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Show "No Rain Anywhere," Says Weather lan A Little Sprinkle in Florida tho Only Evldonco of Moisture in tho United States. No rain anywhere In the United States I the unusual report of Dr. Hyatt for this time of tho year. A slight sprinkling sprink-ling -in Florida that could hardly be dignified by tho name of rain, is the only evidence of moisture anywhere As an example of Indian summer throughout through-out the country, the present weather Is as fine a sample as Hiawatha would require re-quire for the background of a poem. If tho weather has as much to do with the way people feel as o supposed, there Is strong reason for believing that nearly near-ly everyone In the United States Is In a good humor today, and wives who desire de-sire new fall hats, or men who are broke, would do well to take advantage of this facL One can feel thankful for fair weather without a sense of guilt, for, ro far as anyone knows, nobody seems to want rain, and the prayer of the farmer Is? not a reproach In our ears. There Is only one drawback to the present arrangement in the weather line. It Is all right for the' man who has lent hio umbrella, or to ono who contemplates doing a pedestrian stunt across ties from one coast to the other, but with much fair weather lying around handy, the enjoyment of the ordinary perpon is tinged with a certain melancholy "that i not akin to pain." In order to have brought about a state of perfection that sprinkling In Florida should have been a severe storm, then the rest of the United States could have sat back with the secure enjoyment whose keenness comes from the consciousness con-sciousness that while the sweet October sun streamo softly down upon us, some-whore some-whore else the people are slopping through the stormy streets, and the roof la leaking on some one else. |