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STRANGE TH D&c Science Says Nothing Come; Up, But Author of Weird Has Been Bombardei Planetary Simultaneously with the announce-1 ment by Marconi, the wizard of the, wireless, that mysterious undecipher* able signals, "which come from some- j where outside the earth," have been noted at wireless stations at intervals both before and since the war, comes from the press of a New York publishing house (Boni & Livingston) a strange book?a sort of an aerolite in the biographical world?containing a remarkable assemblage of authenticated data of unexplained things that have happened on this, earth?not physical, but real physi-l cal phenomena?marvelous things that science has either side stepped or but lamely accounted for and that seem to point to the possibility that other worlds have been not merely trying to signal us, but literally to bombard us with communications of one sort of another. The author of the book, Charles \ Fort, who has travelled 30,000 miles and ransacked the scientific reports, magazines and journals of the world for his data, does not undertake to prove this theory, of conscious or unconscious inter-planetarv communication?from the very nature of the phenomena, he says, nothing can be proved; in fact nothing in the world is susceptible of absolute and final proof. His book is a cento of mysterious and amazing facts that science has not been able to classify or explain in a satisfactory manner and so it has simply set them aside as "freaks of nature," relegated them to the scientific purgatories. Hence the weird title under which the volume has been launched?"The Book of the Damned." v Startling Missiles. Startling things have come down out of the skies upon the earth?deluges of blood, curiously carved stones, hatches, globular and pyra- , midal projectives, living animals, liuge chunks of ice, strange showers of animal matter, frogs, fish, snails, gelatinous matter of seemingly suporterrestrial origin. Curious nebular structures, as of venturing voyagers from other planets, have been seen hovering in the far atmospheric spaces?these and a thousand other things that have at one time and another been set forth in more or less scientific records as "strange phenomena of nature" and then forgotten, have been marshaled and correlated by Mr. Fort, to whom they suggest many wonderful conjectures. For instance: Is there somewhere up in the interstellar spaces a "super-Sargasso sea" of cosmic debris, into which we crash occasionally and pick up some fragments? Have some of the bold crusaders of other planets penetrated our atmospheric limits and been turned back for some reason or another? Have they occasionally hurled down a few things at us to let us know how near they were? Have there been great aerial battles fought up there between planetary air sailing armies that have at times drizzled their bloody fragments upon the earth? Science?dogmatic science?of course, says not. Whatever comes down on this earth anywhere must have gone up from it somewhere else. But this "up and down" theory does not always explain and the facts adduced in this "wonderful book," as Theodore Dreiser calls it, gives a wide field for curious conjecture. For all of the facts given, the author cites his authority, volume, date and page, and for the most part they are taken from scientific publications. Red Sunsets, Blue Moons. To demonstrate the scientific method of explanation, take, for instance, those red sunsets and blue moons that occurred in 1883 and for several years afterwards. Four hundred and ninety-two pages of a report of the Royal society were given to demonstrate that they were caused by the eruption of the volcano of Kratoa, in the Straits of Sunda, which occurred August 28, 1883. But the red sunsets and blue moons occurred seven years after that and within that seven years there was an interval of j several years in which they disappear-, ed. What became of the volcanic! i i dust in those years? And then the; Annual Register and Knowledge are: quoted to show that the same at- j mospheric effects were seen in Trini- j dad a short time before the eruption j and in Natal, South Africa, as long | as six months before Krakatoa blew j its head off. Numerous instances are given of j vast falls of yellow substances upon j the earth of an apparently extra mun-1 dane character. The scientists said J INGS )P FROM SKY. s Down That Has Not Gone Book Opines That Earth i for Centuries With Messages. they were snows colored with pollen. Nevertheless, the Monthly Weather Review-, May 1877, reported a golden yellow fall of February 27, 1877, at Peckloh, Germany, in which four kinds of organism, not pollen, were the coloring matter?minute things shaped like arrows, coffee beans, horns and disks. Might they not have been symbols, hieroglyphs shattered from their original shapes by the earth's atmospheric pressure? M. Bouls, a French scientist, tells of a substance, reddish yellow that fell in quantities amounting to hundreds of thousands of tons, in France and Spain, April 30, May 1 and May 2, 1870, that carbonized and spread the "odor of charred animal matter," that was not pollen. Was it the animal debris of one of hose aerial beetles in interplanetary space? A yellow substance fell at Oerace, Calabria, March 14, 1813. Some of this substance was collected by Professor Simenini of Naples. It had an insipid taste and was described as "unctuous." When heated it turned brown, then black, then red. It did not yield to known classification. And mark the concomitants of this fall of yellow substance?loud noises were heard in the air and stones fell from the sky when it descended. Black Rain and Snow. Black rains and black snows?rains and snows as black as a deluge of ink ?fell in Ireland, May 14, 1849, over a district of 400 miles square; again in April, 1887, again October, 1907. "It left a most peculiar and disabree able smell in the air." The scientific explanation was that it came from clouds of soot from the manufacturing towns of England and Wales. But how about the showers of black rains, "as black as ink" that fell in Switzerland, January 20, 1911, and away down at the Cape of Good Hope, far (Continued on pa^ge 6, column 1.) NOTICE. A meeting of the stockholders of the Edisto Public Service Company will be held at their office, Denmark, S. 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