The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-13
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visiting In turn the towns and MIL ports
from olympia to the Straits OF Fuca,
anG meeting nowhere sufficient encouF-
agement to induce him to settle per-
manently, Dr.. Price departed for South
ern California For three years he re-
mained IN that sunny cline: they were
three years of uninterrupted drouth, dur
ing which every blade of grass and every
shrub shriyeled and died from lack
OF moisture. Thousands of sheep
and cattle met the same fate from
the same cause.-the ahseLce OF life
giving and DEMONSTRATING rains. OF pa
tents the doctor found enough there, but
he wanted something more than patients.
The incessant sun and dust and parched
vegetation soon became monotonous. and
he ionged for the verdant plains and for
ests of the Puget sound basin with
its refreshing rains and numoerless
lakes and streams. All this l had
from his lips after his return.
AT the end OF the third year in the Sunny
South DR.. Price turned his steps north.
ward. arriving in Olympia in March. On
the morning after his arrival the sky.
which had been clear for several days. as
sumed leaden hue from gathering
clouds, and soon a gentle rain commenced
falling. Just then / saw the doctor issue
from house on the main street. AS ne
stirred out on the sidewalk he removed q
broad-rimmed sombrero from his head,
reverentiy turned his face toward heaven,
and said:
Thank God l am once more in a
country where it rains?"
The fervency with which these words
were uttered bore ample testimony to the
sincerity OF the speaker. Replacing the
sombrero upon his head, the doctor ex-
tended his hand in greeting and then
briefly related his experience in Sous hern
- Ivv
saying that he would not accept that en-
tire country as gift if compelled to live
there.
very estimable lady. who vas born
and raised III Connecticut. lived two years
in Olympia, when circumstances required
her return to her native state. The two
years she passed here were characterized
by no unusual weather; the summers
were warm and dry and the winters mild
mark them as differing from our
ordinary winter seasons. On the
eve of the departure OF this lady
called, at her request, accompanied by my
wife, TO bid her adieu. Rarely have l Wit
messed grief SO poignant as our departing
friend exhibited on this occasion. Amid
sobs she gave expression to her sorrow at
being compelled to leave cline so de-
lightful, exciaiming:
Il cannot tell you how deeply dread q
return and exposure to another Connecti-
cut winter! The contemplation of it fills
me with unspeakabIe terror!"
1t was late in the autumn, and wintry
blasts. snow and ice had already visited
the home she was going TO. Unhappily
for her, she was very susceptible to ex-
treme cold. while our eauable climate was
just suited to and enjoyed in the largest
measure by her.
Army officers. after being stationed q
year oritwo at Fort Steilacoom, have ex-
pressed similar regret on being ordered TO
other posts that possessed no such pleas
ant climatic features. But of what avaii
are such facts as these? Though columns
might be filled with them. they would not
stop the mouths of weather grumblers,
whose mission seems to be to spread the
discomfort they themselves feel.
CHARLES PgoscH