Show HOT WEATHER ll IN THE EMT the hot wave passing over the eastern and middle states Is something terrific terril lc according to the dispatches the death list increases with each day and the number of prostrations prost rations run well into three figures in the middle states it is reported so hot that the leaves on the corn shrivel up and turn brown while growing wheat is almost cooked or baked hard vegetation of 0 all kinds is suffering and unless a change comes very quickly the damage to crops will be serious the temperature ranges a al the way from 98 to III degrees which is blood heat and more pathetic indeed is the account of the deaths among the babies in the poorer districts of 0 tho the large cities the reports tell of mothers out on tho the doorsteps of the business houses where the streets pre are wider all night through fanning their little ones in an endeavor to keep life in them while the larger children roll in the gutter in order to escape the terrible heat the deaths among infants Is a greatest for the heason that a poor grade of milk Is delivered in the poor quarters and the families having no ice the cannot be kept sweet the result is that the infants contract disep diseases ses that take them off by the score the paved streets of the cities fairly blister with heat and where the buildings rear their tops high into the air the narrow passage way down on the ground is transformed into a seething caldron the people living in the tops of the mountains dont begin to know what right warza warm weather is like |