The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-09-07
The Great GuesSer.
vennor Explains the Theory Of his Weather
Predictions.

Prof. H. G. VenDor is stopping at
the Hotel Brunswick, New York, and
Of course has been interviewed. He
explains bis system as being based
upon the results of observation, and
the comparison of cause with cause,
effect with effect, season with season.
lie says What I do and have done
is the result of persistent study and
directing others labors. I discovered
one fact, and proving it to be fact
beyond question or dispute, | have
5uilded upon it, and built safely, I
think. What was that discovery ?
Just this: that seasons and years re-
cur in couplets and triads. Rules
applicable to the first season or year of
couplet are equally applicable to the
second season or year of that couplet,
and precisely so in the triads. Such
is.the main superstructure of my work.
But I soon found that the system was
not bound down to mere generality,
embracing only season or year in its
entirety. Experiment evidenced that
the same calculations could be made
for a month, and that, too, with an
ezactness that at first appeared to be
surprising. And I pursued my work
still further, until now I do not hest
tate to bring my calculations within a
week. Yes, l have been able to des-
iguate particular days. That is usually
ny rule in the text of my predictions.
But the public should understand that,
except in special cases, never risk
every thing upon any single twenty
four hours. I have not yet reached
that point in my system, although
there is no telling what will be accom-
plished in the near future. My ex-
perience long ago impressed me with
the force of the recurrence of periods
of similar weather, and to my per-
sonal experience I have added the au-
thentic records of three quarters of
century. Those records cover Canada
and the United States. They are prac-
tically complete, and they uphold my
theories. Upon them, in fact, TO no
small extent, do I depend for every
thing. Sometimes I am bothered by
my inability to decide whether I
have entered a couplet or triad of sea-
sous, and until that matter is settled
I AM all at sea, and quite as likely
to be wrong as right. Now, an in
stance of that was the winter of 1880,
when, you will remember, I declined
to say anything positively. I vas in
doubt upon many phases Of the then
recurring weather, and was unwilling
to make any forecast You will bear
10 mind the circumstances. There
was the strangest of weather. But
the instances in which I have been
obliged to forego my predictions are
wonderfully few. Such a miss is not
possible once in thousand times
He thinks that the United States
Signal officers have been ungeuerous
in recent structures of his system. and
says: early in July I saw indica-
tions of the heralded storm for this
section of the Atlsntic. The dates fixed
upon By me for the probable arrival
of this disturbance were August 26
and q, and to-day observe the sig
nal Offices are giving warning of the
same, but IN very indefinite and
wavering dispatch. My opinion is
that the storm will reach this vicinity
on the afternoon of Saturday, the
9th, or Sunday morning, the 2Sth,
or not at all, and will usher iD
change to very much cooler (aloug
the coast to colder) weather.