Evening star., 1911-05-28

Il coal fire warns and lights room.
or the far more reasonable one that the
sun is the focal point of the energy
of the entire solar system, and that no
matter how hot the sun appears to be
it is really working without friction of
it's atomic parts, and is actually AS cold
as st. Elmo's fire is known to be. it
is quite certain that it is the energy
radiating from the sum that causes the
saturation of the atmosphere Of the
earth with the aqueous vapor that de-
Scends in rain or snow after 1t has
reached the precipitation point OF
now affecting us, the bone drying of
|exposed lumber. the abstraction or
moisture from the surface OF the earth,
resulting i'll parched soil, is due to
the power of solar energy to either d.
rectly draw up or angularly drive up
into the atmosphere countless billions
of tiny globules of water from the
oceans to hold them in suspension In
the air until the attraction of the earth
and change of temperature cause them
to fall in rain or snow.
Disturbances Are Marked.
Now let us suppose that In an interval
Of little over two years the normal
constituency of the earth's atmosphere
has been disturbed by the beating
against its outer circumsphere Of cosmic
waves of energy caused by the rapid
passage between the earth and sun of
a series of comets, the greatest Of
which was Halleys, all of which
operated to disturb the inertia of the
ether, and that coincident to this there
were great electrical, magnetic and vol
canic disturbances, and. subsequently,
an abnormal condition in the sun itself,
1t can be readily seen that there is
bound to be consequent abnormal
meteorological condition, evidenced by
erratic weather, absence of rain. rapid
changes of temperature anu unusual
electrical disturbances.
1t is not necessary to point out IN oe-
tail all the unusual natural phenomena
of the past year to the consistent news
paper reader. He or she is already famil-
lar with the great number oil hres. eA
plosions, queer weather. winter electrical
storms early icebergS, bad ocean weather
and all the long list. 1t is beyond the
province of any man TO predict with spe-
cine accuracy and in detail coming nat
ural events To say that any particular
region will be visited by fire, or mine eN-
plosions, or powder explosions, or cheiIl,
ical descriptions would be using actuarial
elements of possibility. Ana as every
action has its reaction. the present up
heavals will be succeeded by normal
ueriods of calm, probably preceded py
antitheses of the present conditions
Summer of Disaster.
The observer who merely records his
observations and draws no conclusions
from them leaves his work half done. al
though his conclusions may leave him
open to the charge of speculative thought,
and somehow speculative thought seems
to be a sort of cerebral crime: but IL Is
only through the digestion OF observed
conditions and the subsequent 2ercep-
ton of new understandings that we ever
arrive anywhere. Practically every pre-
diction made by the writer last summer
has been verified in actual fact. Inc
prophet of foreboding is seldom welcome
and usually he is one crying In the
wilderness: but unless conditions cnanse
the summer of 1911 will be one to be
remembered for great destruction of prop
erty by fire; but, as in the case or the
last four great fires, in Japan, ASA, BAN
yor and New York, with hardly the loss
of a single life: for water and crop lam
ines, forest fires, and toward It's miodle
or end for some trem -ndous volcanic
eruption, earthquake or tidal wave
What is to be done? Nothing can De
doue one must be grateful at the small
loss of life, even in the despis ID gelsha
section of the japanese city when IL was
destroyed Those seeking advice are re-
ferred to the twenty-fourth chapter OF
Matthew but the writer has absolutely
no authority to assert that these are the
times therein referred to. Lie, organic
and Inorganic is subject TO constant
change and modification; in fact. 1t is
constant modification and change that
make life 1t is certain that the earth
is passing through some cycle OF cnanSe,
and there is no doubt but what it Is Tor
the better, no matter how fnimicai It's
present aspect may be.