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CURRENTS THEY CAN'T STUDY
Atmospheric Conditions Away Above
the Earth Are Beyond Their Reach
and Are Consequently Unknown Fac
tors —Methods of the Ancients.
The art of predicting the weather is
one in which it seen\s at first sight the
modern scientist ought easily to sur
pass his ancestors. Vet it may be
doubted whether he is really more
successful in it than they were. The
meteorological department boasted
some time back that their forecasts of
weather as published in the daily press
were justified by the result in 52 per
cent of the cases recorded. As the per
centage of correct guesses in a suffi
ciently extended list, however, would
exactly equal the incorrect, this does
not show a very gTeat superiority for
scientific methods over pure conjec
ture.
Yet the meteorological department
enjoys the advantage, as our ances
tors. of course, did not. of elaborate
and accurate recording instruments,
like Seechi's meteorograph, together
with telegraphic reports from weather
stations dispersed nearly all over the
surface of the globe. Its relative non
success shows perhaps that there is
still a factor in the problem which it is
at present impossible to estimate.
This is the more extraordinary be
cause the modern method of forecast
ing the weather differs entirely from
that practiced by the ancients. With
them It was simply a question of time
and season, or. what is the same thing,
of the appearance or disappearance of
certain stars.
When Hesiod's husbandman saw the
Pleiades he knew it was time for him
to begin his harvest, and when they
set forty days later, his plowing. This
might still be a good enough rule for
countries near the equator, where the
prevalence of trade winds, which blow
uninterruptedly in the direction in
which the sun appears to travel,
and where the monsoons, which in the
countries east of Suez blow for six
months the other way, help to keep the
weather, if not constant, yet regular.
In other latitudes, however, there is
no such help, and he who would pre
dict the weather must therefore con
fine himself to finding out what winds
are blowing in other parts of the
world and wffien they are likely to
rejfch him.
As to this, modern science still de
pends mainly on the observations made
by Halley, who discovered in the sev
enteenth century during a voyage in
the tropics how’ the sun so warmed the
air at the equator that the heated air,
rising after its manner, dispersed itself
toward the poles and was replaced by
a rush of cold air from the regions
farther from the sun.
This, which explains the phenomenon
of trade winds, was really the founda
tion of modern meteorology, although
it was reserved for Halley, some fifty
years later, to point out that, thanks to
the rotation of the earth on its own
axis, both kinds of winds stray some
what from their apparent objective.
Later Dove's "law of rotation" was
discovered, which declares that in cer
tain latitudes the wind will nearly al
ways follow the sun s motion—-i. e.. will
pass from N. through N. E., and from
S E. to S.. completing the circle by
passing from S. to N. through the
west, but will very seldom move the
reverse way.
Finally, there comes in what is
known as the law of Busy Ballot,
which is that, in the northern hemi
sphere, if one stands with one's back
to the w ind the line of lower pressure
is always on one's left hand.
This enables us to understand what
is meant by the cyclonic and anti
cyclonie disturbances which are so
frequently mentioned in the official
forecasts as approaching us, general
ly from the Atlantic.
if within any particular spot the
pressure is lower than it is outside it.
the wind blows round it in the con
trary direction to the hands of a
watch and is called cyclonic from the
similar behavior of the West Indian
hurricanes named cyclones. This is
because the lowest pressure to any
one standing with his back to the w T ind
Is always on one's left hand. If, how
ever. the pressure within the area in
question is higher than outside it. the
wind blows round it clockwise and is
called anti-cyclonic. I
One circumstance against modern
methods of forecasting the weather
correctly outweighs all those in their
favor. TTie winds that can be ob
served aye a!! those blowing close to
the earth's surface. What is the ef
fect of tiie currents prevailing at even
a few' miles above it. where, as avia
tors constantly declare thsre are even
“holes" and "pockets" in the atmos
phere? Until there is more informa
tion on this, meteorology will not be
an exact science.—Detroit Free Press.
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TALE OF A BADLY USED TURK.
A Truthful Account of an Experience
at the Court of the “Illuminator of
the Universe’’ That Reads Like a
Story From the Arabian Nights.
Many fantastic stories are related of
Abdul Hamid, the ex-sultan of Tur
key. and his court. The following,
however, came to me from a reliable
source, writes a contributor to Cham
bers' Journal, aud once when I , told
the story in company one of my listen*
i ers told me that he personally knew it
to be true. It is worthy of a place
among Scheherazade's famous tales.
Not far from the sultan's palace lived
a certain Ahmed Rushdi Effendi, one
of the hundreds of clerks employed at
the sublime porte. Ahmed's duties
consisted of writing ornate official
communications to provincial gover
nors. For this he was supposed to re
ceive a salary of *2OO plasters (about
$8) per month. If. however, he receiv
ed this salary six times a year he
thought himself lucky.
Compared to many of his colleagues
In the government offices, Ahmed was
in comfortable circumstances. He
owned his own house, so he had uo
rent to pay. aud he gave his leisure
time to cultivating the tiny garden
that supplied his family with fruit
and vegetables the whole year round.
Ahmed Effendi. not being ambitious,
was a contented man.
In his peaceful household there was
only one discordant note. The cause
was a dwarf peach tree in Ahmed's
garden that bore every year six or
eight mammoth peftches. Early in his
married life his wife dreamed that her
husband would one day attain emi
nence and that the peaches were con
nected with his fortune.
Fifty times each year she urged him
to take the peaches as an offering to
the sultan. "We are simple people.”
she would say. "Such magnificent
peaches are not for us. Carry them, I
pray thee, to the palace and present
them to the benefactor of the world."
But Ahmed would reply:
“Wife, uo good comes to those who
have relations with the palace. I, who
have always been discreet, do not wish
to fall under suspicion.”
But at last, after twenty years, Ah
med yielded to his wife's Importunity
and carried the beautiful fruit to the
palace. There he entrusted the peach
es to the grand chamberlain, wh<>,
knowing the sultan’s fondness for
fruit, promptly carried them into the
presence of the Illuminator of the Uni
verse. The sultan graciously accept
ed the gift and commanded Ahmed to
wait until he was at liberty in order
that he might himself thunk the grow
er of such splendid fruit.
It happened that the reception room
where the scribe awaited the pleasure
of the sovereign was filled with a
band of suspected bomb throwers, and
Ahmed was presently hustled away
to prison with the supposed revolu
tionaries. He was thoroughly confus
ed by the rough treatment of the
guards and could only stammer: “I
am the man who brought the peaches!
1 am the man who brought the
peaches!”
In prison he soon became known as
“the mau of the peaches” and was
looked upon as a harmless lunatic.
After many months the suspected
bomb throwers, including Ahmed,
were brought before the criminal
court. He told his story to the judge
and asked that the grand chamberlain
be called to confirm his words. The
judge granted his request and was
greatly surprised when the dignitary
told of the arrival of Ahmed at the
palace some months ago and of his
mysterious disappearance. The cham
berlain took the alHicted scribe to bis
own suit in the palace and went to ex
plain matters to the sultan.
The sultan, sincerely sorry for the
unlucky mistake, commanded the
chamberlain to promise Ahmed that
any wish of his should be fulfilled.
Ahmed replied that be would accept
not one. but three gifts, and that he
must name them to the sultan per
sonally The sultan was much con
cerned and ordered the scribe ushered
into his private study.
"Sire.’’ said Ahmed. “I ask for a
hatchet, the' sum of 200 piasters and
a copy of the Koran.”
“Your desire is granted.” answered
the sultan, “on condition that you ex
plain the meaning of your singular
i request.”
“Sire,” replied our hero, “with the
200 piasters 1 shall obtain a divorce
from my wife, the original cause of
all my trouble; with the hatchet I in
tend to cut down my peach tree, and
upon the Koran I wish to swear an
oath never to enter the palace gates
again so long as I live.”
Mr. W. L. Brown, of Lawrence
viile, was in tlie city Monday.
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Physicim and Surgeon.
Winder, Oa,
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Booms 101-2-3
Calls answered promptly day or
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G. A. JOHNS,
Attorney at Law.
Winder, (4a.
Office over Smith & Carithers’
Bank. Practice in all the courts
except City Court of Jefferson.
W. 11. QUARTERMAN.
Attorney at Law
Winder, Ga.
Practice in all the Courts
Commercial law a specialty.
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OH ice over Smith & Carithers
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25, 1913. _____
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Api> ly to A. J. Wages, ‘Winder, 1
IrH., Route 21. 7 miles East of*
Winder. _ 2-19 L
Mr. J. C. Williams, of Sta.tham,j ■
was in the city Monday.