Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 8, 1915, Page 8

T T ————— T AR Sp | | By GARRETT P. SERVISS, Bverybody knows by heart the ominous passages of Seripture In which “wars and rumors of wars” and other violent upheavals in human affairs are s'gni) oantly connected with the final ca- tastrophe which is to close the present “@dispensation” for mankind. There is, then, no cause for wonder in the fact that great num- bers of people are inquiring with real, it partly concealed, uneasiness, whether the re- cent unprecedented loosing of the spirit of war may not mark the opening hour of the awful “Dies Irae,” sald ®y the famous hymn, to have been pré- dicted by David and the Sibyl, This leads at once to the question whaf sclence has to say about the possibllity of and “end of the world.” There has survived, from some time In the last century, the notlon that astronomers had proved, with mathematical certitude, that earth and the solar system are immortas In truth, however, if they have proved anything on this subject it is that neither the earth nor the ol ystem, of which the ‘earth Is a member, is immune from ! As far as physical possibility goes, solence knows no reason why the world may not reach its consummation In such & meanner that the accompanying phe- bear an astonishing re- semblance to the dreadful scenes de- plotéd in the Biblical prophecies. Some of the ways In which science foresees that the carth may close its career as a habitable globe require an enormous lapse of time, and it may be confidently averred that ! z #uch cases could not arrive for many ml|~i Tlons of years. For fnstance, the sun is doomed to ultimate extinction.’ In frome 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 ‘yeard 1t will no! gme o longer send enough radiant cnergy to the earth to keep life going hers, and thus the earth must slowly freese. But this gradual process of extinetion was not what the scriptural writers had before thelr imaginations, and it s not what nervous people have In mind when they talk of the end of the world. The elements of suddenness and violence are ensential parts of the predicted, and, for many minds, dreaded uu\ half-expected finish. “ Here, again, sclence ¢ omodating. ‘Two ways may be m‘:.l:xod In which the earth may make it without violating any “law"” reognized Ly sclence Husbands By DOROTHY DIX. “If there s one thing that gets my ‘whole herd of Angoras,” sald the Book- keeper, stedly, it s to hear people talking ebout some woman stealing a man away from ' ' Stealers of Ruffles took the old wife. about them, that man was an inno- with long golden seomed to me," agreed v “that the man who happy home must t Jeast of contributory , that preclous should f laying iroung loose he'd be a temptation to predatory f a woman taking & SN yeum You 'u" sure to come to you. & course you know to be wrong and dan- | welghs about ' half urchase.' 1 vapors, the crisis in| & husband and & home in the front hall, Miss Fairtax that they were .mmr'n is proper First, it may be run down by a “dead star.’ Astronomical collisions, once re- garded as mere speculative possibilities, are known to occur, and sometimes on a | stupendous scale. The most reasonable explanation that has been found for the occasional appearance of new stars Is | that previously invisible bodlea of enor- | mous mass have come into violent col- lision in the depths of space and, through | the transformation of their kinetic energy into heat, have been largely, if not | wholly, turned Into Incandescent gas and The evidence is overwhelming that ce- |1estial space contalns great numbers of 'dark bodies which once, probably, glowed {as stars, or suns, and that they, like the | visible stars, such as our sun, are speed- ing in various directions with velocities |amounting to many miles, and sometimes {to hundrers of miles per second 1t such a mass should plunge Into the isolar system the disastrous consequences laro easy to forsee. A bydy of that kind could not be seen until it had got near enough to reveal itself by the sunlight reflected from its surface, and after |1t ha reached that degres of proximity only a few yi s could elapse before its iblow would fall, Its mere passage through the solar system, even If it missed hitting anything, would be disastrous. Cool-headed persons might find some Aistraction In watching ita approach and | THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER &, Things You Will Want :- Republished by Special Arrange- ment with Harper's Bazar., :@ : 1015, ealulating In advance the moment of the criuig. It might become visible with tele- scopes when it s yet 15,000,000,00 miles distant. “But If its speed only equalled that of the sun, wnich is not a very faat travelling star, it would be upon us in seventy-five years, and If It traveled with the speed of the star 1860 Groom- bridge it would pounce upon us in about five years after the astronomers had caught thelr first view and warned the world of the danger. Another way in which the earth, as far as concerns life on Its surface, might come to a quick end ls through the con- | mequences of ita internal cooling and shrinkage. The moon offers a podsible warning here. Its entire surface is a vol- canlc wreck. Evidently there came a it history when the internal forcea broke up its whole ctust or over- flowed it with vast floods of lava. Tt may be that when, g planet arrives nt a cer- taln eritical stage in its cooling the | shrinkage of its crust produces a tremen- dous outbreak ,of volcanic force and an upwelling of molten rock formed by en- ormoup local pressures. Changes of this kind, due to graddally Ingreasing strain, are apt to be sudden jand catastrophal. If such a disaster should happen to the earth its inhabi- tants would perish with thelt eyes fixed upon a scene of cheos as wild and aw- ful as any depiction of the prophets of calamity. unlock and there's n‘:thln: to keep away the burglars.” You might marry a man who wasn't 80 ternibly attractive that you'd live In continual anxlety about his getting lost, strayed or stolen,” insinuated the book- keeper. “Wouldn't have him," retorted the ste ographer, “half the fun of being married 1s having to aways be sister Annle on the housetop, looking out for marauders and trespassers on your own bailiwick and frustrating them." ‘‘Well anywa sald the bookkeeper, “It_certainly does get me going to hear of some big, husky guy, 65 or 60 years old, who has kpown how to take care of himself well gnough to make a wad be- ing taken away from his wife by some little girl young enough to be his grand- daughter.” “Right-0," reponded the stenographer. End This Dangerous Affair, Dear M| H g A Ia}{‘lrhz 1 have lived in nths and having any m&fi your 1 am 31 and pretty. I am "‘&"“' 08 ke e, e i wtomoile and Mnn'?rl. He tellsa me not to hurry to office, y conscience tells me that am dolng both f and h o SR R My dear girl, you have stated the dan- gers of your own case so well that there is hardly anything for me to add, Surely dangers of which you clearly recog- nize, What you are doing must leave you in m state of feverish uprest and nervousness that is bound to make your life miserable even while you are pre- tending It Is gay and festive. If you are trong enough to go to your employer and tell him with quiet dignity that you are heartlly ashamed of yourself and insist upon having nothing but business | relations with him In the future, it might be safe for you to keep your po- sition. It might be, 1 say, but the one wise course for you to pursue s to go at once to some reputable bureaw of em- ployment, register there and take your- self out of the way of a man who, under seeming kindness and attention, masks the most dangerous enmity a girl can know. Don't throw away your young s [life in the pursuit of pleasure, You are only 21, and worth-while friendships are Pon't “persist’ in gerous. You have analysed your situa- ton—uow end It latroduce Them. Kindly inform me id essential for a !tl;‘ 555:5 t z¥ faille, silk malines, silver lace delightfully combined. In rose, quoise, §68. .The Chemical Basis of War By Woods Hutchinson, A. M., M. D. ‘War is a great teacher, though a cruel and costly one. We fight hard to earn & living or make a fortune, but we still have a link back to let out when we are put to it to save our lives Trom battle, murder .and sudden death, Doubtiess the inventor of navigation was A breathless and. bleeding fugitive trom ‘& lost battle in the Stone age, who put desperately our to sea on a with his spear for a .paddle, with the ysips of his pursuers and perhaps a shower of flint arrows and stone axes behind him to keep his courage up to the stick- ing point. Our ftirst .knowledge of the working of iron and the tempering of steel was born of slaughter and baptized in blood. Our early architecture and until the last few hugdred years was overwhelmingly miii- tary. Forts, castles, palaces, wallod towns and even farm houses were built for defense. Any old hole in the wall or corner in their angles would do to live in.. Invention ran strongly toward cata- pults and cannon, blunderbusses and bombs, gunpowder and dynamite; be- cause the kalsers and kings, barons und blahops, who controlled all the money, would pay far higher prices for engines to kill their enemies and suppress rebels ard heretics than for anything else. It was & horribly wasteful and expen- sive school of invention. For the very ‘flm thing which its discoveries were used for was to destroy that increase and density of population and accumulation of wealth and resources which are tho Dasis of further invention and progress. Indeed, the world has made more prog- ress in sclence and the conquest of naturc in the past hundred years of compara- tive peace than in all the half million years preceding of almost incessant battie and slaughter. \ But it 1s idle to deny that it has been + allot originated this evening gown. In it and roses are gold and tur- {onable suit. duvetyn, ' with $79.60. and resources, and is so still. An inter- esting, most modern instance was fur- nished just the other day in the an- nouncement—first from Columbia, then from New York university, then from a number of other colleges—that the rush of students anxious to study industrial chemistry had simply swamped their accommodations. In some cases the classes were nearly double the size that could possibly be accommodated In the laboratories. As & matter of fact, humiliating as the confession is to our national pride. we here in America are a full quarter of & century behind the times in the matter of the full utilization in commerce and industry and public life of chemistry in particular and modfern science in gen- eral. If it is any consolation to us, Eng- | land and her colonies are almost as back- ward as compared with Germany and Sweden and France and Austria. But here is the situation: Twenty years ago the average successful manufac- turer who was approached by a graduate chemist from one of our scjentific schools and asked for a Jjob, to equip a laborayfcy and put him in charge of it 8t & good salary, would have simgly stared in astonishment. What under heaven could a pure chemist find to Jo in my business? And there are a good many otherwise intelligent men of af- falrs who would react after that fashion tod For more than twenty years oe- fore that time no manufacturing estab- | lishments in Germany would have dreamed of starting in business without from one to three laborutories with a chemist and a couple of assistans each, and would no more have thought of trylng to run without a chemist than without an engineer or a bookkeeper. At that time, where America had qne chemn- " ist enguged in manufacturing work, and England two, Germany had thirty. tists, with laboratories, Here Is a most stunning creation in a fash- Copled in cedar green or brown muffler collar their expensively equipped find to do in an ordinary paper mill or woolen mill or blast fur- To put it very brietiy, by getting at, the bottom facts in Process of each’ institution; by analyzing its raw materials carefully and findinr out just what it fs in them which will work up and combine successfully, and the exact nature of other elements pres ent or absent which fail properly and make a bad result tn the final product. nace or brewery? the to combine By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, Copyright, 1915, by Star Company. It you think and talk continually of the weary grind of your daily life, it will continue to seem so, and will not change. ' How rarely do we encounter a human being who does not ; glive utterance to a complaint of this kind! The mother of a family, with her household cares; the father at his office or \8hop; the teacher, the clerk, the com- metclal traveler, the merchant, the newspaper man, the author, the ar- tist, and the man and woman of fashion—you have heard them one | and all bemoan the | monotony of life and its dutfes. Why add your plaint to the melody? Why not sing new words to a more cheer- ful air? Your work must contaln some pleasant features. If jt {s wholly and absclutely distasteful to you, you can never attain the best succe and you would be wise to seek other employ- ment. This, If you are determined, can be obtained. Once positively make up your mind l Lighten Labor with Smiles mother of invention,” applies to art as well as mechanics. The average artist, whatever be his mode of expression, is inclined to be an idler and a dreamer. If he were not spurred on by dire need, he would dream wonderful things and accomplish little, However you may feel you are prostituting your art by having to employ it as a pot-bofler, re- member you are keeping all your abili- ties and activities alive and in use. Though you may do five pleces of work you do not care for, you may do a sixth which is great. That sixth you could not have created except by being in constant practice. You might have dreamed it for years and continually prostponed the actual labor necessary to its completion. But because you were accustomed to create as soon as an {dea came to you, your great work was executed. Necessity s a true friend to art. It is ungrateful and ungenerous to berate it. It you cannot achieve your best with it, you would never achieve it without It. Once In a thousand times we may encounter the artist who has genlus and activity and ambition enough to succeed without the ald of necessity, but it is rare indeed. ‘Whether you are an artist or an ar- tisan or a day laborer, take a hopeful, wholesome outlook on your life and labor, and stop grumbling and whin'ng. Do You Know That what you want to do, and set your whole mental forces to bring about the desired result, and ‘you cannot fail to attain it. No man or woman need remain in‘'a po- sition which makes life cheerless and disagreable. An intense, persistent de- sire for something different will bring a change. 1f, however, your work is not all un- pleasant, then stop your constant fault- finding about its monotony. Your mind ought to be able to give variety to what you do. The sun rises every morning and sets every night, yet no two days are exactly alike. The sky, the wind, the atmosphere vary. Let your thoughts vary your work. Be- gin each day with a resolve to find some- thing pleasant and interesting in life. En- joy your walk or ride to your office or shop. Walk a portion of the way if possible, and amuse yourself by deep in- halations of fresh air. There is great enjoyment in mere breathing, if you know how to do it. We often hear it sald of a man that he does not know enough to go in when it Boarlet flowers stand drought better than any other. It has been found that the collarbone is more frequently broken than any other bone in the body. A trout egg tal from thirty-five to sixty days to hatch, according to the temperature of the water. An analysis states that the starfish contains nearly 5 per cent of nitrogen and a small quanity of phosphoric acld. The seeds of the tobacco plant are so minute that, according to an estimate, a thimbleful will furnish enough plants for an acre. — An angry ostrich is a great fighter. He strikes out with his feet, and his legs be- ing {mmensely strong he can kill a man. The butterfly, like the bat, invariably goes to sleep head downwards on the stem of the grass on which it rests. It folds its winge to the utmost, and thus rains. Such ignorance is much less re- prehensible than not knowing enough to breathe, and there are tens of thousands of human beings who belong in that cate- gory. Life and work assume much more interesting aspects when we learn how to breathe, If all the way to and from your labor you are feeling sorry for yourselt because life is monotonous, your are building the wall higher and higher which shuts you from the things you desire. Stop it! Say each morning: “This is to be an interesting and successful day for me.” If it does not prove to be, then say it the next morning and the next, until it comes true. The moment you find yourself in an absolutely hopeless and despairing state of mind regarding your work—take a vacation. If only for a day, still take it. Let your brain rest by giving it new thoughts. You will return to work like one reborn. If you are an author or a musician or an artist, do not sing that old refrain about wishing you did not have to make a pot-boller of your talents; and that you might work only when inspired. It is a tiresome, worn-out theme, and you are wishing against your highest good when you glve utterance to it. Stop and think how few great men or women in any fleld of art were indepen- dent of it. :X'hn phrase, “necessity is the protects its body from the cold. In-Shoots As a rule it Is difficult to draw the line between bric-a-brac and junk. One-half of the world does not know what grocer the other half hangs up. The man who throws off his coat quickly doés not always intend to fight. It is better to pay bills promptly, even if it does make the collector feel small. The real good loser is generally the one who is staking the other fellow's cash, Job was a patitnt old guy, but he was never called upon to sit through an ama~ teur show. The children of the marriageable widow always have the mean habit of looking older than they are. When reading some of the seed cata- logues we can understand why the Gare den of Eden was 80 attractive. Some persons seem to think that it they feed a bulldog they are doing their part toward preventing race suiclde. i & powerful stimulant to Inventivenes: | But what do these high-priced sclen- } At the Crossroads | By JANE M'LEAN. Joy met me at the crossroads, held her hand, A rosy harbinger, out for my own; “This is my way,’ she carolled, “you but stand Upon the casement sill of lands unknown."” 1 stood and poudered—should I walk awhile, Hand clasped in hand, with youthful Joy astray, Laved in the golden wonder of her smile, { Warmed with the heather scents along her way? And as I stood One came, of quiet mien, Her fingers folded on a cool, white breast, ‘With starry eyes reflecting dreams unseen Above a’brow unfurrowed and at rest. She stillod the tumult of my raptured heart, Tuned on Joy's heights to quickly cease; And eyelids diooped, I turned to walk apart Along the valley road with quiet Peace. this off as A Kindly Help for Failing Strength [ORROW and tomérrow . . . the tide of years sets in and the autumn of life has come. Energy has become enfeebled, the blood thins, resist- ance is shaken and the digestive processes weaken—weary days give way to sleepless nights. Then will Sanatogen help! Not to replace the common drticles of diet but to make them give maximum nutriment, Not as a substi- tute for medicinal treatment, or to give temp- orary stimulation, but to aid the nervous system in its direct control over the digestive jprocesses, to enrich the blood, and to promote restful slumber. 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