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THE BEE; OMAHA, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, ll'W 7 "Wonders of the Heavens :: By Garrett P. Serviss Sirus, the Magnificent nnd the Terrible Whhat Would Happen to the Earth If It Should ionic Sirlus, a celestial furnnro of glowing hydrogen and forty times hotter one tlrousand miles n minute nnd, if It were nearer the cartlj, -would mnko The more that is learned about -the gjoot suns of space the more Vondeflul they appear. The blscest (to our eyes) of these ereat super-suns is the- Dos ittar, Slrlus. It equalo probably thirty or forty nuns like tho one that makes our day. !!rht. the speed of light rives a ready means of comparing the distances of the. sun and of S:r!ue, and upon the difference between those distances depends tho fact that although Slrlus la In reality eo much greater than the sun, It looka relatively Ir.alinlflcar.t. Light takes about eight and a halt minutes to come to us from the 'sun. Uut it takes' about eight and a half yeara to come from !:!us! As a minute Is to a year, so Is the dis tance of the sun to that of Slrlus. In other words the great Dog star Is about 526,0000 times as far away as Is the sun. But the brightness of any shining ob ject diminishes in proportion to tho square of tha increase of its distance. Accordingly, If Slrlus were actually lust as bright as the sun (when viewed from the sarho distance), it ought to appear 616,000x826,000, or 276,676,000,000' times falntor than tha sun to our eyes. But measure ment of its light shows that It appears only about 7,000,000,000 times fainter than the sun, from which Immediately follows the conclusion that Its actual bright ness must exceed the sun's about torty times. Now, starting with this fact, let up Im agine that we could svylftly approach Slrlus, or that the earth could quit the sun and fly away with us, to become a satellite of the Dog Star. The experi ences that we should have during such a journey would surpass the boldest flights of tho Imagination. When we had gone exactly , half way from tha sun to Slrlus, on looking back we would perceive that the sun has di minished to a second magnitude star. We would no longer have- any daylight, but only starlight. Slrlus itself would still be only a star, but "a star of ex traordinary brilliance, forty times as bright as it now appears, to us. As we continued on our way, the sun would become fainter and Blrhis would constantly grow brlshtei, until at last we would begin lo receive a pew lay light upon our far-Journeying earth, and this new daylight would be Sirlan sun shine, which would possess a quality of intrinsic brilliance excelling that to which To Keep Sk:n in Fins Condition Ail Summer It would be much better for the skin if little cream, powder or roci.e were used during the heated term. Mixed with per spiration, dust and grimo, thrae thlnja are anything but beaut-'fylng. Onllnary mercollzed wax will do more lor the com plexion, ar.d wthout giving an oily, ttreaked. slotted it pasty clearance It is the ideal appl eat'on for the season, as It not omy kte-s the pores clean, but dally removes particle of scarf sln which have Ue hten fot.ed by dirt tr weather. By -cii!!ant!y Keeping tha com plexion e'ewr ' r - toward perpetuating a youthful counte nance than any of tha art 4 or artlfUe.ii common. y ...1. j . ... , , eollzcd wax. o!)ijt'J' at any drugstore, will comp'ete y rM'.va the worn jm plexlon It Is a -11 ed at night like cold cream and wo'ed o't In the morning. To keep the tkin fro n at-.lng or wrink ling, or to overcoroo s'-eh oncltlon, there's notrin UXUT '- " - V V dissolving I ounce powdered saxolHe in - ttat win.i i.azel Advertisement uthm the Kays of the Dog - we had been accustomed when sear our native sun. When the earth had approached as. closo to Slrlus as, it really is to the sun, Its new solar master would appear with In effable splendor, blinding, dazzling, over whelming, scorching and burning like a blast from an opened furnace door. Then the brightness of Slrlus would not be merely forty times as groat as that star now looks to us. but forty times s bright an the sun now looks to us! And the heat would be In similar pro. portion. The temperature on the earth Huxley and His By REV. THOMAS B. GKEGOKV. The great English, scientist saw more things and greater things with nis "mind's eye" than he did with tho eye of flesh. Looking Into the quivering struc ture of the Jclly- f'eh he saw therein the foundation of modern biology. He gazed on the horse upon which he took his dally exercise and in the distant background of the early Eocene he saw its strange an cestor, with its five hoofs on each leg. He bent over the tiny. bit. of pro toplasm and in it there was revealed to him the grand pro cession of life, from Ameba to the pri meval sea to Plato, Shakespeare and Washington. But all this It nothing In comparison with another vision that came to Huxley the influence of which abided with him to tho end. He had a dream, and in tho dream he say himself dedtcated to truth. A stern, yet kindly, voice said to him. L"Thomas Huxley, you are to maintain your Intellectual honeaty and self-respect: and no matter what comes, you are never to lend yourself to the cause that does not seem a you to be backed by the evidence of facts." i To the voice he answered: ."While I J live my motto shall be, truth for truth's own sake. I will regard the value ot (authority as being neither greater nor less than what It can prove Itself to be J worth. I will smlto all humbugs, however big. I will tolerate everything but lying." A A Via bnt W.m wnrd. When he lost his beautiful little ooy Noel, the good Charles Klngsley wrote him a sympathetic letter, In which he took occasion to refer to certain beliefs and to Inquire If he entertained the same. Replying, Huxley said: "If wife and child, and name and fam were all lct to me one after another, still I would not He. The longer I ve the more obvious It Is to mo that the most sacred act of a man s life la to say and to feel, 'I believe such and such to be true.' All the greatest rewards and all the heavie.it penalties of existence cling about that act." Finding no word in tha books to prop erly exprors his position, he coined h" work "Agnottlc '-from the Greek "ag" inot) and "gnosis" (knowing), meaning not knowing. Star? than the sun; nstar which travejs our world red hot. would mount to( thousands of degrees. The oceans would explode Into super heated stta'm and disappear. The granite mountains would run down and gush in floods of molten fire. The solid globe Would begin to dissolve In hot vapors. Our great Journey would cnJ like tho flight of the dazzled month, which steers, In its fascination, straight Into the flame of an electric arc and perishes before its astonished senses can feel' .the-burning1 touch of the terrible death that it has lgnorantly Invited, Strange Dream J "I do not know," he would say to those who asked him about the things of which ho had no knowledge. Was it a question of political economy or science, or theology-It made no difference, his reply was ever the same, "I do not know," And so Huxley lived and died true to his beautiful dream, always searching for the truth, always loving the truth when he found It. Science ny EDGAR LUCIK.Y LARKIK. Q. "Can you ttll why the circle Is di vided into 860 degrees? Is this arbitrary or made by rule?" A. When history began, the Babyloni ans were using this division. Very early observers, without telescopes, Bextants, armlllary spheres or any Instrument of geometric; precision, thought thut the earth turns on its axis 860 times while moving around tho sun once. They could not postbl' have dis covered the modern fact that the earth turns around 36fl.256fW times when mak ing one exact revolution around the sun. Questlon-What is your pplnlon of the transmutation of matter as prornulgated by Sir William Hamsey? In the ultimate, what dlstlnctlpn can be drawn between organic and Inorganic matter, since mind Is matter or force? Thirefore, is It not but matter or force under a different aspect or refatlon to surrounding appearances, or. In other words, are not all things a unit? Answerm The only transmutation made by Ramsay that Is absolutely proved is that or radium into helium. Ruther ford filled an airtight high vacuum glass tube with helium by merely leaving It near radium during several days. 1 heard him tell how ho performed every detail of this now classic experiment. In nalur. uranium mutates Into radium that Is, where uranium exist radium is always found in the mineral, and where no uranium exists no rudlum has ever been discovered. This mutation Is wrought by nature with an exceedingly slow rate, and vast periods of time are required for uranium to disintegrate and appear as radium and then as helium. Answer (!) The ultlmae .distinction between Inorganic and organic mstter Is the inscrutable mystery-life. Nothing Is known of the actual nature of life: none knows what It f And the same Is true of mind. Yea; all things are a unit electrons. This must be true, since noth ing else exists. A Fascinating Group (1) On the left of the picture (figure standing nt hack) in shown a striking lint trimmed with nn enormous pair of wings, for tailor-made wear. (2) Tho seated flguro on the left is wearing ono of the Italian military cloaks which have gained such rapid favor, this example helng in vivid rose with gown of dark hyacinth. (3) The attractive taffeta gown (standing) with tho pointed waistcoat of Roman-striped satin is in pale reseda glace, tho jaunty little hat being black, with reseda plume. The chic effect of n white waistcoat. In tho center of tho Life Lessons By ELBERT HUBBARD While many arc passing pink persiflage, sarcastic, silly and humorous, In the di rection of tho colored contingent, let us not forget that porter on a train that was recently hold up in Mississippi. Two masked men with drawn re volvers entered tho Pullman car- They called aloud for the passengers to hold up their hands. And the passengers obeyed. The porter, how ever, rtfused. Armed . simply with a whlsn broom, h went btralght t those gunmen. And all the time they were shooting. He srabbfd ono of the bandits by the collar, pushed him to the door and lit erally threw him through the glass door of the vestibule Into the night. And the other gunman Jumped and ran for his life. , Not a passenger lost a purse, a grip, a watch, or anything but his peace ot mind. After the gunmen wore routed, and safety and serenity had settled down tn the landscape, tho conductor and train men came back. The porter went smil ing at his work making up the berths. Fome oni noticed, all at once, that ho was an olive green In tone Instead of his usual rich chocolate hue,. However, he Insisted that he was not hurt, and laugn. Ingly tackled his work with a little need less added zest. Suddenly he sank to the floor. In one minute he was dead. Three bullets had gono completely through his chest. He died that his Passengers might live. The Idea Is slowly gaining, ground that Two Studies 1 tho Caucasian has no monopoly, that the Sherman act can recognize, on either coUragc, loyalty, love or gratitude, A second piece ot news comes to us as follows: It seems that Colonel Joe Choynekl, prize fighter and ambidextrous, charming, bookish gentleman, about twenty years ago was working the Wire Grass circuit with a variety show. The town that was the scene of this story wus one ot those well-to-do county seats whero the sons of the best citizens ut times transform them selves Into hooligans and hoodlums, A Chinaman had como to town and opened up Jils little laundry: and one Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Honor Thy Knlhcr." Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl of twenty and keep company with a young man six. years my ser'or- This young man claims he loves me, but whenoVer wc aro together he swears and comments about my father, which almost distracts inc. Now I have said to him, "If you have respect for me you muHt have respect for my father," and we have had several quarrels on ac count of It. but nothing changes him. My father Is a sober man, never dis graced IiIh wife nor his children. Do ou think this man really loves me or could ever make me happy If he continues pass ing ugly remarks about my father? PERPL.EXBD. Honor thy father and thy mother" Is a commandment that you must never forget. Have a plain talk with the man who does not respect the parents ot the glri he claims to love. Tell him, without any quarreling or show of temper that you would not dsre risk marrying a man who falls to respect age: that if he'eannot tor your sake be courteous to the father who has always been good to you, yoj feel that he will always be selfish In his atttltude toward what you ask of him. If he insUts on sneering at your father he might sntfr at you some day when the first Tomancc of love had worn off, of French group is scon tho latest thing in waistcoats cut with a medlcl collar; there in an inner vest of Roman stripe. (5) On the next figure is shown a Dolly Vardon hat with brim of frilled ,tulle, also tho newest style of collar in the ubiqui tous Roman stripe. (0) A charming toilette d'eto (seated in front). Black volvet, is used with very' chic effect for tho collar, cuffs, and sleeve ribbon of the crepe gowu with pleated moussellno tunic. (7 Another illustration of tho furoro for stripes is tho striking model standing on the right. Tho cloak has a collar of plain doth matching the darker stripes. in Chromatics night the hoodlum's had gathered and were sending dead cats and other delects bles through the front window. Joe Choynakl, about this time, came by on his way from the theater to tho hotel. Noticing the .excitement he stopped, sized up the situation, gently chlded the hoodlums for their actions In restraint of trade, and begged that they go along peaceably and leave the Chinaman to his textile ablutions. And then it seemed that the hodlums transferred their attentions from the Chinaman to what they were pleased to call "the dude actor." At this Colonel, Choynskl nnly smiled. He waded In, gave out upper cuts right and left, with short-arm Jabs and a few long-armed swings, all without prejudice. Tho hoodlums lilt the dirt, and suddenly, and eooij there waa no pna on the spat but Joe and the Chinaman. And so Joe went along to his hotel. Ho left town the next day on the 9:40 and duly forgot the incident. And the years passed. The Chinaman made money In his in dustrious and economical fashion. A few weeks ago he was taken 111, sorely stricken by the black wing of death. The doctor told him he would not survive. He font for a lawyer and made his will, and he left all of his money, about (10,000, to Joo Choynskl. Then tho Chinaman died. The lawyer used the wires and found that Joo Choynskl was In Pittsburgh, acting us director of the Pittsburgh Athletic club. Tha Chinaman, it seems, had written Joe's name out on a piece ot butcher's paper with a stick and kept it all these years. The money was sent to Joe Choynskl. He rcH did not know what to do with It, and explained that since he had never uarned it, It wasn't really his and all he could do was accept It as a trustee. And now Colonel Choynskl has decided what he will da with the ten thousand dollars, He has started a school In San Francisco to give lessons to Chinese In ph)srs! culture Fashions Household Suggestions Here is a hint which will be found use ful at spring-cleaning time. Take suf ficient flowers of sulphur to give a golden tinge to about one and one-half pints ot water. In this liquid boll about four or five hrulsed onions, or some garlic. Strain off tha liquid, and let it stand ttll It is cold. Then take a soft brush, dip It In tho liquid,' and wash any of the gold frames, that require restoring. When It Is dry, the gliding will be as bright at when new. Blocks of camphor dispersed in alt cor ners of damp rooms in a new house will effectually banish dampness in a short time, even when flrea have proved In effectual. They should be elmply laid on paper, or on the bare shelves ot a damp room or linen closet. The blocks gradu ally decrease In size, and when" they fin ally disappear shauld be replaced until their purpose is served. To remove paint from a dress take a camel-hair brush, dip the point of It In turpentine, and just damp the parts that aro stained. Let garment dry and then rub briskly, when the paint will fall off In a dusti If It does not all come oft re peat the operation. FRECKLES Don't Bide Them With a Vellj Bemor Them With tha Othiaa Prescription This prescription for the removal of freckles was written by. a prominent physician and is usually to successful In removing freckles and .giving a clear, beautiful complexion that It is sold by Sherman & McConnell Drug Co., or any druggist, under guarantee to refund tht money If it falls. . . Don't hide your freckles under a veil, get an ounce of othlna and remove them. Even the first few applications should show, a wonderful improvement, aome of tho lighter freckles vanishing entirely. Bo sure to ask the druggist' for tha double strength othlnc; it is this that sold on the money-back guarantee. Ad-vcrtlsement.