Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-30
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

our little solar system at least two
veloped by vaporous rings or canop-
les. Why this? Briefly, because the
body of each of these planets is now
or has been, at some past period of it's
existence, in an igneous condition.
Water is a product of fire, and that a
ball of fire the size of Jupiter or
Saturn should throw off water vapor
into surrounding space, and That these
vapors should assume the form, first
Of rings and eventually of canopies is
only the result of memorable law.
The fiery body of a planet, a Titan
furnace, vast and terrible beyond con-
ception, and it's vaporous envelope
are concomitant conditions, and, as
cause and effect must go together.
And these vapors must of necessity
contain not only water, but also every
thing found within the body of the
planet capable of liquefaction or dis
indignation by the continual action of
such inconceivable heat, including
iron, silver, gold and all the metals. In
obedience to the law of centrifugal
force they would take the form of
rings about the planets equator,
thousands, perhaps hundreds of
space, the thinner and lighter vapors
on the outside, the denser and heavier
ones on the inside, while the remain
ing ones would be graduated between
according to specific gravity, with
perhaps a greater or less number of
intermediate vacant spaces, the whole
ring, or system of rings, being thous-
ands of miles in thickness. This con-
dition, from the nature of things,
must continue millions of years.
In the economy of nature nothing is
perishable but all Things are change
able. Matter may disappear from one
place or condition only to assert itself
somewhere else. Well, when these
vapor rings begin to disappear from
the skies where are they going to?
Like our own bodies, to the earth from
whence they came. In the lapse of
years innumerable everything COM
been consumed, the fire will have ex-
hausted itself and the cooling process
will commence.
What then? AS the gigantic orb be-
gins 10 cool off its vaporous rings be-
gin to settle. The cooling of the orb
is necessarily slow, the falling of Its
rings is slower. For all the while the
red hot orb is rotating on its axis and
the surrounding rings partake of the
same notion; hence their downward
motion is checked AM they are held
in outer space for an in
calcula ole length of time by the OPP
posing force of centrifugal force. But
the stupendous force which produced
these vaperous rings and sent them
on their upward march is removed
and now they commence their home
return. Centrifugal force impedes
their downward march but the law of
gravitation has hold on them and
they must come back to earth. Their
return, however, must be done dec
emily and in order" ami they must
follow uno route laid out by natures
laws.
It is evident that the centrifugal
force of a revolving planet is greatest
at the equator and it becomes grad
ually less as we r1ac1 the poles where
it is absolutely nothing. 1t is easy to
be seen, then, that these equatorial
rings would, in the course
of their downwad marca, begin to
spread, or f4tten out each way toward
the poles, and so continue until they
reached the planets polar region,
about its body. And now and |
anon, these canopies, when the proper
obtain fall to the surface of |
the planet, causing deluges, the |
heavier portions-metals ETC., being in |
larger proportion in the first dc Wnfalls |
and falling largely in polar regions.
Note the present gold discoveries in |
Alaskan We might as we'll state
right here that all planets, including
Earth, have been, are now, or will
some time be in just such condition as
s. Jupiter to day. 1t is conceded that
Earth was once in molten condition.
By just so much certainty as this is
rue, by just the same certainty it has
lad, first it's rings, then its canopies
md it's cataclysmic downfalIs, its de-
uges.-W. K. A. albany, Vt.
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