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by celestial speculation alone, even though
he be young astronomer with his soul full
of enthusiasm. Vanderbilt University had
rewards out for comets, and so, when
ever this young man ran short of funds, he
took his little sIx-inch glass and became q
Vidocq, picking his course along the
heavenly highways and byways, prying
here and there among the worlds. In this
way he turned up no less than five of these
long haired nomads in a very short while
and got $500 piece for them at the univer-
sitv. His feelings, as may we'll be imag-
ined, were far different from those of the
poetic alarmist who frightened the poor
cropping souls of the dark ages with his
song of ..
That long streaming star
Which threatens earth with famine, plague
and war.
1t was the lack of comets wherein lay the
threat of famine with him. After the first
formal introduction these eccentric bodies
seemed somehow to know him and to like
The great Vanderbilt institution, with all
its learning, could not disturb them. They
seemed to throw themselves in the way of
his little glass, for never in the history OF
stargazing did any man except Pons, the
Frenchmap, bring SO many comets to book.
The Comets Brought Him Fame.
But Barnard's friends, the comets brought
him not only what first he needed most
funds. Fame came also among them. He
was made assistant In the observatory at
Vanderbilt, and his observations there
secured for him the appointment of assist
ant at Lick when 1t was opened in 1887.
And the use of the 36-inch glass? Nay,
there was another man. nominaIly director
his name is spoken not in Gath-who pro-
posed to have all the honors attached to
the great equatorial himself. 1t was danger
GUS at Lick to be too keen of vision. But
genius is, among other things infinite pa
tience. Prof Barnard did not complain.
He had better glass in the 12-inch tele-
scope than he possessed before and went
right on conquering new worlds.
In 1889 he made a remarkable discovery
Of four satellites to the Brooks comet He
pierced the nebula of Orion and found a
new star, and in observing the star Beta in
Oaprlcorni during its occultation BY the
moon he noticed that its disappearance was
no: instantaneous, but a gradual extinction.
From this it was inferred that Beta was Q
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A SWEEPING CRUSADE.
The Kelley League Asks for a Great
Temperance Alliance.
ALL THE OLD ORGANIz ATOMS
Eeouested to Join Hands With 1t in . New
Style Of Campaign.
FRANCIS MURPHY'S OPINION OF 1T

A circular has just been issued by the
authority of the Executive Board of the
Kelley League, approved by the President
and signed by the National Secretary
Treasurer, j. NJ. Kelly, Of this city. 1t is
entitled "The Mission of the Kelley
League" The Keeley leagues, the circular
says, ore not the bi-chloride Of gold clubs
Of month ago. They stand upon a
broader and frmer basis, with the constitu-
tional machinery in operation that privi-
leges every honest man and woman to lend
full and equal cooperation. Amy man or
woman who feels that he or she would like
to aid the work of the league, is privileged
to join the organization. They take title of
honorary members, but can have full voice
and vote in the proceedings The women,
the mothers of the country, can organize
separate from the leagues, if they SO agree,
and while they aid the drunkar to a cure
they can guard the young from tempta.
tion.
The ultimate mission of the Kelley
League is to wine out the saloon. As q
preliminary it desires to form an organiza-
tion in every city, town and hamlet in
America To do this, says the circular, we
want the cooperation of every man and
woman who cares for humanity. We can
get this most expeditiously by the present
temperance unions, with their machinery
of organization. Meanwhile, 1t Is not our
purpose to await the accomplishment Of
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made with telescopes of various apertures
the "comst seeker" of inches, the 6-inch
and 12-inch elescopes-although he was at
length permitted by the jealous holder of
the Lick sinecure to peep through the 49,
inch equatorial.
A Night a Week With the Big Ono.
Auriga Was engaging the attention of the
astronomers he chated against his restric-
tions The great lens mocked him with its
rower and reproached him with Its five
years practical idleness. Abroad its claims
were derided: it had done nothing to re-
deem its promise of large results. He ap-
pealed to the directory. Directories are
slow to act-the new star passed out of
range and July came before grudging
permission was given him to have the full
use of the equatorial one night of each
week. The results of this were soon seen.
The new star had swung into sight again
and was quickly announced us the nucleus
of a nebula and no longer star. This
singular and hitherto unknown change OF
character has since been confirmed by
spectroscopic observations at Mt Hamilton
and elsewhere.
Now, after but two months of restricted
use of the equatorial, Prof. Barnard has
startled the world with discovery as SEN
sational as that made three centuries ago,
and to which until this time no further
knowledge has been added. For 300 years
ambitious observers had turned each larger
glass upon the Jovian system, only to find
that all their science and inventions re-
vealed but little more than did the Dutch
toy with which the Paduan professor
amused The courts of the Quirinal and the
Vatican.
The Discovery of the Fifth Moon.
On the night of September 9 Prof Barnard
sat in the observatory on the lonely heights
of Mount H omlton. The great glass through
which he gazed mounted the skies to keep
pace with the planet upon which it was TO-
cused. Long before twilight had faded or
the planet had lifted itself from the midst of
the horizon its disk was perceptible, and
as it reached a clear altitude it shone with
bailliancy which dominated the noctural
sky. The opposition approached to culmi-
nate on the 18th ofOctober. Early in July,
in anticipation of the event, Prof. Barnard
had made his appeal to the directory, and
thereafter Friday saw him stationed where
he could sweep the sky with the great lens
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ROMANCE OF SCIENCE.
A Patient Photographer Whose Re-
ward Is Jupiter's Fifth Moon.
E. E. BLRNARD'S RISE TO FAME,
How He Was long Kept From the Big Tele-
scope on Mt. Hamilton.
WHAT TEE WORLD NAY EXPECT MKT
WRITTEN FOR THE DrsPArcH.I

WRITTEN FOR THE DTsPATcHI
Very early in his career as an astronomer
Prof Z. E. Barnard began the study of the
planet which SO recently rewarded him with
the discovery which places his name beside
that of Galileo. Fifteen years ago, when
he was a young man of 20, he purchased his
first teisscope-a five-inch refracting glass
from his earnings as photographer in
his native Nashville. All day he labored
to secure the happiest expressions of NOR
tails ard found recreation a. night in study
ing the no less varying faces OF the stars.
Jupiter especially enchanted his imagina-
tion. So large, SO distant, it's measurements
beyond human comprehension, it presented
the most inviting field for investigation.
It's moons, themselves stars of the sixth mag
nitude, with atmospheres Of their own, sur
faces diversified with dusky markings,
varying in size, shape and brightness, con-
stautiy enacting dramatic incidents of
eclipse and transit with attendant phe-
romena, kept interes: alive and speculation
lively. The projection of the vast cone of
the planet across the three inner satellites,
che ink-black shadows of the moons drag
ging their footsteps in transit, their total
disappearance upon the dazzling surface OF
the jovian center-al these we've full of
fascination.
Hunting Comets for Rewards.
For four wears lie observed Jupiter al
most constantly. But youth may not live
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these desires While we are spreading the
knowledge of Keeleyism and curing few
thousand diseased men every month in the
year, we are reaching out helping hand
to the outcasts and forsaken. the man with
out home other than the prison. We
who have experienced the miseries of ine-
briefly propose helping the miserables who
are given up to the police and the cruel
Justice Of the law. The State which sup
ports them will be asked to cure them.
The question here assumes an economic
phase, and the taxpayer will agree to it.
These laws will be passed, and the practi-
cal branch of our work will be accom-
pllshed. H. ill.,.
How to Accomplish tho Mission.
How can the saloon be annihilated? asks
the circular. 1t answers thus: Since the
discovery of the Kelley cure they are no
longer necessity. No man must have a
drink now, or, to be more moderate, no man
ought to need drink ten years hence, if the
mission OF the Kelley League is properly
appreciated by the world. We have the
solution OF the liquor problem in our
hands. We can make the saloon unprofit-
able by curing the drunkard, thus closing
the saloon, taking away temptation, end
preventing another generation of drunkards
from sprouting.
Let us consider the conditions. We can
cure the drunkard and he is anxious to be
cured But does that suffice? Assuredly
not Too often the drunkard is like child
thrust upon the world and told to make its
way. He must carve out new associations,
new ideas and mend his morals He often
cannot do 1t alone. Old associations, re-
morse over wasted opportunities or melan-
choly, may cause him to drink again and
become diseased once more. These men
are exceptions, for, as a rule, those who re-
turn to drinking after having once taken
the Keeley treatment, can be classed under
three heads First, the boy who is still in
the temptation period, who has not had a
snrfeit of ''fun, is not diseased, who has
never experienced the bitter end of the
afliction. Second, the man whose tastes
are depraved, whose morals are bad, who
thus prefers association with his beastly
nature than with his redeemed manhood;
and third, those whom the disease OF drunk
enness has also caused disease in other re-
pects-in the organs of the body, or the
brain. The treatment for inebfiety can
only eradicate tina. one disease. 1t cures
with never 8 failure, but 1t does not re-
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AS THE CAMPAIGN CLOSES.

Incidentally, while waiting for Jupiter to
swing into the circle of observation, he
found the truth about the new star in
Auriga-a transformation never before
observed OF a temporary or variable star
and which set several fine theories by the
ears ...a
1t was a month yet until the opposition
when conditions would be most favorable,
yet Prot. Barnard was at his post. Slowly
the growing disk of the planet emerged
from the mists of the eastern horizon and
mounted the sky. Through the glass the
four moons-Ganymede, Europa, 10 and
Calypso-circled with varying splendor,
not with wan faces like our moon, but with
n brightness equal to that of the planet
itself.
Spark From Great Jupiter.
Suddenly the cloud envelope of Jupiter
parted, or some obscuring atmosphere
cleared, and tiny point of light was re-
vealed as near to the surface of its parent
as the distance of the diameter of the earth
"A spark, as it were, in the track Of q can
non ball. The body itself is insignificant,
but its very insignifcance makes it conceiv-
able that it may not be solitary. In the
cloud strata Of Jupiter may be hundreds like
it, fragments of a disintegrating planet or
solidifying nebula to be reabsorbe'l by a
rudimentary one. 1t affords food for the
widest speculation in the genesis of systems.
How did this body come there? That it is
there is instantly accepted, although an
astronomer as renowned as Schiaparelli was
at first laughed at for his pains when he an
nounced the geometric lines dn Mars. Such
is Prof Barnard's reputation for care,
accuracy and integrity of observation, for
conservatism of theory, for brilliant achieve
ments. 1t is only by untiring patience and
devotion that he has been able to point out
this wonderful new satellite to eyes grown
weary with. the watching of stars, to place a
significant figure before a row of scientific
zeroes. But the excitement caused by the
greatest astronomical discovery of the cen
tury, if not of all the centuries since
Galileo, is lost in the wonder as to what this
remarkable young man will do next with
the glass he has made famous and with the
star of his good fortune-the earliest, latest
and best fruit of telescopic discovery.
FRANK ATKINSON.
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double star, an inference that was after
ward confirmed by Prof. Burnham, then of
the old Chicago University. This is one Of
the most difficult discoveries ever made.
Then he found the nebula near Merope
in the Pleiades with more than hundred
other nebule in regions heretofore consid-
cred poor in nebulosity. In addition to
the discovery of the new comets he fol-
lowed the course of the old ones to compute
their orbits, often observing them for a
year after they had passed from the vision
of every other observatory in the world.
Utilized His knowledge of Photography.
His knowledge of photography enabled
him to picture the milky way, showing for
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make the moral or physical man, nor can it
place the late inebriate on the same footing
as are his fellows, who have not suffered a.
be has suffered
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the first time not only the brighter stars
but their nebulosity. His photographs of
the corona at the time of the eclipse of 1883.
with non-photographio telescope were re-
markablc contributions to our knowledge of
solar corona.
He observed the transparency of the
Grape ring of Saturn during the eclipse of
. Saturnian satellite; the phenomena of
the ''Gegenschein," a faint light seen at
night nearly opposite the sun. Nearly all
of the observations and contributions were
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06
Our Loss Is Your Gain.

We are selling our stock. damaged by hre(
water and smoke, ut almosty your own priceS
and now is your chance to get a bargain in
china, glass and lamps, ETC., at 7. G. Evans
& Co. s. Third and Market, as the stock mus
be sold at once to make room for new good
Come early to avoid the rush.
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Where the Alliance VIII Help.

place the late inebriate on the same footing
as are his fellows, who have not suffered a.
he has suffered.
Where the Alliance VIII Help.
So the league is asking for aid from the
old temperanc organizations. Combining
their help with its own power the foe Is to
be vanquished; the young are to be kept
from temptations; the already diseased are
to be cured and the backsliders are to be
cared for and reclaimed. This includes
everybody, so there will be no patronage
for the saloon. Then it will die.
The circular saws to the old temperance
organizations: "As we have the method at
last. why not Join us in the annihilation of
the liquor traffic? Francis Murphy said to
the writer, that when he first learned of the
existence of the Kelley League, he de-
clared it would become the one successful
organization, and that he has had no occa-
sion since to change his views. He is sat-
isfied, with the grace of God, to receive the
sign ature to the pledge OF the young and Of
those who can combat the disease, but they
whom he cannot reach, or if he momentari-
ly arouses, they are unable to continue to
resist the disease, he says: Send them to
Keely' He fully appreciates the ally Of
medicine. If so successful an advocate OF
temperance as Francis Murphy can so talk I
where is the temperance leader, or the tenn
perance organization that can afford to lag
behind?"
The circular is couched in somewhat
extrayagant language but contains soma
interesting statements. For instance as to
permanence of cure: every individual
case of disease treated has been thoroughly
and surely cured. II tho victim drinks
again, he must necessarily recultivste the
disease"
Here is a definition of a drunkard: "Any
man who has drunk long enough to desire
q drink the morning after nights de-
baucl is diseased If he is sick after sleep
ing, he has habit. If his stomach demands
drink, after a drunken night, he is diseased.
Once diseased there is small chance Of
recovery, other than by medical Treatments Y
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the "comet seeker of inches, the 6-inch
and 12-inch telescopes-although he was at
length permitted by the jealous holder of
the Lick sinecure to peep through the 36-
inch enuatoriaJ
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Stylish Suitings,

Trouserings and overcoatinCs to order on
short notice at Pitcairn's, lA Wood street,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10
POPULAR SCIENCE

Ar the head Of the gulf Of Bothnia
there is . mountain on the summit Of
which the sun shines perpetuAlly dur
ing the ave days June 10, 20, 81, %
and %.
THERE is a certain island in the Baltic
sea to whose inhabitants the body Of
the sun is clearly visible in the morning
before he arises, and likewise in the
evening after he is set.
THE central Sahara registers q mean
of 81 degrees in July. Central Austria
liza boasts of o. degrees in january
mean which Is attained in South Car
Dina and inner Arabia in midsummer.
THERE is a certain village in the king
dom Of Naples situated in a very low
valley, and yet the sun is neare to the
inhabitants thereof every noon by 5000
miles than when he riseth or setteth to
those of the said village.
THERE are two observable places be-
longing to Asia, both lying under the
same meridian and in a small distance
of each other, and yet the respective
inhabitants of them in reckoning their
time differ an entire day every week.
The theory hat the deepest place in
the ocean will be found to correspond
almost exactly with the height of the
highest mountain has been d~isproved
within the last year, ocean depths
10, ZOO feet deeper than the height OF
Mount Everest having been found.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10
FATHERS OF GREAT MEN.

NAPoLEoN's father was a citizen OF
very humble means.
AsuMoLE, the great antiquarian, was
a saddler's son
MARSHAL BERNADoTTo was the son
of n provincial notary.
The father of Barry, the historical
painter, was a sailor.
MARSHAL NEY was a cooper's son,
and himself a notary.
THE father of Adrian, the ascetic pom
tiff, was a laborer.
SAUssURE. the naturalist, was the son
of n Swiss farmer.
VIRGn's father was a porter, and for
many years a slave.
MAssILLoN, the great French preach
cr, was a notary's son.
WYATT, the great architect, was the
son of a farm laborer.
THE father of Niebuhr, the historian,
was q farm laborer.
PLAUTUs, the Latin Shakespeare, was
the son of a freedman.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10
QUEER PICK-UPS.

IT is said that the "snake stones' of
Ceylon will invariably cure snake bites.
A GIANTS skeleton has been unearthed
vt Brunswick, Ga, which is nearly nine
teet long.
CONNECTICUT spelled in an Indian dia-
!ect, Quin-nch-tuk-gut, signifed "land
IN a long tidal river"
AT the poles, where all meridians on
verge, there can be no natural standard
time, for it is every hour of the day at
once.
ARoNATEToK." That is Esquimau for
You must get n good knife" IN i'm
portant thing to have in Labrador.
THE prohibition of cigarette smoking
among employees is among the cholera
precautions adopted by the New York
stock exchange.
AT Aix-la-Chapelle there is a news
paper museum founded by Oscar Won
Norckenbeck, which contains files of
specimens of more than 1900 different
newspapers.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10
Woman's Laughter.

Women very generally neglect a
powerful weapon of offense and de-
Tense placed attheir command by ma
ture. A woman's laugh, II intelli.
gently and skillfully used, can wither
a man in his tracks or elevate him to
the seventh heaven of happiness, says
Brandon Banner.
Several causes have contributed to
the decadence Of woman's laughter.
The chief one perhaps is the modern
habit Of dressing. Full free laughter
depends upon Il perfect developments
and exercise OF the respiratory mn:-
cles. Confined, as these are, by st eI
and whalebone, laughter becomes an
impossibility.
With a loss Of the art Of laughter
Comes a loss OF the sense of humor.
When the expression Of any Of the
senses becomes difficult the sense it
self dwindles. Don't mistake gig
Cling for laughter.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10
County Official Paper.
STEALING ~ECTR

The Engineering News says that
according to a st. Louis decision the
stealing Of electricity is a miade-
meano in the eyes of the law. A
hardware dealer with some knowledge
of electricity placed a fine wire across
the connections to his meter and
caused it to register in q certain time
about 800 amperes less than was ac-
tually used. When brought to trial,
his Lawyer interposed the ingenious
defense that as at common law cleo
tricity was unknown, and could not,
under tho code, be made a subject of
larceny, and as no statutory law had
been passed making it a felony or
nisdemeanor to steal electricity, for
the reason that its character was not
known, and that it was o subject
to asportation as personal property,
his client could not be convicted OF
larceny. 1t was, however, shown by
the prosecution that gas, also IN
known at common law, was neverthe-
less something whose larceny was
recognized by the law as a misde-
meanor. When the attorney for the
defense interposed the plea that the
act N question vas fraud or decep-
ton instead of larceny. the judge
took advantage Of the Missouri stat
ute, which makes fraud perpetrateu
with a view to theft a felony, and Sc
the defendants bail at 5000.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10
A School on Wheels.

Morrison Fellows has just returned
from Smiths Valley where he has
been engaged for the past three
weeks in moving n school house.
Not 30 remarkable until it is known
that the school convened every day
as usual and the teacher and pupils
were treated to a free ride for six teen
days. The schoolhouso was moved
a distance of two miles, six irrigating
bitches were crossed and after the
second day the writing lessons we're
resumed without difficulty by the pu-
pills. During the time the house was
on rollers three political meetings,
two church services a1d one dancing
party were held therein. The brick
chimney was left standing and suf-
fnred no jar Whatever. No one can
now dispute Mr.. Fellows superiority
in the matter of moving houses-Car-
o News.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10

THE railways of the United Kingdom
1f Great Britain have 16, 800 locomotives,
IT which only 1,S41 are in Scotland and
TO5 in Ireland. The London e. North
western have the most, 2,649, followed
10y the Midland, with 1000.
The Central Pacific railroad has some
monster engines in use on the western
md of its route, those made at the Sacra.
'nento shops in 1883. Each of these nj
'rantic locomotives weighs, exclusive of
4andcr, 1913, 900 pounds.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10
no tho Public.

Having purchased the grocery and
produce store recently conducted bJ
Ben Crsighead, / am now able 70
supply the public with anything IL
my line, Of the beat quality and fresh
ress, at most reasonable rates. So
Letting a share of tho public patron
age.
Respectfully,
Jas. r, HoLG4ASp.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-10
Notice to Creditors.

In the Matter of The Estate Of e. >. Turner
Deceased.
az office is hereby given by the undersigned
~ executor OF the estate Of K. J.. Turner
deceased, to the creditors Of and all person
having claims against the said deceased, (
exhibit them with the necessary vouchers
within four months after the first publica
tion Of this notice, to the said executor, q,
his place of residence at Deeth, Nevada.
r. @. ORR,
Executor Of saii Estate.
j.. A. PLuNnER,
Atty. for Execute ga 80 d