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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
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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
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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,"
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In order .to determine the position
of objects on the celestial sphere,
that Imaginary globe Is supplied with
system of circles like those of lati
tude and longitude on the earth.
'Right ascension," corresponds to
longitude, and is distance east of the
vernul equinox, whilst "deollnatlon
Is like latitude, being distance north
or south of the equator.
The "meridian" of the eky is aline
extending due north .and south, and
marking the central and highest
points in the apparent diurnal courses
of the heavenly bodies. A body on
the meridian is said to "culminate"
or to be In "transit." Circumpolar
bodies cross the meridian twice In
one revolution; once in culmination,
or upper transit," above the pole and
twelve hours later in lower transit,
below the pole.
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