Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-12-06

all that is strictly coherent with it, the direct results would be instant and ap- palling.
 All objects near the equator are nov ing eastward at the rate of rather more than 16 miles a minute. If the earth should suddenly, not merely stop, but begin to rotate with equal speed in the opposite direction, everything resting upon it's surface would be hurled from it's position with incredible violence. Every building in the world would be instantly demolished and it's fragments scattered along a splintery trail for leagues to the eastward. A man riding quietly across broad prairie would be dashed against the distant cliffs on it's eastern border before he could utter q single cry, and both horse and rider would be smashed to atoms by the im- pact as completely as if they had fallen from the sky. For, consider, it would be like the collision of two railway trains, each moving at about 30 times the usual speed; the mans inertia would fling him eastward at the rate of fully 961 miles per hour, and the hill- side would clap against him rushing westward with equal velocity The great powders lying loose on the noun tain tops would be projected like can non balls to distant regions, and would blow into the ground like meteoric stones. A rifle ball, however, if dis charged toward the west the instant of the reversal would seem to hover for some moments in about the same place, and would finally drop near it's starting point"
 "And how about the trees?"
 Unless they were included in the as- sumed reversal, so that the effects of inertia would be obviated, their trunks would be snapped like pipe stems, and the wreck of forests would sweep over the land like a giant broom, until grad ually checked by friction But even if we resume them, as being rooted in the earth, to be included in it's reversal of motion, they would not fare much bet ter, for the inertia of the atmosphere would give rise to Q wind which would strip them of every leaf and branch or rather, a hurricane which would tear them up by the roots and bear them bodily to remote districts Meanwhile. the setting sun would back up through the sky, giving for the once 24 consecu- tive hours of daylight.
 Moreover, the sea would be flung from it's bed, and would surge in an overwhelming tidal wave across the continents. When the waters subsided, the wrecks of the Japanese war fleet might be found scattered amid the ruins of San Francisco-only there would be no one left to search for them; and the debris of San Francisco would in all probability be hopelessly mixed up with the scant remnants of Chicago and New York; for inertia and wind and wave would all combine to sweep them east ward"
 And would the earth ever again be- come habitable?"
 'fYes; in time. But since only the lowest forms of life could survive such cataclysm-and these would be chiefly marine organisms of the simplest struc ture-eVoiuUlOn W0uld nave CO tdke q fresh start almost from the primordial germs Countless ages must elapse be- fore the world could be repeopled.
 ssFurthermore, the world in which this new and genuinely post-diluyan race would find itself would present some strange contrasts with the world as we know it. For instance, the sun would rise in the west, and set in the east. The action of the tides would be eusiously altered. The course or all the