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Bellatuitte, ci Api 25 1910.
THE TAIL OF A COMET.
Traveling as comets do in very elon-
gated ellipses, with the sun in one of
the focl, as the attracting point is
called. most of their journey is spent
in slow uneventfuiness far away from
the hearth of the system-—henrth is
Just what the word focus means, They
are then small globular aggregations,
sluggish and dim-a little roundish
nebula in look. Such they appear
when first descried in the telescope
coming in from space. for they are
rarely seen at all until they have en-
tered within the orbit of Mars. Dis-
tance in part, but still more their own
behavior till then, keeps them hid.
Within this nebulosity, known as the
head. appears as it peurs ux a bright
spot. the nucleus. Suddenly there oc-
curs a complete change in the deport-
ment of the body, oue which renders
it the observed of all observers, and in
less civilized times occasionally its be-
ing held the harbinger of distress, dis-
ease and death.
As soon as the comet gets near
enough the heat of the sun sets up
commotion within it. By Very's deter-
mination of the temperature of the
unblanketed sunward side of the moon
we are enabled to infer that this heat
is great at the earth's distance from
the sun in spite of the cold of space.
This temperature is 353 degrees F.
And as the comet approaches the
sun this heat must increase inversely
as the square of the distance. At half
the radius of the earth orbit ir is al
ready four times as great above abso-
lute zero, at a quarter sixteen times,
and so on increasingly. the temperan-
ture rising into thousands of degrees.
No wonder the comet acts as it does,
It at once becomes uneasy, waxes in
light and, as the spectroscope reveals,
disruptive electric discharges start in
it which let out the imprisoned gases.
Then begins that spectacuinr carver of
perihelion passage which makes the
comet 80 superb an object and for
which it pays so dear. The gases
which are thus thrust out from the
interior of the sepurate meteorites, to-
gether with such particies of the iron
ax are made gaseous by the heat, fall
prey to another force besides gravita-
tion. This force is the impact of light
itself, the light emitted by the sun.
That so fmmaterin! a thing as a
beam of light can have power to move
even a pith ball is a conception not
easy to grasp. Yet there is no doubt
of the fact, theoretically eanlculated
years ago by Clerk Maxwell from his
electro-magnetic theory of light, for the
gaseous particles proceed to be repelled
by the sun at enormous speed, each
behaving esactly as it *hould by math.
ematical aunlysis if sneh were the oc-
sasioning cause Evidently the light
waves have a propelling power in the
direction of their own motion equal
to their own speed,
Why, then, is it that the planets be-
tray no such effect in spite of their
size? The answer is, because of that
very size. Gravity acts on the mass,
a matter of three dimensions: the light
force oun the surface of the body, a
matter of two, As a body diminishes
in size, therefore, its surface bears a
greater and greater ratio to its mass
until when smull enough the second
force is the stronger of the two,
This relation is betrayed in the con-
duct of the tail. The imprisoned
gases, heated to expulsion on the sun-
ward side of the comet, rise toward it
in a series of exquisite wmauntling en-
velopes, as if the comet's head were
veiling itself from the too ardent gaze
of the sun. Then, after rising to a
certain height, their initial impetus
overcome, they fall back, repelled by
the light waves, although still attraet-
ed by gravity, and are driven out to
form the tail of the comet, fresh en-
velopes taking their place.
Sometimes only a single tail is form-
ed, but at others two or even three are
shot out, and when rhis happens one
is nearly straight, one curved and one
greatly bent. Now. calculation shows
that the repelling force in thé case of
the first is fourteen times that of grav-
ity, in the second two and two-tenths
times, or something less, and in the
third only about one-fifth of gravity.
But these are the very ratios which
particles of hydrogen gas, of the hy-
drocarbons and of iron or sodium
would respectively show,
As the comet approaches the sun the
display becomes more violent and
more spectacular. Finer and wilder
grows the pogeant, the “hairy star”
loosening its tresses. which bad stood
gedately coiled about its head amid
the depths of space. to stream in
gorgeous gieams behind it as it pays
its orbital obeisance to the ruler of
its course. It seemingly backs away
In keeping with the etiquette to royal-
ty, turning always its face sunward
as it retreats whence it came.
But it pays dearly for its display.
The matter going to form the tail can
never be recovered, but is driven far-
ther away. At each successive return
to the sun some of its mass and bril-
fiance is thus lost, and this is why the
periodic comets, those that have made
many visits, are such small and in-
conspicuous objects. It is only the
comets of long ellipses and very dis-
tant habit of which the perihelion
pageant is so fine.—Youth's Compan-
fon. :
Work Has Been Done.
Howell-You can't make a monkey
out of me. Powell—No; you seem to
bave already awarded the contract.—
New York | Press,
With man. most of his misfortunes
are occasioned by man.—Pliny.
| the existence ot rheumatism?”
Nosn's Anchors. '
A story ©) a pant of anchors is told
ip the book eutitied “To Kairwan the
Holy.”
Kairwan Is the Mecea of the west
It is a city so sacred that women are
allowed to move about tu it bur very
little. One of the interesting sights
is the Mosque of Emir Ben Said Bon
Mupbtah. ‘This mosque, with its six
melon shaped dowes, is the tomb of
a most amusing old Moslem who died
about the widdle of the last century.
He bad great power over the bey and
managed affairs according to his own
pleasure This Mosiem got possession
tn ums of four inrge suchors which
protatiy belonged to some old men-of-
wes atmndoned on account of stress of
weather Phe gentleman with the long
mace wits bol content with any such
prositie explanation of their origin. By
minis of the mbor of AU Arabs he
bad the anchors dragged from Tunis
ang deposited in front of his house,
‘I'he transportation tock five months.
He then deciur=l them to be the ane
chors by which Noah fastened the ark
to Mount Ararat. be relics are now
in the mosque of thelr forwer owner
aud are regarded as nuly.
——
His Rules of Golf.
A lawyer of vonsiderable prominence
took up the gume of golf. Some of
his friends volunteered chapters of
advice, while sauother preseuted to the
beginner #1 Look of rules After com-
pletiug his tirst round the counselor
wus asked if be nad mastered the
rules. The perspiriug awyer realized
the sarcasm of the remark, but proved
equal to the vecasion “The rules? Oh,
they are quite simple,” he replied.
*I'here are (wo | Know of, and to my
mind they are the most important.
You must hit the ball with your club,
aud after you have hit it you must
tind it, of course, before you hit it
again, it will take an honest man sev-
eral weeks to master these two rules.
After driving the bull you must bit it
wherever it illes. Good lies are as im-
portant in golt as in lishing. Losing
a ball costs you two strokes and the
price ot the ball. Hitting a caddie
with the ball is justitiable homicide.”
—New York I'ribune.
Butler's Reply.
There was a time. while Lyman
Trumbull was chairman of the senate
committee on judiciary, that Bevjamin
Butler was chairman ot the judiciary
committee of the house. It was at
this period that a delegation from one
ot the southern states visited Wash-
fngton with a desire to secure the im-
peachment und removal of the federal
judge of their state. ‘They interviewed
Mr. Butler as to the probability of car-
ryiug such a measure through that
session.
*1 don't kuow,” was Mr. Butler's re-
ply: “1 am chairmau ot the judiciary
committee of the house. The neces-
sary action can be had here. But Ly-
tap Trumbull is chairman of the sen-
ate committer, una Judge 'rumbuil is
troubled with two things~ the dyspep-
sia, which makes le anseruble, aud
conscience, which makes bln gnoer-
tan.”
Ginseng's Growth.
The manner of tbe ginseny's growth
gives it u queer shape and in sve
causes tabulous value. ‘There is tirst
a main root or trunk ‘I'ben on the
sides there will be smaller roots, one
on u side, und by a curious formation
the oftshoots resemble arms and legs,
so that the full grown ginseng looks
for the world like a bumay figure.
Tue wore the fancied likeness to the
buman form is developed the greater
the value, according to some ot the
Chinese, The rvot as an herb has
wonderful properties, but too, so
much beyond is the value of one that
Jooks numan. ‘Lhe others will cure
cancers and all sorts of other diseases,
but the precious ove having the bu-
man shape will keep off devils and all
bad luck.—Argouaut,
Not His Fault.
A story 1s told of a well known
Shetlieid tenor who when asked to sing
at a dipper, although te had vo music
with nim, weut on to the platform to
ty.
He did his best, but he broke down
in the middle and retired.
He was cheered up by an elderly
man sitting vest to bli, who tapped
him on the shoulder and said:
“Never mind, ad: tha's done thy
bes’, but *' teller at asked thee to sing
owt to be shot!" — Loudon Telegraph.
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Had to Do It. |
Hogan—Phwat makes ye swally all |
your dinper iv two minutes, Grogan? |
Are yez atin’ on a bet? Grogan—It's
for the good av me dyspepsy, Moike.
Sure, the docther tould me to rist an |
hour after ‘atin’, and how else am Ol
goin’ to get the hour to rist in onless
Of ate loike the divil7--Boston Tran
script.
The Higher Court.
“The courts have decided that a wo-
man bas no right to open her hus-
band's mail.”
“My wife reversed that decision be-
fore it was made.” —Houston Post.
Still Yeung.
Teacher—1 am surprised that you
gre not further advanced. You are ex-
tremely backward for your age. Lit-
tle Girl—-Yes'm. Mamma wants to
marry again,
A Medical Opinion,
“Doctor, how do you account for
“The mind, my dear sir, evolved the
disease to fit the word.” Chicago Trib-
! THE BROKEN LEG.
The Widow Spicer lived on the out-
skirts of the village of Fowlerville,
fund next to her littie farm on the west
lived Joe Tillman, a bashful man,
One evening be found her sister
there. It was an evening in summer,
and he bad it all planned out to ask
the widow bow her tomatoes were
coming along—if the potato bugs had
appeared in the garden, if the summer
squashes had begun to get necks on
them, and various other things—and
then all of a sudden he would ask
her to marry him. It must be sudden
or not at all.
T'he bashful Joe had been planning
this plan for a week, but it was all
upset by finding the sister there. Such
was his embarrassment that he asked
Mrs. Spicer to lend him a hive of bees
instead of a hammer, and be had bard-
ly got into the house when he wanted
to get out again. After he bad taken
his departure the elder widow said to
the younger:
“Sarah, how long has this thing
been going on?”
“What thing?” she replied, with a
guilty blush.
“This nonsense and waste of time. :
That fellow is in love with you, and
a dog with one eye could see it.”
“If he is he hasn't said so.”
“Then it's your fault. You are as
red as paint, and you needn't deny
that you think a lot of him. Don't
try to deceive a woman who has had
three husbands. What 1 want to
know Is why you haven't married
him?"
“Because I'm not going to marry
again.”
“Hoot-toot! Don’t talk foolishness.”
“Well, then. Joe is a bashful man
and hasn't asked me.”
“That's better. There are some men
born that way. 1 shall make it my
business to cure this old bach.”
“Martha, if you interfere’ —
»1 shall stay right here until he pops
the question. No widow under forty
has any business to be a widow over a
year. If 1 wasn't fifty-two I'd be mar-
ried within six months."
“You'd rope in a man the same as a
calf. 1 suppose?” asked Mrs. Spicer
sarcastically. “But | forbid you to
meddle with my affairs. [1 like Joe
Tillman, but even if he was to ask me
to marry him 1 don't think I'd do It—
that is. 1 can't say that 1 would.”
“Oh, well. we'll see about it.” said
the elder sister, and there the conver-
sation dropped.
In making his visits to the widow
Joe did nct come by the highway run-
ning past both houses, Instead of that
he cut across lots and approached her
house from the rear. He bad two
fences to climb, and he always sat on
the last fence for a time to get his
cournge up. Sister Martha, without
pretending to see anything. noted this
thing and planned accordingly. She
planned for a jar. She was a very
practical woman, and one day when
her sister had gone to the store she
hunted up a handsaw. and. removing
the top rail. she sawed it almost in
two and replaced it, It was just at
the spot where Joe climbed over. It
might work, and it might not. She
would take her chances on that.
That evening, as the sun went down
and the gloaming came on and the |
birds twittered their last notes and
the skeeters began roaming for prey,
Joe Tillman might have been observed
making a sneak across the fields. He
hadn't visited the widow for three
nights, being in terror of her sister. |
He had stood it as long as he could
and was now coming to borrow her
barn or smokehouse or front fence.
The two widows sat on the veranda
and waited. One walted to see if Joe
would come, aud the other waited for
the jar that had been planned for. |
Joe and the jar arrived together. If
his heart hadn't been beating so tu-
mulituously as he laid hauds on that
top rail he would have noticed some-
thing wrong. but as it was he climbed
up and took his seat and had scarcely
begun his hitching around when there
was a crash and he went backward
head over heels.
A crash was heard on the veranda,
and both widows uttered exclamations
and rose up. Both reasoned it out that
it was Joe Tillman. Both ran for the
fence. Yes, it was Joe. He lay in a
heap on the far side of the fence, a
leg doubled under him, and the wo-
men had to take down a lot of the
rails to get over and at him. At
the first groan he gave knew his
leg was broken. At the second they
ran for a mattress and carried” him
into the house. The hired man was
hunted up in the barnyard and dis-
patched for a doctor, and long enough
before midnight the broken limb had
beer set and the patient was doing
well, Indeed, he was doing so well
g
t the Widow Spicer came out of
the spare bedroom with blushing
cheeks and said to her sister:
“Martha, what do you think has
ppened ?”
“Hasn't broken the other leg floun-
dering around, has he?”
“Joe has asked me to marry him!"
“Hoot! But | had given him two
weeks to make up his mind in.”
“But what do you know about it?"
“Why, I broke his leg. | made up
my mind to break his leg or his neck
to bring him to time, and now it won't
be over six weeks before he can limp
off to the preacher's with you and be
married. Sarah. there is only one way to
treat a bashful man who is in love with
you—break his leg and make him talk"
And the Lost and Found Department
i and Scotland Yard.
i “That lost aud found property de-
partment at Scotiand Yard is one of
the best things they have in London,”
sald a wonmn who has spent much
time in England. “Last summer 1 had
experience with it.
i *1 fell into a sort of habit of losing
things. First it was a valuable um-
{ brella. 1 did not miss it until 1 got to
! my hotel after an after theater supper
The next morning 1 made my husband
take me to the theater and the two
restaurants where we bad been the
night before, but without result.
“Then av American friend suggested
Scotland Yard. | went there, and there
it was. It bad been turned iu by a
| cab driver.
“Twice afterward I lost that um:
brella and got it back in the same
fashion, each time leaving as a rewnid
for the cal driver a per cent of the
value of the umbrella, as required
Then one night | lost a fine pair of
opera glasses, and 1 got them back.
“It is an excellent system the police
over there have of encouraging bon:
esty. A cab driver who finds anythin:
in his vehicle is required to turp it in
and he knows that if the owner claims
it he will be Yewarded, ‘= Exchauge.
An old Welsh Custom.
The kind!ing of bonfires vn hills is
| the simplest of celebrations at any
time. The Druids made four grent
fires at their festivals in February.
May, August and November. Wales
seems to have been a country espe-
cially tenucious of this custom. Each
family used to make its own fire, and
as it was dying out each member
would throw a white stone into it. the
stones being marked for future iden-
tification. Then all said their pray-
ers and went to bed, and in the morn-
ing they tried tw tind all the stones
agnin. If any stone was missing it
betokened that the owner of it would
die within n year. Some superstitions
are pretty and picturesque and attrac.
tive. This was one of the many which
were cruel as well as picturesque. It
would take but a slight accident to
{ cause a fright that might be actually
| dangerous to a superstitious person.
! and it would not be hard for an ene-
i my of such an person to cause that
fright by stealing his stone from the
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Very Considerate.
A marriage advertisement is publish
! ed in a Zurich paper by “a rich Swiss
philosopher” who wants a wife who
must fulfill the following conditions:
She must be beautiful in body, face
and mind and possess beautiful teeth
and hair of her own and not bought
articles. Besides German, she must
have a knowledge of English and
French, be a musician and bave an
irreproachabie reputation. “Other
faults,” the philosopher of forty years
states, “will be overicoked ”
Appreciation.
“Father.” said little Rollo, “was
George Washington a greater man
than Santa Claus?"
“] won't say. my son, that he was
greater, but he has proved much less
expensive.” —- Washington Star.
Unanswered.
“Say. pop. may | ask you a ques-
tion?"
“Yes. Teddy. What is it?
“When a man’s finished milkin' a
cow, how does he turn off the milk?*"
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and with whom Tad feet be the
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Could parents be brought to realize
the importance of starting the child’s
foot right, there would be little or no
suffering in later life from foot blem-
ishes.
As nature forms the child's foot,
each toe lies flat and straight thus pro-
viding the human foot with the power
to balance the body, the spring to
make walking easy.
Unfortunately few children reach
maturity without cramped, pinched
and misshapen feet. This is usually
caused by shoes sold by unscientific
shoemen to thoughtless parents.
The Pla-Mate Shoe is designated by
students of the human foot to allow
the bones and muscles to w in
the shape that nature intend
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