The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-10

t4I - H'tF d. tItS NAV seen
..... they W<ro, doubtless, very sati-
...-. tu those who lived I'm nyfhoI
..... times. To them the earth .la.
fiat a- Il pancake and the sun wen
...h.i in IN Il chdfIOt driven at the
.... .t thousands OF miles It minute
.. .ubody had any idea tnat<iJ re.
..,4. because as 1t was DtdIu TO b..
...H. .EeTythIHB stood stiII-the house.
..|.f turn over. the wells dId Eor
..r-. out their WatciS, people did not
..l on their heads half Of the
-.... iu short, there was not the lea
..ut sign, day nor night, q tn cdrth's
.....u@ over Later ON the BIbIe
.....I tO confirm the OpiniDl oil the
...lsnt-. by mentioning the Iact t..at
at stood still, for Sc many hour
.. rtain occasion by which we ar.
...stI the bible writer believed .he
.H Ip move
tttrr awhile it WAS discovered. ana
.. nDrld acquiesced in this theory.
..tt The earth was round; that as 4
a.. may start at Il place on an apple
..5. by going straight on he will
...a#I around the apple and come to
..H,r re- he started, 50 Il ship sailing
from Il certain point, and continuing
.. geo east or west, will come back to
t.t place from which it started. hay
u- rucirClcd the earth. 1t was also
discovered that the earth reYOIVed, It's
I.uIIon being from west to east, and
M4tcad Of the suns rising and setting.
j.r Garth turned Owe every twenty
four hours, and it's attitude to the sun
made morning, noon, evening aud
night.
That having been settled the cues
ZION which biologists and scientists
addressed themselves to, and l~earnedIy
Discussed. was the statues of the in
terror of the earth. If the earth was
once d sun-a red hot sphere-and
TN, surface of it cooled off until it
uroame habitable, the question was
how far must we go doWn before
coming to the fire.? We know there
is fire underneath us. The hot water.
cushing out of the ground, inc the
burning lava belChing forth from vol
cauOs prove beyond the possibility of
IL doubt that a mighty fire is burning
beneath US. And, as | intimated, a few
weeks ago. there may be an explosion
III almost any time. That view of the
was bad enough, but nothing
fu be compared with late discoveries,
which,. if they a be relied upon. very
COmplicate matters and make
this earth d very unsafe plain for
mortals who are without wings.
1t is now asserted that instead of
earth being a solid ball and the
interior a red hot fire, we are told that
it is hollow and that as many people
i'll the hollow as on top of tbs
ground.
For the information Of the nh
formed. who, like myself, have not
heard of the big hollow, / take de-
i-ht in shedding a little light on this
subject.
Professor William Reed has pub
q book entitled THE Phantom
IF the Poles" in which he sets forth
he startling theory hat the earth is
follow and Inhabited, and that OK
~1Iorers have actuall.J sailed into the
uouth of the great hollow, in search
ng for the North and South Poles,
He supports his theory by a mass OF
clentific facts and arguments and by
ltationS from all the great explorers.
including Franklin, Kane, Greedy,
Hail, Melville, Nansen and Peary.
The theory is, there are really no
North and South poles, but the places
where the poles were supposed to
been are simply great notes.-the
me at the north pole being 1000
niles in diameter, and h II at the
:outh pole 1900 miles in diameter.
rhe earth is like a great big pump
sim with a hole at Zach end II all
he seed and meat SCraped out, leaV-
rind sufficiently thick to keep it in
.hape. This vast hollow extends from
tple to pole. and is of course 5000
long; and, as the crust OF the
drth is only 1000 miles timex that
caves the dimensions of the hollow III
he earth 5000 miles in diameter or
&. eco miles in circumference; when,
y the way, is q right smart hollow
How are we to get into that lnn@r
World? the reader may ask.
Why that's just as easy as falilh6
.f 4 log. You see the waters OF the
oceans flow right through the hollow
from pole to pole; and SO. Wheh one
aiIs to the North OF south pole instead
off coins on around the earth, he
te"rs for the hole and in he goes,
on he goes until he comes out at
.hc other md. and there he is. ON
Ithor hand. as he sails along III the
hollow. he will see vast prarleS, beaur
jfuI landscapes. tall mountains, great
.Iters. smoking volcanoes, beasts ana
'irds and flowers: and to his great as |
he will behold a thickiy
country with great cltleS' |
owns. villages. and hamlets. the m
1ahitants thereof. like those ON the
crust. looking we'll and doing
a.u. And what will astonish the voy-
aGor most. he will learn that people
only live in the low lands near
IA. sea shore. but overhead ana al
around the hollow; those below walk
with their heads upwards. Whiie
.Hasc overhead, like flies on the cell,
walking with their feet UP ana
.H"tr heads down. How is that ac-
.nuntGd for? Why, the professor IN
.mllps us that the centre OF SrdVltd-
tom is not in the centre of the earlh'
H We used to suppose, but IN the cen
t. of the crust of earth that lies De
@'en us and the big hollow uhoel,
l".th. So. not only do people I'VE an
5'Hund that hollow. but there are flT.
aFs and seas all round also. -
makes no difference which side OF tht
hollow is up. graVitation holds every
l1Irg in place. just as it does on the
outside when the earth turns over.
tf course the sun does not Shlne III
Dire hollow, but it's rays coming ID dt
.+"n end give the inhabitants su1lctc
mt LIGHT for all practical II
.e Standard Oil Company would run
Ills pipes down through the crust tney
might get q monopoly of the hShtlhS
BUSINESS. AS Professor Reed does noe
..I"Fm US that either gas or eleclflc-
is being used. 1t being only d (
thousand miles through the crust L
Won't see why a government like ours,
mat uses millions of dollarS-for pockeI
'+ngo. may not dig down ana put III
Pneumatic tube and let those peoPle
.."h there in the hollow know ho"
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