Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — WHAT OF THE WEATHER [ARTICLE]

WHAT OF THE WEATHER

POSTER'S FORECASTS TELL THE STORY. Tim Weather WUI Continue Very Warn —Drouth In the Cotton Belt—Winter * Will Be Lnte and Fall Wheat Should Dj Sown Late. Meteorological Matters. My last bulletin save forecasts of the storm wave to cross the continent from 17th to 21st, and the next willreaoh the Paoltlo ooast about the 22d, cross the Western mountains by the close of the 23d, the great central valleys from 24th to 26th, and the Pastern States about the 27th. The weather will continue to average very warm, and the principal storm waves and rainfalls will range northward. Portions of the cotton belt will suffer greatly from drouth, while in some of the Cppor Mississippi Valley States excessive rains will occur. A good stage of water for navigation purposes will continue In the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers. In the Northern States the time for fall plowing is near at hand, and the ground is expected to be in good condition, with moisture sufficient to give fall sown orops a good start. Winter will come late, we will have a late fall, and the winter crops will make a large growth before the first of December, therefore where a large growth of fall wheat is not desired, it will be best to sow late. In the Southern States the weather will be more favorable to winter gardening than last winter was. Local Forecast*. Weather changes move from west to Bast across the continent, and each local forecast Is made for within 250 mileß east and west of the magnetic meridian mentioned, and for\all the country between 25 and 50 degrees of north latitude. These local weather changes will occur within twenty-four hours before or after sunset of the dates given: SANTA FE, DENVER AND BLACK HILLS MERIDIAN. July—--24 Storm wave on this meridian. 25 Wind changing. 26 — Cooler and olearlng. 27 Fair and cool. 23 — Moderating. 29 Warmer. 30 — Storm wave on this meridian. GALVESTON, KANSAS CITY AND MINNEAPOLIS MERIDIAN. July—--24 Warmer. 25 Storm wave on this meridian. 26 — Wind changing. 27 Cooler and clearing. 28— Fair and cool. 29 Moderating. • 30— Wariner. ATLANTA, CINCINNATI AND LANSING MERIDIAN.* July--24 Moderating. 25 — Warmer. 26 Storm wave on this meridian. 27 Wind changing. 28— Cooler and clearing. 29 Fair and cool. 30 — Moderating. The Keith’* Geology. If the atmosphere at one time contained all the oarbon now Btored away in the earth, it is claimed that plant life would then have grown 1,000 times more rapidly than now, because oarbon, In the condition of earbonlo acid, is the food of plants. That muy be true, but Ido not believe It. The sunshine is necessary to the growth of plant life, but too much sunshine will kill the plant. Water is necessary to plant life, but too much water will destroy it. Carbonic acid la necessary to plant life, but let us lnoreas® the amount now In the atmosphere 1,000 times, and who will say that it would not destroy plant life? The UpttH valley In Java is not necessarily a desert, but as no vegetable grows there, It Is believed that tne carbonic acid, which is eighteen feet deep, is the cause of Its bare fields. There Is not now enough oxygen In our a’ mosphere to hold in combination the carbon now deposited in our earth. Carbon could not long exist in the atmosphere us carbon, but must have comuined with oxygen to form carbon'c acid. The theory that our coal beds wore derived from vegetable decay requires that all the carbon did once exist os carbonic acid, and this Is an impossibility because of an insufficient quantity of oxygen. Our geologist s must invent some other theory of coal formation. If 12,500 feet of carbonic acid did once surround the earth, such vegetation as we now have could not have lived in It because of the great pressure. Carbonic acid is twice the weight of our atmosphere, and vegetation that would grow under such a pressure would not only be as hard as stone but would be of exceedingly b ow growth, and this does not answer the requirements, for the vegetable thedry requires a rapid growth. I have pretty thoroughly discussed the theories connected with vegetable origin of coal, and back of that lies the impossibility of placing the- carbon In the atmosphere. How came it there? If It was thrown out In the form of smoke from a burning world, the heat of that burning world would drive the oxygen out of tbe atmosphere off into space, and the carbon clouds or smoke would remain In the atmosphere as unconsumed fuel. Things are not what they seem. The beautiful evening star we see following tbe sun as it sinks In tbe west is as bright as any of the blazing orbs that are supposed to be on fire, but none of our astronomers hold that Venus Is a burning world. In fact there is no proof that any of the planets contain more heai than does the earth, while it Is well known that Jupiter and Saturn shine, to some extent, of their own light. In fact, the earth Bhines of Its own light through its aurora, or northern lights, and these lights will yet Le recognized as of the same nature as the inherent light of Jupiter, Saturn and the sun. Every astronomer declares that the moon Is a burned out, dead body, devoid of water, and without an atmosphere, a cold and decaying wcaTd. But Prof. Proctor says that the moon has a perceptible influence on our magnetio needles, and as magnetism is the source of light and heat, the magnetism, light and heat of our earth are affected by the cold, dead moon. Then it is not necessary that the sun be a hot body, for Its magnetism is all sufficient to produce the light and heat in our atmosphere. The supposed inherent heat of the sun is what leads geologists to the theory that the earth was once a burning body, as the sun now is. We-canilot have a correct basis for weather changes till we arrive at a correct theory as to the physical forces and the building of a universe, egd all my arguments on geology and physical agronomy are directed toward the overthrow of the false basis upon which these two sciences ahe placed. When I shall have shown the earth could not have come to' its present condition along the lines pointed out by astronomers and geologists, I will then put forth the only true basis on which to build the sciences of physical astronomy, geology, and meteorology. Copyrighted law by W. T. Foster.