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POWER FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH.

NEW ERA OF BOLDNESS.

Volcanic power-stations in Italy

and California, using steam from

natural vents in the earth, havė. attracted attention. But there are timid efforts," we are told by John L. Hodgson, writing in "Cahiers de l'Etoile (Paris). When we are bolder, we shall not be con tept with, using the heat and energy that nature has allowed to escape from the depths of mother We shall boldly go after them and then, he predicts, will come a new era," whose begin- nings, as noted, above, are now. visible, but almost unnoticed. As he puts it:-

earth.

THE CAUSE OF WORD. BLINDNESS.

A NEW THEORY,

THE STRANDING OF THE "BORNEO."

MARINE COURT OF INQUIRY.

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The condition known as word- blindness, a more or less complete inability to learn to read and to

Yesterday morning a Matine pell, comes occasionally under the Court of Inquiry was held at the notice of physicians, particularly Harbour Office to inquire into the those engaged in school service. circumstances attending the strand- The original idea that it was aing of the British steamer Borneo, form of teeble-mindedness has been The Court consisted of the fol abandoned in favour of the suglowing officers:-Commander J. B. gestion that it is due to defective Newill, D.S.O., R.N., (President); development of a small area in the temporal lobe of the brain. Dr. Saanuel T, Orton, of Ohio, who has made many studies of speech de fects, throws out a new theory, which is thus explained and critic

ized in The Lauret (London). We read:-

Lieut.-Comdr. L. J. Pitcairn Jones, H.M.S. Kent; Captain C. Isbister, master of the Kiangsu; Captain A. W. Hall, master of the Telema- chu: Captain E. V. Bishop, master of the Chak Sang

Mr. Hugh Jones appeared for both Captain J. R. van den Berg and Mr. Morgan, chief officer of the Borneo.

Captain's Evidence. Captain van den Berg, examined by Mr. Hugh Jones, said that the steamer left Hainan on October 1st at noon for Shanghai, Just after passing Chilang Point the vessel encountered heavy sean. The ship was going at full speed and could not be slowed down without dan- ger, as, even at full power, she was falling off from a point to a point and a half. The wind was from N. to N.N.E.

Witness could not see Breaker Point owing to the thick sand- storms blowing off shore, while the sea was increasing.

The margin plank on "the fore- castle head was started, and the tarpaulin on No. I. hatch was rip- ped away.

He made a special survey of Alteen cales whose backwardness Below the earth's surface are in reading was very marked, a everywhere burning-hot rocks. We compared with their progresa in And them when in mining or tur- other subjects and their general celing we meet with a temperature intelligence. Their. intelligence that rises higher the deeper we go. quotients ranged from 1 to 199 in Rigorous reasoning based on spite of the special, difficulty" with these observations show& 125 that certain tests caused by the read in most cases if we dig into the ing disability. They all had not earth to a depth of eight thousand mal vision, and could easily call up metres (about 23,000 feet] we shall visual memories of objects and pié- reach a temperature of 200 degrees į tures. The failure was in the Centigrade, and that if we go on asociative linkage between words to 50,000 metres we shall find one viausily presented and the corre of 600 degrees. In certain regions, sponding concept. Now it has sa in Yellowstone Park, in the vol- been found that destruction of one canic district of Larderelle, in Tus brain-hemisphere may cause loss of cany, and even in Bath, England. the associative function and in there are higher temperatures still. ability to read (acquired word. 'The heat of the rocks compara- | blindness), while destruction of the ively near the earth's surface does other hemisphere does not produce not come from the primitive molten this result. Visual records of only matter of which it is supposed that one side are used in symbolic the earth was formed. It is due association. Yet the inactive side to the slow disintegration of the is as well-developed a the other. innumerable atoms of radium that This would leave some record in these surface rocks coatais.. the cells of the inactive side, which "The radiation of heat that we would he opposite in sigo and would

"To heave to would observe is not a sign that the earth form a mirrored pattern. May it is cooling. All the evidence that not be. then. Dr. Orton asks, that have endangered the ship." said we now possess tends, on the con- while normally only one of these witness. A course was steered for trary, to prove that the earth is patterns is in activity, in these becoming warmer year by year,

abnormal cases under consideration Haimun Bay, the nearest safe an other has not been established and half a the habit of suppression of the charage, the course heing altered hence the difficulty in differentiat damage

point at a time to prevent

and was and saw,' and the ing between p' and "g' and 'd tendencies to mirror-reading and mitter-writing which he found in his cases to be characteristic of the condition The, theory is fas rinating, but not quite convincing, apart from the difficulty of preving it, which is as great as in the ense of the theory it is proposed to sup plant. The possibility of its truth depend upon the correctness "OF

Orders were then given to the en- otherwise of Dr. Orton's claim that the tendency to reversal in the giacer that the ship would probably direction of reading is the car get under way at six o'clock next dinal factor of the condition. The confusion of letters like 'p' and morning, if the weather had

children escape at an early stage

qis one which probably few abated.

Shortly afterward the Chief OB- and mirror-writing has been a well- recognized curiosity

cer (Mr. Morgan) informed witārss of develop- ment, vaually of short duration, in that the ship had bumped. Witness many normal children, and longer duration in some feeble

of had not felt the bump himself, and,

at first could not believe it. How minded children. These facte may seem to support Dr. Orion's theory ever, he went to the upper bridge that the condition is a physiological | with the Chief Officer, and verified variant, but mirror-writing does not the compass bearings, which proved appear to have been a factor in During the next twenty years some recorded cases of word-blind to be na before. The Second Officer the world is threatened with a lackness.

take soundings His estimate that. 2 per

Officer went below to examine the

"If we could cool off by 330 de grees a mass of rock of cre cubic kilometre [about" cubic mile] the heat obtained would equal that obtained by burning 50 million tons of coal-a quantity sufficient to supply for a year all the power plants in the United States.

"The heut stored up within the earth is 30 millions of times greater than that obtainable from all the coal still in the earth..

"Sooner or later the time will come wher engineers will have seriously to ask this question: To what extent can this heat reserve be utilized? And this time is 'nearer than we think,

"Already, there are many who think that coal is a precious source of chemical substances that only primitive industrial civilization would allow it to destroy by burning it up. Coal gives us coke, gas, tar, dyes, oils, explosives and fertilizers.

Coke, to mention only one of these substances, is of vital neces- sity in metallurgy for the manufac turs of steel.

sula was sighted bearing North, The west point of Haimun Penin

and was steered for.

The lead was kept going, giving soundings of 5 and 6 fathoms. The anchor

was let go in 4 fathoms with 5 shackles out and engine rung off."

was ordered to

of young, Bexible wood, which will cent of school-children are affect round the vessel, while the Chief require the 1190 of inoxidizable ed confirms the suspicion that hebiges. In the meantime the Chief steci ha many cases where wood is includes cases that do not even ap. now employed. And this or that vast project of construction, in voring the

use of steel. upan which the engineers may now em bark, will increase the value of coke and at the same time the necessity of recourse to sources of heat and energy' other than coal.

"The problem that must be solved in order to utilize the earth's heat may be stated very simply. The heat that escapes into space by radiation is not worth the trouble of being captured. Even if it could be utilized with the same economy as that of our modern central stations, we should

Engineer reported that the ballast proximate to word-blindness, which tank was making water, and on has in England been estimated to examination it was found that occur in 1 out of 2,000 children there were three feet of water in The theory also fails to explain the tunnel. The bilges were tight. the difficulty with other letters and words, a difficuly which Dr. Orton Puts Into Hong Kong. sets aside as of slight importance. Witness decided to proceed to Certain new training methods Swatow, and left Haiman Buy at based upon the theory are being 3.25 4.m. After a tedious passage, carried out pon some of the and keeping close to land they ar children; the results of these, when rived off Bell Island at 0.43 p.m. they are available, should be of Witness expected a pilot to come

per

much interest,"

"The deep borings would be made perpendicularly, like artesian

aboard Jut BOBC came, and after a short stop, they decided to put into Hong Kong, where they arrived at 2,445 2.m. on October 4th, vessel put into dock for repairs. The cargo was unloaded and the

not get more than 16 horse-power wells, with a central return chan. The damage sustained was on the quare kilometre [about nel they would be drilled on the port side only, with two keel plates; square mile] of surface. A good windmill on top of every hil! would principle used for bridge caissons, turned up for the length of a few

inches namely by pulverizing the ground buckled. The cost of repairs was produce as good a result.

plate also

would be, apmewhat heavier than beneath. The liquid used for this

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effect that Haimun Bay was not given as a safe anchorage.

"The problem is then to penc trate beneath the earth's surface the rock, to balance the pressure the attention of witness to page 18. The President of the Court drew to the high-temperature rock-lay and Beat up the debris through the of the China Coast Pilot to the ers, and extract their heat by circentral conduit. culating air or water among them." Calculation shows that such hent "The possibilities offered by the wells,' sunk several kilometres exploitation of the earth's hent apart, and supplying each from are immense. They are as follows: 5,000 to 10,000 horse-power, could The obtaining of heat and keep on functioning at full blast energy at any point and at wifl' for thousands of years.

Witness replied that on various previous occasions, on other ships of which he was not in command, he had anchored in Haimun Bay. In reply to Mr. Jones, witness The decentralization of large said that there was no other an "Two methods could be employ cities and the installation of resi-chorage available under the cir- ed. The first would consist in dence districts in sites of beauty, cumstances. penetrating to a depth of 25,000 | far from smoke and dust.

Captain van den Berg also re-

feet or more. The machines for "The colonization of the polar plied to other questions by members drilling and removing the débris regions and the irrigation of arid would be operated by workmen who would have to stand a high

regions.

of the Court on the comparatively shallow soundings in view of the swell which was running, witness expressed the opinion that the ves el was in perfectly safe anchorage under the prevailing conditions. The Hen, running from the

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surface. The Romans built at Bath tempt to reach a depth of about twenty miles by means of drills operated-entirely from the surface, Works of the former category could follow in part veins of zine, tin, lead, gold or silver. The work men would wear heat-proof cloth ing, and would be supplied with fresh, dry atmosphere produced by evaporating liquid air.

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