The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-09-27
GREAT STORMS COMING.
THE SEER OF ST. 10 PREDICTS WILD
WEATHER FOR OCTOBER.
Heavy Frosts VIII Follow the Storms
and the Winter Will BE Severe
one-The Theory On Which Professor
Foster Bases His Predictions.

roster tBASBS His Predictions.
Special TO THE SUNDAY HERALD
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Sept. 26.-A remarkable
period of great storms will occur during the
first half Of October that will be surpassed
only by those that will occur in March, 1892
There will be three storm waves during this
storm period, which will cross the Continent
from west to east along the usual storm CEN
tire routes. The first of these storm waves
will be most severe In the Mississippi Valley,
and the last one on the Atlantic Coast The
first of these storm waves will be due to leave
the Pacific Coast about September 80, cross
the Rocky-Allegheny Valley from October
to g. and reach the Atlantic Coast about the
4th. On the I'd this storm wave will be cross
ing the Mississippi River not far from St.
Louis, and will then be of very considerable
force in Illinois and Missouri. Accompany
ing this storm wave may be expected torna-
does, clouSbursts, hail, and severe gales, and
within one or two days following it killing
frosts will visit most localities north of lati-
tude So, with strong probability of frosts
much further south. Hurricanes will develop
great force on the North Atlantic at this
time, but cannot give their exact location,
but they will probably be not far east of the
West Indies These hurricanes will become
very fierce along the Atlantic Coast from 1st
to 18th OF October. These October storms will
indicate what the coming winter will be. I
expect very great storms from the first of
October to the last of March, and if this
period of storms covering the first half of
October proves to be of more than usual
force it will Indicate that I have not miscal-
culated the weather, and we may then con-
fdently expect a very cold, severe, and
stormy winter, setting in quite early. Saturn
will pass its equinox the last of October, and
to that influence attribute the great increase
OF storms since the middle of last May.
SCIENCE AND WEATHER NOTES
Twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle
declared there 10 bat one single universal
force and that declaration entities him To be
called the father Of sciehce.i But the Dark
Ages came and crushed that truth to earth to
rise again in the last years of the nineteenth
century When the clouds of the Dark Ages
began to clear away great mind declared
half truth IN the nebu,ar theory of creation,
which for more Than century has been taken
as the basis OF astronomy, geology, and
meteorolgy. This Debular theory like the
Ptolemac theory of astronomy is recurring of
our astronomers, geologists, and meteorolo-
glsts constant inventions to make the nebular
hypothesis and It's consequent heat theory of
force hold together, and these invented
theories are becoming SO numerous that the
ISDuIaI LucOIt rs LObltIllg To lIS Iall. or the
salvation OF science il is just as necessary to
return to the unity OF force, as announced by
Aristotle, as il was TO Christianity that Paul
should establish the unity OF spiritual force in
the truth Of one God, The nebular theory
stands to scientific truth in about the same
relation that the theory of a million gods did
to true religion in tne days of Christ. If we
go back to the ruth Of one universal force we
not only lift science from the mire, but we do
for the scientific world that which the doc
trine Of one God did for the religious world
Prosessor William, II. Preece. Londons
leading electrician, declares that "Aii physi-
ca! phenomena, without single exception,
may be traced 10 the mere transformation OF
electrical energy" That is reassertlon of
the great ArstOtelean truth and is in harmony
with my views as to the physical forces. There
is but one physical force and that force is
electricity, or matter in motion. Its origin is
found in the condensations of the diffused
matter of space. AS this ether of space CON
denses into the solid bodies, as the meteors,
comets, asteroids, moons, suns, and the
clusters OF stars it is, by these condensations,
caused to converge toward these common
centres in straight lines and after moving
through them and deposting its grosser ma
terials, radiates to OlRer bodies gathering
more matter III space. This movement of
that which has been called the ether of space
constitutes ali there is of electricity and of
force, and is the basis Of my meteorological
theories Electricity is the universal force,
10 IhO VI ils5uli Atdls LudSn6Jlsul, aLLrac-
ton, repulsiop, gravltation, earthquakes, the
high and low barometers, heat in the earth,
volcanoes and is the life principle of the veg
etable and animal kingdoms. 1t moves the
atmosphere, lifts the moisture, and is the force
of the tornado. Every heavenly body, from
meteors to the suns, have grown from atoms
by condensations. Suns and planets are
caused to reVolVe on their axis by the electri-
cal force we see in the natural magnet and
planets and satellites reyolye around their
primaries because of the elements that sur
round and revolye with the latter. The sun is
not and the earth never was a hot body;
neither light nor heat comes from the sun but
are effects Of electrical radistions; the planets,
satellites, and asteroids entered our solar sys-
TEN as comets and each will continue to grow
by accumulations from the ether of space
electrcity-till it becomes sun and the cen
tire of a solar system. The earths diameter
at its equator is greater than at its poles be-
cause of vegetable and coral growths. Coal
is not of vegetable origin. The moon is not q
dead world
All storms are whirlwinds, and north of
latitude 30 they move entirely around the
earth-neYer die, and they increase and de-
decrease in force by reason Of the position Of
the sun, moon, and planets. The high and
low barometers constitute electric pairs, and
the currents OF electricity that rise in the
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