Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-30
BApLY OFF.
Hasen's Predictions Concerning the
Present Winter Not Sustained.
The Mid. Pleasant Weather He Promised
Has Not Matrriaiiycd.

The Mid. Pleasant Weather He Promised
Has Not Matrriaiiscd.
This IL the mild, green, open winter
that General Haxen of the United
states signal service predicted Trains
are abandoned in snow drifts. aud
dead locomotives lie along the tracks
frem the borders of British
North America to the strands
of the Mexican sea. Live stock
perishes even In pens built for its pro
lection. One mighty, all-conquering
blizzard dominates the whole west,
the whole north, the whole south, the
whole east. At every one of the sta.
tons supported by the United states,
and placed under the direction OF
Hazen, the sergeant In command has
had his nose frozen in the attempt to
ascertain by close inspection what has
become of the mercury in the Their
mometors entrusted 10 his care for pur-
poses OF meteorological observation.
Private thermometers have found their
resources unequal TO the exacting
occasion, and have been frozen out of
the business of weather observation.
The country is frozen up. In the cit
les there are still Indications of life,
The creak of the frozen wheel slowly
making Its way upon the frozen pave
ments tells the people within doors
that the streets are not wholly ADAM
doned. The chimneys smoke rs they
haven't smoked for many u winter, a
sure indication that the coal-pile Is
disappearing with rapidity that
causes the householder who is warned
to shudder mt the thought that the
winter supply, laid in possibly ON the
fa ~ 4
exhausted before February, and that
the price of fuel thereafter will sug-
gest that il the Arch kiend had 10
Keep his furnaces going az his
own expense he would speedily close
out so Improbable business.
w alter pipes burst; the plumbers, who
feared when they read Hazen i'm No
vember last that such bursting ms
would he done in their line this win
ter would have to be done by them
selves, are now engaging the best quar-
tiers at the seaside resorts for what will
he u needed rest. Ii is SO cold that the
few people who venture forth take an
affectionate farewell OF their noses and
ears and like members, lest they do
not survive the exposure. 1t is so
cold that while 1t is true that some
pious people do 70 to church,
it is also rue--at least
it is highly probable--that the min
istcr Is careful not TO picture blazes as
a punishment for sins done in the
flesh, lest he make The mistake of the
early missionaries who carried the
cheerful doctrine OF fireand birthstone
into the benighted regions of Green
land. The inhabitants of the frozeu
section We're warned by the good faith
ers not To commit sin lest they be
hurled into the bottomless pit where
the fire is never quenched That was
the very place they wanted to find. 1t
had no terrors for them. And SHINING,
that TO their heathenish comprehen-
sion had been immoral, became I'M
der the preaching of the Christians
the means of securing what appeared
TO them eternal bliss.
The present manifestation, IL ex-
treme, is not altogether exceptional
From the very day OF Haaen's predic-
ton to the present, the winter has
been cold. If there have been sugges-
tons of q thaw at times, they have
but served To point out that even an
attempt to make the winter according
to Hazen has been bitter failure.
There was no frozen truth in Ha2en's
prophecy. 1t was driz2ling false
hood. And if he hadn't been MS open,
mild and green as he predicted the
winter would be, he would never have
ventured the prophecy. 1t was wholly
gratuitous. Nothing in the law re-
quires his department TO do amy
weather-gucssing for more than TWEEN
ty-four hours in advance. His daily
reports are to be accurate data of the
weather of the passing day, and sug-
gestion OF what, in the opinion of the
department, are the probabilities of the
coming day. TO confine himself
strictly TO "A work in which his vaticin-
ations have not been remarkably sue
cessful, would not answer Mr. Hazen's
ambition. He must do up the weather
for whole season in advance, And
what sport 1Iolus and Jack Frost aud
the Snow King and Old Blizzard, who
appears TO be IA combination Of them
all, have made Of Hazen and his pre-
dictions. - Chicdgo Times.