The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-30
THE NEW THEORY.
Some Storms Predicted for
May but Not Severe.
GREAT STORMS IN JUNE.
Why Mercury Is the Nearest Planet to
the Sun-Befnre Mercury'S Arrival
Our Years Were Shorter-Bibncal
and Geological History.
Special TO the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, April 25.-My last let
ter gave forecasts OF the storm wave due 10
cross the continent from April IS 10 May >.
The next storm wave will be due to leave
the Pacific coast May g. pass the Rocky
Allegheny valley from 18th to 9TH and reach
the Atlantic coast about the 18th. This
storm viii begin 10 increase its force about
the time II is descending the eastern slope
of the Rocky mountains and Will soon
thereafter become storm of very cOnSid-
cradle force. IL will probably be the
greatest storm of the month and its infiu-
ence will be felt in all the states. | would
not be surprised to hear Of tOrnadoeS being
developed by this storm wave and severe
gales may be expected on the lakes. The
great storms, however, will occur in June.
Only an average amount of rainfall may Do
expected from this disturbance, and it very
unevenly distributed. Frost will occur
following the storm a little further south
than usual. In two weeks from date of this
letter will give very important forecasts
of the great storms OF this year and the
kind of weather we will have next winter.
SCIENCE AND WEATHER NOTES.
The planets take their places near or far
from the sun IL the order of their density
and the power of their electric envelopes.
If they had no electric envelope they would
not stop till they struck solid ground on
the sun, and if they had very powerful
electric surroundings they would take their
places far out in space, as can be lndiSput-
ably demonstrated by electric experiments.
The great ellipicity of Mercury's orbit, its
elongation, shows that not many hundred
thousand years have elapsed since it came
to our solar system as comet. 1t IS avery
dense body and its electric buoyancy was
not sufficient to make it take its place out
side of the other and older planets, and now
it is the nearest planet to the sun whose
In, frl- tfc m.
inside of the orbits of Venus and the earth
these planets were necessarily driven fur
Their from the sun by many millions of
miles and this will aid Bible students in
accounting for the long lived people iH
the age of Mathuselah. Before Mercury
entered our system the earth was much
nearer the sun than now and the years much
shorter. There are many traditions found
in the Bible that might be thus scientific
ally accounted for. The earth is certainly
receding from the sun rs it grows larger
and its electric envelope increases In thick
ness and power 1t is also claimed that
another large mercurial planet, which IS
called Vulcan, exists inside the orbit Of
Mercury and if there is, and it is a young
planet, its entrance TO our system would
have caused our earth TO recede from the
sun, causing our years TO be longer. Mer
curys years are only lightweight Of Oui
days in length, and before Mercury and
reasonable to suppose that the earth was
as near the sun as Mercury now is and
our years less than one fourth their pres
ent length.
The electric theory does not admit that
Mercury receives much more heat from the
sun than does the earth nor the outer plan
cts much less, because heat is caused by
the electric currents that pass between the
sun and earth, and the only probable effect
on the earth when nearer the sun was that
the waters now in the seas and lakes wera
then in evaporation and the whole earth
surrounded by dense clouds that never let
in the direct rays of the sun, as is now the
case with Venus and Mercury. This theory
would account for many otherwise unac-
countable facts. It is now well known that
the tropical heat once extended to the most
northern point reached by man, because the
remains of Southern or tropical flora and
fauna, plants and animals, are found IN
those northern regions. Dense and per-
petual cloudiness would cause the tropical
heat to be distributed all over the earth,
even to the poles, and the increase of the
electrical forces caused by the ncarueSs Of
the earth to the sun would aid in this. This
theory is so full Of force that the old school
OF scientists will never be able to overthrow
it, and it sustains the Biblical and geologi-
cal histories of the past.
This theory also accounts for the food.
We cannot put aside the tradition of a
great and general food, for no people have
ever yet been discovered who do not haVe
an ancient tradition of this universal flood.
When Mercury came to our system, caus-
ing the earth to recede from the sun, the
natural result was to precipitate the dense
clouds that had perpetuany mid the sun
from sight thus causing immense rains
and a great food, and if Bible readers VIII
study Genesis with this idea IN mind they
will better understand that account OF
creation. Such climate as would exist
on this earth with canopy OF cloud, very
dense cloud, perpetually shielding the earth
from the suns rays and as efectually shut
ting out the cold, would produce an Eden,
a garden of perpetual plenty, more beau
tiful and grand than we could imagine from
the Biblical account. When the rain had
ceased and the clouds had cleared away the
light would appear and the rainbow, as de-
scribed. This effect is now produced on tho
earth by similar occurrences. When ths
planets are moving toward perihelion-to-
ward the sun--we have less rain and the
atmosphere absorbs more of the waters OF
the oceans and lakes and when the planets
are moving toward apheion-from tho
sun-the moisture that has been absorbed
by the atmos phere is precipifated and wa
have the greatest rainfalls This is partic-
ularly noticeable in the case of the moon,
which is $4,000 miles nearer the earth At
perigee than at apogec, aud our heaviest
rainfalls occur when the moon Is reccding
from the earth. Jupiter is A. 00g, 600 miles
nearer the earth at periheliop than at aphc-
lion, and our principal drouth years occur
when Jupiter is nearing the sun ana eartn,
while our greatest rainfall years occur
when Jupiter is receding from the sun and
earth. 1 challenge investigation Of tho
points made in this letter.