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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-09-29
KENTUCKY STATE
BOARD OF HEALTH

Bureau Of Vital Statistics.
preliminary vital statistics report for
August, 1915.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-24

The cloudy canopy may serve as vast con.
denser which reacts upon the surface OF the
planet beneath. In it the solar energies are
collected and redistributed 1t is a sort Of DIFF
fused sun, q she'll OF power enclosing the planet.
We know from experiment the magical effects
that electricity sometimes produces upon liv-
Ing things, as for instance in stimulating plant
growth Under the influence of Venus's electri-
fed canopy we may suppose that the inha BIZ
tants not only attain more generous stature
than ours-whch would be permissible on &C.
count Of the slighter force of gravity there
but that their nervous energies are superior
and consequently their mental force while they
may nave developed senses unknown to u.s.
They may perceive electricity as we perceive
light and sound by means of organs adaptad
to such purpose. These organs would centre
like those OF our higher senses, in the head
They may, truly, speak with ELECTROMAGNETIC
voices" heard round their world Living sub.
merged In an electric atmosphere radiations
like the mysterious "odic force" that some
speculative experimenters have ascr3bed to
human beings may pass between them serving
not only for communication of though but
having also dynamic quality, like the "yfil'
force imagined in Bulwer Lytton's story OF ",The
Coming Race"
They might paralyze an invader Of their
world by single glance. Revolvers and ma.
chine guns would be powerless against them.
Instead Of, Or in addition to, eyes with lenses
for concentrating light rays and forming
images on the retinal nerves, they may have
electrical organs capable either Of blasting an
enemy with resistless power OF fascinating
them by mysterious radiatons.
They may perceive their surroundings
electrically as we perceive ours usually But
electrical perception would be more penetrating
than perception based upon light It might
piece 10 the very centre Of things 1t might
read thought itself. since thought Is cell.
force.
What would such a being look like? Tall,
finely proportioned, handsome, combining the
bodily qualities of Apollo. Jupiter and Adonis.
he would possess powers apparently s1lpernat-
ural. In world thrilling, on account OF its
nearness to the sun, with strange energies the
Venusan may have attained the dream Of our
speculative minds by laying his hand upon In.
teratomic force. In that case there is hardly a
limit to what lie may do in the way Of mechan.
ical achievement. He would be living bat.
terry. Aerial navigation would BIO as simple as
walking to,him.
Recall the old Greek idea OF Jupiter launch
ing the thunderbolts from his uplifted hand.
1t is strange that similar idea has haunted
the human imagination from the beginning of
history. We see it in the ancient conception
of Jehovah and in every representation of a
divine being that has ever been formed This
conception must have had It's origin in an
innate consciousness that the human organism
possesses undeveloped or obsoloscent powers
Infinitely transcending those which it ordl.
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Very little moisture is carried from the cum.
ward side into the interior of the dark side
Most Of it is condensed into Ice and snow along
the border. Toward the centre the air may be-
dry and the soil nearly free from ice.
The lower specific gravity, or relative weight,
bulk for bulk, OF Venus (only four-hfths that
Of the earth) is an indication OF the possible
existence OF vast caverns in it's crust, and
these would be OF immense advantage to the
insect'like giants OF the dark side by furnish.
Ing them with natural places Of refuge and CO
residence. Here light.producing organs com.
bned with organs of sight would be of the
utmost use. Their cayerns and burrows would
glow with mystic illumination like that formed
by self-luminous creatures in the recesses OF
the oceans bottom. Magnify thousand times
or more one OF the deep-sea animals that our
dredges bring up, with movable stalks pro,
ceeding from the head and bearing phosphor-
escent knobs and you would have terrifying
image Of such a creature as may inhabit the
dark cayerns Of Venus.
But what about vegetation? We are apt to
think that vegetable fife is impossible without
sunlight, but 1t is not SO. There are forms OF
plants on the earth that grow without sun
light. We know from experiment that cleo
tricity can stimulate plant growth Soma
forms OF plants also endure and flourish in
great cold. An alteration i'll the composition
or the atmosphere would revolutionize things
In that respect so that we are not compelled
to exclude vegetation from the dark side OF
terranean regions. In their underground cities
the inhabitantsA could cultivate gardens, even
II the surface Of the planet outside be entirely
unsuted to sustain vegetable life.
But there is another aspect OF this question
OF life conditions on the dark side Of Venus
which has already been briefly referred TO,
VIZ. the effect OF a different composition OF
the air. 1t is known that relatively slight
increase in the amount OF carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere would greatly increase the
temperature on planet. Even where there
was no direct radiation from the sun there
would be an accumulation Of heat from the
planet itself, and this could not escape through
an atmosphere strongly charged with carbon
doxide as fast as 1t was produced from the
interior OF the planet. SO. notwithstanding the
perpetual night. the dark side of Venus may
not be so extremely cold as may at first sight
appear. AT the same time the abundance Of
carbon dioXide would be very favorable TO
planet growth, without necessarily interfering
with animal life, which could easily be adj
5usted to it, asst evidently was in the carboni-
ferrous age on the earth. STILL however we
put 1t. life. ON Venus's night hemisphere must
De UNIQUE In it's forms and conditions
. IL might be asked. why if the higher class OF
Vcnuss inhabitants are in possession OF con-
troll over interatomic energies. they have not
communicated with the earth. Perhaps they
have been doing so for centuries, but We have
not recognized their signals.
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narily exercises, and that it needs only a
suitable environment for their manifes.
tation. Suppose that such an environment Is
afforded by the peculiar conditions prevailing
on the planet Venus: then in that world, at
least on the sunward SIDE the human-like In.
habitants may be realizations of the Greek
dengods.
Venus may be in the Hydrologic age, the age
OF our Hercules. our Theseus, that age to which
Plato dimly looked back, when men walked the
earth like gods. Our science smiles at Plato
and his speculations-But, then Plato would
smile at our science.
II Plato had this problem of Venus to solve he
would perhaps say: "In that world now prevail
conditions which once existed on the earth
though less perfectly here than there. The
EARTH too formerly had its she'll of power
which thrilled it's inhabitants with energies
now unknown All of mans powers and quail.
tiles are drawn from his surroundings If the
surroundings change lie changes. l should ex.
pect to meet half-divine men on Venus. It Is
an Atlantis in the sky more wonderful than
the one that our western ocean swallowed. 1t
is filled with magnificent cities, cleaning with
palaces and adorned with art indescribable"
But on the night hemisphere of Venus the
picture must be different. There, except along
the borders. where conflict of winds prevails
and mountains Of ice may be piled up, there is
C. canopy Of brilliant, never.setting stars in
stead OF one OF impenetrable clouds. But, ow.
the skies may glow with Pickering lights, re.
semblng our aurora borealis, and thus tho
night may be more luminous than night upon
the earth. The cold must be intense though
more or less mitigated by atmospheric condi.
tons.
The inhabitants Of this world of darkness,
OF cold, OF electric glows. and Of starlight
Venus has no moon). may still be intelligent
creatures. though of a lower grade than those
on the sunlt side. The simple presence of an
abundant atmosphere is enough to warrant the
assumption that the dark hemisphere Is not
necessarily lfeless, like our airless moon TO
guard against the effects of low temperature
we may suppose that they possess a natural
covering Of thick fur, such as the Eskimos
artiticay furnish themselves with, and skins
less sensitive to cold than ours. All this is
physio!ogicay possible
So too, it is possible that they may have
electric organs both of the lightproducing
kind like the inhabitants OF the deep sea, and
Of a dynamic quality such as those OF tho tor.
pedo or electric eel Living under different
conditions they may. though possessing intel
gcnce. differ from their contemporaries of the
snnward hemisphere in bodily form. Their
life may be largely underground. like that of
many insects. With suitable limbs they could
form subterranean cities, like the branching
burrows Of moles or Of ants.
1t is not necessary to assume that the entire
dark hemisphere OF Venus is coated with ice
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not always been what they now are. while
Venus's great circular desert, say two thou.
sand miles In diameter, has remained what 1t
Is for countless millions Of years There then,
evolution has ever proceeded In the same
direction.
The environment has not changed. but the
forms OF life have adjusted themselves more
and more perfectly to their surroundings. and
set of beings has been developed differing
in their nature from the inhabitants of other
parts Of Venus far more than the creatures of
any portion Of the earth differ from their con.
temporaries.
The torrid circle of Venus NAV be conceived
the home OF extraordinary monsters since
terrestrial experience shows that desert condi.
lions produce grotesque and monstrous forms.
Reptiiian life Of the desert type. such as the
poisonous ella Monsters, may have DEVELOPED
to q degree hardly imaginable to us. It may
even have attained gigantic size. always within
gravitational lmits-so as to rival in that re-
spect the creatures Of the age Of reptiles on
the earth.
At the same time the vegetation may have
followed similar line. carrying the cactus
genus. with all its bizarre and hideous forms,
relieved by strange huge blossoms Of staring
color, to degree OF development almost be-
You'd belief. Thus, the very centre Of Venus
may be nightmare land OF horrors from
which the boldest explorer would shrink
Outside of this, circling it with a ring 1000
miles broad and, centrally, 10000 miles in cir
cult lies zone, passing from high tropical to
low temperate conditions, and inhabited By
types of life suitable to such climates as pre.
vail between the West Indies and Alaska. or
between India and Siberia. With the aid of
the gigantic system of irrigation imagined by
Mr. Housden. but perhaps with no other aid
than that Of the influences producing the cloud
canopy, all OF this region. may be conceived as
habitable by creatures possessing q physical
organization more or less resembling ours
II we try to imagine what the inhabitants OF
Venus are like we are justified in thinking that
natures many experiments on the earth have
fairly demonstrated that the human FORM in
Its main feature Is the best for intellectual
beings. So We may assume that the form Of
the Venusians is human-like, with important
notifications. An upright attitude would have
the same advantages there as here Brains
concentrated In head commandingly placed
at the summit OF the body would be as effec-
tive an arrangement on Venus as on the earth.
The head Is in the watchtower of the body,
and In it centre all the nerve lines, as well as
the supreme governing force. Limbs divided
into two classes. one for locomotion and the
other for manipulation Of objects, or for work,
is an ideal plan. But the details may be greatly
varied. And many new functions may be added.
Venus lies deeper in the suns electric field
than the earth does. Electric forms of energy
should be more intense there. The planet may
be more powerfully magnetized. This would
AFFECT the bodies and the brains Of the inhabi-
tants.
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period is 225 days (equal to It's year, while
the earth's Is twenty.four hours or one one.
3G5th OF it's year
How long ii was, II ever, that Earth and Venus
had the same rotation period we cannot tell,
but 1t was probably long before they had
cooled down sufficiently to have passed out of
the plastic condition, because after that the
bodily distortion would become almost neglig.
lDie and only the ocean tides would be effective.
Consequently Venus must have been practi-
cally in Her present predicament ever since, by
cooling on she became habitable globe.
All other living creatures must have deYel-
oped under the conditions imposed by the e1-
istence of perpetual day one side OF the
planet and perpetual night on the other. Over
nearly all of each hemisphere the sun has al
ways, since life began on Venus been either
continually visible or continually absent
All these facts have important bearing
upon the forms of life which may be assumed
to have sprung up on Venus. On the earth
the variations Of climate have produced enor-
nous results upon the evolution OF both plant
and animal life, and upon their distribution
over the planet On Venus much greater stab
ility of conditions must have prevailed result
Ing in steader and more continuous develop
nent and probably in greater fIity Of species
The fact that the force of gravity Is but
slightly less upon Venus than upon the earth
Is strong argument in favor OF the aSsump-
ton that the forms of life there may not, in
general features differ greatly from those on
our planet, as far as magnitude is concerned.
Inc maximum SIZE or animals and or trees IS
limited by the force Of gravity. IT, as some OBJ
servations have indicated, the atmosphere Of
Venus is considerably more dense than that Of
the earth. then the proportion Of flying life
may be larger than with us.
But If the atmosphere is more dense, either
It's quantity must be greater, or its composition
must differ from ours, by containing heavier
gases With smaller weight and denser air
nearly all living beings on Venus, except the
most bulky, might be natural flyers. This
might result In the evolution Of the highest
brain power taking place in the line of the
birds instead Of that of the quadrupeds, and
the analogue of man on Venus would then be
creature with wings. The vast circulation of
air between the hot and cold hemspheres would
not be opposed to this supposition, for, as Mr..
Housden shows, the force and rapidity OF the
winds over the large part of the illuminated
hemisphere need not be very great.
But for the sake OF simplicity Of comparison,
let us assume that the air density on Venus is
practically the same as on the earth. This is
Mr.. Housden's view. Then the larger part Of
the animal life must be confined to the sur
face. 1t may be conceived as existing in three
principal types.
In the first place, the torrid circle, In the
middle Of the disk under the sun, being arid,
may never have contained any life other than
such forms as the desert parts OF the earth
have produced But the earth's deserts have
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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-12-29
k00n-HineS.

On the evening of Tuesday, Decem.
Der 26th at o'clock Miss Lottie koon
and Mr.. Thos. ]. Vines were married
II the home of the brides mother
Mrs. Della Koon, Drayton street, New.
berry. Relatives and a few friends
were guests for the wedding.
The parlor was beautifully decorat,
ed in the bridal colors, white ano
green. The ceremony, marked by its
dignity and simplicity took place In
the parlor under a huge wedding bell
AS the wedding march, played by
Mrs. Arch Bouknight, pealed forth
the bride and bridegroom. unattended
passed through the hall and entered
the parlor where the Rev. Herman w
Stone awaited them.
Immediately after the ceremony and
congratulations all repaired to the
dining room, where wedding feast
was served. The bride was beauti-
fully gowned in white satin MESA,
line with rhyme stone trimmings, with
white kid shoes and gloves. The brid-
al veil was held in plac" with satin
bands. Her only ornament being a
pearl sun broach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vines have many
friends at Newberry who wish for
them much success through life.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-12-29
BEN STEPHENS SHOT
FATALLY Bi JOHN JONES

Iaurens, Dec. 21.-Ben w. Stephens,
aged fifty, was shot and probably ia
tally wounded today at Cross Hill by
John Jones, a comparatively youHg
man. Both are citizens of Newberry
county, living just across the Laurens
line. Stephens was taken to Ches-
ter hospital. Jones is in jail tonight.
The shooting is said to be the re-
suit of trouble between Jones and a
son of Stephens. Today the elder
Stephens met Jones in a drug store
at Cross Hill Stephens asked Jones
if he was armed. Receiving a mega
tive reply Stephens is said to have
turned as if to retreat, whereupon
Jones, it is alleged, drew his piston
and shot Stephens in the right breast.
AS Jones fled through the back door
Stephens fired at Jones and then
fell to the floor paralyzed from the
wound
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-12-29
Fell From q Tree.

On Mr.. Fred Harmon's place near
Belfast there is large tree that was
killed by the fire which burned Mr..
Harmon's house some time ago. The
big overhanging dead limbs being
considered dangerous it was deter
mined to cut them Off, For that pur-
pose Mr.. Jas. E. Lomax, the father OF
Mrs. Harmon, climbed the tree Oh
Thursday Of last week. In some way
he was dislodged from the tre and
fell to the fround, distance of about
20 feet. Several of his ribs We're
broken and he was otherwise badly
bruised up. DR.. w. D. Sem attended
to his injuries and he is getting along
all right. A month or so ago, Dick
Martin, colored, was sent up the tree
to cut off those same limbs, when he
fell out and broke leg. 1t seems to
be hard matter to get those limbs
cut away. Maybe the third trial will
be successful.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-12-29
Christmas Marriages.

Anon the Christmas brides and
grooms married in Newgerry the fol-
lowing are mentioned:
Sunday afternoon Mr.. ]. C. Harmon,
Jr., and Miss Eloise Reeder autoed 20
Prosperity and were married by the
groome's brother, Rev. J. B. Harmon.
The groom was clerking in Anderson's
Dry Goods store and the bride was a
clerk in R. H. Anderson's store next
door.
Mr.. Jas. H. Chappell and Miss Bes-
sic Brehmer, both of Kinards, were
married Sunday at the Bush River
parsonage by the Rev. R. H. Burriss.
Mr. F. B. Troutman and Miss Min
ME Beggs, both of Mollohon, were
married on Sunday afternoon by the
Rev. Edw. Fulenwider at the parson-
age of the Church of the Redeemer.
Mr.. P. W. Davis of Ninety Six and
Miss Marie Hamilton were married
on Christmas morning at 10:30 by the
Rev. L. P. Boland at the residence Of
Mr. Henry Sigh, the home of the
grooms brother, who is a member Of
Mr.. Sligh's family.
Mr.. Claude Price and Miss Mabel
Rikard of Long Lane were married
on Tuesday afternoon at the A. R. P.
parsonage by the Rev. ]. w. Ca7=na.
Frank W.. Martin and Miss Long
shore were married at the residence
of thn brides parents, Mr. W. w.
Longshore, on December 20, the cere-
mony being performed by the Rev.
W. R. Bouknight. It was witnessed
by about 200 persons and the ceremony
was performed in the porch The at
tendants were Mr.. Wexford Martin
with Miss Ernestine Longshore and
Mr. Hugh Longshore with Miss Ma
jorle Martin.
Mr. A. C. Wheeler of Little Noun
tain and Mrs. Mary l.. Longshore Of
Hartford we're married op Saturday
before Christmas eve.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-12-29
Negro Found Dead.

Bill Livingston, colored, who was
hand at the Oakland cotton mill. was
found dead in his bed last Saturday
morning. He went home Friday night
cooked and ate his supper. retiring as
usual apparently we'll. When he was
being called the next morning early
it was discovered that he was dead.
He had eaten freely Of hickory nuts
and bread the night before Coroner
f. NJ. lindsay was notified of the sud-
den death and went to investigate
He held no inquest. however, as It
was found that Livingston had come
to his death from natural causes. He
was about so years old.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-12-29
BERLIN PROPOSES PEACE
DELEGATES MEET AT ONCE

Berlin, Dec. 26.-Germany and her
allies, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and
Turkey, today replied to the note OF
President Wilson, in which he asked
the belligerent nations to state the
aims for which they were fighting.
The proposal is made by the Central
Powers that a conference of delegates
of all the belligerents be held in a
neutral city.
The task of preventing future wars,
the official statement Says, can be
begun only after the end of the pres
ent struggle.
The answer, which also contains the
reply of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria
and Turkey. says:
"The high-minded suggestion made
by the President of the United States
of America in order to create a basis
for lasting peace has been received
and considered by the imperial gov
ernment in the friendly spirit which
was expressed in the Presidents COM
munication.
"The President points out that
that which he has at heart and leaves
open the choice of road.
ITO the imperial government an ex-
change of views seems the most ap-
propriate road to reach desired re-
suits.
eve, therefore, suggest an immedi-
ate meeting Of delegates of the belli-
gerent States at a neutral place.
'The imperial government is also
of the opinion that the great work of
preventing future wars can be begun
only after the end of the present
struggle of the nations.
'It will when this moment shall
have come, be ready with pleasure to
collaborate entirely with the United
States in this exalted task"
The answer Of the Central Powers
concludes with the usual diplomatic
terms of politeness.