Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-12
WEATHER FOR THE WEEK.
PROFESSOR FosrErrs FORECAST
ron THE NEXT sEyEN DAYS.

The Next storm Wave WIN Cross
the Continent from the 18th 10
the 2oth-wiu Cause the Principal
nains OF the Month.
St. Joseph. Mo, Aug. il.--CcopyrIght-
ed, 1894. by w. 4. Foster.)--My lnst bull
letin gave forecasts OF the storm wave
10 cross the continent from August
10Th 70 18th and The next will reach the
Pacific coast about the 18th. cross the
western mountains by close OF the 10th.
the great central valleys from 18th to
iath and the eastern staten about the
20th.
This disturbance will cause the prln-
eipal rains OF The month, ami the storm
Will be OF more than usual force east
OF the Mississippi about the 18th or
18th.
The nfth disturbance OF August will
reach the Pacific coast about The gisi.
cfoss the western mountains By close OF
92d, the great central valleys from sd
70 aath and the eastern statea about
the g5th Not much rain Is expected
from this storm wave
Wurm waves win cross the western
mountains about the 18th and 2ist, the
great central valleys about iGth and
lsd and the eastern states about the
I9th and 2bth.
Cool wavcs Will cross the western
mountains about 18Th aud 2llh, the
great central valley about Goth ana 26th
and the eastern states about the 22d
and 2Sth.
Why does one body OF matter attract
another Rt distance2 no answer This
question would be greater accom-
pilshment than to unravel tie riddle OF
the aphmN. Why does body OF mat
ter-~an animal, a stone, N piece Of earth
--pregs toward the center of the earth
with never varying weight2
In his greaf work on, electricity and
nlugnetiam, Clerk Maxwell says; There
now appears TO be. In the minds Of
/ eminent men, some prejudice ngainat
the hypothesis Of medium IN which
/ the phenomena Of radiation OF liBht
and heat and the electric actions at a
1 dlatance take piece AZ one time Those
who specu'1ted ns to tho causes OF
/ physical phenomena were In the habit
{ OF accounting for each Kind Of auiipa
at distance by means Of u special
/ ethereal huld, whose function aud prop
] cry was 10 nihNuAt lllttt NNilhllNf
TREY allied all space three or four
4 times over with ether OF different
Kinds the properties of which were
invented merely to save appearances
SO that more rational lnquirerg wers
willing rather 10 accept not only New
toms definite law Of attraction nj o
distance, but oven the dogma OF Cos
ties. that action at distance is one Of
the primary properties Of matter une
that no explanation can be moro intel
llTible than this fnct"
The above quotation VIII indicate I,
the reader that the scientific world =
at sea IN reference 20 the cause Of at
traction Of Eravitntion. II ie ltnowi
that current OF electricity may b.
so arranged as TO cause a steady at
traction toward body through 81
around, which u circuntes. but that
II not conclusive evidence that cieCtric-
ity Is the cause OF gravitatlon.
II We place two rings or circles OF
conducting substance, az copper, sill
YER iron. etc, near each other So thai
currents OF electricity move through
them In the s0mo direction. thoy VII
attract each Other II the current
move ia opposite directions they repel
Extend this Idea no that The ring,
| are connected and we have q spiral
a copper wire Is wound around cylln'
der from one end 10 the other like
thread on a spool Then take the cyl
indcr out and we have . spiral. Stretch
this spiral so that lts rings are abonl
one-eighth OF an inch apart, suspend
Il by one end. the other end hnnRins
down so as TO touch moist earth, or
any conductor connected with the
earth. Then run u current 0f oleetrlai-
ty through the spiral ana the latter
win contract 70 AZ TO break oonnee-
ton with the earth.
ny this the currents are broken ana
the wire ngnin drops TO Us connection
with tho earth ana the current passing
through the wire sbortens u. This pro-
cess Will continue and the wire WIN
constantly bob up and down, breaking
and making It's connections win the
earth.
The reason for this Is that tho cleo.
trio current IN the rings ~ the spiral
move Ia the same direction aud there'
fore the successive rings, one above the
other. attract each other ana thus
shorten the wire.
All electricians hold that electric cur
rents la moving through space move IN
spirais. ia form somewhat Ike tue wire
spiral described above and " this DO q
correct theory spiral Of electricity
connects every particle OF matter win
every other particle Of matter.
Tho shortening OF these electric splr'
ais would conhuhule htANNiV" ~ 80
lance.
While electricity " moving oni
through these nprialn there must be a
return current which ~ called magnet-
ism or the Induced current Export
ments indicate that the outflow OF cleo
triclty through the spiral docs not push
matter away from the starting place OF
the electric current but Tho return OF
induced current. the magnetic innow
DOES push matter toward the slnrtne
polnt Of the electric currpft. This would
also seem 10 explain the attraction 81
grapitation for all space must be com.
pIetely filed with electric cplrnla and
their return currents.
But these laws Of mnRnestirn and
electricity do not satisfactorily explair
what Is called the attration Of grayitn
lion. II the lines Of forcoH, which re
suit IN the attraction OF gravitailon
start out from the earth and each fui
and planet and every other heavenly
body and from every particle ~ matter
that bdy containing the greatest energi
would certainly and very soon gnthel
into ita fold all other particles Of mat
ter aud would have one great cen
IL trnl body surrounded by limitleAs 40
eripty space.
whether or not the return curren
constitutes attraction Of FrayitAtion. ~
called, Il 10 clear that particles Of mat