Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-05
FOSTERS WEATHER.
The Cool Wave to Cross the
Country Feb. 10
WILL BE ON The FREEZE ORDER
BY March n We wlH See Signs Of an Early
Crop Season Something About The
King Of Planets His Royal
Hghness Jupiter.
Copyrighted 1893. by w. r. Foster)


cross the continent from FeU 9th TO 9th
and the next will reach the Pacihc
cO1N about the 10Th. cross the western
mountains by close Of the llth the
great central valleys from the Eth 80
18th and the eastern states about the
18th.
The cool wave VIII cross the western
mountains about the 18th, the great cen
trdl valleys about the 10th and the
eastern states about the nth. The
weather will average colder than usual
for the time OF year. Ia the Southern
suites the month win be- noted for its
buckwardness iu reference 90 the crop
season. a change for mild weather will
begin not long after the middle of Feb
ruary and by the 2lst Of March will
show signs Of an early crop season.
THE PLANET JUPITER.
We learn of the future 10y the past,
and Of the past by analogy. If several
Of our planets are now In stage of
perpetual twilight and spIingtme be
cause OF dense cloud bolts shutting out
the direct rays Of the sun, by analogy
we must conclude 'hat our earth was
once IN that condition. Such a condi-
ton on the planet Jupiter would De
favorable to very long life md is evil
] deucc That life was of much greater
duration on this planet when Il was in
the condition TINT jupiter now Is.
Jupiter is about $1,000 miles IN diam
ptCr nearly 1900 times larger than Our
| earth aud still our orthodox scientists
claim that rs mass or weight is only
about 800 times that of the earth. They
also claim that II revolvrs OIL is axis IN
. hours and 30 minutes and
! therefore its days and nights are each
only about five hours long, They also
| claim that the earth receives about
! twenty-five times as much light and heat
rs does Jupiter because the latter II five
I'll q, ta
| All Of this X misleading and positively
| misChirviOus II not only brings doubt
| as 10 the science of astronomy but us To-
| the honest purpose of the scientists them
| selves How can man be- honest In
! theory when all the facts he produces
/ positively disprOvo his theory
These scientists say that Jupiter re-
wolves on his axis in about ten hours
| This Is prppostcruus. Why should that
] great planet. ten times greater In diane
| ter than the earth. rcvulvc two and one
| half times while the earth Is making one
| revolutions II the sun, rs they claim
! "a the source of mower for Jupiter which
! they assert why should that power 90
su far out of line with Jupiter as com
| pared with Venus, the earth aud Mars
| Their statements are not only unreal
! sounhc their proof is wanting. All adj
init that the body Of Jupiter IL never seen
! from our earth Nothing but streuks Of
| belts, dark aud light are srru and no
| positive claim H. nude as e. the time rt-
! Qured for those belts TO rcyolye around
! Jupiter, The only evidence they have
! rs 10 the time of Jupitcr's revolution
! Is dark spot not well defined, which ap-
| pears to reyOlyr around Jupiter IN -
hours and 80 minutes
| What is That dark spot! They claim
II to bc u mountniu peak 20 be- peeping
| through the Immensely deep cloud belts
of Jupiter Void of rc1son. IL would re
| quirc an immensely high mountain TO
| reach through lipiter's clodd belts Its
mass is about 300 times that of the
earth. That would make ,lupitcr's diumc-
ter exclusive of cloud belts. about $4,000
| miles aud the cloud belts about 10000
! miles IN depth. II would require very
| t1ll mountain, 10000 miles in height.
to reach through those cloud belts, and
! this shows the absurdity of the theory.
] cluim that the poorly defined dark
| spot On Jupiter, h. u Uuuu-Cumet, re-
cent accession To lupilcr's appendices.
! Astronomers say that the spot has u
dark red tingc ard this does not answer
the description of mountain while Il
does describe a comet revolving around
| Jupiter ut about 10000 miles above the
planets solid surface.
No other cause than that Of couet,
close to the body Of Jupiter. could form
the immense dark belts Of carbon and
light belts of watery yppoS seen ia ia
pitCrs stupeudUOus belts. Professor
Proctor says: "A sun five times further
of than ours could not 10y any posi-
bility load the puy cts atmosphere with
| the enormous masses Of yupur Actunllv
present in H. The sluggish action of the
sun ON Jupiter could not 10y any posi-
bility give rise 10 atmospheric disturb
dnCes 50 tremendous as as those which
are Indicated by the rapid chnuges oil
figure of his cloud-bands. Unless some
other cause than solar action Is at work.
Iupiter's atmosphere ought to be very
much culmcr than that of the earth"
] believe all moons to have originally
been comets and when they first como 10
! the planet their momentum imuels them
TO revolye around their primary with very
great speed, We know that two smnil
| moons have come 10 Mars within the
past twenty years, and they mako n
revolution around Mars I'm few hours
q less time than do any other moons
rryolye around their planets These two
little moons of Mars hive had a porccpti.
BILE effect ON The atmosphere OF that
planet
We also know that Jupiter has cau-ht
the lying comets as they PASSED np1r
his domain and IN some eases held tbnm
for six months. revolving around him like
a moon, but too far away 10 have amy
| pcrceptblc influence on his atmosphere
| ~ ~ NlNN WI hhNNN lNuL llrWn NUM-
Der of comets have formed orbits thnt
extend around the sun NJ pcrhcliou and
around Jupiter at aphcou
The moou-cOmet of Jupiter will oc-
count for the great storms in hunters
cloud belts, of which Professor Proctor
speaks as quoted above: il win ncconnt
for the cloud belts for the dark belts
which the nebuOus envelops of NH cow'
which the uehul0us eneyelops of MI com.
cts are known 10 consist: II gives Ia In.
pitcr an Edeuic age without cold winter,
and without night such as existed ON
TINS earth when our earth was within
1000 or 10000 miles of the earth
llght and heat being result of ale,..
trlclty, Jupiter has ample light ana beat
10 make it a yeiitable paradise. Pm.
lessor Proctor says The vast plobp
Jupiter Is thrilled from pole 70 pole ms
the magnetic waves roll In upon h
Then saturn feels the shock aud then tbc
vast distances, beyond which lies Iyronus
ana Neptune, are swept with the eyer.
lasting yet ever widening disturbance
[ wave The sun pours forth on an It's snh.
tie, vet powerful, magnetic influences y
My readers must admit the wonderfrl
harmonies that exist In the theory ~,
teaches the Slow growth of worlds from,
atoms and the vast difficulties tbot A.
| | across the path of the nebulous theor,
ihat the heat OF our earth results from
the suns magnetic currents Is full M
harmonies, while che assertion that SIM
and planets owe their origin 10 a gren,
burning globe is void OF logical Arm
o ments. "su