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"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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 |
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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
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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
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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*
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fish are flat, and yet so many aren't?"
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their backs sunburnt!" ? London
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