The daily Alaskan., 1913-04-16
WHAT IS S0-yB-E3
Everything In the Universe Is,
 Say the Scientists.
GLASS DISSoLvES IN WATER.

And if a Bar of Gold 80 Placed Upon
 Bar of Load Each In Time win Ab-
 aorb Particles of tho othor--s0Iid
 Matter a Mace of WhirIing Atomo'
 What is soluble? Sugar in water? That's easy, although you have to bo born In Kentucky to perform the trick ln the mint julep trade
 Is glass soluble In water? Ohhand we say no. We are wrong, 1t Is. You cau try it yourself
 Take on ordinary eight ounce water glass. a glass that holds eight ounces, grind lt up to a powder and pour the powder into another glass full of water and sIr It mp. Then 0ualyzc it, or. if thfs is above you, take it around the corner to man who can, md he will tal you. and with truth that the wa ter in that glass had actually dissolved 8 per cent of the glass powder
 Glass Is soluble, nearly o5 soluble aa blchI0rdc of mercury.
 Everything is soluble In water. Furthermore. everything in the uni- verse ls soluble ln everything else in tHc universe. That is what they are telling us now. and the men who tell ms can perform am astonishing eXpcri- mout right before your eyes to make you more than half believe them.
 They take bar of gold and a bar of lead. They Iuy one bar on top of the other Then they sIt around and smoke cigars and walt say a year Then they take the two bars and aualyzc them chemically. In the gold bar they Gnd lead In the lead bar they dnd gold. Gold and lead are soluble In each other,
 IG you haven't time Co wait year to and out. the ,rlcl, can be performed in much shorter time. An .hat has to be done Is to raise the temperature of the two bars Co a very ordinary hcat-say 800 OF 400 degrees I'. With this added heat the same results are reached over. night Traces Of gold are found an the way through thc lead bar and vice versa
 The theory S that an substances, whether gold or butter or leather, are really composed of the smallest kind Of small partcIos-obout the size of the particles making up the taiI of the late lumoutcd comet which were described as the elemental essence of nothing. ness. These particles, which are as much bigger than an atom as a noun tain compared to a mouse, are in mo. t.0u. revolving round each other faster cham thought much the same as the planets rcv0Ivo round the sun
 II our microscopes were big enough a chunk of gold would appear to our eyes much Che same as Q fly hopper fuU or Ios .lHe kind of hoppcrs they keep In Che cheese department of country grocery store In Augusp. The particles are buElug and jumping much tho same as these flies.
 When bar 1f gold comes iu contact with bar oC lead their respective re- vo.vIng bumug particles get together and get acquainted They go cypIor- mg and gre lost, and before long, iu- stcud of having a bar of pure lead and a bar of pure gold we have two bars of uII0ycd metals
 This discovery has upset aIl sorts of scientific calculations If everything is soluble in everything cIse-and scIen- lists can go on duplicating the gold lead example without eud-how can anything exist In a pure state7 It can't Chemists dispense chemicals under Che label "C. F." or chemically pure" but 1T a Dr. Wiley got after them on Che strict letter of the new theory be would send them an to jail, because the chances are that an alleged pure chem. icaIs have absorbed a little of every. thing they came In contact with in Che process of their manufacture.
 Analytical chemists of this day have fo tuEc into account Che amount of glass any given solution contains, when they are testing that solution in test a tube Otherwise their results wouldn't count for anything.
 This discovery suggests an eyplana- ton of that mysterious element In out, door life. scent. How c0n a hound trace his quarry7 Everything a man touches dissolycs a little of him. When bis foot falls on the ground he leaves % trace Of himself In warm weather or Iu wet weather he leaves a bigger trace than In cold or dry weather A hound follows a damp trail Usually his sense of smell Is not acute enough to follow a dry tau
 The suggestion that a fugitive pur. sued by a bloodhound actually dis. solves a few parucaes of himself every time his foot touches thc ground, just as though he were a lump of sugar in water. sounds fanclful, but lt Is ap- bearing more and more reasonable In Che light of recent roscarches.-F. l.