The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-01-12
SNOW IN IT'S PROPER PLACE.
Newly Acquired City Oe the
United States.

Gimme . pair of artics," said the
cold-looking man to the clerk in the
shoe store. The clerk looked panied
at the mispronunciation, but rose SUI
perior to his feelings and FASTENED to
make sale. While he was fitting the
arctics he made little conversational
venture, suggestion that the abun-
dant snowfall had made it so cold that
heavy foot covering was necessary.
ut 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. amt used to il.
mo snow where you come fromf"
asked the clerk as he finished buckling
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 l can say is that
I'm glad there amt any such sort Of
climate in the United States"
That's where you're away of. My
town is decidedly in the United States
and we've got climate that you can't
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 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, "and as good part of the popula-
ton go 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 a
sudden end you get cold in your head !;
and you can't make yourself feel warm
no matter how many Of them you
take"
"Ain't the snow cold out your way?"
asked the bewildered clerk.
Gold? Well, guess it's just about
as cold as snow can manage to come,
for it never melts. But we don't feel
it the same way. When get up in the
morning at my place slip linen
iuster over my pajamas and go down to
the river for my swim, and on my way
I stop and pick banana or maybe a
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. tlooks right pretty and
it doesn't make you uncomfortable,
Its . Christmas card climate"
BY this time the clerks head was
swimming. 1t may have been because
be 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:
1--WE listened to Californians talking
about their climate, and must say that
syen 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 tc
grow bananas and pineapples and the
really tropical fruits, and they'd never
venture to talk about putting on liner
1uster for a trip to an iceberg or 6
glacier. Amt this cold snap enough
for us to have to suffer without rub
bing it in? At any rate, there ought tc
be limit on stories about climate; they
ought at least to seem reasonable
Where in the world is this place o.
yours with the chrome climate, pine
apples and snow blockades all mixed W
together? There isn't anything lik,
that in the United States"
"That's where you're wrong" re
torted the owner of the climate where
arctics are not needed. Were as thriv
ing a seaport as you can find in this
country, We grow the best oranges il
the world, the bananas and the pint
and the mango are ripening all the yeal
round and nobody ever wears anything
heavier than linen clothing. But th,
everlasting snow is always in our sight
1t banks on the side and top of tn,
mountain just behind the town, an'
while you are picking tropical fruit
you can have the satisfaction of seeing
} all the snow you want, and just wher
you want it, which is somewhat differ
snt from the snow here. which seems t
come thickest just where you don
want 1t. Now at my place can noun
my horse after breakfast and take m.
luncheon on glacier if I'm looking TO
cold. And don't you make any mistak
about it, we're in the United States
and you're going to hear more OF us
The mountain that keeps our snow
Mauna Kea, and my town is Hilo, Ha
, wall, United States of America. IT
been that way since last August. Whel
I'm done with those artics here, II
take them home as curiosity."-N, J
Sun.
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