Evening star., 1922-05-21

oIouBnt OF extreme duration and
severity occurred in this country fifty
years ago" and caused
| Severe much loss and great suf-
! D,ou~h+ ferins. In The Star of
NouSAs. May IL. 1879. is the fol-
lowing regarding. 1t:
"The drought which prevails here
and throughout the country is becom-
1 ing a very serious matter and unless
| we are soon favored with copious
every kind will become scarce and
dear. The absence of any heavy
SHOWS during the winter and the fact
| that early in December me ground
became frozen and continued in that
state SO long prevented the rain that
did fall from penetrating the soil and
feeding the springs. The spring rains
were far below the average in volume
and we had a month Of drought in
place of what is ordinarily a month of
moisture, and here we are in the mid
die OF May with a water famine pre-
vailihg throughout the land Not only
is the growth of vegetation checked,
but disastrous forest fires have been
raging for weeks with great fury In
many localities. Not only in the
west. but even in Pennsylvania and in
New York. New Jersey. New Hamp-
shire and other eastern states these
| hres began at q strangely early sea
son. Even during the month of April.
usually season of rains and OF melt
ing SHOWS in the woodlands. we find
extensive forest confagrRtiop raging
Toward the end of April heavy fires
were sweeping everything before
them. according to our report, all
the way from Parkers Landing to
IN the woods on the hills above Nc
Clintockville.' On Thursday a dis
patch showed that forest fires had
eeiH,lI.e sesn IEseiSs for eg segersI days above
houses as well as woods. Throushout
the Catskill region the same terrible
destruction has been going on for
weeks. Along the upper Connecticut
some OF the wooded mountains are
also ablaze. and 80 are they in Ulster
county New York; Shelter Island
Long Island. and South Mountsir.
Pennsylvania. also along the Q. & A
railroad in Virginia
Physicists say the exceptional and
might perhaps be attributable to the
periodic return of what eminent me-
teoroloeists have called the cold
wave through which our planet was
every
fifteen years. The diminutior of our
annual heat supply derived from solar
radiation. of course. would be marked
by a diminution in the amount OF
water evaporated from the pillows OF
the ocean and distributed over the
globe for irrigation. The rainfall
statistics Of the present year. 20 far
AZ received. at least serve az warn
ing to be prepared for possible great
scarcity OF water during the coming
Horace Greeley, nominated by the
liberal republicans for President in
1872. promptly resigned
Candidate the editorship of the New
n. York rribtne. as noted in
S1Se'J' The Star Of May l5 The
editorial management of the Tribune
devolved upon whitelaw Reid. who con-
tinued for many years to serve as the
editor Of that newspaper. In The Star
of May Is is an editorial indicating the
unwillingness of the leading democratic
journals to accept Greeley as the nemi-
nee Of that party:
Leading democratic papers like the
New York World ara committing
themselves in opposition to him in Il
way that precludes the possibility of
their supporting him in the cam
at Baltimore. The World of yester-
day denounces Greeley in a two-col-
umn article for his violent opposition
to free trade. his advocacy of the Ku
Klux Law and the infamous bayonet
election law his persistent defense of
exorbitant taxes to extinguish the ma
tional debt in this generation and his
virulent libeis on nearly ali the prom
fnent living statesmen of the demo
cratic party as individuals Words
like this cannot be eaten and the
democratic papers that are now US
ing them may be counted upon to use
them up to the hour Of election"