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"But Of what may call close distillation
no man has yet made trial. Yet it seems
probable that the force of Leat, II it can
perform its exploits of alteration within the
enclosure of the body, where there is neither
loss of the body nor yet means Of escape,
will succec at last in Handwriting this Pro-
teus Of matter and driving it to many trans
formations: only the heat must be so regu-
lated and varied that there be no fracture OF
the vessels.
"No one should be disheartened or con-
founded If the experiments which he tries do
not answer his expectation. For though
successful experiment be more agreeable, "
an unsuccessful one is oftentime no less
instructive. And it must ever be kept in
mind Gas am continually urging) that ex-
periments Of light are even more to be sought
after than experiments Of fruit"
What Bacon was continually urging" that
experiments of light'-those that lead to
enlightenment on fundamental principles
''are even more to be soug--t after than ex-
periments of fruit"-those that bring prac-
tical results-neei' more than ever to be
kept in mind at the present day when public
and employers are impatient of research that
does not bring immediate and profitable re-
turns.
So 1t is worthy of notice that the example
that Bacon cites, as the experiment of a
madman, that is, destructive distillation, has
been peculiarly productive of h light and
fruit. Applied to coal it has given us coke
for metallugy, gas for cities and shops, and
coal tar products Of, innumerable variety and
inestimable value. Applied to petroleum in
the cracking process 1t has increased the
yield # gasoline by some 100000 gallons
a day. By this 'handcuffing this Proteus
of matter and driving it to many transforma-
tions' light has been thrown upon the struc-
ture of the molecule and the chemistry of
life.-Science Service
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Another Rebarat;ons Tane1e
= He CLOSING stocK-marKet OF day ago
received with more than passing in

- HE closing stock-market of day ago
received with more than passing in
= terest the news of Germany's final re-
fusal to grant the Belgian demand for a
hundred million gold mark security against
the six months notes taken in lieu of i'm
mediate cash payments.
For while, within the past weeks, it had
seemed that the question OF reparations was
safely disposed Of, for the time at least, but
this refusal of Germany's undoubtedly brings
matters to crisis.
Yet there have been so many crises that
not for a moment did the somewhat delicate
structure of foreign exchange show any re-
action toward this ultimatum, despite the
fact that it will mean new threat from
France to occupy the Ruhr district, and that
the threat this time will be supported by the
Brussels government.
The money of the government Of Germany
is being expended so the allies are assured,
for food and for clothing and for the upkeep
of the educational systems of Germany, and
the direct statement is made that every
mark now paid out of the German treasury
to foreign governments means so much less
with which to pay for the actual and press
ing needs of the population Of Germany
particularly its children.
There may be il this the inherent Ieu.on
desire for the sympathy of the world, or, the
facts may be as stated. In either case it does
months has been granted to Germany, Bel
GUM has chosen a somewhat inopportune
time to ask for a guarantee Of gold.
Europe has not yet quite recovered from
the effects of the Balfour note which asked
that England be paid the monies due her
from her allies, and it will be found that
this note is, perhaps, at the back Of Belgium's
demand on Germany.
The fact that the reparations commission
still faces the largest task before it is not
generally recognized, but the task is this:
to preserve from actual bankruptcy each and
every nation of Europe that was engaged in
the World War.
| The interviewer debts Of the world since
| the end of the war, are such that none but an
internationalist can understand them. but in
simple wording the primary fact remains
| that, if each nation called its debts at this
| time, and all debtor nations were forced to
pay, not single country in Europe could
meet it's obligations.
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unfinished volume Of which the sand and
mud that was carried out to sea yesterday by
the rivers Of the world, to bury the bones and
scales and bodies and tracks that will become
at last fossils of the things Of today, consti-
tute the last written leaf.
The Record of the Rocks
These markings and fossil in the rocks and
the rocks Themselves are our first historic
documents. The history Of life that men
have puzzled out and are still puzzling out
from them is called the record of the rocks.
BY studying this record men are slowly piec-
ing together story of life's beginnings, and
of the beginnings of our kind, of which our
ancestors century or so ago had no sue
picion.
But when we call these rocks and the fos-
sils record and history it must not be
supposed that there is any sign Of an order
ly keeping of record. 1T is merely that what
ever happens leaves some trace, if only we
are intelligent enough to detect the meaning
OF that trace. Nor are the rocks of the world
in. orderly layers one above the other, conven-
lent for men to read. They are not like the
books and pages of a library. They are torn,
disrupted, interrupted, flung about, defaced,
like carelessly arranged office after it has
experienced in succession bombardment, q
hostile military occupation, an earthquake,
riots and fire.
Speculations about geological time vary
enormously. Estimates Of the age of the old
est rocks by biologists and astronomers start
ing from different standpoints have varied
between 1900, 100000, and 25,000.000. That
the period Of time has been vast, that it is to
be counted by scores and possibly by hum
dreds Of millions of years, is the utmost that
can be said with certainty in the matter.
And be it noted that whatever the total
sum may be, most biologists are in agree
ment that half or more than half Of the whole
Of geological time had passed before the life
had developed to the later palaeogoic level
The reader reading quickly through these
opening chaptrs may be apt to think Of them
as mere swift prelude of preparation to
the apparently much longer history that fol-
lows, but in reality that subsequent history
is longer only because it is more detailed and
more interesting to US.
It looms larger in perspective. For ages
that stagger the imagination this earth spun
hot and lifeless, and again for ages Of equal
vastness 1t held no life above the level of
! the animalculae In drop Of ditch-water.
Not only is space from the point of view o.
life and humanity empty, but time is empty
also. Life is like a little glow, scarcely
kindled yet, in these void immensities.
Copyright 1929
/ D Tor1<N TroN
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I suppose every scientific man occasionally
tries experiments that he would not care to
confess to his colleagues. Crazy ideas will
pop up in the best regulated brains from
some subconscious cellar and sometimes they
are tried out, on Saturday afternoon when
there is nobody else around, just to see what
will come of them. They do not appear in
the published reports, unless they happen to
succeed in which case the audacious expert
menter will claim credit for foresight in un-
dertaking an operation that ordinary minds
would have condemned in advance as absurd.
Now it is interesting to observe that such
erratic irrational experimentation is dis
tinctly recommended by the philosopher who
laid down the la of exp mental science
that have in the three centuries since accom-
plished such c->razing achievements
Lord Bacon, after listing in his precise and
orderly manner all the various ways that
we may be guided in our researches by
theory, observation and previous experiment,
concludes quite Unexpectedly by adding a new
category, what he calls the experiments Of a
mailman and defines as follow
when you have mind to try something
not because reason or some other experiment
leads you to 1t but simply because such
thing has never been attempted before
''The leavinG 1 say, Of no stone in nature
unturned for the magnalia Of nature gem
orally lie out of the common roads and beaten
paths so that the very absurdity Of the thing
may sometimes prove Of service. But IL rea-
son go along with it, that , If it be evident
IT,, an experiment of this nature has never
been tried, then it is one of the best ways
and plainly shakes the folds out of nature"
The example Bacon gives Of such unprece-
denied experiments is of peculiar interest to
us: Na.a
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49,, RlVOLITY, says Sally FalrIleld BUT
- ton. in The New York Times, is
habit-forming drug. We have been
waiting for this definition. We knew in a
fairly specific way that frivolity was habit
forming, but this shockingly pointed manner.
OF explaining the demand of it's addicts for
regular dosages, and increased doses, some.
how had not occurred to US.
Says Miss Burton: ANY enthusiastic re-
former will tell you that most men and
women of today have become slaves to their.
cravings for gayety. They are excitement
eaters who cannot curb their desire for play.
There is a good deal Of truth in the words
OF the reformers. The unsuitable post-debu-
tants, the giddy bachelors about town, the
fast young married people really do not seem
to know how to stop their fizzings and bub-
blings. Ever since the armistice was signed
and in many cases earlier than that--life
has been for them a succession of riotous
late hours, and now the rioters are afraid
to cry quits and turn in at nine o'clock. Even
those Of us who are less furiously following
along the gay white way feel something
akin to desperation IL we have an empty
evening on our hands. After eight o'clock
we are beset by the urge for entertainment"
Then comes the inevitable query: what
are you doing tonight?"
1t is only too true-we must be doing some
thing; something useless by preference;
dancing at some imitation Atlantic City or
Deauville: or showing our superiority to the
law thrust upon us, by imbibing synthetic
atrocities of various kinds.
Among the most tragic OF the frivolity
addicts is the post-debutant, unmarried per-
haps twenty-five or thirty years of age. For
years her life has been gay and brilliant
She has drunk deeply of excitement-and
now she has become as dependent on it as
the narcotic nabitue on the little white tab
let. Almost ready for approximation now,
she strives to keep up the killing pace; with
set teeth she determines she will not be
outdone. She Is trying to meet that ever
present contingent, THE younger SET" on its
own ground to beat it at it's own game.
That is great part of the tragedy for the
frivolity addict-there always is a younger
set. She grows up to. the stage where she
should be uoing something worth while;
really living-not playing at living. But
the younger set-ah, there always is a young
or set to whom is paramount the query,
What are you doing tonight?"
Not only the fair sex either We have
with US also the old-young men in their nerv-
GUS and pathetic chase along with their
younger set. They grow older: they are
childishly pleased to be seen with some be-
dizened flapper; they are frivolity addicts
and pitifully proud of it.
Then winter comes to all-come it must.
And what fearful twilight of life must be
that Of the frivolity addict, utterly without
philosophy or the power to enjoy the sober
richness OF mature experience in th4ngs
that count: haunted by the past, tormented
by the present; shuddering at the future!
More pity than censure should be extended
the frivolity addict. Death only can avert
a miserable finale, as winter comes
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The Outline of History-By H. G. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth

w. CREATURES OF THE EARLY SEAS
Lying over and above the Proterozoic rocks
Is third series which Is found to con-
tain considerable number and variety Of
traces of living things. First comes the evil
dence of diversity of shell-fish crabs and
such like, crawling things, worms, seaweeds
and the like; then of multitude of fishes
and of the beginnings Of land plants and land
creatures.
These rocks are called the palaeozoic
(ancient life) rocks. They mark a vast era,
during which life was slowly spreading, in
creasing and developing in the seas Of the
world. Through long ages, through the ear
lest palaeozic time, it was no more than a
proliferation Of such swimming and creeping
things in the water.
Through Long Ages
There were creatures called trilobites; they
were crawling things like big sea woodlice
that were probably related to the American
king-crab of today. There were also sea scor-
pions, the projects of that early world The
individuals of certain species of these were
nine feet long. These were the very highest
sorts of life. There were abundant different
sorts Of an order of shellfish called brachi-
pods. There were plant animals, rooted and
joined together like plants, and loose weeds
that waved in the waters.
1t was not a display of life to excite our
imaginations. There was nothing that ran or
Ll0W OF even SWAIN swiftly OF SkllllulIy. EA-
cept for the size of some of the creatures, it
was not very different from, and rather less
various than, the kind of life student would
gather from any summertime ditch nowadays
for microscopic examination.
Such was the life of the shallow seas
through hundred millions years or more in
the early palaeozoic period. The land during
that time was apparently absolutely barren
We find no trace nor hint Of land life. Ev-
erything that lived in those days lived under
water for most or all of it's life.
Between the formation of these fewer
palaeozoic rocks in which the sea scorpion
and trilobite ruled, and our own time, there
have INTERVIEWED almost unreasonable ages,
represented by layers and masses Of sedimen
tary rocks
There are first and upper palaeozoic rocks
and above these the biologists distinguish
two great divisions.
Next above the palaeozoic come the meso-
zoic (middle life) rocks, second vast system
Of fossil bearing rocks, representing perhaps
hundred millions Of swift years, and con-
tanning wonderful array of fossil remains,
bones of gians reptiles and the like, which
we will presently describe: and above these
again are the cainozoic (recent life) rocks, ;
third great volume in the history Of life, an
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SMILE A WHILE

Trotzsky's wife wears flapper clothes. No
wonder the man is crazy.
The drifter seldom lands
man from up salt river tells us it is a
long trip back.
Hard cider is pronounced illegal so there
will be plenty.
Bet swimming hole feels lonesome after
school opens.
Dempsey says rest makes boxer. Now
we know why he is champ.
Maine imports two hundred thousand tons
Of Welsh coal. Welsh rare bits.
This may be an awful country; but in
Paris, men wear earrings.
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BOOKS FOR THE EIGHT-YEAR-
OLD BOY
BY DR.. Frank Crane

here are Two letters:
Wont you. in your column, write a list
of the books an eightyear-old boy should
read? The boy in mind is very bright
lad and / don't know what books to get, for
him, for I am not very much older than he"
| sent this letter to Mrs. Honore Willsie.
some time editor of the Delineator, now a
writer Of books and all the time an all-round
woman Of intelligence I asked her to an
swer the letter for me, as she is closer to the
problem than I am. This is her reply:
II can think Of no better reply to your re-
quest for book list than to give you list
Of the books my boy read at that age:
Kenneth Graham-"The Wind in the Will
lows"
Kipling-'The Jungle Book" Second Jun
gle Book" "Just So Stories"
"The Home Book of Verse;
Stevenson-"Child's Garden of Verse"
Riley-"Love Songs Of Childhood"
Rodolphe Wyss-"Swiss Family Robinson"
Five Little Peppers
Louisa May Alcott-"Under the Lilacs, "
Jack and JILL"
A composite Of selections from the "Rollo"
books.
"The Children's Bible"
Kingsley Heroes" water Babies"
Lewis Carroll-"Alice in Wonderland .
Through the Looking Glass"
Grimm-"Fairy Tales"
Anderson-"Fairy Tales"
Arabian Nights"
"This, think, about covers the ground. I
am good many miles from my library, from
which Richard and I could have made COM
plete list But these books he read to him
self, many times, as children will. Kipling
and Stevensons Child's Garden Of Verse
we're his Urine favorites, recall, with the
Wind in the willows next. We were living
where he never saw the movies, thank heaven,
so he could set his teeth in real books. I'm
sorry that for the moment the author Of his
ChiIdren's Bible escapes me. 1t Is very COM
plete and very fine and he said it beat the
other fairy tales We read it many times.
81 hope this will be of little assistance to
you."
Perhaps this is the best way to treat this
subject, for, after all, the choice Of books is
a personal question, and one gets more illu-
mination upon the subject from personal expe-
rience than from some glittering theory.
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Road Rules in Nippon
A COURTEOUS people, the Nipponese;
right gentle little race out of war

=
N right gentle little race out Of war
time, and iven to suave language
even in the ordering of vehicular traffic.
Especially motor car traffic.
The following translation of Japanese
"Rules of the Road is offered by Clark Nc
Adams in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but
someway we feel that Mr.. McAdaams has
been indulging himself with a trifle of lati-
tude. Possibly he is giving the rules in what
we used to know as a literal translation in
the good old days when we struggled manful-
ly with that celebrated historical work be-
ginning: COMMA Gallia in tres parties divisa
est" and that other gallant narratives:
''Dariou kai Parisatidou gignontai duos
paidos."
At any rate, we have this singularly literal
translation Of road rules in Nippon, which
contain more than & modicum of good COM
mon sense whether they emanate from the or
dinance books of the Land Of the Cherry
Blossom or bloom from Mr.. McAdams' own
fertile imagination
cat the rise Of the hand Of the policeman,
stop rapidly. Do not pass him by or other
wise disrespect him.
when a passenger 'of the foot hove in
sight tootle the horn trumpet to him melo-
diously at first If he still obstacles your pas
sage, .ootle him with vigor and express by
word of the mouth the warning 'hi, hi
"Peware Of the wandering horse that he
shall not take fright as you pass him. Do
not explode the exhaust box at him. Go
soothingly by, or stop by the roadside till he
pass away.
"Give space Of the festive dog that make
sport in the roadway. Avoid ENHANCEMENT
of dog with your wheelspokes.
eco soothingly on the grease-mud, as there
Turk the skid demon. Press the brake of the
foot as you roll around the corner to save
the collapse and tie-up.'
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MY FAVORITE STORY
BY Irwin Cobb
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE

Two French Canadians were travelling
down Quebec river in houseboat. One or
them knew the river and the other did not
They anchored for the night on bar. Dur
ing the night the river rose and along towa-A
daylight the craft went adrift. Three hours
later the motion awoke one of the Travellers
He poked his head out Of the door. An en-
ti@ly strange section Of scenery was passing.
'Baptiste! Baptiste he yelled. "Get up!
We amt here some more"
''No, by gar!' said his companion after
quick glance at the surroundings-"we are
IL mile from herei"
Copyright, 1922, by The Mcknight Syndi-
cate, Inc.)
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THE OLD GARDENER SAYS

Home gardens ought to be beautiful all
the year through, and it is possible to
have plenty Of color throughout the win
ter months If evergreens and shrubs with
highly colored bark or bearing brilliant
fruits are used. The Japanese barberries
are particularly ornamental, and the red
and yellow twigged dogwoods are indis-
pensable for winter color Regel's Prfvet
and the bush honeysuckle are also good
shrubs for the garden, as they keep their
leaves until midwinter. All these shrubs
can be planted now, or little later.
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TURNING THE PAGES BY E. w. Osborn

Little Sister Rose-Marie,
Will thy feet as willing-1ight
Run through Paradise, I wonder,
AS they run the blue skies under,
Willing feet, so airy-light?
Little Sister Rose-Marie,
Will thy voice as bird-note clear
Lift and ripple over Heaven
AS its mortal sound is given,
Swift bird-voice, SO young and clear!
How God will be glad of thee,
Little Sister Rose-Marie!
Exquisite lines which we borrow from
Verse" (Knopf), Borzoi book of the poe
try of the late Adelaide Crapsey.
Mary Louise
Take this look at Mary Louise, the girl in
"Stubble' (Doubleday-Page), a novel by
George Looms:
"There was nothing particularly notice
able about Mary Louise, unless it might pos
sibly be certain fine-drawnness.
''Her eyes, which were brown, had a sort Of
set focus on the immediate, and there were
some fine lines from the corners Of her lips
to her nose.
"she was slim and straight with small
y
bare to the elbow, might have been soft and
round, were it not for sinuous tension that
showed itself in little corded creases right
where a girls arms should be softest and
roundest. And her hair had way of coming
down at all times and in all weathers.
cit had never been decided whether she
was pretty or not. That something that
had never mattered-to her, at least"
Was there ever such a girl, in truth?
One to whom it never mattered? We're
asking.
This Is the Arctic Life
In his "Under the Black Ensign" pub
lished in London, Capt. R. S. Gwatkin-Wil-
liams writes thus of unstill life in the Far
North:
"In every clear patch Of water animal life
was abundant; grampus, porpoise and whales
spouted and dived, while guillemots and gulls
sat around and squabbled on the edge of the
ice, and fat, black seals basked on It's sur
face.
1.-THE latter were so indolent that they
barely condescended to slide leisurely into
the water even when the ship was right upon
them; in fact they put off this necessary
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but unwelcome exertion until the last pos
sib1e instant, and then had to scuttle hurried
ly to avert a painful death.
'The whole scene was in fact, combina-
ton Of zoo and fairy pantomime. &
Backing UP strongly the recent testimony
Of Capt. Stefansson that there is no such real
thing as the 'unfriendIy" Arctic.
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Out of the Mouths of Babes

Mamma" queried little Robert. "what
Is 'hush?'"
'Why do you ask, dear?" said his
mother.
Because" explained the observing
urchin, when I asked sister what made
her hair all mussed after her beau was here
this afternoon she said, Hush, dear"
A little Chicago boy residing on the south
side was amusing himself one day by copy
ing the names of former presidents. After
reading them over an idea suddenly entered
his small head. "Why, papa" he exclaim-
ed, lever SO many presidents were named
after streets in Chicago!"