The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-11

WOru Ol nOD-ueStTucIlNe promise 10
our eyes, but breaks it to our hopes.
After the deluge come no more univer-
sal drownings, but ages of whitening
heat shall dry the seas up life shall
disappear from the face Of this globe;
the ornament shall be rolled up like
II scroll, and hideous aridity shall reign
over all Trausser says 80. Trausser
Is an NJ, d. OF New Orleans, to whom
the Copernican system Of astronomy il
as II kid glove, easy tc he turned inside
out, and unit for use at u fire. He dis
cards it, To him also do the laws Of
Kepler appear childish fraud, and the
elliptical orbits of the planets seem II
delusion. "There ISL says Trausser,
in the sun and in the planets neither
Centripetal nor centrifugal forces
The stars or suns, in advancing from
west to east, cause our sun, the earth,
and all the planetary bodies to ud-
vance in the same direction. Our
/ globe has no need of any primitive
impulse in order TO be set in motion
II the sun came to be eMinguished sud.
denly the rotary movement of the
earth around its axis would dimin-
iah gradrally, until it stopped entire
| ~, without causing any damage upon
It's surface and If subsequently the
sun recovered its power Of emitting
light, the earth would resume imme-
| diatoly its normal movement slowly
and progressively The earth, OH
Iraussar's plan, does not move around
the sun. The sun moves around a fix
ed CENTER outside the orbit of the
earth. The point around which the
earth travels Is east Of tho center
around which the other planets (sun
included travel and is not fixed, but
| describes n small circle around the
general planetary center once in each
tWenty-fOur thousand years. Owing
to our being thus Il little of center, the
ares of this circle which the earth de-
scribcs at each season are unequal and
the difference in the length of The sea-
sons is thus accounted for. There is II
constant westward tendency ofthe sun,
which delays that luminurys return
to each Succeeding equinox against
the order OF the Zodlacal signs. The
retrogadati0n, slight each year, bears
irlghllul consequences in the long run,
since it VIII eventually bring the sun
ana the earth IN deadly proximity, as
! IL has done before, ii Trausser knows
himself lie says: iAbout 1884 years
ago the sun and the earth met in the
same side of the Heavens tat degree
OF Aries, Yernal equinoX), without ceas-
| ing TO circulate each one in its own or
bit. The sun intersected ut the terres.
TRIAL equator the first meridian of the
secular period in which we are. This
proximity Of the sun and ofthe earth
mt their maXimum oceasioned the most
! await disasters in increasing more and
| more the solar beat on or globe during
several oenturie1, The temperate
zones and the equatorial regions were
! reduced TO have no more, either ami
MATS or plants, under the long action
OF a burning sun" This is to happen
again. OF course such u heat will draw
the waters into the air. For hundreds
otyears this sphere will be the theater
OF most tremendous natural convul-
sions. The burning ground will send
It's eXhalatl0ns up TO flaming clouds,
the envelope OF air will expand to
enormous heights, charged with SUI
perheated steams and gases. AS wears
roll away and the baleful orb of day
withdraws che upper layers of the air
VIII cool, ana its waters will descend
into the lower, and they in their APP
pointed turn will fall and fall with
vast and terrible shocks, until their ac-
camulated CONVERSATIONS drop upon
the earth in II grand cataclysm that
will wipe out all traces of the land as il
was before. And when at last the va
pors shall pass off and the waters
subslde u new world, smiling
and refreshed will swing away
upon its eastward course toward
its next assignment with the sun.
another 1000 years removed. Then
viii come another order of crea-
ton, from the cell to man; another
succession of gradual civilization and
enlightment; the ground we fancy we
have trOd for the first time will be dis
covered another antiquity will sue
coed more epochs left to history; the
| story of the rocks will be spelled out
anew, ana 10y the time the intellect of
these peoplee of the future shall have
wakened into light another grand trag-
edy will precede the re-enactment of
the same old catastroph and SO on per-
maps forever. We are pleased to state,
however that DR.. Trausser places the
next crlsping operation ut II distance
of time Tor which we really do feel per-
sonally obliged to him, inasmuch AZ it
quite stills all immediate apprehen-
sions-somo COCO years hence. The
preparatory process will be so slow,
moreover, that our descendants lin
whom We take quite as lively family
Interest ms In our ancestors of6000 years
since) VIII have been gradually and
painlessly taken out of the way previ-
Gus to the supreme moment.
Peterson's Magazine for December is
ahead uf a II pfflpre a m irn ala nf haont,,