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To pnotoeTaph and map out the en tire heavensto search. with the cam era, the profoundest depths of space-- to bring" to light all the heavenly bod ies far beyond the vision of the most powerful telescopeto tabulate and catalogue millions of starsis the stu pendous task which the International Astrographic Congress set itself to Per form when It convened in Paris. April 1;, 'SST. The work of lapis congress is nearly completed, and already sections of the star charts are being printed and vent to the eighteen different observe,- tories interested in the undertaking. Mapping the entire heavens will prove an epoch-making enterprise. Fu ture generations will chronicle the achievement as one of the greatest of this century, and each astronomer aid ing the work will hold a charter to f am e. fame,. and season have rendered nec , , the spending of a number of yea , Wolf's great map of the PI whereon but 671 stars are show' I 1 many years of the closest vist .,. ,,,,,,,,-..'". -,m-t. servation to complete. To-dal - oi,.-'-:. ..-,r' tography, in an hour's exposure, 1,421 stars of the same group, fl t ;..:,,'Ç:r 1 '::-. ."71.::::-,,, ing accurate data for calculatio , - , attainable by visual means. , I :1r - 173-z ''-'"; ,-o - v ,;-,- scopic observations during eclipl ir , ' !$.i, vl ,,c1' ,- nOW subordinate to photograph -,,,' 7,1,. 1:1--'-.. --,.,.,,,,,,,,.. ' I ords. Rapidly changing objects 4, heavensobjects too fleeting to , f 4 'I I' '1V ''' 1, t:- . - f k 1 ' 1 (1 ' 1 1 P ' ' i' ., ' i :ij1 1 1'11 , ., --.2 "", ..., -i ,,4 t.: J , , 1 1 10 1 4 ,,...-....'". , t 0 --- -.''''' - 'Sr.,, ,. .. 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It was fitting that Dr. Gill should originate the work, for it was front his famous photograph of the comet of 1S-52 that astronomers the world over turned their attention in the first instance to star photography. AN AMAZING WORN The new star map is an amazing - ,'. 1 ; I - - - 1 1 , - 'i - 1 I , 1 it - , THOMAS WALSH, TIIM COLORA-DO MILLIONAIRE, WHO ENJOYS THE UNIQUE DISTINCTION OF BEING PARTNER IN BUSINESS 4TD KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM. HE IS RE1PUTED TO - , iiAVE AN ANNUAL INCOME OF $1,200,000 AND LS A G-RtAT PHILANTHROPIST. OF THE HEAVENS. Have Reduced a Thousand-Year As a Matter of One Nights work. The patchwork of photographS i will cover an immense globe ha ving- a diameter of twenty-four feet. During the work 44,000 photographs will be taken, and a catalogue of 2,500,000 stars will be made. Each Photograph, to avoid errors, will be duplicated. Al together more than 30,000,000 stars will be photographed. Previous to the middle of this cen tury such a, work would have been considered beyond the bounds of pos sibility. To tabulate these stars in the ordinary way would take thousands of years and the stars themselves WOUld change their places before the work could be half finished. It is only through photography that it can be done at all. The entire work could be done in one night, so far as the actual photographing is concerned, but vary ing conditions of atmosphere, climate and season have rendered necessary the spending of a number of years. Wolf's great map of the Pleiades, whereon but 671 stars are shown, took many years of the closest visual ob servation to complete. To-day, pho tograph3r,in an hour's exposure, shows 1,421 stars of the same group, furnish ing accurate data for calculations un attainable by visual means. Tele scopic observations during eclipses are nOW subordinate to photographic rec ords. Rapidly changing objects in the heavens--objects too fleeting to be ob served by the eye--are caught on the sensitized plate and stored up for leis urely study. The photographic plate is accumula tive and permanent, whereas the retina of the eye only retains its impression for a tenth of a second at the most. Beyond that effacement and renewal continually go on. For ordinary purposes tt Is well that this is so. Did not our eyes possess the faculty of obliteration past occur rences only would be ever before our vision. rait for astronomical purposes the human eye is a thing of the past. The camera has taken man's place at the eye end of the telescope. The order of the stars, the secrets of the sky, un veil themselves before the patient stare of the photographic plate. As Her ,schel has said, "the camera. is the re tina that forgets not." It discerns stars beyond the range of the best teles copes. In the atmosphere of Paris the satellite of NePtune was never seen by the telescope: every part of its orbit was measured on a photographic plate. The lens of the camera is of more astronomical value than the lens of the finest telescope. Afore accuracy obtains in measuring a plate than was possible in visual measurement. One five hundred thousandths of an inch and less on a photographic plate fur nishes data for accurate star measure ment; where the telescope will show but 50,000,000 stars, the sensitized plate exhibits more than 160,000,000. Again, owing to the great sensitive ness of modern plates the images thrown upon them may be highly mag nified while the exposure is kept very short. Five one-thousandths of a second is all the time required to photograph a star of the first magnitude. Stars vis ible to the naked eye may be photo graphed in half a, second, those of the fourteenth magnitude requiring thir teen minutes. By exposing a plate for an hour all the stars down to the four teenth magnitude inclusive will be marked on the plate, each in propor tion to its power and the duration of the exposure. Though light travels at the incon ceivable velocity of 1.87,000miles a sec ond, yet light from some stars in the range.of the telescope takes 5.760 years to reach the earth. We may see on the photographic plate pictures of stars, not as they are, but as they were per haps half a million years ago; light is still reaching us from stars which have long since become extinct. It is possible that the plate of the camera is to-day catching from stars light which has been travelling earth-- ward millions of yearswhich may, in deed, have set out toward the earth before this planet came into existence. The first star photograph was a da guerreotype of Vega taken at Har vard College July 17, 1850. The young er Bond, by the collodion process, ob tained in 1857 photographs of stars of the first magnitude. No serious effort was made in stellar photography until after 1882, when Dr. Gill photographed the comet of that year at the Cape of Good Hope Obser vatory. He attached an ordinary por trait lens with a two-inch aperture and a- focus of eleven inches to the teles cope, using the instrument as a "find er" to the camera. Photographs last ing from half an hour to two hours and twenty minutes were taken. The new photographic map is pre ceded by a visual map commenced a quarter of a century ago by Bonn and completed by Argelander. Its object was a great star census. It was be gun in the Northern Hemisphere and brought by Schonfeld to within 20 de grees of the equator. This "Durch musterung," or "roll call of the stel lar army," is divided into two sections, and tabulates 485,00 stars. Stars not entered in it have no offi cial existence. Should they vanish the fact cannot be attested; should they brighten into conspicuousness they must be regarded as new for lack of previous ;acquaintance. Whatever is known of the distribution of stars is taken from that enumeration. The photographic map proposed by Dr. Gill will extend from Schonfeld's zone to the South Pole, and will in clude all stars up to the fifteenth mag nitude. The fourteen magnitude stars are on the limit of faintness. Be yond these stars photographic images are vague.. An Odd Holiday. Last month the railway town of Crewes, in England, enjoyed a holiday and festival, the occasion being the completion of the four thousandth lo comotive built in the great railway shops there. A Patriotic Island. From the Isle of Lewis, in proportion to population, does the most of Eng lands fighting men come. The total population is 28,000, and no fewer than 4,000 serve the country in one capacity or another. The Great Seal Keeper. The best and most lucrative position to which a barrister can rise in Eng land is undeniably the Lord Chancel lorship. It is worth $50,000 a year, and it is a fact that many past Lord Chan cellors were the sons of poor men. One v:as the son of a. country barber, while the father of another was a, Newcastle Coal heaver.. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TEACHING A KING 1101Y TO GET RICH. Thomas WaTAI, Partner in Etb4iness to Leopold IL, is Showing That Monarch How to Make Money., The latest American to ingratiate himself into the favor of a European monarch is Thomas Walsh, the Color ado millionaire. The monarch with whom Mr. Walsh is upon such easy terms is Leopold of Belgium, who is to become a partner in business with the American Croesus. King Leopold never knew what easy money was until he met Mr. Walsh, and now that he knows he wants some of it. The millions of francs he is reputed to have pulled out of a sub rosa inter est in the Ostend gambling. tables have cost him endless censure, even grant ing that no qualms of conscience have figured on the debit side of the ledger. The millions the Congo commercial en terprise have yielded have been any thing but easy money. Some of his commercial enterprises in Belgium have produced nothing but deficits. It was in the hope of getting the millionaire American to make up one of these deficits and put the Interna tional Sleeping Car Company on a pay ing basis that His Majesty went after Walsh when the Coloradoan began to cut his swath at the Paris Exposition. The attempt at an understanding in that particular regard has resulted in a general partnership between King and citizen for the purpose of enlarg ing Walsh's strength on the specula tive market and increasing the return on Leopold's invested funds. It came about this way: Walsh's lay., ishness at Paris attracted the atten tion of Continental financiers, and no tably the attention of those who wish ed to unload. Charles Nagelmackers, the Belgian president of the sleePing ONE OF THE INSTRUMENTS USED IN CONNECTION WITH PHOTO ' GRAPHING THE HEAVENS. car company, in which Leopold Is largely interested, thought Walsh's money and business sagacity might transform the company from a losing train, equIpped at Leopold's expense, into a profitable venture. A special brought the Walsh family from Paris down to Ostend, and Walsh looked over 'the ground "Really," he said, after InVestigat frig the company, "your sleeping' car company cannot interest me. Umier the best auspices it could not pay more than 4 or 5 per cent.; whereas I realize from 10 to 20 per cent. on my money." Leopold wanted to know all about it. He wanted to know also if a mere king with a few millions in his stock ing might venture to shear the lambs to a, 10-percentum tune. And the re sult of the conference and of Leopold's careful investigation of Walsh's rec ord is the partnership that has struck conservative Belgians speechless with astonishment. It is doubtful if any other individu al at the Paris Exposition gained so much notoriety as did "Tom" Walsh, as he is called by his friends. He is said to have dined every American in Paris and his dinners were always giv en at the costliest hotels. The farewell dinner given to tho ,--,., r-,7';-,--3:, --,t. -,:.---,,,,;:. -:-.,.::2,,i.s, 1,:-, c,....-, c-..,:.:,:1::,,,,zke.;...;,,,..., . ;-,1,-,,,2,0- -,:,,, 4.,..,-.-2,, t, ,,-,rti-,,,,,,,-,,-,:--,-;- 62,,ç7,,J,,-., -,z:,,,, k ...,-.'......,,N,-N.,, , k,:4-,-:-.,!: -.;,,..--t,.. ,--z,,:- .N.,,. t,.;, , v, ,,..,. ,,. 4 -, ....... ., , .s,,si,.,.,0,,.,-,.,--,,,7,7, ,,, A 11 1:,,,,, v,,,,,, ,J.,,,i,.4,, ,,,,, -,,i, , ,,, e--,-, ,,,,,,,,, ,,,t-- ki r--.---4,-- Is,' f;', ,..45;.,,,,,,-;,..--7. ,-7,5, , . ':,; ,-....;5::::r. ' it-?; ;::::.--Fr.:NN..V,;";,,, . ,,,,,.-",,":..' ......V.' :,-..1.: ': 4;i t'.....11. ' "."1.-.::.... I . ; I, 1 t :,,, k; ,::;-,. 't;-,..:4'. p: , 't iV : .' ;:.7,..; (1:-, f lh IC ' 1,:::. ..T. .,... -t,:r.v :: ,;4.)I i 1 ,1 ' 7:1 '''':' - r '1 I i I ! t.,Lc-------,-17'4.2; ft ,,,t .. , 1 IÄmerican Colony at Paris by Mrs. Walsh was the most elaborate enter tainment Parisians bave ever seen. For this occasion the whole lower floor of the Elysee Palace Hotel was occu pied and converted into a floral bower, with thousands of chrysanthemums, American beauty roses and orchids im ported from the United States espec ially for the occasion. Then to put a climax to the whole affair the Walshes dined Leopold King of Belgium, spending something like a hundred thousand dollars upon the royal banquet. The dinner was given at the Hotel Ritz in the splendid ban quetting hall where Harry Thaw, of Pittsburg, gave his famous dinner to the beauties of Paris. The music was afforded by the Czar's OWn band which was at the time in Paris. Only once before had a pri vate individual succeeded in securing the able services of these royal musi cians, and that person was a favorite at the Court Russia, the Duchess Ro hail. But the American millionaire whose doings had set the boulevards of Paris agog had become self-confident in his newly acquired fame and no request was considered too bold for him to make. He negotiated for the services of the musicians and secured them, and King Leopold listened at Mr. Waish's dinner to the weird, de lightful music of the Czar's ONVII band and ate of the dainties prepared by an American chef. ' Probably, the item that commands 111.: . ......,.. ,,......,,,.,. . -- . ., f I . . :., 4 ,--", i 4 , i 1 ''..! ,':' : ,:::''',;0',.,-.":17': .'"'.:, '..:::' ' .., 7 il )1, ) I i 4: '. .4 t-,- :.. - 7 :7 i I : : :: ! '...;;;L:' .1 W ', i 1 ,:,,i J.- A,- '- . h ,. I y, rii i , . 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The Great Tragedienne, Younger and liore Charming Than Ever, American theatre goers are soOn tO have the pleasure of seeing Sarah Bernhardt in the two plays which dur ing the last year have W011 more fame in E'urope and in America tha7n any other dramatic productions of the cen tury, many The Divine Sarah will take the lead ing parts in both of these plays, "Cy rano de Bergerac," and "E'Aiglon," and she Will also appear in her famous impersonation of "Hamlet." She will be supported by Coquille, who is the foremost actor of Prance, and vvill make a tour of the country extending probably over six months. or until the Oose of the theatrical season in the spring of 1901. In Paris just now one hears of no one else but Madame Bernhardt. And what are the people saying? You will no doubt imagine that they are still prais ing her wonderful acting and marvel lous methods by which she retains her youthful strength and vigor, but neither of these is what interests Pa risians, and in fact Britishers and Americans as well, just now. The first and most important subject of discussion is the publication of an extract from the unpublished autobi ography of the great tragedienne's life. The next is that she is accredited with having changed the feminine figure in a single night! Both distinctive in their own peculiar lines and sufficiently im portant to set society and the profes sional world a-gossipping. The Venus de Milo and all her old time relativee have been shown -us fer years as the high and true type of feminine form. But, while we looked. a.nd admired, we did not believe that beauty lurked in such Lroad Then came the meal bag period, Wo men went corsetless and tied a string' around their middle. They WOTIS blouses. and wide loose sashes divid ing them in half with often the string visible. It was dreadful. Women whe wore these gowns looked at you brass ily with the courage of their convic tions. Others looked on and laughed. and drew their corset strings a little bit tighter. Then came the long straight line, the draped gown, they called it. It began at the shoulders and ended at the feet without a break. Women presented solid fronts of silk with lace aPoliqueel all over them. Velvet fell from neck to floor. looking all the world like a per tiere. Then came the reaction. Corsets were made stronger and the strings were pulled tighter. It really took two maide to get a woman into her gown; and then it took an extra hand to hook the waistband, which came around the waist underneath the gown, while care ful fingers smoothed and patted the subject and finally turned her out a perfect tailor made woman, moulded into her gown. What she endured frorn the agony of those tightly drawn strings, how she felt above and below them. how she breathed, and in what manner she kept her organs working'. no one but herself knew, for women do not betray the confidences of the corset strings. At night, In grim silence, she smooth. ed the ?narks of the side steels from her ribs and congratulated herself that the strings had done their self-appointedi task of maintaining an appearance. As for the organs, they were squeeze ed either up or down; and In either case they planned revenge. Did they get it? Ask the woman 'who found time or occavion to battle with the problems of life. Just ask her what those organs said when the time came for them to exert themselves. Not at home, out of their sphere, dissatisfied, weak end inefficient.- they got even with the tailor made:woman, all at once! Bernhardt. that wonderful 'woman, who has laughed at human emotions for a quarter of a century. looked on with the rest of the world of women leaders and saw it alt It is said that, when the project of changing the fem inine ideal was in her mind, she spent whole days at the Louvre ,studyinir each curve and becoming acquainte4 with each deflection of the feminine muscles. She saw where the lines should be, where the cut off mark of the figure naturally came, and she EllSa saw the chance for an ideal, The tall slender boys, with figures like girl as sisted her in their unconscious grace. and she watched them and slowly de veloped her ideal. And Bernhardt did it. She who wears no corsets at all, but who is so exquis itely muscular that her form maintains itself, clasped her belt low around tha abdomen and smiled when she Paw others doing the same. Her belt meas ure was the same as her bust measure. but she got the curve inward at the middle of the back, and that was w Lat she wanted. About at Popular Wrlier. As everyone knows, Miss Marie Co. relit cares very little for society; in fact, has a mild contempt for members of the upper ten. But at the same time society Itself evinces a keen interest in the talented authoress, and Would will ingly, if it were possible, have her rnix among the leading aristocracy. So lit tle is known of Aliss Core personally. that it is sometimes very amusing to hear people express an opinion as to what she is like in their own imagina tion. Some people jealously inclined have gone so far as to characterize her as being old and ugly, and consequent ly she lives a secluded life. As a mat ter of fact, the great authoress is real ly a very pretty woman. She is rather below medium height, has a, graceful and delicately rounded figure, fair complexion and light brown hair. lier nose is ,slightly aquiline, and her eyes are of deep blue with a merry twinkle about them. Miss Core 111 al ways dresses with elegance, frequently in white, while her taste In headgear is unexceptionable. An Imthense Encyclopedia. The Emeperor Kang-no, who reigned from 1661 to 1721. appointed a commis-. sion to reprint in one. huge collection all matter of literary interest relating, to China. When the commission fin-. ished their labors they were able to lay befo-e the Emperor an encyclopaedia. of 6,109 volumes! The contents were divided into thirty-two heads- 9nly a small edition was printed off in the first instarwe, and then, owing to a monetary crisis, the copper type used was melted down to make cash. , -- , , , , , , , , ,