Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-11-19

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The details ri the discovery cove
many columns "i print, exceeding tn,
space at our command notwith~tand
ing their absorbing interest. Suilic,
it to >ly th1t DR.. Gates j. still on ;i,
threshold "( hi> promising inyc>tiga
tl"n~; that his combination OF til,
new microscope ha> been with small
iifty-dollar two-and-a-half inch tcle
scope. and Il microscope with a two
third inch objective. Use a higher
power OF compound magnitier with
the Lick or Ycrkes telescope, and
what would be the result?
Turned upon Mars, the planet which
has lately come into interesting prom
inence from the discovery by Schi-
aparilli of canals upon the surface, and
how doubt wonld give place to GER
tainty. These waterways are sup
posed to average 40 miles in width and
to extend hundreds of miles in straight
lines, and the outlines to be defined
by the verdure upon their sides.
With the new tclemicroscope there
Will be no more guess-work about such
matters. What has already been dem.
onstrated gives promise, under favor
able conditions, of a perfect view of
Marian objects one twcnty-ffth the
size, and experiments lead to the hope
that magnification may be extended
at least 200 times greater, which would
give a view of objects the size of a
man!
There is, however, an obstacle great
er feared than ignorance of natures
laws, and that, according to the doc
tors opinion, is the vibration of the
instrument from the trembling of the
earth-motions imperceptible to the
human organism-and the impossi-
bility of absolute perfection of the
clockwork mechanism which moves
the telescope. Under the high mag
nitications extremely minute vibra-
tions would be so much magnified that
small object like that of a house
upon the surface of Mars would dart
in and out of the field OF vision so as
to prevent its being photographed.
In order to take ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of planetary object it will be neces-
sary for the doctor to to construct an
especially adapted clockwork mechan-
ism and especially adapted microscopic
and Photographic attachments.
Photography with the invisible rays
of lights-not light of great faintness,
but of rays whose pitches lie far above
the luminous portion OF the spectrum
promises to carry still further the
limits which he has previously as
signed as the probable ones for the
new instrument.
A Slow EXPREss.-If the Northern
Pacific Express Co. continue to re-
ceive express matter for transmission
from Portland to this city, it should
be with the understanding that it may
be two or three days in transit not
withstanding the usual extortionate
charges are made for the service. Last
Saturday, the agent of the "South
Before the War" Co., expressed 1000
folders from Portland to the local thea
terwith the very reasonable expectation
that they would arrive in time for dis
tribution Saturday night. They came
to hand, however, Monday noon, hav-
ing been 40 hours en- route while the
mail and passengers came through in
about five hours. The reason given
for this delay is that the company per-
sist in carrying their express by round
about way of Tacoma, to save small
charge to the Port Townsend South
ern for bringing it in from Tenino.
When it is considered that the main
object in paying big price to an ex-
press company is to secure an expedi-
tious service, the injustice OF such
proceeding is manifest. Either the
N. p. Co. should decline to receive
business for Olympia, or inform ship
pers that it is subject to a slow route
that will require days, instead of the
few hours that the direct route affords
shippers. This is not the first time
we have had personal cause for COM
plant, and suffered loss from this de-
fective service, or probably we would
not have "got on" to the fact that all
express matter from Portland is SUBJ
ject to this detention, and we there
fore believe that the matter should be
understood by our business men. On
shipments from long distances. the
day or two additional is not, of course,
so perceptible, but it is there all the
same, and the time has commercial
value, as those who make remittances
we'll know.
THE Olympian should not be too
severe on the State Auditor for his
tribute to Hon. James Hamilton Lewis,
in the shape of an acrostic in the Sc