Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1904 — Uses a Planet That Don’t Exist. [ARTICLE]

Uses a Planet That Don’t Exist.

According to the papers whioh are chumps enough to publish the productions of the lori'g range fake weather prophet Hioks, there is to be ‘*a regular Vuloau storm period central on Sept. 29th and 30th.” Hioks olaims to bise his predictions on the motions and aspects of the planets, and of these in his system, Vulcan is the regular bell weather, and sets the pace for the whole push. Along about 25 or 30 years ago, when Hicks first started his prediction foundry, the belief was quite prevalent among astronorr ers that thers was a planet smaller than Meroury and nearer the sun than him and to this supposititious planet was given the name of Vulcan. Now all reputable astronomers hav9 long since abandoned the idea that there is any such planet as Vulcan, but Hioks needs it iu bis business and still keeps up the fiction of its existence.