The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-20
MATCHES THE BIG MAN.
DR.. G. C. Swallow Writes Inter-
estingly Of q Teneriffs
Monster.
It Had q Head That Would Fit
on Secretary Ramsay's
Big Man.
But the Dawso County Being Lived
Several Ages Before Chevalier
Sorog's Find.

In an article published In your paper
from Mr.. Ramsey, secretary of the worries
fair commissioners, We have a vertabr@
mentioned as belonging TO a giant sixty
feet high or more. Now l have before me
a statements made by Chevalier scrog. IN
his account of a visit made TO the burial
caves in the peaks of Teneritfe, where he
found the head of a human being" "as
large as a bushel," the jaws of which con-
tanned ''sixty teeth.' thirty in each.
Now this head found by the Chevalier is
large enough to belong to the giant found
BY Mr.. Secretary Ramsey. but their burial
places were q little too far apart both IN
space and. probably, in time. Teneritfe il
a long way from the Bad Lands; and the
contents Of the Chev alters cave belong
TO the recent period. while those from thu
Bad Lands are from the reptilian age, n
while the giant of Tensriffe had no foes
worthy of his teeth save the ele-
phant, he of the Bad Lands had
q score OF reptilisn foes worthy
Of all his powers. For some much larger
thar himself. disputed the possession of the
land, others twice his size with the jaws OF
rock-crusher, ruled the lagoons, and
others still with wings like sails, darkened
the air and pouneed down upon him with
beak and claws ten times as large az those
Of the tabled Hsrpies.
And besides, while the giant Of the Ten
sriffe enjoyed the sunny climate Of the beau
tiful Atlantis. the fruits of the Hesperides
and the tender steaks of the buffalo and
,bex, his elder brother of She Bad Lands.
browsed on fern sprouts. gathered a few
pine nuts and contented with the huge
dinosaurs for a cast in their fish ponds,
and with Tor turtles to share his
hunting grounds. The happy condition
and surroundings of the giant of Teneriffe
were duo to the fact he came after the
earth was prepared with climate. fruits and
animals suited to his nature. While the
man of the Bad Lands came some geo
logical ages too soon and was compelled to
breathe poisonous air, grub for unpalatabls
vegetables and fish in waters dominated BY
huge and ferocious reptiles.
While the giant Of Teneriffe was scarcely
possible, the man of the Bad Lands was a
natural i~mpossibility. There was no place
for him in the creation recorded by Moses
or that in the rock strata of the earth. The
giants Of Moses record lived in an atmos-
phete pui flied by ages of the rank yegeta-
ton, which formed our coal beds. and made
the existence of the higher animals possible.
Nor does the theory of Darwin help us out.
For there were no anthropoid apes in the
cretacious age 70 be his ~proaenitors. Not
even the preposterous theory of spontane-
ous generation taught by Aristotle, Crosse
and Sebastian would produce such q prema-
ture man as the giant of the Bad Lands in
q cretaoious atmosphere.
No fact Is mors conciusively proven than
that none of the higher animals could have
lived on the earth until the deadly carbonio
acid of the air in the o. etRcious period had
been absorbed and laid up in the chalk beds
of the eastern continent and the coal beds
of western America. 1t is q curious fact,
which has disappointed the expectations
and searches of biologists, that there is no
chalk in the cretaoeous rocks of North
America to correspond with the vast beds
of that mineral in the same formu-
ton of Europe. But while the
lime-waters of Europe were absorbing
the superabundant carbonic acid from the
atmosphere and depositing it in the chalk
beds in European seas, a rank vegetation
was taking the same poisonous gas from
our air and laying it away in the carbon in
our coal beds. aus the same publication
of the air, the same preparation was made for
the coming of the higher order of animals
aud plants by very different processes. In
Europe the poison was absorbed by water
and neutralized by lime and laid away in
vast beds of white chalk. In America the
same poison was absorbed by q rank vege-
tation, converted into vegetable tissue and
carbon and laid away in vast coal beds. In
this we Americans appear to have the best
of it, as coal Ia now moro useful than chalk.
But 1t is very apparent that western Amer
lea had more need of coal than western
Enrpna Wa had mn rnal nan rar tho than Mic
sissippi valley, while the coal beds of west
ern Europe extend to and even under the
Atlantic waite 8. For western America
was under the Pacific ocean while
the coal beds Of the Mississippi
valley and Pennsylvania were formed.
And when the western half of the continent
was formed. now marked by the Rocky
mountains, the Sierra Nevada and the
coast ranges. it had no coal beds. But the
warm, moist air charged with carbonie acid
nourished a rank vegetation and coal beds
were deposited and the atmosphere was
purified and fitted for higher animals and
man. But our giant of the Bad Landa
came before all this was done. He was q
few million years too soon TO be a man, OF
even any of the higher warm blooded ami
mails.
1t la not too much TO say that the laws OF
nature are such that some things, we hear,
can not be true. 1t eanno DO true tina
lnou nhfcl lFco Will uu6I mhiQb III tUb caves
of the ocean. But We know q man will
drown just as quick in a well full of car
bopio acid as he will in a well full Of water.
AS a fish can get air enough in water &c
keep his blood pure where a man soon per
ishes, 80 a sourian can live in air SO charges
with csrboaic acid az TO render it unfit fol-
human lungs.
Again, if ii be true that science can tel
the species OF a fish from a singls scale, anc
the species of a mamma from a single
tooth. the same science must say q skull
with sixty teeth never belonged to human
being, since men nave but little over hall
that number. So We must conclude tina
neither the head from the Cretacious rock
of Montana ever belonged to a human
being, or any other animal 30 related h
man as to require the pure mir of the recen
geological periods. q. G. swALLow.
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