The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1895, Page 14

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1895. THE CHILDRE 1 Between (he da: When the n Comes a pause in the day That is known as the Children’s Hour. er above me I hear in the ch The patter ot 1 Th Is opened, A sudden rush from the stairway! id from t 11 vour me with kisses, t me entwine, Bishop of Bingen wer on the Rhine: 1 have you fast in my for And will not let you depart, 1t put you down into the dungeon ¢ round tower of my heart. ere I will keep you forever— : away. __ - LoNerxurow. Star-Route Trifler. | ifier was only 2 dog, you must remem- | nd a mongrel dog at that. No co: h, but a proud and intelli and his tail, was ‘‘feathered” as a well should be. Talk about the lang eyes! There was more c tail of Trifler’s than any dictionary that was ever written could explain. And as| for delicate shades of meaning, why even French, the famous languace of diplomacy, simply couldn’t compare with Trifler's tail. When the dog had been asked tul close the door, for example, and had care- | les: llowed it to g, and wanted to | offer you an apology, that tail became | positively eloquent. Trifler would sit down before you with his upper “lf drawn back in & nervous sort of way, and allow you to look into the depths of his repentan: eyes, while that tail talked for him. It would lie perfectly quiet except that an inch of the tip would be tapping the floor with rapid. little tele- | graphic click ‘When Trifler was jocund that tail was as active as the boom of a yacht is sure to be when there are ladies aboard who. are | afraid of it. It flopped from side to with tremendous force, and you reaily wondered that the dog didn’t break in two with the effort he made to express his de- light. : Talking with his teil was only one of Trifler’s accomplishments, however, and 1 must get on to the story of his life, When he was a very young dog Trifler was brought out to A na by a party of roung men who had been to coliege near oston and who came West to teach | people how ‘“prospecting” for precious | metals really ought to be managed. If Trifler had known more and the young men from Boston had known less this story would never have happened. An experienced dog does not rush into | what the frontiersmen call “the cactus” at anybody’s bidding. And an ignoramus would know that it was better to let the | quails lie where they fell, or even not to shoot them, than to force a dog to retrieve them from among tie cactus. Trifler was obedient. and he brought | birds to lay at his master’s feet till that | individual became exceedingly fond of the fine dog he owned. 1t was very ageravating when presently Trffier-began to limp and to howl and yelp with pain; and nobody knew what was the matter, nor tried very much to find -out. The dog couldn’t travel, so much was certain. There was no way to carry him, and right would evertake the brave young hunters if they lingered. In the morning as the party was leaying the rough cabin which had given a night’s shelter a niember of it remembered to say to the son of his hostess that the dog had been left behind on the mountain trail. “If he follows in,” the owner said, “you might look out for him, and if we come this way again we can pick him up.” A dog left alone among the hills with <cactus prickers in his feet! ‘When the visitors were gone Mrs. Jordan and Arthur lost no time in harnessing old Baldy into the family cart to go in search oi the poor forsaken creature. Taking turs at holding the baby, and | dnying and at walking over the dusty trail, these {two brave and compassionate ils traveled many a mile calling and looking for the dog. At last his cries of distress answered them, and they hastened to relieve his sufferings with the water which they had not forgotten to bring from the home spring. Trifler’s paws were swollen and burning, poisoned by the cruel pricking slivers which no one had drawn out. The intelli- gent- beast recognized the kindliness of these good friends atonce, and his great eyes grew soft and quiet in the comfort of their sympathy. The drawing out of the thorns from the dog’s feet and sides and back must have been agon~ for him, but he bore it all with heroic patience, licking sometimes the bands that torfured and caressed him, and returning kind looks with equally ex- pressive ones. In a little while Trifler was lifted into the cart and taken to the home where his presence was an unspeakable blessing. Can you children to whom comfort and tompanionship are a matter of course - imagine living alone with your mother (that would be a very different thing from beln% really alone, “would it not?) in a rough cabiri twelve miles away from any- body and quite accessible tothe kind of [ndians who like to take live people to - pieces, one joint at a time? That is the way Arthur and his mother lived while father was gone prospecting. It was a dreadful thing for a loving [ather to turn his back upon his wife and babes in such a country, but Arthur's father had made a sort of thing they call a tontract, which is really a solemn written promise to do something. And in order to | with his teeth set and with a very white | months. keep that contract he had walked away face, which he did not once turn toward the house again when he had gone out of it. Mrs. Jordan, Arthur and the baby were “holding down the claim” while they waited for the father all these weary But as if Trifler were already be family mascot, behold the very day of his coming brought the father “striding homeward over the rough trail that led away to the mines and crying for thanks- giving when he found the little mother, grown brown and stout in the dry moun- tain air, and the children prospering. lrifler was everybody’s pet and friend from that day forth. With the father he clambered down the valley by the short trail that was too steep for Baldy and | learned the trick of carrying letters which | afterward made him known cast and west as “Star-Route Trifler.” Mascot as Trifier turned out to be, he never quite solved the problem of life for escort him back to the new ““digzings,”’ that there be no mistae about the route. And, later, when the procession of gold-+ laden miners and burros returned from the hills who do you suppose came on ahead to announce the arriyal ? ‘Why, Trifier, of course; and you may be sure that he made more genuine jubilation and almost more noise than any brass band that ever burst its cheeks with glad- ness. And when you some time go,to visit the prettiest little city that you ever saw in your life, and walking along the cleanest street in the world you come to a beautiful cottage, that looks as if it were built half of roses, you will be.sure to see a baby asleep in the veranda. Lying on the floor and swinging baby’s hammock now and then by a rope. which he holds in his teetn, you will see a sleek black dog, who looksas if it were his habit to take a cold bath each morning of his life. And this is Star-Route Trifler, proud of AT THE FIRESIDE. [Reproduced from an engraving.) the Jordan family until the winter rains setin. Then, when his master set out to rospect among the hills where gold is ess precious than water, Trifler went | along. | And after a month the faithful dog came again to the lonely cabin with a packet tied about his neck. A letter to the mother read: “Send Trifler to the Postoftice with this letter for Turner. If Turner brings packmules to me in time to get us out be- fore the water is exhausted we can bring enough gold to pay all our debts and to carry us all out of the wilderness into any paraaise you choose.” Poor Trifler, happy to be at home again, looked a little crestfallen when his feasting and caressing were interrupted by instruc- tions to go over to the Postoffice. Hs re- venged himself by kissing the baby ail over its face and then departed. When Turner came up with the pack- mules it_was thought best for Trifler to ! his possessions, faithful to his duties and happy in his green old age. M.C.J. tor and Hector. Two dogs, which live in San Francisco, and are ever so far above the vulgar neces- sity of exhibiting themselves for money, can do more tricks than any other dogs that ever were heard of, Hector and Victor are of the bull terrier family, and I bave heard mysterious whis- pers to the effect that the breed will con- tinue to be rare, in consequence of judicious drownings, which take place whenevera litter of puppies is born into the aristo- cratic bull-terrier clan. Most of the little brothers and sisters are sacrificed ih order that one or two of the most promising can be sold for several hundred, perhaps even a thousaud dollars apiece, after they are . trained. 1f some humane boy or girl could but have the good luck to resuscitate one of those unfortunate puppies! And doesn’t it seem that a person must have an excep- tionally hard heart and a comfortably fat pocket-book who can make up his mind to drown puppies that are worth a hundred dollars apiece? Ugh! 4 Hector and Victor were trained by a carpenter who Jives in Alameda and who has spent all his spare time teaching dogs to_do things ever since he was & boy.. Beiore Iiee!or was a yearold he could do forty distinct tricks and he is always to be depended upon te do at least forty other things meantime which are funnier and show: more intelligence than the tricks themselves. ¥ ‘When the dogs were being educated they were addressed always in quiet, conversa- tional tones and without undue emphais, Tkey were never punished for stupidity, but were always praised and rewarded for being clever. Hector learned to jump rope, and would jump ten or twelve times in succession, as if he enjoyed it. Poor Victor never could see any fun in jumping the rope, and thereby he demonstrated that a well-bred dog has feelings and a memory. Someohe tried to_teach Victor to jump and in a mo- ment of impatience struck the sensitive creature witg the rope. That settled it. Victor never could be induced to try again. The tricks’ which the dogs emjoy and which seem to make them useful citizens are most interesting to watch. Kor in- stance, it was their habit to keep the kitchen woodbox filled, bringing the sticks in their teeth and grinning with delight meantime. Watching them it almost seemed to me that it miggt be simi;ler 10 teach a dog to keep the woodbox filled than to induce a boy to attend to it. e And besides, the dogs will go as far afield as they are allowed, and will gather the flotsam ‘and jetsom of field and flood, with choice selections, perhaps, from the neighbors’ stores. Hector used to go many blocks to a newsstand to buy a Sunday paper. One day the man who usually attended to him was not present and some one else gave him the paper. Hector accepted it, but with a thoughtful air. He walked very slowly down the street a little way, then came back, dropped the paper on the counter and sat down to wait, as if he would say, “I am not atall sure that you understand which paper my master pre- fers. This one seems rather bulky—I be- lieve f will wait till the proprietor returns.” And he did. Another day Hector was sent for a cigar, and carried ‘the money in his mouth. ‘When he jumped up to lay the dime on the counter he jostled the elbow of a stranger who stood by. This man turned and struck Hector. The dog, insulted, looked the stranger over cold%y, grasped the situdtion, gath- ered up his money and walked out the shop the personification of injured dig- nity. Repose of manner seems to be natural to bull terriers. Our friends never allow the exuberance of animal spirits to run away with them. They are always polite, re- served, attentive. They are so careful never to do anything to annoy any one that one cannot help concluding that the Frenchman who declared that ‘“‘a child a year old knows as much as an intelligent dog” could not have cultivated the ac- quaintance of the ll)ouaund-dol];fi; dagsj A True Story. Soon after the death of N. P. Willis— whose poetry, by the way, was once upon a time far more fashionable than anybody’s poetry is nowadays—Mrs, Willis opened a girls’ 'schoel at the family home on the Hudson River, in New York State. Aunt Dora was fortunate enough to be one of the ten original pupils. I hope she was not always disobedient, but on one occasion tlie young lady disre- garded the advice of her beloved teacher in a way that came very near putting her out of the way of temptation forever. The icein the.river had begun to show signs of breaking up, and for that reason it was announced that skating must not again be indulged in. Aunt Dora, who was only Miss Howells in those days, tcok her skates, neverthe- less, and slipped away quietly and alone. Before she reached the riyer Miss Willis’ beautiful big Newfoundland dog Nero came bounding after her, and he refused to leave her, even when she had donned her skates and was skimming slong over the ce. The day was bright and clear, and the young lady was so exhilarated with the fresh air, and perhaps with the conscious- ness of the outing being a genuine esca- pade, that she enjoyed herself immensely. She forgot that the ice might not be safe, and kept to the middle of the river, where the ice was windswept and smooth. When she had skated down stream for a mile or two Nero came bounding to her, and seiz- ing her dress 1n his teeth he began to pull and tug as if to induce the girl to follow him. She paid no attention except to scold the poor fellow, and presently to her unspeak- % _'\)‘ ‘:.Iwm K “lm%f CHILDREN IN AN ENGLISH GARDEN. [Reproduced from the Londen Queen.] "all white labor in the future. able horror, Aunt Dora found herself and Nero floating on a cake of ice which was rushing along in the rapid current of the river. g The girl knelt beside the faithful dog and clung to him, silent and helpless. The ice of the river was breaking up every- where now, piling cake upon cake with a dreadful rush and roar, the river swirling between and over all. The bridge was just ahead and about its stone abutments the ice was grinding and crashing grandly. Dora was without hope, half stunned with dread. And Nero? Nero simply opened that huge mouth of his and roared out a series of bays that would have put a foghorn to shame. Above the rushing of the waters and the pounding of the ice the signal of distress rang out. And hearing it men rushed shouting to the shore—strong men, with clear heads and hearts that kney no fear of the flood. A boat dashed out, two men rowing it, without a thought apparently of their own peril. 3 And Dora Howells was snatched from the jaws of death by unconscious heroes, who have never to this day grown tired of singing the praises of the Freu Newfound- land dog who saved a girl’s life in the year of the big floods. MARY CALKINS JOHNSON. COOLY LABORERS AT VINA, A Story That Mrs. Stanford Had Engaged Three Hundred Japs. The Statement Made That She Has Discharged Nearly All of Her White Help« Deputy Labor Commissioner C. L. Dam received a letter yesterday that contains some startling statements, It was from one who signed his name John Dunne of Vina, Tehama County, and asserts that Mrs. Stanford is discriminating against white labor in favor of coolies. The letter reads as follows: Being actuated to do good to my fellow-work- men of the Caucasian race in preference to Japanese and Chinese, I am impelled to write *ou of abuses that you may be able to correct. he great Stanford vineyard and ranch here has been conducted principally by white labor at good, fair wages previous to Governor Stan- ford’s death. Since his death the madam has dismissed nearly all the white lielp and what few were retained have to work for Chinese wages. Now she, as I understand, made & con- tract with 300 Japanese to do the work ol white men and Chinamen. ” The white meu are willing to do the same work for 70 eents, but no, she, through the ad- vice of the superintendent, has. deprived them of the privilege. The community here is very much incensed at the idea‘of introducing Japanese labor, which will no dount eradicate There may be trouble, which I anticipate, on their arrival here, and it will be very bitter. * * * This lnst ‘act of hers should not be. allowed to pass unnoticed. * * * Hoping that you will meke note of the letter by calling atten- tion to the fact that without any cost to her you can #ill Ler orders for white men to do all the work required—picking grapes, teaming, plowing, mowing, ete. 1remain, etc., JonN DUXNE. The public is familiar with the well- known generosity and liberality of the Stanfords and theijr active interest in the laboring elasses. This assertion.that Mrs. Btanford has experienced a change of beart, either with or without the advice of the superintendent of the Vina property, is to say the least startling. It has been pub- lished qn several eccasions that the work- ing force at the Vina ranch would be re- duced, as Mrs. Stanford had decided to apandon the raising of fine horses, which was herlate husbaud’s obby. This wouid necessarily throw a number of trainers, grooms and hostlers out of work .at the Vina paddocks. It has also been stated that the affairs of the estate made it neces- sary to reduce the heavy expenses, but this is the first information that Mrs. Stan- ford’s economy had taken the direction of utilizing cooly labor. “I do not know anythingabout this man Dunne, who makes these charges,” said Deputy Labor Commissioner Dam, ‘“‘but [ will investigate the matter. If Dunne has done Mrs, Stanford an injustice it is only right that the facts may be known to the public. If what Dunne says is true that, too, should be known by the public. With thousands of white men idle in the State, it 1s not fair to the laboring classes nor to the general public that more should be thrown into the ranks of the unemployed and their places filled by coolies.” As neither Mrs. Stanford nor Mr. Lath- rop, the manager of the Stanford estate, was in the City last evening, their version of the matter could not be obtained. ——————— THE PLATT TRUST. George Whittell Resigns From Control of Funds Entrasted to Him in 1893, George Whittell, trustee of a $50,000 fund which Mrs. Josephine E. Platt set apart for the support of her four children prior to her diyorce from Alfred @. Pratt at Oakland in April, 1893, has filed a petition in court to be dismissed. He nominated the Union Trust Company as his successor. The fund now amounts to $33,475, and Mr. ‘Whittell waives his claim to compensation. By the terms of the divorce, Mr. Platc was awarded the custody eof two of the children, and the other two children were assigned to Mrs. Platt’s care. A few years ago Mr. Platt made a com- plaint of insanity against his wife, and fora while the woman was confined in a private asylum. The divorce was afterward ob- tained. ————— HUNTINGTON'S INDICTMENT. Railroad Strikers Apparently Opposed to Its Being Quashed. With the announcement that C. P. Huntington is on his way to San Fran- cisco, fresh interest in the indictment pending against him in the Federal court, not alone among his colleagues, butamong the raiiroad strikers, one of whom swore to the original complaint which brought about the indictment by the Federal Grand Jury, is revived. After the jury in the Mayne and Cassidy cases had been dismissed without arriving at a verdict, all the strikers under indict- ment and out on beil were notified that they could have their bondsmen released and that they would be allowed their free- dom on their own recognizance. ‘When the leaders applied for the priv- ilege it was suggested to them that the in- dictment against Huntington ought to be dismissed and thus all proceedings grow- ing out of the strike allowed virtnally to come to an end, but the suggestion met with no favor. S Just before all the indictments against the strikers were dismissed on the recom- mendation of United States District Attor- ney Foote, a proposition was made to the strikers that if tl efi would allow the in- dictment against Huntington to be dis- missed all the cases against them would be dropped. This 'u%ueszion, however, was not favorably considered, yet the strikers are not all free and exempt from Federal rosecution, while Huntington is likely to ive to underfio the ordeal of a_trial on the charge of alleged violation of the inter- state commerce law for having issued a pass to Frank M. Stone. the Ornamental County Posts, The boundary of Contra Costa and Alameda counties has been marked with iron posts sur- mounted with & metallic bear, emblematic of California. On one side of these posts is the inseription “Contra Costa County” and on the opposite side “Alameda County.” The monu- ments were erected by Supervisors of both counties. e A Wheeiman Wants Damages. The bieyelist has got into court. Joseph Ethan, a wheelman, who, on June 27, collided with Lot D. Slocum’s wagon in the Western Addition, has institutea proceedings against Slocum for $10,000 damages. KINETIC STABILITY. By ROBERT STEVENSON. SHECOND PAPHER. SECOND PAPER. Kinetic stability, as I have already ex- plained, is well Known in pyramic science, and I do not claim any originality in the use of the term in conmection with the principle I have discovered. ‘When we see a bicycle going at the rate of ten miles an hour and observe how it keeps in an up- right position, and requires considerable force exerted sideways to push it from the upright position; and when we consider that if the same bicycle is at rest, or not moving relative to the earth, it requires to be supported to prevent it from falling sideways, we then become cognizant of a new force, which is called kinetic stability. The difference in the two cases depends not merely on the motion or momentum given to the bicycle, but to its independent kinetic energy. If the same bicycle were carried over the same course at the same speed, say ten miles an hour, in a railway car, then, although the bicycle relative to the earth had the same momentum as before, yet its kinetic energy is nothing, and its kinetic stability is nothing; you have still got to support the bicycle to keep it from falling sideways. ¥ = The kinetic stability of the bicycleis that apparently inherent power which it has while in motion to keep itself upright, and if we never saw a bicycle unless while it was in motion it would be very difficult to persuade us that its kinetic stability was an acquired force; like the ancient phil- osophers who before the days of Newton believed that all the heavenly bodies were endowed with intrinsic motion, or what is now called a specific inherent quality of motion, that they were in fact virtually little gods, who by virtue of their inherent qualities ruled the destinies of individuals and nations. ; Our experience in the case of the bicycle, of course, teaches us that this peculiar con- dition of stability acquired by its motion is not an intrinsic quality in the bicycle. And as we know by experiment that it changes with the change of speed and fol- lows some law depending not merely on speed, but on speed and mass together, we call it a kinetic condition, If it had only depended on speed we would have called it a kinematical condition. i The amusing toy called a gyroscope is an- other case of motion producing stability, and when the celebrated French scientist M. Leon Foucault showed the action of his gyroscope at a meeting of the British Asso- ciation forty-three years ago it gave the scientific world such’ a sensation that the bewildering effects are still discernible to this day. R Although all persons from their child- hood are famihar with rthe stability of a spinning-top, yet the leading scientists of forty years ago considered that the pecu- Iiar motions of the evroscope’ were per- formed in violation of the accepted laws of motion. The peculiarities, however, were only apparent, and have since yielded to mathematical treatment. They can be shown to be a special case of the well- known laws of the superposition of rota- tions round different axes. I well remember the surprise I got when attending the university twenty- eight years ago when asked by the profes- sor of physics to take hold of what ap- peared to be a closed sheet-iron box and give it a twist round a horizontal axis. I seized it with both hands, and, in twisting it round, found I had something more than a box to handle. Its reaction against my action seemed more like the force of a living thing than that of dead matter, and the more I triea to twist it over the more it squirmed and wriggled, as if I was wrestling with.a human being. The box was Sir William Thompson’s -|'have. been to the ener; of rotation to produce sufficient heat during a certain time to put the whole mass of the solat system into a state of incandescence.of sufficient intensity to overcome. its cohe- sion and centripetal force and so enable the nebula to extend as far as the farthest planet in the system. To these we might add hundreds of dther examples, which are all’ due to kinetic stability, and yet no mathematician at present can explain them. If my discov- ery will enable mathematics to explain them, surely this discovery is worth know- ing. Surely such a discovery should in- terest the Stanford Uriversity more than the classification of a thousand butterflies, or the discovery of a new kind of fish, or earthworm; and should interest Berkeley more than the evolution of a three-toed crab. And if it does, why, may I ask, have they not carried out the experiments | submitted to them eight months ago? ‘Why should they allow other universities to take from them the high honor which will redound to those who are first to verify these important facts? It is a well- known principle in dynamical science that the resultant, in amount and direc- tion, of two transverse velocities, forces momenta, is represented by the diagonal of the parellelogram of which the adjacent sides represent the velocities, forces, etc. Now, that is also held true of energies, but, as I have already said and as I have shown in the pamphlet, the resultant of two transverse energies is represented in direction by a ecurvilinear line, not a straight line. To a person running for his life or to those engaged in the struggle for existence such a fact would appear of no value. But to the scientist such a fact is pregnant with life; it is a hitherto undis- covered law in the universe, and what it will lead to is as yet a complete mystery to the human race. It seems to upset the very first and most fundamental law of motion, but the beauty of it is that it does not. It simply introduces Kinetic sta- bility, which not_only fulfills the law, but also overcomes it by another and greater law, and becomes thereby a law unto itself, and so appears to the world as a nineteenth century wonder, and I can safely predict that this kinetic stability will in the near future give to scientistsa much greater shock than Foucault’s gyroscope did. Let us now try to explain how kinetic stability overcomes the first law of motion without actually breaking it. We all know that matter in motion has velocity, and velocity is what is generally called speed. If a car is going eight miles an hour we call that its speed. When a ulley is going at a certain speed we say it s making a certain number of revolutions per minute, or per second, or whatever may be the unit time agreed upon; the unit in itself counts for nothing; ‘its adop- tion is arbitrary. The speed is the impor- tant matter; it is the speed which utilizes the power and does the work. The unit does no mechanical work; although we might trace it through an infinite series of mental metamorphoses, yet we are certain it does no mechanical work. Nor does speed or velocity in itself do mechanical work. Whatever spiritnal energy it has we are certain of this, that it cannot do the infinitesimal part of a foot-pound of work. At least we are not in a position at present to prove that spiritual energy can do me- chanizal work. To make our meaning clear, if instead of an actual pulley or car we put an imagin- ary one in their place, we can still imagine that imaginary body to be moving with speed or veloc:ti;. For instance, a ray of light moves with enormous speed or ve- locity, and yet it is only an imaginary body, which the mental vision gives the appearance of reality. Let us, then, consider an imaginary car moving with great speed or uniform veloc- ity along a straight and level track, AB. I/H o = gyrostat, and its kinetic stability was the force I was wrestling with. That was my first conscious experience with kinetic sta- bility, and I can_tell you it has clung to me ever since, and so long as I live I shall never believe in the scientific dogma of in- | herent forces, either in matter or organ- isms. I shall never believe that the attrac- tion of matter is other than a delusion and the evolation of species other than 4 mere law in nature which depends for 1ts excu- tion on forces which are controlled by a power which resides outside and is inde- pendent of all organisms. Now, although kinetic stability was known to the world before I was born, yet I believe I have discovered a fact or a prin- ciple (whichever you like to call it) so con- nected with it as to revolutionize our ideas on many subjects. First, then: Science does not believe that kinetic stability will overcome gravity. Now, I d e fa to m{ own satisfaction, that a projectile traveling a distance of fifty feet in half a second barely fallsone foot six inchesin that time, although by the law of gravity it should fall four feet in that time. If the projectile be made to travel 150 feet in half a second it falls a little over eight inches in that time, whereas accord- ing to the law of gravity it should fall four feet. Now, althoigh Professor Stringham of Berkeley tells us he can explain all the motions of the gyroscofe and the bicycle and other cases of kinetic stability by means of mathematics, yet I defy either him or Professor Le Conte to explain the above facts by mathematics or by any other grinciple than the one I have dis- covered and explained in my pamphlet. Professor Soule and others have acknowl- edged that if kinetic stability will do what I have stated above, then the attraction of matter can no longer be acknowledged to be the cause of gravity. Furthermore, experiment shows that the ! resultant of two transverse energies is not a straight line, but a curve. caused by Kkinetic stability, and if Pro- fessor Stringham will explain that by mathematics before I have given the proof in these papers I will be surprised. Again, I can show that the weicht of bodies is caused by their kinetic atability, | and if any professor in the Leland Stan- ford University will explain that by math- ematics in THE CALr T will be still further surpriséd and gratified. And to crown all, this principle of kinetie stability will enable me to prove that matter itself is not an entity, but only the resultant of certain motions; that, in fact, all the phenomena which we call the universe, matter included, are the result of certain energies. They are the produc- tion of the work of a power behind the scene; and they represent in amount of energy exactly the work éxpended on them, and when cailed upon they will give bgck_ngnin in the shape of force to the quintillionth part of a foot pound ali the power expended on them. . Another fact which mathematics, even in tNe hands of 1ts greatest master, Profes- sor R. G. Tait, cannot at present explain: How a body with perfect freedom of mo- tion, such as the sun ébefom the planetary system was produced), could be made to produce sufficient incandescence by . rota- tion along with kinetic energy, so as to evolve a nebulous atmosphere of sufficient capacity to meet the requirements of the ghnomry system. Kinetic stability ena- les us,” with the assistance: of Joules’ equivalent, to calculate exactly what the ratio of the energy of translation must / know, and have proven the fact | Now, that is | t line FE, equal, and Let M be the imaginary car, moving from A toward B. y off on AB a dis- tance CF, and at the point ¥ set off the Fernendiculnr to CF, complete the (P rallelogram CDEF an join CE;: now, is the diagonal of the parallelogram CDEF. Let us now suppose that while the im- aginary car M is moving with uniform ve- locity along CF, at the same time the line CF, car and ail, is being moved with the same velocity along the direction CD and FE; we have now what is called ‘a superimposed velocity, and according to the well-known laws of the composition of yelocities in dynamics the resultant veloc- ity, ic amount #nd direction, is_correctly represented by the straight line CE, which we know is the diagonal of the parallelo- gram CDEF. Now, although the aciual velocity of the car along CF has not been changed by the mferposition of velocity, yet the virtual velocity along CE is the resuit of the Au}ur}mpnsed velocities, and the virtual velocity along CE is as much greater than the actual velocity along CF as the square of the line CE is greater than the square of the line CF, and in this case CE is equal to 1.414 times CF—that is, the virtual velocity is 1.414 times greater than the actual velocity. ‘When the line CF moves from its origi- nal position to the position DE, the car, as we have shown, has virtually moved along CE, but when CF stops in the position DE the gar, instead of continuing to move along EH with the virtual.velocity it ap- pears to have acquired, actually is found to be movingalong EG_with the original velocity it had along CF. Now, what has become of the superimposed velocity it was supposed to have acquired while moving along CE? ROBERT STEVENSON. 2607 Fillmore street, San Francisco. 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