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VOLTA.
WHO TAMED ELECTRIC SPARK,
(By Waldemar Kaempfer.)
appear.
'
ne without considering that of the her, electricity had no practical
electrocuted, before his experiments in France. Out of these pleasant- rios came Franklin's famous Rite once experiment, which proved and for all the-identity-of-electricity- Rod Hghtning.
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THE CHINA MAIL,
known as the inventor of a few marrying blood. There is no burn-JEWS AND CHRIST. very useful Instruments for studying passion for the young, free ing and friction machine and dis charged by Leyden jars,
OPINION OF THE REV. R. J.. CAMPBELL.
BELIEF DOUBTED.
who
has
bean de-
use. Philosophers like. Franklin laboratory and places it on a table other with 'molst pieces of cloth be la capable-and he loves poets know that William the Second was
apuentated about it and threw. some light or its curious behaylour, but most of the theories evolved, ex- rept those of Franklin, scarcely out How their origiuntors. By dis- paring the principle whereby clctricity could be continuously drawn in a current from. a cell or Iattery: Volta enriched the world with a new source of energy. Long Before the dynamo was invented the "galvanic current" as it has been culously misnamed. doing useful work, especially in sending telegraph messages over hundreds
of miles.
Electric Kisses.
was
MONDAY, JUNE 25, -1928.
Him repeatedly as a gentle and LETTER AND RADIO. loving man, but never does he come
BE TRACED.
to grips with the fact that this ADDRESSES, WHICH CANNOT gentle and loving man must have" been a person of awe-inspiring force of character and unearthly moral elevation.
All lives of Christ fall in one
When his tongue and gets the charactor- fixed habits, for all his way of fully documented story shows that work of a converted Jew,
Now this Galvani is no ordinary person, ile is a professor in the University of Bologna, an authority. of international repute on compara- tive anatomy and obstetrics, a great
teacher, a born experimenter. Such a man must find an explanation for the convulsions. Were there some
· Electricity was one of the topics connections between the machine of polite conversation in the Pari-and the frog the explanation would signal of the 151 century; be ensy. Gentlemen who wore Jaces and
But there is none..
So
He
istle acid taste of electricity. performs scores of experiments. A thin wire is made to glow Water is He even throws the decomposed. bodies of executed criminals into lifelike convulsions and makes their breasts heave and sink in a perfect
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faithful Bervice. The
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Vivid & Compelling: So to say that Ludwig writes as a Jew is not necessarily to condemn the product of his pen. It is a wonderful plece of writing, vivid, compelling, and full of life; and it has been unusually well translated. us that The author modestly tells it is only one among many possible interpretations of the life and
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prues tried to explain to ladies after much rumluation, Galvant and to his dying day atoutly main professor, who slips them on. One marek. These are already standard more than suggests that the Cross Cheung, Shaung-chi, Prof. G. 0.
comes to the conclusion that there
daughter. If he reads the signs aright she will do. He branches The First Steady Current the subject_to_the_Count, and is That experiment in which frogs' accepted, as a son-in-law, despite Even earnest scientific experimen- legs are made to kick merely by the disparity in ages. Wheroupon
now fami- *Most people are A Century ago; on March 5, 1827,ters could:add but little to existing touching them with two different Volta. writes to a friend that he A Beandro Volta died at the age of electrical knowledge with the fric-metale attracts Volta's attention took his bride in preference to all Har with the namo. of Emil thing. None of them describes for tion, gives the following particu-
, and kings and scientists paid Lion machine and the Leyden jar. In particular. Animal electricity? others that had been offered to him,
Ludwig,
us a personality great enough to The frogs lega kicked even though they were possossed of scribed as the German Carlyle. He all the role.
He has played in the lars with regard to unclaimed cor- homage to his memory. To-day, The kind of electricity which is Nonsense!
That is cer- respondence, etc., waiting at tho whos men speak of a "velt" they obtained from those simple de- Just as Nollet's guardsmen leaped a great physical beauty, more has become widely known to British history of mankind.
Post Office, and also unclaimed unconsciously honour Volta. For vices-"static" we call it nowadays into the sir when they were shock- exalted plety and a larger dowry." and American readers by his bio-tainly so with this book. If we radio telegrams at the Radio Tele-
Galvani had And all because
had never read the gospels "her alators had aearly three decades he had been
-comes and goes of a sudden. ed by a Loyden jar.
graphical study of the ex-Kaiser. 80 much Posted up to as the magician who Thus a Layden Jar is charged and probably drawn on some source of distinguished themselves
Nothing so deadly to the reputa- should not gather from Ludwig's graph Office, Government Build-
ing:- had, tamed the electric spark. Not discharged at once.
by plety, prudence, good sense and Electricity electricity. But what source.
W. G. Bardott, Miss M. A. until Faraday began to lay the cannot be pourcil into it and out of For eight years Volta experi- practical economy in their houses tion of that fallen potentate has yet pages an adequate idea of the sort appeared in any language. It is of person Jesus was, or the tramen- foundations of modern electrie engl-it gradually like so much water. menta-goes over the whole ground holds,"
Ho is £on- neering did another experimenter of The jar is either-londed or unloaded. covered by Galvani.
He turns out to be right in this all the more effective because it is dous effect He produced on the lives Bankovsky, A. E. C. Corbet, c/o Cleaver, Chien Chung-hari, Mrs. even prenter skf and imagination A steady current of electricity vinced that the contact of two dis- theory of marriage, as right as in written without malice, and actual of the people who knew and loved Cox & Kings (Agents), Ltd., C. Er Ludwig is a Jow. An inter-T. E. Fielding, Mrs. A. Gillespie was unknown, and for this reason similar metala is enough to gene- his laboratory experiments with ly succeeds in making the reader Him in the flesh.
rate electricity. One day, at the discs of metal and bits of wet sorry for the poor strutting manni Hofore Valla engaged in a con- little progress could be made.
Service). M. troversy with Galvani, which is now
Then an accident happens which beginning of 1800, the design of an cloth. A deep, enduring love, kin who occupied the front of the sting fact of our time is that (Nee Webb), P. Green, Mr. Groove
showing a new interest in Jesus Cadot, Govt, passible to discuss the work of the and gives electrical investigation a will settle forever the question scientist and this young girl. He Great War and wielded a dangerous without giving up their Jewish Hanafin, A. P. Halloy, H. T. Jansen, clasale and which has made it im-changes the whole course of physics Instrument fishes upon him which springs up between the objective European stage up to the end of the Jewish scholars of distinction are (Musical Director), H. S. M. Hoare.
He plles silver pours forth in his letters all the power over the lives and fortunes faith in the process.
Some of the c/o Eli Libby Co., E. G. S. Kay, new impetus. One day in 1780 raised by Galvani. Luigi Galvani dissects n. frog in his and zlue disc of equal size on each lyrie, emotion, of which his nature of millions of human beinga.
Thanks to Dr. Ludwig, we now best and most illuminating things F. K. Kellogg, L. H. Lamb, S. D. that have been written about Jesus Lund, c/o Asiatic Exploration Co., He connects the He writes to her of his scientific near which is an electrical machine. tween the discs.
little more
than a puppet in the in recent years have been written Madame V. Langbank, Robert List by Jews like Claude Montefiore and (Money Order), Mr. C. M. Lee, hands of stronger and more un-
J. F. Muir, H. H. Madil, Drosur la assistant touches the nerve of upper and lower discs by means of work, of the honours that the great' He gets not a shock, but of the earth have showered on him,
Dr. Klausner. the dead frog while the machine is wire.
He did mischief
A book that mill. holds its own Milaon, Mr. and Mrs. Murray, J.; being turned and while it is-emita stendy current, the first steady all with touching intimacy and scrupulous men.
enough, it is true; his Insatiable His muscles simplicity.
among scholars, though written, Marston, N. G. Nag, P. S. Price, ting sparks. Suddenly the dead current in history.
vaulty and erratic judgment kept long ago, is Edersheim's "Life and Chas. Price, J. Robertson, Rafique, Volta, the Man. frog is thrown into convulsions, al- twitch like those of Galvani's frog.
the world uneasy for more than a Times of Jesus the Massinh," the E. Ravera, H. Shaw (Asiatic Ex- though there is no physical con- He applies the ends of the wire to
Volta is a lovable creature of generation. But Ludwig's care- nection with the machine. the machine stops the convulsions
appraising and evaluating before he was a weak creature after all he takes action. It is a historie and much to be pitied. also stop.
event for him to change a suit of clothes grown too shabby for a man
He Does Not Bellove. The tragedy of his reign was that of his distinction to wear. Polonio. his servant, goes about this matter such a jumpy and superficial being with a tact acquired by years of should have been allowed to occupy simulation of breathing.
shrewd for so long an exalted and in- grasshopper is caused to jump.
Polonio propounds a scientific ques- fluential position, which he posses- When Volts publishes his, firat action. The professor's interest Is sed neither the character nor the counts of his work the effect is aroused. A long explanation foi- ability to use aright.
character of Jesus. Galvan! is thunder-lows; in a fit of abstraction the overhelming.
It is well he should say so, for he I pass over Ludwig's equally mas-
n note
He of despair. struck, but refuses to give ground new breeches are handed to the terly studies of Napoleon and Bis- ends on
H. Bisbjerg (c/o H.K. Hotel).
that electricity animates ains
question prompts another... The works, and entitle their author to of Calvary was the last word, and Enriquez (c/o Am. Consulate), must be some electrical condition living niniscle. All Europe talks
ama aro in the coat. Volta rank with the greatest of historical that the whole superstructure of Hugo Frank, F. Hardivilliers & Co., Physicists build his muscles which causes them to about Valka.
awakens to find himself fully clad, biographers,
Christanity was built on the de- K. Kreier, H. Lonavelde, C. M. Lee, twitch long after they are dead. If simple "pile" and repeat his ex-simost a glass of fashion.
But now he has ventured into a lusion of a group of women, who Archie Ming (H.K. Christian Col-. To this day French-
themselves that the lege), E. G. Speakman, Miss E. ectricity can make a deal animalperiments.
Towards the last Volta' retires to new field. He has attempted to persuaded witch, why not also when it is men call a dry or wet cell a "pile."
Parcéls. glass, resin or
The French Academy of Science his villa, not far from his native portray something of the career and Master they loved had been seen Zarafrova. wax with the dry
alive? Is there such a force as
Ile goes,
Camo Visitors from all parts of inner life of the greatest being that again in the flesh after His dread- band or with a piece of dry cloth.
animal electricity? Is electiricity invites Volta to Paris.
not because such blandishments Europe pester the old electrician has efer-lived, Jesus Christ-or ful death." Ladies and gentlemen would stand upon cakes of wax, rub glass rods perhaps the force that makes us
flatter him, hat because of the Polonio becomes at once buffer Jeans without the Christ, for that more? Is it life itself?
Tonaparte is and intermediary. If the visiter is is the way of which Ludwig thinks and then give eacli ether ELM
This theory seema plausible en-rolitical conditions.
distinction with a of Him. electrical kiss, which was lis
favour with him. serious seientific purpose. Palonia fingulsheil from all other kisses ugh. It must be proved. Galvani First Consul and the Italian ellies a person of
It would wish to curry spends years at the task. by the passage of a spark between he had to find in the history of The Corsican's interest in science gins to manoeuvre for a meeting. Volta accepts the in- Volta is induced to come out into The ineeling lips. Rubbed, glass,
the open to view and explain some gems and wax had curious attrae science greater patience or greater is notorious.
He tests dead muscles invitation as a patriotic duty,
cloud of wondrous form or some Tive properties. 1lair could be futility.
The meetings of the Academy at
new Bower. That is the time for a lady's head countless ways. He shocks them
the visitor to make his presence merely by bringing such a rubbed into a semblance of life by connect,and his entirely new current are
Bonaparte presides in the known. Yet when he walks along Faljert near
Little pieces of ing them with an electric machine the most impressive
held.
He is the road Volta is anything but in an Academician. roles of paper and down could be both re- and with charged Leyden jars. He
different to even leads a wire from a lighting
the peasants. He fascinated hy this studious, pulled and attracted.
For more elaborate effects electric rod into his laboratory and runs
the risk of killing himself to dis- thoughtful, retiring Italian and knows them all by their first names their nickness and machines had been invented. 'In
grasps the full significance of the and recalls discovery. Bonaparte's enthusi-marriages and births with the these discs of glass were rapidly cover if lightning has any effect on
asm knows no bounda. After the accuracy of a village rossip, for turned by means of a crank-handle-dead_frog's nerves.
Galvani Stirs the Wärld.
sessies he rises and moves that the which-reason-the whole countryside. rules of the Academy be suspended holds him in veneration. "Magician" and that Volta be awarded its gold has an evil meaning to an Italian
The Academy ac
to this day. Volta is the "good magielan." medal at once. capts the suggestion with acclama-
When he dies, at 73 Arago's tion. The Corsican goes still fur- ther. He orders that 2,000 crowns estimate of him is quoted: "Volta's be paid to Volia, out of the Publicple is the most wonderful instru- ment that has ever come from the "Condenser" electricity has any effect on them. Treasury and grants him an in- and of man, not excepting even day that, not only does Ludwig dis-
come for life. Not content with this, he makes the modest Italian a the telescope or the steam engine." believe in any superhuman quality fareiga member of the Institute, a
A modern engineer with a better, in Him, whom he designates by Knight Commander of the Legion perspective will regard this as too His own title Son of Man, but is
we must give the credit of having Him. of Honour and The Order of the high an appraisal. Still, to Velta not in complete sympathy with made electricity manageable, of Honours From Bonaparte.
having reduced the influite rapidity.
·Bonaparte.finda.it hard to diamiss of the spark to the slower, stendier the Voltale pile from his mind. He and more powerful current destined sends for Volta, and cross-questions to carry voices across continents, him with the thoroughness of shed light in millions of factories
barking and found It is
Spanish Inquisitor. "See, Ca- and homes and drive much of the voisart," he says to his physielan, world's machinery. "see, this is the very image of life. The vertebral column is the pile: the liver is the negative pole, and
There is an Italian Academy of Sciences which Napoleon is then the kidneys are the positive pole."
with hoops and patches the wanders described in toks published in learned Latin. There was only one way of generating plectricity, and that was by rubbing a piece of
made to stand on
IL.
them on a copper iron railing of his
As he lifts the
while rabbits for was held against One experiment convinces him The glass. Sizable sparks could be more than any other that he is right made to crackle between the tex- minals of such machine, and in thinking that there is animal electricity. lle skins some froga spirits of wine could be igniterl
The only offer pince of apparatus, legs and hangs with whier the eighteenth century hook from an Was neqitainted as the Leyden balcony to ascertain if atmospheric jar nos called a The jar itself was-luif-coated inside Nothing happens.
Through link be observes that the muscles and outside with tinfoil.
very felike manner. the cuver a knabbed rod projected twitch in within, and from the rod a light Clearly, the atmosphere is not re- Casting about for an chain dangle which reached the sponsible. metal fail coating at the bottom. explanation: he finds that the legs The Leyden jar was a true storage are convulsed whenever the iron of haltery. When the knob was con- the ralling and the copper hook nected with a friction machine the touch the moist muscles. Ile makes Inner coating of the jar was charg-an are or bow of twn pieces ed with electricity. By holding copper and iron and touchen a nerve. the jar in one hand and touching Again that lifelike spasm. the knob with the other a shock clearer than ever to him that clec- could he obtained, strong enough,ricity must reside in the frog's according to the more mendacious legs.
At last Galvani is ready to an- and imaginative, to give one nase-bleed and unnerve one com-nounce his discovery and to adduce pletely. Germany, who invented the jar in man can be surer of his ground. He Dean von Kleist of Comin, a hundred experimental proofs. No 1745, said the shock he got was writen a book in Latin, in accord-
Lime.
the
of
Iron Crown.
It has ever
too great to be endured a second ance with the established profes- engaged in organising. Here is an sorial practice, and definitely takes opportunity to placate the Italians. The frictional machine and, the the stand that there is an intimate Volta is appointed one of the first members. Bonaparte at last. ex- Leyden jar were the only important relation between organic life and hausts himself of honours to bestow pieces of electrical apparatus with electricity. The suggests that
by making Volta a Senator and a which the 18th century was ac- human beings may be affected by Count of the Kingdom of Italy. quainted. They were then what thunderstorms and that electricity radio sets are now, so far as popu may influence plant and animal lar interest is concerned. No growth. He suspects that earth- seientifle run of micans was without quakes will hear electrical study and a machine and a set of jars. proposes that before and during a Leipsic did a thriving business in tremor frogs' legs be used to test making and selling electricni spark- the electrical condition of the at- ing and shocking devices. Atmosphero.
Poor, bashful, self-effacing Volta! He hardly knows which way to turn
these marks of favour rain, upon him. The gift of money from the Public Treasury gives his con- science n Ewinge. This Bonaparte is a notorious infidel, for all his interest. In aelence. Can a good
every country fair a charlatan wus Galvani's book makes a tremen- Catholic accept money from the sure to be found who held peasants dous sensation. Physicians awal-hand of such a one? The money is spellbound he administered low his conclusions whole. Is he accepted conditionally, badly needed shocks at a farthing each.
not the respected professor of the though it is for scientific work. University of Bologna? Has he Bonaparte's decree must be con- not made hundreds of experiments?firmed by the Pope.
Epoch-Making Shocks.
It was the fashion to hear lectures A new word, "galvanism," is added A dispassionate, bighly objective on electricity and to visit labora- to every European language. Par-seientist is this Volta. When he lories. Abbe Nollet in Paris was ticularly interesting and musing is marries he goes about the business- especially popular, because he had that experiment in which frogs' legs of choosing a wife scientifically. a sense of the dramatic and knew.can be made to kick. merely by He is 49 when he arrives at the just the kind of thrill that ladies touching them with an are com conclusion that it is not good for and gentlemen enjoyed most. To posed of two different metals. In man to live alone. His Paris the great wonderment and delight all the capitals of Europe frogs triumphs le behind him. It is of the Court, he transmitted the legs kick in drawing-rooms, to the time to settle down. There is the discharge of a battery of Leyden intense delight of ladies and gen family of his friend, the Count jars through 180 guardsmen and tlemon A few ribald fosters call Ludovico Peregrini. Of the seven made them jump. Not to be out Galvani "the frog dancing master." Peregriul daughters only the done by shocking on this scale, the One of those who reads Galvani's youngest is free. Ho casts a Carthuslan monks of Paris for book is Alessandro Volta, Pro- scientific and appraising eye upon and a line 900 feet long and, when fessor of Experimental Physics in her. Marriage is a lottery, it is the hands at the ends. "met in con- the University of Pavia. He has true. But the chance of failure is tact with the electrifled vial, the a passion for poetry quotes his reduced if one considers how other.. whole company at the same instant Virgil and Tasso whenever the Peregrini have conducted them- gave a sudden spring,"
occasion arises. In fact, he even selvca in wedlock
Franklin was one of those who writes five hundred stanzas on the One alster is a mun, but five was engrossed by the electric ma- discovery of oxygen by Priestley, other slators are married. It muat chine and the Loyden Jar Ho Yet he le the most cool, calculating, be admittel that the marital de- gave his friends shocks and even objective scientist in all, Italy, What portment of these five is admir succeeded in killing a hen, although is more, he knows, a thing or two able. Experiment has clearly proved beetles, birds and worms had been about electricity. His name is that the Peregrint, blood l
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This will not do. It does not
And Ludwig is grossly Aghes explain. wrong in saying that the story of the hainan Teacher came Brat and that of the superhuman Lord later.
Quon Tong Wee,
50, Wing Lok-st. Suakwonghing Tiosmilam Junhon
The book has been boomed in the Press, being aerialised for weeks
aAs literature, at any rate, it was the in advance of publication as single whole. It has been praised other way round. and commended by all sorts of peo- The Gospels are later in date than ple, including at least one Bishop., most
more important Shuffing They are very short-sighted. Epistles in the New Testament, Hopbind They fail to see that Ludwig is which plainly show that from the for writing on this Resurrection onward Jesus was disqualified subject by one fatal defect: He worshipped as diving. does not really believe in Jesus.
of the
Almadeed
Could, con-Yuamton
Retrib Cassius And to this day the principal Tanana This may seem a strong thing to value of Jesus to the world is that Yueanng. Mangood say, but it is not too strong, as any Ile is regarded as the expression
Genundird attentive reader can see for himself. both of what God is and of what The author starts out by telling us man ought to be." that he has no intention of trying to cludes Dr. Campbell in "Roynolds," shake the faith of those who believe less than this be true? in the divinity of Christ, but aime rather to convince those who regard the personality of Jesus na unreal that He actually lived and was an M. HERRIOT'S TASK. intensely human figure.
All the same, it is as clear as the
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STORY OF MAN'S THREATS.
Hugh James Nixon, a farmer, of Cosbyn-town, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, was charged at Ennis- killen with setting fire to a house, which, it was stated, reverted to him on the death of the occupier,
Paris--M. Herriot, the Minister
Mias Crooke. for Education, who was indirectly
It was alleged that Nixon took defeated at the last general elec-out a fire policy on the house Inst tion at Lyons, when the Socialist February and was heard to candidate supported by him lost threaten to burn Miss Crooks out of The impression he produces on the mind of the reader is that he his seat to his Radical opponent, the place.
not understand Jesus. No M. Augagneur, will now have to dues one is big enough to understand put up a hard fight to retain bis Jesus fully, but, as has been well office as Mayor of Lyons. He has sald, in order to understand Him filled this position for the last 15 at. all, we must love, Him, and years,
M. Augagneur has decided to run The Government has decided to Ladwig does not love Him; does build a new revolver range.
he even admire Him? He speaks of for the mayoralty next year.
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She was awakened by a dog the thatch of the roof on fire. Nixon was said to have been seen near the house, and on the way to his home paper smelling of paraffin was found.
He was sent for trial.
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