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One of the most impressive Indications of modern c!en t!Bc progress pooh from the Sold of astronomy, says tbe Weahlngton Pot The limit of tbe universe art now brine reached by the strong eye of the photo- grapninx leieecope, in the view of otu star le claltsta. Enough observational basts for the belief ha already been added to philosophical ground for the conclusion that the exteu- but finite, to c rents a sharp difference 'ft ' of opinion which ! receiving the acri- V ." oua attention of the highest and jWvS' moat Judicially minded authorl- :"' tie. yf This conclusion Is counter to X'v i' - the conception more nonulai t- with the unknowable worship ing past The rlew still held by the mass of people who i " -- rml- lift . T i ,1 WSJ if 5 aiirOWTTID JAPAJTXJI IOLDIZB. j (lencral Huron Nogl, who waa thrown from hli horse at Toklu and seriously Injured, won undying fame through hi ; rapture of Port Arthur from the Hue Inns. lit la a Samurai, and la fT -year of age, He drat achieved mill ; tary renown In the war with Chins In , 1S1H, wlkn be also figured In the cap. i tore of I'ort Arthur from the Chinese, jtlie men under III command storming successfully (he famous Itaeshan fort. After he had wrested lNrt Arthur from (loner! Stucamd, In tlie Inst war, he marched north -with Iila tnxips. and materially assisted In the rapture of Mukden, and the niter defeat of Kouro pntkln. Huron Nogl la nol.il a a strat egist and organizer, and lin served a Governor of Formosa. Itefore Inking terung deals 1 :ty i ..-' XO-X onlv villi ikmi s"J y half of the bear- V mm fire thought to the subject at all Is expressed by a Ger man poet, who wrote In the earlier decades of the past century of a man "called Into the vestibule of hearen, tripped of bis robe of flesh." and guided by "a mighty angel through long reacbe of planets circling on the right and left and vast Sabaraa of darkness" at such velocity that "the light with leaser speed came on to meet them." The dream poet voiced the conviction of hla time by nar rating that finally "the man sank down, crying: 'Angel, I can go no further, for end there Is none !" "Some astronomers now state their belief that we can see through the expanse of nebulae and star to outalde vacancy," said Professor Aaron N. Skinner, who. In charge of the equatorial work at the United States Naval Ob servatory, Is making a catalogue of 9,000 of the known tare. "But." be added. In the course of bis talk with a Post reporter, "the question arises. Should It be true that we can In time penetrate even to the limits of the ether of our universe, what la there beyond, across space which light cannot traverse? Indeed, we might assume the ex istence of a plurality of universes, beyond any hope of cognizance by us, Just a there are a plurality of suns that we can see. For myself, however, I am too busy with the more tangible work I have on hand here to In dulge much In these speculative discussions.' Professor Skinner Is now nearlng the end of twelve years' work occupied In definitely cataloguing a strip or one of the 000,000 stars approximately catalogued be tween 1850 and I860, comprising a list known as the Bonn Durchmusterung. In later years, also under German In itiative, the leading observatories of the world under took the tremendous Job of determining the exact position of these half-million suns, being those down to the ninth apparent magnitude. (Stars become invisible to the un aided eye at the sixth magnitude.) The Bonn Durchmus- ena visible from the earth, owing to the lack of enough observ atories, so that the star . of first to ninth magnitude numlicr about a million. Pro feasor Skinner stated thnt the star alreiuly een with the aid of modern Instrument number several million, of these only a amnlt fraction being definitely located, catalogued, and counted. Tlie task to which astronomers set them selves twelve years ago was o divided among the promi nent observatories that to the WaHhlngton Institution was assigned the toue lying between U and 18 degree south ward from the senlth. each observer slightly overlapping or duplicating the work or hi neighbor to make the strips match positively. Another year of observation and com putation will complete the part asxlgned to the Washing ton Naval Observatory. The work Involved accurate ob servation at different time of every one catalogued. In cluding 800 aero or base stars, from which the position of the others are reckoned, so that about 20.0(10 eliservatlona had to be made. Further, every hour sient In observation required at least three hours of mathematical computation. In recent year the equipment ot twelve-Inch teleicope with photographing attachment has greatly extended tlie range of human view, for while tlie eye, tiring, sees lea In protracted watching, the photographic plate, accumu lating Impression with time, see more. Professor Skinner found it especially serviceable In distinguishing the minor asteroid planets from fixed stars, and remarked that It capacity for seeing what the eye could not aee through the telescope was notable In the case of the discovery of a maze of nebulae In the field of the pleladea where with the eye hardly any nebuloua trace waa discernible. The photographic method of cataloguing stars baa been quite successfully used In Europe. , "These plate," said Professor Skinner, "give very ac curate results, but the method Is yet too new for u to depend entirely upon It" The work upon which be I engaged has been done en tirely by telescopic eye observation, and the Naval Observ atory has not so far been equlpiied with an Instrument for doing the aanie thing photographically. It would cost $50,000. Speaking of the financial support given scientific work, Professor Skinner remarked: "Many private and university ohservntorles are handi capped because the donors do not understand the full requirements of the work. Such la true of the observa tory In California to which Mr. Yerkes, the late street railway magnate, gave the big telescoiie. Wealthy men are Inclined to give liberally enough for equipment that people can see and touch, but are apt to forget that it requires several times as much money to use an Instru ment than It costs, In order to bring the results for which It ia supposed to be designed; results, of course, wblcb only the learned can fully appreciate." MHJTAEY TACTICS IN CHINESE SCHOOLS. An Eastern correspondent wrltea: "While visiting the native city I en tered the courtyard of the yauien, or magistrates' official quarters, and saw a number of youngster being drilled by an Instructor In uniform. They mains to be seen. The boys were all dressed In Jumpers and pants of rusty black. Their drill waa watched by a mandarin, who was dressed In silk robes down to his beels. He wore also a silk tunic of dark cholocate color dec orated with many trinkets and he bad an embroidered pouch banging from a girdle underneath hla Jacket The drill Instructor wore a white uniform." f 9 i4 KIT 8V THE MAKING OF A NEW ARMY. arent at It most energetically and car ried out the aimpie movements In an excellent manner. My guide who, like many Chinese, can not negotiate word beginning with the letter y proudly drew my attention to the fact that these boys were 'lung aoldla.' It Is notorious that this sort of thing Is going on throughout the empire. Whether any , significance can be attached to It re- Tbeae and other signs Indicate military awakening. A Loat Subscriber. The Kedah postofflce authorities have a somewhat blunt way of putting things. Copies of a Penang paper post ed to a subscriber were the other day returned marked "Addessee hanged for Murder." Bangkok Times, For that Dandruff Oar Billions of Ancestors. Mas anybody ever atopjiod to think how many mule and female ancestors It took to bring us Into the world? First of course, It wus necessary to have a father and mother, and our father and mother must have bad a father and mother, and so on back through fifty-six generations to the time ot Christ. A careful calculation of all these an cestors shows that there must have been 13!t,moi7,480,ri34,l7l birth to bring one of us into the world. And this la only from the time of Christ, and not from the beginning of the world. According to one authority. If from a single couple for five thousand years each husband and wife had married at the age of 21, and there hud been no deaths, the population of the earth would be 2,100,015, followed by 144 ciphers. To hold such a population It would take several worlds the size of ours. Sunday Magazine. A Similar Misfortune. "Why 1 that bridge considered un safe?" "For the same reason that the Eng lish parliament la not thought to be giving popular legislation proper sup port." "What reason Is that?" "The general weakness of Its peers." Baltimore American. Finishes It. 'When you have written a story do yon not go over It and give it a finish ing touch r "No; tlie first editor I send It to usually does that" Houston Post A little learning Is a dangerous thing, and too much often unfits a man fm making an honest living. i I There Is one thing that will cure It Ayer'i Hair Vigor. It is i regular scalp-medlclne. It quickly destroys the germs which cause this disease. The unhealthy scalp becomes healthy. The dandruff disap pears, hid to disappear. A healthy scalp means a great deal to you healthy hair, no dan drulT.no plmples.no eruptions. Tn best kind of a testimonial "aid far over slaty ytars." AT fill tie IJMAtalbsMMMHa) f yers nil. COUIT KCTOtAU UKMUUL KOUL command at Port Arthur he participa ted In the brilliant J a pa now victories at Klnchow and Naushau Hill. After the war opeued be Is alleged to have expressed the hoe that none of hla three sons would survive; and, strange to say, all fell victims to Uuaslan bul lets. AN INDIAN M0S68. Creek Chief Weal Lend HI Follow, era to Settle Meslee. Chllto Harjo, better known as Craxy Snnke. a full-blooded Creek Indian, 1 planning to become the Moses of hi people. All bis lire be haa been fight ing tlie government . JJi'V In rain endeavor 'Vs l to t,reveDt j? I sorption o, hi borne and the laml of hi people by the whites and fj s1" f now old and bnv n Ajf ken ,n "i,lr,t h CSAZT SHAKE. o( Mnmlv ,,, would flee from the long-dreaded In evitable. For five years he has been the leader of tlio more dlwontentiHl and resentful Indians of the Five Civ-, lllzed Tribe. Now be Is trying to (IIh pose of all the land In the Creek na tion that Is held by hi followers and lead tliem to Mexico to colonize there. There ho believes they can lead a nat ural primitive life undisturbed by the white man. Crazy Snnke I 70 year old, so that the task before him, even If neither the United States nor Mexi co lnterK)!d objection, would be tin arduous one. I Mere than l.lh.lf. John Kemlrlck Hang waa dlwusslng In a New ork club rne of plagiar ism, says tlie New York Tribune. "The niau admitted that plagiarism wa suspected or him," said Mr. Itsi.g smiling, "tie almost admitted It was proved, lie reminded me of a Yoiikers boy I used to know. "This boy aald to hi chum one morn ing: "'I bid under the parlor sofa !;t night to hear what young Softlelgh) would say to my sinter.' , "'Well, what did be sayt the other boy asked. "'He only talked religion Slid poli tics, and he kicked iue about thirty time on the head.' "'He knew you were there, I guess,' said the second boy, " 'I'm afraid tie suspected It'" at. Vilu Taar ana all Kntw fMMe Brmunur rur-d br lr. Klia'! tir-ak ,.r. hauirr. Hand KhV K il trial aotll- ft ml maun. Lit. h. U. Kllaa, Ld.au Ana b, I'kUaa. 6 4nM Ulnar, "Whatl" exclaimed the angry mo diste. "You mean to say that Mr. De Flaslier used all the samples we sent up to make a fancy quilt? Why, ah Is sn old crank." "Hut Mrs. pe tlaur Is worth hundred tbouaand. " "Keally? Well. In that case I sup pose she Is eccentric." "And she will Inherit half a million by the first of the year." "Half a million? Why, write the lady a note at once and tell her aha ran have another bundle of samples snd compliment her on being so de lightfully bizarre." TO CURE A COID IN ONt DAV Take LAXATIVE II HOMO Qt'lNINK Tal.trla Pruxsbu raluntl munoy II It (all. torura. t. W OKOVK'H tlgnatura ! on aaob bus. J5c. Tba Imperial Board of Health In Ur maoy ba Issued a statement that "total abstinence from strong drink Is not tnju rlous to health." Protested Proverba. "You can't Judge by upMarances." Can't you, though I How else can you Judge an actor but by his appearances? "Never say die." Nice, prosperous undertaker you'd make with that mot to, wouldn't you? "Give the devil his due." What's the use of bothering, he's sure to get It "Swing Is believing." Not always. Your wife sees you when you come home late from "sitting up with a sick friend," but she doesn't believe you. "Faint heart never won fair lady." Well, what of It? Ours Is a brunette. Itoston Transcript flow's This? W onr On Uuntrad Dollar Reward fm an r eaaa of Catarrh that oanuol b eurad bl UaU'i Catarrh l ure. T. i, CHUNKY A CO., Pror.. Toledo, O. Wa, ib unuarilKnad, tint known K. 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"There's a Christmas Eve, and there ought to be a Christmas Adam, I should think." Kansas City Journal. First Prarer Conarrea. The first prayer In Congress was made In 1777 by tire Hev. Jacob Duche, rector of Christ church and a man of considerable learning. He afterward turned traitor to the cause of Inde pendence. Tbe Sunday Magazine, The Hldeoa Dress Coat, Conslcence, which makes cowards of us all, la being abolished, but tbe dress coat, which mnkes waiters of us nil, persists. Puck. Many a rich man Is unable to offei anything bettcr-thau a poor excuse. Five Weeks In Bed With Intanssly Painful Kldnay Trouble, Mrs. Mary Wagner, of 1307 Koamilh Ave., Bridgeport, Conn., says: "I wot so weakened and generally run down with kidney dla enso that for a long time I could not dc my work and was five weeks in bed. There was continu al bearing down hirf ii- pa"1! terrible back aches, headache ' and at times dlir.v spells when every thing was a blur before me. 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