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‘Big Chief Alimony’
May Help Pay Some
NEW YORK, May 30.—Mrs. Mi
nerva Young, whose nusband, Joserh
Young, composed “Big Chief Ali
mony,” “Don't Blame It All on Broad
way'” and other pepular . songs, said
yesterday that her dream of happi
ness in an artistic aumosphere had
been shattered rudely.
Mrs. Young, whose heart and hand
were won by the song writer when
she was playing .in “Babes of Toy
land” in Toronte in Octeber, 1908,
summoned Young to appear in the
Domestic Relations Court of Brook
lyn. Young had been called out of
town and the case was postponed.
“1 have heard so mupch about di
vorces,” said the young woman, “that
1 just couldn't resist the temptation
of coming to Manhattan and learning
something about them.”
Levees at East Waco
.. . .
Failing; 2,000 in Peril
WACO, TEXAS 'May 30—The
Brazos River at this point is at the
point of breaking through the levee
which protects Wast Waco, a portion
of this city, with a ‘population. of
some 3,000 people, 2,008 of whom live
in the districts which flood when
the river is out of its banks. Rains
in Central and North Texas have
been practically continuous for days.
Government experts stated ' that
they expect the river to break over
the levee during the night.
Dog Gets Medal for
Saving Another Dog
PORTLAND, OREG., May #B.—For
saving the life of another dog & bronge
hero medal was awarded te Buck, an
English bulidog, by the Oregon Humane
Society 10-day. This Is the first time
a medal has been presented by the &o
clety to a dumb animal. ; i
Several weeks ago Buck's dog com
panion, Ted, while swimming in the
Willamette River, became exhausted.
He sank twice before Buck reached
him and dragged him out by the ear.
Wife Refuses Kiss;
He Bites Her Lip
PHILADELPHIA, May 28 —Re
fused a kiss by his wife, Annie Car
ney, 23 vears old, when he was about
to ileave their home at Twellth and
lLombard streets, William Carney, 25
years old, became angry aand bit a
piece ut of her lip.
Her condition was so serious that
she was removed to the Pennsylvania
Hospital, where physicians treated
her wounds.
Camden Chosen for
Sen. Bradley's Place
FRANKFORT, KY, May 36.—John
son M. Camden, of Woodford Coun
ty, will be appointed United States
Senator June 16 by Govermor Mc-
Creary to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of the late Senator W. O.
Bradley.
Mr. Camden will accept the ap
pointment and will also be a candi
date for the short term in the Senate
which ends March 4, 1915,
THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIETS
:-: Mysteries of Science :-:
By GARRETT P. SERVISS »
“Please give a million readers
a‘word picture of the following :
“Imaginc an endless railroad
track encircling the carth.
“How can ome conceive of a
train following swuch a track and
not: being upside down when it
rveaches the opposite side of our
globe?
“f, for omec, can't think of i 3
being in any other position there.”
DON'T know why s 0 many or-
I derly minded people, in aa
77 'lgye that has iavented teie
phones, wireless telegraphy, au
tomotiles and flying machines,
and that has hung flags on both
of the poles, should continue to
befuddie their brains over the
antique_ conundrum newly set
forth above., One might suspect
that the fault ‘lay with the pri
mry schools if one were not
aware of the strange indisposi
‘tion of 'most human beings to
take liate serious consideration
anything so far from the ends of
their nases as is the center of the
earth
If 'you will simply concentrate
your attention on the center of
the earth,'!be puzzie will undo
itaelf like a trick knot.
What do “up” and “down"
mean in ordinary every-day lan
guage? “Up” means away from
the earth, toward the sky, or
overhead; "down” means just the
opposite, viz, toward the earth,
away from the sky, or under foot.
Gravitation Controls It.
Both are based upon common
experience of what is learnedly
called “gravitation,” but which
may more simply aad pictur
esquely be described as falling
down. Any body that is not held
up will fall down toward the
earth. 80 much we ail know from
infaney,
Now comes the scientific view
of the matter, When a body falls
down, as we say, what does it
really do? It is not enough to
say that it approaches the earth;
if we wish to be accurate, we
must say that it approaches THE
CENTER of the earth. The earih
is & globe, and its gravitation, or
power to attract bodies toward it,
is focused at its center.
But if down means toward the
earth's <center, what happens
when ' that center is reached?
Does the direction “down™ con
tinue on beyond the center? Man
ifestly not, because, from .the
very nature of a globe all straight
lines drawn from its surface to
its center must come together at
the center, and when they have
reached the center they have gone
as far “down” as they can. The
center of the earth, then, is the
BOTTOM, and there can be noth
ing lower. ‘Up” means away
from that center, IN ANY Dli-
RECTION WHATEVER, and
“down” means toward that cen
ter, FROM ANY DIRECTION
WHATEVER.
Up may extend to infinity, but
down, counted from the earth's
surface, is limited to the length
of the earth’s radius, about 4,000
miles
Plumb Line an Instance.
This can be illustrated in an
other way. Suppose you take a
string and tie a lead ball on one
end, Then hold the other end in
your uplifted hand. The ball will
stretch the string straight toward
the earth’s center, and our lit
tle apparatus becomes that very
useful thing called a piumb-line.
Now imagine your arm to grow
to an indefinite length, and a hole
to open in the earth so that you
can reach down into it and con
tinue to suspend your plumb-line
at gradually increasing depths
below the surface. You can keep
on reaching lower and lower, and
the ball of lead will continue to
hang away from you until you
have stretched your arm beyond
the earth’s center. Then there
will come a change in the posi
tion of the ball. As long as it
was between »ou and the center
of the earth it hung “down” (in
your sense), but when the center
of the earth is between you and
the ball the latter will hang “up”
(in your sense), or toward you. In
reality, of course, it always hangs
toward the center of the earth,
and its reiative change of posi
tion when it has gone beyond
the center simply shows that it
has passed the BOTTOM and is
rising again.
Suppose you could drop straight
through the earth, keeping your
head and feet always in the same
relative direction, and could come
out on the other side in the pres
ence of a pagan stauding in his
normal attitude.
He Would Stand Upright.
Do you believe that you could
convince him that he was up end
down and that you were right
end up? With your head con
gested with blood you would not
have the impudence to try it
Remember simply that the cen
ter of the earth is the bottom,
from whatever part of the sur
face it is regarded, and you wiil
bave no difficulty in perceiving
that your world-encircling rail
road (although it forms a ring
like a caterpillar bent into a cir
cle, with all his feet on the in
side) is yet, both philosophically
and scientifically, right side up all
the way round.
.
Saulsbury Has Bill
To End Railway Evils
WASHINGTON, May 30.—A solu
tion for the railroad section of the
anti-trust legislative problem offered
in a bill by Senator Saulsbury, of
Delaware, attracied wide interest in
the Capita! to-day.
The bill would, require that the
meetings of buards of directors of in
terstate carriers shall bes ‘publicly
held, would terminate the abuse of
fiscal agents for railroads by requir
ing that all securities issued be duly
advertised and sold to the highest
bidders under rules adopted by the
Interstate Commission, would requirs
all supplics purchased by the rail
roads to be purchased of the lowest
bidder, and would prohibit the adver
tising expenses of railroads going be
yond a reasonable zmount.
Law Suspended to
Save Halfwit Child
WASHINGTON, May 23.—The De
partment of Labor has cancelled tha
warrar.t for the deportation of Ra
phazl Progrebinsky, aged 9, so as to
permit tha child to stay in the United
States with his mother and brother
The mother and her two sons arrived
a year ago to join her husband, all of
them having been expelled by the
Russian authorities from Samarkant,
Turkestan.
Six months afterward Raphael's
school-teacher reported himn feeble
minded, and the warrant for deporta
tion followed. The father committed
suicide.
The warrant was finally cancelled
on account of the peculiar hardship
involved. '
Buys Ticket Which
Carries Own Corpse
SELMA, ALA., May 30.—William
T. Crane this afterncon bought rail
road tickets for himself and family
for passage from Selma to Meridian,
Miss. A few minutes later he fell
dead from a heart attack. His ticket
was used to-night to convey his body
cn the same train he had expected to
travel.
Crane is survived by a widow and
four children,
Receiver Appointed
For State Mutual
ROME, May 30,—Sproull Fouche,
president of the Citizens Bank, wa3d
appointed temporary receiver of ihe
State Mutuaal Life Insurance Company
this afternoon by Judge A, A. Fite,
of Cartersville.
The petition was filed by W. F.
Walton, of Thomasville. Officials of
the company deny insolvency and are
preparing a statement for publica
tion.
Volunteers to Feed
1,000 Poor at 'Cue
More than 1,000 working women
and children of Atlanta will be (he
guests of the Volunteers of America
at a picnic and barbecue at Grant
Park July 4. Staff Captain J. C'harles
Barlar, managing the local post, has
addressed an appeal to the public,
asking for coatributions toward the
euting,