The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-01-12
J: CONTROLLING THE WEATHER.
Dr. Wooifoik Tells How j: CT n DO Made 20
Order and Furnished In ANY Ounntitv.

DIR. Voolfolk, of DanvilIe.- or,un;ed
the rostrum last night at the Polvtecbnic
Society, and the usually large audience
was in attendance at an early hour. The
eubject of tho lecture, "The Control of
the Weather." In itself an attractive ono
was treated in manner that ken. the
hearers in wrapped attention throughout.
The lecturer was introduced by the Rev.
Dr. Broadus, and hearty vote of tbanka
passed by the audience at its concluaion
Ihe lecture was illustrated by brilIiaBt
end interesting charts, showing the cor
rectness of the authors views. Alto.
gether the subject gained many follow.
ere, and will no doubt, at some future
date, attract the notice Of our Govern.
ment, which is the object Of DR.. Wool.
folks lecturing. The following is the
substance of the argument:
lie showed that cannon firing causes n
vortex over the area of gunpowder ex.
ploslon, through which the polar current
VIII Pt''ays break It's track, attended
WIN storms or rain In summer and snow
in winter, followed by severe cold. He
further set forth that the polar current
may be thus confined to one track bv
cannonades, while everywhere around
the globe the tropical current Aoya
northward upon the surface of the earth.
maintaining mild temperature through
| out winter.
many facts were cited proving the
correctness of this theory. The Winter
OF the siege of Sebastopol was exceed.
| ingly severe in Europe and as mild m
summer in America. The winter of
| 1868, during the cannon firing Of
Chicamauga, Knoxville and Missionary
Ridge, was extremely cold in America
| ana warm as summer in Europe. The
winter of the Franco. Prnssian war
Gle70.I) was remarkably severe in
Europe and exceedingly mild in Ameri.
ca. The winter of the Carliat war in
Spain (l875.6) was severe In Europe and
warm In America.
Inc weather phenomena of the Russo.
1urkisa war bear out the theory in q
remarkable manner. The polar current
was kept continually flowing over the
area or the cannon firing in Turkey and
Armeola, attended With immense pre-.
cipitation. The Danube was kept
swollen with rains for months. the
Tigris overaowed its banks-a phenone.
non that has not occurred before in the
memory of man. While Eastern Europe
and Western Asia were thus deiuged
with rains, the season was unusually dry
in America. where the trop- cal current
constantly flowed due north toward the
polar area 70 take the place Of the polar
air which was kept constantly flowinr
aouthward over the area Of capnonades'
In this tropical current local yortices
formed, giving local showers, but the
season was unusually dry in America.
During the fall months heavy snov
fell in Turkey and America, showing the
presence K the polar current over the
area of combat. Even in September
two feet of enow was reported In The
Balkan range. While the track of the
polar current was still kept oper in Eas.
tern Europe the tropical current was
constantly flowing northward over The
United States. maintaining mild tenn.
perature TIL tho end of December. The
weather in december was warmer than
the average temperature in the month of
May. Except during two days of mod.
crate cold, the tropical current flowed
steadily from the south maintaining q
mild, general Temperature ne:st:;;;re during tiiaau.
tire fall and the first winter mouth.
ny comparing the weather charts with
the telegrams of cannonades tho effect
of cannon firing on the weather may be
readily perceived. A csnnonads was
uniformly follo1ed by an Eruption of
the polar current over the area of com.
bat, while compensating flow of the
| tropical current northward into the polar
area occurred in America. While tha
tropical fluid is flowing freely northward
we have warm, sunny weather, which
has usually lasted about week. Then
the currents become obstructed and
cloudy weather, with rain, follows: then
another flow of the tropical current.
with clear, sunny weather, or, If no bat
tie occurs, the currents continue their
CONFLICT. with warn, cloudy weather ut
tirst, followed by the usual alterations
Of winter weather.
The great battle in which tho Spanish
Carlists were finally overthrown was
fought on Saturday In March. 1876.
Fow two weeks before, the weather in
America had been severe. But on that
Saturday night the tropical current be.
gan to sweep northward at the rate of
| thirty miles an hour, and the weather
became at once warm as spring in the
latitude of the lake,; and simultaneous.
~ the polar current swept south across
England and Spain, causing extremely
severe cold.
Not to enumerate other instances, the
great battle at the fall of Pleyna was
followed by an eruption of the polar
| current over the scene of strife, and q
| flow OF the tropical current over the
United States, giving us week of clear,
warm spring.
regard my theory now as practically
/ demonstrated. The atmospheric cur
rents of the globe move with the regu-
larity of grand machine, all mutually
inter.ccnnected and responsive through
out the globe TO the force of single
local cause. BY cannonades maintained
| upon the westernmost Of the AIentien
islands the track of the polar current
may be kept open in the Pacific ocean
during the entire winter, and the tropi.
cal current will bathe all the continents
of the northern hemisphere il warm
| breeZea from the trnnica .,.;.s.:..:=-
bright, sunny summer weather all win.
ter. Grass will grow in winter and
flowers will bloom as in the month 6f
May. Shows will disappear from British
| America; Greenland viii once moro de-
serve the name bestowed upon it by the
Morse dis~overers Of the Tenth century;
and Siber : no longer covered with snow,
will once moro possess the sane balmy
climate as Of old, when the mammoth
roamed her forests. The grand delta
regions around the frigid zone VIII: be
rendered habitable, and the Arctic ocean,
freed from ice, will become the great
highway of the worlds commerce. The
rainless regions of Asia and America
will be no longer desert, but will be fer
tile as in the olden timo when they
teemed with population.
This blessing may be secured to the