| Show christmas has come and gone yet no sign of winter has appeared boter alian what we have had for a month expressions of admiration and wonder concerning the mild weather have been heard throughout the community yet many of our old residents say that on this very account the day did not seem entirely like christmas some are becoming anxious that we should have a heavy fall of snow immediately dia tely for they are farsighted far sighted enough to know or at least to realize partially the disastrous results that would follow a snowless winter the mountains around us which justly deserve our admiration for their beau ticul scenery during the soap have not been put there merely for show in places where regular seasons are experienced the people apprehend no ser ions conse i from a lack of the beautiful but let one winter here come without it and our f sir land would go back almost to the condition in which the pioneers found it one is startled when he considers the seemingly thin threads on which our fortunes bans yet it is very seldom that one of them breaks nature is kind and very likely she will put on her white mantle before long her mountain reservoirs will be tilled and that too in a manner the safety of which does not depend on poorly constructed dams and other man made contrivances once the winter king obtains our wealth of water in his icy grasp he is very loth to let it RO but king sol is more powerful in the end ho wrests the congealed mass from his foe and we ara bene fitted from the struggle there is something peculiar about the actions of nature in the process of snow formation and the uses to which she puts her crystals after she has cut and fashioned them many peo ale think perhaps that if conr winter should continue as the indications aro at present be no danger of the frosts spoiling our bat what a mistake should a coly as severe as we many times in the past set in now u portion of their choicest fruit trees would ba n danger however we believe that nature is kind to aparo us from such a calamity her resources are equal to the demand made upon her isho will put hr children to bed under a sheet that we think is cold but the covering will mure effectually prevent jack frost from his destructive truc tive work than any of our manufactured articles this is attested by almost innumerable instances we know that the inhabitants of the North build houses of snow and in them they are much more comfortable than they would be in our finest palaces we hope soon to see our mountains and valleys be decked ia their white and then we can join in the r i joicine ewt bitic sky sk y |
