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it.- 1 -I CHARLOTTE DAILT OBSERVIStlNDAY, MAY S01909, ; - -, . The. Heavens in June 3f ,Ttot. Brie DoftUnle, of tbe lMierstty of PmnsylTanla. ROBERT TOWNSEND HOUGH BY SAVOYARD. Th bcrvsf who has looked at the vnUur sky from time to thne during: the put week ha een the brilliant wioter group of star slowly sinking: la the Wert, one after the other, until war only the beautiful Leo remains with ua. Meanwhile the summer groups have been mounting: steadily upward from the Eaat, the great Bootes, which lead them all, reach ing: this month the highest point of ' the heavens and shining: out with its magnificent golden tar Arcturua. di- ' reetly overhead. The summer branch Of the Milky Way, whose counties tar near Ophlnchus are wonderful- to the 28th a shower of Blow moving j stars, some of which leave trains be- A little more than a quarter of a I k. hot nt 1113 hind them, will be seen to move out- weekjl , a ttto vfl. ward from F. In all of thecje oases I ,age of nOTtn Texas. It was a wooden the swarm has become so m attered j town built on the sand, the houses and thinned out that but few stars j scattered hither and thither south of a narrow gauge railroad. The tavern -was kept by an old fellow rained Ragland. and he fed his guests will probably be seen even after long watching. It Is of great interest to j reflect, however, that each one is a little body whose career Is thus brought to a sudden end after it has circleid for age around our sun, and that now the nature and motions of even such apparently erratic and temporary little objects as these have; S2C3. Figure 1 The constellation at V p. in,, June 1. en passably good rrled chlcaen ana miserable porqhouse ham from St. Iymifc. The huscults were plethori-1 with fat, inedible from soda, an apo theasis of Indigestion, a provocation to dyspepsia and a challenge to mis frv. The corn bread wa even w orse and seemed to be made of starch. '1 he coffee was excusable and fh milk 'horrible. In some compensation ther nfrp a few fig trees, not entirely barren. In the woods round about were scrub pine and scrub postoak. sand like Sahara, and copperhead snakes like the lo -lists that plagued Pharaoh. In that little town convened that hot month of June the Circuit Court. The district judge who presided became Chief Justice of the State. The dla li ' t attorney was later Attorney Gen eral and after that Governor of Texas. A young lawyer at the har was also elected attorney general. Governor, and is now a Senator in Congress an 1 leader of the minority in that body. Buck Kilgore was another practicing lawyer there, iind so was DeOraffen rled, another Congressman from Texas There were ntheYH who at tained to hiKh place in the business world. All of us ate old Ragland's chickens, and some of us caused old Ragland's table also his bed, par ticularly his beds, and especially his beds. is Highland county, Ohio, settled by the Quakers and the Methodist. For aker came from there, and so did Beveridge. It wa an anti-slavery community, and Intensely hostile to African slavery as It existed t the, South, and Hlllaboro wa a way sta tion of the Underground Railroad. Before the close of hostilities be tween the North and South and ere the soldiers came from the front there was a wheat threshing: In Highland county, such work as we had in the earlier day when neighbor helped neighbor and grain wa threshed by horse-power, and they had a big and sumptuous dinner at the farmhouse at midday. On this occasion some twenty men and boy were at work threshing a crop of wheat in a district of Highland county that had not a single Democratic vote. There came down the dusty road a paroled rebel soldier, who had left Ohio before the war and settled in the South where he Joined the Confed-rate army. As he passed along one of the farmers engaged in the work of threshing said to the hands. "We ought to mob that traitor." aehaduU sf the Wilson tariff bHI t S production of which any leads of the American bar might wu om proud; but it Is a practitioner n the court room that Judge Hough ha gained most reputation. . He 1 that marvel of -lawyer one r ever taken yby surprise, never captive of aank movement Of an adversary. Jy gathered into great cloud forms, aad In other portions are arranged In long streamers or branches, is now well up from the ground in the Kant. Lying along this golden highway are the beautiful Northern Cross, the bril liant autumn star Vega, the Eagle with its bright star Altalr, at A. and in the extreme southeast the striking group of the Scorpion, which has not yet entirely emerged from below the Figure 2 Path of the moon during tbe total ecllme of June 3. ground. The observer may lie inter ested in riinK the dia ppea ritnee of the Great Water Snake. Hydra, which for two months has been seen otretchlng almost entirely across the sky in the Smith. This group lies in such a position that almost all of Its stars sink below the ground at th same time, in marked contrast to the group Boon, which occupies many hours In dk;apiear:ne SHOOTING STAK SHOWKRK. Swinyins: eraselc-flylv around Ihe sun in great elongn't-d orbits there are tens of thousands of clouds, ot meleorc matter, v. 1 1 1 h by tidal action haw been Btrctc bed out along tlielr paths. In many cases the whole orbit is one long strip of little particles, not suf ficiently dense to be seen In an tele scope. But there are several hun dred of these streams which p in such a position that tbe earth passes through them once i i h year. cacTl little particle iivMinlrrril is then burnt up h its friction with the nir. and is seen as a shooting star He cause these partu leu are moving par- Leen lound out by the astronomers. THK KCLIPSK OF THE MOON. During this month we will be favor ed with two most brilliant eclipses. one of the moon and one of the suit The eclipse of the moon, which I caused by our satellite passing into the shadow of the Karth. will begin on the evening of June 3 at I? hours 43 minutes and 24 seconds. Eastern standard time. The motion of the moon during this eclipse la shown in Fig. 2. The large circle N H repre sents the great conical shadow of the earth, which extends out into space in u direction exactly opposite the sun to a distance of 850,000 miles. jShe distance through this shadow at ' tPie point where the moon crosses it lis nearly fi.000 miles; as our satellite Is but 2,1611 miles In diameter it may, therefore, pass completely into the shadow and become dark. In the present eclipse the moon will reach the point H, and the eclipse become total at 7 hours r.8 minutes: and 0 seconds; it will reach C at 8 hours 59 minutes 4 seconds, so that the eclipse will remain total, the moon being From that day I have never de spaired of America citizenship. Here was the best town in the world In which to die. and you could toss a stone "from eend to eend" of It. and yet that community produced enough men who subsequently became dis tinguished to lend lustre to a big city. i I am now about to write something of a great and a good man. who came I from a little town of Ohio. He is iin ! heralded to the world, but his is a luminous mind and his a heart of A his lusty boy IK years of age sprang from the straw stack, pitch-fork in hand, and In Impassion ed voice exclaimed, "'That man has as much right to travel unmolested the highway as anyone here," and he de clared that such talk as the opulent and Ignorant farmer had uttered was ilifloyal The crowd gathered around the youth and uttered many savage threats asainst him. He weighed 190 Pounds, his muscles were as Iron, and his t yes as fire. He had giant's strength, and gripping his pitchfork, he uttered the defiance, "Come on, I can whip anv ten of you." The. entire layout was tamed by the master spir it of the boy and work was resumed and politics dropped. Robert T. Houh was the boy. and the hoy was father to Robert T. Hough, the man. the Jurist, the think er. Hi.- gentleman, whom I came to know some forty years later. His father was a Methodist and an aboli tionist: but this boy became a follow- When McKlnley wa first elected. Judge Hough resigned his office and entered upoo the practice of his Pr -fession at Washington, where ' hi friend are numbered by the scope of his acquaintance. A man , of "the broadest character, one of those sin ners, "of whom I am one of which." who believe It was the mission of our blessed Lord and Saviour to succor 'the unworthy poor" and bring solace to the heavily laden In spirit. Hough is narrow in nothing but his politics. He is a "yaller dog-" 1smocrat. and that sentiment is embedded to the marrow of his great, ponderous. Pennsylvania Dutch corporoslty. His most intimate personal friend is Judge Keegaln. an Irishman, a Catholic, a fellow lawyer and, a Re publican. Antagonistic in a thousand ways, religious and political, the two are a closely knit in friendship and fellowship as any two brothers In all the land. While I that write this Plead guilty of the charge of being something of a ruffian, I envy Hough and Keegaln the character universal they have made as perfect gentlemen, a term held all too cheap in our land; but it fits these two as the bark the tree. y s I am now going to uote the dally prayer of Robert Townsend Hough, and If any boy in his teens or of ten derer years, shall do me the honor to read this account of a rather obscure Meat man, I want that boy to memo rize this prayer, repeat it morn and eve, and live it: "To-day let me live content; be clean, refined, worthy. Act frankly, go slowly, listen well, think oulcklv: Fear nothing, do my full share of the world's work. And rest to-night knowing I have injur ed nothing that exists. That Is simpler than the advice old Polonius gave Laertes and Just as good. Suppose all men practiced what Judge Hough's prayer implies? Well, he and Keegaln would be out of jobs. There would be no use for lawyers, or governments. In this damned wicked world we live in. Sir Oliver." gold. The woods are full of ii h peo- i''r ' uiiandlgham and a reader of pie In our grand republic Thev are ;Thp Cincinnati Enquirer. Charac ter the salt of the earth, the eonserva- ! Is t,lf' "n,v roln that ' 'u11 leRal tu tors of the institutions fashioned bv i ,,'r aIui young Hough, when a can our fath-ra ami m.A in ,he keeping ,( I '"'lute for office in that community a later generation some years later, on the Democratic .' i ticket, got 4S majority in that very precinct where not a Democratic vote was (list in 1 85 4. Just across the river from Kentucky may. however, see the hitter part of the eclipse. It is probable thai cir satellite will 'not become wholly invisible, but that even when completely immersed In I the shadow it will shine with a dull, i copper-colored light The source of I this light is the sunlight which is j bent down within the shadow by tho rim of air surrounding the earth. An , observer on the moon would see the i earth at this time surrounded bv a , brilliant ring of red 'ight. Tf. how As win the case of Frank Hurd. , tile intolerance if fanaiic Republicans i made an intense Democrat of Robert T. Hough, and he would vote his par ty's ticket though it were headed hy the eternal old cloven-hoofed devil himself. In 1871, at the ase of 22, Robert T. Hough was gmduated from the Cin cinnati Law School, and soon thereaf ter he was elected clerk of the cir cuit court of Highland county. When the term expired he entered actively ever, (the regions of the earth along ion the prac tice of law and took high this ring are cloudy, so that the sun- I rank at the bar. Mr Cleveland ap- I'lgure Apprurance of the moon when I'lsng on Juno '.I. art He hi (a) on the Atlantic couM. and (h) on the I'ac ilic coast. complete 1 hidden from the llRht of the sun for about two minutes more than an hour. After this the moon will besln to emerge, finally reaching the position I) ami the eclipse being entireh o cr .it 1(1 hours 14 minutes 1 s se onds p ni. 1'nfort unat-ly. the moon at this time Is very low in the sky. lying al most a..s f n below the equator as the j light cannot penetrate it, tie disc of the moon may become wholly invis- Ihle. THK ECLIPSE OF THK SCN. J On the afternoon of June 17 there occurs a total eclipsi nf the sun I which Is only visible as a partta' (eclipse except to observers along the line A B. Pig 4. At the middle of the eclipse, when the sun is most nearly i covered, it will appear as shown in ! A. Klg. fi. to observers along the line A A. Fig. .". ; to those along the lines ,RR and CC. It will appear as shown , at b and c. Fig . respectively, while ' those below the line DD will see no 'eclipse at all. In the Northern States pointed bin! s Motor of Interna re venue, and no abler man ever held that responsible office His history uf and argument upon the Income tax I Utr Foraker has rung the fira alarm again. Se Proverbs xxvi; 11. He adv ises a resort to the anarchistic bomb to destroy the monument to Wlrz. whom the fiouth holds a mar tyr and the North a monster; and yet fewer Yankees died in rebel pri sons than rebels died In Yankee pri sons, and that too when the Chris tian North made medicine a contra band of war, somrthing unprecedent ed since Cain invented war. Tilly nor Wallen.stein ever dreamed of ! It. As for Jefferson Davis, the ! obliteration of his name from J Cabin Joohn Bridge did him no liawn. as its restoration did his mem ory no ood And besides, his image i cm the silver serv ic e of the ship Miss issippi did the navy no harm, as It ciid his fame no good. All I meant to sav is that Foraker is striving to bring Copperheadisin In fashion again in Ohio, and therefore it mav lie come necessary for Judge? I Hough to return to that State and 1 i in for Governor on a Vallandijrham ' ticket. A AM A T . 11 . I may wear collars thi A 11 WcJC 1H1 V.V.UU tlpiCvje JV A U irof lrvrkl- rr Kotor J f I -sfc- it y iLyv-Lti, dim IW ris VvvH-zav 4-V o i- V II wears an Arrow Lollar LONG-TATE CLOTHING 0 j" KkSk IvjfiLV show ..., how :.. ,wc i -j i$3t i-l!5sgVt . J ms horses Si .t.; ) DR. FISIIKK'S IIORSi: SMOKING SHOP, 17 North College Street. I j I igurc fl Appearance of tJieec llps cil -nil as leed from stations along jthc lines A . Hit. efcr., of Figure . the eclipse will begin at about 7 pm. c Kastern standard tlmel. and in the Southern ones at about S p. m. OS servers along the line HK will see the sun set when the eclipse Is J ist i half coer; those to the Fast of this ' line will see the beginning of the j eclipse only ' ; TIIF PI. WETS Jupiter Is still high up in the skv in the constellation of I.po. hut rent the other planets are visible in the evening. Mercury and Venus are still , too near the sun to he satisfactorily i observ ed, the latter planet Betting 40 .minutes after sunset on June 1 and j i SO minutes after sunset on July 1. Saturn and Mars are morning stars. and may be seen a few hours before ! sunrise, the former In the constella- . tion Pisces and the latter in Aquarius. ' Mars is now rapidly approeching the , .earth, but It will not b? In 'good pogi- ! nun ior cios-tv anon until next au- frr tumn. ERIC DOOLITTLE L INTER-STATE FIDDLERS' CONVENTION AUDITORIUM, GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 4 AND 5 400 CHAMPION FIDDLERS 400 KltOM TK.NNKSSKK. VIRGINIA. SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA WILL OMI'KTK FOR FORTY MONKY ANI) OTHER VALl'ABLE PRIZES. U. S. SENATOR "BOB" TAYLOR, of Tennessee, lll be present at all sessions of the Convention. Hiid will speak Sat urday afternoon at -IrSO o'clock on "The Kiddle and the Bow." and Saturday evening at 10:30 on "t'atles In the Air." SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES FROM ALL POINTS ON THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY OX THE CERTIFICATE PLAN. Genera Admission 25c. l&eserved Seats 50c. The Auditorium has 15.000 comfortahle sratm and in canr of rain can accommodate 20.0O0. A sounding hoard is being placed oer the new platform, which i In the centre of the building, so that every one i-an see and hear perfectly. COME AND FETCH YOUR FIDDLE. Figure 4 The eclipse of the sun dun e 17. allel to one another when the earth strikes them the shooting stars of any swarm all appear to dart outward from the same point in the sky. The mmt brilliant showers are those 'caused by e dense swarms which the earth meet In August and November, tout many Interesting one occur also at thi time of the year. On any evening during June the observer, by careful watching, may see an occas ional tr move slowly over the sky lit any direction from the region at B, Flg. 1, probably leaving a train -behind it. Toward the beginning of , tha month swiftly moving stars may : be discovered darting away from the points C. D and E, while on the 2fith jsun does at the time of the shortest ! ciay. Its time of rising is. therefore, ; unusually Inte in the extreme South j cm States, being 7 hours 12 minutes j p. m., local time, and in the Northern ones 7 hours 2S minutes. Consequent ly, the beginning of the eclipse can not be observed in the L'nited States. As the moon rUes low in the South east, observers in the Eastern States will see it presenting the appearance shown at A, Fig. 3: to observers West of the longitude of Cleveland iiini At lanta, the moon will rise totally eclipsed, while to those who are far ther West than Colorado it will not rise until the total eclipse is over. 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President Thomas-White Co. Vh-lcM F. Kronhelmer, Dry Oooc's. -. . - m nillU , irr f -ar TUP tIKM Ji.MlOSAll B.I.NjIV oi line of manufacturers' and mill account, c. the Rfate. Our facilities entitle us to ft larger line i. our deslr to offer our services to mill men and i"8"-'; ,1 have to have larse accommodations and who sr.- n r. i ...ci:..-. -n-- .. . nni.Mom and not :iterf--f 1 present banking arrangements. There is no ' v, ' if toi to go outside the State for Banning avec. WE KNOW YOUR WANTS AND WANT YOUR BUSINESS. We Issue Certificates of Deposit Bearing 4 Cent. Interest. Most respectfully, JULIAN S. CARR, President. Our rates are plain, straight 6 per cent. Nocflj mission or bonus considered. Diioh .Dull WE WORK FROM BOTH rUSll and I Ull ENDS Of THE ANIMAL BY PUSHING FOR BUSINESS AND PULLING IT FROM EVERY SECTION VE HICl AND HARNE a .i 4- i and best 3 xl au muea we iiavc idigtoi TvnoUm. v. rt-ki:wAB rolif c nf rood- - P 1 terms "beat 'em alLM J. 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