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COLLF(.K .AND INTEMPERANCE
There is encouragement ia the
increasing outspokenness of be
lli vtrs ia temperance among stu
dents lu the older aud larger uni
vt is:ties of the tUist where academic
traditions social customs, and ex
clusive student clubs flourish, and
where j* cells for more courage to
attack temuerauce tftau it does in
educational institutions farther west.
Yale, for instance, at this com
mencement, is to have many of its
class reuuions without the custom
ary profter of liquors to returning
alumni. This reflects a wholesome
change of attitude among men who
are iu the world aud who may be
said to reflect the opinion of con
temporary society, which undoubt
edly is hardeuing against the liquor
traffic.
But what we especially welcome la
the swelling opposition among un
d-rgraduates against assumed neces
sity of having iiquori at student so
cial gatherings during the academic
year. Of course, iu a very large
propcrtion of the colleges of the
I'uittd States that were founded and
still are controlled by religious de
nominations, this issue long ago
was settled b> a prohibition issued
by »hfc college authorities and sin
cerely supported by student opinion.
It is iu the older universities, seat
ed in cr near large cities, and in
fluenced more or less by "society"
and social conventions, that stu
dent tipi-ling is still tolerated and
winked at by students and by aca
demic authorities. But, as events
at Harvard university during the
past year have shown, the complais
ant oolicy is being challenged. Re
ferenda among the students are
being forced by the temperance min
ority. Youth now coming in from
the high schools of the country, and
representing a more democratic and
more ethically aggressive sentiment
than flourishes in the private
s.hools which so long have domin
ated" the older universities, are
pressing the issue. Xor are they
stooping with trying to convert the
student body to temperance. They
are asking that the college and uni
THUNDERSTORMS,
Simple Scientific Explanation of
How They Occur.
ELECTRICITY IN THE CLOUDS.
The Processes by Which th« Mumi of
Unequally Charged Vapor Are
United, the Lightning FUahea Gen
erated and the Downpour Started.
Lightning Is the result of electric dis
charges from the clouds, says the Elec
trical Experimenter In printing what
It calls "a thunderstorm primer."
Every cloud, like every other object,
contains electricity. This makes no
disturbance so long as the quantity
contained Is normal. When the quan
tity becomes greater than normal the
object Is positively charged; when It
becomes less than normal the object Is
negatively charged. The equilibrium
of the electric force In the clouds Is
disturbed by evaporations from the
surface of the earth, by changes of
temperature In the atmospheric vapor,
by chemical action on the earth's sur
face and by the friction of volumes of
air of different densities against each
other.
When clouds charged with the oppo
site electricities approach, the forces
rush toward each other and combine to
restore the state of equilibrium, for all
bodies charged with opposite electrici
ties attract each other. Between the
clouds Is air, an excellent nonconduc
tor. through which the electricity has
to force a passage. The violence with
which It does this produces the llght
ntpg and the accompanying crash of
thunder.
Clouds are good conductors, while the
air about them Is a nonconductor;
therefore the electricity accumulates In
the clouds. It Is probably this elec
tricity which prevents the particles of
water from uniting together and falling
down In the form of rain.
versity authorities, especially where
th^ college city or town has exclud
ed the saloon, iu no way condone
what practically amounts to law
breaking by failing to act forbid
dingly against exclusive social clubs
of students whose clubhouses are
really if not nominally vendejs of
liquors.
Failure to prohibit such evasion
of law and connivance with such
trickery as is practiced by these
clubs practically puts a college or
university in the ranks of a law
breaker, .and subjects it to thq
charge of inconsistency between its
instruction of students in social
ethics and in good citizenship and
its formal practice. This issue at
last having been raised at Har
vard university, both by students
and by law officers charged with
enf- roement of the liquor statutes,
a significant decisive answer by the
univetsity one way or the other
would seem to be imperative.—
Christian Science Monitor.
Hl'MEKS MIST
KILL LESS DEER
Only three deer may be killed by
huute-s during the next open sea
sou and the regulation preventing
the sale of deer carcasses has been
exte.'dtd another year, according
to advices, received by Gov. J. F. A.
Strong from Secretary of Agricul
ture David F. Houston, who says:
"I have- your letter of June 10,
recommending that Regulation No.
2 o* the department regulations of
July 14, 1914, which limits the
nuinter of deer killed by any one
person during the open season in
Southeastern Alaska to six, be
amended to limit the number to be
killer* to three; and the renewal of
Kegulr.tioo 3, prohibiting the Bale
of deer carcasses in Southeastern
Alaska until August 1, 1915, to
Augi st 1, 1916.
"1 shall be glad to adopt both
| or your recommendations. These
j will be incorporated in the new
| "Service and Regulatory Announce
' 'uents," and a number of copies
! will be furnished you as soon as
1 issued.
I Imagine two clouds near to each oth
I er In the sky, one positively and the
I other negatively electrified, for there
cannot In all nature be such a condi
tion as that of one body positively ex
cited without the coexistence of an
other body negatively excited. If the
; positively charged cloud were all alone
, lu the sky the circumjacent atmos
phere would assume the negative func
tion. But as the other cloud Is near by
It becomes negative, and both are mu
tually attracted. They approach each
other until the space of air between
them can no longer resist their electric
tension, when the discharge takes
place.
The equilibrium of the clouds being
thus restored, there Is nothing to keep
the particles of water apart; they coa
lesce Into drops and fall as rain.
When only the clouds are involved
the equilibrium is quickly restored by
a few dashes and the storm is over.
When the air also Is Involved it con
tinues to charge the clouds with elec
tricity, and the discharges continue un
til the various strata of air are brought
Into their normal state.
Sometimes, when the clouds are
charged with an opposite eleciricity to
that of the earth, a discharge takes
place from clouds to earth or from
earth to clouds. It is only when there
Is a great disturbance of the electrical
forces that the lightning flashes to the
earth or vice versa.
The flash and the thunder peal are
simultaneous, and we see the one be
fore we hear the other because light
waves move far more swiftly than
sound waves. The peal of thunder Is
Instantaneous, but comes to us as a
roll through being echoed from clouds
or mountains. The noise Is caused by
the vibrations of the air rushing to fill
up the spaces where the electrical dis
charge has rarefied it and condensed
Its vapors.
Lightning is zigzag when it travels
through a long distance, because it
compresses the air, which interferes
with its direct course It is straight
when it passes through only a short
distance. It is forked when, being re
sisted by the air, It divides Into two or
three points. It la sheet when the_flash
id loOdlstant tO be visible, ftnd Its re
flection alone 1b seen.
By remembering that sound travels
a quarter of a mile in a second, -while
light travels so swiftly that we see it
instantaneously, we can tell how far
off a thunder clap Is. If we hear a
thunder clap four seconds after seeing
the flash we know It Is a mil© away.
For such calculations our own pulse is
a sufficiently accurate measure of time,
for the pulse of an adult beats about
once a second. A person under forty
should count five beats to the mile; a
person under twenty should count six
beats to the mile.
A Rough Criticism.
Lord Houghton's epigram on "Sor
dello," probably the most obscure of
Browning's poems, though It has often
gone the rounds, Is worth recalling.
Said Lord Houghton, then only
Dicky Mllnes, "There are but two lines
In 'Sordello' I can understand—the first
and last—'Who will may hear Sordel
Io's story told' and 'Who would hath
heard Sordello's story told,' and both
are false."
Finger Print Love.
"Why do you think you'll be happy If
you marry that young man. daughter?"
asked the father.
"Because, father, we've had our fin
ger prints examined and they almost
match," was the sweet young thing's
reply.—Yonkers Statesman.
Let us remember that justice must
be observed even to the lowest.—Cicero.
THE BEAUTIFUL
Man comes into life to seek and
find his sufficient beauty, to serve
it, to win and increase it, to fight
for it, to dare anything for it,
counting death as nothing so long
as the dying eyes still turn lo it.
And fear, and dullness, and indo
lence, and appetite, which are no
more than fear's four crippled
brothers who make ambushes and
creep by night, are against him, to
delay him, to hold him off and be
e and kill him in that quest.—
G Wells.
The Climber.
"Are you making much social prog
ress r asked the Intimate frleiul of a
newly rich man.
"Oh, yes," answered the millionaire.
"I've been playing the game for a year,
and I estimate that 1 am about six feet
nearer the Inner pale of society and
about six miles nearer the poorhouse
than I was when I started."—Balti
more Sun.
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NO TRACE FOUND
OF SNIGG'S BODY
Dawson News, June 25:.No trace I
has been found of tlig body; of I
David Snygg, who was drowned in |
thp Stewart rivor, near Rosebud i
skugli, this spring. Slg Olson,
who was a partner.with Snygg, is in
the city from the Stewart, and
aays:
'A. uumher of us ware bringing a
raft of logs down the.Stewart for
tin sawmill when the raft struck a
snag at the .mouth of Rosebud
sioujrh. Dave was on. the raft, and,
as it struck, he ran to snub the
rope, but became entangled, and.it
seems he must have been struck by
a log. We saw him go overboard and
pluiigo into the water feet first.
That was the last .we saw of him.;
Not a trace has boen found of his
body. I
"Dave carried about $30 in gold,
winch he had rocked from a bar on
tho Stewart, near Johnson'B Blough,
and which he was bringing to Daw
son to send to his old .mother, 78
years of age, in Sweden.
"Dave was the support .of his
ag-d mother, and a most exemplary
and iudustrious man. Ho.was 36
years cf age and unmarried. He was
bora in Dolman,c. Sweden. He had
boun logging on the Stewart the
last seven years.. He has a broth
or in Michigan, who will be notified
o.f hi3 death, and who will he asked
to convey the sad news .to the
aged mother. Dave left little, if
any, estate here beyond possibly
enough to pay his obligations. Ho
took everything with him, it might
be said, excepting 1,000 shares of
m'nti-g stock in an outside company.
The shares are o' unknown value.
He wus in tho logging business with
Andrew .Norman, Helmar Hogstrom,
his cousin, and myself. At the
time the raft struck it went to
pieces and .we lost G.OOO of the
24,i'00 l'eet of logs which comprised
tile raft."
Mis Affliction.
"What makes Bill such a croaker?"
"I believe it's because he's got a frog
in ills throat."—Exchange.
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