The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-28

that he had She went back to the
porch and looked around the horizon
again. The whole sky TO the east was
an evil. vapOrous yellow that dropped
low to earthWard, whitening and blight
/ ing like sulphuriC fumes In the yell
low glare the leaves on the trees
{ looked CHASTITY afraid for their lives.
To the west the clouds were banded in
an OminOus Cohort, black, still, sulky-
Mrs. ShankIin could hear the horses in
the barn paving Testlessly, and now
and then a WailiuC whinny cut across
the rank. burdened air She saw Hes
ter and JEFF come to the door OF the
"a bin. and she put her hands u her
mouth to shout to them to run for it to
the shelter Of the house. The darkies.
/ however. waited for no bidding, but
tore across the yard and burst into the
kitchen. their eyes diIated with fear
we certuIy are gvine be blew into
/ kingdom come, Miss Mary said JeIL
Better come way I'm dot do Light
men nightly Hble to fetch you lick
dar-
/ Hester had sunk into chair. and the
great voice which had rolled and
/ SCARED SO bravely in the sunshine.
I ShriIIed out now in q hysterlcal falls
4 etto as the disasters of the hills skip
ping like lambs bore in home
.'Zion's hills they skip-Oh, LaWd,
.
Bunker Hill. Miss Mary, LOOk-look
/ dar, will you
/ a strange thing was happening The
clouds i'm the west were for one mo-
meut couvulsed by a great heaving
and splitting and then straight out
/ of their ranks. like some mighty pro
( iectiIe shot from some mightier can
non, came the funnel cloud-swift,
sure. deadly. Mrs. Shanklin's scream
was swallowed up in the weird yell
B of the negreSs and the stentOrian roar
of Black JEFF. There was d sucking
trough OF wind, and while they
CrOuched back to the door the storm
{ bullet Glove its path through the back
yard with UnTeckOnlng, ineXpiicIble
deviItry of its kind. During the wild
minutes of that wind oUsie the air was
thick with outbuildings, with live
/ stock. with fences. with fowls and
{ creeping things II was as though the
/ farm had been picked up aud reset IN
/ the clouds As Mrs Shanklin watched.
; aWcstruck, she became conscious that
/ the clements of the air had somehow
( taken side with her, and, noting that
/ her husband had joined her and was
Z watching over her shoulder she felt
/ guilty and tVeaCheTOuS. They saw tn
SmCkehOuSe WreuChed 20 pieces, plan k
/ by plank. as il seemed. they saw a
! horse that had dashed into the stable
.
/ a five barred fence which led into the
/ lower pasture; and then they saw two
/ small, shedlike buildings whisked up
/ ON the wings of the wind and go sky
I hOoJinC into the air. Crash followed
+ upon crash and trees and great
+ branches of trees fell grooming to the
I ground The boot calls of the owls in
/ Hickory Wood rang ont in unceasing
4 protest. Then came d strange flashing
. as the wind swell swept on over the
! hill into Hickory Wood. The rain
. started I'm torrents, and the cyclone
! was over in 50 far as the Shankliu
. farm was concerned. Mrs. Shanklin
( looked again at the dining room clock
{ Ii was 4-33 An that ruin in three
{ minutes" she said.
/ The Lawd answers the prayers Of
/ his Chilien-' said Hester SeRtentiOusly.
/ The house ant been fetched
I It was true. The cyclone had swirled
/ around the house and left il totally
/ unframed. not so much as q chimney
| being toppled. But alas for the build
! luES which had sat for so many years
/ In the broad lay Of the back yard, In
/ the late evening Mr. and Mrs shank
/ lin and Eliza beth walked about the
/ WreCk-streNu place
/ The barns all right, papa. and the
/ cabins here" said Elizabeth, with a
/ thought of tightening the look on her
/ To rights again"
1t viii never be the same place
/ again. never" said Mr.. Shankliu with
! heartbrOkeu conviction. Il don't care
/ how soon we go I'm TO town, Mary"
! Mrs. Shauklin moved up and took
| hold of her husbands arm. She felt
| very sorry for him.
/ Though Elizabeth Shauklin was fiat
/ tered by her mothers ambitions for
her, she was frightened by them. and
/ despite the shy response they awak-
ened i'm her she would nave been much
| more at peace If she could have for
/ gotten them. She was not allowed 10
! forget them.
During those first years after the
/ Shanklins moved into town. Mrs
/ Shanklin used all her abilities to push
| Elizabeth. Being an able woman in her
way, il was easy for her to rise to the
/ opportunities with which it seemed to
! her Pennington fairly bristled The
/ town was an academy town. full every
/ winter with young men and women
/ who came up from farms. and down
/ from Kansas City. and across from
! st inUis- to do their ''preps'' there.