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wi'irs DAT. Tnto tho field of II fo wo pnss At. early morn. The jowclcd crass "With sVnbcnms lffcaod spreads at our f pot: And youth, like mom, all pure and sweet .Aim uriglitis tilled with rosy dreams; While ft tho purplo heavens gleams The tnf fortune and ol fa tie, Aiukin its licit Ave rend a to O dream, wot sweet, it is oirovs MOro glorious, it stitcs utfoo' Th Bun speeds en; tho star n itrtit Is seen. Dhmivo dreams nro 'cr. Fortune nnd lame so coy and llecfc Hut mock our weary, way-worn fcot Ambition's fairest prizo has flown; A nnmo appears, but not our own. "What have wo then for all our pains? For all our prayers? Are thcro no Brains CJicood to show? Jlasall been lost In that our cherished plans aro crossed, Ana dissipated each loud dream As snow Hakes melt within the stream? Ah. 110I fico how our souls aro filled .....I. nLHibu ui imi trnin nu ui,u bunt, , "With meekness, patience, lovo and truth; Jtlcsl springs 01 everlasting youth; Bright jewels of tho crown within; Kino fruit of lifo's sharp discipline: On which thcro dawns tho twilight gray Ul day that dies not with tho day. Georgo W. Crofts in Current. OUT OP A FAMILY JAR. IIY EMIIiY V WIIKELKR. It was all very well to vow and pro test that tho next time wo would bo moro discreet, and that, whatever wo saw or heard at Letty's, wo would hold our tongues. But when tho next time came, nnd sho went into hysterics over Bob, nnd declared ho cared noth ing for her, and never had, wo couldn't help nodding ncquicsccnce to a friend ly neighbor who suggested that our sister-in-law was extremely sensitivo and high-strung. Then it went back to Lotty that wo said sho was a hys tcrical gooso and absurdly jealous of poor Bob; and then sho declared that wo had no moro feeling for her than a stone, and always had looked down on her becnuso sho was a poor girl, and sho should think a wifo had somo rights, if sho didn't bring her husband a fortune, as all tho Graham girls would to theirs, if they over succeeded in got tingany. Andso thero wo wero with tho prettiest family squabblo possiblo on our hands. Tho worst of it was, it was Biich an old ono. "Wo should havo learned wisdom by experience: but though wo know Lct- ty was a weak little thing, and all her fondness for Bob taking tho shnpo of absurd jealousy ovcnofhisownfainily, wo could nover got used to it. Sho was such a sweet littlo creaturo when ho married her, soft-eyed and low-voiced, and mccK as a iamb, appealing to us over everything, from tho weddingcako to tho form of tho ceremony. Wo hadn't renlly minded it that sho wns poor, for a tho urahams wero rich now, twenty years ago thoy wero not, and if Bob had been brought up liko a pnnco, as heir to tho factories and tho Htores and tho rows of tenant-houses, w, his three elder sisters, had known something of tho other sido of tho ta pestry in tho -hard tunes when father laid tho foundation of that fortune, and though wo lived in a big house now, and had our servants and our carriage, and led society, in a way, in tho littlo town, we nover meant to put on airs. I think, indeed, wo wero hot ter democrats than Lotty, for wo nov er thought of these tilings, and sho nover had them out ot hor mum, and was supersensitive to anv ref eroncotoherforniorcondition. Wo had thought it Kiieh a pretty romanco when Bob married her, picking hor out of a mill accident tho first week sho went thero to work, and falling in lovo with her at sight, and taking no end of trouble to got hor widowed mother into something nico and quiet nnd profitable, so that Lotty need nover go back to tho mills. And presently ho installed Mrs. Dent as queen-dowager of tho homo to which ho took Letty, and that was tho begin ning of tho inischeif. MVs. Dent was twico a.s suspicious as sho, and never lot hor shut her eyes to the family dis dain of Copliot ua's choice. Shu wns email nnd slight and low-voiced, this queen-dowager of ours, and so per fectly womanly, nn every ono said, though why there's anything un womanly in fivo feet six and avoirdu- Iiois to correspond, as our Pamela uid, is moro than I know. But 1 notico that little woman always lay tho fluttering unction to their souls that superiority is in invoreo ratio to eizo. Tho special trouble was that when Letty got jealous kIio had hysterics, nnd after Dr. Grey hinted that some thing was tho matter with her heart, of courso wo wero always nnxiouB. Sho was very delicate, that was truo, and when she was herself sho was iu swcot and nlfee tiomito as possible, and wo all vfettod and .spoiled her. And then Bob would walk homo from choir meeting with thu soprano (nearly old enough to be his mother), or sing duets with with May iriemming (nnd sho engaged), or pick up a tired mill girl in his buggy, and thoro wus Lotty in tears, and tho liousofihut up, and tho doctor sont for, nnd Mrs. Dent on guard, and Hob on his knees for sins ho nover dreamed of, and wo indignant, and sure, sooner off later, to show it and bo banished from tho sick-room. Of courso, being nil she had, Mrs. Dont was very fond of hor, but between her prido and Lot ty's jealousy poor Bob had a life of it. "There'll bo no penco in tho family till Mrs. Dent dies," said Pamela, our eldest. "Or is married," added I. "Thoro's as much hopo of ono ns tho. other. Sho's fair nnd forty bettor chances f lifo than you or I, Pam." "Oh, uho'd never marry," Pam de clared. "Sho would nover loavo Lotty. Jf eho would, thoro would bosomohopo lor Bob; and ho'a such a dear good , fellow, if they didn'l expect impoesii hilitics; for, because alio don't caro lor music, is lio novel to no to concerts, orco'mo over hero for nn evenitm oj sinKinc ho with tholxBttonorin Hock' dale? Oh, it'o nil very well to any it'u because sho's ailing, and I in sure J nopo it will bo better after tho baby coiics; but I don't think it's a nice w08Dct for Rob." 'The.? b? tlio lirst year is always tio kndst," Annio said. "It's just excess ot nfK'ction on her part, you see. Sho loves him so much that she can't bear lys loving any one else not oven us, ins own sisters. lion sue cets somcthinc else to lov Jlub U it was better for 11 rapturous month after baby came, it was only a truce. Sho was tho lovlicst young mother in tho world, and iiob adored his Madonna, clasping his boy with an ardor that satisfied oven Mrs. Dent. Hut when eho was well again, over tho baby s name, and the baby s medi cines, and tho baby's clothes and thfl baby 8 nurse, thero were chances enough of disagreement between the iwi fi,n nrnminf niniilor, nimtH. Wnwi.rnhnmnnnn.thif!. nml Afr TI0..1 ;,,;af,.,l r.n nn old. sn inn n ntm i w lrmnvnr tho tin )V ...... sneezed; and wo couldn't help saying I - . . . , f ono day, seeing tho shelf of medicines ho was accumulating, that 'twas u mercy ho had tho Graham constitu tion. Wo wanted him named foi hisgrandfathcr.agood Scriptural name that had always been in the family; but ho had to bo Harold, straight out of a novel Letty had read. And when wo called him Pet and Blossom and Princeling, half to avoid that do- testable name, halt because ho was sc sweet, Letty declared that wo despised her and her baby, and ho wasn I worthy, sho supposed, to bo tho licit of tho Grahams unless ho was called Mark, and presently wo wero as badly on as over. It wns absurd, ot courso Wo laughed over tho trilles that mad our miseries; but it was no trifle when, with only a block between us, sh wouldn't let Bob como to see us for a month. It ended in our going dowq to tho mills mornings when ho waj there, nnd so getting to know tho now superintendent. Presently Pam asked him to tho house in tho Lady Bounti fill way sho had toward friendless pcoplo of all sorts and conditions bho nover thought that ho was no match for our Annie, thoyoungestand prettiest ot us, and though sho callcc herself an old maid, actually 011I5 twenty-livo, nnd not looking that Hut when sho saw what sho had done and that something serious michl como of it, though nothing had yet, for J' rank Truman was as proud as ho was poor, she put tho blanio wher it belonged on hotly s shoulders. "! or it it hadn t been lor you, nn dear, woshouid nover havo known him inevorbeforo know a suponntendent- socially, I mean." "I don t know that it's so deplor able," 1 said. "Jt s tho family way, and wo can afford to overlook his poy erty, sinco he s really very much o a gontlemnn, I'm sure." And I smileu at Lotty, for wo wero reconciled now. and sho had run in to show us how the baby was learning to tako steps. " J fiat must bo such a consolation, said Lotty, flushing, and taking it wrong, as I might havo known sh( would "to Annie, I mean that sin is only following in her brother's steps but I should think, out of regard at least to him, and courtesy to 1110" "Why, 1 nover meant to reflector you, I cried. "Wo never tlisap proved " ion never had a chance; and U wouldn't havo done tho least good i( you had, sho cried, defiantly. "iNo, indeed, i'am said, coming to my rescue "fiob was too thoroughly in lovo to mind if wo had talked al! day at him. It was a clear casoofbo witchmont. " "I'm much obliged, T'm sure," Lolt said, picking up Harold; "but if vol mean to intimate that I tried thai v;o tried to capture my husband" "I only meant to intimate," Pan: said, sweetly, "that you wero then, as you aro situ, so very pretty thai liob-" "Oh, then, 1'vo nothing but my prct ty face-" "Which baby has inherited," Ipul in. "fieally, dear, tho child grows moro liko you ovory day of his lifo." "ilo s tho imago of his father, cried Letty. "Eyes, mouth, everything. 1 wouldn't own him if ho was not. Ami you know you only say ho resembles 1110 to teaso me." That wns perfectly absurd, for tin child was Dent all over, inoro's tin pity; but you might as well havo tried to reason with atiirkey-cockjustthon Sho swept up tho baby and was out of tho houso while wo wero laughing at her vehemence. Wo novor could got into Lolly's feeling about it, I sup poso. Wo thought by tins 1 11110, mar ned two years, and sure ot our ntlee tion, sho ought to take things more lightly; but it was plain bho did not. For sho talked so to Bob about th certainty of marital shipwreck if a rich woman married a poor man though it wasn't all sunny sons the other way either that ho nmdjj it hi' duty to discountonnnco tho whole thing. Ho sent Frank Truman of! to tho west for n fow wcoks to look aftot somo business for tho firm, and in the nieantuueho brought down old Talbot, senior partner irt the Tuckahoo mills. where lie had a third interest, to con sole Annio. I should havo thought Lotty would havo liked tho othet match bettor; but she scorned to think that if Audio married the old widower, who was as rich as all of us put to- gothor, that would balance things perfectly. And as Frank, when In enmo back, was too proud to speak, and nono of us felt sure it was indeed n matter of lifo and death with Annie and so inclined to let things take the courso, wo wore presently in as prutt) a snarl as heart could wish. Tueka hoo was only ton miles oil, nnd Mr Talbot used to drive over once or twico a week; and when ho wns not at our house ho wns at Bob's. Ho was roally rather nice, though being twenty or moro years older than Annie, it didn't seem nronMiimblonmtch.nna I somotiuuM wondered if ho didn't have nn eye on Pamela, or if he couldn't be brought around to that. Pam wot , . , , . stately find impress. vp, and much hot. tor suited in years and dignity. I; would havo been a perfect match fo 1 her nnd then little Annie could ttOu Frank, and tho double Mdldir.g would prove our democracy beyond dispute. Pam was gracious to him, too all nn Annie's account, she said; and tint queen-dowager pretended to help, so that plainly tho Tnlbot bark was on Bunny seas. And it was whilo we were nil in this tangle that Harold was lost. It was all from tho French nurse, as I said at onco to Pam; and I h'idsnid often bcfoio that no good could coniu of getting a chattering foreigner to caro fo" tho child, and nmkehini lenvu her tongue before ho could his own. It was the quocn-do wager's idea, I was. sure, and I had no patience with it. But Mario seemed a good girl, and sho certainly wao picturesque and hand eomo in her peasant costume, and it was pretty to near the little follow lisn his "cstce-ques." Bob made rather more of her than of the other servants, I noticed; out ho was generous to them ML "lid it Was Ollly natural t hat ho suouKi iiavcnioro to say to j-rince 1 tin ,1. i i t..4. ...i. .... nuiiuiiiiwueii. j.ui niu-ii unu huh September afternoon prince and hand maiden disnnnenred toirolhor win-. Lotty remembered it. It imnearod from the incoherent nr. count Letty gave when she came over" distracted, to tell us, that Mario and Harold had gone out, as usual, a lit tle before ten that morning. She had given orders to keep hun out in the prelty little park until lunch tune, and sho had delayed lunch a little when they did not come, and then she had font one of tho servants after them, and she came back with a distressing tale that nurso and child had been seni to tnkotheten-o'clocklrain for North, ington. She had bought her ticket, so the agent said, chattering nn indistinct (oniething to him about Monsieur Graham and a message. Now North ington was a great junction twelvo miles off, and ono could go cast, wt-.sfc or south from it, and of course wo all harped to ono conclusion. 1 near ly bit my tongue off to avoid saying. i told you no! and to keen out of temptation I sot off for tho littlo po lice station, whilo Annie, too distracted to think of tho carriage, rtwhed down! to tho mills; for Bob had gonu to tin; city that morning on business, but we ; didn't 1 mow what or where, and ono : can't send n telegram at random. Frank Truman offered to send i he messages, and proposed also to wire the chief of police, and to bring up the return messages himself, and Annie wan glad to accept. Then whilo woweroall ' running about dislraclcdlysondingthc ' servants here and thero for informa tion, and watching over Letty, who threatened hysterics, who should drive up but Talbot with his splendid team And whilo wo wero telling him and ask ing advice for wo five women felt as helpless as babies in tho emergency ir walked Frank with the return telegrnpr from tho office where Bob's business, was. "Not here. Left for Northington af 10:10." Letty road it, and shrieked, "Oh. 1 know it! I know it!" And for onj dreadful instant perhaps wo women all had tho samo thouglit; but it wni too outrageous a possibility for a sis; tor's heart, and Pain stiffened at once, "It is nrobablv some business a flair." sho saiii, "something wo know nothing ot. 'i ho trouble is now wo don I know how to reach him." ! "Beach him!" Letty burst out 1 "Oh, hois beyond that now! Oh, that I could havo been so blind all these I weeks! You wero right, Mini" this to 1110. I might have known the sill v creaturo would bring trouble; but I didn't beliovo I couldn't that my own husband could be guilty." j J! or shame, JjettV. cried Pam 1 "Don't dare to say another word igainst my brother. Thero is not 11 particle of reason" "And f saw thorn logcthor Inst night, ' Lolly wont on, utterly beside herself "planning it all out, and I never suh- : pected littlo fool! Ho gave her money yesterday her month's wages, hesaill but who knows? And oh! oh! to rob mo of my child, too!" Hut what moro sho said 1 can't loll, for it wai ! too dreadful. Tho family skeleton was paraded before (hem all, and out ollortsto hush her only mado it worse ! Piun had grown white at her fuM words, but now sho lust turned to the f.entleinon and said, as quietly as pos itive: "I beg that you will not thin!; , sho meant anything. Sho is out oi her head over tho child." 1 'Of courso," Frank Truman said. ' but ho certainly looked a littlo dk (Misted. "But whatwohave to do now is to prove hor wrong by finding Mi Graham. If you will givo mo your ' horses, Mr. Talbot" cool as ymi please to tho nabob "I can catch tin 1 :i0 train for Northington; nnd if lu '.1 there, as of courso ho is, I can findnnd bring him back in three hours. Ami meantime, Mr. Tnlbot can direct thu search hero for tho child. 0 have them both to hunt up now, and my half is tho oasior." "lfow good von aro!" Pam said, putting out hor hand. "And" she tlushednnd hesitated "you will not tell him except about tho baby. I I am so ashamed and so sorry for poor Letty. 1 niy trust you, I am sun?, as as one ot ourselves." And she didn't think, till Frank had bowed over her hand and said, fervently, "A thou sand thanks, dear Miss Graham, "nnd then with ono glance at Audio rushed oil she didn't think till sho saw that gleam of his eye and Annio's answer- ing sumo, wnat sue nun sum. 0 got Lotty to bed with somo dif ficulty, and Mr, Talbot wont for tho doctor. By that tinio tho servants had begun to come buck, but all the satisfaction thoy brought wns that a slender, dark ovod man, supposed to bo a loreicner, had been seen hnnginij about Mario for the last fow days. They're confederates of course," I said at onco, and it is all a plan to steal tho child for n reward." "Porhnps it is a sweetheart, "Annie suggested. My dear." I paid, a little sharnlv. "of courso you think so." "It is as natural a supposition ni tho other," said Mr. Talbot which was what was to bo expected from him. But I could hae told him that mjtmsBBitBatan lohj 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 i Annio needed nono of his support. Sho had a look in her eyes ns if Letty's jealousy just made her faith in some one deeper and truer, a sort of ten der pity every time the poor child shrieked out some fresh arraignment of Bob. We had a miserable aftcrnoon.thouh, thanks to an anodyne, we quieted poor Ietty after a while. Thero wero con sulfations nnd plans, and messengers sent of! on vague traces which the police fancied they had found. Practically wo wero waiting for Bob, in tho hope that with him Harold would appear, and at Inst, nisi as J jetty was rousing again and asking for news, Annie, at sight or sound of something, rushed down the avenue, and then thero was a cloud of dust, and Talbot's team, which ho had sent to tho station on the chance of their coining on the five o clock express, appeared. Thero sat Hob, holding the baby, and Frank and Marie, sho very tearful and ho very triumphant, wero on tho back seat. In another instant Bob was down, and we wero all about him, nnd tho nueen-downgcr would have torn Har old from his arms if ho hadn't been firm. "No, no: let mo give him to his mother," ho cried. "Poor, poor Letty! to havo had such a fright!" Thero was a shriek above as ho rushed into the hall, nnd Jjotty camo running down. Thoy met half-way and it is a wonder tho child wasn't smothered between them. But it wns pretty as a picture, Bob half kneeling, and Letty leaning down, all in white, and her golden hair streaming, and tho light of the stained window on tho landing naming inem 111 crimson. "It was my fault, darling," woneard Bob saying, "but I never dreamed of your having such a fright." And Lotty answered wildly "ro, no, it was mine to doubt you so. Oh, how could 1?" That was all very well as sentiment, but not precisely explanatory. Wo had all that presently, however, and simple enough it all was. In tho city, the day before, Bob had met his old friend Cnrthnme, theportrait painter, just out tor a lew days from iNew 1 ork, and at sight ot him tho idea find Hash ed on him that a crayon sketch of Harold would bo the prettiest pos fc'iblo surprise for Letty's comingbirth dny. Carthame had a special reputa tion on children, and his being 111 Northington was a clianco not to b missed. "All right," Carthame had said; "I'll do it for you, though I wouldn't for everybody in such a hurry. Bring the boy down to Northington to-mor row, nnd I'll manage ir head for you at anv rate." So Bob had hastily arranged with Marie tho night before, charging her to tell tho queen-dowager. And hero Mario dissolved in tears, and owned that sho had met her her cousin that same evening, and it had driven every thing out of her head, and sho had quite forgotten that part of theschenie "If I had not been really obliged to run into the city this morning I could have managed it better, ' Hob went on "But all I could do was to tell Mario to bring tho boy down, and I would meet her there, and I never dreamed of all tho fuss, till nn hour ago thero was a tremendous ring at Carthamo's door he's with his sister there and in i'fllml M'pii in u ti nu nlit-i net n ttrci- " Frank admitted the pallor, llohad been, ho said, so taken aback nt find ing the two together thatforonodrend- ful instant ho had not known what to think Of course, when it was explained, it seemed nothing at all. Wo laughed at our agonies, our frantic telegrams, our messengers, and tho rest. But I must say it had results that wero far from unimportant. It was really a lesson to Lotty, and she has behaved better since; it brought about an understand ing between Annie and Frank, and, "Bcally," Pain said, delighted to bo able to abandon gracefully her aristo cratic objections, "after what has hap pened, wo must lie glad to have him ono of us. Only I'm sorry for Mr. Talbot. I suppose ho understood that day," sho went on, innocently. "He hasn't been hero sinco, I notice." "It is about all you havo noticed," laughed Lotty, "or you'd know thero was no end of lamentation over him." "Oil, 1 daresay he'llconsolehimself," Pam said. "Of courso at this time of life and I can't say I over supposed him in love with Annie." "I should hope not, indeed," Letty said, in high good humor. "As for his consoling himself, if you take it that way, hos done it already. If you hadn't been half blind for the last month, you'd havo known what brought him here. Mamma wouldn't think of it, at first, sho so hated tho idea of leaving nieand inarryingagain." (Oh, indeed!) "But bo's boeii so urg ent of Into" (sinco ho found liocouldn t got Annio), "and after all she's just a nico ngo for him, and it is only ton milos away, and such u lovely house, and mamma is so sensitive over her position hero" (to bo queen dowager isn't enough. I suppose), "and so hist night sho said yes. Well, that did tako our breath away for a minute; but when wo camo to think of it, wo saw how nicely tho quoon dowager had played her cavds and it wasn t so amazing. And it was a hlossing for Boh. Mrs. Talhot hits something else to ihink of now, and left to hereon, I.etty is moro reason able, olio 18 still n lentous wjfo what h in the naturo won t come out with a stroke, hut sho does control it hotter, and thero is peace hotweon our houses. Harper s Bazar. By tho will of tho lato Henry Sinj master of Stroudshun;, Pa., who died recently at an advanced age, his estate, which is iMimnted at between $100, 000 and S200.U00, is to bo sold after the death of b.w wife and divided into two equal shine. Ono share e.oos to the Lutheran Tlutilouical Seminary ol Philadelphia, and the other to the Lutheran Theological Seminary at (Jottyshurg. Tho average lifo of mombors of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, is f0 years, or about fifteen years creator than that of the population as a whole. i1 iiulwtm Union Milling: Co.'s TAKES THE LEAD Vfwrevar It has been tried, For Sale lij- nil llio Leading Dcnlcrs HverfwliTP, Geo. AVmoiiT, Yv". T. WmoiiT, President. Cashier. UNIOtf, OHEGOX. Does a General Pankinz Pusines.i. IJtivs nnti hciib exchange, unil discounts com mcrcial paper. Collections cnrcfuliv attended to, and promptly reported. COiMMEKCIAL- Livery id Feefl OerosiTK Cgntk.vmai. ITotel. JOHN S. ELIOTT, - PHOFHIETOU. IfaviuL' furnished this old and nomilar hostelry with ample room, plenty of feed, ?ood hostlers nnd new buggies, i.s hetter p.eparcd than ever to accommodate cus tomiT?. My terms nro reasonable. Adam Ckossman, Pitopttinroi:. Has how on hand and for salo the best of HAHXFSS, LADIGO. UPFKft and LACK LEATHER. SHEEP SKINS, ETC. Paid for Hides and Pelts. WALLA WALLA Corner Main and A Streets, Union. E. MILLER, - - - Proprietor. Keeps always on hand the finp.st brands of WINES, LHJUOKS, and CIGARS. The very host Lnccr nnd Rock Peer in the market, at 23 cents a quart. Reer and unt-li ' cents. A fine billiard tablo for tho accommoda tion of customers. Drop in and bo socia ble. BAILBOAD FEED AND LIVERY STABLE Near the Court House. A. F. Rk.nso.v, - - Puoi'iimToii. Union, Oregon, Fine turnouts a:id first-class riiis for the accommodation of tho lniblic eenerallv. Conveyances for commercial mon a spe cialty. 3idTlio accommodations for feed cannot bo excelled in the valley. Terms reasonable. -BLUE MOUNTAIN Main Street, Union, Oregon. ITknkv Sthikkh, I'noriiiKTon. JMJ-Orders from any imrt of tho vallev will receive prompt attention. 1 havo on hand somo very line RUCK RRER. Drop in and sample it. NOHTII POWDER Re staurant. PONY STEVENS. PROP. Tho traveling public will plcnso tal;o no tico that, in addition to my saloon in North Powder, I havo opened a flrst-clnss RESTAURANT, and liwpeetfully solicit a kharo of the public patronage. The tables win always no suppucu wuu mo BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS, and no pains will be spared to make my patrons conitortaliie. call on me, eat, uniiK ami do nappy. Tonsorial Rooms Two door south of Jone Union, Oregon. Bros.' store, J. M. Johnson, PlIOPIUllTOIt. Hair cutting, slmviuc and shtfmnooini: done neatly nnd in thw beet style. CITY v MEAT v MARKET Main Street, Union, Oregon. Roniss A Rnsso.v, - PitorniKTOiis. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, FORK, VEAL. MUTTON, SAU SAGE, HAMS, I.ARD, ETC. Union, Oregon. Dan". F. 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