Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-15
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1901.
ELLEN.


appeared in the REGISTER last week, did
so without orders or warrant, by bad
blunder of the office. 1t was set up for
the foreign market; put In type to make
the chances of error In printing the least
possible, then ordered to be sent and was
sent to and published in the Evening
Post of New York and the New York
World. The advertisement was adapted
to foreign market to let the world know
that responsible publishing firm was
ready to pay at sight $1,000 to any person
who could refute the arguments men,
toned on either evolution or the undua-
tory theories. There was no occasion
for the advertisement, as worded, at home,
for everyone knows here that the firm
Offering is abundantly able to pay and
will pay any rewards which it may offer,
for any purpose whatever, so far as they
may be earned.
Otherwise the advertisement was ap-
propriate enough to the home market,
for we understand that the intolerable
nonsense of the undulatory theories full
ly equal in its righteousness and impos-
sible character to the physics of old which
taught that the world rested upon a
pillar and the pillar upon tortoise's back,
is still taught in the schools and col
leges of Vermont. This is disgraceful
for every sensible scientist In the world
In ha no ont ar
of these theories; knows that light con-
sists of material particles, as Mr.. Newton
said two centuries ago, and, Of necessity
following, that sound is an entity
unquestiOnably, as the great physicists
Oersted and Rutter, demonstrated cen
fury ago, electrical In its character, and
as the book Ellen" which has gone
further than any other authority in dis
closing the secret of sound, shows
spreads in the nature of a conflagratioI
wherever there Is material to make 1t
For contact makes sound and sound vibra
ton, which reproduces sound, anC
just as different characters of flame
may exist mingled together in thu
same conflagratlOn, some burning slowly
or moderately, and others leapinl
high into the air, according to thu
character of the material consumed
so does sound take place, ant
spread as on a sounding board, where
hundred different notes may be compel
ing. Thus, tuning fork when struck
produces sound, and sound causes it tt
vibrate producing more sound, which
passes Into the air, but may be conducted
far more rapidly away by solid sub
stances; and is of such character that i
will set in vibration any substance " host
normal vibration is the same as that pro
ducing the sound.
Lord Bacon said that the great secre
of sound,was that it is heard in ever,
part of the air as we'll as in all the air
but it is not heard in everyipart.of tn
air at once, but.only in certain parts ant
thus by succession in all parts, as far al
it extends.
1t is in this respect that it works yer,
similarly to conflagration. Take prai
RE fire. 1t will spread In all directions
though 1t is influenced far more by tn
wind than sound. But other things bein
equal it will spread equally in all direC
tons. A chemical combination cause
heat, which disappears rapidly in the al
and other substances; for heat is a yer
volatile substance and hasra faculty O
flowing In all directions and easily enter
ing many substances. But it is imposs
BILE that heat should be made without fut
to make it. The dried grass of the prairI
will make it, and as long as the grass cor
tinues the fire will spread; but let tn
conhagration come to where there is n
grass or where the grass has been re
moved, and it dies out for the want @
appropriate fuel to continue it, and wit
the fire fast disappears the heat. For, |
this case, it is the grass that makes tn
fire and the fire makes the heat.
Thus frequently Dire is fought with fire
Counter fires are set to destroy the fue
And so sound spreads, entering the sui
stances adjoining that In whicb,it orig
mates, and by their agitation vibration
causing more sound. The Fprairie fiji
must be Stated and may be started wit
a match. Something must start it, oil
erwise the grass would stand and rot, br
there would be no fire. But scratch
contact-ignites the match, when ii