The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, BAY STATE DEMOCRACY. T a meeting of the Democratic Club of Massa- MONDAY. .ce.cceruesersnrn.,OCTOBER 21, ‘1001 A chusetts Josiah Quincy, candidate for Gov- ernor, made a significant speech. Presenting JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. "7 Mtdress A Communieations to W, 5. LEAKE, Masager. MANAGER’'S QFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S, F, Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Surday), € months DAILY CALL (ncluding £unday), 3 1.onth: DAILY CALL—Ey Eingle Month.... SUNDAY CALL. One Year. WEBKLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Eample coples will be forwarGed when requested. 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At the two great centers of speculation, New York eable lack of that fever- n really dull, how- o, there ivity wl stock and t in wheat or corpora- iittle s lation is needed Mone plentiful that b speculation. to provoke eager everywhere and is easily accessible at moderate rates i and the long period of prosperity enjoyed by the country has thoroughly imbued the trading public with confidence in the future. But the New 3 banks are going slow. They are scrutinizing rities before making loans and have 1. This course acts safety valve on Wall street and maintains as in values as is ever seen in that busy and imparts a feeling of confidence throughout which they consider doubt es of trade. in spite of this conservatism business continues to expand. T} accepted as the tion of tr bank clearings. which are icator of the condi- de, show, week 2 er week, an unvarying e corresponding periods last year. times the percentage of gain over t Some- ase runs up to 60 and sometimes falls to 20 and even less, but it ng year. last week showed a gain of 26.2-per is alw zhead of the precedi The clearings cent, and with the exception of New Orleans and St. Paul every im- portant trade center in the co exhibited an in- This tells the commercial story. week were have been running try 220, against 209 last year. ead of the previous They year for a number of months, but are almost always small and unimportant. Seldom do we see one that attracts the attention of the co or six years ago. ve trade of the country is good.in except possibly in the South, where a n crop movement has hampered the ut even in this sec- is observed. Cooler weather stimulated raw Wool t firm prices and the woolen mills there being no reports of slug- n some imp: and fear of frosts h cotton is moving off freely are generally busy g anywhere. Footwear factories &n active demand for their product and wlew of the advance in hides and leather say that in one of two shoes must advance or they must be made of inferior quality, to equalize the higher prices for material. The iron trade is in as good shape as ever, the mills being filled with orders, many of them for months ahead. The persistent prosperity in this line during the past several y is surpricing. Coal and lumber are also quoted firm and active almost everywhere. The only staples that lagged are the cereals, notably wheat #and the feeling in this grain has become more bullish during the past few days, owing chiefly to persistent reports of increasing damage to the Ar- gentine ciop by drought, though much of this is regarded as exaggerated In our local market we are still busily engaged in working off orders for merchandise accumulated ing the recent strike and some merchants are complaining of the scarcity of cars, which retards this work of clearing the decks, part of the city is active and bid so for s things must soon occur—either prices for have The commercial fair to continue Farm and orchard prod- uce continues to bring good prices, though raisins and dried fruits are halting at the moment, the former in consequence of dissensions among growers -and me time to come. packers and the latter owing to the heavy buying in | August and September, which stocked everybody up for the time being. All other lines of country prod- uce are reported in good movement, while merchan- dise is being moved as fast as our supply of cars and drays can carry it away from wharf and store. is no dullness in trade in San Francisco. There Carter Harrison is writing an autobiography which, Jie says, is not to be published until twenty years aiter his death, so here’s hoping he may live a long time. The failures | try at. large, as was the case five | still report | Democracy in this country as the analogue of the several liberal partics in Europe, he declared that in Great Britain and on the Continent those parties were all dead and that Socialism had administered on their estate and taken their place as the political opposition of the parties that ‘support the Govern- ment. He warned his hearers that the breakdown of Liberalism abroad may indeed be regarded as a threatening portent for Democracy in America. “I would therefore say to the man for whom the recent attitude of the Democratic party has been too radical, ‘Come with us and exercise your proper voice within the party to steady its action.” I would say also to the man who complains, as not a few do, that the Democratic party is not yet radical enough, ‘Come with us and make your advanced radicalism an effec- tive factor instead of an empty protest.’” This means a fusion within the party of former Democratic conservatism with the advanced radical- ism which goes to the extreme of state communism, all for the purpose of welding an opposition to “the party which supports the Government.” One fails to sec anything original in this. It is a repetition of the scheme of fusion of incongruities which has been twice attempted by Mr. Bryan and has twice failed. Mr. Quincy points to 22,000 votes ! cast in Massachusetts for two Socialist candidates for Governor as evidence of drift toward that political school. If that drift is in a right political direction why does he find fault with it? If it is wrong why does he make a strong socialistic and communistic platform and invite the drifters to come in and stand on it? His whole attitude is a concession of the rightness of radicalism. Does he suppose that it will | be satisfied to remain incorporated with the Demo- { cratic party unless it can make that party represent its radical policies? Apparently not, for he invites it to come in and through Democracy as a medium make its radicalism effective. Mr. Quincy is a very scholarly gentleman, but he seems blind to some things that arise of necessity in his invitation to the { men who lefit his party because it was too radical to me back and join men who have left it because it 1ot radical enough. Such a union is impossible unless it is entirely 1econciled by the desire to get ; office and power. | Logically he should carry His taleats over to the | socialists and communists, whose ideas he made as Boston. e he was Mayor of “No intelligent observer of | effective as possible wh | In this speech he said: politics can believe that our party is now going back to its political attitude of a decade ago. Many point {to election returns as showing that its new spirit is unprofitable. But it should be remembered that a period of great and widely diffused prosperity is not one in which men turn readily to those who offer hem radical remedies for ills in the body politic. ! It was said that Napoleon, in his disastrous winter invasion of Russia, was defeated by General January. {In opinion it was General Prosperity who de- feated Colonel Bryan. But General Prosperity has | always turned deserter in the past. If, unfortunately, | adversity declines to be permanently banished, possi- I bly advanced Democracy may be more popular than { of late.” | Is that cynicism, p Does Mr. | Quincy mean that adversity is preferable to pros- | perity? Does he intend to argue that his party has | no policy acceptable to a prosperous people and can only be accepted by them in adversity? If so, it is incumbent upon him to show that when it comes to victory in partnership with famine, it must have the power to restore the very prnspcrity upon whose downfall it has depended for its opportunity. The citizens of a republic may well feel suspicious of a party which makes proclamation of its intention Grant- imism or what? | | [t take advantage of adversity to get power. | entire sincerity, his declaration | can have no other meaning than that his party’s pol- as a minority, is to do all that a minority can to bring adversity upon the coun to the end that its radicalism may be more popular and that it may get power. Surely there is but slight hope that conservative men will cee in this a reason for helping Mr. Quincy |to the Governorship of Massachusetts in order to strengthen the party which sees its only hope of a Federal victory in national adversity. Following Mr. Quincy a speech was made by Mr. Loughlan, ex-Mayor of Fall River, who said: “We have fought the fool's fight long enough.” Whether that was intended for Colonel Bryan or Mr. Quincy { thé ex-Mayor of Fall River did not explain. A SR AR TN * ing Mr. Quincy’s | 1 | | Suppose these various reform movements in New Yo Philadelphia and Chicago should be carried out and the police be set to work strictly on the square, would there not be a scattering of vice into It might be best after all to leave the three tenderloin cities unpurified. SIGHTING FOR STATEHOOD. 1 RIZONA and New Mexico have already en- A tered actively upon the new campaign for | statehood and it is a foregone conclusion i that within a short time Oklahoma will join them. i The people of these Territories have long desired that | their commonwealths have the rights of States, and | they have repeatedly sought to obtain them. In the | present campaign therefore the promoters of the | movement will have the advantage of appealing to a | sentiment already formed. In the Territories them- elves the movement will be well-nigh universally | supported, the sympathies of the West generally will be with them and even in the East there will be found a strong clement favorable to the change. The claim of each of the Territories is good, for cach has a larger population and greater wealth than were possessed by other Territories when admitted to | statehood. According to the last census Arizona | had a population in 1900 of 122,000, New Mexico a | population of 195,000, and Oklahoma 398,000. The smallest of these populations is larger than that of several of the States. Moreover each of the appli- cants for statehood has just as bright prospects for an increase of popuiation and of industry as such States as' Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho. | In the present condition of American politics it is hardly likely that partisan considerations will have { much influence in determining the action of Con- gress upon the application for statehood. At pres- ent New Mexico and Oklahoma are regarded as Re- | publican, while Arizona is Democratic. Partisanship, | however, appears to be out of the question. In a | recent speech at a “statehood rally” at Phoenix Gov- { ernor Murphy said: “It has in the past been a political question and politics might be expected to retard statehood when Congress was evenly divided, but with the present Republican majority, if all three of Athe States admitted should be Democratic, the situa- other parts of the country? tion would not be changed. Besides, though I am a Republican, I would rather live in a Democratic State than a Republican Territory.” To the people of the Territories the issue is not one of politics merely. They are convinced that their business and industrial interests would be advanced by statehood. Thus at the Phoenix meeting Judge Kebbey, a former Chief Justice of the Territory, said: “It is worth a great deal to say one lives in a State. The very word ‘Territory’ carries with it a stigma in the business world that means a loss of business.” It is to be noted finally that the advocates of the movement are counting much upon the well-known Western sympathies of the President. It is believed that Roosevelt will cordially co-operate in procuring the desired action by Congress. The outlook is cer- tainly more promising than ever before and it is not at all improbable that President Roosevelt will have the satisfaction of adding three additional stars to the glorious galaxy in the national banner. e — Since young Rockefeller married a New England girl the New England papers have been looking up his college record and the Boston Globe reports that he “was scrupulously exact in his accounts, never believed in nor practiced the American habit of treat- MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 1901 GOSSIP ABOUT AND DO STUNNING HATS CKING OF HORSES’ TAILS | | ing and as athletic manager insis should pay his own way.” Not ed that every man 2 is said about his A standing as a student and apparently that no longer counts in Néw England college life. A MODEL CITY. N effort is being made by the National Arts Club to induce the Commissioners of the St. Louis Exposition to arrange the grouping of the various buildings so as to present the aspect of “a model city.” A plan for the work has been for- mulated in a tentative and committee ap- pointed to confer with the expo urge its adoption. The suggestion in itseli is attractive. A world’s exposition in our time is a very complex affair and does not fall far short of being a veritable city during its existence. It contains many buildings of different kinds designed for different purposes, and it would seem that they might be grouped in such a way with reference to the parks and gardens of the exposition as to form a really valuable object lesson in the art of beautifying municipalities. The proposed plan, i adopted, would in the first place give the St. Louis exposition a novelty in the way of attraction. The expositions of the past have been planned for the purpose of producing many kinds of architectural effect. but not one of them has been anything like that of a mode! city. Of course much in the way of scenic beauty and architectural effect might be lost through the adoption of a scheme that would arrange the buildings along regu- lar streets, but at the same time something would also be gained. In the hands of competent men the street vistas of the St. Louis exposition might be made as effective in some ways as the great court of honor at the Chicago exposition. As outiined in a report made to the National Arts Club the plan proposes that the departments of the exposition which are the same as similar departments in modern cities be treated so as to form working models of what such departments should be. These include engineering, street cleaning, garbage disposal, water supply, police, fire and health departments, parks, tree-planting and other matters of that nature. Furthermore, the plan involves the treatment of parks and plaza spaces, street crossings and other vistas, and the grouping and architecture of other structures and other lines in"which esthetic effects are desirable and practicable without sacrifice of economy and utility. Finally, there.would be a compietc ex- position of model lampposts, street signs, letter- boxes, paper receptacles, park settees, street-cleaning machinery and all other appliances that make up the accessories of modern city life. Whether the plan can be made acceptable to the St. Louis Commissioners remains to be seen. It will of course be natural for the Commissioners to desire to follow the old way and group their exposition buildings so as to make the greatest spectacular ef- fect, and consequently a purely utilitarian grouping may not be pleasing to them. It is certain, however, that if such a plan be adopted and carried out with efficiency under competent control there would be a good deal of gratification throughout the country. The American people are very much interested just now in municipal improvement and adornment, and a model city on a large scale would in itself prove a popular exposition and a drawing one. way a SIGNALING THROUGH FOGS. IRELESS telegraphy is no longer a world's wonder. It has ceased to attract the atten- v V tion of those who note the progress of sci- ence and invention orly through curiosity to learn of some new marvel. On the other hand, it is increasing its held upon the minds of those who are interested in its utility to the world of commerce and trade. It is therefore worth noting that there has recently been given in New York harbor a striking illustration of its value in that direction. A short time ago the Lucania on her arrival off New York harbor found herself involved in a fog so dense that she was compelled to cast anchor twicg on her way up the bay. The mail tender that was on the outlook for her, so as to take the mails'and hurry them to port, steamed around for hours without being able to find her, so that, as the New York Press said: “The mails for the Pacific Coast missed the or- dinary connection and the steamer at San Francisco probably will have to wait at least a day for the overland train.” While the mail tender was uselessly groping around in the fog the agents of the Cunard Line, to which the Lucania belongs, were also anxious about the steamer, but they did not have to grope for her. They promptly made use of wireless telegraphy. The Press says: “The Umbria of the same line, which was lying at the Cunard pier in readiness to sail for England, is fitted with the Marconi apparatus. Shortly after dawn when the fog was at its thickest the message was flung out on the heavy air from the pier in the North River. A few minutes later an naswer came out of the mist. The Lucania reported that she was an- chored outside the bar waiting for the fog to lift. At 9:30 she sent word that she was under way, but it was nearly 12 o'clock before she reached her pier.” In that incident we have a plain, practical illustra- tion of the utility of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy. If the mail tender, like the Umbria, had been fitted with the Marconi apparatus it would have been easy for her captain to have found just where the Lucania lay/and there would have been no grop- ing in the fog. The lesson can hardly be lost upon the Government and the experience of that mail tender may hasten the adoption by the Government of a wireless telegraph system at every important port af the countrv. - on-authorities and | B By Sally Sharp. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has set the seal of disapproval upon the horse with a docked tail. In the President’s stable at the White House are three superb coach | horses, recently purchased for the Presi- dent in New York by his brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, who was commissioned to select the best animals for the purpose that money could buy. All matters per- taining to the purchase were left to Mr. Robinson, the President only insisting that the animals have especially fine, long tails. In England King Edward recentiy declared in favor of long-tailed horses for all ceremonial purposes. With the President's disapproval and the English monarch’s disapproval it can’t be a matter of much time before the docking of horses’ tails will have passed into memor one of the barbaric and hideous customs of the past. I for one feel perfectly confident that the banishment of the short-tailed ani- mal is a matter of to-da Fashion is going to do what the law could not ac- compligsh. I know that in some States, and I also believe that in this one, there is a law prohibiting the docking of horses’ tails. However, the law was a weak one and it was the easiest thing in the world for the owner of a horse with a docked tail to declare that the tail was docked in some other State but the one in which the particular law should have been en- forced. It is a pleasant thing to contem- plate that Fashion is going to accomplish that which the law was powerless to do, and furthermore accomplish it in much quicker time and more summary manner. e Mrs, George Carr, who is rehearsing the belles and.beaux who are to take part-in the “Florodora” sextet in the vaudeviile end of the doll show, has by this time discovered that an impresario’s couch is not one of roses. Mrs. Carr in her work hes the valuable assistance of Mrs. Linda Bryan, and 1 do not beli that there could arise any managerial difficulties that these two clever, tactful women could not surmount. The time has not vet arrived to riake public the names of those who will take part in the sextet, The greatest difficulty thus far has been to get girls who belong to the same clique. Some girls chosen won't play if other girls who have been chosen will, and therein lies the most seri- ous problem the manageresses have to | confront. | While there are any number of obliging {and wlilling particlpants, the sextet has { not yet been completed. Those already chosen have had several rehearsals and are doing splendidly. Twice last week they met and rehearsed at Mrs. Bryan's home, and Tuesday evening they are to Tehearse at Mrs, Bermingham's residence. Some time during the week they will hold their rehearzals on the pretty little stage of the Bella Vista. Another serious question Mrs. Carr and Mrs. Bryan are facing is the color of the gowns for the “pretty, maidens.” It must be a color that will be most becoming to all the girls, and as there is a diversity of complexions in the sextet it does not take half an eye to see the import of the color auestion. With commendable foresight the ladies are guarding against the possibility of an accident. Taking into consideration the delicate throats and ricious tempers of a1l prima donnas, there are to be several understudies, who at a moment’'s notice will be ready to step in and fill any va- cancy that may occur. I have been told that the understudies are = remarkably HE Danish gunboat Moen was sunk September 20 in the sound between Denmark and Sweden during exper- imental firing with a new shell con- taining a high explosive. The shell 'burst prematurely, destroving the gun and sinking the vessel. No lives were lost as the entire crew had as a precaution been transferred to another ship before the gun was fired. The Moen was 2n iron boat of 356 tons and was built in 1875, P g A court-martial, of which Captain C. H. Stockton was president, was recently held on Boatswain E. J. Brown of the Glacier, for being absent without leave. He had obtained one day shore leave May 11, while at Sydney, but did not return un- til June 15. The court sentenced him to reduction in rank to that of a mate, but when the judge advocate pointed out the illegality of the sentence the court recon- sidered and changed its sentence to dis- missal. Judge Advocate Lemly again changed this punishment, recommending that the offender lose twenty-five. num- bers, and the Presiacnt has approved the sentence as mitigated. There appears to be a great need of incorporating the study of law among other qualifications for naval officers, as the procedure and pun- ishments are somewhat erratic and incon- sistent as now practiced. The case of Boatswain Brown is almost as bad as that of Thomas C. Ridgeley, a second assistant engineer, who was tried in March, 1865, before a court-martial. The court declared him not guilty, vet sentenced him to be dishonorably dismissed from the. naval service. Secretary Wells disposed of the case with the curt remark that “a sen- tence so evidently illegal, in view of the finding is, of course, set aside.” o e . Robert Stephenson & Co.’s shipyards at Hepburn-on-Tyne is in process of trans- formation to enable the building of vessels of all classes, including the largest battle- ships. A .drydock. 7% feet in. length Is A FROE OF o+ SO CH. HORS V/ITH DPOCHKED TAW J PRESIDENT'S HORSES, WHICH ARE THE POSSESSORS OF THE | FLOWING TAILS GIVEN THEM BY NATURE, AND TWO UNFORTU- | NATE ANIMALS WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE DOCKING PROCESS. | - — " beautiful and very fetching, an important fact, for that always helps to keep a lead- ing lady even-tempered and well. The sex- tet is to be managed much the sameasthe one that has been charming audiences at the Columbia Theater. There are to be a few changes in the “business,” and I un- derstand that the “swear to me on bended knee” measure is to be sung without any accompanying ardent ‘‘goo-gooing.” o e The girls are still talking about the very swell gowns worn at the Crockett-Scott wedding. I would hate to have te decide which was the handsomest gown there— ask—although I would be will- to a decided preference for the magnificent jet and silver one wourn by Mrs. Gus Taylor. I do not believe that 1 ever saw any dress as elegant as that clinging, glittering gown that set off to such splendid advantage the tall, straight figure of the beautiful blonde wearer. As it is, the gown dazzled me so that I al- most forgot to look at the handsome white hat, with its magnificent white plumes, that lent the finishing touch to the cos- tume. While on the subject of hats I must al- low myself the luxury of indulging in a few ahs and ohs apropos of the pink hat worn by Mre. Joseph Tobin. It was a “dream.” I am aware that that is neither a bright nor an original description, but it is the only word that fits the exigencies of the case. Mrs. Tobin's hat was a most delicate pink. It was shaped somewhat like an old-fashioned poke bonnet; of course moderated and trimmed with a nodding bunch of pink plumes that co- quettishly drooped over the edge of the hat and cast a delicate, rosy glow on thd face of the wearer. Besides the magnificent gowns and beau- tiful hats there were some wonderful laces worn by aristocratic matrons. Mrs. being built, and four machine shops, each 285x75 feet, have been erected and stocked with the latest tools. An American plate stacking electric traveling crane, with arms each 142 feet in length, is already in operation, and four 700-foot berths for vessels are being prepared, besides four others ranging from 350 to 500 feet contem- plated. The river will be dredged to per- mit the launching of great ships and in less than two years the works will be ready to accept admiralty contracts. « s s An ice-making machine on board the British battleship Centurion is the latest subject of investigation in the British navy. It was expected to turn out eighty pounds of ice evéry twenty-four hours— a quantity just sufficlent for the officers’ messes, and it worked all right in cold weather when there was no demand for iced punches, sherry cobblers, ete. But when the temperature rose to 80 degrees the machine produced little ice and at 55 degrees it ceased to operate entirely. Hence the inquiry and possible court-mar- tial of some official through whose negili- gence the officers on board the Centurion have been deprived of cooling drinks while on the China station. st 'y A uniform system In helm co; to be intreduced in Germany. r:yr:a;dfl% the method in the navy was that which now exists in England and America, and at the order “Stenerbord ruder,” tho‘ ship would go to port (backboard), but now the same order will send the vessél to starboard. In 1891 the North German Lloyd introduced a new system using the words ‘“rechts-links” (right and left) as substitutes for stenerboard and back- board. It is, of course, essential that the systems should be uniform. in the mer- cantile, marine and navy, as many of the captains and officers of the great liners are reserve officers in the navy. iy There are periodical discoveries of Eleanor' Martin's exquisite gray satin Zown was covered with an overdress of black chantilly that made the eyes of the younger generation present almost pop out of their heads. Mrs. Irving Scott wors some rarely beautiful and costly duchesse lace. i e The relatives of beautiful Mrs. Gene- vieve Goad-Martin-Reilly are anxiously awaiting letters that will bring them soms news about the newly annexed member of the family and perhaps give them an inkling of the reason of the hasty nup- tials without the observance of the usus formality of announcing the engagemen None of the Goads know exactly who Mr. Reil s. They have had, however, from Mrs. Hearst, who knows the gentleman some very comforting assurances concerr ing him. They are confident, howeve that Genevieve made no choice that might be unworthy of her, her family and social position. A generous welcome awaits the young coupie here. Three more charming society girls have gone out into the world to join the vast army of wage earners. Business reverses and the consequent dwindling of the fam- ily exchequer made Minnie, Hilda and Elsie Fechheimer decide to become inde. pendent and self-supporting. Out at thg Children’s Hospital, alleviating the suf- fering of helpless little ones, are Minnie and Elsie, training to be of service to suf- fering humanity. Miss Hilda has chosen decorating as the means to the end. The rare talent sho asplayed in the service of her friends she has turned into a most profitable channel. Decorating was dying out until M Hilda came into the field and showed t} results that might be achfeved with her originality, artistic taste and pawer execution. of L e e e B B B xR TERRIFIC EFFECT OF THE PREMATURE EXPLOSION OF A NEW SHELL ON THE DANISH GUNBOAT MOEN frauds committed by Russian naval offi- cers and the Black Sea appears to be their favorite base of operations. Last year forty-three officers were charged with frauds In connection with coal purchases, and quite recently a similar offense has been charged against a number of naval officers. An inquiry and subsequent trial will result in imprisonment or banish- ment of several officials. A Brazllian submarine boat, designed by Lieutenant Marqyes, has been tested 1 the presence of President Campos-Salles. the Minister of Marine, and many othe officials, and it is claimed that the boat is a success, . e The new battleship Implacable, which left Plymouth September 21 for service abroad, returned the next day with en- gines disabled. —————— ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * —_—— Choice candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —————— Cal. Glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* Drunkenness and all drug habits cured at Willow Bark Sanitarium, 1839 Polk. * —_———— Towrsend's California glace fruits, 5c 3 rund. in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ets. A nice present for Eastern rrlsnds. 639 Market street, Palace Hotal building.* Specfal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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