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| lepsra'Ir g from the sun at pIeseDl
wonld do so uncer circun's' 'aDces very
d iferent from tho So formerly existing.
The mysI SERIOUS sun spots which
have pu7z ed astronomers since Gall
leo saw them with his first telescope,
the tremendous upneavals from the
solar surface, to which reference has
already been made; the up gushing OF
vspc zed matter from the interior OF
the sun, and the Unexplained period,
cal character of all these correlated
phenomena, like the ebbing and flow
ing of a tide, are regarded by Profess
or Corrigan as proofs that the time is
near and perhaps just at hand when
another planetary birth is to take
place. The spots the blszing fsculae
streaking the solar surface at inter
walls, the violent outbursts followed by
subsidences, all these are regarded as
indications of the straining of the
giant in its birth throes.
When the detachment of the matter
that is to form the new planet occurs,
phenomena such SIS no man ever be-
neld must present themselves In the
sun. Stars have been known suddenly
to blsze forth with hundreds and even
thousands of times their former laten-
sity. Something of this kind would
probably occur If the predicted birth
should take place in the sun, Viewed
from the depths of the universe the
sun visible from that distance only
as q star-Wolld burst out with an eX
traordinary display of brilliancy.
Spe ctroscopic observations would show
a sudden intensi6cstIon of its radiatlve
energy, and violent movements In the
neigh hborhood of its surface would be
revealed by the shifting OF the spec
troscopic lines. In the course OF time
the fact would become evident that a
new fiery body had made lis appear
apce close to the sun, and from this
body the processes o. evolution, act
ing through long ages, would produce
the full.fedged planet with its rocky
crust, and, if the conditions were fav'
orable, lis covering of vegetation and
its complement of living forms.
La the meantime the fierce output
from the sun would have consumed
the face of the earth, and our planet
would float in SPACE, wrecked and
abandoned, with no stir Of life upon
It's cindery surface. The past history
of the earto, however, enables US to
say what would be the main steps in
the evolution of the new world, whose
birth had cost the life OF its elder sls
ter. The eye of science would be able
to see, dimly shining through the hot
vapor playing over the new born
world, its future living forms existing
like germs within it. Science per
ceives no occasion for miracle in
these things. Processes of the same
order as those which are able to
change a blazing gas into solid rock
can, with equal ease, evolve the mus
cles of tiger and the brain of man
from elements which, in their original
state, are binding bright atoms III the
shining sun. =,
Water atmosphere. metals ock-all
would be intermingled AMI indlstln,
guishable in the fiery mass that had
parted from the sun, but SIS it cooled
and chemical uuions began to take
place among its atoms and grayitation
gradually brought it into shape these
things would assume their forms, such
as the earth knows them now, until.
out of the widest chaos would come
order, beauty ard the evident reign OF
law.
But if Professor Corrigan's predic
tion is we'll founded, and p new planet
is about to be added to the solar fam
lily, and the earth is in danger from
the consequen ces of the disturbance
that the birth of the new world will
create, yet it would not follow that
the newest mem Der of the system is
10 be equal in magnitude and import
ance to the older ones The three new
planets which Professor Corrigan
thinks he has found nearer 10 the suA
than the ancient planet Mercury are
all comparatively small bodies, and
the circumstances of its formation
would prescribe for the one that is lot
yet separated from the sun similar
insigniGcapcs in magnitude. More
over, its orbit will be so near the sun
that a consuming heat must continue
10 fall upon its surface as long as the
sun remains in its present state, so
that the chances would appear to be
all against the development of living
forms upon it.
Profess Or Corrigan evidntly thinks
that the birth Of one of the small in
ira Mercurial planets just referred to
was the cause of the catastrophe which
geology indicates overlook the cart.
some twenty odd millions Of years
ago. Since that disaster, however, the
earth has recovered its living forms
and advanced to a stage Of evolution
far hey ond anything that existed pre-
viously. GARRETT P. SERvIss.
Must Have Certiflca:os.
The Columbia Register says since
the information was given out that all