Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-10-12
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
PART THREE.


n
ing place for the waters that now
compose its oceans. No one will as
sumo that they could remain on or
within the body of the earth under
such conditions. II they had ever
been there they would have been
speedily elected into space on the ad-
vent of this igneous era; of course
first, as steam, then as vspor. II they
had not been here previously, their
coming must then be delayed until
this mighty furnace had exhausted
itself, burned itself out, and the cool
ing process commenced. They must
have formed part OF the earth's va
porous ring system.
But on the authority of @. P. @.
these rings were used to make the
moon out of; and he does not reserve
even a small part of them for any
other purpose but leaves us to sup
pose everything excepting the rem
nant of the earth was gobbled up as
building material. Against
this is the testimony of the astron-
omers that the moon has very little,
II any water, and IL any it is in the
form of ice and snow, or has been alb
sorbed into lite interior. The fact
that the earth has water, and has had
ever since the dawn of history may be
taken as fairly good evidence, how
ever, that fair Luna did not appropri-
ate unto herself all of Adams ale. 1t
must have come to earth in various
installments, in manner aforesaid,
obedient to memorable law, and that
largely in polar regions as previously
explained. As further proof of this
last statement we may mention that
of recent discoveries in high ATTITUDES.
We will Just mention two. Not long
since the body of large animal of
tropical description was found in a
melting iceberg, its mouth still filed
with what seemed to have been green
grass. Surely this poor creature must
have been suddenly surprised and
overwhelmed in downpour of waters
in the form of snow in such proper
tions as to have been in the most ter
rifying sense cataclysmic. And with
in week of this writing we are in
formed of the discovery of solidified
tropical fruit imbedded in coal in the
Spitzbergen islands. These things
were not borne to these northern
chimes from the lower ATTITUDES. The
general trend is the other way.
Query: How else can we account for
these things than that the earth was
once a greenhouse earth, enveloped
or nearly so, by vaporous canopy,
whose natural effect would be to diff
fuse old SoPs light and heat over it's
entire surface in nearly or quite equal
degrees? 1 submit it to the tribunal
Of unprejudiced thinkin minds.
We are informed by Q. P. @. that
some day Saturn and Jupiter will
| probably have more moons and no
rings. No doubt of it; but will these
tiny orbs take unto themselves all the
sparkling waters aud compel poor old
Jupiter, their noble primary and the
giant of our solar system, to go with
out? This, to me, is decidedly Gun
thinkable." That great orb will, by
it's tremendous attractive power,
surely pull part, and probably the
| greater part, of these waters, as we'll
the minerals now held in these rings,
back to itself for the benefit of the
teeming tribes of humanity that will
some day, cons hence, live on it. For
it nay be supposed that old Jupiter
will, in due time, perhaps millions of
years after our wee earth ship is a
wreck, be inhabited by race of hu-
manity adapted to it's own peculi. r
conditions and relative position in
the solar system. And so OF the.other
members of the solar family, only
with this restriction, zone at time,
please"
| Ahu 0Ou odlu, Lot UucT0 10 q LII =
mament in the midst of the waters -
Now the original idea of a firmamen mt
was an expansion, the expanse of
heaven; and by what possible para
dox could this erpdnse have been in
the midst of the waters, and have
divided the waters from the waters
except that part of these waters
we're out in the expanse? "And God
. divided the waters which
were under the armament from the
waters which were dboUe the firma-
ment," and as if to emphasize the
statement the writer adds "and it was
So" BY no amount of distortion or
jugglery of language or logic can the
waters under the armament be made
to signify anything but the waters
| which had alraaAv docooudad m O. rt \