FRIDAY, JAN. 9, 1914, 



VOL. CIII. NO. 178 



:: THE ROMANCES OF SCIENCE 



THE STOEY OF HELIIJM. 



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By WILLIAM JOSEPH SHOW ALTER. 



SCIENTISTS now declare that, after all, the ancient alchemists were 

 that transmutation is not a fancy, but a fact. And they have discovered 

 the philosopher's stone through a delicate pair of scales and a spec- 

 troscope. Many years ago it was discovered that the sun seemed to have in id 

 every substance that is found on the earth, and conversely, that the earths 

 seemed to contain every substance that was in the sun. The spectroscope^ 

 which splits up rays of light in the same way that a prism gives the color^ 

 of the rainbow, told the scientists that. Then, one day, an astronomer was 

 studying the light of the sun through his spectroscope, and a new substance 

 was found to be sending its rays down to him. He called it helium. 



At last, said the astronomical world, something has been found in the sun 

 that is not found on the earth. How can we account for that? Well, they 

 simply could not account for it. Years went by and the mystery remained. 

 Then, on% day, Professor Ramsay of England was experimenting with the pro- 

 duction of nitrogen and found that it had different weights when gathered 

 from different sources that of the air being slightly heavier than that coming 

 from, other sources. Now this he could determine only with a pair of scales 



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