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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1915.
W WOULD HAPPEN IF THE SUN WENT OUT
{World Would Be in Darkness in Eight Minutes, Eighteen Seconds
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If the sun should go out, how long Ifiwould It be before darkness would aps. pear on the earth? sjl Eight minutes, eighteen seconds and pve hundred and sixty-six one-thou-»sand8 of a second. A! At the end of that brief interval of r-time the blue curtain of
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ifcsiappear as if an almighty hand had Am snatched it oft, and the doirfte of night, ^spangled with stars, would instan,'taneously arch the earth. We would be ^plunged into darkness so quickly that 5-4^for a moment nothing would be visible.
Then the piercing rays of the stars would begin to affect our eyes and '1 after that, gradually, our immediate ^surroundings would dimly emerge from 0&ir,the gloom. There would be starlight, gibut no moonlight, for the moon shines only with reflected sunlight.
At first the disappearance of the 3light would be the thing most troubleVi some to us, but as time went on a chill would begin to creep orer the jusunless earth, and out of the*ark and fcfroaen air around the globe a pallid snow would descend, as the atmosiphere moisture condensed. When days and weeks had elapsed the awful cold ifplof outer space would chill the atmosp:Ssi?phere down to the earth's surface and 'q. animal and vegetable life would alike perish In the endless winter of unlversal nipht! Si The time mentioned above as that which would elapse after the extlnctlon of the sun before the earth would •$§ 7 P*un3ed in darkness depends, of course, upon the speed of light, com- «. bl* id with the distance from the sun 'irss^to the earth. According to the table of astronomical constants used in the ^|f calculations of the American Nautical almanac office, the mean distance of the earth from the sun is 92,894,767 statute miles, while the velocity of light Is 186,324 miles per second.
Dividing the first number by the second, we get for a quotient, 498,566, S" which represents the number of seconds and thousandths of a second that light requires to pass from the sun to the earth. Dividing this by 60 gives i' us the same period in minutes and parts of a minute.
But it must be remembered that a slight degree of uncertainty exists in regard to the figures representing the distance of the sun and the velocity of .* light. The sun may be a hundred *:i thousand miles nearer, or farther, and i* the velocity of light may be twentyfive miles per second greater, or less, S- than the figures adopted show. Still, P&' this would make but an extremely small change in the time required for the passage of light from the sun to the earth. A quite perceptible difference in the earth's distance from the sun, due to the eccentricty of the earth's orbit.
We are about 3,000.000 miles nearer
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Prater Flour, 24 lb. sack..., ,65o Big One Flour, every sack guaranteed to be the best winter •5 wheat flour you ever used, 24 pound sack 70o Irish Cobbler Potatoes, home grown, per bushel 60c Good Cooking Apples, bushel 35c Lima Beans, S lbs. for 25c Navy Beans, 4 lbs for 25o Kidney Beans, 4 cans 25o Sifted June Peas, 4 cans 28c Farm House Milk, 4 cans....28c Fox River Milk, 8 small cans 25c Best Head Rice, 3 lbs. for....25o Swift's Pride So^p, 9 bars... 25o Best Rio Coffee, steel cut, pound 12'/&o Fresh Baked Crackers, lb. .714c Warm Bread, 6 large loaves. .25c Best Granulated Sugar, 25 lbs. for 11.55
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Arctic Explorer is Believed Lost
VlbAJAIiBKUR BTKFANSSOJV. The United States ooast guard cutter Bear, which carried mails to Point Barrow, the most northerly point of Alaska, has brought word to Nome that no word of Vflajalmur Stefansson, the explorer, and his two companions had been received. Belief is growing that all three have perished. Stefanbson, accompanied by Ole Anderson and Storker Storkenson. left the Mackenzie river April 7. 1914, going north over the ice, and expecting. In the event that the quest failed, to turn east to reach Banksland.
the sun at the beginning of January than at the beginning of July, from which it follows that if the sun should be put out In summer, the cosmic night would be about sixteen seconds longer in reaching the earth than If the extinction occurred in winter. In the southern hemisphere exactly the opposite state of affairs exists, for there winter occurs when the earth Is farthest from the sun.
The fact that light requires a measureable time to traverse long distances makes It an agent, or Instrument, of astronomical research of Inestimable value'. .'l,
As Prof. Yoffilr has' remarked, 'When we observe a celestial body we see it not as It Is at the moment of observation, but as It was at the moment when the light left it.
If, then, we know its distance In astronomical units (the astronomical unit here spoken of is the earth's distance from the sun), and also know how long light takes to traverse that unit, we can at once correct our observation by simply dating It back to the time when its light started from the object. This correction is called the "equation of light," and the time required for light to traverse the astronomical unit of distance is called the "constant of the light-equation," amounting, as stated before, to 498,566 seconds.
To understand the application of this, suppose that we take some star which attracts our attention by its beauty or its brilliancy. We say to ourselves, with a glow of intellectual enthusiasm: "Behold that mighty, sun, whose golden rays are so much richer than our daylight! Can anybody doubt that there are worlds around It enjoying its genial warmth?" Whereupon an astronomer may correct us with the remark: "What you say about that magnificent, but distant, sun is very probably true, but you should speak in the past tense, for the light by which you see it left its surface long years ago, and although it still appears to be shining in the sky, it may in reality have ceased to exist."
Regarded in this way, the starry heavens exhibit a perspective of time. When we look at the nearer stars we see backward one, two, three or four years when we look deeper, we see backward In time ten or twenty years, and when, with the aid of the mightest Instruments yet devised, we plunge Into the profoundest depths of the universe, we behold the starry hosts as they existed thousands of years ago., For all that we can tell those stars may have "fallen like leaves In wintry weather" long before the pyramids of Egypt were erected while they were yet alive with radiance has speeded steadily on, unconscious of their fate, and bringing us an assurance of their continued existence.— New York Evening Journal.
REUNION NEAR OAKTOWN. By Special Correspondent. OAKTOWN, Ind., Sept. 3.—The Wolfe annual reunion will be held at the Shaker Prairie Christian church grove on the second Sunday in September. Short talks will be made by various speakers, but the main features will be a basket dinner.
Local Folk Wed.
By Special Correspondent. OAKTOWN, Ind., Sept. 3.—At the First Christian church, in Vincennes, Monday, the pastor, Rev. E. F. Daugherty, united in marriage Ivan Fredrick and Miss Marie Winkler, daughter of Mrs. Susan Winkler. The happy couple will make their home in Emison.
Twin Cantaloupes.
By Speoial Correspondent. OAKTOWN, Ind., Sept. 3.—A local cantaloupe grower has on display at the Record office twin muskmelons, which in some way had become wedded together. They were connected only by a very thin skin, each was perfect ly formed and had grown on a different stem.
bonstlpation upsets the entire system—causing many illnesses to the human family. Don't worry—Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will drive out constipation, regulate the bowels, tone the stomach, purify the system. Give it a thorough trial 85 cents. Tea. ablets. Gillis' Terminal .pharmacy.
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GREENE COUNTY CIRCUIT COUHT HAS LARGE DOCKET
Grand Jury Will Make Investigation —196 Gases are Continued From Last Term—63 New Suits.
By Special Correspondent. BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Sept S.—The Greene county circuit court will convene next Monday with the largest docket of seiveral years. There are 196 cases continued from last term and 63 new cases filed during vacation. A grand jury has been called and will make a special investigation of blind tigers of the county. The grand jury is ihade up of Mart Mcintosh, Marion Thomas, Orlo Osborn, C. S. Emory, Frank Rollison and Fred Spice.
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Teachers are Named.
By Special Correspondent. BL.OOMFIELD, Ind., Sept. 3.—The Bloomfleld schools will open next Monday. The school board has finally completed the list of teachers, the following new ones being added. Miss Ethel Anderson of Center township will teach the eighth grade. Thomas D. Spencer of Switz City will teach mathematics and physics in high school and Cavins Baughman of Evansvllle will have charge of the manual training department.
Democrats to Celebrate.
By Special Correspondent. BLiOOMtFIELD, Ind., Sept. 3.—Local democrats are preparing for the Second district barbecue to be held in Washington, Sept. 30. An auto parade of more than 250 machines will be made. The parade is to start at Bloomington and will be joined at this place by delegations from Morgan and Greene counties.
Marriage Announced.
By Special Correspondent. BliOOMFIELD, Ind., Sept. 3.—Word has been received here of the marriage of William Townsend, Jr., and Miss Sylvia Graham, daughter of James Graham, of Taylor township. The marriage occurred in Robinson, 111.
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LACK OF DONATIONS HAMPERS WORK AT THE FRIENDLY INN
Society for Organizing Charities Hears Reports of Officials at Regular Monthly Meeting
Seven loads of wood have been sold from the Friendly Inn recently, If that institution could have filled the orders. Lack of donations of wood have left the inn depleted In this respect, it was reported at the monthly meeting of the Society for Organising Charity In the Chamber of Commerce room? Thursday night. The wood is cut by men seeking food and shelter at the inn.
Among those who heard the report of Miss Lena Reading, secretary of the charity organisation, were President W. C. Ball, Judge Newton, Deputy Prosecutor Colllver, Sheriff Krietensteln, Captain B. E. Stahl, Mrs. Stahl (court matron), Superintendent Christy, of the poor farm, and Reiv. LeRoy Brown.
Miss Reading's report showed that 146 persons had been given help during the past month. Lack of employment, illness, Insufficient income and old age were given as the causes for these persons needing help.
Mrs. Stahl, oourt matron, reported that In one family, consisting of fifteen persons, the father Is a Police Court character, the mother is continually seeking aid for her family from charity, and that her eight daughters have been in the hands of police at different times, and that the sons are jail characters.
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HlgRVnow it this ttine'or th£ year our faofcpry is in full swing, making new fait suits of the most up-to-date fabrics, which arrive dally at our store. You can select from the most up-to-date patterns and styles. You will find the same suits we offer you for $10 displayed in regular retail stores for $15 to $18. Why we can offer such great values Because we sell thousands of suits weekly, selling them direct from our own factory on a very small margin of profit. We guarantee every suit we sell to be all wool, to hold its shape and color or your money back. That is why our great chain of stores grows year by year. Men who buy our suits are satisfied, know that they can trust us and come back season after season to buy our clothes. We invit? you to Sherman's to inspect and look over our new fall line of suits.
FARMS MADE OUT OF DESERT.
Electricity Irrigates and Operates All Devices in Farm Life. More than 3,600 acres of indifferent farm lands in eastern California have been cut up into farms of from 40 to 140 acres and sold because electric pumps have been installed to bring water from great distances and irrigate the lands. One company is now clearing 20,000 additional acres. Besides energising the irrigation pumps,
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the electrlo power taps ,every farm in the section, so that the settler is entirely independent of animal power.
The very latest farm appliances are in daily operation In this section, which has come to be known as the "trying out" place for all of the new and wonderfully efficient electrical farm helps being Introduced there.
YOUR HOU8E 18 NOT REALLY ON THE MARKET If it is not advertised In the for sale columns of The Tribune.
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Pork Sausage, pound...12o Hamburger, pound 12o Spare Ribs, pound 10o Liver, pound ..6e,
Beef Pot Roast Pound 12 l-2c
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Klngan Baoon, pound 17Vfco By the piece or half pleoe. Skinned Hams, lb.,.. .17!/«o
Country dressed Spring Chickens. No. 5 Pall Lard.......56o 5 pound compound ....40e
Bakery Specials
35c two-lay«r Maplt Not Cake 25c
80c Devil's Food Cake.. .22o 25c Fruit Oake „...15o
California Kasin Bread 10c loaf for 8c
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200 spoons given away with our three brands of bread. Malt Milk Bread ..So Harvest Bread, largest loaf for So Cream Crust, l£c*est loaf 1Qo
Homemade Crullers, special pricey dos «..9o
Bran Bread, (oaf lOo Healthy, wholesome and delicious. Recommended for constipation and indigestion.
German Rye, with or without caraway seeds. German Coffee Cakes.
Cinnamon, Parkerhouse, Henna, Poppy Seed Rolls, Homemade Doughnuts, dozen ..........lOo
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Cherry, apple, apricot, raspberry, raisin, custard, lemon, cocoanut, blueberry.
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New Home Made Sauer Kraut, quart 10c
Stuffed Mangoes, 3 for. ..10o
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Grocery Specials
Peanut Butter, pound.... "too Star Tobacoo, pound 4Se Horseshoe Tobacco, pound 46o All Scrap Tobacco, 6 for 25o 2-6c boxes matches for....So 4 cans Kraut for .2Se 4 cans Kidney Beans for 25o* 4 cans Sugar Pea* for.. .20o 4 cans Hominy foc... ..28o 2-10c milk 8-5o cans milk ..........10o 5 cans Salmon 3 boxes Post Toastlesi. ._25o 10c box Corn Flake...—..So
White Uly Bvttertne 2 pounds for 3 pounds for SOo
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$1.25 Full Quart GuckenheCmer, bottled tn bond 88o $1.25 Full Quart OveEholt, bottled in bond 98o $1.00 Full Quart Old Guckenhelmer 85o $1.00 Full Quart Old Overholt 85o $1.00 Full Quart Old Gulf *. A
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