The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-01-25
7gE Wind FROM The EAST.
COME NATURAL EVIL SEEMS TO BE
cesNECTEB THERENITK.

=. Far Back as History Go"s It Has Been
o,.daS IA a Plague. Uader Its spell
49,, Fishes will Not Bite, the Deer viii
40, Feed as.d the Bisds wiz Not sing.
Yesterday was a DAY to start anew
II, discnssiOs2 about the weather and
,bo pase wind, says The Macon Tele-
rronh, It was also a day fit for those
q snicpdal inclaationss for one could
b.rp left this world with fewer regrets
than on almost aay day one could find
in vear-dark, gloomy, raining, wind
from the east
But why does one lnyOlRntarily re-
mark. "Wind from the east?" No
onp seems to know, and yet all seem
to feel that there is some natural evil
connected Herewith. They tell us
that under it's spell the fish will not
bire, the deer will not feed, the birds
I will not sing. What these creatures
know about the points Of the compass
s. and about the east wind, especially
those under water, we shalt leave to
others to say. Bat sacred writer so
far back as the book Of Genesis, 41st
chapter, noted that in dream of
Pbaraoh's seven thin ears sprapg up
to be blasted by an east wind. And in
Exodus, tenth chapter, the Lord com
handed Moses to stretch forth his rod
over the land of Egypt, and the Lord
caused an east wind to blow twenty
four hours and it brought a plague
Of locusts, and they swept over
the land Of Egypt, and they de.
StrOyed every herb. Job also
thought there as sonnet hing wrong
with east winds, Tor he asked "Should
wise man utter vain knowledge, and
I'LL his belly with the east wind?"
And speaking of the rich man, he says
that 1.-THE east wind carrIeth HIM
away, and he departeth." He also
ASKS; by what way is the light part.
ed that sCattereth the east wind on the
earth?" The PsaImist also notes that
'the ships of Tarshish" are broken
FI'h ian east wind" Isaiah says
Fhat, "he stayest his rough wind on
FDe Gay OF the east wind" and that
Oy inns shall the lniquity of Jacob be
Purged" The east wind, it may be re
aIeu' is not trough wind" but in
ldIons' Ezekiel; "Thy mother is
IKE vine in thy blood but
the east wind dried up her
FuII Hosea; "Ephriam feedeth on
N'"u' and followed after the east wind
uaIIy lncreaseth in lies and desola>
w. AGAIN: Though he be fruit.
among his brethren, an east wind
ball come" etc.
Az" all this throws very little light
VIE philosophy of the thing, but it
'"S VllaI as Tar back as we have any
'o'3 u man the east wind was re.
'''u as somewhat of plague. 1t is
VET NOISY, turbulent or sweeping.
u uaS stealthy Cat-like movement
"'o seems to penetrate the yltals of
:" Vt beast, and rob the fishes of
:" SppeItes, 1t made hpnriam lie
'nu here may be a cue.
Ir'end of the Telegraph's knows
''eam in Georgia wherein the fish
IVY ute when an east wind is blows
g''S Was told while the wind was
~ s from the wesO, but the course
'"eam Is so crooked he is dis.
10 attribute their popularity to
''a mat they cannot keep the
." VI The compass in their heads.
, ""', not name this stream for the
~" !nat all the fishermen IN the
WI. congregate on it's banks in
1,"o weather, and wholly over
" nevertheless the east wind
.u'!nue to blow anon, and we
y1"nue to discuss it, ana to won
~ brought the grip to these
'''D' an eastern country.