Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-27
FOSTERS WEATHER.
Heavy Storms Predicted for
the Early Part of October.
BUT GREAT ONES IN MARCH, 'e2
Cloudbursts, Windstorms and Frost Down
on tho Programme - Interesting
Scientific Informa:ion-About
the Earth.
Special 70 the Gazette.

| Special to the Gazette.
| ST. JosFPH, Mo. Sept % "A remarkable
| period Of great storms VIII occur during
! the first half of October that will be sur
| passed only by those that will occur N
| March. 1892. There will be three storm
waves during this storm period which VIII
| cross the continent from west To east along
! the usual storm center routes. The first OF
| these storm waves will be most severe III
| the Mississippi valley, and the last one Ola
! the Atlantic coast. The first of these
! storm waves will be due to leave the Pacific
| coast about September go cross the Rocky
| Allegheny valley from October l to and
| reach the Atlantic coast about the 4th. On
! the2d this storm wave VIII be crossing the
! Mississippi river not far from St Louis,
! and will then be of very considerable force
| i'll Illinois and Missouri. Accompanying
| this storm wave may be expected lorna
| does. cloudbursts, hail and severe gales,
| and within one or two days following II
| killing frosts will visit most localities north
| of latitude ", with 4 strong probability of
! frosts much further South. Hurricanes
| viii develop great force On the North AT
! lantic at this time but cannot give their
| exact location. but they Will probably be
! not far east of the West Indies. These hur-
| ricanes will become very fierce along the
! Atlantic coast from LIST TO 18th OF October
| These October storms will indicate what
| the coming winter will be. | expect very
| great storms from the lst of October to the
| last of March. and if this period of storms
| covering the first half of October proves 10
| be of more than usual force it will indicate
| that | have not niiscalculated the weather,
| and We may then confidently expect very
| cold. severe and stormy winter setting i'll
| quite early. Saturn will pass its equinox
| the last of October, and to that influence 1
! attribute the great increase of storms since
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| SCIENCE AND WEATHER NOTES.
| Twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle
| declared there is but one single universal
| force. and that declaration entities him TO
| be called the father OF science. But the
! dark ages came and crushed that truth 10
| earth to rise again in the last years of the
| Nineteenth century. When the clouds OF
| the dark ages began to clear away, q great
mind declared 4 half truth in the nebular
| theory of creation, which, for more than u
| century, has been taken as the basis of as
| tronomy, geology and meteorology. This
| nebular theory, like the Ptolemaic theory nf
| astronomy, is requiring of our astronomers,
biologists and meteorOlogists constant in
| ventions to make the nebular hypothesis and
! its consequent heat theory of force hold
| together, and these invented theories are
becoming so numerous that the nebular
| theory is tottering TO its fail. For the sal
walton of science ii is just as necessary to re-
| turn to the unity of force, as announced by
| Aristotle, as it 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 mill
| ion gods did to true religion in the days Of
| Christ. II we go back TO the truth of one
| universal force, we not only lift sciences
| from the mire, but we do for the scientific
| world that which the doctrine of one God
| die; for the religious world.
Professor William Fl. Preece. London's
| leading electrician, declares that, ''An
physical phenomena, without a single eI-
| ception, may be traced to the mere trans
| formation Of electrical energy" That is
| reasserton of the great Aristotelean 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 mat
| ter in motion. Its origin is found in the
CONVERSATIONS of the aiffused matter Of
space. AS this ether of space condenses
into the solid bodies, as the meteors, comets,
| asteroids, moons, planets. suns and
the clusters of stars, it is, by
these condensaJions, caused to con
verge toward these common centers
in straight lines, and after moving through
them and depositing its grosser materials,
radiates to other bodies, gathering mora
matter in space. This movement of that
which has been called the ether of space
constitutes all there is of electricity and Of
force, and is the basis of my meteorolog
ical theories. Electricity is the universal
force, Is the cause of light, heat, magnet
ism, attraction, repulsion, gravitatiOn,
earthquakes, the high and low barOmeters,
heat i'll the earth, volcanoes, and is the life
principle of the vegetable and animal king
doms. 1t moves the atmosphere. lifts the
moisture and is the force of the tornado.
Every heavenly body, from meteOrs to the
suns, has grown from atoms by condensa-
tons, SUNS and planets are caused TO re-
voive on their axes by the electrical force
we see in the natural magnet, and planets
and satellites reyolve around their prlmd-
ries because of the elements that surround
and revolve 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 radlatious 1.-The planets.
satellites and asteroids entered solar
system as comets, and each Will continue
to grow by accommodations from the ether Of
space-eiectricity-tlll it becomes sun and
the center of a solar system. The eurth's
diameter 1T its equator is greater than at
its poles, because of vegetable and coral
growths. Coal is not of vegetable origin.
The moon is not a dead world.
AIs storms are whirlwints, ana north
of latitude so they move entirely around the
earth-never die-and they increase and de-
crease 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 ia
the low comes down in the high. forming
electric circuits. Cold waves early fall
and late spring frosrs are caused by tropical
hurricanes. Early springs, late falls, cold
and warm winters, drouthS, rain belts, exc
cessive heat extreme cold, great storm PEI
RODS aud the location of storms, are gov
erned by the position of the planets.
Each OF these affirmative propositions
will require careful arguments and illustra-
tons. and besides giving weekly weather
forecasts for all parts of the United States
east of the Rocky mountains, will in my
weekly letters, discuss the propositions
stated above and endeavor TO establish theD
truth. W. T. FOSTER
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