Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-14
TO SAVE THE EARTH.
An Interesting Crank Who II Pursuing
Congressmen-How DR.. Cahill Would
Accomplish Wonders With Water
WASTE Places to be Turned Into Gar.

dens.
Correspondence of the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON. January 13-Every member
OF the United States Senate and every commit
tee of that body is troubled more or less with
cranks. They swarm abouttthe Capitol proper,
and they even attack the public men there at
long range, by telegraph and by mail. An in
teresting and rather unique crank has been
following the Committee on Commerce for
some time. He is philanthropist, and one
| who wants to save the earth itself from de-
struction and the inhabitants Of the earth from
eternal damnation. His means to accomplish
| this most desirable end has the merit of nov
| city. He finds that the salvation of the earth
and its people is to be obtained only through
| the agency of water. He has experimental
| with water with much better results than have
followed its use and abuse by the Prohibition
! lists. Some time ago the committee received q
mysterious box 1t had such questionable
look that Senator Frye had it sent to car.
penter's shop to be opened. 1t was found to
| contain some grass and sand and nothing more.
1t remained mystery for several days
One morning the explanation Of its contents
| was received in a letter from San Francisco
| signed by Michael Cahill, M. d. The letter ex-
| planned that the writer had been experiment
| ing with sand in the belief that it could be
made fertile and that the grass sent to the
committee had been grown on sand. Recently
the committee received from Dr. Cahill an
other communication. In this the doctor pro-
poses to solve several vital questions, among
others the question of Irish home rule, but in
another home than that which their ancestors
left them. And all this, too, is to be ac-
complished by the use of the doctors infallible
remedy-water.
Dr. Cahill entities his latest contribution to
the literature that adorns the shelves OF the
Commerce Committee room:
Demonstrations of rain by art. SO as to open
up all the deserts and in time the polar regions
for settlement, turning the tide of European
immigration up into the Russian Empire and
opening up two-thirds of the Chinese Empire
for China; also to establish an independent
Irish Republic in alliance with and under the
protection Of God and the United States for
good purpose
The first sheet of this remarkable paper con.
tains an extract from the San Francisco Euen-
ting Bulletin of November 1S 1887 describing
the meteorological phenomena accompanying
the building Of railroads in Mexico, and calling
attention to the curious fact that water-spouts
seem to be attracted by the iron track and tele-
graph wires. 1t is noticed that as fast as the
construction tram advances rain follows, and
this is held to be due to the large quantity of
steel rails on fat cars, which are carried for
ward as fast as the work of construction will
permit DR.. Cahill, commenting on these re.
fnarkable facts, says: "This is due to the rails
becoming magnetized by jolting which defects
the electric current overhead at right angles to
itself. causing jamb of ice spicula and vapof
vesicles, which fall as bucketfuls OF rain. Also
the train strikes the Keynote of thunder, caus-
ing rain from vibrations in atmosphere, forcing
vesices and drops to coalesce by mechanical
violence and fall from grayity.n
After this lucid explanation the Doctor pro-
ce eds to show how a knowledge of the peculiar
rain-producipg properties Of iron and steel can
be put to good use. He proposes to magnetic
a large mass of iron and with it to draw rain
from the clouds when it is needed He also
suggests that condenser be maintained "as a
captive metallic balloon in the zone of maxi
mum moisture overhead" With O condenser
of 200 feet diameter charged with electricity,
DR.. Cahill thinks rain-attracting power of
'2l, ,696 1853 acres Of forests or mountains can
be had.
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The explanation of the good uses to which he
proposes to put his knowledge are shown by
the doctor in the second of the two papers
which he sent to the committee. It is dated
Mendocino City, CAL, December "a, and begins
thus; "I informed your honorable predecessors
of the physical destruction of the earth by the
ice aocumulating around the poles exerting
unequal pressure and forcing the water
through the planets crust to explode and con-
fagrate her. Daniel, vii, %; II. Peter fiji, |
Holy Bible" The recurring earthquakes,
unusual ice hoes, tidal waves, volcanic action,
natural gas and petroleum wells' are all attrib-
uted to these causes and are said to be the
signs OF the Impending catastrophe. The Doctor
also attributes epidemic diseases and insanity |
to the same causes. All OF these troubles he
proposes to remedy by equalizing the popula-
ton OF the dinerent portions OIL the globe, and In
oroer 10 aistriDute the population equally, ne
proposes TO make all parts OF tne globe equally |
fertile. THE Desert OF Sahara" he says, ''con-
tains about 100000 square miles-2, 6O0, 600
square miles OF which is still unattached. |
when brought under cultivation, Sahara can,
no doubt, sustain 5OOO0O.OOO people more, for |
the Arabs have legend that were Adam to re- |
turn to the earth, he would, after visiting all |
the nations, come to Sahara and say it indeed |
was his native Eden, so prolific is the soil |
where the water is. But an abundance of water |
can be had at an insignificant expense from |
overhead as required.
.~%a
I suggest to the United States Government
that an independent colony of the ultra-Na-
tional Irish be established on the Atlantic sea
board of Sahara to reclaim the land. omen it nm
for settlement and establish civilization under
the emerald banners of a nation CALLED nv Jasna
Christ to obedience. Railroads NAV be run into
the Central and Western soudan. opening a
mart for the products of United States fac.
tories cotton looms. Agricultural imnlements
etc into territories canable of SUSTAINING nm
600 600 people. now having about so 600 0OOIocted
mn from the trade and commerce of the world
by the desert on the north and mountains soutb
and west.
uBefore and after the Christian err tho Irish
were ctyilizipp nation. but FOREIGN invadar.
and outlaw rulers and preachers have ner.
yerted the public mind and oonsoience a
chronic state of agitation resulting. which pre
vents the natural Advancement of tbemselves
and others from sympatbv. In the hands of
Providence, 1 suggest that the energy now
wasted in discord and agitation be given a 4 l..
full vent by establishing the COLONY which NAV
tame and cvilize the sparce population by OBJ.
tainino abundance of fond for tbar, ond tba;r |