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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

ly large telescope is shown in Fig. g.
 The bright star A, which is the lowest of the two stars in Fig. l. is a great sun, many times larger than our own sun, and to the right of this may be seen even with a small telescope a blue, tenth magnitude companion B.
 With large glass B is seen to have a small companion of it's own This companion Is moving about B, just as the moon moves about the earth. the time occupied in making the complete circuit being 12S years, and the size of the orbit being almost exactly equal to that of the planet Uranus about our sun. The faint pair is also slowly pur- suing an immense orbit, about tho great distant sun A, just as the earth and moon revolve about our sun. The time occupied in this journey cannot be told exactly. but 1t certainly is to be reckoned In thousands of years. The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
>B IA T
Fig. 2-A Triple Star.

Whale, for these are now due south and higher up in the sky than during any other month. It may be mem tioned that on November g. the moon will pass between us and the little star at Kin Pisces; the star will dis appear behind the moon at 9:05 in the evening and reappear at 10:30.
 To the east Cetus will be found the very large and important, though faint constellation Eridanus, or the River. which includes all of the stars between Cetus and Orion. The River consists of two branches, only the upper one of which is completely visible north of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

The evening sky Is now slowly changing Its aspect as the faint au- turnn stars give place to the brilliant cancellations of winter. The most striking of all the groups now visible is the beautiful Taurus, or Bull. which with the Pleiades and Hyades is well up in the east. Below this may De seen Gemini, or the Twins, the second of the brilliant winter groups, which now is appearing above the ground in
 the northeast Above Gemini shines out the beautiful Capella magnificent white star which emits 250 times as much light as our own sun This Is the brightest star of the little group Auriga, or the Wagoner, though In
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
An Electric chafing Dish SIS

No gas, no odor. no trouble Just attach the cord to any electric light fixture and in three minutes you have a stove hot enough. to boil coffee. cook eggs. meat, batter cakes, oys- ter stew, etc.
 A good stove costs money. so does,ethis electric one, but the kitchen stove can't be moved, while the electric chafer can be carried all over the house. Don't fail to see this wonder full invention, housekeepers are delighted with it. ,
 Our regular line of alcohol lamp Chafing Dishes just in for the fall. Beautiful, styl- ish Dishes with easily .operat- ed lamp, nickel plated, at low est price range of $3.50, s4 and s5, up to the finely deco !, rated Chafing Dish Sets of sev. eral pieces at $14, SIS and s25.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
UNCANNY STORY
From Russia of Women Who Killed Babies
 for Experiment.

for Experiment.
 Chicago News
 Throughout the middle ages there were current tales of men who caught and sac. riftced babies in their unholy pursuit or knowledge ReceAtly stories of a somewhat similar kind have been revived in China as part of the crusade against Americans Here Is a yarn of the same character from Russia:
 1.-TWO women of gigantic stature took a furnished house in the Sprincipal street or the village of Dubove. They seldom went out In the day time. but were otten seen in town and out the country roads at night On last Christmas day the four vear-oId daughter of a blacksmith mys- teriously disappeared while carrying his midday meal to her fathers forge. The whole place and the surrounding country were secured in vain. for no trace or the baby daughter of an inn-keeper vanished On February the twin children or a widow went to slide on a pond. but failed to return Search resulted in the discovery of large hole in the Ice. but the poaies of the children could not be found. During the month of March five more children un- accountaby vanished.
 On April 21 the solution of the terrible mystery came. Screams were heard In the home of the two women. Suddenly the door flew open and they appeared locked In each others arms. bleeding and 'itsl"Ntlsd. Ihey were fighting desperately but eight strong laborers carried them. clawing and scream ing like furies. to the police station. caretaker was sent to their house. but few minutes later she was seen leaving the house in a paroxysm of fear. The place was soon thronged with crowd of curious people. They discovered in the cellar long table furnished with clamps and straps A cabinet on the wall contained surgical knives. while one end of the room was covered with shelves filled with bottles Further search revealed the body of a baby girl who had disappeared eight days before.
 Upon examination the two prisoners stat ed that they had come to the place to prosecute scientific research. They hsl"ng- ed to a secret society which had for its main object the discovery of the elixir or life They considered child-life cheap in comparison with the importance of ther discoveries. The women were then fasten- ed by chains to iron bar in the wall of their cell The next morning 1t was dis covered that they had escaped during the night in the clothes of their iailers' both of whom were found dead with thelT heaus battered in and their throats cut. The wo- men are still at large.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

7 sa- .a II verse drifting through space, and has It encountered and enveloped this little group as a. driftias cloud might over take and enyelope bird in the air? UT has the group itself run into our sys, temf If the latter Is so, what started the group insits rush through space ana
 IS there any conceivable force now act Ing which will ever stop 1t?
 The astronomers do not attempt 10
 answer these questions. So far as IS
 known. each one of the innumeranle
 host of stars is moving. Thus motloh
 alone calls for no explanation; IL IS as
 natural to a body as rest. Couio It
 ever be found that single star IS m
 absolute rest then an explanation or
 what brought 1t to rest would be quite
 as necessary as an explanation of what started another star into motion. Inis much however, can be said. There are stars whose motion is so rapid that the pulling back on them of all the stars of our universe can never stop them. Therefore. they will certainly Ieave our universe of stars altogether; what they will encounter afterwards in the course | of countless ages no man can tell | Double Stars.
 | The little pair of stars at B. Fig. r. | are believed to be very olu system Connected with the star H. Fig. l, trere ] is an exactly similar pair which IS also 1 believed to be very old, and so also IS | the star at R, Fig. l. The paths In | which each of the companions to these | stars move are shown in Figs. and 4. ! Capella. however, which is also close l double star is believed to have pro- ceeded but a little way in its develop | ment. How do astronomers estimate | the comparative ages of these douole stars?
 Very briefly, the history of the evolu- ton of a double star system is supposed | to be this. The great nebulous masses scattering through space are slowly contracting together under the force Of their own gravitation. As they shrink they grow continually hotter, and also | begin to rotate. turning around raster | and faster the smaller they grow. A | time may. therefore, come when the | swiftly rotating mass begins to tear
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

the earth; others regard 1t as the ce- lestial image of the Nile or Euphrates, and this is the more probable origin, for among the ancients the bslief was widespread that the Nile and Euphra- tes were but different parts of one great river. The old manuscripts add ed the figure of a venerable river god lying on the surface of the stream.
 Rigel, at B, Fig. 1, the observer will probably have little difficulty in trac- ing out the northern branch of the River. As the evening hours 20 6n, the constellation will rise higher up in the sky untfl by Il o'clock, to one who is as far south as Philadelphia, the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
Are in French Churches.

JeweIeTS 8 SlTCulaT.
 According to report just issued by the French minister of fine arts, the churches of France, and not the Louvre, the Luxembourg, the Musees de Cluny and Caranvalet. contain the art treasures of the nation. The art treasures in the public galleries and museums are but a comparatively small part of the artistic wealth of France It is estimated that if brought under the hammer the pictures, tapestries statues, carving and other work of art would realize the fabulous sum of six miliiards of francs. The little Roman church of Conques, lost in the noun tain of Aveyron, is possessed of a treasure which was on view at the ex- hibition of 1900. It was of such mar dealers offered that a syndicate of art dealers offered for 1t the sum of 32, ,00O,- 900 franvs. It contains the finest channels in the world, reliquaries giv- en by the early kings of France and Roman statues in gold and silver For tunately for France the art syndicate did not buy it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

brilliant star Alchernar, at A, will rise just above the ground. remain visible for a few moments and then set a few degrees west of where 1t rose. This star is nearer the South Pole of the heavens than any other which can be seen in this latitude.
 The little pair of stars at o Is of much interest. These were the ostrich Egg Shells to the Arabians, the nest from which they were supposed to have been thrown out being the group of stars at N. The southern one of the two stars at O is remarkable triple star whose appearance in a moderate
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
Unfathomable Secrets.

Chicago JOurnal.
 There are two trade secrets that the outside world, it seems, will never learn. One is Chinese secret-the making of the bright and beautiful color called vermilllon. or Chinese red; the other is Turkish secret-the in- laying of the hardest steel with gold and silver. Among the Chinese and among the Assyrians these two secrets are guarded well. Apprentices, before they are taken for either trade. must swear a strong oath to reveal nothing apprentices. furthermore, must heIong to families of standing, must nav 2 large sum by way of premium. and must furnish certificates of good char aoter and. honesty. These secrets have Ieen handed down faithfully from one
 Generation to. another for hundreds of years
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
RIACK OR YELLOWe

Andrew Lang writes about the MaIo of orleans in order to discuss and ar rive at a satisfactory settlement of tho vexed question. was Jeanne dAre "blond" or a "brune"-had she fair or had she dark hair? With characteris- tic thoroughness this deliver into archaic mysteries puts all authorities on the subject into the scales of his crltieai acumen and, balancing them' % nnos greatest weight possessed by a writer in the towns books at La Rochelle, ev- idence supported by one Guasco, who has seen the maid in male attire at the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

and to let her hair float loose and long would have been the act of an idiot. All the pictures and legends which rep resent her with long hair dancing on her shoulders as she rode are self con- demned. This is the essence of the ques- tion. People who described or painted her thus had never seen her or gave rein to romantic fancy. The only ex- plicit evidence given at the moment makes the maids hair black and is con- Armed by Guasco, who had seen her. The other evidence is legendary and ro- mantle"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

Philadelphia, This brahch starts near the beautiful Rigel Cat B) and flows to the point c; the southern branch, which Is much larger, begins at and flows far to the south, ending near the very bright star Alchernar. at A. The two branches together make up the longest constellation in the sky; to the ancients, however, it was still longer, for, being unable to see the South Pole of the heavens, they regarded the southern branch as flowing on with
 out end. The celestial river was by some identified with the fabled Ocean
 River of Homer which flowed around
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
spapish Steamer Goes to Pieces.

Island of Heligoland, Prussia. Oct. 27.- The Spanish steamer Zuria, from Ros- ario for Hamburg. went ashore off the south rocks during a gale today, and shortly afterwards went to pieces. Nine of her crew were drowned and seven- teen were saved. The survivors were rescued by the Government steamer Triton,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
low rates at advance

Exceptionally low rates at advanced ages (4O to 6s0
 Brst pOn- -participsting policies on the market, also annual dividend and term Assets over ss5, ,eoo, ,O0O-5eth year do- ing business fin A States.
 NattOnal Life of Vermont,
 J. l.. Haas, Mgr,
 Moses Bldg, Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29


 apart, taking first a pear-shaped fig- ure (Fig. 3D.. and finally separating into two distinct masses, one of' which moves around the other in an almost circular orbit, the two masses being so close together that they almost graze one another This is believed to De the present condition of Capella.
 The two revolving bodies are not solid, and hence their pull on one an- other distorts them into elongated lemon shaped figures. This elonga- tion does three things: First, 1t con tfnually pushes the bodies further apart. Second, it lengthens the time occupied by the companion in jour neying around its orbit, and finally. it gradually changes the form of this orbit itself from an almost circular path to a very much fattened one. So that when we see pair of faint stars. one of which is moving slowly around the other in a long, narrow curve we conclude that the development of the system has been going on for great many ages. When, on the other hand. we see a pair of stars which are very near together and in which the path is almost circular we conclude that the evolution of the system has, compara- lively speaking, only just begun It is in this way that very little of the past and future history of the stars becomes known to us.
 Eric Doolittle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
Coffee >,...,....> > Machines N'

Have come to stay. so useful. and our kind, "The Meteor" is positively guaranteed to make epicurean coffee, hot, fragrant and appetizing in a few min utes by simple and easy pro- cess. Handsome dining table ornaments, polished nickel ebony handle at these attrac- tive prices. s6. s7. ss, for three sizes, 2, 3. 4 pints.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
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Fig. 5-The Development of a Double
 Star.

most remarkable fact about this great system of three revolving suns is still to be mentioned. This is that the highest sun, A, is rushing through space at the incopceivable velocity of 2,00O million miles a year. or $500 miles a second, carrying the faint pair of suns with 1t.
 What is the cause of this enormous motion? If 1t continues, then certainly in the course of ages this little group will pass completely through our uni verse of visible stars, and emerge into the unknown void beyonds Is our uni
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
A T.RTAN pLAID BLOUsE.

The blouse seen in the picture IS Of Rob Roy plaid silk. The neck is cut VI shaped and finished with a wide collar of silk, piped with red velvet. and the crossed ends are held in place by
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
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The Advs ltiser COmpanys
 Inclosea land @s % for months sub- scripfiOn to The Daily and sunday Ad- vertiser, and send me prepaid, The Ad- Vertiser's new MuIti-COIored map of AL abama. Halted states and the world, offered . a premium.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
Now is ne
 Season

For a hot cup of coffee or 2 < dainty hot lunch. Keep out Of the Kitchen and enjoy light cookery on the latest novelty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
THE HEAVENS IN. NOVEMBER
BY PROF. DOOLlTTLE, Astronomer of the University of Pennsylvania

EXCELLENT POSITION,
 HUNDRED TIMES AS MUCH LIGHT AS THE sUN-THE OSTRICH SHELLS,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

The interesting group Sagittarius, which has been with us all summer, has now completely disappeared in tho west, and Capricornus and Aquarius are closely following 1t. This is the best time of year to trace out the faint, littIe-known groups, Aries, or the Ram, Pisces or the Fishes, and Cetus, the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

"Capeila's course admiring landsmen
 trace, But sailors hate her inauspicious face"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER! NEW IMPERIAL
 MULTE.COLORED Maps of Alabama .:..-
 UNITED STATES
 AND THE WORLD

An absolutely new departure from all previous styles of map making. By a new process The Advertiser Map has been en- graved to show the names of every county, river, railroad, town and city in the State, In white on black enameled back ground. In addition 1 sshOwn townxhip lines and range and township numbers, which will enable you to find the lOca- ton of any piece of land in the State. Distances are given be- tween statiops on all lines of railroads, population is given at name of town, county seats are located by picture of court house In cOlors.
 1t also gives the 1OO4 election returns by counties of all votes cast for State officials, con- gressmen and Preident. The census by counties, showing in- crease aud decrease of pOpuIa- ton, with approximate crop yield for cereals by cOun- ties, area, etc, etc.
 And this ts not all; On the reverse side are two maps-the world and the United States, making this map 6 most cOnve- nieut and use full reference aid to the business man, the Iavy- yer, teacher, doctor or any Oth- CT intelligent citizen. Every s0fnce, library, school room and home should have one of these excellent maps. 1t lH a pre- rnium worth having. In fact, 1t has not a rival in the premium wor q, and yet it is offered on very liberal terms. Through special arrangement we are able to make our readers this offer. The Daily Advertiser for c months and one of the new Imperial Multi CoIoPed Mapa of Alabama sent prepaid to your address upon receipt of 3a.0O, You can't afford to miss this opportunity. If you appreciate . good thing that might not last very long you will send for the map and paper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

early days 1t formed a constellation by itself. ./called Capra, or the Goat. In spitef of it's beauty it was supposed to have a baleful influence, foretelling pains and storms, and hence 1t was named the Rainy Goat star. Thus Ar atos wrote,
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09

dustry, and man named Borgenski, who is en-
titled to rank with the scene painters IN several
recent productions became a necessary ally of
the managers. Mr.. Borgenski is an artist in his
line, and he set about getting flowers that should
be something more than a palpable imitation
ANY one who has seen Mr.. Savage's production
of "Parsifal" for instance, will realize what he
has achieved
The garden set In 'Parsifar" mass of
flowers and foliage, and the scene plot was
worked out by the fowermalher well as by
the scene painter; his part was as great. if not
greater than the painters. And there was not
a paper flower leaf in the whole mass. There
was not bit of foliage or petal that was not
an accurate copy Of some natural product.
These flowers were all made of muslin or velvet.
painted and dyed by hand The cost of such
set of course is heavy-probaby that scene in
"Parsifal" cost well over $1,000 for the flowers
and foliage alone. But the solidity and natural
ness achieved are worth the cost. such man.
ayers as Mr. Savage and Mr.. Belasco realize.
Cheaper flowers are still used in many produc-
tions though paper as a material has passed
away in all plays which make any claim TO the
first rank
The cost and labor required to put these flow
ers on the stage surprising. For instance,
take the grass mat which covers the whole stage
at the Hippodrome for the West Point parade
ground scene. This mat cost SoUoO OHe couIu
almost seed down the fair green OF nine-hole
golf course for that price. There are 1900 square
yards in this mat and square yard of good
stage grass costs So
1t is made by weaving up through cord rug
by hand strips of tough grass. which has to be
imported from Madagascar. No other grass Is
tough and long enough to stand the wear. Then
the mat haSato be trimmed TO the proper length
to represent a cropped lawn. and the whole
dipped first in a green dye and then In fire
proohng. Every bit of stage scenery and foliage
has TO be hreproofed now, and sometimes when
the job is done in hurry the players at night
get their feet wet and colds result
OF course no two plays call for exactly the
same flowers and a man is constantly employed
designing from botanical plates the machine dies
TO cut out the new flowers from the muslin and
In making models for the girls TO work from In
coloring the blossom leaf after II is wired and
fastened to the bush. The largest ana pest
manufacturer in this city employs Frenchman
10 do this as the French. next perhaps. TO the
japanese, are still the most artistic manufac'-
urers of artificial flowers.
This Same firm. which makes most OK tne
flowers for the big managsra and also osccaxsss
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09

he found that large number Of them had been
appropriated by the guests for souvenirs. He
had to pay SO 80 for every bird that was lost.
However aside from the making of flowers
for women's hats, which is an old and almost a
separate industry the manufacture of artificial
flowers for the stage will in all likelihood remain
the chief branch of the business The flower
makers Iare busy this summer getting up the
scenes which next winter will cause comment in
the theatres For instance, the new AIDE play,
THE Bad Samaritan" which Mr.. Savage will
show In the fall, is already in the hands of the
flower men and the vegetable men, for in this
case the big scenes are laid on farm. The
dominant feature Of the landscape is going to be
great fields of growing corn partly on the stage.
partly painted into the distance on the back
drop, like the lettuce in Leah Kleschna-" This
corn has TO be manufactured exactly to resemble
the real thing, and each stalk will be life size.
Then there are also all sorts of garden vege
tables to be made. and the grass. and the flowers
of a farm dooryard. And in the last act every
thing must be made over again, in exact replica
OF the first set, only with every plant and bush
changed to it's autumn hues, and the corn cut
down and piled into shocks The labor on this
play alone will keep many men and women busy
all summer and this is only one play out of
many where artificial flowers and foliage will
play an important part in helping to create the
illusion of life, which is one of the chief ends
Of the drama.