The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-13
When Clouds Roll Away There
Will Be Clear Sky.
AFTER RAIN IT WILL BIZ DRY
Plucking Daisies to Pieces la
Marguerite and Making Guesses
at the Weather = Unreasonable
Discrimination Against the Ma
tional Capital.

Inc weather. ohBc " DIS iOilDE on JDe
dewy sward in the back yard OF the
Weather Bureau this morning He was
future in the flowers
In his left hand he lgrasped a pretty
blossom, and with the thumb and index
finger of his right hand he tore away the
petals of the tender. daisy. AS one snowy
petal fell from the golden disc the sage
said, wet weather." and as another
petal tumbled to the turf the sage said
DRY weather. AS the last piece OF
niveous fringe was severed from its
socket the Sage said, wet"
Then he raised his face toward the
branches of spruce pine tree and Ii listened
to the doleful warbling of a ran-crow
there. A locust rasped In a nearby bush
and the tree-toad croaked. A paug OF pain
passed through the sage and he fondly
ciasped his corn.
The Times man strolIed toward him, and
the Sage said:
Judging from the gnaried and tangled
mass OF dripping clouds that shade the
city from the sun, think we ma have local
showers this afternoon. / would advise
the ladies' of Washington not to lend their
umbrellas and to darn their hose.
when the rain is over" said the Sage,
lit will probably be dry, and just us soon
as the clouds have rolled awayit will be
clear.
After sizing up the situation" continued
the Sage" II think the chance for rain
is SO fair that / am going down to the
crossing OF F and Ninth streets and watch
the ladies pass"
Sage" said the reporter, you deserve
some credit for the more humble station
which the mercury has taken, but not so
much credit as has been accorded you by
the press and people. Although yesterday
you would not let the shining fluid 90 be
yond tie figure Sc, yet you gave to other
cities marked advantage over this. You
conferred favors yeste rday upon cities
whose latitude does not eutitle them to
such consideration. For instance. away
down at Jupiter, Fla, SEQ miles south OF
jackson vile, on a white sand coast, with
no vegetation save saw palmetto, an occa-
sional cabbage palm, patches of Spanish
bayonet, and hefe and there some fiat
woods pine, with now and then a little bit
OF hummock, you did not let the mercury
go hey ond so. six degrees better wea Their
than you gave to Washington. over at
Tampa, Fla. II was only so. At Cha rlotte
aud at Wilmington, N. c., IT was ouIy s4
At Atlanta il was but 50. II vas cooler al
Memphis and at Nashville than at Wash
ingtOn, and IL WAS no hotter at New Or
leans and vicksburg than here In tie 3stil
degree of north latitude"
The Sage gave the people OF the North
better weather than he gave to Washing
ton, the Capital of the land he has sworn
TO love. and The city which pays his gro
Gerry bin. At Father Point, Quebec, the
mercury reached about 60, and at @ uebec
but Ga. At Montreal Ii was 6s, and at
Passport. Me. 1t rose to 10. At Nan
tucket It registered 7s, and at Portland,
Me-, rs. Throughout the lake regions the
Thermometer Indicated about Ga to "A.
AZ usual, the hottest place on top Of the
UnIted States was Phoenix, Ariz., 1o4
In the matter OF rain yesterday the Sage
legislated against Washington. In this
city be let fall tut. "A OF an inch.
while he gave to Atlantic City over an inch
and a half: 70 Philadelphia, "a; to New
York, SO LynchbHrg, Va, 90 But Wash
ington was not the dryest place in the
United States Many cities throughout
the South and West got not a touch OF
rain.
The pressure Is high off Nova Scotia
and the North Pacific coast and in the
Southwest The storm has moved from
Assinib0Ia to North Dakota The tempera-
tuIe has risen ia the Northwest and re-
NAMED stationary elsewhere
The heaviest fall of rain in the United
states was at Tampa, Fla, where ala
inches fell
The forecast today is: For the District OF
Columbia. fair tonight and Wednesday: no
change in Temperatures; northwesterly
winds.