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Needs a Second Glance.

THE man with weak nerves who es-
= says to walk over to the Mall
through 10th street by way of the new
Museum building is liable to suffer a Sc
we're shock AS he makes his way
through the fence and gains the path
leading on the west side OF the building
he suddenly comes upon a sight that
makes his blood run cold. There. heaped
upon the ground as though slain in bat
tie, lie the mutilated bodies OF men and
with here and there q broken
cart. reminding one of Verestchagin's
painting of the slaughtered battery at
Plevna. From the pile protrude arms and
legs, and now and then the mashed-in
skull of man or beast. II Is horrible
glance at first sight and it takes q second
look-and a good one. too-to convince
the beholder that he is not looking upon
the real thing.
It is the refuse from the specimens that
have been dismantled in being moved
from the old to the new building. In
many cases the outer shells have been
damaged; these are removed and the In.
side casting flung out on this scrap heap.
But they bear enough similitude to actual
men and animals to make a pretty stout
heart give good big Jump.
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Eichelberger, L. S. N, in the fall of 1901.
1t is now concluded and will soon be
ready for distribution.
There were three instruments used in
this work, all of very unique appear
ance. First is the mural circle which
was constructed by an English firm.
This instrument is now obsolete. but at
that time 1t was mounted at the old
observatory on sandstone pier nine
feet and four inches high. six feet thick
from north to south, and three feet
three inches from east to west. The
axis of this instrument reaches entire
ly across the pier in the form of an
arch. The circle itself was placed upon
the eastern end of the axis. which is
sustained in part by friction rollers
supported by counterpoises. The circle
is in the form Of a large wheel five
feet in diameter, with a fiat tire about
two inches wide. On this fiat surface
is solid gold band about three-six-
teenths Of an inch wide, on which are
many minute markings. BY means Of
these markings the astronomers of the
old days were able to make their OBJ
servations the same as today, but more
slowly
The instrument used today for max
ing the same observations is altogether
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On the Potato.

GA MONG the many FRANKS OF Mark
Twain's journalistic days." said
Virginia city editor. was the concoc-
ton of a speech that was put upon a
famous senator.
The senator had attended Virginia
city banquet, but had not spoken. He
had a sore throat. A brother from a
rival paper reached the banquet late.
What did the senator speak about?'
the newcomer whispered to Mark Twain
He made a very interesting speech
on the potato was the reply.
The potato, Ell? That's odd. Let's
have the points will you?
With pleasure said Mark Twain
and he dictated a half column that the
reporter duly printed the next morning
as the distinguished senator's valuable
contribution to agricultural science. The
speech began like this:
Ladies and gentlemen: Had II been
my lot to be born and reared in Ire
land, where my food would have prin-
cfpally consisted of the potato-that most
salubrious and nutritious root should
now be, instead of the poor. infirm.
stunted creature you see before you. a
tall, stout, athletic man, able to carry
an enormous weight
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The work just completed contains a list
taken from 1916 to 1852 The work since
that time has been devoted to the re-
duction Of the observations. The total
number Of stars discussed in the com
pleted catalogue Is 5000
In 1919 the number of observatio nm
reduced had become so large-about 4opol
that the observations were discontip
ued, but after the introduction Of the
method of electrically recording the times
of transit-or the passing Of the stars be-
fore the telescope-on a chrOnograph OBJ
serFations were resumed. In the year
1stO the first volume of the results was
published. Shortly after this a copy of all
the observations made before 1850 was
placed in the hands Of DR.. b. A. Gould
The latter revised the work already ac-
complished and completed the reductions,
his work being published in 1872 and 1873
In 1902 about $500 unpublished observa-
tons, covering the period mentioned.
were found at the observatory. These
later observations were reduced under
the direction of Prof. +. B. I.ittell. u. s. n.
When Prof. Stimson ]. Brown, u. S. N.
became astronomical director in De-
mence and push the work as rapidly as
possible About this time letter was
received from DR.. r. Ristenpart OF Ger
many, who inquired as to whether the
work was to be taken up at cnce. as it
was especially desired to have the results
for publication in the Geschichte des Fix
sternbinmels-a German scientific publ
cation-which he was then conn ling
under the direction Of the Berlin Academy
of Science. He was informed that the
work was to be undertaken at once, and
the task was assigned to Prof. w. S.
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But 1t Was Only an Idle Dream


something wrong. You haven't said a
word about the hot time you had at the
Moulin Rouge or The Dead Rat in Paris. -
Didn't go near EN-" he replied.
Only rubes and rummies go to those
places"
You haven't exuded word about
the swift and sybaritic night life of Ber-
lin,' we urged.
Couldn't say word about that truth
fully he replied, considering the fact
that 1 turned into the shucks every night
at 8 o'clock while ! was in Berlin
And you didn't give 'em all hot trot
for their coin when it came to that tor
rid nocturnal life in VIENNA" we in
Quired, still incredulous.
Nix trot." our friend. in our dream.
replied promptly. Il just sort O mooched
around. looking the gag over. during
daylight"
We were baffied by this almost uncan-
ny attitude of taciturnity on the part of
a man just back from his first trip to
Europe, but We pressed on.
Dye mean to say that none o. those
girls in the short green skirts and the
white stockings and with the green
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different i'll appearance. but IT can hard-
lv be said that the observations taken
are any more accurate, although with
the more up date method Il vastly
greater number of observations can be
taken in much less time.
The second instrument used is the
transit or large telescope. This
telescope was made in Germany. It's
length is about seven feet and. has an
object sIass--the glass at the end of the
telescope-of five inches in diameter.
The instrument is mounted upon two
granite piers about two and a half feet
apart on an exact east and west line.
The instrument when mounted points
directly at the meridian, and moves in
the meridian north and south.
The third instrument is the meridian
circle which is combination of the
mural circle and the transit" which
the mural circle attached at one end of
the axis OF the transit. This is mount
ed on two granite piers, like the transit.
1t is we'll known among astronomers
that the movement of the earth causes an
apparent but not real movement of the
stars. and while the astronomer is look
ing through the telescope the stars will
pass before him. At the eye end of the
mural circle, for instance, there are
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strung seven wires equally distant from
one another, and it requires approximately
fifteen seconds for star to pass from
one of these wires to the other. The OBJ
server notes the time at which each star
crosses one or more of these vertical
wires.
The object of these observations is to
determine the time of night each star
crosses the meridian-the north and south
line. In order to determine the distance
of the star from the zenith a second set
of wires is inserted in the eye end Of the
telescope, which move at right angles to
the vertical set of wires. BY these means
the astronomer is later able to compute
the positions given In the catalogue. and
which again are used for the making of a
map of the heavens.
The United States hydrogra phic offics
has just brought out a convenient and
important work showing the value of the
stars and planets in ascertaining the geo.
graphical position of ships at sea. The
skipper of a vessel can now, by means of
the stars and planets, ascertain his posi-
ton at sea just as easily as by the sun.
1t is claimed that with every attempt to
make ships go faster and get farther in
a given time it becomes more necessary
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The formation of a systematic cata-
logue of consultations and stars dates
from the time of Ptolemy in the year 13S,
and is found in his Almagest, being COM
piled from the observations Of all earlier
astronomers There is no other ancient
catalogue In the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries there are the catalogues
of the Persian prince, Ulugh Beigh, and
Tycho Brahe. The catalogue of Bayer
dates from 1903 and that of Hevelius from
1880. All these were made without the
aid Of the telescope. After the invention
of that instrument observations became
more exact, and the more important cata-
logues are those of HALEY, Flamsteed,
Bradley, Bessel, Lacaille. Piazzi Groom
bridge and Lalande. On their researches
Baily complied in 1927 the Astronomical
Society's catalogue, which has been fol-
lowed by that of the British Association
and by others equally valuable and COM
prehenSive.
The distance of the nearest star:-not
planets estimated at twenty billions or
miles This distance is so enormous that
the mind Is hardly able to grasp it. Light.
with it's astounding velocity of 191, 500
miles per second, furnishes the only unit
within small numbers. Suppose a ray to
leave this star travelling through space
at the above prodigious rate it would
not reach the earth until the expiration
of 1.21S days, or three and one-third
years. We do not see star as it actu-
ally Is but it shines with the light emit
ted three and one-third years ago. Hence
if it were obliterated from the heavens
We should continue to see it for more
than three years after it's destruction.
1t has been considered probable that
the average distance of a star of the
first magnitude from the earth is $50. 900
times the radii of our annual orbit.
distance which light would require fifteen
and one-half years to traverse, and, fur
ther the average distance of a star of
the sixth magnitude-the smallest dis
tinctly seen without a telescOpe-is 1900
600 times the same unit, to traverse
which light, with its tremendous velocity,
would occupy more than 120 years. The
conclusion is almost forced that we do
not see the stars as they appeared with
in few years, or even during the life
time of a man, but with the rays which
proceeded from them several thousand
years ago.
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One Kind of Anonymity.

- National Negro Business Leagues
convention in New York last month,
praised the modesty of the anonymous
giver.
But, of course, he added. with
smile. when l praise anonymity, l don't
include the kind-common enough among
Observation-Disclosures Deacon Brown of
Loachapoka favored.
"Loachapoka is a little place not far
from TuSkegee. Deacon Brown arose
in the church there one Sunday morning
to read a list of subscribers to the mis-
sionary fund. He began:
THE Rev. Calhoun Travers. $40: Broth
err Stehen Jones, s.; Sister Phoebe Rice.
81; anonymous donor. myself, ST.. -
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when there's some water in Chevy Chase
lake"
Just at this point the alarm clock went
off with a Z-Z-z-zing! and we woke up.
and then we hiked for the ONCE, and the
first man we met on our way downtown
was the friend we had dreamed about.
and he opened up on us the minute he
caught sight of us and told US all about
his first trip to Europe, and then some
more about it, and he'd have been telling
us about 1t yet II we hadn't taken II on
the dead lope; and now we know, as we
never knew before, how true the maxim
is that dreams go by contraries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-02


Didn't meet any Of those BIRDS" he re-
piled. Saw few of 'em in music halls
in Vienna, but that's all And they
couldn't eloDe with little Sunlocks, be-
lieve him. il he saw 'em first
Again. in our dream. we were overcome
to the point Of silence for quite spell.
but after bit we pressed on some more.
Are you aware Of the fact that you
haven't said a word about coming within
an ace Of winning the eight-hundred- and
seventy-five dollar pool on the voyage
over in the guess as to the average speed
Of your steamer per day."
But 1 didn't come within ace, or
within a hundred aces, of winning any
pool" he replied, just like that I'm
rum at that sort of guessing, and SO 1
didn't even go into the pools.'
But we continued. didn't the captain
Of the steamer tell you personally, on the
trip back. that the storm you ran into
of the Grand Banks was the worst he
had ever experienced in the entire course
of his forty years of seafaring?'
'He did not" replied our friend, in our
dream. Il never spoke a word to the
skipper. either going over or coming back.
Anyhow, we didn't have any storm. either
going or coming. Sea was like a millpond
both ways. Just like Chevy Chase lake
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TO take frequent observations. and these
observations can now be taken just as
we'll at night by day. The navigator
who is able only to find his ships position
and the error of the compass by observa-
tons of the sun has but a limited and.
consequently. imperfect command of the
art of navigation. In these days of keen
competition. when the difference Of a few
tons of coal or few hours in the length
of passage may mean all the difference
between profit and loss or between safety
and disaster. he must recognize the great
advantage and Importance of employing
also in his service the stars that rule by
night"
Every we'll determined star from the
moment it's place is registered. becomes
to the astronomer. the geographer the
navigator. the surveyor. a point of de-
parture which can never deceive or fail
him, the same forever and in all places
of delicacy so extreme as to be a
test for every instrument yet invented
by man, yet equally adapted for the
most ordinary purposes: as available
for regulating a town clock as for con-
Quoting navy to the Indies; as effect
i've for mapping down the intricacies
of a petty barony as for adjusting the
boundaries Of transatlantic empires.
From remote antiquities the heavens
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and there were no clouds to form OBJ
structions
Before the civil war able astronomers
in the employ of the government con-
ceived the idea Of charting the heavens.
They wanted to make a new map for the
benefit Of scientists and mariners. and,
in fact, all mankind. So the work was
started at the United States Naval OBJ
servatory at Washington. Nights when
the stars shone brightly the old-time as
tronomers with their somewhat crude in
struments of that day worked until the
gray light OF dawn dimmed the stars.
Then the labor was put aside and taken
up again in nights following The scien-
fists slept during the day and toiled with
telescope and pencil at night until the
civil war. Then there was lull in the
work. The telescopes became dusty and
the half-made maps were thrown aside.
After the over MAN. of the
older astronomers having served their
time on the battlefields. the work was
again taken up at the observatory. New
telescopes were installed To take the
place of the old ones and new hands
worked on the charts. until they are now
finished. The conclusion of this work,
embracing the stars from the 10th to the
18Th degree south Of the equator by a
younger class of scientists, it being por-
tion of Lieut.. Maury's original conception
OF all the stars that could be observed
in this hemisphere, marks a distinct epoch
in the history of the great national scien-
tific Institution
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A Caution.

A TTORNEY GENERAL WICKER
SHAM Is being praised In Washing
ton for a witticism at a doubtful politi-
clans expense.
Mr.. Wickersham, in a recent discus
sion, said:
What sort of man is McBride?"
INC Bride?'' was the response. "Oh,
Mcbride is as honest as the day is long
Yes. said Mr.. Wickersham. cautious
ly. but the days are getting shorter
now"
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Made Him Ridiculous.

Joseph LETTER, in an interview on
} his yacht Chantecler. said. with q
smile:
please quote me accurately. In an in
terview, you know. the slightest inaccur-
acy can make a man ridiculous. 1t is
like the Frenchman who. though he had
a very fair knowledge of English, never
theless said to q father:
AHA. Your son he resemble you. A
chip off the old blockhead heinz"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-02

E dreamt a fool
1 s h v a C u o u g
dream. The central
figure thereof was
a friend who re-
urn e d recently
from his first trip
to Europe. We
tried to shrink
within the shadow
of a doorway when
first we came upon
him after his re-
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turn to Washington the other day; thus
our dream went We feared. even in our
dream, that he would pin US against the
most convenient stanchion or capstan and
proceed to tell us all about his first trip
to Europe.
Well, he nailed us, even in our dream.
And, being nailed, we were ready to take
our medicine; to stand still as long as we
possibly could while he told us all about
his first trip to Europe, $50.
To our intense surprise, he did not say
a word about his trip to Europe before he
had finished greeting us. Instead. he
simply remarked upon the f1neness Of the
day, said he believed thered be a late
fall, and observed casually that 1t was
fun to get back to work.
We looked at HMM our dream-stun-
ned over his consideration for us. 1t was
incredible. 1t was out Of the question.
Still he kept silent about his first trip to
Europe. Finally. becoming confused in
our dream and marveling over his 81
lence as to that trip, we began to wonder
whether he really had been In Europe at
ALL So, in our dream, we touched upon
that matter ourself. before he'd said a
word about it.
Been abroad, haven't you?" we asked
him.
YEP" he answered. just as briefly as
that
Have a good timer we inquired
"Oh. kind o." he replied, without ami
nation.
Your first trip overseas. wasn't it?' we
asked HMM our dream.
'.Uh-huh," said he, not warming up.
your breath away?" we inquired, wonder
ingly.
Mary take he replied.
Dye mean to say we asked him. in
our dream. that you weren't SO prodi-
take a e to o oa%
Not SOS you could notice it, he re-
piled. absently.
But you're not saying word about
it, we observed, sort O protestingly. in
our dream.
well, there's nothing to say he re-
piled, off-handedly. THE things been
done before. l covered the old, well worn
route-went to London, Paris. Berlin,
Vienna. Budapest. the Tyrol. and that
But. gosh." we exclaimed in our
dream, "all the stuff that you saw must
ha' made this country look like three
dented dimes
replied. Nothing whatever like IT.
You don't mean to stand there and
say that Paris doesn't make Washington
look like mere jest?' we said to him.
stunned some more. -''
Quit your kiddin,." he replied There
amt any town. anywhere, that can make
little old Washington look like Jest
But that's the dope of most of 'em
that come back from their first trip to
Europe, said we.
THAT'S the done Of the dopes' he
replied in a convincing tone.
But wait a minute, young fellow" said
we in our dream. more than ever i'm
pressed by the belief that there was
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NCLE SAM has
just finished the
stupendous task of
making a catalogue
of the stars. 1t
has been a job
covering sixty-four
years, and the toll
ers at the Naval
Observatory work
ed night and day
nights when the
heavens were clear
,l1,,de 70 form oh
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Bede gave the names Of the twelve apos-
ties to the Zodiacal signs; in this man.
ner the profane was swept away, and an
entirely new nomenclature for the con-
ste1lations was adopted. But all this has
passed and is now a matter Of history,
while the reign Of Orion, Bootes, Perseus
and Pegasus still survives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-02
BY Herbert Kaufman

BY Her
Many fool of today of tomorrow More than
have been forced stock
laughing stocks. Only often do the before
a to his memory
We hold to old until compelled give way We
usually beat back the thinkers who desert the
track We habiualy the who wish improve
While in doubt, derde until decide We eer
and then cheer in ooation.
We have the uDattle hut transmitted of
concrete and queag meamorphose into the
speeding motor cathe crude dug develop the fourday
turbine Hnerthe faint and Pickering taow brighten the
dazzling Tungsten
We have watched Science emerge from its despsed crysas
of full from chicanery
into preciso-he surgeons knife wresed from the fun1bng
ec and placed the hand of the trained ADEPT
We ask question in Canton, Ohio and
overnight from Canton, China.
The anxious "fan thousand miles from Shore knoups be-
fore bedtime if his home team uDon the game.
We navigate ships above and beLow and the
and still eager find things nposble-st
dec1y what we cannot personally descry.
The benefactors Of humanity have paid heavy penalty
Ignorance for the privilege of helping the world along
We have cuttered the of progress
iwe have heaped encouragement the head of
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adOentuer who went prospecting into the Hills of Chance
Had advancement been regulated by the judgment of the
majority would nouD be xuiang in the and
0eniences of the odthe Twentieth Century
would be thousand would continue ce
brate thought with human bones and the prevailing
religion would probably be the worship of the golden
Men, not man, have given mankind its uplit The epochal
exploits have been the achievements of indudualsof
natuesof irresistible struggling successfully the
terrific odds offered by obstinate n,yopia.
Evolution the perceptie change of the n,assbut
luton is inspired by the lone mind
Greatness must primarily be fortified with forbearance and
patience No coard convinced society that he kne did
a better thing:
Brain sufficient to icubate the reality of the
Only the venerable Keeper the Universal Record knows how
ideas have been wreced the Reef of %
cule and forever lost o civilization
Any who against the handicaps with which
burden the dreamer entitled everything that he gains
Whatever benefit he derives from his doggedness and
ssence n,eed 1t is the side of
generosity
HISTORY PROVES THAT WHEN WE HAVE BE-
SLOWED OUR UTMOST WE HAVE ONLY MADE
PARTIAL PA NlENT TO GENIUS
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-07-20
GouLDsBogo.

Aivah Dyer has gone to sullivan, where
he is employed haying.
There have been no services in the
Methodist church for the past two Sum
days. as the pastor, Rev. Alfred Barratt,
il at Bucksport for his vacation.
The funeral of Samuel W. Libby was
held at bis home "Wednesday, July Is.
Rev. Gideon Mayo, of franklin, ofiicisted.
MIR. Mayo was former pastor
OF the Baptist church here, OF
which Mr.. Libby was the oldest menu
Der and OF which be had been for many
years deacon. MIR. Libby was a native
and a lifelong resident OF this place, and
was respected and esteemed by all. Al
though advanced in years and in feeble
health for long time, bis death coming
as it did after an illness of but few
hours. was a distinct shock. Mr. Libby
was cared for by his son Frank, who with
his wife made their home with him and
gave him every attention. Mr.. Libby is
also survived by two brothers Elisha and
James, OF this place, and younger son,
Daniel, OF Prospect Harbor.
July 49, JES.