) _ over the proposed base-ball urion. Demorralic atc, BY PRP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Intrenchments for the Cuban scandals are being erected in Philadelphia. —Indications iudicate that Mr. QUAY is about to resume business as a boomer of reform. —After all that ‘‘open door’ in China seems to be letting out more of trouble than it lets in of benefit. —TEDDY KOOSEVELT may not he so very old, but it is evident that he has reached one of his declining years. —This is the busy season for the ‘‘man with the hoe,’’ as well as the time for ex- hibiting the ‘‘dark horse’’ in polities. —TIts the “Boxers” who have gotten all China into an uproar, while the grab- bers have done the same thing for Pitts- burg. —Prosperity proclaimers are worrying Evi- dently they fear it increase the strikes. may —So far we have failed to observe any effort on the part of Mr. QUAY to make Mr. HANNA'S stay in Philadelphia particu- larly pleasant. —Mr. SAM DIEHL believes that he will he one of the anti-QUAY nominees for Leg- islature from this county, but it will bea deal of a long time before he is elected. —Since their experience at Roodeval the English will probably conclude that wip- ing out the name of the Orange Free State, was an easier job than wiping out the men who were defending it. —The Lycoming county farmer who bad fifty sheep killed by a stroke of lightning knows what it is to suffer from an abun- dance. If he had had but five his loss and his regrets would have been that much less. —We know now what a ‘‘dense and death-like silence,” is. Its the same kind of a stillness that comes over every depart- ment of. Mr. CHARLES EMORY SMITHS Philadelphia Press, when the pestal scan- dals in Cuba are referred to. —There can be no question about the St. Louis strikers having lost their senses. Whenever they began tearing the clothes «= off of women they made cases that demand redress, no matter what comes of the cause for which they are contending. —The papers tell us that Mr. HANNA has reached Philadelphia. We fail, how- ever, to see any description of the over- whelmingness of the demonstration, or the uproarious enthusiasm, with which his arrival was greeted by Mr. QUAY and his crowd. —Of course we can look happy and ap- pear contented but it wiil take work to do so. Just as we were in hopes of getting over the QUAY blight here in Pennsylvania, word comes that the seventeen--year locusts have made their appearance all through the Western part of the State. —The coming man in the Republican party seems to be Mr.JONATHAN DOLLIVER. He comes, as do other western scourges, pre- ceded by a blow. When that is over, and people measure the amount of wind be. carries, they will not wonder at the noise he makes or the little else there is about him. —Philadelphia ballot box stuffers have reason to be watchful of their laurels. Lackawanna county Republicans succeeded in having 3,000 mere votes in the ballot boxes a - their primaries, on Tuesday, than there were voters in the county last fall. And nobody suspects that SALTER has lo- cated in that locality. —OrTiIs still sticks to it that the war in the Philippines is over,and the fellows who were sent out there to fight it continue to be ambushed and killed, just as if it was going on. What is wanted now is a better understanding between the deposed general and the Manila news sender, as to the line of information that is to he worked off on the public. —It was unnecessary for either Senator HOAR or Mr. BRYAN to deny the absurd and lying story that they had each writ- ten to AGUINALDO ‘‘to keep up his cour- age and the war, and that help would be sent them from this country.” An idiotic lie of this kind would be believed by no one, and could not but help disgust sensible people. —How short our memories? If it wasn’t for the fact that the same individ- ual, who helped to cover up the job, was to be re-nominated in Philadelphia next week, scores of people might not have thought of ALGER’s embalmed beef again until time to decorate the graves of the boys upon whom it got in its work. It's too bad how forgetful of events we are getting. —Rear Admiral SCHLEY hasn’t waited for the bull to get near enough to be taken by the horns, but hurriedly cries out that if nominated for Vice President at Kansas City he will positively decline. As there was nobody pressing this nomination the country will conclude that the bump of cautiousness is unusually developed in his case, and the world will doubtless move on as usual. —So far, that guiding star of Republican pilgrims in Pennsylvania— MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY—has no* been occupying a front seat in Mr. McKINLEY’S convention at Philadelphia. It may be sad, but it is nevertheless true, that brethren do not al- ways dwell together in peace. And this may account for the fact that Mr. HANNA'S arrangements fix Mr. QUAY’S place in the wicinity of the back door. _VOL. 45 A Miserable Failure. The fifty-sixth Congress quit its pretense of enacting laws for the benefit of the peo- ple and left the Capitol on Thursday last for—as many people conscientiously be- lieve—the country’s good. For this the public has reason to be thankful. It was in session a full half year. With greater opportunities than ever before confronted an American Congress it left the capital city, after a six months’ session, with less of important legislation enacted and less attention given to matters of pressing pub- lic importance than any Congress that has ever preceded it. With the grave questions growing out of Mr. McKINLEY'’S efforts at expansion it did nothing. . With the currency of the country, that it stood pledged to reform, it contented it- self with handing it over to the bankers and trust companies to control or increase as their necessities or interests demanded. With the Porto Ricans, who had been pledged a Republican form of government under constitutional guarantees, it shame- fully broke its promise and left them-to the tender mercies of a hybrid manage- ment, composed of military authority and imperial dictators, with the details to be carried out by official thieves. With the trusts, that are springing up like weeds smothering individual effort and staying individual enterprise, it re- fused to interfere. For our new possessions, the control of which, their conduct, welfare and future prosperity, Congress alone is responsible, it failed to make even an attempt to pro- vide proper legislation or adequate pro- tection. It overlooked the collusion between the Secretary of the Treasury and favorite bankers of New York, through which millions of the public money was used as private deposits to save gambling stock brokers. It oppressed the already impoverished Por- to Ricans with the most thieving tariff system that ever robbed any people. It attempted to gloss over and cover up the outrages committed by the army of the United States on the Couerd’ Alene miners by order of the President. : It endorsed the obsequious action of of McKINLEY’S Secretary of State in mak- ing a ticaty to build an Isthmian canal and to aliow England to command it. It voted money without stint to continue a war to prevent a people, upon whom we have no claims and with whose affairs we have no 'usiness, enjoying the right of self- government, It refused to recognize the representa- tives, or to sympathize with the efforts of the struggling Republics of South Africa, because of the secret alliance existing be- tween the administration it represented and the British government. It voted money to keep the American flag floating over the harem of the Sultan of Sulu and made our country the protector of the immoral practice of the licentious worshippers of Mohammedism in the far East. For profligancy in public affairs; for recklessness in public appropriations; for dolessness in matters of serious import; for enactments that rob the people, and for a subserviency to foreign interests, this Con- gress, that quit on the sixth of June, never had an equal. It was a Republican Congress and to that party must cling whatever of disgrace and wrong its record of cowardice, its ineffi- ciency and failures bring to the country, and to the people. It is dead and God be thanked that it is. Piling Up the Expenditures. The average annual expenditures for gov- ermental purposes during the administra- tion of President HARRISON was $361,- 291,373. During Mr. CLEVELAND'S term the average per year was $360,418,546. Under our present imperial Chief Executive these expenditures have jumped to $514,- 480,254. But you will say, ‘‘this includes the war and other expenses, that former Presidents did not have to meet.”” It does not. ‘‘The flgures given simply cover the ordinary and every day ex- penses of the government.”” The war ex- penditures are a separate and distinct mat- ter and have nothing to do with the amout stated. Possibly some of Mr. McKINLEY’'S ad- mirers can explain why it costs the people so much more for ordinary official ex- penditures under his administration, than i% did under those of President, HARRISON and CLEVELAND. If they can, won’t they please step to the front and enlighten us on this subject ? It is one of a good deal of importance, for an increase of over one hundred and fifty million a year in ordinary expenditures is not a thing to be sneezed at. ~ ——G. W. Rees, census enumerator for the West ward of Bellefonte, has complet: ed his work. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. The Tickling Process in Politics. Its not more than four months ago that ANDREW CARNEGIE was writing and preaching most vociferously against both expansion and imperialism. In one inter- view he went so far as to intimate that whatever money was needed to defeat the re-election of McKINLEY,and his imperial- istic purposes, would be furnished by him- self. This was at a time when the quality of his armor plate was in question, and the price was being haggled over in the United States Senate. His threat, however, to put up money to defeat imperialism brought the answer. The Senate, that acts as the mouth bviece of the President, forgot all about the ques- tion of the quality of armor plate he made; it fixed the number of tons it would take at 37,000, and raised the price that could be paid for it to $545 per ton—an increase of more than $100 per ton over what the government had been paying. Mr. CARNEGIE is now one of the most jubilant and enthusiastic McKINLEY men that we hear of in any country, the Sultan of Sulu not accepted. From his castle in the highlands of Scotland, he writes that he will travel clear to America to vote for McKINLEY’S re-election, and ANDREW CARNEGIE does what he says, uuless—well, unless he can make more by not doing it. An increase of $100 per ton on 37,000 tons of armor plate makes a net profit,over and above the enormous profits formerly realized; of $3,700,000. This is worth something to Mr. CARNEGIE and it is ex- pected to be worth something to the fund that is to be raised from trusts and other monopolies for the re-election of the Re- publican candidates. Sixty per cent. of the increase is said to be pledged for this purpose, and it was this sixty per cent. promise that inspired Mr. HANNA'S speech insisting on the increase being allowed. Two million two hundred and twenty- thousand is a nice nest-egg for the McKIN- LEY campaign fund. This amount com- ing from a single trust gives great promise that the fifteen million, Mr. HANNA assured his party he will have tc re-elect his can- didates, will be forthcoming. It also aids the people to see ‘‘the tickle me and I'll tickle you’’ policy of the administration and the trusts it has bred and fostered. Whether their seeing this, as they must in this case, will open their eyes to the way they are being fleeced for the benefit of the Republican party, and the corporate monopolies it has built up, is as doubtful as the transaction referred to shows Mr. CARNEGIE’S political professions to be. The End of the Buzzard's Feast. Pittsburg’s Director of Public Works, doesn’t seem to have directed his efforts in those channels that brought credit to his ad- ministration or harmony among those who placed him in position. As a consequence he now finds himself without office, and his party in a condition that would make a Killkenney cat-fight a tame affair,compared to the manner in which Pittsburg Repub- licans are snarling and scratching at each other. On Tuesday the councils of that city removed him for failing, as it charges, to discover frauds that were being perpe- trated in his department, and one half the Republican party of that dark and disagree- able municipality is up in arms, alleging that he was put out of office because he wouldn’t do what the bosses required, or assist in covering up the corruption the councils winked at. At this distance we don’t know how it is, or where the wrong is the most no- ticeable, but we have a very positive opin- ion that both sides are justified in believ- ing the other corrupt. Pittsburgers, like Philadelphians, have allowed themselves to be fleeced and swindled by Republican officials, for the sake of party, from a time that the mem- ory of man knoweth not to the contrary. They have submitted so long and so loyally to the domination of Republican thieves, that they have come to be consid- ered the easiest kind of subjects, for official rascals to fatten upon; and it is not to be wondered that political vultures roost in every public position, and caw over every contract the city has to give. The present disgraceful condition that Pittsburg finds itself in to-day is but the natural result of the political bias that char- acterizes her people in the choice of officials. They are narrow enough to carry their po- litical prejudices into every election and no matter how rotten, how incompetent, or how unworthy a nominee was he had only to prove his political fealty to secure an election. It is the fruits of this partisan bigotry that our neighbors of the smoky city are now gathering. That they are getting more than they want of it, this wrangle over their buzzard’s feast fully demonstrates. ——1It isn’t much wonder that GRAY was relieved of the chairmanship of the Republican party in Centre county. He was one of the first to pay 10 cents for } of a cents worth of ordinary whiting to two fakirs who were selling it for tooth powder on the ‘‘Diamond’’ Tuesday night. It will take more whiting than that to cover up such greenness. BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 15, 1900. Where the Responsibility Belongs. Centre county’s loss through the veto by Govornor STONE of the public school af- propriation amounts, in the two years to which that veto applies, to $6,867.08. For this loss, which falls exclusively upon the individual tax-payers, Republicans, who think it wrong, place the blame exclusively on Governor STONE. They forget that he is but the representative of the party to which they helong. They overlook the fact that their party has endorsed the ad- ministration under which this wrong was committed, and by that endorsement-ap- proved the act of which they complain. They ignore the truth that it was done more for the benefit of the party they cling to, than for that of the official upon whom they seek to throw all responsibility. At the time the veto of the school ap- propriation was made it was publicly and persistently proclaimed, by Republican officials, that either taxes would have to be increased or expenditures reduced. To have increased taxation without re- quiring corporations to hear a portion of that increase would have furnished explicit and positive proof of the favoritism shown by the Republican party to these monopo- lizing organizations. This would have awakened the people to a condition of af- fairs that would not have heen condoned. To have increased the taxes of corporations would have aroused and offended them. Neither of these conditions could the Re- publican party afford. If it lost the sup- port of the people it lost its power to con- trol the affairs ofiState. If it lost the sup- port of corporations it lost the source from which it derives its campaign funds and its ability to purchase its success at the polls. It was between the ‘devil and the deep sea.’’ : To help his party cut of the situation it was in and himself, only as helping his party would benefit him, Governor STONE acted. He saved the good will of the great corporations for the Republican party of the State and he saved it the contributions that are 1ow being given it, by them, to prolong iis rule and continue its corrupt administration. Republicans who believe that veto was wrong bave no excuse for saddlirg its obloquy and viciousness upon the political back of Governor STONE alone. The party that Le represented; that was to be benefit- ted, and that has since erdorsed his action, is more deserving of blame than he. It was a Republican necessity, made pcssihle by conditions brought about by Republi- can administrations, that actuated it, and it was for its success and safety that it was resorted to. Hereafter let the responsibility for that act rest where it belongs—upon the Repub- lican party. He who would make a scape- goat of an individual for the sins of an or- ganization is neither honest in his profes- sion nor to be relied upon in his actions. ——The latest cause for rejoicing that our Republican friecds have to point to is the declaration of the British-American League, an organization of unnaturalized Englishmen, in favor of McKINLEY. This, like the letter of the Sultan of the Sulu islands to the same effect, may not be worth many votes, but it swells the column of recommendations and seems to show the popularity of the present administration, with those who are satisfied with it. To the harem owners of the far east, and the Boer haters of Great Britain, Mr. McKIN- LEY’S policy has proven mest acceptable, if it hasn’t met the ‘enthusiastic endorse- ment of the people of our own country. Easy to See What He is After. Mr. QUAY, to head off amendments to the Constitution that will permit of the enactment of registration and election laws that will secure honest elections, is out for a Constitutional Convention, claiming that that is the way to secure the results de- sired. Such a movement might secure the purpose that Mr. QUAY has most at heart— the defeat or delay of ballot reform—and that’s about what it would do. People who are after ballot reform are willing to take the easiest and most direct route to secure it; and that is by the endorsement of the proposed amendments. Mr. QUAY’S proposed road to this end is beset with ex- penses and dangers. In the first place a Constitutional con- vention could not be held at a less cost than a million of dollars. In the second place the risks of having the power of trusts and syndicates control and dominate its action would have to be taken. In the third it would delay any change in cur system of registration and voting, even if a convention would suggest changes that would meet the approval of the people, from a year to a year and a half longer, than the same changes can be secured by the adoption of the amendments that are to be voted on this fall. Mr. QuAY may be exceedingly smart in some things, but in this matter he will discover that he is not slick enough to throw dust in the eyes of the people with- out their knowing what he is doing it for. | __ NO. 24. Trying to Make Campaign Thunder. From the Pittsburg Post. The country is disposed to ridicule and sneer at the trust constitutional amend- ment voted for in the House on Friday and defeated hy Democratic votes. It was never intended to be passed. If ther had heen any danger of that it would not have gotten half the Republican vote. Does any- one suppose that Mr. Dalzell would have voted for such a sweeping measure against interests with which he is identified, per- sonally and politically, if it bad stood the ghost of a chance of becoming constitution- al law? He would have been foremost in opposition. Mr. McCall a leading member of the House judiciary committee and a Republican of the Massachusetts stripe, in opposing it declared that, aside from the impossibility of its adoption by Congress or the States, it was of so extreme a char- acter that it could be used to place private as well as corporate business under the ban. ‘It would strike a deadly blow at individual liberty, and might be used," he said, ‘‘to destroy labor organizations.’ The New York ‘‘ Herald,” which is opposed to trusts declared the proposed amendment ‘has been as objectional as possible to the Democrats. with the obvious purpose of exciting their opposition, and thus insur- ing the failure of the resolution for the lack of the necessary two-thirds vote.’ It was gotten up to be defeated. The New York ‘‘Sun,” arother Republican paper, declared that it was not only vicious and de- structive in principal, but that it was passed as an electioneering dodge, with no idea it would become a part of the consti- tution. The Democrats proposed a rea- sonable amendment that would have given Congress all necessary powers to legislate against trusts, but the Republicans refused under the rules, to allow it to come to a vote, or even to be offered to the consider- ation of the House. A Democratic member of the House in opposing the cheat and sham made the strong point that if there had been the remotest prospect of the amendment pass- ing the halls of Congress would have been infested by the trust lobby, as it always is when any practical anti-trust - measure is proposed. As it was, no trust lobbyist put in an appearance. The trust was in the secret. They knew it was merely a bull against a comet, and really in their interests. The idea that the people can be fooled as to the true position of parties on the trust question by such a make be- lieve humbug is absurd. They have not been studying the lessons of the trust since McKinley and Mark Hauna came into power for nothing. They know that McKinley was elected, and expects re- election through the money power and labor intimidation of the trusts. They know that trust capitalization has increas- ed five thousand million of dollars under his administration without one sincere ef- fort to oppose them under existing laws. And further, the events of the day dis- closed that while the Republicans of the House were dealing out a green goods amendment on the trusts Mark Hauaa, the representative of McKinley, was standing up in the Senate defending the armor plate trust, which exacts millions from the taxpayers and defies the government. To quote Lincoln again and it was never more applicable than tothis hogus consti- tutional amendment: ‘‘ You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all the people some of the time,but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”’ This is one of the times they can’t be fooled. Think of Mark Hanna leading an anti-trust crusade. It is the richest of political bun- comb. Times When We Pay War Taxes. From the Arkansas Gazette. Secretary Gage says the war taxes are pilivg up a surplus that will reach $70, 000,000 at the close of the present fiscal year, and in all probability will be greatly in excess of that amount. And still the government fines the citizens— When he sends a telegram. When he draws a check. When he becomes a member of a corpo- ration. When he transfers his stock. When he insures his life or his house. ‘When he assigns his insurance. When he makes a note to raise money for the payment of his other taxes. When he buys a money order. When he executes a lease. When he sends a paid telephone mes- sage. When an indemnity bond is given. When a bill of exchange is drawn. When a citizen executes an instrument necessary in the sale of merchandise on ’Change. When he ships goods by freight or ex- press. When he clears a vessel and files a man- ifest. When he buys a ticket to go abroad. When he executes a power of attorney. When he buys proprietary medicine. When he chews gum. When he uses any perfumes or his wife indulges in cosmetics. When a note is protested. When a warehouse receipt is given. When merchandise is entered at a Cus. tom House. When-—will it be ended ? The War Isn't Near Enough Over for the Capture of Aguinaldo. From the Easton Argus It is announced that the American troops are again on the trail of the fleeing Aguin- aldo. Hardly a day goes by without are- port of a number of Filipinos being either captured or killed. It looks as if the Am- ericans do not want the rebel leader very much or that they are able to capture al- most any of them but the one they are after. Yes, and the Boys are Sent to Busi- ness Colleg e. From an Unknown Exchange. When a girl is too thick headed to learn anything in school, her folks send heraway to a conservatory of music. Spawls from the Keystone. —MTrs. Mary Naylor, of Marietta, who was terribly burned while boiling soap, died fre a her injuries. } —A. L. Miller and John Ferry, while*in attendance at a circus at Hollidaysburg, had their pockets picked of $250. —Five arrests were made in Altoona on Tuesday against local merchants who are charged with violating the oleomargarine law. —Michael M. Brown, of Puritan, Cambria county, is on trial for murdering Daniel Woods and wounding Thomas Collier last April. —In the annual junior oratorical contest at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, the gold medal was won by T. Robert Appel, of that city. —Hugh O’Hara,whoserved in the Eleventh United States Infantry in the Philippines and returned home two months ago, was killed by falling coal in the Briges mine, near Scranton, —Fourteen hundred early cabbage plants were eaten Friday night on the truck farm of Thomas Humphry in Pike township, Clearfield county, by rabbits, which are usually plentiful in that section. —L. M. Karstetter has secured control of all mountain pasturt on the lands in White Deer, belonging to Kulp & Co., with Schrad- er estate, and will engage in the business of herding cattle through the summer. —The Scientific American suggests that if you are afraid of lightning, simply put on your rubbers and stand up so your clothes won't touch anywhere. Whether you are in doors or out of doors you are perfectly safe, for rubber is a non conductor and you are completely insulated. —The forest caterpiller is making life mis- erable for many people in Potter county. The fences sidewalks and nearly all the trees are covered with fuzzy worms. Friday night so many gathered on the rails that a passen- ger train running into Wellsville was com- pelled to come to a standstill on a slight grade, —The new Methodist Church at Lewistown was dedicated on Sunday by Bishop C. H. Fowler. The edifice is one of the finest in Central Pennsylvan , costing $40,000. A window costing $5,000, erected by Mrs. Rob- ert Pitcairn, of Pittsburg, in memory of her parents, was unveiled and presented to the trustees. —For the first time in the history of West- moreland county, its debts will be wiped en- tirely out within a week. The county com- missioners Friday issued notice to bondhold- ers and all debtors that there is sufficient money in the treasury to discharge all indebt- edness of the county. The outstanding bonds amount to $23,000. —One of the most horrible accidents ever recorded occurred a day or two ago in a saw mill near Belmont, Clinton county. Philip Evingham, an employe of the mill, fell across a circularsaw and his body was severed just below the heart. Only thin sections of tissue held the body together. The saw was mak- ing over a thousand revolutions a minute. —While William Mysterer was crossing the railroad bridge spanning Lycoming creek, Williamsport, Friday, he saw a New York Central express train rapidly approaching. Instead of stepping upon an adjoining track ‘out of the way of danger the fellow ran at full speed toward the approaching engine. He was struck and probably fatally injured. He was taken to the hospital. —Meixel, Coleman & Co., of Lycoming,are operating a large bark job southeast of Car- roll, on a timber tract they purchased of the Neice estate recently. Between twenty and thirty men are employed in the camp at good wages. The Sallada Bros., of Rauchtown, have taken the contract to haul the bark to Antes Fort. The tract contains over 1,000 tons of bark and about 2,000,000 of good hem- lock timber. —During the year 1899 Pennsylvania pro- duced 54,030,224 ton of ahthracite coal and 73,066,943 tons of bituminous. The average number of days worked in the anthracite region was 120, and 296 in the bituminous region. There were 366 mines in operation in 1899 in the anthracite regions, giving em- ployment to 160,583 persons, and 786 mines in the bituminous district, employing 91,442 persons. — Chairman John O'Toole, of the Blair county Democratic committee, who sent out a circular letter to the rank and file of his party asking for their opinion in regard to a fusion legislative ticket there this fall, is re- ceiving a deluge of responses favorable to the inquiry. As a consequence the Blair county Democracy intends to confer with the Inde- pendent Republicans at Altoona, and from all outward indications a fusion legislative ticket seems assured. —A sheriff’s posse of Elk county deputies surprised a gangof four burglars, who had camped in a dense wood near Wilcox, Elk county, Thursday, and in exchange of shots that took place one of the robbers was instantly killed. A considerable amount of stolen goods, which was identified by four different storekeepers who were robbed at DuBois the night before, and a complete kit of burglars’ tools were found on the spot where the robbers were found. Three com- rades of the dead man escaped, but the posse is still in pursuit of them. Nothing was found on the dead man to establish his iden- tity. —Two cars of the eastern express were wrecked as the train entered the Altoona de- pot Friday night. Just how the wreck hap- pened is not positively known but, from the evidence presented by the tracks, the front truck of the dining car picked one of the spring frogs just east of the Fourteenth street switches, pulling the rear truck off with it and throwing the rear truck of the dining car over on another track. The train was brought up standing by the shock. The dining car was empty save the regular crew of waiters and cooks. When the car turned partially over on its side they were thrown over on the floor on the under side of the car. One of the waiters, J. A. White, had his shoulder and back injured by striking against some of the furniture of the car, and was placed under the care of a physician. The passengers in the sleeping car were wak- ened very suddenly by the jolting of the car as the wheels ran along the ties, but no one was injured, as there was only one truck off the track.
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