Show I 1 tho the solar walk the recent was ono knoot of the tour four connal occurrences which are al ways waja interesting its aa being tho natural data ml divisions divi aiona ot of the four season 5 ot of tho the year tho the arrangement of the calendar bould imo have boon been to begin winter on december alst ag ou on march abet 1 ot otil a to have tho the reckoning so BO that 0 uch month should begin 21 daija later than now riida aloi the reached the winter voIa tico anil and our winter began the De coalier would begin also or of it might have ben been just jusem its well I 1 to 0 set the reckoning back ten day a so that th at december wonell rank im as an autumn month and the winter ila bo called january conr cew jear by a natural system woula begin begia on our march with the vernal but that woun lin ila oda lit in tho the southern Bon thero the present awkward arrangement fi derl irom from hou festivals church holidays and climatic considerations concoct od with liia ilia levant and am an ab mesa lucaa they have mado made vt oil it 4 ahou one thinks of the set kaaa una it li is aa if 1 the alio sun BUB wore a fixture with the earth rolling around 1 it find and passing through tho the same points of 0 space ouch each year yet it is 13 tho thill somewhat not fact that tho the earth hns has drifted more than millions mil liona of miles milca from croul lie ilia point where she bo was a year ago today to day and Is ia keeping up op that tuo too tion lion all the timo this is 13 wholly indo pendent of her other two great move ments her spinning on it her er fix oxil is lit over 1000 miles milea an hour in her daily revolution resolution UBI atoll her bowling around the sun enn la in hor her yearly correo ut at nearly 67 miles un hour in that infinite abyss which wo call space with Us its in cal cule abl a legions of 0 stars stare beside most moat of 0 which our own ban ann la is ill mote emote of 0 lust just lu in a sun ban bonni boam thoro there is A circular path 0 miles milea in cir i cumfer enco and along this elf ably vast circle is salting bailing our solar colar t e m with its sun nun gr breut greut oat planets us AS I 1 idys tor I 1 oida I 1 moo les iiii meteors and per periodic all performing their re relative atly 0 d duty aty v alith ith us tie much macli accuracy na as I 1 i I 1 the sun anil and the i planetary lano tiry orbits were mi ILI movable it will require years for our system to yasa pass over this course and to tn we regain nem near its ta present position tiou when it 16 began its journey or liera here ila travels will onlo is known only to uini him who hot it la in motion lint bat doubtless the tha earth once onca hunted floated near jouin major und anil had a starry aty laora inore glorso a a thau than that which we HI BOO lie a aai and millions of years hence she he will in 1 those glories as she bho daises through the region near cygnus whit what race of benign beings may thoa then bo be inhabiting our globo clabo rr or what may ila bo their borrows or joys oya their fears or cr hopes upon una this lineation visionary scientists may theorize or still moro more visionary theologians lint but the tha fact is that we have no foundation for any opinion on the subject unless altor after reasoning reas reason oming ing by analogy wo gaess that there shora will bo be ilia present oriler order 0 of things lungs moro highly developed by tile ol of science and art philosophy and religion reH gion now HOW is the aholo ex oce of the he luman human race comp comparon com arall with aith the period cf c a single journey of the solar system around its ita amazing rath pathway beside it what a microscopic scratch would represent the longest bumba hu mail life I 1 yet humanity hua has aspirations and capabilities which in in turn ninke tho the most moat awo awe inspiring spaces and aad durations of astronomy to be as the merest nothings yes ea tho the sun moves so 20 do they move upon whom it sl tines and happy for them is ia it if their motion is ia ever onward and upward ratLer than one chich like that ol of tho the stars atara after many day clays returns them to their start ng point vox |