Show WORK OF THE WINDS THE residents of the north and east benches overlooking this city are sometimes treated to an aeolian performance for mance which they would much rather miss amiee the wind cornea comes rumbling down the mountain bides like a great monster howling for prey and strikes the houses with a force that makes makee them quiver in every joint this is ie nut not usually continuous but it comes in gusts guate which become more and more frequent abtil they beat a regular tattoo on the sides aides of the more houses and when hen they put in their best beet licks sleeping to Is out of the question everything susceptible to high sero static pressure Is ie other either removed or severely shaken and the experience la Is far from pleasant the origin of these blasts blaids is something we are not entirely advised of it to la claimed in some quarters that they are brewed in the caverns and depressions of the neighboring mountains acquiring the necessary nece rotary motion by emerging from a ravine and being caught up in a hollow bollow from whence they descend in cyclonic form to fo the lower level this is if however too toe abstruse abs truee a proposition tobe to be discussed here but it is in noticeable that in nearly every case where one of these breezy incursions has haa been U unusually violent we hear bear shortly after wards of there having been a destructive windstorm somewhere east to the rocky mountains land and gene generally tally near the missouri river can these local demonstrations be all of such storms that were able to climb over the adla adjacent cent heights if so BO we are more fortunate in the physical characteristics of our mountain home than many of us are aware of for while the storms we have at times are quite severe and even alarming to the nervous they amount to no more than a june zephyr in comparison with a full grown able bodied cyclone |