Scientific Discussions
by Garrett P. Serviss
The person who possesses strong
imagination does not need to go to a
if. order to enjoy Shakespeare.
YMMSMig in his room, with the book in
bis hand, he is independent of the
_tor and the stage manager. This
■sme elemental power-of u.e imagina
tion frees the mind from the limita
tions of time. also. Knowledge of his
tory would be impossible without it.
One reason why historians disagree
so much is because of the immense
share that imagination necessarily has
in their work. They can describe only
fhat they mentally visualize, but
':ntal as well as physical sight varies
tfith persons. If, as lawyers know, two
' ■actual witnesses of the same occur
rence never see it exactly alike, how
could we expect two persons to form
an imaginary picture of an unwit
nessed scene or event in exactly the
same way?
However, this is aside from what
1 set out to write. The imagination
being free of time limitations and of
space limitations likewise. we can
wander wherever we will in the uni
verse, and relieve its whole life, as far
as we can get clues. We can. not only
go back through geological ages, and,
piecing together the bits of evidence
which the rocks afford, reconstruct the
most dramatically interesting scenes
which occurred on this earth millions
of years ago. but wtth the hints de
rived from another line of evidence,
we can follow the earth in its amaz
ing adventures as a chaser of the sun.
U'e nre carried 40(1.000.000 miles
p. r year toward the region where now
shines the star Vega, in the northern
sky. As far as measurements show
this motion of the earth, disregarding
iis annual spiralling around the sun.
which is merely an incident, follows a
straight line in space. rrobably the
real path is n very long curve, but
for the present let us regard it as
straight.
Four hundred million miles seems
n vast distance. It is about four
and a third times the width of the
space between the earth and the sun.
I'.ut compared with remoteness of even
the nearest stars it is so slight that
to ordinary observation this amount of
change in the position of the earth
has no effect upon the apparent posi
tions of those stars.
When we reckon star in
miles we have to use triltons Instead
of millions, a trillion being a million
millions. Thus Alpha Contaurl is
about twenty-five trillion miles away,
.".nd Sirius about fifty trillions. Vega
is probably two hundred trillion
miles distant. Yet magnify the time
tinits enough and a very different as
pect is put upon the matter. Thus,
while the 400 million miles traveled
northward by the earth in a year is
not enough to make any noticeable
difference in the brightness of Vega
during a human lifetime, or even in
a thousand years, yet if we use geo
logical time intervals all this is
changed.
In a million years the eartli will
travel twice as far as the distance
now separating it from the star Vega.
Then, if we disregard its own move
ments in the meantime, Vega will ap
pear to the inhabits* ts of the earth
in the southern instead of the north
ern sky. and the entire aspect of the
starry heavens will have been com
pletely changed. Not a constellation
will be left as it appears to-day.
Now. in its past history the earth,
as a member of the solar system,
has traversed even greater distances
than this. A moderate estimate of
the time elapsed since the first recog
nizable stratified rooks were laid down
is 50.000.000 years. Multiply that by
490,000,000 and you get 20.000 trillions
of miles as the distance travelled by
the earth since, let us say. the he
ginning of the Silurian period. That
amounts to about a thousand parsecs
(the parsee is the astronomical unit
of the star distance measurement)
and falls somewhat below moderate es
timates of the distance of the nearer
party of the Milky Way. To cross
the entire width of the central space
within the Milky Way the solar sys
tem would require at least a hundred
million years.
Hut, as before remarked, it is prob
able that the path of the solar sys
tem, shared by the earth, is not really
a straight line. More likely it is an
irregular orbit whose shape depends
upon the varying attraction of other
stars, both visible and invisible. Dur
ing its hundreds of millions of years
of voyaging, while it has been run
ning through the scenes of its geologi
cal history like a person who
should pass from childhood to old age
in a vessel that never touched a port
—it has. perhaps, more than once
circuited the starry coasts of the Gal
axy, and there are obscure indica
tions in the geological record that the
wanderer has had some perilous en
counters and trying experiences, as
well as some halcyon days, like those
when some benign influence showered
sunshine and flowers over the now ice
bound poles.
We have assumed the velocity of
the solar system to be uniform. More
likely it luis varied. There are some
surprising speculations in recent as
tronomy about stars travelling faster
the older they get, which may bo dis
cussed, with other interesting mat
ters, another time.
A WELL-EARNED TITLE
Tourists (at the ancient rural hos
telry, coming down to breakfast with
a haggard, unvested appearance)
"Last night, madam, you informed
me that the great Duke of Welling
ton once stayed at this hotel. Is it
a fact?"
Landlady—lt is. sir a solemn fact.
He slept in the very room you occu
pied last night.
Tourist Was it just the same
then that it is now?
Landlady—Just the Werry same.
Tourist —The same bed in it?
Landlady—The werry identical
bed.
Tourist —And the Duke of Wel
lington slept in It? He actually
slept In it?
Landlady—Ain't that wbnt I'm a
tellln' yer? The Dook of Welling
ton act'lly slept In tho weary bed
what you had Inst night.
Tourist-—No wonder they called
•Mm the Iron Duke. —London Tii-
Blts.
METHOD IN HIS MADNESS
An aetor-mannger was being
; shown around ft lunntlo asylum.
Rented under ft tree in tho garden
; was a man who wns counting Ills
. fingers ngnin nnd again, tputterlng,
•'Eeney, meeny, rnlney, mee,"
"Who's thlB?" osked the actor,
"A strange caße, sir," replied the
■ attendant, ''We found him in the
i, i street, He'a harmless, but hopelessly
! Insane,"
The aetnp looked at the lunatln
I osvfy, while the attendant moved
i away. Bless my soul!" he
i ltd presently; '"tie resembles a for
jyner member of my company l ;"
'Tell me." said he. addressing the
I lunatic, "aren't yon Bawl, the
■ actor?"
"Cheese it," wh'sperert the count
| r. "If they don't find put. I can
i stay here ail {he summer rent free."
I —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph,
EOT THE WROXGOALL
"Quick, hand me that bagt ! > yall
c-1 the physician. "A man liss .lust
j te'ephoned me in a dying voice fhat
he can't live without me."
i "Wait," said the wife, who bad
Ftaken up the receiver, "this call is
Rfor Edith."—Blighty, London.
THURSDAY EVENING, HARTUSBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 4, 1919.
KELICS OF AHAWAKS
When in 1494. on his second voy
i age, Columbus discovered the island
iot' Jamacia, it was populated by the
j Arawak Indians, who, although at
!first hostile to him, became friend-
Ily on his giving them clothing and
I other articles hitherto unknown to
i them. When later the Spaniards
we sell for
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WE SELL FOR LESS fi9SiIBBg.SIBaiKS
settled the island they forced the
Indians not only to do agricultural*
! work in their own island, but to
: labor in the gold mines of Hayli.
|So hard were the Spaniard task
masters that by 1858 tlje whole
! Arawak nation was exterminated,
i During the last eight years efforts |
I have been made, under the auspices l
of a scientific society, to recover all J
• possible traces of the lost race. To
that end explorations have been
made in the old kitchen middens,
or refuse heaps of the Arawaks, in
which there have been found, be-1
sides shells and lottery and fish,l
i turtle and cony bones, many oeits
1 or rude chisels, grinding stones, stone'
pendants and axes —1,500 objects in
all, which have been given to the
American Museum of Natural His
tory in New York city.
To the anthropologist the most in
teresting obects are the cylindrical
stone pendants, which were fashion
ed with sand and stone and endless
rubbing. Pendants of exactly tlte
same sort are worn to-day as in
signia of office by chiefs or headmen
of tribes in northern South America.
—Detroit News.
FATHER'S FAILING
"Can anybody tell me what har
ness is " asked the teacher. Not a
single hoy knew. "Well," she con-
tinued, "is there anybody here whose
father works among horses?"
One small boy stood up and an
swered, "Yes, teacher."
"What does your father put on
the horse every morning?"
"Please, teacher, every cent lie
has." Pittsburgh Ohronicle-Telc
' graph.
EVEN THEN
She Why are you looking so
thoughtful, my dear?
He—l was wondering how Jonah
got away with it when his wife ask
ed him where he had been, away
from home all tlmt time, nnd he
told her a whale had swallowed
him.—Baltimore American.
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