El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-13

the ancients imagined to resemble the
figure Of a white rObed maiden, virgo
and they had a legend that Virgo rep
resented the goddess Of justice VINO
fled from the earth, where she reigneo
in the golden age, and found refuge IN
heaven. where alone justice now rules
Between the Dipper and Virgo but
eastward Of a line joining them, glOWs
the ma gnificent Arcturus, a star which
turns red when seen through the mlsIS
Of the horizon, and which was Wor-
shipped FOR ages in less enlightened
times. Arcturus is the chief Of another
constellation called BOotes- or the
Bear Driver because he seems TO
chase the huge bear. Crsa Major round
the pole. East Of Bootes is a splendid
Circlet OF stars named the Northern
Crown. or Ariadne's Diadem 1t is a
constellation whose NEUROLOGICAL his
tory runs away back to the expedition
OF Jason in search OF the golden fleece
You viii find not the slightest citflcul-
~ in recognizing it. Below the Crown
in the northeast is the constellation
Hercules, and below that again Apol-
los Tyre, adorned with one OF the most
beautiful OF all the stars, the diamond
bright Vega. or Alpha Lyrae- Half
round the pole between Ursa Major,
Hercules and the Tyre coils the great
dragon. DracO, figure that stirred the
imagination of the ancients to rs
depths and gave rise to many legends
that will never disappear from ntera-
tCre- Low in the northeast, rising with
the Milky Way, you viii see the shape
ly form Of the Northern Cross in the
constellation Cygnus-
Such is the night sky of June II IS
a single. brief glance into the kaleido-
scope OF the universe Now, call scl-
ence and imagination to your aid, and
you can represent TO yourself the reVo-
luton that it has undergone, and VIII
undergo in the future Not one OF the
splendid consultations which we now
admire Will remain a Few hunQred
thousand years hence Apollo s LFrs
admire the INTERVIEWING rays OF Its
stars, which now seem the glitter OF
silver strings. trembling with the mG-
SIC of the spheres The big upper VIII
flatten out as IL the milestone OF me
ages were rolling over il. Draco VIII
unwind his coils and fit away Ike z
visp OF mist. The crown viii Iall
apart and all its gems viii be scat
tered. Arcturus viii fly away from
BOotes and the whole constellation
viii drift into some other shape The
virgin goddess OF justice viii flee
again, as If an iron age had daWned
I'm the heavens And the great Lion.
which has looked down. apparently
unchanged. upon the whole course OF
centuries. VIII vanish like the vision
CONSULTATIONS Of the Future.
But there viii be consultations IN
the far future. as there have always
been considerations. Many OF them
may be more beautiful and wonderful
bIities OF this vast Kaleidoscope are
iuimitable and IL rolls forever. The
astronomer can. even now. fOretcll
some OF the shapes that viii be formed
BIZ the stars in future cons. for he has
measured the speed and ascertained the
directions i'm which many OF them are
travelling. AT velocity which some
times amounts to hundreds of miles in
a second
Can anything afford a better PROOF
OF the lmmensity Of the universe and
the insignificance Of the earth2 Let
us not think that these remote things
do not concern us Everything con-
Germs us. because there is something
i'm us which transcends both time and
space.