Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1898, Page 16

THE EVENING StAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1898-24 PAGES. (Copyright, 1868, “A man’s past will catch him sooner or | over the sea, He had for- n n and five days the girl They had be the you gotten whether t the Now, ¢ 1 day, they were on deck and talking somewhat In this way: “You waik with me,” she called from her chair. “It's a de 11 punishment. $s a compliment.” “Thanks; “Truth’s eh?” he said, smiling. “The best compliments, I suppose, are those that pret to be truths, but are ales.” “T am afraid this is getting rather too fast for he said. “Wait until I think it a “To carry out what you have begun, you should say to me, ‘I can't think about it, for i ha to think about you.’ ”’ “Is it needful to say that?” he said, look- the girl. “How beautiful you were the Atlantic or that sweeps the shore of Elysium. s of conventional conversation it was an utterly inane remark, and th girl's laughter ro out, full and delight- ful, bi was low. you think so. A deeper red tinged hi as he realized his temerit : know I do,” he said. This is the fifth day of our ‘Today we shall be at Sandy bronzed cheeks 9 you? ecquaint Hook.” He ea w a long breath and his voice was New York and work, and to see her no more. te Two e were wa “What ly persons wrapped to their ears g the two. a remarkable girl Nell Wolverton ing. y carrying on a remarka- ith that young man. Who id the other with the severity of n gained by effort. c wort ¢ gineer in the employ of the Winfield company. Mary Winfield in- troduced him to Nell. That girl would flirt with ar . She all initely amusing. you would sup- ly or other. But the know!” quoth tre of the most pushi assented her ¢ me {1 nisi bonum,” said the 2 Was an extraordinarily With pluck and ten mii- that, an am- ng in is sald nd now . dear, that girl! and the ly Va Hons, biti elev New York Was wat same thou t urdersta it wa: was such an company ting him: er had nim only ie understo: s just B part, ‘or my give ng-man-making- | wouldn't, eculd) at was so long ago, and forgotten. ur fal ? Go I am inter- might have had the things, the t put me in your friend Ber- luck had been his way, cheated —" k of you as a man like said, decisive! Elysium and Burke on Deck. @ith that eyes may tive alm confidence In her eyes; the have been rather more expres- his was the last day of ail, and he would slip out of her 'e sO soon. She was fair to look upon, clevers accom- plished. charm ‘was her del no more avoid Our unsophis- mg man failed to understand Later, common sense was to reach from the grim, matter-of-fact @epthe | and grasp his sentimentality until it burt him. “Oh, it’s a little story of what might bave been years ago in Red Nugget Gulch, Cal. My father was out there after gold, like the rest, and he fell in with a man LOLOL DOO OMOWOens fi WOE OWE OO Vi xe 1 se) Goikse Leek se) (sek sekse) (se se koe) sekse) THE MARKED CARDS, — sto WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY CLINTON ROSS. by Clinton Ross.) | with whom he made a partnership in a general store. Sometimes, in exchange for Goods, they took claims. At first they made @ lot of money, and then they lost nearly very penny in trying to develop a claim that failed. Well, each blamed the other, &nd they decided to separate. They could gecide on no other way than to cut the cards. So they sat down one day and cut, @pd some things fell to my father and some to his partner. And the papers were drawn and the division made. A week after that claim which had gone to my father's er began to develop. It proved a My father’s partner made the begin- of a great fortune that way.” ell?” said the girl. “Now the shanty that served for the store ns ONOWTNOVEINOWOWOWOROWON Vf EY OV (e Gerserse) cehre) se had fallen to my father, not the stock, which went to pay the firm's debts. Three weeks after this my father sat talking with a mining expert, who spoke of the big find on my father’s former partner's lucky claim, and he stated boastfully, to show his value as an expert probably, that he had told my father’s partner—we will call him Smith—that the claim@was extremely valuable. This set my father to thinking. Smith had believed the claim to be valu- able, but my father could but acknowledge that the man had given him a chance, even if he had dishonesily hidden his notion of the claim. That day my father happened in the abandoned store. On the table were the two packs of dirty cards, just as they had been left the day of the division. They had cut in the bare inner room, which hadn't been disturbed since. My father “Do you think so,” she said petulantly. She usually had him well in hand. _ - “What did you say that man’s name is?" he asked after a moment. “Burke Melville.” Suddenly she turned. “Papa, you were in California?” “Yes; what of it?” “Did you ever hear a story like that?" “I have heard a lot of stories; California is full of "em. Read Bret Harte. As for your acquaintance, he was probably yarn- ing.”* 0, no, he wasn't.” ‘What makes yo. think that?” “He isn’t that kind of a man.” “Nell, I think that you can take care of yourself, but I don’t believe you can judge men.” “Oh, trust me for that,” she said, airily; and at the moment she was Indeed trying to judge no less a person than her father. She had thought that she understood him. Had she? He was fond of her; he dented her nothing, and she loved him. ' But—there were depths she could not fathom; and she knew no more of his real life, even less, than an outsider. But now a sudden fear possessed her. She rushed upstairs to a little room which she used for her writing table and her books, and eagerly she looked for a paper in a certain English magazine, “American Millionaires, No. X, Samuel Wolverton.” Had she been mistaken? And then she read: “The beginning of this extraordinary fortune was in ‘60, in Red Gulch, Cal. Mei- ville and Wolverton were storekeepers who exchanged a supposediy bad debt for the now famed Bulfinch mine. Wolverton bought out his partner.” For a minute the room seemed to swim. “Oh, if mamma were only here!” the girl sald, moaningly. “It's true—true. This is all his, and not PRESENTLY THE picked up these instruments of his bad luck and he saw that the pack that Smith had used had been marked.” “How awful!” the listener sald. “And you might have had money if it hadn't If it hadn't been for Smith’s dishonesty, es, Miss rton. But to return to the story. My father went to Smith, whom he accused, but Smith looked him in the face | and ‘You are crazy, man. And you any proof. Who'd believe you?’ Was that the end of it?” the girl asked, gently » not the end of it. prove nothing, indeed. from bad to worse. He left California pen- niless. Later the st he accumulated the litt money he was able to leave me. But it was alwa: a hard struggle for him and my mother, who died shortly after 1 w born.” ‘And Smith? Melville h ted. No, that ot the name. It's a well- knowr name, but we will let it remain My father could H affairs went ‘That's not the name.” Smith. Everything Smith touched became mon, He was accused of dishones many times in the course of his career, but nothing ever was.proven. He succeed- ed, and is today one of the powerful men of the country. They were silent, the girl grave. “And that’s the reason you think you not im the class of Bertie Townley. Well, I don’t want you to be in that clas: If you would care that much!” said he, half lightly, half earnestly. “Oh, I like you,” she said, cheerily, as she might have said she liked a fox ter- rier. d the man’s dishonesty was really your biessing. It made you do things. Oh, I know—I know a lot of men, and the men of the Far Westchester set are so tire- som “Oh, thanks!" said he, lamely. “But you mustn’t be tiresome. Do you se+ that line there? That's Sandy Hook; I know it. I have seen it that way a dozen And—I must be going below. Oh, I have been so much intere And she went away brightly smiling, and felt suddenly the least like a fool. This ng was increased when he found in the of landing that she had only a cool and a distant glad to have met you,” and no acknowledgment of the fact that he had asked to call, which she plain- ly had e d. He felt revengeful and 4 bit of an ararchist. And the next morn- ing when he was reporting to Mr. Winfield his stecess in London, and being compli- mented by tke compe head, his success seemed cheap; he had a picture before htm of a bright, high-bred looking, exquisitely gewned young woman, surrounded by flip- pantly gay persons whose world was not his, and never could be; for when one is making his way ploddingly, with no par- ticular capital, he can’t reasonably ex- pect that way to be made before he may be gray and all the desire for pleasure, Ufe’s good things, quite gone. it may be supposed that Miss Wolverton put the young man of the Atlantic out of her mind. Perhaps she had some thoughts of him or else she never would have re- peated the story he had told her at a din- ner where her father was, mest unusually, her escort. At a dinner cne owes it as 4 duty to do his part. Nell did not care to be lacking, and wanted her bon mot to be ax natty as another's, and her story as spirited. For she waged a little strife to make the world she knew hold her clever. Now she couldn't, try as she would, think of another story than the one Melville had told her. “Mary Winfield introduced me to a very entertaining man on the Lucania—a man who does things, you know—” “What does he do, horses or yachts?” said Bertie Townley. “Oh, I say, Nell, you don’t mean that serious-faced ‘chap you Were mooning about with so much?” ‘The very man,” Miss Wolverton sald, without turning color. And she told Melville’s story. “How extraordinary!” gasped Mrs. Pem- berton. “You do meet such strange people at sea.” “Business methods are oftentimes dis- honest,” said Judge Torbid, pompously. “Yet— Your story isn’t funny enough,” crit!- cised Bertie Townley. Samuel Wolverton—I should say “Sam, the great Sam—held his nose in his port: he's a thin, sharp-featured, silent man, and, looking at him, one always wonders how he succeeded in possessing such a daughter. Driving home, he said to Nell: “If I were you I don't think I'd try to tell stories at dinner" “Why, papa?" “It's undignified.” PORTIERE WAS PUSHED ASIDE. And he knew mine, every penny of it. when he told me; he knew And she stole down to her father. She went toward him, the magazine in hand, and held it before him. Wolverton started. He had never seen her like this, and her pallor frightened him. And then he saw to what she pointed. Was the story he told me true?” “What if it were?” 2 she sald, mockingly. tand, ‘what if it were. But the father said quietly, with a mas- tery of himself: if it were true, that Melville couldn't succeeded. He hadn't it in him. F would have failed at anything. I cut loose from him.’ “But you haven't told me whether the story is true.” “I won't acknowedge or deny it,’ he said at last. “What of it? You ought not to find fault. My money has made you a posi- tion as fine nyo “em.” “Good night,” said the girl. At the door he called to her: “Nell, you haven't kissed me good night.” “FE can't—tonight And she w gone. “A woman an't She'll get over it.” understand business. But he failed to sleep well that night. She was not at breakfast. He went to her room. She was sleeping with a look that frightened him. On his way down town he stopped at his doctor's. I am troubled with insomnia.” Mr. Wolverton,” said the practitioner, “I have told you again and again that you must let up on work and worry.” said the great man. “By the way, I wish you would see Nell: I am worried about her. He kent hireself busied down town until about 3, and then drove through the park in the parade; a tired-faced man people pointed out. As he entered the house he heard Nell’s voice. He paused in the hall and listened. “I am glad to see you, Mr. Melville,” she was saying. “I had your note, and came. ly, I think.” “Yes, prompt! “I have passed you several times, but 1 don’t believe you saw me,” Melville said rather bitterly. He was thinking how charming she ap- peared here in her own house. He was blaming himself for all that he had thought ot her; when her world, of which he had that brief glimpse, had been shut out. “I sent for you,” Nell went on, “to ask you why you told me that story when— When you knew that your father’s partuer my her.”* The listener started, and moved toward the door, and drew back. At last he heard “Miss Wolverton—yes, it and I was a coward to tell you.” “Iam glad you told me,” Nell said hum- for this was no longer the proud Miss Wolverton, she wondered at herself, tears were in her eyes and self-control was far away. “I don't know what made me tell you, and yet I do know. I have lied; I do know now. You seemed so far out of my reach, and I wanted you to be in my reach. Do you understand?” “I don't know that I understand,” the girl said. “I can’t seem to understand.” “And—O, you are crying. I have hurt you. I wouldn't hurt you for the world.” Don’t," she said, “please don't.” But he was saying— “I know the reason now. It was--don’t you see—didn’t you see?” ong a moment the listener heard Nell’s. voice. “It's best so. If you do, it* rights itseif. And—I see it clearly. I know now why I didn’t want you to be of Bertie Townley’s class, You are a man who does things— and will—a man for a womat to be proud of, and—yes—it’s all clear t9 me--T thought 1 was just flirting with you. Hut since that night I know it was more.” Presently the portiere was pushed aside. “I am Samuel Wolverton, and you are Burke Melville,” he said. '“I listened to your conversation. I won't apologize. I am glad I did it. It seems to me, Mr. Mel- ville, that your father’s son has it back at me now. It seems to me that you hold the marked cards.” He stopped and looked at the two, and then went on. “Mr. Melville, what's it the ministers say? [ not much at going to church. But Jon’t they say that when a man has wronged another the best amends he can make 1s confession of his fault?” But although a moment after the young man extended his han}, Wolverton was conscious that his daughter, whom he held his dearest possession, never would be the same to him, that distrus: lay between them; that, at the height of his success, Melville's son had turned the marked cards against him. here prompt- was so, it is so, JOLD TRINITY PARISH New York Church One of the Richest an the World, BRANCHES. AND MISSIONS ae af Its Wealth and How It 41S ITS MANY Origin of i Managed. MILLIONS FOR CHARITY Written for The Evening Star. WO HUNDRED and five years ago, in September, 1693, the colonial assembly, sitting in New York, passed an act of which this was the preamble: “Whereas profane- ness and licentlous- ness hath of late . overspread this province for the went of a. settled ministry — through- out the same: to the end that the same may be removed and the ordinances of God duly administered.” This act, providing that in each of certain cities and counties there should be “called, inducted and established a good, sufficient Protestant minister to officiate and have the cure of souls,” contained a provision for the maintenance of such minister and for the choice of ten vestrymen and two church wardens. Four years later, in 1697, the fifth year of the reign of William and Mary, there followed an act of the assem- bly, ratified by the governor, making the grant of Trinity Church and the land about it, The founding of this church and parish by a little group of Church of England men in New York was h2tped by Governor Ben- jamin Fletcher, who defeated an attempt to settle a dissenting minister over New York city. In 1688 the church edifice was built and a charter duly signed, by which the parish cam: into legal existence. The bish- op of London was named in that charter a the first rector. The duties of the office were performed by the Rev. William Vesey, who was the acting rector for forty-nine years. Obstactes Overcome. Such was the beginning of Trinity parish. The corporation had many troubles to con- send against during the first century of its existence. It w 1 by dissenters in the colonial asse S; royal governors held back the church revenues, and city nments refused to pay the rector the to which he was entitled under the Governor Fletcher tried to vacate nts made the chure san in 1699, and there ttempt made to recover land which Queen Anne had granted in 1705, and vest it again in the crown. Then came the long lawsuit by the heirs of Mrs. Ann2ke Jan Bogardus, wag sought to t from the church the procecds of the sale of her farm, which had come into its possession in the lapse of time. As Trinity Church grew in wealth with the ingome from =ndowments that had seemed of little value when given it was naturally the:mark for the covetous. But it weathered all storms, and wa great and strong for the fulfillment of missio : Today Trinity stands the foremost p: in the world. 51n the extent and sco its work it exceeds: sev of the dioc of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Its he churches embrace twcity-seven clergy, 200 communicants: 4,460 Sunday school pupils and about 2.500 pupils in its indus- trial and day schools. From this parish were born Grace,« St. George and St. Marks-in-the-Bowery Caw and throughout the state-of New York-its aid has been freely given/in the found ns sustaining of many churche. r loans and endowments it* has in distributed more than $2.00, Ccllege, now Columbia Uniy tered by ‘Trinity parish ond first endowment from that Trinity College, at Hartford, College at Geneva, were helped in their be- ginning and are aided to this-day by grants ity, was received its corporation, and Hobart frcm Trinity parish. St. Stephen's Col an the General Theological ha have both received large encowments from Trinity. It hoids eleven scholarships in the ew York Protestant Ep iscopal (Trin- ity) School and five scholarships in Trinity College Its rector, the F - Morgan Di is a leading member of the church uni. versity board of regents. A Great Work. In its charities, its home and domestic missions, and the promoting of Christian education Trinity stands preeminent. It has established, and maintains, Trinity Hospital, with its thirty beds, and it has ove Ean a Luke's and two beds In St. Mary’s Hospital,” iri New York. Its - sary and medical staff; the Sisterhoods Guilds, the Women's ‘Auxiliaries, Girls’ “Friendlies,” Cadets and other assecia- tions, multiplied throughout its nine churehes—all are engaged in the mission of relief to the sick and Sti i Ne orks citys destitute in New On the completion of the Church edifice, in 1846, stand on the original site, a charity school for boys and girls was opened in the tower. Frem this beginning has grown the great School in West 91st street, where nearly 400 boys are now instructed. Beginning in the year 1855 a system of daily parish schools was established and these have in. creased until now they eomprise day and ht schools, kindergartens, house schools. chools for manual training, for drawing and for cooking and laundry work, with appliances for the instruction of 2358 scholars. Trinity’s Nine Churches. Trinity parish's nine churches are situ- ated as follows: Trinity Church, on Broad- way, head of Wall street; St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway, between Fulton and Vesey streets; St. John's Chapel, Varick street, above Beach;. Trinity Chapel, 25th street, near Broadway; St. Chrysostom'’s Chapel, 7th avenue, corner of 39th street: St. Au. gustine’s Chapel, Houston street,’ between the Bewery and 2d avenue; St. Cornelius’ Chapel, Governor's Island, New York har- ber. St. Agnes’ Chapel, 9ist and 924 streets, near Columbus avenue; St. Luke’s Chapel, Hudson street, opposite Grove street. Of these churches six are free. No pews are sold in any of thern, and pews are rented only under“important restrictions. At all night ‘Services, at special services and at the daily services throughout the year all seats are free. Not within the last half century Jhas sany pew been sold by Trinity corporation. The vestry acquire, whenever they cam the ownership of the pews by purcktase from the descendants of the original possessors, or by sale on for- feiture. In 1705, in ‘the reign of Queen Anne, a grant was made to Trinity of a tract’ of land, along the: North river, extending from St. Paul's Chapel to the Skinner road, now Christopher street)! and known as “The Queen's Farm’ It-was then regarded as almost valuelgss land, not worth fencing, and for years it yielded no revenue to the parish, In later years it became the most valuable property ,in New York and has yielded. most_af large income of Trin- ity Ghured. ts Wt it were from time to time set. for Mpe uses-of King’s Col- lege and Trinity ‘ool, St. Mark's, St. George’s.-Chapel Grace. Church, | and the income of the remaimier has been used with wise-beneficenee. In 1786-the corpora- tion gave good lots to-each of the Pre: byterian-churches-in the city. In all, two- thirds of the “Queen’s. Farm” was given away by the~ the remainder has present Trinity the third one to been held in yea church at large. After all this iving the wealth of Trinity. y is $15,000,000, fepresenting an inco ‘of $600,000 yearly. seep Holds to Ite Own, It ig this great wealth of ‘Trinity that has enabled this corporation to maintain its large parishes in the places where churches are most needed. It is a matter ef common observation how Protestant churches of various denominations have been moving up town, relinquishing the | scems a pleasant relief.” fields of usefulness in which they began, and following the tide of fashion north- ward. in the past fifteen years, while 125,- 000 increase of population has come into the region south of 14th street, nineteen churches have been removed from it. Trin- ity parish has never sold a church or*re- moved one from its original site, cr even surrendered a churchyard save one that was taken for public use under the power of eminent domain. The way in which the business affairs of Trinity parish have been conducted from the first has been a marvel of good ,; Management and probity No individuals or familfes or syndicates have been en- riched by it. No defalcation or msJfeas- ance has occurred in its two centuri i All income from thi en Scrupulously and persistently em- pyed for those moral and reli; pur- poses to which originally the wild land first given to this corporation was ¢e‘i- cated. It is a great business that this cor- poration has to manage. Hts houses oc- cupy 7%) city lets: there are the cemeteries to be cared for, 2 be paid to retired cle orphans of deceased ministers: the taxes on the property are $63,000. A controller, cerk. course! and eight bookkeepers are required in the office of the corporation. A Liberal Landlord. In the management of its tenement prop- erty Trinity is a liberal landlord, but, un- fortunately, all of the houses upon its lots are not for the present under its control. Much of the land ts leased for long pe- r.ods of time, and the buildings do not be- long to the parish. As the land comes grad ually back into the possession of the cor- poration, model tenements are built, and money has even been borrowed to meet the expense of such construction. With regard to older tenemenis which cannot be imme- s replaced, they are put in the best ible under ine circumstances. as been one strange misappre- hension about Tripity Church among many well-meaning and ordinariiy inteilizent peo- pls—the belief that it is the most faskion- able church in New York, and that tke poor are not welcomed within its dors. It is, on the contrary, the most deniwecratic of churches. Not anywhere are the poor more cordially welcomed; nor anywher> are they more regarded, more :aougntiully con- sidered. In its very begiaaing Trintiy’s work was among the least and lowiicst_ in the community. The Indians and the Afri- cans, the slave, the captive znd the outcast she helped, and gave them religious in- struction. Everywhere the parish chur; have been available to all Comers ¥ money and without price. Whil2 ot churches and philanthropic organizations hav flitted uptown, the churenes of Trini- ty parish have remained in their place, and to Tous pensi sy and widows and res most of its work among (ae poor is done on the east side below Bond street. in the center of the most crowded city district in the world St. Augustine and its great par- ish buildings in Houscon str stands, the blazing cross of its sie2nie shining a bea- toes the o the sve sment population Ly d to attract con light to the way Bowery. It ministers itval needs of a t 2very method that can be us: or arouse or inspire. Under Its Present Rector. The Rev. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity, is the ninth rector of the parish since its establishment in 1697, not including the first rector, the bishop of London. During the thirty-six years in which Dr. Dix has been rector of the parish there have been b three chapels, nity school house, Augustine's parish St. Paul's building, building, St. Chrysostom’s ish house, school parish house and e for t. Agnes’ Chapel. Tr! spital has een established in the old rectory in Va- rick street, and St. Luke's and Corne have become chapels of Trinity. Be- is own parish, he has ren- dered " urches at lari it of the he { deputies, to elected in al conven- tier is accounted the best pre- sidin, er ever placed any eecle- siastic: In 1 bed, Ov in the United § ords of its recto! the purzose n of Trinity are expres “We y ever stand out as he people’s friend; I identified h whatsoever things hon- est, pure, true; one with all who stood for righteousn: and goodness in the state; helpful to the nation and the church; wide, earnest, comprehensive.” FULL-BLOODED CREES. Mioly Altar and Sitting Horse Want to Become Citizens, From the Anacenda (Mont.) Standard. Holy Altar and Sitting Horse, two Cana- dian Indians, accompanied by Harry Den- ny, the interpreter, called at the office of the clerk of the district court and an- ncunced that it was their desire to become citizens of the United States. Holy Altar and Sitting Horse are full-blooded Crees and took part in the ill-fated Riel rebellion in Canada some years ago, since which time th have wandered homeless and without a country. They said they had been In Montana continuously for nine and they wanted to become cit! In order that they might take up a ranch and become useful men of the state. Both men are strapping, big and ht fellows. Hely Altar gave his age as forty-six and Sitting Horse as thirty-nine. “Good Indians; never drink whisky,” said Holy Altar, slapping himself on the breast. “Good Indian,” echoed Sitting Horse, “good Indian. They said they had picked out a piece of land about thirteen miles from Butte which they desired to locate as a ranch. Interpreter Denny, who is a half-breed, testified to the good character of his two friends. He said they were exceptionally gcod for live Indians, and both were in- dustrious and thrif ting Horse works (ke a white man at anything he can get to do, while Holy Altar has for a long time lived alone in a teepee as far removed from the other Indians about Butte as he could, and has been engaged in the manufacture of horn ornaments and articles of furni- tere. Denny, who has also declared his in- tention to become a citizen of this country, gave it as ‘is opinion that Holy Altar and Sitting Horse woulé make goed and useful itizens, and upon these assurances they were allowed to make their marks in the kins ad- they paturalization book, and Clerk W: ministered the oath to them, which teok with apparently a great appreci: of the solemnity of it, and both dec! thefr intentions to forever renounce their allegiance to Victoria, queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India, and to obey and uphold the laws and Co stitution of the United States of Ame: ‘They received copies of their first and handled them with a care and re. that might be due to something sacred. ee The Heaviest Thing in the World. From the Popular Science Monthly. The heaviest thing in the world is the metal osmium, the bluish-white metal with violet luster, which Mr. Smithson Tennant discovered ninety years ago in the residue from dissolved platinum ores. This metal has a specific gravity of 22,477, that of gold being 19,265, lead 11,367, iron 7.79, and lithi- um, the lightest, only 0.594. The French chemist, Joly, determined that osmitm is likewise the most infusible of metals. It could never be made to yield to the oxy- hydrogen flame which makes platinum and irridium run like water. sub,ecting osmium to the exclusively high temperature of the electric arc which Mois- san has of late employed successfully in the manufacture of diamonds. Under this fierce heat the rare metal, ru- thenium, which used to be deemed all but infusible, readily melts. But osmium re- mains refractory, there being apparent only the faintest traces of fusion. On this ac- count osmium cannot be prepared in suf- ficient quantity to make it very useful in the arts. But its alloy with irridium, which defies the acids, is of some value, nothing better having been found wherewith to tip gold pens. Being non-magnetic, its employ- ment for the bearings of the mariner’s com- pass has been advocated. — ‘Why They Were Decorated. From the Boston Trarscript. Herr Deutscher—“What on earth did your government decorate the sailors of the Bourgogne for?” M. Francais—“For their heroic conduct in not allowing the passengers to drown them.” ———+e-_—_____ A Welcome Change. From the Fliegende Blatter. Angry Manager—“What did you mean by smiling in that death scene?” , Actor—“With the salary you pay, death ee But Joly has been | Planisphere of the Heavens, showing the positions of the principal stars which are above the horizon September 1-15-30, at 9-8. p.m. SEPTEMBER STARS Heavenly Bodies That Repay Careful Study This Month. TO LOCATE THE CONSTELLATIONS Investigating the Make-Up of the Nebula of Andromeda. NON-LUMINOUS WORLDS MILKY WAY Written for The Evening Star HE now passes at # p. m. directly over- head. In it or along it are the constella- tinns Scorpio, Sagit- 22 tarfus, Ophinchus, the Eagle, the Dcl- phin, the Swan, pheus, Cassiopeia The Scorpion, sametimes called the Kite, can be located by means of its bright, ruddy star Antares, now nearing j the horizon in the southwest. Sagittarius is nearly south. It can be recognized from the ‘hobby horse” in it, described last month, the five more easterly stars of which form the Milk Dipper. The Exgle marked by the star Altair, of the first magnitude, which has just crossed the me- ridian at two-thirds of the distance from the horizon to the zenith. The Dol; hin, known also as Job's Coffin, is the litt cluster of five or six small stars at the left of Altur, and at about the same aliitude. The Swan (Cygnus), better known as the Northern Cross, is directly overhead. Cas- siopeia, strongly marked by the W-shaped figure formed by its five brighter stars, is in mid-heavens in the northeast. The triangular region between the head of the Cross, the Pole Star and Cassiopeia is oc- cupied by Cepheus, not a conspicuous con- stellation, but rich in telescopic stars. The second magnitude star midway between Casstopeia and the horizon is Alpha Persel, at the center of an elongated group of Stars. which form the bedy of Perseus. Some ten degrees to the right of this star, and lower than it, is Beta Persei, also of the second magnitude, better known as Algol, the Demon. This star is in the he: of Medusa, which Perseus holds by it snaiy locks in hs left hand—we speak now by the chart, and rot by the stars—and is a famous variable star, Square of Pegasus. In midheavens in the east is the great Square of Pegasus—a large rectangular fig- ure, formed by four stars of the second magnitude. Only three of these stars be- long, however, to the old constellation Pe- gasus—the Winged Horse, whcse head is row above and at the right of the square, avd whose forefeet are pawing upward to- Ward the zenith—the star at the northeast- ern corner of the square being in the head of Andromeda. Between this last designated star Alpha Andromedae and Alpha Persel, on a line curving slightly downward, are two other stars of the same ragnitede. Both belong to Andromeda, one of them, Reta, being in her beit, the other, Gamma, in’ her left fcot. Andromeda is new in her best posi- tion for observing, reclining in that na‘ural and easy pose which she may be imagined to have assumed while bound to the rock awaiting the aerival of the sea monster, who, but for the timely intervention of Perseus would have made a mez! of her. Nebula of Andromeda. This consteliation is, however, less at- tractive to the modern stargazer for its mythology than for its famous nebula. The nebula lies near the northernmesi of ihe three Stars—two of them of only the fourth inagnitude—which form abe maicen’s beli. it is visible to the naked eye as a hazy Slat, anu, indeed, it hau atiracted atten- lion beiore ihe ivenlion of the LeLescope. iis nebuious character is quste apparent through an opera giass. Scen thiouga a small telescope it presents an appearan. Wuich was apuy acscribed by its dseov- erer, Simon Marius, as that of “a canule Shining througa nein. Pno.cgraphy tas shown this interes.ing ebject (6 Duong LO Lhe ciass ef spirai hebuiae. It is evident.y turned loward as paruy edgeWise, so that 1s appaseat fig- ure 18 elluplicai; bul the genera acrange- ment of HS Bumercus “rifts” and “whorls” bears unmistakable lesiimony 10 a vercical movement going on w.thin it. ‘rhe spec- trum of this neoula is somewhat perpiex- ing lo astronomers. The most of the recog- nized nebulae give spectra which consis.s Wholly or bright lines—ihree ines iound in the most of tnem are specially aesignated as the “nebular lines”— and these iines are evidence that the light of the nebulae comes wholiy from incandescent gaseous maiter. The nebula in Andromeda, desides giving the characterise nebular lines, gives also a faint rainbow specirum, which is interpreted to mean that a portion of its light comes from matter in tie solid or the liquid staie. Nebulous Theories. Of the two gases which give the principal lines of this and other nebulae, cne is cer- tainly hydrogen; the other has not as yet been positively identified with any ele- ment kffown to terrestrial chemistry. Dr. Huggins thinks it is nitrogen, while Sir vapor of magnesium. Lockyer tells us, furthermore, that these nebulae are not simply masses of gaseous matter at an in- conceivably high temperature, as was the criginal conception of a nebula, but that they are vast clouds of meteorites, their faint glow being due to the heat engen- dered by the collisions of the meteorites with one arother—or perhaps the phenome- non is in part electrical—and that af a f the stars—is the ambitious aim of th New Astronomy.” Eclipsed by a Satellite. The variable star Algol, in Perseus, has been pointed out. From sow on for sev- eral months this star will be favorably sit- uated for observation. Its peculiarity is that after shining for about two and a half days asa star of the second magnitude it falls in the space of about four hours to the fourth magnitude, and in the course of the next four hours It recovers its usual brightness. The cause of this change of brilliancy has now been clearly shown to be the fact that the star ‘s attended by a dark satel'ite, which revolves around it in a period, to give it exactly, of two days twenty hours forty-nine ‘minutes, and which passing periodically between us and it cute off a portion of its light. On four evenings of this month Algol will go through its changes at seasonable hours. On the6th it will begin to wane soon after 9 p.m, and will be at a minimum an hour after midnight. Other minima will occur on the 9th, at 10 pm., on the “12th, at 6 p. m., on the 2th, at 11 p.m. There are nine other stars—variables of the “Algol type,” that is, stars which un- dergo at regular short intervals a partial extinction of their light, but with the ex- ception of Algol they are inconspicuous stars—some of them telescopic—-and their change is not great. All of them are inter- esting, however, from the fact that they furnish direct evidence, in addition to much indirect evidence, that space abounds in non-luminous as well luminous worlds. Over 300 variable stars are now cata- logved, exhibiting the great variety of eccentricities in this respect, ir changes of brilliancy being in many -s apparent- a ly quite capricious. No generally ac explanation of their behavior—exc the case of the Algol stars—ha been given. They are mas of astronomy. The Planets. Venus is now the reigning evening star. It has been such since February 15, and in the interval since it first became v it has steadily increased in brilliancy now ft shines with that surpassing diance which won for it centuries ago the tribute cf Homer as “the most beautiful star that stands in the heavens,” as it rtainly is. “One would suppose that Venus would be a superb object for the telescope. In fact, it is one of the most difficult of celestial objects of which to obtain a satisfactory view. Its dazzling brilli brings out every defect which the telescope may hax as yet e enig- and, besides, owing to its nearness to the or herizon after sunset, it is always more less affected by atmospheric disturbanc For these reasons the best views of Venus are obtained in the daytime. Then, as it is seen with its light subdued upon a back- ground of biue sky, it is indeed a beauti- ful object, closely resembling the moon seen with the naked eye under the sama circumstances, with the difference that it is free from the Gark blotches which dis- figure the moon's face. Characteristics of Venus. Very little is known respecting the phys- ical condition of this planet. It is know hewever, that Venue is enveloped in an atmosphere which seems to be more dense than the earth's. It ts, in fact, because of its etmosphere that so little is known abo the planet. This atmosphere forms an al- most, if not quite, impenetrable veil, which so effectually conceals the planet's surface markings that astronomers have not yet been able to determine with certainty the period of its rotation on its axis. This ques- tion has lately been much discussed among astronomers, some maintaining that the planet rotates in about the same time as dors the earth, while others are equally con- fident that its rotation period is the same as that of its revolution in its orbit—about 225 days. In this latter case it must al- ways turn the same hemisphere to the sun, as the moon always presents the same face to the earth, or, in other words, over one- half of the planet there must be perpetual day and over the other half perpetual night. The weight of the evidence seems to be in favor of this latter view, which was first suggested by M. Schiaparelli in 1890, and has the support of several com- petent observers, theugh others with equally good reputations are either non- committal on the subject or hold that the short period is the more probabie. Morning Star. Mercury will be a morning star after the 5th of this month. It will be at its great- est distance (apparent) west of the sun or the 21st. Mars is now near the western border o! the constellation Gemini, and rises at about midnight. Some twelve or fifteen degrees west of Mars is Neptune, away below the limit of the naked eye. Jupiter is still an evening star, but his present season as such is now practically closed. He sets before 8 p.m. Saturn is an evening star in the Scorpion about ten degrees northwest of Antares, He sets soon after 9 p.m. Uranus, invisible now to the naked eye, sets a half hour be- fore Saturn. On the 22d of the month at 7 p.m., Wash- ington time, the sun will “cross the line,” entering Libra, and autumn will begin. ——— What a Boy Did in Spare Momentn. From Suecess. ° A thin, awkward boy came to the rest dence of a celebrated school principal and asked to see the master. The servant eyed his mean cloth2s, and, thinking he looked more like a beggar than anything else, told him to go around to the kitchen. He soon @ppeared at the back door and repeated hig request. “You want a breakfast, more lik:,” said the servant girl, and set him down to some bread-and butter. “Thank you,” said the boy, “I should like to sce Mr. —— if he can see me.” “Some old clothes, maybe, you want; I guess he hag none to spare; he gives a\ RE i g | i i i | i } # : i i i