Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-13
SOME WEATHER GUIDES AND
OTHER MATTERS.


nal Service, has made public request
that any person, having a special knowl-
edge of facts or appearances by which
indications of changes in the weather
mgsb which viii contain iii; such fffftGrTfY:
ton, would be pleased to forward them
to him. Below We give an extract from
Judge ]. w. Thompson's "Athanase,"
which contains some such matters that
may be in answer to the Generals re-
quest; but knowing the author as well
as we do, we think the extract, while it
does not contain such information, has
a deeper significance than mere signs of
the weather, and gives very clear signs
Of the "times," when "truth, in its
avenging spirit comes to swap away
pollution"
IL do believe there is a power in man
To catch the sounds that Nature in its
throes
Gives forth. and wrench from them their
meaning,
Fen as the prophets of Dodona, Delphi,
Whose minds were high athnities with ma
ture,
Or that Power which rules in its order.
There is a sympathy in all with all,
As IL an universal nerve, to each
Destructive thing allotted in its kind,
Sensitive to powers common to the whole,
Ran through the order of existence
On which the symphonies Of life are
played,
Or into Earring discords twanged and broke.
Unseen presence and unknown powers!
Ha, ha!
A change of wind, a cloud, the chemists
The juice of grape fermented in the vat,
Fatal draught from healthful grain dis
titled,
And more fatal from foul, corrupted grain,
The poppy's drug, the essence of the hemp,
The presence OF man who wrongs our
rights,
Or claims that which he deems his own
just right,
Will make man weep, or sigh, or laugh, or
And sternest thoughts of vengeance will
awake,
And his monkey stir, or tiger rouse.
The evening clouds betOken morrow's day,
The violet MON harbingers the storm,
The silver sinks, and in the glass stands
low,
The distant hills in clearer sight look nigh,
The sounds are louder IN the hollow air,
The gentle bowers shut their petals up,
The cricket on the hearth more sharply
sings,
The cat, the spider, the house-dog and the
toad,
Their common sympathy with nature
show;
The wailing birds the safest covers seek
Before the changes hurtle in the air
And the storm darkens and the thunders
growl;
And man in body's pain or gloom Of mind
That tempt the suicide to fatal deed,
Or prompts the evil passions to rebel,
UnconsciouSly his kinshlp owns with all,
Or in more conscious knowledge acts his
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And provides for evils which such causes
bring.
With higher powers he future ills may
And catch dark shadows of the coming
time
Whose woes shall eat his strength and
hope away,
Nor serve the wretched race that he would
save,
As sad Cossandra fatal doom foresaw,
And by foreteling made her own com.
piele,
Or like those prophets of the olden time
Menacea with death for woes that they
foretold-
FOretold, but never couldavert
Or, if ayerted they ne prophets
were.
They who possess this sad prophetic lore
And see these gloomy portents long be-
fore
Their day of doom on men usheltered
break,
Must feel the vengeance of the God with
in,
Nor withhold their fated facts fer higher
truths.
In this ayenging spirit come, stern and
calm,
To sweep away pollution.
So law-the moral Law
So in the whole order writ, .
Moves forward in awful power
To syenge-and purify.
The first law Of nature is self preserva-
ton: but TO do it she needs PEEUSA.