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r"- . .... .... . . A . . . . , - v. r.-.v. . "? r- I "Innumerable Stars " I - V ' I A ' )) I (Written by W. A. dthright, Dab- I VJ" . . V - i Jr J-J I I In our previous articles we bare N. RARE x PIANO piano whioh wej. are authorized to sell for $200.00. ( ;; ;? : ; This instrument was purchased for $375 . less than ten months ago, and does not show ' a days wear. : Case, a beautiful figured oak, largest size four pedals, etc., altogether a beautiful piano and one of the rarest bargains we! have ever come across. The instrument will be ou ex hibition in our store after Wednesday for A FEW DAYS ONLY. If not sold immediately the piano will be shipped east. ' ; ' . ' - ALLEN & GILBERT- RAMAKER SALEM BRAISCff, 299 COMMERCIAL ST, SPRUNG MORE SENSATIONS WOLOAMOT PLEADS GUILTY IN UNITED STATES COXJBT. MARIE WAEE TO BE DISCHARGED WolgaBiofa Confession of Guilt Sur prises Everybody in the Court st Portland. Judge Bellinger Tikes Plea Under Ad visementDefense Despaired of Bat tering Down the Terrible Mass of Evidence. PORTLAND, Dr. 3. Prolific in sur rrises and sensations as have bren the levelopmeuts of the land fraud cases none were prepared for the elimaxei of toilay. By far the most important, both because of the unexpectedness and because of the moral effect it is almost certain to have on the jury, was the request of Frank Woljramot, through his attorney, for leave to withdraw his plea of not guilty and to be allowed iz plead aruilty of the crime of conspiracy as charged. Judge Bellinger took the I . - l. - .tI 1 , Aal ' equally untexpected was the request of Prosecutor Henri that an order of ac quittal be entered in the case of Marie Ware, on the eround that the prosecu tion does not believe that she, according to the evidence, had been proven guilty of aiding in the present conspiracy. Of i hardly a less surprise was the announce-1 ment, not more than twenty minutes af-j ter the government completed its case, by the defense that it rested, and the ' case was ready ' for argument by the , counsel."-.' The defense only offered ex Donations on behalf of two of their; counsel and nothing for the defendants f who for two weeks have listened to a. chain of circumstances by which the: Prosecution confidently expects to cou-j vkt them of conspiracy to defraud the. povernwent of ita public domain. Ap parentlv they despaired of undertaking to batter down the mass of evidence the! Government had heaped aeainst them, f thev to base their hnn on the argu- ment to the jury, and if that fails on. the reversal of iudgment at the hands of the appellant in the tribunal, ftoi--, gamot's confession -was the most sen- sational incident of the day, and took; place when the eoortf convened at the afternoon sitting. , - . ? . j Claude .Strahan, a new attorney -; the ease, arose and stated: "I appear for Prank Wolgamot ad wish to with-4 draw his plea of not guilty and substi tute that of guilty." . I "Mk Wolgamot," asked the courf, "do you so desire?. . "I da.-'? wa his answer. ' , "What is your plea!" asked the eourt. . - ". -' ' V" . - f " Gniltf. " . ; r-- , ', , , Following right upon the heela of olgamot'a confession caine 'Henri's announcement that the prosecution had decided to abandon the case against Miss Wore. Henri stnted to the court bat he. would not. asktbe jury to re turn a verdict in the case where he tim- E have j had placed with us by a private party, a beautiful TiDrierht COMPANY slf could not go to tfce jury room artd vote for conviction lie stated that be did not think the government had prov ed beyond a reasonable doubt that Miss Ware was connected with the present case and therefore h asked an order of acquittal. Following the motion to acquit Miss Ware, Hall made a state ment of the case to the jury His state ment was simple, strong and coneise. When Hall concluded, the court adjourned- until Monday. Revolution Imminent. A sure sign of approaching revolt and serious trouble ia your system is ner vousness, sleeplessness, or stomach up sets. Electros Bitters wil quickly dis member ; the troublesome causes, it never fails to tone the stomach, regu late the' kidneys and bowvls. stimulate the liver and clarify the blood. Run down systems benefit particularly and all the usual attending aches vanish un dvr its searching and thorough effect ivenesa. Electrio. Bitters is only 50c, and that is returned if it don't give per. feet satisfaction. 'Guaranteed by D. F. Try, druggut. .... A'BOLD ROBBERY BURGLARS ENTER HOUSE OF FARMER NEAR STAYTON AND SECURE SUM OF MONEY House of O. V. Myers, a Mile and a Half from Stayton Scene, and Forty Dollars is More or Less the Booty ' No Clues of Robber. STAYTONyOr. JVc. 3. (Special to the Ktatpnmitnl A bold roWerv oc- cured at the farm residence of O. V. Mvers, one and one-half miles north of this city, on Thursday night. The fam ily retired a usual, tut upon awaking in the morning found that during the night some one had entered the, house and proceeded to search the rooms for loose cash, and succeeded in carrying off quite a little money, jurt how much has not been learned, but it is reported about $40 was taklen, which belonged to one of the secret orders , of this city. The burglar used matches quite freely t aid his search, as auito a number of burnt matches were found on the floor. The money was taken from a secre ts rv which etood in the sitting room, but was managed so quietly that none of the members of the family - were aroused. ' - Constable mith was called and examined the premises, but no clue to the: identity of the robbers can be found. - . ;-. J A Costly Mistake. Blunders are eotnetlmea very expen- L i :-n I : itnaie im the price of a mistake, but yon II never be wrong xr jou - - Pills tor dyspepsia, dizziness, Tieadache, liver or bowel troubles. They are gen tle yet thorough. 23c, at D. J. Fry's dru store. ' , tl5ttiE41fti9BWsttra71gggl Ejsatars i 1 BIG FIRE AT WORLD'S FAIR COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS VAL UED AT $75,000 DESTROYED. QUO VADI3' BUILDING BURNS Conflagration Started by an Incendiary Who Was Captured by Jef ferson Guards. A High Wind Was Blowing and the Sparks Fell Upon the. Major Exhibit Palaces, Threatening Them With. De struction Japanese Building Burned ST. LOUIS, Dee. 2. Fire tonight broke out in the ' arttraction on the World's Fair Pike known as "Quo Vadis," and quickly spread to the Japanese pavilion adjoining. A high north wind was blowing and sparks were carried over the exhibiton grounds and in the vicinity of the major exhibit palaces. . In addition to the loss of the buildings,-the collection of oil paint ings depicting the scenes in "Quo Vad is" valued at $75,000, was burned. They were painted by Jan Styka, a Pol ish artist, ami brought to this country under bond of $50,0001 While Jeffer son guards were in the rear of "Here after" on the Pike, opposite the build ings on fire, they saw a light and poun ded on the door for admission. After considerable dvlay they were admitted and found a pile of lighted newspapers in the middle of the floor. They arres ted the man that opened the door. He gave the name Arthur V. Dunn, and was arrested on the charge of "suspee ted arson." When searched a hunting case watch and eleven - ladies' hand .bags were . found concealed on his per son ; i '-- MITCHELL'S DEFENSE. Senator Gives Excuse for Refusing to Aid Land Fraud Case. i .WASHINGTON", Dec. 2.- Regarding tie statement tht he had refused to gj to Portland at- the earnest and re peated request of Special Prsecotir IXeney, to testify I in the land fraud trial, benator John H. Mitchell said to day: ! - . ' -' V "J was for four months prior to my leaving for Washington cn November 13th, continuously in Oregon, and all of the time, with the exception of a few. days, U the city of Portland; further more, it waa known to Joka II. nail, U. 8. District -Attorney, for snore than a week before I left' PortUnJ, that I in tended -to leave fo? Washington at the time I did. There foro, if my testimony was Regarded as Umportn there was ampJe opportunity to secure ray attend ance I v eubpoen-v or, even had it been suggested to me that my testimony i the case was uesire-1, A certainly wui have postponed my starting tent, and would have gladly gone on the witness rtann tend given any . icsiimoay within my knowledge bearing ou the case." bricflv described that , glorious system of which our earth forma a email, but to us highly interesting and important member, . In this article, we shall go beyond ita boundaries, and enter the boundless domain of sidereal space. The reader, no. doubt, has often met with the expression ' innumerable stars." Looking at the sky with a telescope of great magnifying power, the epithet "innumerable" becomes li terally true,, but the keenest naked eye eannot - at one ' time see more than S000..; i, '- -.-vj-- I The fixed stars have been, divided into- classes according to their magni tude. There are 20 stars of-the first magnitude, although thev ,are by ' no means of the same brightness, Birlus, the most brilliant of all, exceeding in brightness many times the standard first magnitude star Altalr. in the con stellation Aquila, while Altair is con siderably brighter than Pollnx in the constellation Gemini, the last in the list of the first magnitude stars. Ther. are; about 60 stars of the second, 200 of the third, etc. The stars of the first six magnitudes are considered visible to the unaided eye, and with, the seventh mag nitude the telescope stars begins, whose number increases immensely with the magnifying . power of the telescope. Knowing the angle under which the ra dius of the earth is seen from the moon or a planet, and which technically is called its parallax,' the calculation , of the distance of the moon or planet rom us is an easy problem, but the xixed stars are at such enormous distances from us that there it no such parallax. No telescope, no matter what its magnifying power, has ever revealed a visible disk of a fixed star. For this reason, astronomers tried whether -the immense radius of the earth's orbit, amounting to 92000,000 miles, would present a parallax, ca.red the annual parallax of stars, in order- to enable themselvee to find their distances. The experiment has thus far proved suffi ciently successful in the case of 36 stars. The distance of even the near est fixed star, if expressed in miles, is so immense as to become unmeaning, and in order to bring these sidereal distances within the power ef human understanding, a new unit was chosen. Light is transmitted through space at a rate of 186,000 miles during a second of time, and the space it would tra verse within a v'ear is called a light year. This light year Is the unit of sidereal distances. It is certainly a thrilling and awe-inspiring fact, that the nearest fixed star is a little more than three light years from us. This is the first magnitude star, Alpha Cen taury not visible in oar latitude. The Pole star is about 5 Hght years from us, so that were H now expunged out of existence it would still shine to us for 50 years to come. The reader can easily imagine. what the vastness of orbs must be which at such colossa'. distances are still visible. Compared with most of the fixed stars, our own sun, despite its vastness. dwindles into insignificance. But it is not alone the size and dis tance of those orba that fill us with wonder and awe; 'but also the variety they present as to color and their con nection with other suns. Speaking of double stats, we must distinguish be tween such as are optically double; that is, as are simply in line but any distance from each other, and sueh as are physically double, and under the influence of each other's attraction. The latter presents a trait which is wanting in our own solar system, viz.-: a sun with its Batellitea revolving an other sun with its subordinated mem bers. Of such binary systems, a they are called, we know now at least 200. But this is not all. Stars have been separated by telesoones into more than two stars, thus physically connected, so that we hear of triple and multiple stars. There is a star in the beautiful winter constellation Orion, which con sists of six suns revolving about esch other a sextuple star. It is highly probable that each of these six suns hss its own planets revolving about- it, whose inhabitants, if there are nch, would enjoy the unspeakably grand spectacle of six rising and six setting suns. The complexity of such motions baffles the human mind, and thus na ture challenges the mathematicians. Variable Stars. It has been observed that some stars, in course of revolving years, lost some of their Jbrightness, and some even van ished from view, and this brings us to the subject of variable and temporary stars. In some cases the fluctuations were gradual and regular; in others quite irregular. One of the most re markable of the variable stars is in the eonstelation Perseus, which, about 9 o'clock in the November evenings, may be seen near the meridian, and between the fine constellations of Andromeda and Auriga. Thia variable Ur, Algol, is the easternmost star in the handle of Andromeda. It changes from the sec ond to the fourth magnitude in the short time of 3 hours; and back, again in the same time; then it remains thus for nearly three days, after which the same changes recur. Another very re markable variable star is in the constel lation Cetus, and is called Mira, or the Wonderful Star. It was the first vari able star; known. Within a hundred years it changes from the ninth to the fourth and even" second magnitude. The second in the list of first magnitude stars is Eta Argusj not being visible in this. country." Ia 142 it came next to Sirius, but since 1865 it has' been of the seventh magnitude. In 1572 a mag nificent star suddenly burst forth in the cirrumpolar constellation Cassiopeia, which rivalled Venns itself in bril liancy. Just as quickly as it had ap peared it faded, away,, and has never again been seen. This star is an ex ample of a temporary star. It is not known whether such temporary stars are variable onea of long periods of in visibility, nor has any. reliable theory been established, ia regard to both either variable and temporary stars. ' !: fttar Clusters. Star clusters are group of stars closely -packed "together. t The -most re markable and familiar example of such clusters is the Pleiades, of which seven stars may be seen by a tolerably keen eye- ' '.. ., . ' :-.::,: j ; Praesepe ia the -zodiacal constellation Cancer, is another. cluster.- By means of a small telescope, it looks like a faint cloud, but viewed with a powerful tele scope it presents one of the moat mag-j aifieent objects in the heavens. - Star clusters are always resolvable by tele scope bat not V with those peculiar clood-like objects known x by the name e Nebulae, of which, at present. 8000 are known.' Only three of them are visible to the naked eve. , What the nebulae really consist of we do not known with any degree of certainty. The old theory that they are stars so densely crowded together as to present that peculiar cloud-like appearance has been exploded. It is an interesting question whether the stars form a sys tem. Judging by analogy from our own system and the motions of the binary stars, it is highly probable, if not ab solutely certain, that the great law of trravitationj prevails between the stars, and is consequently universal. Quite a number of j stara have been caught at proper motion, and how can such a mo tion be accounted for otherwise than by supplying a mutual attraetionf Thus the Idea of a central sun sug gested itself to more than one astron omer; nay J the celebrated German as tronomer Madler actually announced that the brightest star in the Pleiades was this central sun around which not alone our own sun. bat the visible uni verse revojved. The idea is a very pleasing one, but unfortunately it has been altogether exploded bv later and more thorough obserations. The Constellations, j Looking above us on clear November evenings about 9 o'clock we see the! heavens hive commenced to nut on ! their accustomed winter splendor, for Orion, the j most magnificent of all the winter ron$tllations, is ust coming into view. -The; square of Pegasus is nw a little past the meridian. 4' South aid southwest of Pegasus Is the zodiacal constellation Aquarius,! which is represented by the figure of a man pouring water from an urn. The ancient Egyptians thought the setting; of Aquarius caused the Nile to rise by. the sinking of hie urn "in the water, j Caprieornus, the Goat, is now on the noint of setting. In a northerly direc tion from -the Goat we see Aquila, the Eagle, which contains that bright first magnitude; star Altair, which lies in the Milky (Way and mav be easily dis tinguished; by reason of its being the center of three stars about two de grees apart in a straight line, bearing' northwest and southeast. If this straight line be . continued about, thirty-five decrees in a north west direction it will pass nearly through Vega, a very bright star situat-j ed in Lyra. East of the Eagle we see that beautiful little constellation con-' taining five. stars in the shape of a dia-j mond, known as Delphinus, also called Job's Coffin. Cepheus and Cassiopeia; are now favorably situated for observa tion, being on or near the meridian. These constellations move elosely around the North Star and may be seen in our latitude at all hours of the night when the sky is clear. Southeast of Cassiopeia is Perseus. East of Perseus is Auriga, containing a very bright star of milky whiteness known as Capella. To the aouthward of Auriga we seen Taurus, which 'si At- a 1 . 1 1 X - 1 1 now iae wronu sign aim imru constel lation of the Zodiac; but which astro nomy was first cultivated In. the East, or more than four thousand years ago, the vernal equinox took place, and . t he year opened when the sun was in Taur us; and the Bull for the period of two thousand years was the prince and lead er of the celestial host. The Rata sue-. reeded. 'next and now the Fishes lead! the year. j Serpens' and Sagittarius, which last monthwere on the point of setting,' have now entirely disappeared from our view. Thus do the very heavens forcibly remind us of the endlesf changes going on around us and the neer ceaninsr flight of time. 1 NEW TCBK'S COAX BILL TWICE. MORGAN GETS RECOGNITION ITALY SHOWS APPRECIATION OF RETURN OF GREAT COPE MORGAN HAD PURCHASED IT Hing of ; Italy Confers Order- of - the Great Cordon of the Saints &Lau- rice and Lazarus. . Cope Was Stolen from the Cathedral of ' Ascoli! in 1902 and the Italian Gov-! eminent Olfered Reward for Return to that Country. ROME, Dec. 3. It is officially an nounced f hat King Victor Emmanuel conferred the great . cordon of he Saints of Manriee and Lazarus on J. P. Morgan' in recognition of Ital's grati tude for the return by Morgan to the Italian (JoTernment of the famous ("ope stolen from the Cathedral of Ascoli in 1903 and subsequently purchased by Morgan. j MONMOUTH NOTES. Bridtrell & Crayon, the grocers and hardware men, are., building a large warehouse just opposite their grocery store, i - ' Dr. Nehva's new house Is growing rapidly; It is now nmter roof and the house when completed will be one of the finest residences in the town. Hal leek & Poole of this place, builders. Mr. Newman's new house is giving the east end of town an air of prosper ity. It lacks considerable of being com pleted. : - The protracted meetings at the Evan gelical chorch are still In progress and are well attended. The meetings are being eondurted by the pastor, assisted by Miss Bess E. Cornelius, a talented contralto singer of Satem, who is de lighting her" audiences with her - wr in song. I A ; Jor InfanU and Children. ' Tti tti Yea Haia tosjs tzzgll Bears tha CSgnAtare of Ptstesmaa Classified Ads Bring Quick Besulta; . . XT for Infants Castoria "Is a harmless substitute for Castor OH, Pare ricTDrops and Soothing Syrups. It 11?" contains neither Opium. Iorphlno JJfjSS";. eubstance. It destroys Worms and allays vcrin!f It cures Dlarrhcpa and Wnd Colic. It 'In Troubles and cures Constipation. It refrujatcs tno Stomach and Bowels, iriTinjr healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's I: liend. 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