Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-05

| Ebenezer Singleton was a young
man OF twenty-three He was a good
and industrious young man and had
acquired quite a little property thus
early in his career. He had just pur-
chased a cozy house, and the next
thing needed was a wife.
Sarah Jane Scott, twenty years old,
was very nice girl-very nice. She
was good at needlework, homework
and other kinds Of work which would
have made her a treasure of a wife.
She and Ebenezer met one day, and
they looked good to each other. From
thence sprang a courtship, and there
was no one who interfered or objected.
Ebenezer could support a wife, and
Sarah Jane could be of great help to a
husband
There was only one trait in the char
acter in either one that could be criti
cised, and that was developed to each
other just at the wrong time. Ebene
ger had come counting, and his mind
was about made up to ask Sarah Jane
for her hand when the conversation
happened to touch on astronomy.
around the earth from east TO westT
queried Ebenezer Just as he was ready
to go home.
But the sun does not move around
the earth" mildly protested Sarah
Jane. THE earth moves around the
sun, and it moves from east TO west
because nature arranged 1t to, just as
it did for tree to stand on it's roots"
Did you ever watch the sun mover
asked Ebenezer, with a very sober
face.
Never, Eben, but I have watched
the earth move. The sun stands as
still as a great rock. while our earth
moves along. Why, Eben, don't you
remember the proof given in geogra-
ply of the earth's moving round the
sum-
well well, Sarah. you are a queer
girl The sun certainly moves, and II
you have never seen it move there is
something very wrong with your eyes.
1t moves from east to west, but / don't
see why it can't just as well move
from north to south
Sarah Jane looked at Ebenezer for
a long minute to see if he was joking.
belief, and it gave her an unpleasant
shock. She had never found him an
ignorant man in any particular, and
this was ignorance OF the grossest
kind.
"Eben," she quietly said, You are
not wanting me TO understand that
the sun moves along like a man walk
ing? You cannot believe this against
the known facts. 1t has been hun
dreds of years since It was known
that the earth moved around the sun"
People may think so. but that
doesn't make 1t So" answered Eben-
ezer as the light OF defiance shone IN
his eyes. Il say the sun moves. /
have seen it move. I saw it moving
along not five hours ago. My eyes are
good eyes. What my eyes see 1 am
not going back on. Are you going to
believe that the sun stands still just
because a lot OF nearsiGhted men claim
it does SEP
"Oh well, we won't discuss the mat
ter any further" said Sarah Jane, re-
alizing that 1t might lead TO unfortu-
nate results
But we wiIlr' exclaimed Ebenezer
as he set his jaw. ''You believe one !
way and / another Let us decide who !
is right"
But how are we going TO decide ~ /
she protested I'm tones which betrayed I
vexation.
why, you are going TO believe as 1 |
believe"
But / can't You won't find one In I
a million people who believe with you |
You can keep on believing so If you /
Will but / can never agree with you. |
However. IL is matter that We need /
not get angry about. We have always |
got plenty or sunshine whether the |
sun stands still or moves along. and |
we probably always shall. We are
having pleasant weather, aren't wer'