Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-15
FROSTS
During the Month Of October
Will Not Be General.
KILLING FROSTS IN N0VEM Der
The So-CaIled Sunheat and Sunlight De-
veloped Solely in Our Own Atmos-
phere and Not in the Sun
Itsclf-Its Electricity.
Special to the Gazette.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Oct. 9.-Frosts are i'm.
portant weather events and the first frosts
in the fall and the last in the spring are
quite difficult to forecast No single frost
is sufficient to kill all tender vegetable
growths in the same latitude, and whore the
ground is very dry frosts are not apt TO
occur. A frost may kill all vegeta-
ton in one shot and not touch any
thing mile away. The cold waves
are generally of limited area, running to a
point toward the southeast, and it is not
expected that killing frost, predicted to
reach as far south as the Seth degree,
would affect vegetation along the whole
line of that latitude. l have calculated that
kthe most importan: frost dates would be
about October 10th OF 18th, 18th or 18th, and
November 81 or Sd, and that the last date
would entirely kill the cotton plant
Clearing and cooler weather is expected
in the Rocky mountains on the 9th, the
central valleys on the 18th and the Eastern
coast on the 18th A warm wave will be
due to leave the Pacific coast about the 18th,
cross the central valleys about the 18th
and reach the Atlantic coast about the 10th.
My last letter gave forecasts of the storm
wave due to cross the continent from eth
to 18th. and the next will be due to leave
the Pacific coast about the 18th, cross the
great central valleys from 14th o 10th and
reach the Atlantic coast about the 18th.
The center of the low barometer of this
storm-wave will probably cross the Missis-
sippi river about or north of st. Louis. and
will develop its greatest force east Of the
river Sharp frosts may be expected along
the fortieth degree about one day after this
storm center has passed.
The fourth storm wave of the month will
he due to leave the Pacific coast about the
18Th, cross the Central valleys from the
goth to the 22d and reach the Atlantic
coast about the ODD A cool wave will cross
the Rockies about the 18th, the Central
valleys about the nth and reach the Allan
tic coast about the 10Th.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES.
/ hold that outer space is a vacuum as re-
CARDS matter of Il gross nature such as we
find in our atmosphere. ara is a plenum full
OF such matter as electricity. Touching
this subject and especially advocating the
electrical theory, l copy the following, read
by DIR. Henry Raymond Rogers before the
Chautauqua society of natural science at
Dunkirk, n. Y.
I'm the year 1908 two great discoveries
were made, two great inventions. The one
made Galiileo the brightest luminary in
the scientific armament, the other brought
no reward to Metius for his discovery and
no honOrs. These inventions were the
telescope and the lens of ice. The telescope
aStonished science and caused the church to
tremble for its dogmas. and it opened to the
view of man an infnity of worlds. The
little lens made of ice, then, as now, uncom-
pretended. gave positive evidence of the
fallacy of the accepted coSmical philosophy.
In this fact is found its true significance to-
day.
THAT we may understand its teachings
we must study its operations in the field of
the rays of the sun. For example, the sun
and earth are separated BY the distance of
93 00O, 900 miles, and this space is infinitely
COL n E.,rL-
pass through this infnity OF distance and
cold and darkness, are invisible. They
reach out from the sun to our atmosphere
without in the slightest manner revealing
their presence. They contain neither
warmth nor light. In fact, the tempera-
ture of universal outer space is estimated
by Secchi at 100000 deg. below zero
The ice lens is able to gather these invisi-
bic and inconceivably cold sun-rays and
converge them to focus, and thereby set
fire to combuStibleS, explode gun-powder
and even to melt lead. 1t may not consist
entity be claimed that actual heat can cross
the void space so cold, or that actual light
penetrateS such utter darkness. The ice
lens of Metius, therefore, furnish a practi-
cal demonstration of the fact that the sun
need not be actually hot in order to warm
the earth. and that it need not be bright in
order to supply its light. 1t most forcibly
teaches that there is Il something that in
iessantly comes from the sun which is not
Itself heat or light, but of which these are
the direct effects. The legitimate infer
ence from these teachings is that the So
called sunheat and sunlight are developed
solely in our own atmosphere and not in the
sun itself, as science and superficial ap-
pearances have ever led Us to believe.
1.-THE little ice lens therefore furnishes con-
elusive and even incontrovertible evi renee
against the so-called fre-ball theory of the
sun, which is to-day and ever has been the
theory accepted by science. The great sig
nificance and power of this wonderful in
vention lies, therefore, in the fact that if
this evidence were accepted at its real
value it would, alone and unaided by cor
roborative facts. compel new explanation
of the sun and its phenomena, and would
thus change the existing philosophy of the
universe.
Judged by the foregoing statements of
facts the little ice lens of Metius gives cos
mical results not equalei by its contem-
poraneous and more pretentious rival, the
telescope. The comparison carried farther
iS-hot more favorable to the telescope. The
astronomers of Mount Hamilton tell US as
a result of the operations of the new in
strument: There is no object in the
heavens which we must not observe as if
viewed for the first time. 1t has opened up
new vista of creation In other words,
the marvellous instrument of the Lick OBJ
servatory has already revealed the fact that
the reading of the telescope of the past, or
the unwarranted assumptions of its inter-
prefers, has been misleading, and that
science must change front in this field.
The teaching of the simple, unpretentious
lens, quite to the contrary, knows no
change, admits OF neither doubt nor ques-
ton. The experiments of Metius have
been repeated at recent period and his
conclusions corroborated and emphasized
by DR.. Scoresby. who performer his expe-
riments in the Nrothern regions where the
temperature of the surrounding atmos-
phere stood far below zero.
If heat and light cannot come as such
from the sun to the earth some invisible
must therefore necessarily come
from that body, that is capable of transmit
tation through the medium of our atmos-
phere. As only electricity meets all nee
essary requirements this must therefore be
the agent sought for. Mr.. Tyndall tells us
that common electrical rays sent through
lens of ice produce the same results as those
from the sun.
Finally, if the foregoing positive and
legitimate teachings of the ice lens had been
duly needed at the time of its discovery and
applied in explanation of sun
phenomena. the present irrational, absurd
and incomprehensible theory of the sun
would have remained fossilized relic of
the misty past and consequently the philos-
ophy of to-day, in every metaphysical,
and moral-would have been
in advance of its present status"
w. T. Foster.