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Fig. ;. The eclipse as II appears to
observers situated along the lines indi-
Gated In Fig. 4.
gin at 8 h. 80 m. am. The moons disk
will then slowly encroach on that of the
sun until its center reaches B at IL n.
m M, when seven-tenths of the sun
will be covered. After this instant it will
begin to move off its center, reaching c.
and the eclipse ending at IL h. 53 m.
pm
The times of the eclipse as seen from
other places than Philadelphia may differ
considerably from those given above.
Thus. to observers anywhere on the line
IA, Fig 8. the eclipse will begin at h.
10 m am; along the line BIB 1t will be-
gin at h. 80 m, and along &C at h.
80 m. BY estimating his proportional
distance between these lines the observer
can readily find at what time the eclipse
will begin at his station, always remem
bering that the times here given are
eastern. 10Th meridian. times.
The proportion of the suns disk hidden
by the moon will also vary greatly. To
observers along the line IA. Fig 1. the
greatest eclipse will merely appear as at
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ing quite a merry time of it. so much
so in fact that he had received letter
from his father that if he didn't spread
his good time over larger amount OF
time and not try to take it all at once
that he was going to take him out OF
college and send him west. or course
the boy didn't take a bit kindly to that'
especially as his father had cut down
his allowance when he heard of the gait
his son was going The boy was willing
to brace up all right. but he needed the
money bad at the time. He had mace
a large collection of debts while he had
been on his little tear, and he was
afraid to ask papa for funds for fear
that he would think that sonny was or
again The only thing. therefore. was
to try one of the get-rich-Tnlck Schehles
that hold forth around college, ana the
friendly game Of poker. which he had
not tried to any extent before. took his
eve The game didn't pan out as Wei
as he had expected, but he had the sood
luck to quit nearly even with the game;
a thing that very few people DO, ana
then another friend persuaded nun -
take up with the ponies
HE had great luck at first. ana man
aged to pay nearly all OF ms uen.s anu
then the ponies moved to another CITY. ny
this time he was too much In love Win
the game TO quit. and so he followed HIS
iuck went from bad to worse however.
and as he was too proud TO ten MS laill-
tly how bad off he was getting. MS ap-
pearance got TO be tnat Oh d Solliiii'. ouiii.
About this time he came to W aSnihS!oii.
He didn't say how he got here. lie Just
said he came He said that he had reached
the conclusion that If he couid make one
decent winning in order to make decent
annearance he would quit the game Tor
good and go back home and see II father
would forgive him.
A Pitiful Tale.
".And now he SAID, here l am. Jailed
for a common "vag." They won't ever
forgive me now. and only last night, |
dreamed that I had won Il cool thousand
on Flvaway. Well. that is the only way
I can win it, 1t seems-dream it.
'.The boy had had nearly thousand
with him when he was searched. and as
he had been SO much under the weather
and also as he had told his tale so well
after he had gotten under way l deter
mined to find out whether there was any
truth in his story.
II went to the captain and began to
tell him about it, but no sooner had men
toned the name that the boy said was
his than. Good Lord man: don't you
know they have been looking for that boy
for the last two months. and have been
offering all sorts of rewards for any in
formation concerning him. We went
over the description of him and allowing
for the change in clothes. my boy fitted
them to t. OF course, 1t was all over
then, for we soon got in communication
with the family and l went with him
when he fitted himself out and took him
to the train to see that he didn't back
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A Temperance Talk.

IAL CHASE. the famous first basernan.
! was advocating teetotalism among
ball players. He argued well. and IN the
midst of his argument he told . story.
Leroy Vigors. friend OF mine" he
said. turned up to play In an amatsur
game with q skate on.
when Vigors stepped up to the bat.
he smiled a silly smile and said to the
umpire:
~ shee three bats an three balls here.
What am I to-hic-do"
Hit the middle ball. said the UNI
pire.
But vigors struck out.
'Durn We. Vigors.' said a coach. why
didn't you hit the middle ball. like the
umpire told your
II did, says Vigors. with an injured
air. only / hit it with the-hic-outside
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evening sky, and with its wonderful
streamers and its knotted and cloudlIke
structure may be followed entirely around
the eastern half of the heavens from
the north TO the south In the northeast
The beautiful Northern Cross and the
Eagle with the singular group of the
Dolphin, or Jobs Coffin. nearby. have al!
appeared since last month, while above
these there shines out the very bril-
liant blue star Vega. which. by next Au-
gust. will reach the highest point Of the
heavens and stream down its radiance
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making plea like that"
''Once in a while, though, one comes
along who is green, and he will give us
talk like this:
THE one arrested (confidently)-1 think
can fix this up all right. May l use
your phone for a minute?'
Desk sergeant thinking he Is going to
ask some one to furnish bail for him.
Certainly
Prisoner taking down phone)-'Hello,
central. give me Main 41144EHello, is
this Main 41144? Is Commissioner -
In? Oh this is he. Well, this is A. B.
Jones talking
Yes. very WELL
Commissioner. wonder if you could
help me out of little scrape I am in.
These people think I was speeding
my car too fast. but l wasn't. I was not
making more than
"'What?
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sun June :, and few evenings before
and after this date may be detected shin
ing out in the twilight glow in the west
just after sunset. Mars and Neptune are
too near the sun to be satisfactorily OBJ
served. Saturn and Uranus are now
morning stars.
The Eclipse of the Sun.
Sunday. June %. the moon will pass
between the earth and the sun. causing
an eclipse, which will be visible through
out the entire United States and also in
Central America. northern South America
and southwestern Europe and the ex-
treme west coast of Africa. AS seen
from Philadelphia the moon will appear
to move along the path c. Fig > Its
center will reach A and the eclipse be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-07

HE Isthmus of Panama is a mar
row strip of mountainous jun
gle and junglous mountains.
very hot and cussed. which just
succeeds in preventing the re-
public Of Colombia from being in Cen
trail America The Almighty did not blow
II up in an earthquake some aeons since
in order that several odd thousands of
men, black. white. yellow and pea-green,
might take advantage Of the philanthropic
efforts Of the French Canal Company and
Uncle Sam to equalize the distribution
OF the worlds wealth by the medium OF
'|blind' contracts and high wages. The
French Canal Company went In for this
agreeable form Of socialism so enthusi-
asttcal1y that it died broke. Also the 18TH
mus was preserved and fostered that in
the fullness of time one in authority might
descend upon p. Bigelow ard call him a
II. Some day they are going to have
a big ditch across Panama. and then 1t
will look just like oswego, n. T.. down by
the canal.
The ditch runs. or crawls from Colon
about which a man who never saw II
made a "dinkey" song for bum show,
80 Avou know all about 1t. 1t Is IN most
places clearly discernible crease in the
earth's surface. bounded by French.
native and Chinese graves. spickety gros
dumps and moss-grown machinery. TRIM
med with red tape and shrouded In density
throughout its length. As may be noted.
1t is some cosmopolitan.
Riches Of Panama.
At its further end Is the metropolis OF
Panama, which Columbus would have dis
covered If he had thought of 1t and Bal
boa saw from prickly palm tree when
II was a vacant lot as he was weakening
his eyes looking for the Pacific. That was
a great grandstand play. and SO appealed
to the inhabitants that they put his head
on their coins and named them after
him. The old gentleman wears a
strained, anxious look and is not hand
some. Even here. the screaming eagle
obtains more respect on the back of a
coin. Balboa performed this feat 4Oi
years before Roosevelt
Panama is seaport. and very rich In
tropical fruit. American dollars, bum
booze and native policemen. The latter
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out. You never saw any one more sur
prised when I got out the roll which We
had relieved him of and told him that ne
had not had a dream after all.
What was the other peculiar case that
you said you would tell me OFF, asked the
inquiSitive man.
well. that isn't quite so much Of a
story. but it is more funny one an
swered the sergeant.
Alas, Poor Yorick.
''You remember. l suppose. that big
musical comedy show that was having
such big rush ID the street few
weeks ago? Well. during the week it
was here 1 rememh r we had call for
the wagon about half-past II o'clock one
night. and a little while after they brought
in a loudly protesting man with an accent
which you could have cut with knife
1t was a pretty poor excuse for man
thought and when the officer made
the charge of vagrancy against him
was not surprised.
Where did you get him and what was
he doirgT' | asked the man Who mao
made the arrest.
He was wandering ali over the lower
part of the town and acting in a peculiar
way. and | thought he would hear a 1T
tie watching; and after he went to the
park and started to sleep on one of the
benches I concluded that the station house
would suit him better as lodging place
well what have you got to say FOL
yourself?' / asked the specimen.
'Idt is Won big outrage; YOU don
know me. ] am actor.
Yes a stranded one said I to my
self. He went on prot esting in like
strain for quite a while. asking us tc
send for this one and that. 1t was sc
late by this time that ] didn't want tc
take chances on getting any one out q
bed to prove what he said. but he was
so insistent that l called up man at one
Of the hotels.
The Vag Was No Vag.
81 got him on the phone and after he
had called me every name under the sun
for waking him up he told me that the
man whom the vag had said he was had
gone up to the hotel with him and had
gone to bed That settled it. We put
him in the cooler to rest UP over night.
1.-The next morning. however. there was
big to-do around the station house.
The manager of the musical comedy
company when he couldn't find his rim
cipal comedian sent out Il general alarm
for him. and he was found at last to be
the vag that we had taken in the night
before.
"It was one on us all right. but certainly
appearances had been entirely aga inst him.
1t seemed as if he had gone up to his
hotel with his friend. but had such a
bad headache that he had decided to see
IL he could walk it off. That accounted
for his wandering around at that late
hour and also for his friend supposing
him to be asleep in bed. The comedian
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upon us from directly overhead.
These bright stars which look SO allhe "
US, are recognized by the astronomer as
presenting all imaginable differences VIC
study of which is of absorbing interest,
Each Of them is sun, greatly hotter ana
brighter than our own sun. Ihose VI
reddish color, like Antares, are pelie'eo
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The Debit Side Tells.

<STHE late Admiral Balch," said a ma
val officer, used often. to COM
plain of the increasing cost OF national
ornaments.
The ornaments. he would say. con-
tinually cried out for money, money.
nothing but money. They were like the
shopkeeper's son.
when did James last write to us?'
the shopkeeper asked his wife one day
-. Look in the cash-book.' the wife re-
piied
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WHAT the Average Of
fender Uses to Strike
Terror Into the Heart Of the
Policeman-What An OBJ
servant Police Sergeant Has
to Say About the Means
Used to Escape the Laws
Demands-Some Interesting
and Pathetic Instances of
True Stories That the Police
men Failed to Believe at
First Hearing-A Comedian
of High Degree Whose
Natural Slovenliness Got
Him Into the Police Station
for a Night-Pulls Don't
Work in Washington.
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az

bvHE observer who studies the
heavens on the warm evenings
OF this month will at once no
tice that the whole sky has by
this time taken on its summer
aspect. The white summer star Spica is
exactly SOUTH Overhead there shines out
the brilliant golden-yellow Arcturus.
and in the southeast the red star Antares.
which is the brightest star OF the striking
group Of the Scorpion. has risen high
above the ground The summer branch
OF the Milky Way has also entered the.
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A. Fig ). Those along the lines BIB
and &C. respectively. will see the eclipse
as at and c. Fig ). while those within
the narrow strip DID will see the moon
pass completely onto the suns disk. Even
as viewed from within this strip the sun
Will not be completely hidden. but will
be seen surrounding the black disk OF
the moon with a brilliant ring Of light.
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mans sleep There ought to be q curfew
at II to call all bets off. One can I'M
agine some nice. hard-working young fell
low, his thoughts on marriage bent. re-
turning home from work to don a soft
shirt and his easiest shoes preparatory to
a pleasant evening with his darling. And
one can see him about 1 T. P. rousing
himself from friendly areaway. where
he's been asleep at the switch. to stagger
under the arclight across the street and
wave her last, fond goodnight. Now.
what good is he going to be at the Office
next morning. sleepy. foot sore and In
love. with bunch OF new corns and q
hopeless passion.
Then there are the flora and fauna OF
the isthmus. They are buxom lasses.
even a little stout-m fact. there's q lot
of them. Flora is especially profuse and
has loud tastes in colors. running to big
leaves and red and yellow blossoms. She
would make New York palmroom's for
tune. She caters to the inhabitants, who
are slothful. and supplies a good 3O-cent
meal free on the ground of cocoanuts.
mangoes. bananas and other native dishes
much affected by visitors.
Bugs Like the Americans.
AS for the fauna. there are bugs. more
bugs and then some bugs: also alligators.
yards, snakes, spicketies and other in
ncts in riotous profusion. They hold here
the convention of tropical pests. running
now and all the time. In the seventh an
nual report OF that order Americans are
graded preferred" Europeans picked
and natives, dogs and Peruvian ponies
common" In fact, they are beginning
to give over the native article entirely in
favor OF the imported, though the former
used to be the staple in these parts. So
it will be seen that even to the beasts of
the field the coming of the Americanos is
blessing. The writer has a seven-voI-
ume work in preparation on THE Insects
of Panama, or Gods Vengeance on the
Sins of Man" The space is somewhat re-
strictive.
In conclusion 1t is only fair to say that
the isthmus is fast becoming the ideal
winter resort the benevolent government
has all along intended. 1t has become
popular with overworked congressman,
journalists and unmarried female rela-
tves of the employees. Its chief draw
backs are it's heat. which is almost that
of a Washington June and makes even
ing clothes arduous; its constant liability
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the sun from us and Venus between us
and the sun. the contrast In the apparent
size Of the two planets Is very striking.
the apparent diameter Of Venus being fiji
teen times great as that of Mars.
Jupiter is moving slowly eastward out
of the conSt citation Cancer. Disappear
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The Base Ball Spirit.

"THE base ball spirit is a wonderful
and impressive thing said a New
Haven barber. New manifestations of
it continually crop up.
Tad Jones. the great Yale catcher.
Topped into that red plush chair there the
other day.
SHAVE sir?' said I.
No said he. Throat cut. Yale
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meath the window of his adored one, gaz-
ing soulfully aloft the while. Sometimes
he serenades her. If the neghborS will
stand for it. If two call the same even
ing they sit each other out in the good
old-f shioned way. sometimes continuing
this passionate sentry duty far into the
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The Planets.

Venus and Jupiter are still the brilliant
evening stars. Venus. which attained its
greatest brightness April % is now run
ming rapidly westward. and will pass east
OF the sun and become a morning star
July ). The change of form and size of
this planet during the month. as viewed
in a small telescope, will prove very in
teresting. June l it was about the shape
of the crescent moon when four days Old
but the crescent will very rapidly grow
thinner until, June 20, 1t may be detected
Just at sunset as the narrowest magma
BILE bow OF silvery light. The planet on
this last date is at its nearest approach
to the earth. so that it then appears
eleven times as large as when most re-
mote Venus will pass Mars June %
AS Mars is then on the opposite side OF
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riguer'' until they babe me good evening
in excellent English and casually men,
toned a well-known Washington board
ing school.
You know the real Spanish ''hunch' is
to turn king into a sort of endur
ance test. The enamored swain walks
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morning The fair object of this devotion
gets out of bed at intervals to keep tabs
on the race, f1utterfng something lacy
through the bars as an encouragement.
It's romantic. harmless vestige of
knight-errantry. but it must play the
deuce with a socially inclined young
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= A PEEK THROUGH THE IELESC

Of the sky, its motion changing its APP
parent position by an amount equal to
the diameter of the moon in the course of
about LOCO years So great an apparent
motion must indicate an enormous velocity
in space. and it is found that the star is
approaching us at the rate of nearly five
miles a second
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to exposure reform and investigation and
the fact that Uncle Bill Taft abolished
one of the bars. But already can be
found the shower baths. the Y. NJ. c. A.
and the ice cream soda. and the whisper
goeth that tearooms with cakes are
coming. Who would not flourish IN
Panama and grow fat?
The Washington times., 1908-01-29
Died

HALE-On "Wednesday, January g. 1905 at
20 a. m, WILLIAM BEAL.C, infant son
OF Mark j. and Mary German Hale. aged
one month and four days. Funeral private.
TUESDAY January IS. 1893.
al $3.50 a. U-, ANN, the beloved widow "
Thomas Flanagan.
Funeral viii take place from her late
residence. IS q 81. ne, Ou Thursday morn
Ing lauuarv 90 Lyls. al $3.50 a m. thence
90 St AIuy5us' Church, where mass VIII
les said for the r=pOss OF her soul NJ Q a.
~ Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited 10 attend II
GALT-OD Tuesday morning. January o. at
1880 clock. NORMAN GAIT, in the
forry-fOuTth year OF his age.
Funeral from st. Thomas Protestant
Episcopal Church on Thursday afternoon.
January 80, ar $50 O'Clock. Iaterment p-i-
vaJe, 10
BRIGHTON January IS. 1905, at 1.I5 p m.
at the home Of Its parents the Berwick
Apartment House, 18th and Park. THOMAS
MACECBBIN, infant son Of Thomas A.
and ImOgeUe Wright Bright
Ilternent today az Gl=nwood Cemetery.
Baltimore and Baltimore County papers
please clpy-D il
TERIC'H-SuldanI-. Monday January g7
at II.s5. CHRISTIAN p. DIETERICH,
aged seyeuty-four years and nine months.
Funeral from his late residence. IS y
street southeast at Q D. 10. Wednesday,
January .. Funeral private. ;aZS-zt
The Washington times., 1908-01-29
CATTLE
LARGELY DISEASED
Straus Finds Forty
Percent Slaughtered Have
tuberculosis.

BERLIN. Jan. 29.-Forty-two per cent
of the cattle slaughtered throughout
Germany are tuberculous, according to
the statistics gathered by Nathan
StTaus, the American muIti-milionaire
IL the course Of his campaign for milk
plsteurizauon in the Fatherland.
StraUs is working only for a purer
milk supply and bis discoveries con-
corning the meat supply are merely in
cidental TO his other work. They were
given to the authorities, however. as Of
Importance to all workers in the interest
OF the public health.
Diseased meat. the American asserts,
IS unquesdOnably scattering COnsump-
ton broadcast in Germany. The per
centage Of tuberculosis infected cattle.
he adds, is higher in the Kaiser's realm
than anywhere else in Europe.
The Washington times., 1908-01-29
Misfortune Streak
In Brent Family

January 29.-Landon II Brent,
fourteen years old, and Russell
Brent, killed by escaping gas.
January 12-Landon Brent,
eighty years old, murderously
assaulted by a former slave, and
his home at Arlington, Va, ran
sacked.
December 2S-Craig Brent,
eight years old, shot through the
heart with his Christmas rife
and killed by a playmate.
December 20 Mrs. George
Brent, mother of Russell, died
after an operation for cancer.
The Washington times., 1908-01-29
Marriage Licenses.

Emory NJ White and Elizabeth Z.
Shipley.
Robert E. Heatwole and Mary r.
Grove, both Of Shenandoah Junction,
w. Va.
James NJ. Fitzhugh, OF Burke. Va, and
jamie c. Stewart, OF this city
John A Turner and Salie =, Hopkins,
both Of Broadway, Va
Frances J GuilfOyle and Katherine 5.
Rouse.
Beruiee c, Trayahan, Of Rutherford.
n. J., and Anna Y. Bowers OF East
Falls Church. Va.
Frank H Schwartz and FsteIla 7.
Burnley, Of Amsterdam, y. Y.
Affair s HueTman and Ruse KrOnmOn.
William Q. Waccy, Of Boston, Mass,
and Anna NJ Guntrun, OF Baltimore,
Nd.
Robert T. Bradburn and Maude I. Ship
ley.
William D. Smith and Emma NJ. Hig-
gins.
Harry A. Stacey and Minnie B FuIks.
BenediclI SpTiEg and Mary 7. MUnson.
Everett W. Johnson, of INairfaS county,
Va, and Anna W. Koch, of this city.
John W. LUpton and Mamie c. Harvey,
both Of LynChbUrE, Va
Edgar a. Huguler and Oulia, L. Berger.
The Washington times., 1908-01-29
NEW DRUCE SENSATION
SPRUNG BY WITNESS

LONDON, Jan. "a new sensation
in the Druce case has been Afforded by
Miss Mary Robinson. one Of the wit
nesses' who was lately arrested for
perjury. She has thrown over her so
Hector, Mr.. Kimber. and refuses to see
him again She says she gets more
sympathy and advice in prison than
she received from him.
The Washington times., 1908-01-29
NEW WORKERS IN CHASE
AFTER TWO GRAY WOLVES

COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 29.-E B.
Taylor and II. ROthschilds. Of New
York city. followed Joe Kenyon s
hounds, which once led President Roose-
welt, IN chase over the plains after
coyotes. Instead OF coyotes. two large
gray wolves were driven to bay some
distance ahead. 4 shot slightly wound
ed a wolf when the animal charged the
hounds and after a desperate flight es-
capped.