Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-21
n. A. T. In Reply.

ABILENE Il En-, July ~, 1850,
To the Editor OF the Gazette:
Under the big-lettered caption IAN
Air-Castle Spoiled | notice a COM
munication in THE GAZETTE OF yes
terday from one who calls himself Y.
x, y, He is opposed to a late letter OF
mine in the Galveston News. quote
from him:
"Sub-carboniferous limestone filled
with sea-shells and corals, which pol.
tshes like ice and sparkles like dia.
Inonds, as durable as adsmant and Sc
beautiful. No, there is nothing like
this in Indiana or any other known
land. Think whata grand capitol.
house 1t would make! Our ideas
cease to revolve, for we
would indeed add another
wonder to the world IL we could
build such house with such material,
for there is no limestone of the oolitiC
order or observation-disclosures period
which will show to the eye any evil
dence of animal life. Nor Is there any
OF this order that pollshes like ice.
Numerous fossiliferous limestones pos
sessing these qualities are often found,
but, as evidenced from their period OF
formation, they are not sub.carbonif-
erous, but of a more recent formal on.
" n. A. Il. in describing this
remarkable deposit of stone has either
drawn largely upon his imagination
or failed to properly classify the
stone.n
Now, our friend, the said Triple
Extra, is very easy sinner to dispose
of. | would that all sinners would
give no more trouble than he.
be is remarkable FOR his dense ignor-
ance Of geology, which he assumes to
know all about, and for the boldness
with which he parSdes his ignorance.
He says there are mo limestones of
the oolitic order or .carboni ferrous
period which will show to TIE eve any
evidences of animal life.p t.st
Now, the truth lie, there are no rocks
in all the earth's structure which are
so remarkable for the abundance of
animal remains as those very ones
which he mentions. This ia
we'll known to ever body who knows
anything whatever about geology.
The oolite limestones are crowded
with them, while those of the SUBJ
carboniferous often seem to be com
posed entirely Of animal remains,
shell'tish and corals. So much is tins
the case that in walking over these
rocks have Glen had the lines OF
queen Nab press upon me:
There is not one atom ofthis earth
But once was breathing life
And the line Of Byron:
The dust we tread upon was once alive.
And these remains are all the way
from great time down to q "ptece of
chalk" and pins point.
This disposes of our friend
Triple Extra Flour. He has evidently
been imposed on by some pretentious
friend, whose ignorance is deeper.
darker, thicker than his own, The
ignorances of these two ignoramusses.
taken together, would make a night
blacker than Tartarus, whose dark.
ness you could cut into cold slices
with a crow-bsr. 1t is startling that
such ignorance should exist in Aus
tin at this late day. And l will war
rant that both of these ignorant gen
tlemen, like my old friend Coke,
are deadly hostile to the Blair educa.
tional bill, on the ground that they are
already so filled with enlightenment
that more would be surplussage and
harm.
What wrote about those rocks in
the West will stand, because il is
strictly true. Perhaps | erred some-
what in stating that the fossils In.
closed In them are mostly converted |
into glittering spar. They certainly |
are 30 to certain extent, but perhaps |
not generally. 1t has been some two |
years since saw those rocks.
Triple Extra Flour states that the
capitol syndicate spent $2G coo in look.
Ing about in Texas for good rocks. and
found them not. Now my Ignorant
friend may believe that big tale or tail
1t Is perfectly natural that he should,
or u Is characteristic of Ignorance to
20 credulous and superstitious-but
ion't. Yours, truly,
N. A, Il.
The only cigarettes which do not
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