The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
FORECASTS BY FOSTER.
Week Ending May 10 Will Average Below Normal
Temperature.

ST. Joseph, No, May 4.(Copyrighted,
1901, by W r. Fostcr.l Last bulletin gave
forecasts Of disturbance TO cross continent
MAY 10 IL, warm wave May 9 TO TO-
cool wave 9th TO 18th,
About date of this bulletin temperature
viii he averaging low. moderate warm
wave Will be near meridian so, moving
rapidly eastward and cool wave follow
lLg IN the upper Missouri valley.
We ending May ~ win average below
normal temperature and wet In many
places In the great Central valleys. Not
good crop growing week,
A cool wave with frosts In Northern
Stnt.h vii. reach meridian 30 about the
lith, and cons derlng the season WIZ et
tend well south. Where the soil Is wei
tbs low temperature VIII not ko gup n
fol crops especially In the wheat OF SCUM
Cl1 StnIes, where rust may begin TO de-
Renders will appreciate my. forecasts OF
a great fall In temperature TO reafn ne hn
ridian 90 near May 49, accompanied ny
heavy precipitation in great Contra, val.
lcys. Warm wave of 23d continued longer
than expected.
Mr.. Gates. an Independent eAperimenter
Mt Washington d. c., has demonstrated
by electrical experiments that planetary In
duences, through effccts OF electricity
cause al weather changes
/ He had the money. the Independence OF
thuught, the ability ana above everything
otse tic persistency, which have enabled
him 10 work out some very difficult prob
lens In opposition 10 the equally persistent
declaration of weather bureau ofhcinls, eN-
cept the sun. the Henlbers Of the solar
system do not affect the weather OF our
earth.
been the only weather bureau official that
encouraged Mr.. Gates In his efforts Wlzen
was an independent thinker aud therefore
vas frowned upon by his superior othcers'
! Gates makes ball OF loose cotton, sus'
4 ponds II hy a thread, charges II with elec-
! ricity and the bail largely increases In
size. The electrical charge causes me
| cotton fibers to stand ont from the pau.
Thrs Is the same old experiment by when
| the human body Is charged with clectltityi
cnrsing n woman's long pair 10 s,an9 a.
! the showman's CircasSian girl II is also
Inc same IS that which strips the feathers
from a chicken canght in a, tornado
mint that when tho mir Is charged with
an abnormal quantity OF electricity ny
planetary positions, the , atmosphere e,,s ex
The low barometer and thus tie storm or
weather change, is Initiated.
Gates slspends anothe: ball near the
he the two attract each other, the current
flows from the positive TO the negative
hall. the latter becomes smeilnr con,
| dfnses and this Illustrates :he high ,nui
How barometers in the atmosphere which
nre the Immediate causes OF All "ea'her
changes.
Ihe expsrimenter opens two windows on
tho south side Of the ROOM. aud with an
electric fau fxed IN yentiiatine. hole IN
the moth wall Of the room. drives the
nIr ont. causing the mir 10 fow. IN az the
south windows. Nothing Of Importance
comes Of that part NJ the experiment
| nm. Gates then charges tho air that
comes In nt one NJ the south windows
! with a positive electricity md that from
me other south window with negative,
,rltc two currents then Immediately flow 70.
cether and fine mist falls TO the moor
In miniature rain.
This demonstrates that electricity causes