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Ttemains One of the Unsolved Problems I
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Sj; Professor J}. E. Dolbear.
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constant properties as other things are. If it be unlike
eterj thing else then it cannot be described by its constant properties as
otnei things are. If it be unlike everything else then it cannot be de¬
scribed by terms that apply to anything else. All material things have
some common properties. A glowing coal is an incandescent solid, a flame
as an incandescent gas, but neither glow nor flame exists apart from the
matter that exhibits the phenomena. Both are conditions of particular kinds
of matter. If electric phenomena are different from N gravitative or thermal
or luminous phenomena it does not follow that electricity is miraculous or
that it is a substance. We know pretty thoroughly what to expect from it,
for it is as quantitatively related to mechanical and thermal and luminous
phenomena as they are to each other; so if they are conditions of matter,
the presumption would be strongly in favor of electricity's being a condi¬
tion or property of matter, and the question, “What is electricity?” would
then be answered in a way by saying so, but such an answer would not be
the answer apparently expected to the question. To say it was a property
of matter would be not much more intelligible than to say the same of gravi¬
tation. At best it would add another property to the list of properties we
already credit it with, as elasticity, attraction and so on. In any case the
nature of electricity remains to be discovered and stated in terms common
to other forms of phenomena, and it is to be hoped that long before this new
century shall have been completed, mankind will be able to form as adequate
■an idea of electricity as it now has of heat.
The Happy
| Married Mans Face S
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For the variations of the intensity of magnetic action,
either from time to time, or as we proceed from place to place, are among
thte most interesting of all the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism.
No one ever mistakes the good married man. It is only the erratic
one who leaves you in doubt. The good one can protect all the unprotected
females, and make himself generally agreeable to the ladies, and yet never
leave a doubt on any mind that there is a precious little woman a* hor’"
worth all t’ie world lo him.
For we have seen already that from hour to hour, and from day to day,
there are changes in the extent of the minute oscillations of the suspended
magnet, and that these changes indicate variations in the intnsity of the
magnetic force under diurnal and annual solar influences.
Roof garden students and astronomers, scientists and waiters, add to
these variations a change which has a period corresponding to the motions
of the moon, and it becomes evident that it is to an influence as subtle and
as pervading in its character as gravitation itself that the terrestrial mag¬
net owes its powers.
Yes, there is an expression in the face <^f a good married man “that won’t
coine off.” f>
I What Business Men j
^ | Demand of Boys ? j
By William Hosea Ballou , Jluthar and
t Sociologist. |
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put the question, ‘‘In your experience as a business man what sort of school
training does a boy need?”
The question applies; of course, only to boys untrammeled by require¬
ments for admission to college. All. were agreed that boys should leave school
with a more thorough training in the rudiments of education, particularly in
what used to be known as mental arithmetic.
If I may generalize, let me say, to sum up, that business men ask:
That our schools give boys a more practical training; that they guard
against mental indigestion as we would against physical Indigestion.
That such training be more thorough, particularly in arithmetic and ac¬
counts.
That more attention be given to English composition, spelling and pen¬
manship.
That the school (and perhaps the home) teach the gospel of WORK,
WORK, WORK! This lesson well learned will surely win promotion, give
character, studying quality, persistence, stlck-to-a-tiveness and, coupled with
thrift, will enable any bright boy to grapple with the problems of life and to
climb ambition’s ladder.—New England Grocer.
Not Up in the Show Line.
Willie Morris suddenly evinced a
dislike for Sunday school, and showed
rebellion when his mother started to
dress him.
“Well,” the boy admitted on being
pressed for a reason, “ ’stead o’ spend
in’ my pennies goin' to that. I’d rataer
save ’em and take in a show that's
worth while. Nothin’ much to see
there anyway!”—New York Press.
Former Vice-President Levi P. Mor¬
ton. has given to Rhinecliff, N. Y., '
near
which his home, Ellerslie, is situated,
an industrial home and reading-room i
to cist 150,000.
ERE on the threshold of the new century we are confronted
with fhe question “What is electricity?” and the answer
implied by the question seems to demand a something
which could be described by one who knew enough, as one
would describe some new mineral or gas or thing. Some
eminent scientific men are befogged by the question, say it
is some ultimate unknowable thing, and hopeless as an in¬
quiry. If it be a it must be described by its
HERE is an expression in the face of a good married man
who has a good wife that a bachelor’s cannot have. It is
indescribable. He is a little nearer the angels than the
sweetest cotillon leader living.
How often, or, how often, in looking o’er (he happy
features of my dearest friend I have envied that baetific ex
pression and wished 1 could change faces with him! Faces,
I say, not places.
OYS need, most of all, to be taught how to observe and
study, to study things themselves, rather than the names of
things; to acquire correct habits of thought, to investigate
and discover for themselves what they wish to know. To
this end it seems to mo our schools are doing excellent
work. But in what, if any, respects do they fall to meet the
demands of business men? In conversation with several
men of large experience in my office, and as I have met
them in at lunch and
What They Could Be.
“There were two enterprising kids
in here this morning,” said a Walnut
street tobacconist Saturday. "They
wore Indian suits of the 35-cent va¬
riety and carried toy bows and ar¬
rows. 1 was selling a man a cigar
when they approached the showcase.
“ ‘Say,’ said one, ‘want to hire two
boys?’
“ ‘You’re too small,’ I replied, with
a smile. ‘What can you do—make
cigars?’
“ ‘Naw,’ replied the spokesman, ‘we
kin stand out in front an’ be Indian
tobacker signs fer you.’ ”—Kansa*
City Times.
PLEAS ARE TURNED DOWN.
Gaynor and Greene Los-: Oui in "irst
Round-Judge Speer's Decisioi
Emphatic.
In the United States court at, y a .
vanuah Friday morning Judge Emory
Speer rendered a decision overruling
every plea that the crime of conspir¬
acy with which Greene and G; uor
are charged was not extraditable.
The decision was a sweeping one
in favor of the government. It mnans
that the defendants must go to rial
on tile two old indictments in w i C h
there are fourteen counts regard ess
of whether they are tried upon the
indictments recently found or not
The opinion of the court was j :v
part, as follows;
"The plea alleges that the com is
without jurisdiction for the rent nu
therein stated. They are that tin de¬
fendants were lately under the si.e -
eignty of Great Britain; that u. ’
the treaty and under extradition t
ties between (his government
Great Britain the defendants were
dieted to be tried on the charges; i
for participation in fraud by a;
and trustee; second, participation
embezzlement; and, third, receding
money and property, knowing the
same to be fraudulently obtained’ 1
The judge said;
“For many years the United Stltes
has been trying to bring to the >ar
of public justice the men whom hic
cessive grand juries have indited
for alleged violation of its laws '
mi
alleged misappropriation of enon ms
sums appropriated by the liber,;;.,
of congress for the benefit of 1IS
city, of tiie Georgia sea coast, and ho
mighty values involved in the ti u s .
portatlon by water of the inte~q»t 9
and foreign commerce of our «un
try. On the other hand the right 0 f
an individual are not less sacred,not
less to be carefully conserved by the
courts than the rights of the in die
in so far as they may be piroprly
involved. The court has, then ire,
listened attentively and carefully on
sidered the exhaustive argument of
counsel.
“Why is the court asked : me
stroke to hew down the arm < ua
tice as it would hold the sc; In
equal poise between the govo ent
and the accused?
“It is said that to uphold i
dictment would be a reflect
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action of Ml tne cot its of to H
ain and the ample sufficiency 10
indictments, it will appear, 1 t
to annul them would seem a r
tion upon the national int.ellige
“The whole contention of thi
cused may be summarized in a
gle sentence. The indictment eha
conspiracy and the prisoners v,
returned to the bar of this eo
for something else. It is fur
charged that the prisoners are
on trial for crime sother than tli
for which the extradition was grant
“The ruling of this court in 115 f h.
rep., 344, on the demurrer to a stn
ilar indictment has been cited as
thority to support the plea of the >•■;•
fondants. It is urged that the cont
reiterated the word conspiracy as a
designation for tne offense, hut tie
fact should not be disregarded tint
along with this expression was tie
fullest and most ircumstantlal
tail Of the facts, icb were set cut
In the indictments, hlch were ado ‘
cd by all the Brito and Canadi'U
courts, which pas ,• 1 on the questitu,
which brought the a ove extraditim,
which gave the inf< ; mat.ion to tie
prisoners of the c irncter of tie
charge against them nd which no -t
be proven substantial! oefore the gov¬
ernment can expect . verdict of < o ; -
viction. It was de.se 1 :d not inert.V
as a conspiracy, but as a joint a'id
successful endeavor to defraud m
United States b pa icipation in t ?
crime of its trust <-i agent and offi¬
cer.”
Confirmations ts the Senate.
Senor Obaldia. mi nister from Ban
ama, in Washington,•has received Urn
following cablegram J orn his f" verm
nient: “Deny uprisin, if San Bias In¬
dians.” Personal ti l cnees betw -n
chiefs caused circul on of the ro
nort.”
“DAMN THE LAW,’’ Sm THE MATO#
UndiquiUed Remark At juted to Ch ef
Executive of Kei -«*V»
“Damn the law, Go uld not <
force the prohibition in Kansas
and Jesus Christ won not."
Rev. John C. Lynn, a Presbyteries
preacher and presided, of the Civic
League, testifying at Kansas Cljtv,
Kan., Friday, In the e.se brought r;
tiie state to oust May-r W. W. Rr o
from office because of bis alleged f;
ure to enforce the la* . testified t! t
the above words wet spoken *>y
flavor Rose on Mav € 1905.
HOUSES CRASH
SCORES PERISH
Landslide Results in Frightful and
Deadly Catastrophe.
FIRE ADDS TO HORROR
Brick Yard Excavations Cause Earth to
Give Way and Many Buildings
Tumble Into Abyss.
Twenty persons—men, women and
children—are believed to have per¬
ished in a landslide which occurred
at Haverstraw, N. V., about midnight
Monday night.
The landslip occurred at I lie end
of a street, and eight houses were car¬
ried over a clay bank into the brick
yard excavations, dropping down 100
feet.
The slide is supposed to have been
caused by the fact that those working
in the brick yards dug too close to
the end of the street, causing a cave
in.
Most of the people were In bed
when the catastrophe took place. Im¬
mediately after the slide the houses
caught fire and the persons who went
down perished in the flames.
The great slip of clay carried away
the water main, which supplied the
| fire hydrants, and when the firemen
arrived at the scene they found no
water with which to extinguish the
blaze In the ruins of the houses which
had so suddenly been sent over the
bank.
A large force of men worked des¬
perately Tuesday to uncover the ruins
of the houses carried down; Up to
11 o’clock there had been little suc¬
cess owing to the great mass of clay
to be moved and to the fact that
where the houses had burned the de¬
bris was so hot that the work was
very slow.
Firemen, reinforced by hundreds of
volunteers, worked desperately to sub¬
due the flames, which were slowly but
surely consuming the bodies of those
who were caught in the wreck of their
homes.
The list of missing constitute the
only known victims of the landslide.
Two blocks of houses are supposed
lave been undermined.
'-indsl’ ound, ■■■ weakened c g ■■• 4 *. i’v b r
^ b ...i
and sntf^ 1 showed crevices near the
edge of the street late in the after¬
noon and in the evening portions of
the bank, where workmen had been
digging clay for brick, began to give
way.
The section was not thickly populat¬
ed, for most of the former dwellers
had left on account of fear of just
what happened. Many of the rescued
left their houses early in the evening
before the final crash came.
“STAND PAl” SAYS JORDAN.
President of Colton Association Issues
Encouraging Statement to Growers.
President Harvie Jordan has given
out an interesting statement address
ed to the spot holders of cotton advis¬
ing them not to sell, but to stand
pat and demand the full price. The
statement concludes as follows:
“We know now that the crop Is
short and that the balance of the
unsold portion of this crop must bring
higher prices to offset the depressed
markets we had to suffer In Sentern
ber and October.
“Stand pat and demand the full
price. WO are sure to win if we firm¬
ly hold the small balance of the un¬
sold crop for 15 cents.”
JUDGE PAYNTER IS NOW SENATOR.
The Kentucky Legislature formally Elects
Successor to Senator Blackburn.
Both houses of the Kentucky legis¬
lature Tuesday cast their ballots for
the election of a United States sena¬
tor to succeed Hon. J. C. S. Black¬
burn, the honor falling to Judge Thos.
H. Paynter of the court of appeals.
The republican minority cast Iheir
votes In both houses for Hon. W. H.
Cox.
INDIANS RAISE < OLOMBIAN flAI.
San Bias Tribe Announce Secession from
Panama and Allegiance to Colombia.
Irranaqulna, grand chief of the San
Bias Indians on the lower Atlantic
coast of Panama, announces secession
from Panama and the renewal of Hi
legismce to Colombia of himself an 1
followers.
There are about 30,000 of these In
dlans along 110 miles of the most I'm
tile part of the coast of Panama and
in all the villages the Colombian flag
is being displayed. This revolt again ;t
Panama’s rule Is said to be fomented
by the Colombians.
DENY COURT JURISDICTION.
Greene and Gaynor Make Initial Kick
at Beginning of Their Trial
in Savannah.
After four years spent in exile as
fugitives from the law, Benjamin D.
Greene and John F. Gaynor appeared
Tue.-.day in the iederal court for the
southern district of Georgia before
Judge Emory Speer at Savannah to
answer to several indictments, charg¬
ing them with conspiracy ta defraud
Urn government, with embezzlement
and with receiving money known to
have been embezzled from the United
States.
The attendance in the court room
was large, the interest shown by
members of the bar being particular¬
ly intense ;a number of visiting law¬
yers were present.
Shortly after the convening of court
Mr. Erwin announced that at this,
time he desired to call only the cases
of Benjamin I). Greene and John F.
Gaynor, making no allusion to the In¬
dictments standing against the co de¬
fendants, William T. and Edward II.
Gaynor, brothers of John F. Gaynor;
Michael A. Conolly and former Cap¬
tain Oberlin M. Carter, none of whonii
were in the city.
Upon the request of Colonel Mel
drim, Mr. Erwin outlined 11m method
of procedure he would adopt in the
trial of the cases. He will ask that
I bo defendants plead to the several
indictments against them, It being
then his purpose to consolidate all
the charges and try the accused upon
iho Indictments, the defendants plead¬
ed not guilty to in 1 902 before they
left for Quebec, forfeiting bonds ol
$40,000 each.
A plea in abatement was read by
Colonel Meldrim, holding that the
court was without jurisdiction, be¬
cause the charge of conspiracy, upon
which the first hill of Indictment has
been found, was not an extraditable
offense under (lie treaty obtaining
with Canada. tie asked tlx- court
to discharge the defendants from cus¬
tody. Mr. Erwin expressed a desire
to file an answer to the plea later,
suggesting that the case might pro¬
ceed in the meantime. The court ten
tativeiy took the same view. Counsel
for the defense objected, however
claiming that the question of the.
plea was one of vast importune.-, um
that it should be determined forth
with.
’Mm indictment s$d Colonel Mel
conspiracy. The British privy conn
sol has found that conspiracy is not
an extraditable offense between the
United States and the Dominion of
Canada, hence as the defendants were
extradited, they cannot be tried upon
an indictment alleging conspiracy.
This, according to the defense, should
quash the two old indictments,
Mr. Erwin replied that he would
require time in which to formulate
his answer to (he plea.
The remainder or the day’s session
was consumed in preliminary skir¬
mishes between counsel with the Is¬
sue upon the contention advanced still
undecided when adjournment until
Wednesday morning at 9:30 o’clock
was taken. It. seemed quite possible
as one observed the slow progress’
of the case that It. might be days be¬
fore the point or drawing the jury for
the actual trial will bo reached.
“[(All FOR ALABAMA STALL PRIMARY.
feature Will ile Nomination of Successors,
to Senators Morgan and Pettus.
A state primary In Alabama was
ordered for August £7 by the demo
cratlc; executive committee in session
at. Montgomery. The committee not
only ordered a primary for the se¬
lection of democratic candidates for
governor and United States senators,
but it provided further for the suc¬
cession to the United States senate In
the event there should be a vacancy
caused by death in the next four
years.
The voters will not only vote for
successors to Senator Morgan and
BettuH, but they will vote for men
who are to be appointed by the gov
ernor in the event either of the two
senators (lie.
EXPOSITION favored by capitalists.
Monied Business Men of Atluntu to I iberolly
Aid the Great Loir.
A representative body of Atlanta
capitalists assembled at the chamber
of commerce Wednesday, at the In¬
vitation of John W. Grant, chairman
of the 1910 exposition canvassing com¬
mittee, which Is to work among the
capitalists.
The gentlemen present, every one of
whom Is prominent in the business
world of I he city, expressed them¬
selves as heartily In sympathy with
the exposition movement.