The Chickasaw messenger., 1888-03-08
March weather Prediction.

rs character Of the storms-it will
be seen that the predictions made
by The Cultivator have not failed
in a single instance to the date
(Feb. 22d, Of this writing. The
Rev. Irl r. Hicks, Of ST. Louis.
No, who make the predictions, is
a pious, unassuming man, studying
carefully and cautiously the causes
that give rise to "storm periods"
Writing to us recently, be said he
was making "an honest effort" to
enlighten the people in regard 10
storms, that they may prepare fer
billiards, cyclones, tornadoes, etc,
and thereby escape needless loss
and suffering.
March" says Rev. Mr. Hicks,
"opens with a FEBRUARY storm
about over, followed by falling
temperature. until the 7th to Sth.
About the sth a storm period OF
marked engergy and violence will
begin, lasting until about the 18th.
Heavy snow all over the North,
turning to destructive sleet. Rain
and general tropical storms south
ward. Cold days will follow.
About the 10Th prepare for next
danger period. 1t will last from
the 10th to the Gath or 25th. Dur
ing Ysral equinoctial periods, ag-
gravated by the growing Jovian
periods, unusal activity may be
expected in all meteorological
phenomena. Earthquakes sure"
Now, this Jovina period to which
Rev. Mr.. Hicks refers is at the
bottom" of bad weather for the
past year and will be responsible
for its continuance during the pres
ent year. He explains it by stat
ing that the planet Jupiter is near
ly twelve of our years in going
once around the sun; that is, twelve
years on the earth is one year on
Jupiter. As there are two equi-
noxes every year-one every six
months-for the earth, so there
are two equinoxcs every Jovian
year-one in about every six years
for Jupiter. These Jupiter equi-
noxes cause a gradual and contin-
nal excitation of the electrical ele-
ments of our earth, and for the
whole planetary system, lasting
more than two of our years for
each equinox of Jupiter. This Is
what he calls the Jovian period.
According to his theory, in
which he has the fullest confidence,
during the Jovian period there is
. greater readiness in the meteoro-
logical elements of the earth to
express themselves in every kind
Of phenomena common to our
globe. The regular storm periods,
caused by the equinoxes of the
smaller planets, and shown in the
storm chart, are not obliterated or
changed by the Jovian period, on
" these regular storm periods are
found to be much more active and
continuous; they are simply rein
forced and intensified by the steady
pressure of the Jovian period.
It is not to be wondered at, says
recent writer, that a man whose
thoughts and eyes are constantly
turned heavenward should discover
the secret of the changes in the
elements above us. This is what
the Rev. I'll R. Hicks, of St. Louis
has done. He is pastor of the
Olive Branch Congregational
church, and a very modest, enter
tic and popular minister. He is
forty years old, and has from the
time he was a boy been singularly
fond of studying and speoulatirg
upon weather changes. Years ago
he arrived at the conclusion that
astronomy held the explanation of
all the weather phenomena as seen
by the inhabitants of the earth.
OF course it is impossible to
wholly escape the severity and
damage of blizzards and snow
bloekades; yet if the people of the
Far West and New England had