0*0'0»0-0*-0-*0*0*0*-C 0‘0*0*0*0-,0"0*-0»-0'0*0"0*0,0—0-*0*'0 3 HEAVENS IN JANUARY | By PROFESSOR ERIC DOOLITTLE of the University of Pennsylvania.

The New Year a Wonderful One for Astronomical Events—The Planet Venus Reaches Its Greatest Brightness January 7—Three Comets Visible.

The year 1910 will be distinguished by be seen in the heavens until Venus be- most several interesting astronomical gins to draw out from behind the sun in events. First of all in importance is November. doubtless the return of Halley’s comet, There are three comets now visible in that wonderful celestial which to- object the sky. The first of these is a very ward the end of will shire out spring faint little object which returns to the so the brightly in evening sky that it sun HAT I every six years, and which now lies will attract the attention of one. every I so low down in the after Then here will be two total Southwest Just Interesting sunset that it cannot be well seen from eclipses of the moon, both visible northern observatories. throughout the 1'nited States and In tli* The second is a new bright little comet GOODNESS last month of the year an ooculation 01^ discovered on December 7. At its discov- the planet Saturn, a beautiful and un- ery it was at the point C, Figure a usual sight, which will repay observation 1, little above a straight line the with a small telescope. Joining Men of fashion, who stars D and E. At the time this is writ- I At all times of the year, except for ten its the and its about six weeks, there will be at least, path among fu- ! ture cannot be know what’s what, one bright planet in the evening sky, appearance predicted. and the observer will find it of much Finally, there is llalley’s comet, which the Interest to watch the varying motions during the month will move westward out recognize impor- of the Aries and appearances of these bodies as the constell^Jioa, along the path Boys and Men F. II.. 1. head- months go by. The planet Venus, which I Figure tance of the now shines out so very brilliantly in the | It was visible in a telescope of moder- ate but as it The time for Winter Clothes is and to southwest just after sunset, has already ] size, had passed nearest the selling growing short, previous taking In- \ wear as the finishing begun to draw west of that body and | sun thd day before and was then far out- (For enter the morning sky on February 12. side the orbit of the earth and rapidly : we are offering all our odds and ends at especially low prices. Plenty of time touch— ventory yet to wear heavy clothes, nearly three months more, but the time for selling not is solong. This new haber- dashery is showing We Prefer Money to Stock

a most comprehen- And we are going to make Great Sacrifices to Secure It. The power of cut prices j line of the new- sive will move these Odds and Ends—we know it; now it is up to you—the consume-, to est and best models—

blocks that command : I a Rich Harvest I I more than a passing JJSL Reap 0"™s glance. At This Sale! m wee? | > H SPIELBERGER H Men's Suits Our reputation for a square Boys’ & Children’s Overcoits deal is bound to attract you to $15.00, $12.00 and $10.00 $5.00 Overcoats, at ..$.89 BROTHERS 0»7 OQ our sale. You’ll certainly not values, at.V « •OiJ 4.00 Overcoats, at. 189 j want to miss this 3.00 1906 First Avenue $20.00, $18.00 and $15.00 opportunity Overcoats, at. 189 OQ i^Q Few sizes 3 f values, at.i —READ. years up to 16 years 8.00 Overcoats, at...<79 i REMARKABLE JOURNEY. $30.00, $25.00 and $20.00 04 /* I OQ 6.50 Overcoats, at.. <79 values, at.vJLV*0«F From the Niger to the Nile by Dr. Karl 5.00 Overcoats, at....79 Kumm. Odds and Ends, 3 years up to 16 ylars. f London, January 1.—(Special.)—Further particulars of the remarkable journey 50UTM Men's Overcoats from the Niger to the Nile, on which Dr. Karl Kumm, general secretary of the Su- Boys’ Suits 1—The 9 m. dan United Mission, has been engaged Figure constellations, January 1, p. and Raincoats since October of last year, have reached (When facing south, hold the map upright. If facing east, hold “East" (Regular Pants) if hold “West” and if hold | ILondon. below; west, below, facing north, map inverted.) $20.00, $15.00 and $12.00 In a letter dated from Wan. in the OQ WQ •••••••••••••a*•••••••• All and Suit Bahr-el-Ghazel, on October 14, Dr. Kumm values.W* ■ $3.00, $4.00 $5.00 Art difficulties gives particulars of the great During nearly the entire year it will re- drawing- away from us, it grew rapidly go at. that little and he encountered In traversing main a morning star, only returning to fainter, and can r.ow only be seen with $25.00, $20.00 $48.00 known region. The hardships endured the on 2*3. These are the evening heavens November the largest instruments. gg regular pant styles onl; his oxen and 1 g were terrible, succumbed, After this date we will see it slowly It is hoped that by the end of the month —but such values that the some of the caravan were reduced to liv- out from behind the but for you get pricei j moving sun, It will be to be seen in a even ! bright enough In this as is usual with all our of- lng on leaves and roots, and boiled many months afterward it will be very sale, to small telescope or good field glass. To ought make you buy them anyhow. J leather. much less brilliant than it is at pres- enable the observer to find it easily a | ferings, you’ll find honest values stitch- "I am to say," he writes, "that the ent. glad is Our price* will make it coatly to neglect ttala the larger map. Figure 3, added. difficulties we had apprehended from j This planet will reach its greatest ed with truthful words. 1916 Third Ave. *ale, for we hare linked with cut The comet is now moving rapidly to- quality ratia. j Senussi vanished, for the Senussi him- on 7. On and after brightness January ward the west the stars and draw- j came among self, with a thousand of his soldiers, this time the possessor of a small tele- lng nearer the sun. On March 23 It will out to meet me, and was friendliness scope should not fall to examine it. Even pass to the west of that body and enter i itself. a good held glass will show it as a the morning sky, but for some weeks be- He is afraid of the French and tried beautiful crescent, which dur- silvery fore this date it should have become to win my good opinion, so that I could ing the next few weeks will grow narrow- ; chain of | fo be seen with the naked Morgan banks Include the course, includes drug stores and whole- woman of Parts, she • him at Khar-Wumleft Ndele. thinnest bright enough lmmilately asks recommend er and narrower until it is the j First National the National Bank sale houses. on * eye. On it will paBs between the bank, Later, July 15, Sheriff me: 'Have seen and for 25 traversed unexplored ter- bow of The ob- May ip you suchind such a days imaginable little liglit. the of Commerce, the Chase National, the Higdon of Jefferson Issued, un- We earth and sun, re-entering evening county Have ritory, without roads or villages. server may notice that the horns of Trust play? you been to sAstor Trust company, the dealers of Jefferson county,” showing 441 do>ou think of no food, heavens from the Kolto river. My people had j around the planet, a fact which proves licenses this novel or of that philoaojical or his- several days after this date it will prob- Morton Trust company, the Guaranty Issued by the federal govern- and some of the Mecca pilgrims who were that our sister world has a con- torical book | clearly Trust the States Mort- ment. recently publlsiar .... ably be a conspicuous and striking ob- company, United me were starving. One old I siderable And I am forced to following atmosphere. gage and Trust company, the Equitable A person In Birmingham who Is well admit hat I have save the lives of the was so near ject. man died, and to The planet Mars, which UP BUS not Been the latest play, tit for more BUYING Trust the Mercantile Trust Informed, close to the astronomers of various company, being underground others I distributed all my personal food the earth and so brilliant last August, A committee of than ten X have not j the Manhattan Trust com- railways In the of years it my foot countries has been formed for the company, delivery package among them. will continue to grow fainter until next keeping Inside the annual at pany and the New Amsterdam Trust goods, told the writer, on May 1, last, ‘salons,’ I read we were all on leaves and when it will be comet under constant observation during At last living September, only slight- that he knew of 63 cases of slowly and carefully, and &> therefore From its close company. Some of institutions whisky being roots, and some on boiled leather. Day i brighter than a second magnitude star Its present appearance. theye forced to read but few ly Toward Concen- are largely owned by other interests, delivered by on® concern to customers on boot. And X I the bush this time the earth and Mars will approach to Venus on May 1 and to the Centralizing know after day tramped through At resent classidcation that one A certain bank president, my American neighbor »et great It is that exact which might the day. after but in 25 days got only two be on sides of the sun, more earth on May 18 hoped disdain lnculture. game, opposite here given. But Wall street has put standing high In the community, wishing for my Hill, 1 Now all that Is mile$ so that in the values of the masses of these planets may Power Infinite small antelope. passed, than 130,000,000 apart, unless to or two cases have sympathy for of the trating them In the ‘Morgan group,’ and purchase, get somehow, her-hrmtng and I am this in a beautiful room the will appear only be obtained. At the passage earth and universal writing telescope planet be of beer for a little entertainment be was Intellectual curlotti only on the latter date carefal the ownership should again shifted, in the headquarters. about one-seventh as large as It now through the tail long experience has me government the classification will probably sur- giving some friends that evening, tele- taught thUoan’s "The has resulted in (1) the head cannot contain too expedition vive. phoned the old stand-by—never mind the many 'Aj at of a new highroad across the Su- once. opening IN WASHINGTON contains name! While he was attempting to get valuable Information INSTANCES “The other Important group dan; (2) obtaining on the the aforesaid “There is consequently an abys be- what are called the National Clty-Han- telephone stand-by, about the frontier line between Islam tween the way most American banks. Institutions his telephone lines became crossed with wor^, t the of new over National The have and Paganism; (3) opening the residence lines of & certain met conceive Intellectual cqjre to which in Wall street’s classification are telephone French and British government posts Recent in New York a coal and iron and my own way. Far from me tore- Development* thus allied Include the National City, vice-president of large and cut ofT the last great high tend X am And l intercept company at Birmingham, the owner of that right! give thika traffic." Described and What Hanover National, Colonial (witn to road for the slave They May the request for two cases heaven, which sends us, In the Afr- branches), Irving Exchange, New York which, hearing of beer to be sent out Immediately, ican women of Paris, the most wondt^n Lead to—Banking Alliances County, Butchers and Drovers, Citl- How Eskimo Women Die. joined in the three-cornered conversation public for books or theatres or lcctn*. zens-Central, Fidelity, Columbia, Sec- But If I had the honor of From Harper s Bazar. in Wall Street. to this wise: “- has sent me by mis- being profesr ond National, the Bank of the Metropo- of French to American On her first entrance to her new hut take, the wrong day, two cases of beer. young girlu lis, Lincoln National, Greenwich (with would with the of snow an Eskimo woman Is buoyed by I’ll just send you over what I am asktng begin following truth! branches). Alsq the Farmers’ Loan and anecdote: of a son. What of her him to call for now.” Another friend of hope welcoming Trust and the United States Trust. Tue same old stand- "A compatriot of theirs, speaking last incoming to those narrow confines? j From the Washington Herald. the writer called up the Union Trust Is also placed by many the poet Francois Coppee, asked: / She knows that the medicine man has 1 Financial writers are calling attention by from the former’s residence, ordering people In this list. Besides the banks Do Monsieur?1 when a case of beer for some friends that you speak English, f decided that her sickness is mortal to the tendency in banking affairs toward both are already mentioned, groups He the order at 2 p. m. “And Coppee answered, modestly: her bed of snow. She evening. gave 11 she Is laid upon accumulation of sur- Interested In other banks and Madame. larger capitalization, heavily Being anxious that the beer should ar- ‘Non, I am still leamtn gazes upon the feebly burning lamp*beside trust 11 plus, and enlargement of resources by companies. rive all correct at 3 p. m. he telephoned French.1 her; upon food and drink set close at the consolidation of two or more institu- us call Mr. X.. "How about it?” her hand. She sees her loved ones pass Power to Make Great Loans. (let hipo) several The beer had been delivered at his, the Casey’s Vacation. out the that needs no tunnel tions into one or the control of “These are the two great banking of doorway m. purchaser’s, residence at 2:20 p. From Norman E. Mack's » entrance to keep chill airs away, for pres- institutions by a syndicate of capitalists. groups of New York city, and both are Nations the door Is sealed with snow. The this is the adding new links to their chain when- Monthly., 'Ip ently The motive to larger activity American Women. her en- ever a favorable offers. In wife was at tha when chill of death pierces through CAST of loans which opportunity Casey's hospital rtOAIiON- making large, long-time American woman's intellectual veloping furs. Her tomb insures that addition to banks here, the financiers "The she had undergone a very serious opera- mean to the bank with The greater profits control of the two are in- is says Marcel no long tarrying will be hers. soul, j in groups characteristic curiosity," tlon a few days before. less cost of less scattered a. the of accounting and in numerous out-of-town in feels companioning with her, may refresh itself Figure 2—The eastern heavens at 3 m., showing path Jupiter. terested Provost, in Harper's Bazar. "One Mrs. Kelly called to enquire as to Mrs. risk. These writers say the tendency is and work In with with food, but starving and freezing jjer stitutions, sympathy she would like to have ten pairs of eyes Casey's condition. feeble will witness even that soul’s most noticeable in them. ears restin’ body widespread. Though so as to see everything, ten pairs of “Is she quietly I*1 Mrs. Kelly and know that its hour has bodies observations will be made “The result Is that both these comblna/- When asked. departure does. Even at present the two meteorological New York the same thing is going on in so as to hear everything. | to make extraordi- come to perish alone. are so far apart that only the larger to discover what (if any) effects, electri- ail the large cities of the country. tlons are In position I sit down at table beside an American “No, but I am,” said Casey. boast some of markings can be seen, even in a large cal or otherwise, are produced in our at- The views of these writers would seem nary loans, It being the of a total re- s——s! The “8oul Kiss” In Carthage. telescope. The disc of the planet is now mosphere. Above all, it is hoped that to have some foundation in Washington. the bankers Involved that the of the the Institutions From the Kansas City Star far from round, its shape being nearly continuous series of photographs By the slow accumulations of business, sources represented by It to them The "Soul Kiss’’ was hilled for Car- like that of the* moon when about nine visitor will be obtained, being caught by mergers, and by enlarging capital and thus allied are so great as give at one after it has set at ob- of the --1 1 thage last week and a minister of that days old. observatory surplus from time to time the local banks ‘a virtual monoply big things ■-* j servatories further east. As This means cor- It’s town objected to some of the posters ad- j The beautiful planet Jupiter, which is telescopes and trust companies are growing in finan- in Wall street.’ that the ,f^^Now # the show The manager of the are few' on the part of the earth opposite cial Two of na- poration or Individual that is forced to vertising now seen rising majestically in the east power. Washington’s house heeded the minister’s de- the meridian of Greenwich, an expedition tional banks have each borrow or in a hurry 1 opera soon after next April will be $1,000,000 capital 16,000,000 |10,000,000 midnight, will be the Hawaiian for and covered the sent to Islands and one of them has a of has to do business with one or the other nunciations objectionable \ high in the heavens by 9 o’clock in the j surplus $1,700,000 with advertising the next this purpose. ERIC DOOLITTLE. and the other Amjng the trust of these groups.’ Time to pictures paper ; evening, and will remain our brightest $6,600,000. ‘banking Economize week's bill. Some %sked If the Is seen a similar accumulation “One of the most bankers people nnd most interesting evening star until companies prominent "Soul Kiss" was cancelled. Jerusalem Ahead. of and giving In the National National engagement October 18. On this date the sun, in Forging capital, surplus resources, Clty-Hanover "No,” the manager said, “but we covered From London Public to these Institutions large loaning power in commenting the other day on regular eastward motion along its path, Opinion. gronp, to the posters because we were getting 'Jerusalem has obtained a new and cumulative Savings banks the of the hold- And there’s no better way up A. V. B., Figu re 1, will pass the planet,- Just profits. Morgan purchase Ryan btgin better advertising through the ministry." town clock and a fire But fires are also coming into the same condition, of Life said that his which accordingly will then become a engine. lngs Equitable stock, are of rare occurrence, owing to the solid three of the local banks of this kind associates were in with on morning star. Similarly Saturn will be fully sympathy than household and pantry construction of the houses and the ab- showing savings aggregating ov*r $1,000,- the move. What he meant was that overtaken by the sun and enter the morn- they { ^pr sence of timber. 000 each. had been fully advised of it. The fact ing sky on April 1*. Saturn and Mars | that’s right where A Chamber of Commerce has also been Bank* Grow Is (hat the two groups work in : plies—and are now near together in the sky, but Gradually. thorough I Vy S||r9i|:i|1 established. Institute an New banks when formed receive the harmony in reference to all big under- I National the latter planet has so very rapid A concession for a railway from near small Ga. eastern motion of Its own that the sun major part of their business from takings. 72 S. Pryor St., Atlanta, to Jaffa to Gaaa and thence the Egyp- business of the bank “Whether their activities will be ex- cannot overtake and pass It until Septem- depositors and the ESTABLISHED 1874. tian frontier has been applied for by an 27. Is necessarily widely scattered among tended ultimately to take in much of the ber Italian Other lines said to be capitalist.. j many patrons. As money accumulates business now done by the international This New Tea am Thus of the three bright planets now in are one from HalfTt | | under contemplation the bank makes larger luans, some of the banking houses remains to be seen. The the west Venus will remain with us only and another to Jaffa along the coast, ones out and the smaller are crowded fact that the prominent banks of Wall — one month longer and Saturn only two from Jerusalem to Es Salt and the He- ! institution hsually graduates into the street are fast gaining control of the for- Will I months. But Jupiter will enter the even- ! line; this would be of great import- Pounds Coffee Store jaz class of the powerful Institutions in a eign exchange business, which a decade I ing sky as Saturn leaves it, and this ! a nee in affording access to the sea to dis- few years. As things go the tendency, as ago was almost wholly in the hands of I planet, with Mars, will remain with us i tricts as yet almost devoid of means of these writers point out, is toward largo private banking firms, and that they are until autumn. After Jupiter disappears communication, but the engineering dif- You- [ j loans, large operations and large profits. also doing a very large share of the bond He,p there will be no whatever to ficulties would l»e considerable. bright planet It so to in the commercial ;%■ of is, speak, business with men on the road to drum Best times. is an *•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• of the It interesting problem up trade, shows how effective some This Institute Treats Club Feet, Dis- on the sub- and some of the men writing phases of this combination already are." that which is eases of the 8plne, Hip Joints, Paraly- ject of late scent danger In the concen- It offers you only * -» a c in the hands Cjj nfoj* sis, Piles, Fistula, Hernia, Rheuma- tration of this money power Prohibition In Alabama. ® etc. 8end for illustrated circular. of syndicates which control many finan- and best and offers tism, S. Mays Ball hi Leslie’s absolutely pure cial Institutions. This can the better be Weekly. to what is said to be A certain criminal court official, deal- seen by reference a means a t with the records of it to at that going on in New York at the present ing Jefferson county, /dfv .4 you price the Alabama Brenan College time. Alabama, told writer that he knew of like 600 cases to You .Speaking of the system of finance which something brought in I good substantial saving you. his court *for violation, alleged, of the VJL | Eufaula, Alabama. grew up under the operations of Charles W. Morse, culminating in the panto of prohibition law—"and no convictions to flTl I are asked- send in a trial order. U situation in New amount to anything." Bold Information tq Fine Faculty. Health Unsurpassed. A 1907, a writer upon the was given the wrltir cn April 2S, 1009. A case of fever has never been known York says: That’s all that’s to make a another movement in "wet" In Blrmlng'uim told the writer necessary on College Hill. Opens January 4th. “Within year | the aim that there were in Birmingham and Jef- Address, responsible hands has developed, " of ferson county 182 known places where — of THOS. a. WILKINSON, President. being to unite some the strongest a regular customer you. in liquor or beer could be openly purchased. 12-28-tu-thu-sun r. downtown banks and trust companies Dr. Lawrence Insisted that that could a sort of 'working alliance.’ not be true, that there were only 317 fed- Some of th* Group Bank*. eral tax reoelpt holders In Jefferson coun- “This effort ha* Been Quietly going ty. Inquiry at the United States revenue GLEASON DIAMONDS on for months, but until the unex- office, Birmingham, and investigation of WATCHES AND OTHER JEWELRY, pected announcement of th* *al* of th* the books proved Dr. Lawrence to be Cash or Ryan holdings of Kquitable Life *tock mistaken, for there were. May 1, 1S5 li- EASY PAYMENTS. to J. P. Morgan, th* detail* of the cense holders In the city and 111 in the and Coffee Co.1 Best Terms. of 246 revenue licenses is- ^Tea Lowest Prieto, scheme were only partially kfiown. county—a total for tbs United Wltn the passag* last month of th* sued by the eolleetor of H«l» to Morgan In- States In the eounty of Jefferson. The J. LOWINSOHN Figure 3—The square of Figure 1 enlarged to the motion Guaranty Trust company Avenue what *tr**t huowa as th* number given In the elty proper, ef 1929 Fourth ley's comet. terests Wall /