Show THE COAL SACK IN THE SKY it Is visible because it contains Con taina noth ing that Is visible Vi eible immediately below the lower san of the group which forms the souther crops Is a black patch in the s dark sack shaped and misterio my sterio scientifically accurate astronomers r plain that it is not a patch but rab something which becomes reason ot the anomaly that it conten nothing that is visible the lay mind preferring bald real to abstract truth Is somewhat startle to learn that an object is seen be caiso there is nothing in it to seo but no on can dispute alie fact the coal sack visible because it contains nothing th r la visible in other words it is a vast bole 11 the stellar system in which there a n even a pinch of stellar dust to shed i nicker of luminosity it Is typical y and absolutely he quintessence 1 1 blackness because it is so and in contradiction of all preconceived notions the anaa eye can see it without the aid of telescope or other instrument between the stars of the milky av there aro many little holes in the st lar system little by comparison tha Is to say but one must have telescoped and pat lenco to find them one noc only cross the line to the souther hemisphere and locate the southern cross in order to see the coal sack with the wealth of legendary and fable woven around the northen stars by the highly gifted races gay ing on them through the ages that are gone one is tempted to speculate wh t tales would not have been constructed around that fathomless mystery had 11 appeared north instead of south of tho equator when it rouses the poetical impulse within the brain of aboriginal AUS tr allans what might it not have dona with the ancient greek or abill more ancient egyptians but they were de it the aboriginal uses it as he uses most things in a topsy fash ion to him the world is a flat plain crowned with a dome shaped roof when a man dies he has to go up to the root and slowly journey over it until ho can clamber down to the flat agabo and squeeze through once more a man the coal sack is the hole through jo get on to the roof and lo 10 get up to it Is a very long c almo the journey over the roof ia also very long and it Is hard to squeeze through when he roaches the flat again so long does it take that by the time a man has completed the journey not only his hair but his skin has grown white with age wherefore the black fellow who has made the journey rejoins his tribe as a white fellow thus it was that when tho white man first came to the land the aborigines regarded him as a long lost comrade magazine |