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OUTLOOK aHBiBV 8 THE PINEHURST THE WEATHER PROPHET JM5J IliS 4 o ' LS 1 '23 FOR LEASE Winter Home in southern North Carolina. Furnished Modern Colonial house located in the suburbs in eight acre oak grove. Seven acres of rolling hill and lake country. .Lawn, carnage house, stable. (Jliuiate same as Augusta. Address FRANKLIN S. CLARK, Fayettevllle, N. C. PINEHURST DEPARTMENT STORE Complete and Modern Equipment in Every Department, with Prices on Par with Northern Markets Plain and Fancy Groceries Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Notions, Men's Furnishings, Drugs, Complete Equipment for Men and Women for All Out Door Sports. Field, Trap and Pistol Ammunition. Pinehurst Pharmacy COMPLETE LINE OF Drugs, Sundries, Toilet Articles, Confections, Stationery, Cigars, Etc., Prescriptions Compounded by a Registered Pharmacist General Store Building THE- - ST. JAMES- European Plan Centrally Located WASHINGTON, D. C. Manicuring, Shampooing, Chiropody and Marcel Wave Scalp, Facial and Body Massage with Vibrator. Special toilet articles and hair goods LAURA A6NES WALKER Room 2 THE CAROLINA 1911 ! Poland Spring House POLAND SPRING South Poland, Maine Open from June 1st to October 15th MANSION HOUSE Open throughout the year HIRAM RIGKER & SOUS Proprietors HOW SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION THE outlook: publishing CO, Send The Outlook to Friendt, "it Saves Letter Writing" ffla Profior William of U. S. Ilureau Tell About III 111 In Practical Way "THERE'S no secret in weather forecasting," declares Professor Hen ry E. Williams of the U. S. Bureau, "and as a matter of fact, a field of weather wisdom may be acquired by those who are observing, and this wisdom needs only to be properly corelated in order ta be entirely prac tical. The information of the experts in the Weather Bureau is obtained after long years of study and observation. Certain meteorological conditions indi cate certain changes in the weather, but these signs are not infallible, for other conditions may arise. One can readily see, then, that long distance forecasting that is, for an extended period of time is not only impractical but impossible with our present knowledge of thei floats away in the wind. Now, if you are weatherwise and are on the leeward side of this mountain you will know that a warm, moist current of air, indi cating rain or snow, is approaching. To be sure, a cloud cap on the top of a mountain is not always an indication of a rain or snow storm, but in nearly all cases it may be safely taken as a sign of falling weather. In the majority of instances the for mation of clouds after a clear period presages rain, but we have no means, at present of determining definitely the ex act time in which the rain will fall. The. rain may come within two or three hours after the clouds appear or it may arrive in two or three days. It is on these little points of distinction that the United States forecasters seek to base their prognostications. In noting the rise or fall of tempera ture one, who is experienced in these matters, can use his own judgment as to 1 " 1 i M .1 1 "ALL PROPHETS" NATIVES AT science. A good many laugh at certain signs of our forefathers, but where they watched meteorological conditions, per haps they were not so far out of the way. Of course, there were many signs that simply meant nothing but they were apart from the. natural science of men. It is said that the first weather chief in this country used to predict bad weather whenever his rheumatism be came rampant, and it may be that that was a very sure indication to him of storms. But there are enough natural resources at hand to tell "us at short range what the weather is likely to be. One of the most, infallible indicators of the weather are the clouds. They are formed from the moisture that is always in the air. This moisture, like the air, is invisible so long as it remains in the form of gas, but when the air is cooled a portion of its water vapor is condensed and a mist or cloud is formed, which is visible. The formation of a olnnH mow be shown by a familiar illustration. A current of warm, moist air strikes a cold mountain and some, of the moisture is condensed, thus forming a cloud which A TYPICAL SOUTHERN BARBECUE the probable outcome as to such cond'l-r tions. He does not require a thermome ter to tell him that the atmosphere is oppressively warm, nor a hygrometer to indicate that there is an unusual amount of moisture. As for that matter a pitch er of ice water on a hot day serves very well as a hygrometer, for the water va por in the air is condensed and collects on the outside of the pitcher which is cooler than the surrounding air. Now, this principle which you may see illus trated by the pitcher of ice water is re peated by nature on a large scale every time there is a fall of rain or snow. First of all there is the cooling of the air and the formation of clouds which are composed of minute particles of water; then there is a further cooling of the cloud mass, so that the particles unite and form small rain drops which fall to the earth by their own weight. If the atmosphere be sufficient! v cold these raindrops are congealed as they fall and becomes snow drops. A sudden change in the temperature of the atmos phere in the summer during such a rain fall results in a hail storm.
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