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The Washington times., 1926-05-11
STRANGE STARS
By Garrett p. Serviss

taken with the giant TELESCOPES it
looms as black as jet in the
midst OF astonishing fields OF ap-
parently crowded stars, and parts
of its irregular border are sharply
defined, as If it were a solid OBJ
ject lying over the stars and hid
ing those that are behind it. In
other places it's border seems
more hazy and indefinite.
A triangular peninsula of stars
projects into it on it's southern
side, making it look more like
ragged.edged hole in the starry
wall of heaven than a cloud, or
a mass of any kind, interposed
between us and the stars. 1t is
longer from north to south than
from east to west and at one
place a broken bridge of stars
stretches nearly across it.
There is also a considerable
number Of stars of various de-
grees Of brightness (but all of
course, together with the dark
object itself, far beyond the
range of naked-eye visibility
scattered over the black expanse,
particularly near it's edges. AL
most in the center there are
three conspicuous stars lying in
row, like the three stars in the
BELT" Of Orion. They look as IL
they had floated over an abyss
Of Stygian darkness.
Orange Red Star
Right on the northwest border
is a star just below the naked
eye range Of brightness. which.
when seen visually in the great
telescope, glows with a striking
orange-red color. On the eastern
side of the black nebula, but at
a considerable distance from it's
border, there is = brilliant little
open cluster, several OF whose
numbers also shine with orange
colored light. The background
everywhere, except in the central
parts OF the strange dark nebula,
coruscates with countless stars
of varying degrees Of brightness,
a marvellous jewel-piece Of appa-
rently packed and linked suns.
East of the black region there
is a connected region of partial
darkness. sprinkled over with
a projecting portion in the south.
east, below the bright open star
cluster that looks, in form, some.
what like the forepiece of a high
fur cap, or perhaps the neck.
guard of a fireman's hat. Two
rows Of relatively bright stars,
one arising from the open star
cluster on the east, the other
starting from the orange-red star
on the northwest border, meet al.
most at a right angle at the
northeast corner OF the shadowy
The Washington times., 1926-05-11

viii take her two years TO flnisn
college. She has saved enough
money for college and her fiance
earns enough 50 they can nVo
comfortably. IL Marcella -
economical.
Thev plan to take small
apartment. MarceIla plans 70 40
the cooking. mending. and Keep
the house tidy. They'll have the
auartuaent cleaned thoroughly
once q month and send out the
laundry.
a nice plan--but win it work?
"Can / do all these things and
still not slight my husband? asks
Marcella. s'Or will be continual
" tired and disagreeable from
overwork?''
If Marcella's problem were lin
ited to Marcella 1t would not be
Of great importance. But It hap
pens to be one OF the commoness
problems of our present genera
ton. There is hardly a family
group which 1t does not touch.
So how about it?
Messrs. Norris and Hutchinson
have answered ''how about 1t IN
no uncertain terms in their
novels Bread" and This Free
DOM" They talk just like every
husband does when he finds the
buttons off his union suit. Ac-a
cording to their viewpoints,
homes are doomed and humanity
damned il the Missis holds down
an outside job. Red hot books,
vet one can't escape~th the idea that
both gentlemen are striving
nightly to Keep The World Com
Portable for Married Men.
There's more to the problem
than that.
MarceIla isn't a selfish. greedy
little egoist in her desire to fin-
ish college or hold down joo
after she becomes a wife. She
really feels that she will be bet
ter wife for the education which
the college or job will give her.
She feels that wives who can dig
cuss sports and politics. business
and world movements with their
husbands are much more valuable
to their husbands than wives who
can merely sew on buttons and
get dinner on time.
She likewise knows, that how
ever much her husband may in
sist on his wife being a "litrie
home woman" he's going to ex-
tend a lot OF admiration to ladies'
who have interests outside TIE
home. Wherefore, the purely
domestic missis is having a hard
time holding hubby in the year
1926.
Marcella doesn't want to have
a hard time holding hubby. She
wants their marriage to be a
glorious partnership in which she
will command not only his love
but his respect and confidence to
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II WISH could effectively de-
\ scribe the strange and wonder
full nebulae that John Charles
Duncan has recently been photo
graphing at Mt. Wilson with the
giant 10O-inch Hooker telescope,
which is still the largest in the
world, although even larger ones
are optimistically projected. Re-
member that the Hooker tele-
scope, which is Of the reflector
type-the best for Photography
has a mirror no less than eight
feet four inches in diameter.
These photographs cannot be
satisfactorily represented by draw
ings, nor can they be reproduced
except on glass or on very smooth
calendered paper. Even then they
do not tell their whole wonderful
story without the aid of verbal
description, pointing out and dis
cussing their extraordinary fea-
lures.
Some Of these nebulae are
luminous cloud-like forms; others
are black, or dusky, and these
are called Obscure nebulae." Oc-
casionally both varieties are found
intermingled, as If clouds of black
smoke should be poured up into
q sky filled with snow white
"thunder-heads." Sometimes in a
thunderous summer sky one may
behold an appalling display of
white and black clouds, but that
is a matter of contrast between
sunshine and shadow.
The obscure nebulae in the
heavens are Of a different consti-
tuition from that of the luminous
ones. The latter shine with a
light derived in some way from
themselves; the dark nebulae are
obscure because they have no
light giving property.
One word about the actual mag
nitude Of these astonishing cloud
like things in celestial space.
Many of them are trillions of
miles in diameter. If you travelled
with the speed of a cannon ball
it would take you a million years
or more to pass through some of
them.
Barnard So"
One of Duncan's photographs,
reproduced in the Astrophysical
Journal, shows the "black neb.
ula," known as Barnard SO, from
the late X. E. Barnard, who dis
covered it many years ago, and
said that it looked like a drop of
ink on the bright sky, for it lies
in a very brilliant part of the
Milky Way, in the constellation
Sagittarius. In the photograph
The Washington times., 1926-05-11
SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

In this broad earth OF ours,
Amid the measureleSs groSsness
and the Stag,
Inclosed and safe within its cen.
trail heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.
Walt Whitman.
Let US seize our opportunity
from the day as 1t passes
Horace.
The truth Is always the strong.
est argument. Sophocles.
Drive thy business: let not that
drive thee.-Franklin.
1t is much easier to recognize
error than to find the truth
Goethe.
There is no tyranny so despotiO
as public opinion. Piatt.
The Washington times., 1926-05-11
FLOGGED FOR.
FORGERY

Editor, The Washington Times:
r READ with interest your
Editorial with picture of
wife beater being flogged) in
your paper OF May s. 1t strikes
me that there is another picture
much more serious than the one
shown, which 1 hope you WI:
show.
In my home county in North
Carolina, sometime back in the
40's, there was a man whipped
at the public whipping post for
forgery. l am not sure what the
circumstances were. but it seems
to me that he forged an indorse'
ment on note to secure a loan.
His speculation was a failure;
and the holder Of the note at
tempted to collect-and the forg
cry was discovered and prose
cuted. That man never forged
any one else's name; he tried for
a few years to live down the
hideous thing. then committed
suicide.
If the frightful thing had ended
there perhaps it would have been
justified. But it did not end
there, and the end is not in sight.
That man left children, and one
of them with whom I was wei;
acquainted had two beautiful
daughters-and it is on their
heads that the hideous thing has
fallen with all it's fury. No young
men for company in their youth:
ostraicised at school; their at
tempts to find solace in the
churches a frightful failure. These
two beautiful girls have grown
into wrinkled and embittered old
maids. And when these two
embittered women pass out many
cruel tongues will cease to wag?
will they?
The published account of this
flogging in Maryland says the
victim said what hurt him mosc
was the thought of his two Iittle
girls. What will those children
in after life think of the whole
performance-inclu the mother
that invoked the whipping post
for the father Of her little girls?
VIRGINIAN.
The Washington times., 1926-05-11
By ELSIE ROBINSON

put that job over? Can she be .
partner and 100 per cent citizen
as well as sweetheart. wife and
mother?
As far as the actual work goes
I think you can. MarceIla, pro-
vided you're healthy. There's
very little work to be done I'M the
average light housekeeping apart
Ynent. BY the use OF vacuum
cleaners and fireless cookers you
can do your own houseWOrk eff.
ciently and stilI carry on your
college work. You could even
have q child and stiIl combine
the manual work OF d home with
the cares Of office without shat
tering your nerves. Il you know
how to plan your time and con-
serve your emotions.
And aVet-I think there's some
thing you're leaving out of your
calculation which may, in the
end bring the tragedy you
fear.
You think it takes more than
regular meals and mended clothes
to make a successful marriage.
You're right. 1t does. But 1t also
takes more than business eff
ficiency. general information and
smart line OF conversation. 1t
takes peace-a deep, rich sustain
ing peace in which lives may root
and develop.
In q way good wives and moth
. ers are like good soil. And the
qualities necessary for nourishing
good humans are exactly like the
qualities for raising good beets
- q wHNH -
yourself up to stiffness and lone
hness and monotony. Part OF
you must die that they may live.
Part OF you must be drab that
they may be colorfu1 Upheaving
spirits are as bad for the lives
they feed as upheaving earth is
for the roots and seeds it
holds.
You don't feel that Being Soil
is a very allnring prospect do
you. Marcella? And yet If you
would know the everlasting re-
ward Of love, and the greatest
triumph OF life. you must be con-
tent to be Soil for the lives OF
your husband and children.
That's the mystery which those
old fashioned. limited wives and
mothers somehow. mastered. and
which made them succeed and en-
dure in spite OF their hmita-
tions.
And that's where the brilliant
modern woman fails, in spite OF
her efficiency and culture.
You can swing the housework
while you are hanging up a
record in college, Marcella pro-
vided you have the health and
intelligence. But can you be good
soil?
The Washington times., 1926-05-11

All men are poets at heart
Emerson.
To make a book is no less a
trade than to make a clock.-La
Bruyere:
Change is the sauce that sharp
ems appetite.-Ford.
We find in life exactly what
we put in 1t.
Let a man practice the profess
sion which he best knows
Cicero.
Pride is as loud beggar as
want, and great deal more
saucy
When our vices leave us we
flatter ourselves that we have left
them.-La Rochefoucauld.
The Washington times., 1926-05-11
.MEDTTATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

Owe is not over, until the kiss
h that was once a thrilling
temptation becomes moral obli-
cation.
A wise man is ore who knows
when to feed a woman sweet
lies covered with hot.fudge sauce,
and when she will swallow moth
ing but the plain, unsugared
truth.
II a car is prettily painted and
upholstered and has a vanity
case a woman never stops to ask
the salesman what sort of thing
it has under the hood; but then
that's the principle, dear heart,
by which most men pick out
wife!
Asking a young man to give
up cigarettes, pe.ting and golf,
is practically asking him to give
up his whole life.work, these
days.
When a man feels himself fall
ing in love, if he would only let
CO." and enjoy the sensation as a
woman does, he would discover
that marriage, like ether, Is so
much easier to take, when you
don't struggle against it!
Once a vamp has' succeeded in
making a dent in mans heart.
it is not very hard to make a
crack in his conscience.
After marriage, a man talks
only in grunts and monosyllables;
but at that, it's sort Of comfort
ing, just to have something alive
sitting around the house, eve
nings.
The man who falls in love with
a sudden plunge is the first to
swim way out beyond the break.
ers, where you can't catch him.
This Is a time of the year when
a man with even the best inten-
tions needs a string tied around
his finger to remind him that
he's married.
The Washington times., 1926-05-11

II Owe is not over, until the kiss
~ that was once thrilling
temptation becomes a moral obli-
cation.
The Washington times., 1926-05-11

TSAN q girl be
~ a good wife
and d good stud
ent at the same
time?
That's W h q I
Marcella wants to
know.
And q whole
lot of buttonless.
breakfastless hus
bands are going
to arise and yelr
that she can't.
But let's listen to
Marcella first.
MarceIla h q 3.
been working for
the last three.
years. She is en-
gagged to be mar
ried soon and
she also wishes
to finish her col
Iege career. which
the work has
The Washington times., 1926-05-11
LISTEN WORLD!
rrr c,xvS T1.tT1rNTcnNI

the end Of the
trail.
Messrs. Norris
and Hutchinson
and all the rest
Of the disgruntl-
ed brother h q o d
aren't gi vim 3
MarcelIa ere dit
for such thoughts.
They think she's
"a restless gada
bout without real
appreciation OF
the marriage re-
SpOnSlDli1Jy. As =
matter Of fact.
M a &c ella has
quite as much an
probation Of re
sponsibility as her
mother had. Only
it's q different
kind Of respOnH
ibiIityand q lot
harder job.
The Washington times., 1926-05-11
Paris POrtias

THERE are 1877 women advo-
j Gates entitled to practice in
Paris courts, but most of them
are salaried employees in law
offices, who prepare cases for
trial by men members of firms.
The twentyfifth anniversary of
the admission of a woman to the
bar was recently observed.
The Washington times., 1926-05-11
Peril in Rubbish

matcha pile Of papers then $150000 fire which took
every available company in Brooklyn put OUT lives Of
twenty families saved only by the daring of police and
It takes but little spark blaze there is some
thing for the flames to feed Be that kitchen
cellar closet attic there accumulation Of rubbish that
may disaster and death
The Washington times., 1926-05-11

region and make striking bor-
der for the upper part of the
strange hat-like figure, which
looks somewhat as ii it might
have belonged to Napoleon, and
whose begemmed appearance is
heightened by another relatively
bright star near the middle. An
indentati0n at the top adds to
the bizarre appearance of the OBJ
ject.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-08
SPECIMENS OF
 THEROOSEVELTS
 AREHUNTED FOR


 BATUM, Georgia Republic, Jan. 8. Officials throughout Trans-Cau- casia have been given orders to spare no efforts in endeavorlng to To- cae the lost trophies of the Roose- vet-Field Museum expedition to Gen. trad Asia, which disappeared in tran- sit between Anrijan and this port. The loss includes all the trophies obtained by the members of the ex- pedition.
 (Advices received by the Field Museum in Chicago on Thursday said the lost trophies included rare specimens of the skins, skulls and skeletons of 100 birds and man. mals, as we'll as "a large number of ibex and Siberian roe. They did not, however, include the Ovis Poli (Marco Polo sheep) bagged by the Roosevelts, as these were obtained after the shipment had left Andi- jan)
 Ralph K. Cherrie, member of the expedition who was in charge of the shipment, will return to the Caucasus in an endeavor to trace it with the aid of the trans portation experts of the Near East Relief
 Col Theodore Roosevelt and his brother Kermit, intend to return by way of Armenia to inspect the relief work being conducted there by the Americans, but altered their plans after being joined by their wives and will return by way ot the East.
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zenship,' on the occasion of hts ar rival here to visit his aged mother in Calabria.
Navigation Safeguards Are Planned by League
 of Nations at Geneva

GENEVA, Jan. 8. The League of Nations has just undertaken the task of navigation by securing the adop- tion of uniform system of light houses and >buoys for the entire world.
 AS the situation now exists various countries have adopted for their re- spective coastlines various systems of lighthouses and buoying with the result that the task of the navigator is rendered more difficult and more dangerous than as though the same system were in use all over the world.
 As soon as the commission has completed it's project for a uniform system of lighthouses and buoying throughout the entire world, an in ternational conference will be sum- moned during the course of 1926 for the final adoption by all of the gov ernments of the world of the system. It is expected that the uniform system will not only decrease inn mensely the dangers of navigation but also will increase correspondingly the facilities for navigation all over the world.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-08
Valentino Is Played By Italian Press;
 Film Is Boycotted

ROME, Jan. s. P)-The boycott campaign against Rodolph Valentino commenced in earnest this noon. mhen a sign was pasted on the walls in the center of Rome commanding patriotic Italians not to go to the first performance of his new film in Rome's most prominent cinema thea ter, or if they go, to hiss.
 This eliminates the newspaper campaign of the last fortnight, aim- ing to organize a warm reception to "the Italian who denied his father land by applying for American cltl-
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NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF

Notice is hereby given that Andrew o. Aasland, together with his witness es, Frederick Lloyd Winslow, and John Redis Crittenden, all of Homer, Alas ka, has submitted final proof on his homestead entry, Serial O6O51, for lands described as follows:
 Southeast half of southeast quarter, Section 15, Lot 2, Sec. 15, Lots l and 2, Sec. 22, T. s. R. IA W. s. M. and is now on file in the local land of fee, at Anchorage, Alaska If no pro- test is filed in the local land office on or before November 15, 1925, said final proof will be accepted and final certificate issued
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register. First publication Dec. s, 1925. Last publication January 15, 1926.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-08
Charlie Rebhun Hears
 from Sister at Home
 After Lapse of 2S Year:

Twenty eight years is a big span in any mans life. And it is long time to have never written or heard from home.
 Charlie Rebhun, we'll known Me- Grathite, in recent mail received a letter from a sister living at Butler, Penn. This was the first time Char lie had heard from his sister or from others of his kin during these 2S years. Says the sister in her letter:
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-08
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF

Notice is hereby given that Edward Slavin, together with his witnesses, Jack Deitz and John William Palmer, all of Homer, Alaska, has submitted final proof On his homestead entry, Serial O5413, for lands embracing the south half of the southwest quarter, Section 10, north half northwest quar- ter, Section 15, T. 6 S.. R. 13 w. $. M. and is now on file in the local land office at Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office Anchorage, Alaska, on or before De- cember 15, 1925, said final proof will be accepted and final certificate is sued.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register. First publication Dec. 8, 1925. Last publication Jan.s 15, 1926.
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My sister in Newark, N. J., saw your picture in the picture sheet of the New York Herald Tribune and sent it to me today. You look like Charlie and Dan. It has your sign, 'Charlie's Laundry; Baths in Real Bath Tub; Paper Hanging, Sign Writ ing; Shoe Repairing; Charles Rebhun the Handy Man"
 All Of which is stated and a repro duction of Charities advertisement in the Kusko Times, which has been commented upon so many times by Outside papers, and which, beyond all
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-08

A negro comic opera company was not allowed to play in Moscow for fear it would draw too much patron age from the government grand opera.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-08

Another charge made against the dance known as the Charleston is that it causes foot disease called papill- oma, described as "epithelial tumors formed by hypertrophy of the papil- lace"
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PAGE SEVEN

doubt, has been the means of bring ing brother and sister into knowledge of each others whereabouts.
 Charlie has written Home"
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Pyralin ivory by piece or set-Al- aska Shop. U.
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Photo Albums, s1 to $9-Alaska Shop.
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Manicure sets, s3.30 to $15-Alas- ka Shop. u.
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Fresh Haas and Johnson's fine boxed hocolates-Alaska Shop. -.-tf.
Smyrna times., 1926-10-06
TOMATO CROP WILL BE SHORT
Long Rains, Followed by Hot Sun,
Has Scalded Much of the Fruit

A record short crop of tomatoes
the shortest since 1921-is being har-
vested this season on the Del-Mar-V Va
Peninsula. The area set out for can
ming is estimated at $4,000 acres, ap-
proximately Sc per cent of the 1925
area, while yields are reported rang
ing from one ton to a little over
three tons per acre, varying with the
locality, and averaging perhaps 2 IL
tons. Gamers estimates of the pack
this year range variously from 1,50O,-
900 cases, basis 3s, to 2,225,000, with
the majority opinion favoring about
100000 cases. On August IL stands
were for the most part good, and
some growers said they left little to
be desired. But heavy rains set in on
that date over a period lasting the
better part of two weeks. The vines
were Frustrated, the blossoms mostly
washed off and the fruit in numerous
fields began to rot on the, ground.
Hot sunshine followed for while and
scalding ensued. At the close of Sep
tember there is very little fruit,
green OF OLileiWiSS' " DS louhu uh
the vines. Growers say that even
with favorable weather during Octo-
ber the vines cannot stage a comeback
because there is nothing to "come
back" on the vines. High prices are
prevailing for raw stock, ranging
from 40 to 20 cents per five-eighth-
bushel basket, 55 to so cents being
the most usual price. Packers declare
that tomatoes are difficult to get even
at those prices. Growers can be seen
working over their picked fields in an
endeavor to gather the last available
tomato so as to take advantage of the
high prices offered.