The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-07
LIKE 4 G(|RESCREN
That's the Kind of Move the
Earth Gets on Itself,
EXPLAINS ALL GEOLOGY
Ingenious Theory by an
Obscure Scientist.

New York, Jan. 5.-The Herald says:
The earth turns like a corkscrew.
This spiral revolution affects the crust
of the earth
The crust of the earth moves as would
the skin of an orange were it twisted
spirally, independently of the inner pulp.
This spiraly movement of the earth
does not conflict. but harmonizes with
the revolution around the sun and with
the daily rotation.
The glacial period of geology is not
an isolated phenomenon, but a continu-
Gus effect of the spiral movement Of the
earth.
Hence all parts of the earths surface
have, in turn, a glacial period
Hence the presnt polar regions viii be
dropped by the spiral revolution toward
the equator.
| The present temperate regions of the
earth will be twisted into the polar at
mosphere and become ice locked.
| The diuturnal motion or the earth ex-
plains all geological phenomena.
One diuturnal revolution of the earth
takes place approximately every S4OO0,OOO
years.
This diuturnal motion of the earth is
the sum of the results of all its other
forms of motion.
The diuturnal theory of the earth is
the discovery of William Andrews, born
17S9, died 1887
1t is now made public for the first time.
Our earth turns like a corkscrew. Up
on this hypothesis an obscure American
who has been in III grave nearly doz-
en- years founded a basic theory of a
Cultural revolution of the earth which
seems destined to rival in scientific in
terest and Importance any discovery
since Newton's. Accepting this theory, a
great gap in the physical sciences is filed
Geology, no longer a mass of disconnect-
ed knowledge, becomes reduced to order.
Phenomena heretofore setting the wis
dom of HUXLEY, Agassiz and Humbolt at
fiat defiance are rendered susceptible OF
the simplest of the simplest explanation.
Nor does this theory of the diuturnal re-
volution of the earth invslove any mega
ton of discoveries heretofore made The
turnal and annual revolutions in space
with which the text books of our boy
hood have famliarized US. All that we
are now asked to do is to conceive the
earth as a liquid mass incased in a crust
which slips spirally as the skin of an or
ange might do were it made to revolve
independently of the pulp
The diuturnal theory of the earth here
made public for the first time, owes its
exstance to William Anrdews, "a poor and
unknown man all his life, who was born
in Philadelphia, January 2, 1888 He died
a Cumberland, Md, August 6, 1887.
Without early advantages and orphaned
when barely in his teens, he enlisted for
the War of 1872. His father before him
had served with distinction in the War
of the Revolution. The second struggle
with England having come to an end,
young Andrews was bound out in the
fashion of that day, to the Lippincott
publishing house in Philadelphia Here
he mastered the bookbinding trade. Sub
sequently he lived among the Shakers,
and later still he travelled to what was
then the far western wilderness of Ten
nessee. For some years he was one OF
the publishers of a Nashville newspaper
But the best years of his life were
spent in Cumberland, Md. in which place
he settled down about 1897. His liveIi-
hood was obtained from the profits of
a modest book and stationery store but
the energies and abilities of the man
were devoted to the study of the natural
sciences. He collected a prodigious num-
classifying and arranging them with (
such scientific accuracy that upon his (
death the state Of New York was glad
to purchase a considerable portion of the
whole. Another fraction of the collec- +
ton, embracing no less than 10000 geo /
logical specimens passed TO a Maryland I
institution of learning Still another por- /
ton is now the property Of the Maryland (
Academy OF Sciences, at Baltimore. An |
drews was too devoted to scientific pur-
suits to be a successful business man. /
He spent entire days wandering in the I
Maryland wilds in search Of specimens. /
In process of time he amassed a great I
library of works of science. He cores
pended with men of learning sll over
the world. The entire latter portion OF
his life was spent in the elaboration o.
his diuturnal theory of the earths mo-
ton and in the preparation oc an ex-
haustive book on the subject.
But he published nothing during his
lifetime THE next century" ne 0ould
say. will appreciate what have writ
ten" And so for years his manuscript
has reposed in obscurity. but now his
daughter. Miss Myra Andrews. has ar
ranged to give the volume 10 the world.
Every geologist will admit that his
science IS in what NAV be termed
a patchwork condition. There are Ger
tain thermal periods and climatic
changes in the body OF the earth which
have never been satisfactorily explain
ed. Such scientists as Huxley for ex-
ample. have pointed out the need OF a
at least, TO account fer phe-
1omena which have been observed but
which no one has succeeded in adequate
Is explaining Changes Of surface level
and geological qualifications observed
az over the world have been noted as
mysteries Of nature due to natural CON
sulsions Of the remote past. But beyond
this science has stood psrpiexed. The
missing INK in the geological chain was