Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
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tizing sense Of long, steady. continuous
! cold weather. One peculiar thing IS
| that the streams and lakes that troze
over the latter part OF November did
not thaw out till late in February or
first of March Few, il any, accidents
/ have happened in Iowa to parties skat-
ling or travelling over the ice covered
waters, this because no thaw has oc-
Cured for three months or nearly one
hundred days. But with all this winter
weather, hardly a blizzard has occurred
or been reported. Our railroads have
not been blocked by SNOW, and they
have saved thousands of dollars of ex-
pense usually neeessitated in clear
| ing the tracks. switches and railroad
yards. But things have been different
in Illinois. And down east in New
York and Connecticut they have had
IAN old fashioned winter" A recent
| issue of the New York Sun thus sized
/ up the situation there:
| "All centrl and northern New York
| is buried in II sheet of snow such as It
has not seen for more than genera
| ton. Fences are obliterated. Ravines
and gullies, unless very deep, have been
blotted out of the landscape. Cradle
knobs no longer lift their heads upon
the hillsides.
There are places where the snow is
| drifted in cuts and depressions to a
depth of twenty feet or more, and
there are few places In at least half
dozen counties where it lies less than
two and half feet thick. Thruout
the greater part of Oswego, Lewis,
Jefferson. Herkimer, Otsego, and Mad
ison counties the average depth Of
snow upon level fields is four feet, AMI
in the wooded part of Lewis and nor
thern Oneida and Oswego counties,
where the wind has not had a chance
to shift the snow, it lies six or seven
feet thick OH the ground.
"Sleighing began in the uplands north
and south OF the Mohawk Valley on
November Is, and has not been inter-
rupted up to this time, except for tho
reason that there has been SO much
snow that Il. has been impossible to
use teams in the highways. The close
of this week will complete the sew
enty-tifth day of steady sleighing In
this city and thruout the valley.
During most of this time the tenn
perature has been very low. 1t is 40
ing which the mercury rises no high
er than 10 degrees above zero for a
short time In the afternoon of one or
two Of the days. In seventy-eight
days there were only fourteen days
upon which the thermometer reached
20 degrees above zero"
All this Is mentioned for the bens-
fit of the Hicks school of weather
prophets and believers. Admitting the
influence Of the moon and planets on
the weather in this country, granted
all of the theories on wet and dry
moons, the jtlxtaposition OF the planets,
the sun spots, and all of the weather
prophecy that comes from close OBJ
servance OF such conditions, what ex
PLANTATION can be offered for such con-
trast in winters. comparing Iowa with
New York? And to emphasize this
contrast, while here in Iowa last year
and year before we Were drowned
OUT by so much rain, In New England
it was SO dry, pasturage was burned
up. and for a period Of 100 days, ac-
cording to the eastern papers, not rain
enough fell TO lay the dust. And the
reader should bear In mind that New
York and New England and Iowa are
all in about the same latitude and IL
we have "a wet moon" in Iowa, it's
just the sam. wet moon in New York.
Potatoes planted in the full of the
moon (eyes up) are planted at the
same time n New York and Iowa.
Same old moon.
Out in Carroll last week there was
~ hi +-1t
that Treasurer Shaw has been writing
to the citizens of Carroll county. II
seems that some one sent the ex-
governor a clipping frora Carroll
paper that was far from COM
/, e., in reference to his po-
litical career in Iowa. These letters
from the ex-governor were in reply 10
such criticism and while "contidentiai'
has leaked out, to show they
were very vigorous defense of his
political career, and IL published woul,.
form the basis of much comment The
writer is told that Ex-Governor Sha"
is of the opinion that "the next repub-
iican national platform will contain
a plank in favor OF reciprocity in non-
articles Furthermore,
Governor Curlmins' position and utter
ances have kerry much embarrassed the
president and that Roosevelt and Cum
Minis are not in accord on the ques
ton of tariff reform or reciprocity, ex
cept in nom competitive articles. This
Of course is the opinion Of Mr.. Shaw
and repeated with "ghoulish glee" by
his standpaiter followers, wherever
they can tind. a Cummins man for an
audience 1t must be said Mr.. Shaw
pays nice compliment to Governor
in that he disclaims any
difference with the governor,
on the contrary Mr.. Cumlnins lis a
nice gentleman" to meet and a credit |
to Iowa. The writer does not attempt |
to quote anything verbatim, but the
substance as given above furnishes
good ammunition for his admirers in
Carroll county.
Some time ago was mentioned
this column the conference going on
in Chicago between the operators of |
the c. r. j. & p. Railroad and the
in Chicago. Now, the |
Milwaukee & st. Paul rail- /
road has u similar "contiab" on hand |
Six agents or operators. representing |
Causes