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t Beauty o Jf grs JI Vision of Wonderful Color and Growing Grandeur Revealed Through the Telescope By Percival Lowell J.. V! TVAV kl I iinfa sufahla nnnrlllina fonf nlp-hta pan COHlD&re i..t..i i i j,. Kh Mara na nrft- eeiited by the, telescope. Framed in the blue of space, there floats before the observer's gaze a seeming miniature of his own earth, yet changed by translation to the sky. Within its charmed circle of light he marks apparent con tinents and seas, now ramifylnsr into one another, now stretching in uniaue expanse over wide tracts of disk, and ' 1 capped at their poles by dazzling ovals of white... It recalls to him his first lessons In eeograohy. where the earth was shown hinvset ethereally amid the stars; only with an added sense of reality in the apothe osis, it la the thing- Itself, stamped with that all-pervading. Indefinable aau mark of authenticity In which the cleverest reproduction somehow falls, In color largely lies this awakening touch that imbues the, picture with " the sense of actuality; And very vivid are the tints, so salient and so unlike that their naming in words conveys scant Idea of their concord to the eye. Rose ocher dominates the lighter regions, while a robln-s-egg blue colors' the, carker; and both are set off and emphasized by the icy whiteness of the caps. Hot is either hue uniform: tone relieves tint to a further heightening of eC- feet. In some parts of the light expanses the ocher prevails alone; in oth ers ine rose deepens to a brick red, suffusing the surface with the glow or a warm late afternoon. No less various is the blue, now sinking Into deeps of shading, now lightening into faint washes that in places grade off Insensibly Into ocher itself, thus making regions of Intermediate tint the precise borders of which are not decipherable by the eye. . , . Superimposed upon Its general opaline complexion are now and then to oe seen ephemeral effects. At certain times and In certain places warm chocolate brown has been known to supplant the blue.. Often, too, cold white dots are scattered over the disk, dazzling diamond points that deck the plan et's features to a richness beyond the power of pencil to portray.; So minute are they that good seeing Is needed to disclose them. It is at such moments that color best comes out. To those who know the sun only as golden and the moon as white, even in its color scheme Mars would stand forth a revela tion. The Century. ' 3 The Jew European Question Ltovements of the Leaders of the : Creat Political Battle Being J7ag- ed News From the Firing line. New York, Special. Yet faster and more furiously the1 presidential cam paign is being driven as the , candi dates approach : the home stretch in the' en-eat race, :' -.'.;.,. ' J'-' The opening of the week will find both Taft and Bryan in their own States. For both there Have been ar ranged strenuous trips covering the first three days of the week. Bryan's programme is said to call for" quite fifty speeches in eastern and central Nebraska, and he will then proceed to Illinois and Indiana. Taft will speak in big and small places in Ohio, in halls and at open air meet ings, from trains and on balconies on the same days that Bryan is addressing his o fellow Nebraskians. The remainder of the week will be spent by Mr. Taft in the South. Nor will the running mates of the two leaders enjoy and respite from the incessant work on the stump which they have been s performing. Only two dates, ' Monday in East Orange, N. J., and Saturday in Wilmington, Del., have been? arranged for Mr. Sherman,; but it is understood the intervening time will be well filled in by engagements yet to be an nounced. Mr. Kern will start forth with from his home in Indianapolis for another tour which will take him to New York City, Newark, NJ. Bridgeport, Conn!,, and Uticn, N. Y. Governor Hughes, fresh from . his Western trip,' will be in his own State throughout the week,' on' Monday be ginning a tour that will include more than 100 addresses before the cam. paign is ended. . New York also is to hear Secretary Root and Secretary ; Straus while still another member of the Cabinet, Mr.; Wilson, starts out on , Thursday for a speaking tour of the agricultur al States in the West. By Sydney Brooks HE object, then, of the present negotiations between the governments of Stockholm, Berlin, and ' St. Petersburg is to assure to Sweden a standing and a security equal to that which the treaty of last November bestowed upon Norway; . and the means by which that object is to be attained-is a declaration on the part of these three Powers, that they Intend to respect the status quo in the Baltic. So far as it goes, all this Is quite satisfactory, but it does not go very far. Germany, Russia, and Sweden are by no means the only Powers with definite political and commercial interests in the Baltic. Denmark, for example, is emphatically a Baltic Power. A glance at the- map hows that the entrance to-the Baltic la hers to open or close at will. Great Britain, again, has always made it a cardinal point of her policy to maintain the freedom of the Baltic, - Less than three years ago the Channel Fleet was sent to Swlnemunde as a warning to all whom it might concern; that any attempt to declare the Baltic a closed sea would be regarded as an act hostile to British policy. France, too, is equally concerned in preserving the Baltic as a mare liberum. "Moreover, in any comprehensive discussion of the Baltic question as a whole, the problem of the Aland Islands is bound to arise. They lie, it will be seen, off the southern coast of Finland and com mand the approaches to Stockholm. By the Treaty of Paris, to which Great Britain and France were signatories, Russia, to whom the Aland Islands Be long, agreed neither to fortify them nor to use them as a naval' or military base. Different opinions may be held as to whether. In the conditions' of ' to-day, it would be better to reaffirm that agreement or to abrogate it or to modify It. But obviously the matter is one In which Great Britain and France Itave a claim to be heard that cannot be Ignored or denied. Harper's Weekly, (qj Communicating vs With the Bead Ey Sir Oliver Lodge ROSS-CORRESPONDENCE that Is,, the reception of part of a message through one medium and part through another is good evidence of one Intelligence dominating both automa tists. And if the message is characteristic of some pne par ticular deceased person, and is received through people to whom he was not intimately known, then it is a fair proof of the continued intellectual activity of that personality, v . So long as communications consisted of general conver sations with what purported to be the surviving Intelligence c vcKiuu mends and investigators, we were oy no means convinced or tneir identity even though the talk was of a friendly and Intimate character such as In uormal cases would be considered amply and overwhelmingly sufficient for the identification of friends speaking, let us say, through a telephone or a typewriter. We required definite and crucial proof a proof difficult even to Imagine, as well as difficult to supply. . . . The ostensible communicators realize the need of such proof Just as ful ly as we do, and are doing their best to satisfy the rational demand. Some of us think they have-already succeeded; others are still doubtful. On the whole, I am of those who, though they would like to see further and still stronger and more continued proofs, are of opinion that a good case has been made cut, and that as the best working hypothesis at the pres ent time lit is legitimate to grant that lucid moments of Intercourse with de ceased persons may in the best cases supervene, amid a maze of supplement ary material, quite natural under the circumstances, but mostly of a presum ably subliminal and less evident kind. Harper's Magazine., ' Odd Things J$ bout es p By John N. Cobb ISHES have been put to many queer uses while still alive; i . but probably the strangest was that suggested to the War Department by an inventor. The propulsion of submarine F torpedoes was 'the subject under discussion, and he pro posed that a shark be imprisoned in a tube at the rear end of the projectile, its movements to be controlled by the ac ' " Hve application of electricity. In case the shark attempted to' swim away, It was to be given an electric shock, and in this way kept on its course until the torpedo had reached Its target. Another remarkable use to which a flsh has been put Is as a barometer. The leach is very susceptible to atmospheric changes, and when retained In an aquarium la likely to throw Itself out at the approach of or during any remarkable change of wind- or weather, or, if in a pond of stream, will some times Jump on the bank. It has been kept alive in aquaria as a living barom eter from the supposition that certain movements indicate particular changes that are about to occur in the weather. In Russia the dead body of Cottus gobio. the miller's thumb, is used as a weathercock. Hung by a single thread It wiU point to the direction whence the wind blows. Sunday Magazine. Taft in the South. Cincinnati, 0., Special. "I am go ing South to make a few speeches in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and1 Maryland, not so much with the view of carrying those States as to show their people tnat thev are part of the Union, and the such, ousrht to vote for the party which will give them the influence in the nation to which they are entitled." Judge Taft said this to the Taft- Sherman Club, of Highlands, Ky.,( which came to the Sinton , Hotel last week to pledge its support. . His ad dress throughout was an expression of intense feeling regarding : the politi cal condition of the South. The South he said, had made wonderful progress under the application of the Repnb lican principles of protection and. yet it remained a perpetual asset to the Democracy of the North, to be deJiv ered en bloc, no matter what might be the issue or interest' at stake. The speech was heartily applauded ' Mr. Tnft busied himself during the day in cleaning up his office matters, preparatory to leavmsr Monday mora ing ou a campaign trip. : Bryan in ' Missouri. at. Josepn, mo., bpecial. vvitn a record' of twenty speeches delivered during the day William J. Bryan brought to a close in this city Satur day night his latest tour.. From the moment of his first utter ance until he had concluded his remarks here, Mr; Bryan declared that the electorial vote of the State of Missouri was safely Democratic, and he " devoted . considerable ' time . to urging the people to elect the Demo cratic .State ticket as well as a Legis lature which would send to Washing ton a Democratic Senator. He sought to instill in the minds of his hearers the fact that a Democratic . victory this year meant a return to prosperity. He did not overlook President Roosevelt in '' discussing the trust question and, read a communication from the acting Attorney General of the United States which he inter preted as a direct refusal on the part of the law department of the govern ment to prosecute a corporation for conducting its business in restraint of trade- He produced the letter, he said, to show the iniquity of the trust and attacked the - President, as he charged, for shirking his duty. Mr. Taft, as usual, got his share of criti cism, the Democratic candidate point ing out that his Republican opponent was going around the country making promises which he knew he could not fulfill, for, he said, the Republican party was unable to offer any real re forms. , r for the cause of hi3 party in the speech he uttered a Piedmont Park Saturday, where the Georgia State fair is in progress. Mr. Chafin stated that it was now eighty days since he had started his canvass, that he had visited twenty-five States,, made five speeches a day . and had gained fi ve pounds, and that if the campaign would only last long enough, ho would be a bigger man than Taft. He re ferred to the Socialist labor leader in jail in Nevada as the "cheerless can didate;" Mr. Taft as the "fearless candidate," and to himself as the "beerless candidate." " . . Young Heiress Kdnappedv Chicago, Special. Margaret, Fran ces Mitchell, 3 years old, said to be an heiress to a fortune of $250,000, was kidnapped : while on the street with her grandmother. Thel little girl ' was snatched by one of - the three men in an automobile and tak en away after the grandmother, Mrs. Caroline F. Mitchell, had been knock ed down. The police are working on clue that the child was taken out of the city, probably to Sparta, N C. Kills Wife and Suicides. ' York, Pa.: Special. William Ben nington shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. Bennington followed his wife to a church with a horse and buggy and fired a load of shot into her body just as she was aflout to enter the elnrch. He then drove across the State line into Mary land, where he reloaded the shot gun, placed the barrel against Lis stomach and pulled the trigger..' The crime is said to have been prompted by jealousy. Fire Threatens White House Stables. - Washington, Special. Fire- of . un known origin was discovered in ', the loft of the White House stables about 8 s30 o 'clock Sunday morning, causing fifteen dollars damage. But for. the prompt work of the. stable keeper and his assistant the b'uldin, in which are housed several of the President's thoroughbreds, . would have been de stroyed. The stables: a at Sevenr I pen th and E streets, some distance from the White House. England to Help Turkey. London, By Cable. England gave her first tangible evidence of support mg Turkey oy oraenng tne Daiue- ships Glory and Prince of Wales and the cruisers Diana and Lancaster; to proceed at once from j Malta to the Island of Lemos, which is in the Gre cian archipelago and belongs to Tur key. England is acting upon the rep resentation of Turkey that the pres ence of an English fleet can calm the Turkish population and prevent the spoliation of the empire. lie Change of front Comes as. a " Surprise How Practically Certain That the Conference Will Be Held, : Bqt Its Scope Has Not Been Deter - mined. : f v,-: London, By Cable. Prince Fer dinand, as the "Czar of Bulgaria," has made his triumphaf entry into the capital amid scenes of patriotic enthusiasm. ' Great Britain has reced ed from her original position and is now ; willing that the proposed con ference of the powers to settle the crisis in the hear East shall take tin der advisement other questions in addition" to these involved .in the an nexation of Bosnia and Bulgarian in dependence. It is now practically certain that the conference will . be held , but its scope has not yet been determined. ' J - - Austria still adheres strictly to the principle of non-intervention. , , A Turkish cruiser and three torpe do boats have arrived at Salonika on the way to , the Island , of Sambs, a Grecian possession. This is Tur key's answer to the proclamation by the Cretans of union with Greece. . For the moment there is little talk of war and even Servia seems to be taking a calmer view of the situation, The Servian National Assembly I, has endorsed the government 's policy and the government, at the instance of the powers, has been striving to maintain peace. Abortive' Attempt to Lynch l2 Spartanburg, S. C MILITIA PROTECTED PRISONER Infuriated Mill Operatives Make De termined Effort to Lynch 'Negro . Who Assaults Young Lady Depu ties and Officers" Exchange Shots and Several Are Wounded. Killed by Insane Preacher. ? Athens, Ala., Special. News lias just reached here of the killing late Friday of Andrew Jackson, living near the Lauderdale county line, by a preacher named Living'Ston., The men are said to have disliked each other for a long time, and when they met Livingston fired on Jackson , Living ston was later caught wandering about the woods barefoot et and clad c in his under-gnrmen's. Later in the night he mrdc I-is esi-ape. It is thought his mind is unbalanced. Husband and Wife Indicted. ,ir T-f fi mi , ' jjaanasas. v a., special. rine. grand jury Monday indicted Tucker Posey and his wife, Minnie Posey, for com plicity in the murder of Edward Fair, on Thursday night last near Canovia, this county. .Bail was fixed at $500 each for appearance at the December term of court. The tragedy occurred Thursday last and on Saturday ' . the coroner's jury rendered a verdict de cianng tnat Alien r air, wbo was shot in his' left side just above the heart, was killed by Edward -Fair; that Edward Fair was killed by Tuck er Posey with an axe ; that Edward Fair was hit over the head with a musket by Mrs. ' Minnie Posey, a sis ter of ? the dead - Fair brothers, and that Tucker Posey , is supposed to Have been shot by Edward Fair, in flicting a flesh wound. The tragedy', which grew out of Edward Fair's jealousy of his wife, who is said to have once left 'him, has aroused un usual interest in this section. Thaw Must Remain in Asylum. White Plains, N. Y.,' Special. Har ry K. Thaw will have to remain in the State hospital for the criminal insane at Mattaewan, N. Y., until the Court of Appeals shall decide wheth er he is 'entitled to a hearing before a jury to determine the question of his sanity. Justice Mills, of the Su preme Court, refused a week or two ago to grant the application of Thaw's - counsel for a jury trial on the " sanity question and ' decided to hear the case himself. The hearing was fixed for Monday. When Thaw was brought into court his mother and several relatives were present. The prisoner's counsel again moved for a jury trial ,and when this was denied asked that Thaw-be discharg ed from custody on the ground that the jury in the last trial for murder did not find him insane.. This also was denied- V . Grain Elevator Explodes. Kicluord, Vt special With a con cussion which shook the entire vil lage, a large grain elevator, having a capacity, of 500,000 bushels, exploded causing, the death of seven workmen and a woman. The explosion blew off the entire roof of the building, scat tering ! timbers in all directions and almost instantly flames burst out all over the structure Twenty-one men were employed in the building. ' of whom seven are missing and undoubt- edly perished. 1 ." Damage Suit in Favor of. August Bel mont. .New York. Special. It took, the jury half an hour Monday afternoon to decide in ; favor of August Bel mont, in the suit for $100,000 dam ages brought against; him by John U J reit, the lockey. , Freit claimed he was libeled by Mr. Belmont when be posted him in the Racing Calen dar as having left his employ , with out authority- saying Freit had been discharged because he failed on one occasion to take off his hat in sa luting Mr. Belmont, . GETTING CHILDREN TO CHURCH. Spartanburg, S. C, Special. In the heart of Spartanburg with its 20,000 population, a mob of infuriated citi zens, at times numbering a thousand or more, fought Saturday and Satur day night with the militnrv nml ivil authorities for the possession of John Irby, a negro who is alleged to- have attempted to ravish Miss Lillie Demp sey earlier in the day while the young woman was on her way here' from Saxon Mill village, three miles .away. Four persons were wounded, one of them seriously, and John Sparks, ' a restaurant" keeper, was arrested and held without bail on the' charge of shooting Sheriff Nichols, who was slightly wounded in the exchanga of shots between " the mob and . the au thorities, who . were protecting the prisoner. , . Beginning about noon the crowd- sullen and bent on vengeance on tha negro, roamed about the- court house square, approaching at times' the very gates of the high wall enclosing the jail. . .. Late at night the situation- be came n alarming. The crowd ' was ft augmented by 500 people from Green- yule. There 'was some , shooting in the street and the mob moved inte the public square. . , The first shot came from a window of the jail and it was followed by others from the same quarter. An answering shot was' fired from : the crowd. This broke a window in the .jail and slightly ' wounded Sheriff Nichols. Sparks was accused of the' shooting and immediately 1 taken into custody.- Has attorneys offered $1,000 bail but this was refused. Girl Identifies Negro. " -Irby's arrest was effected shortly after the commission of his , crime : and close to the scene of his attack. He was captured by mill operatives, was taken before the young woman, who immediately identified him. and . was then carried Into the woods. His captors were about to lynch him when mounted : police arrived and wrested him from the crowd, not, however, before the negro had been badly tjaten. , The negro was taken to the jail and almost immediately ' the storming of the jail began.. Sheriff Jtficbols swore in a number of deputies and the militia was ordered out. The mob- tried to gain ingress by means of step ladders, but that, too, was in effectual.. Sunday and Sunday night passed off quietly with nothing in the : way of a disturbance. v - " N. C. & St. L, Detective Balled. Chattanooga, Tenn.. Special. T. J. McElhaney, special detective for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, -was shot and killed earlv Sunday while on duty in the yards of the railroad company at Cravens, two miles from the union station. W. S. Smith, who was until recently em ployed as a detective for the road, is If in jail charged with the crime: Blood hounds were put on the trail and tracked Smith to his home. The men, it is said, had been on bad terms for some time. . McElhaney leaves a wife " and seven children. v Mr. Bryan Rests. Lincoln, Neb., Special. Having spent several active days last week on the stump, William J, Bryan Sun day devoted most of his time to rest ing up preparatory to a hard week of campaigning in Nebraka. Colorado, and Wyoming. He arrived here Sun day morning direct from St. Joseph, Mo., where he got a rousing reception. The westward Journey will be begun earlv Tuesday morning. Speaking of the results of his cam paigning so far, the Democratic can didate declared hunsplf as being con fident of success. He stnted that re ports received by him indicate a con stantly increasing sentiment toward the Democratic party. . . "Eeerless Candidate" Speaks. Atlanta, Ga., Special. Eugene W. i Chafin, prohibition candidate for the presidency, made some strong points ! The mother of seven sons, three of whom were ministers of the gos pel, one a United States senator, and the rest prominent business men, said recently: ;...- , When my t boys were small, my tcilet on Sunday morning was fre quently completely under cover of a 'circular' while on the way to church, but I Always i got my seven little men to morning servicer' A herculean task! some of us, whose families are smaller will ex claim. But It really is not so. If preparations are commenced in time. and that, time is Saturday night. Get the children to bed a full hour earlier than usual on that evening. ' After a long day's play out of doors, they really require more rest. See that they get it that there may be ho 'sleepy heads" on Sunday morning But it is Just as important that thfl mother should wake up on that morn ing with no dragging trail, of weari ness from the day before. Just Una little thread of exhaustion makes the task cr dressing the children seem interminable. Even if some '.duties have to remain undone until Monday, get to bed in sufficient season to secure a good long nights rest on Saturday night. Saturday is always a tiring day, imynow. But do not allow Its claims to take too ' much of your,, vitality. Remember that the most important day of the week is Just ahead of ycu and your children. A day which may be all brightness and joy if you bring to It thorough ly rested body and mind. Mary L. Cummins, In the New Haven Regis ter. Will Call Mass" Meeting. Atlanta, Ga, Special. Harvie Jor dan,-president if the Southern Cot ton Association announced Monday that in response to requests from all parts of the South, he would call a convention of cotton growers and allied interests, similar to that held in .New Orleans in 1905. , Indicted For Violation of "White Slave" Law. Washington, Special Charged with violating the "white slave ' law by harboring in their homes alien wo men for immoral . purposes, .Grace Sinclair and Ida Drury were indicted by the grand pury here. The indict ments are the result of a raid by In spector Baldwin, of - the Department of Commerce and Labor, in following up an investigation of violations of the law prohibiting the importation oi women into the country for im moral" purposes. 1 '; .; . " . . Quiet in the Near East. London, By Cable.-r-Belgrade, the storm center, in the present Balkan situation, has quieted down. After a long secret session, the National As sembly has taken no definite actio with regard to making war upon Austria-Hungary. ; The city itself has quieted down, the people apparently realizing that war would mean the de struction of Servian nationality. Big Missionary Convention Holds Mass Meeting.' ' New Orleans, Special. At a mass meeting in the : Athenaeum Cephas Shelbourne, of, Dallas, Tex., preached to' a great -audience attending the in ternational, missionary convention of the churches of Christ. Mr. Shel bourne took as hia f theme the fjet that an. inscription was written on the cross of Christ in three languages and developed from this incident an ar gument showing how modem churches of all creeds are pushing aside denom inational barriers in favor of more in timate relations with each other. Postmaster Arrested For Embezzle ment.. Hagan, Ga, Special. J. M. Elders, postmaster at this place and Repub-, iiean congressional candidate for Congress from the first district - of Georgia, was arrested charged with embezzling funds from the money or der department of this postoflice. His case was sent , to the Federal grand jurj. rosiomce inpecror liiii re- ecently made an examination of EI- ders' records and his arrest followed. Marked Falling Off in Greater New ."- York Registration. -: New- York; Special. Registration for the first three days in Greater New Yorkas shown by oorrcefpd fig ures reveals a'marked falling iff from that of four years ago. For (he tbrr 1 days the corrected figures show f-r Greater New York a registration f year of 54U,U'J5 as compare.! n 573.523 four years ago a loss 33,423.
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