Show WIDOW OF OP SUICIDE WEDS AGAIN y IA- IA j s pop h S V Nj A S p-S t h k J R 14 L X iV iVa a a V. V 3 t Ic pt V The report that Mrs Irs Adele tz Stevens Is IR soon soon oon to become the toe bride of if Beverly nl Robinson has recalled the tho tragedy tm that stirred Now New cw York society two i r years ears ago After ACler CV refusing scores of or suitors Adele Horwitz of Baltimore wedded the big natured good Francis Frnncis Stevens of vAr an engineer on Oil a salary creditors creditors a i nl l It I was 1 a love match A fter el a wM Stevens unable to meet and consumed of the secret grief himself Beverly erly Robin Hobin son was calling ling on au lie vens girl giriat at tIme time MODERN MUTATION OF METALS I i I The Time dream of the time old alchemy was to change the baser metals into gold gOhl Modern Modern Mod Mod- o ern n men of or science me ni-c more modest Their fancies In this direction are bounded bound ed ec by the possibility of chan changing gold oh and ind time tho other n metals Into the time baser metals We e have been hearing hel ring lt at oeM odd times for several months of the iho remarkable dis- dis IR- IR of oC Sir Sit William of or tho the effect of ot upon mon tilt t metaH Far r t 1 M b r l lb n V- V b by y i the b. b r irr f-irr anti and Sir h William r himself discusses e hi his experiments In time th press It 1 I Is und understood r that hat hi hit own wn account of or what h ho hn huy accomplished 1 will wil ho lie published In about a f month AH is near nearly nearl a as 05 the iho unscientific mind can cnn gather ather p Information from the Iho scientific dentine vernacular Sir William seems to think that ho Iw has hns changed coper copper cop cop- per pcr er Into lithium and into stadium sodium and nd potassium though h the Iho traces of or these may have heen derived from the glass retort f The Time metals seem scent to have boon been acted on In a gaseous form farm orm by V the radium emanatIon ema- ema natIon naton either alono alone or In lii- contact with various gases ases and fluids The he result INthe Is IN the apparent passa passage e of metal Into another mother copper being heln the time Only one fa familiar rn- rn miar to the time popular mind that thal has been so se treated The Time curious timing thing Is IR that all al these transmutations are aro downward so to speak Science arron arranges es the metals metal In Ina va various various a va- va arlous rious groups corresponding nl g rou roughly to time the popular division Into precious and lase base The he higher groups are arc distinguished distinguish distinguish- ed h by high atomic wel weight hl and groups I as asell aswell well ell en as ns Individual metals sha shade e gradually Into nto one ono another The experiments of ot Sir William llam Ramsay Ram Barn say Il seem to change chango copper which hoida holl holds hoid a fairly high transition In Its particular group group croup Into the tile metal which holds the lowest place In lii that group Tho Time conclusion roul sion Ilon Is that metals may be he degraded but not elevated h by transmutation and nd It In is II that tho the oD operation roton la Is alwayn on ti In If nm 1 Qt a i may pa in H I I to II Ji I. I I In In powerful of or nn na nature mi- mi ture lure higher groups mi may be always passIng passing pass pass- ing lug Into lower That 1st is If to S say sold gold old silvor sl sll- sll vor 01 platinum anti the may lacy have havo a complex campi unstable constitutIon tho lob toh- buOy doucy of or which h In is to resolve Into simpler sim sim- lm- lm and lower tOWN pier iller From tho the beginning of or time time the precious pre pro cious metal may have been heen slowly breaking break In ing down Into the time bate base bane and the process ploce many iray still sUJ be bo going on In nature This I would woula account for Iho rarity of or one and Ul I Itie the tho tie abundance of or tho time other It I also falls fails in iii II with wih tho tIme speculation on the tite po possibility of or a common form orm to which alt all elements tend If I t these Ideas Idea should gain ground there will wi be le an end of or practical alchemy These Thes experiments will wi be bo left lef to tho the chemists Inventors will wm be content to let lel well wen enough alone If the tue only effect of or transmutation of ot metals metal Is to turn tile the precious Into the time base and hasten haslen th the slow tendency of or the whole Inorganic world to reduce Itself to t the simplest expression ex ex- ex- ex of the tho lowest element element- elemen This Is as bad had as the notion noton that there Is a u continual tendency In the time human race I to physical degeneration and that the I world will wi come como to an end with all al races reduced to the time lowest known type |