The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12
rsoBARs AND 1soTHRlsms.
Terrible Conflict WaRed for -Four Days
in the Upper Air.

. IN the OppHE mr.
From the P1ttsburg Dispatch
/ During the past four days, while the
war between two great nations Of the
I Orient has been attracting the attention
of the civilized world, another contest
more deadly, but producing few sounds Of
/ strife, has been raging in our own coun-
+ try. 1t is a battle Of spirits, silent, yet
awful, its incidents and results 10 be
. apprehended only by those who have Oc-
/ cult insight into the other world.
/ This combat has been TO the death be
/ tween the Isobars and the lsOtherms.
/ The motive of the com bat was simple
enough. II the lsobars won there would
/ be rain. il, on the other hand, victory
/ rested with the Isotherms the hot drought
would continue 1t must not be inferred
/ that Col. Stewart wished the drought to
! 20 on. He merely believed that lsotherms
/ mustered the strongest oattalions and
/ would win.
The lines of battle were drawn last
/ Monday, when the Isotherms lined up
/ across the center of the country, thei r
right resting on Lake Michigan at Chicaf q,
/ and their left strung out over Oklahoma
/ The forces of the Isobars were massed
/ over the Dakotas in threatening ARA =
/ their convictions Tapping saucily in Tia 3
/ wind
/ During the day Isobars flew, in grea
/ swarm that obscured the sky, swiftly u -
ware the south, threatening the left win 2
! of the lsOtherms. or few hours theI e
| was a terrific combat in that section. tn
+ clouds Bursting with the violence OF tx 10
/ strife and driving rain obscuring the vii =
/ ion of those who were watching from b G.
/ low. The lsObars having their left III l.
/ protected, the lsotherms hurried a stroE x
/ force on that wing, andsdrOve the eneu ~
| far back over Bismarck.
/ On the opening Of Tuesday Col. Ste' "
] mt hay atpF cd Ia ha wi a
/ powerful glass from the tower of he
/ Pittsburg pOstOffice, announced gleeflIly
/ that the lsOtherms were sure winners
and would drive their opponents into the
/ wilds of Assiniboia. From Washing ,Con
/ Gen Harrington wired forth a coun ter
/ blast that the Isobars were cert ain,
within twelve hours, 20 move irresist i oily
across the continent and sound their roll
| cali all over Western Pennsylvania.
On. this day there was a terrible ba title.
| The IsObars were hurled against the cen
ter of the Isotherms, but were hu rled
back time and again. Their right wing
was turned, they were driven in to
pocket over the upper peninsula of
| Michigan, and at sunset of Tuesday the
| Isotherms had held a magnificent I'M
broken line from Sioux City on the left,
over Milwaukee and Detroit, TO Bu1 falo
On the right.
VICTORY PARTIALLY GAINED.
The result of this days struggle de-
luged the Mississippi valley with rain,
the blood of the struggling elements, but
not drop fell in Western Pennsylv ania.
| Col. Stewart was wild with delight
"They will never penetrate our lines"
he said, rubbing his thin, white hands.
Nevertheless, Gen. Harrington was
| still confident Tuesday night he VIII ed
to Pittsburg, Before dusk on WedB les-
day the IsObars will penetrate your dity
and turn the hose on Western Pennsyl-
MIA" Col. Stewart simply said, mot So
1t amt in EN-"
On that opening day of August the com
bat was renewed, the Isobars again TAX
ing the offensive. They spread out their
line and when the conflict was opened all
along the front, they suddenly hurled
terrible force against the IsothermAl cen
ter, over Lake Erie. Here ensued a des-
perate conflict. The thunder of artillery
rolled across the sky, rain fell in torrents
as valiant Isobar met resolute Isotherm.
MOrtais were appalled, by the aerial con
fiict. Even the Cleveland baseball game
was postponed in dread of the elemental
war.
Col Stewart and Mai. Grant, looking
out from their tower, were sliced with
trembling at the awful onset of the $50
bars. IL seemed that the center of the
Isotherms was about to be penetrated
and the city deluged in blood. Indeed,
drops were splashed all over the north
western corner of this state. A few
sprinkles were felt as far south as Salts
burg, but Pittsburg remained impregna-
! bic.
As night closed in the Isotherms rallied
their forces in the center, pushed back
the lsobars to Detroit and Toronto and
thus closed the day. Col. Stewart sank
exhausted, but happy, into chair.
Again we have repulsed them, he cried.
THE drought flag still waves uusaturated
! [ a a
THEN IT RkINED.
The fourth day of the conflict opened
warm and sdltry. The heavens seemed
/ brassy and ominous. The air was stiled.
There was a smell of saltpeter in the op-
pressive atmosphere
The Tsobars gathered in static condi-
ton over Lake Erie advanced to the COM
bat in steep gradients. AS they APP
l preached The lSothermal line, stretched
across Lawrence and Butler counties,
, they suddenly hurled forth a vast vollev
of heat connections that blinded and CON
! fused their opponents. Then the conflict
= was joined and stadium was hurled
against stadium with such awful clang
= ana clash of war that the heavens were
filed with the blaze of the conflict and
, the clatter of rafting thunder The sky
! | over PittSburg was darkened with the
, smoke. The clouds of battle piled up
rough and ominous to the north and west.
> Gusts Of erratic wind came from the on
rushing of the squadrons of the air The
whole atmosphere seemed filed with
: Acknowledgements
r The onset was too fierce to be long re-
' sisted The Isobars massed in an
adiabatic line like Yale flying wedge,
, and rushed to the combat with a low
baremetic howl that sounded like the roar
of a Dakota cyclone The connective
/ equilibrium Of the Isotherms was broken
, and in erratic bands they fed away to the
r | southwark.
+ The lsobaric flag, white with an omi-
10 nous black center, was planted on the
1 battlements of the federal building Just
as Col, Stewart fell back exhausted and
despairing in his chair. Its all over "
/ he mOaned, but we made gallant fight"
{ Then it rained.
/ TASTED THE COMPLEXION.