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THK AiHE VILLI! GAZJaT'lii-NEWS llftBday, March 2. isix VVJELL BftLANGED SHOW IT MAJESTIC THEftTEB Thrm good aln4 andlanaaa yeataf I flay and last night wltnesaad, par tformancev at the Majestlo theater of 'Frank King "Winning Girls" in the ,' musical tabloid, "Miss Gay Coqu-otte." The comedy of Frank King and Billy Mulvaney kept the audiences laughing most ot the time, both of these men pulling new jokes throughout the show. Special aoenlo effects and cos tumes added to the beauty of the per formance. "Wilbur Davis rendered several solos and his voioe was par ticularly pleasing to the audiences. The company -will present a change of program tomorrow. ; THEATERS. Jj "Buckshot John" at Galax. When "Buckshot John" Moran sac rificed the good conduot credit of IS i years and made his "get-away" from ; the state's prison at Canon City, his only ohjeot wa sto catch the "Great Gllmore," a clairvoyant, and take from him for Its ultimate restoration to Its rightful owners, the thousands of dollars which Buckshot, in his early days as a member of the "Bad A. lake Kennedy" gang had helped to hide. What became ot the gang, how Buckshot kept the location of the caohe a secret, and how OUmore wormed the secret from him are told in a strong and unusual feature film, "Buckshot John," which will be shown at the Oalaz theater today. 1 s. kl fr-..y I ass- m4 When Coal Fires Were Barred. Fires were at one time great las ory In England, and even the right to use the ore had been bequeathed Thus the will of one Richard Byrcbett (1516) read: "I will yt ayd Nell my wyfe shal bare ye chamber she lyes In and Ijb erte at ye fyer In the bouse; all yese thyngs shal she liare so long as she ye wldo." Goal was flrst imported Into London at the end of the thirteenth century, bat the smoke produced by burning It In Improperly constructed grates caused each a prejudice against it that In 1306 a law was passed making it a capital offense to burn coal In the city. The Tower records give details of a man's trial and execution for the of tense. London Graphic. Mysteries of the Heavens By H.P. Lovecraft Food snd the Human Body. The chemical composition of the hu man body and of the food we take Is quite simllnr. About twenty elements are found chiefly, with a trace of oth ers. Oxyireti, hydrogen, carbon, nitro gen, calcium, phosphorus and sulphur are the chief. Sixty per cent of our bodies is water, and probably a like percentage exists In our food. Mineral matter exists in our fond nnd in our bodies to about 8 per cent of weight "Eating to Live." SCENE FROM "BTJRNTXG DAT LIGHT" AT THE PRINCESS TOMORROW. dollars. It seems that bluff King Henry VI 11. was the first person who wore a col In r In nny way resembling those of the present diiy. An old historian writes of the monarch na the first English king that wore a bnnd around his ueck and that very plain and au Inch or two in depth. Boxwood. One of the most expensive woods used regularly in an esiablwlod Indus try in the United States Is - boxwood, the favorite material for wood engrav ing. It has been quoted at 4 cents a cubic inch and about $1,300 by the thousand board feet All the world's a stage, and nearly all of us are genius the book. 1 ltd 66TR 3 JW 1 Princess-Tomorrow Hobart Bosworth Presents JACK LONDON'S tap mil Ba y light His Adventures in San Francisco SCENIC SENSATIONAL THRILLING MAGNIFI CENT ALL STAR CAST 5 REEL .PARAMOUNT PRODUCTION. A Real Big Dollars Worth for ADMISSION 5 AND 10 CENTS 99 COMING FRIDAY TO THE PRINCESS GABY DESLYS "-" - Eclipses. ... . First of all astronomical events to be recorded and transmitted In writing to posterity were eclipses, those seem ingly miraculous obscurations of the two great natural luminaries, the sun and moon. A total and unexpected blotting out of the light of day must be to anyone a source of awe, whence it is hut natural that early nations, following systems of natural theology and attributing all events to the direct action of various benign or malevolent deities, regarded eclipses, particularly total eclipses of the sun, as direful portents, and derived from them the most profound trepidation. The pre vailing view was, and still Is amongst uncultivated races, that the sun when eclipsed Is being devoured by a black and frightful monster, who must be scared away by means of loud clamor and harsh noises, else he will consume the source of all the light of day, and plunge the world Into a state of per petual night Accordingly, savage tribes raise a terrific din, both with voice and with primitive drums, upon the advent of one of these phenomena. Eclipses are, as before stated, of two kinds, solar and lunar. Solar eclipses are caused by the intervention of this moon between the sun and the eartl whilst eclipses of the moon are the reverse of these, being interventions of the earth between the sun and the moon, so that the latter Is immersed in the shadow of our globe. These phenomena may be further classed as partial, or those in which Only a frac tion of the disc of the eclipsed body Is obscured; and total,.'-those- in -which the entire disc is hidden, A third sort of eclipse;, called ''annular, occurs onlv in connneetion with the sun. In this, the central part of the disc eclipsed, while a narrow ring of llKht remains uncovered, owinc to the fact that when these phenomena occur, the moon is farthest ' from us, beini; seen at Us least apparent magnitude. and falling; to cover the sun complete ly. The earth's shadow is sn much larser than the moon at nil distances, that our satellite can never suffer an annular eclipse. The shadows of the earth and moon since they are shadows of spheres cast by the sun, a vastly larger sphere, are conical, according to the optical laws poverninR such cases. Since the lennth of a shadow depends as well upon the distance between the obscuring body and the source. of light as upon their relative magnitudes, it follows that these cones vary in length as the earth nnd moon vary their solar distance. As an average, the shadow r.f the earth is "OT.nOO miles in length, that of the moon, 232,000 miles. The greyish fringe of a hadow, o that border from which the source of light Is somewhat yet not wholly cut off, is called the "penumbra." (This must not he confused with the same term as applied to the border of a solar simtl. Penumbrae are always divergent, even though the shadow proper, or "umbra." as it Is calied. Vie convergent, as In the case of the earth and moon. It is evident that solar eclipses can occur onlv at new moon, when our satellite lies between the earth and the sun; and lunar eclipses at full moon, when the earth lies between the moon and the sun. Also, that th moon must be at or very near one of its "nodes," or places where its orbit crosses the ecliptic, or plane of the earth's orbit, so that all three, sun, moon and earth, shall be in a line and on a level. This last named fact gives to the ecliptic Its name, the relation between "eclipse" and "ecliptic" belni? easily traceable. When the time of new moon coincides with the presence of the moon at or very near a node, a solar eclipse occurs; whilst a coinci dence of the phase of full moon with our satellite's presence at or very near a node gives rise to a lunar eclipse, The moon's nodes have a motion from east to west around the eclipse, occu pying 18 years and 225 days in a com plete revolution back to the place whence they set out. This motion. In connection with the moon's own mo tion In its orbit, causes every eclipse, lunar snd solar alike, to be repeated under the same conditions for about a thousand years at Intervals of 18 years, 11 and one-third days. This latter period Is called the "Saros," and was much used by the ancients In the prediction of eclipses. It Is evident that when the moon Is exactly at a node during an eclipse. the phenomenon will, since the bodies are exactly level and In a line, be total (or annular) whilst eclipses occurring when the moon Is only near a 1 ode may be partial in varying degree; A moment's thought shows that what Is seen by us a lunar eclipse, Is also an eclipse of the sun by the earth ns viewed from the surface of the moon. It being total to such parts of our satellite's face as we see darkened by the earth's umbra. The penumbra LEAVES flOO.000 TO DIVORCER WIFE, SINCE REMARRIED. A i A J I j Ht.- vt&H Mi, .,4s If ' . I i, V ft, I s &Htt I t ri i i v CHILD DOESFJ as well as the umbra crosses the moon's disc In every lunar eclipse, pre. ceding and following the darker shad ow, yet seldom being noticed by the casual observer. To those portions which It touches, is presented the spec tacle of a partial eclipse of the sun by the earth. A total eclipse of the sun as seen by us Is, as seen from the moon, an eclipse of the earth by the moon's shadow; never, however, appearing even nearly total, since the small sl7.e of the lunar umbra Is such that even under the most favorable circum stances It produces but a mere dot of wholly darkened territory, and sweeps over only that limited region called by us the "path of totality." from which alone may we behold the solar eclipse as total. This Is one great difference between the conditions met In observ ing lunar and solar eclipses, for whilst an eclipse of the moon is a real dark ening of that body, and may be watch ed from any place on the earth above whose horizon our satellite has arisen, one of the sun Is only an apparent darkening, and is to be viewed only from points along the path of the, moon's shadow. A total solar eclipse can be seen as total only from the narrow zone swept by the moon's um bra, this fact sometimes forcing as tronomers to make long expeditions In order to perform their work in con nection with one of these phenomena. Of course, the moon's penumbra touches a much wider area than the umbra Itself, producing a belt on each side of the path of totality, from which the eclipse can be seen as partial. So lar eclipses seen only as partial upon I the earth are caused by the pas'-i of the moon's penumbra alone over i those parts of our globe in which the ; eclipse Is visible. In annular -eclipses.-1 the moon Is farther distant from thei earth than the length of its umbra, i which consequently falls just short of i us. An annular eclipse is in principle i merely a much magnified transit, dil-i foring only In proportion from those ol j Mercury and Venus. A total solan eclipse is a most 'Inspiring sight, the; sun's corona and prominences being J visible In full splendor.- The moon in Its total eclipses never quite disappears, even when In the center of the earth's umbra,' fu- a. faint reddisn illumination, due to light refracted by the earth's atmosphere, always pervades the disc. The greatest possible number of eclipses in a year is seven; live of the sun and two of the union. The least possible number is two, both of the sun. Usually, a year contains about four or five eclipses. The duration of totality varies in the case of the sun from an almost instantaneous period to nearly eight minutes. Three to five Ingal's wrote that "Opportunity minutes is the most common length, j knocks once at every door." "At least1 In the ease of the moon, the great size once every day at every dpor" would : of the earth's shadow sometimes al-i bo a sensible amendment and nearer! lows a totality of almost two hours, j the truth. Can you imagine, for In-1 ' ", i stance any day In. which an opportu- ! nltv to litTY SOMETHING AT AN Kvery day the worth-while store ADVANTAGE is not advertised in this faces the problem of making it PAY newspaper? i 1 LAUGH AND PLAY IF CONSTIPATED If Peevish, Feverish and Sick, Give "California Syrup" of Figs." Mother! Your child isn't naturally cross and peevish. See if tongue is coated; this is a sure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels need a cleansing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, remember, a gen tle liver and bowel cleansing should always be the first treatment given. Nothing equals "California Syrup of I'lgs" for children's ills; give a tea spoonful, and In a few hours all the oul waste, sour bile and fermenting food which is clogged in the bowels passes out of the system, and you have a well and playful child again. All children love this harmless, delicious "truit laxative," and it never fails to effect a good "inside" cleansing. Di rections for babies, children of all ages and grown-ups are plainly on the bottle. Keep It handy In your home. A little given today saves a sick child to morrow, but get the genuine. Ask vour druggist for a BO-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," then look and see that it is made by the "Call I'jrnia Syrup Company." Ma TODAY jestic TONIGHT A Good Show? Well, Yes! 'The Gay Coqeuett' Betterment In business conditions, "in spite of the war," goes on day by d.iv, In most lines of merchandising, these days, the buyer has all "the better" of the transaction for the merchants have made unusual con cessions for the sake of stimulating trade. ' IS A SCREAM And Those Comedians are Clever The Beauty Chorus Great Biatinee, 3:15, 10 and 20c Nights, 7:15 and 9:30, 10c, 20c, 30c. Phone your "Wants" to 202 Harrv allerstein. leather Importer, lort 100,00(1 to nis turmer wife, no v Mrs. Adeline McConnell, who divorce-.I him several years ngo.-' Mr. Waller stein's only living sister was not racn tlned in the will. ( Mrs. McConnell was president of the Rubinstein society and a founder of the Mozart sucif ty. WBB GALAX THEATRE TODAY YOU TO READ ITS ADVKUTISE- I MENT. You know that, while It The real test of every "ad" is its could not be expected to succeed ev- appeal' to your self-interest. Apply i ery time, It does succeed so often the test to every "ad" in today's paper that you cannot afford to be a care- : nnd see how many measure up to the less reader of the "ads." imai'lc! I REFRESHMENTS AFTER BATTLE. In Her Triumnh AN ORIGINAL STOEY OF THE THEATRE AN IN TERNATIONAL SUCCESS A Paramount De Lnie Famona Player Feature Mag. nificent Production. 5c and 10c Uvi 1 vv:'.;v. .'?:. SPECIAL FEATURE Charles E. Von Loan's Famous Story shot John" "Bud (Paramount Feature) UNUSUAL, BRILLIANT, DRAMATIC, APPEALING. Series of Gripping Scenes All Star Cast By AH Means Don't Miss "BUCKSHOT JOHN" Admission 5c and 10c A Frenrh Arab soldier receiving refreshment from a Belan woman be hind tho llrlng line In the sand dune north of Boulogne. CANADIAN BRrDCR WHICH GERMAN TRIED TO DESTROY. m i f GALAX THURSDAY The World Famous New York HPPOD mm BROUGHT TO YOUR VERY DOOR In Six Realistio Reels of Motion Pictures, Presort ing in All its Glittering Glorious Greatness the Com plete Production of the Stupendous Spectacle. Th Canadian Parlflo brldg on th Maln-Nw Brunswick frontier, whloh was sllfhtly damacad In an plosion of a bomb placed by a Oormtn named Von Horn, who aaiwrted that ha wu an olllor of the KaJxer's army and that ha sndeavorad to destroy th brldxa to pravant tha tranapurtatlon of war auppllaa from lntarlor points of Canada to Halifax for shlpmant to Eni land. ICIiMT A" 11 Presented by World Film Corporation Admission 5c and 10c
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