Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-01
FOSTERS WEATHER
Heavy Storms Predicted for
the Early Part of October.
BUT GREAT ONES IN MARCH, ,ss
Cloudbursts, Windstorms and Frost Dow
on the Programme - Interesting
Scientific Reconsideration
the Earth
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept. CA remarkable
period of great storms viii occur during
the 1irst half of October that will be sur.
passed only by those that win Occur in
March, 1892. There will be three storm
waves during this storm period which viii
cross the continent from west TO east alone
the usual storm center routes. The first CT
these storm waves will be most sever. in
the Mississippi valley, and the last O. on
the Atlantic coast. The frs of fusss
storm waves will be due to leave the Pacific
coast about September 80. cross enc Rocky
Allegheny valley from October To 3 and
reach the Atlantic coast about the 4th. on
the2d this storm wave viii b. crossing the
Mississippi river not fur frou ST Louis,
and will then be OF very considerable Ioyce
in Illinois and Missouri. Accompanying
this storm wave may be expected torra-
does, cloudbursts. hail and severe gses,
and within one or two days following Q
killing froStS will visit M localities Berth
of latitude &c, with 4 str g Tbsbilty u
frosts much further S nth. zGfTricsEas
will develop great force 4 the e'ortn A.
i1-nitieS .-s~, i .ira, but II aanOf give their
exact location, but they probably bss
not far east of the West II lies These hus-
ricanes will become very ferCs along tie
Atlantic coast from 1st TO 18th ~ Ortobc-
These October storms Will no ate -h1l
the coming winter will be. 7 J. Nst. ,ery
great storms from the 1st OF OctvJe- 10 :
last of March. and if this pCrioj OF 81 rL..
covering the first half of Octai sr proves
be of more than usual force it indie o.
that l have not miscalculated l.. veal.
and We may then confidently exp a ".
cold, severe and stormy winter I'M. ~
quite early. Saturn will pass its elujn04
the last of October, and TO that influence
attribute the great increase Of storms since
the middle OF last May.
SCIENCE AND WEATHER NOTES.
TweDty-three hundred years ago Aristotle
declared there is but one single universal
force, and that declaration entities him 10
be called the father of science. 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
the dark ages began to clear away, agi
mind declared half truth in the neb
theory of creation, which, for more tina a
century, has been taken as the basis Of a.
tronomy, geology and meteorology. This
nebular theory, like the Ptolemaic theory Of
astronomy, is requiring of our astronomt IS.
biologists and meteorologists constant il
ventions to make the nebular hypothesis n
its consequent heat theory of force b.
together, and these invented theories Z
becoming SO numerous that the nebu a.
theory is tottering to its fall For the
walton of science it is just as necessary to re-
Curn 10 Lllt unity VI lOECc- dS AUUOunCtu
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 or
Christ. II we go back to the truth of ore
universal force, we not only lift science
from the mire, but we do for the scientific
world that which the doctrine Of one God
did for the religious world.
Professor William H. Preece, London's
leading electrician, declares that, "All
physical phenomena, without a single ex-
ception, may be traced to the mere trans
formation Of electrical energy" That is
reassertion 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
condensations of the diffpsed matter of
space. As this ether of space condenses
into the solid bodies, as the meteors, comets,
the clusters Of stars, it is, by
these condensaJions, caused to con-
verge toward these common centets
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 in 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-
tions, SUNS Ind planets are caused TO re-
volve on their axes by the electrical force
we see in the natural magnet, and planets
and satellites revOlve around their prima-
ries because Of the elements that surround
and reyOlve with the latter. The sun Is not
and the earth never was a hot body; neither
light nor heat comes from the sun, but ara
effects of electrical radlations; the planets,
satellites and asteroids entered our solar
system as comets, and each viii continue
to grow by accumulations from the ether OF
pace-electricity-t it becomes sun and
the center of . solar system. The eartn's
diameter at its equator Is greater THAN az
its poles, because Of vegetable and coral
growths. Coal Is not of vegetable origin.
The moon is not a dead world.
All storms are whirlwindS, and north
Of latitude 80 they move entirely around tns
earth-never die-and they increase and de.
crease in force by reason of the position OF
the sun, moon and planets. The hl2n anu
low barometers constitute electric pairs,
and the currents of electricity that rise IN
tie low CONES down in the high, forming
electric circuits. Cold waves, early fait
and late spring frosts are caused by tropica!
hurricanes. Early springs, late falls, cold
and warmrwinters, drouths, rain belts, ex-
cessive heat, extreme cold, great storm pc
RODS and the location Of storms, are gov
erned by the position of the pealsfs-
Each Of these Affirmative Propositions
win require careful arguments and hiustra-
tions. and besides giving weeidy SefSher
forecasts for all parts Of tne intel States
east of the Rocky mountains vii IL my
weekly letters, discuss Tue prypusaaons
stated above and endezv Or q es1rzlsh their
truth NJ rps111