The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-04-28
No TORNADO IN SIGHT.
Rev. Irl Hicks Issues His
Predictions foI the
Coming Sum-
mer.
SOME SEISMIC SHOCKS POSSIBLE,
The Temperature During July, Aug
ust and September Will
be High,
SOME SEISMIC SHOCKS POSSIBLE,

w hibh'
Rev, lrl II, Hicks Is a recognized
authority on weather and he has
made some astonishing predictions
which have come topass. In an in.
terview with a newspaper reporter
he says
81 think we have passed the
worst period Of weather disturb.
ances,' said lrl r. Hicks, the wealth
er prophet, to a reporter OF The
Republic last night, "Of course,
April is always a very rainy month,
and look for the usual rains for
the next few days, but as you can
see Tor yourself, the storm perlonds
are breaking and the rains last only
q short time
In talking Of the weather we are
likely to have for the next lew
months, Mr., Hicks said he thought
we would experience about the nor.
NAL conditions, We might possibly
have a little more frost In this Vi
einity, but II will not amout to
much, although up North 1t may
prove injurious to vegetation,
"In April, u continued Mr. Hicks,
1--WE have the Venus perturbation,
which Is always attended with an
abnormal rainfall, but this pertur-
baton ends with the close Of the
month and after that we will proba.
bly, have the usual season,
In May the earth passes direct.
| ly between the planet Saturn and
the sum- and always brings disturb
ances hut for this fact would
look for a very placid May, These
disturbances might take the form OF
slight sclmsle shocks, but no dan
ger need be apprehended from
them, Then, again, we might have
high winds and storms, but hardly
anything like tornado II the
mercury continues high during the
month aud the barometer registers
anything Ike the ordinary pressure,
then we will have very pleasant
May Otherwise, different eondl-
tons are possible,
''ln june we have the summer
aolatlce, and this means abnormal
rams not abnormal for the month
of June, but then heavier than In
any other month On the whole,
however, the weather In June will
be quite pleasant, aud June brides
may 20 ahead with their prepare
tl0na without fear OF atmospheric
interference During this month
the central belt Of states including
| Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Mis-.
souri,, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky,
etc, will be In what we call the eye
Of the suD that h, the power OF Sol
will be sort Of concentrated upon
them, This will cause the usual
plcnlllude Of rain, aud possibly a
mild tornado In some places,
though, Of course, nothing like the
one W. had In 81, Louis,
at Ia my opinion that we will
have a warm summer, extending
through September think that
the conditions are favorable for u
long heated term, hotter, In fact,
than last year II | had any busl'
ness that would suffer from heat, !
should take precautions to protect
II for the summer fht warm spells
may be broken by light ralnIalls,
but ! think july August and Sep
tember will be worse this year than
usual" "
In talking about the Hoods, br,
Hicks said that II the waters begin
10 subsIdo now aud we do not have
more than ordinary fall OF rain be-
tween now and the June rise, no
further danger need be feared from
this source, The rivers, however,
will All bo full and the regions lrlh-
ulary 10 the Mlaslaslpp aud other
great streams b0untltully supplied
with water