The new enterprise., 1902-08-28
Wonders Of the Solar System is
Barlow Mans Theme.
wEO EARTH ARE aSMALL POTATOES"
DOG Days Explalned--solar Plexus
Punch at President Roosevelt.
commends Captain Howell
In His Race for Mayor Of
Atlanta.


I will answer briefly that there are no
dog days. 1t is nothing but super
stition that has come downito us from
the ancients. The Dog star or Sirius
has Its time to appear in the heavens
and rise and set like other stars, but 1t
is very irregular time and SO what
we call dog days may begin the first
Of July or many days later. The rising
Of Sirius in line with the sun begins
now on the Sd Of July and will con-
tlnue until the 11th of August. Those
forty days were believed by the an
clients to bring very hot and sultry
weather and many malignant diseases,
but this has been disproved by modern
astronomy, for the appearance Of ST.
rius is very uncertain and In the
course Of time 1t will rise IN the win
ter. Now little more about this
wonderful star You know that we
have eight planets that belong to our
solar system. They all reyolve around
the sun just as the earth does and the
nearer the planet is to the sun the fast
er 1t travels. Neptune. is 160O0,O00 OF
miles distant and 1t takes 165 years
to get around.
But Sirius Is away outside of our
solar system and is 12O,OO0,OO0,OOo Of
rfles from us and gives 400 times
more light thap our sun. 1t is the larg-
est and brightest star in til heavens.
1t is called the Dog star bed se 1t ap-
pears to be Ia khe tall Of tb bnstella-
ton that the, ancients namsd Major
CAMS or the Big Dog. The e@ere a
smart people and we still kpp their
map of the hebvens and theli~hames
OF the stars, but they had tele-
scopes and did not know thafNthers
were any stars or suns except those we
see with the naked eye.
But. now young people listen. 1t is
now established and proven that there
are millions Of stars and solar systems
afar of In space and that ours is the
smallest and the most Insignificant of
them all. We are nothing and less
than nothing in the scale of existence.
1t has always been a mystery to me
why the Creator Of the boundless uni
verse, that has no limit, should have
chosen this little world Of ours for His
greatest work, the Creation OF man In
His own image, little lower than the
angels, man who sinned and fell and
was redeemed by the sacrifice Of the
Son OF God l don't understand 1t.
cannot comprehend It, This little world
Is no bigger than cannon bail COM
pared with some Of the planets and
stars afar out In space. II has but
one little moon that does not conde-
scend to show us but one side of its
anatomy. The other night we went
out to Mr.. Granger's beautiful home
to look at the full moon through his
great telescope that cost S5,0O0-and
Is mounted in high observatory with
a dome that revolyes as the earth re-
wolves. 1t was magnificent specta-
Gle, but the view of Jupiter with four
moons and Saturn with his rainbow
ring and seven moons was much more
beautiful and impressive. OF course
these planets must be inhabited, for
the Creator would not have surrounded
a dead world with such luminous and
beautiful satellites. We don't know
anything hardly, and II fills me with
disgust to see young men strutting
around like peacocks-acting like they
made themselves and knew every
thing apd expected to live always
when the truth is they don't know
where they came from nor where they
are going and can't add an hour or
day to their existence. | have but lit.
tie hope for a vain or conceited man,
and vain woman is no better. A
conceIted man Is close kin to an idiot
and woman vain OF her beauty
should sometimes remember that she
had no hand In creating Il for it was
God given or inherited @ohl why
should the spirit Of mortal he proud?"
OF all the faults OF which humanltyis
guilty that OF aeif epnceit d the last
to be forgiy1n \ hardest to re;
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