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JAJfUARY 7 MM.
LA HYPDTHFSIS.
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mi. uiuoi imeresung rTOp-
ositions of Science.
IT ACTUALLY MEANS.
the Sun Planets and All Matter
Were Once a Vast M. i
descent Gas All Jumbled Together In
an Enormous Chaotic Cloud.
Everybody has heard the phrase the
f'tliula hypothesis but what Is It?
lu a lew words this is the meaning
t f "nebula hypothesis:- That the sun.
tie planets nd all that is lu them
were ait one time hi the inconceivably
remote past at vast mass of chaotic in-
ouidescent pis all jumbled together in
ji enormous nebula or cloud.
To begin with the tirst conception
that science has dared to make how-
ever takes us one step further back
Without mentioning the origin of mat-
ter Itself science toueeives that in the
begiuuing all matter was uniformly
distributed throughout space that
there were no stars no planets no
satellites but that all space was filled
with the matter we now have divided
up Into very tine particles some dis-
tance apart. The consistency of such
material was perforce very thin in-
deed much more rarefied than the
highest vacuum we can obtain now by
uir pumps. From this state to the
nebulous state the theory has a miss-
ing link one that can only be satisfied
by supposing divine command for it
assumes in the words of Professor
Todd that "gradually centers of at-
traction formed and these centers pull-
ed in toward themselves other parti-
cles. As a result of the inward fall-
ing of matter toward these centers the
collision of its particles and their fric-
tion upon earh other the material
masses grew hotter and hotter. Nebu-
lae -seeming to fill the entire heavens
-were formed luminous fire mist like
the filmy objects still seen in the sky.
though vaster aind exceedingly numer-
ous." Tins process is supposed to
have cone on for countless ages faster
in some regions than in others. .Many
million nebulae were 1 armed and set in
n-ratiou around their own axes. This
happily cau be explained by science.
Whenever irticles are attracted to-
ward a center aud aire kept from fall
ing directly to this center a -whirlpool
is formed rotating lu-oe direction.
An example of this though humble
and nut exactly analogous is the rota
tion f water in a basin when rhe stop
per is pulled out of the bottom. Grav
t nffrsirrs the uitr fmmwllntol
kVrbove the' hole which starts flowing
'Ut. thus leaving a space to he filled
The rest of the water rushes 'in from
.1! sides to do this and the whirlpool
. is the result.
Now each of these whirling nebulae
lecame exceedingly hot. and eac
formed what Is known its a star or
sun. our sun being one. The earth
and other" planets had -not then come
Into separate existence of course as
it Is supposed that ihey -were thrown
off later from the sun.
Our sun in its nebulous form and ro
tatiug swiftly on its ails gradually
flattened at its poles on account of
centrifugal motion. This phenomenon
is entirely familiar to those who have
seen a ball of clay vm a potter's wheel
gradually flatten. The motion was so
swift and the mass so nebulous that
the sun to be took the shape of a disk.
As time went on the outer part be
came cool and someivhat rigid whil
the Inner part continued Its cooling
and contractins. Thus the Inner part
drew atway from the outer leaving
ring of matter whirling around on the
outside. This breaking off of the ring
is supposed to be hastened by the In
- ability of the outside to keep up the
swift motion of the central mass both
on account of the slight cohesion and
of the centrifugal force. But this par
ticular part of the argument has uoth
' 3ng to stand on If the first law of mo
tion is true.
In the successive stages of the sun's
contraction this process was repeated
over and. over again until several
rings -were whirling around the central
orb. They would necessarily be In
I he same plane. Now. these rings not
being uniform lu mass or thickness
-would each-gradually accumulate to
ward the densest iortion until tbey
jttoo. would form a ball which would
jr subsequently flatten and If the sub
' stance continued nebulous and the ball
was lnree enouirli thev would also
a 1 1 . .
IjK of Murse the riiis the sun discard
f A h ira liwv.mo tllo TllAIintS. which as
1 required -by the theory are all very
n.-.nrlv in the same illane. The rings
tint the p1aetv formed have become
tniMiirs or ire!Mf- So we aire driven
in t'UwlKth' tbtil "Kir sun at one time
nll-d nil Mi" space from his present
position t the furthest planet In the
solar ytMM
I-Yom nils theory there Is another
fhingtli.ti e.lmve to lielieve. and that
J- that even tr in the heavens has
jMue through this xiuiie proress and
has a fnniUy ot planets sailing around
It. Jut a Hir sun has. It would !
Impossible to see these planets. of
course for It is impossible to see a
tar. even with the greatest telescope
except as n itrc point of Hunt.
As regard the proving of this neb
ula hypothesis of course It cannot be
done. But everything points to It ac-
curacy. Many nebulae are seen even
now among the stars mat seem to be
going through the delayed process of
world forming. Around one of the
planets or our own solar system. Sat-
urn are three rings which are proba
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bly destined lu time- to become moons.
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HodiM t Nev. 4r J i ;wiic.
NEW SHORT STORIES
Amiable Aked's Apt Answer.
The Rev. Dr. Aked during a run-in
Kith an agnostic the other day scored
a neat fall for the orthodox.
It happened on a railway train.
The doctor's dialectic adversary was
a drummer who bad purchased a pa
per backed edition of some lectures
delivered by the late Colonel Inger-
soll.
it was all an overwhelming novelty
for the drummer.
With his natural gift of loquacity n
very brief intake of Ideas sufficed and
he began to spurt like a geyser.
Everybody within the sound of his
voice was deluged including the un
. AND CltEATION ISN'T SUCH A MUCH ANT-
WAY.
fortunate Dr. Aked. who wished to
escape but couldn't as the drummer
preferred a clergyman.
llealtu ought to ue catcning. you
know" shouted the drummer.
"It is'.' added the minister meekly.
"Then there was Moses" pursued
the drummer "who paid uo attention
to counterstrokes. He made mistakes
only."
"So do we all." suggested the clergy
man "and Moses told us ours first."
"And creation isn't such a much
anyway" went on the drummer like a
springtime flood. "Nothing in the unt
verse is made well."
"For instance."
"Er ourselves. We have eyelids to
protect the eye but our ears have no
lids. Now If it had been a ood job
we could rest our sense of hearing by
closing a Hd over It oace In awhile.
couldn't we?'
It was the doctor's turn to estbnse.
"Great!" he exclaimed. "Ton have
actually uttered a new Idea at least
one that I have never heard of before.
I will concede you a point against the
human ear. I would give thanks to
the Maker if he had made mine with
lids. Believe me. sir if it wore so I
should close them now." New York
Telegraph.
The Historic Bird.
"Speaking of Christmas turkeys"
said Sir Thoma3 LIpton In the Ccdric'
smoking room "reminds me of a Pic
cadilly club.
"A Devonshire man sent this club
about Christmas a fine large swan In
a hamper. The hamper was addressed
to the secretary who notified the club
members of the treat that was in
store and a special swan dinuer was
arranged for the day before Christ
mas.
"The swan came on at this dinner
looking magnificent erect and stately
on a great stiver gut satver. nut
tough: It was so tough you couldn't
have carved the gravy. All perceived
that they had been hoaxed.
"A few days later the sender of the
swan dropped In at the club.
'Got my swan all right. I hoiK':r he
said to the secretary.
" 'Yes. and a nice trick you played
on us. was tne reply.
'Trick? What do you meau?
'Why. we boiled that swan for six
teen hours and when It. came on the
table It was tougher than a block of
granite.'
'Good gracious! Did you have my
swan cooked?'
" Tcs of course.'
The other was in despair.
"Why. that bird was historic' he
groaned. 'I sent hiin up to be stuffed
and preserved. He had been In my
family for '-DO years. He had eaten
out of the hand of King Charles I.' "
A Mild December.
The late Joseph Dorsey of San Jose.
he famous detective whpse best feat
was the capture of Canon Bernard aft-
er a chase from Alaska to Cape Horn
used to impute his success to his
knowledge of men.
"A detective." he would say. "should
know the habits of everj class. Then
no disguise cati deceive him.
"All men. even the most. methodical.
have their nanus. Kven tne tramp
has hie.
You great big lazy loafer.' 1 said
a tramp one December day 'you
night to be In Jalir
Yes. Algle.' the tramp replied as
he pretended to Hx a monocle in his
eye. 'Yes. I know It's the correct
thing for our set at this season. Algle:
hut. deuce take It. It's nch a tnil'l win-'
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
A BLOW III JAMAICA
Things That Happen When a Big
Storm Breaks Loose There.
A WEST INDIAN HURRICANE.
It Will leap Out. of a Clear Sky and
Level Almost Everything In Its
Path Then Comes a Torrential
Downpour That Ends In a Flood.
"Have you ever been through a West
Indian hurricane?" said a man who
has lived in the tropics on and off for
a u umber of years. "Do you want to
know what the experience is like?
"A hurricane will leap out of a clear
sky. swoop down on a city blow ev-
erything in its path flat and pass on.
Then follows the tall of the hurricane
a steady breeze blowing in the same
direction but at a much lower veloci-
ty. This is likely to continue for
many hours sometimes for many days
and Is always accompanied by a tor-
rential downpour of rain.
"I was in Kingston. Jamaica at the
time of the hurricane of 1903. At 3
o'clock In the afternoon I was in my
ofllce on the top floor of a rickety
wooden building. As. suddculy as a
clap of thunder the room went dark.
"1 had a pretty good idea of what
was about to happen and going to the
window looked out across the roofs.
A black cloud had whirled up out of
the southwest obscuring the sun but
the mountains back of -the city were
still golden with light
"In less than a quarter of an hour
the wind reached us. The first struc-
ture that went was a wooden watch-
tower about 'MO feet high that had
been used in the old days to locate
ships approaching the harbor. It had
weathered all previous hurricanes but
this time it went down like a house of
cards. Spars of lumber from that
tower were carried as far as twenty
blocks before they came to the ground.
"Then the spire of the church went
the roofs of a good many residences
were torn off. and some tine palm trees
in the public gardens snapped off about
halfway from the ground Buildings in
Kingston however are calculate to
stand -a pretty severe blow They are
built only a few stories high and the
roofs present a broad and compara-
tively flat surface to the wind Consid-
ering the velocity at which that hurri-
cane was traveling the damage was
not great. Even my crazy olltce build
ing withstood it. Hut the tail of the
thing followed with a heavier rain
than 1 have ever seen before or since.
To say that It came down in bucket-
fnls would be mild it was as If the
clerk of the weather had taken the
ping out of some huge vat suspended j
uoove our ueaus ami s-uoweu me wa- j
tor to plump straight down ou m
In three hours the macadam on the
streets had been washed Into the bar
bor. The street outside my window
was a rushing river as much as four
feet deep In places. 1 saw a cart try
to cross it. but with the water above
the axle of the wheel aud the horse's
legs being washed away from under it
It was an Imjiosslble. task and the
driver turned back. Big casks and
pin king cases were dancing on the sur
face like corks
As you can Imagine. I did Hot get
home to supper that evening it was 8
o'clock before the rain stopped and the
water In the streets had drained dnto
the harbor. Even then trafllc had not
beguu to reorganize itself.
I he trolley car tracks had been
washed out and oo cars were run
rung (jnos. However were uomg a
roaring busbies and eventually 1 got
a cabman to drive me home for three
times his customary charge.
The damage to property in King
ston mounted up to hundreds of thou
sands of dollars but. the'real destruc
tion was wrought hi the country dls
trlcts. Floods wiped out many a negro
village and sent the flimsv houses
floating down the rivers. The railroads
were tied up for nearly a week. Everv
banana tree In the path of the burr!
cane was uprooted. Oh. ves. a West
Indian hurricane can do a lot of dam
igc when It gets busv.
Eo?s of life did you say? -Of course
there was. Nearly L'tX) people wer
killed throughout the Island on that o;-
casiou. nut we row accustomed to
that in the W.-st Indies. We exnect u
hurricane every once in awhile and
we know th.tt it will take Its toll of
human life
en It -conies. If you had
been teJlim
- story you would prh-
toned' that tlrst of all
ably have
but sudden
the tropic ot
h is so common below
a ucer that we get cal
Ions.. I suppose
New York .Sun
Albion and Columbia'.
.-vunoii uie i.eiu oi me uc;in was
written and composed by .Jesse Ham
mond an English government dock of"
flclal. about IS'Jiiand was heard above
h11 others in the theater music halls
and on Loudon streets It is apparent-
that "geiii of the ocean" tits an Island
more aptly than our large tract of con
fluent and "borne by the red and the
blue" (the red of the British army atid
blue of the navyi is more logical than
the meaningless line "borne bv the red.
white and -blue." The lines of the Eng
lish songs are almost word for word
Identical with our version. "The I!ed.
White and Blue." - Exchange.
A Manly Woman.
"Why do yon say she. Js a manly
oiuanV" asked Jinks.
"She always gets ofr a car proper
ly." said .Mlnus. nutTalo Express.
Tomorrow' Is not elastic enough in
which to press the-.neglecfed duties of
SPECULATING ON MARGIN.
American and English Ways of Doing
It Are Very Different.
In America a speculator's capital
(with an exception to be noted belowi
is necessarily at least the size of 111
margin in his broker's hands though
it Is to be feared that in only too many
Instances It is just this and nothing
more.
On the London Stock Exchange an-
other method prevails which saya
Moody's Magazine it is probable han
done more in the long ago pnst to give
stock speculation Its bad name than
all the episodes of an unsavory nature
which have ever occurred on Ameri-
can exchanges. In London after the
Inevitable Introduction to a broker the
now customer gives his order bu;
makes no deposit at all.
The broker is supposed to learn
something of his new client's means
and how far he should be allowed to
commit himself. Twice a month the
English have what they call their set-
tlement days. A customer long of n
slock whose commitment has gone
somewhat against him is then required
to pay the differences as they are
called between his purchase price and
the current quotation.
He must also -pay a charge called a
contango for holding the settlement
over Into the next fortnightly period
If he does not wish to close the com-
mitment. As a consequence of this
way of doing business a speculator
may be trading on a few points mar-
gin in reality or in fact on no margin
at ail. He may he utterly penniless
without the broker knowing It.
That this method works out with
fewer losses In England than it would
do here Is" due to the fact that the
social and economic strata to which an
Englishman belongs at'e much easier
to determine than the corresponding
facts among us. and also that an intro-
duction means more there than here
as the Introducer is regarded as to a
certain extent responsible morally for
the business deortment of his friend.
It is worth while observing (and this
is the exception referred to above)
that In certain instances the methods
pursued In American stock exchange
houses tiro the same as those obtaining
In London. . Little as the fact is known.
It is not an unfrequent custom for very
wealthy simulators to .have no Oxed
margin or even no margin at all with
their brokers.
If a man of this sort loses on a com-
mitment he sends his' broker a check
for the loss. If he wins his brokers
remit to him for his gains. The bro-
ker dislikes to offend a very powerful
client by troubling him for funds and
hence takes -risks with his account
which he would not dream of taking
with the account of smaller men. in-
stances of this sort sometimes become
public in cases where the broker is
forced Into bankruptcy whether owing
to this caiuse or not.
Could Do For Herself.
She was a very delightful but a very
aged lady over ulnety-and her friends'
and relatives and -oven chance ac-
quaintances drawn by her exquisite
liersonallty. Ujll did iier homage aud.
as the saying Is. "trailed on her hand
and foot"
She accepted it all very graciously
but with some inward rebellion for to
a very old aud ctooe mouthed friend
she once said with a quaint pucker
of lips and brows i
"I am reminded ometluies of the
old lines:
"Twa wen; blowin Ht her no?e.
And thre were btukiln." at her tshoon."
Youth's Companion.
A Wordr For the Tightwad.
In France ihey have an expressive
phrase "liquid money." it means that
part of the family Income which Is.
used for the necessities and luxuries
of life ft is quite apart from and
kept apart from the more serious sub
stantia! part of the income which is
the saved part. In America the entire
Income is "liquid and the man who at
tempts to make part of it solid is
called a "tightwad" A "tightwad"'
Is really a man who creates a princi
pal a capital fu other words-amd he
Is the living example of what every
private business must be and of how
the country's resources should he ha ti
lled". Argonaut.
Voting In Spain.
Voting in Spain Is held to be a duty
to the community not . merely a priv
ilege of the Individual and neglect of
ivic obligations "carries its own peu-
llty. .Male adults of-legal age ami uu
Jer seventy with the exception of
priests uotaries and judges aire re
quired to vote in municipal elections.
Failure to cast a ballot Is punishable
by having one's name published as
jensuro for neglect by having taxes
increased 'J per cent by stilt'ering a
.leduction of 1 "per ceht in salarv If
Miiployed In the public service and for
the second offense the loss of right to
iOld elective or appointive otllce.
His Landscapes.
A nouveau rlche recently attended n
picture sale. A friend who had noticed
aim at the sale asked afterward. "Did
rou pick up anything at that picture
aale. Jerkins?" and the other respond-
?d: "Oh. yes: a couple of landscapes.
One of 'em was a basket of fruit and
:he otheria storm at sea."
1 Rather the Other.
"Don't you know that tune? I for-
jet the name of It. but It goes like
:hls." And he whistled it.
After he had finished his- friend
urned to him with a sigh. "I wish to
modness you had remembered the .
lame and not the tune." he said. Lip-.
ilncott's. '
Exactness In little duties is a won-
erfnl source f cheerfulness. Faber.
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We have the goods at right prices
J. W. Jennings
201-3-5 West Broadway.
CARAVAN BREADMAKING.
Afghans Use Cobblestones While Tur-
comans Like Sand.
The bread or the Afghan caravan
wis ooked by heating small round
cobblestone in the tire aud then pok-
ing them out and wrappiui; dough an
Inch lhi-K a in hi t them. The balls thus
foriiMtl were aiiin throtrn into the
tire to he poked out again when cook-
ed. The? bread tasted Well there In the
desert ithhirtigh In civilized communi-
ties the gill and ashes would have
Seemed mifiid arable.
After -ood fellowship had been es
tablished the-Afghans actually sold us
some i..ur. svs a writer in the No-
tioual .rq hieal Mapizlne. The
camp where w used it a little later
happened to be beside the sandv bed
of a trickling -nlt streim. which was
driukahh- in u inter (nit absolutely un- (
usable iu u:.mer. when evaiorntIoo
is at its height and the salt is concen-
trated.
"See." said one of our Turcomans
as we dismounted: "here is some sand.
Tonight we can have some good
bread."
When some dry twigs had been gath-
ered be proceeded to smooth off a bit
of the cleanest sand and built upon it
a hot Ore. When the sand was thor-
oughly hot he raked off most of the
coals and smoothed the sand very neat-
ly. Meanwhile one of the other men
had made two large sheets of dough
about three-quarters of an inch thick
and eighteen inches in diameter. Be-
tween these he placed a layer of lumps
of sheep's tail fat. making a huge
round sandwich. This was now spread
on the hot sand coals mixed with sand
were placed completely over it. and it
was left to bake. Now and then an
edge was uncovered and a Turcoman
studied it appreciatively and rapped
on It to see If It -was yet cooked.
When the top was thoroughly baked
the bread was turned over and covered
np again. It tasted even better than
the Afghan bread after It was cooled
a little and the sand and ashes bad
been whisked off with a girdle. The
Turcomnns are so accustomed to life
In the snndy desert thnt they think it
impossible to make the best kind of
brend without sand while the Af-
ghans who live In the stony moun-
tains think that cobblestones are a
requisite.
THE ZANZIBARIS.
Dense Stupidity and Amusing Blunders
of the Natives.
In the "Autobiography of Sir Henry
M. Stanley" the author says of the
colored natives of central Africa:
"Good as the majority of Zanzibar!
were some of them were indescriba-
bly and for me most unfortunately
dense. One man who from his personal
appearance might have been Judged
to be amoug the most Intelligent was
after thirty months' experience with
his musket unable to understand how
it was to be loaded.- He never could
remember whether he ought to drop
the powder or the bullet into the mus-
ket first. Another time he was sent
with a man to transport a company of
men over a river to camp. After wait
ing an hour 1 strode to the bank of
the river and found them paddling In
opposite directions each blaming the
other for hi.? stupidity and belug iu a
passion of excitement unable to hear
the advice of men across the river
who were bawling out to them how to
manage their canoe.
"Another man was so ludicrously
stupid that he generally was saved
from punishment because his mistakes
were so absurd. We were one day
floating down the Kongo and It being
near camping time. I bade him as be
happened to be bowman ou the occa-
sion to stand by aud seize the grass
on the bnuk to arrest the boat when 1
should call out. In a little while we
came til a tit place and Lcried. 'Hold
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In our line that you failed to get du-
ring the rush of the Christmas trade.
Of course we have no toys or anything
in that line but perhaps you neglected
to get plenty of good warm underwear
or a cap that will keep the neck and
ears warm; or a supply of good woolen
hose an overshirt boots shoes in
fact we have a good line of merchan-
dise suitable for all changes of the
weather. The present cold snap is
no exception.
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hard. Klrango"' 'Please God master
he replied and forthwith sprang on
the shore and seized the grass with
both hands while we of course were
rapidly swept down river leaving him
alone and solitary on the bank. The
boat's crew roared at the ridiculous
sight but nevertheless his stupidity
cost the- tired men a hard pull to as-
cend again for not every place was
available for a camp.
"lie it was also who on an occasion
when we required the branch of a spe-
cies of arbutus which overhung the
river to be cut away ta allow the ca-
noes to be brought nearer to the bank
for safetv actually went astride of the
b aml Hiopnea nwaj
h"to the water with the branch and
M "r He had seated himself on
I 0!U'r c'3 vt tlu brancl
near me Blow
Winter veems to have
spent its lury and subsi-
ded the snow is meiting-
away and I am" still in
business in ray own name
that which "I inherited
from my fathflr and am
proud to wear. I sell top-
ic lenses at 1.50 over
Gilliam Bros' store. Tel
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A Store Is Known
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It Handles
Y.-u will find here. a.i
all tiroes the freshest
stocks ot the nwjit carefully selected
brands themarkct.otfcrs.
Our reputation built on the qual-
ity of our lin. birched by personal
cure infillinenllorderstareeor small.
In additloa courteous treatment and
the promptest delivery service In
town.malre this themost satisfactory
place to buy food supplies.
As at) Instance of our policy In
searching out the best foods w
mention
ELECTA COFFEE
a superior brand that will warm tho
heart of the most discriminating
coffee drinker.
An exclusive process of preparation
brings out the true flavor of the finest
highland eroxvn coffee beans.and In-
sures a drink of uniform excellence.
No coffee so good as Electa has
ever been offered because nothlne
to equal it Is produced.
Comes In sealed tins. No hasda
touch It until your. do.
Come in and get a pound caa
today.
McCulIey & Lewis
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Mayes, Will H. Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1910, newspaper, January 7, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth344819/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Howard Payne University Library.