Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-19
HOT WAVE AT HAND
Foster Says the Temperzsure
Viii be High
FROM NOW UNTIL AUGUST rs
He Takes ths Suo,ecs Il Coal ans ps-
eusses Its Origin ant Presses
Forms aud Wondess.

~, JosErH. Mo. june ls--Ny iaes
bulletin gave forecasts Of the stox1n
wave 10 cross the oontinent from Juno
Is 10 -, and the next wssi reach the
iacihe coast about June -, cIoss tno
western mountains by the eiose Of 3uuo
"A, the great central valleys from Juoo
- 70 -, and the casters stAtes about
June IS
wave Of cooler weather will croan
the western mountains about June -.
the great central valleys at,ost June
- and tne eastern states about Juno
IS.
From about June 20 tsil Aneuss 9s
the excess of heat sbose the average
of the season viii be great Tns ffs
hall of August Hill he much 2afmts
than tne last half OF July.
orsesa OF Csss pssss-<ea
IL ss estimated that the ooal deposited
IA the EARNS surface would make
bed of pure carbon len OF twelve feet
deep ali over TIE entire earth. incsud-
ING the water surface II that coAi
came ffom vegetable decay Il must
have exastod la TIE atmosphere As car
eonic ACID gas before vegetation hegan
10 absorb Il, ior that ls tic prccuss. tae
only process oy which vegetation ean
store up that which = necessary 10
form carbon or coal When the segeta-
ton comes 10 decay. bed of pure
carbon all around the earth tea feet
thick would he equal 10 an ssnospherlc
ocean OF careonle scsd eas all around
the earth more than ls .etse feet deep.
Eememoer that the vegetable theory
s.{
from the earth's afnsospnere by sege-
table growth
A Valley of Death
CarboDic acid gss is heavier than the
atmosphere, and therefore We fsod IL at
the bottom of cellars, wells, mines and
valleys. IL ls often called lirs-danap.
The greatest amount OF a now known
TO be IN Que place IL found IA the upAs
valley OF Java, a valley Of oval form,
three-quarters Il mlie IA csrcnmfer-
ence and 50 10 S5 feet deep. The car
bonlc acid gas IN that valley IL about Is
feet deep, and no animal or vegetable
lie can exist there Adog throwa Ia Dies
en- IA seconds. aud the valley - sirewa
with the bieacbed bones of man. birds
and other animals that have made the
fatal mistake OF entering that valley Of
death. If animal and vegetable life
cannot exist IN II feet Of cafbonic acsd
gas, how could vegetation have exlsted
IN an atmosphere of carbonic acid gas
over two miles ia depthy
Scientists tell ns that II the cafbontc
acid gas M Our atmosphere were greatly
increased. IL would be fatal 10 animal
and vegetable life. and u coal nov m
the earth WAS ever in our atmospbere
IA gaseous condition then the atmos-
phe-e contained ,o0e umes more Of
that gas than IL now does. aud as no
vegetable life could 1xnt andsr surh
circumstances, the vegetable origin Of
coal ~ an immosshllity.
Aaisnai for.s sn Cssi.
Water absorbs csrbonsc acid eas, and
an atmosphere so appropriated With
this material would kill every living
thing in the oceaus. and ssall the coal
beds enumerated IN the following para
graph are foil of microscopic organ ANS
and The remains Of animal life that
existed during the foundation OF these
coal beds.
The coal beds OF Nova Scotia are
twelve. fifteen and thirty -essnt feet
thick. In Great Britain the coal veins
aggregate 800 feet IA thickness In
France are coal veins 100 ~ 12o feet
thick. The coal veins OF PennsylvansA
and eastern Ono viii aggregate nearly
forty feet IN thsckness In eastern
Pcnnsylvsnia are from seven 20 ten
MASSIVE veins, some of them thirty
feet thick. oae.tourth ~ the United
States - underisid with coal vesps
from one 10 twenty tive feet in th,ok-
ness.
- s.-... -.
vegetation that would produce these
vast Goa ledky