Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1919 — EXPLAINING FALL OF JERICHO [ARTICLE]

EXPLAINING FALL OF JERICHO

Scientists Have Shewn Hew Happening at Whloh Many Have Scoffed Was Quits Possible. Many have refused te believe the biblical suggestion that the walls of Jericho fell down before the Israelites as a result of the sound caused by their shouts and the horns blown by Jhe seven priests. Modern researches and discoveries In regard to sound phenomena, however, show that such biblical miracles Could he reeoneiled wlth natural law. Vibration of sound is a thing the possibilities of which we do not yet understand. It is said that one of the great tenor singers can break a wineglass by singing Into Its keynote. The sub-bass of the pipe organ is known to rack pews to pieces with its sympathetic note. The authentic story 1b told of an old fiddler who, angered by the workmen constructing the first suspension bridge at Niagara, threatened to fiddle It down. Of course he was laughed at, but, seating himself near the bridge he began to experiment with his bass string. When he found the note that suited him he sawed away on that note. The cables responded and soon the bridge was swaying in an alarming fashion. If he had not been stopped he might have fulfilled his threat. In any case care was afterward exercised to prevent a particle of vibration in the bridge.