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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
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DIED.

PIXT0N-on Saturday, March 0. 1901, at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs. James Taylor COS
Whitney Avenue northwest. HENRY \. PIXTON,
beloved husband of the late Henrietta PiSton, in
the sixty-ninth year of his age.
Funeral Monday March IL, at O'Clock p. IN.
mi
GLAsCo-On Saturday. March 0. 1901. at 70 80
p m. at the residence of his parents, 500 Twenty
third Street northwest WILLIAM j., youngest
son of David and Amelia Gllseo, aged two years
and Rine months.
Funeral private. mlO-2
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THE INJURIES PROVE FATAL.
Brakeman james Burke Dies at the
Providence HospitpI.

James Burke, tweRty-eight YEAR, of age.
brakeman employed by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. who was brought to
this city Saturday night after an accident
at Forest Glen, Nd. died at Providence
Hospital at ! o'clock this morning. Be
sides suffering from internal injuries
which resulted in death, his right shoui-
der was dislocated and head badly cut. as
the result OF a fail from the top Of "A
freight car. His remains will be turned
over to his family this morning.
Burke was aboard OF a train bound for
this city Saturday evening. Just after the
stop had been made at Forest Glen. nine
miles out on the Metropolitan Branch.
Burke was thrown from the top Of one of
the cars By a sudden jar. The conductor
Of the train witnessed the accident and
instantly brought the train to a stand
still. The injured man was picked up
from the rails in an unconscious condi-
tion and brought TO this city. Upon his
arrival here he was taken to Providence
Hospital, but never regained conscious
ness. Shortly after the accident word WAS
sent 10 Burl1es family and Mrs Burke
DDniuiS~city yesterday and was with
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-11
A SERIES OF RoBBERIES.
The Police Receive Many Complaints
of Petty Depredations,

Detectives are busy investigating a rob
berry committed Saturday night. George
Small, Of Branchville, Md, claims to have
been attacked by two men at Pennsyl-
vania Avenue and Sixth Street northwest
and later by the same parties in stone
yard near Third Street and Maryland
Avenue southwest and robbed of $40 He
said the men accosted him while walking
along the Avenue, gave him a drink out
of bottle, and persuaded him to go to
the stone yard where they beat him.
Small exhibited several bruises, and gave
a description of the men to the detec-
tives.
Another robbery reported is that of Mrs.
William Webster of PA d Street north
west Mrs. Webster says that a tall ne
gro snatched from her hand late Saturday
afternoon a pocketbook containing s22
while she was walking near her home
She says the negro stole up behind her.
secured the purse, and made mis- escape
although chased by several citizens. who
-avropda1 IN her cries for holm nnuur1|
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LIVED OVER A CENTURY.
The Funeral of Mrs. Streets, Aged
ITO, 10 Take Place Today

Funeral services will be held at 10
O'Clock this morning at the late home of
Mrs. Fannie Streets, coIored, 10 years
old, who died suddenly Saturday after
Ian.n The remains will De taken by her
~ >l3each for burial
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The Winslow mail., 1901-05-09
FIGURING ON LIGHT YEARS.

est to this mud-ball of ours. How LONG
does it's light travel until it reaches
us? Three years and several more
weeks.
And that is the star by far our
nearest neighbor. The one next to it.
Cygnus 81, is almost eight light years
distant. The rays that are leaving
its great mass of luminous matter at
this minute will reach us in 1909, eight
years from date. Those sharp scin-
tillations that are penetrating to our
eyes tonight started there back in
1898, the year of the great panic. Do
you remember something you were
doing some night in 1898? Perhaps
you were young and romantic then,
and you looked up to the stars and
thought they were watching you. But
they were not. They have not begun
to see what you were doing until Just
now.
A new star has suddenly appeared
in the constellation Perseus. AS a re-
suit astronomers all over the world
are astir and hundreds of telescopes
are nightly sighted at the wonderful
ly bright speck called Perseus Nova.
1t is a star of the first magnitude, the
scientists tell us, and is in a group
among those nearest to this little
earth OF ours, from 20 to so light years
Now let us see how far from us it is,
ana let us take it step by step by the
following comparisons:
Many, many of the stars will not
negln to see aught of the happenings
OF this earth until long after you
are dead. For the heavens are stud
ned with suns so far out in space that
1t must seem to them as if the
Corona and our own solar system
could lock arms. Here is what Simon
Newcomb, the eminent astronomer,
says: Eve may conclude with CON
siderable probability that most of
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O.. e. ID,
demon

A man who called himself a demon
strator' invaded West Philadelphia beard
ing house patronized by university stu
dents. Hearing of his claims to education
al distinction the students tried to draw the
newcomer into conversation, and finally ne
was asked to show what kind of practical
work he could do. Immediately the young
man pulled out a box OF wnite paste,
smeared it on a window pane and polished
the glass with chanois skin. There, gen
tlemen," he said, IF anyone can make a
clearer demonstration than that let him
step up" The students notified the land
lady that it was not professional for this
kind of demonstrator to pose in their
midst, and the stranger shook the dust from
his feet against all in that house and SOL
emnly announced that he left them to do
the dust of ages. Turning to a dental stu
dent, he exclaimed 81 throw it in your
teeth that when have sold all my territory
and am riding in my coach the dust of my
chariot wheels shall extinguish you as you
trudge along the pave" With this awful
imprecation he took his clothes and vent
Philadelphia Record.
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Asking TnO Much.

A Louisville man is considered sort Of
authority on all literary topics. He is con,
stantly consulted, and recently dude went
after him for information on a certain top
ic. The man of letters kindly gave it. But
somehow or other his dudelets was slow to
catch on. He wanted to know the why and
wherefore of lot of things connected with
the subject. Why was it thusly, and where
fore was it not so and so? The literary man
explained and explained until he grew
weary. Finally his boredom and irritation
overcame his politeness. Sir" he thun-
dered, angrily, you come to me for infor'
nation on this subject. Igive you the facts,
but, Heaven knows, l cannot give you the
brains to grasp them You ask too much. y
Il InuiSYille Times
The Winslow mail., 1901-05-09
NORTON'S BARN.


Tt was long and dark as winters night
And the old roof arched to lofty height;
Like taWny ribs thc rafters loomed
In the high ola top where the swallows
roomed;
While down below was the NOW and bay,
In summer void, but filled with hay
When the chilly days of the winter fell
:he winter days that We loved so We'll!
The square old beams with their coats Of
dust,
The gray barn doors with their reddish
rust
On hasp and hinges uuaintly wrought
BY the village smith from iron brought
In English ships of the long ago.
Do you remember how weG go
To Norton's barn on rainy day
And hide and seek in the tons of hay?
We walked the beams in the cutsy loft.
Or jumped to the depths of the haymow
soft,
And 5urrowed deep in the yielding straw
Till the frightened cattle thought they saw
The robbers come from their caverns deep,
And phantom ghosts from the roof-tree
leapi
We dug us holes in the rustling hay
Where the hired men fell in sad dismay.
And the fussing hen who hid her nest
And thought Us a bothering childish pest!
How proud she was when al last she found
A nest that scaped our searching round!
The lame old horse with the hungry NAV,
We fed him to oats when no one saw
How we pick'd the lock on the grain box
tight
And call it ''Robbing at dead O. night!
o Norton's barn! 1 see thee still,
Homely and quaint on the side of the hill.
With weather stains, and knotholes shot,
a rickety, cranky, queer old lot
But to my boyish mind of old
A castle lit for a baron bold
And the boys AID girls who used to play
AT hide and seek: oh, where are they?
j. Otis Swift, in Springfield (Mass.) Re-
nuhlican
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come to me some day in fash-like
an Inspiration. I'm not cripple, and
l don't believe that I'm mentally de-
ficient, so 1 ought to learn to Dance
Miss DeVere smiled and looked al
Lamson with a kindly scrutiny. 81
wonder if you'll understand if 1 tel
you the truth?" she asked. "Will you
promise not to tnlnk | tell you things
to get rid of teaching you any more p
81 promise you," Lamson replied.
'Well, [ am afraid that you will
never learn to dance very much.
can see how hard you try, but some
how it isn't in you. There are people
that way about dancing just as there
are people that can never learn col
ors-that are color blind" She saw
the disappointment in his face.
''But you keep right on coming, an6
I'll help you all can. Only I'm afraid
you won't learn much more, Would
you mind if l asked you question:
"No, fire away" Lamson returned
care you trying to learn to dance
on account-of-of some young lady
that you like?' the dancing teacher
asked, delicately.
yes" Lamson said. "Since you are
so kind, I don't mind telling you that
am" And he sat down and tod
the little woman the whole story OF
his love for Mary Ellen. 81 suppose
I'm a fool for my palms," he ended
dismally.
T;ro1 1if41a N;ce nnVaro - I.
head, and very pleasant smile was
on her lips. "No, l don't think So
But now I'm going 10 give you a piece
OF good advice. # that girl cares any
thing for you-and is worth all your
love-she will marry you just as quick
a woman and | know. You'd better
go and ask her right away, instead
of wasting your time here. If she
loves you, she'll take you, and if she
don't. all the dancing in the world
won't help ycu. Now, that's good,
sound advice. And some time YOU
must let me see her if you get mar
ried."
Lamson followed the advice OF his
dancing teacher, and last week Miss
Arabella DeVere had large cream
colored invitation to the church we'd
ding Of Albert Dukes Lamson and
Mary Ellen Anstruther. When she re-
ceived it, the little dancing teacher
nodded her head sagely. II tod you
so,'' she said aloud, although she was
quite alone in the bare room over
the steamship office
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(Jupiter and Two Stars Seen Through q
Telescope)

Telescope.)
know are spread out on big plane,
Some of them may be trillions and
| trillions of miles away at a perpen-
dicular to our planet, but this di-
mension is trivial compared with the
horizontal dimension - just as a
pancake may be thick, but is thin
nevertheless compared with it's hori-
zontal dimension. Now in this great
plane of stars-so the theory goes
the stars naturally seem thickest to-
ward the edge of the plane when
viewed from the interior, and thus
as they crowd together at closer and
closer angles they form the milky
way.
With these speculations, however,
the scientist does not concern him
self. Calculations on infinity of space,
infnity of time and infinity of mat
ter are not for human minds. The
problems the astronomers have
worked out relate altogether to the
stars they can see. What these
men have accomplished is simply
wonderful. They have figured out
not only the distances of stars, but
their size, mass, chemical cOmposl'
ton, their actions and reactions
upon each other.
Sometimes stars have been "discoV-
cred" long before they were seen,
simply by noticing some minute de-
Election in the path Of known star.
This, for instance, was the case WIN
the planet Neptune. The paths OF
the erratic comets are known, ana
reference to a chart will readily tell
an astronomer at what time this
or that famous comet will return
The one espied in 1853, for example,
will return after a trip of 15,C0O,ooO'-
600 miles in the year A. ID. 302O. By
these calcula tons historians, also,
have been aided; for the phenomena
described in ancient times were
traced, and important dates OF bat
ties have been fixed.
By calculations on the star of Beth
lehem we know that Jesus OF Naz-
areth was born four years before
the date assigned for the oeglnnlhS
of the Christian era-a date that his
torians for centuries were incapable OF
fixing accurately. One of the most
startling results of astro-historlcal
research has been accomplished III ref
erence to Egyptian anthology. In
this case the astronomers have hg-
ured on the professions of the equl-
noxes, the poles swinging around in
a small circle once every 26,O00 years.
thus changing the aspect of the
heavens from the earth's point of
view AS result they profess II
know that some of the events in the
valley of the Nile transpired as long
as $4,000 years ago, upsetting the
claims of historians, and forcing geol-
ogists to revise their figures.
f. T. GUNDLACH
The Winslow mail., 1901-05-09

of the circumference of the earth.
That distance is $4,000 miles, gigan-
tic dimension, almost beyond our
mental grasp.
Now let us carry these dimensions
step by step further. Look at an as
Economical map, and you will see that
the earth itself is but a dot when the
distance to the moon is shown, and
the moon in turn seems to be fairly
hugging the earth, as compared with
the long, long road to the sun.
This distance from the earth to the
sun is 93,000,000 miles. No human
mind can begin to conceive of such a
dimension, and the only way to judge
it is by comparison-taking first one
distance and considering what an
enormous jump it is, and then figuring
that this jump is duplicated, again and
again, a thousand times. In fact, the
figures for space in astronomical
heavens run up into such countless
billions and trillions of miles that no
scientist thinks of putting them in
these terms. Instead, he measures
space in time of light. That is to say,
taking the distance traversed by a
ray of light in a second, a minute or a
year, he says that such and such q
star is SO many light years away from
us.
Light, as we know, travels with
enormous rapidity; and the distance
of minute of light is therefore pro-
digious. In the case of the sun, for
instance, which, as already stated, is
93,oOo,OOO miles away, the light reaches
us in only minutes and 10 seconds.
Now imagine what Eight hour" or a
eight year" must mean.
We all know that the star nearest
to the earth is our sun, and that ac-
cording to a commonly accepted the
ory the other stars. that seem to us
mere specks are also suns with their
planets and moons like the solar sys-
tenn. Looking up at the heavens on a
clear night we may well conceive that
some of these stars are SO far away
that it will take the light much longer
than eight minutes-an hour, two,
three or four hours, possibly, to reach
US. Perhaps, we think, there might be
a star at such a prodigious distance
that the light rays shot from it's orb
do not begin to reach until the night
after we first espy it. What a stupen-
dous, awe-inspiring dimension that
would be! Over 200 times 93,OoO,Ooo
miles away.
Now let the astronomer give us the
real figures. Almost above our heads
to the south is the constellation known
as the Corona, cluster of bright stars
grouped close together. In it is the
star outside the solar system, near
The Winslow mail., 1901-05-09

patient little woman, with slender
twinkling feet that seemed many
years younger than her lined face
and thin hands. She had taught sc
many people TO dance that long ago
her pupils ceased to be anything
more to her than moving shadows OF
different degrees of awkwardness.
Her dancing academy was near
Lamson's office, and he arranged with
her to take lesson on every week
day between one and half past one
O'Clock. He ate a hurried lunch
every day, and then stole up to Miss
Ce Vere's with his pumps in his over
coat pocket. She began teaching the
waltz first, for she said that when
one had mastered that, all other
dances wereeasy. Each day she would
draw diamond on the floor with
chalk and set Lamson to revolving
around it to her monotonous: "One
two, three.''
Lamson revolved until he thought
sometimes that his brain was churned
to an omelette. When he had slid
III INC III VI IlLHC
Miss DeVere would take a firm hold
OF him and put him through his poses
around the room, meanwhile hum.
ming Sweet Bunch of Daisies" for
she employed no musician during hel
private lessons.
Every day for many weeks this per.
formance went on. Lamson revolved
perspired, and revolved again in the
touching belief that some day he
would suddenly be inspired to waltz
with great grace and dexterity. Then
one day he asked a question which
woke his dancing mistress from hei
dream that he was only a moving,
walking shadow. "When am 1 going
to begin to learn the two-step?" he
asked, as he stepped up to his chalked
diamond and took the first position.
Miss DeVere stared. and it suddenly
dawned on her that this mature pupil
had been coming to her for a long
time. "You aren't getting along very
fast, are you?" she said, in a natural,
human way. 1t was the first time
she had ever addressed him save as
spinning top that must be command.
ed to turn in a certain path.
NO" Lamson confessed, "but
thought perhaps the waltz would
The Winslow mail., 1901-05-09
Fifteen Minutes Late.

Somewhere in the Highlands twins
were born at the meeting OF the cen
turies, with the odd result. says the
st. James Gazette, that one opened it's
eyes in the nineteenth and the other in
in the twentieth century. Il IS surely
the most remarkable of all cent ury''
incidents. There are two men in Eng
land who will read of the birth OF
these century twins with special in
terest-one- a peer of the realm and
the other a member of the house OF
commons. The peer owes his peerage
to the fact that he was born IS min
utes before his brother; the NJ. p.
missed an earldOm by being born Is
minutes late. The peer is Lord Dur
ham; the M. p. is Hon. +. w. Lamb
ton, member for southeast Durham.
Both were born on June 10, 1855, the
earl coming into the world Is minutes
before his brother. Those Is minutes
were worth an earldom and 10000
acres to the lucky baby.-Manchest
Guardian
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Cheap Rates to California.

February 18th and each Tuesday there
after, until and including April 30th, Special
Low Rate Colonist Tickets will be sold via
the Southern Pacific's Company's Ogden
and "Sunset" Routes to all points in Califor-
MIA. The rate will be: From Chicago
$4,000, from St. Louis, Memphis and New
Orleans $2750, from Omaha, Kansas City,
etc., $500. Corresponding low rates from
all other points east and north.
For particulars and detailed information
pertaining to the Southern Pacific Com
pany's Routes, and these special rates to Cal
ifornia, call upon or address
w; G. Neimyer, G. W. A, S. P. Co., 23s
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w. H. Connor, c. A., S. P. Co., Chamber
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the stars visible to the naked eve lie
at distances which light would trav-
erse in between so to 300 years. If
we suppose that the smaller tele-
scopic stars have a general average
OF about the same intrinsic brilliancy,
these are at distance of from so to
$4,000 years."
Now let us conceive of an infinite
mind possessed of physical senses.
Or to take the theory of thought
transference, which is now accredited
by many eminent psychologists
supposing by instantaneous thought
transference our minds could transA
fer themselves from star to star.
Then on going to such star as Si.
RUS, the brightest in the heavens,
we could see the things that wers
happening on this earth about 19
years ago. We could see President
Arthur, young Boulanger just ris-
ing into power, Queen Victoria at the
height of her reign, the iron cham
cellor of Germany strengthening the
bonds of his empire. Transferring
ourselves a little further, we could
get to a point where the light rays
that portray the American and the
French revolutions are just reach"
ing. We could see George Washing
ton inaugurated, then by a quick
jump to nearer star we would wit
ness Napoleon devastating the fields
of Europe. Or going further away,
,,,oIioIvo1
Rome, Martin Luther, John Calvin,
Ignatius Loyola.
We might travel on in thought to
the constellation of the great dip
per, ard there, planted on cool
spot on some planet, we could watch
the developments in that great
period of history following the birth
of Jesus. Every single light ray is
reaching there now, not one of them
lost, not the move of hand, not the
turn of head. 1t seems fanciful
speculation, and yet-with the de-
velopment of this sixth sense OF
thought transference, combined with
the sharpening of physical instru-
ments, who knows what the future
may reveal of the past?
With the naked eye we can see
from 5000 to 5000 stars on a clear
night, although we cannot easily dis
tinguish, much less count, that num-
Der; with a telescope the total is
raised to $4,000. All this is merely
the beginning. All the stars we can
distinguish are but the comparative
ly minute particles of single clus-
ter. Science has not yet definitely
proved the assumption, but it is be-
Iieved that all these systems, includ-
ing our own, belong in a group of
which the milky way marks the out
ward edge. That is to say, astrono-
The Winslow mail., 1901-05-09
speltz, the Richest Food Ont.

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should get Salzer's catalog and read about
Speltz. Xxi
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Best for the Bowels.

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