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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, 'JANUARY- 1, 1905. ORIGIN OF THE ZEMSTVpS Professor H. S. Ellison Tells of Foundation of Russian Constitutional Advocates. HERBERT S. ELLISON, -who lec tured here recently on "Russia," Is making preparations to deliver further talks here on the samd subject, under the auspices of some of the local churches. Mr. Ellison, though born In Russia, is an ardent American. 'Tm twice an American," said he, facetiously, yesterday. "It Is said that we are all made over entirely new In the course of every seven years, and as I have been in America over 14 years, I can say that X am twice an American. "What is my object in lecturing:? Chiefly a desire to talk and tell about Ilussia. I lived there 20 years, and I feel that I can say something: about it, and I am .trying to say it now when people are more than usually Interest ed In that country. "I want to say this, that in all my discussion of Russia and analysis of the people, my standard for comparison has "been the Anglo-Saxon race the American people. I am touring the Coast on my own account, lecturing on various Questions relating to Russia. "What about Russia's future?" "Well. I lived in Oklahoma for a while, and remember a saying they have there: ' 'Only fools and newcomers prophecy about the weather.' "I am not prophecying about Russia. If she gets a constitution, about which there Is some agitation Just now, Rus Bla will enter upon a grand new era; if sot, she will remain benighted and barbarous indefinitely. "I speak advisedly in saying that Russia is not civilized. Of course, there Is a small percentage of educated and enlightened people, but the backbone of a country is the mass of its people. The Russian masses were slaves too long to have Quickly taken on the char acter of enlightened people. The Rus sian church and bureaucracy will keep the country unchanged, if possible, but mighty forces are at work In the em pire. "The Zemstvos were organized by. Catherine the Great. They are elected by the nobility and the peasantry o some of the provinces, but they do not represent more than 40 per cent of the Empire. It is a new departure for them to advocate reforms with any boldness. "As evidence to prove that Russia is not civilized let me give you an in stance: Catherine the Great was a German Princess before she married and afterward secured the murder of Peter IIL Being used to German ways and people, and realizing the need of something to advance the Russian masses, she invited large numbers of German farmers to Russia, giving them free lands and many advantages. Her idea was that they would be an exam ple to the Russians for thrift, industry and cleanliness. "They came and settled and have multiplied to hundreds of thousands, but they are still German, read and OVER 8000 ARRESTS Year of 1904 Arduous in Po lice Circles. SMASHES PREVIOUS RECORDS Arrests Principally Drunkards and Vagrants Every Conceivable Crime included in List Court Records. POLICE RECORD, 1004. The police had a very busy year, and although the force was crippled through the vacancies that occurred, a total of 8721 arrests were made. These included men wanted for almost every crime and misdemeanor In the decalogue. The num ber of arrests during 1903 was S078, making a gain for 1004. of H3. Municipal Court Record. All records were broken In the total fines and forfeitures in the Municipal Court, when it is considered that gam bling games were in operation only six months. Clerk Fred Olson's figures are ill, 013. 50 for the entire year. December fines and forfeitures aggregated 5HS3.T5. Fines and forfeitures for 1003 were $48,258. Portland's policemen worked hard dur ing the past year and broke previous rec ords in the number of arrests, as shown by the figures published above. Increase In the population, which has been remark able, coupled with the fact that the City Council has not allowed money for any extra patrolmen or detectives, made mat ters hard for the department. The Municipal Court also experienced a record-breaking year in the number of cases tried and amount of money received from fines and forfeitures, as is shown by Clerk Fred Olsen's figures. For six months the gamblers contributed heavily, but their suppression cut oft that revenue for the remaining six months. Work has Increased so rapidly in the Municipal Court that it is claimed an as sistant is urgently needed. It is hardly probable, however, that this will be al lowed. An amendment will bo offered to the Legislature, asking for a substantial increase in the clerk's salary, and that he be appointed by the Municipal Judge, Instead of by the Mayor. Chief Preparing Report. Chief of Police Hunt is preparing his annual report, which will bo more brlel than usual, but which will set for the conditions of the department and tell of the detail work for the past year. Some recommendations will be made, but the Chief declined to divulge their nature un til he flies his report with the Mayor. His request for additional patrolmen and Councilman Merrill's petition for higher salaries for the officers has already been turned down by the Council. He will likely call attention to the danger of at tempting to go through the Lewis and Clark Fair with only 70 patrolmen, the present number, which is inadequate even now. Salaries of the captains of police and of the detectives In Portland are 512 less than patrolmen are paid in San Francisco, and they are given beats many times as large to handle. Here patrolmen and sergeants receive J75 per month and pay B0 cents of that Into the police and fire fund: captains and detectives receive 590. Chief Hunt's salary Is 5200 per month. Ban Francisco patrolmpn receive 5103 per month; the extra 52 going to the police PROFESSOR HERBERT S. EIXISOX, WHO WILI, LECTURE ON RCS5IA. '') , speak the German language, and live in towns and farming communities composed almost wholly of Germans. The Russians could not absorb them. History has no example of a less civil ized people absorbing a people more civilized. "How different in America!" "This country, with Its glorious free dom and noble institutions, has absorb ed and thoroughly assimilated many times its own native population." Mr. Ellison has written the following poem, entitled "America": "America." (Dedicated to the T. M. C. A. and Its Local Secretary. Mr. Stone.) Land where liberty first iras crowned. Land where freedom sits enthroned. Land where oppressed have refuge, found, Thee I love! and fire fund: corporals receive 5115; ser geants 5125; lieutenants 5150; police cap tains, 5200: captain of detectives, 5230. Chief Wittrnan's salary Is 55000 a year. Plenty of Topers. As usual drunkards comprise the larger number of arrests, there being 2946. Mi nors come next with a total of 1057. Vag rants and night-walkers were numerous. Credit is due the detective ,staff for the arrest of 49 burglars. Two murders were arrested. It cost 51390 to feed the prison ers at the City Jail. ACT0E SUES FOB WAGES. Frederick Esmelton Says Manager Ballard Owes Him $60. Claiming he is entitled to 5G0 due him as salary for one week, Frederick Esmelton, an actor, has filed an attachment In Jus tice of the Peace Reid's court against A. H. Ballard, manager of the Columbia Theater. The papers have not yet been served, as Manager Ballard is in Seattle at present. Constable Jackson is awaiting his return, when he expects to attach the receipts of the box office. Esmelton, in his complaint, sets forth that he was employed by Manager Ba -lard to work one week with the Columbia Stock Company, playing at the Colum bia Theater, in the "Prodigal Daughter," and one week for the same company at the same house. In "The Holy City." The contract, he says, was kept in so far as the first week was concerned, but complains that Manager Ballard refused to present "The Holy City." As a result of this alleged breach of contract, Esmel ton says he lost one week, and asks that the court award this and the costs of the suit to him. SQUABBLE ATTBACTS CROWDS Row Over Theatrical Sign Blockades Traffic and Brings Police. Crowds of people, gathered on Wash ington street, between Seventh and Park streets, last night, to see and hear a war of words between theatrical people, had to be cleared away by Policeman Smith. Street-cars were stopped for a time, so thick was the crowd that had come there, drawn by curiosity. On the new Blazier building. Park and Washingtotn streets, men in the employ of George L. Baker were hanging a large sign. While working there James Lleber nian, manager for the Empire Theater, SEND THE PAPER EAST Every feature of tho Lewis" and Clark Exposition and Oriental Fair that will be held In Portland between June 1 and October 15 next, will be folly cov ered in tho 'ew Year's Oregonian that will be published tomorrow morning. The paper securely wrapped will be mailed to any address In the United States or Canada, postage prepaid, for 10 cents a copy. Orders to secure prompt at tention on day of publication should be sent to The Oregonian today. The price of the paper over the counters of The Oregonian business office, at news stands and from newsboys, will be 5 cents a copy. came up and, after looking over the sign, decided it had not been properly placed. He and the other men were soon engaged In a noisy demonstration, and for a time a fight was fn prospect. The sign, which was hung there to advertise the "Show Girl." on the boards at the Empire this week, certainly fulfilled its purpose. New Year's for Sure. The First National Bank, through its president, A. L. Mills, distributed 57000 among Its employes yesterday and In consequence they start the New Year in a happy frame of mind. This amount represented 10 per cent of the salaries paid out by this large bank to the em ployes. The same thing was done last year. From all accounts, this show of appreciation of the services of those working for the bank by its officials, is also highly appreciated by the employes. Harris Tronic Co. SI Morrison. Is headquarters for trunk. ult cases and ban. Trunks npalre. Land of Freedom's acquisition. Land .where toleration rules, i Land of noble, hlch ambition. Thee I love! Land of beauty, elory. eplendor. Land, whose sons for Freedom died, Laad whose heart Is true and tender. Thee I love! Land whose state thy (Treat have foended, Land whose speech and flag I love, -Land by oceans washed and bounded. Thee I love! . Land by progress .led and guided. Land of genius sweet abode. Land of states yet not dlrtded. Thee I love! Thee I love my country free. Freedom thou'st bestowed oa me. Free I kneel and kiss the earth That gave to Freedom glorious birth. WANT HOP COMBINE Krebs Brothers Will Stand By Small Dealers, OFFER A JOINT PROPOSITION Purpose Is to Stimulate MarketCon rad Krebs Feels Price Will Reach Thirty-Seven Cents Has Re fused Thirty Cents. Conrad Krebs, of Krebs Bros., Salem, tho largest hopgrowers In the state, was at the Belvedere yesterday. Mr. Kroh has great faith In the hoD markot. nn believes that prices wil go much higher mivrK uie season is over. "It Is easy to figure out the statistical position of hops," said Mr. Krebs. "Every grower in the state has done it, and that is why they are holding so firmly. Prices are sure to advance. The grower has every opportunity now to secure enor mous prices." Krebs Bros, are holding over 1700 bales for the advance thev ar tun nriit mm. and have refused most flattering offers to eelL Yesterday they were offered 30 cents for medium to primes, but rejected Can Control Situation. "If Oregon growers will maintain their courage to the end. they wlllnavc every thing their own way," said Mr. Krebs. "I have got a proposition I would like to make to the growers of this state through The Oregonian. "We are willing to go into Joint account with any grower who, to use the slang expression of tho trade, may have "cold feet.' We will take his hops on joint account with him, advance him a margin of 5 cents a pound, to permit nun to noia hie hops until April or May and let him sell, provided he does not let go below 37 cents. If by that time the market does not reach 37 cents, he can sell his hops and we will stand half of the loss, with the present price a starting iiui ol cenus xor cnoice ana 2 cents for d rimes. I think this la a f9i- rr Inasmuch as we are ready to stand half me nsK. About the English Market. Mr. Krebs recalled the fact that on Ie cember 23, 1S03, his firm offered England choice shloners at 22 rent f n h an offer was refused. On February 4, follow ing, areos .Bins, oougnt Dales at cents. There was an adntnu then nt cents in five weeks, and the stmnf sta tistical position of the market could not oegin to compare with conditions now. "Last year," said he, "England took 44.300 bales and prices went up. What must be the result this year, when Eng land has already bought 70.000 halp America? Besides this, 5CO0 bales have gone to Canada. Australia and other coun tries, suppose 20,030 bales more are ex ported, where is the Amcrimn hnir ret his EUPalies? This eauntrv nmAtitA sav 250.000 h&lM In MM. WltVi im Voloi to tro out of It and Imnnrtatlnn nf vn bales, a liberal allowance, you have only 148,069 bales for .home consumption. The production of beer is increasing in mis coustryt the Government's figures show that. Allowing for all possible uses, beer, yeast, druggists supplies, etc.; this coun try will require no less than 236,000 bales; and how far will the K3.09Q balesnhat are left go with the consumers? The only reason that prices have not advanced Js because the brewers have held off, having been told by dealers that there are plenty of hops left and hat prices will be lower. They have been fooled with the cry of shortage op often that they are "blind to the fact that an actual shortage now exists. They will be brought to their senses very soon. If the growers will stand pat and not let go. they will have a fortune In their hands. There is already more inquiry in the market. Reports were received from So noma and Santa Rosa yesterday thatiuy- ers were offering 30 cents there. AlcJNin Bros., of Puyallup, paid 30 cents for some thing over 100 bales of medium to primes. Plncus, of Tacoma, offered 304 cents for choice Yakimas. Gllbertson, of Aurora, offered Sanquenette, a grower of that place, 30 cents for a low-grade lot. All these offers were turned down. HOUSEWIVES OVERWORKED. Not Enough Domestic Servants to Co Round. Emll Reich in Success. I hold that that class of women in America (tho hard-working house wives) Is not only hard worked, but is. far too much overworked. The number of house servants in the United States is not half so large as that In little England. This entails an enormous amount of household work to be done by untold thousands of American housewives. I know It; I have seen It for years. In factories, in public libraries, in postoffices, and other state offices, in private offices. and In the infinite number of schools, American women are working very hard, frequently to the detriment of their constitutions. But herein is found the great difficulty in summing up correctly the state of women in given country. The hardworked, the overworked women are of the same type and class all the world over. They do not constitute the distinctive type of womanhood of a country. We must estimate them, not by what they are actually doing, but by what they are aiming" at. The very .American housewife whose husband has heretofore been unable to givs her sufficient "help" will, as soon as her husband is financially successful, turn out a type totally dif ferent from what she has been. It Is this ever-present tendency toward the distinctive American woman-type. even In the lowliest of American hous wives, that constitute the essential feature In American womanhood. As in England there is no bourgeoisie proper, not because there are no mid dle-class families, of which. Indeed, there is no lack, but because In every English middle-class family there are an ever-present desire and a restless ambition to get socially out of that middle class: even so there Is in Amer ica no real bourgeoisie woman. Qwlng to the unmistakable. Ineradicable ten dency in every American woman "to reach the type of that American woman whom my critics think they can re strict to a limited number with world ly Inclinations. TREATS EMPLOYES ROYALLY. Ben Selling Gives Banquet and Dis tributes $3000. Ben Selling last night disbursed among his employes 53000 at a supper he gave them. He invited all the employes of the Ben Selling and the Moyer Clothing Cora parties and their wives, and after they had had the excellent suppor that Man ager .Bowers had provided for them In one of the parlors of the Portland Hotel. he addressed his men and in a speech ex pressing his interest in their welfare, and his gratitude for the faithful service they had given him and hl3 Interests, said that a .New Year's gift or 10 per cent of their annual salaries seemed to him only a Just compensation. The sum total of the checks which he disbursed amounted to 53000. To the wives of the men who had been invited he gave each a Lewis and Clark brooch. There were CO people pres ent. PRESIDENT JORDAN TO SPEAK Accepts Invitation to Address Peace Conference Today. Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, arrived in Portland last night, en route to his California nome. He is returning from Spokane, PAPERS FOB MAILING. Orders for thousands of copies of the Xew Year's number that will be published tomorrow morning have al ready reached Tho Oregonian. These papers will be mailed to all parts of the United States. The price of the 2ew Year's Oregonian, securely wrapped will be" 10 cent a copy, postage prepaid. The price of the paper, unwrapped, at the business office of The Oregonian, at news stands, or from newsboys, will be 5 cents a copy. Every feature of the Lewis and Clark Exposition and Ori ental Fair that will be opened in Fort land oa June 1 next will be covered In the Xew Year's Issue. where he has been attending the Wash ington State Teachers' Association. Dr. Jordan is vice-president of the National Peace Society, and immediately upon his arrival nere ne was extended a cordial In vitatlon to address the mass meeting at the Marquam this afternoon. The Invi tation was willingly accepted, as' Dr. Jor. dan Is deeply Interested In the project of universal peace, and he will be the prln clpal speaker at the meeting. Old Man Sues Assailant. As a result of his brutal assault on John Murphy. Jed Hart, proprietor of tho Green Front, a dive on .orth Third street. was yesterday sued for 5230- The papers were filed in Justice Kelds court. Hart was arrested by Patrolman Rob erts for assaulting Murphy, who is an aged man. In the dive one week ago. Mur phy alleges he went In to purchase a drink and that an attempt was made to rob him of 554. which he carried. He re sisted, he says, and Hart struck him over the head with the top of a heating stove, breaking his nose and Jaw. Hart was called before the County grand jury during the week and will probably be In dicted. These Burglars Smoke. - Burglars entered the store of L. Sax, "Williams avenue and Shaver street, early yesterday morning, and stole cigafs and provisions, valued at more than 5100. Tho police were notified. CeasBmetlsa Cared. An old physician, retired from pracUce. had placed la bis hands by an East India ilLseloo ary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent care of Con sumption. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Asthma and all Throat and Lung Affections; also a poslUre and radical cere for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints. Having tested Its won derful curative powers In tbonsands of cases and desiring to relieve human suffering, I will eud free of charge to all who wltn It. thla recipe, with full directions for preparing, and using. .Sent by mall, by addressing, with stamp, naming this paper. W. A. Norea. 847 Powers Block, Bochectsr, N. X, ; - .V : Are - What Is Known About the Moon Most Remarkable of All Satellites, for It Was Thrown Off From the Earth. IT IS some 20O.CCO miles distant from us, that pale, cold satellite of Ours. And yet. In some respects, we know more of the single, placid face which It ever turns toward us than we do of the heart of Africa, or some parts of Asia. Ever since the telescope became an instrument of astronomical research Its surface has been laboriously explored, night after night, and Its features drawn and photo graphed. Great plains, called "seas," although there Is not a drop of fluid water In them; lofty mountain ranges which have been christened with the names of terrestrial peaks; remarkable straight, trough-like valleys; thousands of circular basins, which are known as craters, and many lustrous streaks which seem mere bands of color, all these have been mapped and studied, until the face of the man in the moon is as familiar to the astronomer as the appearance of the United States to us. The moon is unique among satellites. In all the visible universe there Is noth ing else quite like It. In the first place, it has the distinction of being the largest satellite that revolves around a planet. Its diameter being 21G3 miles. So large. Indeed, Is it that, to the inhabitants of a neighboring orb, the earth and the moon must appear as a marvelously beautiful double star. Once Part of the Earth. Unlike all other satellites, the moon once formed part of the planet about which it revolves. At that Inconceivably remote period, measured as it is by millions and millions of years, the earth rotated at a terrific speed, compared with which It3 present pace seems stately. One day a disaster occurred, the like of which this earth has never known since. Hurled off by the Immense centrifugal force due to its enormous speed of rotation some 5,000, 000.000 cubic miles of matter left earth for ever. In that cataclysm our moon was created. Some one has suggested that the great basin now filled by the Pacific Ocean must have been filled by the mass shot from the earth when It gave birth to the moon. Ingenious arguments have been advanced to substantiate this view not as uncon vincing as might be supposed. Certain It is that the earth must bear some scar of the awful struggle of forces that cleft It In twain and robbed It of so vast a portion of its mass. It must have struck even the people of prehistoric times that the moon turned always the same face toward us. For the well-known features of that face, the ob ject of religious adoration, must have been studied time and time against with rapt wonder. For centuries astronomers have known that the reason for the same ness of the moon's' aspect- is to be found in the fact that the moon rotates on its axis exactly in the time it revolves around the earth. i Other SIds Forever Hidden. A peculiar rocking or balancing of the moon, its 'Vibration," as astronomers term it. does enable us to peer around the other side for ever bo slight a dis tance; still, the greater part of the face which Is turned from us must forever be concealed. It may be presumed, how ever that the unseen half differs in no respect from that with which we are fa miliar. . , , The earth's satellite Is not what one would call a very swiftly moving body as celestial speeds go. But Its velocity of 3330 feet a second Is more than we have succeeded In giving to our most ener getic cannon balls. Because its mass Is so much smaller than that of the earth and its attraction for bodies on Its sur face considerably less, a very awkward man -on the moon could outdo any ter restrial athlete. This awkward man could easily cover over 100 feet in a lunar running broad Jump; he would consider It mere play to leap over an ordinary tree. In a word, he would be six times stronger on .the moon than he would be on the earth. iL G. "Wells, whoso Imaginative ro mances contain In them more scientific truth than many are aware, mada ex cellent use of the moon's lesser attraction for bodies compared with the earth. The earthly hero of one of his stories, who took it into his head to travel to the moon, developed such marvelous athletic power there that he escaped from his lunar enemies time and time again, to their utter discomfiture. Moon No Lifeless Mass. It used to be the fashion to regard the moon as a kind of dismal, concrete exam ple of toe earth's ultimate fate. Its sur , Wishing You a Bright and Happy - r New Year . STORE CLOSED ! MONDAY, JAN. 2, 1905 r; Great Annual Clearance Sale Terrific Cut Prices On Every Article in Every Dep't The Values We Give Not to Be Pound Elsewhere The Low Prices We Quote and the Quality We Give You Can't Be Found Only at Roberts Bros. face was pictured, and is still pictured by many, as a lifeless, dreary waste, and the satellite Itself as a kind of burned out cinder flying through space. But the recent Investigations of Professor "Wil liam H. Pickering would seem to shatter tlils .gloomy, pessimistic vision. He claims, and not without substantiating photographic evidence, that the moon, al though not exactly luxuriant, is anything but the lifeless mass we have supposed. He asserts in no uncertain tone that the moon has an atmosphere, and If that be once established) there are possibilities un dreamed of In our lunar philosophy. An atmosphere consists mainly of water, and on the moon that water must exist in the form of ice, because of the Intense cold that prevails. Because bodies are six times lighter on the moon than they are on the earth, such gases as oxygen and hydrogen would fly off Into space. Carbonic acid gas, however, clings to the surface with more tenacity, because of Its weight. If we admit that the moon has an atmosphere, that it Is not devoid of water, and that it Is surrounded by a certain amount of carbonic acid gas (without which plants cannot live), why, then. Is It not possible that the moon may support organic life? Professor Pickering and his adherents are convinced of it. He claims to have de tected what he believes to be vegetation, basing his belief on the presence of spots that vary In brightness In a way quite adequately accounted for on the suppo sition that they are plants undergoing the processes of growth and decay. Must Die in a Day. Vegetation, if there be any, must spring up and die in a single day, because no plant, at least no terrestrial plant, could survive the bitter lunar night with the temperature nearly 100 below zero. A lunar day, however, is by no means fleet ing. It lasts for about 15 of our days, so that the vegetation theory Is by no means untenable, so far as time Is con cerned. From the time that telescopes were first used In astronomy the "craters" of the moon-jgreat, towering, terraced rings have been made the subject of painstak ing study. At best they are enigmas. They are probably the result of volcanic action of some kind. Extending from the craters for a distance of several hundred miles are gigantic crevices, called "rills," ROSENTHAL'S 149 3rd STREET GREAT INVENTORY SALE NOW GOING ON The TXew Year will be ushered in with a sensational mark-down sale of Boys' Shoes. If you care to "buy the best at prices far below the cost of ordinary shoes a visit to our store this week will amply repay you. Brennan & White's celebrated steel-shod lace Shoes, sizes from 2 to 5y2; sale price 2.15 Same in youth's size from 11 to 2; sale price $X90 1800 pairs Boys' Box Calf double sole Bluchers, viscolized soles, as - near-waterproof as can be made; sizes 2YZ to 5y2 $1.95 Same, sizes 11 to 2 $1.70, 1500 pairs Boys Calf Lace Shoes, heavy soles, .extension; sizes from t2y2 to Wz - $1.60 Same, sizes from 11 to 2 $X.45 GREAT REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS, TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION V9W which may be considered wrinkles in tha crumpled skin of the moon's aged face. No doubt volcanic forces have played their part In the moon's history, but whether they are still active Is a moot question. Evidence of irregularly occur ring changes of some sort has been gath ered by Professor Pickering evidence that leads him to believe In the activity of some supposedly extinct craters. Every terrestrial volcano expels a cer tain amount of gas and of water In the form of steam. If there be active volca noes on the moon It is not unlikely that they also vomit vapors consisting In part of water. But the moon is so Intensely cold that this water can exist only In two forms gas and Ice. Explained on Ice Theory. The white lining of many of the moon's craters (dazzling bright In the gleamof the. sun), the white sheen that caps the loiuer pea&s, tue strange xaaing away and singular reappearance of bright stains as the sun rises and sets, the silvery threads that radiate from some crater and gradually melt away as they extend Into the valleys below all these phenom ena have been attributed by Professor Pickering to ice. So rare Is the lunar at mosphere that In place of a beautiful azure sky, like our own, Inky blackness reigns. For that reason, white objects can be seen only by the reflection- of the sun's rays. That explains the curious appear ance and disappearance of the white stains. By many an astronomer the doc trine that the poles of the moon and the mountain peaks are ice clad is frowned upon as rank, scientific heresy. But Pro fessor Pickering's careful studies of some of the bright streaks, under various Il luminations, and his painstaking compari sons of modern photographs with old drawings, lead almost irresistibly to tha conclusion that the white spots are real ly Ice. She Stocked Up on Prayers. Lowell Courier. One little girl that I know of Is so sleepy when she starts for bed. that it is occasionally hard work for her to make up her mind to finish the good night prayer. A few nights ago she dropped her head upon the pillows earlier than usual. She wasn't very sleepy, and at once began to dash off a prayer In refreshing style. The first prayer over, along .came another one, and still a third. About this time her mother, surprised at the turn proceedings had taken, asked the little one what she meant by so many prayers. "Why," ex plained the little girl. "I'm going to say 12 prayers, now I'm awake, and then I can go two weeks without saying one."