Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-04-07
Italy and Earthquake
By EDGAR LUcrEN LARKIN.

Beautiful historic and classic nals,
baskng in tho scmi-orental sun from
tho cold OF the high Alps, on the north,
to- tho warm loniau sea- on the south.
and In between Marc Suporum-the
Adriatic-on the cast. and Marc Tyrrhe-
mum. or lnfcrum. on tho west the land
OF romance from remote times, has once
more been visited by a destructive earth
quake. Heavy wallis and ceilings have
again crushed the lives Of little children
In their mothers arms, while death in
buildings and Etreets-no place 10 go
has come to thousands In many towns
and cities And Rome. called the Eter-
nal city. has Ueon convulsod.
Very recent researches in that new and
very impressive and awe-inspiring realm
Of nature. radio activity. and In tho al
most entirely rciuvcnated science, seis-
mology tho science Of earthquakes. have
greatly modified all ideas regarding our
little home tho enrth. a tiny world NOV
ing in coHmic space And a far greater
than all. tina. mighticst engine in the
possession OF man. exalted mathematics,
has had tho earth In its grasp.
I Scismometers aud siesmographs. with
I their revolving chronographs. aided by
telegraph wires and wireless and mathe-
/ matics-all these in recent years have al
most made earthquake and volcano
studies n new science. Likewise. refined
researches in specific speeds and am
; plitudes Of waves I'm the earth's surface
strata. and. Of greatest value. deeply
seated earthquake energy waves.
Titles Of scientific monographs and
books have changed. Age Of the Earth
now roads "Urunius and Age Of the
Earth" Heat OF the Earth's Interior
has now become "Radium and the
Earth's Interior" Tho earth's interior
molten sea has developed into the earth's
rigid central core.
Simon Newcomb. with rare niathemati-
cal precedence, dcduoed an equation before
accurate data had been secured by seis-
moEraphs that II a globe Of platinum
900 miles in diameter constitutes the
earths center the EQUATIONS would be
satisfied. Modern data led to a greater
interior-a larger rigid mass.
George KEENAN, said OF the eruption Of
Mount Pclee on MAY 6. 1902:
The feature OF the eruption that made
the deepest impression upon me was the
stellar lightning. The up-rush OF black
smoke, the glow over the crater-these
had been described before: but the short
thin streaks Of lightning. followed by
starlike explosions. were entirely new"
And all other reports OF Mount Pelee
mentioned electricity. and there were
also magnetic changes. mention these
10 show that electricity acts within the
oarths interior. The actual wabbling OF
the axis Of the entire earth in an irregu-
lar Circl ia fifty diameters In i25 DAY
has given mathematician many data.
The earth IL an insulated ball OF iron
Think OF this-insulated. The rock layer
Of 800 miles thickness is a poor conduc.
tor OF heat as well as of electricity IRA
MUM has been disintegrating and con
centratng into the intensely active
radium during billions OF years, may b,
trilllons Then, I wonder how much
radium is in the earth's interior. L
radium should surrender all OF its powe
at once the force would be far create
than that OF lyddite or melanite, ant
doubtless blow the earth into fine par
ticles
But here on the surface OF the earth
in its conditions, the life period o
radium is 200 years But who know
whether the radium goes far below tn
FNl ldNt VI tllt tdIlH ana VINO can ever
! ! commence to imagine the action OF in
Il ternal electricity? All can theorize [,
their minds content. Astronomical con
cept OF the entire earth is that II is al
most, but not exactly. nothing in con-
parison with the quantity of matter Al
! ready weighed in the sldereal structure
b | All matter known can be resolved bac
- into primordial electrons. So nothing ex
lists but electrons.
Note-It is my earnest request that m
; hundreds Of correspondents do not sen
any more questions frantically askin
: about 'Armageddon." will the proph,
. cies OF Ezekiel and Daniel and the Boo
= OF Revelation be soon fuIfIlled?' wi
the world come TO an end?'' have IA
more questions from all directions o
rigid science than ! can find time I
answer