To the Editor of the Ecliptic, Leo is rising, Cancer well up. Gemini midway, Taurus on the meridian Aries past, Pisces next and Aquarius just setting. In the south: ast Canis Minor (Procyon), Sirius and Orion are conspicuous.
Tu the southwest, Cetus Covers nearly the whole sky.
North of the aliptic, Perseus is on the meridian:
Ann ttle east of it: Perseus.
Andromeda and The Milky Way crosses the West Peg: sky from Stationary on the 9th, it moves again eastward, Rises on the Ist at 633 a.m. on the 16th at 520 a.m.
Venus, being not far from superior conjunction With the Sun, ríses and sets nearly with the Sun. Rises on t at 626 a.m. on 16th at 646 a.m.
Mars is in the western sky during the evening: it lies at the beginning of the month in the constellation Aqua-
"NonrH-CHiNA Dany NEWS
Sin,—Throu; the medium of your paper we wi d like to bring to the attention ofthe public the need of clothesyfoys and Christmas cheer the former always greatly needed and the latter for the 140 boys and girls of the St. Tichon's orphanage who hope to celebrate Russian Christmas with a party.
The next day, with the surplus of toys and good cheer from their party. they hope to gladden the lives of other needy children whom they will invite to the orphanage and to whom they will act as hosts, In connection with this and our On behalf of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.