The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, April 08, 1910, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextMYSTERY OF COMETS STILL TO BE SOLVED By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN, Of the Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, Cal. With deepening mystery closing in it is now a very good time to admit that little indeed is known regarding the nature of comets. Every expla nation made since science began is be set with difficulties. All hypotheses so far made fail utterly to account for all the facts. For ages it has been k*own that cometary streamers point away from the sun while coming in and also going away. No explanation could be made until the year 1899 A. D., when it was discovered that ra diant energy waves press against any object upon which they beat. All adopted this fact as being the real cause of the streamers of comets. Ex cessively minute particles in the nu cleus, it was taught, were driven to the rear by the pressure of the solar waves of light, heat and any other which may exist but not yet discov ered. But this plausible doctrine has troubles of its own. Here are facts so far declared about comets: They come in from the interstellar deeps toward the sun; they start with slow motiou, but this increases day by day until finally, when the nearest point to the sun is reached, they wheel around it with speeds beyond all pow ers of imagination, and dash away t<p space depths with a velocity decreas ing with the same rate of acceleration when coming into the solar system. ThdV all start to fall on a curve, eith er a parabola or hyperbola, scarcely distinguishable from a straight line for lengths of several million miles. 1 % All comets would no doubt iftove around the sun as a focus once only, never to return, were it. not for the planets. These disturb the motiofig of comets and draw them into*ellipti cal orbits. Ellipses are closed curves; hence comets on these must make regular returns as members of the sun’s family of cosmical bodies. Ju piter, owing to its has at tracted many comets and changed their paths from the open to closed curves and adopted them into his family of comets. The sun alone can not adopt. A planet can qlso reject instead of adopt. If a comet is coming around here on a parabola, it will go around the sun and fly away toward the same direction in space whence it came. Now, a slight increase in the speed of a parabolic comet will change its or bit into a hyperbola; it will pass around the sun and retire to infinite deeps in a different direction whence it came. If the incoming velocity is decreased, the parabola will be changed to an ellipse. The planets, changing position all the time, can either accelerate or retard. The magnitudes of the heads of comets range from 40,000 to 100,000 miles in diameter. A few have been seen with a less diameter than 40,000 miles, but many greater than 100,- 000. The nucleus of the comet of A. D. 1811 was 1,200,000 miles in diameter, that of the earth being 7916 and of the sun itself 866,000. THE INTELLIGENCE OF INSECTS. It is of a Different Order From That of the .Mammal. The remarkable researches of Lord Avebury, better known to scientists as Sir John Lubbock, of Berthelot, Weismann, Fabre, Romanes, and others, concerning the intelligence of insects, have been supplemented by the studies and experiments of Pro fessor Nathan Harvey, of Michigan. Professor Harvey has proved that, al though proportionately the intelli gence of mammals is of a similar ordeT to the intelligence of man, that of insects is of a different order. The nervous system of the insect differs completely from that of the vertebrates. Not much is known of the insect’s organs of sense, but enough to make it possible to form certain conclusions. Harvey holds to the opinion that insects are devoid of hearing, although some savants claim that they call their fellows and an swer their call by a peculiar rasping motion of portions of their bodies. The “nervous chain’’ of insects is formed by two cords joined in gang lions; it is not like the spine of the human being in any respect. Insects have no sense of smell nor any sense of taste, although it has been pre tended that their sense of taste lies in the gullet, and that flies are capa ble of discerning differences in food products by the different odors. The antennae of insects serve as very weak organs of feeling. On the other hand, insects are endowed with very acute organs of which > man knows nothing, because the human body pos sesses nothing of the nature of the organs of the antennae, nor is there anything in man resembling anything in the structure of the insect. Such sense of sight as certain savants have attributed to insects is extremely short. With this colossal bulk the mass is small, for the nicely balanced mo tions of the planets are not disturbed even by their near approach. The head of the comet of 1680 was 609,000 miles wide, and of 1858, Do nati’s, 250,000. The present comet must be comparable to these mons ters, since its apparent magnitude of nucleus is greater than that of,the planet Venus, although it is three times farther away. The giant comet of 1843, that won der of the ages, actually plowed through the corona of the sun at a distance of only 80,000 miles from the appalling surface of the solar disk. Its velocity was more than 350 miles per second. How a body prac tically without mass, or at least of force of attraction strong enough to be detected, could dash through the coronal envelope and escape without annihilation is a standing mystery. Comet Innes, being at perihelion 3,813,000 miles from the sun’s cen tre, was 3,380,000 miles from the white-hot surface. The longest streamer projecting from the sun so far measured was 9,000,000 miles long. Comet A, 1843, was first seen at noon without telescopic aid. The length of the streamer was more than 1 00,000a,000 miles and width nearly ! 5,000,000. It was fiery red in color, and upon raging around its perihefion darted away from .the sun on pearly* a r straight dine. It cobld not return on this parabolic path. Its nearest approach to the earth was >8>.0(k),000 tpileS.-—’Naw York Ameri can. Hoi ling Snow on New Ypr.k Bonds. Following drdersv from the county superintendent, S. V. Casey, the local Highway Superinteiideut, is trying out the experiment of rpllibjj down the snow in the roads with heavy land rollers, instead of resorting to the old fashioned method of shovel ling. . v , , , It appears that the State engineers believe this to be the better way to keep the roads passable and they are anxious to have the superintendents throughout the State give it a trial. The plan so far as it had been oper ated locally seems to give excellent results. —Canaseraga Correspondence Rochester Union and Advertiser. A Last Day Strike. The most interesting of recent pan ics was that caused by Prof. Falb’s expectation of the end of the world on November 13, 1899. One paper, unimpressed, incorporated the infor mation in its diary: “November 13 —End of the world. November 15 —Queen goes to' Bristol.” But, though we scoffed, some other coun tries took the matter very seriously. In several towns in Russia work men went on strike —because the last day was at hand and they wanted to spend the remaining hours with their families. —London Graphic. The life of the insect differs essen tially from the life of man, and the insect's means of protecting and maintaining its existence is peculiar to the insect race. In man most feelings and motives of activity result from the impulses of self-preservation. The insect has no such instincts. Possibly it has, like man, the faculty of the appre hension of danger, but when it makes attempts to escape from danger its action is not wholly due to the desire, to escape. The ant and the bee show* that their intelligence is not devel oped to any important extent, and it is probable that most of the activity of the two insects is due to instinct —that, is to say, to the acquired func tions peculiar to the species and not to the individual. Professor Harvey calls attention to the fact that many human actions are purely instinctive, although they are attributed to the action of the will. A man raises his hand instinctively to parry a "blow; instinct sends the hand to an itching or aching point. The action of a man who turns his head when he hears a sound is in stinctive. Intelligence cannot be considered in all its expressions as a purely psy chological faculty. It seems to be comprehension based upon the con sciousness of relations. It has dif ferent modes of exercise. When we talk of the intelligence of insects we talk of something very different from human intelligence. As there are divers categories of thinking beings in nature, so there are different forms of mentality. Insects have a form of meutality of their own.—Harper's Weekly. Jften The Kidneys Are Weakened by Over-Work. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are re sponsible for much sickness and suffering, Ptherefort, if kidney trouble is permitted to continue, serious re sults are most likely, to follow. Your other organs may need at tention, but your kid neys most, because they do most and should have attention first. Therefore, when your kidneys arc weak or out of order, you can understand how quickly your en tire body is affected and how every organ ceems to fail to do its duty. If you are sick or “ feel badly,” begin taking the greet kidney remedy, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root. A trl'al will con vince you of its great merit. The mild and immediate effect of Swamp-Root, the great kidney and bladder remedy, is coon realized. It stands the highest because its remarkable health restoring properties have been proven in thousands of the most distress ing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. « fifty-cent and one-doi- is jf lar sizes. You may f have a sample bottle paipplilet telling yon "0" how to find out if you have kidney, or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Don’t make any mis take, but remember tl;q. ngrqc, Swamp- Root, and don’t let ‘a dealer sell you, something in place of Swamp-Root—if you do you will bfc disappointed. R. 1 O. JACKSON, Attorney-at-Law, 1 ; . MfoDONOUGH, ga. Office over .‘Star Store, \ • • **. v.. • » / Jb U Li- ; E. M. SniTH, V , ...V Attorney at Law, , }, Mo Donouqh, Ga. Office ever Star Store, south aide eqtuure. All work carefully and promptly attended to. SrJT" Am preraared to negotiate loan* e® real estate. 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They purify the blood and are a tonic to the entire system. Do not suffer from Backache, Lumbago, Rheumatism or Kidney and Bladder trouble when you can get Pineules. Two sizes, SI.OO and 50 cents. The dollar size contains 2l times as much as the 50 cent size. Pineule Medicine Company Chicago, U. S. A. Z. D. Ward, Stockbridge. Horton Drug Co. Amusement should be taken in small doses to improve the daily task. FIGHTING TIMBER DECAY. Valuable Work Being Done on Forest Preser vation in tne South. Washington, D. C— Millions of feet of timber and finished lumber rot ev ery year in railroad ties, bridges, tres tles, piles, farm buildings, fences, poles and mine props. The lumber consuming public of the United States pays perhaps thirty to forty million dollars a year to make good the losses from wood decay. These great drains are a source of more and more concern each year. The south, with 27 per cent of the total area of the United States, con tains about 42 per cent of the tota forest area of the country. The forest area by states is as follows: Alabama 20,000,000 acres, Arkansas 24,200,000, Florida 20,000,000, Georgia 22,300,000, Kentucky 10,000,000, Louisiana 16,500,- 000, Maryland 2,200,000, Mississippi 17,500,000, North Carolina 19,600,0U0, South Carolina 12,000,000, Tennessee 15,000,000, Texas 90,000,000, Virginia 14,000,000 and West Virginia 9,100,000. The south, it will be seen, has still much of the virgin forest of the coun try. This forest must be used of course, in order to meet the steadily expanding wants of this section. It must be used in such a manner, how ever, that the very most may be made from its annual cut, while at the same time this cut is being replaced by new growth. In. this way its timber wljl remain a source of perpetual wealth. The importance of forest conserva tion to southern interests is clearly understood by the people of the south. The future of the south is more near ly bound up in the plan of forest pres ervation, with its accompanying pu,- tection to watersheds, ppwer streams ■ and wood-wording industries, than is anything now before the pe'ople of this part of the country. Not only Is th 4 protection of the watersheds,which will some day furnish the power to run all. manufacturing establishments in the entire south, an -important mat ter to the south,' but the industries depending upon the forest products will also be behefßed; by the protec tion thrown about the remaining tim bered area. WARSHIPS TO LIBERIA. Situation jn Negro Republic Causes Alarm to Powers. Washington, D. C The situation in Liberia is causing apprehension here. The attack by the native tribes from the French side of the southern boundary along the Gavally river, upon the factory and the Li berian troops, woifid be in itself dan gerous to the existence of the little republic. In addition, there is a state of prac tical demoralization at Montrovia, the capital, and the financiers of the coun try are in a desperate plight, all fac tors which might easily serve as a pretext for intervention by some of the European powers. » Already British and French war ships are on their way to the seat of trouble. The swift scout cruiser Bir mingham, sailed direct for Monrovia from St. Vincent, C. V., with Mr. Lion, the American minister to Liberia High Prices Make Women Riot. New York City. —Five Hundred in dignant women of the upper east 3it»3 rioted when they found the price of meat had been substantially increased in the butcher shops in the vicinity. In an attempt of the women to rush the shop of a Second avenue butcher, a policeman and the butcher’s helper were assaulted and painfully injured. It took a big force of reserves to dis perse the excited housewives. Murder Charged to Wife and Children Berryville, Ark. —Mrs. Elias Shafer and her four children are in jail here charged with the murder of Mrs. Sha fer’s husband, near Blue Springs. It is charged that one of the children took Mrs. Shafer’s gun out from un derneath his pillow while he slept and killed him. The boy alleged to have done the shooting is said to have stated that his father threaten ed to kill the whole family. Freeze in Texas. Marfa, Texas. Freezing weather was experienced throughout this sec tion and apricots and other tender fruits were killed. In the El Paso valley farmers saved their fruit by burning fires in their orchards all night long. Newsy Paragraphs. Returns from the democratic pri mary election in Arkansas indicate the renomination of Governor George \V. Donaghey over Judge C. C. Kava naugh by a large majority. The dem ocratic nomination in Arkansas is equivalent to election. A steady increase in the wholesale price of meat has necessitated an ad vance of about 2 cents a pound all around by the retail butchers. It is generally conceded that meat phices are higher than ever before '■since the civil war, and that they will go still higher. J. <3. Ward, Dealer In BUGGIES, WAGONS, HARNESS, ETC A Specialty of the Ay TO Top Buggies, Celebrated nIVILO at $55.00 Best Buggies on the Harket for the Honey. “TEL. NO. 1 1. STOCKBRIDSB, (SSORSIA. ROOSEVELT AND POPE AT ROME CLASH Ex-President Will Not Be Re ceived at the Vatican. ROOSEVELT WOULD NOT BE LIMITED Mr. Roosevelt Told Church Officials He Would Hot Bs Dictated to By the Pope and Spoke Plainly About Religious Intolerance. Rome, Italy The audience ;which, it was believed, ex-President Roose velt would have with the pope, will not occur, owing to conditions which the Vatican has imposed, and which Mr. Roosevelt refuses to accept. although the definite negotiations relative to the audience ended be fore Mr. Roosevelt left Egypt, the an nouncement was withheld until after Mr. Roosevelt reached Rome at the solicitation of his American Catholic friends here, who believed that in the meantime the Vatican might change its attitude. One of the former president’s Amer ican friends, who had been with him in Egypt, came to Rome, without, how ever, any authorization from Mr. Roosevelt, and interceded with Cardi nal Merry Del Val, the papal secre tary, in an endeavor to avoid a situa tion, which, as it now stands, has caused a real sensation in Rome, 'al though it was not entirely unexpect ed. But his efforts were unavailing. While at -Gondokoro in February last <Mr. Roosevelt wrote to Ambassa dor Leishman, saying that he. would be glad of the honor of an audiepce with King Victor Emmanuel and the pope. The, audience with the king [»yas promptly arranged. Before an arrangement could ' be reached relative to an audience with the pope, several telegrams were pass ed, and the negotiations were ended by Mr. Roosevelt refusing in any way to be limited as to his conduct, and announcing that an audience with the pope, under the circumstances, was now impossible. As a matter of fact, Mr. Roosevelt while declining to accept any condi tions in connection with his audience with the pope, had neither directly nor indirectly, before, during, or after the negotiations, made or considered any engagement in Rome except those of an official character, and he ac tually entered Rome with but two definite engagements, the audience with the king and the dinner to be given in his honor by the municipal ity. Mr. Roosevelt particularly desires that the incident shall be regarded by his friends, both Catholic and Prot estant in America, as personal, and that it shall not give rise to an acri monious controversy.” It appears that It was John Callan O’Loughlin, who was assistant sec retary of state in 1909, and a great personal friend of Mr. Roosevelt, who came to Rome ahead of the Roose velt party and attempted to inter cede with Cardinal Merry Del Val. The following semi-official version of what transpired at that interview has been furnished by a Vatican author ity: Cardinal Merry Del Val said to Mr. O’Loughlin: “Can you guarante that Mr. Roose velt will not visit the Methodists here?” Mr. O’Loughlin replied: “I cannot. Indeed, I believe that Mr. Roosevelt is just the man to go there. He will do as he pleases.” “It is indefensible,” said the papal secretary, “for any person to be asked to be received by a great personage whose feelings he would be unwilling to respect.” Cardinal Merry Del Val also re marked : “It is not in any sense a question of religion. Mr. Roosevelt might have gone to an Episcopalian, a Presbyte rian or any other church, except the Methodist, and delivered an address there, and he would have been re ceived by the pope, even on the same day. But h could not be received when it was suspected that after the audience he intended to go to the Methodist Church in Rome, which is carrying on a most offensive cam paign of calumny and detraction against the pontiff.” The papal secretary even recogniz ed Mr. Roosevelt’s right to claim the privilege of visiting the Methodists the day after the audience on condi tion that he, Merry Del Val, receive private assurances that he would not actually do so. The failure to arrange an audience between ex-President Roosevelt and the pope has created a tremendous stir here, as well as abroad, for over shadowing the importance of the in cident in which' ex-Vice President Fairbanks was a principal.