Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-02-10
WEATHER TALK.
Experiences of Man Who Found It
Above,

Burlington Hnwkcyc,
Fairly on the road, Il man came ant
sat down in front of me, and turne,
around and faced me.
"Cold, this mOrnin'," he said.
folded my paper, and famed my
self with it vigorously moment o
two before | replied. Then | umbut
toned my coat ('private to editors"--i
was originally a three-buttoned coat
but the eXigcncies of the season, tn,
long absence from home, and the he
cessity of dropping something into tn,
contribution basket every time | 60 VI
to church, has reduced it to the mini
mum of one, wiped my frigid brow
with my handkerchief, and said il
painting tones:
81 don't find it So
The man looked astoniShed. Bu
presently he said:
"Maybe you've been runnin'."
NO" | replied, 81 have been asleel
for the past two hours, ina Sleigh
"And ye didn't feel the cold:" tn,
man inquired.
"NIan" | said, in tones Of amaze
ment. Gold, on the 9th Of .une?"
June" he echoed. Strengthening up
Are You crazy? It's the 9th of Janu
ary"
"Well," said, "it felt like the 9th o
June TO me-
ITS mighty fine sleighin', all th'
same the man said.
told him, without a blush, that
had never seen the mud worse on Ohio
roads since | could remember
MWhere on earth," he asked, in ut
ter astOnishment, did you come from? =
"Dayton," | said.
His eyes began to creep out and look
at each other over the top Of his nose
"When?' he asked.
This morning." | said calmly, "sincC
S o'clock"
"lIOw?" lie fairly shouted.
ain a One-hOrse Sleigh" | said.
"SakeS alive" he shrieked; "it is i'm
possible. It's only II o'clock now, and
Dayton is fifty miles away"
"COuldn't help it, insisted. 81 left
there Il little over two hours ago in Il
sleigh, had poor horse, drove slowly,
and the mud was up to the hubs of my
wheels all the way. 1t was warm as
May, and | haven't seen enough snow
to make a one-boy Slide in five thous-
and miles"
The mans hair stood on end, and he
got up to start for the other end Of the
car.
"If you amt crazy, and believe you
be" he said, with grave earnestness,
'you are an awful liar"
Good man. | said 81 expect ! am,
hut am not Il fool. may tell start
ling lies, but do not talk like an ass,
and would he thought Il liar or mani
ac rather than an imbecilc. | do not
come into a car where the thcrmOmc-
ter marks degrees below zero, and tell
II living, breathing, intelligent, sensi-
tive man that it is cold, just as though
| was imparting some information to
him. do not watch him drive up to
the train in Il sleigh, spinning over the
dry, wisp snow, on the smooth, perfect
pixies of Ohio, and then attempt to in
struct, anuse or Startlc him by telling
him the Sleighing is good. | would
rather astOniSh Il man than bore him.
If | have nothing better to tell him
than something he knows already far
better than | do, my mouth is sealed,
and | will never speak. In order to as
tOmish him or startle him | may have
to lie to him, but that is better than
boring him. You might as well sit
down and tell me that twice two is
four as to tell Inc that it is cold. You
might as well tell me that George
Washington is dead as to tell me that
sleighing is good. Go away, good man,
60 TO sleep. Itell You it is June; there
is no SNOW; there is dust and there is
roses. 1t is two hundred miles from
Dayton to Ioyeland, and walked from
the north pole this morning. Go, get
the to Il numcry, and when you can
model your conversation on something
besides United States signal service re-
ports, come and wake me up, and hold
me in the matchleSs charm of your in
structive talk. know not what
course others may take, but as for me,
gaul blast the man who talks to me
about the weather"
And straightway the man ariz and
got him unto the after wood-boX, for
he was sore astonished. And as | fell
ntoa slumber the forgotten dreams of
which contained more real, valuable
information than that man ever did,
or ever will know, ! heard him open
ing Il conversation with the taciturn
brakeman by remarking:
"COld, this mOrnin'"