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Author: Various
Language: English
August, 1888.
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
FINANCIAL.--A CONVERSATION
THE VERNACULAR--THE LAST GOVERNMENT ORDER
ENDORSEMENT OF SOLICITORS--PROF. LAWRENCE
LONDON MISSIONARY CONFERENCE--GETTYSBURG
BOOM IN PRICE OF A SLAVE--EXTRACTS FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS
ON DR. JAMES POWELL'S PORTRAIT--PARAGRAPH
THE SOUTH.
NOTES IN THE SADDLE. By District Secretary Ryder.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY
COMMENCEMENT AT FISK UNIVERSITY
AN HOUR AT STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY
CLOSING EXERCISES AT TILLOTSON
THE INDIANS.
PARAGRAPH FROM OAHE
SEWING WOMEN AT FORT BERTHOLD
AN INDIAN CHURCH SOCIABLE
THE CHINESE.
ITEMS
RECEIPTS
* * * * *
NEW YORK:
* * * * *
Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second class matter.
* * * * *
_Vice-Presidents._
_Corresponding Secretaries._
_Treasurer._
H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reads Street, N.Y._
_Auditors._
PETER McCARTEE.
CHAS. P. PEIRCE.
_Executive Committee._
_District Secretaries._
* * * * *
COMMUNICATIONS
FORM OF A BEQUEST.
* * * * *
* * * * *
*FINANCIAL.*
Our receipts for the nine months ending June 30 are $214,434.40, an
increase of $10,913.66, as compared with the corresponding months of
last year. The increase of receipts from legacies is only $184.81,
showing that almost the entire increase is from collections, and this
we regard as the genuine test of the confidence of our patrons in the
work of the Association. On the other hand, a large part of this
increase is for special objects, and does not aid us in meeting
regular appropriations. We must add, also, that our expenditures
during the last nine months have been $21,828.95 greater than for the
same months last year. These facts point inevitably to the
trilemma--debt, curtailment or increased receipts.
* * * * *
About two years ago a gentleman came to this office, and said to one
of the Secretaries:
"If a person has eight or ten thousand dollars which he would like to
devote to some good object, where would you advise him to give it?"
"All right," said the gentleman, "but to what special purpose would
you advise it to be applied?"
"Our great need," said the Secretary, "is to meet current expenses,
and I would advise that it be devoted to that."
"But," said the gentleman, "are there not places in your work where
new buildings are greatly needed?"
"Most assuredly," the Secretary replied, "there are many places where
such buildings are needed."
Among the schools mentioned by him was one in which the scholars were
inadequately provided with dormitory and recitation room facilities,
and where the industries were crowded into old cabins and attic
rooms.
The results of that and subsequent interviews are two fine buildings,
one giving adequate school accommodations, and the other giving a
large and commodious shop, facilitating both instruction and
production.
Once more. In a Southern city our school building is too small, the
lot does not permit industrial work, and changes in the population
have surrounded the locality with saloons and houses of ill-fame. A
change must be made or we must abandon the place. A lady who knows
these facts offers to give us $2,000 with which to purchase four
acres of land most eligibly situated for our work, and to give us
the money to build a school-house with eight large school-rooms with
commodious fixtures and appliances. All this, of course, implies more
teachers and additional running expense. Shall we accept the gift and
trust the churches to furnish the money? Or, to state the matter in
general terms: When the need for enlargement is very great, and God
sends to us benevolent donors, who are willing to furnish the means
for the enlargement, are we wrong in trusting the churches for their
part of the needed help? We believe we are not. We think the
churches would regard us as recreant to our trust if we refused to
take the funds thus providentially proffered to us.
But our story is not all told. Other donors in the last few years
have done likewise, and there still are cases where the pressure for
enlargement is as great as in any of the instances given. We must
mention one. In a large Southern city our school building is so
inadequate that the Principal writes: "We have an extremely large
school, and yet nearly three hundred pupils were turned off for lack
of seating capacity." In addition to this, the Teachers' Home
adjoining the school building, which was once a Southern home, is
unhealthy from inadequate under-drainage. We have repeatedly
attempted to remedy this difficulty and at considerable cost. We are
satisfied that to spend more money for such a purpose is a waste.
The only true remedy is to remove the present home, connecting it
with the school-building for additional school-rooms, and then, on
the vacant site, to erect a new home with proper foundations. If any
benevolent person should offer us the means for making these
changes, we fear we have not the self-denial to refuse, unless the
churches or benevolent individuals for whom we act shall command us
to do so. We await the response they will give.
* * * * *
THE ORDER.
We give below a copy of the last order received from the Interior
Department in relation to the vernacular.
COMMENT.
* * * * *
The numerous solicitors from the South for the benefactions of our
friends at the North impel us to increased caution in regard to our
endorsements. We are anxious that our friends should give, but we are
equally anxious that they should not be imposed upon. Hereafter, we
shall give a letter of commendation to any of our workers who may be
authorized by us to come North for help, signed by one of the
Secretaries or one of the District Secretaries, and these will be
good for one year from the date, and any pastors or friends of the
Association can feel at liberty to ask for the letter. If persons
assuming to solicit funds for any part of the A.M.A's work cannot
produce such letters, the failure may be taken as a reason for
withholding confidence. We think this is due to our friends at the
North and to our faithful and honored workers at the South.
* * * * *
* * * * *
One topic that received deserved attention was the curse of deluging
Africa with liquor by Christian nations, and the continued curse of
the opium traffic which England inflicts upon China.
From the brief reports which have reached us, we judge this
Conference to have been a very able and enthusiastic one, and that
it will probably give a new impulse to Christian missions throughout
the world.
* * * * *
* * * * *
The meeting of the Blue and the Gray on the field of Gettysburg at
the late anniversary celebration marks an era in national fraternity.
The orator of the day, George William Curtis, did a noble, perhaps we
might say courageous, deed in lifting the enthusiasm of the glad hour
above the remembrance of past heroism and present harmony to the
great duty of the nation--a free and fair ballot. A few lines culled
from the oration will give the thought.
"No honest man can delude himself with the theory that this is a
local question. If there be a national question, which vitally
interests every American citizen from the Penobscot to the Rio
Grande, it is the question of a free legal ballot."
To this we add: The brave deeds of the soldier at Gettysburg, and the
wise counsels of the orator, should be followed by the patient toil
of the teacher and the preacher. It is hard to choose between the
ballot withheld and the ballot cast by ignorance and vice. Blood and
treasure flowed like water in the war. Shall treasure and toil be
wanting for the work of peace--preparing the ignorant voter to cast
the free ballot intelligently and honestly?
* * * * *
I was sold in 1862 at the age of ten years, for $400, by the widow B.
of Virginia. As a rule, after the first sale, I was upon the auction
block every day for three months. How often I was sold during those
three months I cannot tell, but on Davis' auction block in his
sale-room I was sold five times in one day. The last sale at the end
of the three months was made in Tennessee, to the Rev. H.F.S., a
Baptist minister, who paid $3,500 for his property. The Rev. Mr. S.
was a "Yankee" from Philadelphia, Pa., and came South at the
breaking out of the war.
* * * * *
Ans. A period is used for the topage of a sentence and to make our
reading sound better than if we had no period.
Ans. The ocoopations cold in the north part, but in the lower part
rain seldom fails.
FROM A SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
The lesson was on The Ten Virgins, and the next Sunday the review
question was asked, "What was the lesson about last Sunday?" and a
bright boy gave the prompt answer, "About ten gals that went to a
weddin."
My dear teacher, God be with you witch I know he will, as the Song
says God can see me every day when I work and when I play. again God
is always near me when I pray. I shall nor for get Miss H. her name
shall never die out Christ have mercy upon her If God calls her I
will spect to meet her in heven at the last trumpet shall sound. I
will be thair. Yours truly,
Robert ----
Dear teacher, I wish I could write good. I have not done my duty. I
will try the next time and do better. I am very sorry. I will try and
do better. May God help me to obey my teacher. Miss F. is sick. I
hope she will get better. I will try to be like Jesus. I have sign
the pledge and have kept it. Now I will close my bad lines. I hope
you will come back next year. Good by.
James ----
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
=THE SOUTH.=
"Your medicine has help me demegiately as I have took it. I hope God
will ever to be with in your Jerney throught life in well doing."
This letter came from a young lad in one of the lower grades of
school work. He had been seriously sick for weeks, and the teacher
to whom he wrote sat with him and ministered to his comfort after
the weary hours of her school work were over. This lad appreciated
her self-forgetful kindness; his heart was touched, and as she left
the malarial atmosphere of this Southern country for brief rest in
her Northern home, this boy sent her this letter. His letter is
"phonetic" and of the individual type, but I venture that the
tearful prayer going up to God from his grateful, loving, simple
heart may reach the Father's ear, and bring down a blessing upon his
loving friend as "demegiately" as the rounded periods of learned
lips. He evidently is no dusky Claudius whose confession must be:
* * * * *
How close to the great throbbing heart of God these simple children
of cotton-field and cabin come! In gaining intimate acquaintance with
them one is reminded of Heinrich Heine's confession in his notes on
Uncle Tom's Cabin:
"Astonishing! That after I have whirled about all my life over all
the dance floors of philosophy, and yielded myself to all the orgies
of the intellect * * * without satisfaction, like Massolina after a
licentious night, I now find myself on the same standpoint where poor
Uncle Tom stands--on that Bible. I kneel down by my black brother in
the same prayer! What humiliation! * * * Tom, perhaps, understands
these spiritual things better than I. * * * But a poor negro slave
reads with his back and understands better than we do. But I, who
used to make citations from Homer, now begin to quote the Bible as
Uncle Tom does. Poor Tom, indeed, seems to have seen deeper things
in the Holy Book than I."
* * * * *
* * * * *
How all loyal hearts will rejoice in the good news that comes from
brave Lawrence's sick room! He is slowly improving, and there is
strong hope of his recovery. Thank God!!
A large public meeting has been held in Jellico, Tenn., in which the
"law-abiding citizens," expressed their intense condemnation of this
"brutal, but cowardly act of shooting Prof. Lawrence." This body of
citizens voted to prosecute the scoundrel Chandler, who did the
shooting, and raised the money _at once_ to carry forward that
prosecution! Good for Jellico, say we all!! Will Iowa permit
Tennessee to surpass her in the execution of whiskey murderers?
* * * * *
* * * * *
*ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.*
When the books of Heaven are opened, it will then be seen how much
of silent self-sacrifice, how much of grand living and grand doing,
is set down to these Southern missionaries. Much called inglorious
now, will be glorious then, and "the last shall be first."
Forward on the platform and side seats were Dr. Strieby and Dr.
Beard, of New York, the honored Secretaries of the American
Missionary Association, Dr. Woodworth, of Massachusetts, Dr.
Pentecost, of Brooklyn, N.Y., with Mr. Stebbins, his sweet singer,
now holding revival meetings in Atlanta, and the faculty and workers
generally of the University.
The sermon was preached without notes, as is usual with Prof.
Francis, and with his usual quiet earnestness. The discourse was as
tender as it was able and wise, and ever to be remembered by the
thirteen girls sitting just before him.
Commencement was held May 28, in the Friendship Baptist church. The
house was filled, many standing for the nearly three hours. The
singing was by a large chorus of students, trained most faithfully
and successfully by the music teacher of the University, Miss Rebecca
Massey. One Jubilee Song was given, "March On"; other selections were
classical; the chorus from Mendelssohn's Elijah, "Thanks be to God,"
being especially fine. The exercises were closed by a spirited
rendering of the Anvil Chorus.
The commencement essays of the thirteen young ladies would have done
credit to any Northern institution; they were in good taste,
thoughtful and high-toned, indicative of culture and a missionary
spirit. These girls may never be famous, but they will be useful and
successful, which is infinitely better.
* * * * *
One noticeable and hopeful feature of this anniversary was the large
increase in the attendance of alumni. Heretofore, anniversary week
has come before the close of the schools in which the larger part of
our alumni are employed. This year it came three weeks later than
formerly. This change was made to better accommodate the little army
of student-teachers, which is sent out annually to the country public
schools. It was found that by far the larger number of these schools
do not begin until the first of July.
Fisk is fortunate in having alumni who are everywhere noted for their
love and loyalty, and the University points to them and their work
with great pride and rejoicing. The anniversary exercises of the
Alumni Association this year were excellent. Mr. Crosthwait spoke of
"Nehemiah's Plan," and most beautifully and forcibly applied it to
the work to be done by the colored people to build up the walls of
their city. Prof. L.C. Anderson, Principal of Prairie View Normal
School of Texas, spoke of our "Public School System," in a very
instructive way. Mr. Anderson is doing a noble work at Prairie View,
and has made the school the pride of the State which supports it.
Nearly $300 was contributed toward the alumni endowment fund, as the
result of the movement to persuade each graduate to contribute
annually one per cent. of his earnings to help his _alma mater_.
The number of students in the past year has been the largest in the
history of the University. The catalogue shows an enrollment of 475.
There has been marked growth in the numbers in the Department of
Music. Students begin to seek the University for instruction in this
department alone. During the year the Mozart Society rendered the
oratorio of "Elijah," both in the city and at the University, with
marked success.
* * * * *
The sight of a tourist at that season, when the city is overrun with
them, could hardly have been more welcome than a book agent to that
busy man, but there was not a trace of annoyance in his greeting. He
sent away his companions and devoted himself to the duties of a
cicerone as cheerfully as though that were the chief end of the
president of a university. We went the rounds of class-rooms, halls
and dormitories, our interest and our leader's enthusiasm continually
increasing.
The primaries are in two long, narrow rooms, lighted only on one side
and not nearly large enough. But how the little throats did roll out
the music and what time they kept, when called upon for a song!
Another treat was a song from a young lady who was practicing in the
music room. The modest grace with which she complied when asked to
sing for us, is almost as pleasant a memory as her beautiful voice.
"In two respects," said our host, "I have been greatly disappointed.
I was told before I came here that I would have trouble in teaching
the pupils habits of neatness, and that they were naturally lazy. I
find them just the opposite. They are exceptionally neat and tidy
about their persons and their rooms. As for being lazy, we could not
ask for more diligent students as a rule, and they are up in the
morning earlier than we want them to be."
* * * * *
This year the Rev. Dr. Wright, our only trustee in Austin, gave us
an excellent address, concluding with extracts from Mr. Tillotson's
letters and a very interesting account of the procuring of the site
on which our building now stands, generally thought to be the finest
and most conspicuous in the city. After this came a few words from
one of the Faculty, and four short speeches from as many
representatives of the students, after which came refreshments and a
social time on the grounds.
H.L.H.
* * * * *
THE INDIANS.
We are in the midst of the closing exercises of school for the year
past. Some three or four hundred Indians, chiefly relatives of
pupils, are now encamped about us. These have come some as far as
ninety miles, and some few a hundred and twenty-five miles, to attend
the exercises and take their children home.
* * * * *
After sewing about two hours, the thimbles and needles are gathered
up, the names taken, or something to designate each one, and each
one's desires discovered: tea, sugar, or coffee, for this is a strong
point where these women show their heathenism.
Some portion of God's truth and some help to a better life is then
given to them in Gros Ventres and Ree; prayer offered, and they
receive their little bag or package of tea, coffee or sugar. It has
been a busy afternoon, and we are all tired, but it pays, O, how it
pays, a thousand times over!
During the afternoon two young braves are riding around on their
ponies. They halt before the windows. At last they gather up enough
courage to ask if they can have supper and pay for it in the future.
They have no money now, but are going to work and get some money,
then they will pay. "No. We do not sell on credit." Soon after dark,
the school-room began to fill up with women and their babies. A man
comes with his little girl and mother-in-law, and borrows 50 cents
to pay for the supper. He would also have brought his wife, but she
could not leave home. Some eat their supper and leave. Others are
sitting in the school-room looking at pictures and talking a very
little, but it is rather stiff. The door opens and in walk the Doctor
and Agency Clerk. No more stiffness after this. Those would be hard
hearts indeed that would not thaw in the presence of these genial
countenances. Other white people come. The Captain with his family
take supper. He also brings in some of the outsiders who are looking
in at the windows, and pays for their suppers. The Issue Clerk is
quick to see the day-school children, who are peeping in at the
window, and calls them in to give them their suppers. The ladies from
the Government Boarding School come, bringing some of the larger
children with them. These boys and girls, however, have earned money
and pay for their own supper.
A lady from the store building passes around some tiny round blocks.
"What is it, candy?" "No. Put it in your mouth," "Gum! Do you chew
gum?" "No, but a gentleman who was visiting us a short time since
left us a supply as his parting gift."
When the fire is stirred with a long stick, one gentleman remarks
that he admires that poker very much. A few days afterwards a
handsome new iron poker comes to the school-room. The whole school
give a vote of thanks to the donor of the poker.
* * * * *
THE CHINESE.
*ITEMS.*
WM. C. POND
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
BY SARAH MAY.
"Why are you laughing so here all alone, Auntie?" said Ralph Hill, as
he came into a room where Inez Hill sat reading a letter and laughing
till the tears ran down her cheeks. "Do tell me, please. It must be
so funny--and what are all these blue cards?"
"One thing at a time, Ralph," said Aunt Inez. "I'll read you the
letter I was laughing at and then tell you about the blue cards, for
they go together. The letter is from a dear friend who is teaching
the colored children in the South. It tells of her first attempts
with them. I'll not read it all. Listen:"
_My Dear Old Friend:_ I must tell you to-day about my promising
pupil, Nan. _I_ am learning patience whether she learns anything or
not. One day I overheard Nan and Lila (the pretty mulatto girl I told
you about) talking together about like this:
"Nan," said Lila, "do you want to learn to read like white folks?"
"Course I do," laughed Nan. "Hi yi, ho yo, but how's I ever goin'
to?"
"Miss Kitty learn us," said Lila. "Heard her tell Miss Lizzy so. Me
and you are going to her room after sun-down, and she'll learn us a
lesson. I've learned right smart now. Know the a b c, and can spell a
heap. It's 'mazin' good."
Nan opened her big eyes as Lila went one, than gave a quick toss of
her head and said: "Feels mighty peart and proud like, Lile, over
your larnin'. Reckon some other folks can learn too, if they wants
to."
Nan is not a very quiet pupil. She has queer remarks to make about
each letter as I point it out. I told her the first letter was A. She
made a funny courtesy, and said:
"B," she screamed, "Oh! I feared of him. Will he sting? Done got my
eyes all stunged up with them bees once. Couldn't see nothin' for a
week. Fac--Miss."
"I don't like X," she burst forth, "he's like Miss Lizzy when I's
done broke sumthin', so cross."
* * * * *
In spite of her chattering and her capers, Nan learned all her
letters that night. Teacher and scholar were astonished and
delighted at her success. The next evening, however, showed that Nan
could forget as quickly as she learned.
"Dunno, Miss."
"Well, what is that letter that looks like Miss Lizzy when she's
cross?"
"I disremember."
And thus it was all through the alphabet. Nan had forgotten the
whole. She could not be persuaded to try again.
"Laws, Miss Kitty," she cried. "I'se done learnt 'em onct. Does
white peoples learn 'em twicet?"
"Sho," said she with a queer twist of her black face. "I'd be 'shamed
to learn it twict. Ef 'twont stay in dis head first time, 'tan't no
good."
Nan learned this also quickly at first. After she had learned to
spell cat and many other words, I said, "Now, Nan, I'll teach you to
spell 'Kitty.'"
* * * * *
After awhile as Lila progressed and read stories to Nan, the little
rogue "wisht" she could read too. "Couldn't see no use in dat yaller
gal gittin' so fur ahead." When she found she could only read by
learning those little things that "bobbed so spry into a body's head
and hopped out a heap quicker," then she reckoned she'd have to come
to it. She tried once more. It was a long time before she could call
the letters and spell out words, and it was many months before she
could read at all without spelling. It was hard work for Nan and
harder for her teacher. Before she had half looked at a word she
would hear a blackbird or see a hawk after a chicken, or she thought
"sure, Miss Lizzy called." I tried to have patience and in the end
I conquered. Nan was "mighty proud" when she read the last page of
her primer.
"Don't think much of that ole book, no how," she said. "Got it all
in here now. Spect I'd better be spry an' git inter nex' book fore
I disremember this ere."
I begin to hope that both Lila and Nan are beginning a Christian
life. But oh! it takes so long for seed to grow in soil that has been
trampled on for years. But I hear Nan now singing the chorus of an
old war song, still sung by the colored folks:
And I will believe it. There are more than three hundred thousand
just such ignorant girls and boys. They "will come" if we go after
them.
KITTY.
Ralph enjoyed the letter so much that he forgot for once to ask a
question until his aunt took up a blue card and handed it to him.
"Oh, I know," said Ralph. "A.M.A. (ama) means love those. I had it in
my Latin lesson this week."
"Love those, is it?" questioned Miss Hill. "Pretty good meaning that
for our abbreviations. A.M.A.--the Love Them Society; it means just
that. Love your neighbors, love your brothers."
"Yes, you have, my boy," answered Miss Hill. "You have red, white,
black, and yellow brothers, and this 'A.M.A.' is to help them to
read, to work on the farm and in the house, to learn trades, and to
know the best things. Your black brothers are the negroes who live in
all the South, the yellow are the Chinese in California, the red are
the Indians in the Territories, in the schools of Hampton, and the
whites are in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee. All these
little books that I will show you tell about these brothers and
sisters. Now read the card. Read it all.
For each five cents collected, prick a hole with a pin in one of the
squares below--each space representing that sum.
Ralph read the card very distinctly and carefully, and then said,
"Indeed you may," answered Miss Hill. "I was just wishing for a young
collector. When will you begin?"
"You'll do," said Aunt Inez, smilingly, handing Ralph the ten cents,
while he energetically pricked two very distinct holes in the blue
card.
--_The Advance_.
* * * * *
MAINE, $1021.72.
Belfast. 3.00
Boothbay. 9.00
Bristol. 3.00
Freedom. 5.00
Freedom. Mrs. Cutter 5.00
Gardiner. 13.00
Holden. 8.00
Houlton. 9.25
Kenduskeag. 5.00
Limerick. 15.00
Paris. 9.68
Phillips. 2.50
Sanford. 8.75
Searsport. 15.00
Skowhegan. 10.00
Topsham. 6.00
------- 528.37
VERMONT, $414.71.
---------
$393.11
LEGACY.
---------
$414.71
MASSACHUSETTS, $6,663.58.
------- 2,228.67
Framingham. "Quartette,"50;
"Friends in Plymouth Ch," 23.75;
Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch., 25.65;
Y.P.S.C.E., 20.70,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 120.10
---------
$6,263.58
LEGACY.
---------
$6,663.58
--------
$129.05
LEGACY.
---------
$1,031.55
CONNECTICUT, $2,488.05.
---------
$2,113.05
LEGACY.
---------
$2,488.05
---------
$1,152.74
LEGACIES.
---------
$2,202.74
NEW JERSEY, $456.03.
---------
$411.83
LEGACY.
---------
$456.03
PENNSYLVANIA, $122.00.
OHIO, $1,737.49.
Springfield. L.H.M.S.,
Cong. Ch., _for Pony Fund_ 5.00
Wellington. L.M.S.,
_for Pony Fund_ 5.00
--------- 125.46
---------
$1,687.49
LEGACY.
---------
$1,737.49
INDIANA. $90.23.
ILLINOIS, $883.54
MICHIGAN, $184.00.
WISCONSIN, $129.98.
IOWA, $380.52.
-------- 87.70
MINNESOTA, $112.46.
MISSOURI, $26.50.
KANSAS, $48.82.
DAKOTA, $10.00.
NEBRASKA, $94.64.
ARKANSAS, $3.10.
CALIFORNIA, $11.00.
KENTUCKY, $512.03.
TENNESSEE, $905.42.
GEORGIA, $724.71.
ALABAMA, $474.87.
FLORIDA, $41.35.
LOUISIANA, $451.50.
MISSISSIPPI, $8.00.
TEXAS, $178.70.
INCOMES, $1,802.60.
JAPAN, $20.00.
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Donations $16,145.53
Legacies 2,843.30
Incomes 1,802.50
Tuitions 3,524.70
Rents 21.10
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Total $826.12
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