The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-30
COTTON MADE a JUMP.
Fnrmcr Bauer Discusses Upon tho
Abnormal Climatic Conditions Pre-
Vailing in the United States Durin,r
the Last F0rtnight.
Columbia Register.

NJ iscry is said to love company; If
that be SO, the people in South Caro-
lima who arc made miserable by the
unusually hot weather OF tho last fort
night may find some consolation in the
iact that they had lots of company, for
phenomenal climatic conditions pre-
Vallod over tho entire United States
while onc-half OF tho country roastcd
and fried and siZzlcd and sought com
fort Is cussing tho hot weather, in free
use of fans and in copious draughts of
summer drinks, the other half came TO
tho conclusion that winter was sitting
in tho lap OF spring and that ovcrcoats
and stoves had been too quickly dis
cardGd.
Farmer Baner, tho Weather Bureau
Observer at Columbia, who is a vcrita-
pic walking encyclopaedia of inf0rma
tlon about tho weather, told Register
| reporter some interesting facts ycstor.
the East and chilly breezcs OF the West
! during tho last fortnight.
Three wccks ago" said ho, ga hot
wave struck the Pacific Coast and has
passed slowly over tho United States
rom west to East, gaining in intensity
as IL went along. In its wake has fol-
lOWod cold wave, which travelled at
about the Same rate of progress. The
result has been q strange contrast OF
climatic conditions. East OF the Mis-.
sissippi tho temperature has been
much in excess Of the normal tcmpera.
turc for this season of the wear, the
excess being greatest in Eastern Penn.
sylvanla, whore it was from 20 to 2f
degrees above the normal. On the
otncr hand, west Of tho Mississ ippi
tho temperature for the season bcina
as, much as 20 to 23 degress below ir
Montana.
:" The climatic conditions during the
iasI Iak week Droko all records of the
weather bureau. East Of the Missis
sippi, the temperature was from . 20
. degrees higher In various places tba,
ever before recorded at this season h,
the Weather Bureau, which has bcci
IN operation for q quarter of a acnturv
while west of tho Mississippi the othe
cnd OF the record was smashed. for IN,
temperature was from 2 to G degree,
Dclo" all observations for this season h
the Weather Bureau. 'i =
Whllc the people Of South Carolin
were sWoltering under g. heat IN do
grccs greater than the normal for th
season and In North Carolina the boo
was is degrees above tho normal :"
Monday there wore fourteen inches q
snow IN North Dakota and Montan
was also covered with q mantle Q
snow crystals. This is q vast countr,
as tnoats Is oyldenced oy d by the strange cor
| trasts OF extremes Of temporature q
frequently prevailing in different mart y
at tho same time. r"'
The inevitable deduction from Farm
cr bauers explanation of the woathe
conditlons which have prevailed dur
ing the last week Is that South Ca"c
INA and T. other cotton States vii
nave touch of the cold wave wbicl
nt mas passed over the West in the trai
ot Inc hotwave. In fact, the advance
ol on1 Sie cold wave stuck Texas yesterday
"ra "mu iIs advent there was promptly re-
| Cordcd IN the Cotton Excnange in New
York by advance Of 6 to points in the
price of tho cotton crop. If tho cold
wave continues to advance over the