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The ElectiOas.

In consequence OF the enormous vots
poiled In Indiana and Ohio and the number
OF names on the tickets for state and county
officers and members Of Congress, the coun,
has been unusually slow, and the returns
frsgmentary and scattering. As Q conse-
quence, from the closeness of the vote and
the fiuctuating nature OF the gains for either
party In different localities, At o late hour
this morning, when the morning papers
went TO press, neither side was In Q position
TO claim positive victory Ia either state.
In Ohio the republicans had made gains In
the country part OF the state, which had
been Offset by losses In the cities, but still
leaving them IN q position to expect to be
able TO hold the majority by which Hayes
was elected last year, And probably do
something better. The reports also iudi-
Gated that they had made some gains In
Con gressmeD, but not to the extent counted
upon. Thus the confident expectation that
Judge Stanley Mathews would beat Ban
ming (dem.J In the 2t district, and which
was generally conceded by the democrats u,
was not realized. On the other hand, they
had, according to report, saved Charley
Foster In the 10th district, where they had
expected loss. On the same authority they
had gained o Congressman (Judge Cox In
the 9Th district, and another (rownsend) In
the 10Th district.
From Indiana the returns were still more
confused and perplexing, and while from
republican sources dispatches came that
Harrison had carried the state, yet the 70
turns a. they came In only indicated small
republican gains on the vote of 1874, whom
the democratic majority was II 252. But
then IL had TO be taken into consideration
that this democratic majority embraced the
1e Is votes cast for the Farmers candidate
for secretary of state. AZ there were yOeter-
ray three candidates In the neld for COVER.
nor, ('ocludiDg the greenback csndidate,) IL
remaiped 10 be seen how the greenback vote
would affect the general result now. On the
whole the republicans were inclined to hope
beat Harrison would run SUN ciently ahead
OF his ticket to be elected oy . squeeze. Tue
reports, also, gave them some encourage
ment TO believe that they gained q Congress-
man In the 5th (Holman's) district, and In
the Ith (Lander's).
The democrats. from the indecisive nature
OF the returns. especially from Ohio, seemed
disposed To seize q victory, anyhow, and
with . band and procession raised ltvelier
echoes about town than they have for the
last sixteen hungry years.
This forenoon the smoke has lifted a little
nom the battle Geld, and q more general
idea OF the drift OF gains and losses can be
obtained. The later returns seem to show
that the republicans will carry Ohio by an
Increased majority to that OF Hayes last
year, and that they have gained another
Congressman In place of Banning.
The returns from Indiana this forenoon
are also somewhat better for the republi-
ans, and indicate that they may possibly
carry the state by q shave, and also make
gains OF two or three Congressman.
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This celebrated Lady Astrologist and Hsalir 4
Medium can be consulted q No. 201 d street, cor.
ner Of = ncrthveet She he's sapsrtoe in dell d
eastng the Pest, Present and Future. In love or
business her advice ID invaluable, describing your
nfends, pointing out your enemies, and informing
you OF the sure way TO success n all undertak
0oOeu. o1.Q. emily
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The Next House.

An interesting subject for discussion now
IL the status of the House In the Forty a fth
Congress. The following estimate is m de
by . cool observer. who, though democratic
In bis affinities, IL not In any sense q politi-
clan. He arrives 1T the estimate mentioned
for Illinois by conceding the three Chicago
members 70 the republicans:
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BY b. H. WARNER,
CORNER Urn ANN p aIpuurS

CORNER fTH AND y STREETS.
H6Uss or s.S ss
%sn .. S.ns.S sOS M sSS
i complete order fhs msst dssssfu f sou.s iS
'nf e,,yi s10s az ysT H. VERY Snssp
street. pear 0Onnecticut avenue; delightful iocs.
ton; al medsrn inssoysme.s.: i..ss y.ri; vsTy
small .Ss ,st and s:s
on E sor soeet near the o'piso o'ss ssoe WIN
An excellent property. No. 3as A street north:
s .ssss s.aS in
rsn Ssse ON sco,:
ws,er in Kitchen. Offered 1t . great ssorihoe IL
:, !o. sale; No. 1915 9th .trrss north.s.t, large
viii be sold q les thsn value Of the Lot 'uo'ns
Alse. for eale, q number Of other HOUSES, rang
fng from $3.50 upwards, In oil parts Of the city.
1O8 3 n T.
Cen Srants hda r. nh and ~. m. T., rem, low.
handsoney furn., Scott square near Ari'ton hotel
Sorc:: i:ss ::Isss ~: =: "a !! & a
No ses l1th street. northwest, FURNISHED l.....sO
10 EH :. 1Sss .; s.ss. tfosi:S:d
49,. te sha;! n iI ~, roo a. Is ssseiss
10 - fsDSssSsai. .1ss S,:' eoy.r store 1-
No Al2 and nlI street. .. ", 10 rooms, stable.lee
Ne III .srs.s OoIssss. roo@s, "a in @
Nc. sM Penn. ay;, lover Gilman . drug store). g
&C. &C. ~ ": .s. street u ICONS in
40. 20 ia Stress o, Is rooms. mod im1s-.-.. Is
Ri:ses street, nsss nth sSd 9, dQrnishedl-.... e
No ne sress sout6ssst, u rooms. mod. im1s d
SD. s.ss 4. Sio.,. n sSures So'
Nv , g. 9 Stn I'D e. sto.: sssllins--s
NJ: Piess:nt, room. and : sores q sro1nd-.. 90
Do S 81 .ss. %Ss
No. lx0 lnh stroes NV. 10 rooms, mod, fmDs.. a
no. e street :cusS.. Ss,nsr sn n NOD
Meridian Bib, siooms. md. imps 90
No no. ~ street. nortb yea, rooma %
No zoo 18th street. rooms mod I'm Do ........- IS
70: NS = street VS. rooms, mod. imps.-.-. IS
Store No Is0 7th street south g
ssors ; sns SI,ns So s9sTs MOD i%.s
New houses, 9Th street. ab I've P.-...........- IS
No; II, Is and ls < street northeast, Il rs, m 10
lie Drolt Park, w Elm s:rest........-..-...... 20
LIS street northwest 81
Lsnedon Terrsos' So stree, extend 3
Store NI 9Th street no, thwestw ...- u
Eos' i1ss. i7ss, Hss street. nors.e "a n@e 3
No So Ssh s.rset northeast, 6 rooms, IN imps- 70
No; 90, 61s, 60 e., rooms. gas and water %
20 Massachusetts, avep .................. 10
No. sis East CAPITOL q. Rs "a. and vaier.... %
No. 81 street southeast, rooms......-....... .
20. g! bel.w..s ay.pne. near ist and K...--... .
No Mla nI g q: nv. sroOns and vstsr...-. M
Ne +: ci h Pslr ssss,
No. .s Ith street north ~s.i story Is rs Is
DO IS iS.s :trsss norsS~s.. 3 roo%s-..-:....
10. 2l06 ll'h street northwest Il
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Uesses % CsrPespenAenss.

Persons writing letters 10 this once FOR Dublica-
zion or In regard % business viii obige and best
serve their purposes By addressing them simply
to ths "EDIToR OF TEE STAR" or the "PUBLsHEl
OF TEE STAR" - the case may be. When addressed
personally they regarded private letters, and
In cases Of absence inconvenient delays frequently
occur from that cause
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The Later Returns.

The run of the returns from OHIO this ar
teri oon is favorable to the republicans, In
dicatipg q slow but steady gain for them In
the rural districts sufficient apparently to
more than offset their losses In the cities.
There can be little doubt that they have
elected Barnes by 1t least d We Thousand ma
jority, and from the tendency OF gains In the
country part of the state IL would not be
strange II the majority for the rest OF the
ticket should creep up TO ten or fifteen thou
sand when full returns are received. The
later returns Also indicate that the republi-
cans have gained four or nve members OF
Congress In Ohio.
From Indiana, Also, the dispatches this
afternoon are encouraging for the republi-
cans, though they do not yet afford positive
data for the assurapce that they have over
come the heavy democratic majority Of 1874,
OF over seventeen thousand, The republic
cans, however, seem to have good ground for
believing that they have gained two or three
members Of Congress In Indiana.
On the whole, the republicans can claim
the fruits OF Q substantial victory In the
elections yesterday, though it Ii not quite
decisive enough TO settle the Presidential
question of hand, - had been fondly hoped
by those who hate the turmoil and mud fling
Ing of Presidential election. Apparently
the war will have TO be continued up to the
eth OF November, and the field OF contest
viii now be changed to New York State.
where the great deciding battle OF toe cam.
paign viii be fought
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PIANOS, &c.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC"

In ell sssstss DBCKKR BR0THERe' PIAn0e
the following line sppesu cast upon ths-
iron plate on the inner len hand sids Of the vVy
"Decke Brothas' Pateaf, yuns ID, 1855"
q. KUHN, 1sis Agent
COT l0th street, above Pc. ay.. Washington. D. O.:
also for the mstchless Burdesf Organs. ssDS Or
HALLE DAyIs %. . aKAaD, 6ouAR6
H and UPkI0HT PLAnOe for ale 49,
rity and svsssne1 Of tops. ess AssSs. 6ip vVvvV
nh gtresf ncrthV0Ue. AsuaS
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Looms.
800. $500, 500, ssos. Two Per cent. for ne.
Auction Snles.
on THURSDAY, October isth, ., .. N, Wood.
icy PAX" octll-tr
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FOR RENT AND SALE.

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1870 Sth %. n. ~. mod. tmDs., roSms--.--.. 3 -
0te ID % Q. ~ nod tmDs. roo0a ---..-.-- 81 20
ct, bet. Nh end Hist sfs all N. In. 10 10 90
ST y, bet ssh and lsh. 81 N IN. u re 100 %
.. o., bet. q -, ell m. imp. furn, IL ~ I'D 20
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9TH It. q. W, BET. = end o, nod. I'm SIR nW
Oorcoraa st.. bet nih lSth, Ell Mir, n ~ 500
3k., set sth ast 18th. al nod. nys ~ ne @
Hsy yefUey ave Bear CAPITOL n. In, ~ re 90 -
ali New yersey ave-. ell mod imps.. II 70 g 6
los Hse Jerssy ave, ell mod. iDps., 10 rs-- o.M
L. b. fIfZHU0H.
0ctS In S9l Louisiana avenue
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POTA TOES.

POTATOES.
We have Just received four car loads Of
EARLY ROSE POTATOES,
Bright, smooth, clean stock, and good Size,
which We offer In ar load lots or In Lee quantity
to the trade,
AT LOW1Bf HARKBr PRICE,
DO not buy until you - our Potatoes.
Al. PHILLIPS,
COMBIsk IOH ABROHANT
With 0ARB0Uk HAMILTOd,
ocu I'm WholesAIe 0rocers and Liquor Dealers.
UTTER.
We have Just receiver Q large conasn msns of
BUTTER from the best dairy sections Of HsS York
mate and are constantly receiving from Virsinia.
Pennsylvania, and the West, which We offer n the
trade st the lowest Wholesale prices Please cal
and get our prices and see the quality.
Al PHILLIPS,
COMMISSION MEROHAHr,
With BARBOUR HAMILfOH,
Wholesale 9rccsrs and Liquor Dealers,
oea Inn 63J, $50, Sal Louisiana avenue.
DEAD OUR PkIO1 LIST OF CLOTaIN0 At
H the A1bRIOAH CLOfHIH0 HOUSE, 1914
and 1915 PenesyNapia avenue:
DO t Cord c e::ia sa sr.'' su,:.ss'
Do Cas- Suits. Is ana 8 b.
Our ol1 Usss Suits; 80 different st, les
R hens S Eorhinf e.nt:, ol 1Svsrd:
DO Pants: e 10. q 81 and uDwards.
eILBY's. p. .v.. bss lssS .sa . i sss " coir's:
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IT, RADIANT HOME -
~ BASE BURNER.
Cell and examine the
Radiant HOME BASE BURNER,
and con vince yoarssius that sm selling the be
PARL0R HBArBR
in the market. a novel improvement OF great vslus
M. been Introduces in the Bsdiaut Hoss. II con.
ststs Of . Our OFF Ia connection With Q SLIDING
Crate for faeilitaiins the r.movaI Of Olinssr cad
!. r.bad the Dr.. The 70 8
that cam Of f:i 70 riss the mind o. .ay 2! &c
:s De ssurs H. titioS IL. soSis y .Ism,.. 4:
h b.: IS s:Ss S or. S comic, and s..sst
zee The working 81 the saas & ''' ''-' INV
CHE. RKlssNKRS,
oetll-tr us ana rir IN street sorthvsst
WHITE Ash, EGG, FURNACE, and
Will ~ Ut, Ssr
Pore Lo!Se!S IEs ssd siove.,.-.....-...-... 3 .
Pine OeD Dsr cord tspruss)...-. 50
Long Lesf....-... .....---....---...-.-. g
$40 i6s. 70 the ios ,'.'''
Corner 10th and streets sou'hwsss,
ocsil-ss' Dranch Yard Cor 1th and st.. az.
MALAGA GRAPES,
WI pUCHIeS PGAR3,
G0LDnN B.NAH4S,
PAHBASA DATES,
NV FIGS, and many other new 90 DDS
se,,,, b. W. nee" 2 S9H%-
NEW BUOKWHRAr
~ CRleT.L DIP Ps, from lea fsussr.
AARLr SYRUP. uSW OkLE ans MULA0SuS
DAT HAL. WHAT GRITS,
sOUTHBkN 111AKRA6r HONIHY
JUST R1UlIvlD.
b W. REEDS SONS.
eotlIu 1916 street northwest
THIS Is TO GIVE NOfIOR, That the subooFi.
4 oers have obtained from the 6u creme Court Of
the Dlstr1ct OF Columbia holding Decfal Term let.
eers testSmentary on the personal estate Of MOB.
AL Oh tIh late Of W Arlington county, d Ode
ceased. All Dersons having claims aeainst the said
oecsaeed are hereby warned 70 exhibit the same,
With the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, en-
otherwise By law be excluded from all benefit Of the
said estate 0iyen under hands this 10th day Of
October, 1876 SUSANNA X QBalN, D1esutrfx
octll-WA. JOIN y. GREBH, Executor.
515 sExEEIa sIRIIT,
have this day associated vita Ne 1r. WI r
eHts he ,h psrs <" & o' s.s
Quoting o GEN DRAL LIHb AID RIk1 IIgVR
AhOE AND REAL 1Sf AfB BUsINBSS. TIA
ne. hrm vii also give especial attention = the
renting Of houses and neeot arir G Of loans.
oetl0H CHARL1S 3. BISHOP
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GRKAf ABDUCTION IN PRICE
ooxz.
DELIvs..D F9 2A az Il fHA: AZ cH ras orrr
Hew Schedule y NIL lo0d Of @ bushsls for n a:
mailer loads cents per bsshsl; carriage o cent?.
APPLY TO
OFFICE OF wAsHIHH ron Gas LIGHT DON.
or 70 40 Bridge strsst, 0eorestoVn. sopIi-tr
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sotted than Cortina's Mexicans, and when,
even within the past four days, fifty dis
guised white savages have entered Texas
town and murdered prisoners confined in
its Jail and fired yelIeys into the houses of
private citizens Z If we.deplore the foIlies
and wrongs of McxIcans who demand only
money and are thus appeased, how infinite
oui sorrow and chagrin when Texans make
outright war upon law and order and de.
cency, and, instead of robbing only, hang
and slaughter their fellow citizens. Every
true Texan contemplating the shame of his
own State and woes of Mexico must start
rack appalled,. Very true these outrages
in Texas are done by Adventures and
knaves from all lands naturally gathered ON
the lawless confines of lawless Mexico; but
the fame of Texas is involved as deeply in
these crimes and disorders as that of Mex
leo, and the first act of the Legislature
should invest Governor Coke with power
to exterminate scoundrelism and violence.
The pistol and knife and bullyism and or,
ganized crime, as at Oakville, must be ex
tirpatei. t,a..
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coming extinct. In the train OF viciou:
habits is the disreputable practice of carry.
ing concealed weapons. The juries of the
country and virtuous public sentiment
should Danish this habit from the land as
they have driven dueing and the bowie
knife beyond the borders of civilization.
The venerable Judge added that lin writing
q 'out women We should always use pen
made of quill plucked from an angels
wing, dipped in the hues of the rainbow.
upon rose-tinted psper sprlnkled with the
oust from the wings of the beautiful but
terhy. l am constrained, nevertheless,
TO advert to present extravagance in dress
Six yards of calico in ancient times made a
dress that copied nature and displayed the
confines of form and beautiful figure of
lovely woman. Now it takes twenty, and,
If silks are used, forty yards. They carry
on their backs from ten to fifteen yards,
puckered, pinned and cruppered so tight
that they cannot step more than six inches
at time. The other day / Was at the de-
pot and two beautiful, girls endeayored to
raise their feet high enough to get upon
the steps which lead into the cars After re-
peated efforts and as many failures, saw
the dilemma in which they were placed
and stepped up and lifted them into the
car. This kind OF caparlsoning may meet
with the favor of the gentlemen of the pis.
tol and of whisky, but not of those who
are attached to the ancient customs, morals
and manners of the country"
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FEARFUL FaCTs.

When the good masters of Mexican
town want little money they gather the
citizens of tile place and assess each luck
less wight according to his supposed sue
cess in defrauding the custom house. Gen.
Labarra, who represents Lerdo, is making
m Ddess exactions of ten thousand dollars
per head upon the poor tradesmen of Mats-
moros. He says he will shoot reeusant
rsscals aud already has imprisoned promi.
nent citizens. He pledges the custom house
duties as basis of credit, but still demands
"your money or your life" Next week
the other party may be dominant and the
same process with the same proffered secu-
rlty and the same dungeons viii be resorted
to by the revolutionists under Diaz, now
plotting an assault upon MatamOros in
Brownsville. Between the two bodies Of
plunderers the very soul is to be squeezed
out of the tadespeople, and Senior Antonio
I.ongoria, who refuses to pay ten thousand
dollars demanded by L4baTra, is wise
enough. But is IL not q terrible state Of
society and government when agents OF
government itself become plunderen and
highwaymen. and in what il the condition.
of Mexico worse than that of districts OF
Texas IN which, alleged criminals, but inDo-
cent until convicted, are wrested from pris-
ons and hanged or burned; and why should
We deplOre the miseries ef Mexican misruIe
when VIC are blest through universal sut-
frsge with the mastery Of sAyages more be-
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sand acres of public domain, every acre oi
/ which the company can sell at fifty cents.
This grant alone, then, is worth to them
81, O32. 600, that is 81, ,032, 900 more than
the bill in force.
As grand total the result of the bill
passed are about as follows: -
one and half per cent. tar on $22,oso.OOO
6a 40 asIa .n's year. -.--S ss g. -
ore ana half per cent. tax on Sl0s2.oo
Tor twenty-five years I5i2 0oJ
Grand total =. sfs sls -
Add to this the tax that might be levied
on an income of $75, 600, 600, and the tax
that might be levied on the improvements
mills, factories, etc, that NAV be made on
the 8, ,O64, 900 acres by settlers, all of which
Is exempted and released from all State
co1nty, town, city, municipal and other
taxes, for quarter of century, and we
Can form some inadequate conceptions of
the grant made to the International Rail-
way Company s-f
The provision of the International rail-
way blll authorizing the company, or any
purchaser of these certificates, to locate
them as original headlights were located,
that is, not requiring the company or holder
OF the certificates TO locate an alternate sec
ton Tor the State, as every other railway
company in the state has been required to
do, Is an immense advantage. With Inter-
national certificates, any number of acres
from one to one hundred thousand can be
located In one body, whereas all other rail
way companies holding certificates must for
each and every certificate for sixteen hun
dred and forty acres locate side by side with
their location an additional six hundred and
forty acres for the State. An ordinary railroad
certificate cannot be located on less than
1850 acres of land in one body. An Inter
national certificate can be located on any
number of acres, whether great or small,
and Is not required to locate an alternate
section for the State. The original bill
granting $4,000, 900 to the International
Railway Company would have, ere this, Sc
cured the completion of this road to
the cities of Austin and San Antonio. The
immigration and capital that would have
poured into that part of Texas to
develop and build it up, would have
equaled II not surpassed the hood-tlde
rushing in upon US of Dallas. The impetus
given to the beautiful cities of Austin and
San Antonio would have nearly doubled
their population and largely increased their
wealth. What effect upon the trade of
Austin the building of a town some twenty
five or thirty miles from it by the Interna-
tional Company will have (and the build
ing OF this town is an assured fact), let the
people of Austin tell; we will not venture
ourselves to predict -
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FROM AUSTIN TO LAMPASAS a
QUEER STORY.

If is asserted that if we build a narrow
gauge from Lanlpasas to Austin people and
products will go through directly to Gal
weston. Why not go through Galveston to
New Orleans? The steamship lies at the
wharf, and either New Orleans or New
York is as much to be preferred to Calves
ton, as Galveston to Austin. Why do not
| those who come here to-day from Tampa
sas go on to Houston2 The simple reason
is that the Austin merchant buys and i'm
ports at wholesale, and the farmer or Lam
pasas tradesman buys at retail. The Aus
tin merchant expends less money, buying
and importing at wholesale, than the Lam
pasas dealer, and the latter takes natural ad-
easy communication with Austin, and buys
Just as he needs, and nothing more or less.
The Lampasas merchant keeps no surplus,
Idle stock, aud only what he can sell, sup
plying himself, when the cheap railway is
built, every day from Austin, as his stock
in any department runs low, and in the fact
that easy access to Austin. prevents the ex-
istence of idle capital and of 'sold stocksp
in country towns along the narrow gauge,
consists one of its chiefest advantages to
these country towns. OF course Austin is
still the greatest beneficiary, since the mar
row gauge will multiply villages and den
sify population. We advert to these plain
facts, recognized in every civilized interior
city, because those who would have pre-
text for refusal to~aid the narrow gauge
have been telling it that the people and pro-
ducts of farms brought hither by the mar
row gauge will 90 through instantly to Gal
weston. Even if the cars of the narrow
gauge had interchangeable trucks, and
could be transferred to the trackway of the
Central road, aud drawn by its locomotives,
there would be no such transfers made.
There is nothing to be gained by it. Austin
sells as cheaply, and pays as high prices,
less freight charges, for wool, cotton,
wheat, oats and corn as Galveston. The
farmer prefers, as does the country mer-
chant, to buy his own supplies, and he buys
where he sells bis cotton, and he cannot
afford, in buying the small quantities he
needs, to visit the distant city, paying the
cost of travel and of retail" transporta-
ton. Bat these facts are too PLAIN to re-
quire exposition, and. the assertion that the
narrow gauge will gut" Austin is no more
true than that the International or Central
will accomplish the same result. In fact,
the narrow gauge, of necessity, terminates
here, and fixing all rates of freight in this
direction, it compels the concentration in
Austin of the trade of an area of country
more than double in extent that which now
ministers to cur fortunes, and more than
quadrupled in density of population. A
narrow gauge is local road for local ends,
accumulating population and wealth in
villages along its route, and aggrandizing
from these infinite resources its more met
ropoliran terminus. Read the miraculous
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