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PATkIOrISM AND HEAT
The Antogonfsm Thar Erists Bet,ree,. the
Ttro.
New York Tines
Yesterday was in some places the very
hottest day of the season. For week the
aeat had been of the most incorporate and
nncalled-for character, bu. yesterday the
solar furnace was poked and the blower put
on until the heat Became 30 great that, if
rumor speaks truly, Mr.. Charles Francis
tdams him self was thoroughly warmed
through. Nevertheless. people bore the
leat almost cheerfully as they reflected tina,
its inevitable result would be quiet Fourth
# July. With the thermometer among the
ninetes patriotism is impossible, and " n
the small-boy loses his interest in fire.
crackers, and cares for nothing but plunge
into the river. and subsequent penEy's
worth of ce-cream. 1t was we'll that the
City Fathers prohibited tire-craokers and
,ther instruments of patriotic torture. but
lad it been toreseen that the tnermometef
would be ninety-fve in the shade, the pro-
nibtion would have been conceded to be un-
necessary.
Our climate has been growing steadily
warmer during the last century, and this fact
GULLY accounts for the decay of patriotism OF
which the partisan newspapers accuse their
dversaries. During the period of the re
volutionarv war the thermometer rartl ~ rose
lbove eighty degrees, and the winters were
extremely cold. Nobody an suppose thai
5he revolution would have been successful
aad the weather been as hot as it has been
Tor the last week. Would Thomas jefferson
ave drawn up a Declaration of Independ-
.nce, or would George Washington have
damned campaign III yesterdays weather.
20 far from so doing, Washington would .
loubtelly have said to any one who sug-
tested the propriety of active operations
,gainst the enemy, "Oh! go away! Dom,
1other! What do care about the enemy in
this weather." and Jefferson would probably
| lave thrown an empty bottle at the head OF
| he first Continental Con gresham who hint
| "a that declaration of anything, except
:orcible views as to hot weather and flies
| vas looked for by his fellow countrymen
What, in point of fact, was Washington's
conduct on the one occasion when he was
exposed to particularly hot weather, to wit.
N the day of the battle of Monmouth Die
| 10 not meet Lee on the battlefield anc
traightway use language in regard TO Tho
lies which will not bear repetition? There
Ire historians VITO pretend that Washington
poke not of flies but of the fight of LIE.
rom the field, and that it was an excess o
patriotism which led him to curse Lee. Thi.
is altogether too improbable. We know
nat it was intensely hot; that consequently
here must have been great deal of flies
md that no man could have felt patriotic il
| UGH circumstances. That Washington
.endered reckless by the heat, said, "Go
larn the hies,'' is much more probable thar
hat he used still stronger language in ref
renee to supposed fight of brave an,
BILE officer.
/ 1t needs but slight acquaintance will
history to prove that patriotism is destroye,
] " beat. Within the tropics it has no ex
i s;tenee. The Sosth American reyalationis
alls himself patriot, and processes To b
ctuated by patriotism, hut no one believe
Tim. IndeeI, his very existence is a proc
hat there is no patriotism among his fellow
ountr;men, else they would speedily an
permanently suppress him. 1t is anon
he inhabitants of the temperate and frigi
ones that patriotism fourishes, and it be
ones more and more vigorous as til
Innate grows colder. The most patriot
people in the world are the Icelanders, VIII
prefer to freeze in their miserable islam
.ather than to live in comfortable bu
toreign land 1t may be laid down as
treat natural law that the strength G
patriotism among nations varies nyersel
IS the height of the thermometer, and tha
II any climate the occurrence of week {
extremely hot weather will temporarily d.
troy every particle of patriotism.
In this materialistic aye. when it has bee
shown that the soul is merely a little gra
uatter in the brain, and that thought ~
node of motion, there is no need of an
argument to prove that patriotism is simpl
state of the body, To be more explicit,
) the presence in the system of a certei
.hemical substance which rapidly accum,
ates in cold weather, but which passes O
When the pores are opened by heat. Ign
] ant people often praise the patriotism
,ur fathers who endured the cold of Vallt
Forge. They are reversing the order
lungs. The revolutionary soldiers were e
: remedy patriot: at Valley Forge, bat it W
ecau e, and not in spite, of the cold. III
: older the weather became the more patriot
i hey were: but had the thermomet stot
vt ninety-fve during the winter at Vail
Gorge, they would have either deserted
zone over bodily to the enemy. It b
;. ,ften been noticed that the decay of patric
SIN among the Romans was contemporan
JUS with the introduction of hot baths. II
meaning of this fact is clear. The Roma
y lived in temperate climate-and Italy W
=, much cooler in their day than it is now
i md were therefore patriotic. When tn
,egan to use hot baths. their pores we
kept abnormally open, and in con sequen
their patriotism escaped. Had they &C
ined themselves to daily sponge baths wi
~ ,old water, thereby keeping the pores c
-tarted. their dominion would have last
until to-day.
PATRIOTISM and perspiration are antagol
tic. They cannot coexist. 1t is to this or
ID ruth we SHALL owe quiet Fourth of Jr
he No man who has passed through these Sc,
q. lays of intense heat can have an apprecia
n amount of patriotism left in him. Libe
. md independence are words that hi
temp r,rily lost their meaning. Air &
&c sea bathing are the only things now wo
he living for. Did we have fathers-that is
re say, grandfathers-and did they fight {
ID. bleed and die? Perhaps SO; but it is far
to hot to think about them.
- The New Orleans Mint.
de WAsH1NaToN, July 22.-The land upon wi
IN, the New Orleans mint is built has been dee
On to The government. and final steps for put
u