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The whole concentrated force of the great dynamos should be employed on Duncan Warner. So we three settled it, and had already risen to break up the meeting, when our silent companion opened his month for the first time. "Gentlemen," said he, "you appear to me to show an extraordinary ignorance upon the subject of electricity.
Nay, the very pleasure-boats on the sunny waves declared the glory of somebody's soap, of somebody's purgatives. 'I'll make that place one of the biggest advertising stations in England see if I don't! You remember the caves? I'm going to have them lighted with electricity, and painted all round with advertisements of the most artistic kind. 'What a brilliant idea!
But during the last few months a teacher Myra Craig had been coming to the printery to have some work done for the school. She had strangely affected Joe sprung an electricity on him that troubled him profoundly. He could not forget her, nor wipe her image from his brain, nor rid his ears of the echoes of her voice. He went about feeling that possibly he had underrated poetry and music.
He talked of clubs, New York clubs and London clubs, and of plays that were yet to be given, and music that the public would never hear. Susan felt as if electricity was coursing through her veins. She felt no fatigue, no sleepiness, no hunger; her champagne bubbled untouched, but she emptied her glass of ice-water over and over again.
His reasons for suspecting some connection between electricity and light are not clear to us in fact, they could not have been clear to him; but he seems to have felt a conviction that if he only tried long enough and sent all kinds of rays of light in all possible directions across electric and magnetic fields in all sorts of media, he must ultimately hit upon something.
The news, thus leaking out, kept the Swift shops almost constantly besieged by many curious ones, who sought, by various means, to gain admission. Finally Tom and his father, after posting large signs, warning persons to keep away, added others to the effect that undesirable visitors might find themselves unexpectedly shocked by electricity, if they ventured too close.
There is no previously known substance or agent, whether it be even light or electricity, that possesses such wonderfully penetrative powers."*5* What, then, is the nature of these radiations? Are they actually material particles hurled through the ether? Or are they like light and possibly the Roentgen rays simply undulations in the ether?
Tom was filled with enthusiasm, and he was sure it was going to be successful this time. Ned watched him prepare the selenium plates plates that were so sensitive to illumination that, in the dark, the metal would hardly transmit a current of electricity, but in the light would do so readily, its conductivity depending on the amount of light it received.
"Allons!" exclaimed H. "Do you hear the pompiers? The Gothas again!" We stiffened up in our chairs and listened. The trumpets sounded shrilly on the night air of our tranquil Parisian quarter. "Right you are. That means down we go! They might have waited until I finished my chapter, hang them! There's no electricity in our cellar," and I cast aside my book in disgust.
As one remarkable instance we have the Leyden jar; and after the splendid experiments of Faraday in complete and final establishment of the substantial identity of magnetism and electricity, we may cite the magnet, both the natural and the electro-magnet, in neither of which is it possible to produce one kind of electricity by itself, or to charge one pole without charging an opposite pole with the contrary electricity at the same time.
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