| Show rUB VUK HOT WB There has liau hn been some speculation as Ar asto Arto IS ISto to time the cause ot or the excessive heat In which so many litany of at the Inhabitants of ot tho Ito earth carth have hao been beell sweltering title this summer dorrett P I 1 writing wilting In Inthe tIns the Now New York Journal discusses that question and ond takes the lie view that the sun Is III a n variable arla le star and that lint Just now for tome Koine reason or other uthe he lie Is III tending sending t blasts of f heat h lt Mr Ir Ser Set Serving SerI ving viii I says rays Only on all the tho assumption tl n that the of terrible heat IH III directly In Inthe Inthe the Ille sun un and due dUll to an un extraordinary In crOOM In Us Its effective radiation can cnn thu limo widespread and nature of ot time tile present dIsaster dbl ter be satisfactorily explained Local causes cause ate are e In The Tue earth Itself con Call loins no nu store of ot heat capable ot or ae ac accounting counting for the outburst and amid tho the rug sug suggested su explanation that lint wu WI are passing through u a realon Ion of space pace where an un uncommonly commonly high temperature prevails Is I Invalidated If IC for tor no other othor reason by bythe bytho bydie the die tact fact that similar of excessive sive sl nv havu occurred many times lime within the limits of recorded record ell him hl tory tor and In Imi a n certain cyclical order while from rom mitt what v we o know of oC the tho di III direction of ot motion of the lie solar eolar system space we wo con can confidently at nt firm that the earth does not pose pan agaIn again through the region but Illes lIIas always along blong with viii tile WI sun lUll Accordingly we WI are arc M driven to fh belief bellof that the source of or the trouble II Is only In Iii the tho mm sun All astronomers know that thal the face taco of ot the hut Bun sun Is l blanketed with absorbing vapors while KM its Interior Is much l uch hot hOl hotter hOlter ter than the glowing shell that wo we see sec Strip off oft the tho vaporous blanket entirely antI and the tho lie surface o or of the earth would probably burst buist Into smoke e and name flame In iii tho Ito Instantaneous ous gush of ot unbearable henl that lint would bo be poured upon It occurs not always to tho the same extent the he so RO solar solar lar vapors are thinned anti the tho heat hent from within leaps out through the weakened shell and strikes the earth and amid the other othor nearby planets pIn nets as I with IL u breath of ot lire fire from the tho lie suddenly opened door of or a n blazing biasing furnace If this tItle theory theor Is correct the probability ability Is that lint a n of ot hot sum eum summers mers mere will follow accompanied by ex ox extraordinary cyclonic disturbances The Ih supposition Is that n a great sunspot oy cy cycle cle has hns Just commenced com men cell and that ex cx exceptional climatic conditions will pro pre prevail re revall vail vall for Cor some caine years us |
