| Show STORMS PREDICTED WEATHER prognostications and prognosticators have became so numerous of late that without developing ve some specially new or attractive feature they are not likely to acquire a reputation beyond the boundaries of the their respective irrespective communities muni ties to move along in the style of the old time almanacs is to receive no attention at all but to promise us something startling or wonderful and give a plausible or apparently profound reason for it if is ie to captivate the populace far and wide that there are means of determining approximately if not actually certain is unquestionable and that after such conditions have been forecast upon proper grounds they may vary somewhat or altogether fail is also true but everybody cannot handle the subject and do it justice professional fess ional astronomers can tell us all about what is going to take place in the solar system and in some cases beyond it for a long time ahead and they seldom make mistakes worthy of mention thus demonstrating the correctness of the science of astronomy but the planets a and i nd other attachments of our system m including two or three comets are controlled by fixed laws which only peed need to be mastered to put the one who does so in possession of what to some others appears a mystifying secret if not a supers superstitious titu ou s source of knowledge herein is the difference the meteorologist deals with local and constantly variable conditions dit ions and however much he may become conversant with the conditions of the upper deep he is as likely at times to experience the discomfiture produced by the failure IV ft one of his predictions prediction sas as is tw 4 tyro tj A prominent candidate for tho i honors accruing to the position weather prophet is IB prof george root of canton illinois he presents us with a rather startling pro gramme which is to bee be enacted baw tween september 13 and 16 15 next which he says will be the great oak storm period that has occurred during this century in fact for a hu hundred years past it will not be cott fined to any particular locality aa 0 any number of localities but be 1 general universal so far as thih globe is concerned at least H then proceeds to give us the path C the storm stating that tatt its p probable ro f course will be along the gulf ami a atla atlantic antic coasts its onward marok by tidal wa hurricanes and perhaps earthquake the interior of this country wilt bit greatly affected by the eddies fra the storm in chief these spread eprea all over the country in high galent and furious minor storms ebonne tile the professor admits that he fofiu merly felt some little diffident nw noo about publishing his predictions but claims that after having offet one reward after another to any alay oad who could find a single failure 40 which he was the author andor anah one having come forward to c alaj any of them yet he now fuels feels ctol aident that his forecasts will favorably received everywhere V ri says say s the announce announcement of the pending disaster is made nil sorrowful feelings because it be accompanied with great st ruction to life and property he feels it his duty to put the pe 1 1 on their guard in order that may make such preparations as be practicable to ditl mitigate gat the of the destroyer As we have b little more toan than one month Is which to do this it would seem those who are disposed to reel the awful warning in the a spirit which it was evidently gi div would have no time to lose J |
