Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-04
THE WEATHER FOSTER.
4 Pleasant December and Ailder
Winter than Average Predicted.
a Fierce Storm 10. the Early Part OF Decem-
ber-His Light Heat and Electricity
Theory Explained.
Srecialto the Gazette.

cFec!aI 10 tEe Nazette.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-. Nov. 2s.-My pre-
dictions of pleasant weather after the
November northwestern snow storm and
tlzzard were fully verified and with the
exception of two sharp storms with &C.
companying cold waves and two or three
lighter disturbances, l expect very
pleasant December, followed by q winter
of very much less severity than the aver
age. 1 have been making calculations
of next years crop weather and find
that the rainfall will reach more elevated
regions, and therefore countries like
Texas, near the sea level, will have
much less rain while elevated countries
like the Dakotas will have au increase OF
rain This Will be favorable to West
eru Kansas and Nebraska, Northwestern
Texas, Southeastern Colorado and
more even distribution in the Atlantic
states. 1t should be remembered that
the high and low barometers of the storm
move eastward near each other, the for
mer gathering up the moisture from
great bodies of water and ii is the depth
of the tide in the atmosphere that causes
the moisture to condeuse into rain near
the sea level or enables it to float inland
to higher elevations. AS jupiter nears
the sun and earth-at its perihelion-the
atmosphere deepens and the rains move
inland. As these tides reach their ex-
tretnes of low and high Western Kansas
and Nebraska and similar lands midway
between the high and low lands have
their dry years.
COMING STORM WAVES.
Aotn 1t,n 60 fIaD On
ciic coast about the 2Sth, cross the Mis-
sissippi valley from goth to December l
and reach the Atlantic about the I'd.
But the notable storm Of the immediate
future will be that due to leave the Pa
citic coast about the 4th of December,
cross the great middle valley from 9Th
to eth and reach the Atlantic coast about
the Sth. This will be very fierce storm
and will be accompanied by q great va
riety of weather. As II moves Eastward
II will probably pass through the middle
part of the United States, and north of
il will occur snow storms aud bliZZnr(ls,
with heavy rains in the Southern states.
Very cold weather will occur in the ex-
IRENE Northwest.
number of letters have reached me
recently iuquiring about my theory in
reference to
LIGHT HEAT AND ELECTRICITY.
If there were any light outside of the
atmospheres that surround the stars and
planets, we could not see them, because
space would be As bright as they are. 1t
is only because they are surrounded by
total darkness that we are able to see
them. Light heat and electricity are in
:prchangeable. Paint an iron rail jet
black, let the sun SHINE on it, and it will
generate enough electricity TO turn q
light electric motor Paint the iron rail
white, and it will not produce electricity.
The black rail will heat, the white one
will not. Place two cotton kerchiefs,
one white, the other black, on the snow,
the black one will melt into the snow,
the white one will not. The white re-
fleets the sunlight, throws il of into
space, the black one will not, and con-
sequently it changes into heat and cleo
tricity. This electricity may be changed
back to light through the Edison electric
lamp. So with sunlight. When IL
leaves the elements that surround the
sun, it meets with elements through
which 1t cannot pass as light, changes to
electricity, in which form il passes
through space. Reaching the atInos-
phtre IL Is again light.
tricity, occurs when the planets are In
position to cause greatest electric actIv-
ity, and is evidence that our earth Is
growing into the condition of p sun.
Astronomers say both Jupiter and Sat-
urn, to some extent, shine Of their own
light. The electricity from the dark
side of our earth causes our moon TO give
off faint light when the moon is eclipsed
aud IN the shadow of our eurth, other
wife We could not see it. Saturn hes
eight moons moving around IL, and they
are 10 some extent planets belonging TO
Saturn as their sun, as our eight princi-
pal planets belong to our sun. My theory
is that all these began existence by the
bringing together of two or more atoms
through the agency of that al!-pervadiug
force, electricity, which is the motive
power of the univere, the builder OF
everything, the principle OF life that has
puzzled US so much TO understand. Light
cannot exist away from condensed mat
ter, US the gases, liquids and solids and
in accord with the principles illustrated
in the above experiments sunlight inme-
Giately changes to electricity on leaving
the elements that surround the sun and
passes through dark space rs electricity.
Our atmosphere is a poor conductor of
electricity, ana rs does the platinum
wire, il heats when the electricity en-
deavoTs to PASS through 1t, and
the electricity changes TO light
aud heat. When the light reaches
the earth /. is again Distracted and
changes to electricity and heat in the
surface of the earth. After circulating
through our earth the electricity not
condensed into matter passes off again
into space. The condensing of electricity
into a more solid form of matter is the
starting point of motion aud force. This
cond eusation keeps up the motion of the
ether of space. w. 7. FOSTER.