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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05
By GARRETT p. SERVISS.

The mystery of mysteries in sci
ence is the attraction of gravitation--
that very force OF nature that is the
most familiar to US all!
1t seems strange that the most IA
miliar thing in the world should be,
at the same time, the most inexplica-
ble-but so it is. ,..
In order to see clearly wherein the
mystery consists, let US first consider
what gravitation appears to be. 1t
is gravitation that gives the property
of weight to all bodies. If there
were no gravitation we could float
like thistledowns, and infinitely bet
ter than thistledowns; for they, too,
are finally brought down by gravita-
ton.
1t is gravitation that brings a can
non ball eventually to the earth, no
matter how swiftly it may be pro-
jected. The faster it starts the farth-
er it will go, but during every second
of its flight it drops the same dis
lance vertically toward the earth,
whether the speed impaired to it by
the powder is 500 or 5000 feet per
second. Gravitation acts on a NOV.
ing body exactly as we'll as on one at
rest.
1t is gravitation that curbs the mo-
ton of the moon and keeps it in an
orbit of which the earth is the active
focus.
So, too, it is gravitation that gov.
erns the earth in its motion around
the sun, preventing it from flying
away into boundless space.> Astron.
omy shows that gravitation acts be.
tween all the planets and all the stars
and controls their motions with re.
spect to one another.
! Now this mysterious force appears
to be an attraction, as if there were
elastic cords connecting all the bod.
les in space and tending to draw them
together. But space, as far as our
senses can detect, is empty. There
are no elastic cords and no physical
Economical bodies, or between a fly.
ing stone, or cannon ball, and thu
earth. How, then, can there be ar
attraction? In order that a body
may be attracted or drawn there must
be something to draw it. Gravita,
tion Goes the trick, but completely
hides from us the mechanism
through which it acts. We can dis.
cover no, mechanism at all.
When an unfortunate Seroplanist
drops from his machine at height
of thousand feet he begins at once
to fall toward the earth as if it were
pulling him; but how can it pull if il
has nothing to pull with? You may
think at first sight that it is the air
which acts as an Intermediary; but
that is not so, because the earth and
the moon pull" upon one another
with a force equal to the strength Of
steel cable 500 lilies in diameter;
but there is no air, and no other tan.
gible thing in the open space, 100000
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05
New Grawtation Theory Is Waves
IN Ether Push AU Bodies Together

miles across, that gaps between the =
moon and the earth.
Then gravitation cxerts the same
force at every instant. No matter how
fast the falling aeronaut may be de-
scendiug at any moment, gravitation
will keep on adding speed as if he had
just started. Disregarding the slight
retardation produced by the resistance
of the air, he will fall sixteen feet III
the first second, forty-eight in the
second second, eighty in the third
second, gaining thirty-two feet in his
velocity during every second after the
first.
From height of 1000 feet he will
come down in about eight seconds,
and will strike the ground with
velocity of about 256 feet per second.
From height of 10000 feet he would
fall in about twenty-five seconds, and
would strike with velocity Of 400 feet
per second. o.
The same kind of calculation can
be applied to the gravitation between
the earth and the moon. If the moon
were not in motion across the direc-
ton of the earth's pull" it would fal,
to the earth in about 1l6 hours.
Now, to return to the mystery, how
is this force exerted? Is it really pull
as it seems to be? The answer to
which science is tending is that instead
of being pull, gravitation is push;
in other words, that the falling aero
naut is pushed toward the ground and
the moon is pushed toward the earth.
On the face of it one might think
that nothing was gained by this
theory, because it seems as impossible
that a push should be exerted with,
out a tangible connection as a pull.
But the clue is. found in. the supposed
properties OF that invisible, in tangible,
all-pervading medium called ether.
This, to be sure, is explaining one
mystery by another, for we know
nothing about the ether except that it
conveys the waves of light and cleo
tricity, but,-at any rate, it affords
conceivable explanation of gravitation.
have no space to go into this eX-.
PLANTATION, which has recently been de-
yeloped by DR.. Charleh F. Brush, but
an idea of its nature may be formed
from the statement that it regards the
ether as being filled with a peculiar
form of waves, and that material
bodies may intercept these waves i'll
such a way as to be pushed toward
one another on account Of the dim
inished effect of the ether waves in
the space between the bodies.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05
Says Germans Retire Not
From Necessity, But Choice

London, March 4.-The Frankfurter
lettings correspondent at the Franco
Belgian front is quoted in a Reuter-
dispatch from Amsterdam as saying:
"'The strong can do what the weak
dare not. That we are able to hold
the Somme front if we desire our in
comparable warriors have shown the
world. II we now vacate small
strip of this front we obviously do
so only because we want to and not
because we must. This confidence
at the front in what our commanders
order should strengthen the conf
dence at home that what appears to
be retreat may be prelude to I'M
doubted advances
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05
OMAHA ENGINEERS
DECLARE FOR WAR
Charge Eastern Colleagues
With Using Steam Roller in
American Society.
INSPECT NEW U. P. BRIDGE

That the New York civil engineers.
holding the balance of ,ower thro,oh
....-;e. ......s.:
sape,'o' iepieseA'a.'on on INC ooaro
OF directors are plotting the steam
roller over the western engineers and
are running the American Soc;e,v of
90. =. ~ =
ny" hns'.eeis " sun themselves Is
the contention OF the Nebraska branch
of the national organization. which
met in Omaha SATURDAY. The IL, Il
ensiheers are reai peeved az their
eastern eoileagues ana intend 70 take
Steps winch WIN prevent me eastern
ers rom fuhhg the society IN the fu-
'uIs. 49,. u
Up 70 tnis time inc national organi'
xa.loh mas oeen known as me New
10TH society OF ENGINEERS. put AFTER
tne nee.ins 81 lne Doaro OIL directors
next sunlhle, tne iocai men assert tha'
VIII pc called by us proper name.
Ing members o. me organization
TOOK iuhcheon az tne Sommercial ciun
ana then were taken 10 Souncit BLUFFS
IN automooiies. ihere Y. L. Sampen
superintendent OF construction OF the
neynes elevator, demonstrated now
concrete eievators are buiit. lhe
unique feature OF me wnoie thing was
the manner IN winch tne forms are
raised and at the same time Kept per-
pemdicular.
Inc most interesting feature OF the
afternoon was the inspection OF the
Union racine bridge. W. l.. Brayton
chief engineer OF the railroad, showed
the visitors over the structure. Iht
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05
Gayety Gets in
Line With Another
Real Good Show

Spicy burlesque, the kind that it'll
lates through your system and
energies therefrom in series Of
hearty laughs is yours If you will only
journey down to the Gayety theater
this week where Jacobs & Jermon's
"Buylesque Review" is holding forth.
If Harry X. Morton was the only one
in the show, il would be worth seeing
But there are forty others, some good
to look at and the rest good to
listen to.
Newness vibrates through the
whole program. Aged songs are
taboo, except in one scene of special
beauty where old southern darby"
songs are sung. Novel dancing num-
bers are prolific, the educated feet Of
Harry Morton tattoeing out many a
good sample Of fancy stepping, And
last, but not least. there is no pretense
at plot. Instead, there are twelve
refreshing sceLes. including the pam
tomime presentation of THE Apple of
Paris" which number scores a tri-
umph.
Zella Russell is a woman who can
and does play the piano. She has a
speciality number that is better than
many an act on higher-priced cir
cult. She sings new movie show
song and a catchy ditty about Mr..
Mormon Man which are winners. Her
pianistic offerings are classical pieces,
well rendered. There e nothing
;.bout her act which church deacon
co2id not applaud.
Flossie Evesctte, choic. chunk oil
/ rightly girlhood, sings and dances
her way into the hearts Of the au.
dience. Julia de kelety has way
about her that is winning and also
gery good voice, rich and powerful
As 20 the chorus girls, il would take
stern censor indeed to find faulf
with them. Their portray, Of sever
art pictures captivated the audienc,
last night.
Comedy has two clever exponent.
IL Harry Morton and Danny Murphy
There is rea. i.rt in Morton's manner
OF making laughs. whether il be hi
acrobatic dancing. keei satir. o.
queer clow..ishness. Norton ant
Murphy have a 'bsb act with Zell;
Russell which IS scream. Too
there is lot Q, fun in Murphy's i'm
PRESERVATION Of an Hawaiian queen
VI
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05
Sentenced a Boyhood Friend,

When they went to school together they
called each other Jim and Al. But when
they met in the Wyandotte county district
court recently 1t was Judge A.. j.. Herrod
The Judge looked down from the bench
at the prisoner, who fumbled his hat and
looked at the floor. Jim had admitted to
AL that he had forged the name of Daniel
Stumpf 10 eight checks he cashed. att the
Commercial National Bank, Kansas side.
'Ten years on each count" the judge said.
up from his docket.
Make 'em run concurrently," he added.
"Ten years is a long time. you know."-Kan-
sas City Star.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05

yITHAT would you there? Would when spt up
w the shining oval and peek around the gilt edge to
glimpse the pretty face there pussy do you think
looking back at you? Let's sit down and talk plain out
Would you cat? Are you one if the mirror only told
true? When most specially says some kind thing
of another girl the girl who cannot let the pretty
thing but pounce it and pinch its will othewsp
life? For nice thing said of delicate thing and lifts
its head shyy All the unknd things grow like scratchy hardy
weeds and spread through all the byways of the world for
You remember that That all the ovee
things that spring alive quickly
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05
Sues Husbands Partner
In Business for Assault

Mrs. Mayme L. Plummer has
brought suit against Peter B, Butler,
her husbands partner in the grocery
business at 1914 Lake street, for
$4,000.
Mrs. Plummer alleges in her pc
tition that Butler, who also rooms
with the P!ummer family at 1912
Lake street, intimidated, assaulted
and attacked her while she had an
infant child in her arms and threat
ened her with personal violence If she
refused to do his bidding.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05
Alaska Railway Measure
Rushed THROUGH C0nureSS

Washington, March Am emerg-
'ency appropriation of $3.000,000 to
continue work on the Alaskan rail-
way was rushed through tie senate
and house in a few minutes tonight.
1t originally had been incorporated
in one of the regular supply meas
ures, which failed OF enactment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-05

as hard tramp Troubles SHADOW And anyone knows
companion he is Pnchng death the brave little
gracious word said to another only habit of
things you catch when you live long clearinghouse
veranda with nothing to do; the next time who
ng along with you splendid thing about else
there if you don't believe it. remember that all
the the world might suddenly begin back the image
thing keand don't be what called ca
agree and me And how good feel inside right after
NELL BRINKELY.$*A
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

The officers of the Russian army in
France have volunteered as body to
give their services to the United
States. The officers are DESTROYS of
continuing the battle against the
Germans, Notwithstanding the Russo
German peace negotiations. They de-
clare they will welcome an opportun-
ity to fight to the finish for Russia
under the Stars and Stripes. The
correspondent who was authorized to
made the announcement understands
that the matter is under considera-
ton, and that the offer undoubtedly
will be referred to Washington. 1t is
considered not unlikely that many of
the Russian soldiers now in France
and virtually without country may
follow the lead of their officers. The
laws of the United States prohibit
the incorporation into the army of
any but American citizens, but it is
hoped a way may be found by which
these men can be of service to the
United States and the Allies in gen
eral. The officers are some of the
best in the Russian army. There are
aviators among them, and many of
them, who possess excellent military
knowledge and speak French and
English, might be of assistance in
various ways.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

"Man failure" caused the disaster
which cost more than two-score lives
when the louisville & Nashville
passenger trains came together in a
year-end collision last Thursday at
Shepherdsville, KY, according to a
statement issued Monday by B. M.
Starke, general manager of the L. &
N. In his statement, which summar
lied the findings of board of inquiry
made up of railroad officials, General
Manager Starke says: "The first
negligence was the failure of the flag.
man and conductor of the train ahead
to protect the rear of their train
while it was sta nding on the main
line at and near Shepherdsville and
in failing to protect it while not
making schedule time before reaching
Shepherdsville." The engineer of the
fast train which followed is also
charged with negligence in that 3he
failed to have his train under control
as he approached Shephardsville, so
that if need be he could stop before
passing the station. Instead of this,
though he did not get the signal to
proceed, he continued at such rate
of speed he not only. passed the sta.
ton but ran 200 feet beyond"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

According to a Reuters dispatch
from Amsterdam. Vorwaerts, the So
cialist newspaper of Berlin, in a
plain spoken attack on the system OF
Herr Won Waldow, German food con-
troller, says great masses of German
people not only are hungry, but are
literally starving. The newspaper
adds that agricultural producers and
wealthy residents in towns are living
in plenty, as boarding is no longer
prohibited. Every war profteer and
millionaire says the paper, ''has his
kitchen and cellar full of ham and
bacon. The middle class ekes out a
precarious existence, spending all it
possesses on food, but forty millions
of the masses are starving and are
unlikely to sit silent"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26
KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL
Health is Worth Saving, and Some
Ocala People Know How to
Save IT

Many Ocala people take their lives
in their hands by neglecting the kid
neys when they know these organs
need help. eWak kidneys are respon-
sible for a vast amount of suffering
and i'll health-the slightest delay is
dangerous. Use Doan's Kidney Pills
Ia remedy that has helped thousands
Of kidney sufferers. Here is an Ocala
citizens recommendation:
Monroe street, says: "I had a
severe case of backache. I couldn't
straighten up after / once stopped
over, unless / took hold of something
for support. often / could see dark
spots floating in front of me and
sometimes everything before me be
came black. A druggist recommended
Doan's Kidney Pills, saying they were
the best in the store, so began US
ing them. One box cured me-"
Price Soc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
cured Mr.. Pafford. Foster ilburn
Co.. Props, Bpffalo, N. Y. Adv. A.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26
THE GIRL BEHIND THE
MAN BEHIND THE GUN

(s'The Girl Behind the Man Behind
the Gun" has been recited and sung
across Canada from west to east and
back again, says writer in the San
Francisco Starr:
You have seen the line of khaki swing
ing grandly down the street,
You have heard the band blare out
Britannica's songs,
You have read ton of papers and
you've thrown them at your
feet
And your brains battlefield for
fighting throngs.
You have cheered for Tommy Atkins
and you've yelled for Jack
Canuck,
You have praised the French and
Belgians every one;
But I'm rhyming here a measure to
the valor and the pluck
Of the girl behind the man behind
the gun.
There's harder game than fighting,
there's deeper wound by far
Than the bayonet or the bullet ever
tore;
And a patient little woman wears up
on her heart a scar
Which the lonesome years will keep
forevermore.
There are bands and bugles crying
and the horses madly ride,
And in passion are the trenches lost
or won,
But she battles in the silence with no
comrade at her side
Does the girl behind the man behind
the gun
They are singing songs in Flanders
and there's laughter on the
wind;
They are shouting for their country
and their king;
But the Railways yearn for music In
the homes they left behind,
For the mother of a soldier does
not sing.
In the silence of the night time, mid
a ring of hidden foes
And without bugle cry to cheer
her on,
She is fighting fiercer battles than
soldier ever knows,
And her triumph is an open grave,
at dawn.
You have cheered the line of khaki
street,
But you quite forgot to cheer an
other line:
They are plodding sadly homeward
with no music for their feet,
To far more lonely river than the
Rhine.
All, the battlefield is wider than the
lannon's sullen roar,
And the women weep DER battles
lost or won;
For the men a cross of honor-but
the crepe upon the door
For the girl behind the man behind
the gun.
When the heroes are returning and
the world with flags is red;
When they show the tattered tro-
phies of the war;
When your cheers are for the living
and your tears Are for the dead
Which the foemen in the battle
trampled DER;
When you fling your reddest roses at
the horsemen in array,
With their helmets proudly flaming
in the sun,
Would you bid you wear the favor of
an apple blossom spray
For the girl behind the man behind
the gun. Wilson Mcdonald.
Vancouver, b. c.,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

Some of these saving stunts do not
work out well. Says the Miami Her
aid: Electric signless lights effect
practically no saving at all in this
city in the matter of fuel saving,
Manager H. H. Hyman, of the Miami
Light & Power Co.. reported last
night. All the electric signs in Miami
together. consume only about one per
cent of current supplied by the local
company, and we have to manufac-
ture just as much electricity as tho
the signs were lighted. Of course, in
larger cities, where they are great
numbers of electric signs, the fuel
saving is an important one. About
the only savings the enforcement of
the fuel administrations orders in
this city effects is that the merch-
ants save two-seventh of their cleo
trio sign light bill. The Miami Light
& Power Co. is willing to accept this
reduction in its income if a patriotic
savings can be effected"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26
NOTICE TO REGIsTRANTs

The local advisory board will hold
daily sessions holidays and Sundays
excepted) in the petit jury room on
the third floor of the postoffice build
ing from 9 a. m. to noon, and from
1870 p. m. to p. m. to render assist
ance without charge to registrants in
filling out questionnaires Some MEM
bers or associate members of the
board will be in attendance until the
work is completed. R. A. Burford,
If Chairman Legal Advisory Board.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

We were told when the war began
that we were not to have a renewal
of Spanish war conditions
in our training camps, but the assur-
ance was premature. 1t appears that
Camp Funston, Kansas, is afflicted
with meningitis germs. It is located
in river bottom and has been
known to health officers for years as
a center for spinal meningitis. Fifty
four of our soldieds died there from
pneumonia last month.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

Sunday as stowaways on Belgian
relief ship. They were turned over
to the immigration officials. Both
were said TO be under 80 years of age
and to have escaped from the Rus
sian front to Holland. When the
ship was five days out the Germans
made their appearance, weak from
hunger and thirst, but said they had
been accustomed to hunger in Ger
many. They are just as likely to be
spies as deserters.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

The study of German should be en-
tirely discontinued in our public
schools and Spanish substituted. This
is not prejudice but common sense.
English and Spanish are the Ian
guages of North and South America.
Several million Brazilians speak Por-
tuguese, but Spanish and Portuguese
are so near alike that a man who
speaks one can make out most of the
other.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

Arab soldiers in the Turkish arm
les have been deserving in great
numbers during the past few months,
according to information received
from Palestine. Those who were re-
taken have been subjected to the
heaviest penalties as lesson to their
fellows, one man in every ten being
publicly hanged, and the body left ex-
posed for long time afterwards.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

A sweet girl friend in New Mex
leo sends us postcard on which was
inscribed, Sand the mistletoe hangs
from the rafter tonight" She would
not have sent US any such card when
she lived on the same block with us.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

The man or the newspaper that re.
fers to American soldiers as Sam
mics is in the same intellectual class
as the one who prefxes the name of
cheap politician with the title
"Hon."
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

Prince Max of Baden has startled
Germany by declaring that his coun-
try's sword must be reinforced by
"an ecumenical conscience" He prob
ably meant an economical conscience.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

1t need cause no surprise that the
Bolsheviki are sending arms from
Russia to their fellow anarchists in
America. 1t has been proclaimed by
anarchists, socialists, etc., for years
that America is just as much inim-
ical to their views as the most con-
centrated tyranny of the old world
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

We mean no reflection upon their
figures when we remind the girls
that early marriages were more COM
mon when skirts were longer and
thicker Dallas News.
Everything was longer and thicker
in. those days, except prices. It isn't
lack of modesty but lack of money
that discourages matrimony.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

Agencies of the United States gov.
eminent are steadily cutting off the
supplies necessary for Germany in
the prosecution of the war.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-26

Mr.. B. C. Webb reported late Sat.
urday afternoon that he had just Sc.
cured forty memberships to the Red
Cross in the little town of KendricL
and turned the names and money over