The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1895, Page 14

1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 18Y5. J» e The Day We Celebrate. Have any of you children ever stopped to think what a wonderful history of Cali- fornia has been enacted during the life- time of the Oldest Inhabitant? Three native races are yet living in this State which have each in turn been domi- nant, and all within the memory of said Oldest Inhabitant. And there are even persons living in this State to-day—very foolish persons in- deed you will say—whoare always prophe- sying that some of us will see a fourth race of people domini 1t here—a raceof little brown men from over seas. Of the race of people which lived in California from nobody knows when until the Spaniards came—the Indian race— there are ever SO many representatives living who are more than a hundred years are living in the shadows of the ion buildings whose young hands helped to make the adobe bricksof which those buildings were formed—all more than a hundred years ago. Indeed, it is but three or four years since there died at Monterey an old Indian, | d Old Gabriel, who was alive, it is be- | lieved, when the Franciscan monks Father Junipero and Father Crespiarrived here. This was in the year1770. The ship San | N @tiens I rode all about San Francisco and her sister cities with a gallant officer of the United States navy, who had just landed at this port. The officer was feeling in excellent spirits when he started on his outing. I suppose he liked to feel something more ! stable than a deck beneath his feet, and thav after a long cruise in foreign parts his heart swelled with pride and patriotism when Le saw his own flag floating every- | where. At least I supposed that at first.” | Presently we saw a_ schoolhouse with a flag on it. The officer bit his lip with shame at being obliged to ask information about fiags from a mere woman, and then he inquired who was dead. Of course 1 didn’t know anything. I believe the officer expected that.” He must | have decided that it was a teacher or scholar of that particular school, and he apparently forgot about that flag. But later in the day we came to other flags at half-mast, and finally to one that was not only at half-mast, but upside down! That meant death—pestilence. And so | my navy officer fled back to his ship in | horror and despair. Nothing could con- | vince him that even landsmen could hoist flags in such shape if nothing was the | matter. | 8o, boys, if you don’t mind, won’t you | just ask the janitors at your schoolhouses | to run those flags up taut and shipshape, | But next year all the world and Missouri rang with thenews of the discovery of gold. In a very short time California had a population of nearly haifa million—mostly in the territory then. men. Don’t you ihink those must have been dreadful days for children? Finally September 9, 1850, was the day that the United States Congress passed an act by which California became one of the States of the Union. The news didn’t get out here till the 18th of October, when the steamer Oregon arrived with it. Nobody was much surprised, but every- body was delighted. The 29th of October was set apart for the celebration, and it is supposed that everybody’s clean clothes arrived from China, where they used to send the washing in time for the men folks to get into their ‘‘biled” shirts. They had a lady orator to recitean ode which she had written for the occasion. Would you have believed it of them after all the fuss they made about a lady orator forthe'dth of July, 1895? And they hada display of tireworks and a parade. More than that they lit bonfires on the hills on all sides, and they illuminated all their houses, and- they kept the celebration up all day and most of the night, very much asa few of our people will do at this, the forty-fifth anniversary of that Admission day. Tt you. have resd ¥his stary every bit BUTTERFLY HUNTERS. Antonio landed at Monterey with some soldiers and sailors, ana et there the monks who had jonrneyed overland from Vera Cruz in old Mexico. June 1, 1770, these people planted the cross, and took possession of the country, | with religious ceremonies, in the name of | the church. Then, unfurling the royal standard of Spain, they planted it beside the cross and (L]eclnred this land the possession of- their king. ‘When the news of zll this reached the City of Mexico there was a great celebra- tion, you may be sure. Al! the bells of the city were rung, masses were said in the churches, proclamations were issued every- where. And when the slow-sailing ships of those days took the ome to old Spain there was j much ex- citement over there. T'll warrant they had bullfights and fiestas to celebrate the news, as well as the stately ceremonies of church and state that ave told about in the history books. Anyway the Spaniards had everything their own way in California for a good many years. They built missions from one end of the State to the otber, always only an easy day’s journey apart, so that the traveler could rest each night under the hospitable roofs that gave shelter to all who asked. The King of Spain gave grants of land to soldiers and statesmer whom he wished to, | honor. The Indians gave willing service te the fathers, who told them they were come to save their souls. Besides the mis: presidios, where stationed. These force, il necessary, ciscans. ‘Well, the Indians were the kind that didn’t care about taking people to pieces one joint ata time, as the little Apaches were taught to do. They liked the fathers u:r]xd the ceremonies of the church delighted them. S History says that in 1831 there were only 23,025 people in California, of whom 18,683 were converted Indians. There were plenty of unconverted Indians, too, who mostly lived among the mountains; but, of course, nobody knew, and probably no- :)gdy much cared, how many there were of ese. After a while they had a revolution down in Mexico, and somehow California never belonged to old Spain very much after that. The Franciscans had much of their wealth and power taken away, and American—that is United States—settlers began to come in. Now, I am come up to the time that the Oldest Inbabitant, hundreds of him, re- members very well. You can easily enough learn all the rest of the history of California by word of mouth from men whbo_have seen it and have even taken a hand in n?nkinf it. In the first place there was that time the stars and stripes had to be hauled down and apologized for. Wasn't that a funny thing to bappen in w land where only fifty years after those me stars and stripes float bravely at half- most from every building where a public school is 1n session ? Wait a minute till I explain why I speak of those fiags flying at bali-mast. "One day sions there were the anish soldiers were te expected to en- he rule of tiie Fran- | got a telegram trom headquarters, Com- so that foreign ships need not be afraid to come into this harbor? i About that time our flag haa to be| hauled down at Monterey. It was in 1842 that Commodore Jones of our navy hoisted the flag, believing that the Unitea States was at war with Mexico. Isuppose he hadn’t seen the mornin; papers, and he thought it wonld be a very clever thing to claim this Territory for his Government. Though he couldn't have modore Jones discovered his mistake in some way, and, after floating for a day and a night, that flag came down. For a time the flag of independence floated over California. which was in rebellion against Mexico. Pio Pico, who died last year in Los Angeles, was Governor once and again. The people were reckless and gay. They loved = fandangoes, dancing, bull-fights, bear-baitings. Everybody rode on horseback, and even children learned to swing the lariat, to ride at a breakneck gallop, to snatch a hand- kerchief from the ground while riding at full speed. Ships came to our ports for tallow and hides, 2nd great herds of cattle, almost ina wild state, roamed our hilis and valleys. When a gentleman went traveling in those days he took a drove of horses and some drovers with him. ‘When his horse grew tired of the saddle it was turned loose and a fresh mount taken. Horses and cattle were branded on the flank, as they still are back among the mountains. . There were no fences anywhere, but the stock was driven to corralsonce a year at the big rodeo. TFor many years the half-barbaric In- dians used to come out of the mountains and steal horses,which theyroasted and ate! Thousands of horses were destroyed in this way, and when you remeimnber that a Californian of those days only felt at home on horseback, and that he doubtless loved his horse as you love your wheel, you will see what a very great nuisance all this horse-stealing was. It seems to take me a long time to get around to ‘“the day we ceiebrate.” 'lfile story the Oldest Inhabitant tells is that Captain John Charles Fremont, called the Pathfinder, came riding out to California in 1846. He maneuvered about for a time, but finally California was captured for the United States without any particular bloodshed. And the 7th day of July, 1846, the stars and stripes floated over Monterey again and they haven’t been hauled déwn with apologies since that time. There were some American ships in the harbor down there and they floated all their bunting and saluted the flag with all their guns, and all their people shouted themselves hoarse. And up at Yerbs Buena you can ask the Oldest Inhabitant that you know whether he ever heard of such a place as that—the same thing was repeated the next day. Several generals flourished about over Cali- fornia for a time, and there were even two battles in which some lives'were lost. At last came a treaty of peace and then a bar- gain by which Mexico gave up all claim to California and some other territory for the snm of $15,000,000. There were less than 15,000 white people through without going to sleep you have imbibed a big piece of the history of Cali- fornia in a perfectly pairless fashion. Only I do wish that the Oldest Inhabi- tant himself could have told the story in his own words to each and every one of TuE CaLy’s children. Mary CALKINS JORNSON. THE MYSTICAL OLD LAKE, Throngs of Forty - Niners Abandoned Everything in Search of It. FLEETING VISIONS OF WEALTH. Gold Lake of To-Day Probably What Stoddard Saw—How Last Chance Was Named. A visit to the site of ancient Troy or younger Herculaneum hardly appeals more strongly to the sightseer of to-day than does a ride over the romantic scenes made historic by the exciting events of the Argonauts. A pleasant party recently climbed the rugged trail that leads from Mohawk Valley, in Plumas County, up to Gold Lake and listened to the story of 1ts early history with almost childish inter- est. All the surroundings go to aid the story-teller in his efforts to touch the im- agination, and the beautiful lake confined within its snow-capped walls of granite brought past and present together almost as much as if the old place was still alive with red-shirted forty-niners. The rush to ““Gold Lake”’ was the first of those strange migrations which sent men by thousands tramping over the then unexplored mountains in search of t reas- ures hid away in their mysterious depths, which proved almost as mythical as the “fountain of youth” or Aladdin’s cave. The whole mountainside, from Kern to Trinity, was being gmsnegt@d in a hurried way by men unused to mining, and they were encouraged to believe every wild sto: that came floating down by traders an others, who profited by every passing wave of excitement (and they were not far apart) in those early days of 49 and ’50. very day reports of new discoveries were coming in and men, and even whole trains, came down carrying loads of gold-dust sufficient to make the owners independent in their old homes in the States. It was noticed by the observers that the higher up they looked for gold the coarser the particles, and, in some uu‘:klu:ge chunks were found, and it did not take the inquisi- tive Yankee long to begin to inquire where headquarters were and from what great original storehouse the vast quantities | Feather scattered over the whole country had been distributed. The theory developed that. the source of gold-dust lay somewhere among the summits, and that all the dust and drift found in the gravel below had been washed down by the storms and floods of ages from this great bank of solid metal. It came to be believed that when this store was found nothing would be TDecessary except to break off what each one considered sufficient to make him happy and pack it off in the most convenient manner; and so when each fresh report was circulated enough men got crazy over it to make a sensation which only wore out when npersistent efforts to find a solid mountain of gold resulted in failure or worse disaster. It was at such a time that one Stoddard struck the busy camp at the “Forks,” afterward Downieville, with a tale of a lake with banks and bottom of gm-e gold. He showed some pieces which e claimed to have picked up there just as a band of Indians came up and ran him off. He said that he had come over the Lassen trail with a party and that he and a companion had gone out for a hunt and losing their way had wandered for sev- eral days in the mountains to the north- east of Downieville; when shot at by In- dians he claimed that he was wounded in the leg, and showed a scar as proof; that he ran for the hills, became separnvzé from his companion and never saw him again; after some days he_reached the Yuba and told his story, but it was late in the season, winter was coming on, and the fate of the Donner party had made men cautious, so he got no encouragement that fall. But in the spring the whole country having be- come eutiused over the story, he had no trouble in getting up a party, and in May, 1850, he got twenty-five prospectors to- ggmer and left Nevada City at their head, bound for Gold Lake. In the meantime immigrants were swarming in from every quarter and most of them were ready to believe anything told them. Fabulous diggings had been found in widely sep- arated parts of the State and big pockets had been struck. Besides many large chunks were left in prominent windows on exhibition. Everything conduced to fire the heart of the bold young adventurers who had come from the four quarters of the globe, free from family cares, unre- strained by the presence of women or of old associations, and ready for anything that fate had in store for them. Under such circumstances an expedi- tion like that headed by Stoddard could hardly fail to attract a great deal of atten- tion, and the little company was followed by thousands from the day they started out. There are conflicting stories in some respects, but they all agree that it was one of the wildest of all the wild goose chases ever made. One of Downieville's oldest settlers says he was in Hangtown when a man came in who told of a hunter who looked down on a lake that was paved with gold, but who never got to the water’s edge, a8 there were savage Indians in the way. He offered to guide a party over, and was soon on theroad. It was soina hundred camps, and horses, mules, tents and stores rose to a very high figure. Pay- ing claims in prosperous camps were sold or thrown away, and everything that had legs was packed for the journey. Loads were carried on the backs of horses, mules, oxen and even men. Many started out with wagons and apparatus, but they had to be abandoned and the wild race kept up with flying baggage. Stoddard soon proved that he knew nothing of the coun- try, and never found any gold lake, or any other lake, but the crowds that were fol- lowing his party stuck to it like shadows, and vainly imagined that all the tramping to and fro in an apparently aimless man- ner was to throw them off the scent. They wandered into the Sierra Valley and into some of the smaller valleys north of it. Patience at last gave out, and the anger of the camp increased to such an extent that it was voted to hang Stoddard. He was notified, and be, begzed so hard that the men agreed to give him one more { day. That night he disappeared, and the ! little valley is known to this day as “‘Last Chance.” "The party scattered, some go- iv\l:, prospecting on their own account, others returning to old locations, and the crowds that were foljowing them took the | hint and did likewige. The winter had been a hard one, siow had fallen to a depth of 30 feet, snowshoes had not been introduced, ana’ great hardships were un- dergone. Many lost their lives by snow- slides, by falling over cliffs or by exposure, and in less than a month it was known all over the State that “Gold Lake” was a myth and the Stoddard party broken up. The charm was broken and the floating thousands drifted into_other things, many of them almost as wild as the one they had escaped from. Steddard tried to get up other parties but failed. He spent the summers for several succecding years in a vain attempt to find the bonanza he had advertised so well, but finally abandoned the search and left the mountains for a ranch life in the vailey. ‘Whether the Gold Lake of to-day is the one Stoddard lost or not is hard to prove. It answers the description well and is lo- cated as near right for it as any, so far as the modern prospector can judge. Stod- dard’s party took the ridge between iver and the North Fork of the Yuba, and must have gone very near this lake, as they traveled over the hillsto Sierra Valley, which lies almost in sight to the east. Every freshet brings down layers of mica, which gild the shores and bottom at the south end, and make as good look- ing a prospect as any man could ask for. Though the bottom of the lake is not paved with gold, there are great deposits on all sides, and many a million has been taken out in sight of its waters. Gold Valley lies four miles west, and mills built only last summer are crushing rock from mines that were found a generation afi;). but never before thoroughly worked. The YounfI America is six miles south, the Four Hills mine seven miles northwest, and there are gold ledges among the hill$ adjoining the shore. 'szelve miles north lie the famous Plumas-Eureka mine and mills, the largest in the State. For over thirty years from ten to a hundred stamps have been thundering away, and $17,000,000 has been taken out. The Sierra Buttes took $7.000,000 out about a dozen miles south, and on_ the Steeiman and Hayes claim, three miles east, there was picked up in early days one nugget worth 3 A man found it under a small tree and was throwing it out among the rocks, when its weight attracted his attention, and he washed the dirt off it and saw its value. He said it looked like a small ham, and he had no idea it was a little fortune in itself. Phiio A. Havens, well known in San Francisco, went to Last Chance with Stod- dard and later found quartz at Gold Lake. With his brother, James M. Havens, he worked placer and quartz mines there for years, building a water-power at the outlet for a sawmilF and quartzmill, All have gone to decay and to-day form interesting rains, Every place of interest in the mountains attracts to it some one character who be- comes part of it and never seems able to break away. So Dick Wade lived and died at Gold Luke; died alone and was found with a fishing-pole in his hand and the line dangling in the water through a hole in the ice. A fine spot overlooking the lake was selected for her long home by Mrs. James M. Walker and after several months’ illness she was buried there. James Dickson was buried near by. Gold Lake itself, which can never fail to be an object of interest, not only for its romantic history but also for the grandeur and beauty of its scenery, is about two miles long, north and south, by a mile across. Quite a stream falls from it and runs down Frasier Creek and into Feather River. There is good fishing and it is one of the finest camping grounds in the mountains, adding difficulty .in accessi- bility to its other attractions. Great walls of granite rise on the south and west, shading into timber-covered slopes on the north and east sides. There is a rough and steep wagon road from Mrs. Bassett’s on the Sierra Valley and Downieville road and the approach is through winding can- yons and %unenu of timber until the edge of the lake is less than half a mile away. The view at first sight is both charming and grand. A handsome little island lies off shore covered with green, and the bright blue water seems as pure as the white snow which lies in large patches beyond. The great cliffs and the blue sky are all of a piece and the whole makes one of nature’s incomparable harmonies. R. L. Futrow. Reno. Ney., Sept,, 1895 KINETIC STABILITY. BY ROBERT STEVENSON, C.E, SIXTH PAPER. In the preceding paper I gavethe Smith- sonian conditions which are considered necessary to a true solution of the problem of gravitation. 3 First—It acts radially. I acknowledge that the cause of gravity appears to act along the radins vector joining the sun and planet, but I deny that the true cause acts along the resultant line of motion. (See papers 2 and 3 of this series for explanation.) Then, if it acts through its components, we can easily see how 1ts rectilinear trac- tion is capable of deflection by a force act- ing atright angles to the other component, and that explains why a body such asa rifle bullet, fired peint blank with a ve- locity of 2000 feet per second, is not acted on by gravity during the first 600 yards (see report of rifle practice by military authorities at Washington a month ago with the new army rifle); and that is why I have asked the university authorities to make an exhaustive test of the factin avacuum, and so determine the matter sci- entifically and definitely, because every astronomer and scientist acknowledges that if a body in motion in a horizontal vlane does not fall sixteen feet in the first second of its motion then the attraction of matter is a fallacy. Then I shall get them to adopt my little foundling as the long lost heir of all the ages. Poor little Kine- tic Stability will then be placed on his vice- regal throne, amidst the resounding ap- plause of earth and heaven, and once more satan will have to take a back seat, after deceiving the nations so long with his false theories of attraction and evolution as inherent powers in nature. Second—Its quantity is ezactly proportional to the acting mass. Kinetic stability is exactly proportional to kinetic energy, and kinetic energy is exactly proportional to the acting mass. Hence kinetic stability fills the bill com- pletely. Third—its intensity s diminished by reces- sion in proportion to the sguare of the dis- tance through which it acts indefinitely. That is the kinematical law "which took Sir Isaac Newton thirty years to discover and demonstrate, and for which he has re- ceived the well-deserved thanks of a grate- ful world for over 200 years. Now, if [ can show that kinetic stability not only obeys that law, but is itself the very author of that law, then there will be no need for science to deny that kinetic stability is the | true and proximate cause of universal gravitation. Let us take the same case that Newton took to prove his law, the case of the earth and moon, and let us try to find out how kinetic stability can keep the moon revolv- ing in an orbit round the earth without any rigid stress between the two bodies. If the university authorities would kindly verify the fact, that the resultant motion from the superposition of two transverse energies is curvilinear, instead of rectilnear, it would be the simplest i thing in the world to prove that kinetic stability is the true canse of an apple, a | stone, or any other body falling to the | earth. Now, although I have proven that | fact to my own satisfaction, yet I dare not use that fact in my demonstration, until it is verified by the authorities. 1 might, | like Buclid, take it for granted and pro- | ceed to show that anything else was ab- | surd or unreasonable, but, although the authorities think action at a distance is absurd, yet we are not prepared to ac- | knowledge that an ether rervnding all | space and the interstices of all bodies, hav- ing a rigidity 100 times greater than steel and yet as thin' as a vacuum, is unrea- | sonable. They are still searchfng for it, and no_scientific papers on the subject which did not acknowledge the probabil- ity of its existence would be treated with the smallest consideration, either by the editors of scientific journals or by the ex- amining committee of any scientific asso- ciation; so thatthere is only one way left to make this fact known, and that is through the columns of a popular newspaper. And T cantell you it is about as difficult to make a technical subject interesting enough to Elease a newspaper editor as it is to get Berkeley to test these experi- ments. However, there is one discovery I have made since these articles began to appear in TuE CALL—namely, that there are quite a number of people in this State who are anxious to acqunire the faith power to enable them to remove mountains. To illustrate the action of kinetic sta- bility in the case of the earth and moon we will take a_whirling table, such as is used in the universities to show the action of centrifugal force, and we will fix a steel ball exactly in the center of the table to represent the earth, and close to that we will place a boy’s small marble. Then we will start the table in a whirling motion rothd a vertical axis, and that instant the marble, representing the moon, flies off from thesteel ball in the center, represent- ing the earth,and the marble does not stop receding from the center until it reaches the rim of the whirling disk or table. If the motion of the whirling table is uniform the marble presses against the rim and rotates with the rim. Now, if that rim was invisible like the ether, and et could keep the marble from receding, %ere you would have an apparent case of action at a distance. Suppose we were to enter that room with Newton, and all the parts of the apparatus were made of per- fectly transparent and invisible glass, ex- cept the steel ball representing the earth and the marble reFreunting the moon. Then Newton would say that marble is beirig held in its orbit by the attraction exercised on it by the steel ball, and all the scientists would say amen; and the cranks would stump the country and pro- claim the end of the world to be close at hand when such great philosophers were being produced. And Mr. Newton, who had now become a great philosopher and a high scientific authority, determined to aemonstrate mathematically the law of the action of this wonderful force of attraction, and he reasoned thus: 2 If it is true what the great astronomer, Kep- ler, says, that the planets in their orbital mo- tion describe areas proportional to the times round the sun as a center, then they must be drawn toward the sun by a centripetal force. Now, this marble describes equal areas in equal time round this steel ball, therefore it must be drawn toward it by a centripetal force, but s there is no string visible I have called it an attractive force. That is how Newton reasoned out the existence of an ‘attractive centripetal force, and, of course, he had the magnet to show that such a force did really exist in nature. But to those of us who know that the marble is part of an invisible whirli table his reasoning would not be accepte in this particular case. We know that tie marble is dead. It does not move of itself. It hasmo kinetic energy; it simply has the momentum of the whirling table, and its pressure against the rim prevents it from flying off at a tangent. The marble on the whirling table, so far as its orbital motion is _con- cerned, is like the bicycle on a railway train, it has no kineiic stability. In this experiment, the whirling table has been at rest in a room, say. If we take the table on board a railway train, running on a perfectly smooth, level, and straight track, at say 30 miles an hour; and then start the disk whirling with the marble as before, would that make any difference to the centrifugal tendency of the marble? Certainly not; the table, marble, and all ate dead so far as free in’ dependent motion is concerned, just like the bicycle. They can be moved about like ordinary dead furniture in the Palace Hotel. But now here is the great secret, dyou give that whirl table independent, free motion, a m give that marble independent. motion, and the; both acquire kinetic stability, and w! they are moving thus you try to pull the marble away from the steel ball and it will resist your pull, as if it was attached_to the steel ball by a piece of elastic. When you pull it an inch and let it go it goes back fo the steel ball, just the same as it would fall toward the earth by the force of gravity; and its resistance to you, when you pull it away from the steel ball, is what we call the body’s weight, and the acceleration with which it returns to the place you have lifted it from is the measure of the force of gravity on it, and that we have seen is caused by the kinetic stability of the mar- e. Now there 15 the whole secret of gravity, and its law is: That the weight of a picce of matter, any- where in the universe, is directly proporti to its kinelic e , and inversely propor- tioned to its potential energy. Let E=Total energy. Let Ex=Kinetic energy. Let Ey=Potential energy. Then, E=Ex+E,. Now, supposing you want to find the cause of weig.ht on the earth’s surface: Then, instead of saying the weight of a piece of matter is caused by the attraction of the earth to that piece, we would ex- plain it thus: Owing to the earth’s orbital velocity its kinetic energy is equal to '"—;l- = Ex, where v is equal to its orbital velocity, and m is its mass. . Now please note that this orbitant veloc- ity is real living motion, such as a bicycle in motion has; not like the marble on the whirling table in a lecture-room, nor even like the marble on & whirling table at rest on a railroad car that is going at full speed. And as the earth has real living motion it _hag also kinetic energy, and as it has kinetic energy it also has kinetic stability, similar to the living bicycle, the live species, and the true Christian. It cannot be upset by every wind that blows, or shaken by every flea that jumps. Now, my discovery shows that the kinetic stability is equal to the half of the whole energy or visviva of the moving body. Hence the kinetic sta- bility is equal to the kinetic energy, equal my In this case the kinetic energy and kine- tic stability are that of the earth as an independent free body moving in its orbit and have to be considered relative to that line of motion without any reference to the celestial path of the solar system, because relative to that path the earth has the momentum of the sun’s actual motion, but like a bicycle in a moving train it may be said to be dead while it hveth. Fur- thermore, for a complete understanding of the subject you should know that the sub- stance, nebula, or fluid from which the globular earth was formed was composed of atom, molecules and probably inde- pendent particles, each one of’ which had kinetic energy and consequently kinetic stability. That tact is mow scientifically estab- | lished by the most accurate and pains- taking observations of Professors Barnard and Keeler, the one in_California, the other in Pennsylvania. Now if a globe like the earth, whose every particle had kinetic energy, be also given longitudinal velocity as a whole, and rotation at the same time round its moving axis, then such a whirling mass would act very dif- ferently from a whirling table, either in a room Or on & moving train, because each particle having kinetic stability, due to its kinetic energy, wounld resist with a living or elastic force the centrifugal force due to rotation. Hence, instead of the mass flying from the center like the marble when the mass began to rotate, it would keep expanding gradually under a stress in the form of a pressure, until the potential energy of rota- e kinetic energy of tion became equal to_th direct mocign. Then the kmet:t; stability would be a minimum, and a ma: on the surface of the earth would have !gg weight or its_stability would be said to o neutral, and if the rotation was increase beyond that limit tlrzgfl the stone or mass would fly off on & tangent, just as we saw i:bfhe case of the marble on the whirling e. The kinetic stability of a mass which he! kinetic energy may, therefore, be said to be the work required to turn the kinetic st.ubxlitx into potential energy. Therefore, when the potential energ: fi. nothing the kinetic stability is equal to the kinetic energy and is a maximum, But when the potential energy is equal-to the kinetio energy then the kinetic stability is a mini- mum. And as the whole energy is equal to the sum of the kinetic and potential energies, and when they are equal to each other each is equal to half of the whole energy? So the kinetic energy plus the kinetic stability is equal to the whole energy. And from that it will be seen that the kinetic stability is equal to the kinetic energy, and varies inversely as the potential energy. Now if the kinetic stability be recipro- cating in its action, as I have discovered it to be, and have explained in my pamphlet, then the reciprocating action, being elas- tic, must have a reacting or restoring com- ponent force, and we will call that force the force of restitution; and this force of restitutlon is what we experience as the force of gravity, and what Sir Isaac New- ton and ali the scientific authorities at present call the force of attraction. If the work spent in rotating the earth had been equal to its kinetic stability there would have been no force of resti- tution, and consequently a piece of matter at the earth’s surface would have had no weight; but, owing to the rotational energy having fallen short of the kinetic stability, the unearned increment of the kinetic stability has a force of restitutfon, which causes a mass of any weight or size to fall in a vacuum with the same accelera- tion, which varies with the rotational energy on the earth’s surface, and which in this Jatitude will acquire in one second falling from rest in a vacuum a velocity of 32.2 feet per second agproxtmntaly.' Now if the weight or force of gravity of a stone, or piece of matter on the earth’s surface, was really due to the attraction of | the earth’s mass its weight could only be reduced by reducing the quantity of the earth’s mass, or by increasing its distance from the earth’s center; but Professors | Strmgham and Soule, or any professional scientists, will tell you that if the earth’s rotation was increased seventeen times faster than it isat present, witbout any change in the mass, a mass of iron whicg at present weighs twenty tons would then only weigh twenty pounds at the earth’s surface. The theory of kinetic stability explains that, but Newton’s the- ory of attraction does not. 2 athematicians who do not take kinetic | stability into account reckon as above, that a mass on the earth’s surface woul uire a rotational velocity of about 26, feet per second so that the mass | would lose its weight. But if we give a | mass like a projectile an independent, free | motion, having kinetic nnerg{ in a plane | at right angles to the force of gravity, its | kinetic stability reduces its weight to a minimum long before it has acquired a | velocity of 20,000 feet per second. | Under such motion the projectile, like | the living bicycle, acts very differently from what it would do if it was moving with the same velocity as a dead mass on the earth’s surface. Now that the readers of THE CALL have | got the experimental explanation of this | great secret of nature, it only requires study on their part to apply it either in the mechanical arts, the animal kingdom or ihe spiritual world. 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