The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-01-25
NEW ENGLAND WEATHER.


believe that the Maker who made ms ull
makes everything IN New England bat
the weather don't know who makes
that. hut think it must ho raw apprcu-
ticos nm the weather clerks factory who
experiment and learn how, i'm New Eng
land. for hoari and clothes. ami then urc
promoted 60 make weather ior countries
that require good article, uud wall take
their custom elsewhere IL they don't got
H. There lsU sumptuuus variety about
New England weather that compels thc
Strangers admiration and regret The
weather Is always DOING something A'u.
always getting up new designs Nud trying
them uu the people to see how they wall
go But 10 gets through morr business
IN spring than IN amy other season. In
the spring | have counted 1886 different
kinds ut weather inside at four aud
twenty hours. Ii wus that made the
fame and fortune at that man ual huG
thc marvellous collection ut weather uu
exhibition ut tine Centennial that -u ua-
touudc,i the Foreigners. He WAS gutug
e. travel all over the world and sv. sptc-
mems from all tAr yhm,s. lstld Don't
vuu do it. Nuu rluc a. New Englaud uu
"a favorable spring day. 1 guli hll what
We could do m the way ut style variety
and quantity Well, he raur and hc
ugadc his collection Ia four days. y to
variety. why, he confessed that hr gut
hundreds ui kinds ut weather That hc
had never heard ot before. Aud as to
quantity. we'll. after he had p.ckrl ont
and dis,uplrd all that WAS hlgms7hvd m
amy way. he not only had weather
enough. hat weather "a spare; weather
70 hare out. weather a. sell; Go deposit;
weather % invest; weather o. give to the
puar. The peupleoi New England are 10y
nature patient aui furheartuE, but there
are some THINGS which they wsa not
stand Every YEAR they All a number
ot poets for writing about Beautiful
Spring" These are generally casual
visitors, who bring their uotlunsof spring
from somewhere elise. and cannot Of
course, know how the natives feel about
spring. And su the first thing they
know the opportunity to inquire how
they feel has permanently GONE 10y.
"Old Probabilities has "A mighty rrpu-
ation for accurate prophecy uud thor
uughly we'll deserves IT, NJu take up
the paper and observe how yr.srIy and
confidently he checks OH what t'-iays
weather is going to he uu the Pacific,
down South, n the Middle States.
IN the Wisconsin region. Saa hm
sail along I'm the JOY and pride
of his power till he gets o. New
England, and then see hIs tail drop. lie
doesn't know what the weather s going
10 be in New England lie can't amy
more tel thau he cam tell how many
Presidents Of the United States there's
going 20 he next wear. Wen. ha mulls
over 1t. and by-ani-hye he gets out some
thing about like tins Probable north
east 10 southwest winds, varying to the
suuJhward ami westward and eastward
and points between, high and low baramr-
eter swapping Mound from place to place;
probable areas of ram. SNOW. Aall and
drought, succeeded or preceded hy
earthquakes, with thunder and lightning
Then he iuts down tins postscript from
his wandering mind, Ia cover ucc# dents.
'' Bat il is possible that the programme
mAv be wholly changed iu the Mcau-
time Yes. one ~ the brightest gems
in the New England weather Is tile
dazzling uncertainty Of IT, There only
one thing certain about IL. lul age car-
tam there is going a. he plenty 1f wealth
era perfect grand review, uat yuu
never can tell which end ul tine prnees-
sion Is going yo move first. luu hz up
for the drought. yuu leave yuur umbrella
in the house and sally out with vuur
spriuklug pot, and two 10 one you get
drowned You make up yuur mni that
the earthquake Is due; yuu stand from
under and take hold ut something o.
steady yourself, and the first thing you
know You get struck by lightning.
These are great dlsappoiutmruts. But
they can't Ice helped The lightning
there is peculiar: IL is sa convincing.
when II strikes a thing 10 doesn't leave
enough of that thing behind Tor Won tu
tell whethrr-wrll, you'd think II WAS
something valuable and n Congressman
had been there. And the thunder.
When the thunder commences o. merely
time mp and scupc ami saw. and key up
the instruments Tor the performance.
strangers say: Why. what awful thuu-
der you have here. BUT when tile baton
Is raised and the real concert begins.
vuul find that stranger down iu the eel
lar with his head lu the ash barrel Now
as to the size uf the weather m New
Englaud-lengthways, / mean. II is
utterly dlsproportiunei To- the size uf
that little country. Half tine tsmc.
when It is packed as fun as il ciu stick
You viii see that New England weather
sticking ont beyond the edges and pro-
jecting around hundreds and hundreds
oi miles over the ucighb,riug States
She can't hold tenth part OF her wealth
en-. You can see cracks all about where
she has strained herself trying q do it.
/ could speak volumes about the m-
human perveTSity of the New England
weather, but / viii give but single
specimen. | like 10 hear rain uu o tin
roof. So covered part ui my rDaf with
TIN, with an eye to that luxury. Wen.
sir, DO you think il ever rams ON that
tin 3? No, sir; it skips it every time.
Mind, in this speech.I have been trying
merely 10 do honor % the New England
weather-uo language could II Justice
But, after all, there is az least one or two
things about that weather tor. ii ylu
please. effect produced by IT. which we
residents would not like 10 part with.
II we hadn't our bewitchiug autumn
foliage, we should still have % credit
the weather with one feature which com
pensates for all it's Bullying yureries-
the ice stprm-wheu y leatlcss tree is
clothed with ice from the bottom to the
top-ice that is NJ bright and clear MS
crystal; every bough and twig is strung
with ice beads, frozen dewdrops. and
the whole tree sDarlslcs cold and white,
like the shah 81 Persia's diamond plume
Then the wind waves the branches and
the sun comes ont and turns all those
myriads Of beads and drops to prisms
that glow and hum and flash with all
manner OF colored fires, which change
and change again with inconrciyabln ra-
pidity from blue TO red. from red to
green and green TO gold-thc tree be
comes a spraying fountain, n very eyplo-
sion of dazzling jewels; and it stands
there the acme, the climax, the suprem-
est possibility in art or nature, Of bewil-
derlng, Intoxicating, iutolcrablc magni-
iicence. One cannot make the words
too strong. Month after month / Law
up hate and grudge against tho New
England weather; but when the icc
storm COMES at last. / say: "Therc. |
forgive you now-the books are square
between MS. You don't owe me q cent
Go, and sin no more. Your little faults
and foibles count for nothing. Yuu are
the most enchanting weather in the
world :"
Theatcrs and I'll Luck.
The New York Her1id says There is
no gstfiuoy over tba fyri fbpt thor. I1.s