The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-11-29
RAINYnAY.
How It Appears In tha New Mexican
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How It Appears IN the New Mexican
Mountains.
From the Albuquerque IN. NJ Journal.
The irite old saying that distance
lends enchantment to the View was
aptly illustrated to-day in this noun
tain land by an actual contract with the
clouds.
Clouds as usually seen, far above the
earth, floating with the wind, assuming
thousand shapes and forms. sometimes
sleepy, lazy, tieecy mass, and again
billowy rounded hoops whose forms
gamble with each other as they move
along, OF the dark and threatening
storm cloud, gathering force and
strength as IL comes tearing onward,
charged with electric artillery that
shocks the earth and threatens destruc-
ton TO all animate things in lts pathway
OF again as the evening slowly settles
down the rainbow tints made by the last
lingering rays of the setting sun among
the coloTed banks high up In the ether
ial canopy, forms q picture gallery for
| the world TO gaze at, and have the at
traction OF indifference, fear and admira-
ton. But up here where mountain
| lands and cloud lands meet, and the
lands are trying to get up higher, and
| the clouds are trying 70 get down lower,
the denizens have the unhappy privilege
| of becoming intimately acquainted
with the clouds and knowing their true
L character.
They come creeping along with in
i sldious steps over rocks and trees and
earth: q siekiy, blush mass; nasty,
sticky and driZziy. II is around, about
and beneath you. It fills all space; you
have neither air nor light; you see as if
through glass darkly," and yet it is
not night; when yOu breathe il feels
as though your air cells were being
| subjected to q shower bath. Presently
it begins la rain; first gentle drIzzle.
and then the drops are larger and there
are more Of them and they come down
faster and you begin 10 wish very short.
| ly shat your mother knew that You
| were out" and that ahe would send you
an umbrella, and you HE you To your
ranch, If you have enc, and build q
fire and sit down and look out Of the
/ window and see Q cloud and it does NOT
comfort you much, only il il on the out.
side and you are on the inside.
Presently the cloud that had you
surrounded moves on and you say good.
bye to It with iUst ray Of satisfaction
q
rugged old mountain, where its present
career will b ended; it strikes the
rookie and lie formlsss, VapoFless mass
turns into little t<1ckling streams thai
aeaVitale ever downward and pCesensll
The foot Of the mountain appears: the
unWelcome monster is dead and the IiFt
blood Of his body IL fass Ocsing cuI
against the mountaln side; and now
away Up the mOuHtAin, anoag ths
crags. It's fieecy head lighted mp agair
| by the peeping rays Of the glorious sun
thing OF beauty, AID yOc say awe d.
the enchentment Of distance. and let sh,
clouds stay away mp above Us, Ne are
perfectly willing that they should &C
cupy . higher sphere. and In the good
old way shower the rain down son ths
Just and unjust alike
Il And now it halls, SHOWS and rains
and the brown sodden earth becomes
decked here and there with dirty whit
streaks, and the wind bowls among III.
pines whose Waring branches sought /
response TO the gloomy day, bnt &C las
from q Yift in the clouds far away 20 IN
West food OF sunlight hurst through
and with swim wing brIngs Joyous light
and then IN the East low down q bov
OF pFomise with It's perfect arch Of EoVeI,
cnloFs assures Us our ram Is over.