The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-07-15
THIS IS A SUN.sPOT YEAR.
Is There Any Relation Between That Fact snl
Certain Others?

From he Boston Daily Advertiser.
II is believed, from evidences now seen in
the sun. that a period OF great activity is in
progress there, and that the effects Of this
Unreasonable force will be seen during the
next five years In what is known as sun spots"
These sun spots are supposed 10 be great solar
volcanoes or other disturbances Of the suns
surface in some visible way. The spots can
be seen easily by observers during the years
up TO 1905, when the maximum will have been
reached. These supposed cavities sometimes
go to a width Of about 10000 miles and then
times separa, ing at the rate Of 100 miles an hour.
The energy sent out by the same force that
causes These sun spots must be enormous.
There are some reasons for believing that
pearance TO the sight the energy IL al work
and + radiated from the sun TO the planets
periods are usually notable on the earth for
peculiar manifestations Of electrical energy.
The electric storms that have been seen IN
New England lately are due. in some degree,
to the solar energy and the electricity sent
no the earth as a result, Such. az least. is .
widely received scientific theory,
II may be that the sun spots or the energy
Of which they are merely the result work
in. some fashion that cannot be so easily traced,
During the past three year,. when the suns
have happened in the world, Is it merely
a coinoidNcep IL so, II Is AT least worth notice
that o9incidences q this kind are not rare
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the civilized world in the few years proceed
ing each period Of outbreak Of sun spots. say.
in the past fifty years.
To trace back the periods, reckoning eleven
years as the cycle. the beginning of s,in-spot
outbreaks would be reckoned in 1882, 1878. 1861
and 1850 in such n count, These dates are not
exact because the period Of duration Is not exc
actly measurable In units of years. Still 1t 70
surely worth some notice that before the leriOd
of 1865 there came the desperate outbreak of the
war in the Crimea: that before the period -
1857 the L nited STATES was ravaged BY cigi.
war TO an extent hardly ever recorded in me
history OF any other country. and that the great
tragedy OF Iihcoln's death had been recorded.
that preceding the s1n-spOt period Of 1873 there
came the narrowing experiences OF France.
eliminating in. the communist riots, and the
Russian-Turkish war; that before 1889 came tho
revolution. the Nihilist outbreak IN
before 1900 came the war with Spain. the jane
son raid, and the consequent war between mo
Beers and the British.
II II also interesting To note how financial
movements or Importance have %accomranied
the manifestation Of sun spots IN the rasr hail
century. Each period has been ACCOMPANIED
py great BUSINESS booms and the climax ard
DISAPPEARANCE ~ the sun SPOTS in close JfoN.
unity 90 u financial panic, except In 1891. wen
the immense preparations for war I'm the | n,ied
States. rather caused better business. Sure
that date. however. the years 1873, 1884 and
1905 were years OF WIDESPREAD financial and m
distrial depression. This coincidence Is also
striking enough to be noted. OF course, such
condolences do not prove that the energy =
the reaction In the sun causes s,ich results %
the earth; but IL Is at least remarkable that ny
suns energy and the human energy on the caIo
should have run In cycles 30 closely alike.