The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04

son. even if observation and experiment did
not prove it, that other worlds and all other
matter exhibits the same property. In all
these bodies there is the tendency to equilib-
rum, and d. balancingo of forces that causes
the phenomenon Of polarity, and there is al
ways disturbance when anything conspires to
destroy this polarity, which results from cur
rents passing at right angles to the poles On
the earth and in the sun this magnetic energy,
or whatever it is, is most: active at the eoua-
tors, and becomes nal at the poles, and it is
presumed that ehese and the other bodies are
immense magnets, and exert q magnetic
effect on each other; and it is also presumed
that these magnetic currents exhibit analogous
effects throughout the system, and that they
are effected in about the same manner as
they are manifested on the earth.
This will explain somewhat Of the effects
produced when . number Of planets happen
to be in perehelia about the same time,
because If there is anything at all in the
hypothesis Of magnetic circulation, it is
evident that when many are e1erting the
same force in the same direction, at the same
time that considerable disturbance in the
magnetic equilibrium OF them all must ensue
1--WE use the term magnetic" only compare
lively, what the force is Is not known,) and
that this disturbance must affect the entire
system.
So little is known Of this that 1t is hardly
grown into respectable hypothesis, but evil
dence is constantly accommodating that there
is something in it, and much more than the
conservative scientific mind is willing to
admit, which looks upon its old theories Of
mathetical condolences with reVerent eye,
and is 10th to see them oYerthrown, as they
are gradually being, by other hypothesis that
are more all-embracing In their scope, and
which admit Of more rational application
1t is strange that with the attractive force
Of what's called ''gravitatlon' that negative
or force of repulsion has not received more
attention. The comet of 1848 approached
the sun in straight line, and it was believed
that it would inevitably drop into it. In fact
it did approach within 25, 900 miles of it, and
probably passed through . part of its atmos-
phere. It is usual to attribute this to sscen-
trifugal' force, but if this centrifugal force
is not something nores saan lnerl momentum
this body should have dropped into the sun;
but it was something more, and the force OF
the repulsion was sufficient to admit of
a motion through its perehelion, of mil
lions Of miles per second, while the extremity
of its s'tail, which was forty millions Of
miles in length, swept through a broad arc of
400 millions of miles in ten hours, always
presenting its extremity from the sun, as of it
was formed Of something from the sun itself,
that by repulsion acted to create it.
Anyway, modern science is gradually ex-
planning the nature and cause OF many anci-
ent theories, and in the matter Of astrological
science, indicates that at some very ancient
date people were possessed of a knowledge
Of matter far in advance of what they have
had credit for, even If it was not in some
cases superior to our own.