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LOST HIS BET.
Couldn't Get Civil Answer to a Civil
Question.

couple of strangers from the rural dis
trict were lettering on one of Georgetowns
principal thoroughfares this week. and ac-
costed well-dressed young man coming
down the street wearing expression Of
unconcern.
Say, will you tell U.S. said one of them,
(which is the best way to get to the Cap
itol from here?'
Well replied the young man, sharply,
1.-THE best way. of course, is to take au-
tomobile an airship, but at the worst
you can take the street car"
Much obliged" said one of the men. Il
was so certain from your appearance that
you would give a civil answer TO a civil
question bet 81 bill with my friend here,
and there Is unmistakable proof that have
lost You can't always judge from appear
ances, anyhow"
At this retort the young fellow was taken
down considerably in his own estimation.
and will employ less wit In replying to
rural visitors In future.
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the half which is above the ground. but
were the earth transparent so that we could
look down through the ground, and were
the light of the sun blotted out. we should
see ourselves surrounded by stars in every
direction; that is, should the entire
celestial sphere with all of the constella-
lions at once, both those of summer and of
winter
The half of the celestial sphere which
is above the ground in the daytime is
invisible to US simply because of the over
power;ng brightness of the sun; when the
light of this body is cut off by an eclipse
or by descent into a deep mine or other
wise the stars become visible even in the
daytime.
Figure l shows the half of the sphere
which Is row above the ground in the
early evening The sun in its yearly jour-
ney around the sky will in time pass right
across this map. 1t will move along the
path marked ALB and blot out the con-
stelations one after another as it comes
to them. Thus in midsummer 1t Will have
reached the constellation Gemini; as can
high up in the sky and the constellation
same time Evidently at that time the con-
stellations Cancer and Leo will be low down
in the west at sunset, while the smaller
consultations to the left Of B, (Which are
not shown on the map, will be due south
The will reach the point c and pass
below the equator on the '22d of September
On the 21st of March it is at a point eX-
actly opposite TO G on the celestial sphere
ii then crosses the equator in its upward
motion among the stars and at this in
start spring begins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-25

over Europe. If not happy. at least In a sat
isfied frame of mind. Four of these months
had been delightfully."- passed in Paris; and.
as his nomad excursions had invariably
terminated in that queen of cities. j make
Paris the starting point of his somewhat
remarkable adventures Besides, 1t was In
Paris that he first saw her. And now, here
he was at last. homeward- bound. That
phrase had a mignty pleasant sound; 1t
was to the ear what honey is to
the tongue. Still. he might yet
have been in Paris but for one thing: She
was on board this very boat.
Suddenly his eyes opened full wide, bright
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while in general it was considered a con-
stellation of misfortune and III omen:
The stars marked and D are both beau
tiful doubles in small telescope, and the
observers should not fail to examine the
curious cloud-l like mass at p, which even
in an opera glass is seen to be made up OF
more than a hundred stars packed closely
together.
To the east of the Cancer is the beautiful
constellation Leo, or the Lion, the western
half of which is often called the Sickle one
of the most remarkable peculiarities of TINS
group is the large number of double stars
which it contains, though unfortunately
most of these are not visible in very small
telescope. Those marked F and II are,
however beautiful objects even with a
small glass, while the stars marked * ana
L are true double systems, made up Of two
immense suns revolving about one an
other.
This is the best time of the year to trace
out the whole of the constellation Ursa
Major or the Great Dipper, for the giant
southern half of this large group is well up
in the sky. The star marked M has naked
eye companion, which in early times was
used by the Arabs as a test of penetra ting
vision. Among the other stars many beau
tiful doubles will be found with a small
telescope.
New Satellite of Jupiter.
Jupiter the most beautiful of all the
planets, is so rapidly drawing near the sun
that it will not be visible much longer. In
a small telescope the enormous ball, more
than 5000 miles in diameter, is seen to be
encircled by numerous greenish and rose
colored bands, while near by are the four
bright moons. The planet turns completely
around in less than four hours, and the
moons move around the planet with great
rapidity, so that even from hour to hour
the appearance of the system is constantly
changing.
In 1897 Prof. Barnard, then of the Lick
ohSpry1 Announced the discovery of
| fifth moon to Jupiter, an excessively faint
| little attendant. which is nearer to the
planet than any of the other four. And on
January 4, 1905. the news was telegraph
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with the enchantment. I have yet to see
his equal as a horseman. He would have
whites which our old friend. Ulysses (or
was it Diomedes? p had such ado about.
Every man has some vice or other, even
IL 1t is only being good Warburton had
perhaps two, poker and tobacco. He would
get out of bed at any hour If some con-
genial spirit knocked at the door and whis
pered that a little game in progress
and that his money was needed to keep 1t
going. / dare say that you know all about
these little games. But what would you?
What is a man to do in a country where
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Written for The Evening Star by Prof. Eric Doc
little.
AS spring approaches the winter constel-
lations are steadily sinking lower and lower
in the western heavens. The brilliant
group Taurus with the Pleiades and Hya-
des has now drawn so near the sun that it
remains above the horizon for only few
hours after sunset. the magnificent Orion
is low in the southwest. and the milky
way, which in mid-winter formed beauti-
full arch passing exactly overhead, now lies
much nearer the ground in the west and is
far less conspicuous than it has been.
This gradual Transformation of the face
OF the sky as the months pass away is most
interesting and impressive. Probably every
one has noticed that the stars which are visi-
bic in winter are not the same as those
which are seen in summer. or at least that
certain groups the milky way are some
times visible and sometimes not. The rea-
why this Is so is not nearly so general
ly known, however, and yet the explanation
is very Simnle
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The Late Winter Stars.

The constells ton Cancer, or the Crab,
which is just east of Gemini, can readily
be traced out from the map. 1t is one OF
the faintest considerations of the zodiac
and was hence called in ancient times the
Dark Sign and quantity described as black
and without eyes. Yet few groups have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-25

Little Clarence-"Pa. what is an OPP
timist?''
Mr. Callipers-"An optimist, my son, is
person who doesn't care what happens If Il
doesn't happen to him-"-Puck.
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SUMS Motion Among the Stars.

1t should be remembered that the earth
is but a small particle, as it were but
grain of dust in the immensely of space.
The celestial sphere surrounds 1t all
sides, below as well as above. In the night
time we see but half of this sphere, that TO-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-25

did you ever try treatment for your
eyes, poor man?'
"Nothin' but an eye-opener now and
then, ma am. Chicago Journal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-25
HEAVENS IN MARCH
Gradual Transformation as
the Seasons Change
SIMPLE EXPLANATION
NEW SATELLITE OF JUPITER RE-
GENTLY DISCOVERED.
Suns Motion Among the Stars An
Annular Echpse-Planets of
the Month.

Written for The Evening Star by Prof. Eric Doc
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-20

SLAMS, who were waiting on our infan-
try to make It's dispositions for at
tack. Just before we charged the bat
terry received its cue and raked the
whole length of the Russian trench.
"Of the work of his adversaries on
the plain Kuropatkin says: FWhenev-
er there are heights the Japanese try
to occupy these or any other strategic
ceive us as to the object of their at
tack they make demonstrations at 9th
er points with many guns and few
troops. Sometimes this demonstra-
ton will continue for days and nights
before they come up to their objective
with their main force. Usually they
attack in the night If they gain the
position. daybreak finds them in
trenched.'
by such feints and their diaboli-
cal rushes in the night the Japanese
expected to take Port Arthur in Au-
gust They did get 2O3 Metre Hill az
we now know and their failure to hold
1t meant four months more of terrible
work. The strategy involved is essen
italy that of the pitcher making a
pretense of throwing to one base and
then throwing to another. Not upon
the idea, but upon its execution. de-
ponds success The Japanese infan-
try in hiding in gullies, cornfields and
villages never betrays it's position.
The action of the guns and infantry,
who play the deceivers to the right
and the left is earnest to the point of
making heavy sacrifices if need be.
That Is the nature of Japanese thor
oughness.
when the Japanese fight in the
daytime they try to hide their com.
batants. and their collective bodies
never appear within range of the Rus.
sians,' is another statement from the
general of what was supposed to be
one OF the best grounded of all armies
in its drill-books. If there is any one
thing of course, which infantry is SUD.
posed to avoid, it is being caught In
close order under fire. But the Rus
ssians have often had this misfortune
and the teacher is thorough in his
primer lesson"
kuropatkin. 1t seems from these
statements. knew the habits and plans
OF the Japanese, but could not brine
his sullen and disheartened army to-
gether in such way as to oppose the
enemy successfully. His was hope
less task b4A he worked hard to ac.
complish it. He failed, not because
he was not efficient, but because those
under him could not be deuended
upon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-20
THE CANALS GUARDIAN

Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of the
Panama canal commission. is amply
ntted for the work of reorganizing the
more or less demoralized forces on the
isthmus and getting them to do the
work that counts. Mr.. Shonts in an
interview granted newspaper cores
pendent Saturday, spoke of the condi-
elons in Panama and the kind of men
who nave gone to the isthmus to work
put have for various reasons, given nm
ther positions and returned to the
. United States to become enemies of
sgfhe canal project. Mr.. Shonts said:
They are for the most part men
utterly untitled to perform any feature
pr the work down there, who are not
used to the discomforts of tropical
cline, and who are not prepared to
undergo ,ihe hardships of work in the
held. Most of them are young men
who have been described by one of our
ohclals as mammals boys They went
70 the 1sthmus thinking it was a sort
OF a holiday trip or picnic, and that
they were to have little work and good
pay. Others who have gone down there
went with the best intentions in the
world, and if they had been properly
handled would probably still be there,
contentedi and doing good work. But
when they got to Colon there was no
one to meet them, they were allowed to
wander around and shift for them
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selves, became homesick the first day
and soon returned to the United States
to roast the canal project.
Nearly every person who returned
from the isthmus for months declared
in the press that they had been de-
ceived as to conditions there and had
fine kick to make about how they
had been buncoed by the commission.
They said alluring prospects had been
held out to them and that they found
that all representations had been false.
1t took us long time to run down the
source of this misinform alton.
"The commission had certainly held
out no inducements for persons to go
to Colon that were not fully borne out
by conditions there. But finally we To-
Gated 1t. The enticing inducements
were contained in literature sent out
by the civil service commission. This
matter had been distributed with the
best intentions in the world but there
was back kick to it, which has done
our efforts to get the right sort of hui.
man material on the isthmus a serious
injury"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-20
BLOOMFIELD cHAuTAuouA.
Opened Monday Under Most Favor
able OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Speaks.

able Circunfstances-7old speaks.
Bloomfield, July 49, - The first
Bloomfield assembly given under the
auspices OF the Davis county Chautau
qua association opened Monday morn.
ing under most favorable circum,
stances. the tenting accommodations
being fine,the grounds in splendid con-
dition with the weather all that could
be desired The three programs OF the
day We're given to an audience OF
about 1900 persons which was greater
than was expected at the initial SEES
sion and the association is sanguine
of brilliant success which shall rem,
der the Chautauqua assembly per-
manent feature of the summers enter
tainment. The morning session was
devoted to the Seton Indians who
were organized into tribes by Miss
Gilman and Bible lecture by DIR. G. S.
Medbury on the subject, "A View OF
the Bible from Within
The afternoon session opened at 2
O'Clock with music by the Bloomfield
Cornet band followed by concert
by the Nightingale Jubilee Singers
who carried the audience by storm
Their equals never haze been heard
In the city before. They responded
to encore again and again with selec
tions ranging from the sublime to the
ridiculous. With Mrs. Browns rem
dition Of "Steal Away to Jesus" the
audience was lifted to the highest
point of religious exaltation only to be
convulsed with laughter by the next
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taken up for the good Of the country
and regardless Of political effect that
has set an example to states, to cities,
to companies. to communities of inter-
est and of capital
1t is not an indication that theworld
is growing worse and that there Is a
graft disease. as the Minneapolis paper
says. This is not indicated when
grafters are discovered who have been
stealing for years. 1t Is an indication
of improvement and growing respecta.
bility when these grafters are rooted
out, and Theodore Roosevelt may be
thanked for the courage that moved
him to start the now widespread in.
yestigation
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THE NlHlLlsTs AND RUSSIA.

LET this execution serve as joyful
signal to the Russian millions in re-
volt and as the death knell of the dy-
ing autocracy. Let it remind all dogs
of the autocracy Of national Justice
This is the closing paragraph OF
proclamation issued by the Russian nj.
hilists since the murder Of Major Gen.
eral Count Chouvc loft, perfect of Mos
COW. The revolutionary movement
within the cars domain is growing
steadily and surely, and unless the
car takes steps very early to allow
the people some form of representative
government there is sure to be reign
of bloody terror in Russia that will
end in nothing less than the over
throw of the bureaucracy
Gov Gen. Trepoff, of ST. Petersburg,
who already has been notified that sen.
tence of death has been pronounced
on him, it is expected, will be the
next victim Of the nihilists. He, him
self, has no hope of escaping the as
sassin's hand.
| The society acknowledges that the
murderer of Shouvaloff was one of it's
members, and declares that the crime
was committed "on account of the
black and cruel activity of this satrap
at Odessa, where Count Shouvaloff
was formerly project, and his subse-
quent return to the active service of
reaction at the call of Trepoff, the
pan-Russian dictator. to stamp out the
revolution in MOSCOW"
A correspondent says that the pro-
jected meeting of the delegates from
tho and rnunioino litio Ga
throughout Russia certainly will take
place in Moscow in spite Of the author.
tiles, who have caused announcements
to be published everywhere that the
meeting has been prohibited.
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USELESS WARNING.

Lincoln Star.-The speech of Lord
Roberts in the house of lords, en-
phasizing the military unpreparedness
of Great Britain. will cause sensa-
ton at home and throughout Europe
and then will come to nothing. 1t deals
with confirmed national trait, trait
which we ourselves in the United
States inherited. The military system
III England, and in the United States
likewise until our army reorganization
Under the lead of Secretary Root only
year or so ago, is feudal. Both the
English and the Americans have
grimly stuck to the local militia sys
tenn, Notwithstanding it is utterly in
applicable to modern conditions. Re-
crufting by volunteer methods in time
OF emergency has proved little more
than the transfer of the wretchei
militia array to actual campaigning.
However modified in form the re-
suit has always been. here and In Great
Britain, when serious war came on, In
competence, confusion, frightful vast .
and failure. The story has been the
same In our case from the French
wars and the revolution In the eigh ;
teentn century through the war Of
1872, and the Indian wars down to the
civil war, and last In our war with
Spain. In the great civil war we had
recruit. train and create armies before
the national military purposes could
be achieved. Precisely so 1t has been
In England so far as land operations
are concerned, In all the great and
protracted wars in which they have
been concerned for centuries. So 1t 10
today, as Lord Roberts. himself a pro-
fessional soldier of distinguished abil-
ty and experience, points out. So it
will remain In spite Of his warnings.
The English and the Americans sim
ply will not prepare for war on land.
They are profoundly averse to stand
ing armies OF any size. Our little stand
ing army of less than $4,000 is viewed
with alarm-this for people of S0,-
100000! Nothing moves us to real ac-
ton but the thunder of the enemy 4
guns or actually impending national
peril. Then indeed we bestfr ourselves
and after laundering and humiliation
we always have somehow got along.
1t is SC in England. The possession
of vast colonies has literally forced the
English to have some sort of regular
army, but they let it go at haphazard.
Both peoples are alike in another
essential respect. Both are isolated.
The sea is the first great line of Eng
lands defense, as 1t is also ours. We
also have distance. Behind this de-
Tense both have rested in sense of
security which has generally turned
out in the end to be we'll founded.
With the laundering old feudal ar
systems, We have both managed to get
along. And this is about the way we
shall continue indefinitely. In the teeth
of the admonitions of such men as
Lerd Roberts and Theodore Rocse-
yelt-
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sfGouRNEY.

Sigourney July 1S.-Raymond Rich
ardson is visiting in Ottunwa with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Fred c. Schipper and wife viii soon
leave for the west. They expect To
make an extended trip visiting MANY
points OF interest and attend the Lewis
and Clark exposition before returnino
Art Jones is visiting at the Quinn
RENE near Washington.
Fred Neiman is buying cattle to feed
IN the. Kansas City market and ship
ping them here.
J. F. Seymour is In Minneapolis
Minn., on business.
Mrs. Frank Hawk and children, OF
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Delta, are visiting at the r. V. Stavs
ems home.
Miss Merle Minteer is visiting with
friends near Martinsburg and expects
to make visit In Ottumwa before
returning home.
Mrs. T.. Jenkins and granddaughter,
Berenice Neal are visiting relatives in
Fairfield.
Willie Needham spent a few days
in New Sharon last week, visiting his,
little cousin. who had the misfortune
to have his foot cut off by q moving
machine. He took the little fellow a
photograph for his amusement, Willie
returned home Saturday evening.
Mrs. Lottie' Schriner and children,
returned to their home in Ollie Satur-
cay.
Mrs, E. E. Phelps and little SON,
Waldo, went to Hedrick Friday morn
ing to see Johnnie Roop, who Is very
low with typhoid fever. Mr.. Phelps
followed on Saturday afternoon, and
they will probably return the first Of
the week
Mrs. Anna M Utterback has gone
to visit relatives In New York state.
Mrs. r. Peters OF Lebanon, Ind, Is
visiting at the j. s. White home.
Many Sigourney people have re-
ceived announcements of the marriage
of Cap r. Miller and Miss Nettie Har-
tin, at Winterset, on July 10, to be "at
home" after August ], at Sigourney.
Misses Anna Kelly and Alice Will
liams came home from Cedar Falls
en- the early train Sunday. They have
been attending summer school at the
state normal. One of the Keokuk
| county party, Miss Nina Bott. Is quite
sick.
An automobile caused runaway
Sunday evening about 1880 o'clock Mr..
Porter. the druggist, had livery team
and was proceeding toward the home
OF friend, when he met the auto.
The only damage was to the buggy.
but several people had narrow escapes
as the team ran through part Of one
OF the, main streets Of. the town
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upon.
THE GRAFT DISEASE.

NAe obONC, SIdlL DSlOW.
Gra1ters reign where'er we go.
Graft in stocks,
Graft in blocks.
Drop a good man in the slot.
Pull out CRATER, fierce and hot.
rs there graft disease? Has
America lost the art of producing hon
est men? Has the hunger for money
drawn us into a common maelstrom Of
loot and grab?
Many men who are not naturally
optimistic are inclined to throw up
their hands in despair when thew see
about them so many evidences of the
surrender to greed; United States
senators using their Offices to swindle;
great officers of great insurance COM
panles. men with millions already, u.s.
ing their trusteeship to rob widows
and orphans OF the benefits Of family
sacrifices; ministers of state reproyed
for indiscretions abroad: trusted
employees of the government at home
going smiling to the penitentiary. They
knew where the swag is hidden. It
will be there when they come out. Is
1T wonder that such spectacles make
mems hearts sick ?"-The MINNEAPOLIS
Journal.
The Journal views the question of
graft from the pessimistic side, which
lis nearly always if not invariably. the
wrong one. That there is widespread
graft there is no doubt. Facts brought
out by Investigations show it. But
they also show that in nearly every
case the graft has been going along,
undisturbed. for years. Som ething
has, it seems, suddenly awakened the
country to a realization that graft has
been rampant. And that something
somebody, to be exact-is Theodore
Roosevelt. 1t is his merciless pursuit
of the srafters in the employ of
the government that has aroused the
country. 1t Is his course of action