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RADIUM IN THE SUN
OR ELECTRIC WAVES?
The Ipeop'le of Britain lately wit-
nessed a marvellous display of the
aurora borealis, seldom seen in the
British Isles. So rare that in olden
clays the aurora was 'held to be a por-
tent. This ancient superstition is re-
flected in 'Aytoun's `lE'din:burgh After
,Flodden" :by the fainiliar lines:
"All last ,night the .northern streamers
Shot across the tremibting sky,
Fearful lights that never 'beckon
Save when kings or heroes die."
And die they did on that 'tragie
battlefield: 'where 'frill, James I'V. and
so many of hits soldiers, and 'w'hich
was the inspiration of Scotland's sad-
dest song, "The 'Flowers ,olE the For-
est!"
When '.I was +a small !boy they arced
to say that 'the northern 'lights were a
•rdllection e,f the sun shining on the
ice fields of the north. Little did
think then That in years to come
would penetrate ,far into Pope Arctic
and see tire giant 'snow-cappedace
Moes which, 'with the vast !Greenland
Ice cap, were erroneously supposed to
make -the murona'borealis. The reflec-
tion, story was, :of 'coliese, joist a dairy
tale. And in any 'case the ,far 'Arctic is
shrouded in eontinuotte 'darkness ,dur-
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"ing most of the winter.
Needless to say, 'Aurora was the
Roman goddess of the dawn—!Aurora,
'Ont.; is from an .Indian word •mean-
in'g something ,quite 'different. The au-
rora lb'oeealis signifies the phenomen-
on in the northern regions of the
world and the 'aurora austnalis that in
the southern 'hemisphere. Lts 'colors
range through 'green, ,red, yellow, vi-
olet.
:Displays of the ,aurora increase in
frequency es one goes northward to
certain limits, !but decrease as one
nears the 'North Tole. Ear Europe and
Asia the latitude of maaimum 'fre-
quency is 160 'degrees north latitude, I.n
fact the finest ,exhib'ition ti ever sa'w
of the northern lights was one night
at Fort Smith, N,W,T., 411(1 miles
nor't'heast of IEId'mon'ton and almost
aptly on latitude 60.
Waiting arrival 'oF the Hudson's
Bay Co,'s steamer from the 'Maoken-
zie River, S emerged late one night
from a party add at a local trader's
house about !August. I sa'w '(and 'I
had :had nothing stronger than 'coffee
to 'drink) thewhole sky suffused with
panoply .of pale ,green light which.
fl'ic'kered up and clown from every
horizon to a 'central aura in the heav-
ens. INo wonder that the redman used
to think 'the lights spirits of the de-
parted 'dancing in the sky.
Years later when up in the Arctic
at Ellesmere .I'sland an latitude 79,
some 111,300 miles farther north than
Smith, 11t-ho'ur suinmer sunshine de-
nied me any view of the lights. But
down 'on Hodson 'Bay on the return
journey we saw the northern lights,
the afterglow of the sunt and the 'near -
full moon cast their 'combined mild
radiance on the smooth sea,
By Photographing the aurora ag-
ainst a !background of stars and 'tak-
ing observations with a. transit from
two ground station, a tknawn 'distance
apart, :scientists have measured the
height of the aurora. The rays, it
seems, have !been estimated as reach-
ing from 1510 to as much as 1600 miles
'From the earth.
An 'unusual aurora, occurring in
Norway in 11196, was said to have had
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HOW OTTAWA BECAME
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ec'.s seventy-seven.
IOmthe twenty-tf@fth of (June a reso-
lution; appropriating 'fifty -thousand
p'ousnds towards 'the public 'buildimlgs
at Quebec was oarried in the lA'ssem-
lrly by a majority of fiity 'to forty-six.
I'n the Legislative Connell, however,
on the motion for the second reading
of the Supply Ball, the following re-
solution 'was adopted:
"'Resolved, that 'this House not hav-
ing 'been consulted on the subject of
the !fixing of any ,pllace'for the 'perma-
nent seat 'of government of this +Prov-
ince, and the other branch of the Leg-
islature fraying resolved upon 'Quebec
QS Stith :permanent seat of :govern-
ment, and hawing, moreover, passed a
Y
beams
skyward or ,6 miles
reachingsk Pa d F 00
—which goes 'ta show that the earth's
atmosphere ntu•st extend for at least
that distance ,from its surface. Travel-
lers report ,having seen aurora :be-
tween themselves and 'cliffs at clouds,
which evidenced that its lower por-
tions were 'within a mite of the earth.
at is also claimed by people who
have dwelt in the far north that •l'he
aurora at times • 'emits a :crackling
sound resembling rustling silk. But
this sound 'does not appear to have
been registered on instruments. Scien-
tists :are therefore s'kep'tical and attri-
bute the alleged sounds to the 'faint
noises made in one's ears by the cir-
culation of the blood and noticeable
as one is straining to hear when ev-
erything is still
The .aurora spectrum has' been care•
fully studied and large numbers of
characteristic lines, particularly a
bright green ,line, are observed
through a glass. ILndee'd, by sighting
on the .night 'slay when no aurora is
visible to the ''naked eye, it is possible
to obtain 'this green line. The in-
ference is that there is a permanent
aurora. The 'famous green line has
been ddfinitely ,proved to be due to
oxygen.
Observations taken :for mere than
two centuries show that the sximiber
of auroras rather closely •fallow the
number .cd Sun +spots. It is further
found that more auroras ,appear in
1\'Iarclt' and September when the
'earth is more directly opposite the
suit than in 'June and 'December when
such is 4tot the case. It is noteworthy
that when a 'brilliant aurora appears
there is almost sure to be a magnetic
storm followed •by heavy earth cur-
rents that d•istuttb wire :communica-
tion and the radio. I only 'know that
when we 'saw the northern lights on
Hudson Bay in early September one
of the crew :prophesied "weather" as
a result. and soon afterwards came
Bill of Supply making provision far
erecting .pu'b'lic :buildings at Quebec,
this House feels itself imperatively
called upon to declare that it cannot
concur in the •said 'B'ai'l of Supply.
"Because, moreover, this House did,
on the twenty-fifth day of ,April, 1181515,
adopt an address to 'His 'Excellen'cy
the GovernoraGeneral, praying that
His Excellerucy would he pleased, an
the exercise of the Royal Prerogative,
to 'x permanently upon some conven-
ient place 'for the annual assembling
of 1Pariiament; arid, assuring His 'Ex-
ellency of the cheerful .concurrence of
this House in any .proposition His
Excellency might think 'fit to make,
for 'the appropriation of public money
for the accommodation of the three
branches of the Legislature at the
palace which might be so fixed ,upon by
His Excellency."
The As'sem'bly then introduced an-
other Supply Bill omitting the fifty
thousand pounds, and this was carried
by .both Houses.
'In all the voting over the seat of
Government, Ottawa had fewer ad-
vocates than any other city; as late as
11467 it received only :eleven votes in a
House of one hundred and thirty-. In a
recent article, contributed to the 'Ca-
nadian Historical Review :by jetties
A. 'Gibson, the writer points out that
there is strong presumptive evidence
that the Duke of `Newcastle (then
Secretary of State for the 'Colonies)
advised Queen Victoria to choose Ot-
tawa. Newcastle was 'evidently isElu-
enced'by^ a memorandum '(quoted in
full 'by ;Mt. Gibson) sent home by the
'Goverltor4Generat, Sir ;Edmund' 'W.
Head. who had succeeded Lord .Eigin
.in which be considered at length the
claims of the five major cities.
Regarding Ottawa, Sir Edmund
said:
:`‘If Ottawa is chosen, Montreal will
acquiesce in the choice, and the ma-
jority of Upper Canada will not in
any way resist, for to them it is a par-
tial triumph. The whale matter is a
choice of evils, and the least evil will,
I think. be found itt placing the seat
of 'Government at Ottawa. Whichever
section predominates, and however
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management, can always be turn -
against the ;Government of the
y; nor is this the worst consequence
its ,unsettled condition. If the Prov.
Ince of Canada is to remain one, it is
essential that its seat of Government
should he 'fixed. and recognized by all."
. Many of the members of the 'Can-
adian 'Parliament were disappointed
with the Queen's choice. Though the
official. annauntsnent that Her Maj-
esty
i-esty had selected (Ottawa, was made
in the middle of January, 0515, Chris-
topher Dunkin moved, and Antoine
A. Dation seconded the following
proposal on the 3Sth of July of that
year:
'That an humble Address be pres-
ented to Her Most 'Gracious Majesty
the Queen, to represent that this
'House prays Her Majesty to recon-
sider the selection she Chas been ad,
eased to make, as a future capital of
Canada, and to name Montreal as
such future capital."
There were other Objections raised.
but the Queen's chaise stood, anti is
1860, on the 'first of August, the
Prince of '\N/ales, afterwards 'Icing 'Ed-
ward the Seventh, laid the corner-
stone 'of the :Parliament Buildings' at
Ottawa, The 'departmental offices
were moved+ to their new quarters
from Quebec in 1'565, and The first
session 'began in 1118166. lAt :Confedera-
tion Nova Scotia and :New Brunswick
acknowledged Ottawa as their ,choice
and one after the other the remaining
provinces 'have come in to make one
great Dominion stretching from sea to
far westward the commerce of Cana-
da may extend, Ottawa will be a eon- sea.
,And today all Canadians are proud
venien'tositi
p ort of the beautifu'l Capital City that Ot-
°`I•f the Red 'River settlement and, tawa has 'became.
the Sas'katehewan country are finaily
to be annexed to Canada, the 'Ottawa
route to Lake Huron and Lake Super-
ior will be available, and may possibly
turn out the shortest and most advan-
tageous of all.
"I have written this memorandum
with no wish to tltrn..t nn Her 1•Iajes-
ty's Government advice in a matter
specially referred to the discretion of
the Queen; but T have thought that'1
may be expected not to avoid the re-
the'worst blow of the voyage titou'.gb sponsibility of expressing an opinion
we had no thunder or lightning. of my own.
1t is pretty generally conceded that! , "1 would also suggest that the ma -
the sun spots denoting vast cyclone itary authorities in Canada should be
areas on the surface of !Old Sol are; forthwith consulted on this question;
responsfb''e •for the aurora. One the- I How far eac'It of the places named is,
pry is that the cause lies in the nega-
tive particles shot off by the stun and
caught up in the anagneti'e .field of the
earth. !Another theory is that alpha -
particles, with a plus charge, conte to
us from radioactive substances in the
sun. Still another theory holds that
the junction of terrestrial positive and
negative electricity mattes the illumin-
ations.
or is not, exposed to attack by an en-
emy and how far each such place may
be easily protected in time of war."
Apart from the Confidential Mem-
orandum Sir Edmund said: ":AI), own
conviction was, and k, that the matter
ought to 'he definitely settled, To 'keep
it open is to maintain in full flow a
constant :.auece of local :bitterness and
sectional animosity. which, by a 'lit -
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