The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-17

winning voice, accompanied a young lazy
TO her home, in Chambersburg, ana as All
true lovers do, fingered yet a little while
at the gate to have a lovers teoe-a-tete
with his fair companion.
The night was beautiful, no one near 70
lntrude, and, above all, he loved why
shouldn't she kiss hims With T matt
emily modesty she refused. lie implored.
she still withheld from him that which
would fill his cup of happiness.
The request was repeated several tunes,
and so engrossed did the young man be
come in wooing, he failed to notlce the
approach of the parental step.
The old gentleman, who had been there
himself and did not care to intrtlde upon
the happiness of the young couple, quletly
stepping behind a convenient rose bush
waited, thinking the young. mar womia
soon leave. In this he was mistaken. Inc
lover tarried oyer the request until the
patience of the old gentleman was about
exhausted.
a voice the couple well knew aroused
them from their happiness in a tone OF
impatient anger by saying:-"Daugntef,
kiss the -- fool and Let him go homer
1t is reported that the young maj only
hit the ground in high places in his en-
deavor to comply with the Old gentle
mans request.
Asia's Awful Heat.
1t is stated in the official report thai 10.
persons died between August IA and III
at Bokhara, of heat, and the figures, 1t is
expressly added, do not include children,
If this anazing calamity be not due 70
any atmospheric violence, as q Bau-l-
simeon, for example, it is probably un
equalled in authentic records. But wnen
we think of the agony, the horrible
wretchedness in which the whole poppla,
ton must have been living, it may we'll
seem that those who found escape ~
death are not to be pitied. The horror OF
heat is unknown to us, or 1ndeeq 70 any
part Of Europe, though Naples and Aghens
are desperately trying sometimes, but TO
shores Of the Persian Gulf, the y 81
Greece is but a tritie, The utter helpless
ness of man under this in1iction ADDS
horror to his sufferIngs.
There is 10 hope and no resource when
the red-hot air penetrates to those under
ground chambers in which the summer IS
passed in Central Asia. THE inhebl-
~tants,n we learn, fare shutting them
selves up to escape'-probably closing all
the apertures of their subterranean
abodes, except those absolutely necessary
for ventilation. The air down below, I'M
der such circumstances, cannot be I'M
agined by.one who has not a touch of ex-
perienee. Houses of good class are soiidly
constructed under ground, with chambers
and doors and corridors, but the mass Of
the people fnhabit big holes, rooted over,
with no kind of permanent convenience.
Every winter the frost and now and rain
play mischief with these rough pits, and
the damage is not always, nor often, re-
paired by the following ummer Fancy
thousands of Mongois in these, dens, pur-
suing their filthy habits in semi-darkness,
suffering the awful torment of heat, chill
dre& waiting, adults raving, always in
want of water and generally of food, in an
atmosphere beyond conceiying. That is
the picture which those few lines of tele-
gram suggest to readers who KNOW
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