The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-22
TRAUsra,s AWFUL pRopHECY.
The Earth to Be Wrecked by Dis
aStrOns PheHomen1-Impen
Volcanic Commissions Also,
a Second Deluge and De-
vastating Heat, sc.


In no branch of science has there
been greater progress than astronomy,
and the naryels of the universe have
almost ceased to be regarded as myster-
les. But no sooner has the modern
mind become familiar with the accepted
theory of the solar system THAT part of
the universe which more particularly
interests us dwellers on this mundane
sphere), that of Copernicus, than along
comes learned astronomer, who delib
erately proceeds to knock-metaphori-
cally speaking-all our preconceived
ideas on the subject into cooked hat,
and calls upon us to receive in their
stead an entirely new theory. fortifying
his demand with the most plausible
arguments. This savant is Professor p.
E. Trauser, NJ. D., of New Orleans. To
commence with, he denoaEces- Co
pernican system as hinge. frand. The
system, it may be remarked, has for its
basis the revolution of the earth and
other planets around the sun. He also
denies Kepler's laws and the elliptical
orbits of the planet, contending also
that Newton's discovery of gravitation
fails to account for astronomical phen
omena
There is, saws Trauser, in the sun and
in the planets neither centripetal nor
centrifugal forces. The stars or suns,
in advancing from west to east, canse
onr sun, the earth, and all the planetary
bodies to advance in the same direction.
Our globe had no need of any primitive
impulse in order to be set in motion.
If the sun came to be extingnished sud
denly, the rotary movement of the earth
around its axis would diminish gradual
ly, until 1t stopped entirely, without
causing any damage upon its surface;
and if subsequently the sun recovered its
power of emitting Ii ,ht, the earth would
resume Immediately its normal move
ment slowly and progressively. Not
only modern astronomy is unable TO
reconcile the orbits of to-day with those
of past times, but even it does not know
the length of our civil year. It's altman
acs continue TO give it the same length,
although it augments, at each annual
revolution, by a mum ber Of seconds. pro-
portional to that by which the orbit of
the earth increases. Never is their a
year of duration equal to that of the
nne preceding or following it..
IL
the sun, as universally believed, it does
nothing of the kind. On the contrary,
enr planet revolves around a fixed GEN.
ter ir the heavens. The sun also moves
around this center, but outside the orbit
of the earth. To speak more correctly,
however, the fixed point for the earth is
little east of the center of the point of
the other planets revolutions; and this
difference accounts for the change of
seasons, and many other natural phen-
hmena. These orbits are round and not
..lliptical. The point around which the
earth revolves is not fixed. 1t describes
a small circle around the planetary cen
ter, in period of twenty four thousand
wears. This number has been reduced
from formula, that the experimental
observations, with the help of time, had
made known to antiquity.
Owing to the place which the center of
the earth's orbit occupies, the arcs de-
scribed bv our planet, in the four sea-
sons, are unequal. The arc which it
travels over in the spring (of the North
ern Hemisphere) is less than the arc
that it travels in the summer, and
tnmn; the arc which it describes in the
winter is the smallest of ALL. This is
the reason why our spring is not so long
as summer, and longer than autumn,
and why winter is the shortest of all
our seasons; the spring being composed
of ninety-two days, and a fraction. the
summer of ninety three davs and
fraction, the autumn of eighty mine days
and fraction. and the winter of eighty
eight days and a fraction.
If at the vernal equinox the sun had
covered star of the ecliptic, the star
would, seventy-twO years later, he found
on the same day one degree to the east
ward. This phenomenon is called i'm
properly by the modern astronomers the
procession of the equinoxes. But it is
not, as they say, movement of the
eqninoctial points from east to west
The erroneous conclusions that they
have drawn do not proceed, as they be.
iieve it, from the movement of the
eqninoxes, which never ci,&nge their
place for another since they are immut-
able. They phenomenon is cansed by
the anticipation of the terrestrial meri-
turn to the same equinox. The sun de-
lays, each year, In effecting its return to
the equinox.
The star which We have seen as hav-
ing advanced one degree to the eastward,
is one of the consequences of the re-
| trogradatiOn of the sun. which carries
this luminary more and more to the
westward against the order of the zodiac
cnmulating, with the number Of years.
will become redoubtable by the magni-
tude of the disastrous phenomena that it
has caused and will cause again. It is
to that continual retrogradation that we
must refer the antique devastation of the
earth. by burning heat, concluded by
an immense cataclysm, which wasted
the earth. This formidable past allow
no doubt about the return of similar
phenomena, since the cause which brings
them perseveres in its action.
About five thousand three hundred
and thirty four years ago the sun and
the earth met them in the same side OF
the heavens lat degree of Aries, vern-
al equinox. without ceasing to circulate
each one in its own orbit. The sun in
tersected, at the terrestrial equator. the