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velocity and weight of an intense wrath
into the forward movement of that arm.
and landed her open palm on the jaw
of the toad-mustached alien with a smack
that could have been heard above the
music of the hosting engine, leaving the
imprint of her fingers on the cheek as If
painted there In crimson. The toad
mustached one looked intensely astonish
backed into the bunch. They all SLOUGH
ed away. The spinister marched her
flock through that covered way like a
commander of the Dahomeyan army en-
tering capitulated town. Not word
was breathed to or at her or her charges
as she passed. She had shown them
something that they urgently required to
see.
But she was an exception. Most New
York women take the insults in fear and
trembling. and accelerate their pace to
get away. Perhaps, after all. New York
men of the civilized breed are not so
blameworthy as it first appears for re-
fusing to get mingled up in would-be
punitive ARRAYS with these cattle. The
force Of numbers Is as big thing in New
York today as 1t ever was in the ages
when might was right, and New York
ers learn to feel a wholesome fear of
gangs who not only are adopts at the use
of the knife. but who know where they
can put their hands upon domicile- shat
tering bombs at any old hour of the day
or night
Moreover, there are frequent object les
sons wherein it is shown that the knight
Illness which actuates American men to
protect insdlted women no longer stands
much of show A few months ago, in
Brooklyn. an American foreman in charge
of a gang of immigrant street laborers
made sore by the constant spectacle Of
passing women being grossly abused by
the tongues of his gang of cutthroats.
leaped at one of them in the midst of
such an incident and started to stake the
u"i % HI MY meIited American drip
bling. The whole gang promptly piled
upon him with knives. and when they got
through there was not enough left of him
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ond; a speed so great that in one second
beam Of light would move around our
earth nearly eight times. Could we start
from our sun and travel outward with
this velocity, we would arrive at the world
Mercury in about three minutes, and at
our own earth in about eight minutes.
One and one-third seconds after this we
would pass our moon, but not until about
four hours had elapsed would we reach
Neptune. the outermost known world OF
our solar system. Here we might well
hesitate before venturing into the cold
and nearly empty space which lies be-
yond. For after leaving the warmth and
life of our solar system we would have
to pursue our journey for no less than
four and one-third years before we ar
rived at that star OF the sky which of all
the stars Is the very nearest to our sun.
Had we directed our course toward Sirius
eight and one-third years after starting,
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cENATOR LA TOILETTE, at a din
- ner in Madison, said OF a certain no.
torious trust:
That trusts Thanksgiving won't be.
this year. so boisterous and blatant as 1t
used to be- That trust mas certainly
become subdued.'
He smiled.
Its spirit is as humble now as the
spirit of very ugly man who visited a
matrimonial agency and said he'd like
to find a wife But the agent, looking
the man over, returned, sternly:
I'm afraid it won't be easy to find
a wife for you, my friend
- thought said the applicant. you
might have something shortsighted on
your books"
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THANKSGIVING had become deep rooted in
1890 BY that time 1t had been carried
over the Alleghenies into the wilderness
of the Northwest Territory. and was gen.
orally observed by the pioneers in their
new homes as it had been in their old
ones in the east. 1t was time of fam
lily feasting and reunion and of religious
worship. The custom up. to this time
less observed In the south, began to ap-
pear there also by the sanction OF the
local authorities.
Thanksgiving day was kept by legal
authority as a holiday in Baltimore in
1874. Contemporary records show that
business was suspended for. part or
the day and the banks closed. The
weather was clear and the population
turned out in the afternoon to promenade
the streets in smart attire or to drive
over the country roads. The churches
were open and II is said the theaters
and other places of amusement were well
patronized. Good dinners were not lack
ing and Maryland's boosted hospitality
found expression in good cheer. If the
facts of history must be told there were
several cock fights and some horse rae
ing in the country. Three weddings were
solemnized among the elite of the Monu-
mental city
Two years later, November 9, the au-
thorities at Washington designated No
vember Is as Thanksgiving day The
proclamation was issued by the mayor
and the occasion was observed by the
people. Bladensburg was full Of visitors
that day and GEORGETOWN was gay with
social life. Executive order closed the
government departments and . genuine
holiday was enjoyed, with great inroads
upon the market supplies in the morn
ing hours for the dinners at midday and
the suppers at night. The precedent set
by Mayor Seaton in 1S46 was followed in
subsequent years. and Thanksgiving day
became a fixed annual observance at
the capital.
Three years later several clergymen and
members of religious bodies in Washing
ton and elsewhere suggested that the
November Thanksgiving day be offcia ly
proclaimed by the President as a national
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should a new nation spring into existence
tomorrow and seek to mark the event by
the establishment of public annual festi-
val some bookworm would arise to prove
that the idea of the celebration, it's form
and date had been stolen from the Chal-
dean, Aztec ASsyrian, Egyptian or other
calendar, even though the busy men who
formed the new state, framed its constitu-
ton and laws and set its observanceS by
legal decree may have never known that
those good ancient peoples existed, much
less held harvest home feasts and ma
tional holidays.
Certainly the idea of Thanksgiving to
God for material blessings and the gath
ering of fruits of the earth into public or
private feasts are older than jamestown
or Plymouth, and in sense Thanksgiving
day was only adopted in America, but In
a liberal sense the feast may claim to be
the oldest and most distinctive of our
American festivals. 1t antedates indie
pendence day by more than century,
while Memorial and Labor days, COM
pared with it, are of recent birth Thanks
giving day was the first recognized state
holiday.
Whatever its resemblances to more an
cient festivals of the old world, Thanks
giving day is distinctly a part of Amer
lean life. It's religious observances have
in them nothing essentially new, but tur-
key, cranberry, foot ba | and the gather
ing of the family about the festal board
under the parental roof are so American
that there is no room for an argument.
1t bears only vague and traditional re-
semblance to the harvest homes, folk
tests and lupercalS of the old world. In
deed. the record of Thanksgiving days, if
made complete, would be the history of
the nation.
Much has been written in the effort to
set forth the accurate history of this
American festival. and writer's with
strange perversity have overworked Their
pens trying to link it with European GUS
toms. 1t has been pointed out that days
for fasting and Thanksgiving were of fire.
quent occurrence in England from the
DAYS of Queen Elizabeth. Puritan and
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Cavalier. it is said, were familiar with
the custom and transplanted 1t to the new
world. Writer'S point to the celebration
of special day Of thanksgiving on the
shores of Newfoundland in 1873 in which
Church of England clergyman, named
Wolfall, officiated. The instance of the
Popham colony on the coast Of Name in
August, 1907, is cited as proof that the
predecessors. Curious chroniclers have
made out a list Of nearly $50 such days
between 1921 and 1899. But with a few
EXCEPTIONS they were events Of almost
by local churches, the courts or colonial
governors.
There is little evidence that the home
feast or even a square meal after the
fast was an accompaniment of any Of
them. They were no more like the real
Thanksgiving day than their austere and
simple services were like q requiem mass
There are however, a few events in CO.
lonial history which give an insight into
the origin Of this November holiday. Gov.
Bradford of the Plymouth colony, In 1921,
appointed a period Of thanksgiving out
of gratitude for bountiful harvest. 1t
was set for December 81, and Gov. Brad
ford S written account Of it has been
preserved. The colony had gathered
plentiful crop of corn and the young men
of Plymouth had brought into the vii
lage bountiful supply of wild fowl from
the neighboring forests, chief Of which
were wild turkeys and ducks. The Mas
sasoit Indians were invited and were en-
tertained for three days. Miles Standish
and his. hunters, with the Indians, took
part in the exercise of arms and athletic
games laying the foundations of Thanks
giving day broad and deep. as it after
ward grew into national observance.
Gov. Bradford does not specially mention
there were prayers and thanksgiving for
the corn crop and the wild fowl and the
deer, which the Indians shot and brought
in as their share of the feast II was
here that the American Thanksgiving,
afterward given annual date, was born,
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FIGURE 3-PRESENT APPEAR
ANCE OF THE PLANET MARS.
FROM A DRAWING MADE NOSEM-
BIER II. 1911. (THE AREAS MARK ED
co. ARE OF A GREENlSH COLOR;
THOSE MARKED "R" ARE THE
REDDISH REGIONS. THE POLAR
CAP is A BRILLIANT WHITE.)
both worlds will draw away from ouI
earth; not for more than two years from
now can Mars again be seen so we'll as al
present.
Neptune is in Gemini in the position
shown on Figure I. Uranus Is in the con-
stellation Sagittarius, too near the sun to
be seen during this month.
The evening Of December the nearly
full moon will be seen to pass SO close tC
Mars that it will seem almost to Craze the
planet. AS viewed from a large part OF
the earth our satellite will pass over the
planet and hide it from view. Even in
those countries where this Is not seen to
occur the two bright bodies SO near to-
gether will form . striking and most in.
teresting figure in the sky.
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vember. the one became An accompani-
ment Of the other. In fact. just after the
close Of the revolution Thanksgiving was
generally observed in New England. New
also taken root In Pennsylvania, but the
feasting was more Dutch than 'Puri-
TAM
The mayor Of New York ordered a day
That year also Gov. Clinton made it a
state institution by proclamation. Presi-
dent Washington had appointed Novem-
Der g. 1850, a day of Thanksgiving for the
adoption Of the Federal Constitution, and
John Jay had suggested that such a day
be kept throughout New York state.
though he thought he had no authority to
proclaim it.
X
Gov. Clinton's proclamation in 1893
raised storm Of protest in Long Island.
The day, December Is. did not coincide
with a local custom. 1t appears that the
people of East and South Hampton OBJ
served Thanksgiving after the cattle were
driven in from the common pasture on
Montauk Point, the day for the return of
the cattle being fixed annually by the
town meeting. This was usually the third
week in November, or. in case Of severe
storms. at an earlier date. The howl of
the herdsmen had its effect upon Gov.
Clinton, and the date was changed in
1900 to suit the customs Of Long Island.
Following the example set by Washing
ton. President Adams proclaimed May 8,
1873, as a day of special thanksgiving for
blessings to the nation. Beginning with
the new century and thereafter. the No
vember Thanksgiving was observed, the
appointment being made in the states by
the local authorities. President Madison,
in 1915. named January IL a day of hui
initiation and prayer to ask blessing upon
the American arms. The proclamation
was issued In the month of November,
before the treaty of Client was signed
the following December and to the coun-
try generally the day of fasting was OBJ
served with demonstrations Of Joy in all
parts of the nation.
AS may be learned by family history
and township records, the November
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southeast. below the brilliant Orion. the
second. which is less than half as bright,
will be seen due east little farther
from the ground than Sirius. Both Sirius
and Procyon are great suns: the first Is
three times as heavy as our own sun,
much And around each Of these larger
suns a smaller sun is revolving. so that
each Of the dog stars is wonderful dou-
ble-sun system. Each of the smaller suns
some reason they are very much fainter:
the companion of Sirius 10 emitting but
one ten-thousandth part a. much light as
Sirius itself, while that Of Procyon 10
even fainter. These bodies seem. indeed.
to be approaching extinction: soon they
will doubtless become cool and quite dark.
and thus add two more to the vast num-
Der of dark suns which our reason tells
us must exist in space.
Both Sirius and Procyou are 80 near US
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TOW November Festival
i i Was First Observed in
1921, Much as 1t is Today
How 1t Became a State and
National Holiday-Many Re-
ligious Fast Days Proclaimed
in the History of the Country
Home Feasts in New Eng
land and Long Island Grad
ually Give Character to the
Social Side of the Holiday
Foot Ball Gives a New Turn
to ItssObservance-First and
Subsequent Proclamations.
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with its prayers of gratitude in the
churches. Its dancing and mirth, its horse
racing and foot ball. its social gatherings.
its weddings and all forms of gayety, Of
an after time.
Sixty-eight years later the general court
Of Massachusetts issued a decree naming
Thursday, December 10, 1850. as a day
of Thanksgiving, and directing the people
to abstain from servile labor, gather in
the churches and worship God. 1t was set
forth in this decree that the previous
season had been one of plenty, with alb
sence of Indian war and other public
was due. The accession to the throne Of
England of William and Mary was refer
red to, and 1t would be but natural that
the staid Puritans of Massachusetts
after the morning meeting and sermon
in church. The thanksgiving proclama-
ton is found in this ancient record Of
the court.
Appointment Of special days for prayer
and sometimes for fasting was frequent.
other colonies. Some of them were in
summer. and possibly the majority of
them in November, after the ingathering
of corn and fruits. AS prosperity attend
ed the people or adversely frowned, the
character Of the religious observance was
determined. From 1884 to 1854 thanks
giving days number twenty-one. In 1857
the day was appointed for victory over
the Pequots. and in 1888 for the safe ar
rival of ships from England. In 1861 a
day was observed in gratitude for the
ending of excessive wet weather, and one
was appointed upon the arrival of the
news of the birth of an heir to the throne
of England.
Meantime. there grew up in New Eng
land custom, apart from Thanksgiving
days. Of holding family reunions In the
fall of the year after harvest. This home
feast became we'll rooted in New England
life, and near the close of the eighteenth
century. when the annual Thanksgiving
began to fall on some Thursday in No
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FIGURE 2-SMOWING THE POSI-
TIONS OF MARS AND THE NEARLY
FULL MOON DECEMBER 4 At 1Os47
while the Journey to Procyon would have
required no less than nine years and one
half
Now the laws Of light are well known
It is known. for example. that II our sun
were moved twice as far away from us as
IL IL II would appear to US only one-fourth
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II \ n X s G WING
day is a national
institution pecul-
iarly though not
s o ! g = American.
proclaimed annual
~ by the President
and the governors
of states. It's his
tory, in this coun-
try at least, of
which any Ameri-
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ran may be proud, dates back TO no an
cestral halls or superstitious rites, but to
q birthplace on the soil of new continent
amid events connected with the infancy of
a great republic,
Entire originality in the matter of feast
days is a proposition hopeless of proof.
Practically every day in the year was
pre-empted long ago by church or civil
authority for anniversary purposes, and
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From Modern Society.
"Oh, yes" Mrs. Smith told us. my hus-
band is an enthusiastic archeologist. And
I never knew 1t till yesterday l found in
his desk some queer-looking tickets with
the inscription Sphinx to l. And when
I asked him what they were he explained
to me they were relics of a lost race.
Isn't 1t interesting?
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ago we saw the faint, widespreading
groups of Hercules the Serpent Holder
and the Virgin, there are now the very
brightest of all the consultations of the
sky The whole eastern heaven is now
filled with these brilliant winter groups.
and to make this part of our evening sky
still more beautiful, the two most inter-
esting planets Mars and Saturn, shine out
with their steady radiance from among
these winter stars.
Certainly no one who looks at the heav-
ems at al can fail to be impressed with
the spectacle that is now spread out
above him. But although the eastern half
OF our evening sky is by far the brighter
part, the west is also filled with interest
ing groups which are not too faint to be
traced out easily. The first star noticed
here will probably be the very bright,
blush Vega, now only a little way up
from the ground in the northwest, while
beside this is the beautiful Narthern
Cross. now standing in an almost exactly
upright position on the ground and look
ing to us much larger than it does when
II is higher in the sky. Near the foot Of
MS is the strange little group of the
Dolphin, often known as Jobs Coffin, and
TO the Arabians as the Riding Camel,
while much higher up than this are the
four bright, whitsh-yellow stars which
form the square of Pegasus.
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their positions In the sky visibly change
as our earth traverses its great path
around the sun. BY carefully measuring
how much they seem to move when view
ed from our moving earth We can readily
find how far away from us they are in
miles. But their distances. as is the case
with all distances from star to star in the
great cloud of suns around u.s. are found
to be 80 enormous that q special method
Of describing them must be employed.
As many Of our readers doubtless know.
astronomers tell how great the distances
between the stars are by telling how long
a time would be required for light to pass
from one of the stars to another. 1t Is
known that light traverses the enormous
distance Of le0,33O miles In q single Sec
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THE Full Moon Passes
i Close to Mars December
4-Measuring the Brightness
of the Dog Substituting
the Distance of the Milky
Way.
By Prof. Eric Doolittle of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.

THROUGHOUT the evenings of
= this last month of the year the
heavens Seem covered with
stars OF unusual brilliance and
beauty For where six months
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I relented. Anybody who'd heard that
wonderful woman sing would have done
the same. There's good deal more than
a hundred and ninety pounds of this
present writer, but he relented all the
same And she occupied the lower berth.
l occupied myself with the cigar for
about an hour after the world-renowned
soprano turned in. Then, very sleepy, L
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but often.
But that isn't the question. The ques-
ton is:
Do women snOre?
Affirmatively answered again. They do.
IT'S hateful and disillusioning
thought. But it is fact.
Often we've heard it disputed. Women
are the disputers. They become highly
disputatious about it. The woman one
knows best to whom one is linked by the
closest tie infallibly disputes it to the
point of Righteousness.
She declines to believe It, Impossible!
Can't be! Nunno! Disgraceful! Out of
the question! Don't tell me! Horrible!
Scandalous.
Women do snOre.
Recently l spent night in a sleeping
car I had engaged lower berth. The
train was jammed. At turning-in time l
discovered tina. the upper above my lower
was to be occupied by stoutish lady
person. She was not only stoutish, she
was celebrated. She was one of the re-
nowned singers of the time. a soprano
whose fute-notes are known and loved
on all of the continents.
She had tried to engage the drawing
room. and found that gene. Also she had
found all of the lowers taken. She had
to make a singing date. So she had to
take that train. And there she was, about
one hundred and ninety pounds of whole
some renownedness, scheduled for the ter
rifying climb to the upper berth.
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But of all the stars which have entered
our evening sky since last month the
most interesting are doubtless the two
dog stars. Sirius and Procyon. The first
of these which as seen by us is the bright
est star of the entire heavens. will be
found just rising from the ground in the
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AN a man snore and still be a
perfec' gen'Pmun?
We wot yes. In fact, we've
seen it demonstrated, not once,
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to the Hohenbergs. Some of them are
near the throne, and might arrive at it
if Karl died childless and the rest re-
sent the prospect of the duchess standing
above them
The partiSans of Archduke Karl declare
that he will not only insist upon his
rights as heir to Austria, but that he
will also keep Francis Ferdinand to his
remuneration for his son of the throne
of Hungary. That they will not find
easy. AS kaiser and king, Francis Fer
dinand will have the army the navy and
the machinery of civil government in his
hands, and he probably will take care
that his supporters are in all high COM
mands before he makes his momentous
declaration. That is why many expect
that the question will not be raised inn
mediately after the present kaiser s
death. The connections of Archduke
Karl, however, are not to be despised.
He Is younger man of strong will, en-
terprising character and a great favorite
with all his woman relatives. His most
powerful ally is his own mother who is
an ambitious woman, and who. as a