El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-24
The WEATHER MAN
o,FS IN HIS LOFT AND
STUDIES STRANGE ARTS.

STUDIES STRANGE ARTS.
Neither the Owl Nor the Cat Could
Help Him Out Today on His Pre-
dictions.
The weather man, whose mysterious
ways are but little known to the pub
lie, did his full duty to the public dur
ing the carnival although the superb
weather secured by him for the viSi-
tors during the past week cost him
many sleepless nights and much hard
work. He kept in constant touch with
headquarters at Washington for a week
prior to the carnival and brought such
head of the weather bureau that that
dignitary issued orders for sunshine
and plenty of it for Ell Paso all dur
ing the carnival. AS a result the mid
winter weather was never more perfect
and although the carnival association
was ready to shout I'VE did it!'' yet the
visitors know that their thanks are
due to the weather man, who like an
astrologer of old occupies a den high
up in the steeple of the custom house
next to the stars.
He is not much given to talking-is
the weather man-and he will not tell
how he manages to control the wealth
er and tell twenty-four hours ahead
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The populace knows nothing about the
mysterious instruments with which he
is surrounded night and day, but he
can read them like a book. He can
tell you how fast the wind blows and
foretell q cold wave or a storm with
exactness, but he cannot
tell you how he does it, for you cannot
his methods any more
than you could understand the meth
DDS used by the witch of Endor in the
practice of her black art.
Herald reporter went up to see the
weather man this morning. He was
high up among the cobwebs and the
silence of the upper air.
The weather man was bending over
a table closely studying a chart of
the heavens. A black cat sitting in the
corner glared at the visitor and a
startled owl with cleaning eyes that
had been doing on its perch in an al
cove tapped its wings and mounted to
a place of greater security higher up.
The weather man was surrounded by
all kinds of mysterious instruments
and charts covered with unknown sign
writings and characters. He was ap-
engaged in making a deep
study of these when the reporter en-
tered.
He was not an old man with flowing
beard and he was not clad in a long
and dresses like an ordinary individ-
ual.
Although the greater portion of his
time is spent in solitude, communing
only with nature, yet he was found
ready and willing to converse.
Il cannot tell yet" said he, "wheth-
er it is going to rain or snow during
the next twenty-four hours. was just
trying to study that out from these
charts when you entered 1 do not
yet know the conditions of the upper
air, but 1 will soon get my bearings
The temperature is abnormal this
the clouds are lowering and
he wind whistles by with dreary
moan, but 1 cannot say yet how it will
'esult. Washington can always fore
ell storms or billiards, but 1 have
lot yet been notified of anything un-
Usual about to occur.
Yes, it is time for the weather to |
hange. We had a hard time keeping |
he sky clear and the winds locked up |
asst week but we succeeded ''and the |
weather. man rubbed his hands to-
,ether as if conscious of a hard earned |
-ictory. He picked up pair of di-
'iders and some unknown Instruments |
nd turned to his work and the report !,
r with farewell look at the owl and |
he cat withdrew.
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