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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15 



etc., and they report regularly to the world 

 that these things have little or no eifect on 

 the weather, and jet Mr. Hicks uses page 

 after page, and diagram after diagram, 

 with something that he calls science. Now, 

 is the Weather Bureau mistaken, with all 

 the money they have at their command, or 

 is it Mr. Hicks, who stands comparatively 

 alone? The Weather Bureau is valuable to 

 the world because it constantly gives notice 

 two and sometimes three days ahead of all 

 the extremes that may be expected in a 

 thotisa7id different localities scattered over 

 the United States. 



You sa\ , '• Hicks makes no secret of how 

 he foretells the weather;"' and, " Any one 

 who know any thing about astronomy can 

 do his own predicting." I would put it this 

 way: " Anj' one who knows any thing 

 about astronomy should satisfy himself in 

 a few minutes that, while there may be some 

 real astronomy in Hick's almanac, it is 

 mixed up with a mass of nonsense that 

 looks like science. Why do not the astrono- 

 mers of the world — bright eiiucated scien- 

 tists — give him at least a little recognition 

 of some kind? He owns up that the Weath- 

 er Bureau does not recognize him. 



A few years ago there was a great stir 

 about Electropoise, and its vendors publish- 

 ed a book that they called " Science," and 

 \.\\ey tried to make the world believe that 

 their " twaddle " about their new invention 

 was scientific. Gleanings waged unceas- 

 ing war on the humbug. Where is the 

 "humbug toy" {price $2^-00^ with their 

 scientific ( ?) explanation of it now? I wish 

 some of those who defended it so stoutly 

 would riseupand speak. Now consider wire- 

 less telegraphy, X rays, radium, and other 

 r^a/ scientific discoveries. All the world ac- 

 knowledges what is claimed for these 

 things. There is not a dissenting voice — 

 certainly not among all our educated scien- 

 tists. If Mr. Hicks has in like manner 

 made some new discoveries in the realm of 

 science, as he claims, whj' do not our 

 schools and colleges, and our scientific pub- 

 lications, recognize him? 



A little further on, after my quotation 

 from the almanac, he says, " The dis- 

 turbing causes are Vulcan, Venus near the 

 center of her disturbance, the moon in quad- 

 rature, or last quarter, and with extreme 

 south declination." Can anybody call the 

 above either sense or science? 



In the last part of the almanac there are 

 a good many excellent half tone pictures of 

 cy'clones, hurricanes, etc., that have carried 

 havoc in different parts of our land. These 

 pictures are furnished by request^ from dif- 

 ferent parts of the country. It would be 

 strange indeed if he could not find a disas- 

 trous storm of some kind that occurred 

 somewhere just after his prediction. The 

 writer who sends the photo usually says, 

 " This storm came just after your predic- 

 tion," etc. Now, if Hicks had told exactly 

 where the tornado would take place, as well 

 as when, there might have been some point 

 to it. 



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