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au:x i::-o cu::E5 BY rUOF. ERIC , , Astronomer of the University of Pennsylvania. The principal change In the evening sky is the appearance of the bright winter constellation ' Taurus, which, L with the beamlf ul Pleiades Is now high up In the east. The Scorpion, , the Daldmoe, and Virgo have J1 disappear ed, while the g reat faint Ophlnchus, or Serpent-holder, ig already half mink Ih the w-est. Overhead there shine out ' the beautiful, Northern Cross, which, with Cassiopoea in the north and Fonwaihaut and the Baffle in, the south, makes the autumn sky 00 much , brighter than that of midsummer. , The -wonderful Milky Way still pass a directly , overhead, .bat Its slow NORTH. SOUTH.' - Flff. 1 The Constellations at p. westward turning has now become very evident. In August It arched the Fig. 2 Disc model of the IUky Way. -v ' , heavens from north to south jjww It extends' from the northeast ""to the aouithweet; by December t w!U stretch due east and west and not until 'the end of February will it cease to pass directly (through that senHth. Then the winter branch will be visible to us, af ter which 4t will rapidly sink toward the wrest and disappear, ,v ' , THE PLANETS. ' " The -planet Mars, which is moving rapidly eastward out of the constella tion Sagittarius Into Caprlcornus, may still be seen In the souttvwef, but tt la now in unfavorable posltlolf for ob servation. The beautiful Saturn, how ever, -with its sings and retinue of moons is high up In the east, and ev- ery evening la coming into more favor able position. And low down In the Fig. S Photograph of a part of the Milky Way. .,,-, a. west," Just after sunset, a brilliant planet' will be detected creeping out from behind .the enm w rapidly chat by the end of the month It will be very conspicuous and soon after -will exceed Mars ",1a brilliancy. This is the planet venus, -wnjcn an tnrough the winter will remain the beautiful evening star. . The observer may also detect the . little planet Mercury, iwhlch iwill reach u vipoiKs: mv Jt me . Sua -onon the 2$d: of the month, and may yvtmiuiy oe seen sninang m tne sunset , glow far toward the southwest This . planet is so low. down in the sky, ho w :,. ever that It Will only be found with cimcuity. -:- .: .,. t.,- . On October 15th, af fort7seveft intnutes 'Wit four ip. m,' the moon wllj pass oveHfi'e star at X Fig. I; on Oc- ttltar't AitMl n If -.HIT nn.. over ihe star at B. i The first star will remain behind the moon one hour and three minutes; and the second one. one nour ana nve minutes, as seen, rrom Washington. , , : - , , ' THE AUGUST COMET, j uhe oDserver who looked at the sky just before sunrise during the month of August doubtless saw the bright lit tle comet which was then visible. These visitors from the depths of space have v been , very rare of late years. No one can toll -when our sun - -will pass one of these bodies and dra-w ' It toward- itself with ever-increasing velocity until the comet finally swings around the win nJ vurjiuea its Jour ire vm iiiw bjcb 4juii, wnvre pos ' slbly ages hence it. may be disturbed in just the same way by another star. The 'August comet WB a vry ofetty : one, with a bright nucleus and a short toil. It was easily visible, without a telrscope, On August 1st it wo near , the bright star Aldebaran, at A. Fig. 6; by September '.1st It ho4 moved en rtlreJy across ihe Twins int Cancer.- M was narest the earth on August d, whert it was but. 70 millions of miles away, but It was brightest on August 13d because, though it was then 90 . 11 a DOOLITTLE. million mllea from jus, It had drawn bo near the sun that the tusturbance pro duced In It by thai great body " ha d greatly increased tU intrinsic bright ness. ' . THE UNIVERSE OF STARS.' No one caft study the -wonderful face of the sky, shown 1 in , Figs.. 1 and 6, without wondering what the nature of the universe is. v Surrounding us to ev ery direct Ion is this vast aggregation of. suns extending Into the, infinite, re gions of space to distance utterly in conceivable to us. , This whole uni verse of each dust -particle Is e sun and around one of the smaller suns m., October l. we know that stars and as a great cloud of dust, but there are many mljvuite worlds revolving on one of which It ia our destiny to dwell. What la the shape ahd the -true size of this great cloud, If Indeed it does, not extend on. forever T Is there nothing beyond It but empty space, or are there other universes than our own? The first atrteimpt to find the form of pur universe was made by Jlerschei more than a oenitiury ago. ' Supposing that the fainter stars uppear faint be cause they are farther from ua than the brighter ones, ana that the 'stars on. the whole are evenly distributed through ttle cloud, he thought it only necessary to (point his telescope In dif ferent directions v and 40 count the number of stara which he saw. In this way he sounded the depth of the cloud in very many directions: if . in one 'pointing, twice as many stars iwere fcftmd as in another, the first sounding Fig. 4 Spiral model of the Milky Way. .. was supposed, to be twice as deep as the second. The model formed from all the pointings Is the' dlso-shaiped body shown in Fig. 2 with various laminations corresponding to the branching of the Milky Way, and with a few holes directly through It iwhlch correspond to the cosa holes or vacant places In the sky. - But a mere glance at any photo graph of the Milky Way, such as is shown in Fig. J, will show that the stars are not evenly distributed, but are .massed together in some places and comparatively few in others. Many of the very faint stars, too, are cer tainly not farther away than the brighter ones; they are faint either because they are new stars not yet much condensed or because they are actually smaller than others or be- Fig. 6 A possible form of the Milky Way Spiral. - cause they are very oW and begin ning to die out. If we could directly measure the dis tance te some thousands of stars the task of finding the shape and size of our star cloud would be an easy one. But there is only one way known of measuring the distance of a star, and that is by observing ' its a-ppare-nt change a direction from us as 'the earth carries us along Ws great path in tta yearly Journey around he sun. And nearly all ct the stars are so In finitely far away t(hat even when out position Is -thus altered by 185 millions of miles they are not, apparently dis placed In the slightest degree. , But beside our own motion around the sun, the sun itself Is ceaselessly rushing through the tar cloud carry ing the urth end .tall of the other planets with it., The effect ef this mo tion is to eause a displacement of all of the stars, and notwithstanding that the stars themneives are also moving In all directions, on the' whole those stars which are nearest to us will ap pear to be displaced the most, JuBt as to a passenger on a swiftly moving railway train, the nearer; objects ap pear to rush past with far greater ve locity than those whoch are far away. If," therefore, two series of stars .are soChosen that the drift of each star of the first series over the sky Is twice aj great as that of the second we can say that on the who! all. the start of the second series are twice a far away s those f'tha flrst though we an tU nothing' f the comparaWva, dis tances of a n y two part lout a r starsv As the centuries go by In' which we are carried even further on our Journey r ...'. . h ' t' - .- i ' e : r . I. the ' . y cf tiL.A Hiethoj ta ill be very much in creased. From uch ca.reful studies of star drift H is inferred that the great ma jority of stars which we see are ar ranged in a long spiral cluster which appears to us as the Milky Vay. Whejn the telescopic stars of this cluster are mapped, it is seen that Its borders are not eharply 'marked as they would be if we were viewing it from the outside, but that the stars diminish in num ber gradually until ithe' bright 1 band fades into the ordinary etar-lit : sky. ; Fig. G--The Constellations Just be fore sunrise, showing the' path of the August comet. - ".,.. " - From this H is concluded that 'we are in the cluster itself; that our eun is merely one of the stars of the Milky Way clusters. " . , 1 Fig. 4 ehows a form originally as signed to the Milky Way cluster, but from more Tecent - researches K ap pears that the spiral ia more complU oated, perhaps somemihat of the shape shown 4n Fig. 6. The distance across this cluster is still very uncertain. Per haps the most reliable estimate is that which .places it at. about 4,000 light years ; that ia, light occupies 4 ,0 u 0 years in passing from, one end of the cluster to the other Sca-btered among the brighrt stars ithere are innumeraWe failntor ones which appear faint because they aotu- ally-are so and not because they are farther away than the otfhero. Some of them, like the" red stars, are faint be oatoe they ihave reached a point in their development W iwhlch., the light from their brig-ht inwrlOf la obscured by heavy clouds. Some are too little condensed as yet to emit much light; they are too young, and others are too Old. Wei know that all of the stars are slowly contracting and approach ing a solid condition; we cannot doubt that there are very many which have already become cold and which must remain forever invisible to vs. And since in a definite though, very long time even the largest sua will thus die out under the action of haitural forces, tt seems that had these been acting forever every star would have long since become cold. We are, therefore, led to conclude that our lumlverse in its present form cannot have existed for ever, but that It flied a beginning no less surely than tt shall have an end. APPEAL FOR CONDEMNED MAN. 1 Four Exceptions Will Be Filed With Supremo Court in Major, Guthrie OnscHighway Robbery Clwrged Aea!nt a NeeroTobacco Begins to Come in Plentifully at Durham, Special to The Observer. Durham Se-pt 28. fThe appeal case of Major Guthrie, the negr muTderer Who stands convicted - ind under sentence "of death for strangling his wife, has been prepared y his at torney, Mr. Benjamin Loven&teln. and ,forwarded to Solicitor A. Ia Brooks. The appeal is based oh four excep tlons, as follows: 1. Exception as to the evidence of Lula Etallings that the dead woman was In ' good health the evening be fore her death, Lula fifalllngs not be ing an expert. 2. The court's allowing liouis Adkins to tell of a conversation he had with Major Guthrie, this conversation toeing con victing in nature, and before the facts had been established that a crime had been committed. t. The action of the court in overruling a motion 'to seUaslrte the case because there was nof sufficient evidence to convict. 4. The fact that Juror Horner was sit ting on this case when he had heard of the sudden death of his child, killed by an automobile, this being before the speech of the defendant's counsel and before the charge of his honor. It is claimed that the condi tion of said Juror was not that to pass on life and death Issues. The officers are looking for one Norman. Beasley, a negro, who snatch ed 11 from the hands of the wife of Robert Weaver, also "colored, and then ran off. When he grabbed the money the cries of the woman ibrought her husband to her help. - Weaver made a break to get Beasley and tho latter grabbed a chair, keeping him off and then reaching for his pistol, telling him he would shoot him. The charge against Beasley will be high way robbery. ' - There was quite a' large break of tobacco on the market yesterday the three warehouses being well filled with the weed. The grade of tobacco being sold is low, but the prices for those grades. are. good and consider ably above the average. The ware housemen e'xnect that from this time on there will be at least four large "sales each week, providing, of coutsb, the weather Is. such as to allow the marketing of the wee- t One Durham Negro Shoots Another. Bpecttl to The Observer. ' : Durham, Sept. '28. There, came near being a . fatal shooting affair at the Seaboard Air Line depot yes terday when Bun -Mitchell was shot and wounded by Fred Carlton, (both negroewrHMettwh-,clatms-':that' the shooting was accidental, tried to escape but was run down and rap turned by Sergeant Pendergraph fully a mile' from where the' shooting oc curred. The ball, passed through the fleshy part of the right thigh and, whil the wound Is a very -painful one, It Is not considered that it is of a se rious nature. ; - . , -Carlton, the defendant In. thla case, married a ulster of Major Guth rie, the negro who is:now under sen tence of death and whose execution has been stayed toy reason- of tho fact that there Is an appeal to the Su preme Court. . ,x " (' ' Consul II. ft. Brunot, of Jeres de la Front era, reports that Spain needs ir rigation "for many .reasons, -land the Spaniard realise that fact, as ts evi denced by the ; Introduction- of laws touching the subject at almost every session of Parliament, but thus far without results. . HEALTH JN THE CANAL ZONE, The hlRb wages paid make It a mighty temptation to our young artisans to loin the force of skilled workmen needed to construct the Panama Canal. ; Many are rMitraltioii, however, by the fear of fevers and malaria. It is the knowing . ones- those who have used Electric Bitters, wijo o ihre ; wlwut; this fear, well knowing. they,. are safa. from, jpaiortoui lnflnnr with Elcctrla Bitters on ImnJ. Cures blood poison, too. btUounss, weakness and all stomach, llvsr and kid- ry troubles. Ouarantstd by all drug-. w('h or triibont the knowledge fit pattnC lar-trtiyi sui tt-n itur drink. nou rrm- or monpy rtiiiniml. BOOK 1 ii F Guri'itvl unrttr Pure rood Law. A m rm I n A wlerm, tfvnt rindr. Asrmiit It, lablfft ukrn ToluDlarlljr. i.i i niw form, $1 rr ho. for S5. r.ol fr noon, mntlrd fHKl, AVKMISU CO.. U W. 34tk be. M. T, , 10R BAJLB BY i . ENGIJSH-McLAHTY CO., .40 South Tryon St. ' v DETECTIVE'S QUICK WORK. In Two Hours Ho Kuns Down Boy Who Took $50 and Returns the Money to tho ; Owner. . Special to The Obrycr. - ' '. ABhevllie,', Sept. 27,"-r'Clty De tective Frank Jordan did a neat stunt-In the sleuth line and, while no prosecutions will 'follow, the work ef the' detective was nevertheless ex eel lent. It seems that a well-known Ashevlllef man eent hia 15 -year-old son to the bank with a fSO check to have it cashed. The boy, cashed the check all right, but instead of returning to his father he pocketed the money and hiked for the woods. About 12 o'clock Mr. Jordan was called on the case and ,by 2 o'cleck he had-located the boy in the edge 01 a wood near town. He found $10 on the lad and was told that another boy had, the other (40; that he had fone to -purchase two tickets to acksonvllle, Fla., and that the two boys were going there. Mr. Jordan about this time beard the whistle, of the southbound train and he promptly hot-footed : Jt to the station. He reached the ticket office about the time the boy., with the $40 reached the window and promptly nabbed him. In less than three hours after being notified of the affair the de tective had placed in the hands of the nAsheville gentleman his $50 and also his boy thief. It was agreed that the lad should not be prose cuted. ' EASY TslOfJEY- The (10.00 sbr ot tbe Coatoldted Ltandr I Co. ot Kaw York ern S5 dividend. ni nduoi io Bsietmes wkntea.- invitite J 'ANNOUNCEMENTS Drs. W. A. Graham and T. H. Wright beg to announce that they have formed a copartnership- under the firm name of Graham-& Wright for the practice of Medicine and Burgery. Office over Jordan's Drug Store, ' T. H. WRIGHT, M. D. ' f W. A. GRAHAM, M. D. Aug. 15, 1907. Commissioner's Sale of Real Estate By order of the Superior Court, In a proceeding therein pending, en titled Frances Eugenia .Clark and others vs. Loyd Smith and others, cn the 15th day of October, 1907. at 12 o'clock m., at the courthouse dvor In the City of Charlotte, I wil' sell at public auction to the highest bidder the following described tract of lard: -B;ing the second tract of land de scribed in a deed of Alex A. Cathay and others to Eliza F. Smith, dated January 2d, 1867, and therein do scribed as follows: Containing 12 ueret, beginning on the bank of the river,, on hickory, runs east 66 po'.w to a black jack; thence 8. -5, E. 31 poles to a pile of stones; thencs 8. 8t poles to the river on a -willow; tnence up the river 25 poles to the beginning. Ttfrms of sale, 20 per cent, cash, balnnce payable in six months from date of confirmation of sale, title to be nitalned until full payment is made. Purchaser" may anticipate payment. 1 Robert's. Hutchison. " . Commissioner. BEST LOCATION IN THE STATE for a Wholesale Dry Goods or Wholesale Notion business. Seven railroads running Into and out of the city. In adltlon to the Cape Fear River Steamboats, thus guaranteeing low freight rates and reaching out in every direction through fertile and prosperous sections. I have a store for rent,, centrally located and Just suitable for a wholesale business, 80 feet wide, 200 feet (Jeep, three floors. Possession given immediately. Will rent on reasonable terms. This Is Just the place andthl is Just the store for a wholesale Dry Goods, Notion or Shoe House. F. W. THORNTON, , Fayetteville, N. 0 ; Have You Ever paid a visit to our Mantel Depart ment T If not, you have failed to see soms of the handsomest designs In Hardwood Mantels ever displayed In the city, and the prices are way down. Come in the next time you are up street . i. N.- McCausland & Co. tore Dealers, Itooflag Contractors, ' Mi S. Tryon Street. M M Have Your Diamonds Reset Iif youtyDlamonds are 1n old style settings, we. can rest them In the latest style King. . stud, scarf pin, or- brooch mountings. We will gladly ex amine your Jewelry at any time ,to see If the stones are secure and make no chargb -for same. -&DIX0N. B-Sfc B ' Leading Jewelers! i J .J co.TTorj wAcn-ziin3: Revolvinj FlatCanii Railway Heads j and Drawing Frames A. H. 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When you say Model In Charlotte, you mean good laundering. . , The standard of our work Is well known and appreci ated by those who have patronized us a single time. MODEL' LAUNDRY CO, "Correct Laundering." West FITtl) St. At Cbarch. 'Phone 169. COAL - ICE xDon't wait too long. Buy Coal' NOW fcr prompt' "de livery. Wc sell the best and . the CLEANEST, therefore the CHEAPEST. Daily v Ice - capacity 1G0 tons. . . Coal enJ Ice ' Ptcr.e 19 Standard Ice r -anil-FuelXo. !,r- il ICL );' '.RovbFrarssa t Si a - 11 0 U R N. S o u t h Delivery Delivery and Ssaam'.'-r Harness Harness At our shops, 220 N. College street, we build about 30 different styles of business wagons, and you . can save about 25 per cent, by buying direct from us, as -we have " no freight land other expenses that a retail dealer has to pay., , We will build any kind of a wagon tp order. J W; Wadsworths' Son's Company CHARLOTTE, N. C. 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