The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-16
THE MILLENNIUM CRANK

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, Ee0. 0-Ihe
aurora borealis which was 50 brilliant in
the heavens Saturday evening has given
Lieutenant Totten an opportunity 10 ex-
press himself on i5 and its relation TO his
views of the millennium Among other
things he says: These things have been
expected ever since the 1st of February. /
expected them about the Sd or 4th. 1t is
undoubtedly due TO the big sun spot, which
Is directly due to the perihelion Of the
planets. We are only at the hotter edge
of the beginning of these things. They
always appear in periods of from eleven TO
twelve years, along with earthquakes.
cyclones, and all sorts of disturbances.
This Is the first aurora have seen for years
The last one, as pretty as this, was
way back in 1865, period that many will
remember for its collateral religious eX-
cltement. so far as history testifies from
liza 10 1860 no auroras were seen in the
skies. DIR. Heller asserts that no northern
lights were seen IN England for eighty
years before 1860. and only a few of minor
magnitude for 40 years before they began
as signs significant in the heavens from
Luther's day Even Proctor admits that
we can only go back TO 1861 for authoritat-
i've data on auroras. ALI Of these signs
have occurred within the past $50 wears,
which prophetic students have looked
upon as being the final prophetic time
When the sun has measles look out for
plaques on earth is a saying of a genera
tion not very remote, according to Brown
ing III a late article on the terrific sun
storm now in progress,
TO return to the periheliOn theory, this
aurora is the direct result of il. Borne on
ward IN ethereal oceau. subject 70 such
complex consequences, there is not form
of physical life upon the decks of ourlittle
planets which does not faithfully respond
to what takes place about il as surely as
voyagers on a ship borne up by waves
There are grander storms than seismic
ones and atmospheric cyclones, and
months ago | pointed out that il is well
into one of them that our whole system
has already moved, with its center not
reached Every one of these things comes
from solar conditions | look upon them
as Just as natural as the most mat teriAlistic
philosopher. | only differ from him in
the belief that the universe is wound
up to ring out a chime on every bell AT
the time of the end. | believe that the
world is on the threshold of period OF
trial the like of which has never before
been seen. 1t will try our surplus; those
who have il stored up will survive; they
Will be the fitteSt. Those who haven {, be
they nations, races or individuals, Will pay
the debt to the utmost farthing The
Bible expresses this in its own way. Take,
for instance, the expression of shaking the
wicked out by laying mold OF the ends OF
the earth. This is a subtle reference in
one way in which the thing will be accom-
plished; anyhow, the ends of the earth are
its poles. The earth is nothing but an
enormous magnet A magnetic storm
upon the sun which rules our system liter
ally lays hold of the earth at the
poles and shakes it TO the core and every
thing upon it. OF course the thing shaken
breaks at its weak points. Nations on the
point of anarchy become insane; men iii
the last stages of disease succumb; local
tiles wherein germs of disease are lurking
become pleague centers, and so on, ad in-
finirum. In 1881 came the wonderful
yellow day, unheralded by science, aud
the heavens from Michigan To the Atlantic
and from Canada to Pennsylvania were
overspread with curious luminous at
mosphere like vast flame. The press
gave it all sorts of names, but the fact
remains that all are signs which the peo-
pie fail to believe"