Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — WEATHER FORECASTS. [ARTICLE]

WEATHER FORECASTS.

WHAT PROPHET FOSTER HAS TO SAY. A Storm of Considerable Energy In the Upper Missouri Valley About the 18th— Drouth Conditions to Continue la Parts of the South. 'Meteorological Matters. My last bulletin gave forecasts of the storm wave due to cross the continent from 11th to 15th, and the next will reach the Pacific coast about the 16th, cross the Western mountains by the close of the 17th, the great central valleys from 18th to 20th, and the Eastern States about the 21st. This storm will bo at its greatest energy in the Upper Missouri Valley about tho 17th and ltrth. A wave of cooler and more pleasant weather, moving eastward, will cross tho Western mountains about the 19th, the great central valleys about the 21st, and the Eastern States about the 23d, Drouth conditions in largo localities will continue in,, many parts of the Southern Statute,‘while in Northern sections and iri '-fibiintries of more thin 2,000 feet elevation, the weather will be more seasonable. j Unususlly severe hurricanes may be expected in West Indies and on the Gulf of MexicOyduring July and August, and while these hurricanes are on the Gulf we may expect sudden cool periods in the Northwestern States. Local Forecasts. Weather changes move from west to east across the continent, and eaoh local forecast is made for within 250; miles east and west of the magnetic meridian mentioned, and for all the country between 25 and 60 degrees of north latitude. These local weather changes will occur within twenty-four hours before or after sunset of the dates given: SANTA FE, DENVER, AND BLACK HILLS MERIDIAN. July 17 —Warmer. July 18—Storm wave on this meridian. July 19—Wind changing. July 20—Cooler and clearing. July 21—Fair and cool. July 22—Moderating. July 23—Warmer. GALVESTON, KANSAS CITY AND MINNEAPOLIS MERIDIAN. July 17—Moderating. July 18—Warmer. July 19—Storm wave on this meridian. July 20—Wind changing. July 21—Cooler and clearing. July 22—Fair and cool. July 23—Moderating. ATLANTA, CINCINNATI AND LANSING MERIDIAN. July 17 —Fair and cool. July 18—Moderating. July 19 —Warmer. July 20—Storm wave on this meridian. July 21—Wind changing. July 22—Cooler and clearing.* July 23—Fair and cool. Coal anti Ca b >n Notes. In order to form a 25 .to 50 foot coal vein from vegetation would require 200 to 400 feet of fallen vegetable decay. The vegetation from which geologists declare coal is derived grows in swamps where there is an abundance of water, but not sufficient to cover the vegetation entirely while it is growing. Therefore, in order to produce even 210 feet of the coal-forming vegetation, the suriace of the swamp water would necessarily have to gradually rise ut least fifty feet, as the vegetable decay would accumulate, otherwise the vegetation would soon be high and dry above the water, where it would not grow. It would not do to say that this vegetation began to grow and accumulate at the bottom of a lake fifty feet deep, gradually filling up the lake with the vegetable remains, for that class of vegetation will not grow in such a lake. Geologists say that hard coal is formed of soft coal by volcanic heat and great pressure. In this they are prolably correct. Then the hard coal is formed by the heat and pressure driving off the water and the lighter oils of the soft coal. In that case all the dirt, the incombustibles, the gravel, rock, pyrites of iron, etc., would remain in the hard coal and we would have a greater proportion to the ton of this dirt in hard than in soft coal. But every person who has used hard and soft coal knows that the proportion of ash or dirt in the hard coal is not more than one-half what it is in soft coal. This is positive evidence, irrefutable, that instead of coal being formed of vegetation in a swamp it fell as cosmical dust. The heavier forms would settle quickly in deep water, and therefore we have the hard coal with but little ash or dirt in it. The lighter forms would float longer, settle slower, reach the shallow waters near the shore, and contain more dirt than the anthracite or hard coal. When our coal beds were deposited the Mississippi Valley was the shallow part of (he seas, as the south end of Baffin’s Bay now is the shallow part and near the shores, and the region of New York and Pennsylvania hard coal was in the deep sea. On this line of thought nothing but harmony is found, while on the vegetable line of coal formations all is chaos. Almost universally fire-clay is found under beds of coal, and instead of it benig a vegetable producing clay, it, as a rule, fell on vegetable growth, smothering and killing it. In northern latitudes this clay is found under great masses of carbonite, the two deposits being in and covered with great masses of solid glacier ioe, witn not a particle of evidence that any vegetation evei existed there. There are no abraded mountains near these deposits from which they could have been carried.by water. Prof. Vail says that this fire-clay under a carbonite deposit is found between massive beds of glacier ice, and being a geologist he declares that his brother geologists are utterly confounded as to where this clay and carbon came from. The only reasonable inference is that this fire-clay and carbon fell as the snow and was deposited on the glacier ice. This will be further discussed hereafter. Sulphur and pyrites of iron are found in coal in large quantities. The iron is no, always between strata of ooal, but is often found running in various directions through the coal veins. Did vegetation produce these iron pyrites also? They are formed by a union of sulphur and iron, and which, both being minerals, must have had the same common origin as the other minerals of the earth. - Astronomers say that in the nebulous era of the earth there was a coming together of matter from space, and iron, sulphur, silver, gold, carbon and other minerals and metals must have been among the original materials that compose the earth. If this sulphur and pyrites of iron necessarily were original materials, how came they in the coal if the latter was formed of vegetation? Astronomers are no doubt correct as to the matter of the earth being condensations from space, but they are probably in error as to the matter having fallen together suddenly, and it is more reasonable that the carbon, sulphur and iron fell to the earth together in later geological ages, and this I will endeavor to prove. Copyrighted lm, by W. T. Foster.