'Che Conservative.
On Saturday
LIQUID AIK. . . . .
evening at the
Overland Theatre in Nebraska City , Mr.
Arthur Roberts delivered a very enter
taining , instructive and thought-suggest
ing lecture upon liquid air. The
illustrative experiments were bewilder
ing to such an extent that one could
hardly credit his own senses. But seeing
and touching convinced all logical and
receptive minds that liquid air may
revolutionize manufacture , commerce ,
agriculture , transportation , everything
human and mundane in the next twenty-
five"years. . THE CONSERVATIVE com
mends Arthur Roberts , his lecture and
liquid air as worthy of considerate
attention and reflection.
Most useful , and certainly the most
promising aspirant for twentieth cen
tury glory , is liquid
The Power of the . . . ? . , .
30th Century. Qlr' ItS POSBlblll-
ties are so colossal
that the dreamer may speculate to his
heart's content , and yet not wander
beyond the bounds of reasonable prob
ability. What has been already proved
with regard to this new great force'only
forecasts the wonders that will be
accomplished by its aid after a few
decades.
For instance , liquid air will be the
means of transmitting the power of
Niagara Falls to distant points. Actual
experiments prove that the resistance of
a copper wire to the electric current
at the temperature of liquid air
(812 ( degrees below zero F ) is less
than one per cent of its resistance
at 212 degrees" above zero F. Part
of the power of Niagara Falls will ,
we believe , be converted into electricity ,
and part into liquid air. The liquid air
under high pressure will be used for
cooling the electric conduit incased in a
well insulated pipe.
Automobiles propelled by liquid air
are already flying through the streets of
New York , and
Air Automobiles. . . . . . . . . . ,
liquid air will solve
the problem of aerial and submarine
navigation , for not only can a greater
amount of power be carried in a small
space and at less weight than any
other power known , but the exhaust
from the engines will furnish a pure ,
dry , highly oxygenated fresh air for
breathing.
Before the century is half gone ice
for household use will be a curiosity.
Liquid air will be delivered from house
to house in cans , just as the milkman
delivers his wares every morning for
the daily cons amption.
The home will be cooled , too , but
this service will be performed by energy
in another form.
Domestic . . ,
Refrigeration. A residence without -
out cooling appara
tus for use in summer will be considered
as incomplete as if it lacked heating
arrangements for winter , the one being
as much a matter of course as the other.
In the twentieth century mansion we
will find liquid air employed for this
purpose , and here again the mechanism
will bo perfectly automatic , the outflow
of the substance being so controlled by
a governor that the temperature will be
kept always at the same point. The re
ceptacles containing the liquid air will
be hidden in the ceilings of the rooms ,
the fluid descending as it is liberated.
OUSOUAKGAHINB.
OUSOUAKGAHINB.article with which
to spread bread and grease the machin
ery of deglutition. But Adam and Eve
frequently gathered around the domestic
feeding board without a speck of butter
in sight. In their day of low-necked
raiment for ladies and diaphanous
pantaloons for gentlemen oleomargarine
was unknown and the Jersey cow had
not become a lobbyist for a bill to pro
tect creamery butter from all sorts of
price-reducing competition.
Things have changed since the pro
prietors of Eden had a monopoly of the
dairy trade of the whole earth , and
bestial Packing Houses have arisen like
mammoth carnivora all over the land.
These tremendous monsters have
undertaken and accomplished the task
of getting a butter
Short Cut. ° D
by the short-cut
route. They kill the bovines , snatch
the fats from their cadavers and by
mechanical processes , in a cleanly and
wholesome manner , produce oleomar
garine. It is as palatable , as digestible ,
as healthful as butter made from milk
distilled by the Jersey or any other
single-uddered cow. But oleomarga
rine is a product of talent , tallow and
capital combined in large bulk.
The common cow confronts a trust.
The common cow cannot compete with
the combine of
A Trust. . ,
capital , tallow and
automatic machinery in producing an
edible fat with which to appetizingly
veneer the bread which goes into Ameri
can mouths for daily mastication.
Therefore the common cow , like a com
mon communist or populist , appeals to
for a"be-it enacted"
congress - protection
of her output of butter against the steer-
tallow output of oleomargarine. Even
the brute creation in the United States
maintains a lobby at Washington to
work for laws which shall tax out of
existence the exchangeable products of
one set of brutes so that those of another
set of brutes may have a monopoly of
the market. Thus butter fights oleo
margarine. Thus the gentle and guile
less cow is dragged into political dis
cussions and all the economic calves and
veally publicists in congress , with filial
affection , stand up for the cow aforesaid
and denounce and legislate against
oleomargarine.
Actions deter-
. , , i ,
mine the character
of men and of nations. Words some
times are the torches that light up the
path to good and useful achievements.
But the achievements out bless and out
live the words.
The man who dies before he passes
the mid-summit of life , and has never
made a speech , nor sought , nor accepted
public office , or popular prominence ; but
has conceived , instituted and established
industrial enterprises which give con
stant and remunerative employment to
scores and hundreds of contented men
and self-helpful women , fills out a better
and more useful career and example
than he who goes at eighty leaving only
a record of professions and words.
Making six hundred or a thousand
speeches in a given year or decade and ,
in the same period , doing no visible
good , by either deed or design , for the
people among whom he lived , will not
enshrine a man in the affections of those
whom he left when he entered upon his
final rest in the grave.
One useful deed , a single beneficent
achievement , in behalf of communal
comfort , or , even of individual better
ment and elevation will outlive a thous
and pages of oratory. Deeds , not words ,
make the records of the lives that have
blessed their day and generation.
Edwin Arnold , in the "Light of Asia , "
says : "Who doeth right deeds is twice
born , and who doeth ill deeds , vile. "
And many thoughtful men now believe
that it is better to do gracious and kindly
acts , in accordance with the benign
teachings of love and charity for their
fellow men , than to ostentatiously make
mere profession of a faith which teaches
and inspires such acts. And so , when
we have finished our brief parts , when
the curtain has been rung down , when
the music of life is silent and darkness
is dense about us , we wish the living to
say : "He was a man of good deeds.
He helped the worthy who needed help.
He professed , only in acts , the religion
of kindness and justice. "
* 8 ifc
REFUGE
understood and
agreed among the regents of the Uni
versity of Nebraska that any and all
tutors , teachers and professors in other
institutions of learning in the several
states of this republic who may be com
pelled to sever their connections because
of mal-verbiage as to founders ,
heterodoxy as to religion , heresies in
finance , exaltation of socialism , denun
ciation of capital and the advocacy of a
free-for-all communism , are to be given
refuge , asylum , subsistence , and"apothe
osis at the University of the state of
Nebraska ?
Is it absolutely necessary to show the
record of relation with an unpleasant
row in the faculty of some other uni
versity or college before a teacher can
connect himself with the university of
this state ?