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It is altogether likely that it is generated in the sun, and that all the space between it and us thrills with this unknown power. All astronomers except Faye admit the connection between sun spots and the condition of the earth's magnetic elements. The parallelism between auroral and sun-spot frequency is almost perfect.
Just now, Faye is away with the department commander, who is making an official tour of inspection through his new department, which is large, and includes some fine posts. It is known as "The Department of the Platte." Everyone has been most hospitable particularly the army people at Fort Omaha a post just beyond the city limits. Mrs.
This made her furious, and as wild as when first brought from the range. She lunged and lunged forward and sideways reared, and of course tried to run away, but with all the vicious things her little brain could think of, she could not get the bit from her mouth or Faye from her back. So she started to rub him off doing it with thought and in the most scientific way.
The systematic drift of the photosphere is strictly a drift in longitude; its direction is everywhere parallel to the equator. This fact being once clearly recognised, the "solar tornado" hypothesis at once fell to pieces; but M. Faye perceived another source of vorticose motion in the unequal rotating velocities of contiguous portions of the photosphere.
The last time I rode her she went up so straight that I slipped back in my saddle, and some of the enlisted men ran out to my assistance. I let her have her own way and came back to the tent, and jumping down, declared to Faye that I would never ride her again.
We have everything for our comfort, but such weather does not make life in camp at all attractive. Faye just came in from Major Pierce's tent, where he says he saw a funny sight.
His views are those of Faye, modified to disarm the criticisms they had encountered; and special attention may be claimed for his weighty remark that each planet has a life-history of its own, essentially distinct from those of the others, and, despite original unity, not to be confounded with them.
The wind seemed to get worse every minute, and once in a while there would be a loud "boom" when a big Sibley tent would be ripped open, and then would come yells from the men as they scrambled after their belongings. After it became dark it seemed dismal, but Faye would not go in a building, and I would not leave him alone to hold the stove down. This was our only care and annoyance.
But the experiment was obviously inconclusive; and M. Stratonoff's repetition of it with ampler materials gave a full assurance that faculæ rotate like spots in periods lengthening as latitude augments. The ideas of M. Faye were, on two fundamental points, contradicated by the Kew investigators.
Outside the orbit of Mars, solar tidal friction can scarcely be said to possess at present any sensible power. But it is far from certain that this was always so. It seems not unlikely that its influence was the overruling one in determining the direction of planetary rotation. M. Faye, as we have seen, objected to Laplace's scheme that only retrograde secondary systems could be produced by it.
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