Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-02-24
Van Buren,. Pa.

weather in the Keystone State.
Sure enough cold! In low places
the thermometer touched AZ be-
low and in one instance the bulb
was Knocked off the measuring
machine. Around Pittsburg and
among the furnaces the mercury
never goes very low, but where
there is no artificial heat, it gets
there on time. | was holding
revival in Il neighboriug church
when the blizzard came and | held
on till we got TO 10 below zero and
then l quit. Preaching in ten.
perature from 10 to 80 above aid
then driving from two hundred
yards 10 two miles in temper
AZURE 15 below was too rich for
my blood. | came home but just
at the worst of The storm | was
telephoned to neighboring town
to preach a funeral sermon, and |
STATED with the mercury Is below
and going down. The wind was
blowing Il gale, the frost was fly
ing so thick that sometimes
could not see twenty feet before
me, and the snow was drifting. l
was in a one horse cutter and as
j was spinning along at a sleigh
ing gate all at once l came to q
sudden stand still, and / discover.
ed that Maud had gone headlong
Into snow driti, SO deep could
only see her mead aud hear her
grunt. There she lay as still as a
stone, and of course | could not
goad her to an effort to get out,
because she was beyond my reach.
AS STOOD there puzzled, she be.
gan to plunge aud went kerplunk
luto the snow drift and she went
out, but Il few pluuges brought me
out and | fell into the sleigh at the
next drift and we all went out to-
gether in magnificent disorder. AZ
we passed a shiverlng neighbOr l
caught the last word of what l
supposed was question; going"
and we went on. When we got
there icicles were dangling from
my eyebrows and eyelashes like
glass ornaments on IA chandel or in
a town meetin' house, Maude look.
ed like she hadbeen baptized with
flour. She was simply frosted all
over. When | went into the house
a great big chuckle headed fellow
with one eye bulged out, kind
of a canned tomato nose, and
county farm smile on his face,
yawned and said "Sright cool
'smornin,w and submissively ans
wered "yeszurw Don't have it
this way down South do yOuV'
IN ozur!p How you like itW "Firt
rate, but if it continues | must
buy pair of socks and an under
shirt to wear when go out on
these long drives" Then this
genius hooked his google eye
ON to "a piece OF coal that lay sput
tering III the CRATE and long he sal
there Geeply peering with "a far
away dreamy look that is indies
cribable, and so far as | know hi
has not yet realized that "tht
preacher was not joking"
All that day The mercury wen
down, down, down till it knocked
the bulb off The thermometer ant
: On into he night kept on getting
; colder and | stayed awake ant
watched. A fireman Oil steamboat
has job something like the one
: had, and yet after had done my
| best the nail heads around tn
: windows and the locks inside thu
, door were covered with frost,
When the thermometer regis
, tiers 40 below zero, it is then tina
b. my thoughts turn to warmer eli
t mate, as naturally thoughts Of TIA,
b. maiden lightly turn TO themes o
love, when the crocuses and jon
| pulls and violets begin TO pla,
hide and seek with each other,an,
as sit lowering over the fir
vainly wishing | could warm uotl
sides at once get some faint col
ception of why the''neighbor like
the South.o Snow fell here Of
: Thanksgiving day and the groun'
has not been clear of it since ant
: there is no prospect of it going 70
D sometime yet as the thermomete
registers to-day(Feb. 13) at twelv
s O'Clock, zero in the sunshine.
BY the-way, | asked a boy tn
other day what il snow and h
said: If don't know 'cept it be sof
) frozen rain," ana when | told hin
it was not that he gave it up ant