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"Of course, it'a thankful I arq that I'm no worse oft tharwl am." replied Slattery, "but I'm making no t uaa about "No, you ungrateful Ttaate,"' responded . Flaherty, cynically, "you have the three greateat thlnga that the good God gave to a man health, strength and a good appetlte-r-end atlU you are unhappy. I auppose you're plnln' for a dlwll-wagon now, eh. to be runnln over ould women and 'nftI-Wldhrr' -, "No, I wouldn't- want one - them macMnea,1 replied t Slattery, , "but . I would Uke to have some of the things -Uiat the rtoh have f eat. Ilka. Inhaler 1 salad and pattyde-foy grass and mush room aoup and dlvviW kidneys. I often thought when I waa lying awake nlgbta that I'd like to ate some o' them things. Now, we'll say, how would you like to have some calfa. foot Jelly? I never tried it. but I'd like to see how it tastes, i It sounds nice. I'm thlnkln' that kind o' Jelly would roll off a man'a tongue llke.dewdropa off rose. I'd -be rule thankful If I had a taste o' calf a foot Jelly." ' . "I'm ashamed - to hear yon always talkln' about somethln' to ate." said Flaherty. "Let me ask, were you ever rale thankful for somethln that hap pened you bosldea what you could put In your mouthT" ' - , . "Yea, wanst," replied Slattery. "What happened yon "I waa driven through a hole In the ground on top of six buatin' aticka of dynamite. . . . . (Continued from first page of , this section.) which, in turn, sent them back to that opening the site of the point of a cam- brio needle, and not one solitary ray of light fell outalde Its tiny elrctimfer ence! . '' . TJ... 1.1 tn MnA.tfflt aH- solute Justloa or absolute truth or ab solute anything else? Then you can ap preciate now ten u 1 siuuu luon the presence of absolute perfection of one sort! It was trine uncanny, ana somehow I felt a if I ought to bare Ihy head, . e . . Nor was that feel In a: diminished when ' . I . i . w.. . u . . isi . Dnanear .ifiu mm aui'ui aim. vwir- cave lens. -To begin with, the rough piece of glass from which it waa ground waa atored away In a vault ten years before a grain of emery touched Its surface. ; Thla was . to give the mole cules time to settle!. Did you ever think of glass being composed of a countless multitude of minute particles which cannot get comfortably nettled in their eats for a number of years, and even after that they are ao upset by- the least change in temperature or the leant vibration aa to be lawfully upset? Well, that la Just what you have to think of If you- want to become acquainted with glass, as it la, and not as you -have always Imagined It to be. i So, after thla particular lump had been settling Itself for ten years, the grinding waa begun, and now it la In valuable for testing ether delicate opti cal surfaces, for ita concave surface represents a perfect section of a globe lOf feet in diameter, and thla makes It Invaluable aa a testing piece. . But the first time they tried to use It for testing Dr.- aBrashear was trou bled. HomethlnB seemed to be wrona. ' Tha tiny ray of light that abould have gone hp ' Into the needle point bole quiv ered and ran ragged around the edge of flie opening I And alt thla In' spite of the fart that I hey had waited until I 'dork In the morning to make the teat! That la about the hour at which such testa are -always made. At that time no one Is stirring, snd even the outer air Is more still than st any ether period. W with botM oottftih. BMhd po- -in- th Klmbrler mine. In South up wagon for you. and th. 'ltrie chair. " ' WMii ' ,' 1 N " f-fcr l.Vi -"2 ' 1 II V; I The Man Who Has Unco vcr ed M .THE .. .aW ' II 7 J-rH -m. i-TTTT TTT?T:2--,r A -aa --, ..... . J. r T.. 1 , ' :'' ..'. i. ..,'..'" la.-ia- :.rTri"! i " I - ' II.' II ' . I A ' ' II "In the Klmberley mines In Africa." replied Slattery. "Now, don't be tellln' any Ilea." said Flaherty warnlngly. "You were never outside f the fourth ward In your life. But if you were, what were you doln' In Klmberley T" . "1 waa diggtu for diamonds, replied Slattery stoutly. "Why didn't you aay you were dlggtn' poatholeaT" said Flaherty. "There might be some fools who would believe you. Diamonds!" added Flaherty contemptu ously. "The hole'I wns diggln' was a fiiiriflred feet deep," resumed Slattery with con viction. : - "Then you were blown out of the top of the hole and not through the bottom of It," aald Flaherty. ------ "Yea." continued Slattery. "and if you don't believe me, I'll show you the hole in me leg." -: J. 't- - Here Slattery rolled up his trousers and displayed to Flaherty's doubting eyas a deep Indentation In the flesh Just below the knee whfre an old wound had evidently been made, i ' "WelV anld Flaherty, cynically, "I suppose I'll have . to take your word for it. It youvJia ve.no atfydavlt Jn yout pocaet." ...'...( "Ain't the affydavlt In ma leg enough to prove ltT" aald Rlnttery angrily. "'Twould be Just like you to be mak ing that hole in your leg with a brick, so that I might believe your story," said Flaherty with a grin. Thin taunt rendered Slattery almost speechless with rage. He gassed and spluttered. Then he arose, took off his coat and challenged Flaherty to mortal combat. Said he: "Qet tip, you dog t Too have been mhkln' fun of my veracity long enough. I don't want to hit you slttln'." -"What will I get up forT" asked Fla herty, leaning on his elbow and lighting his pipe, - "Bekaae I'm goln to throw you out f the window," said he-enraired-wan. "I wouldn't do .that," said Flaherty. eoaxlngly, "bekase there might be some one passin'. and if I fell on them from and all these things have to be taken into consideration. - ' But something wsa vibrating! The rr.ye quivered.. aa If frightened A aearch waa made. After while Dr. Bras hoar found a small bit that had been left by one of the mechanics on a crossbar of the mirror support. It was removed, and there was no more trouble! . ; You. have heard of hair splitting, but hair splitting Is aa rail splitting, when compared to this! And now, having entered the realm of the infinitesimal, Jet us really ee some thing of the country. Let us take a look at a piece of shining metal, which hai In Ita center e-F about -art 4ntv wM and two Inches long. - This space looks as If It had Just barely escaped being polished to as high, a degree aa the rest of the metal. Now the reason for this appearance of dullneww- and It Is hardly fair to call It dull Is a small matter of 10,000 distinct and separate lines cut side by aide in that . two Inches of length. Ten times this many could be cut but what's the use? The surface uoon which these linen have been traced by a diamond point is absolutely flnt and as nearly abso lutely smooth aa any metal surface rnn be made. . And tbe only place In the world where this metal la thus pre pared Is in thla little workshop? on the hill. JEurops has tried It, but failed. The actual cutting of the lines Is now done there. And when these lines have been carved, the light of a star falling on that surface Is changed to a ribbon of seven primary colors, divided perpen dicularly by dark lines of varying width and denflty which indicate tli constitu ent elements of that star. Thin Is the heart of tbe spectroscope that has long alnoe taken the place of the prism for many critical studies In spectrum analysis. In the workroom of the Broehear shop tha doctor showed me the tabular form of a spectroscope ti feet long, which he Is making for hla pat, the new-observatory of the.Wfst-; ern university of . Pennaylvanla, that ran be seen from the show windows, snd Is now In use, though not fully equipped. There Is no telling what may he learned with thla Instrument when It OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY a window -a tty- feet from the -grow a and killed them U would be the hurry- up wagon for you, and the 'lectrlo chair. You see, 'twould be murder in the aeo ond degree klllln one man with . an other." . 1 " I Slattery grinned ; at the . ingenious reply. Then he resumed hia coat and hla chair. He resumed his interrupted story with a caution to hla friend re garding any reference to hia truthful ness because It waa dangerous to trifle with an honest .man. But Flaherty broke in with another question: "Slattery, would them diamonds you were aiggln' cut glaaar. "They, were aharper nor your tongue," retorted Slattery. - "If you don't atop bully-raggln me,' Flaherty, I'll never come to the Thonksglvln' part of my atory."l-... . . . ,' ' "I'll say no more," said Flaherty with apparent contrition. "You were sayin' that thlm dtamonda were bigger nor pigeons' eggs, and what else were you goln to aayT" "If you will keep your mouth shut long enough." aald Slattery, "I'll tell you that we got no diamonds. "We were dlggin' - for them, but XL. didn't get em.", - - . "You were in a poor place to get themaald Flaherty; -"the propr"plae to look for diamonds Is In a Jeweler's window."- "If you're tellln the story I'll let you tell It," said Slattery sullenly; "but If I'm to tell It I'll say that about twenty years ago I worked me way on aallln' vessel from London to Cape Town. Every man on board the ship waa crasy about the diamond fields; but 'twas a weary march up country from the sea, and when I got to Klmberley I waa nearly dead from the heat and the hunger. There was plenty of work In the big diamond mines, but you had to work with a lot o Kaffir nagurs in a hole so hot you'd think the doors of the bad plaoe were open and the Area o' torment blowln on you. After I was In KlfflUrUy-a-vitk I met Xankee that bad a concession from one o' the big companies, and waa slnkln' m shaft six foet wide and six feet aoross. Ha worked Is In working order. Imagine, if you can, the feelings of the observer who first uses this giant. It will be like knocking n't the doorway of eternity and waiting for some one to let you in. I It docs not now seem strange that the man who has done these things should -have dreams of what may be In store for thla world, does It? It does not seem the least strange, after having seen such evidence of his rare gifts,, to hear him talk about the sun growing cold. With all the great scientists of the age, he knowa the-sun Is growing cold, and he thinks that In 10.000,000 years It will have lost most of Its heat and, therefore, all Its light. .The Jaat jguarter of a century has revolutionised astron6my,5o"taIdr he Juggled with giant figures In the manner of a boy playing marbles. , "We used to account for the intenae heat and energy of the sun by the theory of meteorio accretion, . but now . we at tribute thla to the ahrlnkage of the great ball. You have pounded a piece of lead Into a small ball and felt how hot it got as you kept on pounding. Well, that la our present belief as to the hest of the sun. It Is contracting all the time, and thla contraction gener ates an enormous amount of heat, which burns up all the metals of which the sun Is composed exaotly aa if they were the most Inflammable of materials. "I Relieve the day la coming when we will gather thla energy of the sun Just as It ooraea to ua in direct rays and store It up and use It to run our mills and factories. ' The solar engine has never been given a fair trial, for the simple reason that tftPTe-Is plenty of fuel in the world aa yet. But when the supply runs short, aa It muat some day, the energy of the sun will cause tha dnsert to blossom aa a rose, for It is on this desert that the sun shines hottest. How we see the working of the great law of compensation In everything. "And take the stars. . Our mediaeval astronomers taught us the stars were all fixed immovable In ' the heavens. The doubting student ram along It) later years and with his instruments of precision aoon discovered there were no fixed 'stars. He could readily measure their movements across the line of sight, but when moving away from or stN'.- . Wi '" K.:vik fe-7 . the shaft with a wlndlasa aoross the top and a rope two lnohea thick tlea to an Iron bucket that he used to twist up the dirt from the bottom of the hole. He had a Kaffir nagur In the hole at fifty feet down fllltn the bucket, and one day, when ten other Kaffirs were twiatin' up a bucket filled with blue clay and rocks, the bucket twisted and 100 pounds of "Diamonds, rubles, kohlnoors and such like," interrupted Flaherty. vr'"'r Slattery glared. " clay and rock rattled, down on th "Kaffir's head." Slattery resumed, "and" "The funeral's tomorror," twald ' the Iconoclast "Go on Slattery. Did they send another Kaffir down with a coal scuttle on his head?" "No, they hired me for II a day and grub to (111 the bucket," returned Slat tery. "You see, Flaherty, I had to dig aiz holea in the clay and rocks and fill the holes with dynamite cartridges. After that I had to light the alx fusea and get Into the bucket and yell to the nagurs at the top pf the holo to be twlstln' the windlass till I'd be on the top of the hole-before the blast-went off." "A nice clane alsy . Job for you that was. Bltteryv" said Flaherty,' admlr- lngly. " 'Jwaa -41ka- glvUv yott- a free pass Into paradise. I suppose you wore el n gin' 'Good-by, Annie Darling,' eh? Well, what happened your. toward ua his Instrumental equipment utterly failed him. ' "Then came the teleapectroscope. by the use of which this new principle could be applied, and now our astrono mers are rapidly gaining knowledge of the motion of all the more Important stars In the heavens. With that knowl edge baa come to us the Interesting fact that our own solar system our aun, our earth and our alster planets are moving through the universe at the rata of 1,(80.000 miles in 14 hours, or about 13V miles a second. In tbe direction of the constellation of Hercules. "It waa but yesterday we heard of a new atar whose brilliant light hurst forth In the heavens, not when we first csught a glimpse of It, but maybe 100 years ago, and it, la so far distant that Its light, flashing across the stellar deptha at the rate of 18S.000 miles per second, may have taken all these yeara to reach us. . . "Planing the silt of our . telespeotro- scope upon the .new star, we obssrvs' the awe-lnsptrtng phenomenon 'of a sun In flames.' Our Inference Is (hat there has been a collision between two stellar worlds somewhere- in the universe, and now we witness the elements melting with fervent heat perhapa a hundred years after the awful cataclysm haa taken place. A year later the light of that brilliant atar has faded from mor- ItJal vlelon, but the astronomical camera. penetrating far deeper into the ateltar deptha than the human eye when aldod by the telescope, reveals to ua' the etory of a disintegrated world now a mass of nebula ready to go through its long evolution, posslbly -in countless millions of years to become a star again." . Mr. Brashear took from hla desk drawer some photogrsphs of these very things, and they told me of some thlnga he has done in the realm of astronomi cal research. Then I gave vent to my amasement over his ability to deal suc cessfully with auch Infinitesimal figures and such Impalpable thlnga for the tlnnl polish of a lens Is rubbed on by hand with rouge yes, the very kind our fair friends sometimes - use te make themselves more fair. . . "Why!" he exclaimed, ."the day will come when such ' figures as we now deem -large shall, look crude. Aa to the small ones, let. me tell you Something. We learn from the physicist, that an atom of hydrogen can be broken up Into nearly a thousand corpuscles; an atom of mercury into 100.000 corpuscles; that the atom of radium has stored with! .lthloit MORNING. DECEMBER 2. KlL"LTfi OHlL MAK WXTtt ' AKOTfttl "1 waa that freckened that 1 couldn't light the fuses," aald the story-teller. "Whin I had the first fuse lit me hand would be shakln like I had the palsy, and whin I 'had the third fuse lit I couldn't light the fourth fuse, and I Jumped Into he bucket and yelled to the nagurs to be' twlstln' me up before the blast wlnt off." .' ' "Well, 1 see you' got to the top In time," said Flaherty, "You're still here." "Faith. I am," replied Slattery, "but that'a bekase I made an Invention of me own. Invention, "that saved me tlfer-Whln I had the hole down 00 feet I took two candles, sixes, and cut tliem Into three pieces each; thin I put each piece of candle down fernlst each piece of fuse; thin I lit the candle and pulled each piece of fuse over Into the flame of the candle. You'll mind. Flaherty, that It would be a little while before the flame of the candle would be burnln" through the fuse, and by that time I'd be yellln' to the nagurs." . . , , "' "You certainly are a great InvVntor." said Flaherty, admiringly. "I think you must have aaved at least ten seconds by your quick brsln." , ' ' - "Are- you- making game of me again?" said 8lattcry, suspiciously. "One second would be enough te save my life, if J only had it to spnre." , "Y6U " were "quicker lhah lhe""dyha7-1 mite." aald Flaherty. "Faith I .was," replied Slattery. 'But the explosion nearly got me a week Doubtless there are- Americana who are refined and educated; doubtless there are American women who are charming and without vanity. But It must be confeased that far too many Individuals among these hustling "trans-Atlantlca" are ostentatious, su percilious, satisfied with themselves and , their country,, their dollars, their strength, their hurry and their skill. Ernest Daudet.ln Libre Parole. - By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. . COMMENTS like the above ap pear constantly in the French press, and they indicate . the ex act attitude of France toward America Never waa a country more universally hated than our own. Wlyn not actively bated it la regarded with critical amuse a n energy of which our older sctence did not dream. - "Furthermore, ' our advanced physi cists, or at least some of them, have relegated matter to a new field and tell us that negative electricity Is matter L e., that electrons and matter are inter controvertible terms. ' Lord'KslvIn saya Of the atom: 'If we raise a drop of water to tha else of Una earth and ralae the atom In the aame proportion, then will It be aome plaoe between the sise of a marble and a cricket ball. - a "If you fill a tiny vessel One centi meter cube (about three eighths of an Inch) with hydrogen corpuscles, you can place therein In round numbers 621 octillions of them. If these corpuscles are allowed to run out of the vessel at the rate of 1.000 per aecond, It' will re quire I7.000.000.000.noo of yeara to empty. Such a computation seems al most like trifling with science Indeed, apparently trifling with the human In tellect, but It is with these subtle theories that our physicists, are delving Into the, Innermost chamber of tbe Infi nitely minute." - "What are we coming to?" I asked. "Who can tell? Brooks his said: It may be some day we ahall be abte to construct a living organism by the com bination of the proper element,' Dare- Parisians Consider Us Without Manners I aay that Borne day we may know the food value of a thought" .. ':",' ' '.' ; - '' V.... , J8C3. later, and It was on Thanksgiving day, too.- The reason I remember Was that the Yankee that hired me said It waa a habit in Boston' where be cams from to eat- all you could stuff down, and call lit a day of thanks. As I waa sayln. I had the candies ut and the ruse pulled over In the flame of Jha candle, and I yellln to the black nagurs. 'Twist y dlvvllp ye, twist,' . and they had 'me twisted up ten feet when they stopped twlstln'." "You werl certainly 111 comfortable place then," aald Flaherty, "-suppose jrou-oould see the firework below and hear the cheerful fuses slngln', eh? f ' "I could," replied Slatery' with convic tion. "The fires of hell were roarln be neath -me, and there wai I slttln' In the bucket and lookln" up at the star-rsi You . must - understand. . Flaherty, that whan you are In a hole 'Ilka that It la all tbe same aa If you were In a well In the daytime. And there was I lookln' pp at Araturua and Nlptune and O'ltton and wondering which one of them I'd be blottln' out when the blant went off." . "True for you. Slattery," aald Fla herty, "Vaynua and fTalllopus and the milky - way -would be skedsddlen - for home If you were loose In the heavln." "Yes, yrs.' replied the delighted Slat tery, charmed by thla cordial apprecla H0rtoT"ht 1 lnveiillve gntu-"Dld you ever hear of the man that was strapped to the mouth of a cannon and another man standln' at the bunghole with a ment. At the aame time our financial success and our material progreaa arouse a spirit of jealousy and envy, so that all the evil emotlona seem to be brought to the aurfaoa In the European mind at the mention of the word America. i . The Europeans do not want oar pros perity at the cost of having our metn oda or our manners. But they would like our wealth, aa they are universally an avaricious people and lovers, of wealth for what It can procure. . The Parisians are wholly unostenta tious; they despise a showy exterior, and some of their most palatial homes are almost shabby on the outside. Our dlsplay-Of opulence- off ends Jhelr sense of refinement, but they are rav enous for the meana by which this dis play is made, -and their only tolerance of ua In their midst Is that -we may dis pense some of our superfluous dollars where they may profit by them.- - Parisians are quite Justified In re garding Americana aa vulgarians. If not barbarians, since the opening of the American section of the exposition of 100. - - f , American friends who were present on that occasion have related to ma what occurred to their humiliation and chagrin. These friends had been present at the receptlona given by the Chinese, the Japaneae, the Russian, French, Oerman, and, In fact, all the.qther departments of the exposition. All Invitations were Issued by card, and all the foreign receptlona were dis tinguished by quiet elegance. When my frlehda presented them selves at the entrance pf their own na tional department -4hay found a mob in possession. Elegantly attired women were, elbowing guards and officials away fromthe post of duty and forcing their way' Into the reoeptton-rooms without cards., - , "We are Americana and free people, and we have a right to go in! No foreigner has a right to keep us out of our own country's department 1" was their cry. And in thty went, before the eyes of astonished and disgusted of ficials placed on. duty to keep order and receive the carda of the Invited. 4 When refreshment . were served i lighted match In hla hand? That's where 1 waa, only t waa Inside the can non I Thin what did I do, Flaherty r !'I suppose you prayed to the Powers above to- pa-ardon you for the rnanny Ilea you have-told." said bis listener. ' "No. I didn't," aald the exultant Slat tery. "I grabbed the rope, and here was I goin' up the rope hand ever hand, klrkln'at the aide of the hole until I reached the top. Then I threw myself on me face and the blast went off, and and rocks for ten minutes. ' The earth trembled and all- tlje llttleblrd flew away to a safe place. "There was aTu ln in m ears aa If made by a thou sand bees, and the sweat of fear waa on me. . And while I waa layln' there with - me mouth full of sand. I waa -say In' to meself, I am dyln' melord, dyln',' when I thought of them haythln nagur Kaffirs, and & black, rage took hold of me. I climbed out of the pile of dirt that covered me and kicked the head of off. a pick' "And did you stop to Sny a 'word of thnkafor the salvation of your lifer askd Flaherty, f: f j ' ' , "No," replied Slattery, "I hadn't time.'. I took the handle of the plek and chased -the black dlvvlls two miles, and I had every one of their legs and arms broke, only they ran too fast for me." l"Then. you were jiotara,iihankfuir said Flaherty. "Nothln to spesk of." waa the reply, "but T think the Kaffirs were." scene even more dlsgraoeful occurred. It waa an absolute onslaught, a raid oC the tOO toward the tabloa. My friend a gown was nearly torn from her body aa she tried to escape. And, mind you, these were not the poor and hungry people of America, tha "bread line" of New York's poor dis tricts; they were people of wealth and supposed position, handsomely attired and passing aa the representative cltl sens of America. And their numbers justified the supposition. ... Not one, not ten, not twenty Ameri cans -were guilty of this conduct, but a mob of hundreds. ' . , It has never been forgotten in Franca, and ' never will be. - The- ferelgn -papers -rang with ridicule of Americans for weeks, and no wonder. "Heathen" Chlneee and Japaneae offi cials ah ragged their shoulders when the name of America was mentioned. And France continues - to - think - of us - as vulgarians, and hungry ones at that, fighting for an entrance to a reception to which ws are .not bidden, and fight ing our way to the food after we get In. It Is the fault Of Americans in Eu rope that auch comments as .the one quoted above appear continually In the French press. . Standing at ' one of the "Louvre" counters wafting for an overtaxed Bales man to find time for me, I heard an Irritable voice at my side complaining of his lack of attention. The young man replied irtlttely. say ing aha must wait her turn. i .. Aa I glanced at the woman, she said In English! "You are an American, are you not?" (I wondered whether It waa my "type" or my poor French she recog nised.) Then the woman proceeded to iHiid American ahops and. deary the Parts stores, and for ' five minutes I waa forced to listen to her tasteless and unjust harangue before I could make my eacepe.- . There are hundreds of such Ameri cans abroad, Surely it la no wonder the French people do not love us! - When a Frenchman wishes to pay you sincere compliment he tells you that you are wholly "unamerlcan." Once he says that you may believe he really ac-. cepts yon as an Individual worthy of consideration, , L .,