Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-17
WEATHER FORECAST

Copyrighted, 1914, by w. T. Foster.)
Washington, Jan. 17.-Last bulletin
gave forecasts of disturbance to cross
continent January 10 to 80, warm
wave IS to %, cool wave 21 to 25.
This will bring an unusual variety Of
weather, great extremes of tempera-
lures, severe storms, rains and SHOWS
North, warm and cold waves South,
thaws followed by freezes.
Venus, Mars and Neptune will be
in combination against the earth.
Mars, the ancient god of war, was the
principal cause OF the destructive
storms in the Eastern sections the
first few days of January. Neptune
will be the principal cause of the
storms from January II to "a. All
orthodox scientists admit that Nep-
tune, the most distant planet of the
solar system, pulls the other planets
out of their orbits, but they deny that
any planet can materially affect the
| earth's atmosphere. The orthodox
scientists of Gallileo's time declared
that the earth was the center of the
| universe and that il does not move.
Watch the effects of Neptune on our
weather, January II to "a.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about January "a, cross Pacific
slope by close of %, great central val
leys 26 to 2S, Eastern sections 29.
Warm wave will cross Pacific slope
about January "a, great central valleys
26, Eastern sections %. Cool wave
will cross Pacific slope about January
81, great central valleys 90, Eastern
sections 81.
Cold weather will precede this dis
turbance, but the cool wave following
it will not go to very low tempera-
lures. Force of the storms will be
a little above the normal and the gen.
eral trend of temperatures will be up
ward till we have gone into February
The seasonal rains of South Ameri-
ca have been in accord with the fore
casts of these bulletins. For February
We are expecting the rains to be less
in Brazil and other sections south Of
the Amazon and greater in all the Sec
tions in the vicinities of the Gulf Of
Mexico.
Our general forecasts for December
rains for our hemisphere were cor
rect except for our Northwestern
coasts, where the rains concentrated
in Northern California instead of en-
tending north into British Columbia
A remarkable success was the fore
cast of heavy rains in our Southwest
ern States. Our November dry wealth
er for the vicinity of Omaha was a
good forecast.
We are expecting above normal
rainfall in our Southwestern States
during February. This is an unusual
forecast because of the great floods
in that section last December.
America is in splendid condition for
a revival OF business and better times,
but the unsettled condition in Euro
pean finances may retard our progress.
There is no good cause for a general
depression in this country and the
great financial manipulators must be
responsible for any bad results III
American financial affairs.
There is no such thing as natural
fluctuations in business affairs; these
are all the results of manipulations.
If prices of grain and cotton go lower
spectators must bear the blame.
Farmers got alarmed in December
and showed an unusual amount of corn
into the markets. but they were
shrewd enough to hold their best corn
and get rid of a lot of very bad corn
that will be doctored in the elevators.
The price of sulphur should go up as
much of that mineral is used in smok-
ing bad corn and making it market
able. Some elevators buy bad corn
and sell good corn later. They doc
tor it.