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Wednesday, October 28, 1!>14.
OCTOBER
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MOO*'S PHASES—
Full Moon, 4th; Last Quarter, 12th;
New Moon, l»th; First Quarter, 25th.
VJE. WEATHER FORECASTS
iMMA ) Harrisburg and vicinity# Generally
fair to-night, and Thursday. Warmer
Tfigr to-night with lowest temperature about
Eastern Pennsylvania: Generally
r-A»fr *' fail' to-night and Thursday, warmer to
.»• night. Moderate winds, mostly south-
Vf' i ' ' * west.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 43; lowest, 32; 8 a. m., 32; 8 p. m., 38.
REDUCTION OF U. S. STEEL DIVIDEND
Much as it is regretted that the holders of the
common stock of the United States Steel Corpora
tion —including many persons of moderate means
scattered through the entire country, among them
many of the gigantic eorporation's employes who
have been induced to buy the stock through the
operation of the corporation's profit-sharing plan—
are to suffer reduced incomes as the result of the
action of the directors yesterday in lowering the
quarterly dividend, the course of the directors in
this connection can be regarded as the only safe
and businesslike one that they could have pursued
in view of the statement of earnings for the quarter
ended "September 30. last, and the fact that there
is little prospect of earnings increasing in the im
mediate future.
The directors reduced the dividend for the quar
ter from li/i per cent, to one-half of 1 per cent.
That is the dividend is reduced to the basis of 2
per cent, a year as compared with 5 per cent, a
year, the rate that had prevailed since June, 1910.
After payment of the dividend at the lower rate
there will be left out of the earnings for the last
quarter an insignificant surplus of $89,479. If the
dividend had been declared at the previously pre
vailing 5 per cent, annual rate there would have
been a deficit for the quarter of something like
#6,000,000.
Although there doubtless were some stockhold
ers who had hoped that the dividend would be paid
at the old rate by utilizing accumulated surplus
Held over from other more profitable quarters, the
decision not to draw on this surplus was the wiser
one. Jt is a dangerous policy for a corporation to
pay out in the form of dividends for a given period
more than it has actually earned in that period.
Such a policy reduces surplus reserve and just to
that extent weakens the intrinsic value of the stock.
As Chairman Gary said, in explaining the actiQn
of the directors, the reduction of the dividend was
made "necessary by th.e present condition of the
business and the prospect for the immediate fu
ture." It is known that conditions in the steel
trade are perhaps just now than in any other
line of industry, due largely to the war in Europe.
In view of this it is far better business to conserve
surplus than to pay it out in the form of unearned
dividends, and the Steel Corporation directors can
not justly be criticised for the stand they have
taken in this matter.
The Corporation will be deserving of the most
severe criticism, however, if the present investiga
tion of its affairs being made by the Federal au
thorities establishes that the company is heavily
overcapitalized. Criticism, and punishment too,
will be well merited for the directors responsible
if it is shown that the common stock has been wat
ered to an extent which prohibits the payment now
or at any other time of the same dividend that
could have been paid had the capitalization been
limited to the intrinsic value of the property it is
supposed to represent.
FEWER GRADES IN LOCAL SCHOOLS
A committee of the Harrisburg School Board will
to-morrow consider a recommendation earnestly
made by Superintendent Frederick E. bownes, —
not for the first time,—that the number of grades
below the high schools in this city be reduced from
nine to eight. Dr. Downes has made this recom
mendation repeatedly in his annual reports and thus
lar it has been unheeded. He has now urged that,
the matter be referred to committee and that it
HIRRISBURO WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 28, 1914.
receive particular attention. The School Board
should adopt the recommendation without further
delay, so that Harrisburg schools may no longer
handicap their boys aud girls by putting them
through ah elementary course longer by one year
than that of any other city in Pennsylvania.
The United States Bureau of Education recog
nizes eight years as the standard length of element
ary courses in the public schools of the country, j
The branches of study have been so arranged Jn i
almost all American cities as to allow eight years for ;
primary and grammar school work and four years |
for high school training. Harrisburg's accepted!
ideas of education are modern enough and practical |
enough to include four-year high school courses,—
with a splendid variety of optious,—but they have
not yet provided for a standard eight-year ele
mentary course. The ninth grade has no place in
a present-day system of education. It must be elim
inated in this city as it has been in others.
True, there are now but eight grades below first
year high school for boys and girls of the city who !
make high marks and care to finish their grammar
school work in the lesser length of time. The excep
tional pupils, whose qifiekness in their studies has
earned them high averages, have the option of doing
eighth and ninth grade work in one year. Those
who decide upon the short cut to high school, how
ever, must apply themselves diligently during the
year, forced as they are to do surplus work which
an improper gradation in the lower schools causes
to accumulate at the closing of the grammar school
course. '
The great disadvantage of the present provisional
arrangement is that boys aud girls who are not so
fortunate as to be exceptionally "bright" are com
pelled to spend an extra year between their ele
mentary and high school courses, as compared with
children in other cities, —a year of their lives which,
iu a sense, is lost never to be regained.
There is 110 logical reason why there should be
nine grades in the schools of this city or of any
other. The only possible reason for the present ar
rangment is the mere fact that the nine-grade plan
has been in force. The primary school of three or
four years was extended, grade by grade, to nine
years before the high school was made part of the
public school system. Conditions arc now such tliat
not a longer but a shorter course is needed. Average
pupils are expected in the present day to be gradu
ated from high schools with a total of twelve years
ol work to their credit. Harrisburg graduates,
under the present arrangements in the elementary
schools, have of necessity spent thirteen years in
school rooms of the city.
Taxpayers of Harrisburg may suppose that the
matter of eliminating the ninth grade from the pub
lic schools involves no financial considerations, —
that a mere change in the elementary course has no
economic importance. On the contrary, the amount
of money at stake is far greater than that which
would be required to put up the badly needed new
high school building. The expense to the school dis
trict of retaining hundreds of children each year
in an unnecessary ninth grade, is not a small item;
and the cash value of the lost time, particularly to
the boys, is immeasurable. There would certainly
be no false econqmv in the elimination of the ninth
grade, with the proper readjustment of the ele
mentary course of studies.
rt takes the constitution of a Constitutionalist leader to
survive the rigors of the Mexican climate.
The effort to assassinate General Villa was merely an
other moderately exciting incident in the eventful career
of that Mexican leader.
One would suppose from what the Colonel t.u.vs that he j
thinks Palmer ought to retire in favor of Pinchot even at'
this late day. Too late, Colonel! The ballots are being I
printed.
When the political tumult and the shouting, as Walt'
Whitman would have put it, have subsided in Harrisburg:*
on Saturday night, this city will feel that it has put in a !
very strenuous week.
The "safety ftrst" movement doubtless has saved many '
scores of lives in the mines but the disaster in Royaltoil, j
111., yesterday, proves that it has not yet developed to the I
point where it can banish all the perils of mine gas.
TOLDINLIGHTERVEIN
CHANGE IN FASHIONS
Said she, "What lovely fashions, dear!
They do so change from year to year!"
"There's no"t much change that I can see
In pocketbooks," responded he.
"They're worn a little shorter, though,
And lighter, than a year ago." —Lippincott's.
•
FOILED
"Who's that worried man over at the third table?"
"That is Bellison, the inventor of the hydraulic tele
phone, the wireless razor and many other marvelous sci
entific discoveries."
"Wonder what's bothering him*"
"He can't invent an excuse with which to greet his wife
when he gets home." —Philadelphia Ledger.
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BY THE RULES OF THE GAME
Little Mary Lou was eager to get back to her new doll J
and didn't know there was going to be any desert. She '
slipped quietly from her chair, hoping she would not be
observed. Out in the hall she met the cook with the ice
cream, and as quietly as she had left it she slipped back to
her accustomed place at the table.
Mary Lou," said her mother reprovingly, "I thought
you had finished your dinner. It isn't polite to come back."
"But I didn't excuse myself, mother," the little girl
said quickly.—New York Post.
HIS EXPLANATION
"The worst winter I remember was when we were be
sieged," said the old soldier. "We only had one bite a day
for two weeks, and that was horseradish."
"I remember," said his tramp companion, "living for a
month on one bite, and that was out of my own leg."
"You old cannibal! Do you expect me to believe that!"
roared the soldier.
"It's true, believe it or not," said the tramp calmly.
A dog took a bite out of my leg aud the compensation
kept me like a lord for four weeks."—Exchange.
| Tongue-End Top ics |
Ha Burned tl)e Corn Stalks
Tn the language of the esteemed New
! Germantown correspondent, this is
|"eorn "husking time." Some persons
know not the date of their bi th otlu-r
than it was in corn husking t.mc, but
| that is neither here nor theie. In
dustrious men who are out of work and
j are willing to take an odd job even
| temporarily have gone to the corn field.
| In the lower end of the coii'nty there
|is an old gentleman who recently was
. thrown out of employment and he now
| nan" be found daily working at a corn
shock. The corn stalks are bundled and
I tied with a piece of tar rope and it is
one duty of the "corn husker" to un
| ti« and tie that string in connection
1 with the husking operation. The old
J gentleman cut the 'string on a shock
j just before searching for the yellow
ears. When the time arrived for re
bundling the stalks he was puzzled. He
pulled and tugged at the string but
couldn't get it around properly to make
the tie. He didn't know what to do.
There was no extra string at hand and
he gave the job up for a bad one. But
he knew the farmer wouM not permit
the stalks to lie around loose, so lie ap
plied a match and destroyed the shock.
"Clever, wasn't it?" he remarked
to his comrades, as the fire ate up the
stalks.
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The Evangelist's Name
Half a dozen or more lawyers and
laymen made up a crowd that was dis
cussing current events —doping out the
winners in the political fights burying
baseball history, talking about fortune
tellers and the coming evangelistic
campaign. One of those learned in the
law wanted to know how to pronounce
properly the name of the evangelist
who will conduct the Harrisburg taber
nacle meetings and he asked:
"Is the evangelist's name pronounc
ed 'Stow,' Stowe' or 'Stuff?' " The
name is spelled "Stouga" but no one
would offer an answer.
* * *
Getting Out the Big BiUs
"Well, since you will not tell me
how to pronounce the name I'll not try
! to pronounce it," he said. "But I just
wanted to tell a story that has been
given me. You know they say that
the evangelist intends to 'open up'
when he gets here and will have a few
things to say about our citizens. They
tell me that at one of his recent meet
ings the evangelist remarkod that there
was a man in the congregation who,
he thought, should put a S2O note on
the collection plate when the contribu
tions were called for. And do you know
they tell me there were just twenty
twenty-dollar bills on the plates that
night."
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Waded to the Football Game
Two youths '' earned'' their way
past Patrolman Henry Buch at the re
cent Central High-Steelton football
game on IsJand Park. While standing
at the entrance to the grounds, the
bluecoat saw a crowd of boys start for
the water's edge to get past the gate.
He intercepted them and then told them
they might as well go back, as he could
stay there longer than tliey could. All
I of them obeved but two venturesome
youths, who peeled off shoes and stock-
I ings and. rolling their trousers up to
! their knees, started to wade pas>t the
I policeman. When knee-deep the >polive
| man threw stones into the water and
; splashed them, the transgressors re
j treating into the river. Further and
! further they went and linailly, when
j the water was up to their armpits, one
j of the boys shouted:
"Aw, officer, have a heart."
The policeman weakened and, think
ing that they deserved to get past, he
j permitted them to keep on wading.
, Other policemen were stationed inside
j to keep any one from beating his wily
j onto the stands, but it is not on record
that the two waders encountered an
j other bluecoat.
Current Even® Talks
The first of the Current Event Talks
j to be given this season by Mrs. Mabel
Cronise Jones at the Y. W. C. A., will
be held on Tuesday, November 3. No
class fee is charged; all members of
the association are at liberty to attend.
1 It is hoped that there will be a full at
| tendance on the opening day.
TRUTHFUL REPORTS
| Harrisburg Beads Them With Uncom
mon Interest
i
A Harrisburg citizen tells his experi
ence in the following, statement. No
better evidence than this can be had.
! The truthful reports of friends and
I neighbors is the best proof in the world,
j Read and be convinced.
P. Rotehorn. railroad conductor, 434
Peffer street, Harrisburg, says: "I am
Bubjeet to attacks of lumbago, more so
when I take cold. 1 have been so bad
at times that when I made a quick move
or attempted to bend over I got a sharp
stitch in my back. A few doses of
Doan's Kidney Pills have always re
lieved me of the misery after everything
else had failed to do me any good. I
have taken them off and on for years
and from my experience 1 know that
they can't be beat."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remody— get
Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mr.
Rotehorn had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv.
Less Than a Cent
You may know a woman who has a repu- -
tation for making delicious cake, biscuits,
etc., —who seems to hit it right every time.
You may also know a woman, who, no
matter how painstaking, can't seem to get the
knack of successful baking.
Both use the same butter, same eggs, same
flour and sugar. What is the difference?
Very likely it's all in the baking powder.
Undoubtedly the woman with the knack uses
Royal Baking Powder, and the unsuccessful
woman uses an alum baking powder thinking
it cheaper.
Yet the difference in the cost of a whole
large cake is less than a cent.
It is economy to use
ROYAL
BAKING POWDER
Absolutely Pure No Alum
PEOPLE'S_COLUMN
The Star-Independent does not
make itself responsible for opinions
expressed in this column.
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WRITES ABOUT GAME LAWS
5. H. Uarland Takes laxue With Dr.
KallifuN on Simp INtini^i
Editor the Star-Independent;
Dear Sir—l hold in my hand a copy
of tile Star-lndopoiident of Thursday,
October 22, the issue that contains an
article entitled "Kalbfus Defends Ward
ens," in which the secretary of the
Game Commission points out tlie pur
pose of the law requiring licensed
hunters to wear tags, also placing the
blame for the tags on the shoulders of
Mr. Creasy, candidate for lieutenant
governor on the Democratic ticket. A
short review of the history of this bill
may refreshen the secretary's memory
as well as enlighten the public on this
point.
In the month of January, 1911, Dr.
Kal'bfus visited the Hunters and An
glers' Protective Association, in their
hall, corner Fifth and Peffcr streets.
After delivering an address he handed
out a number of pamphlets, in which
the passage of a residents' hunters'
license law by the 1911 Legislature was
urged. This pamphlet bore the names
of all members of the Game Commis
sion, including that of the secretary.
In the Legislature of 1907 a bill simi
lar to the one urged in the pamphlet
was defeated, largely by the vote of
the country members; a suggestion had
been made that if the farmer was ex
empt from the provisions of the bill he
might be won over. The pamphlet en
deavored to show that such a provision
was unconstitutional, and would destroy
the very fabric on which game protec
tion was built; namely, that wild game
belongs to all the people and for this
reason such a concession could not be
given to any class of the people.
The bill introduced in the Legisla
ture of 1911 excluded no one from its
provisions, even requiring a license to
carry a gun on the highways of the
state. At the public hearing before the
house committee on game the latter
clause was pointed out by a farmer
meiruber. who supported Ills argument
by stating if a neighbor farmer was
called on to assist in the annual hog
butchering and brought his gun along
to kill the hogs, he was liable to ar
rest. The objectionable clause was
stricken out, and the first concession
was made to the farmer. The commit
tee, however, promptly defeated the
bill. Its friends brought it up in the
senate, with a second concession to the
farmer, by providing that a farmer cul
tivating ten or more acres would be
exempt from the provisions of the law:
and thus did the Game Commission and
their friends reverse themselves and
pass up their argument in the pamph
let that such a concession would destroy
the very fabric on which game protec
tion was built, but the farmer could
not be caught by this little bit of
sweetening and the measure was de
feated in the senate.
The bill was again introduced in the
house in the 1913 session of the Legis
lature. The constituency of the coun
try members had cautioned their repre
sentatives to move slow, and more con
cessions were asked. Accordingly the
words "ten acres" were stricken out,
thus allowing any one living on and
cultivating land to hunt without a
license; also allowing him to hunt on
his neighbors' land with his consent.
By this concession hundreds were ex
empt from the provisions of the hill.
A fourth concession was made by pro
viding one-half the revenue derived
$3.00
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HARRISBURG 3.33
Hummelstown 3,50
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Palmyra 4^4
Annvllle 411
LEBANON 4.24
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date for above stations.
Tickets good going arid returning
only 011 above Special Train, date of
excursion.
Children between u and 1. years
'of age, half fare.
from tlie measure should be used for
paytng bounties on obnoxious birds and
.animals, thus giving the termer's boy
an opportunity to earn a dollar or two
during the winter.
Still the bill was not satisfactory;
then came tlie tag. The committee on
game had given a public healing. it
was evident tlie friends of the measure
had not made much headway. Mr. J.
B. fansom, of Pittsburgh, editor of a
pamphlet founded by a member of the
Game Commission, having in mind the
dog law. made the suggestion of a num
bered tag that could be used as an
identification mark. Farmer Weimer,
of Lebanon, and Farmer Surface, of
Harrisburg, the only farmers present,
at once endorsed it, and in this form,
with the assistance of the Harrisburg
member on the committee, it was sent
to the floor of the House. Its stormy
reception and defeat on third reading
by the House of Representatives; its
recall to the calendar and passage
under the whip of the Governor and
the gang, are matters of history.
The secretary seems to have forgot
ten that in 1913 he issued hundreds of
receipts on which men hunted the en
tire season.
Section 4 of this act state that upon
the payment of one dollar to the county
treasurer by a person qualified he is
entitled to a resident hunter's license
and tag. On the strength of this c lause,
we presume, the secretary acted Ui
1913. There is nothing here that gives
one official more power than another.
The same section provides for the Game
Commission to furnisli blanks to the
county treasurer and the county treas
urer to furnish blanks to the justices
of the peace. If any official has been
neglecting this duty he is responsible
and not the hunter who has complied
with the law.
We have also searched this measure
in vain to find where it permits the
department to delay the Issuing of
licenses and tags until the first of Sep
tember and later. The license is mark
ed "good for 1914." The laws of Penn
sylvania permits hunting of gattie of
one kind and another the greater part
of nine months in the year. Tlie na
tional migratory bird law would reduce
this to three months in the year.
The secretary of the Game Commis
sion, Dr. Kalbfus. told tlie writer and
a friend that he had advised the IT. S.
officials who have the enforcement of
this law in charge, that the game
wardens in Pennsylvania were forbid
den to take any part in the enforce
ment of this law and that the depart
ment would sustain him in this posi
tion.
This would seem to imply that inso
far as the state was concerned, hunters
may hunt the nine months of the year.
Therefore, since the state alone is In
terested in tlie issuing of licenses, the
department can have no excuse for
withholding licenses until a few weeks
of the open season for upland game.
The local cases of violations of the
license laws that have brought out tills
correspondence smack of too much of
persecution rather than game protec
tion, and cannot be excused bv a lot of
generalities. Very truly,
(Signed) S. H. GARLAND,
Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 24, 1914.
FENNSY EMPLOYS RETIRES
B. F. Pheneger in Continuous Service
of Company 41) Years
B. F. Pheueger, a well-known em
ploye of tbe Pennsylvania railroad here
will be retired Haturday. He has work
ed as a machinist in the tool room of
round house No. 2 for the last eight
years.
Mr. Pheneger was boru on October
4, 1844, in Lancaster county, serving
his apprenticeship as machinist with
Brua Brothers, at Gordonville, after
which he worked at his trade in the
round house at Columbia under Charles
Gordon until 1885, when he was given
charge of the round house, in 1906 he
came to Harrisburg to serve as a ma
chinist in round house No. 2, at which
plaee he has worked up until the pres
ent time.
On Saturday Mr. Pheneger will leave
for Columbia to join his wife, and it is
there that he will make his home. He
is a member of the Red Men's lodge of
Columbia and while ho was a resident
here was an active member of Grace
Methodist church.
21ST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Hoover Entertained
Friends in Celebration of Event
Mr. and Mrs. Robert 'Hoover, 2440
Boas street. Penbrook, entertained at
their home Monday evening in celebra
tion of their twenty-first wedding anni
versary. The guests present were: Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. McGarvey and daughter,
Jennie; Mr and Mrs. Jacob O. Steese,
Miss Ada Zimmerman, Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Merry and sons, Elmer and
George; Mrs. Garverick, Mr. and Mrs.
George Tsehoff and daughter, Ada, anil
son, Roy, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Hoover and family.
Greece to Occupy Northern Epirus
London, Oct. 28.—The Greek gov
ernment has announced to the Powers
its intention of provisionally occupying
northern Epirus, owing to the necessity
of suppressing the anarchy prevailing
there as the icsuit of the breakdown
of the Albanian government and the
flight of Prince William of Wied.
UTAH MINES ARE ACTIVE
Washington, Oct. 28.—Utah is
unique in tlje diversity of its metal pro
duction. particularly of precious and
semiprecious metals. It does not rank
first in the production of any of these
metals, but it stands well among the
leaders in the production of gold, sil
ver, copper, lead, zinc, and vandiutu
minerals. It ranks second in the produc
tion of silver, third in lead, four in cop
per, sixth in gold, and seventh in zinc.
The recoverable copper content of
the ores mined in Utah in 1913, ac
cording to the Unite dStates geologi
cal survey, was 161,445,962 pounds,
valued at $25,024,124, against 137,-
307,435 pounds, valued at $2'2,655,-
735, in 1912. The production of siher
decreased in 1913, the recoverable con
tent of the ore mined being *3,0'54,835
fine ounces, valued at $7,903,240,
against 13,835,903 fine ounces, valued
at $8,509,080, in 1912. The recover
able lead content of the ores mined in
creased from 70,156 short tons, valued
( at $6,314,001, in 1912, to 53,063 tons,
valued at $7,309,579, in 1913, Tbe
output of gold declined from 206,360
tine ounces, valued at $4,265,851, in
1912, to 172,468 fine ounces, valued at
$3,565,229, in 19 13.
The total value of the metal produc
tion of Utah in 191-3, including a small
j amount of iron and vanadium ores, was
$44,916,348 out of a total value of
all mineral production of $53,606,520.
In 1912 the metal production was val
ued at $'42,944,888 out of a total of
$51,004,942.
The production of coal in Utah . in
creased from 3,016,149 short tons, val
ued at $5,046,451, in 1912, to 3,25 4,-
828 tons, valued at $5,384,127 in
1913. '
The manufacture of Portland cement
is an industry of very recent develop
ment in Utah. In 1913 the output was
950,469 barrels, valued at $1,233,421,
against 760,668 barrels, valued at
$937,119, in 1912.
The value of the clay products, ex
clusive of pottery, decreased slightlv,
from $724,978 in 1912 to $708,906 in
1913.
ASTOR'SSON IS WOUNDED
IN THE BATTLE IX FRANCE
London, Oct. 28,—Captain John Ja
cob Astor, First Life Guards, son of
William Waldorf Astor, has been
wounded in battle in France.' His name
(appears in the list of casualties made
public yesterday.
The casualty list issued last night,
dated October 23, reports 16 officers
killed, 35 wounded and 23 missing.
Among the wounded are Brigadier Gen
oral C. T. McM. Kavanagh and Lieuteh
ant Colonel E. B. Cook, First Life
Guards; Lieutenant Colonel A. F. H.
Ferguson, Second Life Guards, and
Lieutenant Colonel B. E. Ward, Middle
sex regiment.
From One Thing to Another
"We sent Gladys Ann to cooking
school to get her mind off her piano
playing," said Mr. Cumrox,
"Did the plan succeed?"
" Yes. Now we're trying to persuade
her to study political economy so as
to get her mind off tbe cooking."—
Washington Star.
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