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Army Man Held Up.

An attempted robbery near Fort
Hancock failed recently only through
the haste of the highwaymen. An Of
fcer in the quartermaster's depart
ment had drawn $1400 from a New
York bank for use in that depart
ment. On his return he proceeded by
train to Red Bank, and thence by
trolley to Highland Beach, having
missed the last train to that point,
but communicating with the fort he
asked that an army wagon be sent to
meet him. The wagon, in charge of
a marine, had proceeded about half
way to Highland Beach, when at a
lonely spot two masked men sprang
from a clump of bushes and with
drawn revolvers commanded the dri-
yer to throw up his hands, which he
Immediately did. While one of the
bandits held a revolver at his head,
the other, striking a match, proceed
ed to search the driver and the inte-
rior of the wagon. Finding nothing
of value they lost themselves in the
darkness. The driver, in his report,
said the men wore soldiers uniforms,
but a hurried roll call showed that no
one was missing from the fort.
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BISHOP DoANE ON FAMILY LIFE EVILS.
He Deprecates Prevalence Of Divorce and the increase OF Race suicide.

Philadelphia.-There was read be-
fore the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ a report on Family Life
prepared for a committee by the Ri.
Rev. William Croswell Doane, Bishop
of the Episcopal diocese of Albany, in
which were exploited the evils pre-
vailing against the hearthstone.
Family life," wrote the Bishop,
sis threatened, first, by the lowered
sense of the sanctity of marriage;
secondly, by the prevalence of di-
vorce; thirdly, by the alarming in
crease in the restriction of the bear
ing of children. In this last matter it
is the duty of the Christian Church to
speak out. There has been a decline
in the birth rate in every Western
country, most marked in the English
speaking countries; greater in the
United States than in any other coun-
try> 1t is largely due to the loss of
the sense of responsibility to God for
the fruits of marriage. 1t is a symp-
tom of the spirit which shirks re-
sponsibility and resents self-denial
and which results in the weakening of
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character Of the American people.
Concerning this evil 8 : = the
committee desire to recommend that
wherever possible legislation should
be promoted to secure the prohibition
of certain appliances and drugs and
corrupting advertisements; the prose-
cution of all who publicly and profess
sionally assist preventive methods, a
proper and efficient standard and sta
tus of those who practice midwifery
and the national recognition of the
dignity of motherhood and the provi-
sion of adequate care, protection and
assistance for women before and af-
ter childbirth.
Differ as we may in the various
Protestant churches upon the ground
on which divorces may be allowed
there is a consensus of opinion in all
the churches that divorce is a menace
to society and a threatening ruin to
the home. The committee unhesita-
tingly declare that in their judgment
there is at most but one cause for
which marriage ought to be broken
by a court of law"
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DR.. Frank Cranes Epiprams.

The truest prayers are simple sic
lence. To feel God is to pray.
Prayer Is the o~rientation of life:
finding God, as sailors find a star.
Littleness Is self-hood; greatness
consists in being a vessel for the in
finite.
Our sole disease is ,ro+ance
man ever had enough Wit;
passion. Our passion trails IT. :
in the slime, not because it grows 100
strong, but because it has not enough
vigor to raise its bloom toward Heav-
en-.
Love knows no crime, but too lit
tie love. 1t is the dull razor that
cuts. The sickly rose plants are they
that are attacked by vermin.
Impurity comes from a morbid
love; when love strikes Its tap root
down into the infinite 1t purifes it.
self-"even as He Is pure"
Half dead souls secrete poison;
hardy, sunlit, out-of-door souls make
honey.
Our eyes are a~dulteries, envies
and such like, because there Is a
worm in the core of our souls.
My hand is lame when my soul is
dry.
Work is a sort of substitute for
Play and law is a substitute for life;
for with children 1t is all play and
in Christ there is no law.
Thars "rhnd a statute; the farso
elasi.aG kind, the former Jesus.
was MY mon Preached by DIR,
Frank
cester.
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been dismissed, the police had peen
deprived of their grating methods
and that every n was happy under
the new order, SO much SO, that ever,
the cab drivers accepted a small far9
without protest, but with smiles.
Forty Turkish women, the prea
er said, had been most instrume
in carrying on the revolution in
key, carrying dispatches to all PC
of the empire in behalf of the
triots. These women had been joi
by thousands of others since the
stitution had gone into effect, a
were establishing women's clubs, u
that the era of new womanhood III
Turkey had apparently dawned.
Women, he said, were doing away
with the custom of wearing wells.
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The Tenderness Of cod.

The most real and sure things in
this world are the words of God. In
every one Of them Gods W almighty
hand is shown; we grasp them, and
find ourselves in turn held by divin-
ity, out of whose clasp we can never
fall, nor be torn away. We lean upon
these words, and find ourselves en-
circled and upborne by the everlast-
ing arms. We pillow our head in
WEAKNESS or sorrow upon Gods
words of love and comfort, and find
ourselves drawn close to our Fathers
heart, held in His bosom, and soothed
by His tenderness, which is gentler
and more comforting than even that
Of an earthly parent.
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Newsy Gleanines.

Rear-Admiral Sperry's homeward-
bound fleet entered Malacca Strait.
Swarthmore College has changed
its charter SO is to become non-secta-
rian.
An association of banks guarantee
ing deposits is to be formed in Okla
homa.
The New York City Board of Al
dermen passed the anti-ticket specu-
lating ordinance.
The City Chamberlain's trial bal
ance sheet showed S159.700.SO in un-
claimed salaries held by New York
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WOMEN LED REVOLUTION In TURKEY.

New York City.-The Rev. Charles
e. Jefferson, pastor of the Broadway
Tabernacle. recently returned from
Turkey, where he was at the time the
Sultan's declaration of the new con-
stitution was announced, spoke be-
fore the Baptist Ministers Confer
ence, in the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church Hall, on the New Regime"
in Turkey.
He described the Sultan going to
church with his thirty wives and said
the Sultan painted his cheeks and
dyed his hair. No monarch In the
world, he said, had such a gang of
~scoundrels and thieves around him
as had the Sultan of Turkey before
the next constitution went into effect.
Since that time the $4,000 spies had
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Difference of Opinion.

Gust think, the baby only weighs
six pounds"
THAT is because you had the juns
buyer weigh it on his scales. just
wait until the iceman comes along
and ask him. You will discover then
that the baby is a monster, weighing
twenty-five pounds at the very least
Nashville American.
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Puzzled.

New Workers had been warned ts
boil water.
What fort" they asked, with Ian
guild interest.
"To make it safe to drink" replied
the sanitary official.
But why drink it?" they queried
with a keener curiosity. = Philadel
phia Ledger.
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a mans work and carr what was a
mans wage hardly a generation ago.
Woman is no longer afraid of free
dom. She can make her own way.
Spinsterhood has ceased to be inevi-
tably a burden. Marriage when it
becomes a disaster or a despotism
need no longer be borne as the pen
atty of dependency. In her new spirit
of independence woman may turn
naturally enough to politics, though
the suffragist movement in the United
States is thus far least important
among feminist agitations.
Other revolutions have changed
maps, dynasties and governments.
A Woman's Revolution may greatly
affect the destinies of the whole race.
An issue is presenting itself which no
prudent craftsmanship a safely I'M
derestimate or ignore.
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Among the Workers.

Cloth hat and cap makers at St.
Louis recently organized.
The Iron Molders' Union of North
America has determined to celebrate
its fftieth anniversary in 1909.
The Trades Unionist, of Washing
ton, D. G., devoted to union inter-
ests, has been taken out OF the re-
~ceiyer's hands.
The Executive Committee of the
Central Federated Union recommend
ed that unions disregard the printers
union label, because non-union fire.
men and engineers we're employed In
ne printing shops.
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An IntelIieent Statesman.

"What will we do when the treei
are destroyed" asked the forestr,
experts.
81 suppose" answered the serene
ly solemn statesman, after some
thought, that in such an event va
will be obliged to depend for wood
entirely on the lumber yards
Washington Star.
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The %SuffragiSt Movement in the United States Nav Fore.
shadow a WOmenS Revolution Which Will Affect
the DeStinieS of the Whole Race.


New York City.-In a remarkable
editorial The World writes as follows
about a quiet revolution that is be-
ing wrought by the women of the
United States:
A REVOLUTION.
Here are these three matters of
fact: The spread of the s~uffragist
movement despite the laughter of a
world of men; the general invasion
of industrial fields by women; wives
outnumbering husbands two to one
as plaintiffs in the 945, 900 divorce
cases of the last twenty years in the
United States.
1t Is customary to treat separately
the three issues thus presented. They
are all manifestations of one general
movement Revolution of Women,
due chiefly to the new industrial re-
gtme under which a woman can do
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or life wholly. Only heart vision IS
clear vision. Hence the prayer OF the
text, that the eyes of the heart may
be enlightened. It was with the eyes
of the heart that the father saw the
predigal ,afar of. 1t. follows then,
since a knowledge of God involves
and. conditions a mans wisdom and
spiritual understanding, and is essen
tial to Wilderness of vision, that n
very sanity of our views of life Is
| wrapped up in our conception of God.
In the knowledge of Him all other
knowledge has its beginning lld in
depreciation.
Three great corollaries are involved
in the knowledge Of God for which
Paul prays:. /. If God be the trans
cendent and immanent God of his
experience; and If men come to know
Him as such, the call Of God to saliva
ton and holiness Is a perfect guaran-
tee of His loving interest, and a suf-
fcient reason for unfailing hope. In
the knowledge Of God, the child of
God perceives the hope of his calling.
2. The riches of Gods glory is in His
saints, His Inheritance, and the peo-
pie of His possession. The nature
and work Of God display His valua-
ton of a redeemed race. The saints
are His cherished possession. 8. To
know God as Paul knew Him in
Christ Jesus is to see the very forces
at work which God relies upon to ave
the world, and to ~spprehend. the
greatness of His power toward US who
believe. To know God is to UNDER
stand that all power In Heaven and
in earth is at His disposal md shat
it is pledged to supply all the 4
His children.
Both the other subjects for which
Paul prays are impossible without
this knowledge of God; with 1t, they
are possible and almost assured. The
perfect walk and the perfect work
would seem to be the normal out
growth of such spiritual understand
ing. To know Him and Jesus Christ
whom He hath sent, Is, and must ever
be, life eternal.
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Hermit ROBBIE Kills Self.

Samuel ConkIi <gIixty years Old,
who lived at Hair lille, was found
Head at his home not through the
heart The indicaj ms are that he
nlaced the bnt of & shotgun on the
ground and prsh6 Ehe trigger with
a forked stick. MAklln was a ner-
nit. He earned ny by DasKet
making. Recently bwas robbed OF
$50, which he hal saved from his
summers work t. carry himself
through the winterA
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Notes From the Orient.

Petroleum has been found in the
Boonah district of Queensland, Aus
tra1ia.
An American engineer has discov-
cred a deposit of wolframite in Brit
ish India.
The water power system of the To-
kio Electric Light Company has been
completed at a cost Of $4,000,000.
According to viceroy Tuan Fang
there are 1880 opium shops in tho
Shanghai foreign settlements, and he
wants orders from Pekin to close
them.
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On a Street Corner.
end. BEGAN the seedy stran.

my friend, began the seedy stran-
ger.
Nothing doing" interrupted the
solid citizen.
ST don't want a cent"
"Then 1 am indeed your friend. Go
ahead with your remarks."-Hous-
ton Chronicle.
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Might Take a Chance.

"Pa, would you go up in an air
ship if you had a chance?"
WELL" replied Mr.. Henpeck, al
he looked around cautiously to as
sure himself that he would not bA
overheard, 81 might if I could be as
sured that no ladies would be adj
mitted. Chicago Record-Herald.
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Paris, France. - The revolution
gradually brought about in woman's
dress as a result of the Directoire
craze is producing some curious con-
sequences. The dress designers and
makers, after having gradually
brought about what they describe as
a straight line in front, have now di-
rected their attention to the back por-
ton of the fashionable attire, and the
decree has gone forth that the
straight line, both front and back, is
to prevail this winter.
The result is to create an entirely
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Mrs. L. B. Lvin ton Burned.

Mrs. Lillian Baa LIVINGSTON,
who inherited the sancocas Creek
farm at .Jobstown AAder the will of
the late Pierre LorRard, narrowly es-
capped being burnG to death by the
explosion of an oilfamp at the man
sion at Jobstown. Tier calls for help
brought the serya to her aid, and
the flames were ex euished, but not
before Mrs. Livi was badly
burned about the and hands.
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Dead.


lanes RI ael died in
his home. No. as Eood road,
Bloomfield. from pr He vas
sixty-eight year Oh ahz native OF
Indiana. He fouht in the Indian
wars under Gener Alfred w. Sully
and General Sibley Colonel Michael
had been a residenof Bloomfield for
about twelve year. He IS survived
by a widow, one daghter and a son:
Colonel Michael conacted the old
which resulted in IS death while
hunting on the New meadows.
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IN An paxts 4 the State.

The glass manufacturers of Bridge
ton report that business conditions
are improving.
From the annuafAhazaar~e La
dies Aid Society of NttzvilleA.
e. Church netted $12p.
Rev. Dewitt C. COBB, pastor of the
First M. E. Church, Salem. has been
asked to return for Another year.
Henry Hesleitner collector, of
Greenwich Township, Gloucester
County, turned over to County Col
lector Pierson S5141.54. the full
amount of county and school tax.
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The Basis.

He-"I wonder if we can get along
oil -iobt"
She-"Certainly. We eaAsny ths
auto with the money father left me
and you will surely make enough to
pay for running it, don't you Think"
Puck.
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Ambassador of Christ.

Laws are made, men are subjected
to civil authority. Broken laws are
open to penalty. The governments
are powerful enough to enforce. II
men in authority are weak or unwill-
ing, is it in the power OF the church
to say thou shalt? Is the church los
ing the noble standards that it has
won? Is she no longer the ambassa-
dor of Christ? Has she become the
spy of government?
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In Musical Comedy.

"The dialogue ought always TO
carry forward the plot of a play"
as that so? I thought the dialogue
was put in to give the chorus people
a chance to change costumes."-
Washington Herald.
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slips on SNOW, 3 Kills Him.

Benjamin Blac ge, of Saddle
River, slipped on nov
pavement on Mai treet, Paterson,
and was struck by and killed IN
stantly. He was fly years old and a
%per farmer, Several women
passengers on the Jar were overcome
and needed the assistance OF physi-
clans.
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Wasted Efforts.

"They go to great lengths with
these Salome scenes in New York"
Eyes; I often wonder why. They
couldn't shock anybody in New York,
no matter what they did."-Louis-
vile Courier-JournaI.
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Church Costing $4,000 Burned,

A fire which started in the cellar
OF st. James M. E. Church, New
Brunswick, N. j., destroyed that
structure. The church cost $4,000.
and was insured for but $4,000. 1t
was the most beautiful church in the
city, having fine stained glass win
dows and being of Gothic brick de-
sign, with a steeple 100 feet high,
upon which stood a golden cross.
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Serious Indeed.

= "Just heard about your being
ditched, old fellow. Awfully sorry.
wife out of the hospital yet?"
Nope"
"Pshaw. That's too bad. 1t must
have been a pretty serious affair.""
Serious, 1 should say Il was sert-
ous. l wrecked the radiator ans
cracked the front xle."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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Pessimist.

THAT man has had disappoint-
ments in life"
Quite right. Thirty years ago he
began looking for a lot of calamities
that haven't happened yet."-Wash-
ington Herald.
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The Next Trouble,

"How do you stand on the question
of a sane Fourth of July?"
"Oh, fudge! Let's get Christmas
over with frst."-Houston Chronicle.
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Fouptaio is Always Omen.

After the Toor labors of the day are
open. my heart still cries, God he
merciful to M q sinner" / am deem
ly sensible TIL daily, hourly and mo-
mentarily III and iii need of the
sprinkling cl my Saviour's blood.
Thanks be I'd God, the fountain is al
ways open. Naf an anchor is
this to my 8 'ntingdon,
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No Doubt.

"I wonder how man happened to
begin cooking his food?"
"Oh, 1 suppose some prehistoric
person started it as a fad."-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal.
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Deer CORES rolk fo neatn.

At Huntington. Mass, a buck deer
gored to death a tw~o-year-old colt
owned by K. Manhars, of Chester Hill.
rhe colt was in a field in plain view
Of it's owner, and advanced f~earlessly
to the deer, which turned savagely
upon it.
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More Libel.

PA, why did they call him rare
Ben J~onson?"
"Who was Ben Jonson?"
ga poet"
"Oh, lots Of them poets are half
baked.''-Houston Chronicle.
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He was Sensitive.

Blobbs you're pretty much
stuck on Miss Gobbs. aren't you, old
MANI
Hobbs-"I was. once. But after
what she said to me last right I'm
not going to pay any more attention
TO her.
Biobbs aGeel What did she
say2.
Hohbs-sNo s-cleEslaDa Leader.
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The
The SUI
less agits
the ordiI
that the

depths, yet the fiercest temp
produces waves that rise abo vw.n-
ty feet. Sometimes when two fierce
waves meet the spray is flung a hun
bred and twenty feet high, which is
only artrihe of the seas depths. The
greater part of the ocean is calm, and
below the surface owe on in steady
currents. A Christian life seem
often disturbed by life's experience
but down beyond the reach Of II
human eye is the eternal peace a
steady moving purpose.-Rev. Clar-
ence A. Vincent, d. D.
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The Consultation.

First Doctor-"This is a most mys-
ferrous case. I can't make anything
out of it."
Second Doctor-"Hasn't the pa
tient any money?"-Puck.
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Plan Uprising Against
the British in In,

tIIe DrItISH IN InuIa.
Vancouver, B. C.-The World says
British officers working among the
Sikhs and Hindus of the Pacific Coast
~unearthed the details of a proposed
uprising against British rule in India.
The story is to the effect that scat
tered outrages are now taking place
in India for the purpose of scattering
the British troops.
The main rising will take place In
April next at Amritzar. Stocks of
arms of modern type are hidden in
various districts.
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Says Railroads Control
Most Federal Judges

Lawrence, Kan.-At a State confer
ence here over State legislation, J.. L.
Bristow, former Assistant Postmast.
er-General, who will succeed Chester
L. Long in the United States Senate,
declared that the railroads control
most of the Federal Judges, and that
better are should be exercised in the
selection of Judges.
Lawyers should be chosen" said
he, who have not been affiliated with
the railroads or other big corpora
tions,"
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Gun Experts Get Prizes.

The Montclair Gun Club held its
annual banquet in the dining room Of
the Montclair Club. Secretary Ed
ward Winslow read his annual re-
port, which showed that the club has
113 members. Prizes for the years
work at the traps were awarded as
follows: A. R. Allen, $50 gold medal
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The Sheath Gown.

Like other fads that don't endure,
Twill have its little day.
Tho ladies, though, should first make sure
That they are built that way.
Judge.
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Three Thousand Years.

II think from the utensils about
him this mummy must have been an
Egyptian plumber"
would be interesting to bring
him to life"
"But too risky. Who's going to
pay him for his time ?"-Washington
Herald.
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DECLINES.
Would Not Accept the Presidency Of
the University of Minnesota.

Washington, D. c. President
Roosevelt shook his head emphati-
cally, saying that he could not think
of accepting an invitation to become
president of the University of Mime
sofa after his term of Office expired.
The invitation was conveyed to hir1
by Governor johnson. of Minnesota,
who called at the White House for
the purpose.
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Tor MAKING d
breaking 461
Louis w. Colq
with AL out OF
medal was avail
who had three G
credit. The pr
scratch scores Vi
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resh Beginning.


a chemist has discovered
An IN process to revive gas
d cnemi Is having great success.
Wells q an hold Of a number of
ne mas nd brought on big flows
oeao VIC uses a chemical which,
again. the bottom of the we'll
lowered y through the Trenton
eats its ing and cleaning ont al
ROCK al ch has formed in the
cement ing the way for the gas
pores, e. he well. Another charge
TO ass with nitroglycerine on
Is pun az 3t into the rock. 1t is
claimed t
as new. ~ Cbr;st;ane thora aro
be revived. 1t Is not
VINO nee elieious capabilities are
Ina. .ne at some worldly &C.
eAnaus.eY 'munication
between
brought
chapter
lives mig
and His
Baptist
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