Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-25


magnitude costs a fortune, ana IS SUI
far from satisfactory. But my aethrlte,
with more than twelve times the area Oh
| the greatest object glass ever construct
| ed by human skill, even 10 TINS present
| day. was absolutely without nav, ana
the most delicate tests failed to reveal
the slightest irregularity OF reracilon.
yet a greater marvel remained. You
know well-for you have studied in
university that almost throws It's shadow
upOn the humble shop where the grand
! EST telescopes have had their birth-you
know well that the most insuperable
| problem is TO overcome the cnromatic
| liberation. As the glass does not reflect
the rays of different colors in quite The
same degree, the objects viewed are blur
red by a rainbow tinted halo. Even the
exped.ent Of using double lens compos-
ed of glasses OF different retroactive quaI-
ity. so adjusted that one may counteracC
and correct the othGr, is not complele
holution. The violet rays are still in
| corrieibIe. and a star, instead OF appear
! ing as 1t should. a bright point OF un-
stained light. is seen enVeloped IN pur-
nile cloud: and the more powerful the
felescope the more pronounced IS th!S
fault All the ingenuity Of man and all
the resources of science have been I'M
able to cope with this difficulty; yet by
the marvellous properties OF aethrlte IL
Is solved in an instant; for aethrlte Is aS
absolutely achromatic as It IS Uanspdl-
ert. and if rightly shaped conVerges al
RAYS to a single point OF lnconceIVaol,o
fneness. 1t is perfection. Ana thIouSn
eucb an eve it will be nine 10 view me
folds and groves and dwellings oil an
other pIanet as when l look down upon
mis- valley from these oVernanglhS ms
81 then began my almost endless tdsh
of shaDing and polishing; YET Ior uule
A. scanned as if my best efforts would DC
IN win The aethrite was OF sucn I'M
Canetrabla texture that nothing, not
.evon the biting dust Of the diamond,
enough appIied with utmost skill ana
lireless Datience. made any impression
nm its surface At last, on tne verge ol
despair. l bethought me oil the spun
Iored fragmen. which had been so care
Cu1Iv nres rived. It's edges were very
nharp. and by assiduous rubbing, l sue
ceeded in making a slight scratch. ms
n slowly enlarged. saving every gram OF
the powder. until after years OF toll l
Rad accumulated enough for use IN
grinding. | have in s,Or5 many POUNDS
IF il now; but for the final polishing l
Ware use only its finest dust-one
scratch from a granule 100 coarse would
make necessary the re-fguring oil the
entire lens.
BY the same weary process, SLOW as
the wearing of The rocks by the gliding
waters. [ have also from portions OF ,Ae
fragment formed an eye-piece scarcely
less perfect than my Incompatible oD-
Elective. And now all is ready for The
iinal mounting; the realm Of the sky Is
ours. Infinite are the beauties OF the
universe that shall be revealed 10 us;
md infinite is the grace OF God, tnal
dath prolong d my days to the fulfill
ment Of my hope
His eyes shone like the stars Of which
ne dreamed; his hands were lifted in a
sort OF ecstacy. The tale was ended;
vet even as l sat in wonder and gazed
upon his EMULATION my heart was sad
and my thoughts reverted to the begin
ming.
And Alice?" I asked, softly, after an
interval.
The light of his eyes was clouded with
q mist of tears. No zeal for knowl-
edge. no lapse of years, no browning con-
summation can Quench the longing OF a
lonely heart.
MY loved; she is not forgotten
never long. will show you"
lie brought from a cabinet an Egyp-
tan urn Of great beauty. 1t was full
o. faky ashes.
Cor a time" he said, 81 received let
ters, sweet as herself, perfumed with
love. Then they reached me no more.
FOR I was lost TO the world. AT last,
after long delay and many wanderings.
a message came to my desert home; she
was another's wife 1t was better so;
doubtless it was better; but il was a
knife-thrust in my heart. , My fate had
spoken; | could not, would not change
it; yet love her still. She is dead long
since, my dearly beloved, and l shall
quickly pass from my tomb of stone to
my grave of earth. Blu, the letters
have kept-thus" He held up the vase.
After her marriage | felt that l no
longer had the right to read her words
OF affection; but l could not surrender
all. So I burned the letters: burned
them as on an altar and thus have l
treasured their ashes. Yet I fear that
my VOW is i'll kept, for even in their
ashes I still read the gentle words of
Alice Lowe"
l started and sat erect among the
cushions: alice Lower I cried. Alice
lowe was the name of my mother,'
The urn fell upon the tesselated floor:
the gray ashes lay scattered amid the
8ridesCent fragments. For the thrOb-
bling instant he gazed in my face with a
look as of one who sees reprieve from
death, yet doubts. Then he flung his
arms about me in passionate embrace.
and the tears flooded his withered cheeks
as when a well is opened in the desert.
"Allahu akbari Allahu akbari Nigh
ty is Jehovah. and his ways are past
finding out; we are as dust before his
breath. My love is in her grave under
the sod. and my dwelling is but a tomb
beneath the sand yet even in the tomb
thou hast come to me, and have called
the child of Alice SON
For many days we were busy with the
mounting of the telescope. An obser-
YatoTy had already been built upon the
hilltop; that too was the labor of years,
but 1t was the work of many willing
hands and now al was in readiness It's
mode Of construction was unusual. like
everything else in this extraordinary
place: the lower portion was excavatei
in the rock, and was connected by sub
terranean PASSAGES with the chamber