The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-21
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 Nov that sAe smoke of battle has cleared away-zoa that the smoke, CT the battle, has anything sS 5S =::A .he s=A- ject on which we are about to erhghfen the ignorant masses, but that sentence is a good, safe opening for almost any article, and there is nothing like having a good opening, as the shark remarked v en it took in the sailors hind leg. To resume nov that the smoke of battle, or, rather, the shock of the earthquakes, the cyclones and other phenomenal phenom- ena of nature in the past year are over, it behooves us to look about us, in order to see if we are all here, and what pros poets we have for the future.
 In giancing back over the past-we always do glance back over the past-we never knew man to glance ahead over the past, or glance back over the future, but that is immaterial. Let us resume. In making retTospection of the preter- lapsea twelve-months we recall the fact that there were in this country several earthquakes, which shook up various parts of the United States and New Ter scy. something unheard of even by the oldest inhabitant. There were also numerous atmospheric agitations, cy- clones, or Siroccos, or simooms, or some thing of that sire which went sweeping over the southern and eastern states in unexpected places, and in a most un- precedented manner. Then there were the red sunsets which astonished the scientists, and even made Joe Cook open his eyes and admit that there might be Ie@Asks@~ s- al he did not know. And lastly, the year wound up with a remarkable winter which was as uncertain as the position of :he democratic parry on the tayifs.
 Now these things may not be strange in their proper Flace, but earthquakes s never were heard of before in the same section of the world the great storms which almost destroyed towns were an entirely new feature in the section where they struck; the red sunsets were a new thing under the sum-" and the uncertain winter was little more uncertain than previous seasons, and indicated more of a struggle than usual, on the part of the weather bureau, to get up any winter at all. Some wise pundit-that's first-class word and if we had been disposed to have punned it we should have told the reader to make pundot of it, but that's neither here nor there Oace more we will resume. Some wise pundit, year or so ago, advancee the idea that the equator vas being shifted further north, and that in shen time it was going to belt this county right across the center, and the cratic actions of nature in the contiguous year just departed, seem to uphold the vagaiies of the above named prophet Can 1t be that the earth is ad justing itself upon it's axis that the earth quakes were occasioned by its shaking itself up in the readjustment; that it is changing its position toward the sun and that the red sunsets were a job lot of aayora 6oyeaHs left in the sky which we happened to strike while getting twisted around into our proper place {. hat the cyclones belonged properly to lndia's coral strand, but, when the earth took tilt, had swept around further north?
 Whither are we drifting5 Is this prophets prediction true and are we to have the tropics put right into our midst This is matter of considerable moment and worthy of very careful consideration. If the United States is to be in the torrid zone-it has been hot enough for us sometimes already, especially during the wal, but let that pass. We will resume. If it is to be in the torrid z,ne, then the north pole will be in the temperate zone, and 1t will be a cold day for China. The north pole country vill become salubri- ous and habitable and the tide ot emil grafton will turn that way. There is where the new country will be for de- velopment and where the land-grabbers and other thieves will make fortunes without the necessity of driving of the | Indians These be momentous cues- tons, and while we are not able to def nitely settle whether the prophet is right | or not, up to the hour of going to press, | we throw this out as a sort of danger l signal, kind of warning, so tha, ladies l wilI not squander in seal.skin sacques good money that might more properly be in palm leaf fans.