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Show SEASONS HAVE NOT CHANGED Records Show That Weather and Climate Cli-mate Are the Same Today as They Were Long Ago. "Weuthor and oliinnU' have not changed frnm the time of the Pilgrims down to the present day," are the dosing words of an article by I'rof. Robert de 0. Ward of Harvard university, uni-versity, on "The Snowfall of the United Uni-ted States," in the Scientific Monthly. That this is so is proved by n comparison com-parison of present-day conditions with those so accurately recorded by the early settlers of New England. "There are accounts of great cold; of deep snows; of violent winter storms. There are also many descriptions of very mild and open winters. Tims, we read of December and January resembling re-sembling May and .lime; of dowers growing in the woods in midwinter; of 'so little snowfall an scarcely to give opportunity for enjoying the music of the sleigh bells ;' of 'green C'hrist-iiiases;' C'hrist-iiiases;' of 'winter turned into summer;' sum-mer;' of the 'ground bare for the most part;' of little Ice; of crocuses up, of wild violets in bloom, and of lilacs-'Ibrowing lilacs-'Ibrowing out their leaves' in January." |