The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-13
THE SUN IS NO MORE
Will Happen at Some Future Date Old Sol Is Extu
gushed. Everlasting Cycle of Life and Death

hat would we 90 II one OF these
mo should notice that the sun
ice no more, asks Die Garten-
l. GOOD housewife will answer:
in that case we shall simply
; IN the electric light. And
If the sun shold go on strike
or orr engineers, those magi-
who can do anything, would
invent something to compensate
his loss. Has not engineering
reputation nowadays that
| Ing is believed to be impossible
i scientist might add right here
nature has invented a light far
her than electric light, for in
l. that emitted by firetiies. And
/ have discovered SO many of
le's secrets, why should not we
I'm that of the FREELY light? AS
lbs the cheapness of such living
rms it is interesting to learn
american scientists have recent
Injected lightning bug which
led a light equal to only IL, 900
candle power, to examination
exceedingly delicate instru-
/ CAPABLE of measuring almost
lievably small amounts of ra-
energy. They found that this
beetle, to produce its light, did
bxpend any amount of energy
Ehey could measure. If this en-
had been one ten-thousandth of
necessary to produce illumina-
of the same brightness by
S of a candle, it would have
measurable. The conclusion is
this insects light is at least
10 times cheaper than candle
All the engineers have to do
invent it.
Onomy, however, can be OBJ
b only by avoiding the tremen-
waste of heat common to all
BOurces of light. But we also
the suns heat. 1t is true that
hes the sun is rather free with
Leaf, and we fee from his too
Hberality. At other times,
Yer, we have to resort to stoves
furnaces. Should not it be pos
Ito invent something that would
+ more even distribution?
not we become Independent
suns heat radiation? Do not
FISTS tell us that the interior of
arth is extremely hot, at least
It as the streams of lava pour
rom volcanoes. Compared with
almost inexhaustible source of
contained in the body of our
old mother earth, the few
l-up pennies represented by
Oal beds are as nothing.
'haps this interior heat would
for few hundred thousand
After all, we could dig deep
d deeper into the earth in or
get nearer and nearer. 1t is
Bile that the first human beings
cave jewellers who retreated
the ice of the glacial era into
open folds of the earth's crust,
at least a cellars warmth was
liable, why should not the last
do the same thing for a like
/, but in their own power and
much more perfect way than
Old-time predecessors. The
heat stored in the earth's in
could be utilized readily for
lighting, especially if we do in
the cheap light. We could
fairy-like underground pal
sparkling with crystals and
resplendent in variegated
bus colors, with rejecting gall
of pillars and romantic stall
structures. Comfortable heat
att light, just as we should like
e it, would fill all rooms. We
4 walk in woods of trees made
shed, many-veined agate, and
q leaves of silver and gold.
DIVERS at our feet would be
sapphires and topazes, and
Il wonders with which our
Rod's fancy adorned the fair
;, could there become a re-
still remains one doubt,
r. Shall we not have to
amid all this splendor? Up
surface of the earth it has
3 cold and dark. But no
an grow without light, and
y they cannot do without sun