Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-02
FAITH IN GROUNDING,
Continued from Third page.

of the old hunter. He began By say
ing that he hoped to live to see the
dawn of the twentieth century,
which would give him the distinction
{ f having lived in the eighteenth,
nineteenth snd twentieth centuries.
Said he: u was hcrn on The "a day
Of February, 1893, q. sunrise, and to
his event is due the importance OF
| the day we celebrate. Nv father
was q grea. hunter and close Oh
server OF the habits Of wild animals,
many Of which he always had in cap
tivisy, and as weather prognosti-
cater he hiss never been equal
ed. These traits inherited,
and being supplemented by careful
training l have reached that degree
If perfection in forecas.ing future
events that most Of my friends have
so greatly proiited by in the past.
My earliest recolleatioas carry me
back to the sunny slopes and shaded
| brooks CT tie beautiful Mohawk val
| ley, New York, where ! spent my
youth. playing with the most in,elli-
gent Of animals Che noble grounihog)
which to me WAS always as tame as
kitten. There The shadowy wood
lands furnished nv sch6olnouse;
there the bees, aud flies, aud bugs,
| and hatydids, and cIickets sang me
to sleep il the warm afternoon SUI,
ard in the quiet Of the evening the
whippoorwlil aud wildcat. wolf and
wootpecker were nv instructors and
tae intelligent grounding my text
book. Arriving at manhood started
west with Il pair o. Thoroughbred
g'oundhogs. stopping ii oaoh state |
passed through loGg enough 10 plant
q colony Il my little ahimais aud in
struct the poople as to their uses and
bow un.aiilng they were ia forecast
ing the weather, and am happy to
say to you here that have had IN
interrupted communication with
those stations ever since, and, as 1ou
see. seyors! del gates from different
states are with us today"
Then the cid host told Of his ar
riva. here, aud the difficulty he had
in establishing tho facs among thu
people of thu inialiihility OF the
grounding, and the wonGer'al abil-
ity he possessed in forecas.irg i'm
pOrtant events when properly I'M
derssood. He said such professors
as Tee, Foster and Manslll were of no
use on earth. Their theoryis wrong.
Nothing more than guesswoIk. O3r
own satellite, however, has Il gov
erning irilaence upoa the natural
material affairs Of our world, aut q
knowledge of how 10 Interpret these
signs in conjunction with his ground
hog theory will enable any man to
succeed in whatever calling he nor
pursue. He exhorted the people to
study the true and only scienca that
always leads 10 success through the
way nature mas provided in that
most in e!iIgcnt OF all animals. the
grounding.
Such a cheer a. wss given when
the Old hunter closed was probably
never before heard On this ridge.
Not one dissenting voice. Whatever
the old hunter says goes. !. is said
by thc Oldest and most intelligen
add practical men here that the old
man has never made prediction
that has not come to pass Just as he
said it would.
All this grounding prophesy is
hard TO understand. Modern scien-
lists boot at the idea and call 1t siilv,
but when it comes to actual business
groundhogo!ogy. as taught by this
old man. leads all other ologies, and
don't You fail TO remember it.
Aud Lang Syne" was sung by the
quartet composed Of the mem bers of
the society.
Tas Uommi,tea's Forecast.
| The forecast from the report Of;
the committee which had visited the
grounding quarters At sunrise was
then read, and in substance is that