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Vigor and Vitality are quickly given to every part o£ tlie body by Hood's Sarsaparilla. That tired feelltu? is entirely overcome, the blood is purified^* enriched, and vitalized, the Rtomach is toned and (strengthened, the appclite restored, the kidneys and liver invigorated. Try Hood's Snrsaparilla now.

Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by druggists. Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co.. Lowell. Mass.

GRATEFUL-COMFORTING.

IPPS'S COCOA

BREAKFAST.

"By ft thorough knowledge of tho natural laws -which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition. and by a careful application of the tine properties of well-selected Cocoa. Mr. Epps has provided onr breakfast tables with a delicately llavom-«l bev«rwe which may save us many heavy doctors'bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to Attack wherever there is a weak point, we may

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London. England.

THE WOBLD OTOET The world onglit to I tlone for mc in the euro I which was so bad as to I Me by the physicians I •went to be treated. One I me a copy of an ndver-1 Swift's Specific, and 11 relief from the first few, I gradually forced cut of I «oon cured sound and I months since I quit tak-i had no sig.i of return of the dreadful disease.

TO SNOW IT. know what«S. S. S. hns I of a malignant Cancer, be considered incurain Chicago, where I [of my neighbors sent tisement in regard to I began taking t. I iro£ doses the poison was my system, and I was I

well. Ir, is now ten I inr S. S. S. and I have

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An Sable, Mich., Dec. 29, 'GS. -Send for books oa Blood Diseases mid Canccrs. mailed free. Tm: SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.

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AN 15 TER-STATE EPISODE.

The Historial Situation Tbat Gave Rise to a Proverbial Saying

Minneapolis Journal.

AH every one knows, North and South Carolina were of the thirteen original States of the Union, and tor many years after this nation became free the twin commonwealths grew and prospered. In the early part of the present century, however, a cloud no larger than two men's hands appeared upon the Carolina horizon, and grew until it threatened to wreck the social fabric of the two States. The Governor of North Carolina quarreled with the Governor of South Carolina. The executive of the Tarheel State publicly stated that his colleague ef the Palmetto Commonwealth was "no better than he should be." This, as may be imagined, aroused the wrath of the Governor of South Carolina, and he issued a manifesto declaringthe Governor of Noith Carolina would be better if he were not worse. Thereupon giave complications arose, and for a time an internecine war was threatened. The people greatly regretted the quarrel, and the most able and skillful diplomates of the two States bent their utmost energies to the pacification of their now maddened superiors. Finally, after months of strenuous effort, a meeting was arranged between the two Governor?, with a view to settling the difficulty.

On one never-to-be-forgotten day the two Governors met in the magnificent mansion of the Governor of North Carolina, at Raleigh. The Governor of South Carolina was travel-worn, hungry, thirsty and tired. At last they stood face to face, the most impressive moment in the history of North Carolina. For a minute neither great man spoke. Then the Governor of North Carolina, extending his right hand, and placing the index finger of his left hand upon the side of his nose, gazed in the eye of his foe and said. "It is along time between drinks!"

And the Governor of South Carolina, grasping the hand of his adversarv and measuring oft the four fingers of his left hand, said: "Itis."

Then the Governor of North Carolina ordered a huge bowl of Jamaica rum punch, and he and the Governor of South Carolina washed away all remembrances of their late auarrel.

And they lived happily ever after.

HE RODE FREE.

The Man Who Bet He Could Beat the Conductor is Xow President of a Road.

Six or eight of us were sitting around the stove in the old Madison House in Buffalo one night in a decade of years ago, and the talk finally turned upon railroads and how conductors had been beaten by deadheads. One man told a story, to be followed by another, and a Ne\v Yorker finally observed: "Yes, but this was in the past, before there was any real system or much sharpness. No one can beat a conductor in these days.'' "That's very true," added a second, "Youha^e either got to come down or get off."

There was a quarter of an hour of such talk, and then a man who had moved into the circle and remained silent finally said: "Well, I dunno. I am sharp enough to ride from here to Batavia without paying fare." "Got a pass, maybe?'' "No, I haven't." "Do you mean to say that you can ride without ticket or money?" •'I have done it." "Is the conductor a relative of youre?" "No, sir." "You didn't put up any personal property?" "Not a thing." "Well, if it can be done I'd like to see it. There are three of us going down, and I'll put up $25 that you can't ride for nothing." "You won't put the conductor on to me?" "No." "Well, I'm going that way myself, and I believe I'll cover that bet. The understanding is that I show neither pass, ticket, nor cash, nor secure the conductor."

That's the size ot it. Put your money in the hands of this gentleman, Judge Davis, who lives at Batavia."

The money was put up, and next morning we all went down to the train together. The man who was to beat the road told us to go into the smoker and he would presently join us. We got seats and the train pulled out, and we were wondering if our man hadn't been hauled off before the start, when the door opened and he entered with the salutation: "Tickets, if you please!" "Say, if you keep on you'll be general manager some day!" sneered the loser when he saw that he had been roped.

He did better than that. A year ago he was made President of a hustling Western road, and is now drawing a princely salary.

It is a common occurence lor children to get beans, grains of corn and ether foreign substances up their noses. This [remedy is worth remembering: Get a child to open its mouth, apply your month over it and blow hard. The offending substance will be expelled.

TEMP2RlCE NOTES.

By W. C. T. U. I^

A National German American Prohibition League has been established at Chicago.

In Belgium a person arrested for drunkenness is compelled to sweep the public streets for two hours after he gets sober. What spotless thoroughfares America might present by adopting this plan.

Mountain hunters of Pennsylvania are said to use indigo instead of whisky to cure rattlesnake bites. An incision is made in the wound and a piece of indigo the size of a pea inserted. A generous dose of Bweet oil is given as soon after as possible. The result is said to be entirely satisfactory.

If we take the prodncts of all of the mechanical industries of the country, the liquor industry included ($5,369,579,191), we find that nearly one-fifth, ($947,953,570), goes to the laborer as wages, while taking the liquor industry alone, tfe find that only about one-tenth of its product goes to the laborer as wages.— Samuel Schwam.

Rev. A. Pearson (Vicar of St. Margaret's) recently presided over an enthusiastic gospel temperance meeting at Brighton. In addressing the assembly he said that the temperance cause was not progressing fast enough, that England's drink bill been reduced from 145 millions to i.25 millions in twenty years, a million a year, and at this rate it would lake 125 years to complete the work.

The presiding judge of a Chicago court recently said: Of the thousands of prostitutes of Chicago, the downfall of almost every one can be traced to drunkenness on the part of parents or husband, or drunkenness on her own part. Of all the boys in the reform school at Pontiac and in the various reformatories about the city, ninety-five per cent are the children of parents who died through drink or became criminals through tfce same cause.

Tobacco kills both wives and flies, (but not lies.) The Albany Argus accredits a celebrated physician with the following: 'At an establishment where they treat patients ior the cure of the tobacco habit, a man just brought in was washed as clean as soap and water could make him, and then some flies were allowed to light on him. In five minutes by the watch they were dead!' There was poison enough in the perspiration that came out of that man, washed as clean as po3sible, to kill them. You can imagine what it would be, when he was not waehed, perhaps, to spend hours each night in a warm bed with him. (How about lies?) 3'Where are the young men?' Some startling facts in answer to this question were recently presented in the Christion Standard. There «re about 30,000 young men in tlie nation's capital. Of these not quite ten per cent are communicants in churches. On one prayer meeting evening 168 young men, all told, attended religious service in ten leading churches and ten of the larger young people's meetings. The same evening 365 young men were seen entering ten of the 1,000 saloons during a single hour. 818 were present at two of the lowest theatres, at one of which there was an estimated attendance of 100 boys under sixteen.

One Way to liay a Gliost.

Lcwiston Journul.

"Bill Skimmins buried his father in a moBt unhandsome way very near his barn," said the man at the other end of the table. The neighbors thought it was a shame and made a good deal of talk about it. One of them thought he would punish Bill by scaring him, and lay in wait for him near his father's grave on a dark night. "As Bill went by on his way lrom the barn the man rose up as if from the tomb, and exclaimed in a ehostly voice: 'I'm your father, Bill!' 'Who said you warn't?' Bill answered. 'Git down thar inter yer hole whar yer belong!' and he struck him across the face with a bridle he was carrying such a rap that the would-be alarmist carried the scar for months.

A Sad Calamity.

New York Weekly.

Small Clerk—"Och, fadder, dat gun vat you sole Meester Schmallwitz last veck bursted He virst dime he vire it eff, an' killed him det."

Proprietor—"Mine Gracious! .t vas awvul! I zold him dot goon on drust."

A Hotel That Just Suited Him. Texas Sittings. Night Clerk—We'rr all full.

Inebriated Guest— Zat so? Bully for you! Josh my fix, 'xae'ly. G1M I come here.

HALL'S CATARRH CUltE is a liquid and is taken internally, and acts directly npon tho blood mid mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists. 75c.

F. J. CHENEY & CO., Proprs. Toledo, O.

It is never the opinions of others that displease us, but the pertinacity they display in obtruding them upon us.— Foubert.

Forced to Leave Home.

Over «w p°ople were forced to leave their homesyestorday to call for a Free trial package of Lane's Family Medicine. If jfour blood is bad, your liver and kidneys out of order, if you are constipated and have headache and an unsightly complexion, don't fail to call on any druggist to-day for a Free Sample* of this grand remedy. The ladies praise it. Every one likes it. Large Bize packages, SO cents.

It is said tbat the fight waged by the Philadelphia Clothing Exchange aitainet organized labor cost the Exchange $2,000,C09.

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John Sherman will spend the Summer in the Alps. Disease and Death

Foroe their way into many a household that might be protected from their inroads, by the simple precaution of keeping in the house* thai benign family medicine and snfeguard of health, Hostetter's St' mach Bitters. Partioulary where there are children, should it be kept ou hand, as a prompt remedy for infantile complaints, in their outset easily conquerable, but which, if all' wed to engraft themselves on the delicate childish organism, are not easily dislodged, and speedily woik grievous mischief. Irregularily of the bowelf, indigtstion and biliousness, are ailments of common occurrence in the househol'. Children, living in malarious regions, are more liable to be attacked with chills and fever than adults, and the ravages of that foil disease in their system are speedier and more serious. In remote localities, far from professional aid, it is especially desirable.

Arule of three—For departure

It is said in Delaware that a full peach crop maybe expected this year. A Michigan Central Railroad Employee Wins His Case, After a

Seven-Years' Contest.

ALBION, MICH., Dec. 20, 1887. While employed as agent of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, at Augusta, Mich., about seven years ago, my kidneys became diseased, and I have been a great sufferer ever since. Have consulted the leading physicians of this city and Ann Arbor, and all pronounced my case Bright's disease. After taking every highly recommended remedy that I had knowledge of to no purpose, and while suffering under a very severe attack in October la6t, I began taking Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, and am today a well man. It will afford me pleasure to render you and suffering humanity any good that I can, and in speaking of our remedy allow me to say that I think it the greatest medicine in the world. .e. E. LARZILERK, u: Agent M. C. R. R.

London printers have adopted the eight hour system, Dobbins' Electric Soap has been made 24 years. Each year'i? sales have increased. In 1888 sales

aieakte

one to take his

A REMARKABLE CURE.

Of a Diseased Stomach Which the Doctors had Pronounced Incurable.

JACKSON, MICH., Dec. 22,1886.

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GENTLEMEX:—For over twenty years I have been a great suffer from the effects of a diseased stomach, at times have been unable to work for months, and for three years past have been unable to do any business hardly able to move about. Two years ago my case was pronounced bv the beet medical skill incur able. With all the rest of my troubles, rheumatism, in its worst form, set in, and for two years past I have not been able to lie on my back. I visited different water eures and tried different climates, but to no good. Last June I began using Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters, and at once beean to" feel better. I have used thirteen bottles and am a well man, to ihe utter surprise of all who knew me and of my long-contin-ued sickness. To those who may be suffering from sickness cf the nature of my disease, I want to say to them, get this remedy and take it, and they will never regret it. Very truly yours,

EDAVABD BAKER.

Master Mechanic and Blacksmith, 202 Jackson street, Jackson, Mich. Ardenbrite," the new invisible laquer just brought in London is proof against weather, steam, Bmofee, sea air, or sea water.

Is It Any Wonder

that Dr. ierce's Golden Medical Discovery outsells all other blood and liver medicines, since it possesses such superior curative properties as to warrant iis manufacturers in supplying it to the people as they are doing through druggists under conditions such as no other medicine is sold under, viz that it must either benefit or cure the atient, or the money paid for it will promptly returned. It cures all iseases arising from deranged liver, or ftom impure blood, as biliousness, "Jiver complaint," all skin and scalp diseases, salt-rheum, tetter, scrofulous sores and swelling-, fever-sores, hipjoint disease and kindred ailments.

Four new furnaces just finished near Birmingham, Ala., cost $1,250,000.

$500 Reward for an incurable case of chronic Nasal Catarrh offered by the anufactuiers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Re medy. 50 oents, by druggists.

were

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620 boxes. Superior quality, and absolute uniformity and purity, made this possible. Do you use it? 113.

Iron molders are requested to stay away from Philadelphia. "For seven long years 1 struggled away farming, running a mill, &c until 1 was 'ortunaiely in roduced to H. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., by my biother, and I went to work at oive, and in mvm mimtha I had made more clear money than I had made in the seven years before. They took me right by the hand fiom the start nd seemed to be very glad of the chance to show me how to do it." This is about what a young man said a y*ar or so ago of the at ovememioned firm. Since thai time he has been steadily at work for them, and is now one of the happiest men in America. If you ed employment, it would be a good thing for you to follow this young man's example.

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FOR STRAINS AND SPRAINS.

NEW AND STRONG CASES. A. Surprise. Boston, Mass.. Jane 13,1883.

I wish to inform you of what I consider moat won* Hiderftal. Yeatorday I sprained my ankle on a curbtill (tone and at night cottld only atap on my foot with g% Jjgreatett pain got a bottlo ot St. Jacob* Oil and itiffapplied it freely to-day I am about my bnsineiw &S:a» uual without feeling any inconvenience.

Jpt r. A. OATLOBO.

Strained Anld«. Cleveland, O., June SB, 1888. w-

ted with strained ankle med can*

^Incompletely cured ty St. Jacob* Oil. No return of .*:Vpaln. L. HAKLEY.

AT DROGOISTS AN!) ]1F.ALKI!3.

HI CHARLES VOQELER CO.. Baltimore, KM. Oregon,

the

rarwlite of Farmers.

Mild, equable clfmate. certain and abundant cro"S Best fruit, grain, gnu-' and stock country in the world. Full information f'ee Address the Oregon Immigration Board, Portland, Ore.

Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.

When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, Bhe cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children,sbegarethem Castoria.

E O O I N VUNEQUALED For House, Barn, and all out-buildings.

Anybody can put it on. PRICE LOW. Write

for Sample and Book.

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BEYOND THEIR DEPTH.

INDIANA LEGISLATORS TACKLE THE SUBJECT OF SCHOOL. BOOKS,

And tlie Result is a Law Above Unman Comprehension.

Some of tbe Peeuliarties of Their Wonderful Work.

Special to Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

IXDIAXAPOL'S, May 5.—When the last General Assembly could spare a few moments from its effortB to create places for needy Democrats, it occupied them in doing absurd and loolish things. Two or three years ago the notion seized upon some of the mighty minds that grow and vegetate in tais State, that there was some sort of a school boot trust by which the people were robbed of their money, and the school hildr^" of the fruits of the education for which their parents were taxed. This was a mighty crime in the eves of those bucolic statesmen. Some of the brilliant editors who furnish ideas for the unenlightened, took up the

With these facts in mind it may readily be seen that a series of school books gotten up under Democratic inspiration would be rich meat for public education. It ought aho to be borne in mind that the Democrats of this city endeavored to have excluded from the schools all books which taught the evil effects of alcohol on the human system, and that nearly every Democratic member of the last General Assembly voled against a bill which provided that the schools of the State should have in tlieir curriculum works which exemplify the fact that alcohol io not gond either for the mind or body of man.

Girls for hotels and housework are in demand at Saginaw, Mich. I

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of sash merit that, whea a poison possesses them, in aa locality, their1 hat Sfnada, and many people pnrebase a huge sad Meltable Uade^S •ways rssaits. Wocaa rapplr free only one person lis each locality.*. ^eeo who writ* at once, will maho earn of their reward, while theeegy •h* delay-will leeetheeksaco. BeetGoa. Grand Telescope. KtswaiTT smplain farther here Those who writoat ernes will soearo mml to-**"* W- —aey—mmi fusMiisea. iMw.lL

MflXETTA

cry

and made

the columns of their papers to fairly howl day after day. Nothing would appease them, and they would not be convinced that the people would not

suffer great hardships from this monster

school book comorne, unless l* was

overthrown by i-tate legislation. The fam]jy

Your Lite in Danger. I

Take time by the forelock ere that rasping, hacky cough of yours sends

Sruggists.

Cut flowers—Wall flowers. Read Dr. Barber's card in another column.

IATENTS nlefis^Patwit

Obtained. Vory lowcot terms. No lolay. W. E. BOULTER, 710-8tli St., Washington,D.O. UMIC STUDY. Book-keeping, business forms

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Zudianapolis, Ind.

In seder teinmdaeo ear goods, we will Batil Ikr-'

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and placed in those of the State Board of Education. The State Board promptly met. and for several hours "ra&seled" with the law, trying to bring order out of chaos and certainty out of vagueness. By placing a forced construction on several sections, so as to make them mean what they would have had them do if they had made the law originally, thev finally formulated a set oi instructions to bidders.

The contractor is bound up t-o do a great many things, but if any one can find in the law among all its multifarious provisions, any way by which he can get his money with any kind of certainty it would be a gracious favor for them to point it out. County Superintendents, Township Trustees and School Commissioners are made the agents for the sale of the books contracted for. They are to receive no compensation for their handling and care of t!..e boobs, and yet they are to be responsible for their value. It will take as much red tape f&r a child to set a spelling book as it now does for a man to get his pay from the Government for furnishing a bag of oats to any army Quartermaster The child makes a requisition upon the Township Trustee, the Trustee upon the County Superintendent, the County Superintendent upon the State Superintendent, and the State Superintendent upon the contractor. Thus some time long after the child has passed the stage

deeding a school book, and baa en-

terec

p0n the cares of maintaining a

good people whose behalf all likely to reach him. He will be very ST* fU{'

fh« r,f their Re.lf-atmointed «mard-

the efforts of their self-appointed guard ians. There is something in the atmosphere in Indiana that operates upon the brains of a man as soon as he is elected to the Legislature, that drives him to act the fool as certainly as hunger drives tbe hog to the feed trough. This intangible something drove some members of tbe Legislature to conceive tbe idea that the State ought to set itself up for a school book publisher, and the youthful mind be educated upon a new and scientific schedule, patented and originated by the Hoosiers. Two years ago this idea was formulated into a bill and presented to the Legislature. Frem sundry causes, not necessary just now to state, the bill failed of meeting any great degree of favor. It was renewed, however, at the last session of the General Assembly. The original proposition was that the State should set up a book publishing house of its own that the text of the various works should be prepared under the supervision of a Democratic Commission appointed by the Geueral Assembly. A series of text books thus pepared would be a curiosity,and would lurnieh amusement for a generation or two to come. I remember that some three or four years ago it was discovered that all reference to the late war of the rebellion was ordered excluded from the teaching in the public schools of this city. Upon investigation it was found that this was done at the instigation of a member of the School Board who, in the days of the rebellion, had been prommentlv identified with the Knights of the Golden Circle, and who had at one time been on trial for treason against the Government. Upon further investigation it was found that the historical text book used in the schools was prepared by a Virginia ex-Con-federate. and that its account of the war was altogether from a Southern standpoint.

his own, the spelling book is

lucky if it gets to him in time for the

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g"randchild and the contractor

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the grandchild in turn is a grandfather. If, in the view of tke State Board of Education, no text book on any subject is equal to the work of showing the Hoosier youthful idea how to shoot, the Board may contract with some author or compiler to get up one to suit the emergency. When the manuscript is ready, then the Board is required to go skirmishing over the country to hunt for a publisher.

The law requires all bidders to give a bond that they will enter into a contract, if one should be awarded to them, but there is no provision that they shall give bond for the faithful performance of their contract. Neither does the law make it obligatory upon any School Board to adopt or use the school books when so contracted for, and tho publisher must run the risk of getting his books upon the market after he has printed them. The legislators were very careful to insert a provision that it shall be apart of the terms of the contract that the State shall in no case be liable to the contractor for any sum whatever. The only method by which the conti actor can get any pay for his books is as roundabout as" that by which his books are put upon the market.

The Township Trustee, at stated intervals, reports to the County Superintendent the number and cost of books sold then at certain other periods, the County Superintendent makes report to the State Superintendent, and, finally, that official reports to the contractor. If the contractor has any reason to believe that somewhere in the great State of Indiana some one has sold more books than he has reported, his only way of satisfying himseif on tha^ point is to send some one on a voyage of discovery. This agent wiil have to visit each of the twelve hundred Township Trustees, the two hundred special school boards, the ninety-two County Superintendents, and, finally, the State Superintendent, balancing the accounts of each of the sixteen persons visited and counting the books they each have on hand. When it is all done he may find that some one owes him for a spelling book. This is legislation in modern Indiana under Democratic auspices.

It seems that something I have said in my correspondece has awakened the wrath of tbe editor of the Sentinel, the Democratic State organ. I would not for anything in the world offend that august individual. I have a tender mercy and a compassionate soul for him, that would make me rather injure myself than do harm to him. He has let his wrath so take possession of him

It was first determined in the Democratic caucus that the bill should become a law as originally introduced. By it places would be furnished for a very It places WUU1U UC lummucu tut a vwj ,• I Ho. large number of Democratic heelers and that he has applied to me t^e strikers but finally tLey were driven from that position, and the bill was so amended as to tnrow open the doors of competition to book publishers and would-be writers and compilers. In making these changes the work was done so bunglingly that the bill as it now stands is a monument to stupidity, ignorance and vicious law making. There is not power enough in the combined intellect of the world to know just what the legislators meant in some sections of the bill, if thev meant anything, which is very doubtful. The work of contracting for the school books was taken out of the hands of the proposed Democratic Commissioners

columns of his paper such gentle and conciliatory titles as "picturesque liar," &c. It is claimed that the Sentinel is edited here in this city, and it is ostensibly so,but the real fact is that it is edited and managed from the School for Feeble Minded and Idiotic Children, at Fort Wayne. It is the knowledga of this fact thafc has given me the compassionate spirit I have entertained toward that sheet. The devil has long been supposed to be the boss liar known in history. If that is true, and the Sentinel should apply to his Satan tic Majesty the epithet of liar, it wonld be another cane of the pot calling the kettle black. —[Adv.

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