The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-05-21

ing from Anderson to Seneca last
night. and it is thought that this was
one of the parcels of money taken.
and heat received per square mile
determines the temperature to a
great extent the above proposition
should be clearer.
There are two other motions of
the earth. The earth and moon re-
volve around their common centre
of gravity as they both go around
the sun and the earth's axis wabbles
slightly as it goes through space.
One other motion there is also-for
it has been definitely proven that the
sun and his whole family (including
the earth) are all sweeping through
space at a very rapid rate.
The tides of the sea are caused
by the moons attraction, and to a
slighter extent by that of the sun.
The process is as follows: The moon
and earth attract each other by
gravity but are prevented from get
ting together by the centrifugal force
of their common revolution. This
would not prevent either one, how
ever, from pulling the other out into
a more elongated shape in case eth
er one were plastic or fluid. AS the
earth has a great deal of fluid in the
form of water on it's surface the
moon pulls this oui into hump
so there is always hump of water
directly under the moon on the
earth's surface where that surface is
LIQUID. Now this hump tries to stay
directly under the moon and, as the
moon travels around the earth Tor
rather as the earth rotates) the
hump travels around the earth, thus
causing a tide. A hump is also oc-
casioned on the side of the earth
directly opposite the moon for at
that place the moons attraction is
least (as that is the point farthest
from the moon on the earth,) conse-
ouently the earth itself is pulled away
from this water to some extent. NOW
the water at the poles, or near them,
has to come to f1ll up this hump and
so the whole surface of the ocean
is changed in level. This tidal
phenomenon will finally cause the
earth to stop rotating relative to the
moon, so that the hump will always
then be sticking out in one spot only
and that will be toward the moon.
The earth's. attraction has already
made the moon stop rotating rela-
tive to the earth and has caused
hump several miles high on the
moon toward the earth. Now very
peculiar result is daused by this stop
ping of the rotation of the moon on
it's axis relative to the earth-that
is that we never see but one side OF
the moon. She always presents the
same face to us and no man has ever
seen the other side.
The tidal friction caused by the
sun will finally stop the earth's rota-
ton relative to it. When that takes
place (and it has taken place with
one Of the planets, possibly Venus,
there will be only one face of the
earth presented to the sun-so on
one side of the earth will be perpetual
sunshine and day and on the other
side perpetual night and darkness.
Suppose that the Western Hemis-
phere were the one in which there
was daytime continually. Every
thing would get so hot that the tenn
perature would be unbearable to
man, but other things would be
worse STILL The dark side would be
very cold and the bright side very
hot, so there would be a terrific hur-
ricane blowing along the surface
from the dark side to the light, and
an equally terrific one blowing
through the air from the light side
to the dark Also the light side
would be dry as dust for all the
water vapor would be condensed on
the cold side and it would conse-
uuently be covered with ice and
snow. The only livable place would
be near the border between the dark
and light sides and even there the
disadvantage of having the highest
winds would prevail. On the bright
side clouds of dust would always be
present and this would be continual