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Show isrs-miLw- o o a & MIKOLA TESLA, electrical scientist; mm fc f says not armies atone but 'ivhole populations will be destroyed by use of wireless currents His own air torpedo deadly - y4 :b - Summer Tourist Tickets to NewYorlt sadand Boston sale f dny throughout Dm Summer jttlCITIOAN CENTRAL r I New England Foists sad all Atlantic Coast ,2 V, lATiXV4, THE science which man has spun out of his brain be baa created a' monstrous Frankenstein, which ia now rending him limb from Umb on the battle-fieldof Europe. IJut one of the fatal is that It always progresses. of science qualities What part will It play in the next world war? Will the Inventive intellect by then have unloosed howforces which, compared to the itzer of today, will be as the gun is to the two handed sword of the Roman leglonsT Yes. reply the experts; the present war Is baaed on chemistry; but future warfare will wield the enormously more gigantic power of destruction provided by electricity, according to writer In the 8t Louis .Then it will not be a question of the annihilation of armies; it 'will be one of the extermination of whole populations. It will not be a matter of demolishing cities and fortresses, but of wiping whole nations at one stroke from the face of the earth The scientists, In fact, offer us one ultimate alternative: Either man must conquer bis Innate murderous Instincts and cease from war, or else In the end the human race will perish In a universal act of suicide such as Schopen hauer foretold by the unspeakable agencies of destruction with which science will Inevitably arm us. For 600 years, gunpowder and Its derivatives have rulpd the destinies of mankind. A flash from the pestle of the scientist-monk- . Roger Bacon, blew feudalism off the globe, and made possible the coning of democracy. Gunpowder give to the European races sway over the whole world; It subjected to them America, Asia and Africa. Little did Bacon dream of these consequences from his experiment with saltpeter and sulphur. Perhaps as little do we today realize the possibilities of the wireless current which in an instant bears v the spoken word from Arlington to Honolulu. In the imagination of every scientist in the world today there Is a vision of a machine with a key b means of which a wave of electricity will be flashed through the air to explode the enemys bombs, torpedoes, cartridges and magazines. The man who first perfects-thi- s flevlca will go down In history if any historians are left alive as a greater man than Roger Bacon, for his Invention will make lyddite and picric acid obsolete, and will send rifles, cannon and dreadnajghts to the Junk heap But that man Is no other Only one scientist so far makes a claim to have advanced some steps towards the perfect electric than Nikola Tesla, electrical wizard, who has Just been awarded a part of this year's Noble prize for physics. In an interview the other , day he laid down these prophesies: 1. 'This is the last war In which the explosive power of chemicals will decide the issue. 2. In tbe next war electricity will be the force of organized slaughter. The confidence with which Tesla uttered these predictions is based upon an invention which be says he has Just completed, but the detalts of which hels for the present Jealously guarding, for fear they might be worked out by one of the belligerents In tbe present war. -; In case the United Slatea were involved In war. f f undevice however, he says he would place his reservedly at the disposition of the military N ft HBACH& 'EAST Lov Fare Tw Niogarm FIU Routm toyMrpvhm -- atally s Five Splendid Trains Every Day From Chicago Wonderful Niagara Falls cmr omo, i salt lack aaW tin. Tank) r rv -- 1 (M A Post-Dispatc- self-slai- n man-kille- tor-Iped- 1 make him Ineffective In the third place. It promises to be able to produce at a distance such effects of blectrical tension as will Jeopardize life and property. The tnventor declined to go into specific details, j (saying that it is safer to bo specific after the Ifact But one would gather from the words be jdid speak that he has contrived a torpedo of the lair flying under its own power as a torpedo swims lin the water, which can be steered by wireless and exploded by the same force. Such a projectile jwould have a range not of some twenty miles, like the highest power cannon, but one limited only by its own flying endurance. It would be harder to hit with shell and rifle tire than an aeroplane, because of Its smaller size and swifter velocity, 'and it need not be manned by a crew who would b exposed to death at every Instant.' Such a missile, aimed according to the mathematical formulas used today by gunners whose range of eye and telescope, target is beyoud the for-tdestruction of ihAL could be dispatched own her before guns would be able tteship long to come lntoplay. SafeTrom the sheila of the greatest ordnance, It could start from a point miles beyond their range and destroy the batteries without the possibility of a reply. The second amTthtrd methods of which Tesla speaks are discussed in rather cryptic language, but leave the inference thak he believes himself already able, in some degree,' to produce at a dishe - often see a woman at tlie market pinching of a chickens breastbone to find out how end tbe tender in other words, bow young the fowl Is Oddly enough, the same test with human beings Ja one of the, most reliable know nr Ifln advanced life the lower part of your breastbone feels elastic when pushed Inward, you may assume that no important changes have yet taken place in your arteries, of otherwise in your anatomical make in , mes-sages-b- ut i tance by wireless an electric shock similar to that tricity. With this Idea worked ouv o its ultimate per fcctlon, one might foretell such appalling events in warfare as this: An entire army, in Its trenches, is without warning seized wit,. be death agoiiics of a wretch In the electrical chair, and exterminated by a silent enemy, using no bullns. Or, at a gjen moment, every living thing in a great city is Btruck dead as if by lightning, by means of a force uneashed hundreds of miles away by an officer who merely pulls a lever In a wireless tower. Tesla appears to see In the future a warfare of , electrical appliances more deadly than all the can ! non ever made; he sees entire areas el?crrttietf and made untenable for any living ' creature. Death and destruction will be dealt out at unheard, .of distances, with tones of action more spacious than we now dream of There is foreshadowed a conflict in which not armies but natlous may be destroyed In a single action, by men armed with thunderbolts more mighty than those of the heavens.7No wonder that Tesla,- - his own imagination recoiling in horror, says: hope this is the invention that will make war Impossible. Another device for which Inventors are seeking-i- s one that will be able,, by means of the wireless current, to explode at a distance the enemy's magazines of ammunition. If this were perfected, one man In London, by pressing's button could set fire to all the exp.oslves in the Krupp factories and blow that .Institution Into bits; or he could blow up all the cartridges and explosives in the German army.. Or another man in Berlin could with one stroke blow the English fleet out of the water with Its own powder. In an article In a Paris newspaper recently, Marconi, father of wireless' telegraphy, declared that such an Invention would mean the abolition of firearms and a reversion to hand fighting AJDutch inventor named JLanzluanow in New e York, claims to such a device. An Italian inventor won considerable notoriety for himself two years ago by Talus w hlchhel declared w ould explode am mu nition at a distance by means of a wireless cur- rent but he was shown to be a fraud . A young New JTorker, who already has several authentic inventions to his credit, declares he has perfected a method of emitting wireless current which wHl melt all metals within a qertaln radius. A Cali fornia inventor asserts that he can create a flame at a distance by means of wireless, and offers to set fire to any fleet approaching the Pacific coast. The Germans are reported to have usedjieat to destroy the barbed-wirentanglements of the Russians. Tesla believes that the result w as obtained. - s. if at all, by the projection of a tuane produced by hydrogen gas under high pressure. Such a flame can readily be projected for 10 feet, which, might he sufficient when the trenches are close tn such a flame barbed wire enough together would melt like wax. In all of the belligerent countrlesAnd in those which fear they may sometimebecome belligerents the best brains are harif at work on the probiem of contriving new methods of murder more deadly and morewholesale than those now empojed. Some of their dreams of future wa nuw eem fantastic. But the rude cannon of the Turks seemed an incredible prodigy at the siege of Constantinople In the fifteenth century; and to the artillerymen of our Revolutionary war the machine gun of today would appear an equal marvel On can scarcely doubt that if man Tnaintatn his deltght in war, science wlIT be at hand'to supply him with weapons aa ad vancecfi in murderous power over those today, as the arms of today surpass the sling and atone with which David." introducing the artillery of his era, stew the armored giant. Will human nerves be able to endure these colossal horrors? Probably; today they endure the shock of explosives, the sound of which would have seat Achillea to the madhouse. pioduced by touching a charged wiro One can think of no other way (n which effects perilous to life and property coul be obtained with elec- yS 1 OR THEY WOULD BE MUCH TROUBLE. As a rule women look at things differently from men and its a good thing for most husbands that they-d- o. Mrs Indianapolis Star. Kawler Do you consider Alice very good looking? Mrs Blunderby Oh, Alice Is pretty enough; ut I wouldn't call her an Adonla. , have-mad- - e fam-llywit- -- , ELECTRIC FURNACES , An electric furnace for the heat treatment of steel used in automobile construction baa been introduced. Its method of producing uniform. dependable heat that ia so urgently sought by automobile manufacturers Is quite novel In electric furnace practice, although Us principle is comparable to that of th Nernst lamp. Both the floor and the domelike covers of tbls furnace are of a refractory material which Is practically nonconducting at ordinary temperatures To start the furnace,-- a current is passed through a bed of coke laid on its floor." On heated the door becomes a conductor In turn heats the wall and top, rendering 'em conductive, until finally the entire furnace becomes IncandescenLIt instated by those who have tried tbe furnace that Its use in the heat treatment of automobile parts promises to be extensive in the future. well-know- - n y g, His Choice. Aprlsoner was arraigned before the criminal court. Present in courtroom were Lawyers Smith Brown and Robinson. Where is your lawyer?" Inquired the Judge. defined. duties? HEMMED IN. "How did you get that stitch In your Oh. I got hemmed in a crowd." aider ' have none," responded the prisoner; havent any money." - Do yon want a lawyer?" asked the I Judge. Yes, your honor. There is Mr. Smith, Mr. Brown and Mr. Robinson, said the Judge, point- ing to the young attorneys waiting briefless and breathless for something to turn up, and Mr. Alexander la out ' in the corridor." The prisoner eyed the budding attorneys, and after a critical survey said: Well, I guess 111 take Mr. Alexander. Eat Fruit. The more fruit we add to our dietary the clearer brain and clearer skin we are likely to have. To Manufacture Optical Glass. The manufacture of American optical glass is about to be Inaugurated on a commercUl basis, a large factory having been erected by an optical firm of Rochester, N. Y., which, it Is, said, will be equipped to make all kinds of lense from the tiny glass used in the microscope to that of the search t measuring several feet in diameter.' The first effort In this direction was made about twenty five years ago, and the effort was a failure and was abandoned. The latest effort in the manufacture of this glass was begun experimentally by the Rochester firm a few years ago, and when the war broke out this had Just demonstrated its success, so that its expansion would have come along in the regular order of things, but the necessity for a plant of this kind in this country has forcibly demonstrated by the war, which has completely cut off the supply of optical glass, which came heretofore from one or the other of the belligerent countries. Some: people who think" they know - Few men can convince themselves how to raise chickens dont even are having a good time in trying they know how to raise children. L to be good. Many a woman firmly believes what It has been Bald that short accounts be wilt be and that it will be make long friends but there are notthe fault of her husband. able to this rule. is to exceptions Counting pilots and observers there If a woman doesnt want tho last word it ia because she wants to keep rope in daily flights above the ground. on talking. . are more than Knlcker What are a congressmans Bocker To run, sit, lie and stand. h mar-rriag- o d The human breastbone is shaped like an ancient 'Rcmatrsvord7 and TbeTippeF "part of it is'like the sword handle. Us point is a piece of cartilage, which anatomists call the xirboid cartilage. The ' early hardening and stiver" ft of premathechaugesthat accompany old agehave turely begun. Youths Com panionr' " PRICE - 1 You FULL Art-xona- ." j authorities. U is, of course, possible," he said to a repre sentatlve of the Post Dispatch Sunday Magazine a few days ago, to produce electrical effects at a distance by means f wireless energy. But the Insurmountable difficulty thus far has been to atm an electric wave in one direction only, with all of its force concentrated on a gien target. "I will go so far aato say that after twenty years of application to the problem of transmitting energy by wireless, I have Just made a valuable advance In this direction. The stage has been reached where to an extent it is practicable to use this force in war, and to predict such a development as will make electricity supplant cannon In buttle. It Is impossible to give details at this time, but In a general way my Invention can be used in three methods. In the first place, It will be possible to send Ian explosive body through the air an aerial flying many times faster than an aeroplane jmd to direct this projectile to the spot desired. where it can be exploded by wireless. It will be possible to guide the projectile by wireless after beyond the range of the eye, and the j'taimhasIs passed so accurate that It Is possible to reduce 4the error to a few fee t in a thousand miles. I In the second place, It will be practicable with I this apparatus to produce effects at a distance which will interfere with the enemy and tend to Lost Their Opportunity, "I was sitting in the smoking comSmall Girl Felt That Price Had Been partment next to two men who were discussing the advisability of Set, and She Intended to themselves a drink. Qne of buying Get It. them called the porter and asked him if it was possible to purchase liquor "Now, be daddys girlie," coaxed In that part of the country." . papa, and take the nice medicine. Yes, Bah," he repllled, you kin get Talnt . nice," protested daddys it here in New Mexico, but not in own, as she biffed the dose of castor -oil all over the counterpane of her So the two began to plan what they little cot Wearied with his endeavors, the would have. After a number of tentaharassed man brought a shining dime tive suggestions, they decided on a into the matter, and the oil was gulped pair of highballs. Porter," ordered the one who had down with a few telrs. first brought up the subject, bring Next day there was more Insuborditwo us highballs with ginger ale." was the piano. nation, but this time it Cant have it, replied the porter. Mothers darling firmly .refused to do "Its against the law, sah," her practice. . "Why, didnt you just tell me a mo"What a naughty little girl it Is! ment ago that we could?. chtded the mother. I told you that, but while yall Yes, Dont care," grumbled the youngwas makin up yo minds we done ster, as she gave the piano a kick. crossed tbe line Into Arizona. Now, treasure, you shall have a whole penny if youll do your exercise Pigeons as Photographers. nicely," urged mamma..-,- ' The pigeon of war, though first couShant, retorted treasure,' getting sin of the dove of peace, has became off the piano stool. T can make more an Important factor in modern warthan that taking castor oil." fare. In this war he has acquired, It is Seventeen Sons in the Army. said, special value as a photographer, Surely there would never have been a and a spy. Equipped messenger any need to introduce compulsory a camera with peculiarly designed for If mothmilitary service every British er had followed the example of Mrs. his purpose, he can dodge shells and Davies of Church Stretton, Salop, Eng- aeroplanes and penetrate the enemys lines until thetr innermost secrets are land. recorded by kls lens. - This good lady, the widow of a solThe tiny camera la fastened under dier, has given no fewer than 17 sons the birds body, where It will not Imto the army, of whom 14 were actually flying. Its Bhutter works autopede on active service with the colors on matically. September 15, 1914, six weeks onlyt The birds are trained as ordinary after the outbreak of the war. X' carrier pigeons in fact they are still "Another patrtottc mother Mrs. to some extent to carry used Jones of Kyverdale roa Stamford it is as scouts that they Hill, gave her three triplet sons and have become indispensable to praca fourth Bon to thrmy. every army In Europe. The Then there Potter, a Ports- tically have made the most thorough French mouth (England) widow, aged eighty-three- , tests of the war pigeons efficiency and whcT has been awarded a prize conclusions their have resulted In the locallyTor being the head of the the most member In the addition of many automobile pigeon houses to the general army equipment lighting service. Sixteen of her grandsons are in the army or the navy, After the Honeymoon. and the husbands of four of her grandMrs. George Jay Gould was defend-,lnon are makactive service, daughters e at a dinner in New York, a ing 20 of her descendants altogether of a romanrational than rather fighting for king and country. In addition, two other grandsons, now dead, tic nature. These ropaantic and improvident were in the navy. marriages are very fine In the beginNone Needed. ning, said Mrs. Gould, but later on!" Shes her own chaperon." She shook her head pensively. Hows that?" Love," she said, laughs at lock"You ought to seehetface." smiths, but later on 'the wolf at the door does the same thing. Gargoyle. ON INSISTED 50,000 men now in Eu- It has been said that some women No work is so well done as marry for the purpose of obtaining a his satanic majesty finds tor listener who cant get away. , idle hands to do. that-whic- If a man is a chronic grumbler it Dont slow down on the road to always makes him happy to find a but-Jo- n and wait for the other fellow to ol his coat when his wife is busy. get ahead. sue-ces- s |