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vol. vm.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1876.

BOSIYSBS CARDS.

DMJDraaoomsnoiei* oaitvcb. ' WAKK * CONTHACTORS 4 BUILDERS,

good utand . . did not aohiero mjliiiDg beyond the of brick*. The podr wo for bareelf.

I WMhlnfton tin

THE FIVE BROTHERS.

I want to be eomething," Mid the eldrat of 6™ bootben, M I wmut to do ■pmethlgg in the world. I don't cue how tramble my poeition may bo In dety.if I only effect Km* good, fort' wilt nelly be pome tiling. 1'U mi

JOHN R. HUFFHAN, 1 CouDMllor at Ijiw f Chart Room. R. J. ' ^

ATTOR KEY AT LAW AN D MASTER IN CHANCERY. ’ F^NFwrySlnM. cap* Hey City, Raw

brisk*, fer they ala i. thing*, aud then I •hell truly hare dons something. *" "Bnt that eomething will not bo enonghl" (jooth Use eoeond brother. "Whet yon intend doing is jut u much ee nothing etelL It is jontbey. men’s work, end can be dona by a machine. Ho, I mold rather be a bricklayer at once, for that is eomething real; and that’a what 1 wiU bo. That bring, rank;*** bricklayer, one belongs to -

^ DR. J. F. LEa'hiNG, XT DENTIST. 'SSS-SsS ShtSKSS?*"”"”

ist.“.Tj-aKs-^asi.rtii

mUDFIlECiPE

THE DAILY STAR. MONTHS OF' jW,T ARD AUGUST. THE JOB DEP1RTMENT.

Bnt, after *11, it n could look far ecrom sea roe broke reinly against the yotecting rampart on which it sea* built. The salt billon epnrted their spray orer the whole house, which aa atill standing when he who had iren the bricka for itaereetion had long sen dead and buried. The second brother knew hatter how to slid a wall, for he had eerrod an *prentioeehip to it. When be had eerred hia time and paaaed hie examination, he apeaok and eang the

•sMjrsrbsra^ build ho And youth will lie. ms sol

hs had comb home i he built one house

le built a

when the street a

my wife shall ItortfeNhatlMBi "That's nothing at alll" said the third. “That h beyond the pale of the —*” and theroare many wn that stand far aba r artisan, Yoa may b bnt u a ■ master ’ ra all, only tx

territory of art and qmeoleiion. be reckoned among those who high m point of intellect. I .ha

tainly base to aer.o np from the pick 1

Bo to speak; bnt 1 must begin

e common jonrnsymen, and they will U me 'thon,' and that ia insnlting I it I shall imagine Viriqielf that thi 'i only actiag, and a kind Tomorrow—that ia t<

n gat a handle at the front

the back of my name, and shall g banding anil bunding, jut a* those be

fbtt me iau bank. That will s' bea thfaf to rememSer. and that's " But I don't care flail for that liing,” mdd the fouth. "T won

ST&'wake of bihea, and.be a copyist, wm be a geniu; and -win stand op greater than ail the rest pf yon pat gelWr. I shall be the creator of an... style, and will gin the plan of a building ■ultable to the climate and the material of the oonotry, for •.be nattoradity of the people, for the darelopmant of the age—end aa additional story for my

Why, I really don't know bow I left _ I wae eick and miserable daring my la^ year, and could net well bear creeping ont of bed, end going out suddenly into the boot and cold. It was a hard winter, bat I ban got ont of it all now. For a few days the wesiber we* qml*

room when I lay ilh Audit the emuing; the moon had ri folly, bnt It wu not yet in it* fall splendor; I looked from my bod oat orer **- wide see, end fer off, jut where Uu end sky join, * strange whitedoodi np. I ley looking at the eiood, a sew e little blade spot in the mldd! it, that grew larger and larger ; and I knew what It meant, for I am old and experienced, though the token often seen. I knew it, and a shuddering came upon me. Twice in my life ban I seen the same thing, and I knew there would be spring food, which would orerwbelm the poor people who ' J

ent to the place, the built e house for him in return, t* to be his own. But how can build s house I If yoa aak them they will hot answer yon, bnt people "' sent by the

Certainly it

s the street that built the bouse for n." It was little, and the floor wm rered with clay; bnt when he deuced th hia bride upon the clay floor, it tmad to become polished oak; and from every ston. in the wall sprang forth “ wer, and the room wu gay, as if eoetlieet paper hanger's work. It a pretty boue, ami in it lived a happy pair. The flag of the guild flattered before tho boue, end the joarnryapprentioee ahonted bnrrsb 1 Yea, he certainly waa something 1 And ptlaatjie died; a architect, the third brother, who had been at tint a oarpenapprentloo, had worn a cep, and d u an errand boy, but be had afterward gone to tho academy, and had architect, end to be called “ honored Hr." Yea, if the houses of the street bad built a house for the brother who had become a bricklayer, the street now received its name from the architect, and the handaommt house in it became hia property, something and b* was son ' ' ' a little title before and after his Hie children were celled genteel children, end, when be died, hie widow

and that W

something I and his name always i t the comer ol the street, u in tho month of every one,

~ oantifnl flags inai wavea u wind. I beard tho boyeahonting “ Binging. There were ell kinds of : meat going on. Bat the white cloud ith tho black spot I I cried c 11 cook), bnt no ono heard o far from tho people. Boon tho storm onld bant, and tho ioe would break, id all who were upon it would bo lost ithont remedy. They could not hear e, and I could not eomo our ‘ Oh, if I could only bring tbei Then kind Heaven inspired m thought of Betting Are to my bod, and mther to let the bonae bum down than that tbceo people perish ao miaerabl j. I snaceedad in lighting np a beacon lor them. The red flame* biased np on b, and I escaped ont of the door, bnt don exhausted on tho threshold, id could get no lurther. The flamea

.flickering through

the people on the loo yi bold it, and ran M fast n* they oor old'woman who, thoy being burned to death

thooght, »

Not one remniuou ut-ninu. x buhu uimu coming, hut I alao became aware of a rushing sound in the air; I hoard a rumbling like the aoond of heavy artillery; tho spring flood wm lifting the covering of ioe, which proeenlly cracked end st into a thousand fragment*. Bnt people rocceeded in reaching the wall—I a*ved them all! Bnt I fancy I could not bear the cold and fright, and

the al

ilngl

who wanted r and original, and m the top of it for

poems in the papers, n on the paving atones the streets; and three funeral or

the last, whidi would hs

no story high, bflt still It w Row he wn dead, like the i rothere; but tho butt, 'the on oritio, outlived them all; an ulto right, for by this me*

wanted to get into Paradise, who should this be but old Dame Hergmet, from the boose open

donator tho sake

J, the whole city had issued forth;

knew, m I 1 was dreadfully lively than I had ' crept oat of bed, iw, bnt could not

BWIKDLCfG A BANK.

m the bank B, sod, ao far m earfaee indications ig wm ell right But c a conaiderabT the very beet officers hesitated, wavered and finally declined to cash th* ebook. Bat the

‘Gentlemen," said ho, “I tor Toxm to invest this money in oottoo- It ia very neoeeaaiy that this check ahonl' bo cashed or I will be greatly inconvi nieneed. Buppoae yon telegraph to NoYork to this banking bouae! Ask the: about me; I will pay all okponaoe." Nothing could be more pbtusiblo than this; nothing aound more honest So a dispatch WM cent, asking about the

r Turk

speculating friend and cashing tho chock, atm the bank officials were not satisfied, and the dispatch to New York plicated. Again the answer w only probably

tors to go over their day's work at night briefly by Mking the different points to which dispatches have been sent, whether thoy have boon received or not On inquiring of the Now York operator whether dispatches Nos. 13 and 14 had been received, a negative answer was returned. No ouch dispatches had -

to hand,

that tho 1

howl That patch ee had

they had

It w

■windled, bnt

i mystery. The dieregularly received;

•omo from somewhere, but oonld not bo known. The

had

hia funds, and the bank offle

their wits' end*.

In » day or 1 two tho mystery

solved. The two tetogrephio operators,

referred to above, had gone a f*w mill out of Dallas, taken poeeeesion of s old ahanty by tho roadside, »tt*ohod battery to tho wirua, and token off tl

dispatches intended for New York. They

had then sent pre-arranged i Tho three were confederate*,

operator knew about the time the bogus

re to the (

re of Pi

told they ar

creatures like me—end now 1 have left down upon the rampart. [ think this will give me adn

ad been in. her bed when re to save the live* of mat iraw bad been changed in old—into gold thsi groi ad spread into boaateoas^Mevea at " Look, this is what the poor wonu ronght." said the angel to the eriii 1 What dost thon bring I I know th

Ah, if thon oooldst only return and effect at least ao much m that! Probably the brick, when then hadst made it, would not be worth muoh; hot, if it were made with good wm, it wo ' *

botanic doctor, who agreed to cure me and related tbe following m a : " Last year I saw a man fall id of bay, fork in hand. The the fork etook in the ground,

which I built my bouae, aud that ws great deal for a poor woman like i Oonld not all those bricks and pieces counted M a single brick in his fav ~ wm an act of mercy. He want * ; and 1* not thi* the very fountain of

whom thon hast regarded m among yon all, he whose honest indnetry seemed to thee M the most hmnble, hath given thee this heavenly gift. Hum shall not bo turned away. It shall be vouchsafed for thee t* stand without the gate, end to icflcot and repent of thy life down yonder; ' thou ahalt not be admitted until l' hast in real earnest accomplished so ■are mid that in better words!" I bought the critic, but he .... .. k ] on j . ^3 for him, a

r the b

Tbe bank has no elaw te it has learned avaluablr ion and paid a high price for tuition.

Beans In Punctured Wounds,

m thirty years ego, when iter wu a little lad, I wm npon a >f hay, fork in hand, when tho gave a sudden start. I made a t. ffort to prevent falling off thr ind in ao doing‘drove the tine of rk into the* top of my foot The

which be

lived. U wm an old fum known m tbe Host, * rwl the dwelling st tbe time of tho pnrchMe wee fhnch dilapidated rendered the place comfortably

early ago won

jmxino essayist. In 18*3 she ms ried Allen Tapper, a wealthy lamb t Hoalton, Me. Boon *fb th failed and hia bunine wasted away. In 1831 tl family came West, and located in Was county. Up to this time Mr Tapper did not know what it wm ' ’ 'or even a day. Nooeoaity atari in the (ace. Several small chillout be cared for, M we! valid husband. She engaged school, and taking her babe w horseback, daily she went to 1 and attended to her household affairs of school. She soon brought the school to her own honae, and the supported her family until 1887, whe she turned her attention to the cultui > 1872 aho removed to Dee Moinei re she haa since resided. In th ntimo hex buHineea has extended t j Bute in the Union. Her lahora Hjndenoe wm sufficient to absorb t of her time; yet aho personally ted end attended t its, besides editing mala, and writing for several others, ontly going abroad

as also or

SAVED BY A PIPE

habitable. It a

da from tho turnpike, ■tight with him an old man a middle aged Irish wor

ten. and Bbaw than ■ "Wall, It’s morni

moonlight, and if you’ve bed your n

Where did yon a

wife's brother. Shaw lived in e very niggardly way, Shaw gave the man th although it wm reported that he wae hat and glove*, end t

old o

Dynamite fli no lunch honae to another and d lit* in each place.

until the funeral eeremomee ee An author says that one of tho usee

o! adversity le to bring n* ont That is true, particularly at the knees and

A young man. who wm asked why ha

did not marry, promptly replied: "My

r, I've b

lion from tbe fact that he pot ont several large aama of money on mortgage. Those who had been to tho Host on sealed at hia desk with piles of money becore with which be deposited bis hoards in a strong box which wm alongaido tho deek. In the room, whieh he need sa an office and a parlor, there waa a largo bedstead, and the old ' "

every night.

, bidding him a

"There, jump thi your loft. Thon yi

that for

" Ton hain't got any chewing .terbacIT about your elo'oa, her yoa 7" asked Fort Scott girl of a young man aha M escorting to a leap year pprty. Tho American dairymen’s eBaociation ropoaea to erect a $10,000 building on le Centennial exposition gronnila, in

Thi* wm considered altogether too j which to ex! improbable; nevertheless, inquiry It hM 1~ showed that Shaw's wife’* maiden name i telegraphic . .

wm Oram, that the tramp had worked I gnage ia twenty-five to thirty-three per rearon that! io Nottingham and that hia brother I cent, cheaper than the French, Qcrma* it painful to I kept *n inn on the Waterloo road, Lon- : or any other language. - don. Bnt what oonld be the object in j j recent applicant for relief before Shaw's sending the man off inthe mid- j the Boston poor board pays a tax of die of tbe night, and after ho had die- j gno per annnm, liven in. fine style, and covered, too, that hq was a relative I j ona * piano, on which his daughter

The aocmied man's brother employed i take* munin lessons,

counsel, end every effort was used to es- j n ^ ^ deInoniltrrt<d amt for all

j the telegmphio purpowa tbe English

language ia from twenty-five to thirty-

j three per cent, cheaper than the French,

. German or any other languageeffort is making to form a Georgia

that it wi

tho ogricnllt

reared three daughters to womanhood, the wife of a lawyer, and ia the able and eloqoe

door pitliot^ children Mking for aid he ’ particularly genoroua and

hia treatment On the night of December 17.1853, there canto a miserable half

starved wretch to hia door, imploring aa- Bnt tho person in whoso ki _ tuatonoo. Although it wm late, and tho plunder wM^md himself discovered thi old man had cloned hia house, ho direct- teli-taio iniualilHtnd wm too oautioue tc ed tho beggar to be takenin and warmed | !>o' them into circulation, where they and fed. The man wm almost helpless 1 weald bo likely to be detected, or, what from cold and fatigue, and when be had ' ia more probable, bad corefnlly altered

asleep in the the letters, foi

gaged in raising and breeding fancy - poultry in Dos Moinoa, and ia well known ibronghont tho State- She hM 10 eon, abont fourteen year* old, and a longer daughter. Her husband is now

aching school at State Gentre,

By her own hard labor she hM kept her family together and educated her children, fitting them for any position in society. Two years ago she broke down in both hotly and mind from overwork, and passed throngh a long time of aickneao and nervous prostration. It wm soon after this that these fraudulent practices appear to have begun. Her plan appears to hive been to raiae money by forgeries, and, when discovered, to replace it with sums obtained in a similar way. Much of tho forged paper ahe seems to have taken np before maturity, and bow much of it ia atill outstanding it ia not now possible to toll. Sbo hM not been extravagant in living or drone. Her house ia very plainly furnished, while ahe ia noted for her pUinnoaa of

large old chair before the fire. Ho slept so soundly that- they were unable to arouac him, and Shaw directed them to spread a bod on the coal bunk at the far end of the kitchen, and lift tho sleeper npon it. This wm done, and the honae- whether keeper wrapped him warmly. Soon afterward the household retired to bed. ^ went into tho kitchen she found the poaod

tramp gone. The kitchen window was same evening two men passed nnfaatoned and slightly opened, and 1 cart, bnt ho could give no dee Mrs. Dnrfy, the housekeeper, fell sure them, m it wm dark atthe tin that tho man had decamped with eomo , 'ion, however, had not passe, thing valuable. A second thought, how- ‘ toll gate, which waa five mil.

Int light was to be abed on the

crime from another direction. An expert London detective wh employed by the prisoner's counsel to investigate the

an around tho neighborhood pre-

A tollkeepor bo-

brigade for tbe Centennial, h ided by Gen. J. E. Johnson, and iposed of battalions from Angusta, Macon, Savannah, and Atffnta.

Tbe pet dog of a young lady of Lenox, Mass., who recently died, wm miased after the funeral, and wm found several days afterward lying on tho atono step* of the vault in which she had boon VTbe late Rev. Daniel Isaac waa a great

r. "Hal there yon are I" cried -, who surprised bin. one .lay with

is nothing

for ahe

nntil fotr

the cupboard, e

bound dry upon either wound. Tbe matt oonld walk next day, and in ono week

again at work in the field."-\ wm placed in bed,* bean split open,

and one-half bound dry npon the wound. For an hour I wm wild with pain (I w»s actually craay), bnt finally went to sleep, end,,'after two bonra of sleep, awoke with the foot weB. The cases of prae-

idar my cere ere m follows: Mlaa

An Araenie-Proof Stomach. A thirteen-year-old danghter of a Mr. Flagg, residing near Whitehall, N. Y., is exciting tho attention of tho physicians and ficicntiflo men in that vicinity. Borne time ago Mr. Flagg put Home arsenic on aomo breed and placed it in a portion of the honae frequented by rata. The breed suddenly dirappearod, and again and again other pieces were pot salt, lie finally determined to watch and ascertain, if possible, what became of it. He had not long to wait before lie wm horror-stricken to observe hie little danghter walk away from tho place, cramming her mouth with the polgoned breed. A physician waa aont for, and before hia arrival the sobbing child mode known to her parents that she had eaten all the bread that had been prepared for tbe rata, and that she liked it than anything ahe had evert

thinking, possibly, that tho drag not be araenio, bs examined it, and found i beyond a donbt. To still ft it he tried a small quantity licit quickly sent tho animal ir covulaiona, causing its death very s< afterward. What se

fact that ever

deadly drag, time and time again, t a year ago the child fell sick with Nothing would bring her out of

tooth throngh -her. shoe and gi splitting the nail both ways. It oved, the wound washed and the half i bean bound npon tbe tom of the toe, and the kept abont her work every day, though all her friend* lore ahe would have the lockjaw, ink a rusty nail into the bottom of hia foot. Two hour* later I saw him, with hia toot vary painful, top of tho foot badly awollen, ami he waa having frequent chill*. I gave

would bog ineeeaently for araenic. The physician in attendance, believing ’ tbe girl could not possibly recover, ured to give it to bar. Tbe child devoured it with avidity, and in 1cm than three day* ah* wm as wall as usual. Since then aho hM been given the deadly ' -' time*, tbe only effect

ing to make her apand cheerful. The

men, all of

pojao&~at different times, it ltd npo.urtf being tc

whereabouts from eight r could not lie ascertained, it wm found, was hired in

a village

an^st as she liad loft it ^ ^

Mrs. Dnrfy prepared the breakfast ami | Northamp by that time it was eight o'clock. Head, I tho next ‘ie man nerval:t, had milked tho cow [ search thi id tended the old horse, and wm eat- ! twelve m: ing hia bread and milk over the kitchen 1 fuller acc '■ Dnrfy went m usual to call talaed. (

o breakfast, bnt tho knock j and jure i

then tried the handle and fonnd the door ( pipe with

Then she paseed oat the front door I While getting out of tho dog cart at tho found the flintier, still oloeod. Ex-1 inn in tho village the pipe fell to ! ation showed that ono of them wm i ground and wm broken. The man gi itemed and that tho window wm I the fractured pipe heed to the boy ■ The housekeeper went and roused j pot tho other piece in hia pocket.

. The other ha

ind the

ike an entry into tho room. Tho old in Shaw was fonnd deed in his bod. to bed wm in greet disorder end the ad man's throat and face wore greatly discolored and swollen. . Tito deek in

ik lid

tho a

wm raieeC thing w*i thought at

robbed.

On looking in

1 bum bad been mnrdered and

tramp. It wi

- could the murderer and thief beggar whom they bad harbored the night before I

' wm given to the police

e pot on the track of the fonnd that he had taken ng train at Northampton

for London, and a description of him was telegraphed along the line. He wm arveeted and before night returned to Northamiiton. He wore st tho time his capture a cep, overcoat and gloi belonging to Shew, and had In hia possession one five pound note end chan; which, adding hia fare, amonnted loB pounds more. On the back of the m were the initials of Shaw, and ihere v procured from the railway clerk another five pound note, whieh he remembe as given him by the tramp, end it - ao indoned with Bhaw'a initials. To tha minds of ths authorities ling wm snffioienUy clear. He had not son no helpless M lie pretended to be, at bad observed everything around him. The slumber bad been assumed, in the night he bad arisen, quitted honae by a window and the!

is etni

ie lookont for tho two men. They believed to be two of e gang wl made Cheshire's, on Navigation atreo their hcadqnarters, and one of them wi ‘ ' wn to bo a notorious eouvii

ifihi, when they quitted the place and

took a1

Tbe former president of tbe Freedman’s savings bank wm before the special United Stalee House inveatigation committee, and testified at length

Tbe old man always kept-a

light little

difficulty in carry _ _ ‘ie had strangled Bhaw and Ml under hia pillow aa the likely place to find the key of hia able*. Then he had helped himself and

d.

m true that only ten pounds t, bat then be might have cm other away, or be might have had a oomplior. In fact, tho whole tiling might have been planned, and might be only om ‘be nefarioos bnsinese. At all events Mae wae safBcseat evidenae to hang the amp; that wm enough for joatloe. The tramp, however, bad hia story to JL He gave hia name as Wiliam Oram, and mid that he had been work-

of which no was discharged, and tramping hia way home to London, where he had e brother well-to-do la tbe liquor bnehmrn- After Bleeping m tbe ooel bonk, be aaid, he

in New ah

Tho offieera, watching them, followed ad saw them mf*$r lodg'd in □ tho Bromwich road, kept by a aportig man named Nat. Walalt. An exl iree of police wm obtained, and t oneo wm entered. -The . Major a Cornish Jake were taken in bed, and rch of the room they brought tho atom and mouthpiece of the

m meerschaum pip*. ~

discovered it slipped-it into hia it, and the men ware unaware '

its baring been taken.

~ ay sought to establish an alibi, held for trial. When their i quittal, m they had witnesses to sv weof together at Obeahire'e Birmingham, at tho time the urimo perpetrated. Though the lad at tho vfla to their Identity, yet their rang m to render an r

ten the incident of

na pat in evidence. The oaseeaion.of tho boy fitted id in the Major'* room preat aetllad the matter. They evicted and sentenced to be

“Yea, r

replied he.

early 2.300.000 in Australia, 2,000,000 i Africa, shout 170,000 in Europe, and

early 193,000,000 in Asia.

As the ships come across the seas from )reign lands, bearing their freightage f silks and spices, and precious things,

3 do tho ilsys oo *

liorto, full of tho ri

treasures from the

ily, ]*nd.

mug lady st s fair, in soliciting chances, stated that ahe would raffia herself off at one dollar s chance five hundred chances to bo taken, when s gentleman whipped ont his wallet snd announced that bo would take tho entire surprised st such promptness, stated that the prise would be withdrawn for private offora. General ThomM Benton Smith, of Nashville, who displayed greet oonrsg* in tho Confederate army, snd roceived s sailor stroke on the head, hs. become hopelessly insane. A few days ago be grew thoroughly wild, snd, imagining himself to be the Indian emperor ol America, mounted hia homo, armed himself with bow and arrows, snd rode around attacking ever ono he met. He sent s steel arrow into tho lag of his cousin, snd when pursued fled to the captured only with great

. the young men to order ao many carriages, bouquets, and what not for their apeeial delight It ia a aeriona aflair to a young gentleman, who upon a salary of $1,600 per year Uvea in * faahionabl* boarding honae, on a fashionable avenue, keeps himself in irreproechsble collar* snd neckties, bootqjind gloves, and hM to wear hia dress eoat nearly every evening. The agonies that thoa* poor fellows anffer no fongne can icll. and it ia safe to aay that at least V»' f the usual calling npon youngladiee has been given np daring tho present winter in consequence of pecuniary inability to meet the requirement* of eeeorl to boll or ;

Up to the Is

it they

; but after execution Big Poll delivered np to police a large part of the plunder, admitting that tbe two men hadplaced It in her charge, bnt disavowing any knowledge

m had

got information from their psls of Shaw's Vthereu

crimpf istjhet

w what wm going on in tile kjtchan, snd entered by the window by which the tramp quitted ' e honae. Before the old man had time fairly enter his room they apnmg on him. snd ha fled to the bed to key*, which werq •

A Large Attendant^. It hM been estimated by * gentleman oloaely Identified with the Mcody snd Bkakey meetings in Fhiladejphia, that st the eighteen Bondsy meetings held there, there were present 225,000 persons; at the forty weekly evening meetings, 320,000; at the fifty-sixty noonday meetings, 200,000; st the fourteen Bible '' ga, 70,000; st forty-eight yoang meetings, 24,000 • st thirty-six young women's meeting*, 10,000; and at thirty-nix man’s and woman'* afternoon meetings, 20.000. This gives s total of 809,000 persons; and it is thought that the meeting* for boys, for parent*, d others, will maW the total attendee 876,000 p

Bey* a oorreapondent, pf Infer-Ocean ho hM bad much cfjtarien** with wire m**n; I would not -recommend night wire with pataot barbs, m it is liable to break in odd waathar. There ia a twisted wire with barbs that dore well, M it is said tl

fis apart, bt b* three or