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Show SUNS RADIATION place up uixtve the earth's atmosphere, and thus iuden-ihieu- t of its clouds and dual, a little cube of water of that size. Now, if the aim's rays shining directly on one side of this rube for Ksmarkablc Investigations of the one minute could he wholly absorbed Aetrpphysical Obcervatory Mainiu it, they would raise the temperatained by the Smithsonian Inture two degrees That is stitute at Waahington. what wejneau by our twu units our new estimate of what astronomers Tlie urea: tier ae a topic of conversa- have termed ihe 'solar constant of tion may tint h very edifying or in- radiation.' so called oecause the aun structive, but the neat her as a subject has been supposed to give a practically of invest igatiun by scientific men, aided by Instruments of the most delicate and accurate construction is most profitable to the human race, for when man comes to know nature's secrets accurately, and la able to forecast witb certainly the atmospheric conditions, be will be in a position to more euccesafully carry on his various pursuits, especially those of agriculture. 'The United States la far in the lead of any other na'ion in the development of practical science, and be It said to our credit that the government maintains under the of the guardianship Smithsonian Institution an astrophysics observatory, the only station of its kind In the world. It is at this astrophysical observatory under its director, Prof. C. G. Abdisbott, that many epoch-makincoveries have been made, among them being the fart that the inn gives the earth only half as much heat as haa bees commonly supposed by astronomers, and that the radiation of this beat Is variable Instead of constant, and. further, that man Is protected from one-hal- f the heat given to the earth by the operation of atmospheric conditions. These, and many other facts of importance and interest have been ascertained after years, if painstaking effort and observationrknd astronomers and meteorologists who have known the direction of the invesThe Pyrheliometer. tigations have been eagerly awaiting announcements of these the results, constant radiation for days and and which have just been made public months and years. through government publication. "Hy two methods we have obtained of new sun's the estimates of the aun'a temperaradiation, 8pcaklug Prof. Abbott says: ture, which we find to be at Its surface The sun ia the promoter of all life from 6.000 to 7,000 degrees centigrade, on earth, and maintain! the earth it- or, on the Beale of our household therself at a habitable temperature. It mometer, 10,000 to 13,000 degrees does this through ihe rays which it FSlir. Astronomers in the last 60 sends to the earth, aud it 'a our first years have variously estimated it to Interest to learn the amount of these be from 2,000 to 2,000,000 degrees rays available to ua. Exaggerated es- centigrade, but all estimates of the timates have prevailed for the last last ten years have ranged from 5,000 30 years. to 10,000 degrees. We find the average tensity of the "Just outside our southern window sun's radiation to be two units in the here we have a pyrheliometer' for scale adopted for such measurements. measuring the rate at which It la re"Our computation that the average ceived at the earth's surface. Now a Intensity of the sun'a radiation la two bucket of water ia warmed by the aun means that it ia two calories per much faster upon a high mountain top square centimeter per minute. These than It would be at aea level because are strange, terms, tq most people. A there is between it and the aun leaa cubic centimeter ia about the siae of air to cut off ita rays by absorption a dice used in gambling. Suppose we and scattered reflection. A COSTLY STRUCTURE flVE THOUSAIID RESULT DISCOVERIES PROVE IT TO BE "'HESS THAN WAS SUPPOSED. g Wind and Gasolirve WHAT WILL MAKE THE NEW TYPE able a commander to keep bis sblp going whether wind serves or not. OF SAILING VESSELS GO. The Northland Is a modern wonder of her kind, and some of the leading particulars of this craft should be of Adaptation of the Gasoline Engine to interest to landsmen as well as marine the Use of Ships Which Will folk. Prove of Great Value to the The Northland is 242 feet long, 44 feet beam, and 2GI& feet depth of hold, Shipping World. tonnage being 2,048 and net The sailing vessel ia all right when the gross1,569. The frame of the vestonnage she haa the wind to fill her sails, but sel is of hard wood and hackmatack, to make unable fof calmed to be days cut in the woods of northern Maine, port la a trying ordeal for captain and while the planking and ceiling are of crew and for the merchants who are awaiting their consignment of freight. An experience of the kind recently came to a fleet of a dozen large American coasting schooners off Martha's Vineyard, where, owing to lack of wind, they drifted idly about for 4S hours waiting Impatiently for a favoring breeze. While thus drifting helplessly around, with their commanders Diagram of a Modern American or Tramp Steamship, 300 Feet Long, fretting over the enforced delay, another big schooner was sighted on the Showing Large Amount of Space Taken Up by Engines, Boilers, Coal horizon, seaward, and It was not long Bunkers, Etc. Capacity, 3,000 Tona before It waa seen that hhe was comof Freight; Speeo, Nine Knots. ing steadily toward them, notwithstanding the fact that there was no wind In the vessel's direction nor was a tug towing her. At a speed of five or alx knots an hour she came along and she passed the idle fleet The vessel waa the schooner Northland, built in Maine, and equipped with a gasoline engine of 500 horsepower, which was stowed away aft under the main cable, In what Is practically waste room on a vessel of this character. The North- Diagram 8how(ng Modern American land waa bound for New York from Schooner, 300 Feet Long, Equipped with Gaaoline Power ao Well as Maine and arrived In port two days Note Small Space Occupied Sails. by Engine. Fuel Oil Carried In Ballast Tanka. 8peed, Without Sails, 8ix Knots; With Sails and Engine, Ten Knots. Capacity, 6,000 Tona of Freight. four-maste- d North Carolina contributed the wood used In building the houses on the main deck, the one forward containing, like all modern schooners, a steam plant for operating the anchor, hoisting sails, cargo, etc. Aside from the distinction of being equipped witb power, the Northland la in all ways a modern craft, with all the comforts of the more pretentious team freighters. Quarters for the crow and. what would appear to be an anomaly on a sailing ship, the engineer of the vessel, as well as the galley, are located forward. In the after house are the commander's and officers' apartments, which are elaborately fitted and finished In hard woods. All living apartments are steam heated. Underneath the officers quarters is located the gaaoline engine, a valuable auxiliary, aa has time and again bern proved. Georgia yellow pine. Type of Gasoline Engine Which Can Be Quickly and Cheaply Installed in a Schooner or Other Veceel,. ahead of all sailing craft In the same direction. The Northland waa the pioneer of what ia likely to prove a large fleet of companion vessels similarly equipped, for since she waa built two years ago, others have appeared. Their success means more than the mere fact that they have made good for their projectors, in that they en Immense Trill Trip of Largest Airship Evei Constructed Ends in n Most Frightful Disaster. ' Ten Thousand Spectators Stand Helpless and Witness Monster Flying Machines Fall of 300 Feet, All of Occupants Being Injured. OP HOMELESS Hi WATERS Area in Texas and Okla-nomInundated, Much Sorrow and Buffering Reeulting. Fort Worth, Tex. Seven people are known to be dead, 5,000 are home-teas- . a dozen or more are reported to nave been killed in Fort Worth and North Fort Worth aa a reault of tha greatest rise ia the bNtory of the Trinity river, which, beginning at 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening, reached a climax at 6 oclock Sunday afternoon. Five of the deaths Sur.jay and two Saturday. Mayor W. D. Hart of Fort Worth issued a proclamation calling upon the unfortunate citizens to help tha homelesa. Muskogee, Okla. Not a railroad In Oklahoma la In operation, aa a reault of the heavy rains and cloudbursts that have occurred In various parts of the state. Tbe last road to suspend operations was the Missouri, Kansas A Texas, which was forced to quit at noon Sunday, when tha bridge on the main line at Eufaula went down. All West Guthrie la Inundated, with train seven to ten feet of water rushing through the streets. The Cottonwood river la within four feet of tha hlghwater mark registered on May 6, 1897. Residents of the lowlands, fearing a recurrence of the 1897 floods, when seven or eight people In the valley lost their lives, began leaving their homes Sunday nlgM and as far as possible transported their household effects to tho higher ground, some distance from the channel of the stream. So far as known no one ban been drowned, though the river la twenty feet higher than normal and has spread over the wide valley for miles. The properly loss will be great, crops of all kinds being washed ouL Houses Unroofed by Storm. Austin, Tex. A terrific wind and rainstorm swept Tessa from tha Panhandle to the gulf on Sunday. The destruction to crops and vegetation, trees and shrubbery was the greatest In numerous reported for yean. places houses . were unroofed and mall villages and hamlets In many instances were Inundated by the terrific rainfall, which in tha space of four hours reached seven Inches In many sections. Austin waa In tha path of the worst of the storm and for hours the streets were impassable Electrte for either man or beast light and telephone connections were disabled beyond Immediate repair and Tha many houses were unroofed. agricultural sections of central and southern Texas have been Immeasurably damaged, according to general reports received here. d Oakland, Cal. The great Morrell airship, the largest ever constructed, burst on its trial trip when 300 fet iq the air above a crowd of 10,000 spectators Jat Berkeley at 11:40 o'clork Saturday. Tbe sixteen men who made the ascension with the big craft were dashed to the ground, and every one of them more or less injured. Broken legs and arms and internal Injuries were suffered by most of them, and it la believed that two rknlt Nr Wftldoa Photograph of tho now 8400,000 the United States Naval Academy at monumental Annapolis, chapel recently erected at BOTTLED GAS LATEST BE SOLD for the consumer to buy one outright. It can be exchanged for a full one by paying for the gaa only. The exact retail price of the cartridges haa not German Chemist's Invention Is Value- been determined, but the contents will probably cost not more than a gallon less to 8uicides, But Can bo Used of coal oil. Enough Blau gaa could to Stalk Animals in Dark be bought for 10 or 15 cents to keep and Then Broil Thgm. the lamp burning several nlchta. Parlor cars and steamships owned New York. Gas In bottles will soon ascend the dumb waiter shafts of by German companies have been carNew York houses, together with milk rying Blau gas tanka for several years and groceries. If the plans of a syndi- and It Is predicted that before lung cate which recently has been formed trains equipped with it can be taken across the continent without changing are put Into execution. their gas tanks, which would occupy Arrangements have been made to no more room than a brace of vertical In on American the the market place cases. Not only light could be filing ventlon of Herman Blau of Augsburg Germany, chemist, who has been sup- supplied from this source, but also plying German patrons with this gas. the heat for cooking in dining cars. It will be the rival of the slot gas VAQUIS MINE IT FOR HIM. meter, as well as of elect ricity, when It is Introduced In this city, for It has Oklahoma Ranchman's Thrilling Tale the brilliancy of an incaudescent lamp of Gold and Copper In Tampico. on account of Its purity can be and conducted through tubes no larger Guthrie, Okla. A story which reads than telegraph wires. a yellow back thriller la told by like Another quality of the Blau gas Is Roberta, aTNjngwood ranchthat It la useless as a meana for sui- Everett cide. The effects of inhaling it are rfflt man, who returnedVftne recently aft-e-r two years' absence in the' heart of exactly pleasing, but cats have lived In rooms In which it had been permitted Mexico, where he became the owner to escape without suffering any ill of a gold and copper mine, about 80 miles from Tampico bay, claimed to effects. Blau gas Is an illuminating gas rich be producing ore of a very high grade. The story of how I learned of Ihe In hydrocarbon, which is compressed until It takes liquid form. Usually location of this mineral sounds like Three from 30 to 100 atmospheres are re- a fairy tale said Roberts. quired to get It Into a portable state. friends of mine Ventured down into The steel flasks containing It are of the Interior of Mexico about four years various sbaiies and sizes. The choice go and, after manylclssitudes, they of the customer dejiends largely upon discovered this mine.N After taking whether he wauts a tank to light up a possession and securing several sacks village or one to carry away on a of good ore for assaying purposes, they prepared to go to Tampico, but hunting trip. Blau gas Is a good aid to life In the were attarked by YaquI Indians. Two woods, as the necessary apparatus, In of the partners were killed outright, a small case weighing only 20 pounds, the third barely escaping with his readily can be moved. The bright life. The survivor narrated his adlight Is useful In stalking wild animals, and with a change In adjustment ventures to me, and the result was Is equally efficacious for cooking. Pow- that I went to Mexico. I searched er boats can put to sea with a bottle the state of Tampico over for two or two of Blau gas and their owners years for fabulous mines, and was beneed not fear the dark. coming disheartened when I ran For the small consumer Blau gas across both. I spent a month at the has Its charms, for plans are being nines. leaving as many Indications as discussed for placing It within reach msslble that they belong to me, and of all. Instead of buying kerosene then departed. En route to Tampico I the householder, either In city or was also attarked by the Yaquis, but country, can go to the store anil ask after much parleying succeeded In for a Blau cartridge. The cartridge gaining the friendship of this particuis five Inches long and an Inch thlrk. lar band. At present my mines are In It can be inserted In a lamp and for charge of the Yaquis, who are un12 hours will burn steadily. earthing the precious yellow and The steel cartridges are worth one green metals for me at the rate of a dollar each and It will be necessary lwo a day. AEROFORM FLUID TO TANKS. IN will die. The acrldent waa a most spectacular one. A groat crowd had guthered about the vacant lot where the big gaa bag bad been inflated with 500,000 cubic feet of Illuminating gas, t watch the trial trip of the airahlp, There were sixteen persons, five ol them engineers In charge of the five gaaoline engines, several newspaer photographers, the Inventor of tha airship, C. A. Morrell, and an Australian aeronaut. Rising slowly under the power from five gasoline engines, the great lifted to a height of probably 300 feet: Suddenly there waa a ripping, roaring sound, and the forward end of the airship tilted downward and it began to settle slowly to the ground. The occuianta of the airship clung desperately to the rigging, while the crowd of 10.000 jieople or more were before what apiteared to be lmMnding disaster to sixteen mea. As tbe airship settled toward the ground, several of the man leaped and a number were seriously Injured In the fall. Others stayed with the craft until it reached the ground and they, too, were Injured by the heavy engines and the superstructure of tbe ale-shi- panie-atrlcke- n airship, Inventor Attempts to Descend on Ball Ground and Cauaes Panic. Toledo, O. Roy Knabenahue and tils new airahlp, capable 6f carrying three passengers, met with disaster upon the occasion of Its second flight, on Saturday. Knabenshue attempted to alight In the baseball park where a game was going on, but bis machine became unmanageable and bit the fence back of the bleachers, carrying Evangelism Among Laboring Mon. consternation to the crowd. PropelKansas City. Presbyterian evanlers and gear were badly damaged gelism among laboring men waa tha and the airship will be out of commis- theme of the address at a great mass sion for several daya. meeting for men, at convention hall Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming on Sunday, delimited by the Rev, Grantod Funds for Public Buildings. Charles Stelzele, superintendent of the Presbyterian committee of cburch Washington. Conferees upon tha and labor; Governor Folk of Missouri omnibus publle building bill reached and John B. Lennon, treasurer of the an agreement and submitted their re- American Federation of Labor. The port to the senate Saturday evening. Rev. Dr. Stelzele made a personal InThe conferees allowed 8175,00 for en- vitation to every union labor man In n men were spelarging the Salt Lake building, per- the city. Invited and a magnificent audicially of amount to the be $40,000 mitting ence greeted the speakers. expended for additional land- for the site. They also retained the Items of Sought Shelter Under Tree and Waa $25,000 for building ind site at Park Struck by Lightning. City and $20,000 Increase In the coat a P. Howard, W. Louis. St. limit of the Logan building. of this merchant commission wealthy Idaho items are: Boise, $125,000 for enlarging building, and Pocatello city, was struck and Instantly killed by lightning during a heavy electrical $10,000 for site. St. Nevada holds $75,000 for site and and rainstorm which swept overHowMr. Louis Sunday afternoon. buildiug. who was a member of the Gian Wyoming waa given an Increase of ard, Golf club, an exclusive golf club $85,000 over the amount carried by Echo located In the western part with links as came It from the house, the bill, had been playing golf and of the city, Rock Tbe Items retained are: the shelter of a tree when It Spring, $75,000 for building and site; ought to rain. Tbe lightning ran Lander, $115,000 for building; Casper began down the tree, killing him Instantly. and Douglas each $10,000. Fatal Frisco Street Car Accident Ask President to Appoint Salt Laker San Francisco. Two crowded trot as Commleeioner to Tokio Fair. cars collided at Devlaadero and ley Salt Lake City. A special to tho Sacramento street! at tha foot of a Herald from Washington says: Memsteep bill shortly after noon Sunday, bers of the Utah delegation on Satui-da- y killing Henry Baer, a traveling salescalled upon President Roosevelt man, and Injuring twenty other paswith Hoyt Sherman of Salt Lake City, sengers, one fatally and several seriand urged his appointment as one of ously. The Injured were taken to the the commissioners to the Interna- St. Francis hospital near the scene tional world's fair at Tokio. The pres- of the accident, where It Is believed excepting one, a child, will reto my heart? But, light of my life, ident said the endorsement of Mr. all cover. The car on the Davfsadero would be given consideraSherman could It be that you were 111? and suggested that the delcga street got beyond control of the A modern swain would have dashed tion, and dashed down the hill tlon take the matter up with Sec re that off in live minutes with a good Root personally, which was done with terrific speed. tary tub pen. But the photographic reproduction of this missive showed Enlarged Homestead Bill Shelved. Bouquet Worth 84,198.71. Mondell-Smoothat It must have taken the lover t Washington. The Chicago. The moat valuable bunch the best part of a rainy Sunday. The was killed bill for homestead a as to handed enlarged ever of blossoms gift Assyrian youths wrote, or rather cut, a person was received Saturday by this session of congress by the bouse, edge-llkcharacters In tha clay, and Mother Loretta of the House of the which voted against agreeing to tha hen they wished to be emphatic, Good Shepherd In this city. The value inference report upon It and refusunk the characters In an inch deep. was $4,198.71 In cash. The bouquet, ing to send the bill back to conferThen the letter was placed in a kiln ence. When tho vote refusing to recomposed of gorgeous od baked. the bill to conference waa anturn delea was presented by weetpeas, nounced, Representative Reeder of gation of the Ladles' Auxiliary of the Kansas, leader Drives a Trotting Bull. of tha opposition, headed by Mrs. P. Good Shepherd, Wllkesbarre, Pa. A bull owned hy taked recognition to lay the bill on an Integral Cavanauch. Forming Elmer Rants of Benton township, Cobut bidden among the table. Speaker Cannon came to lombia county. Is of more service to part of the bouquet, check for tho reerue of the western men by not was certified a tbe owner, he says, than any horse he the petals, recognizing Reeder. $4,199.71. "Ter owned, and recently increased his Insane Farmer Stabs Priest. oefu!npss by being ridden by Rants War Department Has Proteats ConGarnet. Tm his home to North Mountain, a Salisbury, Mo. Rev. Father Joseph cerning Sunday distance of 16 miles, nearly all upF. SunLubeley, aged 33 years, pastor of Protests against Washington. grade and over a rough, heavy road, St. lie to Josephs Catholic church of Salisday baseball playing continue 0 less than two hours, arriving half received by tbe war department, bury, waa stabbed twice with a pock- - , n hour before Rants' The out- etknlfe and perhaps fatally Injured, from clergymen. father, who had started at the same time, driving a mostly come of the protests, however, is in church Sunday morning, hy Joseph borae and light wagon. simply a renewal of the decision that Scbuette, a prosperous farmer, living The trip back was made in even bet-le- r tbe best interests of the military near here, who Is believed to have time, the bull being hitched to the service demand that games such as become suddenly demented. Tho stabsod the horse being fustcuod baseball be allowed to be played an occurred In view of 400 worshipbehind. The bull goes at an easy trot, Sunday by troops on military reserva- bing many of them women. Tha Iners, restions, partlcularlyly where these hich covers a great deal of ground jured man was taken to a nearby reslthout appearing to tire the ant-- L ervations do nut come ino Immediate a contacts 1th the surrounding civil idence, towhere his wounds ware tended by physicians. y con''' - Non-unio- ANCIENT LOVE NOTE READ Affair of Swain Who Wooed Thousands of Yearo Ago Exposed. New York. The way of a man with a maid and vice versa seems to have been about the same In the stone age as now. Prof. Gabriel Oussanii baa inconsiderately made public some tender and hard baked corresiiondence between an Assyrian lover and his Lore letters are not usulady fair. ally made public except In a divorce suit, but all things are possible In science. It appears that a young bachelor at Aahur waa In love with a coquettish young woman. He made the fatal mistake of putting his burning thoughts on clay, the correspondence falling Into the hands of a party of German students who were exploring ruins In Assyria. After the youth had sent by os train a half-to- n letter, retailing his snlr undying affection, he received py little note In return that weighed only a matter of 20 or 30 itounds. So the Assyrian got out his chisel ind began to pound sentiment Into a chunk that looked like a cornerstone for a new county building. Why was It, my beloved. laborithat ously cl Iseled the Assyrian, you dldc t meet me as you said you would? Way do yon bring sorrow mo-lorm- e multi-colore- wn d |