The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1897, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1897. Titanic Celest ial Explosion That Has Made a“Spot” on the Sun. HE appearance on the of a sToup of black spots so large that | no telescope is required to show | them is a thing of comparatively rare occurre at this time, whe cycle known as the consequently, the of the solar | orb shows few ev es of violent @i the midst dous upheay: the face of the s by marks that are eye ninety- Sud of | oup of sun-spots has of about 100,000 rge enough to swallow like our 1g to look ur explosion that would not plit 2 mountain, not only lowed the Alps, not simply | D the Pacific Ocean in a | not have stopped with | have swa licked \shattering Europe, which had power 1d to the to turn the chaos nybody who t black center in 1p of sun spots saw how big | > earth would appear at the distance Into that fearful chasm our 1d have been dropped without enough wh its blazing wal Out of it ould have come, so far as the ques- concerned, another earth bounding into sudden e like Minerva born from the ) ad of Jove. And this leads me to a question that been add to me for a reply. s a new world actually ejected from | un when that spot was and that new-born planet now ca ng in space and rushing rthward, perhaps, bearing direful te upon its spinning front. The idea that such a thing has occurred, or ould occur, no doubt based upon a theory put forth last summer by Pro- fessor Corrigan to the effect that the phenomena of sun spots indicated thatl the sun ws to give birth to a d that the disturbances the formed, is such planetary birth | have a alsastrous ef- | fect upon the earth. That theory has | since been erroneously ascribed to me. fact I do not believe in | I think that the sun long ago years ago—passed the aring period of its existence, | that even when it was capable of | h to planets it did not do so t we know about lead us to think of them—and belong to the first | able to cast forth | matter to form which is ordinar- word. The sudden the sun (supposing sible) of a body as | arth would probably globe of the sun, | ccompanied by | thermal d electrical disturbances | that would trav the ether with lizhtning speed and produce more or 1 ious consequences on our plan- no such separation or sun sp that even hc the larg ejection occ d when the sun spots now visible were formed On the other hand it is true that the formation of great sun spots is fre- quently, perhaps always, accompanied by explosive action of the most violent character, and masses of the material of which the sun is composed are| hurled away from it with velocities 1es sufficient to fr such s from the sun’s immediate con- trol, somewhat as a discharged pro- jectile is freed from the cannon out of se mouth it has issued. And it is not imprcbab! ses are 1etimes as s > as, or even larger n, the eartt But the material of hich they instead being solid, like rock or metal, is gaseous. It comprises, no doubt, such things as iron and other metals, but they are so heated, and consequently expanded, that they float like clouds around the sun. We must remember that in the sun no solid that we know could re- main in the solid state. There every- thing is in the form of blazing vapors. A volcano liquefi rock, but the sun vaporizes it. Co; quently, while it is possible that ‘a mass of matter has been ejected from the sun within the past week which equalled the earth in si vet that mass must have been in a g vaporous condition it would E 1sist, of or not weigh a millionth part of the weight of the earth, and, as it cooled, it would rapidly contract until, d of al thing as big as a world, it would be- | come simply a meteor. That a meteq or a giant’s handful of meteors, may just have been shot from the sun, can be granted without doing violence to scientific probability. And it is also within the range of possibility that that ‘ meteor, or some of thc meteors reach the earth. GARRETT P. SERVISS. + | Photc | face where “What causes sun spots? “That is a difficult question. tific men differ about it. Scien- Some claim that a sun spot is caused by a violent | outrush from the interior of the sun of enormous quantities of gaseous mat- | ter, magn sing a rent of greater or les de in the solar surface, or phere, as it is called, and which, wed by us, is darker than the of the sun’s surface from the fact | that we are looking at it through the cooler and less luminous gases which have been projected in our line of sight. This theory practically implies that the sun spot and what are inac- curately called ‘prominences’ — or those outrushes of gas—are the same. “On this theory, when we look at a sun spot located near the center of the | sun’s disk, we are looking down at it in the same sense as if we were in a balloon and looking down on the earth. The explosion is directed toward us, and we view it from the same direc tion as though we were in a balloon at, safe distance above Mount looking at it while in a of eruption. The ejected material in such ¢ coming toward us, but as in the one case we would see not the flz s and molten matter ejected by the volcano, but the clouds which over- hang them, so in the other we see the cooler gases which are being projected toward us and which have cooled and become less luminous tate by reason of their contact with the less heated space surrounding the sun. Through th cooler and less luminous gases we are abled to see the edges and darker center of the rent in the solar surface caused by the explosion of the materi: beneath. “These eruptions are sometimes of prodigious magnitude. Some of them have been approximately measured, and it has been found that on occa- sions gase 1atter has been expelled to a distance of 300,000 miles from the sun’s surface. Such distances and forces are almost inconceivable, but if ] 1 Professor Schaeberle. | William M. such when they are at the edge of the sun’s disk and then only by means of a spectroscope, or when the sun is in total eclipse. They are frequently quite evanescent, lasting sometimes no longer than a few minutes. On June 7, 1894, Professor Hadden of Iowa ob- served an eruptive prominence of about 70,000 miles in height which subsided in about ten minutes, but which caused a great disturbance in a | group of sun spots in the immediate vicinity. i “On these occasions enormous bodies | | of incandescent gases are seen to rise above the earth’'s surface, assuming | THE “S N response to The Call’s request for l information relating to the sun spots, about which so much has re- ‘ cently been said, attention should, it seems, first be called to the fact that spots similar to and even much larger | than those at present under discussion have been seen to form and to disap- pear ever since the time of the inven- tion of telescopes, and common sense analogy leads us to believe that thi condition of the sun's surface has ex- | isted for thousands of years. Seemingly unusual celestial phenom- ena naturally te minds ea: un- balanced, S a result sensational | theories leading to predictions of dire catastrophes are proclaimed. It need | hardly be said that to such announce- | FEEXX EREXREERER By Professor Serviss. Pierson. and photographs showed them with a perpendicular height of 45,000 miles. “Sunspots haveanaverage life of two or three months. One in 1840-41 lasted eighteen months. Some endure only a | day and others but a few hours. - When the sun’s surface is most disturbed by sun spots there is frequently a mag- netic disturbarce of the earth, which seriously affects telegraph wires and greatly intensifies the aurora borealis. “Sun spots have a period, or cycle. There are occasions when no spots are visible, and other times when there are a great many. These are called mini- mum and maximum periods. POT” 1S STILL A MYSTERY FOR SCIENTI By Professor Schaeberle. ments not the slightest credence or at- tention is given by astronomers. The first visible indication of the present spotted area was photographed at the Lick Observatory on December 5, on which date the disturbed area was first brought into view by the sun’s rotation. It had formed on the farther hemisphere of the sun some time be- | fore this date. December 6 and 7 were cloudy days on Mount Hamilton that no photographs could be taken. On December 8 the whole disturbed rea of nearly 10,000,000,000 square miles was well advanced on the sun’s visible hemisphere. It was last photographed on Decem- ber 19, just as the spots were being carried out of sight by the rotation of the central orb. S0 Rose O’ *% ¥ | in ignorance of the causes which pro- Professor Leuschner. Halloran. grees and 35 degrees the equator. “A large group of sun spots has re- cently appeared, and, through the kindness of Director Schaeberle and Professor Perrine of the Lick Observa- tory, I am enabled to furnish The Call with a photograph of it taken on .the 16th inst. The spots themselves and the disturbances of the solar surface between and immediately about them are large, but not unprecedentedly so. The disturbed region would measure, approximately, about one hundred thousand miles square. In such a space 144 earths arranged in qn each side of XREEXFERERRRLLLERRRERFRERE STS TO SOLVE The accompanying print is a copy of one of a series of solar photographs taken daily at the Lick Observatory by Mr. Paull. It shows the solar surface as it appeared on the morning of De- cember 16, 1897, There are a number of different theories to account for the formation of sun spots, but no one theory is uni- versally accepted by astronomers. We are obliged to confess that we are still duce these observed solar phenomena. Lick Observatory, Dec. 20, 1897. FERERFEERRERRRERRRF OLAR. PROMINENCE S FROM A SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPH. HE NEW SPOT ON THE SUN #ROM A SPECIAL PHOTOGRASH MA LICK OBSERVATORY PHOTOHELIGGH DE DEC. 17T BY THE RAPH. THE GREAT SUN SPOT OF SEi /STRUCTUP;E' OF Some of the = THE PHOTOSPHERE . % ADRAWING BY PROFLANGLEY. T IE70.AND THE, Phenomena That Are Now Occurring on the Sun’s Face. >q BLAZING OCEANS OF FIRE 100,000 MILES IN DIAMETER. i All the Eminent Astrono- mersof theWorld Care- fully Studying It. “In a telescopic study of the surface of the sun, which has now lasted for more than seven years, I have been much impressed by the sharpness of the boundary line between the umbra and penumbra of the spots—a feature that is not satisfactorily explained by any of the theories advanced as to spot formation. No gradual blending of tints is apparent, the outer umbra being generally as dark as the center, and the inner penumbra as light as its outermost border. Though co-opera- tive in the formation of a spot, they evidently differ much as to quali- ty, quantity or temperature. “The views of Young and Secchi that the uprushing vapors of the in- candescent sphere, when cooled, fall down again near the place of eruption, forming a comparatively dark area below the general level of the photo- sphere, do not explain the absence of graduated shadiness; and Lockyer's theory of dark meteoric downpours indenting the glowing surface, and Faye's belief in the vortex effects pro- duced by conflicting currents are like- wise inadequate in this respect. This is but one small problem that has eluded explanation so far. “The more important questions as to the cause of the periodical increase of sun spots, of their persistent avoid- ance of the polar zones, and of the gradual increase of the sun's rotation toward the equatorial zones, have baf- fled eminent physicists for ars. The longer one studies the strange fea- tures of the solar surface the more the conviction grows that though terres- trial physics must be the chief clew to solution, if such be attainable, the heat and pressure within the great lu- minary may create conditions of mat- ter unknown here. “The recent large sun spot was chiefly remarkable as a reaction after months of unusual quiescence that have not been equaled in the past six vears. It was large for this period, so near the minimum of solar disturb- one of our volcanoes possessed propor- tionately the same expulsive power, matter would be propelled from it to a vertical distance of 2500 miles above the earth’s surface—a distance requir- ing a velocity of propulsion which would overcome the gravitative attrac- | tion of the earth—so that thé ejected matter would never return to it. “Indeed, if Professor Schaeberle’s thec of the sun's corona is well founded, and it is meeting confirmation in a great many wa stantly expelling matter to distances from its equatorial regions more than twice its diameter, or nearly 2,000,000 miles, and which matter is as con- stantly drawn back to it by the force of gravity. “Another theory is that the sun spot is a depression in the solar surface, a caving in of the surface, caused by the outrush of internal gaseous matter, not at the spot itself, but in regions imme- diately adjacent to it, leaving the sur- the spot is afterward formed without the support which it would have had if the outrush from the adjacent region had not taken place. th these theories, however, as- sume the expulsion of gaseous matter, and therefore such outrush is in the > the direct and in the other the *t cause of the sun spot, and thus in this sense the ‘prominences’ be said to be the real cause of the sun spot. “These ‘prominences’ or gaseous out- 2 one cas indire bursts can only be seen in detail as | LEGAL FORGIVENESS In a little book in the Governor's of- fice there is a short memorandum | made every day or two which, to an | ordinary observation, would appear but a trifling matter. “Certificate of restoration to citizen- ship issued,” is all this memorandum means to the general public, but to the man who receives it it means a world | of comfort, a pride, a satisfaction to some that is complete. Restoration to citizenship is given by = Governor of the State to discharged e nvicts of the State priso; It is gen- €‘ally issued upon recommendation of t ‘Warden, who has a record of the prisoner’s conduct during his incarce- | ration. | All “first termers” may receive it second termers never can. No one is permitted to see the record closes the identity of thecon- a new suit of clothes, his rail- fare to the’locality of his con- viction and this certificate of resotra- tion, the discharged convict is given €évery incentive in the world to com- | | Folsom Prison who had almost se: mence life anew. To many convicts this paper—like an an the past. There was an old man once in the little piece of gel's tear—blots out his time, when a fatal illness seized him and he knew that death and not the turnkey would open his prison door. . As the end grew near he had but one request, and that was for his restora- tion papers. He had been an exemplary prisoner, | and a constant faithful attendant up- on the Warde family, and as soon 1s the Warden's wife heard of the old man’s request she telegraphed to the Governor and asked if it could be done. The answer came that it could. A messenger rode on horesback forty miles that night, and as morning broke the old convict lay in death, but traces of the only smijle his poor old visage had worn for many a year were ®till lingering, and crumpled in his death grasp was a ‘“Certificate of Res- toration to Citizenship.” the sun is con- | may | the most fantastic forms and indicat- ing the fiercest convulsions of the | solar forces. They are called “promin- | ences,” but such an expression is in- | @ accurate, because they are no more | permanent—and generally much less | | so—than is the eruption of the terres- | trial volcano. “In the eclipse of 1893, observed b Professor Schaeberle at Chile, these prominences were quite conspicuous, “From one maximum about eleven years, var slight ssive periods, but raging that cycle. From a condi- tion of absolute freedom from spots to a maximum the spots increase in num- ber, and frequently in size, and then gradually decrease to the no spot stage. | “A peculiar feature of the sun spots is that they a ar in the equatorial region of the sun and between 10 de- 0 another is ng, however, The French Academy has a custom | deserving of adoption by the universi- | ties of the States. It is the annual | presentation in the form of a lecture by one of the members delegated to perform the task of noteworthy acts | of heroism and true benevolence. These | reviews, the subject-matter of which is drawn mainly from the valiant and charitable deeds of men and women who serve their conscience rather than the vain gods, are accounted of great interest and effect. The author each year searches every nook and corner of France and the rookeries of lower life in the cities for individual texts. The benefits thus modestly conferred upon the nation in the name of humanity; the noble ef- forts of the lowly to succor and relieve their fellows without expectation of | reward other than the delight of obe:; | ing the practical teachings of Christ, are thus clothed in language inspiring [ to those who listen and who read, and | memorialized in the archives of the academy. | To bé appreciated by a gentle word | is cheering to the most unselfish bene- | factor; to be baptized at the fountain- | head of educationandnational thought as of noble achievement cannot but | stir to warmer fire the embers of Christian emulation smoldering in the sternest heart. In the recent lecture on the subject | of the prizes of virtue, Jules Claretie, the jourhalist academician, acquitted | himself with his habitual talent. From among so many figures to which the |'art of this clever essayist has given such a lively relief and warmth of per- | spective, it is difficult to make .any super-eminent selections. Three will suffice, however, to indicate the range of the academic inquiry and approba- tion. The. first is Louis-Andre-Joseph Dela- cour, a Veteran fisherman and the son of a lifelong mariner of Quillebeuf. Delacour is the hero of forty-eight res- cues from death. He is 75 years old,and Ionly recently scored the latest of his a square could easily be accommodated. This is, again, a difficult magnitude to comprehend, but may be illustrated, so far as relative proportion goes, by | supposing an eruption on the earth’s | surface of the entire area of the States | of California and Nevada. This would be to the earth what the disturbed area shown on the photograph is to the sun. WILLIAM M. PIERSON. ACADEMIC PRAISE FOR HUMBLE HEROES perilous plunges into the sea for the | succor of human life. Delacour began | his record of renown at the age of 18 years, when he saved a young woman and the sinking sailor who had gone to her rescue in the ship basin at Havre. He bears on his bosom a con- stellation of medals, to which was added last January the cross of the Legion of Honor. Of another sort of hero is Arnold Rogier, president of the organization avers of the Aisne and ancient or of the artillery hool of La Rogier, 70 y s old, is the re- cipient of four me s of honor from the Government for rescuing drowning unfortunates. But succoring his equals did not suffice to satisfy the broad and intelligent altruism of this generous old man, so he has devoted arduously the t ten years of his life and is still engaged at the work in educating the children, free of charge, of the primary schools in a circuit it keeps him by to covet, in German, history and geography, knowledge of which he deems essential to the up- building of citizenship that will be val- uable to the State. The third exdample chosen from the long list of the virtuous, for the pur- pose of illustration, is Miss Eugenie Bonnefois, who is the founder and teacher of what is described as the “school foraine,” a sort of perambu- lating institution tutored by matron- like goodness and wisdom. Barly in life Miss Bonnefois, who is now far advanced in years, busied her- self with small works of charity among the poor children who are seen in such numbers at the Faubourg fairs—the offspring of poverty and wretchedness. When the Franco-Ger- man war broke out she went to the front, where she remained administer- ing to the dying and wounded soldiers until Paris was taken. In the days of the commune she was no less energetic and self-sacrificing. With her modest competence she maintained herself as a lay sister of charity, always declin- ing compensation and financial re- ward. The life of Miss Bonnefois since then i has been consecrated to the education of the street gamins of Paris and the children of the slums. Six years ago she conceived and put into execution a unique project. This was in brief the construction of a port- able school, which is artfully made to resemble a chalet of brick and wood, | though easily disjointed and moved | from place to place, together with her commodious little house on wheels in which she discreetly dispenses hospi- tality to the little ones she educates by seasons without charge. This curious edifice, with the good soul that pre- sides over it, pays regular visitations to the central points of the fauborgs and quarters in which the poorest and most ignorant classes live. | . At every recurring visit her clientele has so increased, drawn perhaps as much by hunger for the bread and bonbons she bestows as by hunger for knowledge, that she has been compelled to annex a tent for the ac- commodation of the little ones. This excellent woman, who bears the bur- den of her years with a splendid vi- tality and a robust faith in the gooC ness of the work she is accomplish ing, reigns modestly, but like a queen- mother, over the broods of semi-savage urchins who.gather under her benign rule. She mingles with the boys and girls indiscriminately, an unusual pro- ceeding according to the ethics of Eu- ropean education, and devotes as much time to teaching them Christian mo- rality and independence of virtuous spirit. as in inculcating the rudiments of education. Lately Miss Bonnefois has been aided by the active collafo- ration of a young and enthusiastic apostle, Mlle. de Saint-Blaise, whose outline may be dimly seen in the fore- ground of the traveling school a sketch of which is presented herewith. Not the least valuable lessons Miss Bonnefois and her assistant teach are those to be drawn in after life by their scholars from the nobility and virtue of their helpful and disinterested ex- amples. BLANTON PIERCE. ance, butwas farsurpassed by theenor- mous sun spots that appeared Febru- 'y 4, 1892, and also by that of August, 93, and even by several of lesser size that were visible before and since those dates. Among them may be mentioned those of August, 1895, Feb- ruary and September, 1896, and Janu- ary of the present year. “The great spot of February, 1892, extended over an area 150,000 miles in length and 75 miles in width. Its first development appeared in November, 1891, and reappeared by rotation in due time in December, and again in January, 1892. The latter view was especially interesting, as a vortex mo- tion was noticeable while it crossed the disk between January 9 and 20. “Long continued and accurate ob- servations of such detail may eventu- ally aid in solving the source of the problems. The corona is one of the most difficult of sun mysteries, as it can be studied only during the brief moments of total eclipse; but it is to be hoped that some advances will be | made during the eclipse of next month. It is wiser for solar students to recog- nize the fact that the causes of some phenomena are yet unknown, and may remain so, than to be hampered by the supposed advance of a false so- lution.” Y 2 Stloran. HE views of Professor A. O. Leuschner, in charge of the ob- servatory at the State University at Berkeley, are of interest, as he is a man of clear perception, whose name as a careful investigator has long been known in scientific circles. He says: such laws can be applied as are in ex- istence on the earth. The problem of the physical constitution of the sun would be solved as soon as we could explain all phenomena by these laws. The conditions of temperature and pressure on the sun are so different from those on the earth that the laws, may apply to the sun only appro: mately. “A great many solar theories have been advanced. Of the older ones, none has been entirely satisfactory, as has been shown by recent observa- tions. “The mote recent solar theories may be grouped into three distinct classes: Mechanical theories, electrical theories, optical theories. “The most prominent mechanical theory is that of Professor Schaeberle, the well-known astronomer of the Lick Observatory. Professor Schaeberle con- siders that the changes on the sun rep- resent not merely optical phenomena— for example, such as accompany elec- trical discharges—but he produces direct evidence that the sun is con- tinually ejecting enormous quantities of material particles of matter with very great velocity. By ingeniously combining with the eruptive motion of these particles their angular motion, due to the rotation of the sun, he suc- ceeds in explaining every class of solar phenomena. I have no doubt that the more this theory be studied by astron- omers the more supporters it will gain. ‘““Electrical theories have been ad- vanced by a large number of astron- omers in recent years. According to them the sun is situated in a magnetic field extending far beyond the earth. Solar as well as other phenomena, as for example the Aurora Borealis, aré supposed to be due to electrical and magnetic forces. “‘Quite a startling theory is the opti- cal theory of Dr. August Schmidt, Stuttgart, which has recently been fur- ther developed by Dr. Knopf, Jena. Schmidt maintains that, excepting per- haps a central nucleus under great pressure, the sun is merely a ball of gases without any definite surface whatsoever, and that the density of the gases diminishes gradually from the nucleus to outer space. The disk of the sun as we see it in the sky is therefore only an optical illusion, the observed edge of the sun being produced by re- fraction. Improbable as this theory seems in the face of what we actually see in the telescope and the spectro- scope, it must be said in justice to its promoters that their conclusions are based on logical reasoning and through mathematical investigations. “As said before, Professor Schae- berle’s mechanical theory seems to come nearer to the truth than any other theory thus far advanced. Dur- ing the last few years tremendous progress has been made in the methods of studying and interpreting solar phe- nomena, especially through the intro- duction of the spectro-heliograph by Professor Hale, now director of = the Yerkes Observato: “The next few years will probably considerably increase our understand- ing of solar phenomena. The great Yerkes telescope has already proven its usefulness in this direction, as Pro- fesor Hale announces that it has re- vealed so many new lines in the spec- trum of the chromosphere that an im- mediate revision of the same will be necessary. T Ll Observatory University of California, Berkeley. The following from the Cleveland Leader is intended to illustrate a recent Georgia epwsode. “I want to see the Postmaster.” “I'm the Postmaster, sah—look out. Mighty close shave that, sa ““Who in thunder is that fool firing at?” “At me, sah.” “What for?” “Doesn’t like my color, sah. Take care there, sah! You're right in range. Zip! Dat’s the feller out dar behind the tree, sah. Dem boys takes a shot at me evrey time dey goes by.” “Well, but doesn’t it make you want to throw up your job and get out of this?” “‘Me, sah! I guess not. I don’tthrow up no Government snap for such tri- fling, no-account fellows like dem. Bang! Dat's Lige Brooks firing through the back door. Well, my gra- cious! if he ain’t done shot a hole through the mail bag. Fust thing dat | pusson knows he’ll be gettin’ in trouble wid de United States, yes, sah.” ‘“Well, you're a philosopher.” “No, sah; I'm a Republican, and dar’s only foah moah of us in de town.” B — The Japanese cite 269 color varieties of the chrysanthemum, of which 63 are | yellow, 87 white, 82 purple, 3 red, 31 pale pink, 12 russet and 14 of mixed colors. THWARTED The present Kaiser would probably not admit that he had often been thwarted in any of his plans, but an anetdote has recently become known which shows that he has at least once. When the Kaiser, who was then Prince Wilhelm, was about 10 years old, he and Prince Heinrich spent some time at Cassel with their tutors, who sometimes allowed the little princes to play with other children. One day when several of them were gathered together it chanced that a little French girl was among the number, and the young Germans conceived the brilliant idea of making her a representative of the country they all so cordially hated. The delightful plan was immediately put into execution; and the poor child was tied to a tree. Then began a fu- sillade of pine cones, sticks, etc., and whenever anything struck her there was a cry of “Here’s for Sedan!” This went on for a few minutes, when a lit- tle Hunearian girl, Helena von D—, who was watching, could bear the in- justice no longer, and, singling out Prince Wilhelm as the chief offender, she threw herself upon him. The at- tack being unexpected, he was com- BY A GIRL pletely taken by surprise, and fell down, whereupon she began to pound him, crying out at each blow, “Here's for Sadowa.” The prince was fast get- ting the worst of it, for his little ad- versary was thoroughly in earnest, when the imperial tutors, hearing the noise, rushed up and separated the combatants. After that the princes were more carefully watched, and Wil- liam had no opportunity to ‘“get even’ with the little ghampion of justice. Some days afterward, hearing that the princes were leaving, Helena went down to the gate to see them go by. As they passed Wilhelm spied his foe, | and, leaning out behind his tutor, he | stuck out his tongue. Helena was the daughter of titled | parents, and later she was married to an Englishman. When the Kaiser was recently in London she told this story to one of his gentlemen in waiting, who in turn repeated it to his majesty. The latter exclaimed: *“Is that devil of a girl here now? I would like to see her.” A meeting was arranged, but Helena became ill, and so they never met after that one encounter, to make friends or renew hostilities,~New York Tribune, “In explaining solar phenomena only -