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the spots every clear day for forty years,
commencing In 1926 Eminent astronomers
throughout the world had with their more
powerful instruments observed the sun all
of this while without making the discovery
which made famous this obscure but In
dustrious amateur. At first he was not be-
lieved. but when the records of the past
were obtained they bore him out, and he
was given the deserved credit.
Absurd Deductions.
The controversy as to how sun spots af-
feet the earth has been waged with increas-
ing heat since the announcement of this
magistrates discovery. About all of the
phenomena affecting earth and man have
been reduced to charts and curves" and
compared with the sun-spot schedule On
the basis of such statistics attempts have
been made to hold sun spots directly re-
sponsible for fluctuations in the price of
wheat, for business panics, cyclones, vista
lions of Asiatic cholera and for numerous
other conditions and catastrophes. OF
course. such Industrious statisticians, by
throwing out all diagrams which do not
happen to fit their sun-spot charts and by
using those which do happen to coincide
therewith-as some are sure to do If one
but hammer away sufficiently long-are able
to thus demonstrate many startling things
They may show perhaps that in maximum
or minimum sun spot years there is a rela-
tive increase in the birth, marriage or d.
vorce rates: in insanity, suicide or crime
in the success of the republican or demo-
cratic parties: in wars. earthquakes, fam
Ines or conf1agrations; or in epidemics of
many diseases, varying all the way from
ttcdOulOureux to the pip or hOuSemaids'
knee. JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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Spread Of Women's Rights.
N Everybody's Magazine.

From EverybOdy's Magazine.
What, then. is the present status. poIiti-
cal, social, legal of this being who has al
ways been found so stimulating to the
Imagination that her true nature still re-
mains obscure?
A spectacular evidence of its progress was
the parliament that this half-emancipated
sew held last summer in Copenhagen. Ten
countries sent delegates to this Interna-
tional Women's Suffrange Alliance. Some
of these had Intellectual political rights, or
none: others were full citizens. They met
to discuss the means for obtaining full cit
izenship for all women-a disinterested and
picturesque endeavor. 1t Is no wonder that
the whole world found itself stealing
glances at those remarkable sessions in the
Concert Palais. for notable bit of history
was being enacted Australian women, Sc
renely unfettered. were there to tell how 1t
felt to enjoy citizenship without restric-
TONS Russian women had a somewhat
sorrowful history Of their own efforts dur
ing the preceding two years to conduct
suffrage union without president or a con-
certed plan of action-factors which in that
country the morbid radicals of the moment
cannot endure. Scandinavian women were
full of tales Of achievement, for theirs are,
after all, the countries most hespitable to
womans independence. The Latin coun-
tries present a most unfortunate contrast
with the northern ones for the kind of chiv-
airy that women demand nowadays, and
the cold. remote little country of Iceland is
the most advanced of all. Between their
extraordinary sessions. which were held in
three languages, and presided over by that
extremely able American woman. Mrs
Chapman Gait. the women met for anil
mated polyglot teas and talked of purely
human matters. None of these Jealous ban.
ner-bearers was in the least formidable,
and most of them would be conventionaIly
described as Charming"
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are. they are not trivial; and no matter
how hastily sketched. they demonstrate
purpose.
Mr.. Kemeys was born in Savannah. Ga
of northern parents. in 1913, but was taken
as lad to New York, where he was given
common school education. All his sum
mers and vacations were spent on a farm
with relatives in the middle west. and it
was there that he first learned to hunt and
formed an affection of an unusual nature
for the denizens of the forest and the
proprietors of the plains. When the civil
war broke out he enlisted in the Goth RegI-
ment, and before its close had been pro-
NOTED to the rank of captain of artillery in
the regular army. 1t was some years after
this that he discovered his actual calling
and turned to sculpture as a life work.
About 1877 he went abroad and studied
for season or SO, exhibiting in the salon
and meeting with immediate and gratifying
success. But he did not remain. The call
of the west was stronger than the allure
ment of prosperity. Returning he took up
his life practically where he had left of
and became again the huntsman, the ar
list and the student of nature And following
this chosen road he found success. His are
the wolves in Fairmont Park. Philadelphia.
the ''Still Hunt" in Central Park, New
York. and the lions before the Art Institute
of Chicago In 1887 he modelled a colossal
bison head for the Union Pacific railroads
bridge at Omaha. and in 1892 he executed
a number of large groups for the Column
bian exposition For several years Mr.
Kemeys lived in the old Inness home at
Perth Amboy: later he spent nearly a
decade ia Chicago, from whence he went
to Arizona and New Mexico. and from the
great southwest he came here. His home
is now on Georgetown Heights and some
of his best work has been done in Wash
ington. The Chicago Art Institute has a
small collection of his work, and the Met
ropolitan Museum has just acquired his adj
mirable Panther and Cubs" At no pre-
Vious Tine however. has SO large q collec-.
ton or ms work been assembled for ex-
hibition and never before has SO excellent
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The Policeman's Club.
From the New York Sun.


There are gratifying indications that the
police of New York are soon to learn their
place, III SO far as the commissioner has
power to control them. 1t Is long since a
patrolman accused of false arrests and of
clubbing mere citizens has been so promptly
and expeditiously tried as was the man
whose dismissal from the department was
recommended on Saturday by the deputy
commissioner.
For years the policeman's badge and
nightstick have been venerAted as SYM
bols of superiority to law and warrants of
immunity from legal processes. The lazi-
ness Of citizens, the blood brotherhood of
policemen, the actual and imaginary dan
gers incurred by the person who dared to
complain of his i'll treatment have given
opportunity for the growth of an unwritten
but potent code which has been far more
strictly enforced than the formal enact
ments Of the legislature. The police, hired
to serve the city. in many cases have been
the rulers OF its people. Revolts against
their domination have been repressed stern
ly. The police have governed according to
their own regulations. enforcing their de-
crees by their own power, Furnishing in their
own way those who offended.
II there exists an authority superior to
this formally unfecognized but highly effec-
tive bureaucratic government the city 10
apparently about to learn Of ii. The effect
cannot be anything but good. The results
Of absolute police control over the city have
not been conspicuously satisfactory.
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ments that visitors must be searched be-
fore approaching them and deprived of all
knives. watches. match safes or other por-
table property which might attract the dell
cate magnets. Like Mussulmans entering
their mosques. they must remove their
shoes upon the threshold, lest the steel
nails In the heels cause confusing irregular
tiles in the little black paths upon the pho
Geographic paper.
It is held by many solar physicists OF
high repute that the sun Is a huge magnet,
which is constantly bathing the earth and
her sister planets in magnetic rays radiated
out into space; that the earth and the
planets are also magnets. their magnetism
being controlled by that of the sun; that
magnetic storms on earth are the result OF
magnetic storms upon the sun; that these
sun storms cause also our aurora borealts
or northern lights" and that sun spots
themselves are either the cause or the ef-
feet of these sun storms. 1t Is to prove or
disprove this theory that the astronomers.
solar physicists and magneticians of the
country are now at work.
Observatory to scour Seas.
A new method of attacking the problem
has been devised by DIR. L. A. Bauer. direc-
tor of the department Of terrestrial mag
netism, Carnegie Institution. When he late
Iy took up this inquiry for the institution
he pointed out to President woodward that
up-to-date magnetic measurements have
been confined to the land. and therefore
represented conditions on only about one
third Of the earth's surface; that work
upon the problem would be at standstili
until a magnetic survey OF the whole globe
could be undertaken.
So the wooden brig Galilee of San Fran
CISCO built in 1891. has been chartered by
the Carnegie Institution and equipped as
a floating magnetic observatory. This 600
ton vessel is 1872 feet long by 81 feet In beam
and carries a crew of ten. Since the steel
rigging would have interfered with the
sensitive magnetic instruments described, II
has been entirely replaced by hemp rope and
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netic storm similar to that accompanying
this present sun-spot visitation. It viii be
Of interest to note whether this observa-
tory's instruments show similar falling OF
In the suns heat, following the present sun
spots and the magnetic storm which came
with them.
Should the present spots cause the suns
radiation to fall Off, did those of 1903,
earth would not feel the change for a week
or more. The sun being such an enormous
body, II would not recover from loss of 10
per cent Of radiation in probably three OF
four months. II the sun-spot effects of
1903 are to be repeated a cool spring will
result this year.
May Be Prominences, Not Holes.
Sun spot study in still newer fields is being
carried on by the Carnegie Institution at its
new solar observatory upon Mt. Wilson,
Cal A very ingenious instrument installed
there automa tically rings an electric alarm
whenever a magnetic storm commences and
summons the astronomers to the solar tele-
scope Just as astronomers can obtain the
rainbow band, or "solar spectrum" by
passing a sunbeam through the prism Of q
"spectroscope'' they can obtain the spectrum
of the rays from a sun spot, taken singly.
This work Is being done at the solar OBJ
servatory upon an elaborate scale. The
astronomers find the sun spots surrounded
by extensive cloudlke masses of vapor from
boiling calcium which sometimes overhang
the smaller spots and hide them completely.
Heretofore astronomers have measured the
force Of sun storms by the total dark area
of sun spots, but Prof. Hale, director Of the
solar observatory, thinks that these dis
turbances can be measured better by the
extent of these masses Of calcium vapor de-
scribed. He is comparing the area and
brightness of these with the frequency OF
magnetic storms on earth. With his great
6O-inch and 100-inch rejecting telescopes
which will be the two most powerful In the
world-Prof Hale will search the red stars
for sun spots. If he finds thereupon, as
suspected a greater number than appear
upon our sun he will prove that as our sun
grows colder and advances toward the con-
dition of these red sister suns the spots on
its surface will also increase in number.
1.-The true cause of the darkness of sun
spots is not yet understood, and it is even
uncertain whether they are cavities or ele-
waited regions" says Prof Hale
Sun spots were seen by the naked eye be-
fore the invention of the telescope, and
were supposed to be planets passing be-
tween the earth and the sun. That they
increase and decrease in cycles, reaching a
ma ximum of frequency once in every eleven
years, was first discovered by Hofrath
Schwabe. magistrate of little German
town. With a small telescope he counted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-09
STUDYING sun SPOTS
Problem Engaging Attention of
s Many Scientists.
E.FFECT UPON THE WEATHER
Eovernment 0bservatories Are Work
ing on Question.
CAUSE OF MAGNETIC STORMS
New Undertaking of the Carnegie In
stitution-How Blots on Old Soils
Surface Are Photographed.
CAUSE OF MAGNETIC STORMS
Copyright 1907, by John Elfreth watkins)

Copyright. 1907, by John Elfreth watkins)
Upon this vexed problem of sun spots
what they really are and how they affect
earth. and man-our astronomers and solar
physicists now at work, hammer and
tongs.
The United States naval observatory the
United States astro-physical observa tory
the various United States magnetic observ-
atories, and the United States weather
bureaus new research observatory are
all attacking the question with an indie
fatigabil'ty which augurs well for an early
solution. The Carnegie Institution of Wash
fngton has launched a floating magnetic OBJ
servatory which is to ply th> oceans and
make measurements throughout an entire
sun-spot cycle of eleven years, and has COM
NenCed a systematic study of the problem
at its new solar observatory on Mount Will
Son, California.
Present Spot Caused Magnetic Storm.
Every sun spot visible in Washington
for more than nine years has been careful
ly photographed at the United States ma
Val observatory by Mr.. Geo. II. Peters. in
Charge of the photoheliograph-or what we
might cal the solar camera-of that insti-
tuition. After hearing of the appearance
upon Mr.. Peters negatives of the great
spot. which now has the world by the ears.
the writer applied at the United States
coast and eeodetic survey and asked if its
magnetic observatory at Cheltenham, Md,
had observed any unsual phenomena. From
the superintendent of the survey he OBJ
gained the statement that soon after the
great spot had come we'll into view from
around the eastern edge of the sun "a So
we're magnetic storm had been observed
by the Instruments at Cheltenham, and that
IL had continued for nearly two days. The
maximum disturbance lasted continuously
FOR about FIVE hours, during which time the
magnetic needle ffuctuated about one-half
degree on either side of the normal and the
range IN ia" intensity OF the magnetic force
during the storm was about one per cent of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-09
Studying Weather Effects.
given to judge of his

an opportunity been given to judge of his
ability and strength
Among the most notable Of the works set
forth are the combat of bison and wolves
exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1878. the
sketches of the lions for the Chicago Art
Institute, the original model OF the Still
Hunt" and the well-remembered Jaguar
Lovers but these by no means pre-
empt the interest, for each example Is
found strikingly individual and almost
equally commendable In some vein OF
pathos may be noted. Occasionally one is
dramatic. but 1t Is never the drama OF
mere brutality. The spirit of the wild beasts
has been epitomized, but always with the
utmost refinement. There is manifestly I'M
Outstanding between the modeler and his
clay; sympathy between the man and his
models. In the massing of light and shade
they are excellent, and in the broad treat
ment Of form they are likewise impressive.
That these works should even temporarily
find a place in the national gallery IL
felicitous, and that some, IL not all, may
remain there permanently is certainly much
to be hoped
4
'Impressionism" was the subject chosen
by Mr.. James Henry Moser for his "art
talk" at the Corcoran School last Monday
afternoon on account of the inquiries made
by many students concerning the paintings
of this type displayed in the Corcoran Gal
lery's current exhibition. 1T did more"
he said. than send the painters back to
nature for inspiration. Its worship of sum
light and plain air brought the world to
realization of what the most common
place and familiar aspects of nature really
resembled. Not what they really were, but
what they appeared to be to the sharp,
clear-visioned men who laid Tradition and
knowledge aside and painted what they
saw and found beautiful. These men, at
the sacrifice of their lives, sometimes. pur-s
SIZED their new way. The public would have
none o. their art. At the time o. Manets
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death his pictures were absolutely I'M
salable, but now they are almost priceless.
The blues, violets and grays. which then
were thought impossible. have been proven
to exist in sunshine and atmosphere, and
the much-loved. glossy, molasses shades
have been discarded as untrue and UNI
natural
Citing specific examples Mr.. Moser spoke
of the large canvas by Mr. Childe Hassam.
entitled June" declaring 1t a splendid
type of the Monet school. which, while OBJ
full opalescent. high-keyed color. is pecu-
lfarly charming. The power Of realism, re-
calling the open window, he found in Mr..
Hassam's coast scene; but while he con-
sidered lrh Mr. Robert Reds DECORATIVE fig
seriously wrought" he characterized the
landscape by the same artist as "a bit
of impertinence done with slight knowledge
beautiful fact" To Charles H. Davis
Summer" on the other hand, however he
gave unstinted praise. 1T" he insisted.
occupies halfway ground, and shows the
of impressionism. ''To this influence" MI.
Moser said In conclusion. 1.-The world of art
owes more than to the product of any one
champion in the field. The greatness of
the school lies not in the work 1t has pro-
duced but In the power 1t has exerted upon
the painters of today and will continue to
exert upon those Of the future"
81
The annual meeting of the Washington
Water Color Club was held last Saturday
evening in Miss B. E. Ferries studio in the
Art League Building. There was an un-
usually large attendance; three new men,
bers were elected. and officers for the en-
suing year were chosen by ballot As
result tie president. Mr.. James Henry
Moser; vice president, Miss B. e. Perrie:
r.
treasurer. Mr., Carl Weller. were reelected.
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cable. Capt. ]. T. Hayes, sailing master
of the brig, has made several record trips
in heroine of 5000 miles from the South
Pacific Islands to San Francisco in fifteen
days, 30s miles having been made in one
day.
This work on the great oceans will cover
a full sunspot period of eleven years. and
probably extend to fifteen or twenty years
in all.
Since being converted into a magnetic OBJ
servatory the Galilee has made several
long journeys, taking magnetic measure
ments en- route. The frst-covering 1000
miles-was from San Diego, Cal, to Midway
Islands and return. The next was by way
Islands, Guam. Yokohama and back to San
Diego, a total distance of $4,000 miles. AZ
ter finishing with the Pacific and its great
seas the floating observatory will COM
pletely measure the magnetic conditions Of
the Atlantic Meanwhile magneticians will
be cooperating in many hitherto unsur-
yeyed portions of the dry land-the CONT
nents and the scattered islands of the seas.
Studying Weather Effects.
The influence of sun spots upon weather is
being very carefully studied at the United
States astrophysical observatory, Washing
ton, by Mr.. C. G. Abbott, in charge of that
interesting institution. Mr.. Abbott's OBJ
servations up to date indicate that general
climatic changes upon earth may be regu-
lated by the increase or decrease of sun
spots as we'll as by changes in the haziness
of the suns atmosphere and in the extent
of the little bright spots called "faculae"-
which are scattered over the sun. Soon af-
ter our previous great Sun-spot visitation
in 19O3-the astrophysical observatory noted
a. fall in the suns radiation of 10 to 13 per
cent. This was the sun-spot appearance
which seems to have caused the great mag
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-18
HUNS in AMERICA SEND
MILLIONS HOME YEARLY

A ENCOURAGEMENT is made of the
"A establishment il this city of the
Hungarian-American cank, which pur-
poses to provide for, and develop
financial and commercial relations be-
tween this country and Hungary.
The new institution is capitalized
at 100000. Half the capital, $780,
600, was subscribed by the Central
Credit Bank of Hungary. The remain
ing 100000 of the capital stock has
been taken up by the local interests
associated chiefly with banking enter
prises.
Ludwig Gyenes, director general If
the Central Credit bank of Budapest.
has been in New York for the last few
weeks in the interests of the new in
stitution
There are in the United States no
fewer than 100000 Hungarians. and
they send back to their friends and
relatives in Hungary some $4,000 900
every year, or about $50 a year each.
The system Of transmitting this vast
sum is disorganized. The new bank
aims to put this entire business unon
a secure basis.
It will reach the Hungarians in this
country, in New York, New Hsve1.
Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi
cago and other cities, through local
agents, and it will have, furthermore.
on the other side, banking connection
with firms in Germany. Austria. Ita1v
and France.
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Possibly the color scheme of the
masculine individual in full dress
needs relief, but the New York tailors
who are going to have the clawham-
mer coats come in brighter hues are
on the wrong track. Just let them try
it If they want to have the near-swells
rise up and institute rebellion. Out
side of the favored few who put on
dress suits every evening, the mascu-
line man buys only one of those har-
nesses, which to him are instruments
OF torture in lifetime. About once
every four years, perhaps, he is invit-
ed to some function where the full
dress agony is called for. Then he digs
up the old dress suit, and for all he
can see he looks as we'll as anyone
when he wears it. He could see his fin
ish If the fashions of one season called
for a blue, those of the next for a
green and those of the next for ma
genta coat. If he raises his voice in a
popular clamor there is enough of him
to jar the naughty swallow tail on it's
throne.
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TRACTION AUTOS TO BE
USED IN WORK ON CANAL

r RACTION automobiles are the
/ latest thing for the Panama canal,
and their use, according to officials
of the canal in Washington, presages
the doom of the ancient and time
honored railroad velocipede, now used
by track walkers and employees in
charge of switch lights in sparsely
populated communities. 1t is not be-
yond the realm of probability, in the
opinion of some of them, that the run
ming of automobiles on railroad tracks
will become a fad if the railroads will
stand for it.
The purchasing agent of the CON-
mission has advertised for two such
machines for use on the railroad
across the Isthmus of Panama cap
able of carrying ten persons each and
able to make speed of 40 miles an
hour on level track with the engine
running at normal speed. The en-
CINE must be stout enough to climb
a grade of eight per ce1t., and to in
crease their speed to Is per cent.
above normal, or, in other words, to
make SO miles an hour. The car must
burn ordinary stove gasoline and have
a capacity to go 1875 miles at full
speed and load. 1t is the purpose of
the commission to place these cars
in the inspection department for the
use of the chief engineer and his as
sistants, who now have to rely on
passing passenger, freight, dirt or
special trains in inspecting the work
along the canal.