Show SCIENCE FROM THE CORNFIELD Farmer Elliott Elot Evolves a New Theory Regarding Sun SunSpots SunSpots SunSpots Spots and Things TH THEIR EI R EFFECT ON EARTH Earthquakes Earthquakes' Are Jars Produced by Withdrawal of Electrical Electrical Electrical Elec Elec- Currents Pa Sept Sept 1 James 1 James Elliott Emott Elli Em- ott a. a a farmer and grain groin dealer of or El- El HoUson Pa Pa has evolved a n remarkable ble theory theol regarding tho the causes of ot sun sunspots lun spots and their effect upon earthly phenomena phenomena- na Elliott Eliott nan has outlined lits theor nt 1 Inaus- Inaus nd hd an amid 3 h hd l maintains hi his liLs rul contention i BJ- BJ lio liott was graduated from lom Dickinson college In 1878 became a a civil civi engIneer engineer engi engI- neer at Lafayette Lafayette- In 1879 and was formerly chief chiel chief engineer and superIntendent superintendent superintendent super super- of the P. P C. C n. n T. T U It T. T Hi HIs studies of ot the of or grain markets mar mar- and of plant growth particularly wheat what and corn now leads to his mar mar-I re remarkable re- re conclusion Tho The grain physicist healer a assumes assume that electricity is 18 a n gas gas either a compound com corn pound as air nil or ot an element as hy h- dlo en and of equal density unIform tempera temperature Lure and t equal pressure presure throughout the tho universe Ho lie believes beHoves that lint solar metallurgical activities require re re- ic quire large masses of electrical gas frequently a and 11 absorb tho ho same sante in quantities and ond from large areas in the suns sun's atmosphere Sn Substituted f Theories Now Not ow as Elliott Ellott admits the tor tory theory theon for fOI short impulses of en energy energy en- en ergy such as the transmission of or light and denies it il for fOl larger movements and substitutes the theory of or a n swift swift- moving current along straight paths of least hast resistance he thinks that the withdrawal Into vacuum caused by bv the the sun of or large bodies of electrical gas as causes currents to How in from the earth and planets planet Elliott Elot assorts asserts that lint space robbed of electrical gas becomes opaque therefore therefore there there- fore the seeming blackness of or tho the sun sunspots spots spots Ho thinks that the same phenomena phe pho- occur in the case of or the earth when after vegetation has elec dc the earth thereby withdrawing withdraw wIthdraw- ing big electrical gas dark days das and darkness before thunderstorms as aswell well veil wel as l lightning storms storm are produced He lie believes es that ball bal lightning is solidified electrical gas gas The inclination of the tho earths earth's axis to the plane piano of or tho the elliptic is accounted account account- ed for tor because our oum OU northern or land hand hemisphere which has the heaviest t uses for electrical gas gns has a n greater pull pul than the comparatively inert water of or the southern hemisphere o of 4 earthquakes are tho he direct resultants resultants result result- ants of jars Jan produced b by the withdrawal withdrawal with with- to the sun Hun spots of or electrical gas currents local causes determining ing their location Mr 11 Elliott Elot believes be he- Je Jes s that the earth was novel never necessarily necessarily a n molten molen mass hInd Hall it I been a cube he ho thinks it I would have o ha a assumed its Is present shape h by virtue of or the forces acting on h h. He believes es that earthquakes can be he predicted with rea reasonable certainty |