The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-03
MEASURING A CYCLONE.
Science In Debt to Kansas Hcncoop and n
HItchinE l,ost.


| When / saw by the papers" said man
| from the West. that all the weather sharks
was Rittln' out their thermometers an baro-
meters an spirit levels an SIGH to measure an
determine an otherwise size up that cyclone
t was chargin toward us from down tn coast
it reminded me Of tn time | measured u
cyclone with hitchin' post an hencoop.
wasn't intendin' = do anything o tn kind. me
KNOWN no more o. tn art an science O. meas
urin cyclones n what you do o. nnvigatin' a
Kansas mule. but l did It unintentional. an
did it proper. SO l understand.
90 course had my cyclone cellar all fixed
so could leg 1t fer cover eff | see a cyclone
BLOWN my way. Bein bachelor. made 1t
Jest snug 1T fer one. l didn't put in much
time on IT. fer cal'lated wouldn't want use
it fer a spell. an then wouldn't need it fer
more'n bout minute an a quarter at a time.
But thought Of | ever did have t use it
when tn minute an quarter was UP I'd
probably come out o the cellar feeling like a
stranger on my own farm fer likely every him e
portable d be blowed into tn mex county or
State. as the case might be. SO Jest by way o.
fixing tn location o. my farm before It got
bowed out O. reach. nut in u green cedar hitch
en post. exactly six inches in diameter with
tn bark peeled. an sunk it ten foot in tn ;
ground with four foot stickin up. Twas q
! nice round post. an had heap o. trouble
gittn it out thar. whore wood is SO scarce.
well. that post was great consolation to
me- an I'd often stop work Just to look at it,
One day WAS buildin hencoop-one O. these
little affairs with boards on tn side an Stats
| In front an rear built on tn plans an speci-
hcations Of a peaked roof I'd Jest got it fin
ished when looked at tho litchin'-p post Well.
s ar sec IN yeest KIND Of cyclone 6eHrin
| dropped on the ground behind the hencoop,
MN tyn fnh.
| U course, 1t was q silly thing { think that
fraTy hGneo9r Gqnj be Any protection but
| behind that coop like drownin' man grabs at
straw
tibet cyclone bust with fury on my place an |
| could see nv house an barn, an live stock an
aw I AM prs much dyoT Whole Gos
| visitation o heaven on some other critters
p,nir ,I thTt hi N want en- HShow Ar n IT,
sec tibet blamed hitchin post snapped as clean
Of. Of as a bn i cut an, scootin' along in
| ant hurt mite. ner oven moved. but
tn nhiI hesIs s% 3 both my boots was rippen Of
weigh more,n fifteen pounds didn't even
ThIVer an T9en ct up ana ana Locked aropn
O. ali my goods an chatteis AM real estate. '"'
| How do account for it. I couldn't Until q
h hn' f 1GTn n Sy G@
IN httchin, post stump an III, her. eooGt prove
| hour an then he says tibet how was saved
w., vas IN heph-eoop, bejn , With lis edge toward
| afore tn cyclone got n, chance t git good
| grip onto 1t. He said tn cyclone pulled itself
whar my heels was stickin' up. an that ac-
| counted for my losin' part o my boots. Then.
| from m-hsur!n' me. an weighin an measurin'
IN hen-coop. an measurin' tn stump o. tn
hltchin post he could tell I, a dot Jest how fast
tibet cyclone was nyin'. Fer he said Of I he'd
been goin JEST mite slower. it couldn't never
"a snapped oil II slX-inch green cedar hitchn'
Post I an 81 t hSd teen g9n Jest shade faster
told me too that ef I'd a spread tn sides o.
tibet hcn-coop sixteenth Of an inch more
when made It. tn cyclone d "a got holt o. it,
an I'd been revovn' aroun' tn earth in space
He shook hands with me. an said me an my
hen-coop an my hitchin post he'd rendered
immortal aid { science. an then he lit out on
tn track o tibet cyclone. | got that hen-coop
don't believe me-"