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MACON, GEORGIA.
GEORGIA Houston County.
T. D. Warren, administrator of tho
estate of C. A. Warren deceased, has ap
plied for dismission from his trust:
Tiis is therefore to cite all. persons
concerned to appear at 'the August term,
1891, of the Court of Ordinary of Hous
ton county, and show cause, if any they
have, why said apqlication should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature tl
April 30, 1891.
J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
GEORGIA—-Houston Oountt:
Mrs. O. M. Holleman, administratrix
of estate of B. Holleman, deceased, has
applied for dismission from her trust:
This is therefore to > cite alTpersons
concomed to appoar at the July term,
1891, of the conrt of Ordinary of said
count}, and show causo, if any they have,
why said application■' should not be
granted. ^
Witness my official signature this the
30th of March, 1891.
J. H.-HOUSER, Ordinary. .
GEORGIA—-Houston County :
All persons concerned are hereby noti
fied to be and appear at thecourt of Or-
pinary, to bo hold in and for said county
on the first -Monday.-in June next, then
and there to show cause, if any exists,
why W. S. Polder should not be dismiss
ed from his trustns administrator on the
estate of Mrs. 0. M. Felder. lath of said
county, deceased,'; as. prayed for by him
m petition'this' day filed in -the office of-
this cxrart. 1
Witness my-official signature this 27th
dayof Fab. 1891.
J.H.-HOUSER, Ordinary.
Georgia—Houston County:
W: M. Edmnndspn,. administrator es
tate of John Edmundson, deceased, has
applied for dismission from his trust. <
This is therefore to cits all persons
concerned to appear at the June term,
1891, of the conrt or Ordinary of said
county, and show cause, if any they
have, why said - application should not
be granted.
Witness my official signature, this
March 2,1891. J.H. HOUSER,
Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston County:
_Daciel M. Vinson, executor of estate of
•Elijah Vinson, deceased, has applied for
dismission from his trust:
This is therefore to cite all persons
iaai° flrne <l to appear at the June term,
icDl, of the court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause,if any they have,.
w “y said application, should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this
March 2, 1891. '
J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary.
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Perby, Georgia.
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Will praotioe in the State and Federal
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ONWARD.
W. A. Havenor, in Tlmea-Democrat. •
Onward to the grander—
’35s a song Ilove to sing,
- Cheering all the weary hearted;
Onward to some higher thing.
Onward to the golden,
. To the happy and the true;
Not to fame and hoarded riches,
. But some deed of good to do.
Onward to therighteons—
All who go at duty’s call
Here T write them down as heroes,
Though they battle but to fall.
Onward to the noble,
With a spirit not to yield,
With a heart for any weather.
And the truthfnl for a shield.
Chicamanga Battle—1863.
Prom a Soldier’s Diary.
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Attorney|atjLaw,
Perry - - Ga.
Will practice in all the courts of this
circuits'
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Attorney at Law,
Pebby, - - - Ga
Will practice in' all the Coarts |of
his cirrcuit.
PERRY BRANCH SCHEDULE.
Daily, Except Sunday.
LeavePerry at 8:15 a. h.
Arrive at Fort Valley 9:20 a. m.
Leave Fort Valley at 11:35 p. M.
Arrive at Perry at 12:40 a. m.
Aeave Perry at 3:05 p. M.
Arrive at Fort Valley 4:10 P. M.
Leave Fort Valley at 5:15 p. it.
Arrive at Perry at 6:20 p. M.
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Children Cry for Pitcher'oCaetoria.
Friday, September 18th 1863.
A regular fall day; cold, cloudy,
wihdy, and"still'extremely dry.
March-from bivouac about 7
o’clock a. m., to line of battle, re
porting to Gen B. R. Johnston in
the vicinity of Peeler’s mill Con-
sitierable skirmishing, and some
firing, by one Section of our bat-
jtery at Pea Vine creek.
A running fight of perhaps three
or four miles under Gen. Forest
Quite a spirited charge and fight
by our: battery with dismounted
cavalry (said to have been Minty’s
Federal brigade) about 1 o’clock
p. m. near Reed’s bridge. • One
driver (J. Streeter) of my detach
ment was shot through the body
and killed; the first Confederate
soldier, I think, of the day.
We go into action several times,
and bear the brunt of the fight.
Silence a federal battery beyond
Reed’s bridge, disputing passage
of our troops over same. Kill and
wound a few of the enemy, a few
horses and one cow;, some of our
infantry also^wounded.
Cross over to west side of Chiea-
mauga river, out by Jay’s steam
saw mill, thence out near Alexan
der’s ford, And beyond, bivouaciug
for the night in line of battle in
the woods, the Lord only knows
where, but supposed to be in the
vicinity of Lee and Gordon’s road.
Saturday, September 19th, 1863.
Morning opens fair and cold,
and' at daylight we arise from a
cold slumber, and build fires, hav
ing lain all night without blankets.
Water and feed horses—do net
unharness.
About 10 o’clock a. m. we change
position further to the right; and
about this time the battle begins
heavily on the right; 11 o’clock fir
ing heavily on the left of the line;
o’clock p. m., fight continues
with redoubled fury, mostly infan
try engaged; enemy fight stubborn
ly ;lines seem to sway back and forth
times; 3 o’clock, fighting des
perately on both sides; seems to be
tit for tat—who can'and who shall.
From 7 to 8 o’clock, after night,
furious beyond description; all in
the dark together. Our men
charge and drive the enemy from
a strong position; capture some
artillery. Yelling of our men ap
palling; my hair will never get
back together again—all on end.
What I call a hair-raising fight; a
kind of sensation created in man’s
make-up which might be termed
by some the all-oyers, but which I
denominate to myself down right
fright. Ready to run if you knew
where to go and not be seen; a de
sire to hide and stay, hid; lie down
by a big log and then crawl nnder-
to make sure it is on top.
This is the truth I am writing in
my little private history. The out
come of my-feelings on the spur
of the moment, expressed without
reservation. '
- The battle , ceases at 8 o’clock p.
m. Both armies panting and bleed
ing-lie down nnd watch each other
’till next morning to renew the
deadly conflict.
Our army fights under every dis
advantage, the enemy having se
lected his position, stretching
along thetyicinity of Chicamanga
river for several miles to Lee and
Gordon’s mills.
~The enemy during the day are
driven back about a mile, inch by
inch, so to speak, and with a dog-
gedness-nevei to herforgotten.
I catch (or steal) a chicken on
the battle field at night, and broil
it on the coals and eat it, being
very hungry.
Oar battery is not called into ac
tion during the day, not much ar
tillery used, owing to the thick,
heavy woods, and low lands in onr
front
-Sunday, Septembeb 20th 1863.
(bloody day.)
At 3.o’clock a. m. we move out
and report to Gen. Buckner. He
orders ns to Gen. Hood, having no
position on his lines for ns. Gen.
Hood assigns us to Gen. Robert
son’s Texas brigade. We stumble
around in the woods, and the dark,
and finally get into position at day
light.
. This sort of business is enough
to make a fellow almost curse the
day he was born, but we shiver
and watch the coming morn; now
the sharp crack of the rifle, the
sullen boom of the cannon; the
storm, the storm of battle hanging
in the balance.
Skirmishing conttnues till abont
10 o’clock a, m.„ when the battle
opens all along the line.
About 11 o’clock'our battery
and several others of the battalion
rush into the fight, which-is 'des
perate—chaiges being made on the
Yankee breastworks in the w&ods.
We move, as it were, through
sheet of fire, leaden hail, (and I
verily believe some brimstone) all
manner otdeath missels flyingthick
and fast—shell, solid shot, grape,
minnie balls and spherical case
shot, (or as the boys say, “special
case shot”) together with falling
boughs and trees cat dowu by the
cannon; helHtself, seems to me,
turned loose on earth, with the
devil and all his imps in full com
mands
’Tis one confused "mass—men
falling fore and aft; brigades
charging and yelling, while others
are melting away, or falling back
before the murderous fire.
But the Yankee works are car
ried, and the enemy fly for dear
life toother and stronger posi
tions.
-On comes Gen. Hindman, I be
lieve, with his division -swinging
around to the left for aflank move
ment; all is wild excitement with
the unharmed; but oh, the‘groans
and piteous appeals from the
wounded and dying of friend and
foe alike. And 1 would pray have
my eyes closed against the bloody
Beene, and my eurs stopped against
the agonizing cry for_that help
which could not then be rendered.
Horrible! horrible!! horrible!!!
Our battery does not fire a gun,
although so exposed, owing to the
thick woods and our infantry just
iiTfront of us, whose support we
were, if driven back in the desper
ate onslaught.
We get a few hoises killed, also
one man wounded, (A. A. King)
by a fragment of shell. A tree as
large as my body cut down just
above my head by a cannon ball,
falling on Nelson Lane, myself and
horse, the horse saves us the blow;
perhaps broken beads. At 'same
moment almost, SergJ. Fry, only a
few paces from me, "has one cat
down over himself and horse, but
fertunately none ot us much hurt.
After this the battle abates for a
short while—we move to the left
in the adjustment of the lines,
when perhaps 2 or 3 o’clock p. in.,
it begins again with a fury beyond
all description, and continues till
about dark.
Enemy occupy a high ridge, his
artilery posted thereon; and our
men mane the most desperate
charges almost in the annals of
-warfare; bat he is driven from his
position with the loss of his artil
lery and many prisoners; also
wounded and dead left on the field,
and retreat at night in confusion to
Chattanoga, as was developed dur
ing the night and next morning.
We again bivouac in line, with
the wounded and dying of both ar
mies all aronnd ns; the impress of
which can never be erased from
memory, except by death itself.
This ends my private history
from my own private standpoint of
the great and bloody battle of
Chicamanga; and reluctantly ex
claiming “Yeni, vidi, vici,” mnst
say the chicken I broiled on the
coals and devoured Saturday night
was tHe only pleasant part of my
performance as an actor and histo
rian on said field; and easily be
comes my crowning war and battle
experience from the 18th of-March
1861, up to now. A level er of any
undue egotism, an eye-opener, to
the rigors of war, over commensu
rate with my most combative
tastes, or even the whole twenty-
three years of my existence, from
babyhood'to the present time.
_ And now I will gently draw the
curtain down over the old battle-
scarred forest, to hold its bloody
tale forever; and await the pleas
ure of Bragg and Rosencrans to
dramatize another act and materi
alize another bloody page of his
tory, more fully. establishing or
(Jemonstrating “man’s inhumanity
to man.”
TRAINED TEACHERS.
Savannah News.
THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM, j THE NEXTPRESIDENTIAL FIGHT
i
oarannah News.
Trained school teachers are need-1 It is becoming more and more! Taking the late republican con-
Monro • Advertiser.
ed in this state. The public school
system cannot be greatly improved,
however mnch the appropriation
for the public schools may be, un-
iil competent teachers are obtain
ed. The State Teachers’ Associa
tion, while in session at Bruns
wick, considered the best method
of providing competent teachers.
Such teachers cannot, of course,
be had by simply advertising for
em. An offer of much better
ies than those now paid them
Would not secure them, because
they are. not to be had; Even in
-those of the northern states in
which there are normal schools,
and in which a great deal of at
tention has been given to training
teachers, there is a great want of
competent teachers.
In this state there are no schools
which give special attention-to the
prsparation of men and women
for the occupation of teaching, and
the salaries paid to teachers, out
side of the larger towns, are not
such as to induce those who would
make good teachers to think of
preparing themselves for teaching
as a life'work.
Some of the most progressive
members of the teachers’ associa
tion favor the establishment of
normal schools, and the chancellor
of the state university has a plan
for making the training of men for
teachers a feature of the universi
ty. Now, that the need of - better
teachers is being brought to the
attention of the people, there is
grouud for hoping that the agita
tion of the subject will be contin
ued until some plan is adopted for
providing such teachers as are nec
essary to make the public school
system a success.
The first thing to do is to agree
as to the plan that should be adopt
ed for meeting the demand for
better teachers. ,
Having settled that question, the
next step would be to get the leg
islature to appropriate the money
necessary for carrying the plan in
to effect. It would not be an easy
matter to get the legislature to ap-
priate money for a school in which
to train teachers. A very large
proportion of nearly every legisla
ture elected in this state believes
that no special training is needed
to be a teacher, and not a few leg
islators are convinced that the
public schools cost more than they
are worth.
It would not, therefore, be an
easy task to get the legislature to
provide for normal schools, or for
a training school for .teachers at
the state university. But agita
tion will accomplish wonders, and
if those who wish to see the stan
dard of the public schools raised,
will work together, harmoniously
and energetically, they will finally
accomplish their object.
No doubt as good results as pos
sible are obtained from the public
schools as they are now organized
and conducted,, but how much
reater results would be obtained
from them if they were in compe
tent hands in all parts of the state.
By agitation the annual public
school appropriation has been
greatly increased . within the last
year or two. And if the agitation
is kept up and .wisely conducted,
the public schools, within a com
paratively few years, will be upon
a mnch higher plane than they are
at present.
clear that congress has not yet f vention held at Cincinnati es an
found a satisfactory solution of [index, one may, to some extent,
the immigration problem. Once infer the line upon which that
the prevailing sentiment was that party proposes to fight in the next
immigration should be wholly un
restricted. The favorite expres
sion of holiday orators was that
this was the land' of the free, and
the refuge of the oppressed of ev
ery other land. Holiday orators
don’t talk.that way now. And the
reason- is that public sentiment has
undergone a change. Too many
of those kind of people who want
to; make trouble,'or who are candi
dates for jails, asylums and alms
houses, have already been admit
ted to our shores, and the propor
tion of this kind is increasing.
The state department recently,
made public a report which shows
a vfiry unhappy condition of af
fairs. The number of undesirable
immigrants is increasing rapidly,
while that of the desirable ones is
contest for the presidency.
The inference gathered from the
acts, doings, eta, of that body is
that Blaine or Harrison will doubt
less be the nominee, and that in
that deal Harrison is somewhat in
the lead. And if that straw points
the breeze correctly, then the
winds are favorable to the democ
racy. The Cincinnati convention
gave the people to understand that
the dead force bill would be the
cannon with which they would
throw their heaviest shot and
shell in the next national political
battle
The tariff they seemed to regard
as having been put at rest for the
time, or as having been disposed
of satisfactorily. The cnrrency
question they propose to shift off
A Young Man’s Fancy.
Large allowance is to be made
for the sweeping assertion that’Tn
the spring a young man’s fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
It certainly is cot true of the ma
larial young man, .whose fancy, if
he has any, is of the dull and
heavy variety. The malarial young
man marches around as the captive
of General Debility. The readiest
and most obvious means of escape
are afforded by S. S. S., which,
without any flourish, routs Gener
al Debility and his malarial allies.
What is true of the young, man is
true of the young lady, and the
whole host of sufferers, S. S. S.
is a specific for malaria.
'A German physician proposes
that the manufacturers of pre
served meats should be compelled
to-stamp their cans with a legible
date mark. For a year or so, he
says, canned meets may remain
perfectly wholesome, but after
decreasing. The question which'the track and dodge. And all this
means, if it means anything, that
the republicans propose to make
ttje next campaign a perfect cru
sade against the south, and there
by stir up again, if possible, the
sectional feeling attaching to the
late war.
Could we ask anything more fa
vorable to the democratic party
than such proposed basis of opera
tion?
The McKinley tariff has already
added, and is daily adding,strength
to the democratic party in the
north and west The more con
servative republicans, and the
younger men of those sections,
who look upon the late war omy
through history and tradition, are
looking, not back to those dark
days, but out upon the busy world
for channels of thrift and prosper
ity, and in thuB looking they real
ize the iniquity of the tariff, and
are ready to champion reform on
that line.
For this-reason the high protec
tive republicans will not be able
to blindthem Jto their interests with
the thin vail of sectional feeling.
And while this is true of the pres
ent tariff law, it is equally true
that the infamous force bill has
greatly crippled the republican
party everywhere.
The day for successful political
war upon the south is in the bur
ied past, for the conserative repub
licans will have none of it. And
every effort of the republicans in
that direction but makes the
breezes more favorable to demo
cratic success in-the next national
contest
presents itself is this. Shall we
continue taking the refuse of the
population of Europe, or shall we
take only such as we want,
We are no longer glad to receive
all who come. The greater part of
our public lands are taken up,'and
coming generations of natives will
gradually occupy all that is left,
It is folly, therefore, to receive in
to the country immigrants who on
ly swell the pauper and. criminal
classes of our cities.
The labor troubles with which
we are afflicted are largely due to
the foreign element, particularly
those labor troubles in which there
is a resort to violence. About all
the discontented laborers who
have been causing disturbances in
the coke regions of Pennsylvania
for a month or more are Hungari
ans. _
A very large part of the Hunga
rians, Poles, Russians and Italians
who are coming to this country
now are not settlers. They do not
expect- to stay. Their purpose is
to save a little money and return
to their native land. It is evident,
therefore, that they cannot make
good citizens. They are, in fact,
no more desirable than the Chi
nese, who are excluded.
Congress'mnst take hold of this
immigration problem and solve it.
And the people will not be satis
fied with a partial solution. They
feel that they have something to
give immigrants of the right -sort,
and to those they offer a warm
welcome. - But they don’t want
the undesirable immigrants upon
any conditions, or under any cir
cumstances.
Tht South’s
Wraith.
A good old story is told again of
P. T. Barnum. Some years ago,
when he was in New York-with
the circus, a young woman called
at his office and asked to see him.
She was granted an interview, and
told him she had a cherry-colored
cat which she would sell him. Bar
naul told her to bring it--audhe
wouldgive her SlOO for it. The
next day she appeared at the office
with a covered basket. Barnum
lifted the lid and found a black cat
inside. “Where’s the cherry cat?”
said he. “Why, that’s the one,”
said the young woman. “A black
cherry cat.” Barnum handed her
S100, told her to leave, and gave
orders never to admit her again.
It was probably the first and the
last time he was sold at his own
game.
The estimate of tho population
of the United States for the year
1900, by Hon. Carroll D. Wright,
superintendent of the department
of labor, gives as the approximate
figures 76,639,854. This is the re
sult of a careful - consideration of
the estimates made by several oth
er reliable individuals, the; known
rates of increase, and the various
circumstances that bear upon the
growth of population.
“The great‘king’ pines of Maine
long since disappeared,” a veteran
lumberman tells the Kennebec,
Me., Journal, “andthe business of
importing Southern pine lumber
has sprang up to supply the de
mand for large timber which is
now so scarce. Although even
more lumber is obtained 'from the
Maine woods than ever before, "it
is mostly small stuff.” — '
FOa DYSPEPSIA
Use Brown’s Iron Bitters.
Physicians recommend it.
All dealers keep it-.H-OO per bottle- Genuine
has tradi-mark and crossed red lines on-wrapper.
Mr. J. If. Esfcil], President
Morning News Co., Savannah, Ga.,
says: A member of my family
that it deterioates in a way defying! who has been a martyr to Nen-
alike precaution and explanation. I ralgic Headaches for twenty years,
u , ir-r-7?**’ -,, I has found in Bradycrotine an in-
Rub your lamp chimneys, after fallible remedy.
washing, with dry salt, and yon -
will be delighted with the new The bodyguards of Queen Yicto
"brilliancy of your lights. ria'a/e called Beefeaters.
Gentleman to idle negro—Boy,
can'you hold my horse a minute?
Negro—Wat yer gwi’ gim me?
Gentleman—I’ll give yon a
dime.
Negro—Can’t do it—hasn’t got
time.
Gentleman—What have yon got
to do"?
Negro—Ain’t got nothin’ jest
now. ’Sides no dime ain’t ’nongh
to hold no horse.
Gentleman—How much do you
want?
Negro—I can’t ’ford ter hole no
horse for Jess’n er quarter.
Gentleman—You can just step
to tnen.
Negro—Dat’s all right. And he
leans against a post with supreme
indifference.
That’s a sceneVrom real life.—
Montezuma Record.
According to the New York Tel
egram twenty-nine states of the
Union now have statutes forbid
ding the sale of cigarettes to mi
nors under "the age of sixteen, and
the reports show that ’where the
law has been rigidly enforced tbe
effects have been marked, and even
with dilatory enforcement the asy
lum and hospital reports show; a
marked diminution in the number
of cases.of brain paralysis.
The London authorities are
thinking abont beginning public
improvements bn a vast scale in
order to furnish work for the un
employed. No city and- no conn-
try can afford, asserts the Atlanta
Constitution, to have - large num
bers of its people suffer when they
are willing to work! If relief will
come in no other way, tbe govern
ment mnst take action.
To cut our grain jn California,”
says Senator Stanford, “we are us
ing a machine wliich reaps a /
swath forty-two feet wide, threshes
the grain as it goes along, pnts.ii
in-bags, which man stitch up and
drop in the field, and the same ma
chine rakes the straw in and burns
it for fuel upon that reaper.’’
Harriett* Journal.
Few people realize hour great a
source of wealtfi'the . cotton crop of
the south is. According to the
census reports the sooth Mnre
ceived nearly $8,000,000,000 for
cotton in the last twenty-fiveyears..
And cotton brings the cash. . There
is always'a market for it The
corn crop of the country is a very
valuable one, but in many sections
it cannot be sold, because it is too
far away from market The price
of it is often so low that it will not
bear transportation.
And the south is gradually be
coming the manufacturer of her
cotton. In 1881 she manufactured
only 180,000 bales. In 1890 she
manufactured 500,000 bales, an
increase of folly 75 per cent How
many years will it be before she
will manufacture the bulk of her
crop?
And the south is not behind the
north in the increase in the pro
duction of coal and iron. Indeed,
she is far ahead of the north in
that respect. She is now produc
ing as much coal, iron . and -pig
iron as the whole country pro
duced twenty years ago. TLe
amount of coal the south produced
in 1870 was only 2,600,000 tons.
In 1890 she produced nearly 18,-
000,000 tons. Is not the .increase
wonderful? In 1870 the whole
country produced only. 15,000,000
tons.
In 1870 the south produced
scarely any iron ore. In 1890 her
production of this ore amounted to
2,917,529 tons. Twenty, years ago
the production of the whole conn-
tsy was but very little more.
The south is moving ahead rap
idly. The showing she will make
in 1900 will astonish the civilized
world.
A Tariff Lesson.
Excbsoge.
How rapidly monopoly tariff
taxes, under the plea of protection
to industry, are stampeding the
western farmers clear over into
the brambles of free trade, is
pointedly illustrated by the com
mercial congress held lately in
Kansas City.
This body was a volunteer ag
gregation of western men oi all-
parties convened to battle against
the causes of the general industri
al depression in the westemstatea,
and there was not o single voice
raised for the policy of protection.
There were free traders, and reve
nue tariff men with “incidental
protection,” but there were no
apologists for the McKinley pro
tection to monopoly.
The most significant fact was the
adoption of a free trade platform
a tariff for revenae only—over
the revenue tariff plank with inci
dental protection, by a. vote of 66
to 55, and then the adoption of the
free trade platform without the
formality of a division. Tbs most
that any delegate thought of in the
line of protection, was a revenue
tariff with protection as an inci
dent
It mnst be •• obvious to the sup
porters of the present oppressive
tarifi taxes that there is now ho
hopeful party in any of the states
west of Ohio clear through to the
Rocky Moan tains, that ‘defends
the McKinley law; and if the re
publicans shall enter the contest
of 1892 pledged to that tariff, they
will surely lose the bulk of the
old republican states in the-west, -
Says the New Orleans New Del
ta: From all over the section of
Louisiana which is devoted to-the
cultivation of cotton -comesthe
news that the planters- have de
creased the acreage of that staple
and diversified" their crops to a
greater extent than ' heretofore.
This determination is the result of
the low price of the fleecy staple
the present year. This is a. wise
move on the part of the planters,
as nothing tends, more to keep the
farmer poor than the oneifcrop sys-.
tern. If the low price of cotton
has had the effect indicated above
it has at least tanght the planters a
wholesome lesson^ ^
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