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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1909)
s Or.HlM.Soc, CHï H»1L == ! « M I PU B LIS H E D F R ID A Y S . $1.50 per Year) 12ic. per Month Agents (or any Magazine or Newspaper printed In the United States. SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER. M o i-o , S h e r m a n í^ s tá b lia lio d 1 8 8 7 . C o u n t y . O r e g o n , .F r id a y , F e b r u a r y 5, 1 9 0 9 . S f i u job hdm \ Of F very Description to O rd e r Q uick and Cheapl lbber Stomps Furnished. • ----- 1 tor Typewriters, Typewrites Supplie«, Ribbon«, E ta . P i v e , C e n ts now i won MY TITLE -r-x — ograpbers of the m artyr president who carry powder and lead enough to do execution equal to my caliber BO. knew him wall state that ha did not materially change his views till (he At last the time came to begin the 1 8 0 9 — T h e L in c o ln C e n t e n a r y — 1 9 0 9 day of bis death. match. Comstock and I dashed Into ■ herd, followed by the referee». The It was In the political domain, how ever, where Paine Influenced Lincoln buffaloes separated. CouMtock took the left bunch and 1 the right. M y most i>rofoundly. Aa one was th» great forte In killing buffaloes from author of the Declaration of Inde horseback waa to get them circling by pendence, so the other became its riding my horse at the head of the defender and apostle. One of the To have money is to save It. The one sure way to save it herd, shooting the leaders, thus crowd S te a m W a s I n I t * I n By James A. Edgerton 4 \ , greatest pieces of eloquence that ever is to deposit it with Wasco Warehouse Milling Co. bank. ing their followers to the le ft till they fell from the emancipator’s Upa was In ___ e fa n c y , E le c tr ic ity O n ly a would finally circle round and round. support of this charter o f the rights You will then be exempt from the annoyance of having C op yrigh t. 1P0& b y the S c ie n tific C u r io s it y —D a r On this morning the buffaloes were of man. A m e r ic a n P r e * A a e o e le tlo a it burn holes in your pockets. Aside from the fact that w i n B o r n th e Seme D a y very accoinumdatlng, and 1 soon had indeed, both Jefferson and Lincoln them running In a beautiful circle, ere pupils of Paine, whom the world r.ocov your money will be safe from theft; the habit of saving when 1 dropped them thick and fast 111 some day recognise as the founder tends to the establishment of thrift, economy, discipline until 1 had killed thirty-eight, which of modern democracy. Jefferson N E o f my favorite buffalo hunt- finish«-«! my run. he ’ the herd to run In sullied his work by trying to steal and a general understanding of business principals essen lag horaea waa a small roan 4 «!c :«•. I have Lllicd from twenty- Comstock begnn shooting at the rear tho honor due bis teacher. Lincoln or large Indian pony which 1 live i» forty htiffuhtoa w hile-the h«*rd of the herd, which he waa chasing, was the truer and m onr honorable tial to your success. e- ; , “ got from a Ute Indian. Aa wus circling, aud they would all be and they kept straight on. H e suc soul and practiced the teachings of .11 the p n r lh u . . . . .< . b ^ ? her lowe.t ebb ‘ the new political gospel w ith more this horse came from Utah, I named .r.ippul v e r/ « los«» tog«*ther - that is to ceeded, however, lu killing twenty- him Brigham, after the prophet D a r ,ay. In a space covering about five three, but they were scattered over a changes A have► taken p l.e e In that de-|M>t(gni Napoleon had anuffed out fidelity. distance of three miles, while mine lay When Lincoln was born Paine was ing the «-«instruction of the Kansas Pa- teres. single century. e g liberty gained by the French rev- When I had the tiumher I wanted 1 Close together. I had nursed my buf about to take his deathbed and Jeffer Iflc rullrond. now the Union Pacific, In h l. <►»«*>" Moat th* rM t of Kor°P * watched his teakettle and tnveu tod h l. of |be son In three weeks would relinquish 1807 the construction of the end of the would stop shooting nnd allow the bnl- faloes as a billiard player doe« the 3 engine, It la true; Fulton bad made hl* f w perBonfl, ml„ tary of this the presidency. In Europe Napoleon track got Into the great buffalo coun tm «• of the herd to get away. The balls when he makes a big run. A fter the result of the first run had ateamlxiat traverse th e ^ U u d jo a an d 1 q Am erJ,.a alo n e w e re , Ib. had reached his zenith and In a few try, und at that ttiue the Indians—the wagon would drive up, and my men Sioux.Cheyennes.Comancbes nnd Arnp- would Instantly begin to secure the been duly announced our S t Louis ex was to that very year, •. a K ’’ rt and deniocracy recognised. They years would begin hla downfall. The •ihoes— were all on the warpath It hams, the tenderloins, the tongues and curslou friends—who had approache«! bis patent, but Georg. Stepbemmu » a . hJ qo elaewLere eteam engine was Invented, and the was before the refrigerator car was In the choicest meat of each bqffalo, In to the place where we had stopped then a laborer and was only dreaming 8plrltually the W(<,d waa emerging steamboat was launched, but nobody use, and the contractors hnd no fresh cluding the heads, whleh were a fte r of his locomotbe, w h k » uh no <■ out tbe aeml-atbetam of the elght- knew what either meant The world meat to f«Mxl their employees The ward' mounted and used-for an adver materlalTxe until five years later. Thus, century lnto the dog. had not awakened to modern progress, nen were grumbling considerably for tisement for the satd road, loading the while the use of steam as a motive matla|n of the nlueteenth. No; looked hot was stirring In Ita sleep. power was barely known, the tuarvri* gt from any .tandpolnt 1900 The particular corner of the earth In 'resti meat, fcr they could see treat) .wagon until It was full. We would cun revolution to be wrought by I just about a million miles ahead of which Lincoln saw the light waa al neat- that Is, the buffalo, deer and an- then drive back to our camp or to the end of the track »’here the men were had not yet started. the corresponding year In the preced- most virgin wilderness. Kentucky at telop»--In every direction, nnd they E x p e rt, E xp e rie n ce d , u R e g istere d P h a rm a c is ts As for electricity, It was only a eel- ,ng century And that Is not mere that tim e was not only frontier, but would growl because the contractors at work, and »'hen the meu would see me coming with a load of fresh meat H e d ic in e s C a r e fu lly C o m p o u n d ed . raw frontier at th a t I t waa nature lid not kill th«* buffaloes so that they entitle t . 'oslty. As fa r as any prac j)oaHt |ng- i t |H history, they »-ould say, “ Ah. here comes BUI tlcal employment of it was concerned, For al, that 1800 waa a noteworthy unmodified and unadorned. I t waa •oul«l have fresh meal to eat. This with a lot of nice buffalo!” For awhile Complete «Assortment of 3llverw are and Jewelry that did not come till years Inter. In year—noteworthy for Its promise rnth- good fundamental stuff out of which was a little more d lllh u lt Job than hey thought, us the InCInns were cou they were delighted with tlie fresh, 18<)9 water und horseflesh were the ef t |jail ¡ta performance. During it to make a man, provided the man waa tender*m eat, but after a time they chief motor powers; boats, wagons and were born two of the great poets of fundamental enough and strong enough «•»ling «•) cry mile of rullr«xid that wus tired of It and, seeing me come, would >elug built Into their country. Besides "stagecoaches were the almost exclu- the |aat century, Edgar A. Poe and to build himself out of anch material. say, “ Here coin«-« this old Bill with rive methods of travel; candlea aud A, frod Tennyson. And on Feb. 12. I t takes a bright* .soul to shine out luvtug military ew.orta to gunrd the xraders. every man from the boss more buffulo,” nnd finally they connect tallow dips were used as lllumluants; 1x09, the very day that Lincoln was through a casing of such environment low u who went to work on the gra«i- ed the name buffalo aud BUI together there were but few newspapers, aud 5 0 ^ Charles Robert D arw in eaw the end such heredity. ng of the r«>ud carried u rltle with him and that Is where-the foundation was Any and all Kind« of P aten t M e d ic in e A lw ays In Stock these small and poorly printed, and light. Lincoln and D a rw in ! Where But there has been a vaat amount of is wh 'II as pick aud shovel, und when laid to tlie ñamé of “ Buffalo Bill,” lettera were infrequent, voluminous could be found two m ightier names unintentional running down of L in ne whs using them bis gun la f - on the which afterw ard 1 defended ns n title aud cost much for postage. Only a jn their respective spheres—Lincoln, coln's surrounding». Hla parent», rela 'round near hint, as the Indians would with Comstock before the officers at small percentage of the population was w ho freed the bodies of men, and Dar tive«, neighbor», education, associates Fort Wallace with success. tally sttNck them. educated, dueling was In „vogue, Slav- w |n, who freed their minds; Lincoln, and even hla wlfp have come In for a 1 killed buffalo«-* for the railroad coin The tonsiruciion of that r«>ad In ery was In existence on both sides w ho taught us that the black man la share of the Indirect abuse. This |8«’7 was nearly a continuous fight pnny for twelve months, and during of the ocean, there was little democ-j nur brother, and D arw in, who tanght course la both unnecessary and unjust «ml It wuh dangerous for u man to that time the' number I brought Into no j or liberty anywhere except In that the ape la our great-grand Lincoln does not need to have hla clr vsfeturt* uuy distance away from the camp was kept accouut of, and at the America, aud a b o u t/th e duly things father; both men majestic In thell cumstances or hla people minimized In troops und the graders to huut tbs end of that perhtd I had killed 4.280 that were as tli^y are now were love, patient, homely s im p lic ity b o th earn order that he may seem great. Prob buffalo They tried several hunters buffnloea on ol«J Brlghntn. Thia ^ iih h II death and taxes. Yet that was only lug the right of earthly Im m ortality by ably they do not show well by the con who «lulmed that they could kill buf accomplished w ith one needle gun, or a hundred years ago, barely u life their unexampled services to the hu trast, but that Is not their fa u lt They falo aud bring It Into camp so that breechloader, which 1 named “ Lucre time for T r» ly . the world J raBiv race; D arw in, the founder nl were fully as g o o d aa the average clr they could have fresh meat for their tla Borgia.’’ moves. It took It u long tim e to get evolution, who has revolutionised the cumstances and people of that time men One or two of these men were During those twelve months 1 hnd Into the habit, but it Is -going some” thought of the world; Lincoln, the The ordinary hill may look very Inal« klll«*d by Indians while doing so, and many fights w ith the Indiana. On sev liberator of the negro, the preserver of nlflcant Iteelde a mountain, but the hill the others gave up the Job. now. eral ot-caslona they Jumped myself In 1809 about all the world that was the republic, the Incarnation of danioc cannot help th a t A t that time I waa guide and scoat and little party while several mile« known were Europe, a fringe of land racy, who has shown the world what The Lincolns were poor, but so was at Fort Haya, Kan., and had quite a from the end of the grade. We would • W t M h M ? -Equality la a leaven reputation aa a buffalo hunter. Some always pref«?r to have them Jump us “It/rlqhtcncd llut UulUa io ac< tbs b»JF«u . which leave« poverty not one-half so one told the main contractor that If he after our wagou waa loaded with buf (X»i»4n</ a t fuU tptd." A m o d ern h o s p ita l for the tre a tm e n t o f a ll m e d ic al- a n d eurgio a bitter. Uncoln was born In a log could get me I would be able to kill all falo hams, for we had rehearsed our set out a lot o f champagne which they diseases, excep t each as sre contagious. , bonae with one room and a d irt floor, the buffaloes be would require. Ilo little stockade ao often that It did not had brought with them and which but so was almost everybody else who a me to Fort Hays to aes me. 0 / take more than a few minutes from proved a g«x>d drink on a Kansas R ates, fro m $10.00 to $21.00 per w e e k , a c c o rd in g to room first saw light on the Kentucky fron .-ourse I could not accept, although b- the time we saw them conilng until prairie, and a buffalo hunter was a tier of that day. Ida Tarball lndlg PT-.)» me a very tempting financial the mules were unhitched from the g«MMl man to get away w ith I t Ambulance will meet all trains and boats if hospital is notified. nantly denies that ThomasO» Lincoln offer, without permission of the mill wagon and tied to the wheels. We w hir« f a in s r < Abraham’s father, was the laay loafer tary department commander. General would make our breastworks aronnd denly spied another herd of buffaloes For Further In fo rm a tio n A ddress the wheels of the wagon by throwing he has been pictured, and as that Is the Sberldsn. coming toward us. I t waa only a more charitable view snd as Miss T ar The subject waa even discussed at out the meat and would protect our small drove, and we a t once pre selves by getting liehlnd the buffalo beadqunrtvrs lu Washington, and a « » r bell Is a woman 1 am going to side pare«! to give th« animals a lively re M e d ic a l D irecto rs. with her. Miss Tarbell also take« up consl«*ierable delay evidence was pre hams. In this manner we held off from ception. They proved to be a herd of forty to sixty Indians on one or two the cudgels for Lincoln’s mother, and sented that It would solve one of the cows and calves, which, by the way. ns there are two women tn this case 1 main labor problems In the great t/ork occasions until we received assistance are quicker In their movements than 1 would make my smoke signals at side with her more than ever. More of om structlng the great trans« ontl- the hulls. We charged in among 'once, which the soldiers would In over, a fair Investigation shows that nertal railroad and facilitate matte»« them, and I concluded my run w ith a Leave of absence fcr the stantly see and rush to our rescue. I score of eighteen, while Comstock the charitable view la the right one greatly. Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln pnrpobe waa given me w ith tne un- hnd five men killed during my con killed fourteen. The «core was now were an honorable, self respecting and -Uratundlng that in case of an Impor section with the Union Pacific ra il fifty six to thlrty-eeven In my favor. road, three drivers and the others industrious couple fully up to the aver tant outbreak 1 should resume the du Again the excursion party approach butebere. Ae roxUig In age or above the average of the time ties of my position. Nee-eet Hotel lo Busineee Center, Banka and Depot. Shortly after the adventures Just ed, and once more the champagne was dlsna generally followed the herds of tn which they lived. tapped. A fter we bad eaten a lunch The same thing applies to Lincoln’s buffaloes, I was really In b certain recited I hail my celebrated hunt with which was spread for us we resumed Billy Comstock, a noted acout guide - Sunday D inner 35 cents. environment. It was not bad; It was veuse |>erformlng scouting d u lj also. the h u n t Striking out for a distance 1 started In killing buffalo, s for th« and Interpreter, who »aa then chief of of three miles, we came up doee to only crude. All theee things are com scouts at Fort Wallace, Kansas. Coin- pnratlve. Besides, there la a whole Union Pacific railroad. I hud a wag another herd. As I was so fa r ahead F ir s t Class B a rb e r Shop in th e H o te l. stock had had the reputation for a lot of unnecessary fuss made about on with four mulea, one driver aud of my competitor In the number killed. long- time of living a moat successful the early accident« that surround two butchers, all brave, well armed 1 thought 1 could afford to give an ex buffalo hunter, and the officers In par men, myself riding my home Brigham. great men. An acorn w ill grow an tra exhibition of my skllL 1 had told ticular, »ho bad seen him kill buffa We would leave the end of the con- <>ak If the soil la anywhere near to the ladles that I would on the next run loes, were very desirous of backing being half decent In which It la drop- ride my horse without any saddle or him In a match against me. It was I»ed. One of the Immortals cannot be bridle. This had raised the excite accordingly arranged that I should explained by the presence or absence ment to fever heat among the excur shoot him a buffalo killing watch, and sionists, and I remember one fa ir lady of plush carpet on the floor of the the preliminaries were easily and sat who endeavored te prevail upon me bedroom In which he la born. Neither isfactorily ngreed upon. W e were to v nr v ny w v ’ir *<r bank credits nor their effect« can make not to do I t bunt one day of eight hours, begin ’’T h a t’s nothing a t all," «aid L “ I or seriously mar a real genius who In nlng at 8 o’clock In the morning aud have done It many a time, and old herits their command. Poverty could closing at 4 o’clock In the afternoon. Brigham knows as well aa I w hat 1 am not overwhelm Lincoln any more than The wager was >500 n side, aud the doing and sometime« a great deal bat w e a lth .A u ld apoll Itooeevelt man who should kill the greater num ter." The worst that can be said of the ber of buffaloes from horseback was So leaving my saddle and bridle w ith Kentucky of Lincoln’s day Is tjia t It to be declared the winner. the wagons we rode to the w indward was new, but It was also wholesome The hunt took place about twenty of the buffaloes, as usual, and when As for the hard life, the simple fare, miles east of Sheridan, and as It had within a few hundred yards of them tho prim itive surroundings, w hat worth been pretty w«)ll advertised and noised we daahe«l Into the herd. I soon had while man was ever retarded by things abroad a large crowd witnessed the thirteen laid out on the ground, the such as these? Interesting and exciting eceuc An ex last one of which 1 bad driven down Man la not a alave of things. H e Is cursion party, mostly from Kt. Louis, close to the wagous, where the ladiae In the Image of the Maker of things; consisting of about a hundred gentle were. I t frightened some of the tender therefore he Is a ruler of thing« by men and ladles, came out on a special creatures to sea a buffalo coming divine right. train to view the sport, and among the at full speed directly toward them, All of Abraham Lincoln's life was a Q T O P v tw »top number was my wife, with little Baby but when he had got w ithin fifty yards * -------- -- - —T M k l proof of this principle. By the sheer Arta, who had come to remain with of one of the wagons I had shot him the full stature«! American will be? greatness of his heart, hla Intellect ki Asia and A frica around the Medlter ‘ me for awhile. , _ , “ dead In hla tracks Thia made my F«>r tlie sake of thcae tWo Feb. 12. and his soul he overcame an adverse Th? buffaloes were quits plenty, and sixty-ninth buffalo and finished my ranean, a little broader fringe down 1809, should be a fa r shining day. environment. H e had few of the helps I t was agreed that we should go into third and last run, Comstock having the eastern coast of the two Americas In this same year occurred a not T h e D a lle » , o r a g o n , that are regarded as essential by moat the same herd at the same time and killed forty-six. and a rather vague and grotesque no able death. . Thomas Paine, the “make a run.” as we called It. each Steam H e a t. Electric L ig h ts Electric C all Belle. tion In the public mind concerning apostle of liberty In America, Eng men. H e was without the aaatstance As It was now late In the aftatuooo, of fam ily or wealth, early training or one killing ns many as M M lb le. A China, India, Japan and the African land and France, the real author of Comstock and hla backers gave up tha referee wns to follow ésch of us on Idea that be could beat ma» and there continent. The chief use of Asia In the Declaration of Independence, one Influential connection«, the prepared H O T E L R A T E S T O S U IT Y O U . horseback when we entere«! the herd upon the referee« declared ma tha w in those days was aa a bnals for fables, of the founders of the French revo Step« of the stairw ay to success. He and count the buffaloes killed by each ner of the match as wall as th a cham while Africa waa only good for steal lution and almost one of Its martyr», had to climb the heights alona. M r. Lincoln said and did many great man. The 8t. Ixiuls excursionists, as pion buffalo hunter o f tha plains. ing “niggers” from and selling them died In 1809, friendless and alone, In All O R & N Trains Stop at Front Door thing», but was greater than anything well as other spectators, rode out to Into slavery. the country he had helped to liberate- Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby. the vicinity of the hunting ground« In In the United States, Indiana was on Paine tried to free mankind Intel he said or did. He wee In the fore wagons and on horseback, keeping the extreme frontier; the Louisiana lectually aa well as politically and fro nt of one of earth’s fiercest strug purchase had but Just been made, thus gained the enmity of those who gles and yet la known chiefly as an ex ••/ would ru tb mjz horee Into them an d well out of sight of the buffaloes, eo T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie t o r . »h,x>t them d o w n .” ns uot to frighten them until the time Florid« and Texas were not yet ac loved either kind of chains, which ponent o f liberty, brotherhood Tha te a t en tha Mere*. quired, and the entire population of the meant practically everybody. But the peace. H e was the largest figure In atructlon work to go out after buffaloes camo for us to dash Into the herd, W hy does a man seated near tha nation waa but a trifle over 7,000,000. day la coming and Is not fa r distant one of the crises In the world’s history aud had an understanding with the »rhen they were to come up as near neck of a horse travel faster than one Madison had been elected president when the world w ill place him as and yet lent more luster to his epoch commanding officer who had charge as they pleased to witness tho chase Wo were fortuuato In the first run seated near hla tall? For tt has bean the first time and was about to take high as before It placed him low. T hat than he gained from It. Lincoln w ill of the troops guarding the construc be a live figure In the minds of men Comstock proved In vary striking fashion that his seat. The second w ar with Great Is one of the laws of juatlce. Every tion that should a smoke signal be In getting good ground. Britain had not yet been fought. The thing la balanced at last. The Ig when the occasion that gave him prom seen In the direction In which I had was mounted on one of his fnvorlte ha does. But why? T h a reason la 12251784 inence shall have grown vague and horses, while I rode old Brigham. I really vary simple, and yat whan little great political fact of the entire world nominy placed on the name of Tbomae distant. The event that brings a great gone they would know 1 waa In trou felt confident that 1 had the advantage T««d Sloan«, the Jockey, came forward was then Napoleon. H e was In the Paine at last w ill turn to refulgent soul Into men's view Is at beet but the bie and would send mounted men to of Comstock In two thing»—first. 1 ha«l with practical proof nobody ass wed to zenith of his power and for a little All kind« of Reservoir and-Cistern work in con glory, for so It la w ritten In the book stage setting; he Is the actor. I t Is but my assistance. man waa castlug a rem arkably long I bad to keep a dloee and careful the beat buffalo boree that ever made ba able to explain it. ▲ boras to sawva the background of the picture, he the nection with water «ystems installed tn first a track; the second, I was using what forw ard at all must thrust a t the earth, shadow. Indeed, Juat about this time of destiny. The writings of Paine had a great chief figure and reason of the paint lookout for Indiana before making my wns known at that time as the needle and the chief fore« of thia forward Napoleon waa Europe. He dominated class style and all work done guaranteed. run luto a herd of buffnloea. It was my Influence on Lincoln both In religion ing's existence. I t la but the pedestal; gun, a breechloa«llng Rprlugfleld rifle, thrust come» from hl» hind teg«. H France, Ita ly and Germany and had Dynamite and powder work on all kinde of Rock Excavations and politics. l a his younger 'd ays he la the statue. Who remembers that custom lu those days to pick out a caliber BO -it was my favorite old the chief wel«ht la Juet over or cteea England and Russia scared Into a po herd that seemed to have the fattest Lincoln wrote a book upholding the Socrates fought In a w ar or that Bad Lucretia," which haa already been to the thrusting power, naturally tt di litical ague. True, Wellington waa cows and young heifers. 1 would then Ideas o f the “ Age of Reason” and In dhn was heir to a kingdom? Alexan Introduced to the notice o f the reader minishes Its efficiency; * lnatead e f winning his first victories In Spain, but tended to have It published, but some der did not derive hla Importance from rush my horse Into them, picking out —while Comstock wae armed w ith a thrusting the bores forw ard a pertten Waterloo, of which these were pro the fattest Ones and shooting them oversea lout friend snatched It from Macedon nor Cicero from Catiline. I t Henry rifle, afad, although he could Are o f it te wasted tn lifting the weight e ( phetic, was yet six years distant. hla hands and gave I t to the fiamea. waa great for Lincoln to free the Slav* down while my horse would be run a few shots quicker than I could, yet the Jockey a t every «Mttek — In <11 material respects, to compare But the thought could not ba burned, and eave the Union, but greater to ba nlng elongride «f them. I had a happy I w w i grotty csrtota th a t It did aot the year 1800 w ith 1000 would be like [ toewitf to know!«« kww to afcaot to w » and Herndon end all the other hfc comparing a tallow dip w ith an are TH E ONE SURE W A Y 8 The World When Lincoln Was Bornt BY BU FFA LO BILL rMH'TiDBTAiaser n s rum' To those wishing soeh relations we heartily extent our services. W M asco il l in g C o . W T ar eh o use B A N K M oro MORO PHARMACY FORMALDEHYDE. RUBBER GOODS, PERFUMERY. BRUSHES, COMBS, SPONGES, CIGARS. h T H E iD A L L E S H O SPITAL! Drs. Ferguson and Reuter, H otel M oro Opposite Post O ffice Moro, Oregon. fv wf A " w v w w w “ W ANT” ad in T he M oro O bserver will , reach more people in Sherman County than > by any other medium available. The Umatilla House PLUMBING «5 ' “ Stuart & Miller, Moro, Oregon. P listering . P rick and C oncrete YV ori IttM - - »■-<•’ t . ... 3 ‘Ü