Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-08

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than two equally good ones Admitting
this statement to be true, what shall
we think of two bad or. ut least,
mediocre, coordinate commanders,
since ii has been fully evident that
neither Alexieff nor Kuropatkin has
any military talent. For Kuropatkin,
ii is indeed hard luck that, in the
press. he has beer described as a
matchless chief and organizer. AS a
former minister of war, he should have
known the condition of the Russian
troops in Asia, and whether the Rus
sian army organization, whose prin-
ciple creator he Is, would really stand
the test of war. He seems not to
have had the slightest knowledge of
either. is just as surprised MS others
at the facts in a conflict which the
Russian policy has provoked. Kuro-
patkfn, together with the late Won
Plehye, and the head of the Holy
Synod, Pobiedonostseff. is at the head
of the present Russian system, and he,
consequently, bears the greatest re-
sponsibility for the mistakes and COR
ruption which the Russian army or
g%aniZation has demonstrated. Com
pared with the great barbarity which
he has shown in shooting captured
japanese officers as spies. while his
troops barn and devastate the territory
which they are compelled TO leave, all
the silly talk about the yellow peril
comes more and more futile"
Says Il correspondent to The Record
Herald Chicago Aug. 30: The suns
corona, or surrounding luminous field,
weighs about 25,0O0,O00 tons, accord
ing TO Professor Svante Arrhenius, Of
Stockholm, who has just visited Lick
observatory at Mount Hamilton TO
make extensive solar observations.
Professor Orrhenius' scales for weigh
ing this enormous mass We're the
atmosphere, the temperature and the
telescope. He and other astronomers
at the observatory are surprised that
the corona thus Is shown to be so ex-
ceedingly light considering that Ii oc-
cupies a space several millions OF
miles in diameter. Besides computing
the weight of the corona. Professor
Arrhenius has settled other great
problems that long have puzzled as
tronomers. one concerns the sources
OF the coronal light over which two
schools OF astronomy disagreed. One
school has held that the light of the
inner part Of the corona was from
dust particles heated to incandescence
by the fiery solar surface and that the
light from the outer portion Of the
corona was due 10 reflection from the
inner. Another faction has believed
that the light was due TO electrical
radiations and that the temperature
even nea the sun was that OF an
ordinary room. Professor Arrhenius
has harmoniZed the results OF all
previous observations by showing
that the minute dust particles in the
coronal region must beat a tempera-
tuye OF 500, degrees Fahrenheit and
therefore must be radiating light by
virtue OF their incandesence but the
particles are so few and far between
that the effective temperature oh.
served is not the temperature OF the
particles themselves but the average
temperature for the in~candesceni
particles. He ssumes that there Is
only one minute dust particle to
fifteen cubic yards Of space.
During the past summer there has
been a large number of newspaper
men, civil and electrical engineers and
men of other professions visiting
America and the st. Louis exposition
Perhaps no country has in proportion
to her population sent so many repre-
sentatives to the exposition as Sweden
Nearly all of them who come here
pleased with America and ex
press surprise It u progress. YeI
there are . number who are prone t