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I. o. r.
at Odd Eellosus' Hall, Harrington BIocE Congress
Street.
RELIEF AssoCIATIoN-Third Tuesday In the
month.
LoDGEs-Maine, on Monday evenings; Ancieny
Brothers, on Thursday evenings Ligonia, on Friday
evenings Beacon, on Tuesday evenings; Unity, No.
8, on Wednesday evening"; Ivy, d. Off,, second and
fourth Saturday of each month.
Observation-Disclosures first and third We'd
nesday; Eastern Star, second and fourth Wednes-
day; Portland, first and third Friday; Falmouth,
No. II, first and third Tuesdays.
BENEFIT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Directors meet
first Monday evening of each month. Association
meetsfrst Monday evening OF January, April, july
and October.
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Eastern Railroad,
JULY 4, lSs 8.

IIsSi;;;;;;;II yS1 SEsazs.
Sssss5IssE9
PASSENGERS TRAINS leave Portland
for scnrSS 1.. sScS. ssdasdord' s Hen.
Kittery, Portsmouth, NewbUryport,
salem, Lynn, Cheisea and Boston az
saco, Biddeferd, Kenncbuni, Kistery,
Portsmouth, Eaampfons, Newburypors,
SALEM a Lynn, Chelsea and Boston az
Night Express with Sleeping Car, for
Boston AZ 2.SO =, M, every day except
Sunday Express Train will leave Portland at
215 p. m. arriving in Boston at $50, connecting
with All Rail and Sound Steamers for New
York. Passengers by this train will arrive in
New York early Monday morning.
RETURNING,
and 700 p. M, connectinx with Maine
Central snd e. 81 N, A. Railway for st.
John aud Halifax. Pullman Sleeping Car
attached.
Through Tickets to all Points south and West al
owest rates. Pullman Car Tickets for Seats apd
my27dts a. P. ROCKWELL. President.
Grand Trunk r. R. Co. of Canada.
.ssgssss.s On and after MONDAY, July l, 1873
tszssssssSs passenger trains will run follows:
TOO a. m. toi Auburn and Lewiston,
8 a. m for Montreal and West
1880 q. m. for Auburn and Lewiston.
t.30 p. IN. for Island Pond, Quebec and Montreal.
$40 p, m. for Auburn, Lewiston and Gorham.
ARRIVALS.
$50 a. m. from Lewiston and Auburn.
1910 g. m. from Gorham (Mixed).
1235 De m. from Montreal, Quebec and West
1880 p. m. from Lewiston and Auburn.
sos p. from Lewiston, and Auburn.
$40 p. m. from Montreal and West.
Passenger Offices
"a EXCHANGE ST..
AND
sEPST AZ FOOT 0E ENDEA ST,
Tickets sDlsl st Reduced Rates
To Canada, Detroit, Chicago, EzEiwau.
kee, Cincinnati, 81. E40uis, Omaha.
saginaw, st. Paul, Salt Lake CITY,
Denver, Sam Eraneisco,
and all points in the
Northwest. West sasaa Southwest
JOSEPH HICKSON, General Muaagsr,
W. j. SPICER, Superintendent,
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Vaults Cleaned

NJ laken out at short notice, from "a 20 8,
--'vaztf A ILhBK q o., Portland
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Commissioners Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers havs
~ been duly appointed and taken upon themseIy.s
the trast OF ADMINISTRATORS OF the estate of
GEORGE +. shEPLEY, late of Portland,
IN t1e county OF Cumberland, deceased, and given
bonds as the law directs. All persons bay; sN ~,
mands upon the estate of said deceased are reone 10
EXHIBIT the same; and all persons indebtef 10 saiI
es'aoe are called upon to make payment To
HELEN NJ. SHEPLEY
po.,,o,,, GEORGE L. b. JACKS6N, Adm'rs.
foftiahu, July Both, 1878. auldldlaw3xTb.
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TEMPLARs OF HONOR.

At Templars' Hall, No. 100 Exchange Street..
CoUNcIL-Maine, first and third Monday in each
month.
TEMPLE-Forest City, No. 1, every Wednesday
evening.
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VINCO ENUNEAs :
From 1856 N to $50 p m, Sundays excepted.
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from to 10 m, and 1.30 to 2.30 p. m.
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For MT. Desert and Machias.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
TWO TRIPS PER WEEK,

,ss18sy The Steamer LEWISTON,
CAPT. CHAs. DEERING, Will
Pm EEtiIZk u leave Railroad Wharf, foot or
es.sz y sss.s....ss.s State St., every Tuesda
-. ~ and FRIDAY evenings. nj
Ills o'clock, for Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle,
Sedgwick, South West Harbor, Bar Harbor, INIT.
Desert,) Millbridge, Jonesport and maehiasporf.
Returning, will leave mnchiasport every
Monday and Thursday morn ings al $50
O'Clock, touching as above, arriving in Portland
same night, usually connecting with Pullman train
and early morning trains for Boston and the West.
The Steamer Lewiston has a large capacity for
Freight and Passengers has also rs large airy State
Rooms, including 10 Family Rooms.
For further particulars inquire Of
GEO. L. DAY, Gen. Ticket Agent,
Railroad Wharf.
e. CUSHING, Assistant Manger.
Portland. May 10, 1875 my20dtf
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Advertisers will find it cheaper to get their JOB
PRINTING done where they get their Advertising.
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81 weather. e
Children 10 cents ~Aoo'
Arrangements for picnics and excursions can he
made Win captain on board or j. 1. LIBBY, Mana
ger. Custom House wharf 2eoSdtf
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himself" said I, "if. as / suppose. the
story is connected with him"
Hush, here he comes Pierre" cried
pekieP ?"
Monsieur knows never drink aught
but water" returned the man. taking up
his last packets from the counter.
This gentleman prays you TO drink a
health with him. and tell him how it is
your face looks so old when you are still
young. Why, Pierre, ne has just guessed
your age at sixty
We all smiled except the charcoal
burner, whose harsh face seemed to grow
shade older as he listened
81 am little used to taking he said,
especially in houses. Out in the woods
| might tell the story, if the gentleman is
not afraid 10 come"
am not afraid, Pierre ! answered.
I'VE charcoal burners are a wild lot, "
he continued land should be sorry to
tell tale before them; but anywhere be.
meath the trees in quiet, might, in my
rough way. draw you out shadow OF the
truth-only shadow at the best, ioI
words don't tell sufierings."
IL will meet you where you please
cried, eagerly. The lonelier the spot the
better shall like it,
I'm watching pile of burning wood
in the forest, near the old cross in the Bas-
tome road" he answered, land if any day
for week to come, Monsieur will travel
that way and blow his horn. shall hear
it, and will make my way through the
trees, and bring you to the spot"
IL will come on Monday, Pierre" ! said,
lat two O'clock"
He nodded to me without a word more,
and departed.
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Journal,
Is a Large Thirty Six Column Paper,

Not eScelled in size by any other paper in Name
and by only few in other States.
1t contains carefully prepared Pol ics Articles
Facts, Statistics Speeches ard Extracts; Reports
OF the proceeding of the Maine Legislature; Re.
liable information in relation to matters pertaining
to the State Government; Reports of the doiugs
of Congress; Local aud State News Reports
the Markets al home aud abroad well selected
Tales, Poetry. Agricultural and other Interesting
and Useful Reading for the Family; also Cores
pondence from abroad, aud Original Articles upon
subjects Of general interest Il one of the BEST
and CHEAPEST PAPERS IN PRICE published.
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LrgaI ADVERTISEMENTS.

To the Honorable senate and House of Repre-
sentatives OF Maine, in Legislature assembled.
Tor the year 1879.
1ihE undersigned respectfully represents that
i the A. W Spragae Manu'actdrlng Compa
nv. located at Augusta, in the county OF henne-
bee 10y the statutes of the State. and by their
charter, required to IN intau locks AMI canal al
their dam IN the kennebec River, and TO keep the
same in repair; and that they are also required to
construct and maintain tishway IN the same dam
that both OF these structures cannot be con stIuct-
ed and ma int aimed without large expense and co.
dangering the safety of their dam, by which pow
or is furnished Tor operating their factories.
Wherefore, your pc titioners pray that sald com
pauy may be relieved IRON the construction of
euher the hshway or locks and canal. or b tn,
or permitted to combine them together and mas e
and maintain but one structure.
ZECHARIAH CHAtEE,
Trustee of A. 4 w sprague Mfg Co.
By BAKER & BAKER, his Atty's.
CHAS. T.. NASH. Mayor of Aususta.
Augusta, Me-. Nov. p. 1873. nov30.t&wlw
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NOR further Information: To those loDking for
J. LAWFULLY PRETTY" goods, call at Miss n.
y. PIPER'S New store, Water Street, Augusta,
Me. decl3.tlw
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Mem ADVERTISEMENTS.

AGENTS WAkTt0-For the best aud fastest selling
n Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced
q per cent NATIONAL PUBLISHING Co, Phila
Pa. now 4v
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her prayers and tears. would have rid
her path of him long before. There was
another hindrance, too-her father. With
him lay all the root of misery. He was
a drunkard, and for drink he was wiling
to sell even his daughter. He was lost,
swallowed up in that one vice; reason, al
fiction, conscience, all drowned In II.
CONTINUED to N Irrow
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In the matter of
James Savage,
Hankrul,f.

James Savage,
Bankrupt, "P''s'
THIS is to give notice that petition has been
presented to the court this twenty first day of
November, 1873, by James Savage OF Augusta, in
said District, a bankrupt, individually and as a
member of the I'll ms of savage, Berry Il Co., and
Powell, McCabe and Co., praying that he may be
decreed TO have full discharge from all his debts,
Ia tiyidual and copartnersh provable under the
Bankrupt Act and upon reading said petition,
1T IS ORDERED by the court thlt hearing be
had upon The same on the first Monday OF
February, ID, 1879 before the court in
Portland. in said District. at 10 o'clock A.
NJ, and that notice thereof be published in the
Daily kennebec Journal and he Daily Portland
Advertiser, newspapers printed in said District,
once week for three successive weeks, and once in
the Weekly kennebec journal, and the Weekly
Portland Advertiser, the last publication TO be
thirty days at least before the day of hearing and
that all creditors who have proved their debts, and
other persons In interest, may appear at SAID time
and place, and show cau-e, If any they have, why
the prayer of said petition should not be granted.
wa. z. PREBLE,
Clerk of the District Court for said District.
Wdec4. Il tdec4 I'll
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Notice OF Assignee Of His Appointment.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE uNIrED STATES
FOR The DISTRICT OF MAINE
Ia the matter OF Ailds W. Dtv,0
Charles i.thbv and Henry f., p,nl.,,,,.,.,
bay, Partners, MS bay n Libby, :" "'"'" P'S
Ean&rupis,
DISTRICT OF MAINE, S.:
A. Lewiston, tic lsth day ol bctoher. \. ID 1875.
The undtl -igUei hereby give no &c" al his ap
pnin.ment n As iguee ~ Adds W. Diy, AT 1t
Chrl. x. Libby ot i,eAI-ten il the County OF
andre coggin and Henry DAY al Monm ,ulh. in
the County ~ Kennel e., and Stttc "i Naine
within said Disiric', VINO have been al judged
Bank rupts Hion ther o WI PatitlJn. iniiv dat tlll
AID a. members of the firm of Day Libby, by
The Dls ret Court Of salt ri, trct
II. a. WHEkLOCk, Assignee.
nov f&W3w
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NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT,

NOTICE is hereby given that Horace Parlin and
~ Charles +. Parlin both OF Halloweil, IN the
County OF kenncbec and State of Maine. udvidu
ally and as members OF the firm Of II. Parin Il
Sen, have this dJy assigned 10 me all their proper
ty, except such as is by law exempt from attach
ment aud execution for tn benefit o. their credi.
tors, in accordance with the provisions of Chap. "
Of the Revi ed statutes and acts amendatory there
TO, ana three months from the execution OF said
assignment are allowed for said creditors to
become parties thereto
HERBERT NJ. HEATH.
Augusta, Me-, Nov. %, ISIS. nov25 i3w
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District Court of the United States,
District Of Maine.

Augusta, Me-, Nov. %, Isis. nov25 i3w
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NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT.

Notice is hereby given that Charles f. Parlin
aud W illiam J. Morgridge. bot1 of Halloweli in
the county OF Kennebec and State of Maine. In
dividnaly an'l as members of the fir OF Pariin \
Morgridge, have this day assigned 10 me III their
D, operly except such rs j. by law exempt from
attacbmeis and execution, for the benefit OF their
creditors, in accordance with the provisions vi
chap. 70 oi the Revised Sta utes, and acts amenda
tory thereto ana three months RON the execution
of ia d assignment are allowed fr SAID creditor =
TO become parties thereto.
HERBERT ". HE Nth.
August, Me- Nov. g, 1875. n0vl5t3w
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In BAN x1URTC


DISTRICT OF MAINE.
In the matter OF
Ohver W. sherman, 7 In Bankruptcy,
Bankrupt
rEHIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE that a petite N has
j been presented to the Court this 2lst day OF
November, ls7s by oliver W. sherman OF
Watcrville, Bankrupt, praying that he may
be d.crecd to have a fun discharge from all his
debts provab under the Bankrupt Act, and upon
reading aid petition:
lr Is ORDERED by the Court, that hearing be
had upon the on the first Monday of February,
A. u. 1879, before the Court in Portl and, IN said
District, at ten O'Clock a. NJ, and that tie second
meeting OF creditors of said bankrupt be held be.
fore John W. May, Register, on the Ism day OF
December, A. ID, 49,; aud the third meeting OF
the same ON the l6.h day of January, 1879, at 10
\. a the court non Z In Augusta, in sad Dis
ti t, and that notice thereof be published In the
Daily kennebec Journal, newspaper printed IN
said hi uict, oHce a week tor three succes ~lve
weeks, and once in the Weesly kennebec Journal,
the last publication to he thirty days ut least before
The day oil hearing and that all creditors who have
prov ed their debts, AM other persons in interest,
may appear at said time and place and show
cause, If any they have, why the prayer OF said
petition should not be granted.
WIN. p. PREBLE,
Clerk of District Court for said District.
naN-l, lcc,iA i0.t&w
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OUIts Vi THsUTVtnCy.
NOTICE is hereby given, than Courts of Insol.
~ yency, Will be held at the Probate Office, in
Augusta, on the second and fourth Mondays in
edch month, at two O'Clock IN the afternoon, until
otherwise ordered.
II. X. BAKER, Judge.
CHARLES HEwISs, Register.
Nov ls1s. tSWtf
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-11-07

into her window. In the hall the maid
was humming a subdued song as she
went blithely about her work; while with
out the white smoke of morning fires
signs of stirring life-curled upward
from the chimney tops into the cool air,
as If glad to meet the light Of day.
at was only a dream; yet. oh, how Wv
id?" thought Kitty, as she rubbed her
eyes again and again. surprised to see the
walls of her own pretty room actually
around her.
''Only dream, only dream; yet
how full of truth" cheerily rang the
milkman's bell as Kitty donned her morn
ing dress; while. as she passed down the
broad staircase. the hall clock seemed to
say:
''Only Il dream, only dream; yet
there's lesson; yet there's lesson:
and Kitty rendered.
A year from that time Kitty passed by
the same old clock; but this time it said, as
it licked, licked away:
'.Only dream; yet it's made her an
Anglican angel of mercy to suffering
need. Her name, so dear to us, is Il name
of love among the poor. All, happy, hap
py was the day when, to her eyes. dream
revealed true charity"
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What People Read.
From the Chicago Times.

From the Chicago Times.
There is general complaint that there
is but a small demand for books. and
some contend that the taste for reading is
dying out with the present generation.
The circumstance that fewer books are
sold than formerly does not afford in itself
sufficient evidence that people are reading
less than a few years ago. Newspapers
have, in great measure, taken the place
of books. Newspapers now treat of every
thing. They produce things old as well
as new. There is prospect of war in an
obscure portion of Asia, and with the ac-
count of the origin of the difficulty are
given graphical account of the country,
sketch of its history, biography Of its
present ruler. the succession of its sOver-
eigns, etc. There is no occasion to ram
sack library for information. The morn
ing after the cable brought the intelli-
gence that the British had acquired Cy-
prus the readers of prominent newspapers
had presented to them all thai was worth
knowing of the geography, history, inhab
itants, commerce and products of the IA
nous island.
With most persons the newspaper fur
nishes all the matter they have time to
read. Till somewhat recently a large
portion of Sunday was devoted to reading
books. The advent of the Sunday paper,
however. charged the matter to be read.
1t furnishes large and varied stock
reading, enough in most cases to satisfy
the demands of the day. Few people now
call at store on their return from bus
mess and buy book to read on the fol-
lowing Sunday. They know that they
will find on their doorstep what will please
them better. Public libraries, supported
by taxation and circulating libraries, open
to subscribers, do away in great meas
ure with the necessity Of purchasing books
by individuals. Persons who are taxed
for the support of library seem TO think
they expend all they can afford TO on
books. Comparatively few persons have
the means to purchase reference library
and if they live in a large city there is
little occasion for one. Many families are
now supplied with encyclopedias that are
in themselves libraries of reference
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John C. Ballagh. in Harpers Magazine for October.
Some of the first attempts Of students
at committing their ideas topaper through
the medium of English are somewhat anus
ing in one sense.
The following composition was duly read
on the day for such exercises:
TOXIC.
''TokiO is very large city in the world;
it contains about one million Of people
and one thousand streets. The men in
Toxic is so many, but science men very
seldom appear comparatively, therefore
civilized men is very little-men in Toxic
is very uneconomist. Its most principal
streets are Gina, Nihonbashi, kOjimachi,
Asak- 'sa, Dakurocho, and others. Fire in
Toxic is very common, Their houses is des-
troyed by it two times year think
will not destroy if ther houses is bluid
Ibuilt from stone, but Their mind do not
reach it, therefore is uneconomist as said
above. like to write story of the city
but would have no time to write | viii
write to You very much afterward."
We have adopted the plan of having
pupils write sentences only till they can
this they usually succeed somewhat bet
Ter, anu Ntt soilit Vi ticii ciloItS III tiiis
direction not only lack in clearness. but
have a touch of the ludicrous as well. as
the following examples will show: Re
morsing his foolish and having ashamed 1t
he was forgave." "A gentleman divided
his property into his four sons at the point
of death. There was pleasant wife
whose name was Masa; she was justice and
she did not so humorous as
other women. and assisted of cultivation
of her husband in day. and in night she
to amuse her old mothers
tediuni." ''She could done what she
hath
Doubtless our crude efforts to speak and
write their vernacular afford them as
much if not more cause for merriment 4
not the earliest in the field.
not long since attended the services of
colleague. and at the closing was asked to
dismiss the congregation. He complied.
but unwittingly went through the formula
for baptism instead of the benediction,
not discovering his mistake till too late to
correct it.
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From the New York Sun.
After the 7:45 Long Island Railroad ex'
press train from Hampstead passed Gar.
den City yesterday morning. the engineer,
John Townsend, espied gaunt. black
horse grazing by the fence. As the train
neared the horse he bounded out on the
track with snort of defiance, and started
on a fast trot ahead Of the locomotive.
He was not swift enough to keep ahead,
however, and as the train crept close to
his flying heels. Engineer Townsend
showed down the brakes and set the whis-
tie to shrieking. At this the horse re-
doubled his speed, and the train started
ahead, and was quickly at his heels
again. For over mile the race was
kept up in this way. Every time the
train overlook the horse it would be slack
ened up. and a wild whistle would make
the horse renew his efforts. Still he de-
terminedly kept on the track.
In one place there was small culvert
crossing the road-bed, and the horse got
one of his feet in this and went down heels
over head. His nose struck the track and
he made q somersault ON his back, and
then rolled on his side. The engineer
stopped the train and went with some of
the passengers to see whether the horse
was dead, but before they could reach
him he was on his feet and away down
the track again at a tremendous pace,
still snOrting defiance at his pursuers. At
the end of the next halt mile he stumbled
and fell a second time, but pluckily
picked himself up and ran on. A little
further on. as the engine was close to
him, he dropped on his knees again,
but was instantly erect and off once
more.
After he had ran nearly three miles,
he came to a road diagonally crossing the
and wheeled into it just as the
train was again rushing and bowling
close behind him. The horse kicked up
his heels as he dashed snorting down the
road and disappeared. The train lost
about seven minutes on It's schedule time
by the race, but the passengers quietly
enjoyed it A Pine street broker, who
was on the train, says 1t was the fuest
sport he ever saw.
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Rev. Selah Brsvn IN tic Troy Times.
Just before shutdown we found ourselves
on the brink OF an awful chasm. 1t
seemed as if the earth had sunk across
our pathway We were on Prospect
Point, looking down into the wonderful
Yosemite Valley. Now, while the guide
is arranging our saddles for the descent,
come close TO the edge of the cliff, and If
your brain be steady enough, look into
the yawning gulf Stand still and let the
scene penetrate you You are looking in
to grand and beautiful canon, seven
miles long and from half mile to a mile
wide, the two sides formed by vast per-
pendicular granite walls, from 1900 to
800 feet high. Above and around this
tremendous abyss are the inaccessible
peaks and domes Of the loftiest mountains
in North America. The Rio de la MERGED
River of Mercy, seventy feet wide, rolls
through the valley. but it looks from this
dizzy standpoint like a narrow silver nib
bon. 1t drops into the valley at its end
and leaves it at its west through canon
so deep. narrow and preclpitous as to be
absolutely inaccessible. The bottom of
the valley is nearly level, and is filed
with green meadows, fields of wild flowers
and groves of grand old pines, oaks and
poplars, But these great trees, with an
altitude of 200 feet, look like little green
shrubs from where we stand. Another
grand view Of Yosemite is from lnspira-
ton point. There you stand on the verge
of the terrible precipice, with the whole
grand panorama of the valley stretching
away in matchless sublimity before you.
But from Glacier point you have the
grandest view of all. Here you creep up
to the verge of the awful chasm, and with
your head projecting over the rocky edge
Of the precipice, you look straight down
the tremendous cliff s, 500 feet.