Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-23
MORE COOL WEATHER TO COME
The Interesting Question OF Delugsa
Changes OF Ocean watera--The Earth's
Crust as Tar ~ ESamined--Auinai
Life Begins In tho water


ciiic coast about the Goth. cross the west.
ern mountains by the 21th, the great
central valleys from 18th 20 Both aud
the eastern states about May LIST
This storm will be quite severe west of
the Mississippi river aud yill diminish in
force as 10 moves eastward Rainfall
viii be greater aud better distributed
than during tho previous storm waves of
the month. Local droughts will be brokcn
in many places and better crop weather
generally will follow
iSa cool wave will cross the western
mountains about the Doth. the great con
trail valleys about the 2Sth aud the east
eru states about the Both Weather FOL.
lowing viii average cooler for the season
than &c did during the mouth of April
CHANGES OF OCEAN WATERS.
Biologists claim there are eighty or
more strata of coal laid down he the
cnrths surface, that in order that these
coal strata might be formed the waters
rose over the land and vegetable growth
eighty times and icll as often, leaving
these lands aud vegetation above the
waters a sufficient length Of time for
the accumulation Of vast vegetable for
cstS from which coal rs supposed To- have
been distilled The evidences aud urEu.
mrnts that have been brought ont hy
geDluUsts going to prove The of repeated
Huhnirrrcnvcs uf continents are No eA.
tpusivc aud exhaustive of the subject
dat We may safely take h for granted
that thpy have proven their point They
have made this point however IN order
10 account for the formation of coal
while | use II to prove that the earth
has often been subjected to great dclugrs
of which Nouhs Hood was the last
Nnnhs Hood wound up Che dplugc hus
ness hocuusc the fund of waters in the
upper deep ihc Jupiter like belts thnt
had Tor ten thousand years or more cu.
Vclopod the earth shutting out Che di.
rect light of The sun aud stars, had beou
exhausted
Tho question of delurcs d. of such
great interest that | must go deeper into
the subject ] may appear tn wander
away from the question us ] have for
twelve months past apparently dropped
ulc original question, thr urigin of coal
but my readers are assured chat the ar
pumeus ON coal lime, vegetation and
the influences of the moon aud other
bodies on vegetable life and the weather
win nl come Go the front again after the
geological aud other evidences Of thwr
influences have been thoroughly dis.
cusspd
Tho 1nods or dcldrcs must ncooasarily
have left thcir records iu what IA CHROME,
ously termed the olrtha crust and a.
know what these dcluFe7 werr Ne must
critically examine the records they have
loft Never changing law had something
20 do Ia bringing about q great dclugt
or Noul's food and thnt same law
causes the great duwupOurs and smaller
raiufhlls Of to-day. We must recognize
the fact that tho laws of nature arc
eternal and interchangeable aud thnt nll
forms of matter, animal, vegetable. min.
crnl, solids liquids and gases must con,
form 90 those laws.
The crust oi our earth that has been
gcol0gicnuy examined comprises about
Ten miles iu depth This Includes the
highest mountains and deepest oceans
Geology has been divided into five grand
divisions. The lower division supposed
TO be- the oldest and the upper the most
recent formations. ] doubt the correct.
ness Of this as 60 age. II is more rcu.
snuSble ~ my mind that conditions
have had more 10 do with these forinn-
ti0ns than the age in which they are SUP.
posed 10 have been formed and that
what IL now called The oldest aud that
which IN called The latest are now In
process 81 formation under conditions
that vastly dner.
The fossils are taken by geologists as
inflllihlc evidence Of the age of these
geologic formations. The green turtle
aud the gar-hsh are supposed 10 belong
To TIC very NlNfhA NfhlhklNAl AhiihNAihNNf
but We find them now Ia abundance aud
their romans or fossils might deceive
biologists as 10 the age Of geologic iorma
lions,
But la general way biologists are
correct and they lay down the cnrih's
formations in about this order. The
aZ0ic rocks at the bottom constituting
the foundation for AN geologic f0unn.
tons. Then the dlurian lime forma-
q 80 N..sH IA.
old red sandstone Then the carbon
strata on top of which the perman
ocean deposited it great load. Then
follows an age 81 stratihed rocks laid
down in successive oceans,
The peculiar features of these periods
are tho vast differences in the waters Of
their oceans ana the pertinent question
arises as 10 how these oceans 30 radical
ly changed tho nature of their walters.
The waters Of azOic time, which formed
the oldest known iOssls The eazO0n,
found in eastern Canada which waters
extended nl around the earth, differed
as much from HE siluriau ocean waters
as does our present 8nlt water from
the purest artesian well wh-pr. The
change from azOlc 10 silnriau WAS ms
abrupt. Tho Old forms Of life
were cut OF and the vast deposits Of
line rock prove that the new waters
that came "a che earth contained lime
as our presont sen water contains salt
From whence came those new wAtersf
biologists argue that the millipore, a
little sea- animal or insect, produced the
ime. Supreme Ignorance or stupidity
lust as we'll argue that the goat pro
iuces the mountain herbs and grasses
upon which he feeds The siluran max.
lesium lime must have been 10 the
waters Of lhe siluiian oceans or the mil.
lilpre never could have lived there.
The very fact shat these nov waters do.
slrOyed all pre-emshng sea animal life
argues thar the neW waters produced the
milliB0re Instead OF the latter producing
NE lime The millDore extracts lime
from lime waters aud deposits il lust as
he oyster extracts the lime from sea
waters 90 form rs she'll but the lime
must first be- 10 the waters
These great beds Of silurian mague-
.lun lime eItend all around the earth /
nd everywhere rest 0n the az0ic or Old. /
SO known formation. How came the I
earth 10 so suddenly and uniformly /
shange les waters II not from 4 hreak |
ne 10 Of the nner belts the aqueous i
,elts then surrounding the earth al Jupi. 1
ere watefy bolts now surrOuBd himg /
lme Is heavier than carbon and the
after would aoat longer ID the upper