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GAFFNEY. S. C„ FIRDAY. JUNE 5. 1903.
$1.00 A YEAR.
THROUGHOUT THE
PALMETTO STATE.
items of Interest of Passing
Events.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
iCventrt that Have Taken I’lace from One
Kml of the State to the Other Culled from
(exchange* for (Jutck Heading by Scores
of Busy I*eople.
The city baseball league of Charles
ton was reorganized on Saturday
night and arrangements were made
for the continuance of the popular
eporc during the rest of the season.
The Carolina Portland Cement
Company, of Charleston, has in leas
ed its capital stock from -foO 000 to
$200,000. The Laquioa Mills, of
Central, has also received a charter.
The capital is $200,000. D. K. Nor
ris is president and treasurer and L
G. Gaines is secretary.
The Watts Cotton Mill j Laurens
has been chartered. The capital is
$300 000. W. E Lucas is president
and treasurer. Tne Donalds Oil Mill
has applied for a charter recently,
the capital stock of which is to be
$15,000. W. R. and J. J. Dunn and
J. W. Brock are the corporators.
John C. Lee, a prominent farmer of
the Golightly section, of Spartanburg
county, was struck by lightning Mon
day afternoon and seriously injured.
Mr. Lee was near Cedar Springs when
the bolt struck him. He remained
unconscious during Monday night
and it was believed at one time that
he'would not reco\er,|but late reports
indicate that he will survive.
Sheriff Buford, of Newberry, has
been in Columbia recently and that
fact boded no good to criminals.
Sure enough when he returmd to
Newberry the sheriff was accompanied
by a burly negro who is accused of
having committed a murder in Ap
pling, Ga , four years ago. The
name of the negro whom the sheriff
arrested is Charley Hill, alias Ah
Ivory.
Seventeen cars conveyed nearly 2,-
000 negroes over the Southern Rail
way Monday to Ladson, from Char
lotte, N. C., where the annual picnic
of the Jenkins Orphanage took place.
At Ladson they found about 500
negroes ‘•from the countrv” awaiting
them The town negroes eyed the
country negroes and sniffed. Acri-
mouious personalities were fired; also
buckshot.
Among the victims of the Gaines
ville, Ga., storm was E. O. Moseley,
formerly of Spartanburg. His wife
who is now living in Spartanburg
received a telegram Tuesday announc
ing her husband’s death. Mrs Mose
ley left immediately for Gainesville.
Mr Moseley was employed by the
electric company of that city. The
funeral takes place Wednesday in
Jasper, Ga.
Dexter Harvey, of Bacolet, was re
lieved of a twenty dollar watch on
Choice street in Spartanburg Tues
day bight between nine and ten
o’clock. Mr. Harvey was walking
along the street in companions when
he says that they turned upon him
and took his watch by force. The
matter was reported to the police and
warrants were issued for the parties
who were found and tho watch re
covered.
The young men who passed the re
cent examination of the State Board
of Medical Examiners include some
of the representative families of the
State The highest mark in the ex
amination was made by Dr. Laurence
Elliott Bull, of Cheraw, a graduate of
the South Carolina Medical College.
The second highest mark was made
by Dr. Julius Heyward Taylor, of
Columbia, a graduate of the Univer
sity of Virginia.
Lacking just a few minutes of mid
night Monday night, two negroes,
names unknown, were gallantly res
cued from a watery grave near
Charleston by Arthur Young and Ed
ward Sparkman. The two colored
men were attempting to reach the
wharf of the Charleston Canning
CompiDf with a boat load of produce,
when, through tome mishap, the boat
and sable crew wtru overturned in the
water. The men yelhd lustil/ for
help as they were swept down by the
swift tide.
Little Ruth, the 2-year-old daugh
ter of Col. W. G. Stephenson, the
superintendent of the King’s Moun
tain Military Academy, at Yorkvilie.
died Sunday under very sad and dis
tressing circumstances. Since last
Wednesday the child has been suffer
ing with what was thought to be
d/seotery. Dr. J. D. McDowell was
called In and prescribed for the child,
but asked that the excrement be kept
for examination. This was done and
pieces of glass were found in consider
able quantity. It was fragments of
broken electrio light bulbs, some
pieces being an inch In length.
CROP BULLETIN.
Keport of COndltlou of I)iffer«iit Crop*
Throughout the State.
Columbia. S. C., June 2: —The
week ending 8 a. m., Monday, June
1st, had a mean temperature of 76
degrees, which is practically normal.
There were no excessively hot days,
nor abnormally cool nights. The
winos were generally light, although
high winds accompanied thunder
storms, in places, that lodged wheat
and oats. There was more than the
usual amount of cloudiness; the sun
shine averaged about 40 per cent, of
the possible.
Parts of the State had.cooious and
beneficial rains on the 26 27-28th,
but parts of the western, northern,
(except the extreme north eastern
ones) and the eastern, east central
and southeastern counties had in
sufficient amount and their crops are
suffering, not so much in the last two
divisions, except truck in Charleston
County that needs rain urgently.
Parts of the Savannah valley coun
ties are suffering for rain. Hail dam
aged crops in parts of Dorchester,
Edgefield, Marion and Saluda coun
ties.
The reports from different sections
as to crops conditions,vary greatly.
They are favorable from points that
had beneficial rains, and unfavorable
from places that had insufficient
amounts. The favorable ones include
by far the larger area.
The general condition of corn im
proved as to color aud growth, but
stands continue irregular, and are
still injured on bottom lands,
worms. Upland corn has good stands.
Some corn has received its last work
ing, and has been laid by, though
this is exceptional, as all corn is
small for the season.
The condition of cotton as to
stands, color and growth has im
proved generally, chopping is well
advanced and has been finished in
places, while in other places cotton
is just coming up. In Colleton
county fields have been plowed up
and planted to corn owing to the
poor stands, and their grassy condi
tion,but generally fields are free from
grass and are well cultivated. Sea-
island cotton is thriving.
Tobacco is not making satisfactory
growth. It is buttoning low, and
lacks a healthy color Localities
that had copious rainfall report an
improvement in these conditions.
Rice is doing well. Oats harvest is
general, and the crop is better than
expected, though not a full crop,
Spring so vn oats are failure. Whfat
is ripening and its condition remains
very poor. Melon vines are rusting
in Charleston county, and are small
for the season elsewhere. Beaches
are ripening about two weeks earlier
than last year; their quality is about
average. Some reports indicate ex
cessive rotting of early varieties.
G irdens need more rain. The general
condition of minor crops is very
promising
(iaiTney Full of Visitor*.
Gaffney has been full of visitors
this week. They have been in at
tendance upon the commencement
at Limestone College, and all Gaffney
appreciates their presence and the in
terest they took in the commence
ment and manifested in the college
and the great work it is doing.
Brominei t among those present
were Miss Alma Biyth. Miss Rosa
Reynolds, Miss Pearl Ducket, Mr.
and Mrs. Dew, of Greenwood; Mr.
'and Mrs. W. A. Edwards, of Colum
bia; Mr. Win. Durham, of Chester;
Mr. R. E. Blakely, of Columbia and
Rev. A. J. S. Thomas, of Greenville,
and many other prominent persons
from this and other States.
At Home from School.
We clip the following from the
Gastonia Gazette of the 2nd instant:
“Hon. J. Q. Little, mayor of Gaff
ney, was in the city yesterday en
route to All Healing to attend the
commencement exercises, which took
place last night. He will return to
Gaffney today, accompanied by his
daughter, Miss Cleo. who has been
attending^Jones seminary ’’J
Miss Cleo’s many friends at her
home city are pleased te have her
home again.
Col. Frank Ooxo, proprietor of the
Battery Park hotel in Asheville, died
at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning a: his
Green River plantation in Rutherford
county, of heart disease He was in
splendid health Monday and his
death was a great surorise and a mat
ter of wide regret. He was one of
the most successful men of western
North Carolina, being worth a million
dollars or more.
If You are the Housekeeper
You will appreciate our suggestion
that you use Bransford’s "Clifton'’
flour. It makes the best bread, cake
and pastry for borne people as well as
visitors. Don’t let your prejudice in
favor of another brand prevent your
trying it.
W. J. Wilkins & Co.
THROUGHOUT THE
TAR HEEL STATE,
From the Mountains to The
Sea.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Interesting Item* Concerning Our Neigh
bor* Beyond the Line Which May Provt
Filter taming Heading* for Hundred* of
Ledger Header*
A charter is granted by the State
to the Fayetteville Gas & Electric
Co., capital $33,000, A. M. Taylor, of
Baltimore, and others stockholders.
Johnson Stroud, colored, was placed
in jail in Greensboro Tuesday night,
charged with an attempt to crimi
nally assauii his ten year-old step
daughter
Mr. T. H. Ridge, who lived in the
Southern suburbs of High Point, was
found dead in bed Monday morning.
Heart trouble is supposed to have
caused his death. Mr. Ridge had a
family. He moved to High Point
from Davidson county.
Maj. Patrick F. Duffy, for 15 years
associate editor of The Morning Star
newspaper, at Wilmington, died at
his home there a little after 5 o’clock
Monday afternoon in the 60th year of
his age. His death was due to con
gestion of the stomach and was rather
sudden. Sunday at dinner he ate
some ice cream and became violently
ill a little afteY 6 o’clock. Two physi
cians were summoned and were con
stantly at his bed, but he grew rapid
ly worse and passed away at the hour
named.
Samuel Haden, a young white man
of Salisbury, who was pardoned in
January by Governor Aycock, after
serving part of a penitentiary sen
tence for larceny, has written to the
governor expressing his willingness
to return and serve out his sentence
rather than remain out of the State,
as he is obliged to do under the terms
of his pardon. Haden, wiio is a con
sumptive, has been in New Mexico
since his release and evidentIj^tlflnks
prison in North Carolina preferable
to freedom out West.
In the Federal Court at Raleigh an
interesting case was up Monday, the
defendant being H. O. Dilliard, an
ex-preacher, charged with writing ob
scene letters to Miss Lucie Green, of
Spring Hope, Nasb cou&ty. Dilliard,
a man of 40, loved the girl, but G.
W. Finch, half his age, was the favor
ed suitor, it is charged that Dilliard
wrote the letters and signed Finch’s
name in order to get the latter into
disfavor. When investigation was
begun Dilliard ran away, after selling
his property, and was traced by a
poatoffice inspector to Boardman,
where he was arrested. Dilliard was
found guilty.
Grant McAoney, a barber, who has
been doing business in Southern
Pines, for the past two seasons, and
who died in his rooms at the munici
pal building last Wednesday night,
claimed that he went to that town
with $3,000 and had held it in reserve.
His attendant says ho saw some
money in his belt, but could not tell
the amount. A woman who has lived
with him, and who has been known
as his sister, Mhs McAnney, took
the remains to Pittsburg, Pa., and so
far as is known, will fall heir to his
money. jVIcAnnoy had lived a ram
bling and exciting life and before fail
ing in health, was a bicycle trickrider
aud manipulator of many different
performances with circuses through
the West. He was about 45 years of
age.
Link Barber, colored, was shot and
instantly killed in a shanty car at
Hpencer Tuesday night by Frank
Tate, also colored. The two men
were engaged in a gambling game at
cards. There had been some bad feel
ing between the two men, the de
ceased claiming thst Tatejhad systera-
atically.cheated him at cards and
threatening to shoot him the next
lime he caught him playing unfairly.
If he had intended to kill Tate, it is
certain that he allowed himself to be
anticipated by ihe ftther man. In
his shirt bosom was found a pistol
and it is to be presumed from this
circumstance that he was taken
more or less unawares. There was no
eye-witness to the homicide. Tate
made bis escape among the end
less lines of freight cars on the yard.
Wednesday morning Sheriff Julian
sent two deputies to Barber Junction,
where he was reported to have been
seen. Both men were railroad section
hands. Tate is a South Carolina
negro. J
Driven to DeMperatlon.
Living at an out of the way Diace,
remote from civilization, a family is
often driven to desperation in case of
accident, resulting in Burns, Cuts,
Wounds, Ulcers, etc. Lay in a sup
ply of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. It’*
the best on earth. 25o, at Cherokee
rug Co.
1 SKETCH OF THE
BATTLE OF SHILOAH
A Version that will Probably
Settle Many Disputes
BY AN OLD CHEROKEEAN
Heauregnrtl Oppo*ed to FighMng the Hat
tie on Account of a MlHunderntanrilng In
Hegard to the Enemy’* Position—The
Federal* Surprised.
(Correspondence of The Ledger.)
Etta Jane, June 2.—About three
months ago we promised our Ledger
readers to give a sketch of the battle
of Shiloh written by Mr. I. Peeler, of
Centre, Miss , an old time Chero
keean, who was present and took
part in it. Mr. Peeler is an intelli
gent man and his version will settle
many disputes about the manner in
which the battle was fought. It’s nor
often we get a chance to read sketches
from the private and non-commis
sioned officers of such great events
aud therefore we shouid the more
appreciate them, when vre have that
opportunity
Mr. Peeler was raised in this coun
ty on what is still known as the
“Peeler place’’ on the head waters of
Gilky’s creek. He is an uncle of
Messrs. Isaac M. and Wylie A.Peeler,
also of Messrs. Tom, Sam and Fred
Stacey, of Gaffney, all of whom are
well-known in this county, and are
among its best people. Here is that
part of Mr. Peeler’s better to which
ve refer:
“I note in Ledger what you say in
regard to Beauregard receiving a note
from the hand of a negro. Beauregard
was opposed to fighting the battle of
Shiloh, alleging the Federals were
intrenched and prepared for John
son’s advance. He wss sadly mistaken,
as never wh* -in army taken more b\
eurpri!-*- than that of the Federal* or;
6th of April, 1862. It was Gen. John
son’s intention to fight the battle on
the 5th. He gave orders for each
army corps on starting from Corinth
to march on three different roads
converging near .lihiloh. Hardee’s
corps to form front line as near the
Federal iamps as possible not to be
discovered by them, extending from
Lick creek swamp to Owl creek
swamp, a distance of three miles—
effective force 9,024. Bragg’s corps,
second line, 800 yards in rear of
Hardee’s 10 731 strong. Polk’s corps,
third line, 800 yard in rear of Bragg’s
9,136 strong. Johnson’s idea was
that no force the Federals could
bring to bear could brtak his three
lines of battles; the more men they
crowded between these swamps the
worse for them and the better for
him. Owing to the tardiness of
Bragg’s corps getting into line of bat
tle it was\oo late to fight the battle
on the 5th, being 5 o’clock p. m.,
Johnson decided to rest the men and
fight the battle on the next day, the
6th. Gen. Bragg says in monogram
of the battle of Shiloh: 'A casual
meeting of general officers secured
on the evening of the 5th, Gen.
Beauregard, confident our movement
had been discovered by the enemy,
urged its abandonment and return to
our camps for supplies and general
change of programme. In this opin
ion no other seemed fully to concur,
and when it was suggested the
enemy’s supplies could be had for
the taking, and were much nearer,
Gen. Johnson quietly remarked:
"Gentlemen, we shall attack at day
light tomorrow morning.” At meet
ing, by invitation, Gen. Johnson at
his camp-fire that night further dis
cussion elicited the same views and
some decided determination. Col.
Munsford says after the meeting of
general officers Gen. Johnson told
him he wanted to tell him something
which he desired remembered as he
should tell nobody but him and Pres
ton, aides, and which might become
important some day. In spite of bis
usual calm exterior, I saw he was
deeply moved. I told him his wishes
should be complied with.
He said they wished me to with
draw this army without battle. What
is your opinion? My surprised reply
was, ‘Gen., — A defeat is preferable—
this army cannot be withdrawn with
out a fight, and kept together. They
will become disheartened and melt
away. They are very raw but are
eager to meet the enemy. I have
been around tbeir campfires, mingled
freely with them, and know If you
ever can (lo anything with such a
□umber of undisciplined men, now is
your time.’ Ttey are ready for the
fight, the general laid, with a glow
ing countenance, T have ordered a
battle tomorrow at daylight.’ I in
tend to hammer them, President
I 1 ‘avis and Gen. Lee had utmost con-
tidence in the military genius of
Gen. Johnson, as evidenced by let
ters written him after retreat from
Bowlingreen to Corinth. Col. Duke
thus describes the attack on the
morning of April 6th: ‘Everyone
who witnessed that scene, the mar
shalling of the Confederate army for
Httack upon the morning of April
6th, must remember more distinctly
than anything else, the glowing en-
t uisiasm of the men ; their buoyancy
and spirited imoatience to close with
the enemy. When the lines begun
to advance, the wild cheers which
arose, made the woods stir as if with
the rush of mighty wind. Nowhere
was there any thought of fear; every
where was the evidence of impetuos
and de’ermined valour ’ Gen. Cha'-
mers says one more resolute move
ment forward would have captured
Grant and bis whole army, and ful
filled to the letter, the battle plan
of the great Confederate general,
Albert Sidney Johnson, who dird in
the belief that victory was ours and
his own reputation was fully red»em-
ed. But. oh, the sad mistake of
. eaureg ird in ordering the army to
retire just at the critical time to
advance.
I remain your friend and comrade
I Peelkk ”
Last night we had a considerable
rain and the ground is too wet to
plow this a. m —the air is chilly tor
cotton A long wet spell will fatal
to crops that haven’t b eti thinned
out.
Wheat is getting ripe and some lias
been cut. It’s generally light
Tomorrow is a ‘ big day” at Joins-
vibe ana tne Southern crossr-s of
honor will be delivered by the John
Hatnes Chapter U. D. C. to the
veterans who have applied for them
We hope to give our reapers an ac
count of it ntoct week.
The Wiikinsville Oil Company is
now ready lo begin building
j. i. s.
SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH.
Dr (irt-Ki? Claim* that DiMfram-liNinK Hie
Negro Makt.Kjjlilm a Slave.
“To the white race belongs the re
sponsibility for the condition of the
black man in tho South, and the peo
ple of that section of our country
have no right to nullify the fourteenth
and fifteenth am trim • - ’ • <; ie
suppression of the .:
the Rev. Dr. David Gregg, >mjo was
applauded several times during his
sermon on “Has the Civil War Settled
Anything?” which he preached in
the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
church, Brooklyn, yesterday morn
ing.
“The civil war, we are given to
understand, forever abolished slavery
and demonstrated clearly that the
United State) was a nation and not a
confederacy,” said Dr. Gregg, "yet
we have the most open violation of
sectiont thirteen, fourteen and fifteen
amendments of the constituiiton,
particularly the fourteenth and fif
teenth. The fourteenth^ amendment
settled the negro’s citizenship and
the fifteenth settled his right to vote,
and with this staring the South in
the face they disfranchise the negro
in several of the Slates It has be
come so serious that we are now face
lo face with the problem, forced up
on the country by men who fired up
on the flag at Sumter After forty
years it is the negro problem again
thrown at us deliberately and persis
tently.
"How shall we meet these men? is
the question with us. We must meet
their unconstitutional nullification
by a constitutional nullification.”
These remarks brought forth applause
from the congregation, continuing
for several minutes before Dr. Gregg
could proceed. “Congress should re
fuse all Representatives elected by
those districts which nullified these
three amendments seats in its cham
ber or a place in the electoral college.
This Congress can do constitutionally.
This Congress ought to do —(ap-
p ause)—a'nd it would unquestionably
settle the^foblem Now ip the time
to take up this question for action
and settle it. 'De-lay will mean an
uprising and the South will have an
entirely different proposition with the
Stales of the North than they had be
fore.
“The claim of the South that it
was a mistake to put the ballot in the
hands of the negro, that it had only
resulted in harm, <s unfounded. It
is not true. The ballot was put in
the hands of the negro as a war
measure to conserve and preserve the
result of the war, and to help in the
reconstruction of the Union ”
Dr. Gregg elaborated on the cause
of the civil war and it horrors
through the four years as an illustra
tion of what should not again be gone
through with, ttnd said that, unless
this southern negro question was
taken up immediately by wise heads
on both sides and quickly brought to
an amicable settlement, he felt mor
ally certain there would be an up
rising the result of which could not be
predicted, There wa* every indi
cation, he said, that the South was
gradually drifting back to slavery,
and this has been doubly made cer
tain by the fact that in two or three
Htates the negro has been disfran
chised, and “the disfranchising, of a
race can only mean one thing; that is,
the negro is forced to do the white
man’s bidding, and such Ridding in
this case Is nothing more than pure
slavery. It should not be permitted
to extend any farther than it has.”
CLOSING EXERCISES
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
A Prosperous Session Ended
at Limestone.
DR. FARQUHAR’S SPEECH
The L«*t Pi-ogi-itm of Commencement at
Li me* tone College Kendered \Vedne*day
Evening—Diploma* Presented to Twenty
Graduate*.
Wednesday was an ideal com
mencement day. The weather was
fine and the duties at Limestone Col
lege not being exacting till evening,
the college girls and their visiting
friends, and friends in the city, made
the most of it. Our streets were
thronged with them all day. They
were showing their home-friends
places of interest and friends in the
city, and our people, young and old,
seemed to vie with each other in their
efforts to makt the last college day
of the session a pleasant one for
them and their visiting friends. There
was only one sad reflection in Gaff
ney, and that was, that we knew on
yesterday all these bright Limestone
girls, whom we almost look upon and
love as uur own, were to leave us for
a season. But this sad thought was
brightened by the one which remind
ed us that fond ones at home were
awaiting them, and that their young
hearts were throbbing faster in an
ticipation of the loving reception that
awaited them by their loved ones.
The climac of the commencement
was reachei Wednesday night. Per-
naps the largest audience ever assem
bled in the college auditorium gath
ered to witness the closing exercises.
It was an »u i - ° ’hut was calcu-
I ited to li’.-'p ■ - * ils-e.
The ex^refseo weird inaugurated by
an invocation by Rev. A. J. 8.
Thomas, of Greenville, who offered a
most appropriate prayer.
Miss Alice "Dew’s perfortriance on
the piano was something marvelous.
Her deft, fingers ran acro*s the keys
with the rapidity of a race-horse and
her touch was both delicate and accu
rate.
Dr. Lodge tht n introduced in glow
ing and exalted term? the orator of
the occasion, Dr. Edward Farqubar,
who spoke in part as follows:
PROGRESS and woman.
It is like a proverb, that the advance
of mankind is tested by the position of
woman. As man himself becomes more
capable and enlightened, he finds more
to enjoy and revere in her who had been
his vassel, when he was lower and ruder.
From which it might appear that the
growth of woman has been more notable
than that of man, if in the same time she
lias advanced from a lower point to about
an equal heighth. Whether this may in
dicate a higher capacity on her part,
whether it is but an incident in man’s
own progress, or whether such relations
are too profound and intimate for our
grasp, is not the present inquiry. But it
is no wonder, such being the general
course of movement, if the general should
lie distributed throughout all the particu-
lurs; if the entrance of woman into all
the activities of man, her free participa
tion in all his privileges, should be re
garded as a natural and proper destiny.
A tendency which upon the whole con
tinues onward through ages, is not easy
to limit by any given time or aspect.
When we survey the field of history,
abundant confirmation rises, wide as the
field, in support of the main theory.
We see the savage races,—where wo
man is but tile slave of man; the labor
and sendee if possible all hers, the hon
or and pleasure all his. We see barba
rous tribes, of a little higher grade,
where a little more of the rights of hu
manity belong to her—in favored cases
it may be, some special rights; these are
the peoples destined to the greater future.
We gradually come to civilization, where
with a great deal still to seek, yet woman
is sure to reach, at least in some points or
cases, equal rank with man. More large
ly, we find an ancient and modern era,
where with such a.splendor of attainment
in the former as might leave it all uncer
tain whether many of those attainments
have ever been surpassed—yet in the uu-
doubted progress of woman’s estate in
the latter, we have a sure ground for pre
ferring our own age of the world. And
finally, we have an America, which we
ihink the last achievement and best ho])e
of that world; or if those two titles do not
fit perfectly together, we may at least
conceive our country as that achievement
in the making; and here the field seems
very clearly widest open for the career of
woman, and her place of honor highest.
Only some other newer colonies of our
Anglo-Saxon race may compare in that
respect.
When we descend from this general
survey into a more particular examina
tion, there will ajjpear some curious mod
ifications of our principle. The appari
tions of woman in the woild of history
seem to follow no such course of evolu
tion as the history itself. To some ex
tent they even seem to reverse that
course. In the ancient or the modern era,
no point or space of time regarded as a
culminating stage of civilization, is dis
tinguished by the appearance of women
in a directive public part. It is always
at an earlier stage that they stand forth
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