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H i, * v*r y \ *-V*T y ■ ? Ur-. Lw7 . CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. LOST CITY O f ¿ETRA. HIGH VELOCITY STARS. Th.ir Fearful Rate of Spaed In •pass ll Somewhat Puzzling. The iT O iit velocity o f «ten ranees from about six kilometers, or between three tad four miles, per eecond for “ young" etara to «boot thirty kilome ter» p«r second far “old” ones. But notable exception» occur. At Mount Wilson aolay observatory o f the Car negie Institution some stars have been found to move with velocities o f 141. 160, 17», » 9 , 810 and even 825 kilo meters per second, the hlghtst speed yet known. la la quality the asms mantel attitude ha which the Ignorant, Impassive mine worker walks around la tbs dm damps, and whan they explode he. too. be comes a popular hero. - “ Next highest in tbs world's gauge- next lowest in the true scale—Is tbs & THE UNIVERSE. courage that dares a quick danger In a sudden emergency. In itself this Is Our Own Stellar System and What May Be Eeyend It. in one o f the latest conceptions of astronomers the stallar universe has a diameter of KUIOO to lSJXX) light years, with a thickness o f 2,000 to 8 ^) 00 , and bu stamina. The man wlio, thottth his fights he all defeats, still fights, who. though ha baa baas a failure In tbs past- and knows himself (aa many a keenly sensitive man knows klmaelf) to be a failure and to doomed to be a tellurs for the rest o f hto life, rleee pa tiently and Indomitably every morning to face the Inevitable defeat o f the day with equanimity and sweetness there to a courage, my master», o f which the klnga and victors of the earth are not courage, the highest o f all to the tros scale, but so little esteemed to the pop ular mind that U will hardly be ac corded a place to the scale at all an teas. aa 1 said dn respect of the Brat type, to be aero la to be a part o f the gauge. It to the courage of cowardice, the bravery of the man who to afraid, but who to mortal funk and ah>Ct fear, with throbbing heart and sweat- tog brow, forest himself to de the thing from which he shrinks. This, which the world sneers at aa coward ice, la the highest courage o f alL In fa ct It la the holy true courage, tor It sets all the agonised effort of a man’s seal against all the fears and terrors that the powers o f darkness can faring upon bias." / . , 'f ^ W - hams and was a cadet o f the Military academy from Sept 18. 1817. until July 1 , 1822, when he was graduated and appointed a brevet second lieutenant to the Sixth infantry. On the expiration of hto graduation leave on Dae. 81, 1802. ha resigned from the army to be- was an Important trading station for the caravans that moved between Persia and Egypt, and India and the holy land and Syria, it la built In a colossal bowl of pink, and its pdlacsa, temples and tombs are carved out of solid rock. Certainly some of Its carv ings are 0.000 yeara old. Its walla pre serve the history o f architecture, for Ita structures date from the days of cave men to the magnttcent buildings o f Greece and Borne. - -v r f 1 Today Petra baa about thirty In habitants. They keep a few goats, go beyond tbelr city into the desert to trade with passing caravans and. alto gether. torn) a miserable Ufa They have made trouble for many traveler» who attempted to visit than), for a legend survives that a Pharaoh of Egypt bid hie country's treasures In the Kaxneh. the beautiful building which Is today known as Pharaoh*# Por many yanta they tried to keep white travelers from entering the dtp. because when the treasure was found they said it belonged to them. But to day they welcome visitors. Nominally the city o f Petra la a personal posees- alón of the sultan of Turkey, and it la theoretically against the law to re move anything without hie permission. But there la nobody to stand watch and guard the historic treasures. Every traveler helps himself, and the natives assist him in hto search, hoping to da tive a faw cants for tbelr labor,— ihnen described aa runaways they seem to be quite beyond trot of tbs gravitational powc universa. At thetr apead tin tlou of the entire known ate tern would be wholly tnsuf) «beck the star’s The astronomer, Simon Newcomb. once calculated that the maximum ve locity attained by a body sterling with velocity aero at aa Infinite dis tance and pasting through a stellar system containing 100 , 000,000 stem each five times aa maaaiva a i our sun and distributed throughout a disklike spheroid o f certain extent cannot ex ceed 40 kilometers per second. Yet the star “Groombridga 1880" baa a speed nearly nine times this value, and the massive star Arctnrus baa a apded probably four times this value. If existing velocities owe tbelr mag nitudes to the gravitation o f the sys tem the quantity o f attracting matter In the whole stellar system would have to be at least eighty times that assumed by the calculations of Pro fessor Newcomb.—Baltimore Ameri can. .............................. ... If you want a daily paper by mail to o ffe r that ought to appeal ,to you. Daily Journal one year The Graphic one year - • H ere it i»: $5.00 $1.50 Total $6.50 We offer both for $ 5 .0 0 A dd $1.00 if you want to include the Sunday Journal « » Í 4Éé 4t M 4 t 4 » 4H » > 4 » M Í H W H 44444 » > t e ÉÍ g |g >g 8 m The Graphic Clubbing Offer All the same as city folks, the family who lives on a rural mail route may have a daily paper to read the same day it comes from the press. 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It embraces 80,000,- 000 to 500004)00 stars within the range o f telescopic visibility, with dark and Dr. Norman Macteod. the famous Invisible bodies whose number cannot Scottish divine, before visiting India, be computed. called on an old highland woman in Bo far as can be determined tbs stars Glasgow, says a writer to the Scot are surprisingly uniform to togas, the tish American. “When ye gang tea range o f variation being not more than India.“ be said, “ye’ll be seeto’ ma flftyfold, but to density the range to Dona!’ that want awa tae India tan from more than twice that o f the ana years ago an* never sent the scrape of to their equipment which to only one-mflllontb and 1 à absolute a pen tae hto mitber since. ” ' enables them to handle k luminosity or brightness from 8.000 “But Katie.” said the doctor. “ India distance work with dispai times that o f the sun to about one la a very Mg place, and bow can I ex three-thousandth. The temperatine pect to find him?" rises from near absoluta aero to the “Oh, bat ye’ll ‘ Just be askin’ tot nebulae to 20.000 degrees C. la certain THE NEGRO AND THE BANJO. Donal’. What for no?” giant Sot stars. v * -- So. to please the old woman, be prom ised to aak for Donald, and be con scientiously kept his word. At various ports he made Inquiry among British ships, although It m ined vary much like looking for a needle to a bale of hay. But It to the unexpected that happens. Aa Dr. liacleod’s steamer went up the Hagli river an outward We pay highest cash price for bound vessel passed close by. A sailer ■--- strietly fresh eggs r- the field hand or even o f the town dar was leaning over her bulwark, and, ky as the violin. moved by a sudden Impulse, the doctor Fancy and Staple G roceries Indeed, the boose cannot be consid shouted out: Ante Are Six Bared. DUNLAP’S GROCERY In the matter o f some e f their sense ered aa In any way special to the “ Are you Donald Mactavisit?" organs the ants are more* than ordi negro; they were familiar to 8 hake- To his intense surprise the man an- narily endowed. Strange aa It may •peare’s Bottom, who declares: “ I have seam, each ant has at least six ears. a reasonable good ear to music; let us Dr. Macleod had only time to about Aside from this multiplicity of oars, hare the tongs gad the boneh.” And “You’re to write (o your mother!“ as they are located to Just about the the wise recorder o f the words and the vessels drew apart The result o f queerest place Imaginable—on the legs. deed* o f Uncle Remus declared that be hto-amasing meeting was that the old They seem deaf to all sounds mads by bad' never listened to the staccato pick lady received e penitent letter teem the vibration of the air, bat detect the ing o f a bmtie to the negro quarters o f her long neglectful eon. ~ slightest possible vibration# o f solid any plantation. “ I have seen the negro at work,” so material. This to supposed to be to Net Quite. tbelr advantage in that such things aa Joel Chandler Harris once asserted.; “ Young man,” Inquired her father approaching footsteps tall more of the “and I have seen him at play; I have sternly, “ will yon give her a home like possibility o f danger than such sounds attended hto corn shucking», his dances the one she has been used to?” - | G bbm early a mi f«t first pick j as are transmitted through the air. Bo and hto frolics: 1 have heard Urn give “ No.” replied the truthful suitor, “for sensitive are their test that tiny de the wonderful melody of hto songs to there will be no grumpy tether to • ow on on ow on ow on on on ow ow ow b tect the impact of a small bird shot the winds; I have heard him give bar pome home and make every one mto- dropped on (be table from a height of baric aim to the quill* (that Is to say, erable by his kicking over trlflee and about six inches and about fourteen to the Pan’s pipes); I have beard him swearing at matters to general. There feet distent from an artificial neat scrape Jubilantly on tbs fiddle; I have will be no mother to eoold her from placed at the other, and o f the table.— seen i>»«n blow wildly on the bugle and morning to night for westing time bent enthusiastically on the triangle, merely because she wants to be neat S t Nicholas. v but I have never heard him play on the There will be no big brother to abase banjo.” —Brander Matthews In Bcrlb- her for not doing half o f hto work and no little brother to make enough noise “I wish, John.“ she said regretfully. to drive her craay when her heed aches. “1 bad had sense enough not ttf de When Toriles Were Big. There won’t be any younger sister to stroy all the letters you wrote me dur O f the turtles It assy be said that tnstet on reading some trashy novel ing the year aad a half o f your court they repassant the moot ancient type of while she does all the work. 8 be will ship.” He smiled In a gratified way. “ I knew all vertebrates, resembling closely aa net have with me a home like she has you would regret that some time;” be they do the reptiles o f their kind which bean need to, not if 1 can help It"— the meeoaolc Boston Journal existed do ter back said. * “ Indeed T da” she replied. “ I need era. Thai« were sea tortoises during CHASE & LINTON a little change the worst sort of way. that epoch which measured twenty and the man who buys ragfa and old test to spread Of flippers, while some G RAVEL COM PANY paper was hero today. How wasteful tertiary tortetoea were net lass big In body, measuring twelve test from bead we ere In our yooth!” He looked at bar reproachfully, and to tafl. AU kinds o f gravel for con almost Involuntarily hto band sought toons amount o f water. Taka the har crete work, cement Mocks, hto pocketbook. It la seldom, Indeed. bor o f 8 t Jobs as an Illustration o f or wood work furnished on what tide mighty tide must be. In ■Met parte o f the world a tide o f ton short notice. teat to considerad something abnor mal, but at Bt John It rises twenty to Telephone White 86 twenty-four feet la good weather. In ktotmy weather the monotony to va ried by the high water mark being REO T R U C K f MUELLER, the Tailor I S. Ed. Launer J. H. GIBSON, Mgr. T h e only A bstract Books ¡m queer tot They have many things which are taboo, mustn't be touched." ."I aae nothing strange about that It to the same principle on which w» care fully plant a tot o f grass for people to keep off oi.”—Loutovllto Conrter-Jocr- Yam hill County Yamhill Cdunty A bstract Co. M c M innviulx . Oaaoon REAL ESTATE PIRE INSURANCE W rits your Pire Insurance la the Odd Tomb Inscription. 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