. 1
9k
, .1 live in- fortress of fireand cloud
! iYou may ..-hear- my batteries, sharp, and
"Uind," i'r , .
Iif tbeMsummer night I . -When
I, and myJiqges'armfor the fight,
-And thebirches inoan,'V. v -
AncJ. the.. cedars groans.
they bend .beneath'thV terrible spring' .
'.Of Storm-KmgJs' .
I am Stotm TheKingft;j ': : - v ' - -My
troops are the winds and tkVhail and
' the ' i-ain: v' '.--':'-
Hyfoes the lakes and" the: leaved and the
grain, , ,:
The obstinate oak . "
That guards his front to' ray 'charge and
stroke, -The
ships on the sea, ,
Ihe blooms on the lea, . ' '
And they, writhe and break as . the war-
Iguns ring '
Of Storm The King! -
. I am Storm The King!
I saw an Armada set sail from Spain
. To redden with blood a maiden's reign.
T baffled the host
.With blow in the face on the island coast,,
And tore proud deck
To spiinters and wreck, '.
And the Saxon poets the praises sing
Of Storm The King! , - -
I-im Storm ;The King!
I sconr the earth and the sea and the .air,
And drag the writhing trees by the hair.
And chase for game - ,
The 'deserrdust and the prairie flame,
The ro oun ta in sn o w,
i And the arctic floe.
And never is folded plume or wing
Of Storm The King!
THE
PITY OF IT.
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Ey MARY PEA80DY SAWYER.
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UT it must be done, Wil
liam," said his wife, her
head slightly raised and
her gray eyes sharp with
suppressed excitement
"I should be dreadfully mortified not
to do as much for Elise as Charles does
for his children. Well, not exactly as
much in every way, no. of course, we
really couldn't expect her to have so
much jewelry and as many nw frocks.
But to have Elise look old- lashioned
and hot have suitable thing for her
little parties why it is posith sly em
barrassing to her and humiliates me."
Villiani Soliday avoided his wife's
gaze, and methodically arranged his
necktie. - He was a plain man, with
a kindly smile when he was not dis
turbed by his ambitious wife and
daughter.
"Well,r William, can't you tell me
whether you can let me have two
hundred dollars or not this week?"
' "I don't see how I can, Eliza.- I've
had a hard winter at the store and a
good mapy accounts overdue. I wish
I could make as much money as
Charles, but I ean't seem to do it, any
way. He is a gpoiialker nd smar
You know, Eliza, that I've worked
hard for the last, twenty -five years,
-early and late."
"Oh, I don't accuse you or being
lazy," remarked Mrs. Soliday, tartly;
"what I would like to see is something
to show for all youivwork. Charles
doesn't get to his office till nine and
is always through at five, and makes
at least a hundred dollars a week in
salary and commissions."
"I'll teil you right 'now, Eliza, that
.though Charles is my cousin, I would
not be in his lino of business for a
thousand a week. It's no use to con
tinue this talk any longer, Eliza. I
hope to be able to supply you and Elise
with all the necessai'ies of life, and a
Jittle more, but as for fitting out Elise
sbshe can run around with the set that
her cousins belong to, I cannot even
attempt."
This closed the conversation for that
morning, andwhile Mrs. Soliday sat in
her room finishing her daughter's grad
uating gown, her ujind dwelt bitterly
on her cramped lifex with its petty
economies'.
She had really loved William Soli
day, thirty years ago. He wasa clerk
then, in her father's store, and a genial,
honest youner fellow. But when the
business was his, he did not seem to
know just how tovinake it pay. He
bought a good line of stock and he had
to sell at a close margin to compete
with the cheap articles displayed by
his rivals. Then he paid his help a
fair price, and his roomy, well-ventilated
store cut still deeper into his profits.
She suspected that some of its old
customers had not paid their bills for
a long time; in fact,' when a man was
out of wotk or there was sickness,
William never would push his claims,
and sometimes he lost a good deal that
way.
As Eliza Soliday thought, her cheeks
burned and the smouldering fire of dis
content burst into a brighter blaze.
She had not minded the scrimping so
much when Elise was little, her clothes
cost such a sma!2 amount, and she had
not begun to have her social ambitions
awakened till the last year or two.
Thb other girls in the class were to
bnve either a handsome piece of jew
elry or a gold watch as a souvenir of
graduation, day, and there were pho
tographs, spreads, class pins, dances,
and the usual accompaniments of the
festive time.
Charles Soliday's twin daughters had
every thing that any one had, and far
more. Their father was to present
them with watches, suitably engraved,
and their mother had promised them
elegant gold bracelets, with diamond
studded clasps. They were to enter
tain the entire class at an informal
dance, followed by a supper, at which
each guest would be presented with a
specially designed favor.
The sriris' cowns; were to be made by
their mother's fashionable dressmaker,
and nothing would be lacking to com
plete their stylish appearance. The
dotted Swiss muslin which Mrs. Soli
flay was rapidly finishing looked coarse
I Bj
and cheap' In her eyes,; and .she threm
It tn the tied vvjtti a completely' dis
gusted expression on ner nanasome
face "
-That .day' Mrs Soliday' spent a; few
hours with herslster, who lived out in
the suburbs. Returning home in the
late afternoon, she was obliged to sit
in a closely-crpwded cartiiM her eyes
were startled liyheadlines in a special
edition of an evening paper:: "Charles
Soliday. Arrested. About to Escape
With His - Plunder. Tenied ' Wrong
Doing," But Finally Broke Down and
Confessed." . , '
Mrs. Soliday felt her heart. stop beating-for
a moment, theji blunge like a
.runaway horse. Charles J Soliday,
whose wife sifid daughters she had en
vied she 'could not believe her own
eyes. Mrs. Soliday was too excited to
remain in the car when it approached
her locality, so signaling to the con
ductor, she left the car and -walked
rapidly toward her home.
ITttrrymg into the house she was met
by' Elsie, who had heard the news.
The girl was as excited as her mother,
and they tated over the astonishing
situation. '
Tsn't it dreadful for Bertha and Ber
nice," said Elsie. "They didn't come
to school to-day, and the girls said that
their mother had hysterics and fainting
spells all day. There's father coming
now." "
"Tell him I am upstairs and I want
to speak to him right away," said Mrs.
Soliday as she hastened out of the
room. .
William Soliday looked very soberly
at his pretty daughter, then turned and
walked sloyvly to his wife's room. She
met hir
running
"Oh,
met him at the door and the tears were
lg down her cheeks.
William, can you ever forgive
me," sue began. v
"There, Eliza, don't take on so," said
her husband, dropping heavily into a
big chair, and taking the trembling
woman in his arms. '
'But to think that Charles has done--
and where he is, and where you might
have been if n here she was unable
to go on.
"Don't cry so, Eliza. It will be all
right in time," continued Mr. Soliday,
patting his wife's shoulder and hardly
realizing what he was saying.
"Oh, but.- William, I would rather live
plain, and not have new things and
know that my husband was an honest
man. And you were stronger than I
was, because I was afraid of what peo
ple would say and I might have driven
you to-do something desperate just as
Charles has done," and she began to
sob with renewed violence.
"Now. Eliza, just listen a minute."
said William Soliday. "I had a chance
to make fifty dollars to-day; that is. I
received it on an old account that I
never expecrea to oe paid, ir you
want it to buy some pretty things for
the little girl "
"Oh,' William, it's more than enough,"
returned the wife. "Shewill only need
a part.pf it and I want you to have
some" fox yourself. I can't have my
good man looking shabby," she ended
with a smile around her mouth and
her husband was too wise to object.
Among the lovely young girls who
were graduated there was none more
bewitching than Elise Soliday,. in her
simple gown and without any jingling
trinkets. The Soliday twins were not
there, and with their withdrawal from
the class, the element of extravagance
which threatened to be the dominant
feature was eliminated. In girlish
fashion the swing of the pendulum
was toward extreme simplicity of
dress, to the relief of those whose
means were limited to a small outlay.
"Our Elise was the prettiest ghi in
the class," said Mrs. Soliday to her
husband that night.
"How could she help it with such a
mother," he replied without a moment's
hesitation. Boston Cultivator.
Hunting: Foxes With Eagles.
The hunting of foxes with eagles
takes place among the Kirghese, in the
southwest district of Siberia, in the
autumn and early winter, when the
foxes' coats are ruddy and perfect.
The eagles are powerful birds, of
such weight tnat a small wooden sup-
" Cd-i. a
rrbl:"u " . ..c. a
fierce temperament will occasionally
kill a wolf. Directly any game is seen
the birds make their flight and swroop
down with, great precision.
"One of these birds has, to my
knowledge," writes our correspondent,
"killed seventeen fpxes in the last six
weeks. I can vouch -for this killing of
foxes by eagles,- for Impersonally took
all these photographs and saw the
whole sport from beginning to end.
"Years ago I wrote a, letter to the
Field telling how foxes swarm up small
pine trees in Florida when a 'kill' ap
pears imminent. I have frequently
seen them do so, but I was ' politely
told what an Ananias I must be."
London Sphere.
Just Meandering:.
A city girl writes: "It is a fond dream
of mine to become a farmer's wife
and meander with him r down life's
pathway."
Ah, yes, that is a nice thing; but
when your husband meanders off and
leaves you without wood and you have
to meander up and down the lane pull
ing splinters off the fence to cook din-
ner, and when you meander along in
the wet grass in search of the cows till
your shoes are the color of rawhide
and youristockings soaked, and when
you meajjjrler 'out across twenty acres
of plowea ground with a club to
drive the hogs out of the cornfield and
tear your dress on the barb-wire fence,
when you meander back home to the
house, find that the billy goat has but
ted the stuflin' out of your child and
find the old hen with forty chickens
in the parlor, youTi put your hands on
vour hiDs and realize that meanderinz
is not what it is cracked up to be.
Osborne (Kan.) News.
INTEREST
Notes About Cottori Mills and Qthcr
f Southern -Industries.
The mdnthfy summary of cotton crop
conditions in the Carolinas is reported
by the correspondents of The New
York. Journal of Commerce follows:
. North Carolina On the whole cot
ton has shbwn general improvement
Rather , too? much rain is a general
complaint,,; but since the middle, of the
month the weather has been . favorable
and nearly all correspondents report
the plant doing well. Someshedding
is complained of, but other, .elements
of deterioration are rarely mentioned.
Sodth Carolina Reports are some
what contradictory, heavy rains early
in the month producing a large sappy- (
weed with little fruit; but since ,the
15th inst. weather has been ,very fa
vorable, the plant is , doing well and
fruiting nicely and fields areclean.
However, correspondents almost , uni
versally concede a Substantial degree
of improvement. .
It is stated in mill circlesUhat ne
gotiations are now pending by which
cotton mills of the Tennessee Manu
facturing Company, located in North
Nashville may change owners within
the next year, Joseph H. Thompson,
representing capitalists headed by. W.
R. Odell, of Concord, is conducting the
negotiations, and the mater will be
definitely determined within the next
few days. Ir. Odell is a wealthy cot
ton manufacturer, and it is said that
if he acquires the property it will mean
a great deal to the industrial affairs of
Nashville. It is understood to be the
plan of the new company, if the deal is
consummated, to equip the mills with
new and modern machinery, and oper
ate them on a large scale. This would
mean the employment of a large num
ber of persons. ' . .
A Shanghai, China, dispatch of the
25th says:
Now that the boycott on American
goods has begun in earnest, the Chi
nese guilds have taken ; a step that
will practically close up the American
trading companies. The agents of the
large American firms have been or
.dered to leave their employers. To
day there was no kerosene on the mar
ket. At the same time the stevedore
guild is threatening to refuse to dis
charge' American kerosene ships. There
is a steadily growing opinion among
the leading American' warehouses that
Japanese influence is' secretly behind
the movement.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch says:
It is stated now that the Union Cotton
Mills Company, of Atlanta, Ga., have
decided not to locate a cotton mill and
bag factory. The decision was predi
cated, it is said, on information re
ceived from a small town in Mississip
pi, purporting to give advice regard
ing the labor conditions in Memphis.
When Mr. Carter, the representative
of the company was in Memphis, he
was driven around the city to the va
rious industries, saw the conditions as
they were, and was given the average
wage rate. He is reported as saying
that labor, conditions were favorable
A little later a letter was received by
the Industrial League from Mr. Carter,
stating that his company would not lo
cate here. Memphis has no cotton
mills, and is not inducing such con
cerns to locate there.
The National Automatic Needle
Company, of New York, has written to
Charleston, S. C, offering to establish
a branch factory there conditioned
upon a site being furnished and a
subscription of $50,000 of stock taken
in the concern. Charleston is to be
given the vice-presidency and three
Members of the board of directors. It
remains to be seen what will be done
The same proposition has been submit
ted to several other cities and the
communication from the New York
parties states that the first city which
accepts the proposition will get the
factory.
The stockholders of the Hamer Cot
ton Mill, at Hamer, S. C, at their an
nual meeting, declared a dividend or
per cent. Among those present were
M. V. B. Brinckerhoff, of New YorK;
H. K. McCormac. of Rowland, N. C;
John S. Thompson, of Little Rock, and
R. L. Thomas, of Wilmington, N. (J
There was a meeting of the directors
of the mill the same day at which time
R. P. Hamer, Sr., resigned the position
of resident on acount of his aa
vanced age, and R. P. Hamer, Jr., was
elected president, retaining the posi
tion of treasurer and secretary.
A charter has been issued. to the
Dillon Storage Company, which is capi
talized at $3,000. R. P. Stackhouse is
president and Wade Stackhouse sec
retary and treasurer. The purpose or
the company is to store cotton. Anoth
er organization having the same pur
pose is the Orangeburg Warehouse
Company, capitalized at ?6,000 .This
company was chartered last week, the
officers being J. S. Harby, president,
and Robert Lide, secretary and treas
urer. TEXTILE NOTES.
(Manufacturer's Record.)
The Sanford (N. C.) Cotton Mills
has declared a semiannual dividend of
3 per cent
The Cowpens (S. C.) Manufacturing
Co. has declared its usual semiannual
dividend on l-2er cent.
The busness League of Aberdeen,
Miss., is negotiating with manufactur
ers relative to the establishment of a
cotton-rope mill in Aberdeen.
It is reported that Leroy Springs, of
Chester, S. C contemplates building a
million dollar cotton mill at Cheraw.
He is president of a $100,000 anda
$150,000 mill company in his city. x
The board of Trade, Pine Bluff, Ark.,
states that Messrs. Lutes & Lutes of
Philadelphia, Pa!, are the Northern
capitalists its secretary is negotiating
with relative to building a cotton mill
in Pine Bluff.
The Crescent Manufacturing Co. of
Spartanburg, S. C, will add from 50 to
100 knitting machines to its knitting
mill, present equipment being 50 knit
ters and complement of sewing ma-
j chines, etc. Probably the dyehouse and
1 pressing-room will be improved.
SUIT AGAINST MANY
Another Move in the Now Famous
Fqaitabie Scandal
START MADE IN WAY OF TRIALS
New York Attorney General Institutes
Action for the Return ,to the Society
of Any Money or Other Property
Acquired by the Officers and Direc
tors, or Lost or Wasted by a Viola
tion of Their Duties.
New York, (Special.) An action
was instituted by State Attorney Gen
eral Mayer in the Supreme Court, New
York county, in the name of the peo
ple, of the State of New York against
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
its officers, directors and members of
the executive and finance committees,
all of which are named in the com
plaint. The defendants are: The Equi
table Life Assurance Societv of the
United States and James W. Alexan
der, Louis Fitzgerald, Chauncey M.
Depew, Henry C. Deming, Cornelius
N. Bliss, George H. Squire, Thomas D.
Jordan, Charles S. Smith, Valentine P.
Snyder, Alvin W. Krech, Wm. Alexan
der, John J. McCook, James B. For
gaii, C. Ledyard Blaif, Brayton Ives,
Melville E. Ingalls, James H. Hyde,
Alexander J. Cassatt, Jacob H. Schiff,
James J. HU1, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Al
fred G. Vanerbilt, John Jacob Astor,
Wm. C. Vanhorne, Gage E. Tarbell,
Marvin Hughitt, Charles B. Alexander,
Thomas Dewitt Cuyler, Marcellus
Hartley Dodge, Jos. F. DeNavarro,
Bradish Johnson, Edward H. Harri
man, Levi P. Morton, August Belmont,
Darius O. Mills, Robert T. Lincoln,
George J. Gould, John Sloane, George
T. Wilson, Thomas T. Eckert, Wm. H.
Mclntyre, Henry M. Alexander, Henry
C. Frick, Samuel M. Inman, Henry C.
Haarstick, David H. Moffatt and Hen
ry R. Winthrop.
Edward H. Harriman, one the eve
of his departure for Japan, accepted
service pf the summons and Monday
many other defendants, including Jae.
H. Hyde, were served through their
private counsel. The defendants are
allowed 20 days in which to file an
swers. The compalint refers to the Frick
committee report and the investigation
made by Stjite Superintendent of In
surance Hendricks, and is based on
information and belief. The complaint
asks that the defendants, except the
society itself, account for their official
conduct in the management and dispo
sition of the funds and property com
mitted to their charge; that they pay
the Equitable Society "any money and
the value of any property any of them
have acquired to themselves, or trans
ferred to others, or lost, or wastedby
i Violation of their duties;" that any
f them, now a director or directors, or.
;rvK t j v ct.ni)t a cnnistv
fu$on proof of misconduct, be removed,
ana a new election ueiu uy iuc uuoiu
of the society, to supply the vacancy;
that the net surplus of the society af
ter deducting sufficient to cover all
outsanding risks and obligations, be
paid to. or credited to, or applied for
the benefit of, the present policyhold
ers in equitable proportions, in ac
cordance with the charter and with the
law; and asks any further relief "as
may be just, equitable and profitable."
The complaint charges that the in
dividual defendants, as directors, neg-
lieentlv. improperly and improvidently
performed such duties as have habit
ually and continuously done, or suf
fered to be done, wronfgul, illegal and
imDroDer acts." causing great loss ana
damage to the society. The defendants
qt-q fnrtvior r-hnrfferi with having; ac
quired or permitted transfer to others,
money, property, etc., oi tue hwiclj.
The Three Rawlings Sentenced.
Valdosta, Ga., Special Sentences of
rlMth were nassed upon J. Or. tawi
ing, Milton Rawlings and Jesse Rawl-
in-s Mondav nisrht. The date of exe
cution is the 15th of September. When
asked what he had to say why sentence
should not be passed, J. G. Rawlings
said:
"My conscience stands erect. You
can no more pluck it than you can
the hrisrhtness of the sun. ine sen
tonpp rnn rir no more than kill. Pass
it." Sentence was next passed upon
ATilton.who accepted it without a word.
When Jessie's sentence was read, he
leaned toward the court and said, "Not
o-urtitv " then husa into tears. Leonard
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Frank Turner, the negro preacher
charged with being accessory before the
fact was found guilty wltn a recom
mendation of mercy. A motion for a
new trial in the case of the Rawlings
was filed and the 9th day of September
was the date fixed for the hearing. Alf
Moore, also condemned to die, will be
sentenced later.
No Thoughts of Peace.
St. Petersburg, By Cable Reports
received from the army at Manchuria
show that while the peace commission
ers are preparing to open negotiations
which may result in bringing the war
to a close, the Russian soldiers at the
front are not relying on" these efforts,
but preparing to strike a blow which
will demonstrate their ability to con
tinue the strife indefinitely. An ac
count has just reached here of a speech
made to the soldiers. by General Line
vitch, in which he said:
"'We must prepare a blow against
the Japanese which will prove that
Russia will be able to protract the war
indefinitely in the event that unfavor
able peace terms are offerd by the Jap
anese. x engine umpo i v.rw.
Cleveland, Ohio, Special. Fireman
Charles Heichemer, of Cleveland, was
instantly killed and Engineer A.
Wightman severely hurt; when the
Wheeling Lake Erie Railroad engine
on which they were Monday morning
was wrecked. The storm Saturday
night had forced a layer of sand sev
eral Inches deep over the rails, throw
ing the engine over on its side. Wight
man was hurled forty feet through
the cab window, while Heichemer
was buried under the engine.
THE PROBLEM OF SEASONAL FORECASTS,
FACTS WHICH DISCREDIT ASTROLOGERS AMD PROPHETS
WHO" PRETEND TO FORETELL THE WEATHER. -
lOiX. HE infinite desirability of
J "- g foreknowing the seasons
O I O for the benefit of husband-
men is at once the oppor-
1SJOW tunity of charlatans and
the justification of national weather
services.. It avails little to decry the
methods of impostors or to brand them
as fakirs; the court of final resort must
always be a comparison of results, and
such comparison every one can now
make for himself. Weather maps
showing the actual conditions on every
day are now published by practically
every civilized nation, and are accessi
ble to all, and all that is needed to cure
the most implicit belief in almanac
predictions is an honest comparison of
these predictions fbr a single season
with t9e actual occurrences as shown
by these maps. Conspicuous instances
of failure, such as those of the artifi
cial rain makers, who a decade ago
were given tbe fullest opportunity to
test and exploit their theories, or the
colorless results of the extensive cam
paign of bombardment as a protection
against hail, which has been conducted
for several years in Southern Europe,
do not convince the credulous. They
do serve, however, to illustrate the
'confusion of tongues" among the pro
phets of these latter days, who bom
bard the skies to precipitate storms
and bombard the clouds to dissipate
mem. Government meteorologists are
not alone in the denunciation of the
fallacies, absurdities and pernicious ef-
brts of so-called long-range forecasts.
Professor Young, probably the . fore
most American astronomer, sneakinar
of lunar influences, points out that the
frequency of the moon's changes is so
great that it is always easy to find in
stances by which to verify a belief that
changes of the moon control conditions
on the earth. A change of the moon
necessarily occurs about once a week.
All changes of the weather must, there
fore, occur within three and three
fourths days of a change of the moon,
and one-half of all changes ought to oc
cur within forty-six hours of a' change
in the moon, even if there were no cas
ual connection whatever. Now, it re
quires only a very slight predisposition
in favor of a belief in the effectiveness
of the moon's changes to make one f or
get a'few of the changes that occur too
far from the proper time. Coincidence
enough can easily be found to justify
pre-existent belief.
Unquestionably 'there is a general de
sire for an extension of the range of
forecasts to cover the near future, and,
if possible, the coming seasoa. If some
explorer in meteorology and astronomy
should discover some fundamental law,
nitherto unknown, whereby he could
accurately calculate the time of arri
val, the force and pathway of storms
for weeks and months in advance, and
could warn the people of future floods
or -droughts in defined localities, he
would at bnce take rank as the great
est scientist of the world. And then if
he would reveal the secret of his dis
covery for the benefit of future gener
ations, he would be honored as the
greatest of philanthropists as well as
the wisest of mankind. But, alas, up
to date this man has not arrived.
Some of the ablest scientists of this
country and Europe have devoted
much time and labor to the study of
this problem. They have consulted
weather records of all countries, tak
ing notes of the dates of heavy storms
and making 'comparison with the posi
tion of the moon and planets, to deter
mine if there is any discoverable con
nection between, the movement of
those minor bodies and the sweep of
storm eddies in the earth's atmosphere.
The consensus of opinion has been that
there is no foundation of fact or phi
losophy for that system of long-range
forecasts. So thus, far there has been
entire failure to establish a scien
tific and practical basis for any kind
of trustworthy predictions as to the oc
currence of storms, floods or droughts
in. specified localities and at certain
dates in future months or seasons.
ThQugh such foreknowledge is very
desirable, yet at the present stage of
human progress it is beyond the possi
bility of realization. In this field of
scientific research, the wisest students
have been most deeply sensible of the
limitations of human knowledge,) but
charlatans and pretenders claim tojhold
a key to mysteries in earth and the
heavens that are hidden to the balance
of mankind. Quackery in meteorology
s well as in medicine, is indicated by
the extravagant pretentions of its prac
titioners.
Modern astrologers, following closely
the lines of their ancient prototypes
give the sun a minor or passive role,
while the moon and planets form an
all-star aggregation in the ever-shift
ing scenes of the earth's drama. To
each, planet is assigned some specialty
act on the stage, each producing a dif
ferent type of weather, and when the
three act in conjunction the complex
results are startling.
Really, it is difficult to treat such lu
dicrous matter with becoming dignity
and seriousness. A certain almanac's
description of "Each planet's peculiar
phenomena" is absolutely irresistible
I as a mirth provoker to any reader who
possesses a sense of the ridiculous and
some elementary knowledge of meteor
ology and astronomy. One is impressed
by the evident earnestness off the au
thor, and yet it seems that he! must be
too diligent to believe in his absurdly
fantastic theories. They are no more
believable than the myths and legends
of the ancients. It is inconceivable
that a learned astronomer and meteor
ologist actually believes that the sun
is passive except when it is "per
turbed" by some planet's equinox; that
mists and vapors are injected and in
fused into the sun by Mercury's per
turbation, and then thrown out' by so
lar energy to form mists and. sleet on.
the earth, and that during the so-called
"Jupiter period" the carrying capacity
of the earth's atmosphere becomes dis
ordered and weakened, so that it cau
not transport and diffuse humidity,
thereby causing consuming droughts in
places and destructive cloudbursts in
other localities. One who actually be
lieves that kind of absurdity is really
beyond the reach of influence by evi
dence and argument. The bare state
ment of such propositions is a sufficient
refutation.
Students in the primary class in me
teorology learn that the ever-changing
phenomena of the weather are all ref
erable to the action of the sun upon
the earth and' its atmosphere, vapors
and gases; that the constantly radiated
energy of the sun supports heat, light
and electric force in the solar system.
The planets possess no form of inde
pendent energy whereby they may
"perturb" the sun and increase its po
tency. The libraries of the United States
Weather Bureau contain the substance
and much of the detail of all that is
nown of weather wisdom, ancient and
modern, and the scientists of this bu
reau certainly are familiar with the es
sence of this knowledge. Those who'
are in a position to know are well'
aware that every possible effort is be
ng made to extend our knowledge of
the laws that control weather condi
tions, and meanwhile to give to those
who are vitally concerned the most
trustworthy information obtainable. It
s a matter of common experience that
the notable success ot- some commer
cial article of merit is sure to flood the
market with spurious goods of the
same class, which unscrupulous vend
ors spread before the indiscriminating
public. The rapid strides of the Uni-
ed States Weather Bureau in recent
years toward popular tavor tnrougn
he widespread dissemination of the
forecasts a service made possible
arger by the phenorAenal spread of
the telephone and the development of
tne aeveiopment oi
service has Pr- .'
r impetus- toiciW''?
the rural delivery
ently given a new
enuuc, nor xo say uiusciuliimw yco-
casts, based. upon some. theoTy cy
cles or of planetary control. ' "5. tue
--.L O.-
Chief of the Weather Bureau is be
lieved to beot osay;" Justified, but
morally enjoined to counteract as far
as possible the mischievous effects of
the work of astrologers, who pretend
to foretell the character of coming
seasons or the progress of storms and
ordinary weather conditions for a
month or a year in advance, and whose
unfounded and unreliable forecasts are
too often given undue circulation by
the less careful publishers.
The problem of seasonal forecasts is
receiving at the hands of the ablest
and most painstaking student's of both,
continents a comprehensive considera
tion that is certain to be fruitful and
far-reaching in its ultimate results.
So important and so pressing is the
work and so promising is the field that
the Chief of the Weather Bureau is
building and equipping a large observa
tory, wherein the best talent available
will soon be employed to study the in
tricate and profound problems of the
atmosphere, whose solution promises
improvement over present methods
and results in forecasting and may lead
in time to seasonal predictions . on a
truly scientific basis.
Why Women Work.
There is always a good deal of talk
as to why some Women prefer to earn
their own living rather than marry.
The wherefore might be discussed till
all of the disputants reached the chlor
oform age and no get all the right
answers; but one reason of it is that
some married women have a habit of
talking. And in these little monologues
about their husbands they sometimes
turn the limelight on a few hard facts.
One of them is that there are some
men very often good men, too who
provide their wives with enough to eat
and wear, but never allow them the
handling of a single cent of money.
One man, for instance, gives his wife
$5 for shoes, but insists upon going
with, her to she that she spends all of
it for that and doesn't buy a pair' at a
bargain and save a little for a matinee
that she couldn't see if she didn't
scheme for the price of the ticket De
troit Free Press. -
Trere Better So.
Stewart Edward White, the author,
lost some money recently through the
failure of a trust company.
In Santa Barbara one day he was in
troduced to an interesting young man
from New York.
"What does that young man do?"
Mr. White asked on the stranger's de
parture. "He is attached to the Commercial
Bank,'1 was the reply.
"Ah," said Mr. White, "so they at
tach them now, do they? It's not a
bad idea." Cincinnati Inquirer.
A Worthy Charity.
A certain English actor, whose debts
had made him an object of interest
to various bailiffs, met a friend
one day who askod him if he could
spare ten shillings toward a fund withi
which to bury a bailiff who had Just
died.
"By all' means," replied the actor;
"here's twenty shillings bury two."
Harper Weekly.
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