The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1904-12-03

..ting circumstances that had
|, weight with the court, the Age
Herald comments.
Only a few more days OF summer
weather, then everybody begin to root
for a winter so arranged that 1t Will.
in conjunction with the summer rec
ord. kee- - annual temperature av-
| erage wi e It should be.
The wo4 Ids farming land is being
| taken up at great rate. But Few
| large areas now remain open in reg
| ions suited to the white races. In a
! generation or two the land owners
| will hardly be the aristocrats and the
others will hardly be able to realize
| that good farms ever went beGg'n
| for ov .rsrs concludes the Massachu'
setIs y' .hman.
! When fsrming is on the right fOun-
| dation. there is no such word as fall.
| First, the man: his brains. energy
f! and hard work. Second, the farm: its
! location, quality and fitness. Third,
| the equipment: enough for the pur-
| pose and the best of its kind, but no
dollars idly invested. Fourth. the sys-
TEN: connected. far-sighted plan.
! Nothing wasted Nothing begun with
out thinking it out to the end.
The news comes from Texas that
mosquitoes have completely stopped
the operation Of one of the Southern
railroads. the section men beils alto
gerLer unable to attend to their du-
ties. Whether the mosquitoes are un-
ion or nor-union isn't stated, but the
tale sh nd bring comfort to anybody
| who thaks mosquitoes are bad in this
neigh borhcGi.
Niue q. the best Eastern farming
talent is ag directed to dairying, in
cluding production Of milk for the
wholesale markets. These, with pOul-
try. fruit and vegetables are fast be-
coming the money products OF the
whole section. the Massachusetts
Ploughman asserts.
What date is This? asks st. Nicho-
las. OF course you would say 1904.
but il that is meant to denote the
number OF years since the Christian
era it is probably wrong. Look in
some good authority and see if this
year should not rightly be at least
1908. 1t is worth your investigation
il it happens to be subject you have
not yet carefully considered.
The London Telegraph says the ap-
pearance of several fair-siZed spots on
the sun coincidently with the recent
spell Of warm weather induced we'll
known Partisan astronomer to suggest.
not for the first time that solar spots
were the cause of the heat. If the
variation OF solar energy as shown by
the spots has any effect on terrestrial
weather, the connection can scarcely
be so direct as this assumed relation
would imply; but it would be unsciel-
tiflc to deny any relation whatever be-
between the two things. In the last
forty years the summers which stand
out in the Greenwich records as pre-
eminently hot are those of 1865. 1865,
1870. 1872, 1876 1884. 1887. 1898, and
2, thaps 1900 The years Of maxi
i sun spots. according to accepted
aorities, were 1860. 1870, 1884, 1894.
srd there is one now at hand. The
connection is not very apparent, al
though there are some coIncidenceS.
The month of July in the year 1881
WAS remarkable meterologcally, as the
Thermometer rose above 80 degrees on
four davss Of the month, and reached
81 degrt On the 18TH. There were
few spo on the sun then, as there
are now hut though the spots in
creased the temperature went down.
Those who would explain the meteoro-
logical variations by sun spot changes
must not forget-as they usually do
that hot and dry or cold and wet Wea-
ther are fully accounted for by the
presence of high or low pressure areas
Of tha atmosphere. No matter what
sun 7al. there might be, with the
aptic' zone that has hung over these
iela5..s for the last three weeks we
should have calm, dry. and warm
weather any time in summer. In 1898
these conditions gave a remarkable
spell of high temperature in Septem-
ber. The question to be solved is.
therefore. what causes high and low
atmospheric pressure. and have sun
spots anything to do with either?
There exists simply no evidence; mere
Condolences are of the slightest value.
In sub-troptcal climates. like Austria
Ia, the case may be very different. and
there the solar spo. tasqfy seems
a'sb|y probable.