New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-11

WaTtSS
to startle the multitude who have not dreamed
Of any nossihIe oyerturning Of Maurys theories
az m the climatic effect Of that same stream.
Here are MI Wattss beliefs:
The essential facts that the Gun r ~
as an ocean current ceases to exist tidl ~
differ in set and temperature from Ihe g. VI
the ocean east of the longitude OF cape fNdCe'
Newfoundland. II cannot, thereloIe' 80 of
does not convey warm water to the shoi . 81
Western Europe. there to modliy the ~
and give the British Isles the breezes OF tIie
s.,1n1,exa5 Fern1udas" and Sweden and Norway
the warmth of the Carolinas. But aooNe "a,
climatic causation is not a 1uhctloiI u Ia
currents but of aerial currents anu ~
oceanic climate Of Western Europe Is que 10
the distribution by the permanent aerIa "a I'll -
lation in the whole Atlantic basln OF tIie =
Grating mitigating effects of the ocean as
U-boia This permanent circulation takes the
form of a great cyclone in high lautuoes az
of an enormous anu-cyclonic euuS ~ ,ci irl1
ATTITUDES and TO the mid-Atlantlc anu 80
the credit that has been held by the bu5l
Stream these many years must be lfdiiSIei -
for were this aerial eddy to continue as 80 81
nov and the general atmospheric DRIFT from
west TO east in the Northern Hemisphere 70 re-
main the same. the complete disappear allCe -.
the Gulf Stream and all the ocean currents III
the Atlantic would be without the slightest Ell
feet on the weather and climate OF bu1ope
Any shifting Of the antl-cyclone nov W, III
this means its consequent lnteractlolI VIZ! -, ~
Derr11an ent cyclone that determines the ClISu
Iation in the Atlantic north of the lautuGe VI
Cape Race. and also with the traVelilhs cS
and anti-cyclones that move eastward III tlie
middle neutrality-suspicious. a decided change III
the weather and variation in climatic eHecls'
Mrs. Edith Wharton. who has lately tried her
hand more than once at verse. offers in Serl"-
ner's' a poem, "Artemis TO Actaeon'' whose last
lines thus:
For immortality is not to range
Unlimited through vast Olymplan days
Or sit in dull dominion over time; n.
TSvrf
Nor feel the wine grow stale upon the up
To scale the summit of some soaring moment
Nor know the dulness of the long descent
To snatch the crown of life and seal II up
Secure forever in the vaults of death!
And this was thine: to lose thyselt IN me-
Relive in my renewal. and become
The light of other lives. a quenchless loren
Passed on from hand to hand, till men are uuSC
And the last garland withers from my shrine.
The America of a time long past is revived IN
Mr.. Howellss quiet, melancholy, half-hu-
r,orous sketch in "'Harper's'' of a recent voyage
down the Ohio" That journey is not OFTEN
made in these days a literary subject ana II
wins ,,non us with a sort Of old-fashloneo'
toroe1v charm OF the male passengers on lie
hoat-.eYour Mid-Westerner is not faclle'
though not an unwilling, talker'-the noVeilSt
says:
They sat by their tall cast-iron stove (of the
oval nattern UNMARRIED since the earnest stoNe
of 1he region) and silently ruminated tneF lo
hacco and spat into the clustering cusploors az
their feet They would always answer CINLllS
If Questioned and oftenest intellgently put tleg
asked nothing in return. and they seeIleu 10
have none of that curiosity once known vi
imagined in them by Dickens and other aNeIee
aliens They had mostly faces OF reSoI u.e
mower and such a look Of knowing eXactiy
What thew wanted as would not have PROMISED
we'll for any collectively or individually oPPo o
ing them If ever the sense Of human equaIlty
has EXPRESSED itself in the human counlendnCe
II speaks Enthusiastically from faces IKE lhtli9
They were neither handsome nor unhdllusOtHe;
hut for a few striking exceptions lhey hdu
been inpartaly treated by nature; ana MheIe
thew were notably plain their look OF IoICe
made ND for their lack of beauty Ihey were
very serious, these Mid-Western felow-neh
one heard no joking among them, either OF tn
dapper or cockney sort of cities, or with Lne
quaint graphic phrase Of Eastern country ION,
and II NAV have been not far enough west 1oI
+he true Western humor- At any rate WITCH
they were not silent they still were serious
The women were apparently serious too' anu
where they were associated with the men "eIe'
If +he1, were not really subject, strictly aDeyah'
to the spectators eye
AFRO not these the Americans OF the mlddie OF
the nineteenth century?