Evening journal., 1900-03-12
REVOLUTION OF SEASONS
GOOSE BONES SENSITIVE TO I'M
PRESSIONS OF ELEMENTS.
From North Amerlcan.

volution Of the seasons?
Is winter firing Of the months of De-
cember, January and February, and ar
ranging to make its future terrestrial
visits in the summer?
These extraordinary questions are no
visionary creations Of the imagination.
They came from Elias Hartz, the
goose-bone weather prophet, of Read
ing, Pa, and have burst upon the sci
entinc world with cyclonic effect.
Scientists, in explanatory denials,
say such proposition is preposterous. |
ELIAS Hartz and wise old weather seers
nevertheless reassert the theory in
full confidence that time will Vindicate
It's accuracy. And Elias Hartz is no |
mean forecaster. And his goose bones, |
he claims, are as sensitive to the inn |
pressions of the elements as the most
delicate instruments of the Weather |
Bureau.
His theory, based upon years Of OBJ
servatiOn and the peculiar shading of
the goose bones, of late is that meteor
illogical conditions are changing. That
winter is yearly encroaching upon the
season Of spring he asserts is evident
to any who have noted its erratic con- |
duct during recent years.
OF course, Prophet Hartz does not ]
claim that this proposition is suscepti- !
BILE of absolute demonstration. Neither
did Columbus, when he first conceived
that the world was round. The old
seers console themselves by the know
ledge that science always ridicules and
sneers before il agrees. SO they do not
hesitate to predict that sleigh-rides and
skating in August and hay parties and
Atlantic City sea bathing in January in
future years is not altogether impossi-
bic. How long it will be before this
state of affairs viii come to pass they
do not attempt to forecast.
Under such astonishing conditions,
what would become Of the cherished
verses Of revered poets which We're in
spired by the pink blossoms of May
the whining of winds of March, and the
silver whiteness of February? No long
er viii the old saw, March winds and
April showers bring forth May flow
ers, stand under the new order OF
seasons. IL would more appropriately
read March tornadoes and April hurri-
canes bring forth May billiards."
! And how about celebrating the
Fourth of July in a snow storm or eat
ing your Thanksgiving dinner in the
4 melting atmosphere of q midsummer
day or attending lawn parties on
Christmas? These things are all possi-
bic ii the old weather seers are right.
AT his home i'm Reading Prophet
Hartz partly unfolded his theory. 'Yes
the seasons are changing" he said. Il
thing there is no doubt of it. NV goose
bones never fail me. ] have learned
/ from experience that / can rely on
them. Mark my word, some great
change is taking place. The winters
are becoming later each year. 1 don't
understand it all. / do not profess to
be a scientist. Why, go back thirty or
fifty years, and you will find that the
winters never failed. They came along
as regularly as clock work. and there
was sleighing for weeks. and even
months. There are some things that
we learn by experience which we can
not always explain
Another thing, It is only recently
that the Southern people have been
doing little shivering. I suppose it
would be just as easy for me to ex-
plain this as it would be that our win
ters are growing less severe. 1t may
be that the cold blasts are being sent
south TO brace up the people a little
TOO much hot weather is apt to make
people lazy and a little frast now and
then has a tendency TO infuse new life
into them
Talk about winter weather. why.
: bless you, / remember the time when
we had snow on the ground from late
IN the fall until early In spring. and
the goose bones fOretold il every time.
You see / go by the coloring of the
bones entirely. OF late years have not
ICED that the spots are not so marked.
and while we have had some cold DAYS
, they have not been nearly as severe as
in previous years.
TAKE the storm that set in last
week. You will find DC on the goose
bones. We viii probably have rain be-
icre the week is over, but take my
word for IL, we are going to have some
hsagreeable weather. and 10 will ex-
tend far into March"
a Inc idea that the time will ever come
When cayorting snow storms will howl
N august has provoked an avalanche
OF learned refutations from the wealth.
er scientists. II Is impossible, incon-
NtAN1 say anu LuNY are WILLING
to prove Il by the records of ninetee5
? hundred centuries.
( Dr. Jesse G. Green. Of West Chester.
; Who has made a special study of wealth
er conditions for nearly sixty years.
}. and who is a representative NJ fbo
= smithsonian Institution at that place
says with some feeling that not until
I tne end Of time will be seen the change
OF seasons foretold by Prophet Hartz's
goose bones. 1T is a preposterous
t ldea!' he exclaimed. sI cannot So
what scientific basis there can possiblv
De Tor such a theory. In fact the re-
cords show that there has been but n
silsnt variation since the beginning of
S tne world. Since I have been taking
Il observations there has not been tbe
e siigntest evidence 10 establish sueh n
= theory on a scientific basis.
= OIher eminent authorities we're
s. equally emphatic 10 their denial tbat
e the elements had a surprise nm fbeir
IS sleeves. But the old seers ara not dis.