Nogales international., 1927-08-05
IMPONDERABLE ETHER.
HEROES ARE GENTLE.
A SICK WHALE.
BE JUST TO ELIJAH.
By Arthur Brisbane

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Sir Oliver Lodge says the ether i.
the most important reality of the ply
sical universe. Life and mind are
associated with matter only indirectly
through the ether, says he, and the
ether is primarily mans habitation,
not pseudo solid matter" earth
houses, automobiles and money thai
we call the real world.
Matter reduced to atoms is only
electric particles revolving at fright
ful speed around an electric centre
The real thing is ether.
Science tells us the ether is like a
great stream of water, flowing or
forever, and matter like hsherman's
net spread across the stream through
which the ether flows, that ether is
essential to the cosmic scheme, that
Newton's law of gravitation should
not work without it, and that ether
is the only solid reality in the realm
of ideas But for the average man
it is hard to conceive of ether as
reality. It seems as unreal as the
fourth dimension.
Our minds are adjusted to the
work we have to do, which isn't big
or very important.
Thomas A. Edison was three days
in New York's Botanical Gardens
library, searching for some new rub
Der plant. He may find it, but it will
probably be chemistry, not botany that
will supply the new rubber Elastic
ity, plus wearing quality, are needed.
Human intelligence will produce
something better than rubber, just as
it produced something better than
wood, in the bronze and iron ages.
Be careful if you meet l0trodecttss
Mactains. It's ordinary name is the
BLACK widow" and it's the deadliest
spider on earth, possessing a bite
causing death within twenty-four
tours.
This tiny black spider has recently
caused more than dozen deaths on
tie Pacific Coast. On general prin
t.ples, keep spiders and flies out of
the house. Let them carry on their
ancient war in the open.
Real courage is always gentle.
Homer's "Mildest Manners and Cen
tlest Heart" are part of fearless
nature. Of all photographs taken of
our Atlantic flyers, the finest shows
Commander Byrd standing beside a
wounded French soldier, helpless in
a wheel chair. The expression on
Byrd's face, plying and tender, is that
of a real hero. Happy the mother
and father of such a son.
Commander Byrd, always in search
of interesting occupation, plans
fight to the South Pole, and before
the new year he will be flying through
the coldest region on earth. He IS
determined to be the first man to fly
over both poles. =,
In centuries to come, what we call
cur North and South Poles will
again be warm, and some other spots
on the earth will be the poles. Oil
wells that Standard Oil has located
inside the Arctic region will supply
nearby gas stations-if men still use
power as primitive as gasoline IN that
future day.
Gas by then will probably be COM
pletely out of date, as whale oil IS
now. for lighting. But do not be
frightened into selling good oil
stocks.
If told that the sickness of sperm
whale in the Atlantic Ocean could
set I'D an ancient sailor man IN a
comfortable chicken business, you
might say impossible" But it hap
pened.
When whales don't feel well, Jumps
Of a substance called "Ambergris, :"
valuable to perfume manufacturers
form inside of them.
Terimiah Pratt, seventy-four years
old. lookout on schooner, saw gulls
lowering over a big lump of Amber
girls. worth $12,500. With thai
money. Sailor Pratt will retire to a
chicken ranch and thousands OF
women will go around perfumed by
the Ambergris.
Uldine Utley, ffteen-year-old girl
revivalist, who says Billy Sunday is
greater than Mussolini because Sun
day conquered the devil, is in New
York City saving souls. She saved
forty last Sunday, and doubtless they
will show gratitude when they meet
her in heaven.
Miss Utley, who brings everything
close to her hearers, says: Lind
bergh was not the first to make a
nonstop Aight-the Lord did it, be-
fore him, by flying from heaven tc
earth and then from earth to heaven
It's an excellent thought, but not fan
to Elijah, who, in chariot OF fire
and horses of fire" went up "by
whirlwind into heaven" See second
Kings, chapter two, verse eleven.
That happened 900 years before
the birth of Christ.