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the others in order. But those old Greek names 

 will abide, they are poetic and the conceptions 

 for the most part are heroic and sentimental. 

 Take the story of Andromeda, she was a 

 daughter of Cepheus, king of the Ethiopians; 

 her mother Cassiopeia, had boasted that her 

 daughter excelled in beauty the Hereiads, of 

 course they were incensed and prevailed on 

 Poseidon to send a sea-monster to Ethiopia. 

 The oracle demanded a sacrifice and Androm- 

 eda was surrendered. Perseus, fresh from a 

 daring enterprise, bearing aloft the head of 

 Medusa, spied the beautiful Andromeda 

 chained to a rock, and knight that he was, slew 

 the monster and married the maid ; and so that 

 splendid group of constellations circling about 

 the pole picture the whole scene, for here is 

 Cepheus and Cassiopeia and Andromeda and 

 Perseus and Cetus and Pegasus, and the story 

 is forever immortal. It fits and to change it 

 would be a misfit. 



The Milky Way, the beautiful river of starry 

 light, which flows full across the sky, arching 

 from northeast to southwest, is ever a marvel 

 both to the astronomer and to the ordinary star 

 student. Because it fairly circles the heavens 

 it is reasoned that we are a part of it, and that 

 our Sun and his world retinue are near its cen- 



