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WHICH ONE FORGAVE?
t "Oh yea, Pll forgive you 1 s'pose"
' ittirititir's ,prue.
You "seetnYou 'are sorry and never
will do .
Such a mean thing again. Pll forgive
You, a cours'
But still, NellyI Baker," Prue' says
this with lorce
mYou were lieerid and cress—and Pll
never forget s
Shine things that yon said --I cth
just' hear them yet!"
"Of course I'll forgive you—don't
worry a speck!"
Says niazie, all 'dimples, her' arm
.'round the neck ,
Of little friend Betty, "and don't you
feel bed.
rm geing' to forget all about it. I'm
'
That -we're such friends again—
now s'pose we run
As fast as we can to the brook for
a some fun!" -
HOW YOGNA :WAS SA.VED.
. It 'as.a hot.day in Benares: Four -
'teen gieli 'sat around 'a -table in a
large room, studying; their lessons.
'they:were members of a girls' echoed,
which, Lakshmabal, a Christian In-
dian woman, had started. Through
• the open windows they could hear the
priests in .a temple neer the river,'
•-Chanting to the gods to send nein,
for there was a famine. All th,e girls
-were quiet and sad for alineat all -Of,
• Them han relatives in the north, who
were starVing. '
- Suddenly they heard a commotion
outside, and the sound /114T1's
Toiees, raised in anger. Then Laksh-
mabai came in carrying a small child
• le her arias. She laid her on a,bed,
and sent two of the, girls for some
broth. The others crowded around
- asking questions. Lakshmabai sil-
, enced, them, .and as she fed the, broth
to..•theechild, shetoldher story.
•
"This little.girl," shgehid, "is nam-
ed Yogina. She, her father, mother
and brOther came to this city to get
food, for they were starving. Her
'mother and „brother died on the jour-
ney, and, her father, Runnabai,
brought her here. But the priests
tried tq prevent, him, and that was
the noise that you beard."
Yogria was now able to speak, and,
she said a few wprcles in -a dialect
which the girls could eat understand,
Then Lakshmabai told the girls to go
Out and leveher to eleep. Sd Yagina
was laidson the most comfortable bed
that ,shellad ever E1,een,. while,the`girls
Went out under, the trees. .
Yogina slept for a long time and
was awakened las% the sound .of Ong-
ing. She was much rerreshed by her
rest, and walked slowly out, to the
grove where the girls were 'standing
areund Lakshmabai. She was tea&
• ing' them the Indian translation for
"Jesus loges me," and Yogina thought
the air very Pretty though she did not
emderstand I. the words. Just then
Lakehmabal saw her, and beckoned 'to
her. She ceme timidly up to the girls,
Who met hen with smiles'Of'Welcome.
They discovered that Timmaya, oneef
the girls, Could speak the same dialect
as Yogina. So they asked questions
until Lakshmabai came and called
thexn into supper. " • After, that mane evening worship
and Yogina waa overjoYed to see her
fatheenwho "came in for the service:
Runnabai had at one Urn() been a
, Christian, but when illness and mis-
fortune came to his family, the priests,
' persuaded him to, change. He now
consented to be baptitedg .
Yogina was a very clever child, and
soon learned to speak the strange
dialect which had puzzled her at first.
' She became fat and healthy and was
the pet Of the whole school. And then,
one Sunday, she andher father were
I baptized in the little mission, church,
land ,were made members of Christ's
flock.
But Runnabai had to bear, a great
man g trials. His caste disowned inns
and 'the priestsnwould allow no one to
give him work. When he was almost
giving up in despair, -Lakehmabars
husbaxed found employment, for him
on a relief expedition which, some
merchants were sending to the famine
stricken districts. -
So Yogina was able to stay on at
the school, where she leai-ned many
useful lessons and in time became a
good worriaii."
Shattered Arras Dwellings
•'Restored to 1914
Condition
noble bit ot •reconstruction that
• has just been completed in the devas-
x tated regions is that of the old 'lenses
- on the "Petite Place," at Arras which
were almost demolished by the Ger-
mans. The work of restoring the
"Grand Place' 'is under Way and will
•be finished soon.
Although the deetruction in 1914 of
the Town Hall et Arras with its beeu-
ene.
neauseane.„
,
Of Course.
"You eay he belongs to a club?"
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Light In an Umbrella, ,
A newly patented umbrella has is
flashlight in the handle for night Use.
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Somebody said "Go west, roung man, go West," but this pretty scene.
-taken at'Vermlildn River,Lake Edward Quebec says "Hew about the east?"
• A- Tree That is a'Well.. •
Duriiig'the0 ts,'N'Si • ti iti h
, had, ,accesionto ci-us,h a 'native rebel-
: • • ,
Ilan lnaDa.rtur, a part of tine Egyntian
,Sudan: They teed first,' however, to
-,,nress, an exceedingly arid country,
:Kordofan, in whicii.•water-,existe, oa
I the 8thliiefi onlydnrlTlg the
SOLI and inust therefore lie eliagged up
'trim'slesenfilling:wells or stared in
, .
peculiar OSter1149.
•
'South' of this regien the baobab tree
ns frecruent4e"the great burly baobab,
each orvileoie ehokenCitts Arms -would
farm thetrunkof a. large tree,n• as
Livingstone put it. The tree Is a re-
lative of oar gay hollyhock and is
sometimes called monkey -bread ,tree,
since It bears an edible fruit that nion-
keys and occasionally the Arabia
tribes eat. Although not usually
on-
ceeding1y .tall,, b baba are among .the
,
wlalch now receives, a personal ngme,
se to speak, byewhich it is always
known; and when the south winds of
the rainy:season bring short but very
• .
wen showers the whole population
turns out with eurious skin buckets.
These buckets are' so supported b'y-
cords that they will -flatten out 'onthe
bottom of the pits and scoop up the
Water that drains inta the poets be-
fore it has a chance to soak in. The
buckets are Isolated up by men perch-
ed- in the ba,obab, and the clatern is
Eno -city filled: "• In such a cistern the
water will remein fresh during the dry
season. •
• The water is sold along the trade
routes, but when the British cslumns
came along with their thirsty camels
the supply ,naturally gave out, and so
the tree cisterns were promptly com-
mandeered and ochatinually replenish-
ed during the British campaign by
endless processions of camels bearing
water tanks filled at some distance
source of supply. Those reservoirs
with the various wells made the suc-
cess of the British .expedition pos-
sible, elthonglt the treops had to fol-
low a ,roundabout trail from wen -to
well.I.Seed.frann "Mahmud's Tree" to
other baobab •cleterne.
Cautious John.
A Chinaman Wes; much alarmed by a
vicsous-leekinge, doe thet alsvays bark-
ed at him loudly. ,
"Doeneene aineed. of ohini,,":„ said the
owner of the "dog. •In•kaa'knoi the old
, ,
proverb, 'A barking dog -never bites.'"
"Yes," said the Chinaman, "you
know proverb; I know proverb; but
does the dog know proverb?" ;
bulkiest of trees, often being mare
than twenty feet across their some-
what bottle -shaped trunks. Quantities
of the huge trees live somehow even
In the Kordofan deseet, although there
are tow if any young ones sprouting
there; it is supposed that the -ancient
speciments are -survivals of a period
when there was a greater rainfall.
• Like ail aged trees, th,e baobabs- are
apt to decene at the heart; 0110 hole
lows are „formed in Which. rain water,
alining" down the hiige bra:ices-, col-
lects- When it does nain. The Arab cuts
off the larger' breachea tie prevent
them from ,splitting •the 7 Weakened
trunk, exca,vates• a 'hollow in the hole
high up above a bra,n,chapon which he
can stand as a platform and then pros
eeede". to. dig • out the interior' of the
baobab until he makes "a eintern-like
cavity ,wallen1 with -living wood per-
haps eweney feet high and -half as
wide: Shaelew fits are then dug in
the sand near the .base of the tree,
To produce 1 lb. of honey a bee must
take the nectar from -62,000 clover
blossoms.
•Stones About We &lawn People
Women Scientist's TriumPb-
What the eeitestifie experts in Cane: -
da and the' InnitedeStatee,lea.ge 'failed
to do has been aconnipilhad. by an
Eteglieh wan, Miss Mackenzie,- an
experime.nter ornployed by the Minis-
try of Agriculture.
Her diScoyery cone:erns the method
of preserving trait in liquidsen such a
manner that it retain's its ,natnrel Pol-
ars. The 'measure of nee ,success may-
be judged ,a.t Wemlsley where. speci-
mens are on yiew in the 13ritieh Gov-
ernment Pavilion. Although eeme of,
the fruit. ineluding apples, plume, and
gooseberriee, was picked last autumn,
the' colors are still quite fresh.
The Tale "of a Clock.
A new story of Lard Darling is be-
ing,told by Lord Birkenhead. -
The OCCEaS1011. was when Lord Dar-
ling, then a junior counsel, was ad-
dressing a jury tie the Quarter Ses-
stens: He had been speaking for some
time when the Cb.airman remarked:
"Mr. Darling, have you noticed the
pcsetion of the hands of the -clock?"
Swift Came the' reply: "Yes, sir; but
with respect, I see nothing to cause
anxiety. They seem to no to be where
they actually are at this time of day,"
A Youthful Preacher.
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A preacher of only twenty. years of
age ie unus.ual enough, but when the
preacher is a girl the fact is remark-
able, Mis.s Emily Bishop, de -tighter of
a 'Chatham, England, joiner, achieved
this distinction recently when she was
ordained a lay preacher in the local
Primitlye Methodist Church.
'7I *ea./a:Ought exp from childhood in
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the nerainer•pf. thp .clre rah," inishpp,
,-teld me. ',nI •hive learned, to love it
as love OW4, While., I enal
fasciae a elaga in the Senday-scheol
one .nay our pair:lister asked me to pre-
pare ,mynelf for enCe, • examination: • 1'
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gradually arrived • at the cenviaildn',
that I was called to preach the.Gespe1.
to etneran
Wise .Inehop it engaged to be main
ried to the 'Rene Erie Butler. of 1-lere-
,
Proud of Kipling as a Farnnere„
The friendship • which Iniplirise ex -7
tends to his neighbors around Bate -
=aline his sixteenth century house be-
low Burwash, is quietly reciprocated.
The countrymen are jealeue of their
.great companion, and though they
•may venture to disagree With him In
elateice of • professions, permit no
outside interference or challenge to
MIs emineuce. He is jealous of his
environment and jealous for it. The
rustles sense this. and live uP, to it.
They know hiS, intimate concern for
tlaeir affaire, and though they may try
to forget that he writes they eagerly
remember that he is a .farmer.
"Whet kind of a man is Mr, Kip-
ling?" a 'tourist asked ef a worker pa
MIs estate, hoping for a hint as to his
peneonality or an _illuminating revela-,
tion coneernsing -his books. '.
"Mas' Ktpling," replied the laborer,
"is the' kind of man who if he sights
a thistle or a deck on his land will
walii two mile an' better for his spud
to dig it out." Than which there is.
no 'higher compliment in Sussex.
The Village Green.
On the cheerful village gre.en;
• Sldrted round .with houses small,
All the boys and girls areseen
Playing there with hacip and ball.
Now they frolic hand in hand,
Making,many.a.merey chains
Then they form a wa.rlike band,
Marching o'er the level plain.
Now ascends the worsted ball,
High it rises in the air,
Or against the cottage wall,
• Up and down it bounces' there. '
Then the hoop, with even pace,
.-Runs before 'the -merry things; .
Joy ie.seen: in every fa-ce,
Joy is 'heard in cheerful songs.
Rich array, -and inansions proud,
• Glided togs and-eos,tly fare,
Would not make the little:crowd
Half se -happy as they are, ,
• "
Then cotitenfed 'with my state,
'Where true pleasuremy be seen,.
Let naesenyy nat.tlie-great •
On a ,cheerful village green.
—Jane Taylor.
A Chinese carpenter can look .at
place that has •to be repaired, and go
back to his •bench and cut the boards
so that they will fit exactly. He has
trained his sense of sight to give him
exact knowledge.
•
Slow
tifu,., Gothic.,Eaciede, was an event I
• ' which shocked theeivilized vserld, the • •
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Isomisardment of the wonderful old s • ' •
,
e Sixteenth Century" :houses facing .it
• was almost as great as lois td 'French
architecture. •
The street pining 'the "Grand, Place"
• and the "Petite Place" presentee- a
g-faCaile of Ister,aishi architecture dating
• teem the end of the Sexteeette Century.
One of the old house& of carved half-
timbered 'constructeorawas :aunt in the
Thirteenth- Century,- the two E
having been laid out about the -ear
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1200., However most of the dwellings
were of' atone, that Materielhaying
been designated by a law 01' May 17,
1583nI•
At the time of the Armistice seventy
• of the houses were Considered destroy-
ed and ell the rest were damaged.
- Pierre Paquet, architeet-in-chief of the
• historical monuments, Of France,- in.
seated that they --be rebuilt. Enlisting
the support of Paul Leon, then direct-
- or of Beeink Arts„ the week ;was begun
' under •State jurisdiction.
,Picture Post Garda jaelp.
The difficulties seemed -inset -mount,
able. However, the consent of the 150
- property owners was obtained and the
,,,yeerlst of reeonstracting. the 'facades
began, leaving the interior arrange:
meats tothe owners. • •
Picture post cards Played a, large
part in the success of the work. They
were conselted . at all stages of the
• construction work when arehives fail-
.
ed to disclose the exact detail wanted.
' • All ,fragments of moldings. and 'scalp-
.' tures Were collectednpieced, ‚together-
andnumbered and then incerporated
In the neie work, • •
• The new, stone employed,was treat,
,ed before being set in_plate in order
to give it the Same patine as the old
fragmetts. The finished result td -day
)s a success from every standpoint.'
•ee, 'end the old street with its arcaded
ower floors seems to have turned
g baek the hand of time. .7
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The work of rebuilding., began 'in
1920.' By the and of that year twenty
• .houses had been' restered. A year
• later the number"- stood- at saty-five.
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On tho, "Grand i'lace"' there remain
only a'dozen houses to be completed.'
".. ' Pre -War PrIene. ••
The ,,autoinol)ilejs one.),.of the very
few ,comnioditios that can )20
chased to -day for less than in, 1918, be. -
fore the 'var.
slag e„.„ te. •,.
If yea want to knew whether "year two texia, which is said to take pic-
heagtkeeps right," take it to the mo-
tion picture photographer and have
-him: snap it "in low gear." Slow-mo-
tion pictures •will.show whether, year
heart' is missing any• of its heath.
Me -Moine, art, science and spelt are
finding out' all manner of secrets about
life, sand how t6 make.the world- a bet-
ter pla,ce,by submitting the universe
to the cinematographer and. , then
analyzing the picture,when it is un -
'reeled at low speed. ,
"Diseases which have . baffled the
physician are new made to show their
.sympteree elowly oneugh ter the eye
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to eee., ,
SchIptors and painters, are now en-
a.blect, by, the ,camera's eye, to obtain
permanent- records, of reeatieas of the
,numan body Whiela Med. been a Matter
of
pure cOxijeetare. •
Science now furnishes big business.
andene, field of industry documentary
evidence in the way of 'stills" from
enotkin picture films, showing chemical
reactions which in the eed lead ta a
revolutionizing of the process -es of
manufac-ture.
The acquiring of "form," SO ,essential
In many sports, like teilnis, golf, base-
ball,' football. etc. is iriade easier end
more, ,efficient by ene.ans.,„ae the slow,.
pictures, showing every movement.
Motion pictures of ,peojectiles •
flight from 'giant gene are now taken
with a camera, d,eveloped at the Bureau_
ef Stitan,ardi in Washiegton.
If .has benui used for studying the
effect of the blast'on the flight of pre-
jectiles and has bean found :very use-
ful foe.,the purpose, the .bureau states,.
This. blacs,t is formed by thggasee in
the gun, which' are ejected with great
velocity as ocni as, the ,projeetile
leaves the muzzle. It conipletely ;411'2
rounds, the proje,etile during tne, firat,
taw f,eet of its fhight, and with large.
g-un;ate farce ,35 enormous. Photo-
,
greenly hes been found to be the ,OnlY
available ,inesalecici41' iipdsiig out any-
thing about it, '
The •camera, used is c,apable•of mak-
ing 250 piethres.a seeend, bet it Teneen
lieved that several ...thousand pictures a
second could be taken by increasing
the number of lenses used-,
Superlor'British,Damera.'
Plgitsly ordnance officers , tti
have gone 1.Tnele. Sam ono' Vetter;
They are using a eaanera, weighing
twee ei the rate of 300,6e0 a minute.
When his film is thrown on the
screen 'by. tho ordinary projecting nee-
chinethe pictures seem to move' ever
so slowly.- It is hard to associate the
flight 'of a projectile tram a mighty
gun with each lethargic movement.
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Again, , these alttearapid pictures
have brought revelations in, medical
science, as a result of evhich great,
progress is: being made -in, Understand -
the human ills. 'As an example, the
College Of physecians and Surgeons
in New' York performed an -experiment
on a properly anesthetized dog. Its
beating heart was exposed to the
camera's eye, and the valves • of the
heart were plugged in five. different
ways, to, stimulate conditions found in
various types, of cardiac trouble in
humans,. The behavior of the heart -
muscle, 'the 'alterations of its beats,
and. its efforts to accommodate itself
t� the variant conditions, preyed a
stirring 'revelation. They ,also pro-
vided a very important -.means of
checking up on facts gathered by
.AI
„.
't
years of observation, .conjecture, and
mare or less blind medical practice, in
treating heart trouble..
Used in Medical Practise.
• • But the high-speed camera has long
since passed from the study 'of, the
physiology of animals and , their or-
ganic secrets to the weeder* of man,
the greatest of them all. One of the
mast remarkable of the camera studies
„made, of the human body tevealed an
impertant new fact in the study of
llYsterical conditions- so common
among wo,men. A young girl in New
•York, normal in her early youth, was
• badly frightened during a thunder -
atone, , a,nd sustained a. species at
shell -shock. As a result, she lest con-
trol of most of her saptpe eauscles.,Her
walking, ae she grew older, became
pitifully like the efforts to get about
made by a victim at locomater, atania..
Her arms and legs were coatIneally
thrashing about. , •
At a New York hoepitalefor treating
nervous diseases she had been under
observation and expert care for a long
time, Isinelly"sheawas, led out before
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the high-speed camera, scantily clad,
and walked back and forth before it.
The develemed pictures s,howed the
doctors a peculiar and hitherto unsus-
pected and anheard-of muscle wave,
which proceeded from the hip to below
the knee.
•• In the Realm of Sporta.
• In the realm of sport some highly'
interesting- Pictures have been made,
and are being made right along. Al-
bert Cutler, billiard expert, has posed
for pdctures illuetrating hew the hu-
man hand :directs the cue in making
difficult. shots.
A weleknown baseball 'pitcher learn-
ed through analysis of motion pictures
that the quick snap of the wrist which
he had been aocusterned to put on his
out -curve ball was actually not aiding
his delivery at all. In fact, the high-
speed camera proved that the ball was
really two inchea from his hand, in Wel
flight to the batter, before hagave the
soap to hes wrist.
Golf has been robbed of ite. mystery
by pictures taken so rapidly that when
they are projected at the n,ormel rate
of speed you ca.n see the graze slowly
springing back as ,the ball is slowly
driven out of the rough. There is
shown by the pictures a graphic study
of .a falling golf ball; dropped vertical-
ly, against scaled background: Thee
pictures were taken to show the be-
havior of a number at standard golf
balls while in motion, with the spacial
idea of revealing evliethers'or not they
were peoperly balanced.. The 'pboto-
graphs in -this case were taken at the
rate. Of 300 a second. •
Ordinary motion pictures are taken
at a Tate neinhtly exceeding sixteen to
the second, as the en° cam diseinguiett
separate pictures at that rate of, need..
After then the images ,become "mov-
ing pietures,".for the ,ene muscles, are
unable to detect ,the movements
In-
d1vtthialI', but only in general, as
ures- change thOir positions on the all-.
ver shoot- Now, id the mipelaspeed
'Dictates, we see is 'wonderful 1-ransfor.
mation. pixteen goes into „GOO about
thirty-seven, times. That ,rneane, If
arre allowed to view plctures,taket
by the most rapid camera in the world,
shown at the usttal speed of the "mov-
ies," we see' ordinary phenomena tak
ing plac' • at just on
thereto of speed in which they astial•
ly occur.
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Look At the Whole Of It.
As Jahn Brayton recited the details
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of the old genevgnee his voice rose in
indignation. The minister had heard
the story a SCOT() of times. Peter'
Brayton had rehearsed it only the
week before. The minister'a heart
was saddened because of the quarrel
which had occurred between the two
brothers, who were influential men in
his parish. He had tried, ineffectually
to smooth out the differenee between
them, but it seemed a hopeless under-
taking. Brayton peused.
"I've just been thinking, Jahn, of the
winter little Celia died" the minister
send, speaking slowly. "For aswleile it
seemed as if everything had stopped,
but after the first I•tried to look at the
whole ofti. That's a habit I picked
up in my boyhood. I was 'hard •to
learn,' ands when. a lesSon was dull or
aifilcult I looked away from it anel
gthe.avueghtmeef ‘tcnoeu,rbaiggegentothikneges; apaetigIagt
-away. The bigger things were eiaan-
inatione, promotion, hon -ore, the work
I was fitting myself for.
"To begin with, I tried to think, of
little Celia h-erseif. She 'hadn't had to
take any of the grates risks of life.
She had left an empty house behind
her, bat we didn't have to worry about
-her. God w-oulcl give her the best He
had. Then I tried to look at the
-whole of my own life ---at the good I
might do, at the people I might com-
fort all the better because I had
learned by ead experience what sor-
row es. I can't tell you how much it
helped."
There .was something like the ham
of soft summer skies in the minister's
eyes as he gazed unseeingly across. the
etretch snow-caverecl garden. "I've
been wondering, John,", he said,
"whether yea and Peter have ever
looked at the whole of it? I don't
mean the whole of the quarrel; I mean
the svhole of life, Have you ever tried
to think of' the quarrel as what it real-
ly is -a -an ineonsequential item in the
totalseeckonings of a lifetime? You're
lerother,e, and for twenty years more
or less You ware everything to each
other. Have you ever stepped to think
now , much that meant in good will,
affection, convenience anal happinees.
for both of you? For two years and
more your life bas, been poorer, anti
MIs life has been poorer., Have you
gained tin tb comparedi
what you've lest?" '
"No," The tone was decisive. "%
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miss Pete; • there's no use -denying it.
I find myself shying, 'TA ask Pete
about that,' or Pete'll help me out on
this—forgetting for the minute, don't
you know? If a man looks- at the
whole of it as you sayewhy--awhy, just
that one falling-out looks- small. I'd
never thought of it in that way before,
and perhaps Pete never Mae. find
out to -day.".
Blinding:to the Eyes.
"You te,a,reely 'n,atice him wheh
with 'his 7-wite," „ •
"Sho's tiriiiiant,.• that's
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tiuo. •
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Among the Papuans there is a belief
',that a man guilty of murder is doom -
ted to live in a swamp in the next
fworld.
Sunspots 30,000 Sq. Miles
in Extent
. •
e An tp'P taarceenmt ent hyDr. DayM Todd, pro
fessor 'emeritus of astronomy at Ara-,
iserst College," '7111,A., thiit sunspots
tninouns.'84?-f by 'ethZuhnt:zenksuill7ft"ttnewitcY'61,?efrai4ora
distance of 1'00;000 miles, have made
their appearance, is Contained in 'a
photograph ef to sunspots ,just ob
tained and declared to be the host ot
ita ltind ever taken.' The pliot"ograPh
shows one oe•the epote te-be about 30,-
000 square miles in extent Doctor
Todd claims that the .semes have leen
Caused 'either isy the splitting of the
sine er eallision of -that body with
EFOMO other huge orb. •
John A. Miller, Professor 'of mathe-
=tics and astronomy and director of
ttie Sproul Observatory Swathriloee
College, however, believes, there ne •
Peesibility of that event taking Place- • •
"It is true that stars e,ennetimee split
In two," explained Prof. Miller, "but.
apparently stars split into two por-
tions only when the speed o -f rotation
wishit;11:1 igeroeuatrersatntn that et the stair'
"Stars which once were one • and
now are two, revolving around a nom'.
'men centre, -are in the heav-
ens. More than e6,000 'double staes
have, -been observed. Th.ere.ar-e cluss.
tors of three stare, four,stars, even ea.
many as nine stare, whieh are •known
to ,revolve around. ceramon centres
In the cohstellation Taurus there is a
group of thirty-nine stars all travel-
ing in the same direction and sat the
same , speed. • Undoubtedly th.ese.
thirty-nine stare are of connrion origin.
Regarding Snnspota
"As for suespots, the present mo-
ment is not a time of unusual ae-
tivity. Sunspots have a eYelic fre-
quency. That is,- every 11.3 years ,
thereli a period when sunspots on our
sun are meet abundant. -Eyery 11.3
yens there.'is a period when •they are
most scarce. •The minimum period Of ,
the -cycle' came fifteen months' ago, so
from now en for fear years' sunspot
mcluareyntb.e -expected to become more fed-
•
"What is a sunspot7 skappare,nely it,
is the .opening of a .cavity in the use -
face of the sun. The sue is only one-
fourth ,the density of the earth. From
that it Is -concluded our sun. probably
nes no solid core, bat is a mase et
gases and of liquid gases. The pre's-
nure at the surface 'of the eun is
twenty -e -even times' the pressure at the -
surface of the ,earth. So, in spite Of
the enormously high teraperature of
'tire ,sunnesaiies` there tend to liquefy un-
der that great pressure, • '•
nine sunspots effect Weather onetbe
earth? The methorolegists and ae-
tropomers• have been able tb detect ho
such relation between sunspots and
weather to enable any weather predic-
tions to be based on study of s-unspots.
It is true, however, that whea-sunspets
are abunnant the amount of heat given I
off by the sun is redaced. The heat
reoeived by the- earth frora the sun
has been known to be reduced as
much as 10' per cent. when sunspots •
are abundant,'
"The magnetic eonditions of the.
earth are affected greatly by sunspots: •
When sunspots, are abundant and
large the aurora borealis is brighter. '
Also, in tim,ee of large sunspots ,it at
times hasebeen found nossible to send
messages ov-er telegraph wires with- -
out Wang batteries. Also, when sun-
spots are especially active, the mag-
netic -compass varies. The needle may
for a brief time point toward the east,
say, instead of toward the ina,gnetio
north."
Studying the Stars.
„
. The distances cf the stars is a prob- •
lem which engrosses the chief atten-
tion at the Sproul Observatory. Far
only 3,509 stars has distance as yet
been cleterrained accurately,. yet there
are more than 200,000,000 stars- which
are visible with the best telescopes.
Astronomers measure the -distance
of a star by recording its,position ansi
then, six months later,whenthe earth
Is 1.6,0ck0,000 reties' dietent from the
position it occupied six months earlier.
once more recording the position of
the sarnestar. The angle thus obtain-
ed enables the astronomers to calcu-
late, by trigonmetry, hew far away the
star observed is "from the earth.
Only the distances of the nearer
stars can be obtained by this methed.
Same, etaresare eo distant that even
when the earth has "travelled 186,000,-
000 utiles no -change of position of •
these far -away stars, with relation to •
other heavenly bodies', is apparent.
The nearer eters? What doe, near
mean?
"The distances of stars axiom thee
200 light-years away cannot be meas. -
lined by direct observation of their
pas•itiang," said Prof. Mfller
Ann a "light-year," the unit used for
measuring the 'distances of the stare,
means the distance light travels, in a
year, darting, through space at the rate
at 186,330 miles "a`
/3411 no-wadays' astro'nern'ers are esti-
mating the distances of, these more
faleasnay stars, by -Stud'yii4g thekrray
Witha spec,treacoPenn-a, leis depend-- t
able niethod, however, than observes
Von of apparent change of position.
Her Fed,' "" I
"How conte Glandine.:loolta• so cheery'
,whiie the rest of you girIe, apPeare tfrea
and strained'?" ssk‘ed a slipper cu,s,
tomor in thdeapid-fire mfturatit.•
"She wears shoes tliat are big
enough to be easy, ine,telen ot fashion".
rePlied Helease, tlte) need Svants'•
vele, "She always.was a crAPU.ee-
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