Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-11-26

charged cloud I'LL the two clouds are
equally charged. That change Of cleo
tricity from one cloud to the other shows
the potential, or power. called latent
heat, that was stored up IN The first cloud,
Let US call II plain electricity, and then
all will understand ",
1 furtl. " motc: "DissOclntod matter
cannot be- confined by rssOciaicd mntirr,
but permrntcs an forms Of chrhicnl
structures" That as believe. Is tho
other Of space FROM which all things are
made, the Accommodations Of which conHli-
tulc ever thing tat is. There can pc no
empty Hpncc! nn vacuum can exist. "
We take grUas matter ont the ether immr-
dlately takes it, place, y MS Irol' SD
gr,qlvcs declares, the other can neither
through U.e hnrlou steel, through glass,
through the most perfect insulntOra, ns
though they were not.
II ". understood niturc's process, we
could teke n mili0i cubic feet 81 ether
md cond,nse Il INFO a gfain Of pow1er,
al d then N we knew hi'- cause per
fect explosion, we Womb have an oXplo.
rive ton thousand ilnos mur powerful
than dynamite. But we can nnly resolve
the grain Of powder INTO Rns y ani m-
ionuatcd grains Of carbon called smoke,
probably Cling space Of one cubic foot
while perfect explosion woiil' cause The
million grains Of gases and carbon 10 cx-
plode, each occupying q cubic TOT % spare
on altogether million feet instead Of tho
pinilcad space occupied by the grain OF
powder
Of powder and the expansion Of that
grain Of powder back % q million foot oi
| ether Illustrates all that Is Of life aud
| motion IN the process Nv Found The IN
ioait heat Of the scientists and Us poten-
| dial or power IN 1t found the force cali
ed electricity mud magnetism
1 a. uf that ln
| found Inc origin Of motion, the building
/ Of worlds, the power that r9iates our
eorih. nll the planets and all the snne
| an their axes. reyOlyes our sun, ana nil
the suns to the outskirts Of tho milky
way, around their own great common
This energy is probably called latent
| heat because IN the process OF condenH-
| ing or expanding matter heat results,
| Not. rs I claim. because there is really
any latent or dormant heat bii heohuse
| IN friction When n grain u powder sud-
denly expands into cnbir FOOT volume
mo demanding matter makes lightning
speed, nnl therefore friction hRainst the
! ntmosphere results w beat. " the er-
pandon was gradual no sensible hent
would result
Whoever ran understand Why friction
causes heat can understand the origin
The wood Gre. the burning match.
The furnace ~ coal fire. arc cases n
matter expanding with such force A. tp
cause friction % is condensed sol and
on the surrounding atmosphere. No part
/ N Inc material Is destroyed by ihat
/ which We cail Ere The matter only cy-
| panas goes hack into that condition IN
/ which II WIS before II was eondensed
| int0 wood or coal
WHEN We come 20 study The tornado,
| eierfrlaify. magnetism. Huiinai NE, death.
dnaay keep 10 mind that motion u on
| underlying caHse. and that The orieinal
cause ~ nll motion n found IN the con.
dansafioua and expansions Of matter.
| friie ether being the arigin1l pnd natural
| orieinai cnuse OF motion and ne WHY
| iiic ether condenacs Is beyond the Won
| u man.