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Photographing Invisible
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Objects by Invisible Lightj
Professor K. O. Conklin.
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can be used only with the ultraviolet light; and since this light is not direct¬
ly visible to the human eye, it must be rendered visible by the use of fluore¬
scent screens of photographic plates. The difficulties in the use of ultra
violet light with high magnifications of the microscope are great, but if they
can be overcome this new departure will mark one of the greatest of all mod
em Improvements in the microscope; indeed, it will actually double the capa
city The of the full best significance microscopes of such using visible improvement light. will be apparent to all who J
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have used a microscope. Hitherto every marked improvement in this instru¬
ment has been followed by an era o' notable discoveries, and there can be no
doubt that this will continue to be the case Beyond the utmost reach of the
best modern microscope is an unseen world, whose objects are the elements
of the world we see and whose exploration may be expected to throw light
upon some of the most fundamental problems of science. In biology it is
probable that such an improvement in the microscope would be followed by
important discoveries as to the structure of the living substance of animals
and plants, the cellular basis of heredity and evolution, the existence and struc
ture of micro-organisms, and, in general, the intimate causes of vital phen¬
omena Whether these and many other unforeseen discoveries will actually ,
follow the construction of the ultraviolet microscope will depend largely upon |
the question whether this instrument can be made sufficiently practicable to
tome into general use.—Harper's Magazine.
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Loss by Theft j
Twice That by Fire
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rests followed. While New York city is not an exception, as Pittsburg, Chi
eago and most of the large cities are confronted by the same problem, yet the
fact remains that some extreme measures should be taken in order to prevent
such loss.
The citizen takes such measures for protection as are within his means.
He secures a strong box or sale, and in addition he has his house wired with
the latest burglar alarms, but even then he is not immune. He may even I
take out burglary insurance, but in case of loss, should he secure the full in¬
trinsic value of his goods, nevertheless he will still be a considerable loser, as
there is no compensation for the loss of heirlooms and jewelry, which invaria¬
bly have a sentimental value far in excess of their mere cost. After he has .
taken these precautions, naturally lie would hope, with proper police protec
tion, to be immune. To his sorrow he awakes some morning to find how in
adequate are these precautions and this protection. ;
Considering the large amount of money expended annually by the nty for
the personal security of its citizens and the protection of their property, the
results are most unsatisfactory. In fact, owing to the steady increase of crime
in its various phases it behooves the city government immediately to investi
gate its police department, to the end that the city mav receive the proper
protection for which it so liberally pays.—From the New York Times.
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The Difficulties j
e Arbitration
B,y ’* illiam I^indsa.y
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surest passport to civic preferment; and that even the most unjust wars are
likely to be popular so long as they are successful. But “the iron law’’ of pro¬
gressive development from lower to higher forms can not be annulled, and it
applies as well to the intellectual and moral realm as to the material or
physical. Hence it is only a question of time when reason will triumph over
brute force.
Only a few years ago. when the first Pan-American Congress recommend¬
ed the reference of all international disputes to arbitration, the scheme was
characterized as visionary and impracticable.’’ It even provoked ridicule.
But it prepared the way for the first Hague Conference, which resulted in the
first organized effort to establish a permanent international tribunal, open to
all litigant nations. As the years pass, an enlightened public sentiment will
enlargement of the powers and functions of that tribunal; and
although ilie present generation may never see it, perhaps the next may wit¬
ness the establishment of a World Supreme Court, with recognized authority
as to nations similar to that of our own court of last resort with respect to the
membership of our federal Union. Then, but not before, the art of whole*
84 ® muider. now dignified by a less offensive term, will become unpopular,
and the services of the soldier and martinet will be discounted by those of
the statesman and the diplomat.—From The World Today.
The native women of Ecuador are
so used to strong heat and light that
they even do their spinning out of
doors in the blazing sun.
O be able to photograph wholly invisible objects by wholly in- j
visible light is a new and striking development of microscopy.
Hitherto microscopes have been constructed'for use with visible ^
light only, largely with the yellow, green and blue rays of the
spectrum, and they have been used chiefly for direct observation.
Recently a microscope has been perfected by Dr. August Koeh¬
ler, at the Carl Zeiss Optische Werkstatte, Jena, Germany, which
Y attention has been called frequently to the large number of i
robberies and thefts occurring in New York city and its suburbs. |
Upon looking up this matter more clearly the following start
ling results were obtained: The loss by theft for the year 1906 I
was more than $16,000,000, or twice the loss by fire, while the
35,000 robbeiies for the same year exceed the number of fires by I
300 per cent. Of this large number of robberies only 1.7G4 ar-
T is going to be some time yet before an enlightened public senti¬
ment will bp strong enough to demand that the principle of arbi¬
tration be extended to all classes of disputes as a substitute for
war. Its advocates are not fanatics; they are not expecting the |
millennium. They do not forget that “the tiger element’’ in man
is far from being extinct. They do not overlook the fact that
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The Lena is the straightest of all
the great rivers. For 800 miles it
runs in almost a direct line to the
sea
Vaccination is one of the qualifica
tions toi a voter in Norway,
Says the Omaha Bee: Experiments
have proven that the greater part of
the produce of the west can be han¬
dled with satisfactory expedition by
water. It would be a remarkably slow
boat that could not make as good time
to market as some of the freight
trains that ply between town and
town in the west today.”
Oil dressing is found very beneficial
to the macadamized roads in Alle¬
gheny County, as it has been to roads
jn main other parts of the country,
che fears of insurance men. maintains
the Pittsburg Dispatch, that it might
contribute to a great fire have been
proved groundless by elaborate tests,
oil mixed with dust is not inflam
mable.
“Staying all night'' was one of ihe
delights of young girlhood, but it was
not often permitted, for there was
much talk after the ligh were out
and consequently not muilh sleep, re¬
flects the Indianapolis Nevis. Perhaps
these old customs are not much miss
ed, delightful as they were, for the
times change and the people change
with them. But older people think
of them with tender regret.
It is said that the people along the
coast of Newfoundland are expert
wreckers—not in that they wreck ves
sels to rob them, but in that they
know how to avail themselves legiti
mately of the opportunity afforded,
contends the Montreal Star. In Ihis
connection Sir Wilfrid Laurier used
to tell of meeting a priest in charge
of a parish near Cape Race and the
bishop of his diocese.. “How will
your p e0 pi e do this winter?” asked
the bishop. "Very well, I think, your
reverence,” replied the priest cheer¬
fully, “with the help of God and a
few wrecks.”
“The bone-shaking,” says the
“Christian Advocate” of New York,
“that Bishop Moore got in springless
p e kj ng car t s on the Chinese roads
p rornp t e d him to send out two Ameri
can top-buggies to the presiding eld
f !s 0 ohan-hai-quan and I lentsin.
The natives stare at the modest char
iot as if it was a ninety horsepower
Mercedes or Parihard. An old man
darin said to Mr. Brown, of Tientsin:
'“It is a foreign toy. The ancient is
best.”
There seems to be no doubt of the
steadily increasing immigration of
Japanese to the United States. They
do not come directly, but from neigh¬
boring lands. For many months the
government has had immigration in¬
spectors in Mexico and Canada mak
ing investigations respecting the com
ing to America of Asiatic laborers
especially Japanese. In practically
every instance, relates the Boston
Post, the inspectors have reported
that the Japanese who reach Mexico
or Canada are bound for the United
States. Inquiries in the Hawaiian Is¬
lands have revealed organizations
whose business it is to procure Jap¬
anese laborers for work in the United
States. It is this against ^hich Amer
ican labor protests, and the protest
should be heeded.
If the Mississippi River with its
great navigable tributaries were in
Europe, asserts the New Orleans
Picaynne, it would be walled with
granite and dreged out to float vessels
of great tonnage and these would he
carrying a vast traffic at rates with
which the railroads could not com¬
pete, but as the road would have all
the business they could do there
would be no reason to complain of
the rivers. However much we may
undervalue this water transportation
today the time will come when the
Mississippi Valley will have hun¬
dreds of millions of population, and
they will be driven by necessity to
make the most of their inferior water¬
ways.
We would not for a moment sug
gest that a college education is the
thing for everybody, pleads the New r
York Post. On the contrary, we are
persuaded that our colleges, with mis
directed kindness, sometimes make it
too easy for stupid or lazy boys and
girls, who are incapable of profiting
by advanced study, to waste four
years. We should like to see more
rigid standards maintained, so that
the energy of teachers and the in¬
come from endowments would not be
squandered on incapacity or idleness,
whether among rich or poor. Indeed,
we believe that in most high schools
also too much tenderness is shown to
dullards who are unable to enjoy the
advantages so generously held out to
them. But granting all this, we urge
that every possible opportunity be
afforded the ambitious and the capa¬
ble; for here, as in England, we must
heed the warning to educate our mas
ters.
WORN AWAY BY HANDLING.
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Effects of Touch of Thousands of
Hands on a Smithsonian Exhibit.
The touch of thousands of human
hands for more than a score of years
every week day in the year ha£ w'orn
away a portion of one of the exhibits
of wood at the Smithsonian Institu¬
tion. The exhibit in question is a
carreta or ox wagon, and stands in
the east wing of the Institution. The
part of the axle that has been worn
away simply by the admiring touch
of thousands of visitors protrudes sev¬
eral feet and is easily reached. The
wonderful smoothness of the wood
which has slowly but surely beeu
worn away is the result.
The old ox wagon is made entirely
of cottonwood, and is without a siu
gle piece of metal. It was built by
Pueblo Indians and is the style used
in New Mexico and Arizona. The
design is that introduced in this coun
try by the Spaniards many years ago.
It is a clumsy affair, with two wheels
that are far from being round. For
many generations, however, this sort
of cart has answered the purpose of
transportation few the Pueblo Indians
as well as ether tribes.
The axle that has been worn away
is directly under the sign giving an
account of the origin and history of
the ox wagon. While reading, nearly
every sightseer rests his hand upon
the wood, perhaps does a little knock¬
ing for good luck, and perchance
picks a splinter. Anyway, the axle
end has been worn away, and today
is as smooth and as shiny as a bil¬
liard ball.—Washington Herald.
Training a Circus Horse.
The most difficult training stunt in
a circus is to make a good bareback
hoise, because it must be taught to
travel at a pace that never changes,
to take a stride that doesn t vary an
inch in length. All circus rings the
world over are forty-two feet in dia
meter. A bareback horse upon which
a performer turns a somersault should
take just twenty strides in making
the circuit of the ring. If jt can be
taught to take twenty-two, it is so
much more valuable. If it takes few
er than eighteen, it is useless for fine
riding, though in the finish act, which
goes with a rush and hurrah, it may
circle the ring in twelve or fifteen
strides. In turning a somersault on
horseback, the rider rises with the
horse, landing whpn the quarters are
descending on the second strike after
the rise. If there is a variation in
time or in length of stride, it means
a fall and very often a broken limb.
Savings banks are established in
228 schools in Scotland. There are
35,712 depositors, with $48,990 to their
credit.
Grapes are still trodden with the
bare feet in many of the vineyards
of Spain and Italy.
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j p} Society Doomed if Christianity Cannot Grip
n 9 Hold of Family Problem.
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j By Professor Shailer
! - \ Dean Mathews,
I of the University of Chicago Divinity School,
* and Editor of The Religious World.
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and marriage ties will be turned into mere conventionalities and
lations respectable enough, but increasingly un-Christian.
Divorce is increasing with alarming rapidity. The conditions are mi
the same today as in the days of Jesus, when He forbade divorce, althougi
had become so common that a man might divorce his wife merely becai
she was not a good enough cook. So with us, the family has become a mi
conventionality and a matter of personal convenience. There are many yon
men and women who are growing up with the idea that marriage, while it n
not be simultaneously, at least may be successively, polyandrous and poly
| inous. ,
^ ou boar of divorces because of “incompatability of temper.” Is “inco
| patability of temper” possible in a Christian family? We fail to take (
| family relations with sufficient seriousness. We go into family relations*!
| tbe same sangfroid that we go on a picnic.
| One of the moulders of public opinion in my own city, a leading news;
per, gave c’oupons that entitled the holders to free passes to St. Joseph, Mic
where they could be married easily. Was that not a prostitution of t
whole business to yellow journalism? What shall we say of the whole®
ter of courtship? I hoard a minister say once: “I never heard a sermon'
getting engaged,” but one pulpit in Boston is going to treat of this topic. Tl
indifference to the things that we do not talk about, or at least hesitate
talk about, is the source of many of the dangers of our social life.
We find i difficult, I fear, to bring the great principles of Jesus down
the small duties of life. It is so much easier to write boohs about cti
training than it is to bring up boys and girls.
In this small matter of the family there is a vast opportunity for Chn
tian common sense. Our Christian legislation presupposes Christian peopl
We have need of better laws on divorce, need better protection for cl
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dren, but it is the business of the church to see that we have not
! ter legislation, but better people,
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Race Suicide Due
To College Girls
j By The Rev. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, President of j
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j Clark University.
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j high of maturity, and in Herbert Spencer’s phrase, “The motives
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make for individuation become too strong for those that mak 1 ' mi - •
wher. has fully domesticated himself by civilization as ne
man as hr j
j mesticated the animals, the voice of the medical profession "ill ^
j problem of Hie national and racial economy. Those "ith u j° s
their oblige |
for pri(le in their own ancestry should led most keenly
1 r.ravsimt the sacred torch of life undimmed to future generations,
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HERE is a teiWiency to replace the idea of romantic 1
that gives beauty to life. I iegret this because it is lib
to break clown our civilization and the sanctity of the t:
Hy. If the relations of man and woman are to be mer
those of animals then we are going backward in our evi
tion. I do not see any help for any Christianity that d
not face this problem squarely. If Christianity cannot g
hold of this family problem and get the spirit of Christian
into the lowest group of our civilization, then society
HERE is growing tendency to celibate life, from aa
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haustive study of the statistics of graduates of o
oldest colleges for men and four for women, it appears
ten years after graduation about one-fourth of the men
one-half of the woman remain unmarried.
Young mflti and women, especially those in eas)
cumstances, delay, deliberate, weigh the attraction* or«
and wedded life, consider social and even pecuniary
and cons until the golden dawn of youth advances