New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-16
peaceful settlement OF all the conflicts between

peaceful settlement OF all the conflicts between
capital and labor
Sir Robert Ball Astronomer Royal Of Ireland
and professor of astronomy and geometry AZ inc
University Of Cambridge. had achieved a hlgh rep
utation as a popular writer on astronomer 'i','
before he undertook THE Story OF the sun ""''''
Appleton q Co have just published ms WI"
will commend him still further to pubic favor
Although not himself distinguished as an invesu-
gator he has brought together the latest hhuihss
f other origi nal explorers into the constitution ana
phvsics of the sun. Tho subject is presenter luci"
"; and good judgment is. on the whoie ''"'''''
in the conservatism with which mooted points nave
been touched Americans will be glad TO note 'h'
generosity with which Sir Robert recognizes tne
contributions lately made to this department OF as
tronor1y by their fellow countrymen. lie gives
reasonable space to the unique photographs OF solar
prominences obtained by Professor George H. HAZE
OF Chico 20, with the interpretations OF II sPcc"o-
scope between telescope and camera. Inc me-
chancal" theory of the corona urgcd by tro''sSo
SchaeberIe Of the Lick Observatory. is quoted at
length; and one of this young experts pictures ol
tho last solar eclipse is reproduced. DR. Pupih
success in producing phenomena resempIMe the
corona by discharging electricity IN vacuum "''o
receives notice 1t is greatly to he regretteu tia'
the results Of Professor Bigelows VaIuapic ~
searches into the suns magnetic influence upon 'h'
earth and his determination Of the SUM- ro'a''oh
ner,od (nrosented al Chicago last August, had not
come TO Professor Balls knowledge in time to be
mentioned: for they promise TO work revolution
in some Of our best-grounded theories A'o"s
the salient features of this book are copies oi
Higgs's beautiful photographs Of the solar spec
trum The doctrine, enunciated by Helmhoitz that
the source OF the suns heat Is its contraction IS
accounted 10 the exclusion of the meteoric theory
lie Chatelier's estimate of the temperature OF the
suns surface 1900 degrees centigrade IS cted 'e
descent Of cooled gases is regarded as the pest eH
PLANTATION Of sunspos: and c. tombstone Stohey .
reasons for believing the photosphere to be com
posed mainly OF carbon are discussed with eViueh'
approval
Not a few English churches have been so erected
tina. IN the Cav OF the saint whose name hey
bear a beam from the rising sun Will ran direcuy
in line with the axis Of the edihce owing 10 inc
northward motion OF the sun for six months hl'er
the winter solstice. and the southwark motion
during the rest Of the year. this coincidence can
be observed most upon only one other uaE oi
the twelyemonth That certain ancient Egyptian
temples were designed similarly to greet the sun
god has long been known. But Mr. Norman LOCK-
year the English astronomer, conceived the houoh
early IL 1890 that perhaps other structures OF .'
class were orentated with reference to stars mat
were objects of worship: and he thus led into
which occupied his spare time Tor
three years and the fruits of which are embodied IN
"Tbe Dawn OF Astronomy" book OF Az octave
pages published by Macmillan Co. Mr. LocKyear
iustifes this particular title by showing tnat ste
lar science so far as have any records. dates
much further back the land OF the pyraInids thah
elsewhere The evidence which he has been abba
TO accumulate In support Of his theory IS con-
siderable although he would be glad to nave 'he
inquiry pushed further than he has been aple 10
do New surveys of temple sites. computations Oh
the rising OF stars carried back 10 5000 or 'oo'
y r and search among inscriptions for more |
illusions than he has yet been able 10 ma 10 this
design Of the founders. the three lines along
which he would have the investigation conducted J
Already however he has established MS theory !
and he does II In fascinating way.
It requires some effort Of Imagination TO go PACK
twenty years and try to catch the spirit OF the
bands OF women who stirred Ohio into ferment on
the temperance question by n crusade sincere anu
but so unheard OF in method as TO |
axcite nrofound opposition from many who would |
naturally have been their friends America has /
been carried away by many odd moral ana sociai
but II is to be doubted II there has /
been another one exciting the interest OF sane
community which specifically 10 uncharac-
ter,stic OF the movers the Ohio womens cru
SADIE 1t certainly tax on the minds or
MANY though they had been accustomed TO the
American woman's doing anything she pleased TO
see her in street professions singing hymns VS.
ting dram-shcp s and kneeling on their sawdnst
floors TO pray for the cessation OF the liquor trat
ac In Mrs NJ G. Carpenters book THE Cru
sade. It's Origin and Development at Washington
Court House" CW c. Hubbard & Coz. we are told .
that the women who did this were brought UP .
with strict ideas Of decorum-and no Mrs. Grumpy
IS more exactng than the dame who lives In the
small American town-yet they went out to argue
with the liquor-deaer to stave in whiskey barrels
and besege beer gardens. until-and even after
he courts interviewed, In a way which quite aston
shed observers OF old-fashioned Ideas. and which
one feels some OF the women themselves NJ
this distance look back with wonder
After hearing a lecture ealing on them 10 organ
ze TO oppose the liquor traffic by moral suasion.
the women Of Washington Court House banded to-
rether in December, 1873. and. with the enthus-
,sm Of a religious revival swept all before them.
AZ with religious revival. the reaction came.
The liquor men. when first the panic Of encoun-
tering kneelng and pleading women was over,
prepared to resist. At the same time many tenn
perance people depored the women's course This
was particularly the case with the Lutherans. n
strong body IN that locality, who held that the
methods of the crusaders were incorporate and
did harm: that 1t not proper for women TO
engage in such agitation. and that the churches
should not be dragged into secular struggle, but
should content themselves with looking after their
own people, and leave the regulation OF outside
concerns 10 the civil authorities. Hard on the
crusade followed the political stage OF the battle.
Driven TO defend what they regarded as their le-
climate business, the liquor men sought State pro-
lection under license, a system unknown in Ohio;
and in Legislature, Constitutional Convention and
At the polls the fight carried on with vary
ng fortune.
AS time has worn on. the belief in near temper
ance millennium has died out. Outgrowng II. the
women have found themselves at the really val
liable part OF their work-the education Of tenn
oerate people From the crusade In Washington
,ame the organization OF the Women's Christian
Temperance Onion Of Ohio. and finally of the
United States. 1t has existed with varying pros
oerity In different localities being periodically
stirred into activity by local conditions 1t has
plit into two parts the rock of politics. 1t has
leased to occupy the share of public attention that
t once did. OF late years It has devoted itself In
yreat measure TO the children. thinking, and not
lnjustly. that the best way TO lessen the drink
vii is to inculcate habits that able to with
tand temptation for temptation will not be abo-
shed. This is the important thing. All the rest
nay be regarded the crude efforts TO grasp a
gished- for good The details of this curios rnorn