Show THE CaYENNE SHOWERS Prof MELBOURNE atChoyonne said there would be rain and there was rain Ho puzzled the signal service meteorologist and he astonished the unscientific skeptics Whether magician seer or prophet he amazed the multitude and bow ever did he do iU it is tho wondering question of the hour The Oheynne Leader of Tuesday presents a picture of the cloud wizard and ho looks for all the world like the man who dressed I in spangled silks and tights eats live coals and then draws a bushel basket full of ribbons rib-bons out of his mouth The professor arrived ar-rived at the Wyoming capital last Saturday I i and in the evening with four ordinary i grip sacks cooped himself up in the loft of a barn situated on a little plateau overlooking over-looking the town A dormer window projects pro-jects from the roof ot the barn and this was covered with a shawl All night and all day Sunday Sunday night and Monday the stormking stayed in tho stable emerging emerg-ing only for his hasty meals but no sound no light came therefroai during the whole time whilst the weather outside was delightfully de-lightfully balmy and only a fow fleecy clouds flecked the sky Monday evening ho ventured the observation that it would rain thenext day And sure enough at a quarter to 3 oclock Tuesday there was a rainfall of a tenth of an inch followed threeauarters of an hour late r by a driving driv-ing shower lasting thirty minutes Nothing Noth-ing had been seen to issue from the window win-dow in the barn which probably corresponded cor-responded with Mr BOUTWELLS hole in tho sky and the whole busiuoso in reporters re-porters vernacular seams shrouded in mystery This thing of producing rain in an arid region at will is apparently so contrary to natural laws as to be at once startling and important It is Idle in view of so many successful experiments to poohpooh the subject as ridiculous and the least that one can do is to hold the mind unprejudiced and susceptible to evidence |