The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-10
WINTER STRIKES IN
LIKE A CONQUER0R
Cold Season Comes Down
With a Rush.
A STORM BROUGHT IT
This Cold Wave of Short Duration and
Not Severe.
Dir TIlE WINTER Wlll pc ituAR0" ONE
A STORM BROUGHT IT
BUT THE WINTER WILL BEA "HARD" ONE
Cold Weather is General All Over the Country
A Killing Frost That 'Reachts Even
Down Into Fltriia and
Louisiana
'"Tis bitter cold"
IlaunIor Act I


Sober Autumn has gone. Stern Winter
takes its place.
Autumn's golden leaves and bright sun
shine are still here, but they are now
the wealth of Winter.
True the new season in the calendar
does not begin for many weeks yet, but
a new season in the almanac is but a
name.
Like a conquering foe the Storm King
Thursday night swept down upon the UNI
guarded tents OF happy Autumn, routing
it from hill and dale, forest and plain.
Even as far south as central Georgia the
forces of winter pursued those of flying
autumn. and there rested, drawing Jack
Frost line through Augusta and Macon,
Montgomery and Meridian and Memphis.
The rout this far was complete, the
temperature nowhere north OF this line
being above freezing. But Winter not
satisfied with SO easy victory was last
night pushing on into the very heart
! of the enemy's country. AS we go to
PRESS the news comes that Jacksonville
has fallen and New Orleans and Eastern
Texas.
Autumn is making it's last stand, with
temperate weather, in the cotton region
of central Texas All north and east of
this the Ice Kings victory is complete
There is no hint Of balm in the chilly
air, nor smile in the leaden sky-not a
blush nor bloom in the dim and dismal
n
mountains still saddened with the thick
gray akin to gloom. There is left only the
bright sunshine which does not warm and
the golden leaves which in the chill at
mosphere seem somehow to have lost
their beauty.
How like a conquering hero Winter has
come riding down from the north, upon
the swdft-winged wind, clad in ice and
whitening vegetation with his frosty
breath.
But hope paints the cruel breast
In your den with cozy fire and favorite
book the fretting wind sounds not un-
pleasant. Through thick and carpeted
floor the wind cannot come, and through
the smoke of your long -stemmed pipe
there peep visions of balls and receptions
and dinners, sleighing skating and snow
ries and gayeties that Winter brings.
Though the King of the Northland may
be rough and at times unpleasant, still
at heart there's much goodwill and gen.
erous- heartedness about him. Though
you button your coat about you to keel
him out, yet somehow you laugh at his
familiarity Though he pinches your ears
and nose, he paints your cheeks and
deal square.
After all then, Winter is not such 6
''horrid old thing and besides his grasI
upon US just now will he but short
though he's coming again soon and much
more in earnest.
Il see no indications of very severe oil
protracted cold wave'' Forecaster Vor
Hermann yesterday. 1.-THE temperature
this morning was at 80 (freezing). Sat
urday morning it will probably be 30. BY
Sunday the weather will begin to get
warmer and will moderate rapidly"
The cold of Thursday night and yes
terday did very little damage, thanks tc
to the high winds, but the frost OF last
night will probably prove very disastrous
The cause of the suddenness of this
cold wave, Mr. Won Hermann says was
that the storm which was on Thursday
morning central over the lower St. Law
renee increased enormously in force and
moved directly eastward to New England
1t was yesterday morning in the vicinity
of Boston with barometer below 1920
inches, accompanied by severe gales
throughout the northeast section heavy
rains over New England, and Snow il
the lower Lake region. The storm drew
the cold wave eastward with unusual ra
pidity. The temperature fell to or below
SO degrees throughout the entire centra
valley, as far south as Memphis, Nerd
ian. Montgomery, Macon and Augusta
and last night entered Texas, Louisian;
and Florida.
More failures are due to lack of will
dhan IN lack of strength