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Show it in the streets and in the shops and houses where reflection and radiation increase it far beyond the degree shown upon the sheltered and shaded thermometer. More than that, it is the humidity in the air which prostrates and unnerves people and it is the absence of this moisture that renders us in Salt Lake and Utah comparatively compara-tively proof against the fatalities resulting from excessive heat, for the temperature ; here is as high as it is in Chicago or New York or Kansas .City, i Moreover, wo gain some relief at night, due to the rapid cooling oil of the air and also from the numerous shade trees which ward j off the burning arrows of old Sol. Thus we I are more fortunate in this ns in many other ! respects than our fellow creatures in the j east; yet even hero it is necessary to exer-1 exer-1 else prudence in eating and drinking and in the exposure to the rays of the sun. THE HKA1. ! From all parts of the country comes the same story of intense heat and consequent eutlerin and death. Following a protracted winter the abrupt change to midsummer is ail the moi-o trying and taxing to swelteriug liumanity, and as a result the casualties j climb up hi direct proportion with the tber- i jnometer. One hot wave like the present is as deadly as an epidemic, aud as swift in its effects. Most of the reports of high temperature f coming from private sources are exaggerat- r, ed, and c do not believe that any thermom- f tter properly exposed registers 110 degrees I iu the shade- in any part of the east Yet at i he saiho timo the people uf-teriujr uf-teriujr from the beat arc exposed to |