The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-26

| haps because of the fact that the great | von Struve Is at the head of it's obser- | vatory, has lately come to agree witt l mel that the earth is a bubble in the vast ocean of interstellar space; that the so-called ether is not an exquisitely tenuous and pellucid gas, through which feeble twinkle from star a billion miles away becomes visible to the eye, but that each star, as seen by
 us, as well as the greatest of the plan cts, the sun, is only to our eye the point at which the vibration comes into our atmosphere sphere as a live wire might be brought into room
 According to my theory, all light
 and heat are generated by the earth itself. For the scientific reader, a brief summary of this theory would be: The ether is not gas of infinite tenuity, but composed of n-momogeneous
 matter, endowed with electrical con-
 ductility. No force is required for the generation of light and heat, except the disturbance due to the rotation of mag netic masses (the planets) in it. There is no loss of force except that due to
 
 sends back to it's neighbor exactly what
 it receives. The finger of God set the planets spinning. In other words, we
 know nothing at all about the origin of the rotation. Whether from inertia they sease to keep moving or whether the same finger of God, from time to time, gives fresh impulse transcends the limit of human knowledge.
 When say that the earth is the
 source of heat and light, I mean only for example, that the moon exercises magnetic force upon the tide, with a certain amount of light and no appre- ciable heat But all the magnetic dis turbance which the moon causes must go back to her since she is in the elec- trical circuit of the planets. The sun and the earth have similar reciprocal action. The earth needs the sun and the sun needs the earth It makes one almost sad to think of the amount of time wasted not only by Lord Kelvin in calculating the amount of time re- quired for contraction which has nev- CT taken place, but also by the astrono- mers as to the number of years which have elapsed since Sirius sent us that ray which has only just reached the earth Such calculations have no more foundation than a calculation made in a telephone box of the distance between the transmitter and the receiver in Chicago A fixed star when 1t has rung up the earth and got us on it's circuit, does 1t by an instantaneous process. There may be stars which have not yet succeeded in getting us on their light ray and which yet exert Q magnetic or meteorological influence. Such stars are known to astronomers as algols, the familiar ghouls of the Arabian Nights.
 "As I have already said the cal-se of heat and light is the rotating of the planets in space. The Instructions of fered by the more solid portions of the earth, for instance, produce heat while the vibrations of the lighter particles the notes and nolecules-in the gas eous envelope surrounding the earth reach the dark chamber of the brain through the eye. Hitherto 1t has al- ways been considered necessary to treat the sun as a vast center of combustion, sending out it's light and heat rays into space on a scale so tremendous that no