| Show TIle The Sentinel Were We're a Bunch of Another Planet Fount Tragedy of Old Age Mystery ry of Old Rifle 0 BY BY IRVING HUDSON HUDSON- r We Ve are all familiar r with th the fact that thai every eely Individual l. l is 11 a bunch of or nerves nelves Sometimes lien an In- In duals nerves nelves get the better r ot oi him and commence to act net UI up UI wo say he has a case of nerves Quite a few people have e seen a nerve but very few have heard th the tho sound of ones one's impulse Thanks to scIence science sd- sd ence and radio thousands thousand's of p peo people popie po- po o- o pIe have had the opportunity of oC hearing a nerve Impulse Ep E at atthe the of Iowa Towa j. cond-j. led ledan an experiment over the ladio in which tIre tiro nerve nelVe Impulse Occurring when a muscle woo was fl lied fied d some tImes limes and broad broa j- j cast it may not b bd bo long iong on before the beat Q of a heart of hate and one Ine filled with love e may be heard on tile the air aLl When that time comes conies we e are certain tile the lie difference will be significant S S Professor ProCessor William 1 II in nt ot the Greenwich observatory hagland hag Eng land has hits succeeded d in lo locating a n ninth planet in our system which so far tire tle distinguished as astronomer as- as has not seen That statement state stAte- shout ment sounds like an apparent contradiction con con- but It Is not Professor ProCessor Pickering began his reckonings 11 by noting a certain influence tico exerted d by some IOme other body on the tue planets Saturn Uranus and Neptune Because Be- Be cause causo of variations In tho the Orbits or rits of or these planets Professor Pickering and other scientists were convinced J that an another ther planet w was s. s working In their polar olar vicinity Now the they the ore Ole sure suro of the lie fact an and J astronomers all nil over the world are hoping to tobe be the tho first to actually se sec Url this new member of our oWn solar hen it comes to lo an argument nt for forthe the tho simple faith of ol the individual who Insists on the existence of God iod because he is conscious of f in influence influence in- in fluence th the scientist furnishes s the best one It IC the aboVe lons are scientific then Ihen the lie simple be lid- J liever in the Supreme Being i Is o orall pt or all people most scientific S How would you like to lo w wat watch t h a scientist weigh the lie Immediately Imme you Oll say I would like Jt It it but on what he stand ind where in all the thc universe a scientist find firul 1 scales laa largo O enouch for such RUch a stu stupendous en ou ous He lIe would stand in a little room thirty thirty- fiVe fl feet below the level lerel of oC the ground and th the scale scalo used for weighing the earth would be a t very looking insignificant affair The In Instruments Instruments inStruments In- In used would woud consist of or two steel c cylinders Weighing pounds each rach hanging from the ceiling B Be Between Be- Be t tween these Is an iron Iroil cylinder with witha a narrower brass cylinder er above it three feet Inside the Iron Iroll cylinder from from which all air all has been drawn swings an aluminum rod with ith two small platinum balls weighing less than two ounces ach suspended at Its ends The rod rol Is held by bya a thin tungsten wire By determining the attraction between the pound cylinders and life lie platinum balls the scientist can with witha a little figuring determine the weight of or the Dr Paul r ul n fl Heyl who conducted the experiment experiment ment says that the earth weighs a little more th than n six and a. a n-haIC n half octillion lion Hon tons which h means meana that If 11 tire the earth were solid soUd coal there thele would be more than four quadrillion tons for Cor every single Individual now JIOW on the tile earth Slate Since e the lie earth s 's s 3 yours and all that's in it most o of ol u uSO U. U IJ AZ I ISo so rich as it is that we could not count our wealth in the space of a whole lifetime Chicago had a a double double suicide tire the other othel day when an aged couple 75 76 G Gand and 75 years old respectively took their lives with gas The reason appears to haVe hate been the thc inability of the lie man wh who was a shoemaker to lo adjust himself to the machine age In which we are re living for or the Oie new machinery won his trade from him Tho old man clung to his ideal Meal of turning out work of ot which he was proud just as long as qs he co could coald Somehow it would seen seem th that t a a. so society society society so- so as rich as the present ought to Lo make some provision for Cor old uld ge so that hat a tragedy Uk like the one ont we mention would not occur Thousands Thou Thiu- sands of others othel's are ale in practically the s same same- me circumstance but but- thy they are holding h on to life and hoping against I hop hope i If 11 f inanimate things could speak peak what a tale they might unfold at times Tho The other day some cattle cattlemen cattlemen men working in the moun moon In southern New Mexico discovered discovered dis db- dis- dis covered an old flintlock rifle leaning I against a rock where doubtless some minded absent-minded frontiersman left it a century ago The fact that the rifle was still stilt w well h preserved is not strange to any person who knows the territory In which the theold theold theold old piece was found The of the lie climate and the tho infrequency with which th the territory is visited make th the circumstances er very ble It may b be bl possible that the loss Joss oss of or that old rifle me meant nt the tue Jc loss s of the lie owners owner's life Who can tell At any in rate It bears tho the romantic distinction o of or b being old and the ener en ren ter er cc of a m mystery sten 1 |
