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of the Laws anil Theories of Meteor-
aafSb. ological Phenomena.
H. A. Hazen, in discussing the subject in
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, states that
the theory was advanced by Espy in 1835
that the energy of our storms and tornadoes
was entirely due to the latent heat sot free
in the condensation of the aqueous vapor in
the air. He supposed that a primary impulse
was given to an ascending current by the
heat of thesunfallingupon a certain limited
portion of the earth, and that saturated air in
this ascending current, through expansion
and cooling, had its moisture condensed.
This condensation liberated the latent heat
stored up through the process of evapora
tion, and this in turn heated up the air, pro
ducing a rarefaction and an increased up
ward motion. The longer this process went
on the more intense the action became, the
more heat was evolved, and thus more and
more force was evolved. Prof. Ferre
adopted this view in part, and said that
without the action of some constant force
the primary impulse would rapidly lose its
intensity through friction, and thus the dis
turbance wouldquickly come to an end. This
constant force he maintained was the heat
ing of the air through condensation, eto., as
letjforth by Espy. Prof. Mohn, one of the
most prominent meteorologists of Europe,
has gone still further, and has computed
the amount of energy brought out in do.
veloping a single Cuban hurricane during
October 5, 6, 7, 1844. He says : "The Cuban
hurricane, in moving the in-flowing air, de
veloped at least 473,500,000 horse-power in
these three days that is, at least fifteen
times as much energy as comes from aU
wind mills, water wheels, steam engines,
Locomotives, man and animal power of the
whole earth at the same time." He states
that all this power needed in the storm gen.
eration came from the latent heat set free
In the process of condensation.
This, then, must be considered the chief
Borner-stone of theories in regard to storm
formation. It seems exceedingly probable,
however, that this enormous development
of energy is purely and highly imaginary,
and that it is an attempt to make something
out of next to nothing. While undoubtedly
latent heat will be evolved if vapor be con.
densed, yet this evolution would seemtc
bring certain death to the very process of
condensation. Suppose we have a mass of
air and could condense its moisture without
altering its temperature tho Intent heat set
free would make just enough sensible heat
to again evaporate the moisture, and there
would be no rain, but every thing would re
main in statu quo. Suppose, however, we
take away enough heat to cool the air 10 de
grees for each cubio foot, this would amount
to the heat necessary to evaporate one-
seventh of a grain of moisture and must be
ken in part at least from the surrounding
If we cool the air 1 degree it will con
dense a certain amount of moisture, de-
penoingupon tne temperature, and this will
liberate exactly the same amount of heat
that was used in the original evaporation,
tn order to absorb this heat it is necessary
to cool the condensing air, and this can only
be done by imparting still more heat to the
surroundine air, so that we have increased
the temperature of the environment in two
ways, and thus have put a stop to all further
levelopment.
For example, let us cool a cubio foot of
laturated air from 80 to 79 degrees, and lot
"t""
gle cubic foot close by the first. We now
have 1 cubio foot of saturated air at 79 de
grees and another of unsaturated air at
about 81 degrees. The cooling to 79 degrees
has condensed one-third grain of moisture.
ind this has liberated latent heat which can
e disposed or only by heating the adjacent
cubic foot to 2.3 degrees. We have, then, if
there is no flaw in the reasoning, one-third
(train of moisture as rainfall, 1 cubic foot of
saturated air at 79 degrees and another ot
unsaturated air at S3.53. Suppose we mix
these, we shall have 2 cubio feet of air at
H 81 deree8 unsaturated, hence no
further rainfall can occur till this is again
ooled, and it can not be cooled except at
the expense of the surrounding air. It is
plain that this will be the effect even with
the most infinitesimal cooling and conden-
... . .
anon, nence we must conclude that no ap
appreciable rainfall can occur by these
processes, and the enormous energy devel
oped is a figment of the imagination, or else
that the heat evolved has been changed to
electricity or radiated into space or disposed
of in some other way. The processes here
in set forth seem to be exactly analagous to
those taking place when two masses of sat
urated air or widely-differing temperature
are mixed together, in which case all meteor
ologists are agreed there can be no appre
ciable rainfall, and, of course, no devel
opment of energy.
This seems a very startling result, and
some will ask: What can we substitute as
"auw. v; .T T 1 lb " ut5UWVeu W ?reai
many Intelligent people that meteorolcgy
nas not yet taken its first step toward a sat
isfactory solution of its profoundest prob
lems, and there has been scarcely a well
authenticated principle established even in
the simpler problems. We may well con
clude that the principal reason for this has
been the extreme proneness to adopt doubt
ful hypothesis, which has greatly ham
pered investigation. One of the first steps
Is to disprove these theories before we can
lay the foundation of a better structure.
The only possible way in which we can hope
to learn the formation of our storms and
the laws governing their movement is to
Investigate them in the open air, where, as
it is now admit ted by all, their power lies.
Tnis knowledge, it will be readily admitted
would be of .incalculablo benefit to all classes
A people, but especially to those living in
lOrnado districts, to seafaring men and to
I'armers. It is to be hoped that those inter
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teenth century there will undoubtedly soon
je a demand from many classes of people
,hat the investigation be undertaken. With
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SHIPPING DETECTIVES.
Men Whose Sole Business It Is to
Prevent Thefts.
They Shadow Consignments of Goods
from the Time Thy Leave tb
Store Until They Keacb. the
Depot.
While in conversation with his at
torney the other day the head ot one of
the largest wholesale dry goods houses
in the city had occasion to refer casu
ally to the various classes of men
whom his firm found it necessary to
employ, says the Chicago Herald.
After citing salesmen, various kinds of
clerks, credit man, cashier, book
keepers, etc., the head of the firm add
ed, "and shipping detectives."
"And what?" asked the attorney, as
though he had misunderstood the term.
"Shipping detectives," replied the
client.
"Well, that's a new one on me!" It
was also new to the Herald representa
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"There's nothing strange about that,"
said the wholesaler, "for the shipping
detective is quite a new thing Few
houses only the larger ones have
cause to employ them, and the house
that does usually keeps the matter as
much of a secret as the condition of its
bank account."
"What are his duties?"
"Principally to shadow consignments
of goods from the time they leave the
store until they reach the freight depot
and the railway company becomes re
sponsible for them by accepting and re
ceipting for them."
"A sort of watch-dog on the team
ster?" "Only in part. You see we ship a
great many small boxes which fre
quently contain hundreds of dollars
worth of goods, such as fine silks,
satins, rich trimmings, etc. Often the
wagon on which these boxes leave the
store passes through alloys or narrow
and unfrequented side streets. I need
not remind yon that there are scores of
of very bold, dexterous thieves in Chi
cago, as well as other big cities, who
are constantly on the lookout for op
portunities to nip anything whatever
that can be turned into money. Many
expensive experiences with these peo
ple have demonstrated that they keep
themselves remarkably well informed
as to the move valuable shipments made
by wholesale houses. In former years
it was an almost daily occurrence for
wholesale houses particularly those in
our line--to- heve. email boxes of fine
goods boldly taken from the wagons in
broad daylight while going the com
paratively small distance necessary
to be covered between store and freight
depot. Only a few years ago our firm had
three such boxes stolen at a clip from
one of our wagons at two o'clock in the
afternoon, while they were being carted
less than four squares. By a descrip
tion which was furnished of the thieves
by a bootblack we caught one of the
three bold laddies and sent him over
the road, but we never recovered the
goods, which were valued at over three
thousand dollars. This was but one of
several such losses. Now we have men
that do little else than keep their eye
on goods from the moment they are
placed on the transfer wagons until
they are safe within the responsibility
of the railroad company. And frequent
ly it keeps them dodging very lively,
for they, of course, follow the wagons
afoot, going along the sidewalk, and
keeping a sufficient distance in the rear
so as not to attract attention.
"Another duty of the shipping de-!
teetive for whom some houses have a
different name is to prevent, so far as
possible, the theft of consignment ad
dresses. There are firms doing busi
ness in this and, I suppose, other cities,
who employ men to lay in wait at vari
ous times and places and copy the ad
dresses on boxes of goods which other
firms are sending out. The object is
plain, namely, to have their salesmen
call on the parties later on and try to
get their trade. The shipping detec
tives employed by us have caught
several such sneaks, but notwithstand
ing they are guilty of plain unvarnished
thieving, yet all we can possibly hope
to do in the ma.ier is to drive them
away, or, when we catch them at it,
give them a sound basting. Of course
they will never reveal the name of the
firm they are stealing the addresses for,
and this makes it impossible for the rep
utable houses to publicly expose their
despicable masters. Such hirelings are
usually blacklisted clerks from other
cities and they hold their dishonorable
jobs but a short time. Anyone notic
ing the loads of boxed goods that are to
be seen npon the principal downtown
streets at any hour of. the day will ob
serve that as a rule the addresses are
not exposed. If they are, the boxes in
all probability represent imports in
stead of exports. A strict following of
this rule regarding the placing of
boxes on wagons is enforced by pearly
all the houses and goes far toward
guarding against the class of thieves
last mentioned."
A Georgia Htory.
Ben Pierce, colored, while fishing in
the run of Clyatt's mill creek, near Val
dorta, Ga., caught a small bream and,
as usual, when he pulled the fish he
jerked so hard that the fish went fif
teen feet above his head and lodged in
a thick cluster of bushes about five feet
from the ground Just as Ben looked
up for his fish he saw a large rattle
snake lodge on the buBhes. He threw
his pole down and stepped off a few
feet to get his gun. But on his return he
lounu tne biiune hau swanowea tue
fish and coma down from the bushes
and was crawling off with flsh, line
and pole. But Ben succeeded in killing
him. The snake measured seven feet
sine Inches, and had sixteen rattles and
a button.
The general merchandise establish
ment formerly owned by Coffin & McFar
land, has lately changed hands, now be
ing under the control and management
of The MoFarland Mercantile Companv,
which continues business at the old stand
with a larger stock than ever. a
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Boom Towns of the West That
Are Now Desolate.
The Rise and FaU of Mining Camps
.'Which Ooee Had Thousands of Peo
ple, But Are Now the Abodes of
Owls and Snakes.
If Oliver Goldsmith were alive to
make a tour of the far western states
and of some sections of the south, he
could find many a deserted village there
that was once the liveliest if not, like
his beloved Auburn, the loveliest of the
plain. In Kansas alone, according to
the New York World, where it would
appear that towns as well as individuals
have felt the disastrous results of
phlebotomy, there are fully twenty such
abandoned villages, and in Nevada,
California, fjeorgia and Alabama they
are numerous. Once thriving mining
camps like Bodie and White Pine that
grew great in a night; boom towns such
as Fargo Springs, that sprang up as
quickly as if a magician had called
them into being, and prosperous and
substantial cities like Sumner, in early
days the most important town and
prospective metropolis of Kansas
scores of these decayed municipalities
now lie abandoned and desolate, their
houses empty of human tenants and
rotting away, their streets thick with a
I rank growth of weeds, and only a few
old timers, or in some cases only a soli
I tary postmaster, left to tell men of the
present generation of their former
I bustle and prosperity. In various in
stances, as at Petersburg, in Georgia,
nothing but mounds of earth and a
populous cemetery remain to testify to
. the town's departed glory.
I Especially mournful has been the
fate of those abandoned towns whose
only inhabitants to-day are the animals
and reptiles that have left prairie and
sand hills to take refuge in the deserted
dwellings. Time has played one of his
most fantastic tricks with human for
tune in permitting owls to flit about
nnder the rafters that echoed all the
night through to the boisterous revelry
of owl clubs, and snakes to squirm un
der the very tables at which barkeepers
dealt out biting red eye in exchange for
gold dust; while wolves prowl through
the forsaken lair of the tiger. It is like
plunging into an atmosphore of gloom
to visit these blighted cities, for on
every side stand mute reminders of the
feverish activity of the past to Intensify
the sad stillness of the present.
Perhaps the most striking of accounts
of ruined boom towns are those which
relate the untoward fate of Pierce City
and Kit Carson. Less than a genera
tion ago Pierce City, with its lawless
population of twenty thousand miners
and gamblers, was one of the most
notable settlements between Denver
and the coast. Its inhabitants to-day
are a handful of Chinamen, while Kit
Carson has only one hundred loft of the
seven thousand restless souls, who
twenty years ago sought gold by day
and revelry by night.
TRIED HER LOVER'S PATIENCE.
Be Waited Two Hours, Then Started to
Leave In a Kag-e.
The London News gives this interest
ing version of Henrik Ibsen's courtship:
When he fell in love with the beautiful
daughter of Pastor Thoresen, how to
make known the fact to her troubled
him for weeks. At last he resolved to
write to her. no would come and fetch
his answer the same afternoon at five.
Did the lady accept him she would be
"at home," otherwise not. At five
o'clock he presented himself, and the
maid asked him to go into the best
room. He was very hopeful and was
glad to have time to collect him
self before he met the lady. But when
he had waited half an hour awful
doubts began to assail him. After an
hour had passed he imagined the letter
had not reached the young lady. Some
fatal mistake was making a fool of him.
Still he waited on. After two hours he
began tor he ashamed of himself. She
would learn that he had sat two hours
in that deserted house and would laugh
at him. At last he jumped up in a rage
and ran to the door. He was opening
it when a loud peal of laughter ar
rested him. He turned and saw the
fair bead of his adored emerge from
under the sofa. Her mouth was laugh
ing but her eyes were filled with tears,
"Oh, you dear, good fellow, to wait all
this while!" she said. "I wanted to
see how many minutes a lover's pa
tience lasts. How hard the floor is!
Now help me to get out, and then we
will talk." In less than a week the
marriage was arranged. . j.
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The paper this month oontains many
new and valuable features. The illus
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is introduced by a paper on the Friends
Polytechnic Institute at Salem, Oregon.
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value both to the eohools an 1 to the
public.
There are also several fine articles
by our best writers and the departments
"Current Events,""Satnrday Thoughts,"
"Eduoational News" "The Oracle
Answers, Correspondents," etc, eaoh
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printed and arranged. We pronounce
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We take this opportunity of informing
our subscribers that the new commis
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anticipate that there will be any radical
changes in the administration of pension
ufifairB nnder the new regime.
We would advise, however, that D. S,
soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take
steps to make application at onoe, it
they have not already done so, in order
to seoure tbe benefit of tbe early filing
of their claims in esse tbere should be
any future pension legislation. Buoh
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p USES OF VARIOUS DOGS. "H
very Doc Has Ills Specialty, and That
rof the Pug Is Looking Ugly.
A St. Bernard dog set out to look for
help, says Harper's Young People. He
came upon a Newfoundland dog, and
said to him: "I will hire thee to guard
my children, and to rescue, if by chance
one of them fall into the water."
To the mastiff ho said: "Thee will I
take for thy great courage to ward me
from all harm. "
To the shepherd dog said he: "My
flocks shalt thou watch over by day and
by night."
And unto the hound he said: "You
shall chase the wily fox."
And to the spaniel: "When I shoot
you are to swim for the game."
And to the bulldog. "You shall catch
the bull by the nose, and hold him."
And to the terrier: "Rats! rats! ratal
is all that I shall say to you."
Then looking down at the silken
poodle he said: "Well, if my mistres
hath time and so li;.'ht a mind as tc
dandle with you she may take you."
But turning an eye askanton the puR
he said: "As for you, brainless little
lump, neither I nor my spouse ca,re o
whit, since your clay image is as good
as yourself."
LangiinKcs In Gorman Colonies.
The Germans are now making a col
lection of the languages spoken in their
colonics that is, their agents are pre
paring dictionaries of these languages
as rapidly as possible. The task is no
small one. In east Africa the languages
number fifty; in southwest Africa,
twelve; in Camermms. twe ity; in Toga,
five or six, and In the German South
sea possessions at least fifty. In addi
tion are many dialects which are almost
entitled to rank as distinct languages.
Honors, World's Fair.
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