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Show 'to continue to rent our faith In the' perfection of the. solar system. Were a new world shot off Into space tomorrow, It would And It orbit without, crashing Into other worlds, as the repelling and attracting forces would mark for it a place among too "stars." END OF THE WORLD. Prof. Percival Lowell, director of the great Lowell observatory at FlagstAff, Arizona, declares that ife on the earth will be destroyed by a collision of an unknown dark planet with the sun, and ho goes further to say that the event will be prophesied fourteen years before the catastrophe and chaotic confusion will reign In tho world during the days preceding the calamity. That is a wild statement for so distinguished dis-tinguished an astronomer to make. Instead of holding to astronomy he is entering the realms of astrology and Is rast becoming a sorcerer. Why does he fix the time at fourteen four-teen years? Has he obtained knowledge knowl-edge of a dark planet, and is he NOW predicting? The solar system is a wonderfully orderly arrangement of worlds beyond number, in which not a planet moves, a comet swings or a meteor falls without Its Influence being felt by all bodies. Tho influence of even tho smaller planots Is so marked that satellites sa-tellites boyoud the reach of telescopes have been looated and their exact positions po-sitions defined, later to be disclosed to view by stronger telesoopes. This order and harmony of the universe baffles baf-fles the understanding of the brightest minds. Comets, looked upon as unbridled un-bridled visitors, have their orbits and are held ln control by tho counterbalancing counter-balancing Influence of the many worlds within and through the pathway path-way of which they move. This grand harmony Is what is known as cosmos, and even though an astronomer predicts pre-dicts the breaking up of this orderly force by tho clashing of a "dark" planet with our sun, we are inclined |