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17 ' Hie; Bees "HonaetMagazine-Pa Tire BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. MAY 8. IP 15. Mystery of the Mound Builders By GARRETT P. SERVISS. FLOWERED BATISTE will bp a favorite material for little girls' summer frocks, And combined with ribbon and lace makes charming little afternoon dresses for the girl of twelve or fourteen. If yen are looking for an Intellectual x cupatlon for your leisure' hour, some-' hlngr at oncu fascinating and useful, take up th subject or American arch aelogy. We have got on tins continent an indent, untold and H,n w ritten history, the solution of whose "iiiy stories- will, some iy, win fame for the d J a coverer of their key,! and afford pleasure and satin faction to millions of readers. When white men cam here they found In the terri tory now constitut ing the United States. no inhabitants ex cept a, few scattered thousands of red men, unrelated to any of the peoples of Kurope. The red men had no history. Their traditions concerning their own origin were cloudy and uncertain. But,' after the. whites had begu,n to set tle and develop the country, they found, without searching, many strange foot marks on this new continent, of which the Indian could tell them nothing, ex cept that they had not nude them. It became evident that at some time in the Tast. the country had been Inhabited by people capable of achievements beyond capacity of the savage Iroquois, Algon ouing and other Indian tribes wWoh the European Invaders found in possession. But a curtain was drawn over all that earlier iriod, and the Imagination alone could picture what was behind It. That curtain has never been removed. Some writers belittle the Importance of Its concealments, other, perhaps, exaggerate them. None can deny" their Intense In terest. As to the nature of these footmarks of a vanquished people,- an Idea may be formed from the statement that they con sist mainly of artificial structures of earth and stone, sometime of vast size, many of which look like fortifications, while others were plainly burial mounds, or monuments; and a few bear a mys terious character, presenting details whloh suggest that they were Intended as religious symbols. A most remarkable example of this kind hi the celebrated 'serpent mound" in southern Oi-.k, In which the unknown buiders piled up a winding mound "vv cral hundred feet long. Imitating the form -of a glgantio rolled serpent, or dragon, with extended Jaws. Below Wheeling, en the Ohio river, there is a pyramidal mound, SflO feet tn circumference and seventy feet In height, comparable In cubic content, as has been remarked, to some of the pyramids of Egypt, jalthough it contain no masonry, and -was simply, heaped up by main strength, without, as-far as -the evidence goes, the aid of any kind of machinery. It must have required the , labors of thousands of men, continued, perhaps, for many years. This mound when explored with cut tings was found to have a vault In the center, containing two human skeletons. one without ornaments and the other en circled with hundreds of Ivory beads. In another vault between thirty and forty feet above the. first, was another slfele ton, among whose ornaments, war oop- per rings and bracelets. In Ohio alone, it has been estimated. there are mors than 11.000 prehistoric, structures, consisting partly of stone and partly of earth. Many of them are en closed ' which may hare been fortifica tions. Often the remains of clsters are found within the drcumvallatlons, -which, in soma cases, rise to a height of twenty- five to thirty feet above the surrounding land. The area Included In the walls varied from ten or twenty up to fifty acres., The outlines of the enclosures are symmetrical, generally circular or ellip tical, and sometimes forming regular polygons, fcii I J 7 W '1 Ll Y I III 1 .AW, A I v i inn, fs i i: i . - ' ' Motion of Our Solar System By KIMiAR LCCIEN LARKIX. A letter from Eureka says: "How has it been determined that our solar system Is traveling northward st a rate of twelve miles per second?" This fact has been determined by means of one of the most remarkable laws In the entire history of science. Popplera law of light. Stand by a railroad track and listen to the approach of a rapid train. At it approaches the bell or whis tle mill Increase the pitch of their sound, and instantly lower the pitch or tone after It passe or recedes. When coming more waves enter the ear and le.- when It Is departing. Light consists of the action of waves j on the retina of the eye. Our earth and aun, all bodies of the solar system, aiw moving to a point in the celestial vault, not far from the star Vega In the con stellation Lyra and, of course, receding from the opposite point sf the sky. Waves entering the slit of the a pet. trow ope from the northern stars are compressed, I. ., mors enter per second and are dispersed to ward the violet end of the epet'trum, less enter from the southern stsrs and are dispersed toward the red. Now, exalted mathematics, based on the laws of light, determine the extent of dispersion of waves toward the red or violet for each decrease or IncreaKe of motion of light emitting bodies, and the amount actually found by experiment confirmed the mathematical formulas. A proof that modern mind is expressing at ver.y exalted rate. Question "If a cell battery contains positive and neagtlve poles, do the poles rait negative and positive ether waves when disconnected?" (2) "Would these waves be absorbed by a slmilsr celt, the negative of which is coupled to a trans former and the terminal of the trans former acting as one point of a spark gap causing a spark to be produced?" Richard 12. Park, 133 Elm street. San Francises. Slim fourteen demands dress models all her own, for she. Is at that difficult age to dress "ths betwixt and between age." A simple afternoon frock- that suits her admirably is this one of blue flowered batiste. The waist and skirt might al most have been cut from the same pattern but for the sleeves of the one. The empire waist line Is suggested by a ribbon girdle of yelkvw' taffeta, tied snugly beneath the loose folds of ths batiste. It becomes an undergulsed sash In the back, where It Is allowed to flutter In the "streamers" so dear to ths heart of a litUe girl. With this frilly drees goes a wide hat of corn-colored straw, trimmed with single blue rose. Pity Man Who Cannot Take a Joke By WINIFRED BLACK The National Association of Plumbers, In convention assembled, has Instructed the Invested officers to- take vigorous measures to abolish ths practice of mak ing jokes on plumb ing and plumbers. The Irish societies protested against the Pat and Bridget Joke long ago. i Ths Jews are writ ing letters to ths A certain degree of cultivation on the pert of ths builders la Indicated by the copper and earthern vases, sometimes f attractive form and decoration, and the carefully tarred pipe-bowls thst have been discovered In, and in the neighbor hood of, the mounds. There Is abundant evidence that tha mound builders worked ar.m of the Conner deooeits of the Lake ' ,,. ..i,in,,.. Superior region. More than O,00O of these j agers not to allow stons tools used in digging out xne nauvs any to mak. copper have been found scattered about their abandoned pita. There is one in stance) of an enormous "nugget" of pure copper got out by the prehistoric miners, which proved toe unmanageable for them. It weighed six tons, and origin ally may have weighed considerably more, for they have hacked of! masses from the corners snd carried them away. Many archaeologists maintain that the mysterious people who performed , these things ond left the monuments that weJ have mentioned, were ths ancestors of th Indians themselves. Others think that they must have been a different race. It Is undeniable that, although the Indians, after ths white man came, con structed nothing comparable with the prehistoric remains around them, they showed a tendency to the performance of similar works. This la elesrly sltown In the story of ths great Omaha chief called 'Ths Blackbird," who. In IMS. was Interred In a huge mound erected on the summit of a great bluff overhanging ths Missouri river, and, by his own orders, was seated astride his favorite war horse, killed to accompany his master, In order, as he said, that he might over look his ancient domain and behold the boats of the white men as they came up the river to trade with his people. Do You Know That All the kings of Prussia have been called Frederick or William- Linden trees In Germany hsve their equivalent In the British lime. Justice of ths peace as a title, was first conferred In 13fe. King' Albert of ths Belgians was born In ITS. A Coffte derives Its name from Kaffa, a district of Fast Africa, south of Abyssinia. i :t; n 1 the Alace-I.erralie has nearly i.juu.0. population of fun of anything Jew ish. Tou Tonsen has risen up and pro tested against the Ole Oleeen pleas antry.. Can't some body get us a con vention of mothers- In-law and have the delegates sign a round robin of Indignation about mother-in-law story? Miss Polly and her "Pals" ought to be "aroused" to Pa's wrongs, and the brides of the country should organlre to defeat ths Machiavellian sophistry of the hu morous writer who dares to make fun of their biscuits. Let's all hold conventions everywhere, and denounce everybody If a sould on earth ever dares to smile agalu. What rubbish it all Is: As if It ever hurt any one who was worth hurting to be laughed at m friendly fashion once In a while. If we'd followed out this strange Idea that .there is something wlu'.ed In a Joke, what on earth would have become of the world? Ws should have had no books and no plays at all. If Uncle Josh Whlt-ornb wasn't a joko then I've never seen one, and yet New England seemed to bear up under It somehow. Colonel Cah'tah of Cah'tahsvllle what would you call him, a sermon or a dox ology? And yet it teems to (me that Old Virginia has managed to peg alonn pretty well under the strain of the Col onel Cah'tah ami What was Unite Sam when he btart&d but a Joke, or John Bull either, for that matter? What if the United EtaU-s government should suddenly boycott every newspaper that dared to print a cartoon of Uncle Bam- Would out nation bo any Ultcger or any finer or any more powerful? If the British government should sud denly deince to selxe every Miiu and de stroy every mall car carrying fuuoy picture uf John HJll everywhere in any sort of publication, what would we do? Think more highly of England because Is could not bear a good-natured laugh or look at each other in Incredulous ol appointment? What's the matter with a good hearts' laugh once In a while, even when ths Joke Is on us? It is a sura test of char- aster the laughing test. Beiwaro of the man whs can never take a Joke on htnts!f or his neighbor or his family or his accent or his favorite fads. I He'll play a sorry Joke on you some ' day ss uure as the world. What do you love to. remember about your mother sometimes? The way ahe hunted for her spectacles when she was wearing them on the top of her head; hed old little habit of thinking; that she could make a foreigner under stand Kpglish If she only talked loud enough 7 Her trick of forgetting things that she didn't want to do and always remem berlng to remind you of the things you wanted to forget? You've laughed at mother about these things a hundred times, and she pretended to be a little cross, but laughed with you after all. and you loved her all the better for being funny and unreasonable and Impractical once in a while,-Just because It made her human. What did the master plumbers think they were going to accomplish by "dis couraging" the Joke about the plumber's rates and the plumber's assistant? - There has never been anything par ticularly funny to me In a plumber's bin. I thing 1 should pay It quit as cheer fully if I could manage to laugh over It a little. And I never really loved the Irish tUl I had learned a few Irish bulls by heart. Tut, tut. my sensitive friend. Why are you. so concerned about a few smiles, more or less? Laugh with the world and ths world will soon stop laughing st you. Get mad snout it and you'll ha laughed I at to the very end of time. i BATTLESHIP FLEET NOW IN NEW YORK for two weeks' celebration and review. This is the Battleship New York. L ,.A t' .' ! y; V v V vV . N f ? " , i f 'A - Hj r'. v-J I n a. . . v . f - v a . - ... a. i s ,w . V . v. K ' . . The Manicure Lady Hy WILLIAM F. KIRK. i Ir.it.T.Vl1'. E ii - T ii i i nnn-l 'ii-ti anr. i Answer rolea of cells of batteries of any kind, galvanic- or atoiage, do not emit waves expending In ether. Only terminals of high-pressure elertro-etatid machines, Leyden Jars, condensers of any form of Induction coils, or high potential apparatus of any pattern can cause dis ruptive discharges acroas air gaps In be- Uween. Electricity must be stored in n- dnndng apparatus or stepped up by In duction colls on othor high-pressure de vices,' in order that it may burst forth from knobs on any kind of terminals ss miniature lightning. Kecli disruptive dis charge from such apparatus sets up a wave In adjacent space. And these warns are selected out of this space by wtrolews telegraphic and telephonic de vices. (2) If clls do not enill waves, of course there can be no absorption by nearby similar cells. For vlls send out currents of electricity not disruptive lightning. In fact, all currents flow silently and at a very low. potential. Thus a renlel cell sends out a current on Its dmull at a pressure or only 1.07 volts. Powerful noiseless currents flowing Into powerful Induction machines can be stepiwd up to potentials of hundreds of thousands of volts, with miniature thun der at Instanta of discharge, with the sending out of rapid waves. if not, then we rouhl nut have any kind of wire less transmission or selection. "Wilfred tnrt a gent the other night thnl is I lie editor of a leliglnns psper," said the Manicure l.auy. "The two of them ,Keemri to get along grand, I! guess. becauHe the editor lold Wilfred ti write a little roein about leading a good life. He gave Wilfred th oheck for th poem In advance, and now poor brother Is worried to ileal h. localise he ain't used In writing anything like a sermon, and goodness knows his dally life ain't no running brook hy which to go by. lie asked father last night tn give him some Idea, but the old gent was Just as much up In the air aa Wilfred, so brother finally wrote this llttlo poem. He says lie don't Ihlnk he hasVerned iho check, hut It sounds all right to me. "It was only a three-iollar rhaoh. Them w.M(kly papers don't pay much for poetry, mid Wilfred snld that he flgurM he tad gave them worth. -Maybe he has, but 1 don't Know enouph about poetry to kno.v. Tl'.r muln fault 1 can see la that the prt about being yood sounds kind of tuitit. henrted, about the way Wilfred would art If he was starting out (o he Kd himself. I don't suppnsn It maks much difference, thonrh. People) are Kolng to 1e good If they want .' without reading no poetry telling them wtipri! to got iff. I never learned none of my goodness from reading verses about It. II was al'.vays a sort of tuition with me." "1 am good some of ths time myself." said the, Head Itarher, "and I guess alt the good part of me Is what I learned when 1 was a kM. My mother used to keep me pretty straight, and when hes talking to me didn't do any good, the old gent knew where some willow switches grew, and he waa there powerful with, thrm. Bo it wasn't very hard forme to be good.'' "I always feel belter after I have did . some good deed, Oeorge," declared the Manicure Lady. "A kind of calm feeling cornea stealing over me, and I seem like I was eing lifted up above the earth. I think doing good la like riding In a aeroplane 4hey both take you above the mean things of life, and you seem to flit away on fleecy clouds through them blue heavens. T lis re comes that old wart to have his nails did. He never gives me no tip, so I never give him no attention.. Watch me fix htm up with a couple of hanKnalls." S "TO MT PEOPLE" In-Shoots Immodest fashions easily reeonstrwot the modest girl. As a rule, the human phonograph does I not chjinifA thn rKVtrr1a aIm mwmi1i ! Natural cussedness makes criminals of soma men. others run for office. It is difficult to keep patriotism and religious fervor up to the high pttcsi all of the lime. A lieu it otm lo the matter of post-oru-T.e:.. too nrrow is aa far away as the next century. Being the Transcript of a Message given by Celestla, known to many as "The Goddess," and the Maiden from Heaven. IET me come into your hearts. Do not refuse me entrance. Draw close to me and listen, (You will listen) to my words wliispered in your ear. I am talking to you and for you mainly. And I am come to tell you that all shall be well for you. . You may wonder why I talk to you like this my very being here may amaze you. But there are reasons m6re than you know, AIL. around you I hear voices shouting that you are lost in spirit and mind. So mistaken what mistakes! i " " I say that you are good, essentially and at soul And I know in my heart of hearts whereof I speak. Are you troubled now even so lightly? Does your conscience gnaw? Does some petty or great misdeed recur to your imagination? Oh ! that just by reading these words, you might feel the gush of deepest emotion, such as prompts me and will make me powerful to save you. I am brought from my heavenly home for you and to encourage you. All my years (maybe thousands) I have been waiting for this opportunity to comfort you. And I come now, not as a preacher or an Evangelist, not as a sermonizer or a lecturer, not as a writer or a player. Like my patron saint, Joan of Arc, I am here to fight the forces of evil. Let me come into your life, your everyday existence. Let me accompany you to your shop or your office or into your kitchen. I have so much to say to you, that I am flowing over with it. I have so much to promise you, so much to give you, that all your worries and sorrows will melt away. I have a light that dispels all darkness and it is Truth. I have a wand that causes all anguish and mourning to fade into nothingness and it is Faith, I have a magic lamp that brings your heart's desire to you, and it is Hope. I will present all to you, if you will take them. Oh! Do not turn me into the wilderness, for you will find the wilderness yourself.