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the prophets of the nature faker school
are at work describing very graphically
how the human race may be totally ex-
terminated by asphyxiatiop on May Is.
Nothing has plagued mankind so per-
.istently as this fear OF the end OF the
world and from earliest times criers of
the final calamity have been divided be-
tween those believing that fire and those
believing that deIuge would exterminate
mankind. More recently the prevailing
notion of science has been that cold and
drought would gradually eliminate our
race.
The belief that fire will put an end
To our earthly history has been most pop
ular because of the biblical authority
therefor. and o. the various astronomical
phenomena considered likely to lit
orally set the world on Are. for the final
holocaust comets have always been looked
upon the likeliest This dread used
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The Popular Taste.

n OBERT HENRI. the noted painter,
n discussed at dinner in New York
the popular taste in art:
The popular taste in art" he said, is
apt TO be peculiar.
'Once IN Vermont | was a work upon
a picturesque bit of wocdland-a lane.
tree q charming effect Of sunlight and
shadoW-when hand fell heavily on my
shoulder. and the voice of young
farmer said:
What are We paintn' that little bit o
road fur? Come along with me, mister.
an I'll show We somethin worth paintin
three miles o. road. all just repaired.
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r[oorL AnD 3cAFE DRAWN 5IovJ
FUTURE OFEARTHFERTn Rd1orT1

when one of these heavenly bombs hap
pens to be travelling through space in the
same direction with the earth that 1T
comes within our atmosphere so gently
that ii will not become consumed before
reaching the ground This seems to have
occurred i'll the case of the great Arizona
meteorite and the largest fragments else
where diScovered-such rs those. weigh
ing several tons, brought from Greenland
by Commander Peary and Baron Nor
denskiold
Fate has been kind to in these two
greatest bombardments to which earth
seems to have been subjected thus far
from this source. In the one case des-
ert spot in the southwest was selected for
the target. which in the other case was
a frozen waste within the arctic regions.
These great projectiles may have been
parts of the heads of comets. or meteor
ties travelling individually or in shoals.
Such swarms are constantly traversing
space along just the kind of paths That
comets pursue, each d great long, clip
tical ring like the fiattened, long -dra Wn-
out link of a chain. These endless ring
paths stretch about the sun. If We could
stand by one of these race courses and
could observe what was happening there
on We would now and then see the black
thousands of contestants pass by in
broad cylindrical column often thicker
through than earth. Sometimes the strag-
glers are so many that il takes two years
for the end of the procession to get en-
tirely by and il is some OF these that we
meet with every night as our globe flows
into the path of one of these meteor
swarms Now and then We cross one OF
these racing rings just in time to collide
with the main body Of racers. Such col
lision we make every thrty-tWo to thirty
four years with what We term the No
vember meteors.' while every August we
cross another one of these rings. every
where along which a race seems to be in
progress al all times. Such swarms OF
meteors seem to be old comets that have
gone out" after having been pulled apart
by the tide producing action of the sun.
Thus Biela's comet split in two in 1St8,
and when next due. in 1872. was encoun-
tered in the form of a new and brilliant
shower of meteorS, seen again in 1885
and 1892 Thus in those three years we
went through the remains of comet
without damage.
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OF the first nature lessons taught the
youth of the generation now grown up
was that the Sun-which did not rise or
set as children supposed-Was d fixture
I'm the skies. But. matter of fact,
the sun do move, carrying all OF Its
planets and their satellites along with 1t,
and what concerns the astronomers now
is to determine its direction and speed.
Some time ago it was announced that
this wild race Of the sun earth and the rest
of the solar family through space was in
the direction of the constellation of Her
cules but after more complete observa-
tions were made the southern boundary
OF the constellation of the Tyre was de-
cided upon s the bulis-eye of the Ce-
leStiaI target which We are fated to nit.
These observations were made with the
spectogra phi. which records the directions
of the stars with respect to the sun. But
the estimates have not taken into consid-
GRAFTON the bright stars visible in that
quarter of the sky surrounding the south
pole To observe these. and thus make
this particular survey of the heavens
complete, a wonderfully ingenious spec
trograph donated by Mr.. Mills was some
time ago taken by the Lick astronomers
to Chile and mounted upon one of the
hills overlooking the city of Santiago.
The speed at which We are rushing to-
ward the southern boundary of the con-
stellation of the Tyre has been estimated
at between five and twenty miles per
second, the most widely approved est1-
mate now being 12ia miles per second.
Our collision with some star, met with
in this flight through infinite space, Is
possible catastrophe now often discussed
by geniuses contemplating the worlds
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furnishing employment for the
struggling horde of idle men
and women, thus relieving the
crowded jails. reducing the
fearful suicide because of dependency
rate and lessening the number of appli-
can't. for admittance TO charitable insti
buttons. has been the effort for years of
the worlds greatest thinkers and brainiest
students of sociology. All sorts of plans
have been tried out in various countries
with Indifferent success, but the only
scheme thus far put into operation which
bears the earmarks OF success is that now
in operation in the various large cities Of
Great Britain. the government employ
ment agency
Great Britain has perhaps. given more
attention 10 the problem than any other
nation. Not because British hearts are
any softer than those that beat in the
bosoms Of the people of the rest OF the
world. but because of the recent uprising
of the unemployed masses.
Time after time thousands of London's
poor created excitement the streets of
The big city and by enormous parades
and meetings gave public demonstration
OF their uoeful plight. In many instances
the spectacular effort of the citizens to
draw attention to their condition resulted
in fearful riots. Tie police clashed with
mobs who three cened violence TO life and
property.
England was forced TO deive deeply into
the investigation that brought about the
present system. and, now that she has set
the pace, other nations are preparing to
follow In her footsteps.
While the plan that has been evolved is
nothing more less than a great chain
o. employment agencies. the British gov
eminent gives the experiment another
name. IL is called the labor exchange"
Queen Alexandra has gwen the rev bu
reau her patronage, and is watching with
interest its development.
Winston Churchill president of the Lon
don Board of Trade. is the head of
chain of these labor exchanges that ex-
tend over the entire breadth of England.
ireland and Scotland. and Wales. and is
the parent OF the idea. Mrs. Churchill.
his wife, is an enthusiastic worker in the
movement, are hundreds of the
bility.
The labor exchange has two aims.
IL registers the unemployed who want
work.
IL registers the employer who wants
workmen.
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eminent, special appropriation being set
aside for the purpose
OF course. labor exchanges are not go
ing to make England a paradise for the
workingman.' They cannot make work.
The best they can accomplish is a regu-
lation OF law of supply and demand.
However it is the best yet regards
efforts that have been made to regulate
affairs of labor to the best possible ad-
vantage.
Winston Churchill says of his PLAN
People must not expect too much OF
labor exchanges. | have never claimed
for them a higher position than that
they really occupy. In fact, they are
a piece of social mocha nsm absolutely
essential in my opinion to any we'll
ordered community. They are bound to
have their difficulties.
NO doubt they will make great many
mistakes. and. in many cases. cause lots
of disappointment. Whenever there is
work for a man we Will try and guide
him to it. When an employer wants
help We will try and show him where
il is if he does not know himself.
II am confident that in fifteen or
twenty years the people of every civilized
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w HAT Will Really Hap
w pen When We Pass
Through Its Tail. Now In a
Few Weeks-We Have AL
ready Passed Through Not
Only the Tails but the Heads
of Several Comets-Impres-
sive Sights Seen at the Time
Most Serious Damage Ever
Resulting From Such a Col
lision Can Be Seen in Arr
iona. Where a Five-hundred-
ton Mass Left a Huge Crater
in the Ground-Lick Observa-
tory Now Determining What
Star We Are Moving Toward
and How Soon We Will Col
Tide With 1t or Pass It-Dan-
ger of Colliding With a Neb-
ula-Human Race Will Be
Frozen Out or Killed by
Thirst Long Before Any
Such Collisions Will Be Due.
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Diagnosed.
From London Opinion.

From London Opinion.
Doctors Wife, notice dear. you al
ways particularly inquire what your pa
tents eat. Does that help your diag
sis?
The Doctor-Weil. my dear, in way,
yes. BY the dinners they can afford /
know how much l can risk sticking on
the bill.
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extinction by fire. But such collision
need not concern us, inasmuch as it
would take millions of years TO reach
the nearest star of the heavens, even II
we We're aimed directly at it and were
travelling at the highest speed seriously
considered by astronomers. Vega, the
bright particular star in the constella-
tion of the Tyre. toward which We are
supposed to be going. is SO distant that
its light requires twenty-three years to
travel to earth. Thus, if it had dropped
out of the heavens in the year 1887 we
would not have missed ii until now.
A Astronomers with whom | have discussed
the subject generally agree that even If
the solar system does eventually pass, like
a volley through the great celestial harp;
il will go through without breaking any
of the golden strings or striking dis
cordant note in that harmonious song
which the stars sing together
We might meet dark star in this
ioirney-some great burned-out sun whose
place in the heavens Is now unsuspect-
ed. But the spectroscope and spectre
graph, which measure and record the
pull exerted even by invisible stars, would
give us warning centuries ahead of time
of the appearance in our path of such a
hidden derelict Such a black and burn
Of Perseus, had its fire renewed a few
years ago, probably g result OF friction
generated while passing through
nebula one of those vast, gaseous bodies
millions upon millions of miles in extent
which loom up like green or white clouds
here and there in the far off background
of the sky.
The danger OF our passing through one
of these bodies has been considered, but
it need not worry US. even as much as
the danger of collision with bright
star, since the nearest nebula cannot
be met by us within millions of years.
What would occur should such a col
lision take place can hardly be cont EN-
plated. for although astronomers believe
that these nebuae are the raw material
out of which worlds are made. they
are not agreed as to their structure.
Some appear to have planet-like nuclei.
into which they are condensng-such as
the two eyes Of the owl nebula in the
Great Bear. Others are in the form of
great spirals. or rings While many float
isolated in the sky. others are connected
with groups of stars in such manner
as to lead to the suspicion that their
material is some substance being thrown
off by those stars. The green nebulae
seem to be composed almost entirely of
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of great comet like that. for instance.
of 1853, it is impossible to foretell what
would happen added Prof. Pickering,
but possibly the temperature and shock
would be such that all life within several
thousand miles of the point of contact
would become extinct. Considering the
vast recesses of celestial space, however,
ana the insignificant size of our earth,
the probability of such an encounter may
we'll be likened, some one has sug-
geSted, to the chance that if a man
should shut his eyes and fire a gun into
the air he would bring down a bird
The most serious encounter of this
kind of which there is material evidence
left upon our sphere seems to have taken
place centuries ago near Canyon Diablo,
western Arizona, where there lies a con-
siderable crater. which used to be attrib-
uted to volcanic action, but which is now
believed to have been the work of
gigantic meteorite. DR.. G. P. Merrill
head curator of geology IN the National
Museum. has lately confirmed this sus-
picion and has estimated that this pro-
jectile hurled from the skies may have
weighed 800 tons. Meteoric material scat
tered for miles in the surrounding plains
shows that this meteorfte struck with
such force as to convert the sand into
slass and some of its own material into
diamonds.
Collision of a comet with the sun is
catastrophe which astronomers regard as
much more likely than ones contact with
earth. The head of the great comet of
ls43 ventured within but $1,000 miles OF
the sun, near enough to have been Tapped
by some of the solar protuberances. If II
had fallen into the it would probably
have caused only a slight rise in our tenn
perature and violent magnetic disturb
ance Perhaps these effects, which are
often simultaneously noted by our me-
teorologists, are due to just such causes
Who knows?
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What England Is Doing for Unemployed

and the steel frame system has practically
ruined the trade in that city.
Good workmen, men accustomed to
earning sufficient wages to support their
families in comfort. walked the streets
and vainly sought the means TO earn an
honest dollar Then a number turned to
the labor exchange for relief and were
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hard work for the clerk in cnarge of the
office, but finally every name was reg
istered. Then in view of the fact that
the emergency warranted it, the advice
of Winston Churchill was asked Church.
ill Immediately telegraphed to Edin-
borough Scotland. found that at that
point bricklayers were in great demand
and contracted at once to send the army
who had registered to the men that
wanted to hire them.
Another thing the exchange does for
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complisned the managers of the various
offices get busy" and endeavor to suit
both sides. No charge is made. The en-
ployer is furnished with the kind of work
man he wants without the cost of even
registration fee, and the applicant FOR
work is not even asked 10 pay the cost of
the postal that is used in notifying an
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Silent Now.


From the Yonkers Statesman.
She-You used to talk eight Languages,
I remember.
He-Yes; before i was married.
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ERROR TO thou
sands OF innocents
will result from the
i'll advised an
nouncement I h q I
Haileys com e t.
through whose tail
we will shortly pass
contains cyanogen
gas and hydrogen,
a combination pos
sibly fatal to ami
NAL life. Already
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to be shared even by men OF science,
who believed with the populace that the
heads of comets were great stars, mean
descent like our sun, and that their tails
were vast blazes Of fire. streaking the
heavens. This belief, although still Oh
tanning among the masses, has long ago
been forsaken by astronomers, the more
advanced of whom now believe the head
of comet TO be concentrated swarm
OF meteors enveloped in gas. and the
tail to be q current of electrified gas
proceeding from it. The spectroscope
shows that the gases composing comets
are chiefly hydrogen and carbon. while
sodium and iron have also been observed
in smaller quantities. These gases become
so rarified in the comet tail that the
faintest stars appear through 1t. undlm-
med as it sweeps the heavens for mil
lions of miles.
Just what will happen when we pass
through the tail of Halley's comet May
Is remains a source of wonderment even
TO those whose minds are above the COM
mon dread of the experience. To these 1t
may be said that the great tail which We
are to pass through is more shadow than
substance This will be appreciated the
better when ii is further explained that
our planet itself has at times, comet
tail-the aurora or northern lights =
and that we have number OF lines
passed through the tails OF comets, not
ably in 1919 and 1851. without those
encounters having been known until after
thew occurred The only effects ever as
ISOLATED with them have been some beau
tiful sunsets.
But suppose we should come in contact
with the head of a comet and not merely
the outermost tip of the tail. will be
the case May IS? Here is what Pro1.
w H. Pickering of Harvard observatory
has to say answer TO TINS ques-
ton: A.,
head of small comet there would I'M
doubtedy be fine meteoric display. Ihat
is, in fact. probably what happened III
1898 and also on q number or previous
occasions-notably in Az. 9o2 luza. l-D-
and 1799 although the comet ITSELF was
not luminous.
IF the comet were moving rapidly with
regard to the earth. as in these cases.
the meteors would be consumed al
great altitude in atmosphere ana no
harm would be done. If the comet were
moving in the same direction as ourselves
however and at about the same speed
the matter would then become more serl-
Gus, as many OF the meteofs Lui6he III.
earths surface.
So we passed through a comets head,
according to Prof. Pickering, November
10. 1893 when We had our greatest meteor
display Of all history, one which caused
CONSERVATION dEIloHk liic Is oi'e'
of whom believed the end of the world
to be surely at hand. North America
was the part Of the earth's surface bonn
barded at that time and over 1t the fiery
aerolytes fell as thick snowhakes. But
these composed the head of only an in
visible comet The visible comet head
which has ventured nearest us was Lex
ellis, which came within 400, 900 miles. in
171O. Its head then looked to be four
times the diameter of the moon
"ShouId earth strike the nucleus (head)
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New light on the earths fate may be
afforded by research being conducted by
the astronomers of Lick Observatory, un-
der a bequest made by d. Ogden Mills
few years before his recent death. A ne
gro preacher was long an object of inter
est because of the persistence with which
he argued that 1.-The sun do move" One
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country would soon do without their
telephones or electric cars as to do with
out national system of labor eX-
changes
The United States is now graphing with
the great problem and a plan similar in
many ways TO that of Winston Church
i'll in England is about TO be tried out
here.
1t Is possible that in the near future a
letter will be sent from Congress TO each
postmaster in the country asking for their
co-opera ton
The postmasters, if bill now being
considered is passed. will be requested 10
make careful canvass of their neignbor-
hoods and learn how many men are out
of employment. obtain the name of each
and the work to which he is best adapt
ed Then they will be requested to make
another list of the men in the neighbor-
hood who employ labor. and the two doc
uments will be placed on file at Wash
ngton.
II is the idea of the men who are back
of this scheme that with these two sta
tistics in hand much good can be accom-
plished The employer will be notified
where just the kind of help he needs can
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That 5DO-ton meteorite which hit us near
Canyon Diablo was monarch of its kind.
The great ma jority of these missiles fall
ing from the heavens are not over grain
in weight. Prof. Simon Newcomb esti-
mated that l5.OOo,OO0 meteorites enter our
atmosphere every twenty-four hours. So
terrible Is their speed that the friction
produced by their contact with our atmos-
phere generally burns them up completely
before they can reach the ground. We
begin to see the large ones when they
catch fire at about seventytive or a hum
dred miles up. but their substance has
generally been consumed and their fire
has usually become extinguished by the
time they have dropped to within forty
or fifty feet of the ground. Thus they go
off into a puff of dust and gas. 1t is
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no nrocured and the workman where his
help Will be most appreciated
The American plan for the answering
Of the problem is still in rather en-
bryonic condition and 1t will he some
tin,e hefore the success that has attended
the movement in England will be dnpn-
Gated here Sociologists, however. are
much encouraged by the little that Is oe-
ing done and are watching developments
with interest.
In the opinion of many the English plan
ix the better. Critics OF the American IDEA
argue that il would take postmaster
TO gather the list requested OF him
and that more precious time would he
lost than necessary.
The offices of the labor exchanges In
England, one in every large city now.
are opened at I o'clock in the morning
and do not close until s o'clock. The
clerks are busy all day and at times long
strings OF men anxious to register wait
outside the doors.
The method of allowing the men out 81
work to themselves make up the list ana
nv their presence in the office show their
anxiety to secure employment is declared
by sociologsts much the better plan
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make this marvellous means OF communl-
cation No record is to be found of its
origin or history and it Will be
thousand pities if scientific investigation
is not made before the 'silvando' Is
added to the list Of dead languages, as
assuredy it will be within the next two
or three generations.
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4 O determine the best method Of
furnishing employment for the
struggling horde of idle men
and women. thus relieving the
crowded iailS reducing the