The age-herald., 1897-09-24
4 KLONDVEE CONSIGNMENT
But It Is Cold Instead of the Yel-
 low Metal.
BAD WEATHER FIXTURES
MT. Jacobs Is Now Having Sweet Revenge on
 the People Who Kicked Against the Heat Few Weeks Ago.

When Ben M. Jacobs, yesterday morn ing, ascended the ladder which leads to the roof of his furniture emporium, and encountered the chilly air he said to himself: 'Ha, ha," and likewise, "Ho ho.''
 Those who have heretofore seen the weather signals displayed over the build- 5 ing of MT Jacobs may not have been aware that Uncle sam has some prop erty. on the roof In that lies the daily trouble of MT. Jacobs. He is the duly accredited government weather prophet for Birmingham, but pensions have made the government so poor that it cannot or will not supply him with upto- date instruments.
 The barometers and thermometers are rather antiquated and hardly reliable, while MT. Jacobs has but an -oid and effete vane to determine the direction and velocity of the wind.
 During the recent hot spell some folks blamed MT. Jacobs for the torridity, and he knew it. That is the way with some people, If told by a physician that drinking impure water will give them typhoid fever, they will blame him if they are taken sick Jacobs was blamed for the heat. Now he rejoices in the cold wave and wishes everyone to know that he is the only man in town entitled to any crsdit on account of it.
 A friend of MT. Jacobs went to the Klondike region and in the latter part 1F Iaef o1o arllz- 1,f l1 lows:
 Lots of gold, and awful cold
 That was pie for Jacobs. The gold part of the news did not enthuse him. because ha is well provided with this worlds goods but the cold-ah! that was what he wanted. So he sent a dispatch. c. O. D., to his Klondiks friend, bidding him express some of that refrigerator. weather to Birmingham The man at Dawson City must have been chump enough to imagine that the Telegram was sent by some Magic City belle, and must have paid for it and read 1t, for the same day a consignment of cold weather started south
 It crossed Manitoba just as the edit r of the Winnipeg Free Press was dictat- ing an editorial in which he advised yellow lever reIuSeeS 10 seek the baIny climate of that delectable province.
 Then it struck the Dakotas and Min nesota and the fools who voted for Me Kinley last faBl senlt So many telegrams to Mark Hanna and Myor Dick inquir- ing why they had allowed the mercury to fall with silver that George Gould bought himself a new necktie.
 Thence it came sweeping over the country. When it reached Chicago, Washington Heslng let it toy with his sideburns and announced that it was a "job put up by Altgeld and Duck H nreichsen'
 IWatterson was endeavoring to prove that a shortage in the wheat crop of Hlndoostan had decreased the value of Mexican exchange when MT. Jacobs cold air blew through the den which he de- lights to call his "sanctum." It took two reporters and several drinks to drive out of his head the idea that Grover was dead and had in the spirit visited alim. When that frigidity reached Birming- ham MT. Jacobs grabbed it and held it tiglItry. That he did so we'll is evidenced by the following readings of the ther- mometer:
 September g a. ............69 degrees September 23, 12 Mm...........S1 degrees September 23, D. m..........4 degrees Highest temperature .......S5 degrees Lowest temperature ... ... ..52 degrees