St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-18
A STORM PROPHET.

Storm prophesying is becoming so COM
mon and weather prophets so numerous that
when a prophet who is entitled to honor in
the land does arise, we should feel like I'M
covering our heads in reverence before him.
1t will be remembered that about the mid
die of last August a Congregational clergy
man left his home in st. Louis and came all
the way to MinnetOnka to witness the eff
fectS on the lake of storm which he had
predicted several months before. The pro-
phet who had so much faith in his own pre-
dictiOns was the Rev. IRL r. HICKS, pastor
of the Olive Branch Congregational church
in st. Louis. 1t so happened that Mr..
HICKS reached MinnetOnka on time and Oh
the afternoon of the 22d day of August he
sat on the shore of the beautiful lake witness
ing the commotion of the wild waves as they
were heaped together by the furious blasts
which were sweeping over the lakes sur
face. 1t was the same storm which good
many affrighted people i'll st. Paul miStook
for an approaching cyclone. The following
Sunday evening the Rev. Mr.. Hicks deliv-
cred lecture in Plymouth Congregational
church in this city, on the subject Of cy-
clones, in which he predicted that between
the 10th and 10th of November the North
west would be visited by terrible blizzard,
and the prediction was chronicled in the
GLOBE at the time. How near his predic-
tons came to being fulfilled yesterdays
weather record will testify.
Mr. Hicks system Of storm predictions
is based on calculations made from a study
of the planetary eQuinOxes. During the
present month there have been three plan
etary eQuinoXes, Venus on the 10th, Vulcan
on the 18th and Mercury on the 18th. MI
HICKS explains that when the Vulcanian
period and the Venus equinox came to-
gether the most violent storms occur.
Therefore, in making his weather forecast,
he was fairly safe in foretelling a severe
storm at this time. AS Mr. Hicks has
been so successful in making predictions of
Minnesota storms. it will be interesting to
read what he has to say about the winter
months yet ahead of US. An examination
of his weather chart shows the prediction
of the next storm to occur between the 22d
and 9th of this month, but does not prom
Use to be an exceedingly severe one. In
December stormy weather is predicted from
the 10th to goth. 1t will be remembered
that the Burlington prophet also predicts a
winter cyclone about that time. According
10 Rev. HICKS prophecy, December will
go out and January come in with excess
siyely cold weather. This will be good
news for the carnival directors, as they can
now 90 ahead with preparations for their
ice palace. There will be a great deal OF
cold weather all through January, and up
TO the 9th of February, when Vulcan and
Mercury again get into row. and between
that time and the 10th there will be another
SHOW blockade in the Northwest. March
is set down as the bad month tor storms.
coast gales, Winds rain, sleet, snow and
ali, to wind up with continental earth
quake. Then we are to have period of
elemental peace only to be disturbed during
this generation by little furry on the 18th
day of June, 1889, when an equinox of Ju-
piter will occur. We are profoundly CRATE
full to Mr.. HICKS for his weather informa-
ton, and viii try to govern ourselves &C
cOrdingly,