f THE ASHEVDLLE GAZETTE -NEWS Tuesday, February 16, 1915. FAGS TOTHt PUBLISHED BY Evening News Publishing Co, AHTCEVnXK. N. C. W. A. Hlldebrand Editor Wm. M. Bricken.... General Manager SUBSCRIPTION BATES: aHnia and Blltmore Aim VTuk - . . I .10 Three Month! i-f" Mi UitMh. .. TwaWa Months ...... BY MAIL. Df ADVANCE Threw Month J'nn Blx Mnntha ............ '"'11 Twelve Months . ...i .4.00 Any matter often for puollcat on that ! not classified aa news, giving notice or appealing or Pr0rt tin admittance or other fee la U advertising and will be regular rates only. The same applies to cards of thanks, obituary not ces. political announcement and tne mo lt H It It 11 The Oasette-News ts a mem ber of The Associated Press. Ita telegraph news Is there for complete and reliable. It it it it it it Entered at the Postofflce in Asbevllle M second-class matter. Tuesday, February 16,191s There Is little reason for further dispute In the Carter-Abernathy con troversy. It has reached the point where It should be settled and It should not be very difficult to settle It. Either Solicitor Abernathy was justified In continuing from term to term a case against a prominent citi zen or he has proven unfaithful to his trust in office; Judge Carter is either right In his charges against the officer or he has done Solicitor Abernathy a great Injustice. The facts should be easily determined. Any woman intending to commit a murder should go to Chicago to do it. The nineteenth woman accused of murder there has Just been acquitted without an intervening conviction. Do not tell us there Is no heroism in politics. Look at thoee brave sen ators fighting In the trenches! One would think Mexico would be clear of foreign diplomats within a few hours. Who struck Commission Bill-y Patterson? THE RURAL MAIL SERVICE. J.-. TrJ iPV Of It appears tnat unuer uj Daddy's Goodnight Story. By George Henry Smith. The Fly Hook. "Splash!" something bright and sparkling swooped down into the little brook right beside Billie Bubble. It came so quick that Billie bounced way up out of the water. "Now, I wonder what that was," he thought to himself as he settled tack into the brook again. , "There come a little fish, I'll ask him what that is." "Hello, little Fish," said Billie Bub ble, "can you tell me what that bright little thing is that is floating around in the water?" "Where?" asked the little fish. "Right there beside you," said little Billie Bubble. The little fish turned around and "scoot!" he had vanished out of sight so quickly that little Billie Bubble be gan to think he hadn't even been there.. ; - "That was a funny way for that fish to act," said little Billie Bubble as he went on his way. Why down the brook Billie Bubble found the little fish hiding behind p. big stone. "What .made you go so quickly?" asked Billie Bubble. "I didn't go any too fast to suit me," said the little fish with a shiver. "If that bright little thing you saw had gotten hold of me I would not be here now." "' "What was It," asked little Billie filled with curiosity. "That's what is called a fly-hook," said the little fish. ''It's very pretty, but it is not for little fish. I had a little brother who went too close to one of those things and he was pulled right up out of the water and I have never seen him since. Whenever We fish see one of those things we Scoot, I can tell you." "Well, I'm giad you got away In time," said little Billie. "So am I glad," said the little fish. retrenchment proposed by the Post-.-. .oi Mr Burleson, some- roaster oiic.., thing like fifty per cent of the rural delivery routes in the various states may be discontinued. The Postmaster General has repeatedly stated that he proposed to make his department sen .ustalning. and it is assumed that he Thae planned to cut down the appro priations until the department Is placed upon basis desired by him. , A great deal of bad news of one if:-'sort or another is being heard now, ' and this intelligence must be so clas j sifted. The rural delivery service Is one thing which hns been established t by a more or less paternalistic gov- '. ernment of which the people have ap ! proved. The service has helped the j, very wholesome back to the farm ': movement, it has given the rural population relief from a condition of isolation, has helped the town mer chant and has been a great convene Vnce in every way. Senator Aldrich once said that mil lions could be saved to the treasury by the practice of a reasonably degree of economy. Many students of public affairs have agreed with thl9 conclu sion. There are hundreds if not thou sands of jobs under the government, created under political pressure, that might Just as well be abolished. It would seem, if economy is to be prac ticed, that It might be put into opera tion In ways that would not affect the postal service, In which everybody Is Interested, and through which every one receives a measure of benefit. RIPPLING H SEEING THE WORLD. He jogged around from town to town, "to see the world," was his ex cuse; he'd get a job and hold it down a little while, then turn it losse, "Oh say," employers use to say; "your mov ing is a foolish trick; you'll soon be earning bigger pay, for we'll promote you pretty quick." "This town Is punk," he would reply, "and every street is surnamed Queer; I'd see the world before I die I do not wish to stagnate here." Then he was young and quick and strong, and Jobs were thick, as he jossed by, till people pass ed the word along that on him no one could rely. Then, when he landed in a town, and wished to earn a humble scad, the stern employers turned him down "we want you not, your rec ord' bad." He's homeless in these wintry days, he has no bed, no place to sup; he "saw the world" in every phase; the World saw him and pass ed him up. It's Rood to "see the world," no doubt, but one should make his bundle first, or age will find him down and out, panhandling for the Wienerwurst. WALT MASON. Copyright, 1915, by The Adams New3 paper Service. Mysteries of the Heavens Revealed By Astronomy In XIV Parts. : By H. P. Lovecraft. The series beginning with this ar-i tide Is designed for persons having no previous knowledge of astronomy. Only the simplest and most interest ing parts of the subject have here been included. It is hoped that this series may help In a small way to diffuse a knowledge of the heavens amongst the readers of The Gazette- News, to destroy In their minds the pernicous and contemptible supersti tion of judicial astrology, and to lead at least a few of them to a more par ticular study of astronomical science. ENGLISH PRESCRIPTIONS. The New York Medical Journal suggests that doctors ought to write their prescriptions In English. "If a medical substance has any effect up on the Imagination," says the Journal, It will have that effect as much When written In English as In perfect Latin." The fact that the Latin, as the Journal further Intimates, Is w tially far from perfect, Is of no special Importance. It Is curious, though, that a highly educated and progres lve profession uses the Latin names for drugs Just because doctors did so In the middle ages when Latin was the language of all educated men, and popular names for drugs lacked preel ion and general currency. This Latin terminology may be de fended by physicians on sentimental grounds, as the last bit of mystery left in medicine. But why any mys tery at all? Most patients want to know what they are taking Into their systems, and most doctors today tec egnire their right to know, There U xo doubt, too, that the use of clear English Instead of abbreviated medle val Latin would result In fewer mis takes in putting up prescriptions. Ask fuiy prescription clerk. President Farrell of the United EStatea steel corporation declares that the certainty of at least 11,000,000, 000 favorable trade balance for 1118 nearly twice our best record In' urea a great Industrial boom. But the latest export figures Indicate that by the end of the year the world 'i Indebtedness to u will be nearer $2, fj 00,000,000. The January excess of exports over Imports seems to have Trx-n; about $140,000,000. Multiply that by twelve and see what the to tal Is. And for the first week February me lavorebie balance was Pr,mthlnf like 144,000,000, which would mske It at the rate of $180 i o.OOO a month. Twelve times that .), pouring Into the United States , r""d yellow gold and In the form ' i, ut own redeemed securities would iily bring an unprecedented Among other good things C & K Hata n k u 9. s s n K . PP V.SS flftMMTi'.TJT , 9t Begin Dragging Konds. The cheapest - good roads maker over invented Is the drag. If you don' want impassable roads in February nd March, begin dragging them now Send to the United Slates department of agriculture, Washington, for a free copy of farmers' bulletin No,- 321 Split Log Drag on Earth Roads. Also demand that your legislature make proper provision for paying farmers for dragging roads. Here is the gospel of road dragging as given in a single paragrapff by D. Ward King, inventor of tho now celebrated plit log good roads maker: "It's not the water that falls on your roads that does the harm, but the ater that stays on it. After you grade your road the surface Is still composed porous dirt. This absorbs water. Either you drive at one side or you drive at the top and cut It up. Tou know the kind of mud you find in a og wallow. It Is like wet cement. You could fashion a waterproof vessel from It. This same fine dirt ts found on a traveled roud. If It Is net drag ged after rains It Is like a Ion?? basin. holding the water, later hardening Into a rough, lumy surface. Drag the road after a rain and you spread a thin layer of this fine dirt over the surface and it is beaten down. Drag' It after the next rain and you put on another layer which Is also packed down. Keep this up and after a while you will have a road, higher In the middle than on the sides and covered with an elghteen-lnch or two-foot, smooth, hard crown that will shed all water. Using a simple drag is the only suggestion yet made that will not make a road worse before it makes it better. Never drag up more at one time than can be packed down by the traffic." The Progressive Farmer. ITT. It I OPENED UST The duck pin tournament at the T. M. C. A. opened last night with some very good scores posted in the small pins. The team of Anderson met that of Jackson and the latter team succeeded in getting away with two of the three games and finished 09 pins to the good in the grand to tal. Jackson proved the most con sistent performer of the evening and got three games well over 100, draw ing down an average of 114 pins to the game. The scores and totals fol low: Tot Anderson 10$ $4 102 294 Maxwell 9$ 8C 91 275 Allport SO 86 91 247 J. 8. Williams ... 97 10$ $1 284 Grand touts ..(! ITS If I 1109 Part 1 Tiie Sky and Its Contents. Astronomy, the oldest of all the sciences, is that branch of knowledge which treats of the heavenly bodies, their size, distances, motions, rela tions, and physical conditions. The name is derived from : the Greek. words "astron," a star, and "nomos" a law. Of the various studies pursued by mankind, none is better adapted to furnish to Its followers a rational and intellectual species of enjoyment than is this sublime science, for the gran deur and 'beauty of its objects, the simplicity and directness of their ob servation, and the broad conception of the universe obtained from their contemplation, whereby our seeming ly boundless earth Is relegated to Its proper insignificance in the vast sps- tern of infinity, all afford to the ac tive and reflective mind an exercise of the most refreshing and pleasur able character. Astronomy is likewise of great practical use to the human race, for by Its aid the size and figure of the earth are measured, the ship guided from port to port, the calendar and clock regulated, and countless other dally affairs facilitated. The book of the heavens Is open to all on every clear night of the year, whence there would seem to be little excuse for the great ignorance of celestial science now so lamentably prevalent even In the most highly civilized portions of our globe. Nature of the Heavenly Bodies. Although the various bodies which shine In our skies appear to us as small flat discs and minute points of light, they are, nevertheless, as every one has doubtless heard, very differ ent in their actual nature, being for tho most part great suns and worlds, the majority of them much, and some vastly larger than the earth on which we reside, whirling around on their axes and rushing with Incredible rapidity in their appointed courses; some possibly inhabited by beings not unlike ourselves. This terraqueous globe Itself, massive though it seem to us, is .In reality a most Insignifi cant object as considered In relation to the rest of the universe. It Is, in fact, only one of eight similar globes called "planets," that revolve In ap proximately circular paths or "orbits' around the sun, an irrtmensc, fiery, central sphere from which they re ceive all their warmth and Illumina tion. The moon is a small planet re volving around the earth as the earth Itself revolves around the sun. Near ly every planet poseeses one or more such moons or "satellites as they are called . The sun, together with its retinue of planets and their satellites, forms what ho been designated "the solar system." The stars, which should never be confused with the planets, are other suns, similar in many respects to ours, independent of the solar sys tem, and quite likely having attend ant planets of their own. The nearest star is 9,000 times more distant from us than is the most remote of the planets; indeed, so far oft are the stars that the most powerful tele scopes show them as nothing more than mere points of light. Bcattered amongst the stars, however, are the "nebulae," inconceivably great masse of glowing gas, whose prodigious size enables them to present percep tible surfaces to our telescopes. All the heavenly bodies, stars, neb ulae, planets and satellites alike, are held to their proper places and paths by the laws of motion and the force of universal gravitation. The stars, Including the sun, and also the nebu lae, shine by their own light, but the moon and the planets of our solar system are made visible only by ra diance reflected from the sun. As will be made evident in the suc ceeding articles of this series, the do main of astronomy is more unbound ed than is that of any other science. In the solar system, distances of mil lions of miles are relatively short; whilst the stars are. so far apart, that the space between them cannot be measured conveniently by terrestrial standards, being marked off by the number of years required by light, at its enormously rapid rate of 186,000 miles per second, to travel from one to the other. Notwithstanding these tremendous gaps, many of the heav enly bodies can be weighed, measured and even analyzed Vy means of mod ern .appliances; while most of the planets, being comparatively near, may be studied and mapped like the earth by the aid of large telescopes. However, the amateur astronomer need not provide himwlf with any such instruments, as the sky is suf ficiently entertaining and instructive as seen bynhe unaided eye. The Aspect of tho Heavens, The sky seems' to us an immense hollow Bphere, at whose center we are situate, and only half of which wo are able to see at one time, since the rest is cut off by the earth under foot. Once In every twenty-four hours this sphere appears to revolve aroun-l us from east to west, though we know that thin motion is really due to the rotation of our own earth in the opposite direction. By day the dazzling refulgence of the sun pre vents us from studying the surface of this celestial sphere, but when the bright orb has sunk from sight, we see that the vault above is bespangled with a vast assemblage of stars, which appear always to keep the same places In relation to one an other, and which are arranged hjr1 chance Into certain well known peW manent figures called , "constella tions." This seeming lack of motion, however. Is only the result of the in conceivable distances at which the Looking at it from either direction but one tiling can be said about a hat from the C& K Shop 'It's right!' C & K, $3.50 M. V. MOORE & CO. 11 PATTON AVE. Announcement We will open on February 20th a . large, modern mill for manufacturing high grade flour, meal and feed stuffs. , -' We invite farmers to get our prices on wheat, corn and other farm products. We will also do custom grind ing as heretofore. , We invite the public to call and inspect "onr new plant. Would be glad to quote merchants on onr pro ducts. v .- ;'".;;': .'.. :. '',. . ,;v-.. Biltmore Roller Mills Clyde S. Reed, Mgr. STOP THAT FROWN Eye strain, nerve strain and headaches relieved by glasses correctly made by us. CHARLES H. HONESS Optometrist and Optician 6i Patton Ave. Opp. P. O. OUR CE-RITE TORIC LENSES ARE THE BEST. Battery Park Bank ASHEVILLE, N. O. 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Ill 41 tit $00 Grand totals ..$84 $71 414 1K9 The next games en the schedule will be bowled on Wednesday night when Neely's team will take on that of Bugg or point overhead, so that there Is a very considerable part of the" north ern sky, having as a radius the dis tance between polaris and the horizon wherein the stars never set, but re main perpetually visible, describing circles about the pole, and therefore being called "circumpolar." There Is an opposite area of extreme southern sky which can never be seen in this part of the world. The equator of the heavens Is an extension of the plane of the earth's equator, girdling the sky ninety de grees from the celestial pole, and cutting the horizon at the east and west points. Bodies in this region spend equal periods above and below the horizon, whereas others stay longer above or below, accordingly as they are Bltuate north or south of the equator. The "ecliptic", or apparent annual path of the sun, is In reality an ex tensionof the plane of the earth's or bit into space . Since the earth's equa tor is inclined 23 and a half degrees to the plane of the orbit, it follows that in the sky the ecliptic and ce lestial equator must Intersect each other at a similar angle. That inter section .t which the suncroases the equator on its northward Journey is called the "vernal equinox," and is a DUDLEY 2X inoliee NORMAN 2 laches COLLARS IhlTlrti. Own, f .J flying In vurious directions at tre. mendous rates of speed, though not for thousands of years could we per ceive any sensible difference In thtilr apparent places and arrangement. Outlined against this unchanging stellar background, and seeming to move slowly amongst the stars, shine the members of our solar system. But whilst we cannot observe the real motions of the stars, we are lm prerted plainly enough by their two apparent motions; their diurnal rising and setting, due to the earth's rota tion on Its axis, and their annual progress westward, due to the earth's motion around the sun. Since the stars are fixed on the celestial sphere, we may with greater . inclu slveneui way that these are motions not simply of the stars, but of the celes tial sphere itself. The heavens are different at different hours of the same night, because tho earth Is swiftly turning us to face different parts of the sky; they are different for tne same hour at different sea sons, because the sun appears ro be moving eastward, carrying the day with it, as it were, overtaking the stars, and causing them to rise and set four minutes earlier every day, The morning sky Is that which the sun has just left behind; In several months, the sun having; traveled around from the eastern part of it to tho western part, that same area of sky with all Its stars will have be come the evening sky. Thus new con. atellatlons appear in the east just be' fore sunrise, become visible earlier and earlier at night as time passes, at length rise so early that they are already high- In the heavens when darkness falls, shine farther and far ther westward as the nlfhta pass, until at last they a rift Into the west em twilight of early evenlhg. and are lost In tht sun's rays; lator to appear afresh In the morning aky, Dhe pole or pivot about which the heavens seem to turn is that part of the sky to which Is pointed the earth's axis. This spot is roughly marked by a rainy bright star called "Podarlls" the "north star," or the "pole star which la of cos me exempt from the gentral motions of the celestial vault. and which Is stationed due north, as far above tho horizon or sky-line of any place, as that place is north cf the earth's equator. In our latitude. It lies somewhat less than half way be tween the horlson and the "aenUn," FIREPROOF ASHEVILLE, N. 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