Show OREGON WEATHER I Tt must have < been dry weather In Portland Or for a wetk prior to lastt I i Saturday for on that day In a kind of I ecstasy the Oregonlan broke out as follows i > 1 LowHying clouds ore scurrying across tho heavens the llncslflcd mist has l descended de-scended like a benediction upon Lho um hrelink of the Just nnd unjust tho wind blows fresh from tho uoulh tho cxposl jtlon Is already open nnd the Stato fair will bo ready for business Monday Ore i eon la herself upaln There Is sometimes as much as a week In midsummer when It does not rain In Portland languor comes upon the people they mope so to speak In their business houses the proprietors yawn and the clerks lounge about The people will tell a stranger that things are not any more in Portland Port-land as they used to be < One goes to bed at night and the stars are shining The polar star shines cold In the North and Jupiters red lantern shines almost like a sun Waking In the morning thcrelsu gentle patter of rain upon the casement Looking out there Is a transformation Business Is Just roaring In a little while beautiful car HngeM appear at the stores and ladlos In waterproofs alight for shopping Ai little later the Sulatlon Army with moist horns and soaked drums appear i j I and sing hymns Portland Is Itself once I more and the greetings neighbors us they meet on the streets are all joyous I joy-ous It le i the way they are brought up It shows the adaptability of human I hu-man nature to circumstances The men j and women of Oregon since childhood have been In a normal condition when I It was raining When a dry day comes I I I along they keep inside their houses to i get out of the dry Just as mea In other I countries seek shelter from the rain They are a great people too the most perfect examples of the goodly effects I of copious Irrigation to be found on f the continent They change the expressIon ex-pression up there and say It will be a dry day when he gets left |