Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-27
FOSTERS THEORY.
Some Fine Weather for December.
Cause Of Rainy and Drouth Years.
How tIs Conclusion that the sun fs Not
Burning MISS Is Reached The Universe
Built of Atoms By Electricity.

EARN = equator At tne same Slm tuSt
! the storm wave will be due on the Pa
cific coast, aud the storm will show its
greatest force there at that time, while
an extra storm wave will probably de-
velop in the Mississippi valley at the
same time. The regular storm wave
will be due TO leave the Pacific coast
about the 22d, cross the great middle
valley from the 23i TO the gath, and
reach the Atlantic coast about the 26th.
With this storm will end the severe No
vemUer Disturbances, and l expect some
very fine December weather. There
will De two quite severe storms in that
month, however, and the last one viii
inaugurate the f.f::-two DAYS rain Pc
Rod which last occurred about the 2Sih
of October
CAUSE OF DRoUTHs.
An esteemed friend near Fort Worth,
Tex, wants TO know the cause of the
extreme rainy and dronth years. l
know the cause, but the details are very
dlfficul, to calculate. When q
superior planet-those outside Of
the earth's orbits at pc
rihelion, its nearest approach to the
earth, the increased electrical tension
expends our atmosphere by cooperating
more of the earth waters. This causes
deeper atmosphere, which floats the
moisture to more elevated regions like
the Dskotas, leaving dry weather near
the sea level. When the planet is at
opheli0u-farthest from the earth--as
Jupiter has been for three years past, it
has the reverse influence, a shallow at
moSphere that will not hOnt the moisture
to elevated regions aud the heavy rains
fall pear the sea level as has been the
ease iii Texas for three wears, but there
are five of these planets. Mars passes
perihellon about once in twenty-three
months, Jupiter 10 twelve years, Saturn
twenty nine years and six month,
Uranus eightv-fou- and Levensr 100
years. They pass their aphelions half way
between their perihelions. Their intiu-
ences sometimes neutrnli2a each other.
The middle ground-Kausas and Colo-
rado-suffer from both extremes causing
drouih. Jupiter has influence equal
TO all the other planets When
the perihelion or aphelion of Jupiter and
Saturn occur ut the same time the effect
Is disastrous, but this can occur not Of
tener than once i'll thirty yeas. 1t oc-
Cured in 1869, and will occur again in
1899. Saturn was at aphelion in ls7O-l,
Jupiter in October 1856, Mars November
10, 1859. By long aud careful cairula-
tons the results from these Influences
may TO estimated. Another influence
must be taken into the account. When
the planets are south of the earth's
equator they pull the atmosphere south,
leaving il shallow north, and tho reverse
when they are north of the enrth's
equator. This may add to or detract
from The other influences mentioned.
The earth, Venus and Mercury have the
same influences 1T shorter intervals. Tho
moons pegree and nppogee have u like
Influence.
is THE sun BURNING MAssI
Several gentlemen of San Antonio,
Tex, have submitted u number of ques-
tons, which l will reply to rs space will
permit. Cue OF the questions is: How
do you reach the conclusion that the sun
s not burning massf' The laws Of
nature must be the same everywhere
and in all time, and the sun must have
come into existence by the same forces,
u the same manner and of the same
materials as did the earth, and there Is
no evidence that the earth WAS ever
burning mass. All evidences of heat in
the earth can be accounted for by vol
canic action, and volcanoes are caused
by burning gases. coal, etc. ignited by
the electric current that is known to
move from east TO west in what geolo-
pists call the crust of the earth. The
broad tops of the Andes mountains in
South America, under the equator where
the sun has its greatest power, are COW
cred with perpetual snow although they
are nearsnr the sun than are the valleys
below. If the sun is hot and the heat
comes TO us from it the snow OIL the
mountain would cit before it would in
the valley. Our atmosphere resists heat,
and heat coming from the sun would lose
Its force as il comes down through the
but We hnd that at the
equator when the sun is overhead the
heat is more than 100 degs. greater at
sea level than il is five miles above and
nearer to the sun. This proves that the
currents from the sun, resisted
by our atmosphere, are heated just as
are the electric currents when they pass
telegraph or other wire that is
q poor conductor. Electricity coming
from the sun would increase the heat in
passing through our atmosphere to the
earth, while heut would decrease in in
tensity from the time it reached the at
al sea level, therefore it cannot be heat,
and must be electricity. When we as
cend far up into the atmosphere the sun
loses its light and is not brighter than the
full moon al sea level; the heavens be-
come black instead of blue. The rota-
ton OF the earth causes deeper atmos-
phers at the equator than far from it,
and there the sun aud moon appear
brightest. We know that light, heat
and electricity are the same and that
when either loses its identity and Is dis
solved it changes TO the other two. We Gun
take the sunlight and change it to cleo
tricity and heat, then change the eiec-
iricits To light aud heat, and :hen the
heat back TO light and electricity. AS
We can make light-the electric light
from electricity, why is it not reasonable
That nature makes our heat and light |
from the sun 8 electricity? Space out
side of our atmosphere is intensely cold, |
and how can heat from the sun pass |
through 90 900 900 miles of space that Is |
1000 times colder than ice and still retain !
its heatG But electricity will pass
through cold or heat, aud it will make |
light and hea. Whenever the conditions |
are favorable. The light of the sun is |
not hot, as / will try TO prove when re- |
piy 10 .he OuPsfinnS of fhosa pantIeuao |