The progressive farmer., 1900-09-18
SCIENTIST CUPID.

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DEAR AUNT JENNIE After having.
stayed away from ''Our Social Chat
so long I take the greatest pleasure:
in coming again. The reason of my.
tardiness is. that I ana loath to break.
in on such remarkable cQnversatiQp-l
ists4 when am such alpoor one. arl
g. Alvin Horizons article on books is.
excellent Jennie Acton is one of
the sweetest writer's oin the circle
and when her name appears in The
Progressive: Farmer" all the boys.
have a: race to read it first. If her
writing can command SO much dove,
how much more could we love her if
we were personally acquainted. The
little wild Rose is a good writer
also, It, is the sweetest g rose iinn in
South Carolina and a. great many many
that read The. Progressive Farmer
would give their t'biIrr5th btiIr5t right to
pluck the flower. .ono 49,, c,.,.s....,-,
Well. cousins, I'm going this time tiI7 &
to. talk about the world, its shape,
motion, and the imPossibility, Of its
destruction. ...,..,-.....-.,-,..,,,...-.-l
"God made the earth" 2" said JOB,
'.and hung it on nothing This
declaration was made centuries be
fore the people found that the world
WASH t fat, It was made centuries
before the people ceased to believe
that giant Atlas. bowed and bent,
carried this heavy old world on his
tired shoulders. l-~
Yes, God made the world and like
ball it. was cast into nothing or
ether, I believe the scientists name.
it. Well, you ali know that ball
thrown out will continue for ever
and ever in a straight line unless
something stops or interferes with it
in. some way. The world when cast
out would have continued until this
day, and for ever after perfectly
straight, but something in the sun
constantly pulling gives it an orbed
course. However, but for counter
attraction the earth would fly into
thesrn, and you all know what would
then happen as we'll as ''',
What is the counter attraction
spoken Of above? It is simply this.
The infinite universe is filed with
innumerabie planets, some Of which
are many time larger than the earth.
All Of these planets attract each
other, but-like the molecules in a
dropof water--they move in their own
spaces To keep these planets from
clumsily, flying out, Of space, God has
given them graceful revolving
motion which of course makes light,
and darkness alternately, as they
turn to and from the sun, mo-
Lam getting off, the track so I will
go back to earth, or the heplanet which
the Almighty designed for man.
The earth travels, about one thou
miles q minute in. its mad, race
around the sun, Just think, cousins,
of flying through ether at theappall-
ing rate of a hundred and forty miles
per second nIt is simply incon-
celV5anPle' 1nIe jjtbG .n=Q} os.tz Go7
In addition, to its rotating, around
the sun, the, earth has a revolving
motion b9n its axis. This not only
gives US day, and night but it gives
the earth. an easy, graceful motion,
which helps tohold it on Its track
To Illustrate take q smooth, bore
gun and shoot, "a ball into, the, air. IF
the. ball is perfectly round it will go
tolerably straight bat if it is, not
exactly round twill curve and turn,
and sometimes it will take slightly
spiral motion, which results in it's
flying wide of the mark, On the,
other hand if the gun, is rifed the /
ball is, shot out with ao revolving
motion, and goes operfectly straight
to- the mark, if you allow, for, the
attraction of gravitation. Now if
the air had no resistance on the ball