Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-01

GTOuulS III nOiuluS HI the uUISSS, anu once he let them out little. tilla heavy lar over big stone brought his heart humping into his throat, and made him slow down again.
 | But before he had gone a quarter of R mile he began to see that he could never reach the ravine. The wind and dust were binding, and the horses were growing almost uncomfortable with fright. In the turbulent west the sky was all bluish black, and in the midst of 1t he thought he could distinguish g huge. swirling mass of inky darkness, the vortex of the whirlwind. coming down at the speed of an express train. It was growing almost as dark as even- ing. The whole sky was darkened. ex- cept strip of livid pallor low in the east, like a sinister dawn.
 He could never make the creek, but he might get far enough from the vil- lage to minimize the danger from ex- plosion The tornado seemed several miles away, and there were still . few minutes of grace Between the dark ness and the flying dust he could no longer see the stones and rough spots in GuC AO&Q, AA4 SASW4A6 AVNhAU50, AO AVS the panic-stricken team out a little fast or, becoming too much excited to think of the present risk. He dipped into 8 hollow, where a st ream crossed the road through a culvert, rattled up the suc- ceeding elevation, and pulled up short as hereached the top, suddenly appalled,.
 The whole sky appeared to be fall- ing in, like an inky-b black torrent, and in the gloom he could make out the\gi- gantic balloon-shaped cloud that swept the earth with 8 grinding roar, like the jar of, some immense min. 'YE-, ,s.ss s...
 He jumped down, pulled out his Rnifc and cut the horses loose. They fled down the road by which they had come, and Matthews raced after them, leaving the loaded wagon standing on the top of the hill
 He had no clear idea of where he was going till hesreached the culvert at the bottom of ths hollow. He dived into the. low opening of the plank tunnel, crawled few feet in, and lay fiat in the mud and water
 For few seconds he covered there, and quaked with fright. From the OECAAA6 6G LAC Cud nC NOu40 GCV uOIAAA6 but obscurity, and the air seemed filled with cloud and dust. For an instant there seemed strange lull, and then with redoubled and deafening uproar the cyclone struck and went over. He was actually dragged toward the end of the culvert by the suction.
 One of the blanks overhead was ripped away and went whirling into the air. The mud and water spouted up round 1hims .nFor neSdreadful: nen1entg the earth seemed ground und me pro- tligions force. and then the darKness was split by brilliant flash and paralyz- ing concussion. The explosion was less a report than a tremendous shock, with rending and dislocation of the at mosphere greater than that of the tor nado itself. Then the air seemed sud- denly struck calm, anda rain of every sort of wreckage showered down-shingles, boards, fragments of trees and piecessof fencing. seT~ 1T II as N.a~ N 'a Tn his scattered wits, Matthews thought the center of the cyclone had gap over his head. The swirling black cloud was no longer in existence. It appeared to have been split asunder, and to have broken into number of smaller eddies that swept the fields with im- mense velocity, but)with comparatively little force. The great vortex was broken, split tsby the explosion; as a wa terspout is broken by a cannon -shot. The tornado was blown up.
 The sky was already growing little lighter in the west, and cold rain had begun to fall. Matthews watched the relics of the whirlwind pass over Fay cite, and they did not look capable of in- fiicting any serious damage. He glanced back toward the hilltop Where the wagon had stood there was nothing but an immense pit in the earth. 1t would take much labor to make that road passable again.
 The storm, in fact, did nothing more than uproot few trees in Fayette and it subsided after passing. No further damage was reported from it. Matthews found one of his horses lying dead a few rods down the road The other was captured unhurt a day Or two later by farmer couple of miles away. As for the wagon and the well-shooting outfit. not so much as bolt or splinter was ever seen
 Matthews thought of demanding con- pensation from the town. on the ground of his services in wrecking the tornado. But he abandoned the idea eventually. He knew the characteristics of the coun- try villages. and he was afraid that if the affair was brought to their notice, he would be asked to pay for the dam age to the road.-Youth's Companion. " s3#S Electricity in Far East.
 f Electricity never played so important n role as it does at present in the far east. The Japanese generals use both telegraph and telephone in Issuing their