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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-02

cir inches IN diameter. ana this was
lalf filled with water AZ each end Of
the pipe was an exqusitely fashioned
apparatus by which the level OF the
water could be read by means of micro.
scopes. The purpose OF burying the
pipe six feet under ground was to oh
tain reasonably uniform temperature
" the water The piping and the ter
m!nal gauges were made alright after
the whole apparatus had been nicely
levoiled
After a series Of preliminary observa-
tions begun early last August and con-
tnued for about a month the results
oN"l""H va 80 encouraging that a
duplicate installation. hut running north
and south, was provided. From Sep
tender 81 To November 30 continuous
observations were made on both lines
day and night. The readings were
taken hourly from 6 A. VI. until mid
night and every two hours from mio-
night until 6 o'clock in the morning.
Prof. Nicholson says:
The order OF the observations was
usually suu-h end. north end. east end.
West end. The time between readings
Al south end and north end or between
east end and west end was about four
minutes"
The need OF the microscopes will be
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served by Prof. Gale were three-tenths
short in meaHre Of those calculated as
possible IN DE pipe at that season OF
the year figured upon the known forces
Of the sun and moon-the pipe resting,
in theory. upon an absolutely unyield-
ing foundation. Tho deficiency repre-
sented the result due TO the earth as a
body responding TO the sun and moon.
What. you will ask. do these expert
ments proven Well. they establish the
fact that the interior of the globe Is
not. as was commonly believed, a molten
mass. but instead Ii rigid enough to re-
sist the enormous tidal forces OF the
moon and the sun we'll nigh as
effectively as the earth would n II were
made OF solid steel. Just the same. this
world OF ours. Notwithstanding this
high degree OF rigidity. behaves as an
elastic body-not liquid OF course. but
stu subject to the tide inducing In
fiuences. AZ are the oceans which In
upon its surface.
Thus the solid surface OF the earth
Gibbs and flows after the manner OF the
waters OF the sea. but naturally 10 q
far moro modest extent. Indeed. the
Investigations at Williams Bay demon
strated as a scientific fact that the crust
OF the globe undulates with an ampli-
tude OF about one foot. II the earth
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through and through had not . os0-
bined rigidity equivalent TO thar Of
steel then these tides would have Q
greater rise and fall.
These experiments are to be followed
by others Of a still morn exquisite do
gree OF accuracy. and the University OF
Chicago now has in preparation the
apparatus for the work. A wonderfully
delicate mechanism viii supplant the
microscope, an automatic recorder will
be substituted for the human observer
and the observations will be continued
for a much longer period. Prof Michel
son says that In this way ct 10 expected
that the results will furnish n record
Of the earth tide, which will he correct
TO within a tenth OF per cent"
Just as the Carnegie Institution Is
making magnetic observations the world
over at widely scattered points IL Is
proposed that something OF the same
sort shall be done in repeating the OK
periments initiated at Williams Bay hy
making kindred observations in the
southern hemisphere, some on islands in
midocean and others on the continents
as far az possible from the coasts.
But you may still be unconvinced re-
garding Prof Nlcholson's theory be-
cause Of the nature OF the volcanoes out
pouring. Where but from the very CEN
tire of the earth comes the molten lava
you may ask: how IL this burning food
to he accounted for unless 1t has i's
origin In the boiling interior OF this
globe OF ours7
Well, the latest scientific explanation
In that the lava Is tho product Of fused
rock right in the upper crust Of the
] ha {pI ba af.
being due to the sliding friction OF I'M
mense masses over long periods ana
under intense pressure, as this part OF
the globes shell readjusts itself from
time to time. Al intervals the molten
lava by the same pressure is forced
through available assures or outlets
and thus rises TO the surface. this pres
sure again. because OF tho narrowness
OF tho ways Of escape, causing sddi-
tional friction and accordingly a hotter
and a more fluid stream.
Even so you may doubt that rock can
be raised TO tho fusing point without
being liquid as you understand II and
capsb bic Of a high degree OF Elasticity.
Again let us quote from Prof Michel
son:
THE conclusions from these and
all agree substantially in refut-
ing the old notions that the internal
temperature, sufficiently high to melt
most OF the materials constituting the
earths crust. necessarily involves q
fluid or semi-fiuid earth supporting .
relatively thin solid crust
1t seems that the intense pressure g
which the earth is subjected is suffi-
cient to make substances that are mol
ten al normal pressure either rigid or
extremely yiscous Laboratory expert
ments ara now in progress along this
line and while the highest pressures so
obtainable are a thousand times below
that assumed to be present In the in
terror Of the EARTH still. so Prof. Michel
son declares sit may be stated that
there are distinct indications OF an in
, crease in the coefficient of rigidity and
marked increase in the coefiicient OF
vscoslty of the few materials thus far
investigated"
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the last century a skeleton in full ar
NOR was exhumed. to become another
cue IN the mystery.
IIongfellow has made II memorable
in verse and the hasty among the know
ing have called II one Of Eric's men
killed by the Indians. Lilicnthal has SO
treated II in fiction. The only trouble
Is that the armor is not Morse, hut DIS
tinctly post Saracenic Gallo. Jor-
danes. the Gothic historian. speaks Of
refugees who We're so broken hearted
that they sailed away to the Western
edge Of the world and found a beautiful
land there There are insistent refer
eAces IN the earliest songs OF the Pro-
vencal troubadovrs TO strange lands in
the West So n science can accept the
theory that the American continents
were first peopled by men and women
swept to the Western coasts In canoes.
can We not believe that many many
lost ships OF ten times the size were
driven across the Atlantic only one
third Of the distance7
Also there is a gambling chance that
IL may be proved that native Ameri-
cans discovered Europe A fine native
war chilOe Coulu IlhNe CIoSsfu tHt ~
lantic quite as easily as tho Newfound-
lander Blackburn's 16 foot dory and il
is reasonable to suppose that some Of
the earlier American empires not only
possessed vessels capable OF traversing
the: Western ocean. but that thoy did
so. Ancient European history is full Of
| illusions TO strange peoples, barbar-
ians, &c, who came out of the West
In the Thorstein Saga and the Fridth-
iof the Bold Saga, we find that there
was country which warred with tho
Norsemen about 500 A. D.. which they
called India. quote from the third
canto OF the Thorstein Saga:
"Tirus the Great was King OF India
! He was an excellent ruler in every
respect, and his Queen was IA very SUI
peror woman, by whom he had
an only daughter. who was Trona." The
I saga also mentions man named kol
of whom a great many good things
are told. This kol went TO India 'Sitl
"A great army, slew Tirus. and married
Trona. and subjugated the land and thu
people Their eldest child was Bjorr
az the Blue Tooth daughter of Ifo
was Dis. The third child of Kol an,
Troua was Tarek Dis married Jolsu
lronback, "A herserk.
Then vim. speaking to Viking. say
further on, as Viking is hidden 10 sa.
away to fight Harek and drive HIN
from the country in order to win Hun
Vor. a royal maiden: II can tell yo'
still more about the sons of kOl. Vest,
and ! we're wardens of King fialogcI
country. During the summer seasons
We used to MaEe wars and once W.
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Mexican war, DlaCken Benedict
Arnold and ignore Dawes wholly in
favor Al Paul Revere. the fixed belief
that Columbus discovered America con-
tirues IN descend from generation to
generation. We remain content in ac-
cepting this asseveration. admitting that
It Is probable that Thorwald Lief the
Lucky and other Norsemen visited the
shores OF New England and the Mara
time Provinces more than four hundred
years before.
The truth is that there In q great,
fascinating. and I believe not insolube
ante Columbian historical mystery The
purposes OF this article are to take UP
and discuss some Of its clues. Some
scholarly minds and adventurous spirits
may he impelled to Join In running them
to earth and giving the history Of the
American continent a new and length
encd aspect.
In the first place II is we'll TO get pre-
conceived ideas Of history out OF ones
mind. One naturally thinks OF all that
r. worth while in the development OF
mankind as having happened in about
this order: the Aryan dispersion. the
early empires OF western Asia, the
dynasties OF the Nile, then Greece, then
| Rome. the Dark Ages. the rise Of the
! nations Of modern Europe, the discov-
cry Of America, the circumnavigat1on
OF Africa, the great voyage of MaEel-
lans company and the opening up Of
| all the oceans to the knowledge OF the
white man,
The truth IL that the historical spot
light played steadily around a little
| ~. a f1t. 49,
sand years, an oval with Greece as It's
centre, and because there was a dark
ness outside OF that oval born OF igno-
rance on the part OF the favored jewellers
in the light Is no sign that there were
no great events taking place in the
shadow What bold band OF historians
and archeologists will abandon the
pleasant and certain tasks of filling out
the skeleton OF the times before Herod-
o,us and turn to constructing the his
tory of the whole world? Who will
dare to make the present structure of
ancient history something merely rel
alive TO a great whole?
"rhere Is nothing really important
for which to search outside the pre-
scrlbed lines" say some In answer Il
such be II said that Marco Polo found
the Chinese employing ships of size
more than equal to anything then In use
in Europe. Comparing the pictured
Chinese ships Of the fourteenth century
with those in use two thousand years
ago we find that the Chinese were ther
the greatest sailors OF the world
possessed OF craft larger than anything
that Columbus used,
Their knowledge Of astronomy wa
further advanced than that Of any othc
nation except the Chaldeans, and theil
principles Of navigation were sum
GENTLY elaborated to enable them t.
adventure anywhere on the world. Tit
Maoris made longer journeys In thou
migratory canoes than did Columbus II
sailing from Spain to the West Indies
The Maors the Chinese, the 1ncas. tn
AzteCs, knew the earth was round lon
before Columbus vs1tured forth. Ira
ditons. globuar carvings and eve
globular astronomical devices attes
this
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-02
HABITS HARD TO BREAK.

~ MUSICIANS OF Birmingham, Ala,
recently called attention TO the
case of Thomas Armstrong. a
boy Of ~ years, who uses his hands as
well as his feet for locomotion Instead
of walking erect. He has never known
any other way of getting about. The
juvenile court took the boy in charge
In the hope OF teaching hiY normal
walking methods.
Charles Appleton Of New Orleans was
the subject of Illustration at "A lecture
given 10y a physician IN that city not
long ago. He had contracted the habit
of closing his left eve. He said II rested
his sight, he fancied, the left eye being
the weaker of the two The habit grow
until he opened the left eye very seldom
when ne was not using It for read ng
purposes.
At the lecture It was rcc,tcd t;lat
everything had been done to break him
Of the habit. but without success. until
he met with an adventure on a street
ear that ruilled him considerably. 4
woman boarded the car on which he
was n passenger. Tie had his lei. ov"
closed as usual She casually glanced
at Appleton and remarked the closed
eye without there seeming to be any
cause for an apparent atllction. she
looked once or twice again and made
such an impression on Appleton that he
was startled gu, Of his habit and opened
his eye. Tho woman looked, started.
denounced HIM as firlor, complained
to the conductor, waNcd angricr the
moro she thought of the affair and
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the Basque " that period that this
seemed certain. Careful comparisons.
however. show that the brief hicrn-
glyphics are In mixed Gothic and
Roman characters. and therefore ii
Basque. Provencal or Breton are more
Aearly six hundred years old than ;hre'
Hundred.
High hopes for the recovery Of
buried pirate treasure have been centred
for generations about Oak Island. off the
coast of Maine, due to the fact that an
old filled shaft was found there by the
first diGgers. So positive was this evil
dence that "A huge treasure hunt
ers' fable grew out of the matter one
set of men conspiring to deceive the
next who camo after. At last a COM
petent engineer with abundant capital
proved there was no treasure down to
a depth of 40 feet either In or about
the shaft.
The original filled shaft was dug at
some remote time for some purpose other
: than the concealment Of treasure. Ever
since the coast was settled the island
has been we'll known. Any enterprise
that would have warranted the sinking
OF the shaft would have left local his
tory. Therefore II is presumable that
the shaft antedates the known history OF
the coast.
Again. IL II pure coincidence that the
barrows OF bones. shells. &c, found on
the shores of England, Ireland Scot
land, the Wendish littoral Denmark and
Norway were duplicated on the south
ern coast OF Newfoundland Nova
Scotia and around Cape Sydney and the
Gaspe Peninsula?
on the eastern side OF Grand Island
In the middle OF the Niagara River, be
tween the city of Bufralo and the balls
there was discovered some years age
q curious piece of submerged masonry
An old trapper who had brought some
mysterious chests to the Island WAS be-
lieved TO have buried treasure there
When he burned his CABIN his neichbors
invaded his island. Chained to stake
omong the ashes was the skeleton ~
his sole companion. n gigantic Negro
slave.
The island was rake ed from end to end
by treasure hunters and on the shor,
under water they found very ole
circular wall. apparently the begnnInR
Of circular tower. At that time Il was
thought OF only in its connection with
treasure and some heavy copper tools
found In the enclosed soil were re
garded as mere curiosities. Now
scientific men would Ike to reloCat,
that circular wall and eXcavate in H.
vicinity, for II is believed that 1t IA
and away antedates the coming of thu
French into the lake region II IL a lost
link in the ante-Columbian myster,
closely allied with the stone tower n
Newport r. i,
In this structure there IL afforde,
something concrete to match with tn,
Icelandlc sagas, the one section of his
toriCai literature which is definite II
It's claim that white Europeans tro,
American soil before Christopher Co
lumbus stepped on San Salvador Octo
her IL, 1892. The most must be mad
OF their story, which after all Ia slender
The great hope Of the Morse protagon
lists is that undiscovered sagas, or per
haps mere fragments of them, Wi
ultimately be found which will prov
the case
To judge the matter properly on
must have a proper conception OF tn
virtues Of sagas as sources Of history
Saga means Saying" and as form
} VI literature waa merely y setting dow
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about one-thousandth OF an inoh. In
between these crests and hollows Prof.
Gale had TO note the minute differences
so that he might trace the waves or
curves which represented these tidal
flows.
But this does not seem to show the
part played by the earth IN modifying
the amplitude Of these tides. How did
Prof. Nicholson get this necessary In
formation?
Under the direction OF Prof. r. r..
Moulton OF the department OF astronomy
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realized when you consider that there
was no violent change IN the level OF the
water. Just az Prof. Nicholson had cal
culated. the attraction Of the sun and
the moon was found to create tides In
the water enclosed by the six inch pipe,
and these Prof Henry c. Gale watched
from hour 10 hour during the months
the investigation was under way. But
these tides. with their changes Of level.
We're tiny ones indeed. because the
maximum changes in the surface OF the
water noted at each end amounted to
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OF the University of Chicago these
miniature tides were computed upon the
basis OF the known attractive force OF
the sun and the moon at the time OF the
experiments and upon the assumption
that the earth was absolutely rigid. a
theoretical conclusion. What was the
nature OF the disclosure? Why. II was
discovered that these microscopic tides
amounted only to about seven-tenths OF
what they would have been II tho earth
were absolutely rigid.
That is to say. the actual tides az Oh
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By GERTRUDE BURLINGTON PHIL
LIPS.

.lRST Graded in ignorance and
~ thereafter fostered in the SUI
pc-s,itions Of school histories
which continue to glorify the
Mexican war blacken Benedict
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-06-30
PERSONALS

Miss Genevieve and cuthbert Har-
rison went to Oakland last evening
to stay several weeks.
Mrs. William A. Harrington is yis-
iting Mrs. r. L. McCleve at Steuben-
vile. o.
Milard Hamilton, of Rarkersburg,
taveling freight auditor Of the Bal
tImore and Ohio railroad, is in the
city on official business.
Mrs. William L. Geppert and son
have returned home from Gallipolis.
o.. where they visited relatives for
three weeks. They were accom-
panied home by Mr.. Geppert.
Henry B. Lee. Jr., of Weston. was
bushes visitor here Tuesday.
T. S. McIntire, of Morgantown. is
guest at the Waldo.
1. v. CASTOR is here from Weston.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McClung, OF
Redwood. are visiting in the city.
B. A. Heater, of Weston. is trans
acting business here.
James E. Sheets, of Keyser. is a
guest at the Hotel Gore.
A. v. Park, of Keyser. is city
business visitor.
Harry G. Fisher is here from Key
ser on a business visit.
H. c. George is here from Nor
gantown.
T. j. Jones. of Warrington. is in
the city on brief business visit.
R. E. Watson is here from Phil
ippi on a business mission.
Jacob Koblegard and niece. Miss
Icie Peterson, OF Springfield, o.. left
yesterday for Washington D, c., after
a short stay with relatives here. Mr..
Koblegard will journey with his sor,
rupert on his European tour.
Mrs. Frank Janroy and daughter.
Jennie. and son, Maurice, have gone
to Atlantic City to spend the sum-
mer months.
ia. Lewis is here from Pickens.
j. C. Roane, of Weston, is trans
acting business here.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-06-30

The Court of Claims has Just adj
iourned for the summer and Judge
George Wesley Atkinson. former gov
ernor of West Virginia, and one of the
most popular Republican idols of that
state in the nineties, is hastily pack
ing and will hurry to his dearly be-
loved state just as quick as train
can get him there. He will go. to
Charleston, and visit around general
ly, spending much time in the noun
tains. The Court OF Claims, which is
Uncle Sans own" court for trying
the cases against him, disposed of hte
greatest volume OF business in its his
tory during the term Just ended.
There were 1880 cases disposed Of.
Judge Atkinson will, it will sur
prise his friends to learn, reach the
age OF retirement in 1916. He doesn't
look a day older than when he was
the West Virginia chief executive, and
he acts and talks as If he didn't feel
day older.
What are you going to do, Judge,
when you retire?' was asked.
well, maybe will try to come
back Do you think / CAM"
The judge was thinking of the Sc
ducive glamours Of political life. His
admiring audience very promptly as
sured him that they thought he could,
and one reminded him that 1916 would
be a pretty good year to try 1t as
there would be senatorial toga on
the market in West Virginia then. The
judge laughed and said, maybe l
shall" Then everybody smiled at the
banter Many serious thought is ex-
pressed in the language of Jest.