Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-09-18
Jack Frost
And Darkness
A FAIRY STORY
BY Benz Smonds.
A FAIRY STORY
BY Benz. Simonds.

invisible. Take away heat and il can.
not feel warm or cold. Take away
away motion and it is inert. Take
away electricity and it can have no
magnetism, it must have no chemical
action, it can give us no feeling of re-
sistance, for resistance is force. Take
away attraction and it has no weight
and would become an imraIpable pow
dow. Now, what has become of the
paper weight? So all things are really
what they must be and all things
taken as whole are immortal. The
processes of the natural world continu-
ally repeat themselves.
Here my little visitor paused and
wiping the Precipitation from his brow
with large white handkerchief, ex-
claimed, ST am not pleased with your
fire. VuIcan's imps and repell each
other"
then noticed my fire was low, but
/ mechanically closed the draft when
be thanked me and continued.
ST now come to my special realm.
Ether, who among all your wise ones
really knows anything about it? 1t
fills all out of doors, simply for the
stars to move in. A great vacuum or
an indiscribable something too ETHEREAL
to excite any one of the five senses.
You should have sixth sense. Like
light, which is best known by the
object it reveals to the eye, so ether is
revealed by the presence Of stars NOV
ing in It, That it is something seems
to be revealed by the fact that light is
eight minutes longer coming to the
earth from the eclipses of Jupiter's
moons. When In it's orbit it is farthest
from Jupiter SO it takes eight minutes
for light to cross the earth'S orbit
about 100 million miles. Now if ether
is an absolute vacuum, why should it
take any time at all in passing? On
the other hand, If light is q mode OF
motion, it could not pass at all unless
ii had something to vibrate.
The planets anu all worlds, or suns
do not displace it no matter how swift
ly they move through it. A comet on
its journey from the sun moving with
inconceivable velocity towards its
flmsy tail is just as long and the same
shape as when approaching 1t. See
the earth wheeling through space at
over eighteen miles a second, its thin
elastic atmosphere standing out as
full and perfect in front of it as else
where. No friction exists with it,.
It is the play ground of the forces.
Light cannot illuminate as it does the
earths atmosphere. I'm space the stars
appear as bright points of light in a
perfectly black SKYE Heat cannot
warm 1t. Attraction cannot act upon
it. Electricity can make no disturb
ance in my realm, eternal silence and
darkness forever reign supreme" he
ceased speaking and charmed by his
wonderful words and his vivid per-
sonality, I gszed into his shinin &
face that seemed so keenly alive and
| knew he was of toe gods immortal
and his realm also. Slowly then
became conscious of another presence
in the room. Noiseless as shadow it
came end glided upon the table beside
my little visitor, perfect image of
himself except sue was dressed in a
| flowing black wool. Her shining
black eyes were deep set In strange
| ly undefinable brow, and her hair in q
mass of symmetrical tangle covered
her head and shoulders. Their gaze
was fixed on me with q bewilderlng
playfuIness for a moment. Then Jack
ssid: "Thls is my companion In my
Kingdom. We are inseparable. This
is darkness, she whom the great poet
Byron in biz strange dream, that
was not all dream called the uni
verse. All! said Jack, who can say
that all this universe contains is dis
closed by the human eye? Is there no
realm in all shis vastness, correspond
ing to mans inner perception? What
Of psycDIogy2 The light In claIrvoy-
ant vision is not sunlight Judge We!
Farewell Then bowling they slowly
withdrew from my sight. Suddenly,
then, with a great chill L swoKe, to
find myself in total darkness; fire and
lamp both extinguished.