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w I MINE SHAFT I REVl c ???? it. "If there are human beings on Mars," said Prof. David Todd, of Amherst, one time, 'T have no doubt that they have been sending us messages; for years- and are still wondering at j our stupidity in not replying." For years Professor Todd endeav-1 ored to communicate with Mars. He i?\"* n ~ "u ? u olnilnC I even ascenaeu mgu auutc mc in a baloon to receive a wireless message from Mars that would solve the gstronomical puzzle. But for those years his every effort was baffled. Today, for the first time, his work faces success. Today he can say, "The planet will be brought within less than one mile and a half of the eye. I expect to find on Mars evidence of work done by intelligent human beWith Benjamin A. McAfee, millionir' . ' aire, erstwhile of Stamford, Conn., ft Professor Todd, on a seventy-acre plat near Deauville, France, is preparing plans for a mighty telescope which will bring the planet so near to the eye that all its mysteries win he laid bare. Mine Shaft as Telescope. "Several times in the year 1924," says Professor Todd, "Mars will be nearer the earth than in any year in a century. Mars will also be at the l - zenith during 1924 and may be adi. . mirably seen from a disused mine shaft I found at Chaneral, Chile. "My idea is to use the mine shaft as the barrel of a gigantic telescope, fifty feet in diameter. Telescopes of | . such size have been difficult to con?|> struct, owing not merely to cost, but also to the physical obstacles in tne way of building a mirror sufficiently large. We are doing away entirely with a mirror and substituting a revolving IV: plate of mercury fifty feet in diarae; ter. As the plate revolves the mercury will take form and serve the purpose of a perfect condensing mirror. Microscopic photographs taken under these conditions will yield a magnification of 25,000,000 times." \ . For years the question of life in Mars has puzzled astronomers. Prof.i Percival Lowell and some fellow scientists, as Flammarion, of France, have been staunch in their belief that Mars is inhabited. Not long ago the world was startled by the statement of Signor Marconi, the wireless wizard, that unusual sounds are from time to time received by wireless apparatus, and in view of their reaching ?, simultaneously stations far apart they seem to come .from a great distance beyond the earth. Immediately the question arose: is Mars signaling us? No definite answer has yet been given. To See at Close'Range. Now the world awaits the work of Professor Todd and his novel tele... , scope. When, in a few years, Mars is at the zenith, and passes directly; ' ' RECORD ENGINE NOW SLOW. ! . . Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line Staged Competition. , Pulling a slow local passenger j train in Georgia is the "ten wheeler" j which one day twenty years ago trav-' eled at a speed greater than that of j any steam locomotive ever built, 120: miles an hour. The engine, now Atlantic Coast Line No. 210, was Plant System No. Ill when it set -the world's record for sprinting. At the same time it won a United States mail contract from Washington, D. C., to Jackson^ 7 Tille. The Seaboard Air 'Line and the Atlantic Coast Line Plant System in March 1901 were conducting tests' under observation of postal authorities. Each road, it was agreed, was to run three trains to determine as to which could handle the Florida and Cuban mail the quicker. It was while pulling the third test train between Savannah and Jacksonville that No. Ill, of the Savannah, Florida and Western, just delivered to the raidroad by her builders and still stiff from lack of use, unexpectedly set its record that still stands. Shortly after leaving Savannah, No. 107, a new locomotive assigned to the test developed a hot driving box and the Seaboard test train passed it at Burroughs, 11 miles out the two railroads parallelling to that point. At Flemming, 23 miles from Savannah, No. 107 was still experiencing trouble and when passenger train No. 123, south hound, "with engine No. Ill in charge of Engineer Lodge, overtook the test train^ officials substituting the 111 for the 107, ordered dispatches to clear the road between Flemming and Jacksonville and instructed Lodge to push his engine to the limit. A fire some years ago destroyed the records of the run between Flemming and Waycross, but reports show that the No. Ill made the 76 miles between Waycross and Jacksonville j MAY 1AL SECRETS above the tremendous telescope made of the mine shaft in Chile, Professor Todd will take a look as it passes over the shaft. At that point a magnifier, capable to tell with surety whether the .Martians are merely suppositional folks, as fanciful as the fairies, or are real, active beings. The telescope will be unusual in construction. At the bottom of the long mine shaft will rest a plate of ? ? A v?lv> AtAnn mtjreurv, anuusi UJUCICCH uuuuivu square feet in area. As the mirror must be concave in shape to concentrate its captured rays as a given point, the plate will be revolved. As the plate is revolved the liquid mercury, by centrufugal force, will assume a concave surface. When Mars sails across the top of the mine shaft, the rays of light from it will be caught in the gigantic mirror and reflected and concentrated at a point some distance up the shaft. At that point a magnifier, capable of enlarging the concentrated image twenty-five million times, will yield phptographs which will tell the true story of this neighbor of ours in space. Professor Todd is one of the leading astronomers of the country, and has been professor of astronomy and navigation at Amherst since 1881, as well as director of the Amherst observatory. He has headed all important United States astronomical expeditions since IS78, his travels having carried him to many lands. Of recent years he has devoted himself more deeply to solving the mystery of Mars. It is strange, this quest of ours for information about Mars. Mars, when near us, looks simply a bright star. To one on Mars the earth would look scarcely brighter. And yet it is this body, almost the smallest of the planets, but a pin point of light to the naked eye, that stirs us to our numerous questionings. ? A curiostiy as old as man has prompted him to ask if he were alone in this mighty universe, or system of universes. It is as if some jealousy were disturbing hirrv For manias always felt that this is his universe; that the stars are for him, and the moon, and the sun, and the distant stars and moons and suns. The thought that there are living beings on Mars neighbors in space, but utter strangers, with, perhaps, a civilization resembling ours, has always bothered him. To the astronomer he has said: Tell us?are there living being also on Mars? What are they like? Are they fighting a losing fight against extinction? Or are they strong and progressive and more advanced than we? And Prof. Todd, when he brings the planet to within one and a half miles to the human eye, will endeavor to answer. in 59 minutes, an average speed of 78 miles an hour. The world's record was set near Screven, Ga., 12 miles south of Jassup, where Xo. Ill and her train covered five miles in two. minutes and 30 seconds. Xo. Ill arrived at the union station in Jacksonville ahead of the Seaboard test train and the Atlantic Coast Line and Plant system was awarded the mail contract. C /V < i w* 1 A P AO ef CUiuc lime laxci xac nuauck- \^vaox Line absorbed the Plant System and No. Ill became A. C. L... No. 210. There is nothing out of the ordinary in the design of the engine, which is a typical ten-wheeler type, three pairs of drivers and four pony truck wheels. She has 19 inch cylinders with a stroke of 28 inches, 72 inch driving wheels and carries a boiler pressure of 180 pounds. The engine weighs 150,000 pounds. Her rated tractive power is 21,480 pounds. The old Plant System track ^between Savannah and Jacksonville is known among railroad men in the southeast as "the speedway" because of the fast time th'at has been made on it. No. Ill made her notable run in 1901 and after the Atlantic Coast Line took over the Plant System a special train was handled at a rate of 105.6 miles an- hour. This instance was on March 9, 1903, when a train chartered by the family of George Gould was run 172 miles from Jacksonville to Savannah in 152 minutes, or at a speed of 70.7 miles an hour. Engine No. 271 with Engineer Thomas Leake in charge, which pulled the train, ran the seven miles between Walthourville and Mcintosh, Ga., in four minutes, exceeding 1055 miles an hour. Seekers After Grace. Wife?"Did you notice the chinchilla coat on the woman sitting in front of us this morning?" Husband?"Er-no. Afraid I was dozing most of the time." Wife?"I'm. A lot of good the service did you."?Chicago Tribune. DECLARES EARTH NOT ROUND, j Overseer of Zion City Cites "Proofs" to Refute Modern Astronomy. Chicago, Sept. 17.?The story of' the "Village That Voted the Earth is! Flat" has an earnest adherent in Wil bur Glenn Voliva, overseer of Zion, j the religious community that Alexan-| der Dowie founded at Zion City, a; little north of Chicago. Declaring that there is no proof' whatsoever of the sphericity of the earth or that the earth has any motion, Overseer Voliva says he is'"pre-j pared to refute modern astronomy,! scientifically as well as from the' standpoint of the Bible." Here are some of the points he advances: "All standing water is level. Let, any one disprove it if he can. Theyj cannot disprove it. This is conclusive evidence that the old Pythagorean-Copernican system of the sphericity of the earth is false.* "A man stood at Kingston, Jamaica, and saw the lighthouse in Havana harbor eighty-two miles distant, which is another conclusive proof | I pLEAR I Vs 8 MOf M 1 It tic auvaiiu Upward. ^ to save mon< Hrpat UMr I DON'T F01 I ? B will sell J W BSea Island Shee-, 1^1 ting, 20 yards to 1 I te m customer at M m^B 6 C yard B (WILL SELL B U. S. ARMY j? Breeches s Sale Price 65c B U. S. ARMY i Canvas Leggins E H Sale Price 65c | jB Wool wrap Leg- H S Sale Price 65c I II WILL SELL M B 27-inch Dress I Ginghams at M I y ^ 32-inch Dress 1 II > M Ginghams at } I I WILL SELL I M Wliite Linen m ?B m i i "T~\ i 06 m raoie jjamasK m H 56 inch, for k m As long as it lasts. B Table Oil Cloth I Si Clearing Sale 125 c yard. P "sstsr SK9BH92ESISS39RBEXHS9IB3H3 ? I that the sphericity of the earth is a fake. "The midnight sun has been seen hundreds of times, but it would be absolutely impossible to see it on a sphere. You would have to look through hundreds of miles of earth and rock. "There is a railroad in South Amer ica two thousand miles long which is almost perfectly level. The St^ez Canal is a hundred miles long without locks and with scarcely any rise at all. Where is your curvature of the earth? There is none. "Xo wonder higher critics and modern believers in the Copernican system of astronomy laugh at the flood and say that such a thing as a flood could not occur on a globe or a spherical earth?and I agree with them. They are perfectly right. That is what the devil intended when he invented the modern asronomical the-; ory?to destroy the Word of God. "They say that eclipses are caused by the earth passing between the . moon and the sun, causing the shad-j ow, but how can you have an eclipse | with both the sun and the moon above the horizon? It is a matter of rec nBHHBHnHnM ? SALp IE DAYS JZj s in Price of C fou cannot affc sy. We have o ing Sale will c RGET, ONLY B WILL SELL FEE B J. P. Coats' f Anev Thread, 150 yds B '' ' h to spool, 5 to a S ^oa^sF customer at H av;a> ^ M every ci 5C Spool Bm w]10 |)Uy< Is long as lasts ovei PRICES SLASHED ON U. S THIS CLEARING SALE IS IN THE RIVER. WE B GOVERNMENT THESE AJ YOUNG COUPLES SHOl REDUC Pepperell Sheeting 9-4, Clea Pepperell Sheeting 10-4, Clea Turkish Bath Towels, Clearii WILL SELL \ WILL SI Tlie best grade The best O ^ Outing M Apron G ? I .r^^B v wm oen $*u.uu men s ouius j Will Sell $40.00 Men's Suits f Will Sell $115.00 Men's Suits f Will Sell $H0.00 Men's Suits f WILL SELL BOYS' CLOTH WILL SELL BOYS' PAN1 WILL SELL BOY Milton! SJbambei I ord that there have been a number of eclipses with both the moon and the sun above the horrizon. No one knows what causes eclipses. "They tell you that the sun is ninety-two million miles away. I laugh at that, not only as 'a mathematician, but also as a student of God Almighty's Word. "Did God Almighty create the earth j and then create a light to light it up j and put it ninety-two million miles j distant and make it a million times larger than the earth? What kind of j a fool would'build a house up in Ke-1 nosha and erect a li.ght a hundred j miles from it to light up the parlor? j "They say that science is not speculation; but if science is true, then there can be no conflict between it > and the Word of God?but when itj comes to the word of God, they have not a leg to stand on. I will take the Word of God and down any modern astronomer on the face of the earth and dispose of him in less than thirty minutes." . j* The only unchartered bars along; the Atlantic coast are those afloat three miles out. p| J7ARIN' 8 MORE otton is Forcing >rd to miss this nly eight more < lose and prices EIGHT (8) M< v IHHHH E! FREE! M WILL SELI luntiri K ladies' Flanne' Will give m Petticoats at .istomer m 48 C J m As long as lasts M 1. ARMY GOODS. TO MISS LIKE THROWING MONEY OUGHT FROM THE U. S. RMY GOODS. rT.T? BVWITVTT -RV TTTTTISR 3TI0N& ring Sale Price 48 C ,ring Sale Price 55 C lg Sale Price 35c 2LL M WILL SELL 1 grade M ^ ^ai, ^^Diaper Cloth, 27 for SI-48 lie m S124 'or v $22.98 or $19.98 or $17.98 'or $14.98 ING AT ONE-HALF PRICE, rs AT ONE-HALF PRICE. S' CAPS FOR 39c. Shapiro RG, S. C. |^xn Too Slow. i A negro lad had been brought into J a Virginia police court for the fifth time charged with stealing chickens. m The magistrate determined to ap peal to the boy's father. H "See here," said his honor, "this IB boy of yours has been in this court fl so many times charged with chicken- fl| steaiing that I'm quite tired of seeing H| him here." 'HI "I don't blame you, jedge," said the IBj parent, "an I's tired of seein' him faS here as you is." Wm "Then why don't you teach him how to act? 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