The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-01-02
ON SOUND
An o.naAurg Man sayaa a Tev Words
Showing ih His Opinion tho AbauTdiiea
Of PhubsophieR Used In tho Schools

The queltlon, "Would Tho ringing OF q
boll on ph unlnhahIted island produce
sound Ii sometimes asked pnd, In The
answer, We iind acInnee prrayel against
common Hnuhe'
Mpn who are not slaves 20 ihe test
books almost invariably answer ihe Ques'
| lion loo tho affirmative, hut those who rely
more ontho teaching Of the bools Than q
Judgment of their own say, 40, mo-, there
can ha uu sound whore there are no ears,
There Ia uo sound un au Island lllpi ID not
/ luhlbIird,N
our attention was lately called 20 q
| standard tcgt book ON phyHIolnpy hY pn
educator 20 show that there is no
sound whora there are no etrH,
| Iu relation o. tho cnE the book ailll
wauuud, us such, hns no existence lh ulr
Wrt outside ui ihr ear" We hlluw uuNiI
/ ly took up QuckrubGa NnluWl Pliloaur
nhy and eKHmUpd IA lu relation 10 Arou#
I tIrs tLr surupu Of s0uudl aud found ihIH
dpNuiIuul "Suuud ID Tie impression
made 0u tho urGauH Of hearing by the Vie
| hrlllouB 0f elastic bodies" We suppose
/ thtt h thc WAY about all The good old text
hooks treat thr subject under eohHlutla'
ton, ,.,.
q, my, what pity u would he TO nave q
revolution lu our school books, especially
IL we who arc willing to take the rlnk OF
running the gauntlet OF unpopulgrllN,
nmopp lhe s0-oallcd sClcuilsiH, 10y doing u
little independent thinking nnd setting
forth, la tlie revision, the results OF lheir
lnvcBtipatun without fear or ihVor from
tbe hackers uf HnmG ~ Tie present nou'
sguBe that masses for hCienrel
Hut B0me may ask, why 80 severe on
our prpBent theorea9 What reason do
you assign for such strong hlAlrlheillh W.
relation 10 them Well, We VIII proceed
Ia show you, We referred above lnhlhnd'
ard works aud llud that they teach that
there h no sound lOr nolhel outside on llc
ear, After maklng practically, WE hlhie,
meut, Qunckcnbnh' Natural iNlnnnp,F
goes on 10 state that sound travels az the
Tnte of /. ieO feet per second, or about one
milo Al az seconds through air, Isn't
tbnt wonderful Sound all In the ear
aud travel through the air az the rate nI
i,lg0 feet per second, Then, whenever
YOU hear sound in the Nlrgou are travelling
at the rate Of 40 feet or your opru are,
for sound h all In the ear says lhche
books,
n not that science with q yengangeY ?
II that In not equal 70 believing lhni ,he
moon N mad0 Ot green ehofnr,wc WIN give
lt up, But nobody believes that Tue inoon
iH thus constituted hecausc tie .lahltru
books don't nay 30, II they did, thht
would make the difference 10 dependent
thlnkera, But this IN not all Yet, rus
same wonderful text book on natural
philosophy says that Iron transmits SOUND
Ten limus nv rapidly 40 air. or hi lhG rhlo
of about one mile Ia u second Then,
when YOU hear sound In lronl youIor
YOUR ears at least, for sound N nll IN TIC
car according iu th6 dClnilionh are lrhy'
olug through Iron ~ the rate OF ono milc
la u second, ,.
No were out once with German
friend, In our hoyhuOd days, 70 chlch
some coon that were nt our corn Our
friend had an inexperienced dog along
io irnpk Tho coon, We malru,iCd the
ability of the dog 10 successfully hullt
our pnmo and 40 stated 90 our friend.
Wc advanced Monlthily 10 the corn ilold
nnd. All Of IA sudden, the dog caught hoinvs
thlup and hopnn to shake " violently, MY
friend was ovcrioyod NJ the success OF the
dos and began tp say 20 ua' was uruka
fun him now 2n- What do think OF hlm
nov, We soon found out that tho unilnbl
caught was not u coon, but u Tartar uhu
though our friend bClnhorcd hih dog
nightly with kicks aud strokes, he, TIE
dog. could not he Induced 10 hunt any
moro that evening, thinking, no doubt,
that there wns alill some odor outside OF
ha nose that ho didn't want In, II the
dog could have boon acquainted win the
current theory Of sound hc would nave
thought there was NO odor except ih TIE
no.p. cspccinlly under the circumstance,
But lct me ask you, what do you think OF
ihp ldrn of travelling ut such q high ratio
of appod every timo you hear u s1unl in
Iron? Whhtdo you think OF him now
We moan los "him' tho author VINO al'
lowed himself hy reverence for those WHO
,ycro before him, tu continue the won
dcrfnl Inconsistencies which ought TO
m tl,c those who wat 10 become sricni-
tiats az Shy nt receiving all he puts In his
books ns our frIcud's dog was of amy more
hunting after catching the "urhr we
NAV bnvo Aomo moro tp say about The
science Of sound hereafter.
j, NJ, SAusLR
Oanuburg, Dec, 90, 1852