Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-12
COMING WEATHER.
Rains with Warm Weather Pre-
dicted for the Gulf States.
WEATHER FORE-KN0WLEDGF.
The Vacuum Found to be the Most Perfect
Condition for Electrical Transmits
sion-The Results of Recent
Experiments
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Nov. 6.-My last letter
gave forecasts of the Storm-wave due TO
cross the continent from 5th to 9th, and the
next will leave the Pacific coast about the
18th, cross the central basin from 18th to
14th, and reach the Atlantic coast about the
10th. 1t will be a fierce storm when it
strikes the Pacific coast and will continue
to be so till it has passed the Mississippi
river. After the 18th it will decrease in
force and will not be a severe storm on the
Atlantic coast. The tides on that coast,
however, will be quite high about the 18th.
The center of this storm wave owill not
reach the gulf states, but will cause some
rainfall there, and the weather following it
will not be very cold for the time of year,
but a cool wave will follow it crossing the
continent from the 10Th to the 14th.
All the storms of November were calcu-
lated to be of greater force than usual, and
this storm wave only of little less force
than the greatest of the month, especially
in the West.
ELECTRICITY AND THE VACUUM.
Readers of these letters should fully I'M
derstand that they contain nothing that
does not have distinct bearing on the ques-
ton of foreknowledge of the weather. l
am trying to get before the people true
basis upon which to build a science OF
meteorology, believing that orthodox SCENT
lists have produced nothing that is worthy
of being called the science OF meteorology.
The weather bureau of the United States
does not predict any more than we predict
when a railroad train will arrive, merely es-
timating how fast storm center will move,
and where it will go after they know where
it is and the conditions surrounding it. To
forecast the weather we must know the
causes OF weather changes, and as l believe
that electricity is the immediate cause,I am
discussing in these letters the nature Of
electricity.
Every part of theory must agree with
every other part or it, and readers of these
letters will discover wonderful harmonies
existing between the positions of the
planets, the nature of electricity and the
changes of the weather.
DR.. Henry Raymond Rogers is an able
advocate of the electric theory, and his
paper, read before the Chautauqua society
of Dunkirk, n. Y, discussing electricity
and the vacuum, is so well to the point that
quote from it He says:
1.-THE best experimenters in electricity are
rapidly coming to the conclusion that
vacuum is the most favorable condition for
electrical transmission. Indeed, the fore
most electricians Of the present day, like
Edlund of the Royal soc ETY. at Stockholm,
Sweden, and our own Edison, have de-
clared such to be the certain result of their
experiments. Mr.. Crooks Of the Royal So
ciety, London, has published striking ex-
perimeuts showing the action of electricity
In vacuum, some Of which confirm the con-
clusion of Edlund and Edison. DR.. P. II.
Van Der Weide, in a paper recently read
before the New York electrical society, de-
scribes experiments LEADING to the sama re-