Saving Life—See Life-saving by Wireless.
Savings of Aliens—See Prosperity as an
Advertisement.
Saviors—See Personality as a Redemptive
Force.
SCARS OF WAR HEALED
To-day the shells and fragments used in
the war between Russia and Japan are to
be found only in the junk-shops of Port
Arthur, and crops of vegetables and millet
mantle with living green some of the fort-*hills
where desolation and death reigned
during the five months of the siege.
The bloodstains and the gruesome dis-*coloring of the soil around the edges of some of the shallow, overcrowded graves have disappeared. There was no trace left of the largest blood blotch, a dreadful black smut twenty feet by four or five feet on the side of 203-Meter Hill, which was in evidence for many months after the last fighting. God's healing rains have washed the hill clean and are filling in and covering with the green of His love the trenches and other scars left by man's lust and hate. (Text.)
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Scavengers—See Immunity from Disease.
School versus Saloon—See Chance for
the Boy.
Science a Benefactor—See Extermination.
Science and Health—See Health and
Science.
Science and Religion—See Self-sacrifice
in Nature.
Science and Saving—See Discovery,
Benefits from.
SCIENCE, DEVOTION TO
When Augustine Thierry, having with-*drawn
himself from the world and retired
to his library, to investigate the origin, the
causes and the effects, of the early and successive
Germanic invasions, and, having
passed six years "in poring with the pertinacity
of a Benedictine monk over worm-eaten
manuscripts, and deciphering and comparing
black-letter texts," had at last completed
his magnificent "History of the Conquest,"
the publication of which introduced
a new era in French historical composition,
he had lost his sight. The most precious of
the senses had been sacrificed to his zeal in
literary research. The beauties of nature,
and the records of scholarship were thence-*forth
shut from him, and other eyes, to assist
his future efforts. Prodigious sacrifice!
And yet not such he thought it; for he said
long afterward, in a letter to a friend: "Were
I to begin my life over again, I would choose
the road that has conducted me to where I
now am. Blind and afflicted, without hope
and without leisure, I can safely offer this
testimony, the sincerity of which, coming
from a man in my condition, can not be
called in question. There is something in
this world worth more than pleasure, more
than fortune, more than health itself; I
mean devotion to science!" (Text.)—Richard
S. Storrs.
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Science Exposes Fraud—See Liar Exposed.
SCIENCE, IMPROVEMENTS BY
"The inferiority of the human sense organ
to the instruments of science is pointed out
by Dr. Carl Snyder," says The American Inventor.
"He says that whereas the human
eye can see but little more than 3,000 stars
in the heaven on the clearest of nights, the
photographic plate and the telescope can discover
countless millions. It is difficult for
the eye to distinguish divisions of the inch
if smaller than 1-200 of that unit of
measure, yet a powerful microscope will
make an object 1-1,000 of an inch in diameter
look comparatively large. It would be
a delicate ear which could hear the tramp
of a fly, yet the microphone magnifies this
sound until it sounds like the tramp of
cavalry. The most sensitive skin can not detect
a change in temperature less than 1-5 of
a degree, but the bolometer will register on
a scale an increase or decrease of temperature
of 1-1,000,000 of a degree and can easily
note the difference in temperature caused
in a room when a match is lighted one mile
away."
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SCIENCE PREVENTING CRIME
Manufacturers of safes will be impelled to
fight the scientific burglar with his own
weapons. In somewhat the same fashion by
which time-locks prevent the opening of the
lock of a safe during certain hours, it will
be comparatively easy to introduce into
safe-construction chemico-mechanical devices
which, during a limited time, would render
