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0 THE casual observer the
mountains seem a type of :
eternity. We naturally ý'
speak of the hills as "eve:r- ..
lasting." A favorite mode " ,
of expressing future eter- '
nity is to say "as long as
the world endureth." Even
to the astronomer, with his q-
most perfected instruments
for measurement of both
space and force, no varia- *..
tion in the diameter of either the earth
or the sun has been discovered. This, ,<
however, is not because no changes I,
are taking place, but because they are 1( ,
so slow and man so short-lived that
they do not make themselves percep
tible to our dull senses. In reality
there is no absolute uniformity in na- ,
ture. Everything is changing. To-mor
row will not be like to-day, and to-day
is not like yesterday.. What were the
c'onditions a million years ago dad
what will be a million years hence are
largely matters of conjecture. Still
we have data enough to make specu
lation interesting, if not perfectly con
clusive.
It is estimated that :f all the matter
in the solar system had been moving
from the utmost bounds of space to
wards the center of the sun, it would ...
furnish heat at the present rate for
only 18,000,000 years. But it is prob- rS
able that formerly the radiation of the /3/Y
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sun. when it filled much larger space than now, was
greater than at present. It is a rather startling fact that
if the sun's heat were increased by much more than
one-half it would boil away all the water on the globe.
As water is necessary to life on the globe,
Prof. Newcomb, our great authority at Washington, thinks
that "the balance of causes which would result in the
sun radiating heat just fast enough to preserve the
earth in its present state has probably not existed more
than 10,000,000 years" and that this is therefore "near
the extreme limit of time that we can suppose water to
have existed on the earth in the fluid state."
But though the mathematicians insist that some such
limit as 10,000,000 or 20,000,000 years must be placed
upon the existence of even the lowest forms of life on
the earth, geologists still contend for a longer lease of
time. Reasoning from the known rate at which forms
of life change, Darwin and Lyell assumed that it must
have been on the earth for many hundred million years.
Darwin, indeed, in his earlier editions of "The Origin of
Species," speaks of 366.000,000 years as a mere trifle
of geologic time. But the geologists of the present
day are more modest in their demands, and would, ap
parently, be satisfied with 100,000,000 or twice that num
ber of years. Alfred Russell Wallace, however, from
geological evidence, calculates that 30,000,000 years is
all that need be demanded for the facts of geology.
Wallace's estimate is an interesting one. Thing the
thickness of the sedimentary rocks at 117,200 feet, which
is an extreme estimate, and reckoning the coast line of
the globe at 100,000 miles, and that the sediment brought
into the sea is deposited on an average over a belt 30
Philosophy of Cowardice
The Coward Cannot Help Being Timid
-Deserves Pity.
It is safe to assume that no brave
man would be a coward if he could.
It is equally safe to assume that there
lives no coward who would not be
brave if it were possible for him to ex
change the one quality for the other.
Cowardice per se is not a voluntary
condition. Its acquirement is not
sought. Its possession is despised by
those in whom it is inborn, for it is as
surely a part of psychological equip
ment of some natures as courage is
the equipment of other natures, says
the New York World.
The ancient Greeks stoned their
cowards to death. The North Ameri
can Indians tortured them with fire.
The early Romans lashed them
miles wide, he finds that at the present rate, the total
thickness of rocks would be formed within the above
mentioned length of time. For, at the present rate of ero
sion of the continents, the whole land surface of the
earth is lowered one foot in 3,000 years and the sediment
deposited along the shores of the continents. One foot
from 57,000,000 square miles (the land surface of the
earth), is equal to 19 feet deposited in 3,000 years over
the belt stretching 30 miles out from 100,000 miles of
shore line; 177,200 divided by 19 multiplied by 3,000
equals 28,000,000.
Such is the reduction to the age of the world made
by the more recent investigations both of astronomers
and geologists. Assuming the truth of the nebular hy
pothesis, Prof. George H. Darwin obtained results remark
ably similar from calculations concerning the relations
of the moon to the earth. The moon produces tides up
on the earth, and conversely the earth must produce tides
upon the moon. As was long ago shown these tides re
tard the daily motion of the revolution of these bodies.
The tides are equivalent to a wave on the earth about
three feet high, striking twice a day on the eastern
shore of the continents. This has the same effect as a
brake on a wheel, and imperceptibly, but surely, retards
its motion. As the moon is much smaller than the earth
and hence has less momentum, its motion has been af
fected much more by its tides than has that of the earth.
Whereas the moon once revolved on its axis very rapidly,
it now requires a whole month to revolve, and so keeps
the same face toward the earth all the time.
It is estimAted that to produce the present amount of
heat the diameter of the sun must contract 220 feet per
through the streets. The women of
Brittany jeered them and spat upon
them as they writhed and trembled
in the pillory. But the stoning, the tor
tures, the lashings and the infliction
of indignities never made a brave man
out of a coward. As civilization ad
vanced, scorn, disdain and humiliating
penalties took the place of capital pun
ishment and physical chastisement,
and this became a greater agony to
the coward than death itself. To be
stripped of his uniform and drummed
out of the army with his comrades as
witnesses was a more poignant tor
year, or a mile in 25 years-four miles a century. Though
this is too small an amount to have been noted by any
present means of measurement since accurate obseiva
tions began to be made, it is by no means an insignifi
cant amount.
By Darwin's calculation it was shown that formerly the
earth revolved on its axis once every eight hours, but
was reduced to its present rate by the same process that
has reduced the moon.
At the time when the moon and earth were revolving
so rapidly they were much nearer to each other than
now; indeed, so near that the tides they produced on
each other were many times as great as those now pro
duced; so great indeed was the tidal wave which then
rolled over the world that it is hardly possible to sup
pose that any form of life could have endured the con
ditions.
Going further, Mr. Darwin proved that the moon was
originally thrown off from the mass of earth by the in
creased centrifugal motion of the contracting sphere of
the earth, as water is thrown off from a grindstone.
Furthermore, by his calculations of the retarding influ
ence of the tides, he proves that this could not have oc
curred less than 50,000,000 nor more than 100,000,000
years ago. All geologic time, therefore, must be brought
much within these limits, for after the birth of the moon
an immensely long period must have elapsed before
the conditions were such upon the earth that life could
have endured them. So that his calculations agree in
a remarkable manner with those of Mr. Wallace and of
Prof. Newcomb.
But L,000,000 years is a long time, and slowly work
F
ture for the coward soldier than to sit
on his own coffin and have his heart
torn with bullets--because he was a
coward.
Neither envijoament nor education
can alter a hental condition which
does not exisit from choice and whose
existence is hated by him in whom it
exists. The physical coward is de
serving of pity rather than condemna
tion, but even while we pity we should
debar him from any place in the army,
the navy or the constabulary where
bravery is the essential quality of
membership, just as we would debar
the armless man from participation in
a boat race or the legless man from
a. contest of speed against men with
legs.
Hardly Worth While.
Eleanor was the little daughter of a
musician whose first oratorio was to
be given at a great musical festival in
the city. Eleanor had never been
away from home, and her mother
thought she would regard the journey
to the great city as a special treat.
The oratorio was pronounced a great
success. But when Eleanor was being
ing causes produce immense results within that period.
As Darwin remarks: "Few of us know what a million
really means. Take a narrow strip of paper 83 feet
four inches in length and stretch it along the wall of
a large hall; then mark off at one end the tenth of an
inch. This tenth of an inch will represent 100 years,
and the strip a million years." Bearing this in mind,
we shall appreciate the following calculations concern
ing the great length of the geological periods even on
Mr. Wallace's estimate of the total length of geological
time, and they will seem sufficiently long for all neces
sary purposes.
Dana estimates the "ratio for the Paleozoic, Meso
zoic and Cenozoic periods to be 12: 3: 1;" that is, Ceno
zoic times (the time since the beginning of the tar
tiary period) is one-sixteenth of the whole, or about
2,000,000 years; Mesozoic time (the age of the prev
alence of reptiles), would be about three-sixteenths of
the time, or 6,000,000 years, wvhile Palaeozoic time
would be about three-fourths of the time; that is, about
20,000,000 years.
If, however, we should be compelled to accept the
calculations of Prof. Newcomb, these would have to
be reduced more than one-half.
But the accumulating facts concerning the rapidity
of the action of present geological forces seem to be
pointing toward these lower estimates, and to make it
entirely credible that the earth has not been suitable
for the existence of man for very many thousand years.
The loose estimate in which hundreds of thousands of
years are assigned to the existence of the human race
take little account of the real facts which are coming
to light.
put to bed that night she looked so un
happy that her mother asked her if
she had not had a good time. Eleanor
looked up tearfully.
"Did you bring me all the way to
the city just to hear that thing that's
been coming up through the register
for the last six months?"-Harper's.
The present educational policy of
the Chinese empire includes the evic.
tion of Buddhist monks from their
monasteries in order to secure schog_
buildinas. . . . -
OPEN DEALING .oNi IAINT.
Buying paint used to be like the
proverbial buying of a "pig in a
poke." Mixtures, in. which chalk,
ground rock, etc., predominated were
marked and sold as "Pure White
Lead," the deception not being ap
parent until the paint and the paint.
ing were paid for. This deception is
still practiced, but we have learned to
expose it easily.
National Lead Company, the larg
est makers of genuine Pure White
Lead, realizing the injustice that was
being done to both property owners
and honest paint manufacturers, set
about to make paint buying safe.
They first adopted a trade mark, the
now famous "'Dutch-Boy Painter," and
put this trademark, as a guaranty of
purity, on every package of their
White Lead. They then set about
familiarizing the public with the
blow-pipe test by which the purity
and genuineness of White Lead may
be determined, and furnished a blow
pipe free to every one who would
write them for it. This action was in
itself a guaranty of the purity of Na
tional Lead Company's White Lead.
As the result of this open dealing
the paint buyer to-day has only him
self to blame if he is defrauded. For
test outfit and valuable booklet on
painting, address National Lead Com
pany, Woodbridge Bldg., New York.
Those Menl
"I went into the office looking like
a fright," said the woman. "I didn't
have a chance to straighten my hat
or pat my hair or anything. I had in
tended to primp going up in the ele
vator, but there was a man standing
before each mirror twirling his mus
tache and I couldn't even get a peep
at myself."
Never Falls.
"There is one remedy, and only one
I have ever found, to cure without fail
such troubles in my fatmily as- eczema,
ringworm and all others of an itching
character. That reniedy 1is Hunt's
Cure. We always use it and it never
fails." W. M. CHRISTIAN,
50c per box. Rutherford, Tean.
The String to it.
"Why did you refuse me just nrw,
dear?" said he.
"I wanted to see how you would
act," said she.
"But I might have - gone without
waiting for an explanation," said he.
"I had locked the door," said she.
Harper's Weekly.
"It' Finds the Spot."
The Oil we struck is the Oil thpt
has stuck while others have passed
away, simply because, it cures your:
Pains, Aches, Bruises, Sprains, Cu s
and Burns quicker than any other
known remedy. HUnt's Lightnitng l, . :
It's fine for Chigger bites also.
A Westerntled Prev'.
.Out In Nevada It is said that tw -
change ti_e old agi "Death lovam a
shining mark" t""Death loea a .in.
Ing shark."Wer ChritiIS MIs'
cate.
TO DRIVE OUT
Take the Old 8 G5QTMlJMW8 5
CHILL TONIC. You wYma
The formula IS l
showi.g itis im. .
forn, and the r
people and children. -.o.
Most AcceptableWOardip,
The worship most accptable
from a cheerful An tlShaktu hear
Plutarch.
Hicks' Capudine Cvs,.Nrvoiaft
Whether tired out, we'is41 slepess.
what not. It quletsa eses 1
and nerves. It. s!uid a a
take. Trial bottle 1o-r I...ii
S0c at druggists.
It doesn't pay to borrow .troubi
on a friend's accoMuit.
" ' I
AND A WOM r
Nature and a womah~ W
bined have producedte gr l
remedy for woman's i tom:t ,
world has ever known.
In the good old-fatsglied days
our grandmothers they relied
the roots and herbs 'of the
cure disease and mitigate -
The Indians on our W .
Plains to-day can produce roots.
herbs for every ailment, andC
diseases that bafle the most s
physicians who have spent years
the study of drugsa
From the roots and herbs of t
field Lydia E. Pinkhanh more th
thirty years ago gave to the wo
of theworld a remedyfor their
culiar ills, more pate nd e
cious than any comb n- o
Lydia E- P lat h Vea'
Compound is now reogised as
standard remedy for roman's l
Mrs. Bertha i of ea N.C..
li.uisiana, Mo.,r V1i
"Complete restcraln to he'
means so much to ie that tor the
of other sufterlna woat. I amwills
to make my tronua njj~..
"For twelve years. fad hensuf
lug with the worst t*rhato female
fringfthat time Ibadel yendit
phy without hetp. No to
can tell what I a ,ad at ti
could hardly w . obitwo
ago I wrote Mr4, low
IfoUlwdie sayt
Lydia E. Pinkh ' eble
pound ad Mrv P a ice
atored health i .-It
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