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Just as positive of their advance Information on the DO dnys of December, January nnd February, plus as nmuy days before, la November, and as muny days after, In March, ns logically constitute the cold season, will dpclnre, "It's going to he a short, mild winter.'' If It is the "long, cold winter school of prophets who are having their say they will point to the fact that: The breastbone of the Thanksgiving goose It thick and solid. The ducks End geese went South fully six weeks head of their schedule. Hornets have built their queer paper houses high to nvold deeply drifted snow. The husks on the corn were tight about the ears at harvest time. The squirrels have laid In an extra large supply of nuts. The foxes' tur Is heavier than usual. The muskrats have built their stick houses earlier thnn usual. . The beaver hns prepared his home, with a good supply of food in it, at least a month earlier than usual. The acorns are unusually plentiful, so that those animals which depend upon them for food tfill not run short before the winter is over. The opossum igU -- Is holing up underground. Toadstools on the logs have many wrinkles. The owls have retired to the woods much earlier than usual Rut if It Is the "short, mild winter" host of prognoiticutors who are being oracular, they will tell you their belief Is based upon the fact that: n omens upon which they based their predictions make a colorful story. Between the years 1907 and 1913 long accounts of the prophets and their doings appeared, under a Reading date line, In Philadelphia newspapers and were widely copied in other parts of the country. These things were not confined to one season of the year, but they rose to a climax of entertainment in the autumn, when the rural saues were alleged to hold a "convention," at which they decided what kind of winter was in store. In 1912, for example, tho report of their proceedings reads, in part, ns follows: "The weather prophets of Berks county, Pennsylvania, who have forecast the weather for many years, held their annual convention at Lobachsvllle, d this county, when, by a vote, it was agreed that the coming winter wilf be an unusually severe one. Weather prosnosticators from all sections of the county were represented and exchanged their views on the subject. Many are close followers of the veteran goosebone weather prophet, Ellas Harti, who died several years ago and who was considered one of the best weather prophets of his day. "Loyal supporters of the goosebone theory all declare for a severe winter. They have noticed the covering of feathers on geese born last spring and say that they have the appearance of being ruffled considerably. This leads them to believe t.'iat after the geese are killed for Thanksgiving day the breast bone will show many discolorations. "The annual convention of the weather prognos-tlcatowas Interesting in every particular. Those in attendance expressed their views freely. Some are guided by the action of small animals and reptiles, while' others pay close attention to the trees and shrubbery. "Gideon Keller of Brecknock, aged eighty-twyears, said: "'When I was a boy 1 learned the signs of the weather from my father, who always foretold the seasons with success. We will have a cold winter, and It will not start late either. 1 believe the seasons are changing, the summers are becoming shorter and cooler, and the winters longer and more severe. The leaves on the trees began to color some weeks ago and have already started to fall. This is an Indication that the winter will be cold. The apple crop Is earlier than usual. Another sign of a cold winter Is the fact that the weeds are very tall. Nature permits the weeds to grow tall to make provisions for the birds and animals that two-thir- rs The thin. breastbone of the Thanksgiving goose Is The ducks and geeBe were hurry to reach their popular winter resorts In the South. The hornets have built their nests near the ground. The husks on the corn were loose and oasily tripped oft. The squirrels evidently believe that the world owes them living ,for they've laid up but few nuts against the day' when foraging for food will be necessary The foxes' fur Is lieht. The muskrats and the beavers were very leisurely about getting their houses In order for the winter. There are not many acorns In the woods this In no year. The opossum la depending upon hollow tree for his winter home. Toadstools on the logs have few, If any, wrinkles. The owls are still and bout the farmhouses of an evening. So there you are Take jour choice as to the kind of winter you'll have. Then seek out the local oracles und If one of them doesn't predict the kind of winter you want, another probably will. As for weather predicting by local oracles in g"neml and one famous case In particular consider this historic instance which was revived not so long ago bv Charles F. Talman, writing in the New York Times Magazine as follows: I This blather about what h said In remote settle, tncnts on the subject of winr portents la a hardy annual, as much as the apotheosis of the groundand the revival of Swlthln's hog on February tainted memory on July 15. Much of It Is quite obviously meant to be taken with several large grains of salt. It Is obvious that many a country newspaper correspondent keeps a weather prophet handy at all times In the upper right-han- d drawer of nis writing table Not only In the autumn but also at any opportune moment throughout the year this familiar spirit Is evoked to enlighten tha world with his meteorologicrj wisdom. There was one remarkable case, now fading Into an oblivion from which It deserves to be rescued, In which not merely one but a whole bevy of these obedient sprites haunted the sanctum of a talented Munchausen In Reading, Pa. This town, with the surrounding Berka county, The Is a sironghold of V ennsylvanla-Germanlsregion is rich In 'folklore, much of which relates to weather, and It appears to always have been well supplied with weather prognostlratora of local renown Writing ot these worthier In the n of July 1905. Rev. John liaer Pennsylvania-Germa. say: fall after the T"ry are turned to the Utoudt Thanksgiving festival all city ot Keading, and we yea anxiously await the prediction and forecasts of the weather for 'he subsequent winter by the famous goosebone prophet, Ellas Harts. It was with a algh and a shiver that Inst fall we received winter, ho famous prophecy of an with billiards, sero weather and heavy snows." liut our fear and anxieties were somewhat allayed vhen his foierasts were followed by those of Isaac ki Hennlng and Benjamin Stover, both of Reading; Abraham Btrauxker of blonmsburg and (Jeorge toting ot Hill Church, each of whom d pi dieted a gennt!d winter. Kveiy on of the tlemen ctflculste and makes his forecasts by and Independent methods." The unvarnished facts about the Berks county Vsalber prypheis and the traditional signs and -- above-name- aep-kri- o use te this Igffl fiB For 50 Years Acorns i WHAT'S THE WEATHER AT HOME? Hun. reds of travelers daily leaving Washing-teview this weather map at the Union station before boarding their trains. A glance at any one of the 48 states will tell you what the weather Is for 24 hours ahead. The map is changed daily. Two travelers can be seen looking over the chart b;f ore train time. food.' "Quite a number of other weather prophets made their predictions. It was reported in substance that muskrats have bvgun building early; that corn husks are thick, with tfte stalks leaning to the west; that geeBe, ducks and chickens are growing a thick down under their feathers and a bony substance on their feet: that squirrels are laying up unusual supplies of provender; that toadstools on old loss have many wrinkles; and that owls have retired to the woods much earlier thnn usual." In this and other bulletins from Berks the prophets mentioned were all fictitious with the exception of Hartx, who was a celebrity of earlier date, and their reputed conventions were, of course, equally mythical; but the prophetic methods ascribed to them were very largelv Identical with those that have prevailed from early times among e the Pennsylvania Hermans, as well as among of other racial groups in America. The hoax was admirably carried out. Millions of newspaper readers all over the country took It seriously, and it even ruffled for a moment the serenity of the United States government At the close of 1912 the weather bureau established one of Its regular stations at Heading. When official weather forecasts began to appear at that place, the native prophets were repurtei to be up In arnw. Finally in January, 1913, a oer spaper item was widely circulated to the effect that a meeting of the local prognosticators had been h Id at Buyer-towat which resolutions were drawn up strongly condemning the federal authorities for the Invasion of their territory Thi led to an official investigation. The myth was exploded, and thus a goodly fellowship of prophets whose sage announcements had been quoted far and wide in the press melted Into thin air. peo-Di- - The writer quoted above then proceeds to demolish some of these "wtuther signs," especially those in regard to this "Ions, cold" or "short, mild" winter, (.'ounncntlng upon the goosebone prophecy, the thickness or tightness of corn husks, the storing of food by squirrels and the thickness of the fox's fur, he continues: These and many similar notions are not, so far as anybody knows, based on actual observations, scientific or otherwise, but pureJy on tradition. In order to justify them on scientific grounds w should have to assume that certain weather conditions In the autumn, differing In some degree from the average, are Invariably followed by certain types ot winter. If this were the case, then animals and plants might be supposed to have acquired, through a process of evolution, reactions to the various autumnal conditions that would tend to prepare them for the consequent winter conditions. Analysis of meteorological records falls, however, to disclose any such definite relationship between abnormal features of the weather in autumn and the character of the subsequent winter. There has been very little scientific discussion of the alleged biological phenomena Just mentioned One of the few naturalists who ever gave the subject serious attention was the late Dr. Charles C. Abbott For twenty years he kept records of the building of muskrat houses and the amount of nuts and seeds stored by squirrels in the neighborhood of his home in New Jersey. According to tradition prevailing in that state and elsewhere, muskrats build houses above ground only in the autumn preceding unusually cold winters, while in other years they take up their quarters in sub- terranean burrows. So far as Abbott's the World's most reliable and efficient treatment for preserving and beautifying the Skin and Hair. Cuticura Soap and Cuti cura Ointment are more popular today than at any tine in their history. Cuticura Shaving Stick a delight to men. Cuticura Talcum for soothing and cooling, each everywhere. Sample, Soap, Ointment and Talcum free. Address : Cntloura, Dept. B9, Maiden, Maaa. observa- tions go there Is no truth in this idea. The list of animals whose habits are supposed to prognosticate winter weather Is a long one. It is said that if opossums are found In the autumn In hollow trees, the winter will be milder than If they burrow In the ground. Dunwoody, In his "Weather Proverbs," says: "In early and long winters the beaver cuts his winter supply of wood and prepares one month earlier than in mild, lata winters." An English authority on weather lore mentions the belief that "when the field mouse makes its burrows with the opening to the south, it expects a severe winter; when to the north, it apprehends much rain." Birds of passage are said to migrate early cr late in the autumn according to the kind of wlr-t- er at hand, but not the slightest support of this notion is to be found In the voluminous records of bird migrations that have been collected in recent times by such agencies as the United States biological survey. The flight of geese is popularly supposed to be of special significance. One fantastic tradition has it that these birds form figures in their flight, denoting the number of weeks of freezing weather to follow. This idea is reminiscent of the divining methods practiced by the Roman augurs. appearance of the Arctic birds In the autumn far south of their usual haunts has been thought to forebode a hard winter a notion that was espoused by the late John Burroughs. The rather plausible assumption involved is that the birds are driven south by exceptionally severe conditions in the Arctic, and that such conditions should be followed by severe weather In middle latitudes. The meteorological relatlans between t'ie polar regions and the temperate zone are, by no means so simple as the champions ot this belief suppose, nor does It rest on systematic observations of any sort. The TF you have not yet filled up on UTAH GRAND -- COAL you're missing something. UTAH-GRANis different, it's a HARDER, LONGER LASTING COAL. It MAKES NO STRINGY SOOT and NO CLINKERS, and does not go to slack. It burns almost like Anthracite, holds fire all night and does equally as well in range, heater, brooder or furnace. 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"There is also much reuson in the saying, 'When the grass is dry at morning light, look for rain before the night. When dew Is on the grass, rain will never come to puss for one of the very best indicators of weather for the day is the state of dew in the morning. It gathers on grass and other exposed objects when they are cool enough to condense it out of the nir. Just as moisture Is condensed ou the side of a pitcher tilled wiib Ice water. Now, the grass and other outdoor things cool considerably only on clear, still nights, Ihe kind that occur during a spell of fine weather and at no other time. Hence a heavy dew men us that the air was still and the sky clear, at least during the latter halt of the night. And it la Salt Lake City, ftah. 3rd West J. J. S3ICoan Wrecking Went So. Temple St. Near By J NY5! 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