Show TIlE TIIE PROPHET LIVES There is ono one state in the time Union where a weather prophet has to tell the truth or go out of oC business That ThatIs Is Missouri An Any Any- forecaster there has s to show them If he doesn't his prophecies would be laughed at an and l he would be he hooted across the bridge Into a state where a sucker Is born c every er minute This man Hicks who Is placarded as Rev fey In Irl Irl has been Issuing a weather magazine from St. St Louis for many years and he is doin doing more business today today than ever er before His weather prophecies are arc right rIcht We TIre dont don't know how he does loes s it but he doc does For ye years rs we have havo been taking his magazine stripping stripping strip strip- ping from It the time chatter that seems to masquerade a as science the talk of at perihelion and apogee of Capricorn and Leo and finding that what remains weather weather forecasts fore fore- casts are casts aro right There has been an example in the present month Hicks' Hicks almanacs aro are Issued In December of or each ellch year an and I the they contain a prophetic view of ot the time weather for forthe forthe forthe the entire following year Last December this S Hicks 1001 looked out nut over O the back fence or somewhere and saw that June A. A A. A D D. 1907 would be cold and cloud cloudy with plenty o of rain for dry farming and altogether too much for picnics And he said soNo soo so o No being In Missouri urI ho had to produce that kind of weather AntI And U if you OU can find some one one- in these United States who doesn't think June Juno has been cold and rainy cloud cloudy and mean you OU should make a n. note of or it Our government go weather bureau men are arc more moro mori modest The They give out one day a pretty accurate forecast forecast forecast fore fore- cast for the succeeding twenty-four twenty hours and when the they hit it twice In succession the they throw bouquets at each ench other Hicks hits it a a. whole ye year r at a time and repent repeats for a decade or 01 two two and never ne gets ets a flower But ut then therm Hicks has to Boin Being in tn Missouri ho he must show them One reads his book and hates hatt's him But Butone ono one doesn't declare beforehand that ho Is prophesying prophesying- Impossible weather That Is s one who vho is wise doesn't do o that or at least doesn't do It moro more than once We re all hate hato him for knowing a year beforehand what hat is bad enough for us to know when It comes But Hut we realize tho the fact that Hicks has the time right dope on the weather wherever wherever he ha gets it An And we bu buy coal and comforts accordingly |