The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1904 To Keep in Trim. RrY { TERHUNE. [Athietic Author of ALBERT PEYS Expert New York Evening World, Muscle Butiding,” Etc.] (Copyright, 1804, by Joseph B. Bowles ) While boxing is, by itself, one of the finest imaginable cxercises, and while it takes the place of all ordinary calis- thenics in developing the body and in keeping the circulation in good condi- tion, yet the boxer will find that a cer- tain dafly routine of exercise, dlet, etc., will greatly improve his wind, muscle end general “boxing form.” It {¢ my purpose to-day to give sup- plementary hints on boxing and to outline for you a simple course of ex- ercises, especially adapted as an ad- junet to the manly art. I shall also prescribe a diet which, while not se- vere, will enable you to avoid foods that are deleterious to strength and | endurance. Let me first sketch out your daily programme of exercise. PP | | CHINNING | + ' the supposition that you are a school boy. and that your time, outside school and study hours, is more or your own Rise early, at 7 or 7:30 at latest. Go through fifteen minutes of such calis- { | monly known as “chinning.” a | 1owering the body the bag for three similar rounds with the same intervals. Let me impress on you one or two highly needful points in connection with these daily boxing bouts: In the first place never box longer than three minutes without stopping | for at least one minute’s rest. It is bad for the health and injures the Do not try any outside exercises dur- the ing punc afternoon’s boxing and bag except that which is com- This con- of seizing with both hands a trapeze or the cornice over a door and drawing one's self upward by sheer strength of arm until" thé chin is on level with the hands, then slowly until zimost at full arm’s length, and repeat as often as possible. The foregoing exercise is good for wind, muscles and endurance. It is, to my mind, the only sort of calisthenic | work which should accompany the reg- | sists |1y. | ous cold by exposure to outdoor air too | | erings. l | plexus blows. ular box 'rg hn'lr If you sparring is done at vour sparring @urtner’'s house and not at | your own be careful on starting home to wrap up warmly and to move brisk- Many & man has caught a danger- soon after violent exercise. In the evening do your studying; then before going to bed take fifteen min- utes more of the same sort of exer- cise as on rising in the morning. Fol- low this with a cold sponge bath and rubdown. Never sleep less than nine hours & night. Ten hours will be still better. Have enough bed clothes to keep you comfortable, but no more. Do not sleep under a mountain of cov- The room must be well ven- tilated; the pillow not too high. | 1 will now outline for you the form | of morning exercise. Before 1 begin, i however, let me warn you that, unless 1 shall go on ( you intend to continue this work per- | | manently and reguiarly, it will be bet- ter for you not to begin at all. ‘When first you get out of béd, strip, lie flat on vour back, and then with | arms folded across your chest raise | yourself toward a sitting posture. This | exercises the muscles of back and ab- | domen, two very important sets of muscles for a boxer, and helps to build the “plate” of muscular tissue which | should protect the stomach from solar | Do not rise entirely to a sitting posture, but when there is an angle of about 75 degrees between | your back and the floor sink back again | |and do it once more. The old-time | athletic instructors made their pupils | rise to a sitting posture, forgetting that | | when a certain point is passed the back | | and stomach muscles are no longer ex- | the ercised, but the strain then comes on | hase of the spine. Such a strain is very injurious and does not strength- ' en’the would-be athlete in any way. l Repeat this “sitting up” exercise five | tim the first morning, doing it one | more time each day until you get to | twenty. Then continue to do it twenty | thenics as 1 shall describe in this les son; then take a cold bath. If you | have any heart trouble or if the cold does not readily give let the bath be slight Do not stay in the tub longer than one minute. Then “rub down"” with a rough towel and dress rapidly. Eat a simple, substantial breakfast, then take no exercise place to a glow, warmed ¢an hour (an hour would be better), and, when you go to school, walk thither if possible. If the school is not more than a mile from your home, Wou should always walk to and fro. If far- ther, ride part of the way, leaving the car a mile from school and walking the remainder of the distance. When 1 speak of walking 1 do not mean shuf- fling along at a snail'’s pace, wearing out the soles of your shoes, stopping to look in every window, and using no more energy than will barely suffice to keep your body in motion. By “walk- ing” 1 mean stepping out at a four- mile-an-hour gait, lips closed, chest thrown out, shoulders back. breath deep, slow and regular, and muscles alert. One mile of such walking will do you more good than ten miles of such shiftless ramblings as is gen r- ally implied by the term. While at school put all thought of athletics out of your mind and think only of the work you are doing. The “boxing form”—just as a race of six or seven miles would weary and — + FOR BACK AND ABDOMEN. | | | I weaken a race horse trained for a one- mile run. only part of your boxing knowledge you need carry into the schoolroom is that which {eaches you not to sit crouched over your desk in such a way as to cramp the lungs and to g1ve the eyes a wrong focus. On leaving school walk a mile home- ward, or to the house of your sparring partner. There, box three brisk rounds of thiee minutes each, with one min- ute’s rest between each two, and punch for at least half | | | and knees together times a day and no more. While going through this evolution keep the hesls“ ! and the legs rigid. Next stand up, put the heels near to- | gether, stand on the ball of the foot | and. keeping the upper part of the body | rigid, bend the knees, sinking down as | far as possible. Never sink down so | | | FOR LEG MUSCLES AND BAL- ANCE. o + far, however, that you, cannot recover yourself and rise again to full height. | Lower and raise yourself thus five| times the first day, increasing the num- ber daily by one until you get up (0‘ Awenty. | The foregoing exercise not only strengthens and limbers the legs, but is | aiso excellent for the balance, thus | proving of direct use to all boxers. Be’ sure to keen the heels off the ground, bearing all the weight of the body.on the ball of the foot. Do mnot let the weight of the body become shifted too | far forward or back, as this will not/ only tend to throw you off your bal- ! ance, but will render the exertion of rising much more difficult. Now stand again at full height as be- fore, legs together, but with feet flat on the figor. Hold your arms above your head. Bend forward, holding the lower half of the body as rigid as possible, letting the “hinge” come at the small of the back. Bend as far as possible to the front; then. recovering yourself, bend as far backward as possible in like manner. This should be done less quickly than the other exercise, and all | jerkiness or strain must be avoided. Do not, when leaning backward, start the “recovery” with a sharp, snapping mo- tion, as such a move is liable to injure you internally. This forward and back bending gives suppleness to the body from the waist up and strengthens the muscles needed in the ‘“recover” and “rally” of a boxing bout. Do it five times at first, increasing to twenty at the rate of one a day. Next stand as before and, keeping all the rest of the body rigid, rise on the toes as high as possible. Do this twen- ty times a day from the first. Bend forward (without lifting the arms) and try to touch the ground in front of you with the fingers of both hands. Do not.bend the knees in doing this. Try it ten times a day. It is good |\ for taking the stiffness out of the knee Jjoints | that the time has come for united action on the subject. | if there is to be action at all. | summer | ply getting her friends into trouble. | neutrality thréatens to become a fiction the peace of the | The | bill for their relief. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL IO SRaE B e N W PSRRI S T R R T S R M R A R AR T JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriefor . o o o » o oo o & Address All Commonications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Third and Market Streets, S F. .FEBRUARY 23, 1904 SAN FRANCISCO AT THE FAIR. ITHIN 2 comparatively short time the St. Loui$ Exposition will be open; the date fixed for the N U event is rapidly approaching, but as yet there has been little done toward providing for the special ex- hibit of San Francisco of which so much was heard some time ago. Up to this time even the money re- quired has not been subscribed, and of course until that is done nathing definite can be planned, much less achieved. The proposed exhibit can hardly be said to have been a subject of discussion, for every one who has taken enough interest in it to give it any attention at all has greeted it with approval, so that it may be said to have been undertaken by acclamation. It is evident, however, that all who have approved it cordially have not sub- | seribed iiberally and promptly, for according to late re- ports the subscriptions fall far short of the amount re- quired to make a proper exhibit. It goes without saying not like a fund for a monument; it cannot wait forever, nor even for years. It is one of the things that must be provided at once if it is to be provided at all. Of the importance of making such an exhibit at the great fair there can be no question. The general ex- | hibit of the State will be a display of rural industries, but there will be nothing in the glowing masses of iruits | and wines and minerals and grains to show to the world | that we have here a great. city, facing the Orient, having capacity for handling all the commerce that the growing traffic of the Pacific will demand of its metropolis. That showing must be made by San Francisco alone, and the best time and place to make it will be during the coming at the St. Louis Exposition. in a city of the wealth and population of San Fran- cisco, if every one does h#s rightful share in upholding public enterprises for the general good no one will have to do much. The amount required to make an impres- sive showing of our advantages and our attainments is not large when the revenues of the city are taken into consideration. It is a sum that ought to be subscribed in a single day, and if we could once awaken here the. civic patriotism that made Chicago and is making Los Angeles no great urging would be required to get the | subscription within the week. Every condition of the present, every prospect of the future, has in it an incentive to enterprise on the parl of our people. The past year was one of abounding | prosperity, and the present promises to equal its abun- dance. It is true there has been a dearth of rain during the early winter months, but there is now every reason to expect spring rains sufficient to fully compensate for what had been lacking until the recent storms. The war in the Orient may mean a loss to the world’s trade as a whole, but it will be a gain to that of this city; so that even out of the general misfortune we get something of a benefit. In short, every condition of the times offers us an opportunity to increase our prestige as a commer- cial center and to augment our advantages. We shall be foolish indeed if we neglect to profit by them, and to omit a good exhibit at St. Louis would be a: 'serious | neglect of one of the most promising. In sending a saucy note to Russia on the serious ques- tion of guarding the Manchurian railway China is sim- As soon as Chinese world is hazarded and danger of international compli- cations becomes a grave reality. We desire the integ- | rity of the Flowery Kingdom simply because we fear BUSTING THE ANTI-TRUST LAW. the other fellow in the scramble for the fragments. HE anti-trust law provides certain penalties, in the T form of fines and imprisonment, for the punish- ment of its violators. It is known that the im- prisonment clause in the law gives it the greatest force. “criminal trusts,” which Mr. William Randolph Hearst has attacked with all the gallantry of Don | Quixote going up against the windmills, do not fear a fine. They can pay it. But lmprlsonment is another matter. The prospect of going to jail is so unpleasant that the trust managers lie awake nights studying out means to get around it. Hereafter they may lgy them down to sleep all night. Mr. Hearst, the trust-buster, has at last introduced a 1t provides: “In all convictions oc- curring after the passage of this act for offenses under said acts to regulate commerce, whethér committed be- fore or after the passage of this act for offenses un- der this section, no penalty shall be imposed on the con- victed party other than a fine prescribed by law, im- prisonment. wherever now prescribed as a part of the penalty, being hereby abolished.” The verbiage of the act raises a suspicion that- Mr. Hearst wrote it himself. A violation of the law is sub- ject to the penalties fixed by the statute at the time the offense was committed. Were this not so, many pow erful offenders would escape penalties by delay of trial until they could procure the amendment of the statutory punishment. It will be seen that Mr. Hearst's bill applies to the in- | terstate commerce law as well as the anti-trust law. When the interstate cominerce law was before Con- gress, and later when it was in the courts, the powerful railroad companies and the trusts objected to the im- prisonment claiise among its penalties. They wanted only to be fined. The trust and railroad managers dread the dark, damp atmosphere of the prison. They abhor the plain and wholesome diet of the common jail, and, above all, their pride revolts at being classed among the jailbirds. Now. why does Mr! Helrs( seek to cut out of the law the only penalty ‘that they fear? Has some criminal trust or predatory railway manager taken advantage -f his innocence, to bunko him into identifying his great and growing name with the darling desire of the trusts and railroads? Why should he begin picking holes in laws that are salutary and for public protection? How many a time and oft has he expfessed, in his string of newspapers, the burning and boiling desire to see the trust and railroad magnates behind the bars, meaning thereby not the bars whereat alcoholic thirst is quenched, but the common black iron bars of the prison! Then why does he lift his legislative hand to destroy the only law that can put them there? Does he do this to convince “the wealth of the coun- try” that he is a safe man for President, as his papers have lately been declaring? Surely it looks that way. While he is in an amending and merciful mood he might A fund for an exhibit is | the fine amounts to nothing. Imprisonment limits the more flagrant acts against which the law canonizes. When it is taken out the law is practically repealed, for it 1s left without adequate penalty to secure obedience to its provisions. A Portland physician, fortified by the many lessons of experience, has reached the conclusion that in the inevit- able, necessary and beneficial survival of the fittest rum plays a great and good part by destroying persons in- herently unfit. If the learned doctor can now suggest a means by which rum may do its work more quickly we will rise and call-him blessed. The rumster is slow in dying. Tthe Los Angeles Times, which uses it as a brief summary of what it has to say about the home value of the annual tourist travel from Atlantic Middle-Western States to Southern California. While that is truly a commercial way of looking at the matter there is no doubt that visitors who have money ' to spend and are willing to spend it are welcome. in all parts of the world. The landlords of Paris, of Switzer- | 1and, of Venice unquestionably regard tourists from the viewpoint of oprofit to be derived from their sojourn. But inasmuch as the storekeeper, the manufacturer, the land owner and all other classes of citizens of all lands | expect to profit by the stranger within their gates, who comes other than as a personal guest, there is no reason | for any one to cry out against mercenary considerations. A PROFITABLE CROP. HE caption at the head of this article is taken from | California, and such odors as might have charmed the { dreamy dwellers of “Araby the Blessed” or of the Vale | of Cashmere, of which Tom Moore sang so melodiously, sweeten the air. Where the skies are genial and every prospect pleases visitors will flock. The Southern Cali- fornia man who directs attention with pride to the at- tractions that lure new people and fresh money into his vicinage is no more mercenary than is the landlord who, peinting at Mont Blanc as it stands seemingly transfig- ured in its ineffably beautiful pink mantle of the glow,” complacently is aware that the recital by his guest of what he has seen from that particular locality is good to bring business in the next season. If the Alps in their lordly grandeur are cards,” and the people -who go to see them and to be housed and spend their money”in the Alpine neighbor- | hood are the basis of newer buildings, more <pacinus “drawifg supreme mood, then California, north and south alike— { the land in which latitude is not marked by differences of temperature to any noticeable extent—is not to be spoken of adversely for its® appreciation of advantages it possesses, nor to be blamed because it avails itself of them financially. The theme of profit irom Eastern visitors is an old ore. Southern California knows much about the facts. Central California is to be the field of greater attrac Northern California will also have “a Great hotels are soon to be able to afford. profitable crop” of tourists. scicurners from the East and from all portions of world, who will find here the conditions they desire when seeking to escape from the rigors of less hospitable climes and at the same time have all the attractions that the metropolis of the Pacific Coast with its charming en- viYons can supply for their beguilement. The people of Southern California have found it good to have a profitable crop. grade roads to mountain summits, well watered high- ways in all directions—all the comforts that can be de- vised, in brief, to hold the tourists. nia, and the fact cannot be too often urged, needs also to care for the comfort of tourists, to not only give them what they ask, but also to anticipate liberally their wants and to make life so pleasant to them while they are in this region they will advertise it favorably all over the world. St. Petershurg has canceled its censorship upon war news emanating from the Russian capital. This recom- mends itself as a correct policy. When the whole world knows you are in a bad fix why not earn a reputation for graciousness by admitting the fact? Besides, St. Peters- burg has simply become an accident bureau for the re- port of blundering boobies in the art of wat. l lation? Is all grace and garnish to be banished to conform to the mérely external form provided by an act entitled an act? The Virginia Legislature pro- poses to compel by law circus posters to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth! Are the people to be deprived of the pieasures of the many colored circus poster by bringing it down to the dead level of mere facts? Are we to read no more of “the only greatest show on earth. The combined com- binations and aggregated aggregations of the Princes of the ring, the Empresses of the equescurriculum and the only wonders of wonders now on the road”? Are we to part with the pleasures of the imagination, and see it ali brought down to a statement that men and womeu will ride around a ring? The proposed law applies to the pictures as well as the text. We are to see the circus ladies pictured as plain as they are, and not as prize-winners in a world beauty show. We will have none of such a law. Life requires every possible diversion from its hard duties and various vexations. And now, just as the traveling shows have decided to omit the street parade, the cold and unfeeling law of the land proposes to stretch forth and tear from the circus poster its beauty and style. In the great mame of the rising generation, we file a protest thus iar in advance of the next session of ths California Legislature, lest this more than Puritan prop- ositien gain a foothold here. AN OFFENSIVE STATUTE. S everything to become the subject of statutory regu- i King Edward, late in his conscior ness of an over- sight of churlish Ministers, has bestowed upon Lord Roberts tardy commendation and reluctant praise. Lord | Roberts has been before a world’s audience, where a King’s favor counts for no more than that of an atom in the multitude. “Bobs” has made history in which his sovereign plays but an incidental part. . © Russia has decided that under the exigencies of war she must abandon her proposed representation at the St. Louis Exposition. She is at present fully occupied in blowing up her own ships and defeating herself as as well strike out the §ne also and provide that violators ' m-ely and as inevitably by stupid blundering as if she of the law be pre-e-ted wnh flleMom of the city, for mnmve:flyolhrenmy and | | The winds blow soitly through the orange groves of | “Alpine | hotels and better facilities for contemplating nature %na| tions in the future than the southern counties have been | Lopened in this city to make life pleasant for the winter | the | They are advocating easy | Northern Califor- | TALK OF THE TOWl;Jl Missed Mother. A few nights ago, when the rain was coming down in torrents and a bit- terly cold wind was blowing, a little boy. who could not have been more than eight years of age walked into the insane ward at the Central Emer- gency Hospital. He was drenshed to the skin and shivering and shaking so that the kind hearted matrom who wos on duty rushed him toward tha big stove, stripped off his rain soaked gar- ments, wrapped him up in heavy woolen blanket and then gave ‘him a steaming hot cup of coffee and a huge slice of bread. “What in the world, you noor Hftla dear,” her, “are you doing out in this storm?” “I want my mamma,” sobbed the lit- | tle fellow, putting his arms around th2 nurse’'s neck. “What's your.mamma's name?” ask- ed the nurse. “Wilson,” cried the boy. | And then the nurse remembered. A | week before the Lunacy Commission had sent to Agnew a woman named Wilson. She remembered also that Mrs. Wilson was the mother of a large family and that when she was commit- ted one of the children, the little fellow she now held in her arms, had at first tearfully refused to leave the hospital with his father and his brothers and sisters. On Friday last The Call publishéd in | these columns the following delightful mathematical puzzle, offering as a prize to the one flying farthest from the answer a nice second-hand copy of “Differential Calculus™: Five men were allowed to share a box of oeranges among them. John took 10, Robert 20, George 30, Richard 40 and William 50. “What an unfair division!” said the donor, as the men carried the oranges { away. “Not at all,” they replied. “The numbers make no difference. We shall sell at the same rate. and if we sell out shall have éxactly the same money each. They sold out, and each took exactly the same sum. How did it happen? It was our opinion that the answer was “two apples,” but an enterprising subscriber has thought differently, thereby winning the nice second-hand “Differential Calculus,” His brief an- swer will be eagerly read by all inter- | ested in the furtherance of science. It | follows: | “Herr Redacteur: ist folgende: | “Am ende des verkaufes hatte jeder $5 50. “Ihrergebener, “OTTO H. WAHLER.” Love in Mystery. | Ask me not -why my heart is thjne, Since thus it beats for thee; | Ask why the stars at midnight Why rivers seek the sea; But ask not Love love to define Or read its mystery. ine, Ask me not why that thou alone | Hast made of me a slave; | Ask why the distant moon hath thrown | “Its spell npon the wave; | Though i grown, A smile from none I crave. other maids most fair have Ask me not why Love like a seer My life to thee hath led; | Go. ask the rose to make it clear Why_blooms it white or red; I only know I love thee, dear, More than my lips have said. —Westminster Gazette. IWhere Cou:'mlinns Meet. One of the public buildings of which Kansas City is justly proud is the Con- vention Hall. The present building oc- | cupies the site of the former building | of the same general dimensions, which was destroyed by fire on April 4, 1900. The Democratic National Convention was to meet in this building on July 4 of the same year, and this now seemed almost an impossibility. Be- fore the flames were distinguished on the old building, however, a new one had been pledged, contracts made and in less than ninety days from the date of the fire the new Convention Hall stood on the site of the old gne, a fire- proof building, 198x314 feet, with a seat- ing capacity of more than 20,000 per- sons, under a steel roof which spanned the whole without a column and at a cost of $350,000. = The Democratic Convention was opened on the Fourth of July, 1900, in a building belonging to the same class York and which lacked very little of completion. Its exterior is cut stone and brick, its interior fire-proof throughout and its floor area larger than that of Madison Square Garden. The architect of the general building was F. E. Hill, who made the plags for the second building, with the assist- ance of an advisory board of architects. The achievement, from purely a con- structional point of view, was one of the most remarkable which has ever been brought to my notice—F. M. Howe in the Architectural Record. Ragtime Barred. After extended deliberation and nu- merous conferences, the officials of the St. Louis exposition have decided against. the, ragtime song, cr even the ragtime music without words to ac- company it. The musical director of the exposition and the chairman of the musical programme have issued an edict that all songs, either in the State pavilions, Festival Hall or along the pike, shall be strictly classical and modern' if possible, but all elements of the ragtime music hall style of singing shall be eliminated. “1 have no personal feeling of en- mity against ragtime,” says the musi- cal director, “but I think too much of it is a bad thing. I believe the people like good music. There are many heau- tiful and popular selections from the classics. Because music can be called classic does not necessarily imply that it shculd be heavy or generally unat- tractive. Some of the meost popular music of te-day is the lighter music of the classics.” The chairman of the musical pro- gramme says that one reason the rag- time tune was eliminated from the ex- she said, pressing him close to | “Die antwort zur Ihrer Preis-offerte | as the Madison Square Garden in New | \* pnfll!lnn was that, like the measles, the | air that is given sentiment in these | tunes seems contagious, and the peopie would wish for nothing else once the | ragtime tunes began. ! The decision of the exposition offi- cials to exclude ragtime has created a furor along the pike, where it had been arranged to have some Very new and up-to-date songs with a ragtim2 alr about them. The plke concession- { aires have held a meeting and hav decided to take up the musical prope- sition with the werld's fair manage- ment.—Collier's Weekly. Allison’s Conservatism. wariness of direct among pub- ®he anecdote Senator Allison's statements is proverbial | lic men in Washington. about a friend winning a wager of a cigar from an Iowan that the Senator would not state in so many words that a flock of sheep approaching had been sheared has become familiar. “They®seem to be sheared on this side,” the Senator is quoted as having | saia Recently in dote was duplicated There had been discussion about the wisdom of appropriating a lump sum annually for keeping the sidewalks and streets of Washington free from snow and ice, Mr. Allison was drawn into | the discussion. now has streets and for many years the Senate this anec- after a fashion. falling on the of Washington observed Mr. bpeen sidewalks past,” nd will for many years to come, interposed Senator Spooner. “As to that,” rejoined Semator Alli- son, “I will not prophesy.”—Washing- ton Post. Lwing Easy. No one can do justice to the soll or scenery of Fiji, unless he has seen both the natural beauties and the golden harvests. The climate is equa- ble; not oppressively hot in summer | and delightful in winter; it is beth healthy and pleasant, and the jsky 1s always bright and the air remarkably pure.. Never was there such a lazy, happy climate as this. From the slow sailing clouds to the easy swing of the palms nature moves languidly. There is no need for hurry. Food may be had for the picking, and clothes are unnecessary. Vegeta- tion runs riot in the rich soil and sun- shine. Fringed cocoanut sprays, with rut clusters at their base, broad ba- nana leaves sheltering great bunche® of fruit; tangles of peaceful ferns ime- penertably thick, clumps of suppi bamboo, lante-leaved . mango trees heavy with purple and gold delicious- ness—these and a thousand more de- light the epicure and charm the artist. —Four-Track News. Answers te Queries. NEW YORK §7 CK EXCHANGT— Subscriber, Livermore, Cal. The value of a seat in the New York Stock Ex- change is $80,000. WHEAT PRODUCER—H. J. J., City. The county that is the greatest wheat producer in California at the present time is Stanislaus County. URUGUAY—L. J. Y., Fort Baker, Marin County, Cal. It is impossible to state definitely at this time who are the officers of the Government of Uruguay, as changes are being made every day. FISHER'S BIRTHPLACE—A Call Reader, Stocktom, Cal. A friend of this department writes that Admiral Fisher of the British navy, whose birth- place is not designated in any of the published biographies, washorn in Cey- lon, a British colony in the Indian Ocean. His mother was a high caste Singhalese. ELOCUTION—L. S, City. 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