Arizona republican., 1901-03-11
MARCH STARS.

Many night from yonder ivied case
 ment, ere l sank to rest.
 Have I looked at great Orion, slowly
 sloping to the west.
 If Tennyson were now alive and look ing for his ivied easement, great Orion would probably be entirely neglected in favor of Perseus, where the new star shows its wonderful if transient gio- ry. IL is something to gaze and gaze upon as ii sinks toward it's western ha- ven, and feel that after three hundrsd d years there Is revealed to our eyes d sight like that which Tycho beheld, and which holds so important place in the annals of the sky.
 When We have taken our fill of gaZ- ing at the new visitor in the northwest We can well afford to let our eyes trav- el southward and rest upon great orion" There is nothing temporary about Orion In the book of Job is asked the easily answered question. "Canst thou loose the. bands of Orion? and Orion still shines on as when those words were written. The bands" of Orion. of the "belt" composed of three
 
 The great red star Betelguese and the almost equally brilliant white star Rl- gel are other gems of this magnificent constellation. After this month Orion will be too low in the evening to show its full beauty and during the summer months he travels in company with the sun and cannot be seen at all. A novel published lar year excited the r'tr'n of all star gazers by havinga pair Of de- voted young lovers walking under q July sky and looking up at Orion with whole bushels of tender sentiment.
 All persons do not bid Orion fare we'll with the same degree of regret. A graduate of oxford has told the writer that going to his Jersey home in the last weeks of winter, he lifts his eyes to Orion and shakes his fist. saying; "Get down, you blankety blank. and let the warm weather come in"
 The three stars alluded to before point out in the southwest the brilliant star Sirius, the Dog Star the brightest fixed star in the whole heavens In the other direction and at about the same distance they point out Aldebran, a bright red star in the constellation Taurus. In the same constellation, but somewhat nearer she horizon, is the beautiful and interesting little group, the Pleiades, often called tine seven stars. Why they should be called the seven stars is not readily apparent, since but six stars can be seen by the naked eye. If you bring an opera glass 10 bear upon the group, you see not six md is no rysibility Of settling the question which is the seventh. But the seven legend goes far back into antiquity. As is well known the Greeks had story that the Pleiades were seven sisters, whom Jupiter, for one of several diff- erent assigned reasons, gave place in the sky One of them having deigned to love a mortal, hid herself ever after from sight.
 Now. why this legend about the sev- enth sister and star unless the seventh star was once actually visible? Is it not probable and more than probable. that the subject that is now interesting us-the new star-may give a. clew to tho explanation? Did not a bright temporary star once add itself to the Plelades and then disappearing give rise to the legend of the lost Pleiad? The explanation is more probable since all parts of the world have similar le- gcnd of the lost star.
 Returning to Perseus we find much of interest beside the new star. The con- stellation can be found in the north west. not far from the constellation Cassiopeai, known hy its irregular wv shape There are three stars in a kind of curving row. with the new star shining brightly near by. It is by far the brightest star in that region at the present time. About half way between Cassiopeai and the three stars we find a whitish spot, which an opera glass resolves into cluster of countless stars. 1t is a marvel of beauty that cannot fail to repay the inconslderabIe effort required in it's finding.
 Not far from the new star is anoth- ersstar of about the same brightness as Mirfac, the middle star of the row of thrte. The star Is Algol, the Demon star. Before the new star came and af- ter it has gone Algol was and will be the mJft remarkable star in the entire heaven. Once in a little less than three days--in two days, twenty hours forty-eight minutes and forty-eight seconds, to get down to fine facts-the star enters upon period of diminish ing lustre. until in abou; three and a half hours 1t is no brighter than the fourth magnitude, CT about the bright ne.;s of the minor stars of the Little Dipper. In another period of the same length it has about recovered it's usua