Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26
THE NEW THEORY.
Some Storms Predicted for
May but Not Severe.
GREAT STORMS IN JUNE.
Why Mercury Is She Nearest Planet to
the sun-Before Mercury's Arrival
Our Years Were Shorter-BIbncal
aad Geological History.


s7ee.a. 10 he Gazette
81. JosEPH. Mo. April 25.-My last let
Ter gave forecasts Of the storm wave due TO
cross The continent from April 9S to May ,.
lie neE- storm wave will be due to leave
We P. .-tc coast May 3. pass the Rocky
A.esAya. valley from 4th TO 9Th and reach
.-" Atlantic coast about the 1th This
..gru ST.. begin 10 increase its force about
..- '.'.t II is descending the eastern slope
t.. t,r Rocky mount4nS and viii soon
hereafter become storm OF very cOusid-
cradle force H. will probab bly, be the
greatest storm of the month and its intlu-
e-.e E o71f.t IN all the states would
III - surprised 10 hear of tOrnadoeS being
1'Ftapei by this storm wave and severe
=-.e- MaE be expected on the lakes. The
t-.a. Storms. however. Will occur in June
N-.' .1 average amount of rainfall may be
expected from this disturbance, and il very
a-r'"l-y distributed Frost viii occur
HI4E The storm 4 little further south
Ian -sI..-. In Two weeks from date of this
scr Will give Very important forecasts
% ..e sreIt storms Of this year and the
--'~ VI! Weather "e viii have next winter.
>1FN'E AND WEATHER NOTES.
.' ..4arts take their places near or far
...-. .ay Sun H. The order of their density
~ '... power of their electric envelopes.
u Hey -aa up electric envelope they would
->-gp III. they struck solid ground on
.r-,. and II they had very powerful
..-.... apoQudiugs they would take their
t... ZAP or in space. as can be indisput-
~ LEI LIS IA I'd by electric experiments.
lie --. s-iipicity Of Mercury's orbit, its
-...a. shows that not many hundred
.'. Years have elapsed since It came
-s system aS comet. II is L very
20 AND is electric Duoyaucy was
-~-.l cent 60 make II take its place out
.. g,her and older planets and now
, .-t aelreS- planet 10 the sun whose
-.s are known. IN taking its place
Tie orbits OF Venus and the earth
''-tlctS were necessarily driven fur
-t.- The sun by many millions Of
'.s -it ,a.s will aid Bible students in
s-....- tvr the long lived people in
~ NarAuselan. Before Mercury
..- system the earth was much
".a.". o." sun thau now ana the years much
.. There are many traditions found
.- .-a b.o.- that might be thus scientific
--' ST. counted for. The earth IS certainly
resting from the sun as II grows larger
'..' as electric envelope increases in thick
as I'D power. J. i also claimed that
--'-aer large meryurial planet which IS
SS11'-- u.cQH. exists inside the orbit Of
,-s!c~Ey and If there is. and il is young
.--'et lis entrance 10 our system would
-'- caused Gun earth 10 recede from the
--.. y--Slug our years 10 be longer. Aler-
.' ti-IS gre only etEltS -elghJ Of our
- .sugth. and before Mercury and
'-s tm,red the system i Is not I'M
....~.'4J.e 10 suppose that the earth was
- -.4. lie sun rs Mercury now IS and
~ .e.rs less than one fourth their pres
e. t---a.
q, lie electric theory does not admit that
''... IrF receives much more heat from the
..- Ian does the earth nor the outer plan
:, - much less, because heat IS caused by
va, vac e-e'.'ric currents that pass between the
o.. s-l Garth. and the only probable effect
"a - Ire earth when nearer the sun was that
,t 't waters now in the seas and lakes were
-s- Il evaporation and the whole earth
rounded by dense clouds that never let
~ ne direct rays of the sun, as is now the
y~>r With Venus and Mercury. This theory.
gs.l account Tor many otherwise uuac-@
,-a-ao.e facts. II IS now well known that
- topical heat eace extended TO the most