The Red Cloud chief., 1895-05-10

When the low barometer is APP
preaching, its center, far away, covers
the lakes and other waters that con.
stitute the fountains from which the
springs and artesian wells are fed.
When tho low barometer is over
these lakes asd other fountains their
waters rise because the pressure is
less and this affects far away springs
and artesian wells causing them to
fail.
When a low barometer covers the
upper Mississippi valley and the great
lakes Texas has warm north winds
At tho same time the Ohio valley will
have warm south winds. The water
in Lake Superior will rise aud in
the springs and artcsisn wells #
Texas, lower Mississippi and Ohio
valleys will fall.
As this general low barometer passes
eastward the high barometer takes its
place over the great lakes, the winds
in Texas continue from northward but
change TO cool and the waters in the
springs and artesian wells begin TO
rise because the air pressure Of the
country from whence Gem the artesian
and spring waters increases by seventy
pounds or more to the square foot Of
surface.
In theObio valley and eastern states
the wind changes from Moth 10 south
the weather csols aud tho spring aud
artcsian waters cone back I. their
normals.
Generally on the approach of my
storm wave dates the water of lakes,
springs and artesian wells will be de-
pressed and as the cool wave dates
come in these waters will rise again to
their normals.
Sage, chief of the Iowa weather
bureau, is trying to make farmers be.
licve that civilization of land increases
rainfall. Experienced agriculturlsts,
especially those who were pioneers in
!, breaking the prairie sod of this
country, will not readily swallow that
cup Of Sage tea. Has the Sage Of
/ Iowa the right theory? Suppose tina,
all the timer Of every description in
this country was destroyed, all the
lakes, marshes, etc. drained and all the
soil turned to plsw land. When the
rains come the water would i'm.
mediately 60 into the soil aud there
could be no evaporation to supply the
storms with moisture. The pillow land.
, would all become ho,beds and the hes,
!. rising from them would dissipate the
moisture being conveyed from ,ht
Gulf Of Mexico, as we find to be tru,
Of the western arid plains where ar
abundance Of moisture is passing ovel
toward the northwest. The farmers
of Iowa, in effect, are advised BY
Their state weather bureau Sage to de
stroy their groves and cultivate the
soil in order to get more rain. There
is drouth plant growing on the
western arid plains, called the sage.
bush, whose foliage is one OF the
most obstinate tangled textures
known to botanists and it can live
without water. Because Of its name
and peculiarities the farmers of lswa
should present their weather bureau
chief with one Of these plants.
Below are extracts from an ~articl,
written by Grant AlleL, one of thu
worlds greatest authors, and publish
ed in the "New Science Review" o.
London England: "Herbsrt Spencer
was never, in any direction, orthodox
yet no man is going to produce 81
lasting and effect upon the thought O
the future. Darwin was not . pro
fcssor. Goeth was a "nere amateur
The man who sees q thing a few year
in front of his CONTEMPORARIES ma
live to convince them Of the truth o
his vision but the man who sees thing
century in front, like Erasmu
Darwin, can only hope for scorn an
pity. At the present time it is physic
that stand most in the way Of tn
systematic thinker. We have arrive,
at a point where the beliefs of scietif
men are wholly unsatisfactory. W
hoye estahlishad and endowed an in