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Expensive Heat.

IRON the girls gloved hand the grocer
received half dollar which he
dropped with a smothered oh"
THAT must have just come out OF the
mint" he said. IRIS warm eonugh."
''Oh. 1 forgot 1t might still be hot"
said the girl. THAT is my way OF keep
ing my hands warm. I can't afford just
yet to buy the kind of mum want, and
until can afford 1t heat my silver
money and put 1t into my purse piping
hot. 1t makes a regular furnace and
stays hot long enough to keep my hands
warm for long trip"
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ready see the advancing portion Of the
long, faint summer zone, which Is occu-
pied by the very large and interesting
group Of the Virgin, while above this
there shines out the great, reddish Arc
turus, a sun thousands of times brighter
and hotter than our own. If we had no
calendars, the first entrance of these
stars into the evening sky would tell us
that the end of winter is at hand. The
observer of the heavens would read this
welcome news no less clearly when he
observed that the winter branch of the
Milky Way, which for SO many months
has passed through the highest point Of
the sky, has now begun to perceptibly
sink toward the ground, although it will
not entirely disappear until the end of
April nor will the summer branch rise
sufficiently high to be noticeable in the
early evening until June.
All of these changes are, of course,
caused by the apparent motion of our
SUM- which appears to us to move forever
around the sky along the path AB. figure
l, passing over one constellation after
another. and by his overpowering bright
ness blotting out all the stars in the re-
gions of the sky which are near him, SO
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insufficient Supply.

THE laundress was describing in char.
acteristically fearful tones her sor-
row over q frequently recurring domes-
tic upheayal.
II was that heartbroken," she said.
that did your weeks wash IN my
tears"
! For once the usually sympathetic mans
font Of sympathy ran dry. He looked at
his streaked shirt fronts and collars and
said he coldly:
Mrs. Mullen. am afraid you took u
pretty coolly this Tina"
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CROsssECTTON LIGHT: TO SHOW
1 APPROXIMATE

the way to the zenith. though its bound
aries are defined with difficulty. In the
tropics it may sometimes be seen encir-
cling the whole sky. and its central.
rounded portion has been seen extending
above the northern horizon at midnight
near the times of the longest days in
summer. Its form Is believed to be APP
proximately that shown in Figure 4.
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tions together-the blue Dog Stars In the
south, the magnificent Orion. the Bull
and the Twins toward the west. and
northward from these he will see the
golden Capella, with the interesting
groups of Perseus, Andromeaa and the
bright Cassiopeia below. With an opera
glass he can examine the beautiful double
cluster of stars at d, figure L; the Won
derful nebulas at z and F, and through
out the whole region an exploration will
be rewarded by the discovery of many
star clouds and star clusters immersed In
the Milky Way. and by many double
stars, some showing an interesting con-
trast in color.
The observer who Is already familiar
with the bright and well known stars may
prefer to study the four faint and delicate
little groups which border the Great Bear
on the south. The first Of these is the
Lynx. or Tiger, which is remar liable Tor
the number and beauty of its double
stars; east OF this is the Lesser Lion. and
still farther east is the filmy. delicate
cluster of many stars which forms the
Maiden's Hair. Above this. in the hollow
Of the Dipper, are the Hunting Dogs,
whom BOotes leads in his leash OF side-
real fire. The positions of the wonderful
spiral nebulas and of striking double
stars to be found in this region are shown
at the points marked H and 4, respect
lively, In figure 2.
j.
The bright star at l., figure l, whose
light is periodically hidden from us by
the passage Of a darker companion. will
be seen at Ito faintest March B. at 1864
o'clock pm; March .. at 7:43 O'Clock.
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this same kind in the sky. That at M.
Figure l, loses two-thirds of its light at q
constant interval of three days. twenty
two hours and fifty-two minutes. This
star will be seen at its fa'ntest March ~.
at about a. m, and March 30 at about 1
am. It is somewhat more difficult star
to observe, however, than the star at l.,
for the time elapsing between when it
first begins to grow dim and its time of
greatest faintness is no less than ten
hours.
March 2, at 9 am, the little planet
Mercury will pass to the east of the sun
and become an evening star. II we could
see, both bodies at once at that time we
would see the little world moving steadily
along in its orbit and passing below the
sun from the right to the left side of 1t
at distance away from the lowest point
of the suns dsc about equal to the diam
eter of the disc itself. The evening of
March % the planet will reach its great
est distance east of the sun. and may be
seen shining out in the twilight glow. very
near the ground, a little south OF the west
point, for nearly an hour after sunset.
Venus is still brilliant object in the
morning sky, rising about one hour forty
minutes before sunrise March 1. which
time is diminished to one hour ten min
utes by the end Of the month. March 10,
at am, the moon, in its monthly jour
ney around the heavens. passes to the
east of Venus, but at a distance of nearly
four degrees away. The planet is moving
so rapidly over the sky. however. that at
their next meeting, April IA. the center of
the moon will pass almost squarely over
the center of Venus and the planet will be
hidden from view. Very unfortunately,
this occurs almost exactly at noon, east
ern time, and the sun will therefore be
shining SO brightly to all observers in the
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and March Il. at 4:3o o'clock pm. As
the eclipse progresses slowly the light
occupies about four hours in fading away.
SO that the star will first be seen to be
growing dim about four hours before the
above times, while the full brightness
will not be reached until about three and
one-half hours after them.
There are many other eclips!ng stars or
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that for time they cannot be seen by
u.s. On this year. in his steady. eastward
motion, he will reach the point on the
round heavens which is exactly opposite
to B, and so cross the celestial equator
at 500 o'clock in the evening OF March
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cur during the first half of this month.
and who stands under the wonderful
heavens, can fail to be struck by the re-
markable brilliance of the whole western
sky Here are all OF the winter constella-
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~ THE HEAVENS IN MARCH, ~

United States that they will ber unable to
witness this interesting occurrence.
Mars and Saturn still shine brightly In
the evening sky toward the west. The
former planet, in its eastward motion,
will. during the month, pass almost Who'll
ly out of Taurus and into almost the ey-
act center of the Milky Way. The latter.
though il is still in good position AMI is
rings are we'll widened out, is, neyerthe-
less sinking SO near the ground that the
evenings of this month will furnish about
the last opportunities for viewing 1t un-
til next winter.
westward in the constellation of the
Scorpion, is drawing ever nearer to our
evening sky, but will not actually enter il
until the end of April. March | it rises
about l am. and March 81 about two
hours earlier. 1t is still so near the
bright red star Antares that the two OBJ
jects form an interesting figure in the
morning sky.
Neptune is in Gemini. in nearly it's best
position for observation during the year.
A small map is therefore added Figure
b. to enable the possessor of a small
telescope to find it without difficulty.
Though a great. hot. vaporous ball, no
less than 3j,COO miles in diameter. 1t will
appear in the telescope merely as a small.
greenish star. Unless however. the night
is an unusually poor one for observation,
the observer will notice that it does not
shine like a star, its radiance being more
steady and constant. like that of bright
nebula
If there are any readers who tried with
out success to see this interesting object
during February, they will have excellent
opportunities to find it as soon after sun
set as darkness appears during the moon
less nights of the second and third weeks
Of the present month. 1t will be seen as
a faint pyramid of light stretching up
ward from that point of the western
horizon in which the sun was seen to set.
1t is brightest near the sun. both because
the countless particles of which ii Is COM
posed are doubtless more numerous near
est it's center and because they are there
more strongly illuminated by sunlight.
and it may stretch past the Pleiades all
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BY Prof. Eric Doolitt1e Of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania.
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M ERcURY Becomes the
NA Evening Star March 2
Cause Of the Zodiacal Light
Venus Still Brilliant in the
Morning Sky.

~ 9TH the arrival Of this our
first spring month the east
wv ern sky already begins to be
A dominated by the faint con-
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All during the days of their convalescence the hut
in which they had found refuge besleged by
people who had come for miles this marvel In
spite of their reassurances they found impossible to
convince many of the visitors that they merely
and that the vehicle in which they had ridden
through the clouds made affair, very COM
and not all wonderful in other parts of the world
And to this day Forbes believes that the entire
tryside relieved when he and Yeates finally
cred and were driven thirty miles the nearest railroad
and shipped home
Considering the widespread of the balloon since
1888, this ignorance is astonishing yet the natives Of
those Kentucky mountain Businesses scarcely be
blamed for it. for they almost entirely cut off from
civilization and any knowledge of what is going in
the world.
Yet an ignorance not, perhaps, SO deep but much
inexcusabe exists today regarding the aeroplane
in spite OF all that it has done and all that has been pub
llshed about it.
IN June l3. 1910 Charles K. Hamilton made
- derul flight from New York to Philadelphia and
return III day was of the officials connected
with the event. and invited friend of mine to go out
to the field with and see for himself that these
chimes about which he skeptca could carry
man successfully journey OF ninety miles
Now, this friend was by means so ignorant the
Kentucky crackers" He was, the contrary, man
lcto IL n.
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BY HENRY M. NEELY

listened attentively without word of question
nent, and when l had finished my explanations
waited hear him admit that he had been wrong AS
l paused he left me and walked carefully round the
machine examining its details infinitely. Then he re-
turned to me-
Il don't care" he said shaking his head doggedy.
Now, do not expect anyone to believe that story.
1t is absurd. Yet it happened exactly | tell
it, and it is only of many examples can give to
show that in spite of the fact that aeropanes fill
news and picture space in magazines and newspapers
than many other subjects of the day. the great ndi
vdual known as the Average Man knows more about
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of the finest grade of education and very
successful man of affairs. He had read a
great deal about aeroplanes in the newspapers
and magazines, he had seen no end of pictures
of them in flight and at rest, and he was well
informed of the progress they were making;
vet they had never touched him personally,
and this was his first opportunity to see one
in the air. So he accepted my invitation
We went to the field and waited with the
thousands who had gathered there, and all
the time this friend of mine improved the
time by predicting fiasco and bernoanlng
his folly in wasting precious hours from his
business on fool stunt that could never be
accomplished anyway. As
.l,a ,,,;,,+ac Jrooua6 ba
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slant before disaster and land lightly a feather
and gracefully as bird
NV friend was silent felt that he was finally
convinced We squeezed our way through the crowds
up to the machine, and there | explained to him just
how and why it flew and what the aviator did to steer
it in its three phases of action To all of this my friend
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an experience that revealed {
believable in our present civillzati
He and a friend named Yeates
in Ohio on an attempt to win the
distance ballooning. They struck
of all kinds. and finally found the
more than three hundred feet abo
homes of the crackers of kentucl
all sides for safe landing place, ano
and puzzled, whenever they dete
earth below them, to see him do {
either run away as fast as his legs
fall to his knees in fervent prayer
had passed.
Without moment S warning tht
and they plunged to the earth, bot
conscious by the fall.
Forbes was the first to open his c
ually returning consciousness, he sd
standing in awe. gazing at him, /
slightest effort to help him or his il
He called to them, and, almost as OF
to their knees. praying to him to
tell the good Lord that they were
that they had done their best or We
but not attempting to come near
Finally he was able to stagger to
and as he did so most of the crowd
terror. crying that the vengeance
Lord was about to be visited u
them, and that the end of the wo
was at hand.
1t was not until several days
afterward, when they were recover
ing in the log cabin of an old
woman who had finally been per-
suaded that they were human
beings, that they learned the cause
of their strange reception. No one
in that section of the country had
ever heard of such thing as a
balloon. Unbelievable as it may
seem, they found this to be an alb
solute fact. Consequently, when
the ignorant and superstitious ma
tives saw this great, strange thing
coming out of the skies, their only
conclusion was that the Lord was
sending down two of His angels to
bring them to account for their
sins, and the terror swept through
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them than II they had never Deen
invented. And, more remarkab BILE
still, the Average Man is like my
friend, he resolutely refuses to
be convinced, in spite of the evil
dence of his own eyes.
Take the average American
schoolboy over ten years old
and spend ten or fifteen minutes
explaining the simple principles
to him, and at the end of that
time he will have a pretty firm
grip on what you are talking
about and will know enough to
pursue the subject independently.
He has no reason to doubt that
these machines will fly; for per-
haps he has seen them. He has
no preconceived impressions that
it is impossible to fly heavier
%1,a,, - oraff onJ ha anrrnach hos
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raot,, ~ Pat. Thompson. n. Y
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-21
PRETTY GIRL RESCUED HADLEY YELL;
MANA GOTEXCTTED---LO Their SHOES

you've said it. go home" The man VINO
folds his arms and looks dramatic gets
only horse laugh, and when the silver
tongued orator with the pompadour
voice from the bright southland I'M
buckled his prayer meeting voice he was
greeted with, Amen" from all over the
congregation.
There is one thing we girls like ABOUT
Henry Allen, the hairless Mexican
Kansas man who jollied himself into
the good graces of the convention and
then dumped sample packages of his
progressive ideas in the front hall, Hen
ry Allen guys the whole oratorical
crowd in his talks.
When he shows his line he doesn't
pretend it is the only line in the mar
ket, but he does give a guarantee that
it will work and he has one of the
incest little side lines in smilettes that
the trade has seen for years, 1t is
dimpled little smiIette, with a girlish
dewlap under it's chin that is being
worn a great deal in our leading hotel
sets
MAMMA LOST HER SHOE.
Henry made hit with all the good
old girls in the galleries whose shoes
hurt, and half of them applauded him
without realizing which side he was on,
An awful thing happened to mamma
from Springfield today. Just before the
cheering mamma slipped her shoe on,
the right foot, and no one noticed IT, and
when the gallery went mad, mamma
went mad, too, and getting up, she
forgot her shoe. Well, you know NAM
ma, when she gets started there's no
stopping her. If she didn't tromp
around and kick that shoe over into
the next row, and forgot all about 1t,
and-wen, mamma went home in a taxi
and had 1t charged to the room.
Four dollars, and she never viii hear
the last of it. But mamma is this way,
she doesn't care much. She will get
81 worth of fun next year telling the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-21

minute. Strong men took off their
coats and tried to revive 1t but their
efforts were vain. perfectly go"d
yell which might just as well grow up
and make a president was dying away,
when a woman. one Of those creatures
who do not know enough to vote,
snatched it up and saved 1t.
SHE SAVED 1T.
am perfectly sure last night was
a grand evening in the hotel or on l.l1
street where Mrs. Davis lives. 1t is a
great thing to be a neighbor to a he
roine, and IL I were annoying the post
man near this charming lady's address
they could just slip the rent up a lit
tie on me for a week or two at least:
Why there were 10000 men at least in
that coliseum and what would have
happened If any one of them had lean
ed over the gallery railing and waved
a picture of Roosevelt and had sat
smiling dazzlingly at the tempest be-
low? He wouldn't have increased the
enthusiasm by two "wyeeeoops" which
seems to be the standard noise to make
in convention hall.
No, IL took a woman, a pretty wom-
an, a graceful woman, who could spread
a picture out so appealingly as to draw
cheers from the very vest pocket Of a
scowling opponent of our great public
liberties, or am I getting the liberties
on the wrong side? Anyway, please
remember that a convention yell with
out a woman is just yell and nothing
more. 1t takes a woman to put ro-
nance. ferver and picturesqueness in
it.
GUYING GOES BEST.
Still for all that, the men do GER
tainly show Improvement The 1912
model husband is surely a sweet run
ner Do you notice how quickly he is
getting on. The old stuff does not go.
The old-fashioned orators at the. conven-
ton found that out today. The man
who ct have come two thousand miles
to say this to you," got, We'll, now,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-21

Copyright. 1912. by The Associa

Copyright, 1912, by The Associated
Newspapers.)
CHICAGO, June 20.-It is lust rs I
had always suspected. Political con-
ventions are arranged by men. They
do all the heavy brain work such os
keeping out the plain. unvarnished old
parties from the remote voting pre-
cincts and decorating the galleries with
the families of our really incest people
and splitting parties with neatness and
accuracy. They do all the speechmak-
ing and all the voting, from what I
have heard this week, a good deal more
voting than is healthy in some cases,
but when a real crisis comes up in a
political convention. woman, as usual,
has to step In and take charge.
There was that Hadley yell yester-
day, for instance. 1t was a beautiful
yell and everybody loved it, for Mr.
Hadley is a sterling young man who
looked far too good to mingle with a
dark and dreadful national committee.
As was saying, everybody lovd this
young yell, and wished 1t good luck, but
in less than ten minutes after it was
born you could tell with one ear that
1t wasn't going to STOW up. It was
pining away and getting weaker every
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-21

Him. Simon didn't say anything, but
his face was a study.
Then Jesus spoke. Simon, / want
to ask you something" alright" said
Simon. This country you know is full
OF debtors. Well. a certain man had
two. one owed him $500. and the other
$50. They got into bad shape. and
neither could pay him a cent. So he
cancelled the obligations of both of
them. Which one will be the most
gratefuI?' why. said Simon, the
answer is almost too simple TO de-
mand reply; the one who had the lar
gest obligation removed, of course"
Had Simon seen the sharp pointed
sword in the question, or had he re-
allied the exquisite art OF teaching
which Jesus possesses, he might not
have answered so glibby. But Jesus
Simon, l didn't say anything when 1
showed his art then, as ne replied;
came in. but / noticed your self right
eousness. I noticed the fact that you
thought yourself too high and holy to
be even commonly polite to me. Your
didn't kiss me on either cheek you didn'
OFFER me any water for my feet you
didn't anoint my head with oil.
ION the other hand, this woman welted
my feet with tears of penitence: she
hath not stopped Kissing them since
she came in, and she nad Amounted them
with the costly spikenard. Her sins
are many; but they are forgiven, for
she has shown how penitent she is."
Then he turned to the poor fallen
woman-not Mary Magdelen; she is in
troduced later-and said to her: Thy
faith (not thy tears, thy gifD hath
saved thee; go in peaceF All, she re-
ceived what she wanted. She had Won
dered il those words, Come unto Me-"
could possibly refer to her. She had
dared TO believe that they did, and
had come; and now she knew that they
included her. So she left that room
with the rest he had promised.
What about Simon? Why he was the
greater sinner of the two. but he didn't
know it, But he was not too great
sinner even to, overtax the saving
power OF Jesus. Neither are you.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-21
ALABAMA ROADS WILL
DISCUSS HIGH RATES
Especial Dispatch to The JOurnal.)

MONTGOMERY. Ala. June 1s.-of-
fcials of the state and officials of the
Western Railway of Alabama and the
Central of Georgia viii hold a confer
ence Tuesday in the office of Gov
ernor O'NSeal for the purpose of dis
GUESSING the rate situation.
Under a decree rendered by Federal
Judge Thomas G. Jones. on May 20. the
Western Railway has served notice on
the state that il will restore the old
three-cent passenger rate in Alabama
on June 20. The Central of Georgia
has not yet notified the railroad COM
mission of it's intention, but tariffs
with the three-cent restored have been
received in the local offices Of the rail-
way. 1t is not known what the in
tention Of the railroads is in the mat
ter of freight rates on the 10 COM
modities.