THE BEE; OM HA, FRIDAY'. JULY 31, 1914.
Mars, the Sphinx-Planet : By Garrett p. Serviss
Itolutivo slito of iho earth nnd Mnrs. Tho physic! resemblance between the worlds is seen In the sup
posed Martian land and water and In tlio "Polnr snows," which increase and decrease wltli tho seasons.
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Popular Fashions as Seen Today in Berlin
Third come tho most Interest ng of the
planets, tlose which possess both of the
characteristics Just described They have,
nt the same time, permanent, unalterable
features, anil features that exhibit con
tinual, and more or less regular changes, j
Only such planets as these can be re- j
Horded as the abodes of life in Its higher i
fcrms, I. f. life of the human type. Itj
te could look at at our own globe from
afar off. using a telescope, we should
find Unit It Is a typical example of this
1: nd of planet. Its continents ana
oceans would nlways show the same out
lines, but the whitened circles around
the poles, due to tho existence of the
Arctic and Anarctlc snowflelds, would
Wax nnd wane in extent with the sea
orns, the colors of tho continental areas
would change with the growth and dtaap
pearance of vegetation, and clouds float
Inn above seas and1 lands would, from
time to time, obscure their permanent
features...
To this class Mars boiongs. and that
fact Is, in Itself, enough to mako a prlnm
fuel cose In favor of the habltablllty
of that planet. In some ways its re
semblance to . tho eurth Is startllns- Its
polar snowcape, for Instance, spread,
hr'ghten andthen la e and recede,
exactly as we know those of the earth
would be seen to do from a distance.
Then, too, with the change of seasons
on Mars,- which has almost exactly the
same Inclination of axis to orbital plane
that the, earth Has, broad areas of Its sur
face alter color, as we know that the 1
land surfaces of the earth must do when
vegetation sprouts In the sprln3 01 de-1
cays In the autumn. i
In addition to this are the so-called
"canals," which are simply narrow, dark
linen on Mars, which appear nnd dis
appear with the coming and going of
summer, first In ono hemisphere and then
In the other, and which some astrono
mers have thought may be water courses,
perhaps of artificial prlgln, which arc
filled whenever the melting, of the polar
snows furnishes a supply of water. j
According to this clew Mars Is a half ,
drlcd-up planet, which yet retains a rem-'
nant of Its former population of lutein
gent beings, and these beings become, by:
force of circumstances, superb engineers, ;
have covered their desiccated planet with!
a gigantic system of Irrigation canals.
The two strongest arguments u?alnl
the habltablllty of Mare nrlso from Its
gieat dlstonce from the sun. which re-j
suits In its receiving onty half as much
rolar heat ns the earth gets, and Its ap-,
parent lack of sufficient atmosphere to
maintain tho higher forms of life u they j
exist on the earth. It must be confessed j
that neither of these arguments Is con-j
elusive, lor 11 is noi unrcaounauie iu
poso that creatures ns highly organised
as we are may bo physically adjusted to
live at lower temperatures and In rarer
atmosphere; or the rarefied atmosphere
of Mars may be so constituted that It
serves as a blanket to retain heat.
The apparent changes shown in
these different views arc due- to it's
rotation bringing different parts of
its surface successively Into sight.
Its days and nights are the' sahie In
length as ours.
The Dream of Being Independent
Everyone Should Strive to Fulfill It
Dy REV. THOMAS U.. GREGORY.
The mystery of tho planet Mars Inay
he solved by some such stroke 6fgehlu)
combined wth luck as that . which re
suited in the discovery of the X-rays
nineteen years ago.
The problem that Mam presents is as
elusive as it ls-'fasclnatlng. . When you
put a telescopic view of the planet hesldo
a picture of the earth the .resemblances
between them are very striking,, much
more fo, perhaps, to tha eyo of au astron
omer than tq that of .a persm unfamiliar
with the appearances of the plnnetary
dirks.
There are, three sets of planets In the
solar system, aa concerns their general
aspect. First arc those like Mercury and
the moon, whose surfaces never show any
change.' Everything seems to be fixed
and unalterable upon them. They are
either fossil worlds from which all life
has departed, or worlds which, from the
beginning .were never anything but
"graven Images," -
Second, .there aie planets, Uke. Jupiter
and Saturn, whoso surfaces, while re-
talnlng certain broad general features, are
In contlnuaj motion. Nothing upon them
remains unchanged, even lor on imm.
The vast equatorial belts of Jupiter, for
Instance, which iarc broader than the
In that delightful old book, the Gulls
tan of Sadl, we read: "They asked
Hatim, 'Have you ever met or heard of
a man superior to yourself." He an-
Uttered, 'Yes, one
day I had made a
sacrifice ot forty
camels, and Invited
the chief of every
,Vrab tribe to the
feast.
Then 1 repaired
to the border of the
desert, where I met
a woodcutter who
had tied up his
jagot to carry It
Into the city. I
said,- 'Why do you
tint in the feast of
the Hatlra. where a crowd has assembled
around the carpoU' lie replica. nu-tVt-r
can eat the bread of his own In
dustry will not lay himself under obliga
tion to Hatim" and In the woodcutter
1 met my superior.' "
There Is another old book, ot which,
like tho Gullstan, we occidentals are far
too Ignorant, that la full of beautiful
things, one of the most beautiful ot
which Is this: "They shall sit evory man
under hlB vine nnd under his fig tree,
and now shall make them afraid."
it i. n i,.inr nf nroud. hannv Inde-
M l l t - V - -
pcri'dence of which every self-respecting
person has norn than onco lonoiy
dreamed the Independence for which
every one should ardently atrlve.
Undor the vine or ng irco ai u imv
earth, and 2fi0,0M miles long, (longer man jjt(s a ,nun wh0 was his own master.
from hefe to the moon) fluctuate ,.,,.oua 0f his freedom1, and scornful of the
great streamers strotched by th wlnM tulnteat intimation of servility.
Their boundaries are contlnuolly shilling, j ruder that vtne or fig tree sat a man
jpots and gaps appear in mem, mnr o preferr,a th0 desert and Its scanty
colors change, and sometimes one of jf .. w,lh frwdom, to the flesh )ot of
them wilt split asunder lengthwise, while
hugo, white, balloon-shaped glasses go
flitting over tnem line ciohus uei
itorm-driven sea-
FRECKLES
Don't Bid Them "With -a, Veil; 11 1 mo re
Them With the Othln Prescription
This prescription for the removal of
fiecklcs was written by a prominent
physician and Is usually so successful
In removing freckles and s)vlng a clear,
beautiful complexion that ,lt It sold by
Sherman &, McConneU Prtig Co.. or any
druggist under guarantee to refund tha
money If It falls.
Don't hide your freckles under a veil:
get an ounce, ot othlne and remove them.
l'.cn the first few applications should
nhow a wonderful Improvement, tonie of
tlw lighter freckles vanishing entirely.
He sure to ask fhe druggist for the
double strength othlne: It Is this that Is
told on the moncy-bacK c-3rant( c Ad-vcii'scmtnt.
f mils, with freedom, to the flesh lt of
old Egypt with Its slavery under the
taskmasters lash.
Sociates was one day Invited by a great
king to leave the duty streets of Athens
nnd corne to live at his court, whereupon
the Old phlloapher replied: "Meal Is
only two pennies a peok In Athens, and
1 can get all tho water I want for noth-
lug.'
It w by thai 0rt r ma lnBl 11 De
came possible for the earth to realize
the "Glory which was Oreece and the
grandeur which ws Home."
Tho mn who whipped the Persians at
Marathon nnd SalamU, thus saving tho
white man's civillxatlon from being
Bwampl by th feat oriental wave,
were freemen who ate the bread of their
own Industry, and knew what It was, In
every respect, to be Independent.
And the men who. beginning with the
little camp on the Tiber, reared tho
mlshty republic, never knew what It was
to "bend the pregnant hinges of tha
knee that thrift might follow fawning."
They bowed down to no master. Kach
one was a freaman.
Hcgulus, C'incinnatus, the Sidplos, with
t r"A Jf tu" Immortal company whose
jva'or made the republic what It was,
tlmiipht mom nf their cersonal Indeoend-
or.ee than they did of anything else In
the world, and would have died before
parting with It.
U ni men like that who built the re
public, and the republic did not begin to
totter until the , "footllckors" came, tho
cringing "sycophants" who felt no thrill
of manly Independence. j
What American needs to be told that j
the men who mad this country and gave
It a "place among the nations of tho
earth" wcro stromr believers In the Inde
pendence of tho Individual man!
From General Washington down to tho
humblest private In the ranks the spirit
that prevailed among the patriot band
. v. , f ., iinnmnrnmlilner self-
jrespect-the spirit of the man versus that
icf the menial,
The fight for American independence
wus won by the farmers and artisans
who, for tho most part, owned the roof
trees that sheltered them and the soil
from which they made their breud.
From the private homes, belonging to
those who lived In them, rushed the
patriots who were not to be bribed by
Brlttoh gold or terrified by British
bayonets.
We may well wonder what might have
happened had the men of '78 lived a
niuny of us are living at the present
When the clarlon-call came, Fight
for your homes and your firesides!" our
foiefathers knew perfectly well what It
lr.cnnf. but how about this other slogan,
"Fight for your flats and your radla-tors!"-flats
that don't belong to you,
and radlatora that wpuldn t warm you
If they aid belong to you. With no more
llptratlon than that, the patriots would
hhiu Ii.a cone, down before the
cohorts of King George and the battle
would have been lost.
Dependence breeds servility, and In the
atmosphere that It creates the heroic
virtues perish like rats In an exhausted
receiver.
It is only In the air of freedom and
jiorsonal IndeponJenco that great men
..a unmon can be i eared. When the
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Individual is swallowed up In the mass,
when the private soul beoomea out a cog,
as It were, In one of the wheels of a
great machine, then we have feudalism
and feudalism and democracy cannot
live together on tho Bame soil.
And here may we see the danger of
tm nt opntratlpm. Governmental,
Industrial or intellectual, for It Is aa ccr-j
lain as anythlwr can be In this world,
that our country. n our fathers made It.
after Its Deople hall t
l.4ilvji- t. ' ,
have become the senile tenantry of any
species of domineering monopoly.
To preservo ils republic we muat pre-
.... niri nf the men who founded
it which was none other than the spirit
uf a manly Independence. j
If this reputllc Is to live. It needs to
be kept full of teal men, not puppets,
men who shall know their Individual
rights as against the claims of the varl-j
ous sort' of monopolists, and who shall
be evr nrenaied to fight for those rights'
to the last olt' It J
The most striking of these costumes (the second from the loft) Is
also tho most popular modo of tho moment bold black nnd white
stripes. This smart tunic Is of a dull soft satin and is worn over n pluln
white cloth skirt.
Thoro is nothing newer at present thnn tho coatee shown on tho
right hand figure is cloth quadrille In fawn and snuff color, worn with
a full skirt of glnco to lone with the darker shado. Tho quaint
flounced nnd niched skirt und r.out of oarly Victorian cut nro of
glace, an appropriate chapoatt hanging on tho urm of the model. The
scntod flguro Is wearing a gown of very bright glaco, the now idea
In this creation being the hem of tlio skirt, which Is in a different
color.
The Heavens in August
Advice to Lovelorn
Oy SBATBXOD VArarAX
3
By WILLIAM P. IUUGE.
This month Is distinguished by a total
eclipse of the sun, which will occur on
the 21st. The 1 1 no of tofullty runs from
the extreme noithern part ot North Amer
ica, through Greenland, Norway, Sweden,
Russia and Persia. The longest duration
will be 2 minutes, 14 seconds.
Several astronomical parties have taken
up positions In the path of the total
eclipse. The Royal Astronomical Society
of England has organized one to Her
nosand. In Sweden, under the direction ot
Father Cortlc of Stnnyhurst college, who
has conducted Hlmllar expeditions to
Vlnaroz In Spain on August SO, 190S, and
to Vavan, in the Pacific ocean, on April
2. 1911.
The coming total eclipse ot the sun
August 21 will be visible as a partial
eclipse In the northeast section only ot
the United States. It will occur near tho
time of sunrise, and never oxceed the
magnitude of three-tenths tit the colar
diameter,
On the anuuxed map the meaning of the
three named curves Is evident from their
Inscriptions. The numbered curves mean
the corresponding tenths of tho sun's dia
meter obscumd. The lines that aro to the
left of the middle of the eclipse curve,
signify that tho obscuration Indicated oc
curs at the moment of sunrise and Is de
creasing. On those that are to the tight
of it, the ecllpso will be Increasing, and
eventually reach the magnitude shown by
the parallel llnet. thai run northeastward
from the middle curv. And finally tho
broken lines marked i, 5, 6, 7 show the
hours of sunrise In central time.
From this map It appears that Omaha
will not even get a glimpse of the eclipse.
The next solar eclipse visible to us will
not occur until February 3, 19JC.
The sun rises on the 1st, 15th. 31st, at
5:S0, 3:34, 6:50, and sots at 7;40, 7:23. 6:&9,
thus making the day's length 14 hours,
20 minutes; 1J hours, 49 minute; 13, hours,
9 minutes, a diminution of 1 hour, eleven
minutes during the month. The sun Is 6
minutes slow on the first and on time on
the last, aa shown by the sun dial. On
standard time it is SO, , 24 minutes slow
on the 1st, i:th, 31st.
Vepus Is still the brilliant star In thq
ovenlng tu lllght. It sets on the Itth, at
9:03 P. m.
Jupiter officially becomes evening star
on the lOtli, when it Is directly opposite
the sun. It rises on that day at sunset
On tho SlMt it rses at 6:02 p. m.
Mars Is practically invisible In the even
ing sky. It Is only 9 minutes of an arc
north of Venus on the Mil at 8 p. m.
Saturn In morning star, and rises on
the 15th at 1 SI a. m
The moon Is full on the ttli at b 41 p. m..
In lt quarter on the 13th ut SO p, ni.,
new on the 21st at 0 i a m , and in first
Aooust 2i ion j ' Jy ),V
AktiMiii! in niu I j (f I V)
United states ' M --Jb-ff!Cn
cwmi ' rf-S- 1- T" ' l "I
quarter on Die ZTtli at 10:52 p. in. It Is 17th nnd Venus on the 24th.
In close conjunction with Jupiter on 'the Crolghton University Observatory,
till ut 4 a. m., nearest Saturn on tho Omaha, Neb,
The Manicure Lady
By WILLIAM V. KIRK.
"The latest bug WJKred has went and
Hot," said tho Manicure Lady. "Is to fall
In lovo with a picture In the back part of
a magazine. It is the picture of a young
lady stenographer setting at her type
writer, and she Is a prrtty kind of a doll
at that, but don't you see, George, It Is
only a photograph, and Wilfred don't
even know whether rhe can speak Kpgllsh
good or not. I don't -e how a -grown
up man can full In love with a picture
until hp has fell In love with tho original,
but he Is as moony as I have ever saw
him, and lugs that there ad around, call
ing It his wondrous dresm girl."
"Vhat's the use of falling In love wth
her If he don't know her name and can't
loeate her?" asked the practical Head
Barber.
"Illght. George," asieod the Manicure
Lady. "That is just what Mayme and
me was telling him, but ho says that to
a poet beauty Is more divine than reality,
and just keeps on raving about that plo.
Hire. He says a poet is always looking
for the unretuinable, or whatever ho
culled It, something mystic and beyond.
And that Is why he loves that fool pic
ture he cut out of the ad.
"His ease Is kind of hopeless any way
j we can figure jt, George, because even If
lie snouid happen to locate the original
of this photograph It's n ten to ono shot
tint she would be looking out of the
window when ho proposed to her, because
my poor brother ain't got no fatal beauty
to spare and no bank roll with which
to win u trusting heart with. So, all we
can hope for Is that he will get over thla
love craze of his and forget her. the same
as he has forgot a lot uf othnr (Iuihoh
that he thought he Hived extravagunt."
"1 suppose lie had wrote a poem to his
new love," sold the Head Hurber, antici
pating the worst.
"That was one of the (list thlntf ho
done," replied the Manlouro Lady. "It Is
called 'To Jfy Wondrous Droain Love,"
Wondrous dream love
Don't forgft me
Don't It sem, love,
I.Ike you've met me?
I'm so lonely
O'er your photo
If I only
Knew where to go to,
I have kissed
You choeks so pink,
Hut thuy taste
Like printer's ink.
If 1 knew
Just where to go '
I'd love you
And not your photo." '
"I don't see what Bood the poem will
do her If she never gets a chance to. see
It." said tho Head Harber
"It wouldn't probably do lier any good
If the did see it," nald tho Manicure Lady,
"but when poet hua wrote a love poem
to a girl he thinks ho has did more for
her than If he mauled her and bought a
palace In which to live In."
mi tv llolnic WroiiR.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 18 years old
Fur the lust month I have, been kcepln.
company with a young man threo years
my senior; have been out with hint oncn
and sometimes twico a week, t have
known lilm over slnco we were both
small children, hut did not live at thft
sumo place for some years up until about
three years ago.
What 1 wish to know Is: lie has a
girl In tho neighboring town, and from
what I have heard him say at different
times lends mo to think she l true to
him. Ho goes to ueo her about once
cery two weeks, but oguld go oftener.
He does not want her to know we gu
together, but he says slid would have him,
and I am ongl ged to a young man who
does not llvo here. He goca with other
girls. I gn out with my boy friends
here, hul 1 always think nf him and he
snys he d3a of me. lie will not be here
until In winter sometime.
Is It right that I should go out with
till young nlan, nnd do you think It Is
right I should win him away from her.
as I am afraid I am doing, as I do not
lovo him only as a companion..
IHIOWN KYKR.
"Vou are pot loyal to your flanoe, and
are doing wrong to him, to yourself, to
tho young man and to his friend. Ton
should be frank with him, and stop be
fore you have destroyed your presone
happiness, and perhaps that of others.
When a girl becomes engaged she Is not
expected to give over all pleasure of
life, hut she Is expected to bo loyal t
the man she has prpmlsed to wed. Any
sort nf flirtation Is dangerous.
The Wpilillnir ii
Dear Miss Fairfax: j am cna'averf i
roune mmi im i h..l tp
IMuld'the-rOT
j Atlanta. (Ja. ANXIOUS.
' Ihe groom places the wedding rlns upon
'the bride e finger during the cereraonv.
I J he conventional formula to engrave
j within the clrelet 1: "X. to V." (hf. In
Itlals and yours) and the date.
Tan, Red or Freckled
Skin Is Easily Shed
lo fiee your summer-solled ekln ot Us
plllness. mqddlness, freckles, blotches oi
tan, the best thing to do Is to free your
!S 'ntf ith? "Mn Ifself. This la caally ac
complished by the use of ordinary merco
llzed wax, which csn be had at any drug
store, fee at night as you use oold cream,
washing It off in the morning. Imme
diately the offending surface skin begins
to come off in fine powder-Uko. particle,
Gradually the entire cuticle Is absorbed,
without pain or Inconvenience. The sec
ond layer of skin now n ovldence presents
u spotleea whllenesa and sparkling beautv
obtainable In no other way.
It tho heat tends to loosen und wrinkle
our skin, there's an effective and harm
lesit remedy you can readily maku a
homo. Just let an ounce of powdered
taxoliti. dissolve in i half-pint witch hg
fel nnd botho your face in the liquid. This
at once tightens the skin and smooths out
the lines, making jou loo,ke.ar yqungtu
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