New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-01
MAZDA Y.

In svift-footed years every breeze on May
Nav Ioosens a snowfall of cherry blossoms in
the orchards and finds the winter grain tall
enough to break into ripples as 1t passes. To-
day only the earliest shrubs, leatherwood
sniceyood and mn occasional amelanchler, are
showing bloom the woods are absolutely leaf
less. and even the willows by the brooksdes have
nothing 70 show to the distant observer but gold
on vopor which is the promise of foliage to come.
If our weather WAS constructed on the compen-
sation plan. the harsh and bitter March which
carried winter q month beyond its proper term
would have been followed by an April full
of sunshine but winter fingered still with frost
and snow while the longer days failed utterly
70 temper the air to any counterfeit OF
snring mildness. And now shall we once more
encourage ourselves with the hope that
because the sun continues without fail to send
in full measure the warmth which is the sea-
sons due. this must be stored up somewhere
10 fill every green thing with lustier life until
the rapid growth of summer makes amends for
the hardness of spring. Unfortunately, we
have only to recall last years experience, and
remind ourselves that late seedtime may be
followed by later harvest, and short sum-
mer by q longer winter.
The fact is our seasons are so capricious
that Nav. Day reflections which are timely for
one wear are not appropriate for any other.
The month may open with suggestions OF
March or of June, and the only thing to be sure
of is the tantallzng uncertainty OF the season.
That this uncertainty, entering as 1t docs INTO
all the economy of life, is something to be
grateful for is never duly appreciated until
ono who has experienced this stimulating
vicissitude is brought by chance TO some OF
those dismal regions where the same wind
begins to blow precisely at 0 o'clock a. M
of every day, and repeats itself for half year
ON the stretch In these regions where every
man knows precisely what tomorrow VIII
bring forth, the percentage of insane people Is
always ger than the average; and from this
il would seem that suppression OF the nat
ural desire to prOphesy about the weather Is
more than the human mind can endure. And
vet il is some comfort to be able to say with
the orator that the past, at least, is secure.
For this reason THE TRBUNE's assurances
that the wheat crop over the great Northwest
orn grain fields has already made prosperous
start are Opportune. Hereabouts timid souls
feared that the raw March winds had blown
the life out of the winter grain, but tho hills
are already green again with promise. The
farmers who began to feed their stock In
August, when the pasture had been burned up
by the drouth, are growing inpatient after
nine months Of fodderingj but the grass Is
thickening In the bottoms for good hay crop.
| The cold weather has held back the fruit buds
| beyond the danger Of killing frost, and, alto
| gether, 1t is not presumptuOus to hope that
there Is life in the old world yet.
The spring flowers are already here-arbu-
tus, bloodroot, liver-leaf. bellwort violets,
| buets and wake robin-the most delicate and
| beautiful of tho whole years floral procession