The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-02-17

I think it may be well enough to in
vite the railroad commissioners, the
board Of control the board of regents
and other state officers to give the
press and the people concise and
readable monthly account OF their do
ings.
In the next letter hope to give you
a specific report, showing how we
have cleared up the court business
during the first two months of the
year. We are going to clean the slate
and to consider and decide every case
within Thirty days after an appeal Is
filed, This will make it easier ana
better for the courts, the lawyers ana
for the parties who seek justice with
out denial or delay.
Turning from the law to the starry
Heavens / desire to put few ques-
tions to the law and Bible class:
Do you know that while the creator
was making our little earth and our
SIN He was making millions on mil
lions of other worlds and suns and
that for the other worlds He made
millions of Adams and Ewes and that
on every world He made man in His
own image and after. His own like
ness?
Do YOU know that there are in the
universe, 100000 of stars which can
be seen through the great telescopes
and that every star is a sun?
The stars or suns are DIVIDED into
fourteen classes, according to their
magnitude, and our sun is a star OF
the sixth. class or magnitude. In size
it is smaller than the average OF the
stars. and yet it is more than mil
lion times larger than the earth. Every
sun was made in the same way and
of similar matter and for a similar
purpose, and all are subject to the
same general laws. And as, our sun
has several worlds revolving around
1t. we may safely assume that the
other suns have a similar number OF
worlds. While the Creator was MAX
ing our little world and our sun he
was making millions on millions OF
other worlds and suns and He took
millions of years to do it. The Crea-
tor has never rested from His work,
because He is all powerful and. He
never tires
WHY do the other stars or suns look
SO small to US? 1t is because OF their
great distance. The nearest star is so
far away that its rays of light take
over three years to reach the earth,
and vet the rays come from our sun,
a distance OF 81, 900, 900 miles in. eight
minutes. The rays go precisely as
quickly as chain lightning, and yet
the rays from some stars take 2,OOO
wears to reach the earth. "" s.I
Let me tell you the way to measure
the distance to the stars, and II err In
the matter you please correct me. To
make it simple, SO that child may
it, let us 1rst consider
how to measure the distance to some
point on the earth without going any
where near the point. Say we go to
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land and put stake at each corner OF
the section so that each stake will be
precisely mile apart. The line from
stake to stake is the base line.) Then
from each stake look south along the
section line to the distant point ana
mark where the line Aof vision crosses
the south line of the section. If. by
actual measurement. we md that In
going a distance Of one mile from the
base line the two lines, Of vision come
together or converge two rods, then
we divide the length of the base line,
or 800 rods, by 2 rods, which gives
100 miles to the distant point.
In this same way you measure or
compute the distance to a star. You
draw a great base line at right angles
with a line drawn from the star TO
the sun and at each end of the base
line and at points 100000 miles on
opposite sides OF the sun you make
line of vision to the star, and measure
the angle which the line of vision
makes with the great base line, SO as
to compute the convergepce of the two
lines pointing to the star. il the con-
vergence is one inch to a mile, you.
divide the inch into the length of the
base line and in that way find the.
distance to the star. Now, as the
base line is 1S4.000,000 miles in
length, or twice the distance to the
sun, we divide one inch into 1S4,O00,000
miles and find the distance to the star
Is IL 1865, 240 900. 900 miles. And as light
goes 92,O00,O0O miles in eight minutes,
the rays from this star would reach
the earth in 704 days. To reach the
points at the end OF the great base
line, so as to measure the angle, you
have only to hold onto your great
car the earth. In making its circle
around the sun 1t will carry you from
one point to the other in precisely
half a year.
. 1t In certain the scriptural writer's
had no just conception Of the starry
Heaven. or even Of our own world In
Revelations we read Of a woman hav-
ing upon her head a crown of twelve
stars and Of q dragon whose tail drew