Show I WHEN ALASKA WAS WARM I The New York Tribune speaking of the recent discoveries of lignite and bituminous coal In Alaska treats It us fresh testimony that once near and within the Arctic circle there was a tropical climate and says The luxuriant vegetation which gave HBO to the great coal measures Is bo ovfHi to havo been dependent upon a tropical or more than tropical warmth as well as tho presence or an enonnOifj I amount of carbonic acid In the atmos phere There are Indications that tho I magnolia and vine flourished In th1 vlcinl jY PI Disco contemporaneously with tho I formation of coal there Theso are no more remarkable perhaps than tho fact that elephants were abundant In Siberia I or that waterllllos thrived within eight dosrees of thu Pole They all hear wlt I IICBH as doc this news rom the Alaska I noiiliisula to tho Edcnllko climate which both animal and vegetable life once en I Joy < 1 in extremely hIgh latitudes and whlch probably endured long enough to facilitate tho migration of primitive man from continent lo continent There Is nothing strungeabout all that The o rth is I inclined 2JV2 degrees de-grees on Itsasls All indications point to the fact that it was not always so For some reason it tipped to that point Before thecataclysm the suns r rays bent directly upon the pole and naturally all above the Arctic circle was luxuriant tropical foliage and was peopled by the animals of the tropical ono When the crash came the crust of the earth was rent Into fragments the hot vapors within ascended as-cended but they fell In snow and ice all living creatures were transfixed and it meant the death of a world or aa the scientists explain It a geological geologi-cal period When that was who knowa What mans state was If he existed then who knows Geologists and other scientists are noting that the drift of the rivers is to tho south and they calculate that when enough of the debris shall have changed from the northern hemisphere hemis-phere the weight of the continents will ho neutralized and there will be another an-other tip of the earth back to its old place that there will be another convulsion con-vulsion another annihilation of life on this planet and the pole which explorers ex-plorers are searching for wIll once more under tropic suns bask In the warm sea of tho North It may not be for some millions of years yet not until the coal and gold Holds of tho North ara exhausted science has not yet found tho timetable ot tho universe uni-verse but that it once has tipped there cannot be tho slightest doubt that when the time shall be ripe for a new race and for new conditions that It will tip again will be but a natural phenomenon |