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THE NKK: OMAHA, TIiTRSlUY, .IANTARY 123. WUV
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The Ex-Convict's Chance
Hy WINIFRKD HIjACK
It came In tho came mnll with an in
v Uiitlou to bridge and a letter from a
woman complaining that her husband
wouldn't buy her nn automobile Head
this man's letter, and say again that all
j'coplr are alike, If
.v on dare:
Dear Miss TJIack
Many years ago.
when tho Win-
Hiooter were more
apt to bo arbiters
f disputes than
the courts of jus
tice. I got tangled
in the meshes of
the law and was
went to prison.
"Thero whs noth
ing sneaky, noth
ing cowardly about
it; In fact, the
other fellow got In
the first shot, and his bullet burnt and
tore Its way through my shoulder nut
my aim was more accurate and he went
down and out forever. Vet I'm sure It It
was possible to call him from the grave
ho would not condemn me nor bear ani
mus against me.
"I paid tho exacting. Inexorablo penalty
of the law. It was an exorbitant price,
and tho price was tho best years of my
life.
"And now at 40 I am free again, no not
tree, for It seems to me that I'm con
tinually enveloped In that black shadow
of stigma. And that Is what I'm fighting
ugalnst. .
"During all those miserable years 'I
played a man's hand and have nothing to
regret, nothing to be ashamed of. And
when 1 walked out Into the world I
again took up the long-lost thread of
life and went to work.
"And now to the essence of my mes
sago: All my life my ono dominating
desire has been to have a home and loved
ones of my own. Someone who would
care for mo above all others; someone
to work and strive for, and, If needs be.
to do sacrifice for.
"Yet can ono who has been through
what T have hope for such things? Is
there In all this big world a woman, a
uood and true womanly woman who
would link her future. ,her life, with
mine? Haven't I eternally barred myself
for all that Is good and pure?
"And must I forever skulk through tho
murky BUbwnys of life an Ishmaellite
among my fellow men, to shun and be
shunned? v
"Tell me, Miss Winifred Black, tell me
whero I stand In our modern complex
social system. And tell me, is there hope
for me? Yours sincerely, J. II. M."
What shall you do, good friend, with
me prison marie seared ueep into your
heart? Just one thing right naff. Hum
it up, that prison memory; burn It up,
like the pest that ft is.
. Take every shred of everything you
ver had at that time and go out Into
the splendid, free, happy world, some
where In n far place where no curious
eyes shall see, and burn them up. And
when the smoke rises in thd air, pray,
pray, pray, pray for peace, and trust, and
confidence and forgctfulness.
Vou have remembered long enough.
Wind that thing out of your life once
and for all. Oo It today: you have let
It make you morbid.
A man's but a man. He can be pun
ished Just so much, and then comes re
lief. Your hour of punishment Is over.
Straighten your back, hold up your
honest head, face the world with the un
flinching eyes of one who has paid his
debt.
Go away somewhere where people do
not know your history. Begin again,
get Into a new world, find a sweet
woman somewhere a good woman, n
true woman and live a man's life Jn
the honest open, fearless and light of
heart.
What sort of God do you Imagine, poor,
driven soul, a God of merciless retribu
tion? There Is no Btich being. The
prison bars have come between you and
tho sweet sunshine so lonsr that the
whole world, yes, tho very universe It
self, Is barred and striped.
Tear down those, cruel bars, tear them
out. They were mndo by men like your
self, weak, foolish, cruel, trying to do
wliat they could to keep the wide world
calmed. You paid your debt to them-i
wipe It out. tho pld, old cruel score
There, makn a little pile, out here un
der the skies, strike a match; see, It
kindles, It burns, the old memory, tho
old depression, the old gTlef. the old
shame, the old agony of humiliation; it
burns, it burns; se It Is ashes now
The highest point of woman's hap
piness 1b reached only through moth
erhood, in the clasping; of her child
within her arms. Yet tho motber-to-ba
la often fearful of nature's ordeal
and shrinks from the suffering inci
dent to ita consummation. But for
aature'a ills and discomforts nature
provides remedies, and. In Mother's
Friend is to be found a medicine of
great value to every expectant mother,
it is an emulsion for external
application, composed of ingredients
which act with beneficial and sooth
'jib effect on those portions of the
uystem involved. It is Intended to
prepare the system for the crisis, and
thus relieve, in great part, the suffer
ing through which the mother usually
passes. The regular use. of Mother's
Friend "will repay any mother in the
comfort it affords before, and the help
ful restoration to health and strength
it brings about after baby cpmez.
Mother's Friend
is for sale at
drug ntorea.
Wrjte for our
free book for
expectant moth-
era which contains much valuable
Informayon, and many suggestions of
R helpful nature. '
BRADF1ELD REGULATOR CO., AlWi, Cs.
J
Take It in your trembling hand and
hold It so a second,
tecond, then to tb'o wind
wild, free. sluglnl winds.
1-bve. oh. winds, vlth the-
with It, the w
Good-bye. good
ashes of what Is gone.
Now. turn that sad face to the friendly,
helpful world again. Sev. It stands by
watting for a chance to bo kind, to be
j honest, to be fiank and fair.
Is there a ihanco for you? The world
Is ono great chnnce. Thliik what a nwn
you have grown to be. how ynilt eos
can read tho furtive look of 0110 who has
suffered as you have, and how you can
stretch out a hand and help him.
Look, that little child smiles at you;
ho loves yon, he sees your sorrow and
vour gentleness. Take him in your arms.
Ho will help you.
That little woman thcru by the roadside,
I she spongers under u heavy burden. See
the melting of her grateful eyes.
Tho world lies before, you. the wide,
wide world of work and rest, of struggle
and attainment Let nothing hold you
back from your heritage.
The Law of Progress
lly CHAlClilCS KKWJl'SOX.
Tho aged Dr. Alfred HuBsel Wallace is
the dean and mentor of tho whole world
fraternity of modern science And when
li'j tells us that ho has searched the 7.1M
years of recorded history, and has dis
covered In man-
t kind no sure ten
dency toward men
' tal or moral pro
j gress. nobody on 11
' dismiss his Judg
ment as unauthor
itative. Tho words
of the famous
scientist fall heavily
n p o n American
ears, for of nl
countries In the
world the I lilted
States Is the most
complacent in its
assuronco of per
petual advance-
ment.
No doubt Dr
Wallace's picture of universal human llfo
Is drawn In somewhat too somber colors.
Nevertheless, It may do us more goad
than harm to take a steady look nt it.
Tho fact seems to bo that the last
century In Kurope and America has de
veloped absolutely unprecedented con
ditions has put into our hands tools and
powers that wore never possessed be
fore, These new agencies. If rightly used,
rould probably lift the world to now
levels of happiness and nobleness and
keep It there.
The Importance of Dr. Wallace's state
ment Is In Its Implied warning against
the misuse of; qfur, advantages. He point?
out tho faot that other eras hnvo made
treat gains, and that these gains have
afterward been nullified and lost.
Thus Dr. Wallaco corrects a widespread
misunderstanding as to the real mean
ing of the evolutionary doctrine that Is
so Intimately associated with his name.
It does not mean, as has been vulsarly
supposed, that we are pressed futefully
forward by Irresistible forces, and that
whether nations are wise or foolish, brave
or cowardly, each day of their lives must
necessarily ho higher and happier than
Its yeBtorday.
If tho whole bodvj of the American peo
ple could be induced to ponder- Dr. Wal
lace's sayings, and if wo could bo per
suaded thereby to renounce our fatalistic
j optimism and to understand that our
only chanco of escaping from tho failures
! of tho past lies In our own courage and
1 creative power then the glim messaso
I of the grand old man of science would
t have exhausted Its truth and virtue. It
' would have done all It Is fit to do for us.
i It Is undeniably true of the past that
I ages of light have been followed by uges
of darkness. Hut It Is not scientific to
; say that It must always be so.
, Our Daily Fashions
lly IiA HACOXTKISK.
Voluminous but not cumbersome Is this
evening wrap of mole combined witi
blaek velvet. Tho mole is lightly puifel
.after the panler Idea over a deep hordr
f velvet.
Greater breadth Is given to the alrea ly
w"'le revers by a border of black fgt
with U.ch tulf of vehet
1 WMk" LiHLLf i
SHOULD
"Better by Far Than Unhappy Marriage"
lly MA1U1AHKT HVllllAUl) AVKIt.
Mine. Sembrlch has said the American
girls marr too oung and too ofn
And Miss Katherlne Kaelred. who lss t
well known In society as she Is on the j
stage, gives an excellent reason for both j
the cause and the result of certain mar- 1
rlages which begin at an early age and !
end In the divorce court.
"As long as society looks axkanio at
the engaged couple who have the courage
to hrrnk off an engagement of marriage,
Just to long will the young people who
have gotten as far as announcing their
engagement, which may only have been
a sort of lark, feel that they must go 011
and fulfill the pledge of the engagement.
"More broken engagements would mean
fewer unhappy marriages." said Miss
Kaelred, "but no mattr how excellent the
reasons nre which Induce young people
to break their betrothal, the very sensi
tive young person always feels that a
stigma of some sort Is attached to this
proceeding.
"I presume,'' lonllnued the beautiful
Australian, "that people have the feel
ing that an engagement ought to bo
binding, because In olden times the
betrothal ceremony was almost as Im
portant ns the marriage Itself. Hut In
those days the marriages of young peo
ple were arranged by their parents r
families, and, as far as tho girl went,
she had very little to say about lt( ex
cept to do as she was told and marry
the man whom her parents had picked
out
Today a girl elooses her own mate,
and, lust as Mine. Sembrlch says, "h
Is apt to marry at an early ago and often
because she's afraid of public opinion.
"The modern girl feels that there Is a
certain prestige which she acquires when
she becomes engaged to a young man.
and she often thinks more of this than of
her future happiness. She rushes Into n
engagement for the sake of the ring, the
parties that will be given In her hoinr.
and while I'm not saying that she does
not love her finance, she certainly often
does not analyzo his character, nor stud.
' him very seriously, at first.
' The engagement Is announced. T'a
family Is delighted. The excitement of j
the announcement subsides, and the glil
begins to awaken to a new understanding
of herself, of the demands she will make
on her future husband. Her fiance may
be the dearest person In the world, hut
some instinct, some Half-understood In
tuition, warns her that they are not
fitted for each other.
"There is nothing that she can put into
words, no reasons which her family could
understand. In nine cases out of ten, the
young fiance Is equally confused and
doubtful of the outcome of their married
life. Hut both young people foar not so
much the disapproval of their families,
but the raised eyebrows of society, the
talk and V whispered Insinuations, the
criticism which follows a broken engage-
Dorothy Dix
ny DOROTHY DIX.
A womfui who Is a social worker id
Boston has been giving young people somo
good advice nbout marrying. She thinks
that a great deat of matrimonii misery
might be avoided
If all young couples
contemplating mat
rimony had to go
before n commis
sion and answer
certain Inquiries
not only an to the
state of their fi
nances, but their
mind. Among other
heart searching
questions that she
wnuld ask a young
man Is this one;
"Why do you
think you love this
particular girl?"
It's probably Just
as well that the
Issuing or a mar-
riago license doesn't depend on a man
speaking1 right up and answering that
conundrum promptly and to tho satis
faction of the brand Inquisitor, for if
it did there would be no more wedding
bells.
No living man knows why he falls In
, love with one girl Instead of another,
or why one maiden sets his pulses thril
ling while, another leaves him ns cold
as Ice.
I Of course, the enamored lover. If such
a question should be put to him, would
say that the reason nn loves ,rauonu
Is because she Is the most beautiful crea
ture on earth, with the most lissom figure
j and the sweetest voice, and the dearest
was, ana because sno is tne nrsi ana
only female lady person that was ever
created that possessed all of the virtues
and did not have a single fault.
Then the grand Inquisitor would take
one squint at Arabella and, perceiving
that she was an ordinary looking young
person with a snub noso and hay col
ored hair, and that she simpered and
giggled, and bore none of the earmarks
of the superwoman he would pityingly
commit the besotted youth to a padded
cell, as he remarked: "Young man,
what you need is an alienist and not a
marriage license."
t Xo. No man can give a reason for the
, faith that is In him concerning the
woman he loves. He Just loves her; that
Is the answer. Site's Just the one woman
for him, and that's all there is to It. and
logic has got nothing to do with the sJt
, nation.
, Of course, to the grand Inquisitor .t
; seems that a man should be auto to give
some Intelligent reason for the most Im
portant step of his life, and that when
he Is asked, "Why do you love this
woman?" he should be able to reply, for
Instance:
"I love her for her .beauty." That
would be a good answer that would
j carry conviction with It. Hut alas, not
one man in a minion couio iruiniui:y
make It. The average man doesn't fall In
love with beautv. He doesn't even think
j that the woman he loves Is particularly
j pretty He knows a dozen others that
outclass her in tie living picture lin--nnd
her looks ut no f cure In hi affe-'-Win
Or her
ELGAGEMENT BE BROKEN?
MISS KATHKlUNIi KA1SMIKP
i.,ni
So they go on to tho tune of tho
wedding march. They have married
young and will marry o:ten In all proba
bility. "Tho family should be the first to
rejoice when ah engagement is broken
by mutual consent, or even by one of
the parties, .though the other may suf
fer for a time. Young hearts are easily
mended.
"As for tho world in general, people's
optntons, on the subject of engagements
should be less old-fashioned, and society
should welcome the courageous young
people who have had sense enough to
turn back dn tho brink of matrimony
without -&sUlr)gi reasons, fop- tho step. '
"Tho best reasons for breaking off an
engagement are not reasons at all, ac
Says:
Mnke u Man Tell Why Ho Jvcn a (Jlrl und Ho Will Need
an Alienist. Instead of n Miti-rlnge License.
Or the man may say:
woman because she Is so
'I love this
Intelligent."
That would be a lovely hlah-browed
Justification of his sentiments, but it Is
doubtful if any man ever really fell In
love with a woman's brains. When he
loves such a ono It Is generally In spite
of them, and not because of them, nnd as
a rule the more scrambled they are the
hotter ho likes her.
Or a man might say: "1 love her be
cause she Is so good." That would truly
l)e an excellent reason for love. Out did
ever the knowledge that a woman was
an angel on earth set a slnglo man's
pulse n-fluttor? A man may respect,
admire, reverence goodness In a woman,
but It hos nc,ver yet lit the fire of pas
slon In his heart.
Or a man might say: "I love this
woman because she is" so domestic, be
cause she will be such a helpmate to me,
and make the sort of mother I want my
children to have," That's a fine and
dandy reason to bn able to give for one's
affection. IJut Cupid Isn't a practical
man. He's a dreaming boy, and no man
ever fell in love with a woman because
of what she could do for him. nnd how
comfortable she could makn him. True,
he sometimes marries for that rcuson.
but when he does he marries for his
stomach and not hla heart.
f
Vs
When a Man's Bashful
Uy HHATH1CK VAUUWX.
"Omega," writes me:
"I am 20 years of age, and have bud a
young man call on me for the last few
weeks. He is a perfect guntleman, and
all that, and the only thing I hnvoagulntt
him is that he Is lather quiet and doesn't
know much about society. '
The fault In youth which rauies the
greatest torment in years of maturity Is
that of not being able to tell a hit of
worthless coloied glass from a rare Jewel.
This girl Is young. Khe finds fault with
u man because he is quiet and knows
nothing about society. How many women
there re who have grown old before
their time Just because they loved and
married men who were noisy and know
everything about society.
Helng young, and fond of bright bits
of worthless glass, the girl thinks more
of the polished compliment than of the
one not so readily or gracefully paid.
She doesn't know that every compliment
that is polished received Its luster
through being rubbed on the vunltles of
other women before her. She hasn't
learned that the compliment that Is paid
awkwardly has the stamp of sincerity.
There Is many u man who can hand a
girl Into a carriage with the grace that
makes her feel like a queen starting forth
to show herself -to her admiring subjects.
who hasn't the ability to earn enough I
to buy a wheelbarrow.
The men who aro worth white, thoio
who have wrested power and fame from
life with every odd against them, knew
nothing about soetety. my dear. And I
am sure that no history ever raid of n
genius, or u deep thinker thnt he was,
no'sy
If it ulrl wants a lr .aud who I
cording to the matter-of-fact person. They
aro the subtle Intuitive warnings of-danger
to cone to which few listen and
which ono never can oxplalt) to others.,
"Now, don't set 1110 down as saline
that girls should become engaged Just
for tho mischief of breaking hearts, or
anything foolish like that. Thore are
plenty of heartless young men and women
nbout who will do that without encour
agement. "I am only speaking against the at
titude of almost overy class of people
who disapprove when young people hreak
off their engagements, and seem to act
as If they would rather encourage an
unhappy marriage and a possible divorce,
then let the young people change their
minds."
In all good faith, If 11 man had to an
swer tho question, "Why do you think
you love this woman?" nnd he answered
truly, ho would say something that would
never get by the matrimonial censor. H
would say. "I love her for that llttls
dimple at the corner of her mouth." Or,
"I love her for the way her hair curls
around the nape of her white neck."
Or. "I love her for the cunning look In
her eyes .when I say something that
startles her."
Or he would say. "1 love her becaus"
her eyes mist over with comprehension
and sympathy at a tender passage In a
book, or a pathetic seene tn a play." Or,
"I love her because she Is llltls and
weak, and clings to mo like n trusting
child." Or, "1 love her because she al
ways sees the points in my stories, and
lniighs at my Jokes, and Is the only
woman I ever met that had Intelligence
enough to appreciate me."
Or. when the man was asked, "Why
do you love this woman?" he might
simply throw lip his hands and reply,
"Search 111! Hut I do."
And that's hs good n reason as nny
man can give for assuming the board hill
nnd shopping ticket for life of some par
ticular woman. Kunny when you come
to think of It, but then love Is, a funny
thing, unywny when Is Isn't a tragedy.
command proat wealth; If she longs for a
1 man of political power; If, with an Him
thut Is decidedly higher, she longs for
1 l iuband who has a brain In his head find
knows how to use it, tlitn lot mo tell Her
one place where she will never find the I
n"n she seeks-in some girl's parlor chat
terlng like a magpie, or In a ball room
handing out lees in such a tender, solic
itous fHshlon that If he were a waiter he
would grow r.cli on tlpi. '
The great men, my dear, are never tin
calliopes in :ife's parade. ,
The best husbands are never the mon
who thought shining In society the litlght j
of ambition. Marrlago is something more
than selecting ti partner for a waltz. 1
Moieover, the man who is In denmiiil !
because he dances well, sings a little I
with the ease o a professional. n a
Joke for every occasion and knows Just
when and how far to turn a compliment. !
enjoys a certain cheap popularity that
turns his perfectly brushed head. '
He likes what he culls "excitement "
He enjoys the bright lights mid the lat 1
hours. The man who enjoys the bright
lights and late hours Is the muu who is I
late to work next morning, and shows a
brain suffering with Indigestion when lie
gets there.
There are no blight lights in tlie hard
work that success exacts, and the late 1
hours are not spent In Idlo amusement. I
The eulet man. the food, honost soul
that knows nothing about society. Is tlitf
man who has never been spoiled by
female adulation, A quiet man admires
you and he knows nothing about society.
Kncomago him, approve of him, and show
your approval.
Ho is u jewel' Tako eaie that you
don't cast him aside in favor of ome
bright pjeof of wortlllrsi glass
ARISTA
rtii) amh ov tim: not
lly KlitiA WHKKMCIt W II, COX.
Copyright. 1SULV by Amorlcnn-.Iournal-Hxnmtncr.'
It was long nnd long ago our love began;
It vvna soninthtng all unnicnsurod by time's span:
In nn orn ami h npot, by tho Modern World' forgot,
Wt vvero lovers, oro (Soil named us, Mnlii nnd Man.
l.lko tho nil! 111 or. v of music mndo by streams,
All (ho beauty of Hint other llfo soonm:
Hut I always thought it so. nnd at Inst I know, I know,
Vi worn lovers In tho lnnd of Sliver Dreams.
v
When the moon was nt the full I found the plnre:
Out nnd out across the sens of shining space,
On it quest, thnt could not fnll I unfurled my memory', snll
And cast anchor In the liny of Love's Klrst Grace
1
At tho foot of ArUturchus lies this bay.
1OI1, tho wonder of thnt mountain far away!),
And tho Land of Silver Dreams nil about It shines and gleams,
Whore wn loved before Clod fashioned night or day. .
A
We werti souls, In oorle bodies mado of light;
Wo wore winged, and we could speed from height to holght,
And wo built a nost called Hope on tho sheer Moon-Mountain aide,
Where we snt nnd watched new worlds wheel Into slant.
And we saw this little planet known as Earth, , (
When the might Mother Chaos gave It birth;
Hut In Love's conceit wo thought all thoBo worlds from space broughlj
' For no greater aim or purpose than our mirth.
And we laughed In love's abandon, and1 we sang,
Till tho echoing peals of Arlstnrchus rang,
As hot hissing comots came, and white auna burst Into flame,
And a myriad worlds from out tho darkness sprang.
I can show you, whon tho Moori Is at Its best,
Arlstnohus, and the spot wo mado our nest.
Oh! I always wondored why, whon tho Moon was In the sky,
I was stlrrod with such strange longing and unrcstl
(
And I know the subtle beauty and the force
Of our love was never bounded by Earth'B course.
80 with Momory'a sail unfurlod, I went cruising past this world,
And I followed till I traced It to its source.
Ultra Violet Rays Enable Us to Find Out What
the Moon is
Hy (MMOSTT I'. SEIVVIHS.
Tho old Joker who declared tlmt the
moon was made of green cheese probably
thought that nobody could ever disprove
his stntement because It would be impose
slble for man to
find out what the
tnoon really was
inadu of.
If he could re
visit tho arth now
he would be less
astonished to see
men flying through
the air than to find
out that they have
actually discovered
the composition of
the moon without
going thore.
It Is 240,000 miles
away, and wo have
not yet succeeded In crossing tho empty
(space separating It front tho earth, but,
nevertheless, by the properties or tne
light reflected from its surfacn we aro
finding out whut It Is made of.
These strange discoveries am based
upon the fact that the photographic plate
can "see" waves of light which are totally
Invisible to the human eye. Our eyes
grasp a certain range of light waves
varying from about 1-S4.000 to 1-70,000 of
an Inch, but there is an abundance of
"Invisible" light whose waves aro both
much longer and much shorter than those
of the light which we see.
Tho lone?r waves arc called "Infrared
rays,' I. e below the red, nnd the
shorter onea nre called "ultra-vlolet rays,"
I. 0., beyond ths violet, the red and vio
let being tho limits of the visible spectrum
of light.
Now. It happens that these rays, which
lie beyond our eye-reach, aro reflected
with varying- degrees of intensity by df
ferent substances. We. cannot see them
directly, but the photographic plate Is
able to make them sensible to us. If only
wn can senaratn tlii-m from the flood of
'invisible light that envelops them. This
j separation ran be effected by means of
colored screens and of certain substances
, (hot f,t-M nn rftnulMrli irn nMnnrent for
"special kinds of light, like quartz, lly
;l 1. ii..n t i i'..n,t ,r ti...
miLii memm tut. ... ... . . ui.v v .,,,
Hopkins university 1ms succeeded In mak
ing photographs of the moon with the
1 ultra-violet rays alone, und the result
are truly astonishing.
These photographs reveal some of the
substances of which tho moon's surface
consists. I.t us see how this revelation
Is ma de.
I'rof. Wood noticed thut In his ultra
violet photographs of. the moon a huge
"crater mountain," known to astronomers
by the name of ArUtarchus, which lit
some thirty miles across and which lias
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vri in 'i'iik moon.
Really Made Of
In Its center a peak that glitters us 'V
composed either of snov or of a pile. 'ol
gems, was partly surrounded by a bltct
deposit which Is. Invisible to the eye whei
tho mooll Is r'samlhel with a tnlcscopt
The thought occurred to 'him that th
nature of this mysterious deposit mlglil
bo ascertained by finding out what ma.
terlala on tho earth present a nlmttal
appearance when photographed In tin
same kind of rays.
Accordingly, he took two specimens ti
vol can I a rock, or tuff, and made thre
photographs of them, one In yellow light)
one In violet light and one In ths ultra
violet rays. Ho found that the image o(
one of the pieces of tuff, which lay o
top of the other, wan almost Invisible lr
yellow light, while U10 other specimen dU
not show similar changes. Then" hi
analyzed tho specimen that photographoi
dark In the ult-volet rays, aad foun
that Is contained Iron and a little milphni
Thereupon he took a rock and stain
It with Iron, but this showed equall
dark In the violet and the ultra-vlolsi
Next ha sprayed a part ot ths rock wltl
sulphur vapor, producing a dsooslt tha.
was Invisible to the eye. When this ws.
photographed In the different kinds o
light tho deposit was invisible in th
yellow, came out gray In the violet, ah
black In the ultra-violet. Since this wa
exactly tho appearance of the strange da
posit around the crater mountain oh th
moon, when photographed in slmll
lights, the inference was Irresistible tha
Aristarchus Is surrounded by vast da
posltH of sulphur, whose existence wouli
never have been known to us but for to
curious power of the ultra-violet rays.
There aro similar deposits around othe
mountains on the moon, and this fact
In accord with the belief that moat o
these mountains are of volcanlo origin
since It Is well known that on the earti
the volcanoes are always surround
with deposits of sulphur.
Tho experiments of Prof. Wood may bi
only the beginning of a new.- method o
celestial exploration, which when It t
Perfected will produce still more aston
Ishlng discoveries. Already the possibll
lty has been discussed of employing thl
infra-rod as well as the ultra-violet rayi
for this purpose, and Inasmuch as even
substance probably has its own prefer
encrs In regard to the kind of rays tha
It reflects, there Is 110 Improbability li
predicting that photographic charts a
the moon will be made which will eho
th character of the minerals aboundlnt
on different parts of Its surface as i
geological map shows those of the earth
So a wonderful page In the history ol
our little nelRhbor world will be throwi
open. Thus does Intelligence delay spac
and lime.
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