Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08

1t is probable that the presence of
heat-producing radium in the earth
will prolong that cooling process from
which scientists predict the ultimate
death of our planet. Prof. John Jolly
OF the University of Dublin writes in
the February Harper'S of 'Radium and
the Earth'S Internal Heat" explaining
the latest calculations of the earth's
age with respect to the quantity of
radium still existing within it. There
are, says Prof. Jolly, 10000 tons of ra-
! dunn dissolved in the waters of the seas
and more than a million tons of ra-
| dium contained in the sediments which
are deposited over the floor of the
ocean," Scientists calculate that the
/ earth is already about a hundred mill
! lion years old. 'and with this amount of
| radium still in existence it would not
! seem necessary to apprehend a near
fulfillment of Mother Shipton's famous
prophecy.
The current number of the Southern
Workman, published by the Hampton
| Institute Press, contains an interesting
and timely article on the present situa-
ton in Turkey by the veteran mission
airy, Rev. DR.. House of Salonica, Tur-
key. Another thoughtful paper is one
! by James Dexter Taylor, pointing out
|
| tionS among the natives of South Af
rica. The number contains also the
sixth paper in the series by r. r.
| Wright, jr., on 1.-THE Economic Condi-
| tion of Negroes in the North" Indian
articles in the current number are ''An
Indian New Year." Notes on Greek
Mythology" by F. G. Speck of the
American Anthropological society, and
the first part of a romance of the Lewis
and Clark expedition called ''Sakajawea
Of the Shoshones."
Professor William James, in a highly
suggestive and thoughtful account of
the philosophy of G. T. Fechner, out
lines in the HILBERT Journal for Janu-
ary "The Doctrine of the Earth-Soul
and of Beings intermediate Between
Man and God" The reasoning by
analogy that leads to the conclusion
! that nature outside of the animal king
dom is not the inert and thoughtless
! thing it seems is startlingly, if not
convincingly, developed. Those who
are Of the opinion that man is the
only object that has a soul would do
| well to sound the depths of this doc
trine of Fechner's, while those who be-
| lieve otherwise will find their faith i'm
mensely strengthened by this cogent
presentation by. Professor James.
Before he made his reputation by
writing plays Victorien Sardou, the
| French dramatist, who was deeply in
| tereSted in Spiritualism, had a remark
able experience in taking dictation. He
had been interested in occult phenom-
ena, and by chance he came into COM
munication with a spirit personality
| who, signed himself Bernard PaliSSy."
M. Sardou, who recently passed into
the higher life, has told the STORY of
his experiments in an article entitled,
"Only the Blindly Ignorant Scott" in
the February Delineator. He says:
zone day, in my room with two
j friends, thought would make the lit
tie table where we had taken our cof-
fee run about the room, as had often
when alone. Without saying anything
) I put my hand on the table, but it
would not bulge. I tried in vain all the
time they were there to make it move,
but to no avail. AS soon as they were
gone I could make it do what pleased,
even jump clear off the floor. So 1
took up my pencil and asked: But
why would you not make the table
move while my friends were here?'
The hand which held the pencil wrote:
They were too stupid
Shortly after this I was sitting by
my table one day, idling. dreaming,
not making any effort to do anything
in particular. All of a sudden my
|
fore me with rapidity and precision
which astonished me.
"And 1t kept this up for close to two
hours. The result was a fantastic
piece Of work drawn in delicate lines.
fine almost as spiders web, and at
the bottom a signature = Bernard
Palissy.' What is it?' I asked.
"And my automatic hand wrote: THE
House of Swedenborg, on the Planet
Jupiter This was considered as most
curious by all my friends, who knew
that personally I had no aptitude for
drawing. A plate was prepared and
was given an etching tool. The result,
| in the same order of design, was a
more elaborate piece of work, this time
curiously combined out of all sorts of
musical terms, clefs. notes. bars, and
so on, and the whole was designated
as the House Of Mozart, also on Jupi-
ter, and the whole was again signed
'Palissy." In fact, Bernard Palsy
became my almost constant companion
from this on, like my second self"
Mrs. Humphry Wards recent novel.
"The Testing of Diana Mallory" which
has just been reprinted by the Harpers
in this country, has won special popu-
larity with English-speaking readers
in Germany and there has been some
rumOr of the books being translated
%
Wards sister, Miss Ethel Arnold, who
recently came to New York to visit,
has been quoted as saying that Diana
Mallory is the sort of girl of whom no
one could fail to approve" and that
this is the type which is perhaps the
most pleasing to the German mind.
'"The Germans ideal woman is STILL"
says Miss Arnold, "the housefrau or
chatelaine.'
Anne Warner, humorist, wrote her
first really serious book in ''The Pan
ther," published last fall by Small,
Maynard & Co. Newton NeWkirk,
humorist, in answer to a CORE
spondent "Clarice," who asked him the
meaning of a sentence of the book, Its
potency was portentous, it's portent
potent" has this to say in his "AIl
Sorts Column of the Boston POST
"Clarice wishes to know what this
means, and we prophesy that Clarice
will continue to wish to know what
this means. There are some passages
in popular fiction unloaded on the mar
ket from day to day, which passages
are beyond the grasp of human intel
ligence-they are beyond the grasp of
human intelligence because they are
written by authors having almost, but
} not quite, human intelligence"
Against which persif1age might be set
the authors own description of her
} motive in writing 1.-THE Panther She
says in a letter from Germany: "Im
quite willing to stand for all that may
be said of the book. l am as willing
} to stand for The Panther as I am un-
| willing to stand for the play that bears
my name on it's posters. Whatever