Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 167, 23 April 1910 — Page 3

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Fcn"iD dy lot w:d heat. Fir Awiy tiw' Ctrnd la s.Glabular Ma, and m It Nnn th tun th Atlan f That Body Untwln th Tall, Whih la Ntvtr WwovtrtA ; Traveling at comets do in very elongated ellipses, with the aim in one of the foci, aa the attracting point la called, moat of their Journey la spent In slow uneventfulness far away from the hearth of the system hearth Is Just what the word focus means. They are then small globular aggregations, sluggiab and dim a little roundish nebula In look. Such they appear when first descried In the telescope coming In from space, for they are rarely seen at all until tbey hare entered within the orbit of Mara. Distance in part, but still more their own beharlor till then, keeps them hid. Within this nebulosity, known as the head, appears as it nears us a bright spot, the nucleus. Suddenly there occurs a complete change in the deportment of the body, one which renders It the obserred of all observer, and In less civilized times occasionally its being held the harbinger of distress, disease and death. As soon as the comet gets near enough th beat of the son sets up commotion within it. By Tery's determination of the temperature of the nnblanketed sunward aide of the moon we are enabled to infer that this beat is great at the earth's distance from the sun in spite of the cold of space. This temperature Is 353 degrees F. And as the cornet approaches the sun this heat must Increase Inversely as the square of the distance. At half the radius of tlie earth orbit It is al ready f oar times as great above absolute aero, at a quarter sixteen times, and so on Increasingly, the temperature rising into thousands of degrees. No wonder the comet acts as it does. It at once becomes uneasy, waxes in light and, as the spectroscope reveals, disruptive electric discharges a tart In it which let out the imprisoned gases. Then begins that spectacular career of perihelion ' passage which makes the comet so superb an object and for which it pays so dear. The gases which are thus thrust out from the interior of the separate meteorites, together with such particle of the. Iron as are made gaseous by the heat, fall prey to another force besides gravitation. This force Is the Impact of light Itself, the light emitted by the sun. That so. immaterial a thing as a beam of light can have power to move even a pith ball is a conception not easy to grasp. Yet there is no doubt of the fact, theoretically calculated years ago by Clerk Maxwell from his electro-magnetic theory of light, for the gaseous particles proceed to be repelled by the sun at enormous speed, each behaving exactly as it should by math- ' ematical analysis if such were the ocsasionlng cause Evidently the light waves have a propelling power in the direction of their own motion equal to their own speed. - Why. then. Is it that the planets betray no such effect In spite of their Else? ; The answer Is, because of that very slse. Gravity acts on the mass, a matter of three dimensions; the light force on the surface of the body, a matter of two. As a body diminishes in slse, therefore, its surface bears a greater and greater ratio to its mass until when small enough the second force Is the stronger of the two. , This relation Is betrayed in the conduct of the tall. The Imprisoned gases, heated to expulsion on the sunward side of the comet, rise toward It la a series' of exquisite mantling envelopes, as if the comet's head were veiling Itself from the too' ardent gasa of. the sun. Then, after rising to a certain height, their initial impetus overcome, they fall back, repelled by the light waves, although still attract ed by gravity, and are driven out to form the tall of the comet, fresh en velopes taking their place. Sometimes only a single tall is formed, but at others two or even three are shot out, and when this happens one is nearly straight, one curved and one greatly bent: ' Now, calculation shows that the repelling force in the case of the first is fourteen times that of grav ity, in the second two and two-tenths times, or something less, and In the third only about one-fifth of gravity. But these are the very ratios which particles of hydrogen gas, of the by drocarbons and of Iron or sodium would respectively show. ' As the comet approaches the sun the display becomes , more violent and more spectacular. Finer and wilder grows th pageant, the "hairy star" loosening Its tresses, which had stood sedately eotled about ' Its head amid the depths of space, to stream in gorgeous gleams behind It as it pays Its orbital obeisance to the ruler of Its course.- It seemingly backs away In keeping with th etiquette to royalty, turning always, its face sunward as it retreats whence it came. But It pays dearly for its display. The matter going to form the tall can never be recovered, but is driven farther away. At each successive return to the sun some of Its mass and brilliance la thus lost, and this Is why the periodic comets, those that have mad many visits, are such small and In- ' conspicuous objects. It Is only the comets of long ellipses and very distant habit of which the petihetloa pageant la so line. Youth's Companion. Good results always follow the use of Foley's Kidney Pills. 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Juan Vargas, Oldest Man In the United States He Is 114 Years Old and Wants to Live Until September 16 to Celebrate Hundredth Ann i- , versary of Old Mexico.

(American. News Service) San Antonio, Texas, April 23. There is only one wish left Juan Vargas, 114 years of age, and the oldest man in the United States, and that Is that he may be spared to see the sixteenth ot Seitember the day on which Mexico will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of her Independence. To that date he would like to live and smoke a few cigarettes, H for life without the weed to the true Oaxaqueua is unthinkable. After that toe old man will not care what happens there is so little, says he, that can keep one of his age and Infirmities, interested in ' life and its kaleidoscopic changes. For several years now Juan Vargas has lived In this city and before that he spent 44 years in his native Mexi coin Oaxaca, the country to which the Astecs fled after they had been conquered and dispersed by the Span ish under Hernanda Cortes. Old. Ju an, Is of course, an Aztec, for it is very doubtful whether he' would have reached the great age that is his. Down in Oaxaca the mothers raise none but pure-bloods and even the slightest in fusion of Spanish or other foreign blood Is looked upon as a polutlon, The Mayan Indian as they are now called are as race proud today as they were when the Moctezumas held court In the city In the middle of the lake and when thousands of them on the great feast days ascended the teocalll to have their living hearts torn from quivering bodies with nary a sound to punctuate the drama. In the mountains of Oaxaca where President Dias comes from, as the old man . remarks with a great show of pride, Juan Vargas was born on January . 1796. In eariy youth -he became a warrior, although he did at first no more than carry provisions for the men. The old Mayan Indians and the Zapotecans were still at war with the Aztecs who had invaded their territory and against whom they owed many old grudges, for an these people the Moctezumas had made war for centuries and thousands of them had been carried off to end their lives on the sacrificial stone at the ; feet of Huitcl. War, then, was the ; only training Juan had. Schooling he did not have any for the first thing the Spaniards would do would be to establish a school in Oaxaca. But Juan's early training served him and his country In good stead. To the little Oaxacan pueblo there came rumors that the hated Spaniards would be at last driven from the country and that the Aztecs might once more come Into power.- Juan went to Mexico City in 1308 and In the following year he was one of the patriots who served to -fan the fires of revolution and of freedom under Padre Hidalgo. He was one of those : who shouted "Viva Mexico, Viva i Ubertad when Padre Hidalgo raised aloft the banner of re volt in the pulpit of the little chapel at Dolores, on September 15, 1810. After Padre Hidalgo had been shot, Juan decided to return to his evergreen hills in tropical Oaxaca. the revolutionary fervor In him had subsided prin-: clpally ' because ; Ubertad : and Mexico stood not for a regime purely Astec j but for that of a race of men who had ! been produced by the contact of the ' natives and the Spanish conqulsadores. j Juan realised that the old days of glo ry would never return and for that reason there was no special need for him to assist in the creation of a new order of things that might and might not benefit his people. But on his way home he was seized by the troops of the Spanish - king - and i pressed Into services. As soon as he could he escaped, was recaptured, subsequently escaped again and was once more pressed Into the Spanish forces. A few years later he fought, now for then against. Iturblde as exigencies demanded and returned again to his mountains in Oaxaca, in 1821; when Iturblde had established himself as emperor in Mexico. Nine years later he came to San Antonio and in 1836 hm heard there the shout "Huertel a los Tejanos" (Death to the Texans) and

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saw the city deserted and Alamo in ruins after its Texan defenders had been put to thesword by Santa Anna March 6, 1836. Again he had been pressed Into service, this time to serve as a menial. Since then Juan Vargas has lived in San Antonio. He has never traveled on & railroad, only twice on a street car and has always had his guota of gruel and corn mush, the only things he has eaten now for many years. Peppery food and fiery liquor he no longer consumes and the only stimulant he now takes is coffee. He says that he has never been absteminous in either eating, drinking or smoking, and that his long life Is due to racial, rather than Individual traits, a contention supported by the fact that the Indians of Oaxaca are remarkably longllved. Juan Vargas of course, is poor. Like all of his people he has been Improvident. Had he held all the property he once owned in this city there is no doubt that today he might be a wealthy man. He had owned and. lost a great deal of real estate now in the very heart of the city. "But I am afraid the worry would have sent me to my grave long ago; he said, speaking of this. "You see the care of wealth would not have per mitted me to live the life so free from worry which I have lived. I have never worried about anything, senor, and that, I think, is to a large degree responsible for the many seasons 1 have seen." '.-nPhysically Juan Vargas is fast disin tegrating now. He has lost control of his limbs and for some years now he has not been able to walk nor eat unassisted. But be has not suffered on that acount His relatives, of whom At Local Theaters AN ODD EXPERIENCE Richmond's Theater Public Actually Sees a Good 8tock Company The theater public ot Richmond is enjoying a unique experience this week they hare actually been witnessing a stock production : worth while. Monday the Richmond Stock company which will if supported, hold the boards at the Gennett indefinitely, opened with "The Wife," and this Belasco play has been offered throughout the week. It is a strong play but could easily be made ultra-melodramatic n the hands of the average stock company. However, J the Richmond Stock company is above the averagebetter than the majority of road shows seen here and, consequently, "The Wife1 has been thoroughly enjoyed by the audiences this week. - The cast is not letter-perfect, but it balances exceptionally well. Mr. Brickert, Mr. Russell and Mr. Preston are exceptionally clever actors. Mr. Atcnerly performed well in . a hard role. Mr. Greenfield in a Juvenile role pleases. Miss Babcock takes the leading woman's part in a most nleas - Ing manner, and she has a- hard part to nlav.z The other women nf tha Mat balance it up well. w. R. P. Goddess of Liberty. ' Miss Olive Artell. one of the dainty There la more Catarrh In this section of tne country than all other diseases pat together, and on til the last few year was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctor pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has Sroven catarrh to be a constitutional isease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh core, manufactured by F. J. Cheney 4k Co.. Toledo. Ohio. l the only constitutional care on the market. It la taken Internally In doses from IS drops to a teaspoonfuL It acts directly ea the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollar for any case It falls te care. Send for circular and testimonial. Address: F. J. CHENEY tt CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Sold br Pruaalat. 75c. Take Ban's Family Pllla for coast!

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t ,;.sv!,-':f Wf--S ft yt Jmt & there are over ,100 In San Antolno taking the best possible care of hira. He is wheeled around in a chair, fed his mush with the care one would give to a baby and his cigarettes are rolled for. him by some of his greatgrandchildren or their children. But his mind is still active and aute. Juan Vargas still remembers everything as if it only happened yesterday. Ho can draw word pictures of the many events he witnessed that are marvels as to details and acuracy. He remembers the appearance of Halley's comet In 1835 and the many conjectures that were Indulged in by his kind as to the meaning of the flaming sword. He talks louder than does the average man, his hearing is still unimpaired and his sight, while not as: hawklike as it once was, is still as good as that of most people. Juan Vargas has five 'generations living in this; city, Rosa Vargas, a three year old girl, being the youngest of the family. From Juan down there is only one complete line. His daugh ter, Jacinta. is 92 years of age, her son, Ambrosio, (90. his son Havian is 21, and his daughter, Rosa is three. Vargas has another daughter, ; Geronima, who. is 90, and a son, Juan Jr., who died at the youthful age of 87. The descendants of Juan Vargas from these two children are many. . If ever man was loved by his chil dren and theirsUt is Papacita Vargas. They call him papacita an endearing form of the Spanish papa because they are greatly attached to him. They minister to every one of : his. wants, wash his face and comb his hair as if he were a baby, kiss his : weazened, old hands and smooth his wrinkled brow. In the Aztec and his kind parental and filial love were ever strong. comediennes in Mort Singer's Chicago success, "The Goddess of Liberty" which appears at the Gennett Monday is the daughter of a clergyman, and a Meihodist at that. Miss Artell is a young woman of intellect as well as physical charm, and upon, at least one occasion, attracted notice from the literary world, by an essay, in one of the magazines, upon the "Ideal Husband," as Miss Artell confesses to only twenty-three years of age, her opinion on the subject may not be entirely sound, but her epitome on the article In question, attracted wide attention, and commendations from the critics. Her conclusion being the, ideal husband, was the "Golden Rule In Trousers." , Richmond Stock Co. Tonight the Richmond Stock company will give their last performance of "The Wife" the great Belasco DeMllle piece with which they have opened their spring engagement . at the Gennett theater. The company will make way on Monday and Tuesday evenings for "The Goddess of Liberty and , "The Third 4 Degree," and will start their week on Wednesday , night with the Lefflngwell : version of the well known St. Elmo. Mr. Preston claims for this version the advantage ot following, more closely the story than the one presented here earlier 1 in the- season, and assures another performance quite as charming as The i lie. The Third Degree. It lacks but a few days now till the latest New York hit, "The Third Degree" will be produced at the Gennett and that a great audience will greet the peculiar "Klelnesqne'. dramatic document is a sore fact. The coming of The Third Degree" to Richmond marks a new venture in theatricals. The sending of a show on the road, one that could. If the management had the desire to keep it there, stay in New York indefinitely, Is an innovation, and that it win and Is striking an appreciative chord Is forcefully demonstrated by the marvelous business record of "The Third Degree" since it took to the road. Bart Swan. Again the people of Richmond will have an opportunity of seeins Bert Swam, th damiUea. fearless, aquatic

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