Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1878 — Does the World Move? [ARTICLE]

Does the World Move?

The Bev. John Jasper, of Virginia, says, “ De sun do move, for in de mornin’ it shines on dis side ob de hou% whil in de ebenin, on dat side ob de boas. Now, es he don’t move, how come he dar?” Notwithstanding Mr. Jasper’s logic, we yet believe the world moves. When Mr. Jasper’s ideas constituted the popular belief, people thought that to die of smallpox or cholera was simply fulfilling one of nature’s laws. Now, through vaccination, smallpox is averted, while cholera, cholera morbus, dysentery (flux), and diarrhea are readily cured by the use of Dr. Pieroe’s Compound Extract of Smart-Weed. Does not such evidence tend to prove that “ the world moves?” As an external remedy for cuts, bruises, sprains, swellings, bites and stings of insects, the Compound Extract of Smart-Weed has no equal. Veterinary surgeons have also employed it with marked success.