Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — Why the Earth Goes Around. [ARTICLE]

Why the Earth Goes Around.

One of the brightest young PortoRicans who figured in the late war ii Senor Miguel Sanchez, who Is now in this country in the interest of the Porto Rican public school system. He was at one time on the Btaff of General Gomez in Cuba, and he tells many incidents concerning that doughty old fighter. “I was skimming one of the New York Sunday newspapers while I was in the general’s headquarters In Cuba,’* said the senor the other day, “and it was the first to reach us for several months. I noticed an article on the newly discovered movements of the earth’s surface. Now, you know the general disliked to have any one do anything without being Invited to take part. He liked to be consulted—to be asked questions—no matter how unimportant they might be, so In reading the article I stopped and asked: “ ‘Now, general, how do you account for the daily revolution of the earth, anyhow?’ “ ‘That’s easy to answer,’’ he replied Instantly, ‘so long as Haiti, Porto Rioo and Cuba are parts of it,’"