Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-11-08
all SPACE IACUOUS
This the Theory Of Continual
Planetary Notion
TIE Sun is SoI HOT NOR BRIGHT
BAT Our sssiixht and ssshsat - Pro-
saess By Essesrissi Transmission
Srsn ssn ~ nsTsh-osr Atass-
phsxs. the RlaEissN Coll.

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due 10 cross the continent from the
5Gn 10 the 3th, and the next VIII leave
the Pacific coast about the 18th, cross
the central basin from the 18th 10
the 1fth, and reach the Au.ante coast
about the 18TH It VA be a fierce
storm when il strikes the Pacific coast
and will continue TO De so till it has
passed the Mississippi river. After the
18th il viii decrease IN force nd viii
not be a severe storm on the Atlantic
coast. The tides on that coast, how
ever, VI ia be quite nigh about the 18TH.
The center OF this storm wave viii
net reach the Gu.f states, but viii
cause some ram faf there, and the
weather following it will not ne very
cod for the time of year, but cold
wave viii follow il, crossing the con
tinent from the 10th TO the 14th-
Al the storms OF November were cal
eusated TO be OF greater force than
usual and this storm wave only lit
tie less force than the greatest OF the
month, especially In the West.
Readers Of these letters should fully
understand that they contain moth
ing that dose not have q direct bear
ing on the question Of fore-knowi-
edge Of the weather. am trying
TO get before the people a true basis
upon WHICH TO bui.d science OF me
teorology, believing that orthodox
scientists have produced nothing that
Is worthy OF being called the science
Of weteoro.ogy. The weather bureau
OF the United States does not predict
any more than we predict when
raEroad train will arrive, merely esti-
mating how fast storm center Will
move and where IL will go after they
know where il Is and the conditions
surrounding IL. To forecast the
weather we must know the causes OF
weather changes. and as be.ieve that
electricity Ii the immediate cause, l
am disc ussing in these letters the
nature OF e,ec tricity.
Every part OF them must agree with
every other part OF il, and readers OF
these letters Will discover wonderful
harmoDies existing between the posi-
tons OF the Planets, the nature of
electricity and the changes OF weather.
DR.. Henry Raymond Rogers Is an
able advocate of the electric theory,
and his paper, read before the Chau-
tauqua society OF Dunkirk, N Y, dis
eussing electricity and the vacuum, is
30 well TO the point that quote from
IL. He says:
The best expermenters in electricity
are rapidly coming 10 the conclusion
that vacuum Is the most favorable coz
dition for electrical transmission. In
deed the foremost electricians OF the
present day. like Edlund. OF the Royal
soeiety at Stockholm, Sweden, and our
own Edison. have declared such 70 be
the certain results OF their experiments.
MIR. Crooks. OF the Royal society. Lon
don. has published striking experiments
show ing the action OF electricity in
Vacuum. some of which confirm the
ronrsussou Of Edlund and Edison. DR..
y. III. Van Der Wcsie. IN a paper
recently read before the New York
Esectrral Society, describes expert
ments leading TO the same results. he
details an experiment which was con-
triyed consisting of a strong glass
tube, two or three inches in diameter
and three or more feet long, provided
with brass caps at eSch end and which
could be conveniently attached to an
air pump and exhausted. He tells Us
that as the exhaustion proceeded the
vari.ed air In the tube became con-
durtor OF electricity aud this conduc-
tivity appeared 10 improve in proper
ton a. the air was more exhausted.
a legitimate Inference from these
sxpersments-though one strangely &
lored by this writer's that had the
exhaustion been made complete the
perfection OF electrical transmission
would have been reached In other
words IL does not appear that either
teIuous air or vacuum Is conductor
o. electricity, but that the transmisssi-
bA.ty OF the cleo trcal current Is in pro-
portion TO the var.fied condition oil
the air or its total absence. Absolute
Eothingness can neither aid nor impede
the progress OF the electrical current
From the abundant evidence which
We now possess IL is not too much TO
claim that when the element OF resis-
tanee to the passage OF the electric
current In removed. when the motion
OF electricity Il wholly free and unob-
strueted, fts action may be instan.
taneous. whether in the narrow con
f>ses of 4 tube or In the universal space
Tire resistance TO the progress OF the
ELECTRICAL current wakes II up TO visi
blfSty and TO action On the scale Of
the laboratory. vacuum is found 70
be the most perfect condition for cleo
fricsl transmission.
"On the scale OF the universe the evi
t~nee OF this fact IL even more con
elusive Mr.. Gordon. distinguished
EnxSsh authority, N his work on elec
tricity and magnetism. one Of the best
ln this field. tells us that the electrical
forces are transmitted not only across
the best vacuum< we have been abs
IN produce but also across the inter
PLANETARY spaces.
Il, n now aburdantIy demonstrates
that eiretrrai currents pass to- an,
fro between the sun and earth instan
taueouslv and incesrantly. and scienc'
accepts this ~ . proved fact. The
great Fsraday tells us that the move
raents Of the celestial bodies In abso
bite vacuum would ne So uniform n
taoee 81 a mathemsticai pendulum
wherea. resisting medium pervad
ar ell space would cause the planet,
60 move IN sho-ter and shorter orbit
and at issf go fan Into the sur. From
the fact that the notions OF the celes
tiaf essffrs are absolutely uniform. w,
may iasfiv infer that ali space IL prse
t;ealrv vaeueu>. and m tact IL nov
t-ewu ~ man which diSproves thi
e~~ctheef~ r. IL therefore ciearl,
s~-rrretre ted. both uron the srsfe o
ere laboratory aud ~ the universe
vseuu-n - the most perfect eonditioS
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