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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
ARE THE STARS NUMBERLEssp
No, They Are But Finite Cluster in
 Infinite Space.
Independent.


 It has often been suggested that the stars are infinite in number and that the stellar universe is therefore infinite in ex- tent; and if the preponderance of evi- dence pointed in this direction our inquiry would be useless. because as regards in- finity there can be no difference of posi- ton. In whatever part of it We may be situated that part can be no nearer the center than any other part.
 As the telescope increased in efficiency it was found that every increase of power greatly increased the number of visible stars, and this increase went on with ap- proximate equality of rate till the larg- est modern telescipes were nearly reach ed. But latterly increased size and power has revealed new stars in smaller and smaller proportion. indicating that we are approaching the. outer iiraits of the starry Nsystem. This conclusion Is further en- forced by the fact that the numerous dark patches in the heavens where hardly any stars are visible, and those seen are pro- Jected on intensely dark background. as Tn the "coal sacks" of the Southern Hem isphere and rifts and channels in the Milky Way itself, continue to present the same features in telescopes of the very highest powers as they do In those of very moderate size. This could not possi- bly, happen If stars were infinite In num- Der. or even If they extended in similar
  than those to which our" telescopes can reach. because In that case these dark backgrounds could be SO Illuminated by the light of millions of. stars so~ dlStan as to he separately invisible. as in the case of the Milky Way itself.
 The only other explanation would be that the star system is penetrated in sew eral directions by perfectly straight tun- nels of enormous length compared with their diameter in which no stars exist. and this Is considered to be so improba- ble as to be unworthy of consideration.
 But perhaps the most striking proof of the limited extent of the universe of lum- inous stars is that dependent on the laws of light This has been long known 10 astronomers, and it has been very clear ly and briefly stated by Prof. simon New comb, one of .he profoundest of mathe- nautical astronomers. He tells us tn im- the same distance apart from the first the naked eye. The space between each proportional to the square sof the diame- the light we receive from each star Is in- versly proportional to its distance from us 1t follows sthat if each region were average brightness. then we should re- ceive the same amount of light from each region, the diminution of light from each vastly greater numbers. in, each success | sively large sphere Hence it follows thar if these concentric spheres were m
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Fortune in This Brick.
Minneapolis Journal.

Minneapolis Journal.
 The largest and most perfect gold brick to be received at the United States assay office has been deposited at Deadwood, S. D., by the Spearish Gold Mining and Reduction Company, from the cyanide mill in the limestone belt It weighs 1.l75 ounces and Is over 900 fine being worth approximately $22.O00. It Is seldom that gold of such fineness is brought to the Deadwood office from plants in the hills. and. while the office has received bars weighing about as much. they have not possessed the same value or anywhere near it. The gold is usually associated with silver and copper. The last bar from the Spearfish weighs over ninety pounds, troy weight, Is we'll formed and the gold is of a particularly bright yellow color.
 This brick was the result of fourteen days run at, the 2OQton cyanide plant of the Speartish Company on ore that assays from s to S7 a ton At this rate the com pany is able to clean up over $40O00 a month. The increase in the amount of the cleanup is attributable to greater richness of the ore than formerly. and to the fact that the company Is able with experience to get a greater efficiency in the milling facilities
 A gold brick that in fineness is equal to that deposited by the Spearfish Com pany has just been brought down by the Deadwood- Standard Gold Mining Com- pany It Is worth between s4,o0O and $50 but in It's perfect proportions and the luster of the metal 1t is the Spearfish bar reproduced on small scale.
 It represents two weeks run of the l2S-ton plant, on ore identical in charac- ter with the Spearflsh ore, the two prop critics being adjoining
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
SAFE-BLowERs BOILED.
Their Clumsiness Prevented a Burg.
 lary.

Joiletville. Ind, June 20.-George Mar win and George Hunt, Chicago safe blow CTS, were foiled by their own clumsiness just before dawn today in their attempts to force an entrance to the Joiletville general store to rife the safe.
 great hole near the Midland Depot Mar jail with his arm blown from the socket and his body so terribly mangled that he is on deaths brink.
 The handful of citizens of Joiletville were awakened at 3:3O by an explosion that shook every house in the village. Rushing into the street they found a Tonight Marvin lies in the NoblesvilIe wins arm lay on the ground and trai, of blood led them down the track, where they saw Hunt dragging his wounded companion in his flight When the would be robber saw the crowd in pursuit he dropped hio burden and made good his escape. The can of nitroglycerine with which they intended to blow open thA door of the safe In the general store slipped from his hand while he and Hunt were walking from the depot to- ward the store and from then on =very- thing was blank.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

Cohn. who lent the firm $io5.0oo. The heaviest creditor among the banks Is the London, Paris and American which was caught for s375, ,000 but claims to have real | estate security covering the anount. For week after the failure criminal com plaint was expected daily but none was filed. It was common talk that if the members of the firm had been gentiles a criminal prosecution would at once have been instituted. It is an axiom on this coast that one Jew never prosecutes ar- other crfminally over a financial affair and after waiting a week District Attor- ney Arlington filed information with the grand jury. California has specific law prohibiting the Issuance of warehouse re- ceipts for grain not in storage.
 Those who claim to know say that the Eppinger family has enough outside the wreck to keep the wolf from the door for: while. When the son, Herman. em-' parked on daring speculation the father foresaw the end and quietly handed his wife half million dollars In government and other dividend paying securities. What amounts the other members of the Big Four lost in an attempt to bolster up Eppinger & Company Is not given. McNear & Sons admit that they are cred itors but have not and probably will not make known the amount.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
THE WOMAN OF THIRTY.
Her Extraordinary Charm Is Ex-
 plained.

Commenting on The Woman of Thr- ty.'' The Philadelphia Press prints this: 'Tn today's Press" remarked the liter ary man, as he sat in the Franklin Inn yesterday, 'rHallie Erminie Rives asks, see. what was the attraction of Queen Draga of Servia for King Alexander. To my own mind the question as 10 what was the attraction of Alexander for Dra- ga would be far more difficult a matter, for Miss Rives-as a novelist-ought to know that the attraction at the time of their marriage of Draga for Alexander was the famous one of the Woman of Thirty. You remember what Balzac says of that parsonage, but have you ever read what George Moore writes of her? Lis ten" He took '"rhe Confessions of a Young Man from the shelf and lead: "A sharp, shrewdish. modern face, withal pretty Fair Is she and thta She is a woman of thirty-no. she Is the woman Of thirty. Looking at thls face 50 mundane, so intellectually mundane. see why a young man seeks his ideal In a woman of thirty = He longs for mystery. deep and endless, = Ths young girl Is often pretty, but her pret- tiness Is vague and Suncertain-it inspires a sort of pitying admiration, but 1t sug- gests nothing; the very essence of the young girls being Is that she should have nothing to suggest. But the wo- man of thirty presents at the outset all that Is necessary to ensnare the heart of a young man. She is stately. she is tall. What sins. what disappointments, what aspirations lie in those Flay eyes, mysreriously still and mysteriously re- vealed? !" If the complex and vari- ous accidents of existence should have ruled out her life virtuously, then she will wax to the complete, the unfat th- omable temptress-the Lilith If cld-she will never set him free and n the end she will be found about his teart one single golden hair S;ne shall consume and destroy the strength and spirit of her life, leaving 1t desnlat.cn, a barren landscape burnt and faiatly scent ed with the sea. Fame and weai+h shall slip like sand from him. terrible nal ady is she, malady the ancients knew of. '~ And the disease is not extinct in these modern days. nor will :t ever be so long as men shall yearn for tEc un- attainable, and the noisy oacnelors who trail their ill-fated lives from their cham bers to their clubs know of, 5rd they call their malady-the woman of thirty. I think" concluded the literary nan, as he reverently replaced 4he sI'n green volume on its shelf. 'I think that you will find the answer to Miss Rivas oues- ton there"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Pie and Puritanism.
Life


 The recadenca of Puritanism is chiefly due to various preparations of sawdust being eaten for breakfast throughout New England, instead of the cold pie. which was formerly the piece de resistance of the matutlnal meal there.
 Cold pic eaten at breakfast gets in its work while yet the nervous force, re- cruited by sleep. is largely unspent. The result is the fierce, aggressive hatefulncss thGt is the very life of Puritanism.
 But cold pie for lunch or dinner merely brings on q gloomy and profitless apathy. 1t might as well never be eaten from the relt!ous point of view.
 1t is worth any mans while to eat cold pie for breakfast time or two, if only in order to appreciate the fine irony of BaNter's Saints Rest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
FUN FOR THE DA

The old bachelor who consoles himself with the thought that there as good fish in the as have ever been caught seems to lose sight of the fact that bait gets stale-Phila- delphia Record.
 We had an idea all along that they would find crookedness in the posto ffice department. Ten years ago we mailed a love letter and 1t hasn't got there yet.-Atlanta Journal. Little Willie-Say. pa, what is experience? Pa-Experience my son. Is the headache a man acquires from putting in.-Chicago News Ned-Yes I've resolved to give up betting and drinking and all--
 Fred-Huh! You'll never keep that resolu- tion.
 Ned-rn bet you the drinks do-Phila- delpha Ledger.
 Well. Mrs, Highblower ought to be con- tent now, having succeeded in getting her daughters placed"
 What! has she"
 ''Yes they are all richly and unhappily married. Smart Set.
 A pretty face for sweetheart a pure one for a wife.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

finite we should receive an infinite amount of light from them, and even If we make an ample allowance for stoppage of Night by intervening dark bodies, or by cosmic dust, or by imperfect transparency of the ether. we should at least receive quite as much light from them as the sun gives us at monday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

Niagara Falls Power Company today call ed for bids on what wdll be the largest power wheel in the world. It is to be 4SO feet long, 1sO feet deep and 27 feet wide. cut through the solid rock. The work will cost sl.25O.OOO and will develop 225 900 horsepower.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
oninous Death Rolls.

New York Tribune ...
 The present century. in it's record of as- sasinatlons. hhs begun worse than its pre- decesor. Since 1900 four rulers consisting of one President. two Kings and a Queen. have been killed. One King Hunbert of Italy. who was shot bv Bresci, in July, 1900. The President was William Mckinley. who wns shot by Leon ,Czolgosz at Buffalo, on Sept. Alexander and Queen Draga of Se-via are the last victims.
 Tn the Nineteenth Century ten Pre- idents two Czars. two Princes. two Sultans. ore Shah and one Empress pershed at the hands of assassins.
 The first victim was the Czar Paul I. of Russia, strangled by nobles Tt St. Petersburg in the niRht of Biarch 2soA. 1901. He was followed by ultan Sellm III. who, after be- In gdeposed was thrown into prison and. by order of Mustapha ". also straueled on May 8, 1908 Tn 1881 Count CarI d'Istria. Pes ident of Greece was sssssinated, and in Ie54 the Duke Charles of Parrna was murdered. Danilo l.. fret Prince of Montenegro, had cc- cupied the throne only a week when he fell a victim to bl0oa verVoance. on August 3. 1880. On April 4 1885. Abraham Lincoln. the sixteenth President of the United States. was shot bv the actor John Wilkes Booth at Fo-d's Theatre. in Washington. and died the following day. Th-ee years later. in 1868. Michael Obrenovitz, Prince of Servia wes murdered near Belgrade. The year 1870 re- corded the assassination of the President of Fayti. Salnave. and the year 1878 that of the President Of Ecuador. Dr. Garcia Moreno, The thirty-second Sultan, Abdul-Aziz- Chan, after being forced to abdlcate in favor of his nephew Mahomet Murad, died in prison on June 4. 1876, presumably A natural death. but an investigation instituted in 1881 against several of the hiEhest officials proved that it was by the hands of essaesins
 Garfield. the twentieth President of the United States, was shot by Gulteeu at Wash ington. on July 2. lssI and He'd rom his wounds at Elberon, N. l.. on Sept. g of the same year. Alexande- IT. of Russia. after many attempts against his life. was frallv killed by the explosion of bomb thrown by NihiIist who himself was Killed, at St. Petersburg on March I3. 1881. In l63o President Merondez of San Salvador was mur- dered, and July 24 1894, President Car not was stabbed mortally by the Italian An archist Caserio Santo. Nasr- Din Shah of Persia was killed May |. 1896 General Borda. resident of Uruguay. was killed on August 26 i9e7 and President Barrios of Guatemala, was killed on Feb g. 1898, The Anarchist Luccheni stabbed the Empress Eliz- abeth of Austria at Geneva on Sept. TO- 1898. President Henreaux of San Domingo was as- sassinated on July 26. 1899.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
They Must Hang.

Frankfort, Ky. June 2O-The Court of Appeals today declined to grant e reheaf- ing of the cases of Oaud O'Bnen and Eerl Whitney. the Mempis boys convicted of the burder of A. B Chinn at Lexlng- ton. Governor Beckham will now fix the date of their execution.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

'Subtracting the total decreases for all other ports from the increases at these two ports, leaves an aggregate increase of s6,022,7o4 The increase at Galveston and New Orleans were so great as to make the total increase for all Eouthern ports $9,77338s. while the increases in the group of six mention above were suffi- cient only to reduce the decrease at all ports. except the Southern ones, to s. 750, ,662.
 During the eleven months New Or leans led the ports in the combined quan- titites of corn and wheat exported. with 31. 1.12S.17 bushels. and New Orleans show cd the largest increase, from 2.031. 55S bushels in the eleven months of the last fiscal year to 14,212,02s bushels for the same period this year In exports of corn, Baltimore being second. with an increase from 3,s9S PA to i6o02, PAS"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Wanted in Texas.

Whatcom. Wash. June e0.-P. B. Stea- gell was arrested at Northwood this County. today, on Q charge of being a fugitive from justice. He is wanted in sherman, Tex, for assault with intent ia commit murder.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21
Grave Diggers' Strike.

San Francisco has experienced all sorts Of strikes but the latest and most novel Is the strike of the Cemetery Employees with it's attendant boycott of grave yard. Cypress Lawn is one of the hand somest cemeteries of the city and em- ploys nearly fifty men. grave diggers, la borers and gardeners. Among the num- Der are three landscape gardeners who have been in the employ of the corpora ton nearly ten years. When the Ceme- tery Employes Union was formed these gardeners were asked to join but refused. The officers of the Union went to the Su- perintendent and demanded that the men either be discharged or obliged to join the union; incidentally there was a de- mana that Sunday funerals be abolished. The 70 lnagement took the question of Sunday funerals under advisement but told the gardeners that they might use their own pleasure as to becoming mem- bers of the union. They replied that they were not grave diggers but gardeners and drew the social line; they were willing to join a union of gardeners if one was or ganized but they could not affiliate with the diggers &of graves. Then the other employees walked out The strike was en- dorsed by the Labor Council and Union HacRmen refused to drive funerals to Cypress Lawn, the Carmens Union re- fused to take out funeral cars to the cemetery, the pickets of the strikers sur rounded the cemetery and boarding house keepers in the vicinity refused to harbor non-union men employed by the company. At the crematory oil Is used for fuel. The night before a cremation the stop cock was opened, the fiues allowed to Ill with oil and then turned of. The oil in the fiues generated gas and when the fires were lighted both ends of the fur mace were blown out and the firemen narrowly escaped fatal injuries. The ere. nation was postponed and the body placed in a vault. The Superintendent and hts assistant dug a grave and then hurried to the office to change their cloth ing before the arrival ot the funeral patty. When they returned to the grave some one had dragged a line or hose to sne neWl" made grave, turned on the water and the grave was nearly filled. The Superintendent hlsteued to meet the funeIa al party then entering the grounds, and the interment was postponed, the body pelng pIaceo in vault After that the management engaged a nu4nber of private detectives to patrol the grounds aay and night and have established 8 temporary camp inside the grounds inc striking enIpIoyes assert that the ex- plosion at the crematory was due to an inexperienced fireman and that the grave was nlied by a careless non-unlon en- ploye turning on the water through a sprlnKling nuse and then going to some ogner part of the grounds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

Worlds Largest Power Wheel. Niagara Falls, N. Y, June 2O-Tht
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

The apothecary actually rejoices in the fact that most of his wares are a drug on the market.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

Company should be mighty careful about the men who keep 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

The finger of scorn is often a part of the hand of fate. -ise
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

Where there is a win there is a way to break D
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

A pretty face for a sweetheart. a pure one for a wife.
New-York tribune., 1903-06-29
"GERMAN DESIGNS" IN BRAZIL.

In another column of to-dayS Tribune we pub
lish letter which sheds a suggestive and IN
structive light upon possible test OF the Mon
roe Doctrine TO which some Americans have
been looking forward with apprehension. That
is the chance that European conquest by colon
ization might be attempted in South America.
Many Germans have settled in certain States
of Brazil, and many Italians in Argentina. Sup
pose one of these days they should seek pro-
tectorate of the old country? Such a proceed
ing would at once challenge some OF the latter
day extensions of the Monroe Doctrine, and
whether the South American State concerned
should assent to or should resist such establish
ment of European sovereignty over part OF
its territory, the situation would be an unwel-
come if not an embarrassing one to the United
States.
The gist of the letter which we print to-day is
that there is little danger Of any such compli-
cations. The writer is an occasional corre-
spondent who is thoroughly well Informed upon
the subject, and who is capable of drawing
from his information and observations judicious
conclusions. His view of the case is that the
Germans who have settled in Brazil left Ger
many because the conditions of life under its
monarchical government We're such that they
could not prosper: that under the republican
system in Brazil they have prospered; that
therefore the most elementary self-interest, not
TO mention anything else, would incline them
TO stand by the Brazilian Government rather
than to seek TO replace it with German mon
archy. and that as matter Of fact the Ger
mans in Brazil are, most of them, naturaIized
Brazilians. as Loyalty devoted TO their new
country as their brethren here are to the United
States
That is reassuring and auspicious view of
the case. which we are glad to believe is the
correct one. and which we shall expect to see
vindicated by the progress of affairs.
New-York tribune., 1903-06-29
BLOWING OUT FUSES.

If one closely observes the reports which ap-
pear almost daily In the newspapers of the
blowing out of electric fuses on city rail
ways, he will see that they may be roughly
divided into two classes Sometimes the only
apparent effect is the disabling of a car, while
sometimes fire is started. In cases of the
first kind serious inconvenience may result A
train on the Sixth-aye. elevated road came to a
standstill from that cause on Wednesday, and
temporarily blocked all downtown traffic on
that line Still. life was not endangered and
no panic ensued. With the other kind of acci-
dent it has been common for the car to be set
ablaze, and in some instances passengers have
been burned more or less seriously, 10 say moth
ing of their fright.
In both Of these instances fire was generated,
momentariy at least. When 4 fuse melts a
small gap is left in an electric circuit, and
across the opening an arc is formed. If the
spot is properly inclosed in metal no harm
should ensue. 1t is asserted that the type of
fuse with which the motor cars of the Manhat-
tan elevated lines are equipped has been so
protected that no trouble will result A years
experience seems TO corroborate that assurance
On the other hand. if the environment of the
fuse includes infammable or explosive material
the consequences are likely to be mischievous
There is great difference in the way in which
this feature Of car equipment is arranged on
different lines. Even when a reasonable de-
gree Of caution has been exercised something is
liable to go wrong. An explosion took place
inside the metal controller box of an open
Amsterdan-ave. surface car not long ago, which
set fire to the dress of a woman on the front
seat This was not 4 typical case, perhaps
The majority of the fires start underneath the
floor. The accident cited shows. though, that
the danger is greater th might be imagined
4 number of Improvements have been made
in the design, location and inclosure of fuses in
the last few years Perhaps the most radical
innovation was described by Thomas CONNER
ford Martin in an address before the National
Electric Light Association in Chicago last
month. The device which he mentioned was
intended primarily for service in big central
stations, in combination with switches which