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Ily KDQAR LUCIKX KtRKIX.
Plnce the radio activity of uranium a
discovered, during the closing scenes of
the nineteenth century, the mental lioii
son of man has expanded to wider limits
than was thought to be possible save to
a few advanced mentallsts who were then
scanning events and man's mind power
wit'h critical accuracy.
Radio-active elements are surely going
lower; fine matter Is becoming coarse,
high Is becoming low, and part of the
lilgh Is vanishing from the rcrutlny of
man aided by the highest Instrumental
powers of research.
Fine uranium Is degrading Itself down
to low lead. Uranium Is a word In Eng
lish derived from Qreek ouranos, the ex
panse of heaven. It Is now the name of
a metal reduced from the n)!n;r;it known
as pltchblet.de, where It is In the. form
of an oxide and assoclatod with Iron, sul
phur, lead, lnc, arsenic and cobalt.
Little did the physicist Klaproth think,
In 1789, when he tttolated uranium, that at
the end of 100 years the civilixrci races of
tlie rarth would bo wondennj over Its
m:-ttry. And he could tut loo forward
to 1 1.9 day a century henoe, when many
of tr.e most Intellectual men' and one
woman, Madam Curfc, would be depriving
themsevc of sufficient slop In feverish
research and' exploration In the metal
uranlun the still unexplained mystery.
For It Is not yet known why atoms of
radio-active matter explode and hurl par
ticles In all directions, with varying but
high, terrific speed. Nor why radium
shoots out electrons at an Immense . velo
city, a speed approaching that of Nature's
great standard speed, 1 $6,383 miles per sec
ond. Nor why nor how this Tltanto force
ever became tamed down Into the atoms
of radium.
If radium all explodes at once. Instead
of requiring many years to explode In
excessively minute atomic quantities, then
everybody near radium would be alain
and buildings wrecked.
The startling fact Is uranium sends out
waves of energy of Itself. No test, how.
ever rigid, Is able to detect energy enter
ing, but Us Issuing forth la very apparent.
lleequere. In 1896, found that photo
plates held near uranium were affected,
and that your skeleton would show.
Then Madam Curie discovered that, the
heavy metal thorium was In a state of
radlo-actlvtty. Madam Curie, after ex
tracting all the uranium from pitchblende.
noticed that the residue was radiating
with more intensity than the uranium.
Then she began one of the most re
markable series of researches In the his
tory bf man or woman. Bhe discovered
polonium, an name given in honor of her
Vatlve lnnd, Poland. This wna a be
ginning; the reslduo after polonium was
still radiating. Work the dictionary
knows nothing of this word, work ap
parently beyond the power of mortal
frame was quadrupled.
The capital discovery of the nges was
made. She announced radium to every
scientist living. It Is a million tlmjB
more active than . uranium. Then every
laboratory In the world became the scene
of Intense work. A ton of pitchblende
contains enough radium to make a smull
pin's head. Researches soon found that
uranium, thorium, polonium, actinium,
radium and all radiating elements emit
many different kinds of waves, 'long.'
short and of wide differences In power of
penetrating other bodies. Alpha, ' Beta,
Gamma and Delta particles and more are
now separated out from the confused
tangle. But the Alpha particles are
helium: splendid radium after giving up
electrons becomes low and apparently
useless helium. Other emanlatlons es
cape which have the properties of gas.
These particles fall on adjacent bodleK
and these are thus endowed with short
lived activity. These emanations vanish,
and thus matter Is going away frum
human vision.
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The Eye, the Ear, the Soul
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A question .which deeply Interests many
millions pf people was broached before
tho British Association for the Advance
ment of Science not long ago by Prof.
J. t. MacDonald,
the president of the
section of physi
ology. It was no
less a problem than
that of the exist
ence of the human
soul which the
learned physiologist
approached.
Contrary to what
might have been
expected, this
exponent of modern
science ae applied
to the constitution
of man arrived at
the conclusion that
there Is no ground
for asserting that
the brain la not
affected by other
nfluencea than
these which reach It through the sense
organs. Just as tho eye, whoso wonder
ful mechanlHin Is developed by hereditary
tendencies in the physical embryo, be
comes an Instrument on which something
entirely Indepedent of the body light Is
lly (SARRKTT P. NKRV1SS.
able to play; and just as tho ear, de
veloped In a similar manner, becomes
likewise an Instrument for an outride In
fluence sound so the brain, although it
Is a purely physical mechanism, may be
set In motion by, and may respond to,
Impulses Impaired by something Inde
pendent of the bodily structure. Arrived
at this point, the professor acknowledged
that he found it difficult to refrain from
using the word 'soul."
Nobody doubts that the mind Is as
sociated with the brain, but Is It con
fined to the brain? That Is the Important
question which science finds to bo more
slippery than an eel. Frof. MacDonald
makes the pregnant suggestion that the
phenomena of sleep and of unuesthesla
show us that mind Is not always asso
ciated with the brain, but only when
the latter Is in a certain condition. Thus
Wants to Trove He Is Alive.
Although he has been declared dead by
the court of Pennsylvania Charles Brown,
a carpenter of Trenton, N. J., has en
gaged a firm of Jersey City' lawyers to
have himself put on the roll of the living
In his native state, and Incidentally get
hold of his share of the $3T.000 property
'eft by his fatiior at h -leath of the
.atter.
he finds that there exists a "loophole
for the view that mind Is not directly
associated with physical life, as living
matter, but only Indirectly with certain
dispositions of dynamic stato which are
sometimes present within certain parts
of it."
Translated Into ordinary speech this
means that, In Its normal condition, the
brain Is an Instrument of the mind, or
soul, but that the activity of the latter
Is not confined to the phenomena which
It produces when acting through the
mind, any more than sound, which makes
mi noise, until it strikes tho ear drum,
In confined to the ear which It happens
to strike.
Physical science when It confronts a
difficulty like this usually takes up the
agnostic, attitude, on the ground that
there Is no demonstrable evidence one
way or tho other. It Is like the question
of the habltabillty of other words. Most
astronomers say: "We know nothing
about It; wo cannot base conclusions on
mere analogies, und when even analogies
are absent there Is no evidence of any
kind. We know that there Is life on the
earth, and that Is all we know."
But tho Inquiring spirit of man Insists
upon light of some kind, and If It can
not get It directly It will get It by reflection.
Tho First Reform School
Copyright, 1911, National News Association
By N&fftrihldey
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Dinkelspiel's Notes
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By GEORGE V. HOBART. ,
en you save up for a rainy day
doan'd veaken ven It gets foggy.
Many a young blue blood could chase
an ancestor back to a butcher shop
It takes ability to know vara to plant
a Christmas present so dot It vlll bring
forth something more eggspenslve.
ouia you can it goot eggserclse ven
a, girl runs all der vay to der drug store
to get someding to make her checks red?
A good fellow la a man dot spends
money on us to fust dot ve never get
a chance to refuse to pend It on him.
Der tincture of orange blossoms some
times cures der Intoxloatlon of love.
Kep your face to der vorld, my son
udrtervUe der vorld vlll make face be
hind your back.
Somebody asked me der meaning of
a polyganilst, vich Is simply a man dot
gvts so used to getting married dot he
forgets it Is a crime.
Opportunity alvays vlshes to see you.
but chenerully calls after you haf moved
to annuder house.
Der knowledge dot ve know so leedle
chenerally comes to us ven It vas too
late to learn.
D. DINKEI.PPIEL.
Per George V. Hobart.
That Impudent (tnestlon.
Just as Rivers was about to sit down
to dinner there came a ring at his tele- ,
.phone.'
"Well?" he said, placing the receiver!
to his ear.
Who is this?" demanded a high
pitched, impatient voice.
"This." pleasantly answered Rivers, "Is
Don ll.ppollto Lopes Pomposo Antonio
Rlcardo Doloroso. li that all you wish
tm know? Good-bye."
Hanging up the receiver, be rat down
and ate his dinner, happily unaware that
an Indignant perscn at the other end of
the wire was storming at central for
giving him the 'ong number. Chicago I
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school for Juvenile. And yet, for untold bkcs. the criminally
inclined youth of the world was unpro
vided with ethical teaching. Youthful of-"
fenders were punished, often severely.
sometimes brutally, but no one thought to
make an attempt for tho reformation of
the Juvenile delinquents. Crime was
crime, sold tho men of tho olden days,
and young and old, the hardened criminal
and the young and thoughtless violators
of the laws, were treated alike, herded to
gether in the loathsome prisons and In a
most unfcollrig way, made to feel tho
penBlty of tho "outraged law." Once a
criminal, always a criminal, they thought,
and the arm of the law went on slapping
and slashing, and Ilia world kept on
growing worse and worse.
But since the happy thought which
camo to Meti and Courccllea was made to
materialise In the shape of the blessed
Institution at Mettray things have been,
steadily looking up. The noble Idea
spread like wildfire, and today all ovet;
the civilised world reform schools are
dally doing their good work for human
ity.
In lRT.ii the first National Reformatorj
union was held In Great Britain, will -the
result that today there are in Enic
land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales mon"
than a hundred schools for the reforma- '
tlon of young offenders. In other coun
tries the progress that Is being made In.
the reformation of Juvenile delinquents lft
most encouraging, and the net result of
It all la the conclusion that there was
never a greater falsehood than the an
cient opinion, "Once a criminal always
criminal."
Thousands of boys and girls are being
returned to tho world every year from
these noble institutions fitted for honor
able living, as they could not have been"
without them. Tho recursants are stead
ily decreasing, and the outlook for the
future of liumSTilly is growing brighter
all the time.
The first reform
delinquents was founded at Mettray
Fiance, 73 years ogo today January i
1W9.
Tho founder of
this belief Iclent
movement was a
retired Parts law
yer named Mets,
who was gener
ously supported by
the Vlcomte Cour
celles. It seems almost
Impossible that tho
world had to wait
so long for some
one to think ok
the necessity of
such an Institution
Children are the
"sued corn" of humanity, and It Is the
caso with mankind as It is with every
thing else like seed, like harvest. In a
sense deeptr and more terrible than the
fact ever dreamed of, the "child Is father
of the man," and of all forlorn hopes
the forlornest Is the attempt to make
worthy and useful men and wemen out
of children who -are loft to grow up
without moral training.
A Coming Conflict
3
All Girls Look Alike to Cupid.
Uy KRAXCK8 L. CIA RSI DE. ,
Great grandmother and great grand
father always agreed, but It was the
agreement of the master and the slave,
for In those days men and their wives
were still bound by tho tradition of own
ership handid down by the Cave Man.
Grandmother and grandfather did not
always agree, but disputes always ended
In grandfather having Ms way, and in
grandmother concealing her wrongs from
all but the Lord.
Mother and father do not always agree,
and In the majority of these little en
counters mother conies out victor. And
she doesn't tell her victories 'to the Lord
as her mother before her told her de
feats. Hhe tells tliem to other women
and they are encouraged.
The change has been so slow that every
one but man himself can see that woman
Is no longer In tho time-honored attitude
of a doormat, and the reason he can't
Bee is that his eyes ure blinded by the
centuries of accumulation of smoke front
tho Incense he lias been burning at his
own shrine.
If he will blow away that smoke and
bring his tut down from tho high eleva
tion they ussume as a balance for his
brains when he thinks ho is thinking, ha
will behold that woman Is not only stand
ing on her feet, but that she Is armed
for battle, und that In tho coming year
sh.i will fight the gieatcst fight In her
history. Encouraged by the successes of
lull, of which most men In their blind
Hclf-arsuiunce have, taken little note, sha
begins the new year with the determina
tion to make It the banner year of her
long HtrtiKtile.
Man, sitting back In his chair and
Inhullng his self-luspiied Incense with,
great satisfaction, is further blinded
by his own wit and doesn't realize that
Woman's Rights have become any
thing more dignified than a means for
decorutlng with a rtbbon-tied or crochet-bordered
Joke.
lie fairly scintillates with humor as
he lm mis out Ten Comrnundments to
govern her conduct, and doesn't reullss
that Instead of accepting them meekly,
she hands him back Twenty.
It took time to wake up the women,
and It Is taking a greater time to wakt
up tho men, but to the everlasting credit
of the women it can be said tht their
long sleep was due to the humility ot
ripi 't'ssion and not duo to conceit.
Murk the prediction: The year tlia
Is coming will witness a great conflict
and when the smoke has cleared away
it will disclose a nation of very muc
bewildered and surprised men. They
will also be very much humiliated, and
the humlliutlun will be good for thelD
souls.
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