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The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-05-25
THE PATENT OFFICE.
One of the Most Important Branches
of Our Government.
Founded by the Framers of the Con-
stitution and Carefully Nursed
by the omcers First Placed
in Charge of IL.
[sneolnl Washlnrton 1ntter.1

TOR the first time in two score
IL years the patent office has suf-
ficient room for the transac-
tion of its yoluminous and increasing
ly important business. The interior
department building, one of the most
beautiful structures in this city, was
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-05-25
nread crnmb omeIet

One pint Of bread crlsnbs, a large
spoonful OF dried parsley or celery
and one small chopped onion; beat
two eggs light and mix with half a
pint of milk, a CRATE of nutmeg, pep
per and salt and a large spoonful of
melted butter; pour into buttered
pie plate, bake to light brown and
serve with soft or hard sauce.-Peo-
pies Home Journal.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-05-25

The distinction among animals OF
requiring least sleep belongs 70 the
elephant. In spite Of its capacity for
hard work, the elephant seldom, Il
ever, sleeps more than four, or occa-
sionaiiy five, hours,-Tit-Bitss
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-05-25
Asked ana Ans,yered.

WiIlie-Say, pa, what's an "apiary?"
Pa--Why-er--don't you know that?
It's kind of monkey cage; place
where they keep the apss.--Philadel-
s,hfa Press.
The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-05-25

After all there appears 20 be only
bne way In which to prepare for trou-
pie, and that is to save your money.
-Atchison Globe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
SIBERIAN RAILWAY SCENES.

Letter in London News.


What travellers these Siberians are! On
the morning / left Irkutsk for Transbai-
kalia found the station crowded with peo-
pie as though plague had stricken the
city and everybody was making mad haste
TO escape. In such a sparse population as
Siberia has you might imagine that often
the trains would be comparatively empty.
On the contrary they are always full,
chants and chiefly the peasant class.
The uproar and confusion of departure is
deafening and bewidertng. There is usual
~ only one platform and sometimes two or
three trains standing parallel If your train
happens to be the second or third you must
Chamber through the carriages of the first
and drop into a sort of passage between two
trains, where, although there Will be no
starting for another hour. people are rush
ing with gesticulatOry madness hunting up
lost relatives or searching for missing
pieces of baggage.
Every Russian is an old woman in the
matter of baggage. a kit bag or bag OF
any sort in which they can carry all their
belongings they have not. On an average
every one has eleven pieces of baggage.
First there is bungling bundle that can
only be tugged and punched and squeezed
through the dOOrways. That consists of a
couple of pillows, some rugs and some
sheets. Then there is a sort of Satchel
with lot of tin trappings about ii and a
swollen neck suggestive of goitre. There
will be three wooden boxes of various sizes,
also paper bundles and handbags, always
q kettle. badly wrapped up loaf of bread.
ana IL the SlfuSRle Is very great you may
find a man rubbing a cooked fowl across
your shoulder.
Everybody takes everything into the car
rage with him, and by necessity everybody
is a nuisance 10 everybody else. Then the
squabblngl At times you certain there
will be free fight.
1t is the endeavor of everybody 10 travel
in a better class than he has paid for. The
third class loads up the second-class car
riages the secOnd-class passengers take
possession of the first-claSs carriages and
when legitimate firt-class passenger
comes along there are terrible rows and
life threatenings in the clearing of some
body out. Military officers are entitled to
travel in class higher than they pay for.
But now and then high-handed warrior
spark will have a third-class ticket and
travel first. There was Cossack officer
who mounted the train at Irkutsk FOR the
little station of Baranchiki, on Lake Baikal
side. When the usual rumpus commenced
and the officials came along to straighten
matters he was requested to travel second.
No he wouldn't. Why? II was his pleas
urei But why not obey the regulations
Regulations Phew! 1t was his pleasure to
break them Would he not make room
No, il was his pleasure to travel first. And
travel first he did.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
How to Manage a Wife.
Baltimore Sun.


Obudaga, a Senegalese chief with forty
five wives, has formulated his study of
women in a series of maXims for the benefit
of less experienced persons. "A woman. "
he says. "admires a lion that will eat her
more than a monkey that chatters for her
peanuts. Better have a woman To fear YOU
Slap some, pinch others; never pat them
unless 10 save a word" The wisdom of
this advice lies in the application Of it,
The small man will not rashly pat" his
wife in the playful Senegalese sense unless
the front gate is open and the running
good.
\ shrewder insight is shown in Obudaga's
next observation. n woman fights with
glances, a man with spears, and some
glances are sharper than spears Some
wives love grievances like children: see
that such wives have a family OF griev-
ances" Husbands who find their energies
fully occupied in being managed by one
wife sometimes wonder how they would
manage 10 get on with a dozen and how
the dozen would get with each other
but this presents no difficulty 10 the Sene-
galese IF there is trouble in your huts -
ne says. shift the women: women must
live together a week before they fight
This sounds trihe unsympathetic but
Obudaga's recipe for equanimity Is almost
cynical. Here 10 is: Marry much and do
not take IL seriously. often bad wives
make good widows. IL is hard TO be the
widower OF a good wife
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

romadic life. and how hard IL is TO eradl-
cate the taste when once firmly implanted.
The freedom, the uncOnventiOnality. the
adventures and the surprises incidental 10
tramping have special attractiveness Tor
town children, and all the more through
the cessation of schooling. At Bridgnorth
the other day a clerical member or the
Board Of Guardians estimated that fully
go juvenile wanderers had received admis-
sion 10 the workhOuse in twelve months,
and he drew the sound conclusion that they
were learning vagrancy and its evil habits
But the difficulty lies in suggesting any
practical remedy. When severe economic
pressure cOmpels any improvident toiler 10
take 10 the road the family possessions are
usually restricted TO the clothes they wear.
with perhaps few shillings in pocket. All
the rest of their belongings having been
Sold ii is not open to the breadwinner TO
leave his wife and children behind without
any provision for their wants; II he did
that he would be liable to prosecution II
is easy to say that the man should not
have allowed his household TO come to sucn
desperate straits; he ought TO have set
forth in search of work before the family
resources were exhausted Quite true, or
course. but the fact does not go an inch
toward furnishing a remedy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

lessons of history he has learned, forgets
10 follow those subjects which have been
TO him sources of pure pleasure and proht-
able research.
business world with a fixed purpose. He
knows that his preparation is never COM
plete; that he must always study, examine
and inquire; that he could not know all
that liz to be known of a subject If his life
time were doubled. That man may well
be alarmed who discovers that he has
ceased to grow; that he no longer profits
by new experience; that he can no longer
address himself with energy and interest
to new subjects; for such a man has come
to the end of his life, even thought the day
of his death may be far distant
After Ialling into business habits not one
person in a thousand tries to fall out OF
them. The easy way is the usual way,
though it is not always the way of the
higher profit. If one were TO take but half
an hour out of the wenty-four-though
whole hour would be little enough for
profitable reading-he would before long
be master of a theme. and would be man
of note in his specially. He could COM
mand language, or science, or an art,
and double his usefulness and happiness.
And that is the main thing, to increase
content. There is a mean satisfaction in
stagnation, but there is a high satisfac-
tiOn in the knowledge that we are of use
to our fellows, and that our lives are not in
vain.
We can then associate with our seniors
when we are young, and with our juniors
as our hair grows gray; for as we age our
minds will broaden instead of harden, our
views and sympathies will grow warmer
and mellower, and our place in the world
will be higher than If we had merely
dropped our books at the end of school.
Michael Angelo carried his books with
him so long as he could read, and spoke
of himself as a schoolboy. Newton said
that his great discovery was but as a
single pebble on the shore of the ocean Of
truth. We who are not Angeles or New
tons. can at least copy, their example, and
at the end we may, through our humble
unmatched studies, give TO the world some
fact, some thought, some fancy that will
fix itself in the memories of a generation
TO come and will make us the happier that
we have shown this result of living.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
DANGER THAT HAS PASSED.
Congestion of Population i'm Cities No
Longer Threatens.
Saturdav Evening Posi-


A quarter of a century ago the conges-
ton of population in cities was the darkest
cloud on the horizon of modern life. The
social forces of the time acted as a huge
compressor, packing more and ever more
people into a rigidly limited area. The size
of the cities could not substantially in
crease-the people had TO be within horse
car distance of the places in which they
earned their living, and the only recourse
seemed TO be to pile story upon story of
dark, unsanitary tenements Philadelphia
had still maintained the old tradition of
the family home, but even there il seemed
as if the tenement could not be kept out
much longer.
Rapid transit and the telephone have
changed the whole outlook The growth of
cities is no longer alarming, for the cities
are growing in extent even faster than in
population, and such overcrowding as re-
mains is largely a mere traditional sur
vival City and country are merging, and
it will soon be impossible to tell where one
ends and the other begins
y city used 10 be a little black dot on
the map. Now ii is a great splotch 1t
used to be a small subdivision of a county
Now New York city contains four entire
counties, and is overlooking into half a
dozen more, in two states. With the pres
ent facilities for transportation a man
NAV readily live thirty miles from his
business. A city with a radius of thirty
miles would cover 2.S2l square miles-more
than twice the area Of the State of Rhode
Island Ii could contain 10000 coo people
and be no more crowded than a country viii
lage 1t could contain a hundred millions
and be less crowded than New York was
twenty-five years ago. The entire present
population of the United States could be
Accommodated with the greatest comfort
i'm one such city. and the entire population
of a century hence could be accommodate ted
in half a dozen.
This is without resorting 10 any OF the
means of concentration magined by Mr.
II c. Wells-vast beehives with tier upon
tier OF apartments, inhabited by swarming
rnultitudes In city OF thirty miles ra-
dius "A hundred million people could live
with a separate semi-detached house on a
comfortable lot for every family.
And "A thirty-miie radius, OF course, is not
the limit Ii Is only the beginning. Ii is
only what a proper organization of the
transportation business would put within
our reach to-day without a single nav In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
HALF-HOUR's DAILY READING.
Its Influences i'm Helping a Man to
Grow Old Gracefully.

Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
1t Is a curious fancy that education is a
thing to acquire in lump and have done
with as soon as possible. as IL il were
measles. In nine cases out OF ten the child
leaves scholastic association on leaving
school When the graduates, in white
dresses or their best coats. are reading
ESSAYS on the art of government and the
relation of the passages In the Pyramids
TO the astronomic theories of the Chal-
deans. IL would seem 20 a sympathetic OBJ
server as IL the work of the school has
but Just begun. IL is too bad that in many
cases il not only ceases but that the
scholar goes backward. This does not
mean simply that he forgets simply what
has been taught. for much that we go
through in schools is for training, not re-
membrance; but ne forgets the influences
that Nave surrounded him forgets the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
A MOdernist.

II don't believe" said the very thought
full person, that the statesmen OF the
present day are as far-seeing as those of a
generation ago"
You are making a grave, bun common
mistake" answered Senator Sorghum. 1T
Is wrong to assume that the modern in
telligence is inferior. Those old-timers
could make good speeches, but as | read
history l can see lots OF chances 10 get
rich that theV overlooked"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
women,s Welt Shoes. Sc. os.

Shoes of patents, enameis,
box calf and vici kid; heavy,
light and medium soles; dress
and street styles, regular,
LAiglon and military heels.
You never saw such
values. Special hol-G0 "a
iday offer. ......P&sSO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

vention. Rapid transit at hundred miles
an hour is plainly in sight, and that means
cities of a hundred miles radius, or over
81 900 square miles. 1t means the coales-
cence of New York, Philadelphia, Balu-
more and Washington; or, in other words,
the complete obliteration of the line be-
tween city and country and between one
city and another. Most of may live TO
see the time when the terms urban and
rural shall have become obsolete, and all
life will be suburban.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

Wofnen's Bench Made Shoes
for So. 5o-Shoes of patent
kids, and enamel and vici
kids, made with heavy extern
sion rope stitch S lies for street
wear. or light, dainty feather
weights for dress; L'A!glon,
French or military heels. Or
dinarily this shoe would be
$500. Special holi-&2 IN
day offer. POsoO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15

London Globe

London Globe.
IA II a common practice among lower
grade workmen when tramping In search
OF work 10 take their families with them.
The better sort rarely do so. knowing we'll
how quickly children acquire a relish for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-15
Artists Materials.

New stock at reduced prices.
JOHNSON OODBRIDGE co.
i42 East Washington street
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1901-07-25
Sas StoitwaritGen.
eine thiriHger @nuernseididte Ton Grid
WIenbcd.

zine thiiriHger Snuernseihidte Ton Grid
0nHbcd.
Die reue S6ule bes 0orFes IpQte
teterli6 eingeneibt psrben. Que 9ors
berettun9en paren gstroffen - nur
cine 5eitreoe fsblte nod. limb o6ne
bic gin9 &c bod nun einmal ni6t. 9a
our 3eit bic Pfarrftele bes 0prfes I'm,
beieBt mar. 10 beidloR man. ben 8fars
rer oss 9tebenborfes I'm bic Rsoe au
bitten. Dieter mar spar BON Qmts.
9elddften iiterlaben unb bate IS
our4aus nidt nOtbia. Iit Iol6e Mii6e
UNI bic frembe 9emeiube gu MAIDEN.
er mar ieoO4 elm gefGaigsr, gutmiitbi.
ger 9srr unb erfiiute oaber bic Bite
Der 9auern.
Die 5eier mar spriiber; bic Hebe
mar ibr 9luns= anb MitteIpuntt aes
tpslsn. Oa mubte man ii9 bod bants
bar erpeifen.
Srat alio nG9itfr Sage Der S6ulSe
bes fremben 9orfes bsim pfarrer Elm:
sd pule Serrn paitor reht IfSu
9ant BON unfre @emsene fir bic
fdeene &ebe iagen I'M - bier begann
er NIT spei Stneern in Der Dsiten=
taide gu grabeu neil bdb mer bod
10 ne Wiibs MID for umfunft = unb
Der Serr BditOr bod bile Qrbeet =
bd erlobt ii6 bic 9smesne -" tur3 Der
S6ulSe legte einen SbaIsr auf ben
Siid, eiHen aanSen Sbalsr!
0as empDrte ben pfarrsr BERN bod.
rWarte, 9u alter 6ilS," bodte er, rbie
Sddbisteit fperbs Id Dir e~intrGnten!"
Rit beibenber Rubs srpiberte er:
Run, mein lisber S6ulse, ftedt
Guren 9baIer rtur ipiebsr Elm. Siir 10
mas nebme id tsin @slb unb Sbr
t0nntet an benz Sbdler arm tperben.
SIN @egentbeil bin i'd Gu6 nod mas
fauIbie. Dis Sbr pibt, baben Sure
Sdultinbsr our 6sier beg Sages ie
elm Roitpiirit9en aus 9emeinbemits
teln betommsn. Mein tleiner Sobn
bat ba berIebentli6 zines miteegeFen.
9a sr nidt gu Gurer S6uIe sebort, 70
bate sr teinen Qnipru6 auf bas
8iiritfen. Sd fiible mid baber pers
pfli6tet, Der 8emeinbe ben Sdaoen su
erIsben. Nie bel tpolt Sbr aIio fir
bas Dirfthen2"
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1901-07-25

.ad, Serr paftor." ftptt.rte Der
S9ul5e, ~bafiir tennen mer bod
nif6t -
% ia, msin 2isbsr, Rsft mub
Re6t bleibsn, iaet MIR rubis ="
Surge pauis.
AHA, jebt merit sr bic g~liibsnbsn
apblen," oudte Der paitpr tsiumpbts
renb.
aber melt sefsblt.
.Sd = ia" - fam es in ftodenber
lIeherleeuns aus bss G9ul5en Munbe,
~tpenn id ben Germ paitor bitten iol
= nit Stpee Silbergrofden pGre
aliens abgemadt!"
Simmel unb Serrgott! @r nabm
lie tpirtli6 iammt benz Sbalerl Del
faFuneslofe paftpr bottle freilid, bic
@emsinbe ipiirbe segsn fold unnobIss
Sbun uuftreten.
Oas f6ien aud TO. 0enn als Der
S6ulse benz 9~emeinberatb ben SalI
bortrug unb bic Spei 9roiden auf ben
Sif6 leete, frat ttsfe SttIe Elm uno
mebrere @reiie i4iitteIten tabelnb bds
Saupt.
Gnbli9 CAB Der alte SdOppe arops
penbrett Der aIgemeinen Meinung
Musorud:
.@ottlieb," iaste er, pSu biit UNI
bleibft n Du'eltopp. Wie fannite
benin ben preis boridlagen9 Sdttfte
g Maul eebalten, bann bate Der
9aItpr piellei6t nod esnen 9roi9en
mebr eeboten!"
9pttlieb fparb nidt pieber gum
S6ulsen sepdblt. Senn o%ffsnbar
mangelte ibm isbs amtlide 8stpanots
belt.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1901-07-25
0eoanfenfpIitter.

Der SuleBt ladt. lu6t I'm beltsn;
fper susrit = am bersli6iten.
qus batbcn Ssnies perOen Ieitt
gauge 2umpsn.
&c alter man ipirb, b.ito mebr oer'
brGnst Der Ma9en bas Ser5.
8ieles IGbt Iid repdriren,
Dab IS ausiisbt fpie porber;
0o6 elm 9anaes. bas 5eritiidt rpdro,
ST, gsflidt, tein 9an5es mehr.
Die f6Iimmits Reus faBt uns an
Siir mdn4es. mas mir Mot gee
than!
Dim gnbe Ieiner 2sbensreiie
ST mander Rsnid mebr peib als
Dsiis.
Rie auf brsitsn Strabsn
9isbeseDtter fabeu.
Sn bes Sersens aGmmerlein
Subrt Did nur Elm Gubtpss elm.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1901-07-25
untsr Strpiaen. s

= Inter StrOIden. .gin
i'd beute miibe!" = nNanu = 9u bait
bod erit aht 0dae ieieiisu!"
Disputes It baus. Sremz
Der: nS0nusn sic mir nidt iusen. mo
i4 bier elm sutes 9aitbuus gum lleber.I
nahten finbe9"-Giubeimifder: .9es'
ben Sic uur sIeih bic erite @afe lints
binunter. in ben rRotben ShIen". Wit
lem iinb g sepib SufrieOeu, has 1T
mein Spbn!"
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1901-07-25

-8riber. mSiebft 9u bort bic
Spsi Serrsn, ben S4dbisen unb ben
@lesanten2" = ~Sa! Wie tommen bic
auiammsn9" : so, fueibt Du, bas
Iinb griiber. DE S9dbiss 1T elm arr
msr SeufeI; Der ma4t Bidder. llnr
Der Glesante 1T Mi1ionGr; Der lit
8u9ma9er."
-9eredteS trdfe. PatisnS
i'm: vSie bdben mid lag9e parten lais
fen, mein !Ssrr!" = 3ubnarSt (fpis
Belnb): ,Iun alerbinss, aber bdfir
1T bier ia auh Der Durts : SaloH!"-
9atientin: ,So2 ga, i4 bin ubsr feline
Wdrtefrau. Qbieu!"
= Enfant terrible, Batter gum
tleinsn Sans, Der in elmer @eieIf9aft
pom Rsbsntii9 Elm Stiid Sorte pess
senommen): rDiuft 0u bic Sorte
elei9 liegsn lafen = unge5osener
Sunse!" Cans: nSdrei' nur nidt
70. papd - fei Iisber frob, penu's
Riemanb merit, bab i'd 70 idledt err
sOeen bin!"
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1901-07-25

60 manden Differs Trserb
Gntpd6it nur Siinben Der Suse1o.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-25
success.
w OOaruff.

Cal. Stratton is home again.
 Charl Gardner was in town last week.
 Joseph Fish and J. Y. Lee had business at Holbrook this week.
 Elmer Gardner has returned home after an absence of some months.
 Allen Frost, IF. and Ellis Strat- ton have been on a visit to Snowflake.
 Everything looks fresh and green and Woodruff, at this time of year, is one of the prettiest spots in the county.
 Mrs. John L. Fish, Miss Stella Sn1ithson and H. A. Pease drove up from Holbrook Saturday and returned Sunday.
 Some Of our townspeopie art fishing at clear creek this side 0. Winslow. Ne hope they WI have q good time and bring plenty of fish back with them.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-25
A Great Hosiery Offer Direct From
 The Mills.

The old maxim, "I he proof of the Pudding is in the Eating" applies as we'll to the wearing qualities of our ho-iery Once worn and you will wear ih-m always An excep- tional trial of. IT that every reader of this pa er should take advantage of and tesl the remarkable wearing qualities and superior finish Of our bigh cra.tp hosiery We will, on receipt of 25c. in silver and the name of your local d aler, send direct to you from the n Ills, DDS age pai ,, 1 pair of our finest high grade latest style Empire brand ladi"s' or child ren's hose, or meu's half hnsr, ia black, tan white or ,h,. fashionable fancy solid colors, or the la est com binatiou silk embroidered polka dots, electric stripes elVckiug on side, ih fancy open work, plain, or drop stitch style, in French lisle thread, baibriggan, silk finish maco, or cashmerr, win full fni-h elastic top aud our patent reinforced silk aid linen knt s. an rss, doIlb s,Jte. top and high spii ed doubl" heel. They save dar,i'g and are guar anieed to give three times the wear of any other hosiery The samp in childreu's' with elastic top double knee, sole, heel and toe, plain or 1 ribbed, fine, medium or heavy quality, guaranteed fast color, and warranted not to crock The retail I value of these hose is 25c per pair. We will not send more than 4 pair or ga. h ladies' oI ehildren's to one person A trifi wear of these will conrince you of their m-iits. For 50c. we will sent, p $ pai ' one triaa paif of our ladies' inc silk hose, ie shades of pitk, gold, white> black, blue, cardinal or lavender This is q special rial offer Ei you are not satisfied with hem aft trial wear we wilt refund your money. 1T Nou are blessed with tn, m aitu Wish more, insist on your loca. dealer procuring them for ynu, and insist on him getting our Enpise ran4 hosiery Wtlte Us tuda | rioa this paper, as this offer is lmliso A beautiful htte booklat, eIi;ug how our hosiery $ ma1e. n 'iiod free 10 you on request. Address this way,
 EMPIRE KNITTING MILLS.
 l0S and lOs Fulton St.. New yoE,. City
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-25

A Pacific slope company is very actively pushing an inven- ton for making use of solar heat
 i'll practical manner. A great arrangement of mirrors like an inverted umbrella is mounted in such a way that it follows the movement of the sun across the heavens, and during the whole day the diverted rays of the sun are reflected on a boiler which drives an engine. It is said that this engine commences work at a half an hour after sunrise and only stops twenty minutes be fore it sinks below the horizon.