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1t struck our atmosphere, we couldn't
see the biggest of them.
The Leonids
"Now, when the earth happens to
pass through some thick meteoric
stream, the debris of former comet,
we often behold a wonderful fall OF
shooting stars For example, there is
the great stream that we encounter
about every thirty-th years - the
Leonids that people were talking about
a few years ago. The name was given
to them because they appear to come
from the constellation Leo.
''The Leonids were first seen, or first
recorded. Oct. 13, 902 A. d. The time
of their arrival has moved forward,
gradually, a few weeks. Since the
seventeenth century they have always
appeared in November They are SO
numerous that the first few of them
are generally visible six or eight years
before the earth has passed the last
ones.
Mr~Corriga gan then supplemented his
Interesting explanations by reference
to certain standard authorities upon
the history of meteors. According to
these records one of the historic single
meteors, such as claimed st. Paul the
other night, appeared over England in
1719. 1t suddenly Illuminated the
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. . -
- HE meteor that fell within
sight of St. Paul just before
o'clock on the morning of
Wednesday, July 20, was not
single body according to Severinus j.
Corrigan, the local astronomer There
were three meteors instead Of one, says
Mr.. Corrigan.
Special Importance attaches to their
fall because, as Mr.. Corrigan feels as
sured. it will be possible to connect
them with the passage of the earth
through a stream of meteors, the great
majority of which were, of course, in
visible.
That comets are small bodies of stone
or metal, or collections of such bodies,
which, "once upon time" entered the
solar system from surrounding space,
became attracted by the sun and began
moving in great orbits to and around
the sun and off again; that parts of the
comet, for some reason not clear, drift
away from the main body and become
meteors; that these meteors are pro-
digiously numerous; that, on the otner
hand, the most of them are extremely
small, and that they vary in size from
q mere grain to mass weighing sew
eral thousand pounds; that the innu-
merable shooting stars visible every
night are but smaller relatives of the
meteor that shone like a sun upon st.
Paul the other night; that the meteors
as parts of comets follow approx
mately the same path through space as
do the comets from which they were
Il oil
sufficiently we'll established to satisfy
astronomers.
Il May Be Fragment of Comet
But Mr. Corrigan, pointing out that
parts of the recent meteor are said to
have been found at several places, in
sists that if such parts can be re-
covered; and IT, as he hopes, the iden-
tity of the meteor can be mathemat-
ically connected with a meteoric show
er following the orbit Of recognized
comet, then the scientific world may
have the satisfaction of holding in its
hand, so TO speak, a guaranteed frag-
ment of a comet.
The theory is not new, sayscMr. Cor
rigan, but it has never been illustrated
so vividly before. In his demonstra-
tion the st. Paul astronomer will prove
once more the scientific value of
striking theory advanced by him some
years ago in a work upon the nature
of gases.
1t is less remarkable, however, that
the Minnesota meteor consisted of
three parts; this is a frequent hap
pening.
Mr.. Corrigan feels assured that three
meteors came down because no other
explanation would account for the diff
ferences in the apparent position Of
the aerolite as viewed by different
observers.
"At st. Paul and Minneapolis" says
the astronomer, ''the meteor appeared
in the northeast; at Randolph, thirty
miles south of here, the light passed in
the south; and at Kenyon, fifty miles
south, the flame was seen in the north.
This means that one piece fell between
Kenyon and Randolph, which could not
have been the piece seen north of the
Twin Cities. The Kenyon meteor, as
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is about two and one half ounces.
"A meteor may break from actual
contact with the earth on striking
hard spot. If the soil is soft they may
penetrate it to the depth of five or six
feet. Of course, they are no longer
moving thirty miles second then, or
they would go much deeper. They
usually fall much like spent cannon
balls.
How Meteorites Look
If any of our farmers find what
they think is a part of the recent me-
teor they can make a better guess
when they remember that meteor, or
meteorite.' to be exact. that is, a
fallen meteor, is almost always covered
with a very thin, black crust. The
crust may have a bright lustrous sur
face or it may be dull black. Streaks
that look like melted matter often ap-
pear on the surface. The meteorite
frequently shows little cuplike cavi-
ties as big as the ends of ones fingers
or smaller. 1t is supposed these holes
are caused by the varying hardness of
the parts of the mass pressed against
the atmosphere.
"a meteorite may appear to be COM
posed Of stone or of iron or of both
stone and iron. When stony meteor
is broken the inside of it looks gray.
I'VE might expect that these visit
ors from beyond our own world would
contain new elements, but all the
meteorites analyzed have been COM
posed of elements already familiar. In
fact, the most important elements in
meteorites are also the most widely
distributed in the earth-iron, silicon
and oxygen. The iron is very promi-
nent in most meterorites; some appear
to consist wholly of pure iron; and as
iron in pure state is hardly ever
found in the earth, that Is fairly
strong proof that any black mass of
iron picked up which bears no resem-
blance to iron in any artificial form
is really meteorite.
Composition of Meteorites
'"rhe iron in. a meteorite is always
accompanied by. nickel. Other very fa-
miliar elements that have been found
in meteorites are magnesium, tin, cop
per, aluminium, potassium, soda. lime,
carbon and hydrogen.
"A few of the meteorfte minerals
composed of several elements are actu-
al novelties. They are never found
on the earth, I understand, In exactly
the same combination. Some of these
minerals are metallic nickel-iron, sui
phide of calcium and chloride of iron.
THE binding light of the recent
meteor-meteors have more than once
been described as brighter than the
sun at midday-made many people
think, as soon as they saw 1t, that it
was but few thousand feet up in the
air, and that it was coming down In
the next block. One man told me here
that the meteor appeared about to
drop on the Plymouth Clothing house
at Seventh and Robert streets. But,
though it might have come that close,
1t must have fallen about thirty miles
from ST. Paul. When first seen 1t was
somewhere between forty and eighty
miles above the earth.
"The wonder Is that we see SO few
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they were moving through the air, dur
ing a good part Of their course, at the
rate of thirty-two miles, or 10000 feet
a second.
Its this extreme velocity that ex-
plains many facts about meteors. In
the first place, although a. meteor
looks, as Sergeant Twohy, Of the st.
Paul police force says, like big In
dian club that is, pear-shaped, the
meteor itself is invisible. But moving
so rapidly it congresses the air In
front of. it and raises the temperature
of the compressed air to at least 5000
degrees Farenheit, or about the tenn
perature between the poles Of an elec-
tric arc light. At this temperature
the air becomes electrified and gives
out intense light, and part Of the COM
pressed, electrified air sweeps back to
make the narrow part of the Indian
club. The greenish appearance of the
local meteor's light, much like electric
light, was the radiance of the electri-
fed atmosphere, not that of the burn
ing meteor. The meteor stone itself
was poor conductor of heat and was
not warmed except on it's surface. The
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Glen seminary 1t was discovered that
Anna La Chappelle, the beautiful ward
Of one of the country's richest men,
had remarkable talent as a musician
and singer The senator decided to
send her to Paris to have her voice cul-
tivated and her musical education COM
pleted.
The Bride in Montana
In the meantime he had provided for
her mother and sister in Montana.
Amelie had also enjoyed the benefit of
the millionaire's generosity and had
completed her education The senator
began to build a magnificent mansion
in Butte for-Mrs. Chappelle.
The senator's ward went to Paris in
1900. Surrounded by luxury and living
in the style expected of ward of a
millionaire whose wealth was so great
that 1t was almost beyond the compre-
hension of the Parisians, Anna La
Chappelle began a new chapter of her
romance. The arts and sciences of
Paris, the temple of fashion, were at
her command. The best professors
that money could secure taught her
music, painting and singing. Blessed
by nature with superb beauty and Il
love of athletics, she emerged from the
chrysalis. of the little girl of the mines,
playing about the Stag heaps of Butte,
to the feted and courted beauty of the
Paris salons.
An evolution like a fairy talei And
behind it Senator Clark, the copper
magnate, power in the politics of his
| country, a Midas whose wealth. he
| could not himself compute with accu-
racy.
mile. La Chappelle, Senator Clark's
ward.' was the form of Introduction
| in the Paris salons.
Little Anna La Chappelle, Doc La
| Chappelles gal," had been the form in
Butte, Mont.
Married in the Spring of 1901
Senator Clark went to Europe in the
| spring of 1901 for the purpose, 1t was
said, of attending his wards gradual
ing exercises in the finishing school In
which she had been studying. Miss
La Chappelle is not known to have
visited this country since then. On
June 80 he returned from a tour of
Europe lasting several months. during
which time he is reported to have taken
his young wife for trip through Al
geria. Paris heard the rumor of their
marriage at that time.
The marriage adds another interest
ing chapter to the life of man whose
whole career has been one of romance.
Success of a remarkable nature has
marked his upward march. AS a boy
he worked on farm in his native
state of Pennsylvania. In the winter
he went to school in that state, paying
for his education by the money he
earned on the farm during the sum-
mer. In 1862 he turned his face west
ward and drove yoke of cattle across
the plains to Colorado, where he OBJ
tanned work in the mines. Next year
he went to Montana, then to Dakota,
where he obtained placer claim, which
he worked with good results For a
time he traded among the mining
camps. For several years-he was en-
gagged in the wholesale grocery busi-
ness, and later started bank at Deer
Lodge Mont
In 1872 he began investing in Butte
In a short time "Clark's luck began
to be a byword, signifying all thai
/ could be hoped for. He began invest
ing in copper mines and was invariably
lucky. He became ambitious political
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was a member of the executive board.
After spending two years in the semi
nary and one year In Salt Lake, sent
her abroad with my sister, Mrs. Abas-
cal, who was going to Paris to educate
her daughters.
Miss La Chappelle was accepted as
a pupil by Prof. Hasselsmans, the
most eminest harpist in Europe. At
that time she was placed under the care
of Nine. de Cervelion, the widow Of an
officer of the French army and wom-
an of education and means. She traV-
eled extensively with her sister. now
Mrs. E. B. Hart, of Minneapolis, as
her chaperon, and developed a wonder
full talent as linguist She quickly
mastered French, German, and Span
ish. BY the Italian lakes today Mrs.
Clark is continuing her studies OF the
Italian language.
The baby girl born to Senator and
Mrs. Clark has been named Andrer,
the feminine for Senator Clark's mid
die name, Andrew. The baby was
born in August, 1902.
Is a Beautiful Woman
The senator's ward, now his wife, is
a remarkably beautiful woman. She
has splendid physique and soprano
voice that caused even the Par1Sians
to say Butte, Mont, was giving to
the world a new prima donna. In ap-
pearance she is so French that Paris
ians rarely took her for an American,
however, and during the time she spent
in Paris she acquired all the accent
and mannerisms of real French
woman.
Ever since the death of Senator
Clarks wife, some ten years ago, gos-
sip has innumerable times married him
off, always, let it be said, to attractive
women There is reason for this. The
senator is 65, nearly ten years younger
than Senator Depew, whose marriage
took place about two years ago. lie
is alert, active, vigorous, Wiry, a man
of tremendous energy. His eyes are
clear and piercing; his hair is abundant
and but slightly streaked with gray ,
he has a brown beard and good
mustache.
Gossip for some time has had 1t
that the senator was married. and So
persistently was it reported that peo-
pie began to believe it must be true
It held the name of Anna La Chap
pelle. She, and she alone. they said,
had been selected to share the sena-
tors yearly income of $12,000,000, de-
rived from mines of gold and mines OF
copper, from banking institutions, from
plantations, from coal mines, from
street railways, from miles upon miles
of real estate-from the purse or FOL :
tunatus. The announcement given ou'
shows the story was fact.
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nm July and August of each year an
oratorical rash breaks out among
the Orangemen of the North OF
Ireland. The 18th of July, the an
niversary of the battle of the Boyne,
and the 18th Of August, the ami
versary of the shutting of the gates
Of Derry against the army of King
James the Coward, are the two most
critical dates. This year they have
raised their wratfful voices in tndig-
nant chorus against Chief Secretary
Wyndham, and the English govern
ment, for their complete surrender
SO they put ito the papists. Ihe
bad. bold Jesuits, who enter people
houses through keyholes, have been
at work, they say, hypnotizing the
government. Accordingly, we are
plunged into an era of Protestant per-
secution in Ireland, and the papishes
are favored and fondled and pltcn-
forked into place everywhere; ana
they are countenanced and encouraged
in putting their heel upon the neck OF
the most faithful and loyal Orangemen
that ever went into the Held (the
demonstration field, and ever fired a
shot (rhetorically) for sake of king
and country.
Some one, for amusement's sake, has
taken the trouble of investigating the
extent to which the poor Protestants
are being trampled upon in Ireland.
In the first place, almost hree-fourths
of the whole population of the country
is suffered to remain Catholic The
lord lieutenant and the chief secretary
are. of course, Protestant; bTt three
Roman Catholics are tolerated amongst
the three dozen officials who surround
these gentlemen. In a privy council
consisting of sixty members there are
seven Catholics allowed: one Cathollc
is permitted amongst the principal Of
fieals of the local government board
No Catholic, it is true, is granted among
the heads of the board of works; but
| there is one Catholic among the five
chief officials of the department of agri-
| culture. The agricultural branch OF
this is all right, three Protestant gen
tlemen being at the head of it; and &c
| is the technical instruction branch
with six Protestant heads. The fish
! cries branch is so, likewise. In the
| veterinary branch also a few Catholic
clerks and messengers are, contrary
| to all precedent, permitted. Inc COL
| lege of science, which is under the
department of agriculture, has ap-
pointed a Catholic professor, despite
| the fact that there are only ten Prot
estant professors connected with it.
Out of sixteen judges In the higher
courts there are only thirteen Protest
ants. Out of four recorders there are
| only three Protestants Out of twenty
two county court judges there are only
| fifteen Protestants. Out Of forty-foui
| benchers of the Kings inn, only thirty
| five Protestants are tolerated, and only
| forty-nine Protestants out of sixty
| eight resident magistrates. In 1,27;
! justices Of the peace scattered over the
country not less than 251 are papishes
In the council of the college of sur
geons. four Catholics are permitted
| &c against only seventeen Protestants;
and one Catholic professor has beer
appointed to the college, leaving only
hands: and out of a board of twenty
four examiners for the college a mere
| twenty are Protestants. The law OIL
u
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streets of London, caused the stars to
disappear, and made the moon, which
had been shining brightly, to become
almost invisible. The eye could scarce
ly endure the brightness of the meteor.
1t moved like falling star at height
estimated at sixty to seventy miles and
with velocity of 900 to $50 miles
minute.
About O'clock on the night Of Aug
IS, 1888, a great meteor was seen over
the larger part of Europe, from Ireland
to Rome. 1t crossed the zenith at Ed
inburgh, where it appeared single and
well defined of a greenish shade, with
a tail. But at Greenwich, Eng, it had
the appearance of two bright balls,
with other luminous bodies following
it. 1t was seen to burst over Italy
with a noise that was ten minutes in
reaching the ears of listeners, so high
was the meteor above the earth.
A Remarkable Meteor
OF the various meteors that have
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large meteors,: for the small ones are
so abundant that they can't be count
ed. Every shooting star is a meteor,
but mere grain of meteoric matter
that you could hold on the end of your
finger would be able to create a very
considerable flash of light and make a
frst-class star
One estimate of the number of
meteors is that a single observer can
see fourteen of them, on an average,
during the hour between midnight and
| o'clock, If the night is clear and
n1oonless Calculating on this basis the
number visible the world over, we have
about 20,000,000 daily. But numerous
shooting stars, invisible to the naked
eye, can be seen through a telescope;
and if you would add such small mete-
ors to the others the 20,000,000 would
become 400,00O,000 every twenty four
hours. The space between the planets
must be filed with meteors, but, unless
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=HE announcement few days
ago of the marriage of Senator
Clark, of Montana, reveals the
final chapter of romance that reads
| like a novel, the romance of one of the
worlds financial princes and a poor
young girl of the mines. 1t was the
disclosure of the secret marriage Of the
senator from Montana and his ward
more than three years ago. And with
this announcement came the news that
the beautiful young wife is the mother
of babe, now two years old.
The announcement of the marriage
z, has caused astonishment among Sena-
| tor Clarks friends in the Middle West
and the East but not so much in Mon
tana, where the event has been looked
forward to with confidence for some
| years.
The romance began in Butte, Mont,
/ when Miss La Chappelle was about 15
! years old. She is now about "a.
Daughter of Physician
She was the daughter of French
Canadian, DR.. La Chappelle. The father
had large family, was not licensed to
! practice medicine, and was in conse-
Quence in constant trouble with the
local medical society. He was poor,
and the eldest daughter. Anna, one
day applied to Senator Clark for as
sistance for the family.
Even at that time she was beautiful,
with long dark lashes shading large
blue eyes, soft brown hair, and finely
penciled brows. The senator became
interested. He decided to educate her.
He sent her father to medical college,
where he studied and obtained de-
gree, returning to Butte to practice.
The father died shortly after his re-
turn, and it was then that Senator
Clark's interest in the beautiful young
girl became marked. He proposed to
send her to school in the East. At that
time Miss La Chappelle was about IL,
and had been marked out for a shaft
by Dan Cupid. The twin shaft found
the heart of young man in Butte, a
young lawyer There was runor of
an engagement, but 1t was never con-
I1rmed. The senator's interest in the
young girl, however, was sufficient to
take in the young man. A partnership
in a leading firm of lawyers was pro-
vided for him.
Educated Miss La ChappelIe
Miss La Chappelle was sent to the
Forest Glen seminary, an exclusive
school near Washington. The senator
was in Washington a good deal, attend
ing to his duties as a member of the
Senate. Shortly before this another
romance between the Clarks and the
La Chappelles had been nipped in the
bud. Anna La Chappelle had young
er sister, Amelie. Senator Clark's sor
Charlie became interested in her
Amelie was also sent away to school
and Charles Clark finally married an
other woman.
When Miss La Chappelle was sent t.
Washington to school by Senator CLARK
It was rumored that they were to bt
married upon the completion of hel
education. This rumor was denied
with some heat by the members Of
Senator Clark's family. AT the Foresl
a.
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assume, came down in the northeast
corner of Goodhue county, mott far
south of Randolph. But 1t wasn't true
that the meteor was found on farm
north of Kenyon The report was in
vestigated by Prof. Winchell three days
after the reported fall and the farmer
named knew nothing about it.
Piece Fell in Wisconsin
observations made at Hudson and
saltwater suggest that the piece of
meteor seen in St. Paul fell over in
Western wisconsin not far beyond the
ST. Croix river.
"Then. if the statement is correct
that was telegraphed from Swanville.
third piece fell near that village, which
is 100 miles northwest of st. Paul.
Il have made some estimates of the
velocity of the meteors, and l find that
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inner part of the stone usually remains
cold In fact, some meteors that have
fallen were found Immediately after
ward to be as cold as ice. They had
passed through the frigidity of space
more than 460 degrees below zero, and
their external warming up couldn't
offset the chill they had acquired.
Meteors Sometimes Explode
.sThen the noise of the explosion.
believe I heard that myself a minute
or more after the meteor came down.
And sometimes, indeed, there may be
an actual explosion; the stone driven
with such force against the compress
ed air may break into fragments or
even into dust. Our three meteors, Tor
instance, may have entered the 'atmos-
phere as one and exploded far above
the earth.
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His Theory

Barber-Its funny you should be bald
so young. 80 tha
same way. q 10
Barber-Strangei / wonder why IT l,,tS.,r. -.
more about it FI tell you. honestly % pc
iieve it's because our hair fell out.-fnh-
adeluhja Ledger.
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MetamorphosIs

They put the missionary in 4ou
A soup for the sultan Idad &c 70 sin en9oy
If3nt soon he was a "broth OF ooy.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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MIoht Have

Irstiee-Have / ever seen you before!
0ffender-Can't say, yer honor. snouiun
wonder. though. I've been In pretty na1u
company In my life.-Beston transcript.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-22
At the Spokane Theatre, Spokane.

January 20 and 30-Melbourne Mac.
Dowell and Florence Stone.
January 81 and February 1 and 2
Marie Wainwright.
February 4-The Kilties band.
February and 6-Robert Mantell.
February IL and 13-The Boston
ians.
February IA and 15-Alberta Gala
tin in "Ibsen's Ghosts"
February 20-"The Two Johns"
February 24-Paul Gilmore.
February 26 and 27-"The Eternal
Among some Of the bet attractions
which will be at the Spokane during
the last three months of the season
are: The Four Cohens," jerome
Sykes in THE Millionaire" f. H. Soth
ern in "The Proud Prince" 1.-THE Sill
yer Slipper" Richard Mansfield ir
"Old Heidelberg" and Blanche Walsh
in The Resurrection"
Write Manager Dan L. Weaver and
have seats reserved in advance. Prices
Ssnge from so cents to $500.
City"