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Newlyweds and the Law

considerable anxiety as to their legal
status, as the procedure OF posting
the bans five days before licenses are
allowed has not been put into effect
altho ordered by the new law. The
assistant attorney general OF the state
has been delving into the Supreme
court records to see what precedent
may be discovered and has been able
to assure all questioners that the SUI
preme court of Georgia legalizes all
marriages made in good faith and in
tent, regardless of something amiss in
the conformity to a statute. Also at
is discovered that the present marrl-
age law is similar to one in use in
1875, except the publishing OF bans
and questioning the woman whether
she is divorced and on what grounds.
Another ruling made by present le-
gal authority is that the marriages al
ready consummated would still be le-
gal, altho the ordinary whose business
it is to post the bans would be amen
able for his failure to perform his
legal duty.
Another Dilemma
What to do with a criminal con-
Gemned by the new Georgia law to
electrocution on September Is, with
no electric chair, nor the fund for in
stalling one yet provided, is the guam
dairy. The man can not be hanged as
that would be contrary to his sentence
SO it is possible this particular criml-
nal will get respite until chair IS
installed.
Government Night School
So well improved by Indians of all
ages is the opportunity of attending
night schools provided by the govern
ment at reservations in North Dakota
and in southern Arizona. that the Bu-
reau of Indian Affairs is planning to
extend them to other reservations.
Primary grades and the English Ian
guage comprise the curriculum,
Winter Vacations
The school children OF Clark coun-
ty, Kentucky are to try out a new
school regime this year, which the
county superintendent believes will
increase the attendance of the rural
schools and insure the country stu
dents a good education. This plan is
to have a long midwinter vacation,
extending from the usual Christmas
holidays until the middle of March,
with a corresponding short vacation
in midsummer The weather and the
road conditions of that particular sec
ton seem to favor such change, as
SNOW and ice on the ground are be-
lieved to be deterrents to school at
tendance. Well the children of the
northern states wade in snow knee
deep to school many days Of winter
and esteem it the greatest sport to do
SO. Possibly the latter are better
equipped by diet and clothing to with
stand the cold, which would make a
great difference.
Salvaging the City Dump
San Antonio, Texas lines its walks
and driveways with tin cans but you
would never know it. They are used
to reinforce the concrete electric light
posts of the city.
Goodbye Mars
The whole scientific world was
IllO1C llldll OIi UP lOSo Win 1eoNA iiNSS
to make closer acquaintance with
our Interesting neighbor Mars but not
so much as "howdy" passed nor
did the notified gown of the star re-
veal much of its texture or use. The
colors were fairly we'll discerned and
seem to indicate to- the observers con-
frmation of their fixed believe that
polar caps of ice and variable fields OF
vegetation are revealed but no tele-
scope could show the most stupen-
dous works of man if there are inhab-
itants and until some medium that
travels on light rays is discovered no
communication can ever be establish
ed between the planets.
Science and the Scripture,
The Bible invites the study OF the
heavenly bodies possibly offers a pro-
mise n these wonderful verses-"the
heavens declare the glory of God and
the armament showeth his handiwork.
Day unto day uttereth speech night
unto night showeth knowledge. Not
all the prophecies are yet tulhlled' IN
entirety. But the one in Nahum, and
4, has surely been given its perfect
fulfillment in the automobile OF our
day.
Telescope
The interest generally developed in
the eclipses last year and the approach
Mars of the past week makes the sub
iect of telescopes and mans determln-
alton to know more of the worlds
about him than he has yet known. one
of particular moment. The size is the
least thrilling feature of telescope
lens. The largest in the world is the
Yerkes, of 40 inches diameter, one at
Lick Observatory SO inches and an
other, 80 inches The fourth in size
will be the property of the University
OF Michigan and it has been Is years
under contract and two years IN pre-
paration and is still unassembled. 10
get perfect glass large enough was
the first difficulty, this was procur-
ed in Germany. The next is the shap-
ing and polishing which in this case
was interrupted by the workers death.
ONLY one other man in this country
could finish it and he was working on
lens for Yale. Three minutes poisn-
ing heats the glass so much It must
cool for an hour before work IS resum-
ed-one cause of the slowness IN COM
pleting the work. go,
The Michigan telescope will be as,
sembled late this year and tested ana
then be dismantled and shipped TO
South Africa for> eight or ten wears
of study of the southern sky by Uni
versity astronomers:
EARLY RISERS
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