The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-03

forces OF Ine Atmosphere Will uO lVu8Ct
be counteracted by the subterranean
forces of the earth's crust. 1t 10 true,
such periods az these extend over mil
lions OF years. but-and herein lies a les
son which the two grand sciences Of as
tronomy and geology teach us-what ere
millions OF years compared with eternity7
After all, no more than fleeing moments.
Despite. then, the apparent conflict be-
| tween science and religion. which at the
present time Is 50 much harped upon, the
| former suggests the very fundamental
idea Of the latter-an eternal life after q
| transitory life. life in which there Is no
changes and gradual decay ending In the
permanent death of all organic life. Per
| aspera ad astra!
The Consultations.
| The most brilliant constellation that at
| about 9 o'clock in the August evenings
will be on our meridian is Lyra, so called
on account Of the Tyre. with which Or
| pheus charmed the gods of the neither
world and persuaded them to restore to
him his wife. Eurydice. the beautiful
nymph who, on the very day Of their nup-
tials. was stung by a venomous serpent
| and died. This constellation is In more
than one respect interesting enough to de-
| serve detailed description. II contains
ttho bSauttLu HTbt~niA8uituuc STAR foSd,
one of the brightest in the whole heav-
ems. and without any doubt many times
larger than our sun. Southeast of Vega
are the two bright third-magnitude stars,
Beta and Gamma, the former being some
what variable. Northeast of Vega, at a
distance of a little more than 1 degree;
Is the remarkable star Epsilon, a quadru-
pie star. A somewhat keen eye, without
the aid of a magnifying glass, can divide
this star into two, and large telescope
splits each into two components.
AS to Beta Lyrae. some astronomers
have arrived at the conclusion that 1t
consists of two bodies. gaseous in their
nature, which revolve round each other
so near together as to be almost in con-
tact They are of unequal size and both
luminous. BY their mutual attraction
they are drawn out into ellipsoids. The
smaller body Is much smaller than the
other. Looking at the two bodies later
ally, they are at their brightest. As they
revolve, however, we see them more and
more end on, and thus the light dimin-
ishes. At a certain point one begins to
cover the other and hide Its light Thus
the combined light continues to diminish
| until the two bodies move across our line
of sight, when we have minimum. At
one minute, however, the smaller and
brighter Of the two bodies is projected
upon the larger one, and thus increases
its brilllance, at the other minute 1t Is
hiding behind the other, and consequent
ly we see the light of the larger one
alone. This ingenious theory receives adj
ditional confirmation from the fact,
shown by the spectroscope, that these
stars are either wholly gaseous or at
least have self-luminous atmosphere
The constellation Lyra has wrested the
90 twA h. 90 o..
way from the neighboring constellation
Hercules. The discovery of the suns way
through space Is one OF the most import
ant in the history of astronomy. In fact.
this sublime science presents no grander
problem than the discovery of the cir
cumstances of the voyage Of our great
luminary through space.
Until quite recently IL was believed that
the sun, with all his splendid cortege Of
planets. satellites, comets. meteoric rings
was sailing toward a point in the constel-
lation Hercules called the apex of the
suns way Somewhat more careful re-
searches have, however, revealed the
fact that this point lies somewhat to the
east Of where 1t was before located and
falls between the boundary lines of the
constellation Lyra Even those who are
not conversant with such Investigations
cannot but be aware OF their difflcuIty,
and understand that even the slightest
DETECTION in the direction of a line must
produce a change in its extremity billions
upon billions of miles away from the
observer. The error, therefore. of plac-
ing this apex in the constellation Her
cules is the smaller, as this constellation
lies close to Lyra, and detracts in no
wise from the excellence Of the former
determination. Lyra also enjoys the dis
tinction of containing that star which in
course of time will act in the capacity Of
polestar. This is the magnificent star
Vega itself.
Somewhat southeast of Lyra is the con-
stelIation of Aquila. or the Eagle It's
characteristic eonhguration Is that form
ed by Alpha Aquila or Affair, a first
magnitude star with Beta to the south
and Gamma to the north. all these form
ing a short straight line. Between Lyra
and Aquila Is the little constellation Sa-
gitta. or the Arrow. being one of the an
cient IS. The region south OF Aquila has
been assigned on some maps to Antinous.
constellation that existed even in Ptol-
emy's time, but which he declined TO
adopt. Out Of a part of this region Hev-
elius in the seventeenth century, formed
a constellation which he called Scutum
Sobiesky in honor OF the renowned Polish
hero. We mention this because we &C.
East OF Scorpio is the zodiacal consteila-
ton Sagattarius, or the Archer, which is
quite conspicuous though 1t does not
contain any first magnitude star. Its
most characteristic confguPation is an in
verified milk diDper." which the reader
cannot fail to recognize. The lettering
of the stars of Sagittarius is singularly
regardless of any principle. for Alpha
and Beta do not exceed In brightness the
fourth magnitude. while Sigma is
bright second magnitude star. 1t is pos
sible. ana even probable. that at the time,
when the Greek alphabet was adopted as
new and certainly very convenient no.
menclature Of the stars of each constel
lation. some Of the stars Of Sagittarius
exhibited brightness differing from their
present one. Another popularity of this
constellation is that the Milky Way with
in 1t is uncommonly bright and compIi-
Gated in structure. full of knots ana
streamers and dark pockets, and con-
tanning many beautiful and interesting
objects. Hercules. Corona Borealis. Oph-
iucus and Scorpio are slightly bending
toward the west, Arcturus and Spica are
half way down. and Leo on the point of
setting, whilst Cygnus. Delphinus and
Capricornus are close to the meridian:
Pegasus about half way between it and
the eastern horizon and Perseus just ris-
ing in the northeast
LOSS OF APPETITE is commonly
gradual: one dish after another Is set |
aside. 1t is one Of the first indications
there is nothing else so good for IL as
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