The Red Cloud chief., 1881-12-01
All Aleu-, tie Weather.

Ifftiy N3rm. the man WIKI tue
thin clothes said TO the nan in the
corner seat as the South Hill car was
coming down the Division street steps.
What $ pretty warm" growled the
man in the corner. y,
"Why. the weather"
What weather. more CRU Ty than
ever.
"Whv." the man with thin clothes
said. looking as though he wished he
hain begun IL. '.this weather
We'll" said the man in the corner.
how this weather different from any
other?'
The man with the thin clothes looked
%nervous!y at the dun mule and said lit
was warmer
How do you know IL is?" asked the
nan in the orner
The other man began TO wish he was
well out Of il. and SAID he supposed IL
was; he hadn't heard how the
Ism the weather the same every
where savagely demanded the man
in the corner.
WHY. no." the man with the thin
clothes replied. wishing to goodness he
had a newspaper to hide behind; mo;
it's warmer some places, and some
places it's colder"
What makes it warmer in some
places than it's colder in o.hers?" re-
morselessIy pursued the man in the
orner
why" the man with thin clothes
said, piteously' the sun; the effect OF
the suns heat"
Makes il colder in some placesthan
it's warmer in others?' roared the man
in the corner, Indignantly. Never
heard of such a thing"
No" the man with thin clothes
fastened 10 explain. IL didn't mean
that. The sun makes it warmer"
Then what m lkcs it coldcr!' pur-
sued the remorselcss man in the corner.
The man in thin clothes wiped the
beaded perspiration from his pallid
brow, and said, slowly, 'he guessed it
was the ice"
What ice?: demanded the inquis-
itOr.
Why" the victim said. with every
symtom OF approaching dis solution ap-
parent in his tremulous voice. 1.-THE
ice that vas Internationally the
frost"
Did you ever see any ice that wasn't
frozen?" howled the man in the cor
ner, in a fine burst of derision.
The man in thin clothes huskilv wills
pcrcd that he wished he was dead. and
said: No; that is. he believed he
didn't"
Then" Numbered the man in the
corner, "wha, are You talking about?"
The man in thin clothes made an ef-
fort TO brace up. and spicily replied
that he was trying TO ''talk about the
weather."
land what do you know about it?"
triumphantlv roared the man in the
corner. What do you know about
the weather.
The man in thin clothes lost his grip
again, and feebly said that ..he didn't
know very much about II, that was u
fact" And then he tried to be cheer
iui. and work in a little joke about no
body being able to know much about
this weather, but the man in the corner
sat down on him with q tremendous
outburst.
mo, sir! | should say you didn't.
You come into this car and force your
self on the attention of 4 stranger and
begin TO talk TO me about the weather,
just as though you owned il. and | find
you don't know a soli,ary thing about
the matter yourself selected for Your
topic of conversation; you don't know
one thing about meteorological condi-
tons, principles, or phenomena; you
can't tell me why it is warm in August
and cold in December; you don't know
why icicles form faster in the sunlight
than they do in the shade; you don t
know why the earth grows colder as it
comes nearer the sun; YOU can't tell
why a man can be sunstruck in the
shade you can tell me how q cyclone
is formed, nor how the trade winds
blow; Won couldn't lind the calm center
of a storm if your life depended on it:
yOu don't know what a sirocco is, nor
where the southwest monsoon blows;
you don't know the average n-fali in
the United States for the past and cur
rent year; you don under tan | the for
nation of fog. and you can't explain
why the dew falls ut night and dries up
in The day; you don't know why a wind
dries the ground more quickly than \
hot sun; you don't know one solitary
thing about the weather. aud you are
just like a thousand and one other peo-
pie. who always begin talking about the
weather because thcv don't know any
thing else, when by the caves of Boreas,
sir, they know less about the weather
than they do about anything else in the
worldr'
And the man in the corner glared up
and down at the timid passengers in the
South Hill car. but no mar burst an
swer him. And, as for the m i with
thin clothes. he didn't know for the life
Of him whether he had a sun-stroke or
an ague chill. He only knew that it
seemed about twenty-seven miles to the
jefferson street Observation-Disclosures
Hawkeye.