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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
The Sun Is the Thing

RUT human beings are not so much interested
in the stars in the sun. We really
don't care much how long it takes the earth
to turn over and bring a star back again to
the same point in the sky, or how many times
in year a star seems to go by. We set our
clocks and reckon our year by the turning of
the earth under the sun; and because the
earth not only turns under the sun but also
longer to bring the sun up to its old place in
the sky than to bring back a star. This
comes about simply enough. Suppose one is
IN room looking out the window at tree /;
if he turns round once exactly he will find
himself looking straight at the tree again.
But if he tried the same thing when he was
on a moving train he would find that while
he making the turn the tree had fallen
behind. He would then, according to the
way he twirled, have to turn a little more or a
little less to bring the tree straight before his
nose.
Therefore, it is not quite true that day is
the time required for the earth to turn once
on its axis 1t really is this time, plus the
four minutes required for it to turn and
look back at the sun. The time required for
this extra turn is not the same at all times
in the year. One can easily see, in the case
of the moving train, that the faster the cars
were moving or the nearer the track the tree
stood, the more the latter would seem to
shift its position. Since the earth is some
three million miles nearer the sun in winter
than in summer, and since also the nearer
the SUN it is the faster it travels, the difference
between star day and sun day is greatest in
winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
Short Days and Long
By E. T. Brewster

HOW long, after all, is day? The geogra-
phies say that it is the time required for
the earth to turn once its axis that it
measures twenty-four hours by the clock
and that fraction more than three hundred
and sixty-hve of them are to be found in a
year.
1t is good plan, when one reads anything
in a book, to test it when he can for himself
We want to see just how long it takes the
earth to turn over once. Let us take anyone
of the fixed stars that Charfces to be in line
with some convenient point, and, watch in
hand. notice the precise moment at which
the star touches, let say, particular tree,
branch or steepe on the horizon line If, on
the next evening, we stand at precisely the
same spot, and sight the same star again in
line with the same point as before, then we
shall know that the earth has turned on its
axis just once.
Curiously enough, however, we shall dis
cover, if this is done carefully that, in spite
of what the books say, it does not require
twenty-four hours for the earth to turn over
once About four minutes before the dav is
up, by the clock, the earth has revolved once
and brought the star back to its old position
in the sky. Really then, the earth turns on
its axis once in twenty three hours fifty-six
minutes, and four seconds; and, as one can
easily reckon, makes something more than
three hundred and sixty-six revolutions in a
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
Shortest Is the Longest

ODDLY enough it happens that December
a. which has the least daylight of any
day in the year, and is therefore commonly said
to be the shortest of all days. is really the
longest. 1t does, as matter of fact, al
most half a minute over twenty-four hours:
while the true shortest day, which comes on
September II, falls short by about the same
time
So we really have three different days"
There is the star day, which is the time during
which the earth turns over once. This,
because the earth spins steadily is always
the same length twenty-three hours, fifty
six minutes four and nine hundredths sec
onds, and there are three hundred and sixty
six of them in a year. Then there is the
ordinary legal day which is the n time re-
This is just twenty-four hours Besides these,
there is the sun day, its time told by the sun
dial, which, taking short with long, averages
twenty-four hours, but is never found to be
exactly the same length for two days in sue
ceSSion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
In Summer and Winter

THERE is string of long days in the win
ter, followed by a series of short ones in
the spring In the summer the days get
long again, though not quite so long as in
the winter. In the autumn come the SHORTEST
days of all. Only occasionally are clock day
and sun day of the same length. Only four
times year do clock noon by the clock hands
and sun noon by the sun dial occur at the
same moment; while because the long and
short SUN days are found in sets, they often
times may be more than fifteen minutes
apart.
their time by the sun But time for civilized
men is time by the clock. The days are all
twenty-four hours long, and no matter where
the sun is, it is noon for when the clock
strikes twelve. Nevertheless, astronomers
often 60 by star time, get in extra day in
each year, and have their noon fall at all
times of the day or night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

put into it She a sent it one mile, forty seven
yards, two feet, an 'leven inches? That's what
happened to Sokemout Suggs and it was by
long odds the greatest rap he ever made in
his life
"On'y went 'leven feet!" sings out Wagon
Tongue. why, I've seen him send EN- clean
over"
Yes, 1 know you've seen some of his high,
soarin homers that nobody could reach. So
have |. But this one wasn't soarer There
were two on bases, two out, and run needed
to win, when Sokemout made this memorable
drive. He come up, picked out a swift one,
and jammed it for all he was worth. Zipl it
shot along the sod, and, zip! instead O bounc-
ing, it was going so fast it just kept right on
under the grass, THROWN up cloud o grass
and dirt like six-inch shell. And the ketcher
run out and dug it up and ketched Sokemout
before he got to first. That's case O hitting
EN- too hard If he'd hit it half as hard, it
probably would have punched hole in the
left field fence; for professor guy who was
energy-I think that's what he said-behind
that drive would a sent it one mile forty
seven yards, two feet, AN 'leven inches"
Wagon Tongue Willyums said nothin'
saw had him going, and kept on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
To My Dimp1ed Love

Once Cupid, when in playful mood,
Beheld thy face, of beauty rare.
He kissed it. Now, in either cheek,
Remains his mark, dimple, there.
Charles ". LURE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

IF had hit that ball just one ounce harder, "
i said Wagon Tongue Willyums to me one
evening after a specially hot game with
Larrup Center,-"if I'd hit it just one teenty
ounce harder, she'd a cleared that fence,
stead O. hitting the top; that drive would a
getting me caught at second; and we'd won
the game with wings"
"Shucks!" says /. 81 see that yeller dog
if is around again. We might have Won,
and we might not If the ball had gone over
the fence, the chances are it d hit stone or
a rock or rubber bicycle tire, and bounced
back again. 1t was luck did it. You can't beat
luck in baseball-and nature. You can beat
good playing by playing better; but when
luck natures against you, you might as
well cash in and quit.
You may be one o them fortune tellers,
or prophet, or ogre or one o them kind
that knows it ALL" says Wagon Tongue
young un', but l stick to this the harder
you swipe the ball the more games you're
going to win And if I'd hit that ball to-day
Just an ounce"
Hold onl" says l. Hold on with that
talk about hitting the ball hard. The race
don't go to the swiftest horse always and the
hardest rap don't always clear the bases; and
| en- prove it. You remember Sokemout
Wagon Tongue Willyums bit off bunch of
plug and nodded. Of course he knew Sokem-
out Suggs. He'd been the champion hitter of
the Big Stick League years back, and every
body that ever went to ball game knew him.
Sokemout's Hit
WELL, what'd you say if l sh'd tell you
that Sokemout Suggs once hit ball SO
hard he didn't get to first base on it! Whatd
you say If swipe he once made only went leven
feet away from the plate, when the force he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
Natures Fine Work

THAT amt the only case" says l. Hitting
the ball too hard lost that game. But once
when Long Arm Leary and l were touring
Cuba last winter Nature got in her fine work
on us in addition to having a ball hit too
hard. And it robbed us of lot of ready
money.
we had been winning games right along
in Cuba, and having a good time, till fin'lly
we got down into the sugar district of the
island and there we struck a town called
ssa he 1s Rs
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
sheridan's Double Marriage.

It was in 1857 that the Gretna Green
marriages were made illegal. A glance
at its registers lay yet inspire the
novelist Of the future. One entry will
be sure to puzzle. Twice within few
days occurs the record of the marriage
Of Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Miss
Grant. There was only one X. b. s.,
pnly one bride for the same gentleman.
The double entries are not the result of
any blunder on the part of the Rev.
Mr.. Vulcan. The parties were really
twice married at Gretna Green. Arriv-
Ing on Sunday they were duly we'd
ded, and sped away to Edinburgh
There, however, Sheridan CHANGED to
glance at newspaper in which ap-
peared the lucubrations of 4 lawyer.
In these plainly stated was the fact
that no contract executed on a Sunday
Is binding. Clearly, then, their we'd
ding was not legal. Back to Gretna
Green they scurried, to be remarked
on week day and leave the dual rec
ord to perpleX later generations Of
sympathetic searchers of the records
ST lanes Gazette.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12

no very prominent part in politics here
tofore. At the head of the state COM
mission is Lawyer Frank W. Stevens
of jamestown, while Charles ii. Keep,
formerly assistant secretary of the
treasury, and Martin G. Decker, a
member Of the Interstate commerce
commission, are two other members Of
this body well known to the public,
the remaining two being not so well
known. The New York city commits
sion held its first meeting Monday at
the Office of the former rapid transit
commission, which is one of the bodies
superseded by it. The commissioners
announced that all their work would
be made known to the public from day
to day.
Watterson's Dark Horse Out.
1t has become known that Governor
John A. Johnson of Minnesota Is the
dark horse recently referred to by
Editor Watterson of the Louisville
Courier-Journal as regular Democrat
north of Mason and Dixon's line who
could lead the Democratic party to vic
tory. This fact leaked out In connec-
ton with movement Of the anti-Bry-
an forces to organize themselves
around Johnson as rallying point
Reapportionment Plot Thiekens.
On the same day that Governor
Hughes of New York issued his call
for an extra session of the legislature
for the purpose of enacting n reappor-
tlonment law Attorney General Jack
son, in response to a request from the
secretary of state, Whalen, both of
whom were elected as Democrats on
the Hearst ticket, rendered an opinion
to the effect that the present state
senate must be regarded as merely a
de facto body, because il was elected
under the unconstitutional reappor-
tionment of last year, and that new
election for the entire senate must be
held this fall under the apportlonment
of 1894. This serves to further COM
plicate the problem which brought the
senate and house into a deadlock be-
fore adjournment.
Fairbanks Cocktail Story.
An article in the Phalanx, a Prohibi-
ton organ of indianapolis, has set the
political gossips by the ears telling of
the serving of cocktails at the Fair
banks luncheon to Roosevelt on Deco
ration day.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
CURES YOUR KIDNEYS.
Do Not Endanger Life When an
owosso Citizen Shows You
the Cure.

Why will people continue to suffe,
the agonies Of kidney complaint, back
ache, urinary disorders, lameness, head
aches, languor, why allow themselves
to become chronic invalids, when a GER
tain cure is offered them2 Doan's Kid
ney Pills is the remedy to use, because
1t gives to the kidneys the help they
need to perform their work
If you have any. even one, of the
symptoms of kidney diseases, cure your
self now, before diabetes, dropsy or
Brights disease sets in and death results.
Read this Owosso testimony:
Mrs Nina Irish, living at 1909 Henry
St, Owosso, Mich says: Il suffered a
severe attack of kidney trouble several
years ago, but Doan's Kidney Pills cured
me. My kidneys were in a very disord-
cred condition. My back ached great
deal and it was only with severe pains
that was able to stoop to pick anything
up / suffered much from rheumatism
and my back was very weak. Dizzy
spells were of frequent occurrence and /
suffered many other symptoms of kid
ney trouble. l procured Doan's Kid
ney Pills and began using them and
from the wonderful Gre they gave me
feel that l can recommend them to
other suffers"
For sale by all Dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, Sole Agents for the United
States
Remember the name-Doan sand
take no other.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
The Buzzard In FLIGHT.

There can be no doubt that the buzz
zard is the living aeroplane in perfec'
ton. 1t cannot sail against the wind
except as other birds do-by sheer pow
err of moving wings-but it can sail ut
amazing speed before the wind, at
right angles to the wind and can sail
within a few points of the wind.
When there is no wind its flight is
clumsy-not much of an Improvement
on the flying of hen. Authors are
wont to describe the buZZard as sail
ing in the sky on days when the
earth perspires beneath a sultry, still
atmosphere. But 1t will also be re-
membered that these authors invari-
ably describe the buzZard as being
ga speck in the brassy heavens" AS a
matter of fact, that Is just the point
of the buzZard's aerial knowledge.
When there is no breeze close to the
earth it is always to be observed roost-
ing in tree or flying laboriously into
the zenith until it finds an upper cur
rent, where it can navigate without la
bor-New York Times.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
Ne,mleh znd t,srrinn pxs.

For many centuries the city OF Nor
wlch, In respect OF the manor of Garlic
ton, was liable 10 provide annually
twenty-four herring pies for the royal
kitchen. Blomefeld in his History
of Norfolk" referring to this quaint
service, priEts letter from the house
hold officers of Charles l.. making
divers just exceptions" to the quality
Of the pies which had been forwarded
by the city sherifrs.
The main exceptions read as follows:
First yor DO not send them accord.
ing 10 your tenare of the first new her
rings that are taken.
Secondly, you co not cause them 10
be well baked in good and strong
pastye as they ought to be, that they
may endure the carriage the better
Thirdly. whereas you should by
your tenure bake in these pastyes six.
score behring's att the least. being the
great fundredth. which doth require
five TO be put into every pye at the
least. we find but fower behring's To
be in divers Of them.
"Fourthly. the number of pyes which
you sent ut this TYNE we find to bn
fewer than have been sent heretofore
and divers Of them much broken.
And. lastly. we understand the
bringer of them was constrained to
make three several journeys TO you be-
fore he could have them, whereas it
seemeth he is bound to come but
once" -Chapbers Journal.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
Probate Order.
A. II Dumond,
City Cleik.

State OF Michigan, County Of Shiawassee. SIS
At session of the Proba' SDourt for SAID
County, held at the Probate once IN the City of
Corunna. on Saturday, the 22nd day of June
seven.
Present, Matthew Bush, Judge OF Probate.
In the matter OF the estate OF Prudence M c.
earn. deceased.
On reading and filing the petition OF
Harvey j. Patterson, praying that administra
tion OF said estate may be granted to the petit
toner or some other suitable person.
1t is ordered. That the 22nd day OF July next,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at said Probate
ONCE, be assigned for hearing said petition.
And it is further ordered, That copy OF this
order be published three successive weeks pre-
vious to said day of hearing in the Owosso
TIMFs newspaper printed and circulating in
said County of Shiawassee.
MATTHEW BUSH
Judge OF Probate.
BY KATHERINE E. KELSEY.
Probate Register.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
p o Ii T &c AL
Georeia's New Governor.

Georgia's New Governor.
In his inaugural address Georgia S
new governor Hoke Smith, intensified
the line of demarcation between the
white and the black races by saying
that any plan to aid the negroes which
failed to recognize the racial differ
ences would not succeed. He insisted,
further, that the negro had the same
opportunity TO develop that other races
had before slavery days, and that
slavery improved the black race, while
a majority Of the negroes In that state
had ceased to improve since slavery
was abolished. lie thought that few
had been helped by learning from
boolEs, but that all had been helped
who had been taught or made to work.
Nevertheless lie recognized the duty OF
the white man to be absolutely just
TO the negro.
City Traction Partner.
Mayor Reyburn has signed the new
ordinance making the city of Phiadel-
phia a partner in the management of
the clty's street railways, with the
prospect of becoming the owner OF
them in fifty years. The mayor and
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
Commissioners Notice

In the matter OF the estate OF MaryE Austin.
deceased. -''iu'
We. the undersigned, having been appointed
by the Hon. Matthew Bush Judge OF prohsI
IN and for the County OF Shiawassee STATE 10
Michigan Commissioners 10 receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands Ct ali ner.
sons against said estate, do hereby give notice
the City OF Owosso, in said County, on Mondav-
the goth day OF August, A. D., 1907, and on Fri.
day. the 2tth day OF October, A. D. 1907, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon OF each OF said davs for
the purpose OF receiving and aojustirg ali claim
against SAID estate, and that four months from
the go day OF June, A. D., 1907, are allowed to
creditors 10 present their claims to said corr
m ssioners for adjustment and allowance
Dated, the Path uay OF June, A. d., 1907.
MCELwANE MINER.
FRANK WEIDMAN
Commissioners
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
Public Notice.

interested that it is the tention of the
Common Council of the City of Owosso 10
construct public sewer on South Shiswassee
street from the sewer on the center of
Howard street 10, the sewer on the cen
ter OF Clinton street, according 10 the
plat and diagram prepared by the Board OF
Pubic Works OF said City, showing all the
streets. public ground. land. lots, and sun
divisions thereof. in the districts and the pro
posed route and location OF the sewer, and the
dep1h grade dimensions and estimated cost
thereof, which diagram and plat may be found
for examination at the ONCE OF the CITY clerk
OF said city, and that the said Board and Coup-
Gil VIII meet and consider any suggestions and
OBJECTIONS that may be made by parties inter
ested with respect 10 such sewer. at the Com
mon Council Chamber in tn City FAIL. on
Monday the 10Th day OF July, 1907, at s o'clock
p. NJ.
A. II Dumond,
City Cleik.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
commls.ioner., Nntlna

In the matter OF the estate OF olivia C.
Nj Clintock, deceased "
We me nndersigoed having been appoint
ed by The Hon. Matthew Bush. Judge ~ pre
pate In ard for The County Of Shiawnssee
State OF Michigan, Commissioners 10 receive
examine ana aoJnst all claims and demands
give nouce. mat we will meet az the oaice OF
william h. Rowley, Ia the ViIiare OF LaiSxs-
ourg IN sald county, on Morday, Inc ut 1 day OF
OF october A: d.. 1907 al teno' cloc X in the fore
noon OF each OF said days for lie purpose OF
receiving and adjusting all claims against aid
DAY OF June. A.. ID. 1907, are allowed creditors
10 present their claims to said Commi .sioners
TOT adjustment and allowance
LATED the End day OF June. A. ID. 1907
WILLIAM II. ROwLEY
ANDRhw ROHRABACHER
Commissioners
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12
LEGAL CRIMINAL
Par. Played by Pinkertons.

After several other men mentioned
by Orchard as accomplices in his vari-
Gus alleged crimes had testified for
the defense in the trial of w. d. Hay
wood at Boise, all of whom denied
Orchards story in every particular, so
far as it concerned them, the defense
brought forward the star witness in
their plan to show up an alleged con-
spiracy of the Mine Owners associa-
ton to crush the Western Federation
of Miners and ultimately to hang its
leaders, Haywood, Meyer and Petit
bone. This witness was Morris Fried
man, who formerly was employed for
five years as stenographer in the
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-07-12

HSnt upon the
secret methods adopted by the mine
oV! ers and by the detective agency
by telling Of the agents and spies sent
out to obtain membership in the min
ers' union, many of whom held impor-
tant official positions while making
regular reports of the union affairs to
the detective headquarters.
Copies of these reports, which Fried
man had made during his employment
by the agency, were read by Lawyer
barrow and offered in evidence, be-
Ing identified under oath by Fried
man. The judge had not yet decided
finally whether this matter would be
admitted. These reports showed that
not only was the Western Federation
honeycombed with spies, but also the
United Mine Workers, over which John
Mitchell presides. One of the secret
agents reported that he had failed to
discover the alleged elmer circle" of
the federation, although he worked on
1t for two years at an expense of
$1,000 to the mine owners. Other re-
ports tended to confirm previous testi-
mony to the effect that various acts of
violence were instigated by the de-
.tective agency to throw discredit upon
the union.
The prosecution charged Friedman
with stealing these reports from his
employer, but he justified his course
on the ground that the federation was
morally entitled to the information.
Senator Bo-ah called attention to the
socialistfc connections of this witness
and otherwise made light of the testi-
mony as having no direct bearing on
the case. Former Attorney General
Engley Of Colorado, who was twice
deported from the Cripple Creek dis
,trict and who admits his active con-
nection with the Socialist party, told
of the conditions before and during the
miners stf(ke and the efforts of the
mine owners to beat the strikers by
hook or by crook.
Unwritten Law Prevails.
AS was expected by all who had
watched the progress Of the trial Of
Judge Loving at Houston, Va, for the
AeeNu hhiihS VI yOuHS Issues, Tie
jury, under instructions from Judge
Barksdale, who did not accept the sug-
gestion of the prosecution to bar the
alleged right of the citizen to be his
own avenger. promptly brought in q
verdict Of not guilty. The technical
justification Of the verdict was that
Loving was insane at the time of the
killing owing to the effects of his
daughters story of wronglng at the
hands Of Estes, regardless of the truth
or falsity of the story.
Railroads Robbins immigrants.
Before Special Examiner Decker. for
the interstate commerce commission,
at New Yorl; the seven railroads which
divide among themselves the immi-
grant traffic from that city westward
were brought to book on charges of
unreasonable and unjust discrimina-
lions against these so called second
class passengers. General Traffic Man
ager Wood of the Pennsylvania was
the first witness, and he admitted that
the railroads charged the immigrants
the same rates for transportation as
the regular tariff for first class pas
sengers, or slightly higher, notwith-
standing that these immigrants are
herded together like cattle and COM