-s PHENOMENA IN NATURE. SOME EFFECTS IN MECHANICS DUE TO CAUSES AS YET UNKNOWN. Newton's Lows of Motion Mny lie Upset. Willie Mneli That l'nsees lor i:11-IIIa 1 Truth IH Under ensptelon <mi-e of Gravity llcyoiid Human 1 ouceptiou. Recently we have discussed in these columns recondite problems of physi cal science. To say that these things are beyond the purview of engineers is to limit the scope of the profession. The business of the engineer is to util ize what has been termed, popularly if not accurately, the forces of nature, for the benefit of mankind. To, the physicist the world is indebted for the discovery of new phenomena and novel relations existing between old and new natural actions and interactions. It is impossible, however, to draw a nar row line and say that the province of the engineer lies on one side and the territory of the man of pure science on the other. Thus the discovery of the phenomena of electrical induction was mainly the work of Faraday; but • the construction of dynamos, which utilize that discovery, is the daily work of the engineer. Reasoning in this way, it easily becomes obvious that the engineer is really deeply interested in the whole course of modern scientific research; and speculations as to the constitution of matter and the nature of energy are by no means to be re garded as of necessity abstractions, possessing no real value sufficient to make them worth studying. No one can tell from day to day whether or not some extremely valuable discovery will be made. There is reason, indeed, to believe that co-relations of pbenon ena may at any moment be hit on which will reduce the telegraph to the level of a conspicuously clumsy piece of apparatus, or bring down the cost of electric lighting to a tenth of its existing price. When Hertzian waves were first spoken of no one dreamed that they would enaoie us to transmit, messages through long distances with out visible means of communication. The telephone was built up out of most unlikely materials; and the man who asserted that he could make an iron plate talk to an audience by the aid of three French nails, a small bat tery, and a few cylinders, would have been regarded as a lunatic not so very long ago. Of late those who have watched the signs of the times will have noticed that a change is coming over the mode of thought of the more advanced seek ers after physical truth. Possibly not many of our readers have carefully fol lowed Dr. Larmor's address to Section A of the British association, which we have placed on record in our columns. Possibly fewer of those who have read it have understood it. Dr. Larmor has evidently failed to make the English language express clearly what he wanted to say, nor are we surprised. It is a hackneyed saying that "words fail us to express our feelings." But Dr. Larmor has, in all event 3, suc ceeded in telling us that much that was formerly accepted as the very groundwork of physical science must be abondoned as untenable. He hints, indeed, that Newton's laws of motion are no longer satisfactory expositions of well known truths.. He seems dis posed to abandon the Idea that force is the cause of motion; a statement which we have often pointed out is wholly inconsistent with Newton's third law. lons take the place of atomr, from which they seem to differ only in being infinitely more numerous. Kelvin's theory of vortices, with a dif ference is favored, ami we have again a theory of force centres, which so closely resembles that advanced yearn ago by the late Walter Browne, to say nothing of Bishop Berkeley, that to the superficial observer at all events the distinction Is without a difference. But the most notable feature of the whole discourse is Dr. Larmor's teudeucy to ndandon the pursuits of knowledge In certain directions. It will he bet ter, he said In effect, to content our selves with a statement of the chain of events so far as we can sen the links, without attempting to discover the ends of the chain. We can Etudy the effects of gravity, but it Is forever im possible for the human mind to con ceive of any adequate cause. We may frame mathematical theories about the etlier, but the human mind is inca pable of forming a concept of a sub stance which will comply with the con ditions. In whatever direction we turn, we are stopped by the presence of the unknown. Dr. Larmor will have it, as we understand him, that much of the unknown is unknowable. It is pos sible that we overestimate Dr. Lar mor's pessimism; we trust that we do. Among the matters to which ho di rected attention was attraction. Its i phenomena are common and obvious, even apart from gravity, hut they ap • pear to be absolutely inexplicable. We speak of a torque of a motor, or a dy namo, and it Is part of the work of the electrician and the engineer to calcu late Its amount under stated condi tions; hut no one on earth ha 3 the smallest notion of why torque exists at all in the combination of iron, cop per, cotton and shellac. The magnet gives us a puzzle as recondite as any in the universe. In old times, when men did not use very accurate lan guage, it was said that a lodestone on a permanent magnet "attracted" Iron. No one thought of saying that the iron attracted the magnet to pre cisely the same extent. An to the na ture of the links across space between the two, no one worried himself. "Ac tion took place at a distince," that was, enough. Sir Isaac Nswton was the first man able to influence thought to any sufficient extent to point out that no action of the kind could take place without somo bridge to spaa va culty. By degress it began to be ua- derstood ihat what we term magnetlo attraction can be expressed in terms of lines of force; and, what is of all things Important, that attraction is due not to anything done by the mag net per se, hut to some external form of energy which is localized and di rected by the magnet. But what this form of energy is, or how the magnet works, no one, as we have said, knows. —London Engineer. MAINE'S KINC CUMPICKER. H Leads a I.unt.lv rite, but Makes a Good Income. Ezra Robar. the king gumpicker of Maine, has camped all winter on Por gie 9rook, an d when he comes to town this spring he will have hags and bags of amber lumps to swap for the dol lars of the druggists, who always pay the highest prices for the best gum. The life of a gumpicker, without doubt, is the most lonely that a man can lead. The men go into the woods in October, and they make a study of spruce growth. They have an odd out fit, consisting generally of several polies and knives, a pair or two of. siicwshoes, a small dog, a couple of blankets, and a pair of "climbers." They are like those used by telegraph linemen. The gumpickers travel alone, and have secrets, like gold hunters. They follow the wake of the old whirlwinds that have left long furrows in the wil derness, and as long as they can track the course by the gum that forms on trees wounded the previous season they follow it along. Sometimes a gum hunter finds that his pathway has been intercepted by another hun ter, who had discovered the lead, and a new plan of campaign must be re sorted to. There arc many men who go into the woods to chop trees or swamp roads at $25 a month who work every Sunday at digging gum from the boughs of the spruces, and in that way they greatly increase their earn ings, although they are not nearly so successful as the professional digger. The veretan gum hunter has made his occupation a life study and has re duced the work to a science. He can go up a. tree like a eat, and skin it hare of gum. from stump to top, while the logger would be getting ready to climb. The lumberman gen erally gets 20 to 30 pounds of gum in a winter, and sells it at from 80 cents to $1.25 a pound, according to quality. A professional gum hunter can make from $3 to SS a day when he strikes a really good glint country. When he gets into a good place he keeps very quiet about it until he has gathered the last lump in sight. Ho makes from $-100 to SSOO In a season,, and he earns every cent of it by hard, lonely work. —New York Times. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The leading poultryman in a thriv ing North Missouri town answers to the name of Henry Coop. When Hannibal's army descended from the Alps into the valley of Lom bardy, the whole force was well nigh routed by a plague of mosquitos, which drove men and animals almost wild with pain. "I bought some apples from a China man yesterday, giving him an Ameri can dollar," writes a Kansas soldier boy from Pekiu, "and in the change which he gave me back was an Ameri can half dollar of the date of 1813. 1 have been offered $lO for It." An F-quimnu hibv in horn fair ex cept for a dark round spot on t .■.a.l ui the hack, varying in size from a three penny hit to a shiln From this centre head of color the dark tint gradually spreads till the toddling Esquimau is as beautiful'v and as completely anil as highly col ored as a well smoked meerschan it pipe. The same thing happens among the Japanese. A child's savings hank has been dug out of the ruins of Ostia, the seaport of ancient Rome. The hank was an earthen pot containing 145 silver coins issued by Roman emperors be tween the years 20C and 19 B. C. Tho little savings hank was almost perfect when it was uncovered. It is three inches long and two and one-half inches wide, with a slit in the top through which the money was dropped. Captain Baron Ilolz'.ng of the Third Baden Dragoons recently cover'd a distance of 15 kilometres in the space of 25 minutes, riding against a 11, l way traiu running from Graben to tho neighborhood of Carlsruhp. He ar rived eight minutes before tho train. His horse had been especially trained for the ride, having been fed cn a particular sort of cake, instead of oats, for weeks past. The ride was accom plished without extraordinary exer tion, and the horse was still fit for more work at the finish. Remarkable to relate, wood can be utilized for toft flowing gowns. Wood pulp silk has long been a staple Indus try in St. Etienne, district of France. By certain secret chemical processes the pulp is reduced to a soapy condi tion. It is then forced into tubes full of tiny holes, through which it emerges in the form of fine silk like threads. These are speedily d-ied by being passed through hot alm'sphero, and are forthwith wound on bobbins ready to be woven into silk. The ap pearance of this ltnloue or0(1 net to be so natural that even experts are mistaken and think it tho genuine ui ticle. A century ago the potato was a new and unpopular article of food la France. i The Vicksburg national park will Foon be complete as far lis the acquis! tion of land concerned. It will com< prise in all 1,231 acres. The latest Swiss mountain railway project Is to connect the Engndine witii the Italian lakes by a road over the Bernina range. The daffodil is to be one of the fa vorite flowers of the season. Garflold Huadarho Powders—a very rimpls medicine—cure when othpr remedies fail. When token according to directions the re tult ore most satisfactory. Bend for snniidea. Garfield Toa Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. The weight of tlje air Which the earth is equal to that of 581,000 cuUri of copper, eacn 1003 yards square. DECKING AT PARIS IN 1900. The Frziioiis Chicago llarvftter Company Received Wore and lireatnr Eionon Than Were Tver Before Accorded ais Atnerirau Ezltlkitor ill (ho History of Ex. positions. America may well foel proud of the inter est which her citizens took in Ue Paris Exjvo lition and the elaborate oxhibitn which wore prepared with consummate skill and displayed In a manner not excelled by any other country. Those of Harvesting Machinery in particular were most complete and interesting. The Peering ITurvoater Company, of Chicago, America's foremost manufacturer of this lino of goods, was accorded tho position of honor, having contributed inoro to the advancement of the art of harvesting than any other manu facturer living or dead, and with a greater array ot important inventions to its crodit than any other company in the world. Visitors to tho Exposition were prompt to accord the Peering exhibits supremo honors, and it only remained for official mandate to ratify tho popular verdict, which was done in a manner as substantial no it was well-merited. Each one of tho seven Deeying exhibits secured the highest award in its class. In addition to four high decorations, tho Peering Harvester Company received twenty five awards, or twenty-nino in all, as follows: Decoration of Officer of tho Legion of Honor, Decoration of Chevalier of tho Legion of Honor, Two Decorations of Officer of Merita Aprieolo, a Special Certilicato of Honor, Tho Grand Prize, Six Gold Medals, Six Silver Medals and Eleven Bronze Medals, including Peering Collaborator Medals. Tho Decoration of Logion of Honor was in stituted by Napoleon Bonaparte when First Consul in 1802, and is only conferred in recog nition of distinguished military or civil achieve ments. It is tho highest distinction in tho gift of tho French Bepublie. Tho Decoration of Merito Agricolo is an honor of but slightly less importance, which is conferred upon thoso who have contributed greatly to the advancement of agrieulturo. An Official Certificate of Honor was uccord ed the Peering Retrospective Exhibit, which showed tho improvements in harvesting ma chinery during tho past century, and excited tho highest praiso of the Froneh Government Officials who had cntrustod to tho Deoring Harvester Company tho preparation of this most important oxhibit. By special rcquost this exhibit has been presented to tho National Museum of Arts and Sciences at Turin, where it has become a permanent future of that world-famed institution. The Peering Twino Exhibit and Corn Har vester Exhibit, both of which received the highest awards, have by request of tho French Government bcon protxntod to tho National Agricultural College of Franco. There was no field trial, oither official or otherwise, in connection with tho Paris Expo sition, but tiio moat importunt foreign contest the past season was hold under the auspiocs of tho llussiun F.xpcrt Commission at the Gov ernmental Farm of Tomsk, Siberia. August 14th to 18th. All tho leading American und European machines participated and wers subjected to tho most difficult tests by the Government Agriculturist. The Expert Com mission awarded the Peering Harvester Com pany tho Grand Silver Modal of tho Minister of AgricuHuro and Domain, which was tho highest award. Tho Peering Harvester Works are tho larg est of their kind in the world, covering eighty five acres and emnloying UOOO people. They are equipped with modern uutoinatio ma chines, many of which perform the labor of from five to fifteen hands. This Company is also tho largest manufac turer of Binder Twine in the world, having been first to produce single-strand binder Iwine, sueh as is in genoral uso today, makiuß (>ver a third of the m-oduct of the entire vorld. Tho output of its factory for a single lay would tio a band around tho earth at tlifl {equator, with several thousand miles to sparo. The annus 1 production would fill a freight train twenty miles long. Mado into a mat two feet wide, it would reach across the American Continent from ocean to ocean. Peering machines aro known as LionT Draft Peals, consisting of Bindors, Mowers, lioapcra, Corn Harvesters, Shredders and Itakcs. This Company exhibited at tho Paris Exposi tion an Automobile Mower, which attracted •inch attention, and.exhibitions woro gi\en with one of these machines in tho vicinity wf Varis throughout tho scASon. | Li¥er Don't Act? | •£ You know very well how you feel when your liver don't act. Bile collects in the blood, bowels become j~| gr constipated and your whole system is poisoned. A lazy liver is an invitation for a thousand pains and aches to 3 IS come and dwell with you. 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The number of acres cultivated last year was 4753, aud the total yield of peaches was 40,902 bushels—over "half of tho Michigan crop for 1900. Van Buren County came next, with 5587 bushels. CoTiphitic l<eMv to CoiiHnmptlan Kcrap'o Balram will irtop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a snpiple bottle free. Sola in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Uo at once, delavn are dangerous. The population of the Isle of Pines is 3,199, composed of 2,990 Cubans. 195 Spaniards and 14 others. Their citizenship is classified as 2,818 Cu bans. 32 Spaniards, 334 in suspense and 15 aliens. spring C leaning ItTnde r.asy, Much of the terror of spring cleaning may be avoided by proper preparation. Settled weather should be selected for tho work, and a supply of all needed articles in readiness. Ivory Soap will bo found best for washing windows, paints and floors : it i.harmless, und very effective in making tho houso clean and fr. bh -Eliza It. Parker. 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