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THE COMET, THE COr.lCT Job P,iuVom.. is well equipped for msT-CAlis job PfliirrniG. Prices and 7ork Guaranteed Satisfactory. Publisbed at the Groat Summer Resort is an .Went AiTErtuiii Ma. Bend for Bates. EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ATT. VOL. I. NO. 49. RED SPRINGS, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1893. E, ?. WEHiET, mtrK!Ez! x i x i i i ii ii xi r iri 1 i ii ma ar m arw v -k am Ma a maiara-Bama a I a. ii and ioaxEH. ( tho Loura when we tit lath ahadow 1 1 a', falls like the droop ef wing ! fi r i.ii n"!t that is nskd and empty uh'-ntLf fl'.dglicgs hare learned Lorn' to r . . ., i th hert for the old ttrn, I 'itv that waa busy tad nay, o, wrH mi clamor about as, ri. w in th miflitt of th fray. . ,r, low we rouut op our loeasa; r. p wh-ri w marchd wih the beet. ' 'h- h whsa we try to walk softly, t j 'if our soul against rit. '.-i w- cn for th golden bda vanished 'i ir children ar omn and men, A" I ,if i! and 'lp ia the yearnim I'. h,v fhm hut r-hildren again. A' I fr-' t)'r 'ni fm;Ii -ndeavn, I i I tb'r that stifid not, I i1 h hdow grnwa thicker an I longer, r,d thi M-ir to our eyes ia a Wot '"i '' liniT'-rin pplndor of annahine, I f with H lane of light A -hut and tarred door of onr memory, an f-r l'w rsdunt and bright. t,., . nothing hut nir Ineae, U'm fn-.iifiinn thre f'r an I purblind. Sen Jego. lie went along the chasm I Looking behind, the sight of the feer and After an hoar or two atood on the I f al maze of wilderness he had wonder- platform ; bare rock and nothing else ; he I folly come through filled him with terror, TORNADOES went on higher ttilL with huneer assert ing itself, miles and more in ilea yet. The sua came out and sent yellow raja across the pinn&clea, ca&ting purple shadows as queerly shaped aa they. lie climbed the highest of these rock-teeth and saw a tail upward plain, with an orange-tinted rim; here and there gray twiats, where a alight alley came, and a few lonely stones really great boulders of a prime al sea; he looked behind and only a faint green tinge on that horizoa in'di cated the graaa country of San Jago, but h! felt that even nof they might r at the t left tn the roe M wall, those Ppan and he fled away from it, down and on- only to fall again like a child. Then for awhile bis tortured frame could carry him da more ; there he lay, deliriously mumbling about streams, and lakes, and fountains, Jul the sun came and struck his bare bead with ita hot rays. Still he lay there, now awake and, strange to say. nr mad, though rery weak, aoraly ruaenng, and hardly able to think at all. Indeed, he did not think, bat merely followed up bis instinct when he crawled up on 10 ma leei ana aiaggerea aiong, iwajing one war for many pacea, then the other, hanging his hands and head, moan- WEBE VKRT DESTRUCTIVE VH THIS COUNTRY U1ST YEAR. Th Caaaoa Which Prod ace Tbeas How They Differ From Umrrlca.De Remarkable Phenomen or Their Ooca.rren.oe. iarda who treated captives so hardly, so I ing in a dry, broken way, like a cut bel it i r "rin and th ki-t lim hfor aa. rj ft t -f and t'irrn'iil hhind' lir-t hm'Mit for th ad tim, i I tlith thiti th laf? j .v wlin th plough lraka th fur- rt" h-n th" hind tind th ahaf? ' t ' mir that r fld"d and drooping, 1 nrik; nl in th vniDga uplift; I ' r h 'it to th ) tai that ar abowiog I -kio-. Ill lvfrV rift. In i. our dtv m 4) haIlowd - t t hn w junt hofor, J 1 hL M m th- hotio of our Fathr ' o( .,.,r ftiro'igh Ilia balf-open door. iM;w,; ir t K. Hang'-tor, in Harpr'a Bazar. THE ESCAPE. there was no course but forward. Forward then be went, and the sand be came thick and aoft underfoot so that he had to 'ise the long, Bpnlnh blad to help him in walking. At last eren that became an em cum bra nee and he would bare cast it away, only the knot had be come twiated and would only take a lit tle time to undo, so he kept it out of in dolence and ebbing wits. Here and there rame a harder surface which was restful to the feet, and then he would sink for a apace and try to hope he might get across this place; then he went on and on, with the glare in his eyes from below and a hot, gray sky overhead. The sun heated his wet rajs; they be came burning moit; 'they blistered his back, ore already from the payment, of yesterday's forced labor in the fortress; he had to turn round at times and give his back a relief by being roasted in front. At last the whole place swam round him, there came moments when he seemed treading over a crimson waste under a vermilion sky, and with the first pains of thirst deadening the ache of hunger he lay down in the shadow of the first rock he reached. There he stayed till no shadow was left, shrinking away from the hot, encroaching yellow till he was at last covered by it, then rose again and plodded along through the scorch ing hours with burnt feet in his crackling old shoes. Iowa, yet still going on. And then his dim eye received a refreshing momentary coolneee a plaat growing green at his teet! Down he sank anon it, seized it, chewed the dusty leaves; there were little drib let of earth here and there. Another bit of green caught his eye; he raised his heavy head, and saw that 100 pacea away the plateau on which he stood broke off sheer. He had crossed the desert, for down there, 8,000 feet below, were green plains, palms, and a river, and beyond the blue FaeificI The poor, wasted creature raised his bony, cracked claws and ffureled with triumph. He had cheated the Spaniards and the Thirst Lands; hurrah 1 And there were more planta nearer the edge; to them he hastened, with the blade still drsgging from hie wrist, to tail prone on a little group of them, and on a huge pun-adder lying almost invisi ble along an earth-grove. Instantly the beast drew baok its head and struck him on the bare leg; then fled. A rage filled him; he seized the sword in both shaking bands, brought it down at the marked back, missed it, fell for ward, and the steel bent and broke under him as the enemy glided awav. But after it he panted with the strength of revenge; caught it up as it twisted by a large stone, pushing the stone over its neck by an effort, and, kneeling, cut Its writhing body into long strips with the n II V w ji'n DEI.ArLAlNE SCCLL. i.-ilinH'le over! and limbs sotn once more with id ot t w.-nty-ri vr. Now for a slow I iMiti nil crif-p along the gully by U: la.Ht ji.'Uina'le -: tilTent.'ii f.-lt lia-i i. mow -i..ijo at thfl third doorway. H hi-lit ! nnu's head in the road, and ! r n t down once more behind the i irth-ii'l ami pushed his way up tin w ith dillirulty, showing as little . lniiiM-lf a possible. It waa an officer tii'ii" into tti town late. Vny nileutly ; the moon wi trouble- iiic toituc just '-scaping, but, praise the it .a a a v mm'i, who w uu hp over ooia tnginn- ft n tli irl h.i'I not yi t ii . it osh( ari l th water was bearably t "i'l N' M r iiturn thanks too soon f 1 1 nll'ii r innl his horsn on a rising !'. riml, turning in his saddle, glanced l hk or thr -h.idow-dapplcd land so hit h i yf, i milling up the sliiny ribbon ' t -1 r tin, atiddt-nly saw the black dot ! tin ii",c,' awuy against its current. Iti'tmi t f lt-Ht ruction run along the rxrvts cf hi hand; he drew a piatol and t'r, M-ndtng a splash of water over i .tiM - h- id, while the echoes emote the crtMn w:ilW.ind lot themselves in the m.,. ,iiih brliind. A low da t or rose i' l S in .liigo; John rose out of the ioi rtitd run to the cijfs. The -i i'ii it I spurred nftcr him with drawn "I. ij; r for the plrxMirc of slicing ' "i !o n ' nilit up; in a few minutes u i- iloiindf, lut this lring a aha I m.l -it ,.. t,t,iyi-d his hand overhead ' 1 tn k' hhould In sure. In that " ii" i' lohfi ioiittlc like a hsrc and m-Ii.-I tlrspt nit y at the soldier, who i up .ill t ..hit and brought down i . i i ' I ' '! i ii I . Vor the runuing Kng 11 'i dm kl under the horse's IkxIv, " " d 'ut, .eurd his fe's leg and ' ""I ith a "uldfti rlertr heave shot - ! i. r -id wa)s out of his saddle I ' m hi-hi-;i. There ho lay broken I while the victor grasped the i I" nt to rurth and atiatched the I ni' iintrd the animal and stuck the '"'- point int' its haunch; off shot - w it h ! nort of pain, while the '''I pirmr aroe tx-hind, finally " i iv n the pine trees flew by. . tlf moon entered a thick cloud v ti tine t sn open prairie, and i I into dirkness thev went without ' ''tin th-- slightest of stumbles. ' 1 1 mil' a . the horse began to breathe, i Hid ..i, then settled into a slow His wits were all ablur, but his bodily I fragment of his blade, then he got back somehow to the green tutts, and while the poison worked its way to his heart. sweetened his last moments of life with those leaves, till a stupor came over him and he slept with his destroyer the sleep of death on the border of the Sweet Palm Coast, as the Indians called it in their tongue. Such was the escape of John Tisden, whose bones have long become dust, the only man who ever crossed the Tierra de ged. Black and White. . i . a . a a senses ieu mat me wnoie land lay on a vast upward slope, a continual gentle pressure back, as it were, to each toil some etep he took. In the late afternoon he felt a slight pulling tendency, a sign .r ... ...p, . j l. - i :ut -j w.iter rame into the townshin: l"u"' uc WM uu u ,UJlWILePllul utcui; ... - . I K n a.m. I aIi a. I . I IL. Ik- would ix-triinK him of that th. f. S" it). I "ii!'- The trot tecaroe a walk. i- walk niort-difficult; more miles i f.-ni? ont-s. and the eartb went ( m i lown a the d-uknesa became i i. r- w i re low hills and shallow 1,1 , tlin came rocks, and llges. i 'T. the gray speedily thinned, the f'.-ppf d at a cliff wall. Mi- rivht. to the left. John looked f r u i pi ning; there was none. He tMis.-d his h ind, licked a finder of the '" -t. thought he felt a faint fresh T" n tin left side of it, and so turned Mi it .lir, i tion. After some hundred j ' -I- In ntiic to a rrack in the wall; he 1 - I d into it. There was hardly room ' ' then it widened intoachum, and "ii "I slong in darkness with a band of lit :it the toiv-then came asudden de ''tit. and th.wearieil creature he rode Mitnl l. d sn'f threw him into a pool of ws.hr. The f.h'Hk of tlie plunge brought him t' t' thi r again. He struggled beneath th ster, rame up at last, half choked, and pulled himself upon a rocky ledge "i'hihe sword still hanging from h rit. Looking for the horse, he saw nothing but a violent commotion oit the wstrr surface, which presently ceased; a few air bubbles came to the top and broke, that was all; his rescue had ended its life in the depths from which he had escaped. Then he sat for a space and thmght; hf could not stay there, ther would track then came a delicate long pleat in the sand, the ascent began again, and he fell stupidly down, with some indistinct fancy of staying there till nothing was left of him but bones baked, dusty bones. But when his face touched the hot sand he got up again and trod on. He had no fear of pursuit now, for he was in the Thirst Land no man entered to return. The Spaniards had spoken of it, and they had let him go into it. JUKIHU- I - . t. . . .... . . dlsc"dverefT Knowing 11 w D'" taking tne laoor of m ueBirucuon oa ineir own uanas. lie could imagine them consoling them selves for the loss of the horse and officer by telling again the tales of the desert; how to go into it for an hour waa to be lost, and to be lost was to wander round on one's steps, which meant death finally. Then he resolved to lie down and bear his pains as a valiant man might, till night should come and he could follow one of the stars. By this time a little shadow lay at his feet, there was a rock not far away, and he went and lay down there, trying to be sensible and steady headed. He was glad he kept the sword now, because if his miseries became too sore he had with it a way to cut them; sleep was denied him by the keen thirst that baked his tongue into wood, but it was much to escape th red-hot fingers f the sun. As he lay therewith his battered old hat over his face the stillness came terri bly on him at times. He thought he heard distant voices calling, and fancied some foe had crept up to the other side of the stone and was stealing round on him then it seemed to him as if he was lying oq English snnd and the sen was foaming rouhd Plymouth breakwater hard by then he raised his hat for the fortieth time to think for the fortieth time of this great Thirst Land, before his lightheadedness began once more, to gether with the burning ache for water in every flesh atom. The shadow lengthened, the sand in it cooled, the relief waa grateful, though small. Later on the sun went. down, a red globe in a purple haze; the stars ap peared, and he followed one for; a long time till he got among rocks and bruised his bo1y against them in the dark. It was of no use going on till moonrise; he lay there on the stony floor, and his thirst kept him from feeling the hardness of it for a while. At last he could bear it no longer, but rose and ran on. then presently struck against one of the stones and fell, stuoned, as he had fallen before out in the sand tracks. Still the roan was not beaten. When he had recovered he wiped his heavy eye with the back of his hand and felt his way along through that rocky maze, tapping his sword on each side and following the passages, holding on to his star with all the bulldog instinct of his race. At last th moon came out and lit the plain, showing it mounting up and up in a long, slow slope till the eye lost it in darkness, but covered so fir with stones, stones, stones, like the Eraveyard of the whole human race. So e went on, rattling his tongue about in his arid mouth, wondering why he did not lie down and die at once, why he did not at once fall down on his blade and end his portion of life, yet persever ing all the time, no unworthy man of hia countryside and yoeman name. He ha I no visions now, in the night; they were reserved for the treacherous day, when the guiding stars should be hidden. So through the long hours he travelled," and at last shuffled out into places where the stones, that dreadful multitude all exactly alike, stood in groups only. The moon sped on her course, and the ground underfoot sent a ring from his steel -staff it wa rock. Twenty-two Billions Insurance. The enormous increase in the fire in surance business ol this country in recent years is shown, remarks the New York Times, by some figures just col lected by a well-known adjuster, who fixes the total amounts insured at the close of 1892 at $22,000,000,00!), which represents about 32.5 per cent, of the total property valuations in the United States. In 1863 the percentage of mounts insured in the total property valuation was only nine. In 18T0 it had increased to 16.78, in 1880, to 20.00, and in 1890 to 20.41. The total amounta in sured to-day are nearly thirteen times greater than they were in 1860, while the property valuations are only four, or at the most four and a half times greater. C. C. Hine, of New York City, an excellent authority on fire insurance matters, said recently that the amount of this increase is not so very astooishing, lecause every industry en larges here phenomenally, but that the percentage of increase on the valuea to be Insured raises the inquiry whather the fire insurance mine has not now ben ex hausted. Whether or not these reduc tions aa to the fertilitv of the fire insur ance field are correct, it is certain that there never was more grumbling among the underwriters than there is to-day. The year that has just closed has been remarkably severe for fire losses, and in Brooklyn and Milwaukee the field men are in a state bordering on consternation. This condition of affairs it the result of numerous causes, extending through a term of years. Increasing rates and ne- rreaing commissions, together with a complicated agency system involving agents, brokers, and middlemen of high and low degree, have each contributed to the general demoralization of which the underwriters complain. HE year 1831, aaya the Baa Francisco Chronicle, waa signalized by the occurrence of greater a umber of fatal 'and dettroc tire convulsions of nature and disasters of various kinds than almost any other on record. During the first aiz months of the year the total loss of Ufa in the United States alone from these causes waa upward of 3600, while the disasters in other parts of the world will double or treble this appalling totaL Of the large list of caiualitiea in this country no less than 460 deaths were caused by tor nadoea and thunder storms, there having been four of the first named disasters of unusual violence and a large number of less severity. Hsppily for Calif ornians.they live in a region where loss of life or property from tornadoes is absolutely unknown and even the most destructive wlais the infrequent northers do not Inflict a tithe of the damage in an entire year that ia caused by a single whirlwind such as there have been o many of in the East during the present season. The people of this coast, nevertheless, take a deep Interest in these direful phenomena of nature, enhanced, undoubtedly! by the security they feel that they are in no danger of ever being exposed to their fury. It is to the peculiar physical formation of the great interior basin of the Miss issippi and Missouri valleys that this country owes the fact that tornadoes are more frequent and destructive than in any other part of the world. With no great mountain ranges between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian system. it follows that there is no natural obstruction to the sweep of the wind across that vast territory, and hence it is that here is found the home of the terrible phenomenon. In Lieutenant Finlaj's interesting little work upon "Toraadoei" are em bodied facta and deductions made from the examination of over a thousand of these occurrences, from which certain rules in regard thereto are laid down with measurable accuracy. Ordinarily cyclones and tornadoes are spoken of in discriminately, as being one and the , clone, la alrayi a land storm, and it follows a path varying from a few yards to eighty rods in width. Th general direction of movement of a tornado la invariably from the southwest to the northeast, lb tornado cloud assumes the form of a funnel, the email end drawing near or rating opoa the earth. This cloud, or the moving air of which It is tha emboliment, revolves about a central vertical' axis with inconceivable rapidity and always in a direction from right to left. The destructive violence ot the storm ia sometimes confined to tha ia that of a b!ack cloud bellying down ward toward the earth and Urminaiiag in aa elongated tnraklike formation which moves aloeg rapidly either Imme diately npoa the surface of the grooad or at some distance abova it. Sometimes this great trunk ia drifted and a space of several miles la terrenes be tweea the point where It ceased its work of destruction and the eae where It commenced again. Some times it just skims along at aa eievaiioa where it reeaorea the tope of tall trees. the roof or cuoola of a house, without TOH5ADO FltXAKS. immediate path of the cloud, as when the small end just touches the earth. When the body of the cloud lowers and more of it rests upon the earth the vio lence increases and the path widens to the extreme limit. The tornado with hardly an exception occurs in the afternoon, just after the hottest part of the day, and generally disappears before the going down of the sun. The hour of greatest frequency is from 3 to 4 p. m., though they fre quently last until as late as 8 p. m. Along the immediate pathway of the storm, eren to the shortest distances, the diatuibleg the remainder of the object attacked. Sometimes there appears to be almost a human intelligence guiding the storm and discriminating between ob jects to be destroyed and those which are not to be injured. By due attention to the appearances which Invariably precede the coming of a tornado one may, if he retain his pres ence of mind, be prepared to' avoid dan -ger to his life by seeking safety in flight. Thus, the pathway of a torn ad , aa al ready statod, is always from the south. west to tne northeast, u to a house or other building from which egress is im waa found half a mile away driven Into the rail ot a feoce. Two heavy quarter Inch wagon Urea were twisted literally into knots. Ia Marshall Couaty, Caa., the aaata year that the two storms already referred te occurred, another tornado tore dowa a massive iron bridge. It lifted the heavy structure squarely from Cm piers and dropped It Into the river. To rodi and beams were twiated lato all softs of akape. Rod two aad coa-balf lacbee fa diameter were broken squarely off. The etructnre was lifted from the abut, meats so easily thai but two stones of the three piers that supported ft were disturbed ia any way. Ia April,' 187s, there waa a severe tornado near Waterboroub.B. C, which was signalised by msay pecallsr occur reeces. A hickory tree Bfty-four lashes ia rircum fere ocs was lifted bodily ottt at the grousd and carried soma distaace op a steep bask. Aa Iron chiaet waa tamed itnety feet aad drives two laches into a log. A basket o( books wilfklot ifty pounds was carried two asd a half viles, aad found banging in a tree, with the cob tents intact. Geraalums la pots were carried a mile aad found uala. mred. Letters aad books were carried di miles, aad articles uf clothing were feuRd tea miles firm their oweers' ouaes. At a storm ia Mistourl aa satire rail road train, with the exception of thssa ioe, was throws from the track, ths tars belag deposited ia all sorts of po litico i at varyirg distances from the track. Ia a recent storm la Raasss a to with a horse iaalde of It was lifted y ths wlad aad deposited oa the root f a two-story buildiog, while trees were I riven through the walls of houses aad aiaoy other strange oocurresoee were toted. In fact volumes could be Oiled with the bare recital ot tha strange freaks of tornadoes. Till Nankin Qf Csliaihii. The model of the flagship Santa Maria, eat to the World's Fe'.r by Sea Doaiago, hardly could be called a yacht, a coord leg to modern ideas oa shipbuilding. Neither would say one not familiar with ancient shipbuilding set it dowa as a t a-r-" i "r nil w a. M 1 l TbTS OIXAT BASSAS CVCLOSE or 1&92. tame thing, yet as a matter of actuality the two storms are esseotial'.y different. Ine path of the cyclone is s parabolic curve. Thus fommencing, for Instsnce, m the West Indies, it trends north westward until it reaches latitude thirty legrees north, when it curves to the tortbeast and continues in thst direction tntil it finally disappears ocean ward in the vicinity of parallel fifty degrees lorth. The diameter of the path varies rom several hundred to over 1000 miles. it the immediate centre of the storm here is a dead calm, a most fstal place tor ships to be caught. At no point with- xt the storm s centre does the air actually move or whirl in a circle, but Vlim tn tM Vfwlr r.ll anrl stft w . a tV.,. annther tn ih nthrr aid at Th-I Then the stonee ceased altogether and cold, shut-in lake was quite still now, a senes of low ndgea csme; they tsxed the cleft by which he had come In was " shaky legs and arms to their full, low dimly visible scross the dark level; he though they were, so that he lay down to stood up and looked behind Mm; the rest on each as he got upon iu Then he cleft continued there like a narrow road 0f df. highest of all upward. 'Then he knew that he had this bugs inclined land, and eaw its edge come to the hidden source of tha stream winding away to right, to left, for miles that paseed mysteriously underground, I? the hard moonlight, and the rock floor and earn tn riaviicrM in tha r&nntn I sloping aownwara iar c-tiow oun, xor Wk.ra th. Bna-Jarda bad r,!ad Port OUtf MO. BUiM mOff . ww NV ak'aMiH w f " " -al a vw w How They Strike In China. There ia an impression in America that strikes are unknown h) China. My ex perience is quite to the contrary, says a writer in the Engineering Magazine. The Chinese bavs invented the mariner'a compass, gunpowdeand strikes, but the only one of the three which they have developed fully is the art of striking. Whenever thev went anything they ask for it by announcing a strike. I did not appreciate at first the importance of their feat davs, end when the first one came round thev not only struck. but two h nun red of them came up and mobbed my house. ro violence was at tempted, butt tne interchange of viewe was like the Shattering of ten thousand a w- monaeya. l yielded. the miners would strike if they did not like their shift hoes, strike if they had a bad dinner in the company kitchen, strike for any reason. Once when mine, mill and fur nace were in full blast the miners all struck for some insignificant cause. Tired of expostulation, I sent for the head men and told them gravely thst I had no objection to the strike if the men wished it, but that the mill and furnace could not stop. They hsd to go right on, and it was very costly to keep them st work without ore. I said that I did not think it was right to make the com pany pay the loaa, and that I should fine the workmen three days' pay for every day they were on a at v. mere was a great hubbub. The miners came to know if what the head man told them waa true. They went to work the next day, I -.ere ia a cyclonic tendency of the al and striking waa free in that mine ever I ttosphere about the region where the aiier. Dur eacn man paid lor nis own rua. ( tarometer it lowest, ins wind or a In the end. however, they devised a more I jycione rarely reaches a velocity of a potent mode of warfare. They went in- I tandred miles sn bour, ths maximum smallest objects often remaio undis turbe ', although a few yards distant the largest aad strongest buidings are crushed to atoms. Observations with the barometer are of little practical value in determining the approach of a tornado, no matter bow near to the point of the storm's in ceptioo. The tornado season is embraced between March and October, tha a .oths of greatest frequency being May end July. There ara exceptional inttaaccs in a long series of years when tornadoes have brea reportel in every month of the year. They may and sometimes do occur in the Southern States during the winter aad spring months. Taking the Tons a. do ciocd ts daxota (fkOK a rsoTOoaai a). to the mine with delightful regularity. They put in their time, but did not put out their ore, and our product fell off seventy-fire per cent. Ming generally from sixty to eighty avilea, and its approach is i a variably Barked by the action of the barometer. Tha tornado, differing from the cj whole United States together and aver aging the dates of occurrence for a long series of years (over 200) it is foaad that the regioa of greatest frequency embraces the States of Kansas, Illinois, Missouri sad lows. Of sll ths Sutra ia the Union Kactu and Missouri rank the highest ia regard to frequency. The ordinary appeariact cf i tcraaio possible always seek the west side, to ward the stotm, and invariably avoid the :aat side. If In the oja air sad a tor. ado it aeen approaching, stand f sciog it as it draws near. Then If it appears to be going to the right, rua to the left, end vice versa. Always rua to ths northward or southward at a right' sagle from tSe storm, giving the benefit of h doubt in favor of ths north. The path way of a tornado is usually so contracted in its width that an ordinary person can resdily put himself beyood Its reach. Oa level land, as on open pralriea, the storm can be seen at a distaace of firs or tsa miles, sod this gives suScient Urns for s self-possessed observer to get out ot the wsy in full time. The awful force of a tornado caanot be realized by anyone who has not had an opportunity to become personally familiar therewith. The history ot these disasters is replete with examples of the most extraordinary character. Thus aa account of a storm which took place ia Kansas in 1879 relates that a sulky plow weighing 700 pounds was carriel a long distance, and one of the axles, one and three-quarter laches ia diameter, wsa snapped squarely off. Wagon wheels were broken into splinters and the tires twisted into all sorts of shapes. A man was carried into the air and there came in contact with a hone whose tail he seized aad was thus carried along for a considerable distance and finally dropped to the ground comparatively uninjured. A two horse wagon with one live horse attached to it, the other having been killed and tora away, was seta at a height of a hundred feet ia the air. A bog weighing Zw pounds cad a Umber seven feet long aad sia inches square driven directly through its body. The wheel of a wagon waa earned a mile, while chickeoe were stripped of their feathers aad their bodies carried three miles from home. Ia Jackson Couaty, Mo., ia 1871, a tornado carried away a bouse, no part of which was ever found. The carpet of a part of the house, however, vu palled from the floor and left oa the grooad tmlsjarrd. Several gexmeats that had beea la the house vre found at a distance of fire or six scilse. A large tnak tu ten to pUcee aad the lock TBB SAITTA MAMA AS SHE LOOKS HOW. ship. A libers! guester, not fsmilisr with his subject, might suspect that it was aa art ii tic packing case or aa orna mented piano esse, but a shipnever. How Columbus ever got scrota the Keen In such so affair Is keeping the old tails guesting around Erie Dttia, where ths model caravel was brought ia oa the Meaner George W. Clyde. One of them ooked her all over yesterday with a tcornful expmtloa oa bis fare. 'Anythiog like that ever come across the salty P he laid. "Not on yer life. she might have hauled a losd er coal from Caoarsie, but nothln like her ever oms serosa tbf 'La a tic, I'm s tsllie' rer." Then be tacked off the wharf with aa injured eipreatloa, siatllog b tweea hie lesth the famous sops of the wstermeai Laaala' lite Mr pot. Mur. like a dray. all of which probably referred to the modal caravel. Outaide of the at etwee are a lot of other jtople who bave looked st the small ship with profit aad pleasure. and crowds bave visited the dock te get a good look st Ssa Doraisgoa gift to the Fair. The caravel, which was consigns I ta F. Ober, hsabsA.tiU oa. Hs'.csr and Uksa to Chlcsgo. New Yo.k World. The mas A. E4!en. The accompany lag portrait la that ol aa American whose eumerous laventiias TBOaTAS ALVA EDIAO. and discoveries havs placed ,blm ia the froat raaka of scientists ia this or an other sge. Thomas A. Edison has for years beea hailed as the kleg of elec tricians. Until a few yesrs ago elec tricity waa man's master, but through Mr. Edison's genius It has beta male his Isve. Mr. Edison's extensive laboratory at iltalo Park, la Xtw Jersey, is know a far aad wtde, for there sores of his mos brilliant scientific problems hsve bees worked out to a succceafol coocloiioo. The London Produce Msrket Review tells thst Urge quantities of molasses are tared la the maaafaetar of 'cattle cakes," partly for Improving tbe yield aad quality of the tsilk, and also for its veQ-kAowa fattening properties.
The Comet (Red Springs, N.C.)
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Feb. 9, 1893, edition 1
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