Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1894, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEFE: /SUNDAY. 1894 was a poor little creature, this forelgn office tial photography. - The great six-foot re- | expect, ~ A TOREIGN OFFICE -~ ROMANCE By A. Conan Doyle. (Copyright, 1504, There are many folk who knew Alphonse Lacour In his old From about the time of the revolution of 48 until he died fn the second year of the Crimean waw always to be found in the same corner of the Cafe de Provence, at the end of the Rub St. Honore, coming down about 9 in the evening and going when he could find no one to talk with. It took some self- restraint to listen to the old diplomatist, for Nis storles were beyond all bellef, and yet he was quick at detecting the shadow of a smile or the slightest little raising of the eyebrows, Then his huge, rounded back wauld straighten itself, his bulldog chin| would project, and his rs' would burr like a kettledrum. When he got as far as “Ah, monsieur r-r-r-rit!” or “Vous ne me cr-r-r-royez pas donc it was quite time to remember that you had a ticket for the opera There was his story of Talleyrand and | the five oyster shells, and there was his utterly absurd account of Napoleon's se ond visit to Ajaccio. Then there was llml‘ most circumstantial romance which be never ventured upon until his second bottle had been uncorked) of the emperor's escape from 8t. Helena— how he lived for a wholo year in Philadelphia, while Count Herbert de Bertrand, who was his living image, per- sonated him at Longwood. But of all his stcries there was none which was more notorlous than that of tho Koran and the foreign office messenger. And yet when Monsleur Otto's memoirs were written it was found that there really was some foundation for old Lacour's incredible statement. “You must know, monsieur,”” he would say, “that I loft Egypt after Kieber's as- sassination. 1 would gladly have stayed on, for I was engaged in a_translation of the koran, and between ouiselves I had thoughts of embracing Mohammedanism, for I was deeply struck by the wisdom of their views about marringe. They had made an in- credible mistake, however, upon the subjsoct of wine, and this was what the mufti who attempted to convert me could never get over. Then when old Kileber died and Menou came to the top, I felt that it was time for me to KO, It is not for me to speak of my own capacities, monsfeur, but you will readily un- derstand’ that the man _does not cars to be ridden by the mule. 1 carried my koran and my papers to London, where Monsfeur Otto had been sent by the first consul to arrange a treaty of peace, for both nations were very weary of the war, which had already lasted ten years. Here I was most useful to Monsieur Otto on account of my knowledge of the English tongue, and algo, it I may say so, on account of natural capacity. They were happy days during which I lived in the square of Blooms- bury. The cHmate of monsieur's country is, it must be confessed, detestable. But then, ‘what would you have? Flowers grow best in the rain. One has but to point to monsieur’s fellow countrywomen to prove it. ‘Well, Monsicur Otto, our ambassador was kept terribly busy over that treaty, and all of his staff were working to death. We had not Pitt to deal with, which was per- haps as well for us. He was a terrible man, that Pitt, and wherever half a dozen enemies of France were plotting together, there was his sharp-pointed nose right in the middle of them. The nation, however, had been thoughtful enough to put him out of office, and we had to do with Monsieur Addington. But Milord Hawkesbury was the foreign minister, and it was with him that we were obliged to do our bargaining. *You can understand that it was no child’s play. After ten years of war each nation Had got hold of a great deal which had bé- longed to the other, or to the other's allies. What was to be given back? And what was o be kept? Is this Island worth that peninsula? If we do this ac Venice will you do that at Sierra Leone? If we give up Egypt to the sultan;, will you restore the Cape of Hops, which you have taken from our s, the Dutch? So we wrangled and “'Whestled; ‘and I have seen Monsieur Otto come back to the embassay so exhausted that his secretary and 1 had to help him from his carrlage to his sofa. But at last things adjusted themselves, and the night came round when the treaty was to be finally signed. “Now, you must know that the one great card which we held, and whieh we played, played, played at _every point of the game was that we had Egypt. The English were very norvous about our being there, It gavo us a foot on each end of the Mediterra- nean, you gee. And they were not sure that that wonderful little Napoleon of ours might not make it the base of an advance against India. So whenever Lord Hawkesbury pro- posed to retain anything, we had only to re- ply, “In that case, of course, we cannot consent to evacuate Egypl, and in this way we quickly brought him to reason. It was by the help of Egypt that we gained terms which were remarkably favorable, and especially that we caused the English to consent to give up the Cape of Good Hope; we did not wish your peo- ple, monsieur, to have any foothold in South ag war, he “YOU FOLLOW ME." Africa, for history has taught us that the British foothold of one-half century is the Hritish empire of the next. It is not your army or your navy agalnst which we have to guard, but it is your terrible younger sén and your man in search of a career. When we French have a possession across tho seas, we like to sit in Paris and to féllcitate ourselves upon it. You take your Wives and your children, and you run away to see what kind of a place this may be, and after that we might as well try to take that old square of Bloomsbury away from u. ““Well, it was upon the 1st of October that the treaty was finally to be signed. 1In the morning 1 was congratulating Monsieur QOtto upon the happy conclusion of his labors, Ho was a little pale shrimp of a man, very quick and nervous, and he was so delighted nbw at his own success that he could not sit still, but ran about the room chattering d laughing, while I sat on a cushion in the corner, I had learned to do fn the east. Suddenly, in came a messenger with n letter which had been forwarded from Parts. Monsieur Otto cast his eyes upon “% and then, without a word, his knees gave way, and he fell senseless upon the floor. £ T¥an to him, as did the courler, and be- ween us we carried him to a sofa. He might have been dead from his appearance, oot 1 could feel bia heart thrilling beneath my palm. What 1s this, then? I asked, * ‘T do not know,’ answered the messenger. “Monsieur Talleyrand told me to hurry as jsDever man burried before. and to put this o letter into the hands of Monsicur Otto. 1 .was in Parts at midday yesterday.' “I know that I am to blame, but T could net helping glancing at the letter, pieking it out of the seuseless hand of Monsieur Oito (8 “God! the thunderbolt that it was! T did t faint, but I sat down beside wy chlef and " into tears. It was but a few words, 4. but they fold us that Egypt had been evacu- #ted by our troops a month before. All our Apeaty was undone then, and the oae con- | was my | by the Author.) | sideration which had induced our enemles to give us good terms had vanished. In twelve hours it would not have mattered. But now | the treaty was not-yet signed. We should | have to give up the capo, We should have to let have Maltd. Now that Egypt had nothing to offer in ex change. But we were not so easily beaten, we | Frenchmen. You English misjudge us when | you think that because we show emotions | which you conceal, that we are therefore | of weak and womanly nature. You canmot read your histories | 1d belleve that Monsieur Otto | recovered his senses presently, and we took counsel what we should do. ‘It is useless to go on, A he. “This Englishman wiil when 1 ask him to sign.’ “‘Courage!” 1 eried, thought coming into my know that the English this? Perhaps they may before they know of it.’ he cried, phonse,’ laugh at said | me and then a sudden head, ‘How do we will have news of sign the treaty ‘you have saved me! MY GOD, messenger, not mueh bigger than Monsieur Otto, and I—momn ur seen my hands now, and imagine what they were like when I was 27 years of age. “Well, now that I had him in my coach, the question was what I should do with him. I did not wish to hurt him if I could help it. “‘This Is a pressing business,’ sald he. I have a dispatch which I must deliver in- | stantly.* “Our coach had street. ut now, In struction, it turned again “Hullo ‘*What 7" 1 asked, “‘We are driving back. Hawkesbury ?* ‘We shall see him presently.’ Let me out!" he shouted. ‘There's some trickery in this. Coachman, stop the eoach! Let me out, 1 say ‘I dasheG him back into his seat as he tried to turn the handle of the door He roared for help. 1 clapped my palm across his mouth. He made his teeth meet through the side of It 1 seized his own cravat and bound it over his lips. He still mumbled and gurgled, but the noise was covere by the rattle of our wheeis. We were passing the minister's house and there was no candle in the window. “The messenger sat quiet for a little, and 1 could see the glint of his eyes as he stared at me through the gloom. He was partly stunned, I think, by the force with which I had hurled Eim into his seat. And also he was pondering perhaps what he should do down with my to go rattled accordance and began ‘What's th Where is Lord THE THUNDERBOLT!" news has come from Toulon to Parls, and | thence straight to London. Theirs will-come by sea through the Straits of Gibraltar. At | | this moment it is unlikely that any one in | Paris knows of It, save only Talleyrand and the first consul. If we keep our secret, we may still get our treaty signed.’ Ab, monsieur, you can imagine the horri- | ble uncertainty in which we spent the day. | Never, never shall 1 forget those slow hours during which we sat together, starting at every distant shout, lest it should be the first sign of the rejoicing which this news would cause in London. Monsieur 'Otto passed from youth to age in a day. As for me, I find it easier to go out and meet danger than to wait for It. I set forth, therefore, towards evening. I wandered here, and wan- dered there. I was in the fencing rooms of Monsfeur Angelo, and in the salon-de-boxe of Monsieur Jackson. and in the club of Brooks, and in the lobby of the Chamber of Deputies, but nowhere did I hear any new: Still, it was possible that Milord Hawkss- bury had received it himself just as we had. He lived In Harley street, and there it was that the treaty was to be finally signed that night at 8. I entreated Monsieur Otto to drink two glasses of Burgundy before he went, for I feared lest his haggard face and trembling hands should rouse suspicion in the English minister. “Well, we went around together in one of the embassy's carriage, about 7:30. Monsieur Otto went in alone, but presently, on excuse of getting his portfolio, he came out again, with his cheeks flushed with joy, to tell me that all was well. ** ‘He knows nothing,’ he whispered. it the next half hour were over!' “‘Give me a sign when It is settled, said I “‘For what reason?’ ‘Because until then no messenger shall Interrupt you. I give ‘you my promise, I, Alphonso Lacour.’ “He clasped my hand in both of his. ‘I shall make an excuse to move one of the can- dles on to the table in the window,’ said he, and he hurried into the house, whilst I was left waiting beside the carriage. “Well, if we could but secure from interruption for a single half-hour the day would be our own. I had hardly begun to form my plans when I saw the lights of a carriage coming swiftly from the direction of Oxford street. Ah, if It should be the messenger! What could I do? I was pre- pared to kill him—yes, even to kill him, rather than at this last moment allow our work to be undone. Thousands die to make a glorfous war. Why should not one die to make a glorious peace? What though they hurried me to the scaffold? I should have sacrificed myself for my country. I had a littlo curved Turkish knife strapped to my waist. My hand was on the hilt of it when the carriage, which had alarmed mo so, rattled safely past me. “But another might come. I must be prepared. Above all, I must not compromise the embassy. I ordered our carriage to move on, and I engaged what you call & hackney coach. Then I spoke to the driver and gave him a guinea. He understood that it was a special service. ‘You shall have another guinea do what you are told,’ said I. “All right, master,’ sald he, turning his slow eyes upon me without a trace of excite- ment or curlosity. “It T enter your coach With another gen- tleman, you will drive up and down Harley street and take no orders from any one but me. When I get out, you will carry the otfidr gentleman to Watier's club in Bruton street.’ ‘Al right, master,’ said he again. “So I stood outside Milord Hawkesbury" house, and you ean think how often my eyes went up to” that window In hope of secing the candlo twinkle in it. Five minutes passed, and another five. Oh, how slowly they crept along. It was a true October night, raw and cold, with a white fog crawl- ing over the wet, shining cobblestones, and blurring the dim oil lamps. 1 could not see fifty paces in either direction, but my ears were straining, straining to catch the rattle of hoofs or the rumble of wheels. It it not a cheering place, monsieur, that street of Harley, even wpon a sunny day. The houses are solid and very respectable over yonder, but there is nothing of the feminine about them. It is & city to be inhabited by males. But on that raw night, amld the damp and the fog, with the anxlety gnawing at my heart, it seemed the saddest, weariest spot in the whole wide world. I paced up and | down, slapping my hands to keep them warm and still straining my ears. And then sud- denly out of the dull hum of the traffic down In Oxford street I heard a sound detach itself, and grow louder and louder, and clearer and clearer with every instant, until two yellow lights came flashing through the the fog, and a light cabrlolot whirled up to the door of the foreign minister. It had not stopped before a young fellow sprang out of it and hurrled to the steps, while the driver turned his horse and rattlel off into the fog once mor “AD, it is in the moment of action that Tam best, monsieur. You, who only see me when I am drinkiug my wine in the Cafe de Proveuce, cannot conceive the heights to which I rise. At that moment, when I Know that the fruits of a ten years' war wero | at stake, I was magnificent. It was the last French campalgn, and I the general and army n one *8ir,' sald I, touching him upon the arm, | ‘are you the enger for Lord Hawkes. bury * & “*Yes,' said be. ““I have been waiting for you half an hour,' said L ‘You are to follow me at once. He is with the French ambassador.’ I #poke with such assurance that he never hesitated for an instant. When the hackney coach, and I followed him In, my heart gave such s thrill of joy that | | could bardly keep from shouting aloud. He ‘Ah, ourselves it you | he entered | next. Presently he got his mouth partly free from the cravat. You can have my watch and my purse it you will let me go,’ said he. *“ ‘Sir,’ said I, ‘I am as honorable a man as you are yourself.’ “*Who are you, then?' My name is of no importance.’ “ ‘What do you want with me?" It is a bet.” “‘A bet? What do you mean? Do you understand that I am on the government service, and that you wiil see the inside of a jail for this? “‘That is the bet said 1. ' ‘You may find it poor sport before you finish,’ he cried. *What is this insane bet of yours, then?' ‘I have bet,” I answered, ‘that T will re- cite a chapter of the koran to the first gen- tleman whom I should meet in the street.’ I do not know what made me think of it, save that my translation was always run- ning in my head. He clutched at the door bandle, and again I had to hurl him back into his eat. How long will it take?" he gasped. It depends on the chapter,’ I answered. ‘A short one, then, and let me go." But is it fair? argued I ‘When I say a chapter I do not mean the shortest chap- ter, but rather one which should be of av- erage length.’ Help! help! help!' he squealed, and I was compelled again to adjust his cravat. “ ‘A little patience,’ said I, ‘and It will soon be over. I should like to recite the chapter which would be of most interest to yourself. You will confess that I am trying to make things as pleasant as I can for you?' That is the sport,’ He slipped his mou *‘Quick, then, quick free again. he groaned. he chapter of the camel? I suggested. Yes, yes.' “‘Or that of the fleet stallion?" Yes, yes. Only proceed! “We had passed the window and there was no candle. 1 settled down to recite the chapter of the stallion to him, Perhaps you do not know very well, monsieur? Well, I knew it by heart then, as I know it by heart now. The style is a little cxasperating for any one who is in a hurry. But then what would you have? The people In the east are never in a hurry, and it was written for them. I repeated it with all the dignity and solemnity which a sacred book demands, and the young Enlishman he wriggled and groaned. ““When the horses, feet and placing the foot. upon the ground, were mustered in front of him In the evening, he said ‘I have loved the love of earthly good above the remembrance of things on high, and have spent the time in viewing these horses. Bring the horses back to me' And when they were brought back he began to cut oft their legs and-— “It was at this moment that the young Englishman sprang at me. My God! how little can I remember of the next few min- utes! He was a boxer, this shred of a man. He had been trained to strike. I tried to catch him by the hands. Pac, pac, he came upon my nose and upon my eye. I put down my head and thrust at him with it. Pac, he came from below. But ah, I was too much for him. I hurled myself upon him, and he had no place where he could escape from my weight. He fell flat upon the cushions, and 1 seated myself upon him with such convie- tlon that the wind flew from him as from a burst bellows. Then I searched to see what there was with which I could tie him. I drew the strings from my shoes, and with one I ee- cured his wris and with another his ankles, Then I tied the cravat round his mouth again, so that he could only lie and glare at me.” When I had done all this and had stopped the bleeding of my own nose looked out of the coach, and ah, monsieur, the very first thing which caught my eyes was that candle, that dear little candle, glimmering In the window of the minister. Alone, with these two hands, I had retrieved the capitulation of an army and the loss of & province, Yes, monsieur, what . Aber- crombie and 5,000 men had done upon the beach at Aboukir was undéne by me, single handed, In a hackney coach in Harley street. “Well, T had no time to lose, for at any moment’ Monsleur Otto might be down. 1 shouted to my driver, gave him his second guinea, and allowed him to proceed to Wat- ier's. For myself, I sprang into our em- bassy carriage, and a moment later the door of the minister opened. He had himselt escorted Monsleur Otto down stairs, and now 80 deep was he In talk that he walked out bareheaded as far as the carriage. As he stood there by the open door there came the rattle of wheels, and a man rushed down the pavement. ““‘A dispatch of great importance for Mi- lord Hawkesbury!’ he oreid. “I could see that It was not my messenger, but a second one, Milord Hawkesbury caught the paper from his hand and read it by the light of the carriage lamp. His face, mon- eur, was as white as this plate before he had finished. ‘Monsieur Otto,’ he cried, ‘we have signed th's treaty upon a false understand- ing. Egypt is In our hands.’ ‘What? eried Monsieur Otto. ble!" ‘It is certain, last month.’ ‘In that case,’ sald Monsieur Otto, ‘it is very fortunate that the treaty is signed.’ * ‘Very fortunate for you, sir,’ eried Mi- lord Hawkesbury, and he turned ‘back to the house Next day, monsieur, what they call the Bow strect runners were after me, but they could not run across salt water, and Alphonso Lacour was recelving the congratulations of Monsieur Talleyrand and the first consul your koran standing on three tip of their fourth “Impossi- It fell to Abercromble before his pursuers had got as far as Deyer.” Harley | up | THE NEHWRMT TELESCOPE | A Mammoth Ten;Foot Refleotor Foouses the Attdution of Astronomers, CIANT OF PLANET GAZ'RS of the New Instrament Which Sir to Construct —Aecuruey Secured by Suspen- ":l;m in Water. | veature ward Grabh Propose Tiht, MeClure.) LONDON, Nov. 1.—The next great tele- scope which focuses the attention of con temporary astronomers and excites the won der of the public in general will be a glant among its kind. It is now being widely dis- | cussed here as the great ten-foot reflector, | and will have a diameter of ten feet, a leugth of elghty feet and weigh somewhere | between fifty and 100 tons, most probably the latter. Among all the big tubes now poin| at the heavens it will consequently stand very much in the position of the first 100- ton gun as compared with the smaller bores which preceded it, and its most interesting scientific aspect will be the departure which it represents from existing methods of con- struction, as well as the influence it will have upon the plans for the great telescopes of the future and the new knowledge of the universe which will coms to us through them. When the family of Sir William Herschel held tea parties and memorial services in the big four-foot tube, then disused, which had been the source of all his wonderful discoverles, they doubtless thought that the limit of size in telescopes had therein been reached, but ‘from the discussion now in Progress it appears that our telescopes may ultimately reach the size of raliway tunnels and bring a closeness of observation to bear upon Mars, for instance, which the supposed inhabitants of that interesting planet may very possibly regard as impertinent. With Sir Howard Grubb's great tube to point at them, and Mr. Preece's idea of ultimately telephoning them without wires, the chances of our holding fraternal converse with the Martians seems to be taking at least a tangible form REFRACTORS AND REFLECTORS. The idea of a ten-foot reflecting telescope was first broached by the French, who have announced it as one of the marvels of the coming exposition of 1900. This announcement attracted wide attention, because the Frerch have been devoting much labor of late to the perfection of the reflec and from the standpoint of photography, which is the all important sphere of coming astronomical work, the reflector has a future before it which its incomplete development has hitherto tended to greatly limit. The difference between a refracting and a reflect- ing telescope s wide, and for many years refractors have enjoyed the unquestioned pref- erence of observers, and have consequently been the source of most of the advances made in_astronomical knowledge. A re- fractor, like the hick or the Yerkes, for example, has a large object glass at the outer end of the tube which refracts or bends all the rays of light from a heavenly body which fall upon it, so as to concentrate or focus them at the other end of the tube where the magnifying lens or eye picce is fixed and gazed through by the observer. The reflector, on the contrary, has no glass at the outer end, but a mirror of the most perfect eon- struction at the bottom, this mirror being of such a concave parabolic shape that it reflects all the-dight back to the tubs, and directly or indirectly focuses it at the eye Dleco as before, the observer guzing at the reflected image through the side of the tube. Both the refractor and reflector have their special disadvantages, the difficulty in the former being what is called the chromatic aberration, ~ which means the dif- culty if 'not impossibllity of bringing all the different rays of light to a common focus, and the great probiem In refractor construction s by improvement of the glass used, to do away with this aberration. TO BE SUSPENDED IN WATER. There is another difficulty, however, which, with recent improvements in the reflector, | has created a new and great opportunity for 184, b | out any weight whatever on the be; tor of Lord Rosse was bullt nearly fifty ro ago, but its usefulness was always limited by the lack of an equatorial mount- Ing. It was hung on chains between two walls and consequently covered only a field ot 10 degrees on each side of the meridian, In 1868 Sir Howard Grubb mounted equator- | lally the four-foot reflector at Melbourne and within five years Dr. Common has | mounted a five-foot instrument of this kind. THE PROJECTED TEN-FOOT REFLECTOR. | During a late visit to London Sir Howard consented to be interviewed and was seen at the Grand hotel. He i¢ a young looking man of middle age, with the quick thought and genlal mauners of an Irish gentleman, and he is very much Interested in the coming glant He s of medium helght and slender build, but his great mental activity and rapid speech took his Interviewer over more telescopie ground in sixty minutes than he had ever expected to traverse in a lifetime. Sir How- ard being asked as to the present status of the ten-foot reflector, said: “I have been asked for and have prepared estimates and a model of th: instrument. There are three different profects under dis sion, but with these I am not concerned. 1 shall merely make and mount the instrument, if desired. It will have a double steel tube eighty feet in length. The thickness of the steel will be | three-eighths of an inch, and the two steel shells will be separated by a space of three inches. The object of this is to equalize the temperature and avoid the mixture and conse- quent movement of the air at the mouth of the tube. This movement would arise from | the difference of temperature between the alr Inside and that outside, and would cause a consequent movement in the rays of light. | To escape this 1 use a pump to suck out the air from the cavity between the shells, whic h | is closed at the top and open at the bottom inside the tube. I thus obtain a steady, slow | current of air passing down the tube and avold the Injurious irregular mixture. ““The instrument complete will weigh per- haps as much as 100 tons, though no weight will fall on the bearings. It would probably | be & mechanical impossibility to drive an in- | strument of this weight by clockwork, if it were mounted In the ordinary way, with| the absolute steadiness, smoothness and ac- | curacy necessary for observing and, above all, for photographic purposes. The only getting rld of the welght Is the Ingenious | method of flotation, first suggested by Dr. Common, a principle which T have somewhat developed in the present instance. The steel tube carrying the reflector at the bottom will float in a reservoir 100 feet in diameter, and fifty or sixty feet deep. The tube will be water-tight, of course, “To appreciate the practicability of this hod you have only to take a hollow tube, er-tight at one end, which expands in the form of a sphere about the middle of its upper half. By carefully constructing it you can float it at almost any angle of inclination, awd it will remain in perfect equilibrium dlown to a certain very small angle. The welght of the tube, of course, equals the welght of the water which it displaces. The greatest angle over which it will remain in perfect equilibrium depends upon the form of the tube, but with the proportion sketched the tube will be depressable in per- fect equilibrium to within twenty-five degrees of the horizon. If it is desired to depress it lower than this I shall provide an arrange- ment of chains and counterpoises to that end.” ELECTRIC TO SHIFT THE TELESCOPE “How much power will be required for its movement?"* “The power will horse power gas engine will be used to charge storage cells in the day time, the current from which will be ample to drive the requisite electric motors at night. The forco will be independent of the weight of the telesco e, and depend only on the fric- tion necessary to be overcome in moving It through the water. The water currents will not affect the steadiness, as they will sub- side in a few moments. With a pair of trunnions attached to the tube at the water line and these carried on a polar axis, we have an equatorially mounted telescope with- rings of the declination axis. More than this, the tube may be lightened by an amount nearly cqual to the weight of the polar axis, and there will then be practically no weight upon the bearings of that axis. There will be this disadvantage, that it will not be convenient to use the instrument within 15 degrees of the pole. I could plan it to work closer to the pole than this, but I prefer to have the instrument do perfectly nine-tenths of all the work that will be required of it rather be very small. A one- GREAT TWENTY-SEVE] INCH REFRACTOR, ROY. i /) 2 L OBSERVATORY AT VIENN. the latter. This is the demand of astronomical photography for instruments of larger and larger optical power and size. Great tele scopes used for photography require an exac ness of adjustment and clock work motion, to counteract the motion of the earth and keep them fixed in exactly the same relative position to the object being photographed, which Is almost impossible to obtain with the great (um-w augmented “weight desired: The t reflectors of the future, however, - will me- watef. This strange and principle, due to the invention of Dr. Common, is impossible in the case of re- fractors, because the observer would neces- sarlly be at the bottom of the water, but with reflectors it shows every promise availability and enduring success. Conse- quently all the great reflectors of the future will probably be tank telescopes, and this departure is perhaps the greatest novelty in telescopic mounting that has yet appeared. SIR HOWVARD GRUBB. Str Howard bi a telescope maker occuples the hiwhks§ rank. His whole life has been devoted:do ¥he study of telescopes and their mounting, and his works at Dublin have bulit among others the great Vienna telescope, the great Melbourne reflector and many others of less note, including & new twenty-eight inch refractor for Greenwich observatory, which he has just completed, and a twenty-six inch photographic instru- ment for the same observatory which he has in hand. He is also engaged in refitting the Edinburg observatory, and as a maker | and an authority on telescopes is the first in Europe. He was the inventor of many of the devices used in mounting the Lick and Yerkes, and his adoption and indorsement | of the flotation prinoiple are consequently full - evidence of Its practicability. His | analysis of the advantages of and objections to this method, in a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, show pretty clearly, more- over, that the ten-foot monster, i'nll"ll!l‘i, and designs for Which hie has been requested to make from three different sources, will in floated in wve, no weight at all, chanically lpr:!;n because they will be | novel | now | of | | does not | foet the course of time be leading the way in than strain it into doing 6 degrees more of work that would only be of use on rare occasions."” “What kind of a reflector will it be?" THE KIND OF REFLECTOR “I ha designed it on the Newtonian plan In all reflectors the light passes down the tube to a concave mirror, which reflects it and would bring it to a focus in the tube at a distance depending upon the sha of the mirror. Before coming to a focu however, the light is ceived on a small mirror and again reflected to an eye piece | located in a convenient position for observa tlon. 1In the Gregorian form this small mir ror I8 concave, and the light is reflected from it down the tube through a hole in the center of the large mirror. The eye piece is placed 1n this hole, and the observer looks | up the tube in a manner precisely similar to that necessary with an ordinary reflcctor. In the Cassegrain form the small reflector is | convex, but is placed inside the focus and | the light -is mlso shown through the center | of the large mirror and the direction of ob- servation Is exactly the same. It is obvious that neither of these forms would do for the floating telescope. The other form is that known as the Newtonian, in which the 1ight from the large mirror Is received on a small flat mirror placed in the upper cod of the tube and inclined at an angle of 45 degrees The image of the object looked at is thus | formed at the side of the tube, through a | hole In which it is observed. This form has the lower end of the tube completely closed, | and is specially suitable for the metbod of | | flotation which I propose.” But is not the flat drawback?"" “Ohb, mo. mirror in the tube a | It cuts off a little light, but | interfere with the definition in any way. It would have a diameter of one | foot at the outside, and in a tube of the lfght thus cut off, from & glven heavenly body, would be no practical importance.’ “What will be the size of the large mir- | ror?” of A TEN-POOT ten feet in MIRROR. “About dlameter. 1f, as 1| have the Jurlous dyes, ten | n | cation possible It Sen I can procure one of that size, it will chemical solution’ deposited not the back, of the glass. It is extremely thin, boing estimated at one two hundred thousandths of an inch in thickness, but it makes the best reflecting mirror for this purpose. It s deposited on glass of the highest polish. It a silver on glass muir Tor is not available, there should be no eat dificulty in making one of speculum metal. | may say that the mounting of this reflecting mirror has been a source of much difficulty in the making of instruments | of this kind, and but for recent improvo- | ments I should have hesitated to recommend Its construction for photographic purposes. Within the last month, however, Dr. John stono Stoney has devised a most ingenious | arrangement for supporting telescopic mirrors | upon an alr support, graduating the prossure according to the angle of inclination of the | telescope by an automatic - contrivance. | This apparatus in its present form is a| valuable step In advance, and is doubtless susceptible of improvement. In my opinfon, | it has already solved one of the most trouble- | some problems in the endeavor to obtain | ®ood reflecting telescope, and 1 shall | e it or a modification of it in the ten foot instrument." ““What will be the cost of such a mirror?" “About £10,000." “How large Is the material for be of silver on upon the face, the spherical part of the FOR THR OBSERVER tube’s diameter, or twenty Its position in the tube will be such, | see in the model, that the project of the tube above water will b in length, and the holes for the | as in the model, wil be at the | five feest above the sphere. As to fence In getilng at the eye end, need be no difficnty whatever in this form. As the eye-piece is only about fif- | teen feet from the center of motion, the | movement of the observer is mnever more than three feet per hour. By means of a platform, such as that shown in the figure, running on ralls, and quite independent of | the instrument, the eye end is readily ae- | ible at all times > overcome the | rotation of the tube as the instrument moves | in right ascension, I would pierce the tube every thirty degress round its circumference, and mount the flat mirror and cell in a collar 50 as to enable it to be readily rotated through intervals of 30 de. grees. By these means the image of the celestial object to be obgerved could be sent through either or any of the perfora- tions of the tube, and the observer always in the direction most convenient to himseld."” “How will it be set?’ “The obscrver will simply set a pair of pointers at the eye end to the particular readings he wishes, and then press a but- ton. " The instrument will then set itself exactly In the position he requires, the motors continuing to revolve the telescope on Ifs axis till that position is attained. Then they stop." “How long will it take to complete it?" “I should expect to finish it within four years from the date of commencing.” “What is your estimation of Its total cost?” “About £30,000." “What great advantages do you look from the use of the ten-foot reflector?” WHAT 1S HOPED FOR. Generally speaking, all those advantages which come from increased optical power. During the last ten or fifteen -years we have advanced some fifteen inches in the size of our refractors, that of the Yerkes being now forty inches. 1In the next ten or fifteen years we may advance propor- tionately, and probably eventually attain a re- factor of sixty inches. All those who use large telescopes know only too well that the larger the aperture the fewer are the oppor- tunities on which it can be used with ad vantage, and the question has often been dis- cussed as to whetler the useful limit of aperture has not already been reached except where the Instrument can be mounted in such favored localities as Arequipa, for in- stance. The conditions of life at these lated stations are not of the happiest, how- ever, and though observers, in the cause of science, may pui up with the dificulties tem- porarily, they will not do so permanently, and the conditions so far interfere with the steadi- ness of the work that relays of workers have already been found necessary in some cases, which plan is open to objections, It appears, however, that the mew photographic system is independent to a great extent of at- mospheric disturbance. Consequently we can use and use with efficlency large instruments conveniently within the confines of civil tion, a great gain in itself. “Moreover, we shall be able to use with advantage, and in these accessible positions, instruments of a far greater power than have hitherto been built, and Instruments whose value was very doubtful so long as the old system of eye observations was the only one avallable. Photography, in other words has created a demand for larger and large telescopes, Whenever we double the di ter of the aperture get four times the light. In photography this {8 of maximum importance, because by doubling the diameter we can obtain a result, say in one hour, which previously required four. A twelve-hour ex- posure, other things being equal, should give us as good a photograph as forty-elght hours exposure with an instrument of half the size. Now. we can certainly obtain these large fnstruments in the form of reflectors, while it is doubtful if we shall be able to in the form of refractors. VARIABLE POWER OF TELESCOPES. “The power of a telescope varies as fts aperture. It must be clearly understood that this fe different from its magnifying power. Most of the work now done with large refractors is done with magnifylng powers, which are equally unable with in- struments of less size. Jupiter or Saturn viewed with a magnifying power of 300 and a twenty-eight inch aperture are very differ- ent objects from Jupiter and Saturn viewed with the same magnifying power and an eight or ten-inch aperture. The definition, the detail, the delicacy and the perfection of the image are far greater from the large aperture than from the small, and these valuable and desirable qualities will increase, other thing sbeing equal, as the size of the aperture of the light-grasping power in creases. The difference between the twenty- eight inch and ten-inch images, with the same magnifying power of 300 would be the same as that between a drawing with a finely pointed lead pencil and that made | with a crayon or a stump; between a steel engraving and a mezzo-tnt, %0 to speak The point at issue is simple. The time has gone by when any great or startiing dis- covery Is to be looked for through the tole scope. The chief work of the future, the study of the nebulae, the watching of the heavenly bodies, the record of thelr appear- ance year by year, and, in fact, all the great problems which astronomy has before it for | solution, will largely be undertaken by great | photographic telescopes. “Great reflecting mirrors we can easily get. Lord Rosse's reflector of seventy-two inches is now over fifty years old. If it were equatorially mounted 1t would now do splendid work. If we can mount these monster reflectors as perfectly as the present largest refractors, and personally I do not doubt that we shall be able to do this, we have a certainty of the large telescopes which need. 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