HE MOVED HIS W ELL
MOTION MCTURSS
Battleship.
few w ill Imagine Heating In tha middle
o f the room whore'yon alt a roughly
globular swarm of bright particles,
distributed with a fair degree o f tmi-
fbrmity as to distance from one an
other. and then outside o f tbe swarm
surrounding i t bnt separated from It
by a apace which Is hearty hut not
golte empty, an Irregular spiral ring
o f similar shining particle* you win
have before you a picture o f ooa of
the latest astronomical conceptions of
the form of tbe visible universe. -.
The central swarm will represent tbe
assemblage o f stars o f which our sou
la a modest member, while tbe envel
Oping spiral will represent tbe Im
mense system of the Milky way. whose
stars are vastly more numerous than
those composing tbe globular swarm
Tha stare of the Milky way are the
moat distant members of tbo entire
aystem. which appears to be abut In
all around by black space. Viewed
bom afar off In the ebon depths of
that space, this universe o f ours would
noomble a phosphorescent Jellyfish,
with faintly, sparkling tentacles. afloat
does not Doceaunrtly make them parts
o f tbo “ visible universe." because they
appear to be unconnected with It aad
to He beyond Its boundaries.
These objects am known .aa spiral
nebulae. Tbe photographs that have
town 'mafia o f them In tbe past few
years are simply a mating. Tbe forme
o f many are surprisingly Uke that
which baa been described above as
characterising tbe stellar system. They
bare central agglomerations with on
vcioplng spirals. They bare knots of
light which recall the globular ¿lusters
o f stars found In tbo visible nnivorae.
ad and all tha lobby seat« are oecoptofl
ln auch cassa the tic ta t sailor with
holds further admiaatoos. and tha
crowd remains upon the street, but the
brtntant electric lights «if night) and
tha araste of the band continua to
swell tbe number o f watting patrona
The night In the moat popular hour
for tha crowds, as at that Urna the
whole family turns out. and every a m
who can afford an automobile praasaa
It Into service. At sua o f the best mo
tion pictures in Buenos Aires a writer
counted mors than 900 machines
drawn op In Unas awaiting tbe closing
of only an average attraction. Tbe
hour waa near midnight and about aa
much ceremony waa observed as If tbe
Onset opera company had bona tha
atar perform er*—Argonaut
•
Happiness ta tbat single and glortooa
thing which ta the very light and earn
-of the whole animated universe, and
where she la not It Is hatter tbat noth
tnc should be.—Cotton
The most completely loot of all days
1 a tbe one on which we bav# not
-laughed -—Vhamfort
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CJLSPAUUHNG
war, k told by 8tr W illiam Wlttcocka.
K- C M. Q . In u article to Black
wood’s Magaslne:
“ A fter Naslm Pasha became wall of
Bagdad there lived in one o f the bant,
bouses in the place aa Arman Ian girt
ed her from leaving it
“fibs estoped to tbe French con van.
one day. dreused as a French non. and
tbe cordon o f soldiers moved to bar
now residence. After some delay she
escaped as a French monk, took refuge
on Lynch's boat and sailed for Basra
under tbe British flag. Boats fall of
soldiers surrounded tbe steamer at
Beam, but tbe girl ran scrum tbe
deck. Jumped Into tbe Russian con
sul’# boat and took refuge under tbe
Russian flag. Tbe consul saw ber safe
condensed glowing gas. bnt tbe spec
ly on to tbe Brttlab India steamer, and
troscope shows that the light coining
ate descended at Bushlre. In Persia.
from them Is not that which la charac
“ Not many mouths afterward Naslm
teristic o f gaseous nebulae, but tbat
Paste himself was deposed and order
which belongs to true stars. Tbe Influ
ence la tbat these wonderful objects ed to return to Constantinople. Ha re
may actually be other universes lying turned there Anally and was, as we all
out In the ocean of apace beyond our know, murdered by tbe Young Turks’
shores W
Mile Wee a Glutton.
This inference is strengthened by
Milo, the famous athlete o f ancient
w te t we know o f tbe distance o f some
• f these objects. The utmost diameter Greece, bora 520 B. C., waa victor at
of the great spiral of tbe Milky way both tbe Olympic and Pythian games
probably does not exceed from 4.000 to for six times In succession. On one oc
«.000 "psrases.’* or from 800 to 1,900 casion te ran four miles with an ox on
million times the earth’s distance from his shoulder, killed the animal with a
tbe sun. A parsec, which corresponds to blow o f bis list and then ate the entire
a parallax of one second of arc. equals carcass la one day. An ordinary meal
about 19 . 000 . 000 . 000.000 (nineteen tril for this gluttonous Titan waa twenty
lion i miles
But some of the spiral pounds o f bread, twice that much meat
nebulae appear to he at least 10.000 and fifteen pints o f wtne.
parsecs distant'
Original Ere ef Deed Feeling.
I f that Is so there exists between
The phrase applied to tbe ndmlnlstra
them and tbe outer frontiers o f the vis
ible universe a gap far broader than tion o f fam e« Monroe, “the era o f good
tbe entire diameter o f tbat universe. It feeling.” Brat appeared In a Boston
ran hardly be supposed, then, tbat they newspaper, tbe Columbian Sentinel of
are outlying parts of or attendants July 10. 1817 From that time until
upon our universe, but It la much more the present boor tbe two admin 1 stra
reasonable to conclude tbat they are tions of Monroe—a period of eight
-otter universes constructed on n aim! yean, 1817 to 1825—are referred to to
tar plan, bnt so far away tbat as view the terms o f tbe newspaper paragraph
-ed with our utmost visual powers, our which so aptly expressed tbe public
mightiest telescopes, they are but sentiment o f the dny
gleaming specks! Perhaps tbe nearest
Lay ef the Cew.
o f these strange objects la the Androm
“ Whet are oxenT* asked the teacher
eda nebula, which. In a small tele-
scope- looks like a faint spindle shaped Tbe little foreigners looked blank.
wisp.—Garrett P Servtas In New Tort “ Doan any one know what a cow tel"
ate asked hopefully
Journal
“
A dingy hand graved wildly at the
back o f the room. “ I know. I know,
Vsngssnoe an tha Caddie.
“ What! Buying more golf datai I teacher. A cow she lays milk!“ —H er
thought you had a pretty completa out par’s Magaslne
lit before*'
Where Wanten Tell Their Agee.
”1 bare, but tbat caddie of mine ted
Japanese women wear gold pins In
the nerve to snigger when I topped my
•drive yesterday, and I’m going to make tbelr hair until they reach the age of
Mm carry double weight“ —Pall Mall twenty-Ave
At tMrty the pina art
white, and at forty they wear plate
Os retta
Happiness.
H Wasn't P m IM Up Ner flawed Up, kwt
H Old Change Piase.
There la aa old Mtorjr about tha man
who pallad up a wall and took it to a
moat desirable loeatkm s»d
about tha man who took up a wall,
uwud It In «actions and naad oaa of
th« sections for a land roller. They
wata exaggerations, bat the experience
of E m Tetiow proras that a wall can
not always be a^iwed as a p a«™ »rm
artura E m had a well in front of hie
house. U had oarer bean a san e a a»
a watt. Earn wanted It Ulad up. One
way would hare bean te haul atonas or
earth and use tha material to til It
pushed, three men got in with fleamn
tad rowed wttb muffled oars toward u
large rock in the middle of tbe bight
Round this rock tbo chain was laid apd
•sen rely fastened. One man having
been landed on tbe crag to keep guard
over this end. tbe te a t set out cautipoa
ly for tbe bettleeblp. looming like a
phantom in tbe distance. Not n sound
did the men make am link by link tbe
massive chain was paid out over tbe
■tern Into tbo still water rill they
reached tbe vessel.
There was an excited gleam in Haa-
tan’s eyes as, with s sign to his com
rades, be gradually lowered himself
Into tbe dark water, guiding himself by
passing bis fingers over the battleship's
plate* A slight grating o f tbo chain
against tbe ball was aU that bis anxious
companions In the boat beard, though
now and then a reassuring pull was
fait on tbe Une that Haasan bald, di
recting them bow to pay oat tbe chain.
Hours rather than minutes seemed to
have gone by ere tbe young officer
came to the surface. 80 exhausted by
his long dive was be that be bad to be
thnoot lifted Into the boat.
“ It la round tbe propeller.** bo gasp
ed. **1 have fixed It so that nothing
can move i t Back you go.**
Then link by link tbe tedious work
was renewed until tbe boat returned
to its starting point, where tbe other
end o f tbe chain was secured. Tbe
risky task was done, and tbe Hellenic
battleship waa securely moored to an
Immovable rock by a double thickness
o f cable.
Tbe earty rays o f dawn revealed a
sight which astonished tbe Greek com
mander. A whole regiment of Turk»
were on tbe march toward tbe strait
o f Arts, with train after train o f artil
lery, tbe Inst o f which disappeared be
yond tbe Intervening tend before tbe
ship's guns could be brought to bear
on them. Tbo commander gave orders
for the guna to be run out and decks
cleared for action, while tbe anchor
waa weighed, his Intention being to
prevent the Turks from fortifying the
strait before they bad become too
strong. “ Full speed a bead T went tbe
order to tbe engine room, and. pro
pelled by her mighty screw, the bat
tleship advanced, only to lurch back
ward ns If dragged by some unseen
force. Work as the engines would,
tbe vessel seemed to be In an enchant
ed circle, beyond which It was Impos
sible to go
It was not until the sun’s rays had
penetrated the deep blue water along
side that the secret was revealed and
the massive chain was discovered pass
ing round the ship's propeller and the
being exchangeable at all Oman upon
demand for tbe actual coin.
Tha question o f making tbe certifi
cates -legal tender was not, to tbo
knowledge of the authority consulted,
discussed when this suggestion o f tbo
New York banks was carried Into ef
fect by act o f congress. Tbe fact that
It was decided, to begin with, to limit
these certifies tee to certificates to order
would have been a barrier In the way
o f making them legal tender bad tbe
mggeatlon been advanced.
80 much for the authorisation of gold
certificates and tbelr not being made
legal tender then. Financial aotborl-
tim point out that there has been In
tbe years since no practical need for
taking this step. Gold certifies tee ore
la practice accepted as In every way aa
good aa tbe gold Itself, and they am
Immediately convertible Into legal ten
der by surrender and exchange Into
W it e f Disraeli.
There is a story about Disraeli tbat
la much like him and will give an Idea
o f what be was at this time (1877).
A * te was leaving a bouse be asked
some one to give him his arm down
Piccadilly. Tbe man, who must have
teen a person o f some wit, said, “ At
such a time as this I should wish to
te met by my creditors.” “ No.” said
Disraeli. ‘I t Is not at such times thst
your creditors meet you. Your cred
ltora meet you when you are carrying
a bundle.”
There you have the literary quality
o f tbe man.—K. 8 . Nads) In Outlook.
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Queer Human Nature.
“ Man's s funny proposition !”
“ What uowT”
“ When he reads a medical book be
fancies be bsa every disease described,
but let him read tbe work o f a moral
ist god air tbe faults pointed out te
sees not in himself, but In his neigh-
bor."—Boston Transcript
R. B. LYLE
L Y N N B . F E v R G U S O N
BOS First St.
PRESCRIPTIO N DRUGGIST
P k s e e llk lM
Bound te Rise.
“ He Is one o f tlie most stupid bores
I aver m et”
“ And yet be seems u> have accumu
lated money. Fartuue appears to have
knocked at his door.”
“ I don’t believe she merely knocked;
she must have broken right ln.” -
Brooklyn Cltlxen.
Ne Cause Far Complaint
“ Ob. my tooth aches dreadfully! I
don't see why we can't he horn with
out teeth.”
Before It could be removed, bow- look up some authority on that point
aver, the strait had been sufficiently
Fewer e f Muele.
Mrs. FIs thumb—Did you say her bus- fortified by the Turks and a power London Telegraph
band baa a passion for musici Mrs ful Greek warship lay a helpless pris
A Real Wonder.
Benson burse—Oh. flay, yaa! Every time oner within tbe landlocked waters of
she sings be files futo one.—Yonkers Arts.
Aladdin was exhibiting bis wonderfnl
fits teaman
lamp.
“ It's aa snto lamp.” he explained,
• Kindness Is s language the dumb
ran speak and tbe deaf can hear and “that won’t go out Just aa a traffic cop
heaves In s ig h t"—Pittsburgh Post
understand.—Bores
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