The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-11
! THE EARTH HOLLOW?
,xpEpITIoN NOW BEING FITTED
rP AT NAPLES, FLORIDA

Of sun Moon and Stnrs-WOmcn
.aders of Denver, Boston, Chica-
philadelphia.
lexington. April 9.-Most people are
-. oninion that they live upon the
u ,,.a Of the earth. But if the great ex-
MIN of the Koreshan scientists, soon
p7.cin elaborate and costly observations
,be coast of Florida, near the little
' III of Naples, is fortunate enough 10
..rence favorable weather during
N.1 and May and correctly apply the a.o-
, l,, theory of John Jacob Aston, the
I'D will learn with amazement that this
..rrestrial globe is a vast hollow ball.
I-,on the inner sides of this bali the
IMAM race crawls like so many flies in-
rrisoned within a goblet, and the space
manning is occupied by different planets
Furthermore, the mighty orb which we,
IN our benighted ignorance, consider to be
.he SIM is not the sun at all. Nobody
o,.or saw the sun. AS for the law of gray
itadon and the movements of the spheres,
.rd other fundamental astronomical data
,bev are all gross delusions based upon
an inter misconception of the universe.
very large sum of money has been
subscribed by the adherents of this, the
Koreshan system. of cellular cosmogony,
and when their final report is made to he
numerous societies all over the country
.ba rnigbtiest intellectual revolution in the
history of the world will begin.
ME an interesting fact that this abstruse
soisntifc movement contains so many wo-
men among its leaders. The Society Arch
Triumphant, in Chicago. meets at West
Nine4v-ninth street. and Oak avenue,
where Mrs. V. H. Andrews expounds
Koreshanism to large gatherings. In Den
yer. Col the Auriga branch meets at No.
GAG South Fifteenth street. Here Mrs.
Jessie H DUMAS lectures. In Boston is
mat famous Koreshan, Miss A. f. Hag
eett president of Camop Arcturus, at No.
ll6 Dartmouth street. In Denver, also,
Mrs. A. K. Cornwall is conducting the
greatest Koreshan million yet held at No.
9l7 East Thirteenth avenue. Pennsylvania
probably contains more converts to Kore-
shanity than any other state, owing to
the indefatigable labors of Miss Mana Nc
Donald. who founded Camp Gladiolus, at
Beaver Falls.
Immense amounts of literature are be-
ing distributed widely over the country,
and the Koreshans are awaiting the re-
port of their great Florida commission in
order to lay the matter before congress
and begin a national geodetic survey to
overthrow once and forever the Coperni-
can system. An immense amount of harm
is being done, il appears, by the work of
the Lick observatory, the astronomers and
scientists generally, for Koreshanity is
distinctly a religious movement which at
tributes the evils of the modern world,
its social hpheavals and popular discon-
tents, to the prevalent cosmical miscon-
cepuon of the nature of the universe.
But the first question to present itself
to the mind of the unprejudiced observer
is how the Koreshan scientific commission
In Florida can prove its main tenet. How
does it arrive al its conclusion that we
live in the interior of the earth and not
upon it's surface? What is the outside of
the earth made of and how is it possible
to disprove the contentious of modern as
tonomy with its accurate predictions?
In reply there are two facts to start
with. The Copernican theory is a hypoth-
ess into which all the facts, as yet known,
seem to fit: That is to say, astronomers
proceed upon the theory that the planets
FeVolve around the sun and that the law
Of sravitation is the cause. But every as
uonomer admits that this theory has
never been absolutely proved 1t is be-
heVed in, however. because all astronom-
zeal calculations are based upon it, and
such calculations are always accurate.
When we read in the almanac that there
Will be an eclipse next autumn, we be-
lieve there will be an eclipse. When we
read that in summer the earth is further
from the sun than it is in winter, we be-
heve that, too, because important meteor
Dloglcal observations are based upon such
a belief. and those observations are inva-
rlaoly accurate. But beyond facts of this
nature we have 10 proof. The whole Co
pernlcan system rests upon what the law
yers call circumstantial evidence So far,
the astronomers and the koreshans are
agreed.
The next fact staring US in the face is
the recent failure of the law of gravita-
ton to meet the demands made upon it as
basis for further exploration into cos
mical phenomena. That is, recent obser-
Vations by scientists seem to denote a
CONDITION in which gravitation has no
place. Now the whole theory of gravita-
uon rests upon its invariability. If a boy
throws a stone up into the air and it falls
pack to the earth, it should fall back
again If thrown under the same condi-
uons, and so on indefinitely. But if a
boy threw stone and it went up, up, up,
until 1t reached the sun, that would be
proof positive that there never was such
thing as the law of gravitation. 1t is
either invariable or IL does not exist
Now something of this sort has been
observed to happen with reference to the
solar system. The movements of celes-
ual bodies are becoming more and more
frraue from the standpoint of gravitation.
IN order to get over this difficulty scien-
usts have advanced the theory that there
exists In the universe a force antithetical
70 gravitation. How this force operates
gas been wildly shown by John Jacob
.hstor in his recent book He gives this
itorce the name of apergy. The Koreshan
expedition claims to have discovered the
tature OF apergy and to be ascertaining
. relations to natural powers and phys
| At THIS point the average individual Will
8oJect that these principles may apply in
pc region of pure science, but how is the
PRIMARY man to prove TO himself that he
hVing inside the earth and not upon
rs surface? This can be proved by
very simple experiment. 1t is given in the
tords OF that celebrated Koreshan, Myra
r. CALDWELL
start with the accepted fact that the
plumb line is perpendicular Select a still
ater surface several miles which ali
til agree conforms to the earths surface.
ma place firmly in the water a pole and
rft d.