Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-04-26
Everything In the Universe Is.
Say the Scientists.
GLASS DISSOLvES IN WATER.
And IL Bar Of Gold Be Placed Upon a
Bar Of Lead Each In Time Will Abb
sorb Particles Of the Cther--Soiid
Matter a Mass OF Whirlino Atoms.

IN ihc mint juicp tIHde.
Is glass soluble in Water Offhand
we say no. We are wrong II Is. You
can try 1t yourself.
Take an ordinary eight ounce water
glass. glass that holds eight ounces.
grind II UP 20 a powder and pour the
powder into another glass fun OF water
and stir It up. Then analyzc II. or II
this is above you. take II around the
corner 10 man who can. and he will
tell sou. and with truth. that the wa
ter In that glass had actually dissolved
3 per cent Of the glass powder
Glass is soluble. nearly as soluble ~
blchloride of mercury.
Everything Is soluble IN water
Furthermore. everything In the Uni
verse Is soluble III everything else IN
the universe. That i what they are
telling Us now. and the men WHO tell
US can perform an astonishing expert
mcnt right before Your eyes to make
you more than half believe them.
They take bar of gold and q bar Of
lead. They lay one bar on top Of the
other Then they sill around and smoke
cigars and wait, say year. Then they
take the two bars and analyze them
chemically In the gold bar they find
lead In the lead har they find gold
Gold and lead are soluble In each other
II you haven't time a. wait a ycar To-
find out. the trick can be performed IN
much shorter time Al that has 10 he
done Is 10 raise the temperature Of the
two bars 10 very ordinary heat SLY
300 or 100 degrees +. With this added
heat the same results are reached over
night Traces Of gold are found all the
way through the lead bar and vice
versa
/ The theory is that all substances.
whether gold or butter or leather. are
really composed Of the smallest kind
( of small particles about the size Of the
PARTICLES making up the tail Of the hate
lamentcd comet, which We're described
as the elemental essence Of nothing
ness. These particles. which are n
much bigger than an atom as noun
tain compared TO Il mouse. are in mo
ton, revolving round each other faster
than thought. much the same rs the
planets revolvc round the sun.
If our microscopes were big enough Il
chunk of gold would appear 10 our
eyes much the same rs fly hopper
full of flies dhe kind Of hoppers they
keep In the cheese department of Il
country grocery store in August The
particles are buzzing and jumping
much the same as these flies
When bar of gold comes In contact
with "A bar Of lead their respective re,
volving buzziag PARTICLES get together
ana get acquainted They 20 cxplor.
Ing and are lost, and before long. in
stead Of having bar Of pure lead and
bar OF pure gold we have two bars
Of alleged metals
This discovery has upset all sorts Of
scientific calculations. Ii everything *
soluble IN everything else-and scien-
lists can 70 on duplicating the gold
lead example without end how can
anything exist IN q pure state; II cant
Chemists dispense chemicals under
the label &c T." or chemically pure.
but II a Or. Wiley got after them on
the strict letter Of the new theory he
would send them all 10 Jail because TN,
chances are that all alleged pure chem
icals have absorbed a little of every
thing they came IN contact with In
the process Of their manufacture.
Analytical chemists of this day hive
10 take into account the amount Of
glass amy given solution contains.
when they are testing that solution IN
test tube. otherwise their results
wouldn't count for anything.
This discovery suggests an explana
tion of that mysterious element In out
door life. scent How can a hound
trace his quarry? Everything man
touches dissolves a little Of him When
his foot falls on the ground lac leaves
a trace Of himself In warm weather
or IN wet weather ne leaves bigger
trace than In cold or dry weather \
hound follows damp trail Usually
his sense Of smell IS not acute enough
Ia follow dry trail
The suggestion that fugitive puf
sued by bloodhound actually dis
solves few PARTICLES Of himself ever,
time his foot touches the ground. jus
as though he We're a lump of sugar III
water. sounds fanciful. but IL Is ~
Fearing more and more reasonable ii
the light ~ rcceri researches
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