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| SUGGESTIONS FROM |
I OUR CORRESPONDENTS
THE INEBRIATE HOSPITAL
IDEA STRONGLY INDORSED
Dr. W. B. Parks has received the fol
lowing very strong indorsement of his
plan for a state sanitarium for inebriates.
It Is from Dr. H D. Allen, who has an
Home" at MUiedgeville. at
which he Ims been very successful in the
treatment of nervous and m**rts* die-
“MILEDGKVILLE. Ga. Nov. 27. I*4.
-Dr W B Parks. Atlanta. Ga—Dear
Doctor . I hope that you will not let the
faet of the North Georgia conference not
Inlorsing your efforts in trying to per
suade the state to build an inebriate hos
pital discoura«e you or cause you to give
up the effort You must remember that
religious bodies never lead, but the doc
tors must, beside* it is poeeible that the
conference hardly felt at liberty to ad
vise the Georgia legislature. Tou and I
realise more fully than most people the
great importance of the state caring tor
this very unfortunate class of people.
They certainly need protection from socie
ty as well as society needs protection from
them, or as much as the Insane do. For
every set of violence done by Insane peo
ple. there is. in my opinion, at least ten
done by people under the influence of al
coholics or narcotics. A person suffering
from intoxication is no more responsible
for his sets than a person suffering from
•uttMntoxieation Still we know that the
law cannot thin fnet. for if tt did
a person would only have to get drunk to
commit any act of violence that a vicious
nature might wish
1 have been treating the insane and
those addicted to the drug and alcoholic
habit for nearly 12 years. They belong to
the same class, in nearly every ins ante.
.I that is. they are suffering from and inher
ited Neurosis or Psychosis
“Every true Georgian io proud of the
Georgia state sanitarium and prouder still
of the humane treatment shown for this
unfortunate class, and you can re*’ aeeur
ed. doctor, that it is only a question of
time before the state will recognise the
Importance of protecting her inetriates.
for society will demand tt. Tou are sim
ply a little tn advance of the times, there
fore you must continue to lead. I have
been told that Mexico han no asylum for
her I nee no this is proof to try mind that
her civilisation is just that far behind our
own. ......
The inebriate is an individual who has
loot his aelf-controL If this is true, then
in the name of all that Is reasonable, why
should not the inebriate be controlled un
til he Is able to control himself* The mon
ey spent every year tn trying people for
crimes committed while under the in
fluence of alcoholics or narcotics will sup
port an inebriate hospital and at the same
tfmo prevent the crimes being committed
in a great many instances.
“If there is anything that I can do to
»i 4 you in your noble undertaking you
have only to command
H. D- ALLEN. ’
CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST
REPLIES TO DR. WRIGHT
To the Editor of The Journal:
Dr. A. R Wright, in giving his views
on Christian Science, says tt Is a mis
nomer; then define* science, which he
says is knowledge systematised. This
systematised knowledge, or human opin
ion crystallised, becomes a law governing
other people who choose to think along
the same line. The moment a daring in
tellect steps Into the arena of thought
and discovers that these laws and opin
ions are not true, but are erroneous be
liefs. he is branded a crank, flighty, a
fraud, his utterances "a misnomer.” by
«n who have accepted ready-made opin
ions without taking the trouble to think
for themselves. But to accept the doc
tor's definition of science, Christian Sci
ence becomes knowledge (or as scientists
say. understanding) of the Christ. Jesus
proved by actual demonstrations that He
understood God to be ever present power,
love, spirit, that destroys pain and suffer
ing. and Christian Scientists accept His
declaration as true, when He said. 'The
things that I do. ye shall do ahs© " And
on the same basis that the r*al man is
spiritual, the offspring of spirit or mind,
they go to thia Infinite source of all good,
tn faith and love, and prove the spiritual
law to be operative today. Mrs Eddy
says, page M 2. Science and Health. “If
Christianity Is not scientific, and science
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rule and truth becomes an accident."
The doctor says, “If Christian Science
be Christian, will they explain the coming
of Christ in the flesh, and His pain and
suffering?" Jesus’ advent In the world.
In the flesh, was to show mortals who
believe life to be in and of matter (in the
flesjj the way out of their aarkened hu
man beliefs. The Christ antedated the
human existence of Jesus when He said
“Before Abraham was. I am;’’ thus recog
nising His real selfhood as the offspring
of spirit, created in God's image and like
ness. with power and dominion over all
materia) laws and conditions. He com
manded his followers “To be ye perfect,
as your Father tn heaven Is perfect."
Mortals can never be perfect until they
apprehend God. spirit, mind, as the
Father of all, and hold to the perfect
eptrttuel idea, the Christ truth, as the
only reality.
In Hebrews 3-14 we read. "For as much
then as the children are partakers of
flesh and blood. He also Himself likewise
took part of the same, that through death
He might destroy him thet had the power
of death, that is. the devil." The doc
tor wishes to know why Jesus cried out on
the cross.
Jesus appealed to God when on the
cross from his human nature, not his
Chrletliness; the hutnata was In its final
struggle, tempting Him to believe that
matter, flesh, had life, but the spiritual
seme, clinging to God. its Father, its
all-in-all. through the man, Jeans passed
Into what the human sense calls death.
The Christ, the spiritual truth, enabled
him to conquer the last enemy, death.
He came forth from His own grave, thp
victor over all pain, suffering, and even
death. His demonstrations were all in
dividual. Like as a pioneer through the
virgin forests. He biased away for ©there
to follow in individual demonstration.
Thus he proved the way, the life, to be
Christ-linen ess.
The doctor makes a point of brains be
ing Intelligence. Recently a surgical op
eration demonstrated this belief of mortal
mind to be a misnomer, seven ounces of
a man's brain being removed without dis
turbing any of his faculties. The portion
of the brain removed was supposed to
control vision, and the muscular action
of eno side of the body. The doctor says
"everyone knows that poisonous drugs
will kill if enough is put in the system."
This should be a warning to the people
against drugs. Jesus said, "If you be
lieve in me. (spiritual sense), if ye drink
any deadly thing it shall not hurt you."
EDWARD H. CARMAN.
A PLEA FOR BETTER
COLLECTION LAWS
ATLANTA. GA.. Dec. S. 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
In The Atlanta Journal for December 2,
I see a statement that the Hon. Mayor
Mime recommends a standard of weights
and for the people of Georgia,
for the purpose of keeping merchants and
others from cheating and swindling. Ho
says that It is awfully Important.
I have often heard that the only sure
way to cure a disease Is to go to the root
of it with the knife or other instruments,
so the way to get at the root of the mer
chant’s swindling is to pass a good col
lection law that will compel people to pay
their honest debts. Thus you would re
move the cause. Under the existing laws
the people are in a position to beat the
merchants out of their honest debts. If
the merchant cheats and swindles, as
Mayor Mima Bays, (with which statement
I do not agree) it is simply to protect
himself from being defrauded of all he
makes.
Use your best efforts, my dear mayor,
to pass a good law to protect the mer
chant, and there will be no cause to
brand him as dishonest, for, taken as a
whole, merchants are as honest a body
of men as is in the state.
JAS. MILMOW.
WANTED—Two traveling salesmen in each
state; permanent posl:ion; MO and expense*.
Central Tobacco Works Co., Penicks. Vi.
To the members of the “third house:"
Boys, we don’t blame you for feeling a
bit sore. It may look, on the face of ft,
that you haven’t done your "duty,” eh?
But The Journal is willing to acquit you
of this charge. You did your best And
that'* «U < n angel can do.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOJRNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1902.
MADE DITE TO
MARRY BUT HE
HENIGGEO
YOUNG NEBRASKA FARMER AN
SWERS MATRIMONIAL AD.,
BUT FINDS TOWN FULL
OF PRETTY GIRLS.
CHARLOTTE. N. C., Dec. 12.—A special
from Albemarle. N. C„ says:
• 3otM time ago a young woman operative
in one of the cotton mUls here got up
a correspondence with a young Nebraska
farmer through the medium of a matrimo
nial paper published in Chicago. Photo
graphs were exchanged and their letters
assumed such an affectionate nature that
they decided that they would unite their
hearts and bands. Accordingly. <be man
in the case made an appointment with his
lady love, whom he bad never seen. He
arrived hero last Friday but the marriage
that was scheduled to take place did not
occur. The man on arriving here saw
so many girls that ho thought so much
more likelier and handsomer than the
one he had been corresponding with that
he changed hie mind. And as yet no
marriage has taken place. The would-be
groom ia stopping at the boarding houae
of the would-be bride and they have had
several confidential talks, but it is given
out as official that no marriage will occur.
The man Is of good appearance and claims
to own a farm about Id® miles from Lin
coln. Neb. He is still here and as his
ticket holds good until Christmas he says
he expects to stay here until that time,
viewing the country. He never saw a cot
ton stalk or pine tree until ho came to
North Carolina.
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BIRDSONG JUMPED FROM
THE SEABOARD TRAIN
MACON, Ga., Dec. Ik—The following
communication has been received by Act
ing Chief of Police Murphy relative to
the death of J. H. Birdsong, who was
killed on the Seaboard Air Lino near
Jacksonville. It was signed by W. H
Wright, claim agent for the Seaboard.
“Your telegram just received. We have
been endeavoring since 9 o’clock last even
ing to locate the family of J. H. Birdsong,
who unfortunately met his death as stated
in my telegram to you this morning. He
jumped from train No. 31, two miles north
of Jacksonville, Fla., last night without
any apparent reason. AT soon as discov
ered by the conductor and the engineer,
parties were sent back to the place at
which he jumped, where the body was
found, and carried to Jacksonville, Fla.,
and turned over to an undertaker, by
whom the remains were prepared for bur
ial. They will be shipped by express to
Mr. J. H. Birdsong, per you, leaving Jack
sonville tomorrow, reaching Macon Thurs
day morning at 3 o’clock. Will you see
that the remains are taken care for on ar
rival?”
The remains arrived accordingly this
mcinlnj and will be nurled this afternoon.
CHILD DIES FROMBURNS;
SHE PLAYED TOO NEAR FIRE
AMERICUS. Ga., Dec. 12.—Winnie, the 1«-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mr*. John Bragg,
died Wednesday from burns received Tuesday
because of her dress Igniting while standing
in front of an open grate at the home of her
parent* on Lee siresL Only her presence of
mind saved her from instant death. When her
dreee first eaught she threw a heavy blanket
over her face and head, which prevented the
flames from getting above her body, but when
assistance came she was so badly burned
that she died Wednesday after a day of in
tense suffering. She had many friend* in
Americus who deeply deplore her untimely and
horrible death. Th* funeral occurred Wednes
day afternoon and was conducted by Rev.
R. E. Neighbor and R. L Birina of the First
and Furlow Lawn Baptist churches. /
TOM OCHILTREE UNRIVALED
AS A STORY TELLER
Philadelphia North American.
As a story teller Colonel Thomas Por
terhouse Ochiltree was unsurpassed. Much
of the success of his stories was In the
telling, and deprived of tae ©harm of his
personality they lose much in repetition.
Although Colonel Ochiltree emee indig
nantly dented in court that he ever play
ed poker, it has always gone ths rounds
that the auburn-haired Texan liked to
talcs a hand. He once acknowledged that
in former days he was one of the best
playsr“ that ever flipped a card, and he
ssys that a calamity befell htfn only ones
and that was during hie congressional
term.
He had had a phenomenal run of luck
in Washington, but the tide of battle An
ally turned, and he wont up against It
with a party of southern representatives.
In relating to sympathetic friends the next
day the circumstances of the game, tbe
Colonel admitted:
"I lost just 35.000 last night. But the
worst of it was that 35 of it was in cash."
Colonel Ochiltree’s Dog Story.
One day be was criticising tbe adminis
tration of Mayor Strong. He said the may
or bad shown poor judgment—" And his
fault in this respect reminds me of Sena
tor Jones’ dog story,” ho went on.
“A follow out in Nevada, you know, had
a deg—a bulldog, a flerce-looklng brute—
which Me owner said was the greatest
fighter in the state. One day a settler
passed through the town. Under his prai
rie wagon trotted a mangy cur. The bull
dog saw him and started to eat him up.
When the fight was over the cur was not
much the worse for it, but the bulldog
was a wreck.
• " 1 thought your dog was a great fight
er, Senator Jones?’ said the owner of the
bulldog.
“ ‘Well,’ was the reply, ‘he is a great
fighter, but he’s a poor judge of dogs.’ ”
Colonel Ochiltree's Intimates and most
of the newspapers described him as a liar
of colossal magnitude. One day when the
colonel was returning from the Sheeps
head Bay rede track two men came into
the ear. One of them recognised the Tex
an and said to his friend:
"Come here. Bob, I want to Introduce
you to the biggest liar in the United
States. ”
“Sir,” replied the ponderous Ochiltree,
rising with great dignity from his seat, “I
allow none but my moot intimate friends
to refer to me in that manner, and I do
not regard yeu as one of them.”
The two mon sought the next car,
squelched.
Stood By the Poker Crowd.
Colonel Ochiltree rolled into the Fifth
Avenue hotel one day and began talking
with Former Senator Wilbur F. Saunders,
of Montana.
"Ah, senator,” he raid, “I see my old
friends in the senate are standing by
their guns. What a horrible mistake the
gold-bugs made when they counted on
tiring out • the silver senators. Why, Ed
Woleott an& Fanta Claus Stewart and
Jones and the rest of them were never
known to go to bed until I or 1 o’clock In
the morning. I’ve played poker with them
for twenty hours at a stretch, and then
you had to -.eep your eyes peeled or
they would freeze you out. I tell yeu
when you try to put that crowd to sleep
you have undertaken the biggest job a
man ever had en hie hands. I'll bet on the
poker crowd every trip."
"I guess you’re right, colonel,” replied
Senator Saunders, who knew a little about
the game himself. "Woleott never sleeps.
As for Jonea, I beiiev* he ean go a year
without winking."
Nearly Killed By Veninon.
When Colons® Ochiltree waa taken with
a previous Illness in New York his friend
Clarence H. Meekay got a tenderloin of
venieen, gave it to Qaear. of the Waldorf,
to cock to a turn, and had It sent over to
Colonel Ochiltree. The Texan hadn’t*
eaten solid food for several days, but he
couldn’t resist the cholee morsel. He had
eaten about half of the venison, when he
became very 111 and quickly lost con
sciousness. Doctors were hurriedly sum-
MUFfIES
FROM KANSAS CITY
. DEALERS
THEY LIKED THEM FOR WAR PUR
POSES AND NOW THEY
WANT THEM FOR
FARMS.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 12—When the Boer
war ended and peace was declared,
the Kansas City mule dealers thought
they had sold their last mules in South
Africa.
They did not expect to see more British
gold, except what the Indian government
might leave here, until King Edward’s
government got into new troubles.
But they have been agreeably surprised.
The Boers are now buying mules.
During the three years that Great Brit
ain was buying mules and shipping them
to South Africa for war purposes the
Boers were not asleep.
Occasionally they would stampede the
mules of a provieion train and It not In
frequently happened that the train, as well
as the mules, fell Into Boer hands. But
for the habit the Boers had of taking the
British mules the market in Kansas City
would not have been so lively as it was.
It is said that at one time there were as
many Missouri mules in the hands of the
Boers as the British had, though it was
the British who paid for them.
The Boers found the Missouri mule a
good animal to deal with. He was sure
footed. faithful, reliable enough when
duly watched, a little obstinate, but tough
as iron, and a ready feeder on supplies
that a horse would starve on.
He made his own way in the world and
built up his own reputation, having gone
into a new country, with money to vouch
for him and under circumstances that
were not calculated to make him popular.
The Boers liked the Mieeouri mule.
The British government will give the
Boers $1»,«0.0® wi<h which to stock their
farms. Now that there is no longer any
chance to get mules by the old method
they want to buy them.
Accordingly a Boer speculator who had
money came to the United States to buy
things for hie countrymen. In New York
he found a Yankee with the trading in
stinct well developed, and one of the first
things derided to do e-aa to eend a ship
load at mules to the Transvaal.
Th* Boer member of the flrm wanted to
get them where the British had bought
theirs, so they would be sure of getting
the seme kind of mules. Accordingly, he
came to Kansas City and recently bought
I.o® mules. They were i>ersuaded to take
better mutes than the British bought at
somewhat higher prices.
The mules have been sent south, pre
paratory to shipment.
“So we are still getting British gold."
said the seller of this lot. "It always
looked good to us, and we were glad o’
another chanee to send mules to South
Africa. Still the market south is good.
We refused $l7O a head for a bunch at
850 mules this week.
“The cotton trade will open up In a few
weeks, and then mule dealers will be busy
all the time. We are getting ready for a
moned, and were indignant at Colonel
Ochiltree for his laek of self-denial.
When he had been revived one of the
physicians protested with the Texan.
"Well, doctor,” said Colonel Tom between
breaths, “it’s quite characteristic, my
dying for a piece of venison.”
Celonel Tom returned from Europe two
years ago, at the. time Richard Croker
was bring denounced by the newspapers
and the then prince of Wales had turned
his back on Ted Sloan, the jockey. Some
one mentioned the fact that neither Crok
er nor Sloan would be interviewed, and
that they were both alike.
"Oh, no,” Ochiltree replied. "There is
this difference: On* I* denounced by the
prints and the other is renounced by the
prince."
Outdid Chicago Liar.
A Cuicago liar tried to outdo Colonel
Ochiltree one day. H* said he had just re
turned from the Carlsbad Springs, where
h* had experienced a miraculous cure.
“You d »n’t say,” said the colonel.
."Yes, indeed." rambled on the Chicago
liar. •'You see I was suffering from liver
complaint and after consulting the great
est physicians in Amencss F decided to go
to Carlsbad.”
"Humph! I never supposed you took any
stock in water,” said Ochiltree, scorn
fully.
“Neither I do, when it is plain. But I
carried a flask cf fine old Bourbon In my
Inside pocket and when I reached the
famous springs I kinder diluted the water
so as to disguise its taste, and, will you
believe me, th* following morning I was
entirely cured and when I woke up I
found myself the possessor of a brand
new liver ”
“Bah! that’s nothing,” Colonel Tom
ejaculated. “If you’ll believe me—”
“Sure,” yelled half a dozen listeners.
“If you’ll believe me.” continued the
Texan, unperturbed, 'I had liver complaint
the worst way and was a perfect martyr
oefore 1 went to Texas to try to get
cured.
“While there I met a man who had a
new brand ot pills known as the American
Liver and Light Cure. Being a flrm be
liever in American remedies. I purchased
a single pill, took It, and almost instantly
possessed a tin liver with electric light
kidneys. Home industries! gentlemen,
home industries”—but they led him away
to the ease.
Remodeled Father’s Son.
Colonel Ochiltree for a time was his
father's law partner in Texas. The elder
Ochiltree wae a judge, and one day when
he left home to preeide on th* bench in
some neighboring county he told Thomas
to have a new sign painted showing that
he (the eon) was a member of the flrm.
When the judge returned to hie office he
found a sign over the door which read:
“Thomas Ochiltree and Father.”
Colonel Oehlltree had many friends in
both houses of congress, and frequently
spent weeks in Washington when con
gress was in session. One night he was
sitting in a hotel talking with several
friends, including Senator Hearst, of Cal
ifornia. Senator Hearst told a pathetic
story of his overland trip to California in
the day* long before the war. He said
he and his companion* suffered many
hardships, lacked food, and frequently
were in distress from laek of water.
One day when Mr. Hearst wae feeling
that he would die unless he had a drink
he with his party passed along a trail
near a ranchhouse. A young red-haired
boy run up to them with a tin pall of
water. He handed tt to Mr. Hearst. “The
water was ©old and freeh,” said Mr.
Hearst in telling the story, “and I never
had a draught that did me so much good
and for which I was so grateful. Many
and many a time have I thought of that
red-haired boy and wished I could see
him in order to tell him how grateful I
was and reward him .I’d give him slo,o®
if I could see him now," the senator ad
ded earnestly.
Colonel Ochiltree arose and bowed. "Sen
ator," he said, "you have a chance to
realize your dream and to show your
gratitude. I was that red-haired boy.”
big business at home, but if the Boers
want any more of our mules we will sell
them."
The mule is a product of southern Eu
rope and is not well known in the north.
The Boers did not know mueh about them
until the war with the British.
EXHAUSTED CREW SAVED
AFTER TERRIFIC VOYAGE
GLOUCESTER, Maes., D»e. 13.—Captain
R. H. Somerville and crew of eix men,
of the schooner Belle Wooster, were
brought here today by the hchooner Pat
riot*, which picked them up egrly this
morning.
The Wooster was caught 1n a blizzard
yesterday and lost nearly all her canvas.
Her cargo of lumber shifted and the ves
sel sprung a leak. The crew abandoned
her and for hours drifted about in an
open boat until 2 o'clock this morning,
when the lights of a vessel, which proved
to be the Patriota, was sighted.
The sailors sighted her and were taken
aboard. They were all frost bitten and
exhausted by their sufferings. The Woos
ter was bound from Stonington, Maine,
for New York, with granite for the new
East river bridge.
OLD FOGY KNEW.
Experience Teaches People.
“My parents considered coffee simply
a harmless beverage for old and young, so
when a mere baby I commenced to drink
tt, and when I reached womanhood, found
myself troubled with nervousness, head
ache and irritable temper and to ob
tain relief, I drank mor* and more cof
fee, thus adding fuel to the Are.
I grew wore* until life was one black
night of pain. My nerves were shattered,
body wrecked with suffering, my stomach
gave out and. utterly refused to digest the
most simple foods, and Anally I lay for
weeks starving and longing for food, but
unable to eat more than just enough to
keep me alive.
■While tn this state, my next door neigh
bor brought in a fragrant cup that I sup
posed waa some new grad* of coffee, and
although I had suffered so terribly from
it* effects, the temptation was too strong
to resist, and I drank it with relish. I
noticed it had a rteh agreeable taste and
I drank it without 4la tree*. She repeated
the kindness two or three mornings.
I began to congratulate myself that it
was not coffee that hurt me after all. I
was assuring my friend of this one day
when she astonished naq by saying that I
was not drinking coffee, but a pure food
drink called Poetum Food Coffee, made
from nourishing gmin for building up th*
wyvtem and nerve* instead of tearing
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Scientific Theorist Declares
Mont Pelee an Electric Volcano
St. Louis Republic.
MANY theories are held by scien
tists as to the exaet causes of
the eruptions of Mont Pelee and
Soufriere, devastating the beau
tiful Islands of the West Indian group.
Mr. Cope Whitehouse says that recent
observations in Berlin support his theory
regarding these appalling phenomena.
As Mr. Whitehouse has achieved fame
by his discovering that the depression in
the Egyptian desert could be utilised for
irrigation, and the fact that the great
enterprise is now in the hands ot the Brit
ish government, his view* may command
attention. ,
Mr. Whitehouse is something of a Philis
tine in science, and apparently takes pain
ful pleasure tn presenting fact* contra
dicting established theories in natural
phenomena.
Ho dieagreee with Newton, La Place,
Lord Kevlln, Sir Norman Lockyer and
other distinguished authorities.
He denies that the flnite mind of man
ean ever pleree the starry vault of heaven,
or establish law* for comets and suna
Without going into technical details, he
defines his position and leads up to the
subject of volcanoes as follows: "’TTie
English scientists have partially reduced
our solar system to a machine and as
signed to Deity little else than the duty
of squeezing heat from the sun or ‘stok
ing’ it with aerolites. Such theories are
made for sale and not for science.
When Newton suggested that gravity
might swing the moon as well as attract
an apple to the ground, he knew nothing
of electricity. He might have observed,
however, that a comet never enters th*
sun, and therefore could not have been
attracted by it.
•’A cornet ot almost inconceivable weight
is assumed to have come from space. As
it closely approaches its supposed goal it
changes its direction and darts away
again, tail foremost, tn a curved path, due
to a resistance which is too feeble to ob
struct the paeeag* of this small tail, oom
posed of a gas lighter than anything
known.
"No allowsmae is made for the attraction
of gravitation in wireless telegraphy, and
the mpst superficial observation in ozol
ogy, or the science of small, show that
there is a ferce in odors which ignores
gravitation.
“We have no reason for supposing that
gravitation is not a purely local affair or
that heat and light do not emanate frem
the sun. Heat comes from the earth and
the light from the atmosphere, precisely
ss the film in an incandescent lamp is
heated by the resiatance it offers to the
electric current and light 18 produced by
the vibration of the hotes in the air.
'The only 'fact established beyond doubt
regarding sun and planets is their revolu
tion on their axes, and this is all that is
needed to generate light and heat. They
are are dynamos, and each in turn trans
mits what it receives tc its neighbors on
the circuit. We do not see the stars nor
even the sun.
MADE OF DUST.
"The astronomer who claims that his
eye penetrates space billions, trillions
and even deefllions of miles stultifies hlm
eelf in the next breath by declaring that
worlds and solar systems are being formed
of cosmic dust.
“Was the polar star obscured by the
interposition of a world in formation?
Yet the film formed by the breath of the
obscure Jupiter. Evidently, therefore, we
no more see a star than we see a distant
power-house that supplies electricity to
trolley lines. We only eee the end of the
st£lar or solar ray where it enters the
bubble of which th* earth is the center.
"It is strange that no astronomer has
ever heretofore obeerved that tbe magni
fying glass of a lens two inches in diame
ter could have no appreciable effect on an
object as remote as Saturn. Yet the ring
and the satellites of this planet are thus
made visible.
“In short, there is a kind of screen
which presents the Images of stars as a
sheet between the observer and the magic
/lantern at an exhibition. The Images ean
be magnified, but their distance is per
haps scarcely fifty Inches.”
When asked what this had to do with
the eruption of Mount Pelee, Mr. White
house replied: “Within twenty miles of
the earth there is a cold as Intense as
liquid air. Differences of temperature can
be converted Into an electric flash, as elec
tricity can be converted into heat.
“The so-called eruption of Mont Pelee
waa purely electrical. The sympathetic
eruption of La Stoufriere was partly due
to an interrupted circuit and partly an
induced current. The public mind has
been confused by reports of what
undoubtedly took place, but even the
scientific observers have not discriminated
between cause and effect. There was. es
course, no flow of lava, but even without
that, can any one imagine the crater dis
charging what was said to have issued
from It?
“Professor Hill rightly insists that there
should be a succinct and rigorously accu
rate statement of the facts. When this is
done it will be found that neither dust nor
gas came from the volcano. Who saw
the dust ascend? Really, only mud, hot
water, smoke and bombs were ejected.
The material descended as a thin cover
ing of uniform thickness. And this blan
ket was the dust precipitated by the elec
trical vibration, still warm from crystal
lisation. Had It been otherwise thera
would have been about 100,000,000 tons of
froxeu mud falling in the neighborhood
of Pelbe. What Pere Mary saw was tha
cloud of decomposed matter caused by the •
electric discharges.
“It la absurd to speak of all this com
ing out of the volcano as it would be to.
say that the smoke and stifling gases in a
fire caused by an electric wire came from
the power-house. As a fuse burned out to
the circuit Pelee simply sparked. It set
fire to everything between its summit
the eea and the surface of the water Itself
was made warm.
MASTODONS BURIED IN ICE.
“Now you see how mastodons are found,
with hair and flesh intact, embedded In Si
berian lee. If the uprush of an air cur
rent would disturb the cold statum abovei
a chimney what Would be the effect of the*
upheaval of a mountain mass, with or
without a volcano? It is unnecessary ta
suppose that the axis of the earth has
changed.
“The ice crop of the Antarctic is much,
larger than that of the North Pole, but
the volcanoes of Erebus and Terror are
In violent activity. There are scores of
terrestrial and celestial phenomena, front
the double tide to the cold moon, tha4|
can be explained by my hypothesis.
“It is high time that Americans, who
have a well-deserved reputation for being
the most easily bullied individuals in the
world, whatever Uncle Sam may be to his
collective capacity, should call a halt on
the reckless dissemination of preposterous
assumption, whether from this or the oth
er side of the Atlantic."
SHORTEFFuNIVERSiTY -
TRUSTEES TO HOLD MEETING
ROME, Ga., Dec. 11.—The trustees of
Shorter university will hold their first ses
sion in the parlors of the institution in
this elty on December 19th. They are Colo-!
ned D. B. Hamilton, Rome; Dr. W. W<
Landrum, Atlanta; Dr. J. D. Jordan, Sai
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Colonel C. M. Harper, Major W. F. Ayer„
James Sullivan, A. W. Ledbetter, J. P<
Cooper, J. L. Bass, L. A- Dean, Harper
Hamilton. Rome; C. B. Gibson, Colum
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Bell. Atlanta. \
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