Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-10
FROSTS
During the Month of October
Will Not Be General.
KILLING FROSTS IN NOVEM Der
The So-Caned Sunheat and Sunlight De-
yeIoped Solely in Our Own Atmos-
phere and Not in the sun
Itsef-Its Electricity.


veIoped Solely in Our Own Atmos-
phere and Not in the sun
Itself-Its Electricity.
Special TO the Gazette.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Oct 9-Frosts are i'm
portant weather events and the first FROST
in the fall and the last in the spring ar
quite difficult 10 forecast. No single fros
is sufficient to kill all tender Vegetabl
growths in the same latitude, and where th-
ground is very dry frosts are not apt Il
occur. A frost may kill all vegeta
ton in one shot and not touch any
thing a mile away. The cold wave
are generally of limited area. running to
point toward the southeast, and 1t is no
expected that a killing frost, predicted Il
reach as far south as the Both degree
would affect vegetation along the whole
line of that latitude. ] have calculated thai
the most importan. frost dates would be
about October 10th or 18th, 18th or 18th, ant
November I'd or Sd, and that the last datt
would entirely kill the cotton plant.
Clearing and cooler weather is expected
i'll the Rocky mountains on the 9th, the
central valleys on the 18th and the Eastern
due TO leave the Pacific coast about the 18th
cross the central valleys about the 14tf
and reach the Atlantic coast about the 10th
My last letter gave forecasts of the storm
wave due to cross the continent from 1tf
to 18th. and the next will be due TO leave
the Pacific coast about the 18th, cross the
great central valleys from 18th o 10Th anC
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 fortietn degree about one day after this
storm center has passed.
The fourth storm wave of the month will
be due to leave the Pacific coast about the
18th, cross the Central valleys from the
coast about the 23d. 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 Il vacuum as re-
CARDS matter OF gross nature such as we
find in our atmosphere. ana is penum full
of such matter as electricity. Touching
this subject and especially advocating the
electrical theory, | copy the following, read
by DR.. Henry Raymond Rogers before the
Chautauqua society of natural science at
Dunkirk, n. Y.
in the year ZOOS two great discoveries
We're made. two great inventions. The one
made Gallileo the brightest luminary III
the scientific armament, the other brought
no reward to Metius for his discovery and
no honOrs. These inventions were the
telescope and tine lens OF lee. The telescope
astonlshed science and caused the church 10
tremble for its dOgmas and il opened to the
view of man an intinity of worlds. The
little lens made of ice, then, as now, uncOm-
pretended. gave positive evidence of the
ta., II
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
SO 600, 900 miles, and this space is infinitely
cold and dark. The suns rays. as they
pass through this infinity of distance and
cold and darkness, are invisible. They
reach out from the sun to our atmosphere
without i'll 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 1S.0O0,0O0 deg. below zero.
The ice lens is able to gather these invisi-
BILE and inconceiyably cold sun-rays and
converge them to 4 focus, and thereby set
fire to combustibles. explode gun powder
and even ta.Inelt lead. II may not consist
emily pGeG1nGhed that actual heat can cross
thRA1l6space SO cold, or that actual light
l40sHetrateS such utter darkness. The ice
lens Of Metius. therefore, furnish Il 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 a something that i'll
ceSsantly 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 evidence
against the so-called fire ball theory of the
sun, which is to-day and ever has been the
theory accepted by science. The great sig
niticance 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 equaled by its contenl-
poraneous and more pretentious rival. the
is not 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
a 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 4 recent period and his
corroborated and emphasized
by DR.. Scoresby. who performed 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
principle must therefore necessarily come
from that body, that is capable OF transmit
tatiou 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 uy1
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
the present irrational, absurd
and .iacomprehensible theory of the sun
have remained a fossilized relic of