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Show SCIENTIFIC NOTES. ImgaUrlty la Ike Stern Ware. Cause or Droatk. The Son. Carretpondeace cf tbe Dtsiaurr Xcsra. Some irregularity will occur In the next storm waves because the moon crosses the earth's equator at the same, time that the storm wave will bo Jue on the Pacific coast and the storm will show its greatest force there at that time while an extra ex-tra storm wave will (rab-ibly develop de-velop in tho Mississippi Valley at the same lime. Tho regular storm wave will be due U leave the Pacific Pa-cific coast about the 22nd, cross the great middle valley from the 23rd to tho 25 th and reach tho Atlantic coast about the 26th. Willi this storm will end the severe November Novem-ber disturbances and I cxrei t some very fine December weather. There will be two quite severe storms In that mouth, however, and the last one will Inaugurate the fifty-two days' rain period which last occurred oc-curred about the 23th of October. CAUSE OF DnoCTH. An esteemed friend near Fort Worth, Texas, wants to know the cause of tho extreme rainy and drouth years. I know the cause but the detaiU aro very difficult to calculate-. When a superior planet these outside of tbe earth's orbit is at perihelion, Its nearest approach to the earth Uie increased electrical elec-trical tension expands our atmosphere at-mosphere by evaporating more of the earth's waters. This causes a deeper atmosphere which floats the moisture to more elevated regions like the Dakoca, leaving dry weather near the sea level. When the planet is at Aphelion farthest from tho earth as Jupiter has been for three jears last, it has the reverse influence, a shallow atmosphere that will not float the moisture to elevated regions and the heavy rains fall near the sea Iecl as has been the cose in Texas for three years. But there are five of these planets. Mars passes pass-es perihelion about once iu 23 months, Jupiter in U Jears, Saturn 29 years, Uranus 84 years and Lsv-euer Lsv-euer 16J years. They jss their aphelion half way between their perihelion. Their influences some-limes some-limes neutralize each other. The middle ground Kansas and Colorado Col-orado sutler from both extreme?, ex-treme?, causing drouth. Jupiter Jupi-ter has Influence equal to all the othtr planets. When the perihelion or aphelion of Jupiter aud Saturn occur at the same time the effect is disastrous but this cau occur not oftcner than oucu in thirty years. It occurred iu 1SGS-9 and will occur again in Ia90. Saturn ras at aphelion iu 1970-1, Jupiter in October, 1S35, Mars Nov. It), 1SS9. By long and careful calculations cal-culations the results from these influences may be es.imated. Another An-other Influence must betaken into the account. When tbe planets are south of the earth's equator tue ihiII tbe atmosphere south leav ig it shallow north and the reve -e when they are north of the earth's equator. Tli's may add to or detract de-tract from the other influences mentioned. men-tioned. The Earth, Venus and Mercury have tbe same influences at shorter Intervals. The moon's perigee and apogee have a like influence. IS THE SUX A JlURMStl MASs? Several gentlemen of San Antonio, itxas, havesub-nlttod a number of questions which I will repl) to as space will permit. One cf these questions is: "How do you reach the conclusion that the sun Is not a burning mass?" The laws or niture nust be the same everywhere and Iu all time and the sun must have come Into existence by the same forces in the same manner and of (tie same materials as did tho earth, and there is no evidence that the earth was ever a burning mas;. All evidences of heat in the earth can be accounted fur by volcanic action nnd volcanoes arc caused by burning ases, coal, etc., Ignited by the ilec-trlc ilec-trlc current that Is known to move from cast to west ia what geologists call the crust of the earth. The iroad tops of the Andes mountains in South America, u idir tbe equa- Cir, where the eun has Its greatest power, are covered with perpetual snow, although they are nearer (lie sun than are the valleys below. if fie sun is hot ami the heat comes to U3 from it, the snow on (lie mountain would melt before it would In the valley. Our atmosphere atmos-phere resists heat aud heat coming from tho suit would luso its force as it comes down through the ttmosphere, lut wc find thai at the equator when the sun is overhead the heat is more than 1CK degrees srreater at sea level than It is five miles above and nearer to the tun. This proves that the electric currents cur-rents from the sun, resisted by our atmosphere, aro heated just as are the electric currents when tluy pass ihrojgh a telegraph or other wire that is a poor conductor. Llectrlcl-ty Llectrlcl-ty coming from the sun would increase in-crease the heat in passing through our atmosphere to the earth while heat would decrease In intensity from tho time it reached theatmos phere above till It reached the earth at s-a level, thertfurc It cannot be heat and must bo electricity. When we ascend far up Into the atmosphere atmos-phere thesun loses Its light en J is not brighter thin the full moon it sea level; thu heavens become I lack Instead In-stead ot blue. The solatlon of the earth causes a deeper atmosphere at the equator than far from it and there the run and moon appear brightest. We know that light heal and electricity are tliesameond that when cither loses its Identity and is disolved it changes to the other two. We can take the sunlight and bauge It to electricity and heat, then chauge the electricity to light tnd heat and then the heat back to light and electricity. As we can mike lleht the electric light from electricity why is it not reasonable mat nature mikes our beat nnd light from the sun's electricity? Space outsldeof ouratmospbere is intensely intense-ly cold ani how can heat from the sun pass through ninety two millions mil-lions of miles of space that is a thousand times colder than ice and still retain its heat? But electricity will tutss thmtiffhisnlil fr beat and It will make light and heat whenever (he conditions aro favorable. The light of the tun Is not hot as I will try to prove when I reply to the questions of those gentlemen in rvf-renci. In light and the growing of planets into suns. I believe I can ruuuce circumstantial evldeucr Ihat will be regarded as positive proof on these poluts. Before me-terolojry me-terolojry can advance and become a practical science our science must be reformed and converted to the true theory which is that the universe uni-verse ot worlds have been bullded of atoms by electricity. W. T. Foster. St. JoSEnr,Mo., November, 1S93. |