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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.
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TIME TABLE
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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Cinnamon in blue wrapper
Suitable rewards for the discovery of the 7th Point will be offered later.
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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.