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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-31
lack Of GOOD FARMING
METHODS NOTED BY SHAW

der to cure him the "vets" open an
other vein.
1 have said the system of farming
is wrong; that it is radically wrong
say SO again, 1t Is wrong; and
though all Dakota should stand on the
other side. would still say it is all
wrong. But all Dakota does not stand
on the other side. Some of the farm
ers are building up their land. They
are growing live stock in considera-
BILE numbers. They are building fences
and laying down pastures. and they
are valiantly fighting against weeds.
We found but little clover during the
week. for the reason that it has not
been sown. but quite a number of
farmers sowed several acres last
spring. We were gladdened to find
small field of alfalfa near Grafton.
Though sowed last spring, 1t had been
cut once the present summer. and Ia
now almost ready to cut again. Where
alfalfa grows vigorously there can be
no doubt that the proper bacteria for
growing 1t is in the land It Will be
great day for North Dakota when
these two great soil builders. clover
and alfalfa. come to be generally
grown.
We found also a happy confirmation
of the correctness of our view as to
the best way to fight Canada thistles.
A contestant near Grafton Is carrying
on a war Of determination against
weeds. A few patches of thistles are
on his farm. 1t is his practice to
pillow them down in June. Then he
plows the land shallow at intervals
of ten or twelve days during. all the
growing season. He says that in this
way he destroys them root and branch
in one season Even though the
thistle patches should be in a grain
field he goes right in with the pillow
and buries the thistles. All around
this man are fields scattered with
thistles. mustard and French weed,
and yet he is keeping those weeds
practically away from his place. Such
man ought to get medal from the
state. In his neighborhood he is
truly burning and a shining light.
In eastern North Dakota many of
the roads are we'll made. They are
nicely rounded up with the grader
and are made straight and properly
sloping. If more attention were Civ
en- to moving the roadsides the roads
in summer would be an attractive
feature. But even where the roadsides
are mown. usually little strip is left
uncut along the fence. where there is
a fence, which is unsightly. 1t would
seem as though moving with the
scythe were lost art in North Da-
kota.
Up near the Canadian boundary
we saw fodder corn fully eight feet
high. In several other places we saw
corn that promises to mature. 1t was
of such large varieties as the North
western Dent. the Minnesota King.
and the Mercer Flint. We visited one
farm that had on it $50 acres of corn.
all of which would be fed to the cat
tie kept, on the farm. 1t will be
glad day for North Dakota when corn
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Railroad Ne1us

The Southern Pacific road is build
ing some all-steel passenger coaches
with concrete floors at its San Fran
cisco shops.
Hiram G. Pearce, general freight
agent of the Chicago, st. Paul, Mime
apolis and Omaha Railroad company,
has been promoted to the position of
freight traffic manager. He will as
sumo the duties of his new post Sept.
President E. H. Hartman notified
the San Francisco officers of the
South Pacific yesterday that the work
on the extension of the Cananea.
Yaqui River and Pacific railway from
Alamos, Mexico, through Mazatlan and
down to Topic and San Marcos would
soon be completed.
In recognition of faithful service the
Santa Fe has voluntarily increased the
pay of its telegraph operators. The
advance amounts to about $4,000 an
nually and affects more than 1000
men. Some of the individual increases
amount to $40 month, and the pres
ent Santa Fe scale is said to be a very
liberal one.
General agents of the transatlantic
steamship lines met in Chicago yes
terday and considered the, provision
of the Hepburn law which prohibit the
exchange of commissions between
railroad and steamship companies. Ac-
cording to statement given out at
the close of the meeting, no plans were
perfected for taking care of future
business.
The Central Passenger association
met and readjusted interstate fares in
its territory to conform to the regula-
tons of the Ohio 2-cent fare law.
Hitherto the 2-cent law has not been
considered in interstate business. but
on account of the agitation instigated
by travelling statesmen. who suffered
some Inconvenience. readjustment
was granted. Hereafter the 2-cent
rate will form the basis rate on inter-
state business.
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OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
Cattle Bitten by Mad Coyotes Develop
HydfOphObia and Die.


Denver, Colo, Aug. 31.-"I have just
encountered one of the oldest and
most unusual cases which has ever
come under my observation" said DR..
Charles G. Lamb yesterday. II was
called to the ranch of a prominent
stockraiser in Yuma county last week
to investigate a strange disease from
which his cattle were gradually dying.
The animals would suddenly become
very vicious, chasing the other cattle,
attacking the boys on the ranch, one
of whom was almost killed, and charg-
ing madly on the dogs, chickens or
any other live thing about the place.
When tied to post they would attack
the post and butt against it until
they died.
"The owner had lost eleven steers
that way, in lunches of two and three,
when l arrived, and there was one
old steer suffering from the strange
malady. The symptoms had complete
ly bahled the rancher and his men,
and their only explanations was that
the animals must have gone crazy
through eating some sort of poisonous
weed. Upon examination of the steer
they had in the corral l found that
the animal had hydrophobia. Further
investigation showed that the steers
had been bitten by mad coyotes, who
frequently get hydrophobia at this
time Of the year. The men recalled
having seen coyotes chasing the cat
tie.
while we were all asleep in the
ranch house, after l had diagnosed
the trouble, the old steer broke out
of the corral and began charging the
hogs, goring them and tossing them
in every direction. We had to take
Winchester and shoot the steer to
stop his mad career" !;
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-31
CLOCK WEIGHS A TON
Timepiece Built by Detroit Man
Weighs Ton-Represents
Fifteen Years Work.

Special to The Evenipg Times.
Detroit, Mich. Aug. 31.-When Old
Father Time passes Louis Meier's Jew
elry store and workshop at the boule-
ward and Gratiot avenue, he must
pause a moment in his flight to look
at the ingenious way in which the
clockmaker keeps track of the old
personage's movements. There are
clocks by the thousands in Detroit
ticking out Information as to Times
whereabouts at different moments of
the day, but they do only for Detroit.
The clock that Louis Meier built fol-
lows the time around the world. to
the moon, and to we'll nigh everything
with which time has to do.
When you get through with the
clock you wonder which is the more
noticeable, the clockmaker or his mas
sive machine, but in order to under
stand the man you must look at his
work.
Back of the jewelry store is the
workshop. where the clock was built
and where it now stands. On all sides
OF the workshop are benches with
tools of various sizes. The bench OH
the side nearest the clock looks as If
1T held blacksmith's tools, and after
ards you learn that, as Meier con-
structed every piece of the clock HIM
self. and as some of the machinery is
necessarily heavy. the works required
more than those smaller tools whose
points are used with the aid of a mic
roscope. Meier doesn't refer to the
massive clocks inside" as machinery,
however, but he shows you the heart"
and other parts for which he has his
own name.
In the first place, the clock stands
thirteen feet high and weighs over
ton, or. to be accurate, $500 pounds.
So high is 1t that some of the crna-.
mentation had to be left off until It
can be moved out of the workshop.
So long are parts of its machinery that
hole had to be cut in the floor be-
fore the work could be completed with
any degree of ease.
The clock represents the thought
and work of fifteen years. Meters
people will tell you that the clock
maker has awakened from his sleep
many morning at / or 2 o'clock and
has worked out an idea that came to
him from-well, the only way Meier
can indicate where he gets his ideas
Is to swing his arms upward in the
air.
Meier has had one passion, and that
lis to make a perfect and complete
clock. He made clock that became
famous at the Paris exposition. He
built the only tower clock ever built
in Detroit-the clock in St. Anthony's
tower. but he wasn't satisfied. After
fifteen years, he says, II will never
build another clock. Two clocks make
up lifetime's work."
Begin at the top. There is the moon
in the same phase as it appears in the
Sky that moment. The opaque side
that does not catch the sun at this
time of the month is dark, and the
purest kind of moonlight glows from
small quarter. The illumination
within is of electricity, but the glass
that gives the moonlight is the result
of many months of search and expert
ment in getting glass of the proper
shade and consistency.
Twelve Smaller Dfals.
Then comes the large plate glass
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-31

!. Fargo Forum: Prof. Thos. Shaw,
who 10 one member of the committee
to decide the farm awards offered by ].
: ]. Hill, wrote from Grand Forks to the
) st. Paul Pioneer Press as follows:
Pursuing their duties in the ]. j. Hill
prize farm contest, the judges spent
the last week in the Red River valley,
but on the Dakota side. The six north
eastern counties are pitted against
each other, and the contestants num-
Der eighteen. Only half the number
have been visited and among them are
strong competitors. The men who win
out in this section of Dakota indeed
will have to have good farms. Where
go many are good, the incest discrim-
ination Is necessary in making the
awards.
The general farming on the Dakota
side is much the same as on the Min
nesota side of the Red river, with the
difference that on the Dakota side
there is less low land Nearly the
whole country Is given up to the grow
and fax. Along with the grain are
wild mustard, the Canada thistle and
the sow thistle.
l had hoped to find cleaner farm
ing on the Dakota side, but it would
be unsafe to affirm that the difference
in this respect is material.
The harvesting of the crop in the
Red river valley is about completed.
The damp weather during the week
has delayed it, or the cutting would
be practically done. The shocks stand
we'll on the ground. Judged by the
shocks, the crop would be called
bumper crop in all the valley. 1t can
not be placed higher than to call it a
good crop. l am now satisfied that
the story of the threshing will be dis
appointing. The wheat is more or less
shrunken. The grain iripened too
quickly. The great heat struck it at
critical time, and result the yield
of wheat in North Dakota will be low
cred by many millions of bushels.
Such Is the hazard that attends exclu-
sive grain growing.
Such a system of farming Is wrong.
The unfortunate thing is that they
known 1t is wrong and yet they do not
change. The power of habit in farm
ing is no less potent than the power
of habit in other things. What the
farmers has done he wants to do. The
man who has robbed the soil for two
decades wants to do it for three, and
if he can't continue to do so in Dakota
he goes to the Canadian northwest and
there begins anew the same kind of
farming. Some of the farmers are
growing timothy and wisely, to put
humus in the soil, but timothy is a
land robber. Some are summer fall
lowing in the hope of renewing their
land, but the bare fallow is a land
robber. And some are changing FROM
wheat to oats, and oats to barley in the
hope of resting their lands. but all
these are land robbers.
The Dakota lands are in the con-
dition Of a horse that is beginning to
weaken from loss of blood and in Or
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comes to be grown more or less on

comes to be grown more or less on
every farm.
In the cities we heard no little
conversation at the hotels over dogs.
We would Judge from what we heard
that the dog industry in North Da-
kota is about as flourishing as In Min
nesota. We heard much more about
dogs than cows. We did hear one
man say. however. that he wished
the people would sell their dogs and
invest the money in dairy cows. and
we said 'amen" to his wish. A fam
inc of dogs means fiourishing sheep
industry. We did not see many sheep,
but the small flocks we did see looked
we'll. 1t was the universal testimony
of those who had them that they were
good property. Wolves gave some
trouble but fox hounds had been
found useful in hunting down the
wolves
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BEAM RIDER KILLED.

Bismarck, n. D., Aug. 31.-A man
supposed to be w. S. Ranney of Colum-
hns. Ohio. was killed by 500 train in
this city Wednesday. The manner OF
his death is not exactly known. but it
is supposed he was riding on the
hreak-beam, and being benumbed with
cold was thrown off when the air was
applied at a coal dock. His right arm
and both legs were cut off and when
found he was giving his last gasps
Papers on his BODY indicate that he
lived at Columbus, and that he was
sent from Chicago to Pierre. S. D., to
work for the North Western railroad
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"THlS IS MY s3rd BIRTHDAY,
Galusha A. Grow.
> . . . . . . . a q AmAAnm

. . . . . . . . 8 d o . = q o O. q
Hon. Galusha A. Grow. who first
entered congress in 1851 and was
speaker of the house during the civil
war, was born Aug. 81. 1923, in East
ford. Conn. His political career is
practically without PARALLEL in Ameri-
can annals. He entered the house in
1851, the youngest member of the 32d
congress, re-entered the house as con-
gressman-at-large from. the state of
pennsylvania after an absence of 81
years, and left the 57th congress the
Oldest member of the body. At the
election of 1890, in which he was
chosen congressman from Pennsyl-
vania. his plurality of 297,44G was the
largest ever given in any state of the
Union to any candidate for office.
Mr.. Grow entered congress as a
democrat. but when the Missouri COM
promise was repealed he permanently
broke with his old party associates
and became the congressional leader
OF the newly-formed republican party.
During his single term as Speaker Mr..
Grow presided over three sessions of.
the House, 1t is not, however. upon
his record as speaker that Mr.. Grow
looks back as the most important
chapter in his public career, for he
has a right to be considered as the
author of the Homestead act, which
went into operation Jan. 1. 1863.
From 1871 to 1876 Mr.. Grow was
president of the International and
Great Northern Railway company of
Texas. President Hayes offered him
the mission to Russia in 1878, which
he declined. Since he left congree
Mr.. Grow has lived in comfortable re-
tirement at his home in Glenwood,
Pennsylvania.
When a man is requested to foot Il
bill it always hurts his dignity worse
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-31
RAIDED A RANCH.

American Estate Near Cienfuegos
Complains to State Department.
Associated Press Cable to The Evening
Times.
Washington, Aug. 31.-According to
dispatch received at the state depart
ment today from one of the American
owners of the Constancia estate, near
Cienfeugos,the Cuban insurgents raid
ed this property four days ago. taking
number of horses. The state depart
ment did not make public the name of
the American who sent the dispatch.
This is the first protest received from
Americans against molestation of their
interests. Mr. Sleeper, the American
charge at Havana. was cabled to de-
mand Of the Cuban government ade-
quate protection for the Constancia
estate and all American property
similarly situated
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-31
H. NJ. PEARCE PROMOTED.
General Freight Agent Is Made Freight
Traffic Manager of Omaha Road.

Hiram NJ. Pearce, general freight
agent OF the Omaha road. has been
promoted by Second Vice President
James T. Clark to the position of
freight traffic maneger. Mr.. Pearce
will assume the duties of his new post
September 1.
Freight traffic manager is newly
created office. Mr.. Pearce will relieve
Mr.. Clark of some important duties
which have heretofore devovled upon
him as traffic manager of the road.
MIR. Pearce will be succeeded as gen.
eral freight agent by Edgar A. ODER,
now president of the Minnesota Min
ing & Manufacturing company. This
concern has its office at Chicago and
plant at Duluth. Mr.. Ober is an old
employee of the Omaha road.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-31

When a man is requested to foot
bill it always hurts his dignity worse
than it hurts his corns.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1906-11-09

wnie zaliczyc do opozycyi, jak
socyal-demokratow.
przypomina sobie Gerlach o.
we chwile pred jakim lat tuzi-
mem, kiedy KoScielskiego ma
zwano powodu jego zachwytow
dla floty = Admiralskim, kiedy
najwazniejsze przedlozenia woj-
skowe uchwalano tylko z pomoca
polskich glosow. Ale Rad pruski
zapomniaI zasadzie divide ct
impera", konsekwencya tego
Jest obecnie Scisle zrzeszenie sic
Polak6w przeciw Niemcom. An
typolska polityka wzmocnila Po-
lak6w, tax samo jak kulturkampf
- koScioi katolicki, antysocyalna
ustawa - socyalizm.
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KrQnika MiGjsCOWa.
Zmiany u policyi.

Szef policyi Collins wczoraJ
zaczal wypelniac swe przyrzecze-
ME, IL zupelnie zreorganlzule
Department. Zaprowadzii mno-
stwo zmian, ii. przeniesien ktore
weszly w zycie wczoraj wieczo-
rem o godz. 7. Ma zapytanie, z
jakiej przyczyny lub W jakim ce-
lu to czyni, ma zawsze W pogo
towiu stereotypowa odpowiedz:
wv interesie siuzby".
Trzej inspektorzy, jeden "a
stepca inspektora, osmiu kapita-
now, pieciu porucznik6w 10
sierzantow zostalo przeniesio-
nych re swych stacyj ma inne, L
wyjatkiem inspektora I dywlzyl,
Johna Wheelera, ktory ma swoja
gloWna kWatere prZy ullcy mar
rison, kazdy inny inspector zmie-
nil swoja kwatere. Inspector
Shippy obejmuje Hyde Park,
insp. Kelly (niedawno mianowa-
ny nastepca insp. Hunta), udaje
sic do dzielnicy zachodniej, insp.
Revere wstepuje ma miejsce La
vina, ktory dobrowolnie wysta-
pill, kap. Stephen K. Healy,
kt6ry cd czasu ustapienia Lavi-
ma mial komende w dzielnicy pol
nocnej, udaje sic do dzlelnicy
p6lnocno zachodniej jako zastep-
ca inspektora.
Z innych licznych zmian, kto-
rych tn szczeg6lowo ME podale-
my, najwieksze porobiono ia
stacyi przy 22 ulicy, ktorej kapi-
tan, wszyscy porucznicy i wszy-
scy sierzanci zostali przeniesieni
do roznych. STACEY.
Eksplozya W magazynie prochu.
Magazyn prochu nalezacy do
E. J. Du Pont Co., poiozony mile
ma p6inoc Cd Tinley Park, a oko-
10 23 mil Cd Chicago mad koleja
C. and R.. l., wczoraj rano wyle-
ciai w powietrze wskutek eks-
plozyi. Niestety jeden cziowiek
zostaf zabity, byl to zatrudnlony
tam robotnik, ktorego nazwisko
ME Jest znane, tylko wiedziano,
re ma imie Charles: zostaf on
rozszarpany w kawaiki. Druty
telegraficzne telefoniczne costa
ly poszarpane. = Jeszcze niewia-
domo, co spowodowalo eksplo-
Eye. Wydarzyla sic o godz. 10
rano slychac ia bylo ma wielka
odlegios6. Byia tax silna re W do
mu klubowym Midlothian, odda-
lonym o 3 mile, kilka szyb po-
pekalo. Magazynu tego strzezono
we dnie w nocy. Znajdowal on
sic W okolicy samotnej; sbyi tyl-
49,. ,s-.-------i
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Rome notatkI teIegrafIczne.

: KrazowniI rosyjski ostrze-
liwal jakiS nifmiecki parowiec,
wiozacy dynamit dla rzadu rosyj-
skiego.
Sir Mortimer Durand, an.
gielski ambassador we Waszyng-
tonic, ustapi Z kohcem. biezacego
roku ze swego stanowiska. Jest
nieprawda, jakoby Curzon, byfy
wicekr6l Indyi, mial zostac jego
nastepca.
w Mukdenie, w Mandzuryl
otwarto generalny konsulat ame-
rykahski.
= 2oo Chinczykow napadio ma
oddzial rosyjskiej stray pogra-
nicznej mad Amurem.
- We Wloszech podniesiono
wielki krzyk, re Rad zamowif
pancerze stalowe do okretow W
penusylvahskiej fabryce. Take
same pancerze wyrabia fabryka
we wloskiem mieScie TERM.
= Rad wfoski potrzebuje 100
milion6w dolar6w ma ulepszenie
panstwowych kolei zelaznych.
= Process w sprawie rozwodo-
wei narnotrawnego hrabiego
Castellane z zona, Amerykank9
Gould, zostaa ma tydzieh odlozo-
ny.
w kraju Ksiecia Alberta, ma
morzu Arktycznem, odkryto
szczep ludzi, ktorzy nigdy ME
widzieli cudzoziemca. Stanowia
plemie koczownicze.
= w Kantonie pozar niszczy
miasto.
: Filipinczycy zamierzaJa
skwitowat opieki Amerykanow
p6lnecnych i chca osiedlac sic W
Meksyku.
= Sejm panamski uchwalil pra-
wo, zabraniajace stanowczo cry
hazardownej w karty.
= Prezydent poslai medal zio-
tv konduktorowi Edwardowi
Murray, ktory ocalil zycie dwoj-
gil dzieciom, kiedy pociag jego
'byl w biegu. Murray zeskoczyf
tendru pochwycil dzieci W swe
ramiona.
Pania ]. Elley, matke 6ga
dzieci. znaleziono W mieszkaniu,
w Louisville, przecieta szyja,
bez zycia. Morderstwa dopuscH
sic rabuS.
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TELEGRAMY.

Warszawa, 9 hstop. 10
przybyciu pociagu kolei warsza-
wsko wiedenskiej ma stacye Ro-
Cow, banda terrorystow obstawi-
la dworzec i wrzuciIa bombe do
wagonu pocztowego. Pociag wy
skoczyl z SYN, zolnierze konwo-
jujacy poczte zostali czeScia "a
bici,, czeScia pokaleczeni, handy
ci zabrali work. pieniedzmi w
znacznej sumie. Bylo ich podob-
no million rubi.
w kodzi wzmaga sic niepo-
k6j. Wczoraj zamordowali socya-
lisci siedmiu robotnikow, naleza-
cych do partyi narodowcow.
Petersburg, 9 listop. - Rad
rosyjski pragnie naklonic inne
rzady do wzajemnego wydawania
zbiegow, kt6rzy uzywaja dyna-
mitu innych materyalow wybu-
chowych do wyrabiania bomb.
Praktyka wykazuje, re dynami-
ciarze bywaja zwyklymi zbrod-
niarzami re "a przestepcow Po-
litycznych uwazac ich ME MONA.
Petersburg, 9 listop. - L VIA
dywostoku donosza, re W Mand-
zuryi przychodzi do czestych
stare miedzy Rosyanami Japofl-
czykami. Gromadne osiedlanie
sic Japohczyk6w naokoio Waady-
wostoku grozi tel twierdzy ME
bezpieczehstwem ma wypadek
wojny. Ma Sachalinie zakladala
Japonczycy pograniczne twierdze
wbrew warunkom traktatu poko-
jowego.
Straszne szczegoiy o straceniu
w Inflantach trzech cll%oPcow
dochodza do wiadomosci publi--
cznej. Rozczuleni zolnierze, wy
znaczeni do wykonania wyroku'
strzelali ma wiatr. Dopiero po Kill
ku salwach polozono chlopcow
trupem.
Rzym. 9 listop. = Papiez przyj-
mowal ma prywatnej audyency1
panne Stoiypin, corke prezesa ro-
syiskich ministrow. Wyrazil ma
dzieie, re w Rosyi zapanuje
wkrotce spokoj porzadek.
w poiowie grudnia odbedzie
sic konsystorz. Dotychczas ME
wiadomo, czy zostana zamiano-
wani nowi kardynafowie.
Londyn, 9 listop. = Przed Sc
dzia policyjnym stawal Karol
Stau lub Nau, mieniacy sic adwo-
katem Waszyngtonu. Wladze
nienlieckie domagaja sic Jego
wydania, poniewaz w Baden "a
mordowal podobno tesciow9,Stau
przybyl do Londynu zona
dziecmi. Mai przy sobie $I,4oo
zapewnia1 re zaszla omylEa co
do jego osoby. Przed detektywa
mi zeznal, re wraca z Baden ze
otrzyma} stantad depesze ma
giem zaslabnieciu tesciowej, lecz
w sadie twierdzii, re przybyf
wprawdzie do Londynu ladu
stalego, lecz w Baden wcale ME
by1. Powiada podobno, re jest go
tow jechac do Niemiec tam o.
ozyscic sic z uczynionego mu "a
rzutu.
Berlin, 9 listop. = Ma divorce
cesarskim utworzyla sic partya'
korzystajaca z braku zdrowia
kanclerza Buelowa i dazaca do
zlozenia go urzedu. Jego ma
stepca mias zostac jeden z Mott
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