Year: 1873

1t gives the land its only wintry
weather. The old Texans always know
when one is coming at least SIX hours
before its advent


When the calm which prctedes it en-
sues the wood is prepared for the fires
that will be needed The young and
tender garden vegetables are covered
Tor protection; the calves, lambs, pigs
and yoTng poultry are sheltered. In
mansions where rare blooming exotic
plants indicate the refinement of their
owners the cultivated ladies remove
their floral favorites from the open air
into their Conservatives. The thrifty
farmers and planters prepare to kill
their fattened hogs. They know that
the coming norther will give them at
least three days to slay and salt down
their pork; and without it they could
not by the old-fashioned process save
their bacon, and it is hard to teach
them any new chemical tricks. The
norther is dry, electrical wind, so full
of the quickening magnetic fluid that
1t can hold no more, and it is perfectly
nOn-conducting


1t seems to strike, impGrt, and elicit,
but 1t receiUeS nothing. Consumptives
stop coughing while it blows. All the
electricity in the human body generated
by the action of the stomach and lungs
is kept in it, and perhaps much more
is received from the air. 1t fills us
with activity and energy. 1t sets us to
moving strongly and briskly about our
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and laziness from the body and mind.
Its effects are wonderful upon water
In blowing over turbid ponds OF muddy
streams it sends the mud and all i'm
purity to the bottoms, clarifies them,
and then sheets them with ice. / have
had the marvellous chemist to comeinto
my room whistling through the key
hole and door and window cracks,
dance upon my inkstand, touch the
black liquor with his magic fingers,
separate the tunnate of iron from the
water, and drop the whole mass of color
ing.matter to the bottom, and crystalline
every fluid drop into transparent ice.
The mischievous reveler annoys the
thrifty housewives by playing similar
pranks with their pickles, vinegar, and
wine He uncurls the tresses of young
ladies, and if one attempts to re-adjust
them with the brush or comb he will
make each hair stand to itself, and turn
the whole glorious ornament into a
sparkling, cracking. disheveled thing,
like the tail Of a comet, which it is i'm
possible to braid until the fair Uentd
Terana comes to her aid | doubt
whether the norther drinks any thing"
but he constantly y attempts to squeeze
the moisture out of every thing. But
instead of absorbing what he ehcts he
throws it away. He seizes upon the
moist Uentd and hurls her over his head,
and the invisible particles Of the ocean
she bears upon her wings recondensed
into clouds, which he rolls into the dark
masses of the tempest which he drives
before him to the southeast replete with
lightning and hail. He seizes upon
every atom of water, and tosses 1t high
into the heavens to mingle with other
atoms to form the drops of rain and
hail. He even dissolves the air into 1t
original elements, and sends much of
its hydrogen to float in the upper re-
gions of the atmosphere, and fills that
which we breath with oxygen and other
known and undiscovered stimulating
and vivifying gases. The birthplace
of the nOrther is the Rocky Mountains.
There at height of ten thousand feet,
and upon the loftier pinnacles of the
giant chain, nourished by the snow-falls
and glaciers, the meteor is enthroned;
and from his native domain he is ever
ready to rush into every aerial vacuum
made by the sun in the regions below y
From NOrem6er Home and School, .
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