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Show PREDICTED SNOW IN MIDSUMMER In the Middle of June, Too, But Nature Na-ture Saved Almanac's Reputation. (New York PressO The elderly man who lookea like a hay-seeder hay-seeder entered a drug store in' the upper skyscraper section and a6ked for a copy of Janes' almanpc. No fashionable city-pharmacy city-pharmacy keeps anybody's almanac now. and the pharmacy in question is fashionable fashion-able in all of its appointments. The clerk, a recent graduate, said he had heard, in a vague sort of a way, about Jaynes' almanac, but had never seen a copy of it. "It's the only almanac that ever made the right guess on the weather," said the hayseeder emphatically. The clerk said something about weather of the present day being furnished by the government. "I wouldn't give a Jaynes' almanac for all the government's new fangled notions about weather between here and Kingdom Come," announced the up-country stranger. stran-ger. The clerk said something about weather why Jaynes' predictions were superior to any other. "Then you wasn't around about thirty years ago?" asked the patriarch. "I wasn't born then." "Well. I'll tell you about it. The almanacs al-manacs of them days had the weather predictions sandwiched between certain historical dates, and the moon's phases and the zodiac signs opposite the day of the week and the month. Opposite the 14th of June in the year I am talking about this prediction was printed, 'Snow.' When the almanac came out all the upstate up-state farmers that had been taking Jaynes' almanacs laughed at the prediction pre-diction and some of 'em wrote Doc Jaynes telling him he had better let the weather alone. Howsomever. Doc Jaynes ever answered the letters. The rare day of the month set In as usual and we went around in our shirt sleeves. On the night of June 13 we noticed up our way. near Brockport. that the atmosphere got chilly and we had fires. Next morning there was snow on the ground, and we soon heard that there was snow in several sev-eral surrounding counties. Doc Jaynes had hit the nail on the head and druv it clean through. He was the only almanac alma-nac maker that ever predicted snow m June and then made it come. That's why I'm for Jaynes'." With this statement the elderly stranger walked out. The clerk told the story to the boss. The bos3 told it to his antiquarian anti-quarian friend who keeps the old book store. way down town. "Well, he was right," said the antl-quarian. antl-quarian. "It came about this way: The man who furnished the copy for. Jaynes wasn't much of a writer and not a very good speller. On one of his pages he wrote 'January 14,' and opposite it he wrote 'snow. It went to the printer. He was a tramp printer and not over correct. He set it up 'June 14. snow,' and the proofreader. f there was any such thing in these days, never changed It. I remember re-member it well. It caused a good deal of talk among the farmers, who were always looking for weather then in the almanacs. ' "Dr. Jayne3 was a friend of my father and I heard him tell it and how he had received a number of letters about It. But he told my father he concluded not to answer any until after the date mentioned. men-tioned. Then he heard that there was snow on that date and he knew he had made a lucky strike. After that his orders or-ders for patent medicine came faster than he could make It." The boss of the uptown pharmacy made a remark about opportunity breaking into some houses with a Jimmy, and went away. |