San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-05-03
A REMEDY FOR BILLIARDS..

Forestry Should BE Greatly stimulated
by Dakota's Sad Experience.
Forestry, by the sad experience Of thii
winter, should DO greatly stimulated II
Dakota. A blizzard Is simply q strong
cold wind, moving unchecked over leagues
OF light, unpacked snow. II sweeps III
that which has previously fallen, carries
II away I'm the color Of a vast shaker
fleece, distributes It 30 that almost Gael
atmospheric atom has its little particle
and drives along all with steady fury
Whether fresh snow Is falling can seldom
DO determined by people out In real biz
card. AS far as the eye can see upward,
and that Is but little space, tho hurry OF
minute pellets hurting Through ether
across an unicvealed sky prevails, and the
hurrying sameness on every side Is varied
only by occasional tall and bending
wraiths whore tho wind whrls In shifting
column. A confusion Of tho senses, COM
parable to none produced otherwise,
uppals one submitted to tile enormous and
binding force Of such snow filled wind,
md scarcely distinct thought remains
except that tho awful cold forblds crouch
Ing for rest and shelter.
10 our personal knowledge, ono In such
q storm keeps with difficulty upon rail-
way track lifted three feet above tho sur
rounding prairie, and may be lost by five
steps the wrong way after stumbling
down from the embankment, which, being
white, becomes instantly invisible. IL Is
recorded on good authority that bands OF
Transfers hating with their horses have
been showed over thirty feet deep by
billiards., and have survived by beating
out breathing chambers till the cessation
of the storm enabled them to dig them
selves to upper air. The formation OF u
drift about O halted man, or horse, or
sleigh is sometimes wonderfully speedy,
and tho drift, once established, grows by
virtue Of its obstructiveness. In some
we'll authenticated cases lost persons have
been found by the drifts over them and
dug out alive, III others tho spring has re-
vealed corpses still unthawed among the
last white relics Of winter. In billiards.
people have often been unable to see across
the street Of u northwest town, and some
times men lose their direction in trying to
reach tho opposite side Of well built
way.
This does not indicate that tho blizzard
would prevail II large tracts Of wood OBJ
structed The wind, rs the buildings Of u
city do The storm Is fully developed
before reaching tho town, and RACES
through and over tho comparatively small
builded space. But extensive forests or
many roadside belts Of wood would keep
the blizzard down, Their frequent occur
renee aud the great loss Of life from them
enforce tho need, which exists from other
causes, for systematic tree planting on tho
plains. To branch out roads, as they do
over lakes, rivers ind plains In the Quebec
province, il impossible on the treelcss
prairie. Nor would the device always
save travellers. The Mennonites have
wisely established post road many miles
long in southern Manitoba. Tho posts
arc about ton inches in diameter, fifteen
feet high, and not more, to our recollec-
ton, than fifty feet apart. Yet travellers
often stray from that road in billiards.. -
Toronto Globe.