Show THE GLACIER VEL the theory that the deep risers of 0 tho the northland nort bland are duo due to the slow alow work of 0 glaciers grinding their irresistible way through the days and nights ot of the centuries Is a reasonable one the rold gold came from some scale place and the glacier has been till the only freight t line that on an extensive scale has be been n doing business in that region since the last that the old earth carth tipp tip ed in its axis we notice that this supposition lias has caused new specula speculations lions regarding gar g the call california cirrila placers and tit hie query I 1 Is put forth or it that they too may have been due to the grinding of immemorial glaciers it Is not a new theory prot prof J E clayton from the first instated insisted that there was no other reasonable explanation ot of their presence in california the doubt was front from wheelice alic nce they were brought because miluse the gold la quartz veins Is generally exceeding fine while nugget gold was often found in the placers maybe the far north will solve the mystery maybe the gold matrix of the continent tv will ill bo be discovered there still it la Is hardly probable for the same game glaciers that hewed their way very likely after carril carrelas car ng down the surface treasures deposited a great depth ot at soil where the sate safe zi had d been rifled certainly the flow of the glacier Is the most marvelous inar phenomenon on land what Is the exciting cause whence comes the irresistible and tireless energy what law governs the sublime kow flow it la Is like the flow of the gulf stream in the ocean that through the ages pushes its way up from the warm waters of the tropics cleaves its distinct path through the waters of the sea drives drive on and la Is finally lost beyond scotland abdnor and norway there are many theories to account tor for it but none ore are satisfactory when all are stated slated man has the same feeling we me take it that the a savage has when asked to account for the pulse in his big wrist it Is the same with the glacier the gulf cult stream or rather the air that rises from it molts melts the lee ice from frozen ships and sails malls and gives the everlasting green to the iha emerald isle but what guides its course what supplies its energy the glacier grinds down the mount mountain aln to tops ps and makes soil and nils flits that soil with treasures but what law guides its how flow from whence comes its everlasting vitality the marvel of the earth and that other marvel vel of 0 the sea ilow how on and man stands helpless to find tile laws which move and control them |