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Show THE SKY FAMILY: A NATURE LESSON. Take a front seal In an oi en car nfler dirk and rile uptown Wo see the street limps stretch fir abend tllll them seem to almost meet in the distance dis-tance W iteh these distant lights nnd see that Ihov nppent to spiead apart its the cat adv. lines nud Hun to piss on emit si Ie We look out behind nnd see that Ihev ippenr to be drawing elos, r anl closet Ingttltei as lite tar letvi i them behind Mills nirloua spronllng ttpitrt In front nil I cbwlng tnsethct behind e in be seen un night on tins long stinlght stint Wo see tin snne thing fioni a sleambont on tlio ilvcr Iho tboie lkhts separate In front and move together behind It lie were on a i u th.it moved si nmonllt ly ami sllentlv that wi toiild not de clde whether It moved tu not we coull tell when It moved and whlth wis If moved In looking at thu lights in fiont and behind We live on u big slur called ruth and It Is tnvellng nl a tiemendniis speed, and vet so smooth is the mo tlon we ran hnrrilv believe we move nt till We look nt tl.e lights In the sks1. and then we s-'e the stais liivellng rrom left to tight, which shows tint we tile nuTvltig from light to left. We are nlso traveling at the mine time swlftls i Mind nnd lound the aim We fas the sun stands still while we spin lllnilllil htm In n frlnitt ncnl lull, nnil nil the other planets lis with us round him each In Its own gieit patli Now tonus a mist curious matler .Men who have been studs Ing the slnm tell lis that certain groups of stnrs In the nt Ighborliood of the North star nppent to be spteidlng npirt .More slngul ir still Hies think that other giottps of si irs on the vers op poslte side of the benvens appear to be moving closer together This Is Just what we saw from the tnr nu the avenue The lights spteid uput In fiont nnd e loscM up behind. If It Is true Hint Iho stus thus appear to open In fiont, then the sun the eirth mid all the plaints must be moving off somewheie Into the vast dirk spaces of the sks. We do know that the! sun npienis to be tuvellug In porno glnnt clrcl lounl some unknown center unci thit ho Is i-irrjlng us along with him We do not know whero he Is bound, bllt we do know 111111 vve lllo llkels to have the plensuto of Ida ceimpany w hei cv e i he r.oi s L'HAltl.l.S HAllNAUD. |