THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1013.
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The Old Freedom of Eussia
IJy GABIUEIi IIANOTAUX.
We are absolutely Ignorant of every
thing In holy Russia. Its history Is a
secret. Its politics a mystery. To the
public, as a whole, the main lines of this
history and politics are "caviar," as they
say In Germany. It Is, perhaps, possible,
however, In the llsht of the past to draw
forth from these obscure lines the prin
ciples which have guided Czar Nicholas
II, the reformer. You feel that they give
a vague Idea of the national ambitions
nnd when you look at them closer you
may perhaps apply to Russia the words
of Mme. do Stael about our old regime
In France: "What Is old In France Is
not despotism, but freedom." .
Yes, there Is an old freedom In Russia
and it Is this freedom which Czar Nich
olas has wanted to draw forth and re
instate after centuries of prejudices and
violence.
At the outset the slaves of Poland and
Russia, living as nomads on the plains
between the Ural mountains and the river
Vistula, did not obey any chief. Even
after the establishment of the dynasty
of Rurlk, the assembly of tho fathers of
the families, the "Vetch" alone decided
the affairs of every tribe. But this was
very long ago. It Is easy to understand
how the requirements of conquests of
an extensive territory substituted for this
deliberate regime a more strict and better
organized system. Conquering Russia be
came a military monarchy.
The Russian sovereign Is less a chief
than a father. To his people, who are
still so close to Asiatic traditions, ho
still remains the master of the tent. 1 It
Is towards htm that all eyes turn. He
is feared, but he Is also beloved, obeyed
because discipline makes this necessary,
beloved because that feeling comes na
tural to his subjects:
Thus the Imperial power is tempered
by the kindness appropriate to the head
of the family. When the czar steps down
among his people he does not lower him
self, when he asks their advice he loses
nothing of his authority, if he some
times contradicts himself he does so in
a laudable desire to do better, for does
not a father try every means to promote
the welfare of his children? And the
children respect him even in his errors.
If the father needs control and restraint
he finds them In his hearjt.
The working together of wills an
souls is after all the whole Russian con
stitution. Therefore, reforms are at the
same time easy and difficult; easy when
they tend only towards developing or
re-establishing the harmony of social
sentiments, difficult when they pretend
to follow foreign examples, or conform
to the precepts of pure doctrines.
It is thus understood how. In Russia,
the most rigid autocracy lives alongside
the most extreme democracy. Between
the czar and his people there Is the fel
lowship of common Interest and tenden
cies. What occasionally disturbs their
relations and brings them out of contact
with each other Is the administrative
hlerachy with which fatal results comes
between the will of the sovereign and the
wishes of the people. This Intermediary
hlerachy the nobility or "tchlne" has
too often made the law of the empire
Marital
By VIRGINIA T. VAN DB WATER
A clever man once said of another that
he had "a great deal of taste and all of
It had." This remark often occurs to
me when I hear husbands Jest about
what they ttrm their "marital bondage."
To do men Justice, when they are really
dissatisfied with the women to whom
they are married they seldom acknowl
edge this fact to other, people. At least,
nice men do not, though cads may. One
must confess with regret that a woman
Is more prone to dlsouss seriously the
faults of her husband than that husband
Is to discuss his wife's fallings except
with herself. Women who are guilty of
telling each other of the, latest Indiscre
tions or Inconsistencies of their life-partners,
A" man does not often do this at
least not as long as he Intends to live ,
with the woman of his choice.
Yet it must be acknowledged that he
does make fun of his wife In & good
natured way, and pretend always laugh
inglyto be a somewhat abused lndl--vidua).
It has been said that the man who
calls himself henpecked Is the one who
has his bwn way In hi own house, while
no man who is absolutely ruled by hla
wife over acknowledges this fact. If this
btatement be true, one may Infer that
there are few henpecked husbands.
Matrimony teems to be a fair target
fori the Jeers of humanity. Such Jeers are
pardonable It perpetrated by one who
has ncvor married. But, if one Is happy
or unhappy, speech is rather unnecessary.
One may exclaim truly: "I were but
little happy could I say how much!"
and if one finds marriage a failure one
certainly would prefer that the turf
rhould lie smooth and undisturbed over
the grave of a burled hope.
So I say that Jokes at the expense of
one's own married experience are in poor
taste, even while acknowledging that
men whom I like are the chief offenders
along these lines. Not- the dissatisfied
married men ah, no. As I have said,
they know how to be silent. But the
nice, comfortable, comparatively con
tented Benedicts have a way perhaps
they consider It a witty and amusing way
of talking of the time before their mar
riage as a period when they were care
free and happy. Yet, if a man's wife
spoke of her girlhood, or splnsterhood, as
If she resetted It, would her husband
like it? No, he would disapprove of it.
In fact, all men do disapprove when
their wives mention with a sigh their
days of freedom.
While I agree that It U not kind or in
good form or a woman to do this, it la
In quite aa good form as for a man to
do It. Really, a husband has sacrificed
no more in marrying than has hla wife;
In fact, perhaps, he haa sacrificed less
than she. What has she gained that he
has not gained, too? There may be for
her the greatest Joy that woman can
know that of motherhood. (I am always
sorry for men when I remember that they
cannot be mothers ) But a nan can be
but it Is In turn often exposed to the ,
awakening of the two forces above and
below which crush it between their two
millstones, when they come together.
When Ivan the Terrible had reached tho
age of manhood ho entered Into the fight
between the administration of tne boyara
and the Duma, that Is to say he took part
against tho aristocracy which surrounded,
and hampered him. Just a. PhlU p of
France convoked the first assembly of
he Estates to counterbalance the cedes-
Ruslan monarch appealed to the represen
tatives of the lower classes, the natural
adversaries of the boyara. He, too, con
voked the first assembly, in which thn
reprpsentatlvcs of the people were ad
mitted alongside the aristocrats. This was
the famous "Sobor," the Russian Assem
bly of the Estates, whose existence was
prolonged till 16S2, that Is to say to the
time of Peter the Great. So you see there
Is old freedom In Russia.
In the meantime the territories of the
emplro continued to expand. The ever In
creasing distances made the establish
ment, of some kind of administration ab
solutely necessary. "During tho three cen
turies of modern history this administra
tion continued Its work, keeping the peo
ple In' abject slavery and elevating the
czar on the pedestal of military despot
Ism. It Is superfluous to remark that this
persevering method often causes bloody
revolutions from below, followed by vio
lent repressions from above. Peter thi
Great hlrnself Imbued with the monar
chists idea of Louis XI, was the de
clared enemy of the aristocracy. Like our
Richelieu, he destroyed what the conven
tions called tho "Intermediary powers."-
Tho nobility perished, and there re
mained around tho Imporial throne only
a vast democracy, kept by an army of
officials in a net of obscure and arbi
trary regulations. And this democracy
preserved until, one time the appearance
of serfdom.
In February, 1SC1, the Imperial author
ity struck Its last and moat powerful
blow to do away with the evils of serf
dom. An act of an Incredible energy, In
spired by this love of the people and tho
hatred of all privileges, which Is the es
sence of political autocracy, when it
wants to preserve Its paternal and
patriarchal character, an act which by a
single stroke of the pen In the midst of
countless complications, made 50,000,000
serfs free. This gicat measure had been
planned, desired and promised by tho suc
cessor of Nicholas I since 1E58, the day
after tho fall of Sebastopoi, and ho pro
nounced then a sentence which, applied
fully as well to our present time:
"It Is better that order is created by re
forms from above than to wait until
troubles arise from below."
Might wo not say that It was these
words which inspired Czar Nicholas when
he, during a crisis equally as grave an
that of 1856, dictated the Imperial edict
whiehopened a wide field for future re
forms? .The inspiration Is the same; The
imperial policy never deviates. Once more
it endeavors to break through the wall
which separates It from the people. The
father turns to his children and takes
.council with them. In the days of tho
crisis ho wanted to discuss with them the
fate of the country.
Bondage
the next best thing to a mother and that
Is a father. So this might be partial com
pensatlon to him for relinquishing his
freedom. And I would like to remind the
husband that he docs not gain his con
solation prize by physical, anguish and
danger, does not go to the door of death
to win It,
Perhaps men think I am a bit rabid on
this point. I hope they will forgive me,
but I hear with wearying frequency the
Jest which has as Us object the poor
downtrodden man, whose wings have
been clipped In matrimony. W all know
.these Jokes In fact, wo have all proh
ably been at one time or another guilty
of laughing at them. We have smiled at
the story of the man who was going
abroad and who, when asked if he In
tended to take his wife, replied: "What!
Take a ham sandwich to the banquet!
No!" We have, If we possess but little
appreciation of muslc, listened amusedly
to songs that have refrains such as "My
Wife's Gone to the .Country, Hooray I
Hooray!" and "I'm a Poor Old Married
Man, So Please Don't Take Me Home."
But would we tolerate little Jokes with
regard to wives at least, would the hus
band smile at them? Would they like to
hear their wives utter them even In a
rplrtt of Innocent (?) fun? In Imagina
tion I can already hear some 'man saying
to his wife when they are alone after a
gay evening, In which she has laughingly
spoken of herself aa an "overworked and
underpaid' .housekeeper," or as "so busy
doing the menial tasks of the home that
ho has no time to do the big works
of the world' I can, I say, hear her
husband protesting with forced gentle
ness, using some such words as: "Really,
Mary, If you do find that you have made
a mistake In marrying a poor man. It
would be pleasanter for me If you did
not advertise the fact?"
I insist that any self-respecting married
man would thus protest were his wife to
complain, even in fun, of her life with
him. And one could scarcely blame him
for doing so. In the first place, for a
wife to Jest In this way is not agreeable
to a man's dignity, or vanity, and, in the
second place, he does not want to feel
that a woman sacrificed anything when
she married him. Has he not given her
a comfortable home and his society, and
does he not love her? Then It is in
wretched taste In her to speak of mar
riage as a stage, of bondage. I agree with
him fully, and I think it is in equally
poor taste when he claims that he regrets
the Joys of bachelorhood.
The world allows to a man a freedom
that is not allowed to a wife. Marriage
does not interfere with his coming and
going as he pleases. But the very nature
of woman's work in the home makes suoh
freedom impracticable for her. Yet. as n
girl in her father's home, she probably
came and went as ih pleased. So, on
this point she renounces more than does
her husband though she renounces it
willingly, it she is a true woman.
Beauty Secrets of Beautiful Women
How Girlish Willette Kershaw' Employs Simple Methods to Retain Iler Natural Loveliness
By IillilAN' IiAUFEUTY.
"Beauty1 is exactly llko a spring that
wells up clear and sparkling from a pure
source," said Willette Kersluxw to me.
Slowly and gropingly I was finding my
fftct f h ,
had fa h flye , to
h prlneess h Rnd ,, N, ..
presentation
a potent, polgnan. memory, and the
sweet, wistful-eyed girl sitting with me
In the quiet; office had Just presented a
death-ln-llfo portrait of Mary Magdelon
of today.
"Take the sad, sodden consumptive I
hava Just portrayed; Bho has the earn
features; she Is really a different phase
of tho Fancy I had Just been in, 'Fancy
Free.' But the butterfly Fancy is saved,
her wings are not trailed In the mud, and
even though she Is not a fine, deep, spir
itual creature, she Is still a woman, with
tho Joy-of-llvlng in her veins so she U
sweet and pretty. And the other crea
ture, with a different story written on
her eyes and mouth, Is almost repulsive
to look upon.
'I have never posed as a beauty. Tha
only facts In my appearance that please
mo are hair and eyes so 1 take very
good care of them and of the source of
the fountain."
"Ah, do tell mo how you care for the
beauty you don't think you possess,"
said I, eagerly. Willette Kershaw Is bo
genuinely girl so dainty and attractive
In tho well-bred simplicity of simple blue
serge and black and white hat that sho
seems an ideal model for Miss Sweet and,
Twenty to follow over the road to Spring
time- loveliness.
"It Is not much of a secret and yet so
few seekers after beauty soem to have
heard of it," said Miss Kershaw, whim
sically. "It Is Just keep clean! Wash
and wash and keep very, very clean
Wllletto Kershaw, one of the most beautiful of tho many
talented women on tho American stage She was orico tho wlfo
of Albert Morrison, whom she divorced several years ago.
clean in body and mind and soul, until
you fairly exhale a perfume of sweet,
sane, cleanllnels. Plenty of water for
my hair, and plenty of cold water to
bathe "tired eyes. That is how I keep my
pet assets in good condition. And I
don't neglect the lesser favorites."
The clear eyes looked at me with the
grave sweetness that makes you feel that
this slip of a girl knows life and the
fads thereof. Not a trace of make-up of
any sort gave to Miss Kershaw the ap
pearance of being anything she was not
"No." said this observing young
woman In answer to my Interrogatory
glance. "I do not mako up for street use.
Apart from questions of good taste, It Is
By REV. TII0MAS B. GREGORY.
Three hundred and seventy years ago,
May M. 1513. one of the greatest men
that the earth has ever known lay dead
in a rickety, weather-beaten old bouse
in the Prussian
town of Tuen
burg. The name of
that man was Nich
olas Copernicus a
name that will
never be forgotten
While ctvlllxatlon
has a home on the
planet
The dead man
had lived seventy
years, and for
thirty of those
years he had kept
a great discovery
close to himself, save as he had confi
dentially revealed It to two or three of
his dearest frionds. From his thirty,
fourth to his sixtieth year he was en-
gaged In writing his book. "The Revo-
1 lutlon of Heavenly Bodies," the printing
of which was to completely revolution-
izo astronomy ana give men a raaicuuy
new conception of the universe.
But for years after It was ready for
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not pretty. And I can't see why nice
girls want to take their Ideas of beauty
from women they would never know.
They would not deliberately copy tho lock
lustre, don't-belleve-anything-w o r t h -whdle-will-ever-happen-agoln
expression
that a woman who has given all the
world for nothing naturally comes to
have. Then why.copy her artificial com
plexion?
"Cleanness and simplicity," I mused.
"To you these make beauty,"
'These and being In tune with life,"
answered the girlish star. "If a girl
la bitter and discontented for Just cause
or merely because she Is deliberately cul
tivating the bitterness In her nature
Old SoUs Triumphs
the press the manuscript remained In
Its author's study. Its publication
might and In all probability would,
have meant death, or, at any rate, tho
severest persecution, and Copernicus re
frained from putting It into the hands
of the printers, Finally, however, real
Icing that the light of earth was soon
to fall from his eye, Copernicus In
trusted his precious manuscript to his
friend, Oslander of Nuremberg, who,
after writing for It a groveling preface
in which he inserted the apologetic lie
that Copernicus "had propounded the
doctrine of the earth's movement not
as a fact, but as a mere hypothesis,"
gave It to the printers.
On the 24th of May the day on which
Copernicus died a copy of 'the newly
printed book arrived at his house. Tho
death film was already on the old man's
eyes, but he touched the book and
seemed conscious of what It was; but
after regarding It for an Instant he
withdrew his hand and fell into the In
sensibility which soon ended in death.
Men die, but Truth lives forever, and
sooner or later it is sure to find its vin
dication. While Copernicus was formu-
, latins bis sublime theory his opponents
j naa saui to mm tauntingly. ir your
i doctrines were true, Venus would show
J phases like the moon." The patient
eho gets down-drooping Hps, n pinched
exprcslon nround her nostrils, nnd, worst
of all, her eyes lose all power to radiate
magnetism npd charm.
"I speak from experience," she went on
In a hushed, hurt little voice In which
I could hear the vlbrntlon of deep tender
ness. "My mother was killed In a rail
road accident. That was a tlmo of
anguish and bitterness I hated the sun
for shining. I could havo murdered the
birds for singing1. I almost felt n. desire
to take the life of any happy 'human
being I met, I almost went mad 'because
I let my sorrow turn my whojo nature to
bitterness.
"Probably there Is In all the world
scarcely one girl who has come to be
SO wlthour knowing life's hurts. Think
of tho young girls you know whose faces
have a sad nnd wistful expression when-
over they relax and stop playing the
gamo of- keeping up appearances.
"Perhaps bitter experiences nro best
of all, as Elbert Hubbard has said. They
are It you use experience Instead of let
ting It uso you up.
"I'd like to tell all girls that bitter
riCBS and paint spoil the face with about
oqual thoroughness. And the two In con
junction! They Just destroy every claim
to beauty,,
'.Ufe Is pretty impersonal. I found
that out whno 1, was in tho 'Brown of
Harvard's" company, that the Indignant
Harvard students abused because tho
star (Mr, Woodruff) wore the Harvard
athletic II, to which, of course, he had
no right. I could not bo resentful or
bitter over their treatment of me; It was
Just what they considered the wrongful
use of a sacred old custom that they
wore protesting against.
"Well, life Is llko that lmpersonal-sho
Is not abusing you; she Is Just going
ahead, and If you get in the way you
will get hurt. So you have to learn
that, and take things Impersonally and
keep In tune."
'Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a troublo's
an ounco. ... . ...
And ii trouble Is what you make It!
And It Isn't how much you arc hurt that
counts.
But only how did you take It?"
I cuoted.
"Kxuotly," assented the pretty philoso
pher. "If you keep clean and sweet and
slmDlel and. In tune with lift, the foun
tain of beauty must sparkle in the clear
sunlight."
thinker replied: "You are right, and I
know not what to say; but Ood Is good
and will In time find an answer tothls
objection." The Ood-glven answer camo
sixty-eight years later, when. In 1611,
the rude telescope of Galileo showed tho
phases of Venus, Galileo's discovery
I took the Copernlcan theory out of tho
list of hypotheses and placed It before
the world as a demonstrated truth.
And what a change that truth made
along the whole line of human thought
-a change the lost of which we have
not yet heard. It was the greatest men
tal revolution that the world had ever
seen up to that time or that It can ever
see again. When the Coparnloan, con
ception of the unlverso once fairly
dawned upon the mind It became neces
sary to change our thoughts about
'everything, from the blade of grass to
man. Ethlos, philosophy, science, theol
ogy, every form of transcendentalism,
had , to readjust Itself to the fact that
the earth was a very- numoie raemoer
of one of many thousands of solar sys
tems revolving about their central suns
In Infinite space.
It Is no wonder that the men of 330
years ago trembled at the thought of
Copernicus, The men pf today are still
filled with awe as they contemplate his
august conception,
A Trip to the
Reasons W hy It Liannot lie Made by
Aeroplane, but Might Be Made with
the Aid of Inter-Atomic Energy.
ly GAHKKTT P. SERVISH.
Within a few weeks poet I have been
asked to address two different aeronaut
ical societies on the curious subject of
the poslM)!tl s of a trip to tho moon.
As fnr tin I am
awai t this doof nrt
Indicate tin Inten
tion on thi pint '
any uvUtor 1 1
way a voyage to
our Mteltitc. but rt
leant. It shows that
the f lylnif Instinct
Is Krow'.nc bj what
It tt nr. m. nnd
thai. lmWiu navi
gated the air, prac
tical :n 'i n giv
ing a 1111 ' fMta
rein to ii-.e'.r Im
a r I n titiruu. and
wonderinn whether tho empire of birds
mnrks the ultimate frontier of human
conquest.
In fart, tho dream of going to the
moon, which, to every nge, has occupied
daring minds, Is hardly more Impractic
able at the present tlmo than would hnve
been a project, springing up In tho mind
of llnlboa, of making ships sail across
from tha Atlantic to the great western
ocean which he saw from his peak In
Darlen.
But It Is not tho Invention of either tho
neroplane or tho dlrigtblo balloon that
stimulates thoughtful minds at the pres
ent tlmo to consldor, half-sorlously, tho
Idea of a lunar voyage, Tho success of
those Inventions, defying scientific pre
dictions and probabilities only forms an
Incentive. It turns men's minds hope
fully to things that heretofore they have
regarded as lying beyond tho limits of
human power,
It hns always been so. Bvory grot
advance has been a marvel at the be
ginning, derided or laughed at. Each
one of them has been a victorious birth
of tho Imagination. Tho greatest drag
on progress Is lack of faith In the hidden
capacities of man.
"Verily, I say unto you, If yo have
faith, as a grain of mustard seed, ye
shall say unto this mountain: 'Removo
hence to youndor place,' and It shall re
move; and nothing shall bo Impossible
unto you."
That is high authority for believing that
wo ore only Just, beginning to discover
the extent of our control over nature,
nnd such things as wireless telegraphy.
X-ray photography and the disintegra
tion of atoms, with consequent unlocking
of tremendous concealed cnorgy, prove
that hitherto we have been like the man
who burled his talents In the earth In
stead of making thorn produco ten or a
hundred, fold.
Hupaoscwe look at the subject of visit
ing the moon In the light of present
JtnoVIedge. Tho distance In Itself Is noth
ing 2),wo miiosj Many a sea captain
has sailed much farther than that. It
Is less than ten times the. circuit of the
earth.
If tho atmosphere extended from tha
earth to the moon, we could go there
now by modifying our present apparatus.
At a hundred miles nn hour wo could
be there in a hundred days! But at a
height of five or six miles the atmosphere
becomes so rare that weould not live
Little Bobbie's Pa
Husband, sed Ma, did you roed that
peese In the pal por the other day wloh
sed that a prominent slentlst sed that
base ball was the curse of the United
States?
No,' I dldent see that artlkel, sed Pa,
but the way It sounds I bet It was In a
Sunday palpeh How often have I toald
you, sed Pa, that you mussent beleeve
everything you see In the Sunday pal
pers? I guees I will have to stop bring
ing the Sunday palpers hoam, sed Pa.
All you read In them Is freek stories
like the one you was Jest telling
me about or else the ads. After you
reed tho freek stories you talk about
them & think about tltem all the week,
& after you reed the 'ads you cry all the
afternoon & say you cud be perfectly
happy If you Jest had a few thousand
dollars to go shopping with.
That lsont so, sed Ma. Tou know it
tsent so. All I sed I wanted to go shop
ping with was a few hundred,- not a few
thousand, & boesldes, this artlktl about
base ball was tho truth, beekaus I, hap
pen to know the great slentlst wlch
galv the Interview to the palper. He &
hla wife Is cummlng up to the house to
dinner tonlte. Vou will have a chanst
to meet him. He is a reely grate man.
Ma sed, beekaus eeven his wife thinks
so.
Oh, deer, sed Pa, ft so we have got to
feed another slentlst, I haven't forgot
yet, sed Pa, the slentlst wlch calm to
see us last fall, the one wloh was try
ing to prove that fishes brcethed thru
thare gills. He didn't talk anything else
excep fish, ft we had fish for dinner that
day, too, I saw fish In my sleep that
nlte, sed Pa.
. Oh, this slentlst Is different, sed Ma.
He Is Interested lu man, not fish. Ho
beUeves that very man ahud have the
flzeek of a old Roman gladiator ft wud
Imv It If he observed the proper rules
of hy-geen. That Is why he thinks that
base ball is the ourse of the United
States. He will explain It all to you
wen he cums tonlte.
Well, that nlte the slentlst ft his wife
calm to dinner. He was a llttel bit of
a man ft his wife was a fine big woman.
She looked as if she cud have been a
white hope tf she dlden't happen (a be
a woman tnsted of a man. Her husband
squeeked like a mouse wen he talked,
ft his hands was thin like bird's fet.
If I was a man I wud like to marry his
wife, but if I was a lady I wuddent llko
to marry tha slentlst.
The slentlst dldsnt talk about slence
during the dinner, I thought from what
Ma sed about hy-geen that he wud bo
very careful about what he ate, but he
wasent I newer seen a man eet so
much. I guess the way his wife looked
at him he had forgot what she. toald
Moon
In It without nn artificial supply. Yet
unmanned balloons havo gone ten mile
high and meteors take fire from friction
at nn elevation of a hundred miles or
moro.
Still tho atmosphere does practically
cense to exist nt no very great elevation,
nnd cuts short off the road of the balloon
and thctaeroplane.
We must turn to some thing else. Tho
huoynnt force of air enables us to over
come the grnvltntlvo attraction of tho
' earth only up to a moderate height Be
, yond that something more Is needed. X
I havo learned with surprise that many in
telllgent persons suppose that if wo once
got outside the nlr motion would unlm
I peded. For Instance, a man said to -me)
tho other day:
"Suppose nn acroplaine could mount
straight up until It passed the limits of
tho atmospherv, then having nothing
moro to Inipedo Its motion, It would go
on with whatever velocity it had when
It loft the nlr."
In fact, this could only occur In caso
tho velocity of the neroplane amounted
to, near seven miles por second, for that
velocity would bo required to completely
overcome the pull of tho earth's' attract
ion. Otherwise it would fall back to tha
earth.
This is the reason why Jules Verne in
his amusing story of "A Voyage to tho
Moon," had his adventurers shot out at
an enormous cannon. Only In that way,
he thought, could tho requisite Initial ve-
loclty be obtained.
But a bold mln, In view of recent dls i
coverles, speculate on tho llllmltablo '
power that may be obtained from unlock 1
Ing the energies of tho atoms of matter.
Professor Thomson has calculated that a
single gram of hydrogen has within it
sufficient energy to lift 1,000,000 tons, a
hundred yards high I Does anybody Im
agine that that unlimited store of energy
is going forever to romaln uncontrolled
by human genius' We hare alscovored
Its existence; the next thing Is to take)
It and uso It.
Suppose we had It under control, as we
hall havo It soma time. Then roflect
vpon the close relation between Jitomlo
phenomena and electricity, and recall'
the familiar experiment of making bits.
of pith fly away from an electrically I
charged ball, It tvo could construct some
kind of u car that could be powerfully r
charged with clectrio energy wo might
ba able to mako it fly away from tho
oaith as the pith balls fly from tho
charged conductor of the electric ma
chine.
Thon it would be necessary t estab
lish a system of control by whloh tho
speed and direction could be rogulated
by varying the charge and the problem
of navigating space would be solved.
have developed this (of course purely,
hypothetical) idea somewhat farther In a
story called "a Columbus of Space."
Such a method would avoid all the dif
ficult!, really Insuperable, tbat ham
pered Jules Verne's plan of a projectile
starting at a velocity of almost seven
miles per second.
However, when ho set tho atomlo en
ergies under control our first efforts will
be directed to making more money" out
of them, and trips to tho moon will only
begin to pay after we have got tired of
purely earthly things.
him about over-eetlng befoar they left I
hoam to cum to our house. But after!
dinner Pa started rile in on him.
I was to tho ball galm today, sed Pa.
I was sorry old Matty had to lose that
galm. He pitched one of the grandest
gaims of his career.
I detest base ball, sed the slentlst. It
Is the curse of the country. Jest think
of it, sum days thare are maybe 20,000
men watchlny a galm of ball wen they
ought to be exercising themselfs lnstedl
of watching eighteen men that am doing;
tho exercising. If they wero all out
exercising themselfs, thay mite bs trained
athleets, too.
Do you exercise? sed Pa,
Indeed I do, sed tha slentlst, threol
hours a day.
What kind of trained athlett are you?
sed Pa.
That Is neither here nor thare, sed thoi
slentlst. lie saw his wife lafflng ft ha I
was gittlng mad.
I newer exercise much, sed Pa. & l
newer miss a ball galm wen my bisness
will let me git away, but I feel as fine'
as silk ft I guess' I cud give Sam Lang-i
ford quite a flte as long as my wind
1 .. 1 , .1 T. 1.1. . . I
luaieu. uug uuu is not ioe curse or the)
United States, sed Pa, with all due defer
ence to yuro oplnyun. Base ball la the
grandest galm that was ewer invented.
It Is loved by oaver a mllyun men Si
boys & is getting grater ewery year
ladles can go to ball galms ft ferglt
tharo shopping. Fa sed, ft men can go I
ft fergit thare creditors. Long llvs basej'
ball, sed Pa, ft three ceers for McQraw.
I think Pa is rite, but he la a, raw
person sumtlmes.
TIIE WORKINGMAN'S FOOD
Tho man who tolls hard all day
needs strengthening food. A lot o
meat 1b not essential to nourish and
sustain tho system.
A lOo package of Faust Spa-,
ghettl contains more nutrition than
4 lbs. of beef. Faust Spaghetti la
made from Durum Wheat, the cereal
that overflows In gluten the food-i
content that makes muscle, bonq
and flesh.
Faust Spaghetti cost one-tenth
the price of meat contains mora
nutrition is easier dlgestod and'
makes a savory, appetizing dish.
Write for free recipe book. Sold
In So and 10c packages at all
grocers'. -t!
SIATTLIj BROS, yw'