The Russellville Democrat., 1891-10-01
The RUSSELLvILLE DEMOCRAT
 PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY Democrat Printing Go.
 RUSSELLvILLE. ARK.
FOSTERS PREDICTIONS.
His Weather Forecasts for octo.
 ber and the
Latter Part of September Science and
 Weather Notes.

! l occur during the fret half of October that will be surpassed only by those that occur in March, 1892. There will be three storm waves during this storm period which will cross the continent from west to east aloag | the usual storm center routes. The fl. st 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 Pa cific coast about September 30, cross the Rocky-Allegheny Valley from October to 8, aud reach the Allan | tic coast about the 4th. On the Pad this storm wave will be crossing the Mississippi river, not far from St. Louis, and will then be of very con siderable force in Illinois and Mis- souri. Accompanying this storm wave may be expected tornadoes, cloud bursts, hail and severe gales, and within one or two days follow ing it killing frosts will visit most localities north of latitude thirty-six, with strong probability of frosts much further south. Hurricanes will develop great force on the North Att lautic at this time, but 1 cannot give their exact location, but they will probably be not far east of the West Indies. These hurricanes will be- come very fierce along the Atlantic coast from 1st to 18th of October. These October storms will indicate what the coming winter will be. expect very great storms from the 1st 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 1t will indi- cate that have not miscalcnlated the weather, and we may then confident. ly expect very cold, severe and stormy winter, setting in quite early. Saturn will pass it's equinox the last of October, aud to that influence l attribute the great increase of storms since the middle of last May.
 SCIENCE AND WEATHER NOTES.
 Professor Wm. H. Preece, Ssr- dou's leading electrician, declares that "All physicisl phenomena with out single exception may be traced to the mere transformation Of electri. cal 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, an that force is elec- tricity or matter in motion. It's origin is found in the condensations of the diffused matter of space. As this ether of space eondenses into the solid bodies, as the meteors, comets, asteroids, moons, planets, suns and the clusters of stars, it is by these condensations caused to converge toward these common centers in straight lines, and after moving through them and depositing it's grosser materials, rsdiates to other bodies, gathering more 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 meteorological theories. Electricity is the universal force, is the cause of gut, heat, magnetism, attraction, repulsion, gravitation, earthquakes, the high and low bsrometers, heat in the earth, volcanoes and is the life principle of the vegetable and animal kingdoms. It moves the atmos- phere, lifts the moisture and is the force of the tornado. Every heaven | ly body from meteors to the suns has | grown from atoms by condensations. Suns aud 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 primaries because of | the elements that surround and re- ! volve with the latter. The sun is | uOL anu tiiO SoiAh htfCA was hot body. Neither light nor heat comes from the sun, but are effects ot electrical radistions; the | planets, satellites, and asteroids en- tered our solar system as comets, and each will continue to grow by accu- mulstions from the ether oi space electricity-till it becomes sun and the center of solar system. The earth's diameter at it's equator is greater than at it's poles, because of vegetable and coral growths. Coal is not of vegetable origin. The moon is not dead world.
 All storms are whirlW inds, aud north of latitude 80 they move en- tirely around the earth-never die, and they increase and decrease in force by reason of the position of the sun, moon and planets. The high and low barometers constitute cleo tric pairs, and tho currents of electric ity that rise in the low comes down in the high, forming electric circuits. Cold waves, early fall and late spring frosts, are caused by tropical hurri- canes. Early springs, lsto falls, cold and warm winters, drought, rain belts, excessive heat, extreme cold great storm periods and the location of storms, are governed by the posi- ton of the planets.
 Each Of these affirmative proposi- tions will require careful arguments