Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-13
Gathered On The Battlefield Of Thought.

ed from Scott the cardinal soc,..
historical romance, which shekcs,t "
did not grasp. that the action ~ sV, ur
story should turn. not on real no, me
ages, but on fictitious heroes and hosn
ines, whose fortunes can be r,o,tI ~,
freely for dramatic purpose pued
himself says somewhere that rrrnas
complain of the length OF hl4 ,.ple
yet that the Longest, have been tbc wis,
popular and the most successfui
is So We can wander for davs ~, IL
vast galleries of the Refine Marrot ees
les, charmed with the gallantrs sTr-
Mole, the vivacity or Conconnaso Ia
bravado Of Busy, above ali. ~, me
imitable wit and shrewdness M fS,., II
who surely comes next to diAr,o,no.,
among all Dumas literary nh,,dran
And d'Artagnan--wha a broad con,,tl,,
he inhabltsl How lovely to lose nnn;s
self there In long winter evening"
meeting at every turn a saucy face ~,
a gay gesture or keen fash of SWORD
that makes one forget the passage ~
time II never had care that +. hais
hours reading would not disslnate"
said Montesquieu. Happy mani How
few of us resemble him But n half.
hours reading of anything would wor,,
such miracle, surely a novel of On
mas would do it-Gammallel Bradford
Jr. in the June Atlantic.
How the sun The great ball OF fire
Has Puzzled which we call the SIN
Astronomers. is not really the sur.
No one has ever seen
the sun. A series of concentrlc sheus
envelop nucleus OF which we know
absolutely nothing except that 1t must
amount to more than nine-tenths of The
solar nrass That nucleus Is the real
sun, forever hidden from u.s. The ont
ermoet of the enveloping shells is about
five thousand miles thick, and is called
the "chromosphere.' IT is a gaseous
flood, tinted with the scarlet glare of
hydrogen and SO furiously active thai
1t spirts up great tongues of growing
gas 'prominences") 20 height NJ
thousands of miles. Time Was when
this agitated sea of crimson fire could
be seen to advantage only during an
eclipse; now special Instruments are
used which enable astronomers TO study
II in the full glare of tho sun Beyond
the chromosphere, fur beyond the
prominences even, lies the nebulous
paid corona" visible only during the
vanishing moments Of a total eclipse,
aggregating not more than seven days
in century. No one has ever salts
factorily explained how the highly at
tenuated fnhtter composing both the
prominences and the corona is support.
ed without falling back into the sun
under the pull or solar grSlvitation. Now
that Arrhenius has cosmically applied
the effects of light-pressune Il solution
Is pesented. How difficult 1t is to ac-
count for such delicate streainers as
the ''prominences" on the sun is better
comprehended when we fully under
stand how relentlessy powerful is the
grip of soL--. gravitItlon. u The sun
We're a habltable globe and you could
transport yourself to its surface. you
would find yourself pulled down so
forcibly by gravitation that YOU would
weigh two tons, assuming that you are
an ordinary human being. Your cloth
Ing alone would weigh more than one
hundred pounds. Baseball could be
played In a solar drawlng-room for
there would be some difficulty IN
throwing ball more than thirty feet
Tennis would be degraded to form
of outdoor ping-pong. From these con-
it is plain that grayitation
on the sun would tend to prevent the
formation of any lambert streamers
and to pull down to its surface masses
of any size.-Waldemar Knempffert, In
HarpeTs Magazine,