Ste. Genevieve Herald
Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
Saturday, June 16, 1883

ATTENTION FARMERS!
Chas. BURGERT is the sole
agent for the celebrated Deering
Twine Binder, on Ste. Genevieve
Co. He will sell you as good and
cheap a selfbinder as any one.
Come, see and be convinced.

FAREWELL PICNIC!
Not being able to pay for the
coming high license, unless I am
allowed to carry on my business on
Sundays without being fleeced by
a prosecuting attorney, I have con-
cluded to give all my friends and
acquaintances a farewell picnic,
near my place at Zell on the com-
ing 4th of July, and then shut up.
I shall take care that nothing is
wanting that will conduce to a first
class celebration and a good time
generally. Come one, come all!
Chas. OBERMILLER

HAVE WE A WEATHER PROPHET
AMONG US?

Since the days of the late lamented Noah, the weather prophet has been a
well established institution, alike amongst the most highly civilized
nations as amongst the rudest savages. This we regard as the most singular
phenomenon in the world's history. Everything animate and inanimate, seems
destined to change. Continents are said to have existed and faded away,
until only a faint tradition of their former existance remains. Great
nations have arisen, conquered the world, decayed and past away. Immense
areas of land, that once were the most populous and fertile portions of the
globe have become waste, barren deserts of sand. Cities that once were the
seats of mighty empires, have been destroyed, so that only their names alone
exist. Man himself, it is said, is but the highest form of animal life,
gradually developed from the tadpole or the monkey. Change seems to be the
immutable, universal law of nature. Yet amidst all this the weather prophet
remained the same. From the first specimen known to history, who assurred
Noah that "it was not going to be much of a shower after all" down to the
immortal Wiggins, the race has continued to exist and flourish without
perceptible variation. This well-established fact seems to have been
completely overlooked by Darwin and his desciples, and is a complete answer,
and refutation of this theory, according to which the gradual evolution of
man from the lowest order of animal life, has been brought about by the use
and disuse of certain physical features of the human body, some parts of the
human frame, by the necessities and changing conditions of man, being
strengthened and enlarged or lessened and changed. According to this
theory, there should be an abnormal increase of cheek - as it is universally
conceded from the remotest dawn of history that it is by the use of Cheek
that weather prophets have gained their fame - of the genius weather
prophet, yet we believe a careful examination of several distinguished
members of that species, fails to show any remarkable difference from
ordinary mortals. But we wander from the subject which is "Have We a
Weather Prophet Amongst Us?" We are reliably informed that we have, and
that his name is Joseph THOMURE, familiarly known, as "Truthful Jo." For
many years past, he has been looked upon by his immediate neighbors as a
weather prophet of the utmost reliability and only his excessive modesty has
prevented his name from being noised abroad in the great world, but then
true genius was ever modest and unassuming. Mr. THOMURE, unlike a majority
of the the would-be weather prophets, does not base his calculations on the
uncertain signs of the moon, or the deceptive ground-hog, but by some occult
science known onlu to himself, he has discovered that by observing the
direction of the wind on Good Friday the forecast of the weather may be made
for the whole season. Now, we are imformed by one of our subscribers that
Mr. THOMURE immediately after Good Friday said that the wind being in the
North on that day, we would have wet weather until after harvest and after
that we would have a long dry spell. That his prediction has been fulfilled
so far our farmers know to their sorrow, and we call their attention to the
future, and stake the reputation of our weather prophet upon the strict
fulfillment of the prophecy.

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