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boring worlds. Thus. Venus passes to
the east of Uranus March 10; Mars
passes very close to Jupiter March %;
Mercury passes to the east of Jupiter
March 90. and to the east of Mars
April 3. At the conjunction of Mars
and Jupiter the two planets will ap-
pear to be separated by a distance
equal to only one third of the dis
tance across the moon. This would
form a most beautiful sky figure were
the two worlds not 50 nearly lost in
the rays of the sun.
The planet Saturn is still high in
the heavens. almost on the border line
between Taurus and Gemirfi. 1t is thus
in excellent position for observation
and is a beautiful object in a mod
erately large telescope. During the
past few weeks the shading of its
south polar regions and the indefinite
reddish bands about its ball have been
unusually prominent, while the shadow
of the ball on the most distant side of
the rings is now very easily seen. AS
this whole great world is, however,
doubtless still but a bali of vapor. the
shapes and extent of its surface mark
ings are continually changing.
The center of the sun will this year
II hours 81 minutes 16 seconds am.
eastern standard time). and at this In
stant spring will begin. Our present
calendar depends wholly upon the posi-
ton of the sun in the sky; as the success
sion of the season Is, of course, caused
by the motion of the sun alone, this is
F.! nv far the most natural and convenient
| BODY to employ for the reckoning of time.
In earlier times, however, the calendar
was based almost wholly upon the moon
The Mohammedans still employ a purely
,,,nar calendar, their year consists OF
twelve lunar months. and is therefore
about ten days shorter than ours II
follows as a consequence OF this that any
axed date in their calendar Will occur
! ,b,,+ ten days earlier each year 10y
reckoning). and will hence move
.s,,orob al, of the four seasons IN ABOUT
IN mhoneh the moon has thus been wholly
a;sca rded from our civil reckoning, II sun
governs the occurrence OF chuIcn u"t t,,. :,
thus Easter. for example, Is al" ne fuII
NOON which occurs first after the Nerhal
an,Iinox. The vernal equinox Is TINS yeai
! N9arcb 81 the next full moon is Wednes-
day. March 81. and the following ouiuaS
Z IAnril a. is therefore, Easter SUNDAY
r is thus evident that the date may
vary hv as much as five weeks III ar
fsrent wears. During the past century
Easter occurred as early as March 20
three times. and once dn lslsJ .nca IL u
CURED March 22 Its earliest occurrence
during the present century was in 1919
March 90, and its latest will be IN is4o.
Anrti o. Next year we will also have
a very late occurrence, the date oeihs
April %. 49,. s,.e ~
occurrence of the present year is rather
early one, 1t is by no means remarkably
SO The average of all possible dates
is April 8.
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would be well to have pergola at
tached to the west side of the house?
Newlyrich-On the west side of the
house? i guess not. want that there
pergola right in the parlor. and don't
want it attached to nothin Put it on
wheels, SO the servants kin slide it
out of the way when the guests are
through playin' on it and want to
Sango.-Puck.
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there will shine the blush Spica, the
brightest star of Virgo. and the deep
red Antares, neither of which beautiful
objects have yet quite emerged from
below our eastern horizon.
One familiar with the general ap-
pearance of the heavens can thus read
from them at a glance what the sea-
son of the year is, and he welcomes
the appearance of certain stars which
herald the near approach of spring or
summer or autumn. This, though in
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stars now found in the southern heav-
ems are as follows (the letters refer to
Figure y:
1Aldebaran, at A, hours 81 min
utes.
Betelgeuze, at B, hours 81 min
utes
Sirius, at C, s hours Al minutes.
Pollux, at D, hours 40 minutes.
Delta Hydrae, at E, hours 33 min
utes.
Regulus, at F. 10 hours minutes.
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laws nests among the mountains
where he plays a lone hand for ex-
istence. Cattle rustling. robbery and
gambling are the pursuits of this re-
gion. On the best side of every
lawless matter that turns up. Duane
has adventures by the score and many
a hair's-breadth escape from the envy
and hatred of the banded outcasts. A
very dramatic incident makes him a
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the western havors have something
to work upon. This providence on her
part relieves the romance of that
theatric effect which so many stories
of the west produce out of their super
fetal handling.
THE OIL Conquest OF THE
WORLD. BY Frederick A. Talbot,
author of The Railway Conquest
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member of a ranger band. an author
lied agent of law and order. From
this point the story takes on intricacy
and keen appeal. 1t rises to good
height out of its merely preparatory
interests 1t is good story. What
the writer has done has been to give
her characters substantial things to
do man-siZe tasks in this wild region.
The swift gunplay. the ready moose,
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simple and intelligible way. with proc
esses that underlie the finding of OIL,
the gathering and transporting OF II.
1t describes the equipment and oper-
alton of refinery. and spreads out the
various classes of products that the
raw material yields. The narrative
closes with summary OF the COM
mercial uses of oil and with discus
sion of the worlds future oil supplies.
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disclosing the protean shapes that oils
have been led to assume and the wide
uses to which they are put in the in
dustrial world. The record goes back
to the scientific studies and investiga-
tions that led to this general and di-
| verse knowledge of the subject. 1t
reviews the various oil districts of the
world and gives graphic account of
some famous "oil strikes 1t DEALS in
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A GROUP of miniatures. many of
sA which are of rather uncommon in
terest and merit, is included in the
Water Color Clubs current exhibition
These do not declare themselves as do
pictures of larger proportions, but they
reward careful inspection. There is
something very intimate about a min
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of the World" etc Illustrated.
Philadelphia: j. B. Lippincott Com
pany.
Mr.. Talbot has other "conquests of
science" stories. And this one, like the
others, is a most attractive and read
able account Free from technical de-
tails and dry eXpositions, it moves
along quite in the manner of romance,
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minutes pm. This illustrates the well
known fact that the stars rise, come
to the meridian and set just one hour
earlier every two weeks.
After acquiring little practice the
observer will not usually wait until
the bright star whose right ascension
he knows has actually reached the
meridian. Bearing in mind the right
ascension of the sun at the time OF
year, he might, perhaps. estimate that
the star was an hour to the left or to
the right of the meridian. The time
found by mentally subtracting the
right ascensions would then be one
; hour later than the true time in the
second. Soon he will find that a mere
glance at the heavens suffices to tell
him the time, at least approximately.
All of the bright planets except
Saturn are now morning stars.
Mercury, which entered the morning
sky February 81, reaches it's greatest
distance from the sun March 20, and
for a few days before and after this
date may be seen shining in the dawn
far to the south of the east point.
Venus is still brilliant in the morn
ing skies, rising about two hours be-
fore sunrise throughout the month. AT
the beginning of the month it is far
below the celestial equator, but 1t Is
moving rapidly northWard and its
point of rising on the horizon is con-
tinually approaching the east point. 1t
will cross the equator and then begin
! to rise north of east April 2s; it will
enter the evening sky September IL.
Mars is even nearer the sun than
Venus and is, therefore, in a very dis
advantageous position for observation.
Throughout the month it rises in the
. southeast about one hour before sun
rise.
Jupiter entered the morning sky Feb
ruary "a and is far too near the sun
to be observed toward the beginning
of the month, though by March 81 1T
rises nearly an hour before sunrise.
All of these four bright planets, as
we'll as the planet Uranus, are now
crowded into one small region of the
sky, which would be by far the most
striking and interesting part of the
heavens were it not that the sun is
also very near this region and by his
overpowering brightness renders sat
isfactory study of these planets i'm
possible Their positions and motions
throughout the month are, however,
shown in Figure 2.
Many interesting conjunctions and
confgurations occur during the next
few weeks among these closely neigh
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Delta Leonis, at G, IL hours 10 min
uteS.

| Delta Leonis, at G, II hours 10 min
utes.
The right ascension of any star re-
| mains practically the same for many
| centuries, but to tell the time of night
we need also the right ascension of
| the sun, and this is continually chang
4. ing. 1t may be found for any day of
! the year in many almanacs, or we may
| determine it as follows:
| March q the right ascension of the
sun is hours, and it increases one
| hour every fifteen days thereafter;
| thus, April 20 it is Approximately
! hours. May 90 hours and so on, reach
! ing % hours February 19 and % hours
March 6.
If, now, we find the difference be-
| tween the right ascension of the sun
| on any date and that of any star, this
| difference will be the number of hours
| which will elapse between when the
| star was seen on the meridian and
| when the sun will be found there; as
| we know that the sun is always on
the meridian at noon, the true time
| when the star was on the meridian is
at once known.
| This brief description has been in
| serted at the request of several diff
| ferent correspondents; it is hoped that
| the reader will not be deferred from
| reading it by the slight reference to
mathematics which it involves, for the
| process is really very simple and easy,
| indeed. and the ability to read the
| time of night from the ever-turning
| dial above us is always most pleasur-
| able.
| Suppose that the evening of March
| II the observer saw the bright star
| Regulus due south of him, what would
| the time be? Since March 81 the right
! ascension of the sun is hours, and
| since that of Regulus is always 10
hours minutes, the star will come to
| the meridian 10 hours minutes later
| than the sun. 1t would, therefore, be
+! 10 hours minutes pm.
| AS second Illustration, let us in
quire at what time the star at G, Fig
| ure l, will be seen due south of the
observer April 5 and April 20. The
right ascension of the sun April is l
hour; that of the star is IL hours 10
minutes; the difference is 10 hours 10
minutes, and, therefore, when the star
| is seen due south this date it will be
| 10 hours 10 minutes pm. And April
20 the right ascension of the sun is
hours, the difference is hours 10 min
utes. and the time will be 9 hours 10
Evening star., 1915-02-28
THE MAGIC TALE OF HARvANGE
AND YOLANDE. BY G. p Bake

New York: George IL. Doran Com
pany.
A medieval tale. whose theme is Har-
vangers quest of The lest Thing in
the World" 1t is, in word, the story
of every youths out-venturing to dis
cover the land of his hearts desire.
The enchanted story moves to music,
to the music of the chosen word and
the singing phrase Its pauses are
Journeys where knights in cleaning
armor meet. where swords flash and
gay pennons fiutter to the breeze. And
then the story advances, through
twilight of ringing bells and tender
songs. to the Fair valley. And there
Harvangers wooing of the maid fo-
lande is brighter far than flashing
tourney, gentler than the chanting bell
of twilight, sweeter than the lu1lins
song of dusk The story is told, the
inimitable story. just to make you
happy and young once more, just to
give you swift backward look into
that land of hearts desire, just to
watt you-ward its feeting fragrance,
its lost delight. \ lovely and enthrall-
ing story, meant for happiness alone.
THE LONE STAR RANGER: a Ro-
nance Of the border. by Zane
Grey. author of The Heritage of
the Desert, New York: Har-
per Bros.
Around the picturesque figure of
Buck Duane, outlaw and gunman. this
writer has built a dramatic story of
the old border days of Texas. The
time, the place and the circumstances
of this adventure are as far as may
be from the days of chiva1ry and
Knight errancy. Nevertheless this is a
tale of chivalry with Buck Duane as the
knight errant An outlaw, not by
crime but by the lift and unconsid-
cred Judgment of the wild group
around him, Duane takes to the out
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BOOK REVIEWS.

CRIME AND NISHMENT. BY Fyodor
Dostoevsky. author of The Brothers
KaramaZoy" etc Translated from
the Russian by Constance Garnett
New York: The Macmillan Com
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TT HE art talk at the Corcoran School,
which was scheduled for tomorrow
afternoon, has been postponed until
Monday of the following week. 1t will
be given by Miss Bertha E. Perrie
LEILA MECHLIN.
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ENRY JAMES said, SO report
has it, that he could not fin
ish this novel. And another
critic admitted that it well
nigh finished him. Yet both
The mirror., 1915-02-18
OTHER PEOPLES BUSINESS

If everyone IN the world would
mind his own business wouldn't
things be changed? But we don't
do it. We like to get after the other
fellow and fine fault with his NOR
ais and compare him with ourselves.
No man on this earth is the judge
of another mans being. Our neigh
bors may not choose to live exactly
as we live, but who shall be the
Judge as to who is wrong? We may
sit in the congregation and criticise
the preacher but try TO preach a
sermon and see how it goes. Some
may criticise newspaper Office but
try to get out an edition yourself
and see how it goes. We are often
very willing to offer suggestions as
to what we'd do if we were in the
other fellows place but when these
same circumstances confront us it
is another story. No feature of life
is more wrought with disgust than
that feature which starts a man out
on tour of minding other peoples
business III. r. News.
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THAT GREA! BIG ROAD

Somewhere or other i'll dream
days of youth there was the big road.
1t may have been country lane
hedged with sumach and wild black
berries and stretching away under
great oak trees with wonderful blue
sky shining through,
1t may have been city avenue
where purple smoke wreaths soften,
ed the red and gold of the sunset OF
where gray roofs crowded and brown
walls stood close. But wherever ii
was it led outward with a high light
of adventure, a CLINT of promise. a
smile of hope.
All youth that is not crowded and
crippled and stif1ed in some way
must know the big road leading to
the world of vision, to the great
mysteries of the future.
And Sometimes the road grows
broader but seldom more beautiful
or mysterious and sometimes, too, it
gets narrow or crooked or fades a
way altogether in the midst IF crowd
ing things that come between.
But few people can afford really
to lose this highway of their fancy,
this inspiring pathway, this leafy
sunshines or smoky sunset. or lur-
ing street.
1t seems to mean something fine
and cheering to the one who keeps
it, to leave a little bitterness and
heartache when it Is lost or forgot
ten. 1t enlivens the most tedious
and commonplace existence with a
hint of romance and touches the
dullness of failure and suffering
with glow of resolve.
And no matter what goals are
reached, what treasure is attained,
the big road stirs our contentment
and holds forth new fields of pro-
mise. And because of it, life keeps
little of the blue of heaven that
was always shining somewhere at
the end of the big road.
The mirror., 1915-02-18

manager. Upon marriage, the for
mer diplomat was first known only
As the husband of his wife, but is
now. as already stated, the actual
head and manager of the Krupp
works. The company's pay roll
amounts to S 25.000,O00 year.
L will not try to describe the
Krupp works as every nation under
the sun is using Krupp guns OF va
fious dimensions. Nevertheless
should Germany win in this world
war which is now in progress
want to say that much credit should
be given to the Holland German
American, DR.. Krupp Won Bohlen
und Halbach.
Kaiser William has ruled Germa-
ny for more than a quarter of cen
tury. During that period Germany
has made herself the worlds first
military power, and became Brl-
tian's formidable rival, for the mas
terry of the sea. This world war.
that is now in progress, was not
born on June %, 1913, when Anch-
duke Franz Ferdinand and his con-
sort fell victims to the bullets of a
Pan Servian fanatic. No, Germany's s
preparation for war started when
Kaiser William became her ruler.
The German people did not want
war. they wanted to live in peace,
but they were dragged into it. They
deserve the worlds pity. Gentle
men, / thank you.
The mirror., 1915-02-18
HERBERT KAUFMAN SAYS

There are fifty-two cards in a
FOOLS deck, too. but aces are wasted
upon asses.
1t takes a good head as well as a
strong hand to win any game.
incompetence reduces values it's
spot eraser. Ability can raise
jacks to the level of kings.
Every pasteboard is deuce un-
der the management of Ounce.
The plays the thing.
At solitaire only are all men equal +,
but that's because there's no rivalry.
Wherever there's show for COM
petition superiority must manifest
itself.
Accident occasionally masque-
rades as success, but it can't keep
up the disguise for long. mutations
aren't durable.
The first essential to an able bluff
is an established reputation for re-
liability everybody calls" chro-
mic loser.
A clever strategist can afford to
take occasional chances reads
the psychological moment in the
other mans countenance. A poor
thinker has clock face and tells
the time to act.
Everybody's chances are equal.
Most of us don't know how to han
die opportunity when we hold it..
Diagnosis demonstrates the cause
of all failures. The expert can easi-
ly anaIyze the discard.
Old Cyrus Simmons had knack
of making his men see themselves
as he saw them" From time to
time he'd slip a few pertinent re-
The mirror., 1915-02-18

marks into the pay envelopes of his
employees. Here's a characteristic
example of his philosophy.
You don't count if | can't count
on you. My favorite in this es-
tablishment is the delivery man.
l can't keep cost slips without
time clocks. If you object to veri-
flying your record you must be
ashamed of it.
If you don't sell man his first
bill of goods it's YOUR fault--if he
doesn't buy again it's MY fault. Mer-
chandise can't get hearing and
talk won't get a re- order.
IF you're not sure of the mex,
step don't take it. Only idiots and
blind men walk aimlessly.
When you're competent to ex-
change my orders you're smart
enough to order me. The fact that
you don't proves that you amt.
I'h rather employ convict than
fool. | can protect my cash
drawer, but | can't anticipate the
costly errors of bonehead.
When you realize that you're
indispensable I'll decide that you're
not. While you're afraid of the
man behind you'll. work to keep
ahead.
Cut out your bad habits. | can't
afford your headaches. You can't
dissipate in your own time without
showing the effects in mine.
/ never yet saw the point of
funny story in office hours. Pm
prejudiced against humorlst who
consider business joke.
Write on a telegraph blank and
then say it. When man under
stands what he's TALKING ABOUT he
never wastes words"
COPYRIGHTED. 1915, BY
HERBERT KAUFMAN.
The mirror., 1915-02-18

The result of his invention has
given Germany the command of the
air.
Fifty miles an hour is the average
speed for one of these machines,
and it can carry four and one-half
tons of burden explosives if nee
essary. Zeppelins have crossed and
recrossed the North Sea and Baltic
Sea in single none stop" flights.
They are equipped with search lights,
wireless telegraphy. bomb-tubes and
machines guns.
In 1892, Count Zeppelin made
this statement; Il intend to build a
vessel which will be able to travel
to places which cannot beapproached
or only with great difficulty by
other means of transport; to undis-
covered coasts or interiors; in a
straight line across land and water
where ships are to be sought for;
from one fleet station or army to an
other carrying persons or dispatches;
for observation of the movements OF
hostile fleets or armies. not fer ac-
tive participation in the operations
of actual war;" Now the prophecy
seemed like a nightmare to military
and scientific experts. They called
him the crazy inventor" and a
millionaire newspaper man said,
that he did not pay any attention
to hair-brained Missionaries" Like
most inventors, he was short of
funds. He appealed thru news
papers, and said that he knew that
he was on the right track. In 1907
after Zeppelin III was built, he
made six successful flights last
one a sensational one, as he was up
in the air nearly eight hours, and
covered distance of 200 miles.
After the Government was con-
vinced that the Air-ship had fu-
ture. 1t took the fatherland only six
weeks to contribute $1,5OO.OOO TO
the building Of Zeppelins, and to-
day she has a large dock yard at
Friedrlckshafen, on Lake Constance,
capable of turning out Zeppelins,
of the largest size, at rate of one
a month. Count Zeppelin dreams
Of still another field of conquest for
his membership. He means, he says,
to explore the unknown regions con-
tiguous to the North Pole.
Last but not least, comes the fam
Gus Master of Essen" DR.. Krupp
Won Bohlin, husband of the cannon
queen, Bertha Krupp. Born and
bred diplomat and at various times
connected with different German
legations, among others at Washing
ton. He has in seven years gradu-
ated from being merely the husband
of Bertha Krupp to his personal
station, that of being the actual
head of the greatest institution Of
it's kind in the world, and there is
a possible explanation of this feat
in the fact that, altho born in Hol-
land, his parents were born in Phil
adelphia; his maternal grandfather
was a general in the U. S. Army,
and is buried in n soldiers grave in
Virginia.
Bertha Krupp inherited the i'm
mense Krupp works from her father,
the late Friedrich Alfred Krupp,
and was for quite a while the actual
The mirror., 1915-02-18
Krrp On 5Finpti,,n on
By n. g. Med

If you a valley, and the hills either side
Of you steep and rockg and the horns your pa
tience tired,
And the waters of the brook began to flood the valley land
Till you forced to cIab or drown pray, would
Il idle stand?
Methnks you get busy and begin climb
You wouldn't the roc thorns that you
Al each
You made dep effort TO the higher ground
And thus the fury OF the waters raging 'round
Il Methnks you'd keey aeimbng till safe ground you
stood upon, "
You'd grit your teeth, TIL pw out your chest and keep
Al fighting
Il Say have noticed that in life there's hills
u side,
And that they're steep and rocky and your patence
u often tried
Al Because the to and at
Al hand
Il To harrass discourage you? don't lose
Il commando
Just and get busy and begin haste climb
Until you reach the higher grounds you every
Al That you refuse to be loser. let your motto be,
Il "Ill win die fighting I'll gain the vcory!''
And then just climbing till ground you
upon
grit your teeth throw your chest and keep
a fighting on!
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