The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-02
SNOW IN ITS PROPER PLACE.
The Rare Climatic Advantages of "a
Newly Acquired City of the
United States.

cold-looking man to the clerk in the
shoe store. The clerk looked panied
at the experimentation but rose SUI
perior to his feelings and fastened to
make sale. While he was fitting the
| arctics he made a little conversational
| venture, suggestion that the album
dant snowfall had made it so cold that
heavy foot covering was necessary.
1T amt the cold and the amount of
| snow that bothers me-" said the GUS
| toner, but it's the coming so almighty
quick when you're not looking for it;
| that's what gets me. l amt used to it.
No snow where you come from?"
| asked the clerk as he finished buck,ing
| the left arctic.
plenty of snow. Snow all the year
around. Winter and summer Just the
same. Get used to the snow; but not to
the way it has here"
That must be worse than the Klon-
| dixie. They tell me that the snow does
melt there along about mosquito time.
But your place where you have snow all
the year long-well, all can say is that
III lob NllClO an SuCH SUIT Vi
climate in the United States"
That's where you're away off. My
town is decidedly in the United States
and we've got climate that you cant
beat anywhere in the world. There
| isn't its match even in California and
there's pretty good climate out on the
coast. Year in and year out there's
| just the same amount of snow and we
| know what to depend on, for it never
varies"
Must be a good place to sell arctics
and rubber boots" the clerk suggested.
Never was as much as a single pair
seen in town. replied the cold-looking
man, land as a good part of the popula-
| ton 90 barefoot there isn't much
chance that such novelty in footwear
would attract custom. Snow like this
/ can't stand. 1t comes on you all of
sudden Cnd you get cold in your head;
and you can't make yourself feel warm
! no matter how many of them you
take"
Amt the snow cold out your way"
asked the bewldered clerk.
Cold? Well, l guess it's just about
as cold as snow can manage to come,
for it never melts. But we don't teel
1t the same way. When | get up in the
morning at my place I slip linen
buster over my pajamas and go down to
the river for my swim, and on my way
| stop and pick banana or maybe
pineapple and look up and see it's been
showing again on the hills. Now, to
my way of thinking, that's the kind of
snow to have. 1t looks right pretty and
it doesn't make you uncomfortable.
It's Christmas card climate"
BY this time the clerks head was
swimming. 1t may have been because
he was bending over to fix the right
arctic or it may have been because of
the difficulty of believing this tale of
climate. Even at the risk of spelling
the sale he was trying to make, his
sense of meteorological accuracy got
the better of him, and he said:
I've listened to Californians talking
about their climate, and must say that
even in their toughest stories they've
always made it seem consistent Los
Angeles and San Diego people can get
off some pretty stiff stories about
oranges, but not even they pretend to
grow bananas and pineapples and the
really tropical fruits, and they'd never
venture to talk about putting on linen
buster for a trip to an iceberg or a
glacier. Amt this cold snap enough
for us TO have to suffer without rub
bling it in? At any rate, there ought to
be limit on stories about climate; they
ought at least to seem reasonable.
Where in the world is this place of
yours with the chrome climate, pine
apples and snow blockades all mixed up
together? There isn't anything like
that in the United States"
That's where you're wrong" re-
torted the owner of the climate where
arctics are not needed. We're as thriv-
ing a seaport as you can find in this
country. We grow the best oranges in
the world, the bananas and the pine
and the mango are ripening all the year
round and nobody ever wears anything
heavier than linen clothing. But the
everlasting snow is always in our sight.
1t banks on the side and top of the
mountain just behind the town, and
while you are picking tropical fruits
you can have the satisfaction of seeing
all the snow you want, and just where
you want it, which is somewhat differ
ent from the snow here. which seems to
come thickcst just where you don't
want it. Now at my place | can mount
my horse after breakfast and take my
luncheon on glacier if I'm looking for
cold. And don't you make any mistake
about it. we're in the United States,
and you're going to hear more of us.
The mountain that keeps our snow is
Mauna Kea, and my town is Hilo, Ha-
wall United States of America. It's
been that way since last August. When
I'm done with those artics here, I'll
take them home as curiosity."-N. Y.
Sun.