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Show EARTH IS SQUARE. The earth is square and stationary. It is the shape of a Mexican sombrero. som-brero. At the topmost pinnacle of the sombrero som-brero Is located the north pole. The "pole" was at one time the Garden Gar-den of Eden, and here Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit. This Is the claim of Dr. Orlando Ferguson, Fer-guson, proprietor of the Hot Springs sanitarium, at Hot Springs, S. D. He Is In Denver as the guest of J. Cook, Jr. Dr. Ferguson bases his claims on his astronomical investigations, which he has conducted during the last twenty years, and in the pursuit of which, he says, he has spent thousands of dollars. dol-lars. Dr. Ferguson explains the deception oi tne puoiic astronomy Dy saying mat we have "Imagined" the world to be round and flying through space around the sun at the rate of 65,000 miles per hour and 1042 miles per hour around the center. But about the time the "old beast" was dethroned of his power several sev-eral thousand years ago, he says, a few hundred legions of devils entered Into the minds of man and made them believe be-lieve that only ajiart of the scriptures were true. All It says about astronomy Is false, according to the writer. Tho3e legions of devils, he claims, are running run-ning over the steep bank into the sea of sin. All of them will soon be drowned, as the swine were. "Galileo." says the doctor, "200 years ago declared the world to be round and flying through space. In this short time he has converted the world to the globe theory. Yet we find In his history where It states he was most emphatically emphatical-ly a dreamer. He offered no proof, and applied only an imaginary law. This Is all the proofs they have today, the imaginary low proofs. You all know what it Is to dream and imagine." In the center of the "square," according accord-ing to the doctor, there is a high Iceberg Ice-berg or mountain. This Is so high and cold that nothing can approach the summit and live. That's what Is called the North. The sun, moon and stars all fly around this center. When the sun Is on the side of the mountain It causes a shade on the onposlte side. That's called night. It taVes the sun twenty-four twenty-four hours to fly around this mountain, which Is the length of our' day and night. After plsylng around awhile, the sun starts back North. On the 21st day of March it is at a point just half way from Its farthest northern and southern positions, which is called the equator line. Then our days are of equal length. Denver Republican. |