THE' OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER ,10, 1916.
10
INVENTION .ROBS
SINISTER
SATURN
FOG OF TERRORS
St
NAVIGATORS .before long may find
tne fog robbed of Its terrors
, through a device invented by Dr.
A. G. Webster for showing the direc
tion of signals, which he has demon
strated in the National AcaJemy of
-Sciences. The apparatus, which he
calls a phonometer, translates the in
tensity, of sound into terms of light,
so that, as the Inventor expresses it.
r the deaf may see what they cannot
,ur, .wsosier is connected witti ine
Clark 'university at Worcester, Mass.
'Impressed with the loss of the steam
ship 'Krapreas of Irelatu In 1914, he
went to Father Point, on the St. Law
rence, Where the boat sank, and there
- made the experiments on which his
invention is based.
In a thick fog, when two vessels ar.
approaching each other, he said, it in
often impossible for the captains to
"letl-the dlvt'on of, the Bound from
horns.- -In the St. .awreni-c disaster
i ' the ' masters of both vnsels should
Jiava Stopped. In hi opinion, in view
' of the uncertainty of telling the exact
direction.
, ! " First. Dr. Webster showed a resona-
tor or "phone" which took up the t
bratlons of a tuilng fork ami emitted
.a Sound of sUndan pitch. Th!: in-
' strument took the place of a regular
' fog Signal, The receiving Instrument
or phonometer looked like a small
, round box on a tripod, and fiom ei -h
end nroiected a conical horn resem
bling a megaphone. The small ends
of the horn were turned toward each
other. The device Is placed so that
the hornn are at rlcht angles with
the course of the vessel on which it
Is installed. The vibration caused by
the signal is concentrated by tho ;
horns and communicated to a metal .
diaphragm, which is held in place by j
small steel wires. The pulsation goes;
to a tiny electric light, and the effect I
I upon it Is registered by the reflections j
of a mirror on a scale which can he
read through a glass, attached to the
Instrument. The scale shows the in
tensity of the found as the Image of
light widens or contracts. The horns
swing easily upon a pivot and when
they have heen so adjusted by the
operator that they show the greatest
Intensity a tube of the Instrument is
pointing in tho direction from which
the signal Is being sounded.
With the phonometer .-although it
is not perfectly accurate in Its pres
ent stage. Dr. Webster declares tint 4
th" direction can be determined within
a very few d-'g-es. It will be neces
sary to Imve all fog horns made of
the same pltci. or. In other words, a
standard fo-j horn a:nd siren.
In connection with the wireless, it
Is believed that the phonometer would
be of value, for sihips approaching
each other could communicate details
at-out the fog horns employed s a
further -rilidc. I
About Your Siomacfoi
w
HY dOs not your stoma' h : geH
Itself Have you ever tho -grit
of that?
.' Here you arc assaulting It, n'nd In
. .suiting It with g .b of rindflol.-h and
inheres of cobalt cabbage. Yci even
permit strata of minerals, bone and
... '.tough Stea'-s of yesteryear, to crt.r it
portals.
-'.'.The atomacli of n goat and the pro-
verbla bunch of stomachs w!' .ibe
, envied oimd own. ar merel iarjrer
or smaller editions cf the. hiinui:i -io n
aeh, Yef these creatures eat tm cans
" and boulder. Their stomachs .-.main
just as vigorous and undigested as
.they did before.
. . Murlat Ic acid hydrochloric a.-id is
powerfully destructive suhst n c. It
' Will eat lis way through the i-- of a
battleship. It will bore into h,. rock
of Gibraltar. Still It falls to make tho!
Slightest "Impression open that tender,
"'" soft textile tl e living stomacu' To he
''- sure. If you swallow add, it will kill
, you by. burning it way through your
':Vltals. Despite this the stomach nen-
etatcs Its own ar id and it Co i no
.'harm.
. -;. Even tha ft 1 1 too frequent in. i. ad v.
, ; jbyperacldity commonly called, :.Ung
with ether disorders. Indigestion -fails
to be a source of hoi eft or ulcers in the
stomach. ,1 leers in the' stomach are
more often due to microbes than to any I
other cause. They Iiave ne or been
traced to 'self-digestion.
A stomach may be non-act Iv '. that
is lo say. lazv, flabby and not irritable
enough In Us muscle. to nu.su Ibt un-
digested victuals onward into tho next
digestive compartment
Some Mema I s arc spread ..igled.
They are ballooned out and distended
from drinking copious draugnts of,
beer, broth soups or the likt .
Moreover, such beer-buckled stom
achy at tl.nes twist upon tlieiylves
and form hourglass or pear-shaped
folds. Then again overeating and ninc
blbblng often (iraps i lie. tomach nrwii.
It drops into the belly and induces all
so'tu of unpleasant, nervous an' wor
risome disturbances. Simple meals
whb-h contain bread, crackers, ta and
ho on. arc given as "test mea 5." to
determine the facility nf your digestive
tlssiifs to use c.p food.
Those whoso various cares In one
great point combine the busim-hs of
their lives to s'ip and dine,a ? often
boastful of "never having had a day
of indigestion."
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Above, left to right Looking from the Portland end of the bridge toward Vancouver, showing the piers ready for the last four span to be placed, and in the distance
showing the towers for the bridge lift; the last four spans all complete, ready to be towed to position in the bridge. Center Broken pter and shattered cement slabs,
caused by movement of subsoil; another illustration of wobbly character of soil over which embankment is built, this view being at' the intersection of the old
Vancouver road with the new embankment. Below Looking into the bridge from the Oregon end; looking from the middle of the bridge toward the Vancouver ap
proach, where large crews of men are at work.
ONTRACTS for the Columbia River
nterstate bridge call for comple-
I nun ..uvciiiuci X Jl is tuuaiu-
rren nigniy proDaDle oy Kurus Hoimn,
chairman of the interstate bridge com
mission, that the bridge will be com
pleted and ready for traffic a short
time before that date.
Work is now under way on the sec-
ond tower for the bridge lift, which
i will be similar to that In the llaw
, thorne bridge in Portland. A' crew
of men Is at work laying the concrete
foundation for the paving on the Van
couver end of the bridge, while the
I'ortland end Is complete and ready for
j the paving surface. .
Another group of men Is at work on
j the Vancouver approach, where a big
rill is Delng made, while on tne Ore
gon side the pier in the Columbia
nloucb which war riamnfirpd hv a ttiova-
i ment of the subsoil, is yet to be re
placed and the bridge span set up.
Work is oeing rushed by the city of
Portland at the end of I'nion avenue,
where a fill must be made and paving
laid to connect the city street with the
bridge approach.
E. E. Howard of the firm of con
sulting engineers having supervision of
the construction work said that the
work was being so planned that all the
tag ends will be completed at the same
tune. He and the members of the
bridge commission say they do not
want to permit any travel over the
bridge until everything is complete. In
cluding the last foot of paving, and
for that reason the last bridge span
probably will not be swung Into place
until Just before all the rest of the
work Is completed.
In the construction of the bridge,
which, with the approaches, will cost
$1,750,000, many difficult engineering
problems had to be solved. The bridge
and embankments are three and one
fourth miles long. There are 5000 feet
of steel bridge structure and 12,000
feet of embankment. The bridge road
way is 38 feet wide between curbs,
while on the right side going toward
Vancouver there is a five-foot walk.
The main bridge has 13 spans, three
spans being each 275 feet long and 10
spans each 265 feet long.
The concrete piers are resting on
piles sunk by means of water jets to
105 feet below water. The piles are
120 feet long in single, straight poles,
rxdng probably the longest piles ever
used In bridge construction.
Ninety piles were driven beneath
each pier for the 263 foot span.
The piles were sunk in sand. Great
holes were washed In the river bed by
means of powerful streams of water
the water jets and the pile, were
diopped In. For the last 15 or 20 feet
of the desired depth the piles were
driven by a pile driver, which was spe
cially built for this particular Job. The
driving equipment was mounted on a
wooden scow, 32x100 feet. Tho leads
of the driver, designed to handle 138
foot piles, extended 122 feet above the
water. The piles were all completed
by May 1, which was 30 days before
the contract date.
In fact, all along the work has been
ahead of schedule time, according to
the engineers. The contract for the
bridge was let in February, 1015, and
construction work " began the next
month.
Because of the fact that the long ap
proach to the main bridge on tho Ore
.gon side must be over swamp land and
silt fills, a difficult engineering prob
lem was presented there.
In the main Oregon approach 1,000,
000 cubic yards of embankment have
been built, while the secondary ap
proach has 500,000 cubic yards. These
embankments are made principally of
sand pumped from the Oregon slough.
The sand was lifted from the slough by
suction dredges, with electrically oper
ated pumps. The sand was delivered
through Iron pipes all the way from
5000 to 10,000 feet, or nearly (wo miles.
The embankments are . 42 feet across
the top and an average of 20 to 25 feet
high.
The main embankment Is built across
silt land. Commissioner lloluian de
scribed it by saying It was built across
the top of a custard pie. In one place
tho custard foundation wobbled and
slid, with the result that a long de
pression was made In the embankment.
This characteristic of the soil Is also
responsible for the earth movement
which practically upset one of the piers
in the Columbia slough.
As a means of holding the sand In
the embankment, cement slabs four
Inches thick have been laid where the
embankment ends at the slough, while
wljlow trees and blackberry bushes
have been planted all along the base of
the embankment.
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The Board of Trade Sign Language.
THE Chicago Board of Trade Is by
.far the most Important grain ex
change not only of this country
but 4t the world, and few people are
familiar with its method of operation,
.ays Popular Science Monthly.
' v People who visit the board of trade
. ar perhaps most Impressed by the
sign language used In buying and
selling raln for future delivery. Un-
. lik Anything else seen in any other
ltn of business this wonderful sys
tem. while simple in its execution,
- nevertheless puzzles the uninitiated. It
Is a system that has grown up with
the board, and traders' would be help
less without it. In that awful din.
where 'hundreds of men and boys are
rushing about and shouting and count
ies telegraph instruments are click
ing. . Individual voices ane smothered
and the trader must talk with his
hands.
Jle has no time to waste a lost
' second 'may mean hundreds of dollars
to him. By a simple movement of his
finger the trader makes it known
-whether he" would buy or sell, which
price he la willing to pay or take and
what 'Quantity he wishes to trade in.
All the Information necessary to con
aummate a deal, involving perhaps
thousands of dollars. Is conveyed by a
few movements of the hand.
Each ' finger extended represents
one-eighth of accent. Thus-when all
' four fingers and the thumb are ex-
f tended, all being spread out from one
another, it means nve-eignins. wnen
the four fingers and thumb are ex
tended, .'but ara. pressed close to
gether, f' H' represents three-quarters.
t
is so shaped as to fit closely to thel
head and deliver its contents in a nar
row stream.
An English scientist who has raised
wlieat In record breaking time ex
plains that he so treats the seed with
electricity that he trebles the life
force within it.
The largest hen's eggs are prc
duced in Manchuria, those weighing
i one-sixth of a pound being common.
I A new bathtub seat can be hung in
side a tub to assist a person bathing
or outside for use in dressing.
To enable his aeroplane to alight by
clutching a cable a Frenchman has
Would Feature Crater Lake oil Screen
o1
the top of the machine.
The clenched hand, with the thumb
extended, Is sevon-elghths, while for
an event cent the closed fist is used.
The thumb protruding between the
index and the big finiger is the signal
for a split quotation, These charac
ters refer to the price, and the hands
and fingers are held in a horizontal j a new trap to be attached to a re"
position. When displayed vertically frlgerator drain pipe permits waste
the quantity is indicated each ex- water to f ,ow out but prevents the
T n , .u r. e . ' ouuu ousn entrance of warm air or vermin,
els. When the desire Is to sell the. . .
palm of the haad is hield outward, and An American has obtained a Cuban
when the trader wishes to buy he patent for a machine that cultivates
NE of the biggest feature film pro- i
ductlons to be put over within the
iical iew monins i vo cenier
around Crater.., lake, Oregon's unique
and romantlc national park. It is to
rival Cabiria,'the story of the fall of
Pompeii under the eruption of Vesu
vius. One of the world's biggest mov
ing picture companies has been inter
ested in Crater lake and has promised
tc build up the picture exclusively for
its dramatic value.
As a matter of fact, however, the
built a spring fork that projects from!comPany was lon& besieged bv Robert
signals with the palm facing htm.
ODD FACTS
BRICKS made of peat are being sue-
cessf ully used In Sweden for small I
buildings.
Using benzine for fuel, a new ciga
rette lighter is a close facsimile of a
cigarette.
Waterproof knapsacks made of horaa
hair have been invented by a Japanese
army officer.
Names have been given to 737 minor
planets and new ones are being discov
ered all the time.
There are spiders in Java which
make webs so strong that it requires
a knife to sever them.
A recently patented porch or lawn
seat can be converted Into a swing or
crib for a small child.
A Detroit woman has Invented a
syringe for applying acalp lotions that
growing sugar cane, work that hereto
fore has had to be done by hand.
For administering medicine to a
horse an Inventor has patented a hol
low, perforated bit with a funnel at
one end.
Warm in Bed. !
Many people have to sleep In coid
rooms in winter, and some, not being
able to warm up readily after enter
ing the bed. lie awake a long time.
To warm up quickly in a cold bed
lie upon the back, with the bedclothes
well tucked in about the neck and
shoulders, draw up and extend one
foot, then the other, alternately, draw
ing the foot up as near the -trunk as
possible. Keep this up for a few mo
menta; and If done with vigor, by the
time one has drawn up each leg and
straightened it out, say, 100 times,
one will be In a glow, and will us
ually feel sleepy, the blood having
been drawn away from the brain to the
muscles and skin. Feeble patients can
do a few strokes, and rest a moment
or so, and then begin again.
S. Yard, publicity expert in the depart
ment of the Interior, to make a picture
play about the lake. Until he told
the company some of the history of
i Mount Mazama, however, he could
rouse little Interest.
Mr. Yard, who is assisting Stephen
T. Mather in exploiting the national
parks told of the efforts he made
to get Crater lake upon the screen of
every moving picture house In the
country.
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After; he had shown the picture peo
ple what a mighty feature the his
tory of the lake would be, Mr. Yard
went through the archives of the geo
logical survey and dug out the story
of Mount Mazama and Crater lake to
gether with pen and ink drawings by
some Imaginative geologist showing
what' the original mountain must have
looked like before it was blown to
bits by a gigantic eruption "long be-M
fore history began. '
He forwarded tfrese facta to, the film
people and a reconstructed Mount Ma
zama done In miniature but for photo
graphing according to the mysterious
cunning of the camera man as if It
were full size, is to be built. Some
scenario person is writing a romance
around Mazama' s "Great Adventure"
and the final scenes will show Craterv)
lake as It Is today.
Mr. Yard had never actually seen
Crater lake until he visited It recently
I with Stephen T. Mather, assistant sec-
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Robert? H. Yard, publicity expert
who ' aroused Interest In Crater
Lake film scheme.
retary of the interior. He described
his sensation as "distressing" when he
had ascended the rim and looked out
over' the' lake.
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"Distressing" it was in the sense of
such an appreciation of grandeur that
no expression could be found for It.
"I'm afraid the people of Oregon do
not appreciate the big scenic asset
that Crater lake is," said Mr. Yard. "A
much traveled New York man who has
seen the world's best Bcenlc offerings,
spent three days at Crater lake. When
he left,, he said he felt three towering
impressions: The Grand Canyon of the
Colorado. Crater lake and the Matter
horn, The other impressions were di
minishing gradations from those.
"With such a testimonial, it would
appear that Oregonlans ought to know
their lake better and go to see it them
selves. That Is the first way to pop
ularize and capitalize such a great
thing. The concessions should be en
larged and developed and every fa
cility be given to lure people from
arar. This development is bound to
come, but it can be hastened only by
the efforts of the people near home,"
he said.
Mr. Yard lately complied a series of
articles on the national parks of the
United States which were Issued in
portfolio form. He has attempted lit
tle newspaper publicity so far. believ
ing, that this will take care of Itself,
once the policy of park development Is
known.
He related an incident at a promi
cumulating such stores of preserved
meat as possible, for that article of
food is so scarce. A new household
device has been invented, however,
which serves admirably to this end.
The apparatus consists of a lac
quered cylinder, which is provided
with an Interior dividing wall separat
ing both halves of the cylinder. One
portion is designed to hold the meat
to be smoked, while the other is for
the passage of smoke.
Underneath la a small cylinder which
'serves to admit the smoke. This is so
constructed that the smoke must first
pass through the transmission com
partment and enter the smoking com
partment from above, in order to re
turn finally to the fireplace. That an
even distribution of the smoke may be
achieved there is a perforated plate
above the smoking compartment In the
large cylinder. This also serves to
prevent the entrance of particles of
soot and dirt. Two rings are provid
ed on whch to support the meat.
Eat and Grow Thin.
The craze to reduce which has been
so rampant among obese male and f e-
By Frank Theodore Allen
(Dlrectur Adrototlcat lieiearch Society, At-
bar Park. N.J.) t
CHRONUS, r Kronos. is one of the
name by which the planet Saturn
was known to the ancients. From -
I this w.t ... II a H.rl , m i . 'KpAnll '
because all the afflictions resulting
j from the aspects of Saturn have a ten
dency to assume a enronte rnaracier,
Saturn is the source of those etherlo
vibrations that are cold, contracting,
depressing, melancholic and serious,
and when acting on man lead to dis
content, suspicion. envy. Jealousy.
I selfishness, treachery and other' man
ifestations of coldness and Isolation.
For a year Saturn has been trannlt-
j ing through the sign of Cancer. Kor
centuries past, or long before tb
American colonies declared their Inde
pendence and separated from Great
Britain, astrologers have recognized
Cancer as the sign having chief do
minion over New York snd its Imme-
diate vicinity.
During this period New York has
. certainly experienced a mosf"uiiuual
j array of dramatic, startling and traglo
occurrences, besides a regular epidemic
1 of discontent manifested by Us work-:
i Ing masses. Prominent among the In
cidents of magnitude that have brought
New York Into the limelight since the
pressure of Saturn's vibrations began
to exert themselves through' the med
ium of Its . ruling sign may be men
tioned such as the subway explosions,
the dynamiters' attempt upon St. Vat
rick's cathedral, numerous strikes of
large proportions, the great prepared
ness parade, etc.
The two most recent occurrences
that give New York temporary distinc
tion are the terrific explosion of mu
nitions early on Sunday morning, July
30, and the most sensational suicide in
tho city's history, which occurred Just
as the sun passed the meridian at noon
on August 10. when a man flung him
self from the observation platform of
the hlr.ger building.
Shortly before midnight on July 1
this year an eclipse of the moon oc
curred with that luminary Hearing the
meridian at New York snd in direct
opposition to the sun at the Nadir,-
who was going to the conjunction of
Ssturn In the sign' ruling New Yoik
city.
'?
This was but one of a series of ce
lestial phenomena of it'nt occur
rence, all of which agree in snowing
New York to be the scene of troublous
vibrations that must of necessity find
or force expression through such ma
terial and pn.VHlcHi tne.iium as iimv
happen to be keyed to a utale of re
ceptivity, and hence ready to respond
to and suffer the force of the blow re
sulting from the liberation of these
terrific concentrations of the cosmio
forcec.
While the vlbfratory Influences gen
erated by this lunar eclipse were, of
course, world-wide in effect, yet in ac
cordance with certain fixed rules they
were , specially concentrated. thoiiKh
at different angles, at many places.
nence cenain regions as well ns par
ticular persons and centers In hiu h
regions were destined to come espec
ially under the sway of their power.
It happens that New York Is one of
the regions In and about which there
have recently centered a succession of
the germanutive stimulations of acute
planetary phenomena, hence It ha
been the scene of far more than the
average number of events of stupend
ous Import or startling nature.
The great explosion on July 3d oc
curred exactly as Saturn reached and
was passing over the place or the sun
end opposition of the moon's place at
tha eclipse of the fourteenth. Rut
that was not the only significant
feature of the planrdary phenomena
that was startllngly acute at the in
stant of that stupendous event.
And this Is why astrologers so fre
quently hit wide of the mark In mak
ing forecasts. They place too great
emphasis upon single and Isolated phe
nomena and fall to note those Instance
In which a succession of strong as
pects will occur In connection with tin
slgnlf icators of certain localities of
Individuals. Just five hours hefori
the great explosion there was niw
moon, which happened to b a solaf
eclipse, though not visible near New
York.
At the Instant of that lunation th
fiery end explosive Mars was Just set
ting at New Y'ork and in exact evil as
pect to Venus in New York's rullne
sign and Hearing the fateful Nadir.
And at the exact moment when the ex
plosion occurred Venus hsd just
reached the horizon at New York sml
Mars was right at the same relation
to the Ndlr that Venus had been at
the time of the lunation.
The planetary configurations at th
time of the sensational suicide on Au
gust 10 were even more acute and
startling In their concurrence with
the event. If we may Judge theni by th
long established rules of astrology,
i ne sun was just at tne meridian ana
in exact opposition to the erratic ni
spasmodic Uranus, who was exactly
at the Nadir.
Mars was ruler of the ascendant and
Just past the evil square of Venus
while the moon was passing from
most evil aspect of Venus and going te
an even more malignant aspect of
Mars, this forming a fatal cross. Jup
iter was setting and in evil square it
the chaotic and sensational Neptune,
who was Just past the meridian. Bui
while there were more acute aspect
at the time of this occurrence ihan at
the greet explosion they were of a
more temporary or ephemeral character.
male New Yorkers today Inspired New
nent Washington city hotel when he! York hotels to cater to the seekers
after slenderness with especial menus.
' One big hotel has employed an ex
pert In dietetics to prepare food that
can be eaten with all the recklessness
of a stevedore and at the same time
not endanger the embonpoint.
The new daily menus are called
"Madah Menus," and across the top In
quotations is the line, "Eat and Grow
Thin Suggestions." Here Is the lunch
eon menu:
Cold fish in vinegar; radishes, puree
of spinach, broiled veal cutlet, boiled
onions, beets, compote of stewed fruit
and assorted fresh fruit.
Dinner dishes include broiled chick
en giblets with mushrooms, roast
spring lamb, chicory, tomato or cucum
ber salad and fresh fruit compote.
told an eminent Jurist friend the nature
of his new efforts.
"Oh, yes, the national park. That's
Yellowstone, isn't it?"
When he was asked to name the
other national parka, he was stumped
after the second. Then Yard 'and
Mather laid a little wager. They were
to ask 20? men of the greatest Influ
ence and wisdom they happened to
meet, to list the national parks. Only
three could name three national parks.
All the others mentioned Yellowstone
only.
For Curing Meat.
In the present time of economic dif
ficulty in Germany many housewives
are confronted with the problem of ac-
Paper Clothing.
Both Japanese and Russian soMlen
are wearing paper clothes. "Kamlkn."
as paper clothing Is called In Japan,
Is made of the real Japanese papei
manufactured from mulberry bark.
The paper has little "size" in It, anj
though soft and warm a thin layer ol
silk wadding Is placed between two
sheets of paper and the whole Is quilt,
ed. Its only drawback Is that it i
not washable.
Rheumatism
AUomt CtreCttDbjOoeWlo Had It
lo tb prlns of 1S93 1 attacked by
Moaculur ui Inflammatory tttieauiatUm. I
differed uolr tbo wbo bar It know,
for over tbree Jtara. I tried rcaMdr after
remrdy, and doctor after doctor, but anea
relief aa I rcelTd waa only temporary.
KlniUy, I found a remedy tbat rurad ma
euuiplelely, and It baa Barer returned. I
bare gives it to a lumber wbo ware tarrt.
My afflicted and aven bediitldeu wlts
KbeumatUm. and It effected a cor la
every eaae, I wast every auffarar from aoy
form of rheumatic trouble to try tbla mar
valoaa baallng power. lxn't aesd a (Ml:
imply mall yonr same and addreaa sod I
will aeod It free to try. After yon ba
uaed It and It baa proven Ibtelf to be tbat
long-tooksd for meant of eortng yoar Rfaeo
matlam, you mir arad tba price of It, one
dollar, bat. Hodcrtand, I do not west yoar
money unleas you ar perfectly latiafled
to send K. Isn't tbat fair I Why antler
aay longer waan poaltlv relief la tbua of
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