Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-28
HICKS FOR JANUARY
FIRST NJ ONTH'S WEATHER
With a Venus Equinox, a Mercury
Equinox and New Moon and
Earth in Peregee.
THE "1NCONSTANT MOON"
The Winter Will be Cold and Very
Windy---Old Boreas Getting in
His Work Ahead OF Time.

His Work Ahead OF Time.
With a Venus equinox, Mercury
equinox. new moon and earth both in
perigee, moon passing to north decli-
nation and on the celestial equator.
and Saturn in opposition TO both earth
and sun. what could any man who be-
lieves in the effect OF planets on the
weather expect:
We are perfectly in sympathy with
Rev. Irl r. Hicks, the veteran long-dis
lance prognosticator, who is even now
training his descendants of the third
generation 10 continue the work,when
he says this astronomical outlook
calls for a long spell of threatening
and unsettled weather from the open
ing day TO the middle of the second
week in January"
This period will be marked by bliz
yards of sleet and snow and the crisis
will reach the Atlantic seaboard about
Sunday, January g.. Three or four
days of very clear and cold weather
will follow. The reactionary period,
which will be central in this longi
tude about the IA, will be somewhat
warmer with renewed storms of rain,
sleet and snow.
Because of the combined influence of
Mercury and Venus, the prophet warns
us TO look out for high boreal gales
and dangerous billiards., although he
does not give us any hint as how TO
prevent them. The inconsistent
moon" never the same for two nights
in succession, now gets into apogee.
The luminary is, of course. getting
full again. or it would never do such a
thing. The 20th.th day when the moon
gets fullest, will be the worst of this
period. The wearying repetition of
milder temperature. with falling bar
ometer, cloudiness. rain, snow, high
winds and very cold, clearing weather,
will all have to be endured again.
DO not presume" says the seer,
ION the fact that you have not suffered
or that your live stock has not per-
ished in heavy storms and destruct-
i've cold for years past. The probabili-
tiles are that natures cycle is turning
backward to the conditions of bygone
years, when some of the great storms
and billiards of the days of your dad
dies will return. Such questions as
fuel and food and shelter should not
be relegated to the lost arts"
This last advice is certainly good,
whether the storm comes or not. At
ter three or four days of clear and cold
weather, following the big storm. we
approach the reactionary period, which
will be central here on January 25.
From what we can gather from the
rather general tone of the prediction
for this period, the reactionary storm
will not be so severe as the one of the
Goth 1t seems that it will be warmer,
with more rain than snow. and prob
ably lightning and thunder This will
be followed, nevertheless, by sharp
return of cold, reaching the eastern
part of the country about the 2Sth
Rev. Hicks does not seem very sure
of this period, for he hints that both
storms and cold waves which originate
in the western extremes of the country
sometimes expend themselvs before
reaching the East. Herein is where
the weather sharps' at Washington
tree" says the prophet
The month will go out with storm
in progress. This will commence with
cold northely winds and snow, but as
we pass into February the winds will
shift to southerly and storms of more
tropical character will ensue, especially
in the South. Upon the whole, says
Mr. Hicks Eve caIcuIate that January
will be severe winter month" A
glance ahead through the pages of
Rev. Mr. Hicks almanac for 1916 in
dicates tardy spring and an early fall
but a suficiency of rain during the
summer to make the season a fruitful
one. so mote it be-
Prof. A. NJ. Anderson, a famous
goosebone prognosticator of Passa
dumkeag, Me-, has completed his in
vestigations of next years weather
He says:
THE winter will be cold and very
windy. There will be frequent storms
of wind and snow Frightful storms
along both seafronts and over many
parts of the world. Snow will lie until
late into the spring, which will be late.
The summer will be hot, with great
electrical storms. There will be great
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The disturbances now among the in
habitants of the earth are, as a matter
of fact, only a small depression at
present The real music will be in
full swing in 1913, when it will reach