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Show had probed nature's secrets to the bottom to now revise their no tetk. . . It is a vast pity that we cannot get wireless messages mes-sages from the sister planets. Have there been earthquakes in Mars! Ilave unusual storms swej)t old Jupiter in his outside circuit! Have Saturn's rings been disturbed by cyclones and temblors? - We believe the troubles have all been' electrical, because it is not only the solid land and the unstable sea tha have been disturbed, but the hearts of men are all passion-tossed this year. Look at Russia 1 Look at Cuba I Note the unnatural crimes that are being committed ; glance over the divorce court records rec-ords ; listen to the orators who are preaching half or whole anarchy; note the strikes among workingmen the utter absence of level-headedness all around the world! , , Look at the political -upheavals in a dozen States, Ihe negro riots in the South ; hear Mr. Bryan making eleven speeches "a day, and mark the excuse of that New York murderer who killed his brother because "lie was too stingy to live." "The sea and the ware roaring, and men's hearts' failing them for fear." THE WORLD OUT OF JOIN The earthquakes are resting for a little season and the storms are now having their way. With fury inconceivable they N smite the sea and the shore and prove more destructive to human life than did both - the great earthquakes at San Francisco and Valparaiso. Valpa-raiso. Think of the horror of the tragedy that came upon that fleet of Chinese fishing junks. There must .' have been 300 of them, for there were 5000 men on board. Think of their going down one after another until the last one disappeared under the lashings of .the typhoon which chanted its death song, exulting - bove their ocean grave. Then from the sea and the ' .shore the demon mounted the air and did not de- . scend until it encountered a high mountain in-CoIo-rado, where the people were exulting in a centennial celebration in honor of their mountain and the hero who first found it. There the storm broke in its fury and called up its detachments of t hail and snow to aid discomfort to the multitude. ' Then it returned to the deep sea, and gathering its forces and rearranging rear-ranging its lines, it made a great assault upon our gulf coast, piling the waters high upon the shore and BtrewingJt with wrecks. A perturbed year, sure enough.. The solar system seems out of joint. There are spots on the sun, and one scientist at least has expressed ex-pressed the belief that the attraction of the sun has varied and jostled this old world in its crbit. Maybe le is right, but a more reasonable conclusion is that miehty electrical disturbances in the sun have by varying attraction and repulsion cast off uneven cur- ts to the earth and made the disturbances here ' "rich start the sinister elements in motion that leave their train wrecked" cities, sunken ships and dead Vn for the world's life is electricity, and its waves Say bring either the gentle sunbeam or the hurri- ' " ClTYe suspect that the experiences of the past six raontbJ w uing' the scientists who thought they |