8 XfcZoMen What If the Sun Wen By GARRETT P. SERVISS. "If the sun should go out, how long would It be before darkness would appear on the earth?" asks a reader. Eight minutes, eighteen seconds and tlve hundreds and sixty-six one-thou sandths of a second! At the end of that brief interval of time tRe blue curtain of day would disappear as if an almighty hand had snatched it off, and the dome of night, spangled with stars, would instanta neously arch the earth. We would be plunged Into darkness so quickly that for a moment, nothing would be visi ble. Then the piercing rays of th 3 stars would begin to affect our eyes, and after that, gradually, our Immedi ate surroundings would dimly emerge from the gloom. There would be star light, but no moonlight, for the moon shines only with the reflected sunlight. At first the disappearance of the light would be the thing most trouble some to ua, but as time went on a chill would begin to creep over the sunless earth, and out of the dark and frozen air, all around the globe, aj •pallid snow would descend, as the atmospheric moisture condensed. When days and weeks had elapsed the awful cold of outer space would chill the at mosphere down to the earth's surface and animal and vegetable life would alike perish in the endless winter of universal night! t The time mentioned above as that which would elapse after the extinc tion of the sun before the earth would be plunged in darkness de pends, of course, upon the speed of light, combined with the distance from the sun to the earth. According to the table of astronomical con stants used in the calculations of the American Nautical Almanac office, the mean distance of the earth from the sun Is 92,894.767 statute miles, while the velocity of light is 186,324 miles second. s2jo Rail and Boat Excursion Tolchester Beach Sixty Mile Steamer Ride os Beautiful Chesapeake Bay Maryland's Famous Pleasure Resort Sunday, August 29 Bathing, Boating Fishing, Crabbing SPECIAL TRAIN" leaves Harrisburg- . . 7.20 A. M. Returning, steamer leaves Tol chester Beach 4.00 P. M. $2.00 Round $2.00 Stile of tickets limited to '«■«- pa city of steamer. Tickets on sale Saturday, Aufpist 28. Pennsylvania R. R. SAFETY] V FIRST The object of "Safety First" ta prevention. You can prevent your advertising from meet ing the fate of the wait# basket if you will make It attractive with proper illustration. Bring your next copy to us for Illustrative treatment One treat ment will convince you '.hat our methods are a success. The Telegraph Art &Engravitig Departments I J Cumberland Valley Railroad I TIME TABLE i In Effect June 27, 191 K. TRAINS leave Harrisburg— For Winchester and Martlnsbur* at 6:03. *7:62 a. m., *8:40 p. m. For Hagerstown, Chambersburg Car lisle, Mechanicsburg and intermediate stations at *5:03, «7.52, *11:68 L m! •3:40, 6:37, *7:45, •11.00 p. m. Additional trains for Carlisle and Mechanicsburg at »:48 a. m., 8.16- i-2« ' 6:3u, 8:36 a. lrj. * j For Dillsburg at 5:03. »7:62 and I •11:63 a. m.. 2:1«, *8:40. i:B7 and 6:20 p. m. •Daily. All other trains daily excect i Eunday H. A. RIDDLE, J. H. TONGE. Q. p. School of Commerce Troup Building. Phone, Bell 1848 J. IB So. Market Square, Harrlaburr, Pa. Fall term begins■ Day School, Septem ber lj Night School, September 6. Orttcr open from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m . Phone, write or call for catalog or farther Information. Harrisburg Business College! Day and Night School Sept. 7, 1915 Business. Shorthand and Civil Serv ice. SOtli year. 829 Market St., Har , rlsburg, Pn. I Try Telegraph Want Ads ' MONDAY EVENING, astronomical units (the astronomical unit here spoken of Is the earth's dis tance from the sun), and also know Dividing the first number by the second we get, for a quotient, 498,- 566, which represents the number of seconds and theusandths of a second that light requires to pass from the sun t# the earth. Dividing this by 60 gives us the same period in minutes and parts of a minute. But it must be remembered that a slight degree of uncertainty exists In regard to the figures representing the distance of the sun and the velocity of light. The sun may be a hundred thousand miles nearer, or father, and the velocity of light may be twenty five miles per second greater, or less, than the figures adopted show. Still, this would make but an extremely small change In the time required for the passage of light from sun to earth. A quite perceptible difference, how ever, arises from the variations in the earth's distance from the sun, due to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit. We are about three million miles .nearer the sun at the beginning of January than at the beginning of July, from which it follows that In the sun should be put out In Summer, the cosmic night would be about six teen seconds longer in reaching the earth than It would if the extinc tion occurred in winter. In the Southern Hemisphere exactly the op posite state of affairs exists, for there winter occurs when the earth is farthest from the sun. The fact that light requires a measurable time to traverse long distances makes It an agent, or in strument of astronomical research of inestimable value. As Professor Young has remarked, when we ob serve a celestial body we see It not as it is at the moment of observation, but as it was at the moment when the light left it. If, then, we know its distance In French Report Sinking of German Torpedoboat By Associated Press Paris, Aug. 23, Noon.—"Two French torpedoboats encountered and sank a I German torpedoboat destroyer oft Ostend (Belgium) last night," says an announcement made here to-day. "Our boats were undamaged." | BATHTXG PIjACES CLOSED By Associated Press I Amsterdam, via London. Aug. 23. — ; The Berlin Vossische Zeitung states | that the bathing places on the rivers 'near Berlin have been closed by the i police owing to several cases of cholera i among ship workers in Brandenburg province. SORE LITTLE BOY j USES CimCUM j . j For a Painful, Itching and Burn ing Skin Trouble and is Quickly Healed By CAKE OF SOAP AND BOX OF OINTMENT "My little boy was one «ore eruption an over his throat and chest, and extending the full length of his little arms. It broka out in red pimples turning yellow, and broke opea until baby's arms, throat ) and chest were one solid eruption and a crust formed over it. It seemed to be irritating and pain ful as he would cry to be touched. It itched and burned, and his cicthing j hurt and pained him. j "My mother had used Cuticura Soap and Ointment so I purchased a cake of Soap and a box of Ointment. He was well before they were used up." (Signed) Mrs. Roy O. ' Chapman, Towanda. Pa.. Jan. 28, 1915. Sample Each Free by Mall With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad dress post-card "Cuticura, Dapt. T, Boa- I ton." Sold throughout the world. WEATHER CHANGES j which bring sudden drops of ! temperature almost down toj j chilly depths remind us of I ! the coming- of Fall with its crisp, frosty nights. Are you ! prepared for the change of i season ? After this month— j Coal Prices Advance Why not have Kelley fill ] your bins before Sept. 1 and take advantage of the sav ing? H. M. KELLEY & CO. Office, 1 N. Third Street Yard, Tenth and State Streets i i 1 LOOKS There Is character glasses. Properly-fitted glasses make people look /W" bright and Intellectual. Jfr Poorly-fitted glasses make [ LS\ good-looking men and '/7liL women appear common- I place. , J 1 A pair of Tories with the I rKht kind of mounting are as at- I | tractive In appearance as they are ! I easy to the eye. I Buy a pair of glasses that are ! both comfortable and attractive. i Wltk H. C. Claster, SOS Market St. I t Out? how long light takes to traverse that unit, we can at once correct our ob servation by simply dating it back to the time when Its light parted from the- object. This correction is called the "equation of light," and the time required for light to traverse the as tronomical unit of distance Is called the "constant of the light-equation," amounting, as stated before, to 498,- 566 seconds. To understand the application of this, suppose that we take some star which attracts our attention by Its beauty or Its brilliance. We say fo ourselves, with a glow of intellectual enthusiasm: "Behold that mighty sun, whose golden rays are so much richer than our daylight! Can any body doubt that there are worlds around it enjoying its genial warmth?" Whereupon an astronomer may correct ua with trie remark: 'What you say about the magnifi cent, but distant sun, is very pronn bly true, but you should speak in the past tense for the light by which you see it left its surface long years ago, and, though it still appears'to Re shin ing in the sky, it may in reality have ceased to exist." Regarded in this .way, the starry heavens exhibit a perspective of time. When we look at the nearer stars we Bee backward 6ne, two, three or four years, when we look deeper, we see backward In time ten or twenty years, and when, with the aid of the mighti est instruments yet devised, we plunge into the profoundest depths of the universe, we behold the starry hosts as they existed thousands of years ago. For all that we can tell, those stars may have "fallen like leaves in wintry weather" long before the pyramids of Egypt were erected, but the light that left them while they were yet alive with radiance has speeded steadily on, unconscious of their fate, and bringing us an assur ance of their continued existence. I'll OF KAISER'S SHIPS LOST IH HIGH BATTLE Petrograd Statements Say Ger / man Fleet Departed Follow ing Defeat London, Aug. 2 3.—A dispatch to the Central News from Petrograd says: "The president of the durna has an nounced that the Germans lost the battle cruiser Moltke, three cruisers and seven torpedoboats in the Riga battle." Petrograd, Aug. 23. —An official communication issued to-day says: "The German fleet has left the Gulf of Riga. • "Our destroyers In the Black Sea have sunk' over 100 Turkish boats." The German battle cruiser Moltke was a vessel of 23,000 tons and carried in ordinary times a complement of 1,107 men. She was a sister ship of the famous Goeben. which became a part of the Turkish navy after the commencement of the war and was rechristened Sultan Selim. The Moltke was 590 feet long and was armed with 10 11-inch guns and 12 6-inch guns and 12 24-pounders. In addition her armament included four 20-inch tornedo tubes. She was built in 1911 and had a speed of about 28 knots. The Moltke was in the battle with the British fleet in the North Sea last 1 January when the German armored cruiser Rleucher was sunk. In 1912 the Moltke was in the German squad ron which visited the United States to return the visit of the United States | battleship squadron at Kiel during its trip around the world. The cost of the Moltke was about $12,000,000. An official German statement, issued craft, a gunboat and two torpedoboats, craft, a gunbota and two torpedoboats, were sunk in the battle of Riga, while the German losses were a torpedoboat sunk and two others damaged. A Russian offlcail communication, issued the same day, said not less than two German torpedoboats were lost. HAVE YOU H CHILD? I Many women long for children, but because of i I Some curable physiral derangement are deprived ' j Of this greatest of all happiness. The women whose names follow were restored I to normal health by Lydia E. Pinlchtm's Vegeta- ' and asl ' m a ' x>ut "■ M* arjP 1 pound and have a fine, ilk «/ , . strong baby." Mrs. ! i JOHN MITCHELL, Mas- SENA > N. Y fiyßßft ! "Lydia E. Pinkham's I Vegetable Compound is a wondorful medicine for jT* expectant mothers." J fkJ;., 1 Mrs. A. M. MYERS, Gor MriA M Mueri " I highly recommend ! Lydia E. Pinkham'sVeg ■ e table Compound before IS* I child-birth, it has done so HII much me."-Mrs. E. I- M. DOERR, R. R. 1, Con shohocken, Pa. r I! "I took LydiaE. Pink- ! WSr ;j ham's Vegetable Com- I VS **jß pound to build up my Jfii s y stem and have the I dearest baby girl in the world."—Mrs. MOSE Mrs MtafaMii B LAKEL EY, Coalport, Pa. HjPHHj "I praise the Com pound whenever I have a chance. It did so much | jlpjk-er Jjt || for me before my little : girl was born." Mrs. E. W. SANDERS, Rowles [ "I took your Com jjZW[i pound before baby was A**! I horn and feel I owe my I |j I life to it"— Mrs. W INNIE TILLIS, Winter Haven, r HaVifagTiiiii Florida. HARRISBURG TEJ^EGRAPH JAPAN READY 10 GIVE RUSSIANS MORE HELP Premier Okuma, in Statement, Tells of His Country's Intentions Toklo, Aug. 23. The Kokumin Sblmbun says: "Premier Okuma states that Japan has decided to give greater assistance to Russia to prosecute the war.* He could not discuss details, but allowed It tc be understood that this assistance would take ,thc form of the forward ing of greater supplies of munitions." The Associated Press learns that Jj»pan has decided to employ all avail able governmental and private re sources for increasing the output of munitions for the allies, particularly Russia. The Japanese government believes the time has arrived for more con certed action against th« enemies of Japan and her allies. One of Russia's greatest embarrass ments in her conduct of the war has been a shortage of guns and ammu nition. Military writers, while not dis counting the effectivenesrf of the enor mous Austro-German offensive move ment. have stated that the extent of Russian reverses in the bust few months has been due In part to inade quate supplies of munitions. Four Allentown Men in Hunt For Big Game Special to The Telegraph Allentown. Pa.. Aug. 23. Four prominent Allentown men left yester day on what is the finest sportsmen's trip ever planned from this city. The party consists of Colonel Harry C. Trexler, Quartermaster General of Pennsylvania, owner of. the big buffalo, elk and deer park on the Jordan, 10 miles north of this city; George H. Hardner, one of the fore most big game hunters in the country: Daniel Ritter and Irwin J. Koehler. They will be gone six weeks and will hunt for big game in the wilds ot Wyoming. MRS. DARLINGTON RECOVERING New York City. N. Y., Aug. 23. Mrs. James H. Darlington, wife of the bishop of Harrisburg, who had a severe surgical operation performed last month and has been under physi cians' care at the Oriental Hotel,' Manhattan Beach, for several weeks, is so far convalescent as to go to the mountains with the bishop and her famils 1 . They will stop at Lake Minne waska. Her many social friends hero are hoping that she will be able to spend September and October at the family cottage, "The Corners" In New port, R. I. Miss Eleanor Townsend Darlington, is visiting Mrs. Philip Liv ingston at Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert, Maine. IN THE FASHIONABLE BOLERO STYLE A New Gown Adapted to Spring and to Summer. By MAY~MANTON ■ 8607 Bolero Costume, 34 to 42 bust. The bolero makes a really important feature of the new styles. Here is a gown that shows a most attractive one, made sleeveless to be worn over a guimpe of thinner _ material. The accompanying •kirt is in three pieces with applied tucks that accentuate the flare. In the illus tration, the material is silk and wool gabardine with crftpe de chine used for the blouse and charmeuse satin for the sash, but the design will be a good one for many different materials. It would be exceedingly handsome made tip in the faille silk that is so fashionable or in one of the new Spring satins or in pongee or foulard or in chiffon taffeta or in fact any material of the sort. It would be very charming for such materials as cotton crSpe, cotton voile and the like. Many of the new voiles and new crCpe* are most attractive with their embroidered flower designs in color and one of these would be lovely over a white blouse. The blouse is just a plain one (hat can be buttoned up snugly at the throat or rolled open. The sash may be a straight picc* of ribbon or material as liked. For the medium size will be required 6yds. of material 27 in. wide, 4¥2 yds. 36, yds. 44 in. wide, for the skirt and bolero; 2 yds. 27, I yds. 36, I yd. 44 in. wide, for the folds; 3% yds. 27, 2 yds. 36. yds. 44, for the blouse. The pattern 8607 is cut in sizes from 3J to 42 ir\. bust measure. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Depart ment of this paper, on receipt of ten ccnta. Bowman's aell May Manton Pattern*. 1 Every one In the list of HEINZ 57 "VARIETIES _ has been awarded the Grand Prize Panama-Pacific Exposition The Highest Award Possible 1 Baked Beans with Pork and 28 Pickled Onions „ „ Tomato Sauce 29 Stuffed Mangoes 2 Baked Pork and Beans with- 30 Pickled Walnuts out Tomato Sauce 31 Queen Olives 3 Baked Beans inTomato Sauce 32 Manzanilla Olives - n Po f k 33 Stuffed Olives 4, Baked Red Kidney Beans 34 Pure Olive Oil 5 Cream of Tomato Soup 35 Tomato Ketchup 16 Cream of Pea Soup 36 Tomato Chutney 7 Cream of Celery Soup 37 Chili Sauce ° Mince Meat 38 Tomato Relish • ,? ? , Pudding 39 Mushroom Ketchup 10 Cooked Sauer Kraut with Pork 40 Walnut Ketchup ? ean , ut gutter 41 Mustard Ketchup 12 Spaghetti (a L'ltalienne) 42 Mustard Dressing Fruit Preserves 43 Pepper Sauce 12 ? rui ? Jellies 44 Mandalay Sauce 15 i* . „ " er 45 Worcestershire Sauce J® Peach Butter 46 Prepared Mustard 17 Plum Butter 47 Powdered Mustard 18 Grapefruit Marmalade 48 India Relish 119 Euchred Figs 49 East Indian Chutney 20 Cranberry Sauce 50 Evaporated Horseradish 21 Preserved Sweet Gherkins 51 Sweet Red Peppers 22 Preserved Sweet Mixed Pickles 52 Pure Malt Vinegar 23 Sour Gherkin Pickles 53 Rure Cider Vinegar 24 Sour Mixed Pickles 54 White Pickling and Table Vinegar 25 Chow Chow Pickle 55 Spiced Salad Vinegar 26 Dill Pickles 56 Dill Vinegar 27 Euchred Pickle 5? Tarragon Vinegar PAXTAN6 PARK This week's bill at the Paxtang Park Theater will be headed by Klein, Abe and Nlckelson, known as the "three emperors of comedy and music." The act is a musical offering of merit with , Kood, lively comedy on the side. This trio has played all the lead ins? theaters of the country with great success and is well known to local I theater goers A great novelty attraction that will appear on this week's bill will be,! Drawee Frisco Hambo, in an original I comedy sketch entitled. "Fun in a Hot tentot Hotel." All sorts of novelties I are introduced, including iuggling ac robatics, comedy dialogue and trick ' • scenery. Others who will add to the attrac tiveness of this week's park program ! are: Bissett and Wilson, a classy couple 'n new songs, dances and refined com- ! edy; Olivette, the dancing violinist with 1 the wonderful eyes, and Jack Polk i who says he is just "polking" along with some new stories to tell and some new narodies to sing. « Another big* fireworks display will he I the special attraction at the park on Thursday evening. Manager Davis ' promises his patrons a varied pvro- 1 technical program that will be well up ' to the standard set by previous nark fireworks displays. Strip tickets for the 1 big bargain day at the park on Septem- 1 her 1 are now on sale at the various I stands in the park and at the street i railway wating room. For ten cents one may have a ride on the merry- 1 go-round, a ride on the dehbv racer'a i trip through the giggler arid an ice i cream cone Contests and races for numerous prizes will he a feature of 0,0 ® CAJ/TOT 1 jilfe WBBBM Si What, what, what is that 7th Point of Sterling excellence ? Peppermint in red wrapper - Cinnamon in blue wrapper Suitable rewards for the discovery of the 7th Point will be offered later. .The STERLING GUM COMPANY, Inc., Long Island City, Greater New York ACGUST 23, 1915. the day's program and at least one surprise will be introduced for the i benefit of ticket holders. However, it will not he necessary to purchase a bargain ticket to gain admittance to I | the park or to enter the contests. The j l park will be open to the public as I usual. On September fi, Labor Day, the | Tyrone Band will give two free con- [ certs at the park. The concert pro- j j grams will be announced la»er.—Ad j vertisement. Arabic an Unarmored Passenger Steamship ■London, Aug. 23, 1.30 P. M.—Sup j pigmenting official information given [ out previously concerning the sinking ! of the Arabic, the British admiralty [ to-day ruade the following announce ! irtent: "The Arabic was an unarmored pas- I J senger ship, outward bound to a neu | tral port. It was thus impossible for i her to have heen carrying contraband. I "She was sunk by a German sub | marine without warning and she neither attempted to attack the suh- I marine nor to ttscape from it." | PLANS ARRAXOKJ) IX ITALY | Udine, Italy. Aug. 23, via Paris, ! j 11:30 a. m.—The fact is disclosed that! I .ioint military action by Italy with ' 'England, France and Russia against I Turkey was arranged in July. Wine, Barred by Bryan, Now Served Diplomats Washington, D. C., Aug. 23.—Grape ! juice has lost its place as the official | beverage of the State Department, j The drink made famous by William jJ. Bryan has been forsaken and henceforth diplomats and others at ! Official state entertainments will find i the "kick" restored to the liquids served. For more than two years no alco holic drink has been served at offi cial functions of the Secretary ot State. Share of China Trade For United States i Washington, D. C., Aug. 23. An i aggressive campaign to secure for j American business a share in the I development of the enormous re | sources of China has been planned |by the Departments of State and Commerce. The project contempates | the development of an American vested interest in China that will In i sure the United States a fair share of that country's foreign trade.
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