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Flamts 8hootlng Out From Surface of the Sun.
(Prepared by the National OeoaTapnle
Society, VFaihlDslon. D. C
ON THE ninth of May the tun
and moon itaged mother of
their great periodic dramas In
which the Queen of the Night
for t few minutes banished the King
of the Day and ruled the iky.
No one In America or Europe could
tee tills great show of the heavens,
for the noon's shadow swept oyer
nly a narrow band extending from
the middle of the Indian ocean to be
yond the Philippine Islands; and the
pencil of darkness traced most of Its
line over water. But It crossed land
In northern Sumatra, the southern tip
of Slam and the northern Malay
states; Just touched southern Cam
bodia, and swept across the middle
Philippines. But so lmportanTwas this
brief blotting out of the sun to the
dentists of the world that parties of
them Journeyed to these far off lands
In the patb of the shadow, taking
with then elaborate Instruments and
cameras. Yet the total eclipse that
brought about all this travel and ex
pense lasted only five minutes In
Sumntra, and less than four In the
Philippines.
It was not the darkness Itself that
Interested the observers, but rather
the hate of light that appeared around
the circumference of the llghtles
moon, for that Is the chromosphere of
the sun and It holds many secrets.
Also, they wanted to see the stars
that shine Immediately past the ed;
of the blotted-out sun, for their posi
tion may shed new light on the Ein
stein theory.
Meanwhile the man In the street
will be wanting to know what Is the
use of such Investigations snyway;
snd If the astronomer takes time to
answer, it will be to suy, "1 don't
know."
No could anyone foretell what new
truth! would be discovered, or fore
see what new applications to human
welfare they may have.
Put new scientific knowledge always
has s way of turning men's minds to
Its RpHlcatlon to human necessities.
Today, In peace times, we see the
great dirigible, the I-os Angeles, fly
ing through vurskles without fear of
the gas explosion which has wrecked
so many superb llghter-than-alr craft.
And all largely because Lorkyer, In
iy$, training his spectroscope on the
grMt flames Hint shoot out from the
rim of the sun, detected a new line In
their spectrum. He noticed Its close
resemblance to the lines of hydrogen
snd concluded It must be the spectro
scopic signature of s light gus un
known to terrestrial chemists.
How Htllum Was Found.
Twenty-eight years passed, with
everybody thinking that this gas was
a strungcr to the earth. Then Sir
William Itnmsny obtained minute
quantities of a new gus from nninlnlte.
Imprisoned In a test tube and elec
trically excited. It began to glow.
Studied with the sjiectroscope. It
showed the same telltale autograph
that Lorkyer had observed.
More yearn passed. The World war
was on, and America hsd entered It.
The hotilewlves of the plains of Kun
sns had r-en complaining of the qual
ity of their naturul gus. It didn't
make enough hent or sufficient light.
A middle-western university professor.
II. P. Cndy. whs sent dwn to find out
the trouble. In bis siectroscoie ap
peared once more the unmistakable
signature that had come to I.ockyer,
liamsny, and to Sir Krnest Itulherford
In his manifold Investigations of radio
activity. It told him why that gas
wouldn't produce sufficient heat and
light It contained helium, as Inert
as stone and playing the same role
In the natural gas that slate ploys In
coal.
Then the American Chemical society
met. The university professor was
put on the program to tell of his dis
covery. He apologized for Intruding
a theme upon the attention of thai
great body which could not, by the
longest stretch of bis Imagination,
have any hearing on the momentous
Issue before which all other matters
tumid stand silent Itut after he
spoke, a venerable Ilrltlsh savant de
clared that he need offer no apology;
that If the wnr went on another two
years the professor's contribution
would do more to promote Tlctory
than nil the other contributions to
the proceedings.
Thus came helium as the straw that
would brisk the llohrnuillern back,
If all other weights should fall. It
nude possible the construction of
giant dirigibles which could conduct
raids over the enemy lines without
fear of Inflammable bullets.
And It was the training of a spec
troscope on a huge flame on the rim
of the sun during an eclipse that bad
first revealed this element
Thrills In Astronomy.
Romance? Astronomy offers more
thrills to the alert human mind than
all the action In the Library of Con
gress could provide!
Recently millions of people listened
In on the election speeches and re
turns, and marveled once more at the
wonders of radio. But they little
dreamed that patient Danish as
tronomer bad done the pioneer work
which released Bell's telephone from
the bondage of wlresjid made the
efber of space' Its servant
When Itoemer found that eclipses
of the moons of Jupiter occurred 10
minutes earlier when Jupiter and the
earth were on the same side of the
sun than when on opposite sides, bs
deduced that light was not Instanta
neous, but traveled at about 180,000
miles a second.
Clerk Maxwell concluded that light,
to travel at sucb a Telocity, must be
electro-magnetic, and that there must
be other wave lengths than those
which register on the human eye.
Herts detected these hypothetical
waves, Marconi harnessed them to sig
naling, and Pupln made them the bur
den bearers of sound. Vacuum tubes
can now take the Infinitesimal bit of
energy these waves possess after
spanning a continent a bit of energy
no greater than a tiny fraction of
that expended by a fly In crawling up
a window pane and, "stepping them
op" and amplifying them, make them
capable of producing a room-filling
sound.
Here Is an Inkling of a solution of
the problem of power sources after
coal and oil supplies are gone. Study
tng Slrlus, the gay Dog Star, snd his
lss brilliant companion, astronomers
have found Indications that this satel
lite of the Dog Star has nearly as
much mass as the sun, although It Is
only a little larger than the earth.
If that be true, then there are
states of matter of which man never
dreamed before. On that basis this
dark star would be 50.0"0 times as
heavy as the same bulk of water. In
other words, a pint of the material
composing that star would weigh 29
tons.
The world Is looking for a good con
ductor of electricity that will enable
Industry to transmit power long dis
tances without undue loss of energy.
It Is possible that this new under
standing of the constitution of mat
ter might lead to the open door of a
new and better conductor to take the
place of the diminishing supply ol
copper In the transmission of elec
trical power. Should such a, conduc
tor be found, then the melting snow
of the Rockies and the Andes, of thl
Alps and the Himalayas, might turs
the wheels of the world's Industries,
light the lamps of Its homes, and pro
duce sll the fires of Us kitchen range!
and sitting-room fireplaces.
The astronomer and the physicist
have pooled their forces In cross-examining
the atom. In the test tube
of the laboratory and the cosmic
crucibles of the skies, they are at
tacking It with X-rays, spectroscopes,
and other Instruments of atomic tor
hire, to moke It surrender the secret
It has withheld from humanity for
so long.
When Madame Curie discovered ra
dium and Rontgen produced the
X-ray. they gave the world an Inkllna
of the unhenrd-of powers that dwell
within these Infinitesimal solar sys
tems; snd with Inconceivably small
amounts of this power the physicist
Is bombarding the atoms to brenl
them up. while the astronomer II
studying the forces thnt affect them
In the sun and the fixed stars.
The radium atom tells the physicist
and the atronomer that atoms ex
plode Just as molecules do, only with
Infinitely more power.
The fastest explosion that man has
ever been side to produce has been
at the rate of about 7,700 yards a sec
ond. The radium atom. In its disin
tegration, hurls Its fragments at the
rnte of 12.000 miles a second, nearly
8,0)10 times as fust as the fastest
known nmlerulnr explosion.
Will the physicist with his super
powered electric furnace, and the as
tronomer, with his flaming stars,
working hand In hand, snd often, si
a unit, he able to wrest the atom",
secrets from It?
FLASH
The Lead Dog
By-
Gcorge Marsh
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6YN0PSI8
t'p the wild waters ot the un
known Yellow-Leg, on a winter's
hunt, Journey 11 rock Mel' In and
Gaspard Lecrolx, his French-Cree
comrade, with Flash. U roc li e
puppy and irelr dog tram. After
several hsttles with the stormy
waters they arrive at a fork In
the Yellow-Leg. Hrock la severe
ly Injured In making a ports ue
and Flash leads Claspard to the
unconscious youth. Uaspard telie
Drock ot his determination to
And out who killed his father.
Tracks are discovered and the two
boys separate (or scouting pur
poses, iirock Is Jumped by two
Indians and a white man and
knocked unconscious. He Is held
prisoner. Osspard rescues him
while his captors sleep. While out
alone Uaspard Is shot trom am
bush by an Indian snd kills bis
would-be-slayer. While out on
his trap lines Urok Is c,uk"ht In
a heavy snow storm. Oaipard
Onus him and the two start out
on Brock's trap line. They And
aa Indian who had been stalklna
them caught In a trap, dead. On
him was knife that belonged to
Oaapard's father. They deride to
camp until spring and then con
tinue their Journey.
CHAPTER X Continued
Taking bis glasses from the pack.
Brock searched the glittering shell of
the big lake which, molded by recent
wind, rippled from the north In end
less drifts, like a white sea.
"1 can't make out any signs of e
trail dowo there." be said and bunded
the blnocu.art to Oaspnrd.
For a space the iinlfbreed studied
the shores of the 'oka. tien Brock
saw the taut muscles of the moutb of
his friend rtlux In a gesture of sur
prise.
"What Is Itr
"Dere ees a trail down de east short
bout free mile. Eel ees long thin
line a sled trail."
Then Brock looked through the
glasses. "Yes, you're right! I see It
now, by that long point of black
spruce." be agreed. "I'll bet they've
got a line ot fox traps along that shore.
What shall we dor
"We work down dat shore back een
de bush."
Both boys drew their rifles, slung
on their packs, from the skin cases
which protected them from the snow,
snd carried them In their mlttened
bunds. They bad left no man's lund
and reached the enemy's country. Any
one crossing their trull woulii follow
them up, Tbeir lives now might bang
oo the slightest mistake.
80, 00 -caching the black timber ot
the eastern shore ot the lake, they
separated and traveled abreast a
hundred yards apart; near enough to
support eacb other, Immediately, In
case of trouble, but too far apart
to be caught In the same ambush. The
warning which should mean duuger or
a discovery of Importance, was to be
the "rek-eek," of the willow titarml
gun; the rallying call for help, the
squawk of tbi horned owL
So, with cocked rifles in the hollow
of Ike left arm, ready for swift use.
eyes roving In a circle, the two stole
oolselessly through the cover of the
spruce down the lake shore, stopping
by agreement every quarter mile, to
listen.
Where the point they bad seen from
the rldgj begun to uiuke out Into the
lake. Brock a little In the rear, owing
to the thickness of the scrub spruce,
heard a faint "eek-eekl"
"He sees something!" muttered the
crrlted boy, turning snd making his
wuy noiselessly toward the take shore.
There, walling In a clump of small
spruce, hi found Guspard.
"1-ookl" said the halfbreed.
Fifty feet sway, a well beaten trail,
over which a sled and dogs bad re
cently passed, as evidenced by the con
dition of the last light full of snow,
ran to the lake.
"They're bunting east of here for
sure; what'll we dot whispered
Brock.
"Keep on nord, today."
"Why not wait here, and pick him
up)" demanded Brock.
The black eyes of Uaspard twinkled.
"Because be puss her dls morning."
Guspard pointed to a young spruce
leaning uver the sled path. "See dat
twig I Eel ees pushed and broke toward
de Ink'. Kef he pass east de las' tarn,
be push de odder way." j
'"By golly, you're right P muttered
the white boy, convinced by bis part
ner's woodcraft. "He hod to go thai
way, and It hod to be this morning
for It snowed an Inch here Inst night,
snd the sled's packed dowo the snow.f
So, through the morning, the scouts
wurked dowo the lake. At noori.
through sn opening In the timber.
Onspnrd looked long st the north, then
aid with a nod of bis hood, "Snow
soon I"
In sn hour the northern sky was the
color of lead, but there was 00 wind
suddoidy from the luke short Brock
heard the low siiuuwk of the horned
owl.
Danger I
Swiftly on noiseless shoes he moved
out of the shadows to the rliu of the
timber, eyes nod ears si rained, right
mitten swinging from his ueck by Its
thong, right bund fingering the trigger
of his cocked rlllo.
A low "Eekeckl" drifted to his
ears from a clump of scrub. "Ah, bo's
uot In trouble 1" thought the boyi
In the scrub be Joined Ouspurd.
"Look I"
Following the pointing mitten, Iirock
saw, miles swuy, a dark spot on the
luke trull.
"Dog team I" said Ouspurd.
From the cover of the shadowy
sprdce, t two wutched the spot fur
down the whlto-sujfacod luke.
"He's coming this way, Guspard 1"
said Brock, holding bit glasses. "He's
passed, that point I"
"Yes, he travel up-luk'. We wait
Ue weel turn Into do timber, sooni"
Two miles away, the dog-team
moved at a walk towurd the watchers
In the spruce. Then, like a curtain,
the snow swept up the lake, wiping
the approaching team from sight as
water swallows a, Hung stone.
"By gnrl Dot man ees crnteel"
stormed Gaspard, In his disappoint
ment "We go out qd de trull an1 gel
boon) dere I Wt lose been eof we
don't"
In the pitch-like gloom which now
blanketed the lake, the dog team
might puss them In silence. It was
the only way. So, wulklng out over
the packed surface until they found
the trail by the reel of their shoes,
they cautiously started dowo the lake
In the murk, separated by a hundred
feet the trull between them.
For a hal' hour, (be moving am
bush stole through the softly fulling
snow, for there was no wind. Then,
meeting, held a council of wsr,
"He's gont ashore or we'd have
struck him," whispered Brock to the
blurred shape of Gaspard, whom be
could touch, but see only because of
his sheathing of snow.
"Yes, he went ashore w'tn de snow
come. Wt keep 00 tnd find hees trail."
Slowly, In single Die, the hunters
continued on the short slds of the
Inks trail Then, after a short spnee.
Brock stumbled Into the crouched fig
ure of his partner.
"Ket ees here I" said Gaspard,
With bis mittens Brock felt the
gouge of the swing toboggan sled li
the wind-packed snow, where It turu-v,"
shoreward.
"We'll see his fire before the dogs
smell os; then we'd better rush hlin
before be baa a chance to gel at bis
gun."
"Not" came the sharp objection.
"Een dls snow de buxkle not smell us
ontll wt art er close. Wt bavt a
look, first upwind."
They were passing through some
young fir wbeo Guspard suddenly
selted Brock's arm.
"Dt Orel By gnrl Good ting we
miss deml Dere are tour Cree at
dat fire mebbt mora."
"Four Indians? By the great burned
owli" gasped Brock, craning bit bead
for a clear view of the distant camp.
"Ah-hah!" muttered the disgusted
Gaspard. "Dat ees why be travel so
late 00 de Ink'. Ut bead for dat
camp.
For a space Lecrolx was silent ; then
be thrust bis fact dost to tbt crusted
hood of his friend.
"Wt go close to dem; we can shoot
all but one and tak' neem wld us." be
said, hate In his tones. "Sous day
dey shoot us."
Tbt mighty grip ot Brock's aleel
fingers shut oo Uaspard arm. "I'U
sneak op with you and bavt a look
but 1 won't ttand ambushing them
I can't do I' even If they're bunting
us."
"But dey keel my fader, lak dls
at bees Orel" protested the other, des
perately. "Partner, we're craiy to do It, with
those dogs there, but I'll go u, closer
with you," replied Brock. "I'm with
you, heart and soul but no shooting
unless they catch usl
"All right I" And a sigh ot bitter
oess etcaned Guspard as, with rifle
crooked In hi left arm, and his knife
loose In Its sheath, he started to ap
proach the camp-fire.
Nulsele ly the boys worked their
wsy Into what slight movement of
air there was, to svo!1 betrayal by
the sleeping dogs. And they knew as
well, that the falling snot, would
greatly dilute their scent
At Inst, side by side, they droUched
In the thick timber, with a good view
of the flro. The brush windbreak
roofed vltb snow, faced them. One
man was cooking the supper while the
others occasionally rose froi where
they sat on the bed of spruce boughs
to turr their drying foot-cloths and
duffle socks, bung on sticks near Iht
Art,
TO BB CONTINUED.)
Gradation of Heavn
To he In the seventh heaven means
to be supremely bnppy. According to
Mohammed, there art seven heavens,
The seventh, says the Koran, Is
formed of divine light beyond the
power of description. Eacb Inhabitant
It bigger than the tntlrt earth, and
hat 70,000 heads, eacb head 70,issJ
mouths, each month 70,000 tongues,
and each tongue speaks TU.tssj inn
guagea, and all of them art continu
ally engaged In chanting the praises
of the Most High. It was In the sev
enth heaven that Mohammed met
Abraham. Tbt Cahallats also believe
In (even heavens, each rising In hap
piness above the other, the seventh
being the abode ol God and the blgb
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