The Tornado's Twist

The tornado and the cause of its formation seem to be less perfectly understood than even the ever mysterious electricity. That a tornado has a violent spiral motion and a distinct ascending movement is well established. The rapid rotary motion tends to form a vacuüm in the center of the funnel shaped volume, and this sucking force brings about devastation. When a tornado surrounds a house, the air inside of it forces the walls asunder instantlv. But the inception of a tornado and the causes which lead up to it have not yet been discovered. The scientist tells us hat the air of valleys becomes heated and nses, cold air rushes in to take its place, the wind hits against a bilí, is changed in its course and goes cavorting down the valley, and that makes a tornado. Bnt what gives it the twist? And here are no mountains in the Missisippi valley, but cyclones form there. Weather bureaus, with all their costly, delicate instrumenta, have never yet Batisfactorily explained what gives the tornado its twist. The world is looking f or a man who can discover the tornado in its native lair and definitely define, di8tinguish and describe it. All this is for the benefit of our neighbors of the east, for the tornado never visits fornia. -