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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

Even if we confine ourselves to the Pentateuch, l. e., the first five books of the Olu Testament, the contention can not be sustained; and 1t should be noted too, that, for many ages, these five books have been attributed to Moses. Now in the book of Genesis, chapter 25. verse o. we read that Abraham died. ''and was gathered to his people," What does this mean? It can hardly mean his burial
 for the next verse reads: And his sons Isaac and Ishmael, buried him in the cave of Machpelah." Further: This cave was not on or near the country in which Abraham's people had lived and died Abraham was certainly not gathered to his people" in the sense of being buried with them, for he was buried In for eign land The connection shows that 1t was in his death and not in his burial that he was gathered to his people, and unless his people still existed some- where and somehow, after their death how could it be that he was gathered to them? His body was not gathered to their bodies and so I take 1t that his spirit must have been gathered to their spirits in another state of existence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31
BY J. C. HIDEN, D. D.

had any revelation from God later than the time of Malachi. There is not the slightest reason for believing that they got the doctrine of the resurrection out of Plato; for they did not read Plato; and If they had known all his eDia- logues's by heart they could not have found that doctrine; for Plato does not teach it. They were not at all given to philosophical speculation. and so we have no ground for believing that they reasoned it out. Where, then, did they get it? The only rational answer Is that they found 1t, where Christ found it, and where I find 1t now-ih the old Testa- ment.
 If I am at liberty to take what like in the Bible, and to rule out what I don't like why not follow Emerson, and make my own Bible? It would be a simpler and more sensible course than that which our radical" critics are pursuing.
 If the history of English literature were treated after such a fashion, Chaneer would be buried in his own House of Fame" and Shakespeare would vanish like one of his own fairies in Midsummer Nights Dream"
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is too palpable to be denied. What shall we do with 1t? Simply say that the book is "a historical novel" which Daniel never saw, and all this in the face of the fact that Jesus Christ, in the 11th verse of the 18th chapter of Mark, quotes from Daniel. calls him "Daniel the phophet." and urges his disciples to give particular attention to the prophecy in Daniel, 11th chapter, S1st verse.
 But even supposlng that the doctrine of immortality was imported Into Eccle- siastes and into the book of Daniel by the almost omnlpotent "Redactor," the question naturally arises How could he impart what he did not have?' He must have had the idea of immortality. Where and how did he get it? The books of Ecclesiastes and Daniel were known and read by the Hebrew people long be- fore the time of Christ They stood then as they stand now, and we know that in the time of Christ the doctrine of the future life was held by the Pharisees. who certainly did not learn 1t from Christ. They did not pretend to have
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shops; no police courts or newspapers; no .corners' in cocoanuts or futures" in fish. These people are savages and don't know the luxury of a railroad col lison or water works m monopoly. They never have the pleasure of reading in the morning paper about the murders and di- vorces which arc to be found among people who boast they are the afarthest yet' in the path of civilization. These poor savage. are in the dark in many respects and i. is about time they were tacCht the beauties of modern clVlllzd- ten as exemplitiod in the sweat-shop and slums of our big cities. The idea of these people sittin4 under the shade Of cocoanut trees when they might be snugly packed in q slX-story tenement in New York or Chc.-g go, ought to arouse q feeling of pity for their miserable con- dition.
 Much if not most, of the foregoing is Aggression from the subject meant to be written about-the cruise among the islands After twenty days we reached Iovulxa. on the island of Ovalaw, one of tn, Fiji group The king had returned fr,r1 his trip to Sydney and WAS living q fast life upon the proceeds of the sale he had made.
 His court was q scene of continual revelry and the old wooden vessel rode at anchor in front Of his palace. Canoes made trips daily - the ship, returning wit. ease goo ls," which were delivered at the palace. These were the closing days cf Thakamhaus reign his dynasty went out. net exactly in smoke, although there wss some of that there too, in fumes ef Holland ain and Jamaica rum. The king one day felt like taking 2 cruise around the island; his unskilled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31
BY F. I. MONKS.

men and women, boys and girls was the simplicity and innocence of children in the nursery It must not be understood that these people were dull or stupid, on the contrary they wero extremely bright and intelligent. No bugles and beads for them. Clocks, lamps, tools and picture books All day long they would paddle around our vessel. looking at her size and shape; they would come aboard lass and capstan. Their great ambition was to own a big ship. Ono of tho na- tives could speak French fiuently, and he told us all about the people and what they wanted. That mans appearance and dress. or rather the want of dress, may have indicated the savage but his man. ners would put some society people to shame.
 Where these natives got the phrase cannot be said, but 1t is supposed that Captain Cook taught them the word friend" when he discovered the islands in TIT and named them the Friendly 1s- lands. Immediately a vessel appears on the horizon the natives come out to meet her. They bring fruits of all kinds. and going up to the orew each ous presents a bunch of bananas. coooanuts, or a pearl shell This Is generally done by young boys, who are then considered your friends and to them you make presents of any little toys or trfnkets you may have. One man on board our ship had over twenty friends, who brought him all sorts of things in exchange for jews harps. When we left Vavaw wo wont to Tonga-Taboo, the capital, where King George held court. Our Frenoh-spealxing friend came with us and acted as Inter preter between the king and the cap- tain.
 (will be continued next sunda0.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31
WHA ' IS PSYCHOME7RY WHEELER WILCOX

When soul reads soul it not only knows it's qualities and characteristics, but. to a certain extent, it comes into a knowl- edge of its past and a foreknowledge or coming occurrences, which has not yet reached the ordinary consciousness, for Tn this realm there is no time.
 People of intense, natures and those un- folded spiritually to soMe degree, give forth more powerful aura with corre- spondingly stronger impressions upon the psychometrist Thus the latter will be lifted to a higher plane or depressed and saddened according as the person Tor whom he Is reading Is on higher or tower plane than he, himself occupies.
 This auric vibration may be conveyed any distance by means of letter (hand written), a lock of hair, anything that has been fully charged with the owner aura Thus it becomes evident that we are all constantly leaving impressions of our real selves wherever we go whether we express ourselves In words or not.
 Nor is this auric atmosphere confined to human beings. A piece of rock taken from the depths of the earth will reveal to the sensitive psyschometrist not only It's own history through the ages. but that of its environment. Mines have been located veins of ore traced and much accurate and valuable knowledge of the underground has been obtained by this means. Professor Denton testifies to this fact in his two interesting books entitled "1'he Soul of Things"
 As the X-ray and radlum have revealed much of the hidden forces of nature, so will the cultivation or unfoldment of the latest powers of the soul throw great light on the hidden mysteries of ones being and all shall learn of the higher life by demonstrated knowledge as well as by faith.
 Since the intellectual world Is waking up to a consciousness that there IS large truth underlying all the rubbish of occult ism and since to America all eyes are turned for guidance in this matter, would suggest that the American soicety of Psychical Research investigate the work of this intellectual woman, Mrs. stansell of No. 2l0 West Fourth street. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

Uranus and Neptune, each about six feet one inch. Ceres, shown in the picture, is one of the asteroids, only about 400 miles in diameter.
 A curious thing is that, although In go- ing to heavier worlds. like Jupiter and the sun, the weight could be diminished, as already explained, by diminishing the stature in proportion to the cube root of the increased force off gravtatlon, yet the man would not be as strong and active as a man of the same weight on the earth, because of the decrease In the size of his muscles in proportion to his weight.
 On the other hand, in going to lighter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

In Genesis, s5th chapter, 29th verse, we find the same statement made about Isaac; and in Genesis, 18th chapter, Ssrd verse. about Jacob, and tho same course of reasoning applies to them.
 In Exodus, 3rd chapter, 9th verse. God says to Moses: .I am the God of thy fa.her, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" Here I am not left to reason out my own inter pretation for Jesus Christ, in arguing with the Saddueees, who denied the doc Urine of future life, quotes these very words and says that they prove the doctrine of the resurrection. See Matthew 22nd chapter, verses 31, 32.
 In Numbers, 23rd chapter, 11th verse, Balaam says Let me die the death of the righteous. and let my last end be like hs." What sense would there be in such q petition if the righteous died with no hope of future life?
 One of the ablest and most scholarly of all the commentaries on the book of Proverbs is that by Prof. c. H. Toy of Harvard. In the Introduction he shows that he had made up his mind that this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

HHE notion that the doctrine of
 immortality is unknown to the Old Testament is no new thing under the sun. William Warburton, bishop of Glocester, was one of the ablest and most scholarly men among the celrgy of the church of England in the 18th century He was the friend of Pope, and wrote "Vindication of Pope's Essay on Man." from the charge of in- fidelity. He was one of the first to rec ognize the rising genius of Samuel John son.
 The title of Warburton's most famous work is "The Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the principles of a re- ligious deist, from the omission of the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments in the Jewish Dispensatlon." The title of the book pretty clearly shows the purpose of the distinguished author But 1t is proverbally difficult to prove negative; and the bright bishop did not overcome the difficulty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31
POENS YOU OUGHT 70 READ
THE DEATHLEss FLOWER.

From the New York Sun. I heard one morning, "old Romance" he
 said. "Romance. the flower of our life, is dead! The men of iron who In Iron days Did deeds of daring-they have gone their
 ways, And in their stead behold a wooden breed. Whose highest good Is Gold, whose god
 Is Greed Old Earth, exhausted, has her labor
 pain But her last children show her labor vain. Where are the knightly warriors of yore. Whose hearts were stouter than the mall
 they wore? Where are the courtly danes they loved
 20 true, And where the mighty kings for whom
 they drewf
 glory fled; And Chivalry and Romance-they arc
 dead!
 The flowers" he grieved,
 "Of sweet Romance dry leaved; And Ffnis written to wrought out
 story!" So he intoned his melancholy plaint: And l. who listened with but i'll restraint. Made answer thus: "The flower of Ro-
 nance Has never died. nor will be any chance But lives forever on. The flower thrives Deep rooted in Man life, not in mems
 lives. Perennial. immortal. Comes each day The miracle of dawn. The planets play Tn their appointed orbits-see. where shine The lights that looked on Bethlehem's d. vine Forthbrnging Men still, yearning to fta star, Heed, as of yore, it's beck'ning beafi afar. The trinity of Faith. Hope. Love survi,- And heroism dwels in modern lives Fen as I spoke. The moon. cloud yelled, forth broke. And bathed the nighted world in golden glory.
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the flneness of the coal the products from material one inch square being diff ferent from those yielded by material two Inches square, or one-half inch square The products are different not only In amount but also in compost tion and seem to maintain irrespective of the rate and duration of firing. We say that a coal contains 30 per cent, or what ever it may be, of volatile and combusti- ble matter and so much fixed carbon and We seem to be satisfied with this in formation without nquiring into the na- ture of the volatile matter or whether the proportion of fixed carbon in the coke may not be increased by proper treatment in the oven. The silvery lus- ter shown by many of the best cokes Is thought to be due to the decomposi- ton of some of the gases evolved during the process of colSing and the deposition of a thin coating of pure carbon on the surface of the coke cells. etc. This thin coating protests the cells from alteration in the air and may be looked to as one of the reasons why certain cokes in this district keep better than others. It also adds to the strength of the coke, and very materially. to its handsome appear ance Where coke Is bought neither on chemical analysis nor on physical tests 1t is obvious that an attractive appearance Is half the battle. How is this luster imparted to coke? Some of the best coke
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book contains no reference to the future life. and when he comes to interpret the 32nd verse of the 14th chapter he evi- dently finds himself in sore difficulties. The words are: "The wicked is driven away in his wickedness; but the righteous hath hope in his death" The great scholar calls the Greek version to his aid. but finds it unsatisfactory, and he at last admits that the Hebrew text means just what the English version says. We must therefore, alter the Hebrew text. without the least authority for such al teration, or we must admit that the sage had his eye on future life.
 In that magnificent poem, the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes the author, in speaking of death, says: Then shall the dust return to the earth as 1t was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave It." The doctrine of the future life
 is here too plain for any twisting that even the most advanced critics can do; and they certainly arc athletes in the way of twisting What, then, can be done with the passage? Why, simply say that "a late Redaotor, offended at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

his islands to the British government in consideration of 5000, which he was paid in smal. silver money and an old wooden sailing vessel, on which he was after wards brought back to Levuka.
 me islands in tl-e S)uth Pacific are all of volcanic origin. They are veritable Garoens Of Eden in fruits and Towers. The sea teens with fish. Coral reefs pr, ecr the islands from the effects of the violent storms which, at times, visit the soutl Pacific. The water between the re ifs and the lar l may vary in depth fro.l one hundro feet at the reef to wh~re it rlpples or the pebbly beach. but everywhere it is so translucertly clear that objects lying at the bottom, sixty or eighty feet below, are as visible as if on the surface. And what sight do these waters present. Natures aquarium. From the shark ten or twelve feet long. la4ily baskins in the sunshine, to the rninnow wlggling with might and main to escape the dolphin, himself being pur- sued by the porI oise. On the bottom may be seen all sorts of shell fish. im- mcnse crustaceans carefully avoiding each other, or else grappled in a death struggle over their prey. Blue fish, red fish, gold fish, silver fish, one moment darting straight forward like an arrow, the next making the curves of a volute.
 On shore the natives are sitting around in groups in the shade of the cocoanut trees. Their life is one long beautiful dream. Their wants are few and these nature gratuitously supplies. A few cocoanut trees (these are marked with the name of the owner) and canoe are all the earthly pc sessions of :ese peo- pie
 There are no stores or markets, no gents furnishings" or ladies millinery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

her marvellous powers. 1 give It without quotations, but as nearly as possible in the words of Mrs. Stanseli It is her theory that psychometry is the mani- festation of certain latent powers or fac ulties of the soul on the natural or phy- sical plane, and is based on as exact laws as are any other manifestations of nature
 It is admitted by scientists that all form color, etc, are due to c,rtain rates of vibration, and it is also admitted that attraction and repulsion as manifested in chemistry are due to the same cause; that ia. that substances of certain rates of vibration harmonize or blend, as do chords of music. while other substances that do not so harmonize repel each other as do certain notes when sounded together produce discord.
 Now. as the whole universe must be subject to the same law, In its vary ing manifestations, so we find in the realm of mind and soul attractions and repuls.ons.
 Science has been able to give the rates of vibration that will produce certain notes in music or shades in color, and in the blending of these we recognize either harmony or discord.
 Without going further into this inter- esting subject of vibratory law, Mrs. Stansell said that one who has the psy- chometric talent developed to certain degree can so bring himself into har- mony with other rates of vibration that the history or knowledge of the person or substance with which he has become harnonized becomes his own.
 It is the underlying law by which all intutitiye perception of truth is attained. This vibratory activity produces in every substance an atmosphere, or aura, which is a manifestation of it's qualities. This aura in flowers may be distinguished by their odor, and we are thus able to de- termine without seeing them whether the fragrance is that of the rose or the lily. As we go beyond the realm of the phy- sical we find that soul recognizes soul by that which corresponds to fragrance, as qualities or character. This recognition we call psychometry from psyche, soul, and metre. to measure. or read
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

n1oged from the earth to Jupiter would weigh about two pounds and six-tenths. On the sun a pound weight would weigh more than twenty-seven pounds. On the moon it would weigh only on-sixth or a pound. On Mars 1t would weigh 5S-lOO of pound. etc.
 s,,pnose we take for unit of compar- ison u man six feet tall and weighing 200 pounds Put him first on the sun. His weight would becoms 54O0 pounds, burden that he could not bear. He would simply be crushed down by his own avoir- dupois and at the best could merely crawl slowly about like snail.
 On the other hand, put him on the moon and he would weigh only 33 pounds while his muscular strength and activity would simply transform him into an en- zine of astonishing mechanical power anu an athlete of marvellous ability-able TOT instance. to jump over fair sized house, or to outstrip locomotive in a race
 On Mars he would weigh only 7G pounds, and his activity would also be propor- tionately increased. although 1t would be much less phenomenal there than on the moon.
 Blrt 1t is not probable. from what we know of the growth of organisms on the earth, that men dwelling on other planets would have the same physical stature as here Their size would vary with the force of gravity-the large planets having small inhabitants, and the small planets large ones.
 ont il m- parison. Let 1t be the weight of the indi- vidual. We have seen that 20O-pound man would weigh only SS pounds on the moon and 540O pounds on the sun. We want to have him weight 200 pounds wher- ever he is. For this purpose we must vary his size in accord with the variations of gravity.
 Now. the mass, weight, of any body depends upon its cubic contents, and varies with the cube of any principal dimension A slx-foot man on the sun weighs 54O0 pounds. We wish to give him a stature which will reduce his weight to the 200 pounds he was accustomed to on the earth. The suns surface gravity Is twenty-seyen times as great as the earths. To reduce our man to such a bulk that this force will have only one twenty seventh as much mass to act upon we must reduce each of tne mans prin- cipal dimensions by the cube root of 27. The cube root of 27 is 3. We take the height of the man then and divide 1t by 3, thus reducing 1t from to feet. All his other dimensions will come down in pro- portion. and we shall find that our two- foot man on the sun weighs 200 pounds. Next we take him to the moon. There he is about six times too light for his size. In order to bring him up to his regular 200 pounds weight on the moon we must make him grow in the inverse proportion q the cube root of six.
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MAN ON THE OTHER PLANETS

which Is somewhat more than one and eight-tenths. We will call 1t just that. Then we multiply his six feet of height by one and eight-tenths and he becomes about ten feet nine and one-half inches in height and broad and thick in pro- portion. With these dimensions he will continue to bring down the scales on the moon to his old figure-20O pounds.
 And so as for the other planets, as H. lustrated in the picture. It may be added that the height of a 2o0-pound man on Mercury would be eight feet; on Venus six feet three inches; on Jupiter, four rect three inches on Saturn, five feet; In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

H URING the last two and half years the United States geological N survey has maintained coke test ing department at the fuel testing plant, St. Louis The work has been in charge of MT. A. W. Belden, who was one of the chemists for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company at Ensley several years ago.
 A variety of coals from many parts of the country have been tested at this establishment with special reference to coking qualities and the results of the investigation are now ready for publica- tion. It is understood that with the re- cent appropriation made by Congress for the furtherance of this work 1t will be continued until all of the principal coking coals of the country have been examined. No coking arrangements other than the ordinary beehive ovens have been used. the purpose having been to study the behaviour of coals under the conditions which are generally observed in this business. The chemical and physical re- actions which take place in a beehive oven are by no means so well understood as as one might suppose, considering how long this process has been in use. They seem to depend upon greater variety of