Show Star and Crescent Crescenti i VERY TERY few men women and children saw V tho spectacle clo In tho the eastern tern sky Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- da day morning visible from tram about 1 4 o'clock until after sunrise It was was tn the spectacle which centuries ago led to to tho star and crescent nt being adopted aa an WJ the tho emblem of oC tho ho Turkish empire According to legend a sultan of or long Jong ago aO saw a n. bright star In apparent proximity to the silver bow of ot a a. new or waning moon and on the natural wonder in tho heavens as an augury favorable fa to his might and majesty Un Undoubtedly l tho the royal Turk beheld tho the adopted symbol of or his sovereignty at an em hour in the tho morning morning- when nocturnal libations libations liba liba- enhance yf vision lon for tor ho he contended that he saw w the star within the crescent on n n. plane with tho the points of tho the horns Those Thosa whoso whose vision is clear enough h to lo see ace the sleeping moon in the lap p of the new or ortho ortho tho old moon know that this is a a. ph physical sI impossibility but none dared dispute tho the assumption of oC tho the bumptious Saturday morning when Venus 1 and the lunar bow appeared above the draperies tho the storm left leU lingering over tho the Wasatch the crescent was about an apparent arms arm's length beneath tho brilliant morning star with both points upward on almost an even bal bal- ance With thongs from the tho star to the two horns of ot the tho moon a a. David of or the celestial universe would have had a powerful powerful pow pow- erful sling with which to hurl comets at atthe the tho sun That the tho moon had p passed ed directly between be between bet be- be t tween Venus and the tho earth soon after the sun clo crossed d the equator for tor his winter tour may havo o been a a. mere coincidence of or the thc equinoctial disturbance on this planet But spectacles of ot this kind dad passing through thes the tho s sea a of ot space keep vividly In minds of mortals mor mor- tale 18 an M apostrophe e of ot Israels Israel's psalmist to the architect of oC worlds The Tho firmament his handiwork With ten failures in thirty da days private banks In Chicago appear to be bent on ongoing ongoing going Democratic |