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Atomic Life Ends Its Mysteries
By GARRETT
Wis are beginning to set glimpses Into
the world of. the infinitely. little which
startle the t imagination even more than
the '; vest .spectacles of the firmament
above .us
The unlocking of 'f ' . 1
the atom, within
the last few years,
has. Revealed the
facfc that ail things :
aboyeTusreven pur
very ' . bodies are ,
made up ot mlnla-
ture' " sdiar systems,
spinning; so .swiftly
that theirj infinite-. ,
simal -: ; planets"
may make' as.nianX ,;
as three . -millions;
of millions of revo.lT
utlons, ' or even
more in . a single: Second! ' ,J
ifo fioubt, you know what an atom'-is,
but nevertheless, we will define it again,
according to the -older ideas of ' science.
An atom until the recent discoveries were
made was supposed to be the . smallest
particle of any kind of matter, that could
exist. When they spoke of an atom
physicists and chemists thought that they
were deferring to; something- that was no
longer .divisible There could be, they be
Hevedj nothing mailer than an atom.
Whei they gep.aoWn to that they Imag
ined that thejr-liad;got to the very bot
tom of things. ;$u1i of atoms atf the'
ultimate particles,, every., kind of sub
stance Was builtj.'ug. ' '
Now we knowr Siat-thls was all wrong'.
An atom is not the smallest possible
thing, and instead, of resembtlhg an tin
breakable, indivisible particle, an. atom t
made-up of vast number of things so
much smaller than'ltseif that, in compari
son with the whole atom, they have been
liken to the sun and the planets in com
parison with the whole solar system.
The' name corpuscle has been given
to these infinitesimal .particles "which
contitute an atom, and it has been found
that an atom of hydrogen probably con
tains 1,000 corpuscles; an atom of oxygen,
16,000; an atom of iron, 65,800; an" atom of
gold, 87,200; an' Atom .'Of "mercury, "JOO.OOD.
and an atom of radium, 225,000. This is
sufficiently marvellous in itself, but it
Is by no means the whole story. '
Amazing motions are continually taking
place 'In the atom. Its corpuscles are in
constant revolution, like the pianets go
ing round the sun. But they travel, In
some-cases, 100,000. miles .in a second! In
: some substances, like' radium, a certain
disorder arrives in the revolutions. Owlnj
to the escape of energy the 'velocities are
disturbed, and certain 'corpuscle's fly away
with a speed of 20,000 miles per second!
It is as if the solar system should sud
denly reach a critical stage and go to
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The Manicure Lady
"I was talking to a swell fellow from
out west the other day," said the Mani
cure Lady. "Gee, George, I wish I had
been born out west.! Then I wouldn't
have to be slaving along here,, listening
to a lot of fresh talk from fellows that
comes in to have their nails did. I could
have grew up on one of them western
prairies like a wild flower, and at last
some big western man would have come
along and claimed. me for his ..bride." .
"Maybe-, you wouldn't have' -been no
better" off than you are now,"' said the
Head ' Barber. "I think the same as
Dorothy Dix, that A girl who can make
her own way In the .world and have a
little left to put in the bank is a whole
better than a marriage drudge. What It
you had been born In the west and what
If you had married one of them western
men, and what if the western man that
you married had been a farmer that had
a lot of hired men, and what If you had
to do all -the cooking for them hired
menT Don't you think the system you
are playing now is a whole lot . better
system? All you have to do here is to
flirt around with some orange sticks
and scissors, 'bull a few college" boys
along.; fix up your puffs and go home.
The way things is. now nobody la 'your
boss. I never tried to. boss you, did 17"
. ,"I should say not," . exclaimed . the
Manicure Lady" beTllgerenetly, '"and you
better not ever had. The first sign J
ever saw of- you trying to boss me
would ' mean either one of two things,
I would have -to choose "between bean-
lng you with this handsome cut glass
finger' bowl or making my exit forever
from this shop. I might take the former
course at that. Cut glass Is awful
heavy, and a 'bowl is' kind of effective
and easy Jo throw straight.
"But. a, I was saying, I couldn't help
thinking that it would be kind of nice
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pieces, the earth and other planets shoot
ing away Into space. .
Now atoms with their corpuscles, com
bine into larger (but still Invisibly small)
particles, called molecules, and In these
also revolutions take place. The atoms
In a molecule revolve around other
atoms. They do not travel as swiftly
as the corpuscles in the atom, and yet
it has been, shown that In .a drop of
water the hydrogen atoms, which are
the lightest, may revolve round the oxy
gen - molecules so ' fast that they ' make
3,000,000,000,000. - revolutions In - a second!
This is the same number we have refer
red to above. ..',', 'V
' Imagine one of these revolving atoms
to represent the earth,- and call . its -period
of revolution an "atomic year," thos
comparing it with the revolution, of the
earth around the sun and then go a
step farther, and' imagine "infinitesimal
beings Inhabiting that atom. If their
lives lasted the same number of atomic
years that our lives last ' of our years,
at least 80,000,000,000 generations of those
creatures would pass in a single second
of our time!,. '.
A similar comparison was made by Dr,
Johnstone Stoney many years .before the
discovery Of the , real constitution of the
atoni "At that' time he took, the velocity
ot the vibrations of light as a" basis for
his calculation, and he said- '"The mo
tions 'of :llght bear1 the same relation to
one second of time that the motions of
our limbs bear to a period " of 30,000,000
years. If there were sentient beings with
bodies which' move as deftly as this
Uiei and with thoughts and perceptions
as quick as their bodies are active, there
would be sufficient time for them, within
a, smell fragment of one second, to live
tne Jives of; air the generations of men
that have dwelt uf.on this earth, think
ing all their thoughts and doing all their
acts."
The comparison becomes all the more
striking when it is based upon the revo
lution of an atom, ' which so curiously
simulates the revolution of the earth in
its orbit. It is rw violation of reason
to suppose that an inhabitant of an atom
would think and act with a quickness
proportioned to the "measure of time in
his world.
Are we forbidden to imagine such be
ings? No more than we are forbidden
to Imagine gigantic inhabitants among
the numberless worlds of space. We do
not know what lite is. and it is mere
forly to asseVt that it can only manifest-
itself in the forms familiar to us. The
quality of mind is of so incalculably
fU'.e& grain (if such an expression can
be used of mind) that, as far as we can
see, if might aseaslly be present in a
creature transcending in minuteness the
uttnost imaginable powers of the mlco
scope as in an animal six feet tall.
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to marry a nice western man. I was
telling father and mother about It last
night, and the old gent said that it
wouldn't- be- a bad idea for me.; to wait
till--some western man proposed mar
riage first. The way he said it, George,
seemed to me that he thought there was
about" as ifluch chance of a western man
proposing to me as there -is of brother
Wilfred getting a steady job. I didn't
tell the old gent the real truth, joorge,
because ever since he quit licking up
highballs father has become a - awful
cynic.- In the old days, when he had his
regular sessions at Gallagher's and Sam
Duffy's, father was a gent that would
remind you for all the world of a ray of
sunshine; Why, George, it used to seem
to mother and me that when he came
through the door there would be a fringe
of bright sunlight all around him. Now
he makes one of Tom Powers' glooms
look like a joy. -'
"But if he had been good natured I
could have told him that this swell west
ern fellow that I have just been telling
you about actually did propose to me.
He has a fine ranch out in Artxana, and
honest to goodness, George, If you could
have saw the bank roll that he showed
when be paid me for getting his nail did,
you would have died of yellow jaundice
or gangrene or something that is colored
like bank notes. I got a notion to accept
him, George." -
Til be glad If you do." said the Head
Barber, "and after, you two children are
married I hope you will be happy. Shut
up now, klddo, and let me shave this old
fellow that is coming down the steps.
He is a school teacher, and be doesn't like
to hear you murdering the English lan
guage." Marriage is a lottery in which when
one. loses the losing numter is usually
help by two. ; .;
THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 13,'. 1912.
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The Girl in Business and Why She
MISS ALICE CLARK. -""-r
Likes and dislikes, sys Miss Clark, should be kept in tHe baek
ground daring business hours. As a
sonal is their business views and
By ADA PATTERSON.
"The greatest' mistake we make is in
being afraid to do more than we are paid
for."
Miss Alice Clark graciously said "we,"
although the fault she pointed out seems
to be no part of herself. She has al
ways been a willing worker, for others as
well as for herself. For eleven years
she faithfully served the Interests ot her
employers, before she, in turn, became
an empleyer and acquired her own pa
trons. .
"It pays to work overtime," Miss Clark
spoke with the quiet confidence of one to
whom experience has taught a fact "The
president of one of the great eastern
railways was asked how he managed to
earn $100,000 a year. He answered, 'I
am being paid now for my overtime when
I was a boy and learning the business.'
The extra work one does yield a good
Are Some , Things that
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relations.
return In knowledge, and knowledge
eventuality brings dollars. So It is a
very short-sighted plan to do only as
much work as you are paid te do, es
pecially In the first years of a business
life. '
"The next greatest mistake is to be
careless In business, because we hope
that marriage will cut short our busi
ness careers. It may, but It may not,
and it seems less and less liable to come
since the high cost ot living baa cur
tailed romance. That Is a bad business
motto that some girls follow, 'O, let it
slide,' 'It' being the task of the moment
Get through somehow' is another busi
ness motto of the makeshifts. Girls
who have adopted it are nearly always
looking for work.
"We will do well to examine ourselves
for the mistakes that grow out of our
manner of life. We natronlzinau . say
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that the fcorae woman Is narrow, and we
assume a supsrlar air. when we assert
that the seaUty wpma Is. shallow and
insincere. Jt is' dlsoipUnary to make a
little list ot the srrors Into which we
are likely to (all aad think how we can
correct them.
"We art likely to develop an abrupt
manner. There is a good excuse for this,
because our (lyes are busy ones, and we
know the preolousness of time. Tet an
odd, jerky, unpleasant manner Is a bad
asset in business. By self control and
watchfulness we can avoid It Some busi
ness women have spent their lives at
desks and remained gentle of manner,
ft was a triumph of self control and of
consideration for others.
"Another fault Into which we are likely
to tall Is overpertness of speech. Ws
may be direct, decisive and dignified
without being rude. 'And If business life
scoops out our bump of reverence Into
a hollow we should hide that fact, for
while business Is a battle. It is often a
battle of diplomacy, and antagonisms are
mere apt to beoome liabilities than
assets.
"Ons of our sex faults In business Is
unreasoning aversions. We call them
Intuitions and are rather vain of them.
Occasionally they are safe guides, but
no matter how strong our likes nd dis
likes and' I grant that these are tem
peramental and often Inherited ws do
well to keop both in the background dur
ing business hours. In fact, as a sex we
are altogether too personal in our busi
ness views and relations.
"An Instance of this Is that the woman
employe, secretly or openly, hates the
boss- She regards blm as her natural
enemy. At bottom is perhaps her re
bellion against authority. One of the
most successful women I know told me
she would have been still more success
ful had not this mental anarchy stood
in her way. A staunch friend of hers
sharply told her that he had never seen
bar when she was not In revolt against
authority. Even If she only regards him
Ss a means to the end of her own ad
vancement in the business world, it Is
not well to 'hate the boss,' though this
is no less unwise than to entertain the
opposite feeling for htm. Girls , should
b impersonal In their attitude. Feeling
should be left at home and thinking take
its place during business hours.
. "Men are cleverer than we In that re.
spect They don't think much about the
boss except to adapt thamselevs to bis
peculiarities and round themselves out
against his character angles.. He Is
their means of advancement and they
seldom think of him In any other light.
"A fault we must overcome is that of
criticism f those about us, and espe
cially those above us. Ws are likely to
say ef our immediate superior, 'Why
does she do thlsr or 'I wouldn't do
that,' while ws probably would not do
nearly so welt That is bad, not only
because It causes foolish little schisms
and cabals, which some one has dis
posed of with the phrase, "kitchen poll
tics,' but it is a stunting influence upon
ourselves. It Is a sign of Ingrowing
character.
"Business women are disposed either
not to economise at all or to economise
in. the wrong way. We like to follow
fads In dressing Instead of asking our
selves when we buy a 'will it
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The Great
By REV
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' Erasmus died 37S years ago today
July IS, 1636. He was the most learned
matt In the world ot his time, and on ac
count ot hit wonderful erudition nd
charming personality he aulned to the
fame which is as
fresh and virile
today, After the
lapse of . almost
four centuries, as
it was at the time
of his death.
Erasmus waa a
waif, born Into the
world without any
legal paternity, or
even so much aa?a
name, but by his
genius he made for
himself a nam
that will endure
forever and to the end of time be dearly
loved by the Intellectual of the earth.
Those who were responsible for Eras
mus' birth ad while their child was
quite young, but kind and appreciative
friends took the little orphan In char
and educated him, and Erasmus did the
rest. ' . , I
With an intellect of gigantic propor
tions and a thirst for knowledge that
knew no limit, Erasmus stopped not till
he had reached the summit of learning,
a learning then was. He knew every
thing, and as the bee, gathering the
sweets from the flowers, turns them Into
honey, Erasmus put his almost super
human knowledge Into books books
which are still the delight of the Intel,
lectual aristocracy of all lands.
It is quite unnecessary to set forth ths
extent ef the literary labors ef Erasmus;
It is sufficient to remind the reader Of
the "Adagla," the "Colloquies" and the
Michael Faraday's
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By JEDGAR'LUCIEN LARKIN.
On August 31, 1831, the master mind in
science, manifesting In the brain of Fara
day, directed his hand to take up a wire
that was conveying a currant of elec
tricity from ons terminal of an ordinary
zlnc-copper-acld galvanlo battery to the
other, and place It across a bar of soft
iron, not touching the Iron.
The eye of man hath not seen an
event more wonderful than that which
followed; .the Iron at once became a
temporary magnet and attracted Iron
filings.
Faraday then wrapped thread around
the wire to insulate It that Is, to pre
vent contact of metal and mads one
turn of wlfs around ths piece ef Iron;
Its magnetism was Increased. Then be
made a coll of many turns, like thread on
a spool, and, secured a strong magnet
By moving a wire in front of this tem
porary Iron, Instead of permanent steel..
magnet. Increased current waa obtained,
depending on ths number ef turns of
wire and speed of ths moving wire.
One mors capital discovery was neces
sary before practical machines could be
made. This was that If ths thin wire
connecting ths ends of ths thick moving
wire was Insulated, lengthened and
twisted around ths bar the galvanlo bat
tery might be dispensed with. It was
found that the machine could use the
very electricity it generated to Increase
ths magnetic fores of ths bar by simply
conveying the flow around it in Increased
number of turns.
When steel or permanent magnets' and
lastr It Is not economy to lunch on a
glass of soda water or a bag of candy.
"If we have a regular salary or a
i early regular profit from business we
should place in ths savings bank a regu
lar amount A frequent mistake of ours
Is to show too plainly that business ex
perience has caused us to lose the ven
eration tor men that we might hsv kepi
In he home. If association with them
reveals to us that they are petty brag,
garts or foolish egotists, It Is the part
of wisdom not to show it. Ws are In
business to earn our living, not to make
the male sex into a perfect creature,
The business life is Inclined to make
us harder within and without. To coun
teract this tendency, I advise every girl
to live at homs It she can. She may
find the cares of the home life rather
heavy, though a considerate family will
spare a business girl ss many of these
as possible mine does but even though
she la called on to share these, It. Is
better for her to live at home. It .will
keep her character better "rounded and
more harmonious. ....
"And character Is an Important factor
In business, as Important as brains." -
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Erasmus
THOMAS B, GREGORY.
"Praise of Foliy-books which reflect
the real human stds of ths Illustrious '
author, revealing him to us as the master
humorist not only ot his own tuns, bu,C
of all time. ' f;.
Just as "Cervantes smiled Spain; s chiv-,
airy away," Erasmus, by his good na-j',,
tured dissection and ridicule of ths follies
of bis day and generation, dealt thotnj-.ft
the blow from which they never recey-.,,,,
Hid. ..1-1"
From ths summit ef things ths great H
roan looked down upon the vanities, ln-r -g
anltlen and shams of church, state and .U
society, end In his Inimitable word plc-?n.
tures made all the world laugh at thrn-'-
and despise them. The "Praise of Folly 'VJM
remains to this day the most masterful
work ot its kind to be found in tne-'"'-'
world.
It is a standing wonder bow Erasmus
managed to keep his bead on his sheul-c
ders, even with' all his strong friends at in
court. He had all Europe i nickering over "5
the venerated symbols and ceremonies "
ot church and state and yet he lived (rT
security and died at last quietly In hl u
bed.' "
And this leads us to the one great flew '
In Erasmus' character. He was, with all n.
his genius and learning and wit andj J
humor, a coward a very charming cow
ard, but still a coward. Living lA oif",4
of the most thrilling ags that the world t
has. aver known, he sat on ths fence;,.
fadng now ons way and now the other,,,
but refusing to Join either side. Like
ths man who crossing the deep stream
on a shaky plank, exclaimed: "God Is --
good and the devil Is not bad," Erasmus
trimmed between the great contending
hosts without deciding with, either.
Hence, after all, it is only with a very
Important reservation that we can speak
of ths illustrious roan as the "Great.
Erasmus," , ,' y "' ;.-' ttfi
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Great Discovery
galvanlo batteries were discarded the
name was chsnged from magneto to J
dynamo. ; , ,..'
Now, bend the bar of Iron Into the I
shape of the letter U and ths two poles j
srs near to each other, with the effeet s
of increase in the rate of alternation.
Make a number ot U magnets, arrange
them on a frame In a circle. Make hun
dreds of turns of insulated wire around
teach branch of each U magnet Then
make many colls of Insulated wire into
one spherical bundle, place on an axis
in the center of the circle of electro-magnets
and turn the bundle.
Tou could turn It a fw times by hand
possibly. Try to turn U .sUi-. ',a
would feel a mysterious pull, attraction j
or force working against your effort. '
Go buy an . engine to turn the. coils
of wire. Then this would feel the pull I
of magnetism, and the pull would in- i
crease with each revolution. Put on I
mors steam, Increase speed and likewise1
the pulling force and work up to limit l
Make thirty or forty Us weighing a tew j
tons each, bind them together on a huge,
yoke or frame of Iron from thirty to fifty J
feet In. diameter. Make colls and bundles
of Insulated wire into a cylinder weigh
lng many tons. Move the curved ends 1
j of all of the Vs close as possible to ths, I
cyiinner to allow free motion. Buy two- 5,
double compound engines to turn tW
bundle in air space against Invisible re
sistance and Insensible to the human-;,
body, but very sensible to the " metafc J
Let the compound engines be of 6,000 &ft
10,000 horsepower each. , , . .i-t
Buy a dosen .of these glgentio seta
magnets and rapidly revolving . bundle; -.
assemble In a large building, start 'tiwCst
huge engines, after having built a nun?-"!'
bar of railroads whose cars recerre eurv '-
rant from ths central station in thelrrr;
motors, and move the people.
Do not stop at $5,000,000,009, make "&Vt
1109,000,000.000. for all humanity. Chans 3?
the Word bundles to armatures . rapidiK1
revolving in an intense field of self-mad
magnetic lines of fore. Put these my4
tlcal -letters en the machine - Kt KTA;rA,
I P, 40 C, 130 R. P. 8. A. C. G., Wmen".1"-
translated, reads: 100 kilowatt, I phase-'
to cycle per second, at 130 revolutions per
second of armature, delivering as an al
ternate current generator. All, due jfo
the fact of Faraday taking up the wi '
carrying a current and placing it acroSs)
a small bar of, Iron,'..;.:.; .r.:J.-'..
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