board without paying their fare. The captain stationed men with hose, prepared to throw five streams of boiling water into the mob if such an attempt is made. The Mayor of Seattle and other prominent citizens tele- graphed to Vancouver barracks asking General Gibbons, commanding department at Columbia, for troops. Gen. Gibbons has telegraphed to the War Department, but no authority has yet come from Washington to send troops. Vancouver is 150 miles dis- tant from Seattle, and transportation would be effected by boat and rail, The shortest

to-night they would be too late to prevent the expulsion of Chinese. cinema limes

A very amusing trial took place at Waterbury, Conn., recently. Valentine Bohl, a marketman, was brought into court by @ local game club and accused of having offered for sale three partridges after Jan. 1, contrary to the State Game Law. Three witnesses testified that they had seen the partridges in the defendant’s window. The defendant’s attorney then asked the wit- nesses, who are noted local sportsmen, to examine the birds. They did so and blushed like young school girls. Tho par-

tridges were stuffed specimens which Mr. Bohl had procured from a taxidermist for vse as asign. The trial broke up amid loud laughter and the members of the loeal game club have since been seeking seclusion from their friends.

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ALL parties favoring us with their orders

LEPTERS FO THE EDITOR.

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A Want of Spirit.

Sin,—It is an old aphorism that “Cor- | t

porations have no souls,” apd the Charlotte- town City School Board seems to be an exemplification of its truth,

Something over 4 year since, a teacher, professing the Catholic faith, was engaged for one of the departments of the West Kent Street School. He was met at the outset by unmistakable evidences of deeply rooted prejudice, which, brought to bear upon the Board, if not upon the Grading officer, as well as being reflected in the con- duct of the pupils, resulted in an adverse report, and the consequent cancelling of the engagement, at an unusual date in the school year—Noy. 30th. At that time smallpox was raging in the city,and country schools were all supplied with teachers, Even were there then any vacancies, a teacher starting from Charlottetown to seek employment, would be shunned and denied shelter, unless it might be under the pro- tection of a yellow flag.

Well, the teacher in question accepted the decree of the Board with as good a grace as would be expected under the cir- cumstances. Yet we find another teacher in the same school, writing, during the past summer, a series of articles (at least he has not denied their authorship) for a Char- lottetown journal which once bore a highly respectable character, but which has of late deteriorated very much in the esteem and good opinion of libevai-minded Protestants. The tone of the articles referred to is too well known to cail for comment. Was that teacher dismissed for insulting aad biackguarding one-half of the community in which he lived, and who contribute one- half of his salary, and some members of his class as well? Not at all. But that teacher, whom the law supposes to be pur- suing ‘‘the even tenor of his way,” undis- turbed by the religious convictions of his fellow citizens, has, I learn entered on a three months engagement as Editor of the paper before mentioned, and which has adopted a bolder and more pronounced— if possible—anti-Catholic tone. ([ speak on no less an authority than that of its ex-oditor.) Yet he continues in charge of his department in the West Kent Street School, drawing his full salary as a teach- er, and the City School Board, so aolicit- ous for the religious interests of the pupils, that a Catholic teacher was not suffered to remain in charge of a department, are silent about the grave affaira of the peda- gogzue e litor,

If the Catholic parents and ratepayers of Ch ‘rlottetown are satisfied to contribute to the support of a man who, through the columns of a degraded and blasphemous sheet, reviles them and all they hold sacred, and not raise their voices in stern protest, it is we'l. If they will allow the School Board to approve, by their silence, the pre- sent siate of affairs, and quietly submit to it, they desorve it. If they do not think it high time to seck for men to represent them on the School Board, who are not dsbarred by their official or commercial positions from expres-ing iadepandent opinions, then { kaye nothing farther to sty on the question. Their Protestant brethren, were the case reversed, wauld not remain for any length of time so silent and seemingly devoid of spirit,

CaTHOLIC,

Ch’town, Feb. 9, 1886.

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A Case of Medical Interest. Last October while Augustus Decker, a young farmer, near Walden, N. Y., wes eating chestnuts he felt a sharp pain on the

| insid» of his mouth and thought he felt the

presence of an ineect there. The moath, upon examination, was found to be in- flamed, but no insect was then discovered.

| Mc. Decker called upon several physicians,

put failed to receive any relief. He suffer- ed much uptil a short time ago, when he called upon Dr, H. 8S. Broadhead of Weldon. That medical gentleman and a member of the Faculty of the University Medical College, of New York, made another examination of the young man’s mouth, after which the patient was put under treatment by Dr. Broadhead. A few days ago, after lancing the cheek, the doctor extracted a supposed insect, an inch in length and resembling a thousand- legged worm. A day later he extracted from the same cheek part of a chestnut burr. The doctor, not keowing the name of the worm, sent it to the medical college mentioned, and gwaits definite intelligence from there, having thus far only receiyed a letter stating that it was a foreign substance and not muscle. Whenthe doctor started on the case erysipelas had set in, and the whole side of the patient’s face and head was badly swollen, so that one eye was entirely closed. Much interest is taken in the case by the medical fraternity. Mr. Decker ia improving rapidly.

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He Failed to Escape.

A week or two ago, a prisoner named Maguire, in the Kingston, Out., peniten- tiary, concocted a scheme by which he hoped to effect his escape. He formed an intimate acquaintances with another prison- ev, a toamster, and suggested his plan of breaking prison. The teamster thought the idea excellent, and consented to be an ac- complice in the adventure. Maguire’s idea was to have the teamster draw him off the confines of the penitentiary concealed in a load of rubbish. The plot was to be kept private, and the rest of the convicts were to know nothing about it. A day was set for the carrying ont of the scheme. By some means the warden heard of it. As usual in the morning the teamster drove to the west gate, Two gates one inside and one out- side, have to be passed before the street is reached. The custom of the guard at the gate of the institution has been to strike an iron rod two feet long and share at the end into loads of hay and other stuff as they pass through to the interior. When the convict teamster got his team and load inside the gate the guard began to investigate che con- tents of the latter. The irog was put in andit touched the Jeg of Maguire, it’ was blunt and did not reach the flesh, the

before March let will buy at 5 per cont, lower prices than after that date, —Norzoy

other side will appeer eve long.

a The riotous mob of London was. ss Feported, “essentially an Koglish mob.” If it had been an Irish ey

Bros. why

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THE prospectus of The Farm and Garden

Culsuriet ig espod It promises to pay special a:tention to the Varm and Garden interests of this Provines, ;

prisoner come forth from the rubbish and geonicd to he consigerably taken back. The | warden was notified of the gaptyre end

“- i thy gopyict’s incarceration ina dark ordere.. --=6+6 the penjtentaary

coll. Magnire was seu. at. from Cobourg two months ago tor au

tempt to shout his father and sentenced to| five years.

At Hermanville, on the 25th January, Alexander McCormack, aged 74 years. The deceased was an intelligent, upright man, and much beloved by all who knew him, His desth cast a gloom over the whole communi-

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| At North River, Oct. 11, 18°5, of diph- 'theria, Hlizabeth, youngest daughter of Joho and Harriet Younker, aged 17 years.

Weep not for her, though ne’er again Will she upon Time’s threshold staad,

Her feet have gained a better shore, Her home is in the sinless land,

No sorrow there can mar her joy, No night succeeds the glowing day, No sickness there or touch of pain Again sha'l waste her life away,

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To Lobster Packers,

FOR SALE.

400 boxes of TIN PLATES, suitable for Lob- ster Cans. 22 pigs of LEAD, 22 ingots, TIN. 1 bar of COPPER, Apply to PEAKE BROS. & CO,

Ch’town, Feb. 10—tf 3aw

WARTED.

200 OIL CASKS. Apply at the GAS WORKS,

Ch’town, Feb. 10—2i

J. §. BAGNALL, D.D,8., SURGEON DENTIST,

P. G, Frazer’s Corner (side door), oppo- site London House, Charlottetown, P, E. Island. Feb, 10—2i oaw wky 2i

An Kvening with the Musicians,

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St, Paul’s School-room,

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Phursday, Feb, Lith

Under the Patronage of His Honor the Lieut.-Governor and rs.

Macdonald.

Mr. Earle, Musical Director and Accompanist.

PROGRAMME;

Inst. Duet—‘‘Les Dames de Seville”. .... Schubert The Misses Shenton and Weeks.

Chorus—“Hark, the Wild Sounds” (from Cin: 0

Bare) ok, oh bed os zece cerebro ssini 20 Voices with Orchestral Accompaniment, td ei sheehah abet 0% Tosti

Mrs. Beil.

Cornet Solo—“‘Selections I! Puritani*’....... Verdi Mr. Fletcher,

Vocal Solo—“Absolom”. ..........:-c00c0+ Lindsay G. F, Beer. Vocal Duet—“‘Singingjiuesson”.......... .Fiorvante

Miss Crabbe and Mr. Earle.

Vocal Solo—“Angels Serenade,” with Violin a. ee Bi ccbe oes sheds ee Mrs, Roome. ?

Inst. Quartette—“Overture La Cagza Ladra” |

bis cKPSERDE LSE LARTAS ES TTI seceee...,ROsSini

Mrs. Malcolm Macleod, Messrs. Vinni- combe, Fiectcher and Karle.

Vocal Solo—“When the Swallows” (in Ger- man, by particular request)...........+6" ++ Abt

Herr Hermans.

Vocal Quartette—* ’Tis Music that vo

EXAMINER. FEBRUARY 10, 1886.

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LEARANGE SALE,

Stock=-laking.

B. MACDONALD is now having his Annual Clearing-Out

J e Sale of Remnants and Short Ends of Goods,

Remnants and Short Ends of Dress Goods and Cloths, Flannels, Winceys, Sheeting, Cottons, Tweeds,

And all Remnants and Short Ends will be cleared out at the very Smallest Prices.

The balance of Ladies’ Fur Caps, Fur Muffs, Fur-Lined Circulars, Ladiss’ Astracan Jackets, at prjces to clear. Je

B. MACDORALD,

QUEEN STREET. Ch’town, Feb. 10, 1886 —-dy wy

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JAMES PATON & CO,

W. A. WEEKS & CO. PRICES ALWAYS Low!

New Post Office

Market House | >

MARKET SQUARE.

Stop Here all

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Buy your Dry Goods from JAMES PATON & CO., the above Plan will show you where to find them. Ch’town, Jan. 19, 1886.

J. H. MYRICK & CO.,

W HOLESALE and retail dea'ers in CANNED GOOD?, FLOUR, TEA, GROCERIES, &e.; also PORK, LARD, HAMS and FISH of ali kinds, Grafton Street, Charlette- town, P. E. I.

In our Fish Market we offer COO FISH —boneless, dried, picklel ; HERRING, MAC- KEREL, SHAD - pickied; DIGBY HERRING,

In Canned Fish we offer SALMON, FINNAN HADDIES and LOS ‘TERS, to direct special atttention to vur

Fresh Salmon and Coedfish,

which we receive and have on sale every day.

Stamper’s Corner.

We wish

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Our GROCERIES will be found fresh and reliable and our stock is complete in all departments. Our prices will compare favorably with those of the best grovera

POKK, BACON, SUGAR-CURE? HAMS, LARD, FRESH B°EF, CORNED BEEF and SAUSAGES, Gur SAUSAGES are fresh made every morning, from the best material. By dealing with ys hoyse-keepers can obtain everything they require in the house- keeping line without troubie or unnecessary running around. : : Orders by majl or telephone will receiye prompt attention,

J. H. MYRICK & CO.,

Fish Market. Grafton Sireet.

Mrs. Dustan.

Chorus—‘Softiy Treading Silence keep,” from licrociato in Egitto....... Tosage Hee Meyerbeer 29 Voices with Orchestral Accompaniment,

Bass Song—“Thy Sentinel am I”....,.....Watson Prof. Caven.

Violin Solo—‘‘Les Trio Bequets",Op. 101, DeBeriot Mr. Vinnicombe.

Vocal Solo—“Say not Farewell”........... Millard Miss Earle.

past. Quartette—“Poet and Peasant™...... Suppe

Messrs Watson, Vinricombe, Fletcher and Karle,

Chorus—“Hark Again the Thrilling ear >

es CIs os a ba cictntccecreayeess ssini 20 Voices with Orchestral Accompaniment (by request.)

Tickets, 25 Cents each ; Reserved Seats 35 cents To be had at Mr. Reddin’s Drug Store, Cameron fiosk, ‘where a plan of the Hall can be seen.

Positively no encores, -:

Concert at 8 o'clock,

Sleighs a quarter to ten.

Feb. 8, 1885.

Vessel for Sale.

FTE Subscriber offers for sale the Schr. MARY B., 45 tone register, is a good sailer and large carrjer—wil} be sold low. For further particulars apply at Charlotte- town to Mesars, Norton Bros., or at Oardi- gan to

H. F. BISSETT.

Cardigan Bridge, Jan. 12, 1886. —feb 9 2i 1 aw wky 2i

EQUESTS all persons indebted to him

‘o pay their accounts before the Ist

MAROR. All accounts not paid at tha

will be handed over ior gol! ha —— Ail belégece due +8 hig Boot and Shoe Store

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(Moses in Egitt0)..........00.cseeerrcees ossini Misses Strong and Crabbe, Messrs Beer Charlottetown, Fob. $, 1886 —1 mo eod and Strong. — Vocal Solo—“At the Wicket Gate"’,......-- Geibe)

JOHN MACLEOD & CO. MERCHANT TAILOR,

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¥ are offering the balance of our winter goods at lower prices than have ever been offered the public.

A lot of Men’s and Youth’s Overcoats from $5 to $8, worth from $8 to $14

; vita made to order, from $12 to $18, worth from $18 to $24

Men’s Heavy Shirts, Underwear, Fur Caps, Gloves, &., at the same rates. ee .

Worsted and Tweed Suits at very low prices.

Island Tweed Suits from $19 to $12.

JOHY MACLEOD & CO. Ch’town, Feb, 9, 1886 —tf eod wky

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Wrae> RESES TAKEN ON MOST FAVORABLE TERMS, Agent for Prince Edward Island :—-

F. H. ARNAUD, MBROHANTS BANK OF HALIFAX,

$2,060,000,

Qh town, Jan. 1888.

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