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Mysteries of Science and Nature Wireless Telegraphy, Which Travels Just as Fast as Light, Could Reach the Moon in About One and One-third Seconds. - HE attempt is often made to T convey a clear idea of the tremendous depths of space in which the stars are situated by, calculating the number of years thgt light, traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per SsecC ond, would require to come to the earth from certain stars whose distance has been approximately measured by means of their par allax. Just Imagine the Depth of Space of the Stars. Parallax means the angular displacement against the back ground of the sky that a star shows when viewed alternately from opposite sides of the earth’'s orbit, which is about 186,000,000 miles across, or a thousand times the distance that light can go in a second. This displacement s never large enough to* be visible except By the most delicate in strumental measurements. In the case of the -nearest star known it {s equal to less than omne 2,500 th part of the pbreadth of the full moon. . When distances 12;;resemed by such glight parallaxes are calcu lated in miles the numbers in volved become too great for ready comprehension, because there is nothing in our earthly experience with which we can compare them. Hence the attempts to make them “realizable” by calcu- Jating them in “light-years”—li. €., the space that the light of the stars traverses in one year. The standard of measurement, or “as tronomical yard-stick,” thus ob tained is about 5,800,000,000,000 miles long, which involves again an almost unimaginable number, but it seems to be the best we can do. At any rate, the employment -of this standard enables us tore duce the numbers representing the distances of the stars to very ordinary figures. For instance, the nearest star is about five light-years distant, and from this the measured star distances (which are all only approxima tions) run up to a hundred, or, MARRY RICH-Hundareds anxious to marry. Deacrl%tmnl and photos free ;‘nlaged). The Unity, Grand Rapids, ch. THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS. By GARRETT P. SERVISS with great uncertainty, to a thou sand light-years. A But there is reaton to believe that there are hosts of - stars whose distance may be neot only a thousand, but several thou sand, light-years, In other words, they are so far away that if one of them should suddenly be ex tinguished (a fate that has some times overtaken a star), the last rays of light that it had given birth to would still be on their way to the earth several thou sand years after the star had ac tually ceased to exist. Light Motion So Rapid It Escapes Our At tention. And, comyriwile, if a new gtar should suddenly spring into existence in those remote regions, its light would require thousands of years to reach us, and conse quently it would be ir existence all that length of time without our being made aware of the fact by the arrival of its Iluminous waves through the ether, This is the old way of illus trating the enormous distances of the stars, but while it has an imposing effect upon the imagi nation, it generally fails to pro duce a very definite result in the understanding, simply becauge it is based upon the motion of the waves of light, and in everyday life we ‘n‘ve no consciousness of that motion, whict ig so rapid that it escapes our sense. . Wireless Telegraphy Is a More Striking Example. But since the Invention of wireless telegraphy a more strik ing comparison is afforded by means of which we may help our selves to comprehend the dis tances of the stars. This depends upon the speed of the electric waves which convey the radio telegrams through the ether. This gpeed, there is. every reason to pelieve, is identical with that of light—lin other words, it amounts to 186,000 miles per second. An eleciric wave, translatable into an intelligible signal, can cross the Atlantic Ocean in the sixtieth part of a second. It could go to the moon in less than one and one-third seconds. If its speed is exactiy that of light, then, in es timating star.distances we may substitute a “telegraph year” for a light vear—that is to say, in stead of using the distance that light travels in one year for our astronomical yard-stick, we may use the distance that a wireless signal gent out from the earth would travel in the same time. Since the two distances are supposed identical the question may be asked: “What is gained by the substitution?” The reply is that in consequence of the public's growing familiarity with the use of the electric waves it has a clearer comprehension of their immense speed than it has of the speed of light, which is only dealt with in scientific in vestigations. To say, for in stance, that a wave of light would require 300 years to come to us from a certain star is less in forming to the average mind than would be the equivalent state ment that a wireless Mmessage sent to us from that star would be 300 years on its way through the ether of space. A striking application is afford ed by the recent measurements by Slocum, of the Yerkes Ob servatory, of the parallax of the brilliant new star which suddenly shone out in the constellation Gemini in 1912, and which is still faintly visible, According to these measurements, the distance of that star is about 296 light-years. But how much more picturesque and graphic the statement be comes when put in this form: Message From This Star Would Require 296 Years. If the victims of the awful catastrophe that destroyed the We teach REAL ESTA.E FREE zmmul. Under our system of course instruc you will become a proficient real estate dealer, procure ready buyer, close deals cfl;h-lly and exeeute instruments without legal ald--all from your home. We assist you to a profitable reslty business by co-operating with you on your sales and derive our returns from 5 per cent of your first year's commissions, In addition w 0 our free course Instruction we furnish you with a complete office outfit of literature, hooks, forms, stationery, ete., at the actual cost price of $9.50 (express mdd). Start your business and in stroction &t oonce. Now is the season for buyers. Over three milllon acres sold ln four years. Ad dress Dept. M. 42, REALTY EXTENSION BCHOOL. 4147 North Hermitage Ave, Chicago. worlds surrounding the blazing star in Gemini (a catasirophe that became known on the earth in 1912), had sent out by radio telegraphy to all the universe their last despairing cry, “We are lost!” the electric waves convey ing it would have required 296 _years to reach the earth, Man Stocks Up as His Town Goes Dry KEWANEE, ILL., May I.—Before Kewanee went “dry” last night, as a result of the local option election re cently, one ciuzen purcnased 60 dozen bottles of beer, which he figures will last him for two years, consuming one bottle daily. 2 AR TR BRRTRRRR TR RN NR NI AIR R INRARB ORGSR CERAARNGE RO mßm—n. $1,500 TO $3,500 PER YEAR CAN BE EARNED BY A FIVE-ACRE FARM IN THE HEART OF . FLORIDA. 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Florida State Agricultural Depart« ment gives the following census reports of .the actual results secured by grow ers in our county: Lettuce, Is:m f" acre; celery, $1,9256; cucumbers, $5614; English peas, $437; beans, $331, and you can grow from three to four crops per year on the same land. Our county is the largest - fruit producing county in the State, Oranges yield $BOO per acre; grapefruit, 03800; strawberries, $800; peaches, $400; pears, $3OO, We have prepared a handsome 36-page booklet containing dozens of photographs of fruit and vegetable farms in our vie cinity and containing all the informa tion you wish concerning this favored region It also contains hundreds of letters from men from every part of the United States who have purchased farms here from ug and who are more enthusiastic in their praise of our land than we are. We will send It to you free of charge if you wili write for It Don't delay, but send your pame and address to-day. 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