The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-11-09
FIDELITY TO TALENTS.

The value of sympathetic cooperation is
beautifully exemplifed in the lives Of
Caroling Lucretia and William Herschel.
According to the enterprising journal from
which we make the digest, it was in l772.
at the age Of twenty-five years. that the
former left Hanover, her native country,
and Joined her brother in England, where
she found him a hard working teacher OF
music, with but few hours at his disposal
to devote to his favorite subject, astronomy.
insufficient mechanical means aroused his
inventive genius, and he had begun to con-
struct a telescope Of eighteen or twenty feet
in length. The sister made the pasteboard
fol- the prospective glasses. This ''pastboard'
was the first crude model of the great in
struments subsequently comprised by the
comrade whose early attempts led him to
seek larger mirrors, though none we're to be
had Fortunately, he obtained the tools
from Quaker at Bath, who had made ef-
forts in similar direction, and forthwith
every room was converted into a work.
ahop.
There was no appliance for the grinding
Of specula; and some idea can be CLEANED
| from the fact that once, in order to finish
| seven-foot mirror; William would not re-
move his hand from it for sixteen hours
together, while Caroline, 'by way of keep
| ing him alive, was constantly obliged to feed
him by putting the victuals in bits into his
| mouth"
u17Sl came the discovery of Uranus,
| and later, the election of the astronomer in-
| to the Royal Society, at $1,000 per year.
King George Ill, solaced his disappoint-
| ment over the probable loss of his colonies
! by gazing at the new planet named for him
Georgian Sidus.
| Miss Herschel was to be trained for an
assistant, so a machine for sweeping was
given her. She wrote down and described
al! remarkable appearances. Mr., Herschel
| devoted himselfto his magnificent observa-
tons ON tie new planet-the nebulae and
the double stars; and to Caroline's labors,
| which consisted mainly in seeking for ne.
buae to be marked on her catalogue, were
addel the duties oil assisting him, ''either
to run 10 the clocks, to write down Il mem-
orandum, to bring and carry apparatus, or
measure the ground with poles. etc
| Often she jotted his notes when the ink
froze in the bottle Before dawn she would
take the manuscript to her cottage. and, by
morning, have fair copy OF her nights
vigils.
Sometimes she was not needed. Then
be'cdntinued the. se;fg.h. which ended in
tthe6udius IT tllc eomstso Of l7sG, of 1901,
of 1898, and Of 1895, the last now known
as: Esckis, ana fe.aiscovetlng. !hrse pre-
Sieusly:feund, IN tlia. FIVE: yeays following
she added thousand more stafs'to The list
and she also traced the places Of five hun
dred others between 1888 and 1902. Mean
while. she prosecuted mathematics, the
brother aiding her by asking difficult ques-
tons Thus she helped him in his nnmer-
ical calculations, and increasingly ministered
TO his necessitie. during the framing Of hi.
forty fleet telescope.
In 1892 Sir William died, and the faith
full, almost heart broken, survivor returned
to Hanover She did not reinquish he
beloved avocation. but, At the age Of ovel
seventy. began the toilsome reduction 0
$500 nebulae. presenting in one view tn
aggregate Of Sir Williams watchings o.
those bodies up to 1900. The undertaking
was completed in 1928, and won her wld
renown. The twenty years ye, remaininl
she passed noting, in the same town. ih
, growing fame of her illustrious nephe'
John, aiding him by her mature advice, an
! welcoming. with An enthusiasm equal to hi
own. the consequences Of his arduous en-
deavors. In January, 1S4s, two year
short of century. that long and useful CT
reer TRANQUILITY closed. Her heart was Re
by self sacrifice. and every power was q
tuned and strengthened by . determine
and definite purpose. What commentsr
= upon frivolty and discomfort.