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Show THE TORRID WAVE. Tho torrid wavo in tho East is something some-thing phenomenal; nnd tho long lists of deaths and prostrations by boat aro a sorrow to tho nation. Crops also are suffering in the farming belt, and tho discomfort and damage to tho community com-munity by such extreme heat mako tho year a record one in this respect. Now York City appears to havo suffered suf-fered the most in deaths from heat, no loss than twenty-six being reported from heat alone. Kansas City reports five, and great suffering is reported in all of tho East and the old West. Chicago Chi-cago suffered cruolly. The Pacific coast is reported cool, and this mountain region re-gion has been not only agreeable in temperature, but strikingly cool for a week past. It is now beginning to warm up a little horo, but nothing,to bo very seriously considored. Tho striking difference between this mountain country and tho East in tho matter of suffering and damage from heat brings to the front again in a more emphatic manner than evor before, tho propriety of tho suggestion that tho summer capital of the Nation should bo fixed in tho West, amongtho heaven-soaring heaven-soaring peaks, where life is always enjoyable, en-joyable, where sunstroke is never known, and where cvon in the most torrid season tho nights aro comfortable and restful, and tho days never distressingly dis-tressingly sultry. If it wcro not for the extra session of Congress, this would bo a good year to enforce upon the country the necessity of having tho summer capital in tho West, where business busi-ness and pleasure could be combined with tho maximum of comfort and ease. |