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GET EXPLOSIVE FRCM FLOWER
British Scientists Discover That BIos- som of Mahua Tree in India Is
 Rich in Acetone.

The intuition output of India has In two years been increased a thousand fold, mainly through the discovery that one of India's commOnest blossoms, the flower of the mahua or mhowra tree, contains acetone In quantity. This tree is widely known to all travellers in Britain's Asiatic empire, but its use as a base for explosives Is at least one thing new under the sun, says the Scientific American.
 When the war broke out, acetone, which forms the chief ingredient of cordite, was extracted mainly from wood, maize, and starch; and the Brit ish admiralty erected a great factory for the process of acetone recovery from starch. But fortunately two Eng fish scientists in Hyderabad discovered that the mahua flowers contained ace tone in larger proportions than 1t is found in any other vegetable substance that this inoffensive bloom was ten time richer in the material in Ques- the director general of ordnance for India reports that the mahua is by all odds the best source for acetone known.
 Manufacture on a large scale Is now under way and 1t is whispered that the abundance of munitions with which the British forces in Mesopotamia ap- pear to be blessed Is to be attributed to the new discovery.
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ManteII's Ghost Story.

Robert Mantell tells of a barnstorm- Ing company in the West in the old days that made a try at Shakespeare. Considerable complaint was heard rela- tive to the efforts of the man who es- saved to do the ghost in Hamlet"
 One day a dramatic man on a local paper said to the leading man:
 "That fellow who plays the ghost does not suggest the supernatural"
 q should say not" assented the leading man with alacrity, "but he does suggest the natural super."- ."-Every- body's Magazine.
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answer, Crossing the Atlantic,' I'll for get I'm lady"
 Quoin chuckled. "I'm combining business with pleasure, if you must know. Nothing pleases me more than to be cooped up for few days with an unsuspicious subject. In such cir cumstances your humble sleuth learns lot about human nature."
 "Then you're sleuthingl know 1t ! But on whose trail?'
 Afraid I dassen't tell, Mrs. Beggar- staff."
 "What if know?"
 "That wouldn't surprise me; you certainly do .contrive to know a sur- prising number of things that don't concern you"
 'T'm not sure whether that's f1attery or impertinence."
 "The man who could f1atter your om- niscience, madam, wouldn't hesitate to-ah-tackle the job of teaching New York head-waiter the gentle art of being insolent."
 Mrs. Beggarstaff laughed aloud. "But suppose I do know what game you're stalking and can lend a help ing hand?"
 Charmed to humor your whim. Consider me a docile little supposer. And then?"
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CHAPTER II.

Dinner ran off uneventfully, if enli- vened by the quenohless animation of the Dowager Dragon, but Miss Car teret, manifesting little appetite, sat out the meal with downcast eyes, mute save when courtesy dictated speech. Later she found herself seated by her Dragons side on the lee of the prone made, deck, in darkness save for the beams from lighted ports. For little the girl relished all this with gladness. But presently her spirits sagged again and she grew drowsy, and fingered from her bed only to please the warm-hearted old woman who had adopted her pro tempore-''oI suspi- cion," as Mrs. Beggarstaff put it, not without Htle harmless malice.
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COULDN'T LIFT SIX
 MONTHS OLD BABY
Mrs. Hawkins Was So Weak Couldn't Move in Her Bed
 Without Help.
HAD SUFFERED TORTURE
Well and Strong Again After Taking TanIac and Weighs More Than She Has In Over Eighteen
 Years.

q was down in bed and couldn't raise my head or move without help and now I'm able to do all my house work, even to my cooking and garden work and I weigh more than have in eighteen years and have been taking Tanlac only about four weeks" said Mrs. Dollie Hawkins, 1906 Second ave nue, South, Birmingham, Ala., recent ly.
 "For years" continued Mrs. Flaw kins, q suffered with rheumatism and acute indigestion. The rheumatism got me down in bed and had me bound SO hard and fast somebody had to move me about and the pain was ter rible. I couldn't lift my six-months-old baby, and had to hire someone to wait on me and do my work. I was so nervous the least little thing dropping on the floor would startle me and my heart would almost stop beating. couldn't eat any solid food at all and was in such rundown condition my baby fell off until 1t was just little skeleton and fretted and cried all the time. No kind of medicine did me any good and was getting worse all the time.
 "H ever a medicine did wonders, Tanlac did 1t for me and my little ba- by. I felt better in just a few days after began taking 1t. I have taken three bottles and I am not nervous in the least now and my sleep is fine and rests me. The awful rheumatic pains and misery is all gone. can eat any thing I want and my food not only gives me nourishment but my baby Is as fat as little pig and sits for hours at time on pallet and plays with out a whimper. Tanlac has made a well woman of me and fat, healthy baby out of my little sickly one, and I'm just so thankful for what Tanlac has done for us I want everybody to know about this great medicine"
 There is a Tanlac dealer in your town. Adv.
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Then Silence.

They were dancing merrily, this young man and the young woman, and were talking of nothing at all, when suddenly the girl asked:
 Have you enlisted?"
 "No," answered the youth.
 Haven't you joined the Officers Re serve corps?"
 'No, not yet. I haven't thought much about that sort of thing"
 Haven't you done anything about the war;"
 "No," the youth replied.
 Whereupon the girl stopped danc- Ing.
 'sI wish you would take me to seat. I don't think I want to dance with you."- Washington Star.
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light. eff ever you care to part with it, don't forget my passion for antique jewelry."
 "Oh, never-I could never part with it"
 Forgive me. I forgot 1t was pres ent."
 "But that isn't all," the girl ex- plained with growing animation. "You see, 1t was a present from my father, and the cameo-it's a portrait of my father himselfl"
 "Its what?" Mrs. Beggarstaff ex- claimed shrilly. "A portrait of your fatheri Poohl Absurdl That things genuine antiquity-two thousand years old if day!" T know. I mean, 1t looks like him. That's why he gave 1t to me. He showed it to me once-the last time we were together in London-and saw the resemblance; so he sent 1t to me on my next birthday. It really does look wonderfully like him."
 "Then, my dear, you ought to pride yourself on having a mighty handsome man for your fatherl"
 T do," the girl said indistinctly, averting her head and closing her eyes. And able to make such presents Why, 1t must be worth several thou sandsI An exquisite specimen-per- fectly preserved -fawless-ought by | rights to be in the Metropolitan mu. scum. I shall envy you it till my dying dayI"
 Miss Carteret didn't answer. And presently Mrs. Beggarstaff re. turned the brooch to the top of the highboy and went her way, one fine l thoughtful wrinkle marring the habit | ual serenity of her forehead. The Dowager Dragons deck chair stood in the shelter of jog near the entrance to the forward promenade deck companionway-a most advan tageous coign for the sincere student | of seafaring humanity. Here, after a hurried dinner, Mrs. Beggarstaf1 mounted guard in the blue gloaming narrowly reviewing the postprandial parade with eyes whose brightness was as yet undimmed by age.
 At length she sat up with quick movement and called imperatively "Quoin-!'
 A man who, walking alone, had been on the point of passing, jerked a ciga rette stub over the rail, and moved to the lady's side.
 "Sit down. Three mortal days I've been moping round the saloons with my tongue hanging out, parched for 6 bit of scandal-and you never came near meV
 "But hate to disappoint; I'd noth ing on tap high enough for your sea soned palate"
 Don't be impudent, Quoin. What are you doing on this boat? If you
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CHAPTER I-Continued.

"AlI my life," the girl admitted. II was born in London, and when l was very young my parents returned to America, leaving me behind because they expected to be gone only little time. Then my mother died in New York; and my father went into bus1- ness there, and thought me better of where I was, in the care of friends, than with him."
 "But surely" this in shocked expos tulation, "he came back to see you r"
 "Oh, indeed he did, often; that is, considering the difficulties, the long voyages, and the fact that he-isn't B rich man. But haven't seen him recently-not in several years"
 "And now you're going to join him?"
 "Yes," Miss Carteret affirmed in a voice that betrayed more doubt than she suspected.
 But before her astute inquisitor could take advantage of the weakness her tone suggested there befell an tn- terruption. It was nothing more ex- room door; but it brought Miss Car teret to her feet with a start, again pale and trembling.
 "Ohl" she cried in alarm. "Oh, what Is that?" Involuntarily she stepped back as if to put as much space as possible between herself and the door.
 Mrs. Beggarstaff watched her in open wonder.
 'It's only the stewardess. I rang for her some time ago."
 "Oh, if that's all." Miss Carteret sat down again.
 "One moment, stewardess." Mrs. Beggarstaff looked back at the girl. "You don't object to my letting her in."
 "Oh, no, no!" Miss Carteret insisted hastily. "Please don't mind me. I'm very nervous-haven't heen-well. I was startled-that is all."
 "So I see," said Mrs, Beggarstaf with a quizzical accent. "Come in"
 The door opened, admitting smil- ing, apple-cheeked, middle-aged Eng lishwoman.
 "Shut the door-there! So many people running up and down."
 But when they were alone again, much to the relief of the girl, Mrs. Beggarstaff failed by any word to something hardly to be explained other than by open confession-which wouldn't in the least suit Miss Car teret'S book.
 "Now," said the elder woman placid ly, folding veil over most palpable wig, but still a most becoming one, "now I'll hurry on deck and see about our chairs, and then interview the sec ond steward about seats at table. know most of these people, stewards and all, and generally manage to get just about what I want" Mrs. Beg garstaff added with grim self-conceit T presume you've no objection to sit ting beside me? Not that you won't see all you want of me-and more, probably-right here."
 Please" the girl begged, laughing. "I'H be delighted with whatever ar engagements you're kind enough to make.''
 every good. then. And for dinner, If you please, put on your prettiest frock. Peter Traits aboard, and he's a dear-we1l worth dressing up for"
 The bang of the door as Mrs. Beg garstaff went out might have been a signal; immediately the girl became conscious that the ship was in mo- tion-vibrant and sonorous with the drone of it's turbines.
 The voyage of the Alsatia was be- gun, and-nothing had happened. She had eluded pursuit, was free!
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CTO BE CONTINUED1
Masticate Figs Thoroughly.

The composition of dried figs, dates and raisins is similar. Under normal conditions, and when carefully pre- pared, all three fruits are excellent food for both children and grown people. The fruit should be thorough ly masticated, however, and for young children, or in any case where the skins may prove indigestible, it IS safer to run the fruit through the food chopper before otherwise preparing or serving it.-Woman's Home Compan- ion.
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Didn't Need to Be Told.

Katherine, age six, had been going to school about two weeks when she said to her mother one day: Mother, I am the incest and the prettiest and the smartest girl in our class" Her mother, very much elated, exclaimed |: "Whyl Did the teacher tell you that, dear?"
 ."Oh, nol'' said Katherine. q just found 1t out myself"
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SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foet=Ease, the antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot bath It relieves painful, swollen, sm marting feet and takes the sting cut of corns and bunions Used by the British and French troops at the tront. Aliens Foet=Ease is certain relief for tired, aching feet. Sold everywhere-Adv.
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Marital Consideration.

A considerate man who really wants to make his wife happy will look de jected and miserable at the station when she is leaving for the summer. She carries a heavy heart with her if he happens to be brutal enough to look as if he were anticipating a hot old time.-Houston Post.
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Two Kinds.

Do all of your employees talk base ball, horse racing and prize f1ghtfhgr r "No, some of them talk trimming hair dressing and dancing"
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And right away Mrs. Beggar- staff confesses to MT. Quoin her suspicious about Lucy Carteret. Don't miss interesting devel- opments given in the next in- staIlment.
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When the good man begins to swear the bad man should be on hand to get a few pointers
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Red Cross Bag Blue, much better, goes farther than liquid blue. Get from any grocer. Adv.
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Money makes the mare go," and al- so the dogs of war.
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The Effects of Opiates,

 known in in
 
   result of
  the smallest doses than tm and onlyth The adnaen of Anodyn Dops Cordial Soothing syps and children dc and the druggist should net be to it. Children who aem physician, and nothing them wlffuly with / sgnatur Q Fletcher <NlN-A LL<<zS
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-09-27
HOW TO MEASURE HUMIDITY
Device That Is Satisfactory Consists
Of Combination OF Two Their
mometers and Vessel Of Water.

You do not have to invest in a ha-
romctor. or cNpend your personal mois-
turc by hurryiug 10 the nearest sob
Scrvatory," whether at a drug store or
at Il weather bureau, to ascertain the
degree of humidity. From Power one
gets this hint:
"Thc instrument in the weather hu-
rcau kiosk marked relative humidity
is supposed To show the percentage by
weight Of water vapor in the air. 100
per cent being when the atmosphere
can hold no more in the form of steam.
The maximum weight of steam that
the atmosphere is capable Of holding
is dependent on and increases with an
increase of the temperature. The ac-
ton of this hydrometer depends on the
expansion and contraction in length "f
n hair or fiber as II increases or de-
CreaSeS in moisture content.
Another device for measuring the
relative humidity is combination con-
siSting Of two ordinary thermometers,
one having the bulb covered with a wet
cloth or wick extending into YES
sci Of water. In the use Of this in
strument the wet-bulb and the dry
bulb temperatures are taken. If they
are the same, the humidity is 100 per
cent. but when there is a difference 1t
IS necessary to consult tables In order
to obtain the relative humidity"
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The True Socialism.

Once in khaki il matters extremely
little what you We're in civilian life.
Among the group Of thirty-Odd ruffinns
who compose the population Of my hut
are an author, Il journalist, two actors,
land agent, a schOolmaster, an agri-
cultural gentleman, diversified bust
ness men, and striplings fresh from
school and university.
Each of us preserves his own in
dividuality-Off parade, and in civilian
life such a variegated group would In
fallibly split up into little cliques and
cabals. As II is, we are Informed with
en- amiability and spirit Of mutual
helpfulness which is, / imagine, the
true socialism, although so ideal
brotherhood has never yet been
achieved by the political socialists who
have had opportunity to put their
theories into practice.-London Globe.
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ANIMALS WILL NOT ATTACK
Man Has Nothing to Fear From Wild
Creatures of Forest Who Will
Flee at His Approach.

In North America, barring the
venomOus snakes, an occasional old
she-bear, with very young cubs, and
peccary or wild havilina hogs that go
In droves among the brush Of the
southwest, there Is nothing, absolute
ly nothing, in the wild animal line that
the merest child out alone after dark
needs to fear, says a writer in the
Philadelphia Ledger. Such is the fear
of man, engendered by the long use Of
firearms and traps and before that by
stout bows and f1int-pOinted arrows,
spears and heavy, spiked war clubs or
stone axes, that the human scent Is
enough to send bears, wolves and cats
along with the deer and lesser crea-
lures, scampering in retreat.
Old hunters and wOOdmen declare
that 1t is actually more difficult, as a
general thing, to come within shooting
distance of bear than It is Of deer,
and In many sections this is proved by
the fact that the bear still hold their
own after the deer have been exter-
minated, though more hunters and
dogs go out after bear meat than those
seeking venison.
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Cork Home for Silent Monks.

A striking curiosity near Cintra,
Portugal, says a writer in the Vide
World, Is an ancient convent built par
TALLY In the interior of an immense
rock The convent Is situated In II
very isolated spot and was formerly
surrounded by a dense wood Of cork
trees. The convent is known as the
COnvento da Cortica, or Cork Con-
vent" for the reason that the monks
cells, chapel, kitchen and refectory are
all lined with cork to keep out the
damp. From 1860 to 1884 the convent
was inhabited by an order of monks
known as the Capuchins, remark
able feature of their religion being
that, except on certain occasions, ST.
lence was obligatory.
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NOCTURNAL VISIT FROM LION
Trainer HAD Perlous Journey With
Animal Which Escaped From
Cage in Railroad Car.

There is plenty Of danger In train,
Ing wild animals; nevertheless, in
many cases those who work among
the carnivOreS owe their lives To the
good temper of their charges. In that
connection Mr.. Carl Hagenheck re-
cords In beasts and men an adventure
thar would alarm even the most cOur-
ageOus.
In the beginning of the sixties,
writes Mr.. HagenbeCk l was bringing
from Cologne to Hamburg a large col
lection of animals. Among them was
a four-year-Old lion. II was placed in
a great kennel and, together with all
the other animals, was installed in the
railway van. a man named Druard
was in charge of the animals during
the journey. When everything was
satisfactorily arranged, he closed the
door Of the van and made himself com
Portable.
The train rumbIed on through the
night and the unsuSpecting keeper
dozed peacefully. suddenly he felt
a great weight upon his chest, and
woke with Il start. In the darkness,
not yard from him, there shOne two
greeniSh lights, and he could dimly see
the shaggy outline of the lions name.
In some way the fastening Of its cage
had become dIsarranged and the huge
beast had escaped.
Druard was a trainer Of long eXpe-
ricnco, and he knew that this lion was
goOd-tempered. So he decided at once
that the best thing 10 do was some
how or other to tie the animal up. For
the rest he must share the place with
the lion until the next station. and
make the best of his awkward situa-
ton.
Fortunately, no trouble broke out
between the lion and the other ami
mails. Had anything of that sort &C.
Cured, the man would never have
lived TO tell the tale. Druard quietly
united q sash that he Wore round his
body and placed it round the lions
neck. Then cropping his way through
the dark and jOlting van he succeeded
in fastening the other end of the sash
TO the handle of the door. At the next
station he sounded the alarm, and
when lights were brought led the lion
back to its cage.-YOuth's Companion.
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Navloation.

A ship at sea is constantly changing
its position on the earth's surface, and
it requires some skill to keep 1t In its
prescribed path to its destination. The
oldest navigatOrs were the Phenicians.
These hardy voyagers sailed from one
end Of the Mediterranean sea TO the
other and out into the open Atlantic
without compass or chart, guided by
the sun by day and by the Great Dip
per at night. In those days the dip
per was much nearer the pole than 1t
is now and indicated the true north
fairly well.
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India's Wheat Crop.

Advices from India indicate that
there are 33,O40,OO0 acres under wheat
cultivation in that country compared
with 3O,143,OO0 acres last year, or an
increase Of about 10 per cent. The
total yield is estimated at 100000
tons for this year, as against 8,5lS,OOO
tons reported at this time for last year.
gain OF practically 10 per cent.
These figures are based on the final re-
ports on the wheat crop received from
local authorities and relate to 9S.5 per
cent Of the total wheat area In India.
The figures covering both area aud
yield are the highest on record.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
FLOWERS

Successor 10 SCHNEIDER x 20, Floral Artist
Residence Phone Galvez 1901; Store Phone,
Hemlock 7S6-l94O. gil Decatur Street Our
specialties: Wedding bouquets. funeral de-
signs floral work, house and church decora-
tlOnS. '-AS-H
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MIssPELLEo "oHO'

last issue the word pat
In Ou - Cd of the Shakespeare
tern u,n-,s was misspelled "pattren' ~
Iron W." - receive the Jacobs candies
pose t,,' - Hotard, 425 Opelousas
'fe Iahn Forrest. 9Ol Wagner ST.
AVE. 80, Clark. 40 EImira Ave.
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Joys of Travel.

81 Ike to travel"
"YOu occasionally meet some nice
people"
And you may never see 'em again.
That's another good point"
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Unreasonable.

Divorce Lawyer-YOur husband re-
fuses you the common necessities Of
Yfe?
Fair Clientele even kicked about
our retaining fee.
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ENTERTAINMENTS FURNISHED

Let HIRSCH attend your wants.
Entertainment furnished. Tables, Chairs
Table Linen. SlIvc-ware. G.as, Ware, Crock
cry. CHARLES HIESCH, 81 Frenchmer
St, Dept. a. Phone Hemlock rs.
3-2S-lS
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,s n GOVERN CONTEST

=, Answers MUST Is rEy Re sENT y Yo &c
TIER THAN FNi RE Of 4 CARD OK
.SSWER M pEsSPFR not LARGER THAN
Is Oh NW2RITE or THE CARD AS
FOLLOW, ,or,p NAME AND ADDRESS.
FRS. IOTTHHE 'MISSPELLED W0RD,r
sECoXD rI M NAME OF THE ADNER.
THiK tS,r =, ~ WHICH IT APPEARED.
1IsENtM ,,,scpETIFD WORD CONTEST
THE MISS, LyLi'Ti-6 OR CLASSIFIED
APPLIES " II PRESENT OF PAGE T.
COLUMNS Will BE AWARDED EACH
TIE PS7 10 THREE SUCCESSFUL CON
TSTANTS.
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MODERN CLEANERS

B. TREADAWAY. Prop.
Opclsu,as Ave. Phone a 207 J
Suits cleaned and pressed, SOC.
Suits pressed. PC.
Suits dry or steam cleaned and pressed, 75c
For a limited time only.
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BUSINESS PERSONAL

Do not buy any make OF scales or have
any repairing done any used ones until
You consult Ferrer. Their is a reason Get
il. Postal 5S25 Magazine St. Telephone Up
town 7oS.
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WOOD WoRK-DooRS-BLINDS.

When in need Of Factor. Work, see Cres-
cent City Sash, Door ana Blind Mfg. Co.,
Montegu; and MaTais St. Phone Hem 1903.
Prompt delivery. 9l-3-H
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AWNINGS, SAILS. ETC.

SPEARlNG 4 COMPANY. Established 1917
SAIL MAKERS, Awnings, Flags, Tarpau-
Inns and Tents. Theatrical Work Speciality
Cumberland Phone, Main 1891. Corner Ca
nal and Tchoupitoulas SITS. New Orleans.
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