Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-01-20
Van Buren,, Pa.

lne Ol lHc ulHeFenCeS IN the
weather, one may find scattered
over this country of ours. You
know, Mr.. Editor, that this coun.
try has grown since you were a
boy, a hundred years ago or so,
and that it is now a whopper, with
lots of room for a variety of
weather, az well as for a variety
of a great many other things. 1t
is a long way from Dickeyville
Maine, to the SoolOo Sea and
from Kavieazage, Alaska, to Los
Embarcaderos Laquillo Puerto
Rico. Think of it! The Ameri-
can citizen may stand on his own
''land of liberty" at Icy Cape and
almost punchic icles offthe pinnicle
of the North Pole with a fishing
cane, while his brother may 60
several degrees south of the eclip.
tic in the Eastern Hemisphere and
still Skinny on his own SIDE"
There is great big thought right
along here somewhere, if you can
find it, but the thing gives me
the headache. | shall not he sur.
prised at any time to hear that
some yankee hog" has nailed
sold glory" to the topmast of the
North pole and set up a signal sta.
ton at the South pole, and that
two Americans are telephoning
each other just to see if the ma
chine is in good working order.
Whether this happens or not, we
ought to be sorry for the school
boy who must wreStle with the
names of our new postoffices and
county towns during the next
generation.
BY way of an experiment, sup.
pose you tackle two or three of
them and see how the thing will
60. Imagine yourself a school
boy again, AID come up with your
class in geography. John, how is
Aguadilla bounded? Bill, where
is the mouth of the Jacuas riverR
Pete, what is tae county seat of
Bavamon2-and then he comes to
you with this question: how far is
it from Tigueyabao to Catan.
duanes, and in what direction is
the latter from the former place7
Personally | must confess that |
would be speechlcss, that | might
learn to pronounce Aguadilla, and
slightly Americanized | might
manage the Jacuas river, because
it sounds justa little bit like some
thing Eve heard somewhere else,
but before | took hold in earnest
my jaw would need balfsoling and
my tongue would need new
point. When began geography
the boys were wrestling with ON.
pompinoosuck, Chicago, Michili.
nimacanac, Tehucana aud the like,
but these are only in the a.b.abs
alongside of the new names we
got in this last lot.
But | started out to talk about
the weather. There is q difference
in the weather even in Tennessee
and Pennsylvania, or rather a diff.
ference in degree in the two places.
Tennessee can beat Pennsylvania
out o. sight when it comes to hot
nights in August and September,
but when you come to the ques-
ton Of snow Tennessee makes a
very poor show. Our first snow
this year came with cranberries
and pumpkin pie, on Thanksgiv.
ing day, aud we have not seen the
ground since, and there seems to
be no prospect that we shall see
it again until next March, but
there is one advantage about this
we do not have any mud and we
ride in sleighs and haul things on
sleds and the merry jingle of the
sleighbells day and night makes
one feel jolly. The man who takes
his sled and goes to the coal bank
for load of coal, puts on his
sleighbells. a neighbor has just
passed with "a bob sled' and four
big Clydesdale horses flying over
the snow with gingling chime of
bells that fills the air with music.
Last night sleighing party
came by and our folks went on
their first sleigh ride. Tonight
there is TO be another sleighing