The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-08-29
A HUMID TIME.

"H'm !"
Humidity a."
"That's not bad"
"Not bad2 What do You mean?
Not bad? Why the weather today is
simply suffocating."
To emphasize his opinion Ned bent
over and drew long drink from the
syphon of vichy embedded in ice.
Perhaps" said Jack Hargous,
''you believe that this isn't hot, when
1 tell you that not very long ago
struck a temperature of fully 160-and
no sun shining, either"
''Rats" was Ned Wyman's con-
temptuous retort.
"But I'm telling you the truth, my
dear fellow"
And where in the world did you
strike such terrible heat as that would
be?"
SIN the hot room at Turkish bath
the other night, Jack answered, with
out even a supposition of smile.
"Humph" grunted Ned. 1t was
decidedly too warm for such jesting
He picked up the seltzer syphon again
and eyed it as if meditating whether
to turn the stream on this audacious
fellow who ridiculed weather SO hot
that it wilted suffering humanity.
"No, you don't" laughed Jack,
lifting bottle of ink from his friends
writing table and holding it poised.
81 have seen too much of the West to
ever allow man to get the drop on
me-"
Ned good-naturedly returned the
syphon to its bed of ice and reached
feebly for cigar, which he lighted.
"Wyman," growled Hargous, "why
don't you show some animation?"
"How can fellow, when the
weather is so beastly?"
"Yet, if all men were like you the
tropics would never have been dis
covered, aud the world would be ages
behind its present development.
Speaking of travel and heat, have You
any idea where the greatest heat is
found?"
"Bombay9" suggested Ned, indif.
ferently.
''No, not exactly, In Bombay 10
is pretty hot, and when the mercury
gets up to ll5 the people openly as
'sert that the weather is being import
ed from the internal regions. But
the greatest heat 1 ever met was where
the mercury climbed to 14O."
SIN the shade?" gasped Ned.
"There wasn't any shade there"
~Where was it?"
"On the Colorado Desert"
"Oh, that's in Southern California,
isn't it?"
"Yes, and extends over into Arizo-
ma. It's the dreariest, hottest place
on the Continent.
"Did you find the heat really un-
comfortable thcre?" Ned asked.
"Yes, decidedly So"
I'm mighty glad" was the growl-
cd answer, ''that there's one place on
earth that's really hot enough to make
you admit it,"
1T was year ago." resumed Jack,
''that l struck the most humid expert
ence of my life. A party of us New
Workers were making leisurely tour
through the West. Whew! but the
weather we struck in Arizona wa
really frightful-that is, in the por-
tions near the desert We were travel.
ing in magnificent vestibule train.
but even drawing-room car is no pro-
lection against sultriness. We left
Yuma late one night and struck
straight out across the desert for Los
Angeles. My boy, this weather in
New York today is frigid compared
with that We encountered there. 1t
was so frightfully oppressive that the
passengers voted unanimously to sit
up all night rather than try to rest in
our berths =. i4ff 10
There was one consolation for me,
-
however. Mrs. Mason and her daugh-
ter, Marie, we're aboard the train and
during the last few days i had dis
covered that / could be happy any.
where il Marie was there. too. e