Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
HUMANITY BOILS
ALL NIGHT LONG
Old Sol Burns Hole in the At.
mosphere That Does
Not Cool Of.
ANOTHER RECORD BREAKER
Weather Man Comes smiIinely to Re.
lief With More Fine Pre-
dictions.


There is no use talking, am not
going to stand another night like last
night" said 4 citizen who came out
from his home up town this morning
to wait for a car.
We'll, what are you going to do
about it?' inquired a neighbor.
Going to do about Il? / am going
to sit up all night and swear" came
the prompt reply. This is simply
terrible. A man roasts and sweats all
day and then he swelters all night.
What is the use of living in such
blamed climate?"
But there is only another month
But there is only another month Of
summer. came the soothing suggestion.
"A month from now and you will have
forgotten all about the heat"
81 will, Ell? Don't talk that way
TO me. Have you forgotten what we
had last year-16 days in succession
after the 2lst Of August in which the
temperature never went below go in
the daytime and darned seldom went
much lower at night? Don't give me
any Of this pleasant weather dope. l
remember"
And Just then the car came along.
A swELTERING NIGHT.
It was a terrible night, without any
exsggeration. II is a fact - iadis-
putable and incontrovertible. After
the hottest day of the year the tenn.
perature was slow in getting under
control, even after the sun went down,
and while the night temperature IN
ally fell 70 70, which was the
same as the preceding night, the heat
Of the day hal buru ed fits way into the
air and It was pretty nearly morning
when the effect OF the torrid wave
was lifted sufficiently to afford an
over-burdened humanity a chance to
snatch wink OF sleep.
Today the weather man has some
thing to say. 1t is all right, too-show.
ers and thunderstorms, followed by
cooler weather. The only trouble is
that the weather man has been low.
ering his batting averages so of late
in promising rain for DAYS in
succession, without so much as a drop
that II is up 10 him to make good this
time or fall back into the minor
leagues.
II he will prove that he is onto what
is going on, or likely TO happen this
time. nevertheless, he will be forgiven
all that is past.
WANTS MORE RELIABLE NEWS.
An indignant farmer. who came into
The Argus Office this week, de
clared he was going to stop the paper
unless this rain prediction nonsense
was stopped; that heretofore
he had always found Tn,
Argus reliable and could not al
ford to be fooled with crops burning
up and he and his family living be
tween hopes and fears He was kind,
referred TO the weather bureau, will
the suggestion that il often happens
that a higher power manifests itsel
by overruling the best laid plans o
mice and men. IL is hoped the prog
nostications that are waited from tn
Davenport tower today will in thei
realization bring Joy and contentmen
10 this farmer, and that The Argus
In its own Innocent role in dealing wit
the weather subject. may eventual,
become established once more i
faith and confidence Of its long-;im
rural friend
CRAZY WITH THE HEAT.
II Is funny how the heat affect
some people. Two citizens. apparent
~ good friends. very nearly came {
blows in a street car yesterday owe
n little joke. Both were boiling u
and neither was in a humor to b
triaed with. and at such times. famil
ariies are dangerous propositions.
On the street a professional ma
went of In high dungeon, because
friend made some disparaging remar
about the kind of hat he was wea
ing-but he shook the hat
Getting down TO brass tacks, howeve
yesterday was the hottest day OF III
season here in this valley, with tn
thermometer ranging from 102 TO 10
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