The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-05-03
RARE VISITOR.
Total Eclipse of the Sun to be Seen the
S8th of This Month.


Total Eclipse of the Sun to be Seen the
s8th of This Month.
A visitor rather rare in the earth is
going to favor the United States with
a short stay the 28th of May. The
duration of the complete visit will be
very brief, at the place where it is the
longest. This will be one minute and
forty-two seconds. In some places,
where part of this visitor can be seen,
some of it will be absent. The next
visit of the same phenomenon will
not be handy until 1926. That at any
rate is in the twentieth century.
Whenever the Goth century may or
may not begin, 1925 is in it.
A total eclipse of the sun, some
thing rare and wonderful, for even
the United States, the greatest
country on the face of the earth, I'M
packs its grip, and gives free show
in these regions on the day and date
afore mentioned.
The path of totality runs from New
Orleans to Norfolk, Va, passing
through Mobile and Montgomery,
Ala, and Raleigh, n. c., and after
leaving Norfolk sweeps across the
bOWdId tllc
then recurring over northern Spain
and finally passing through Algiers
and ending in northern Africa, near
the Red Sea. You do not want to go
to the Red Sea to see the eclipse, and
Norforlk, Va, will be a good place.
1t is there the eclipse stays in for the
one minute and forty-two seconds
above mentioned. This is as against
one minute and thirteen seconds for
New Orleans and one minute and
twenty-six seconds for Central
Georgia.
So far as the Eastern States go this
is the first opportunity, since mord-
ern conditions in the way of tele-
graphic and railroad communications
were established, for great numbers
to view total eclipse of 1869 was
confined to the west, as was that of
1878. After the coming eclipse, the
next convenient one for the east will
not occur until January "a, 1925, as
above stated, or limited at, or intimat-
ed, or something of the kind, the
eclipse being visible from Maine
through northern New England to
Manitoba. In 1905 northern Canada
and Labrador will see a total eclipse,
which will shift in 1909 and 1914 to
Greenland. In 1918 the shadow will
run from Georgia to Puget Sound,
and in 1923 from Texas to northern
California. AS none of these are as
convenient as the near one it offers
the opportunity of lifetime, and
should be made the most of.
Now let the general public get
ready for the sight. No charge will
be made for admission. The 1925 one
is a good way off. 1t may be incon-
venient for some persons who can at
tend the present occasion to be on
hands at the latter date.
Teachers Excursion.
The Annual Meeting of the Nation
al Educational Association this year
will be held at Charleston, S. c.,
July 18th to 18th. The meeting will
be of an unusually interesting char.
acter, and will no doubt be very help
full to those teachers who are suf-
ticiently interested in their profession
to attend.
Last year the Association met at
Los Angeles, Cal, and it was thought
for "a long time that this years meet
ing would be held in Boston, but af-
ter hard work the South has captured
the prize and no better selection could
have been made than Charleston,
situated as it is on a wide bay only a
few miles from the Atlantic Ocean,
whose cool breeZes very decidedly
temper the heat of the day, and max e
the nights cool and pleasant.
The Isle of Pines, situated directly
on the Ocean, and connected with
Charleston both by steamers and
electric cars, is an ideal seaside resort,
where much of the time will be spent.
The arrangements for the trip for
the teachers from this state are in
the hands of H. NJ. Hebden, who has
decided after consultation with a
number of those who are going, to
leave Baltimore on Thursday, July
9Th, at p. m, on one of the Mer-
chant and Miners steamers of the
Savannah Line.
The party will reach Savannah,
Ga, on Sunday morning, and after a
short stay will proceed to Charleston
by rail. Returning, the teachers may
use the same route or arrangements
will be made for them by rail- Those
who prefer to go both ways by rail
can also be accommodated.
The opportunities presented this
year at this meeting to hear the
ablest men of the country on educa-
tional issues should not be lost by
any wide-awake teacher who can
afford the expense.
There has been some talk of each
County School Board paying the ex-
penses of a delegate to Charleston
this year, thus showing that Mary,
land is not behind her sister states
in the cause of popular education.
This would be Il very wise thing tC
do, and would awaken an interest
among the teachers of the county.
Quality of Advertisements.
Advertisements should always be
of the highest possible quality, fol
the public intimately associates the
character of mercantile or indus
trial establishments with that of its
business announcements. Time anC
trouble are well invested when they
are expended in making advertise
ments crisp, logical, convincing, ant
orderly in appearance and construc
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