Show i itt tt a R Radiant a d. d tali t- t Splendors t t in ln t Witching r l C h. h Hours IT ours 4 By BO EDGAR EDGAn LUCIEN LUCIE LARKIN y S 0 i ir t r Lowe Ob Observatory cr California B Y OND the sll slightest doubt doubt the original witching hour was front from rum that of or midnight to 2 a a. a m m. But up hero th they ext extend nd from darkness to to da light However Howe from t tho midnight mon moment nt to 3 in the morning is Js a period V more Intense more e than than all all for the stillness and solitude reign supremely in hr mystery r and majesty maJest There Is total absence absence absence ab ab- sence sence of ot soun sound n And d one can almost imagine that he hears tl the c axes of the earth turn Now is the time to be up from Crom 1 to 3 a a. a m. m n to see the splendors of or El EI Toro with the Pleiades H Hade Hyades ades Mars and Saturn Let twenty persons per ter sons a cla class in the mighty might science of astronomy go out outto outto outto to study the stars and stud let tho the teacher ask one to trace the orbit of the earth eaith In space If this student could not j tho then l let t another b be basked e asked and so on OU It might happen that none of th the twenty could do o this easy work Such things have nave occurred Draw a a. straight line from Alcyone Alcyon k t the in that the Pleiades brightest star splendid group L high Ign c lii in the east to Aldebaran the brilliant first magni magnitude tude star in the tho V shaped Vj-shaped shaped ped the thc the H Hyades- Hyades and and ades ana the center of this line line very nearly will cross crogg the orbit of 01 j our f fl flying ing orb g world th the earth in Its majestic motion around b the sun sun SU Slightly to the left of oC the middle of or this line I. I e e e. e a little a-little toward the northeast of or the crossing point orthe of or the orbit of the earth ma may be seen glowing In fiery rEd rea reathe the planet Mars l It is so cry very ne near r the orbit of oC the tho earth that the e eye ce e without a measuring telescope could scarcely be bc able able- to dete detect t tl the difference Fix the eyes ces on Mart Mars the then t turn rn their line of oC vision fifteen degrees westward andone and andone one degree o eighteen minutes southward and the magnificent magnu- magnu planet Saturn will be seen Thus apparently as s seen cn from the earth Mars 1 and Saturn are so o nearl nearly In the direction tion of or tho the pathway of t the earth that a good bood Idea of Its I position ma may y be he secured Mars Is miles from Crom the tho sun tho the g giant world Saturn while we e weare arc are miles iron from out our star the star the sun The colos colossal l rings of are now Inclined to the line of or vision from r the earth so bo soU sotha U that t they are on ou display in all their grand grand- eu cur eur This morning r tho the dim din crape interior ring was clearly y observed and arid all the minute details of rings and disk were brought out by the great lenses es in the the- pure morning air all 01 ot of the mountains i Continental outlines are beginning to be DC made made out on oil Mars but it is now so far Cm awa away that details detail really C really channels ch are are Invisible I If the they really rea II exist For tenths nine-tenths of oC ail all published about the canals canals' must be tak taken n with a saline degree e of allowance livery livery-j bo body should be up within the Ute esoteric hours of the mornIng morning morn- morn Ing habit The coming winter willbo will lU lUbe and aud then keep ul up the be bo splendid d alo along g the the planetary way war for Cor the these e two worlds world worlds will q k k ky of ni night g ht s IJ put t ona on n adornment In the thc v |