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Show NORTH STAR NEVER CHANGES. Retains Always Its Fixed Position In the Heavens. Tho pole star Is really the most Important Im-portant of tho stars In tho sky. It marks tho north nt all times. It alone Is fixed In tho heavens. All the other stars neem t' swlnty around It once in twenty-four hours. But the pole star of Polaris Is not a very bright one, and It would be hard to Identify but fur the help of the so-called so-called pointers In tho nig Dipper or Great Bear. The outer rim of tho dipper dip-per points nearly "io Polaris, at a distance dis-tance equal to three times the space that separates the two stars of the dipper's outer side. Various Indlann call the pole Btr the "homo star" and "tho star that never moves," and tho dipper they call the "broken back." The Great- Bean Is also to be remembered re-membered ns the pointers for another reason. It Is tho hour hnnd of tho wooilmnn's clock. It goconce around tho north star In about twenty-four hours, the reverse wny of the hands of a walch thnt Is, It goes the same way ns the sun and for the same roa son that It Is the earth that Is going go-ing anil leaving them behind. |