Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GIR] 'Course we'd figured on a boy-child. sa Baby girls is jest th' useiessest they is Helpless when they're kids, an' help! .All th' fainbiy turns pertecter f'r t.i' e Dnssent ever pop th' ouestion even the Has t' set an' wait til! some one labels Yit it wa'n't a boy, by gracious, vhen But we've kind o' got a notion that w 'Course 'twas dretful disapp'intin' th An' th' tears we shed?er swailered?\v Still, she's small an' mighty dawnc-ey, With 'er fists like velvet rosebuds an* Cliugin' clost, jest like th* tendrils of t As it clambers up t'n* porch posts on a She do'no" but wnat she's welcome as t I KJ'J \\ c. * c svuicuu ?v tix itwuiua i-ija Then ag'i.n I thought o' mother?she w Ain't no tell in* jest which evster is th* "Who could tell when she was little th An' would make mv dear old daddy su Then til' one that lays an' snuggles wi "Would my life be worth th' livm' if it She was jest as pink an' helpless as th So it's mlddlin' easy gussin* that weT fe" tttTtytTTJtrtTtrtTtri [ WHEN THE I I THE PASSING OF 1 i. :: BY MABEL CRC n a & n a a a a n a . \ T O air of Sunday calm brooded |\| over the little town. ( li A scorching north wind swept i ancf dntrn tllfk (IrMrV ! IUC UUOI, UV Tf AA vwv ? J, streets, and sent it swirling round the corners witli a gritty swish, and a ] friction that seemed to generate a i thousand electric sparks and prickles. A group of four loitered on the cor ner, talking with unusual interest. j "It's too blamed bad that express had i to be ten hours late last night of all times," growled one. "They'd 'a' been < clear away by this time, but now " ; "Oh, pshaw!" struck in o girl's i lighter voice, "Jim ain't 'spected 'til tomorrow, nohow, and the train'll be in ; in an hour. Don't croak!" 1 The others laughed uncertainly, and the uneasiness deepened as the first 1 speaker continued,immoved. i "That's all right! But she ain't here yet, and I'd hate like cold pizen to be the man who'd married Jim Tyler's ] girl?I'd hate it like cold pizen I tell' i you?ef there wuz any chance o' my I haviu' to stay on the same side o' this yere ball as Jim, afterward?that's < fP- all!" i "Ob, Jim won't do nuthin'! She could always wrap him 'round her little fin- i ger, anyhow. Say, wasn't it mighty slick uv her, to bet two strings to her ! bow all the time, and never let on, ] i till the other fellow' turned up last i night? Xiiougu wnat sue am see m that little dooil drummer after a six- < foot scorcher like Jim, beats me," drawled the girl. ; "Well, look a-bere, young woman, don't let us hev eny o' that slickness round hereabouts," began her com- i pauion, threatingly. "or " his voice ] broke,as a man on horseback clattered ] around the corner and swept toward < them. "By the Lord Harry," he breathed. ] "It's Jim?Jim Tyler. The Lord help 1 her?now!" 1 The four stood motionless as the man dashed by. with a gay wave of the arm in salute. ] Two block down the street he threw ; his horse back on its haunches before ] a battered little cottage, and flinging ; himself from the saddle, threw open i the front door without the formality of a knock, then stopped on the threshold, as if struck by a thunderbolt. I A man, of the flashy drummer type. ; sat in a chair facing him, and perched j Pon his knee was a girl?her hands in his, as she laughingly balanced herself. with her lips just beyond his < reach. For a tense moment the silence held. Then the face of the husband turned yellow-wliite with fear, and following i his eyes, the laughter froze on her lips. nr?i rt deadlv terror blanched her , . pretty, silly face. The man in the door stood motionless. ! "Get up!" he said. She tried a laugh of bravado, which choked in her throat, but the drummer ; put her from him. and advanced a step, holding out shaking, expostulating hands. The man measured him with a cold contempt that cut like a knife. "I'll settle with you, later," he said, and turned to the girl. "Who is this fellowV" She thought with frenzied rapidity for a second, weighing and balancing chances. He blocked the only door. Time was what she wanted?time for help to come. "Jim." she wailed?"Jim?I loved you ?you know I loved you?but they threatened?they said " "Who is this fellow?" he repeated, with the same deadly quiet. "Jim?listen?I couldn't help it?he 1- *-? att* n ri rl f hov I1US Ilil'i't: XI1VUV.V , ?> V U 1\1.V II , >IUU uir,. made me?oh. Jim?dear?" "Who is this fellow?" he ashed. "He?oh, Jim?forgive me?he's ray ?my husband?we were married last night?Jin:?listen " her voice rose to a shriek. The man plunged forward, revolver in hand, toward his successful rival, who squealed with terror, but the girl threw herself between them, and clutched his arm in a frenzied grasp. "Listen. Jim?listen! Ob. God, don't hurt him! Listen?I couldn't help it? I couldn't! You know I love you." she lied: "I've always loved you " she threw b^th arms about him with a sudden strength that checked and held him. He struggled with her. his cold rage rising to a mad, unreasoning fury, with the lies, her touch, the baffled desire of the man. Freeing one arm, be brought down the heavy revolver foil in her upturned face. ;i L-CHILD. > me as people always does; or ever was; ess when they're middle agec er old? we Iamb in th' fold, ugh she's lost in love? 'er his turtle dove, it come, th' other day! e'li keep it, any way. at she couldn't been a boy. a'n't no sparklin' tears o' joy; an' she cuddles up so' sweat her teentv. wrinkled feet? h' mornin' glory vine, jiiece o' cotton twine, h flowers is in May; t we'll keep 'er, any way. as onct a baby girl; one that holds th' pearl, at she'd grow t' be so great ch a stiddv runnin' mate? th that bran' new baby, hyer? hadn't been fer her? is new one is, one day; i keep 'er. any way. Strickland YV\ Gillilan. in The Header. g ptr'trtrtftrtrtrn JGHT CAME ^ STAINED SOUL. I0KS BROWN. Q, At the thud of the steel on flesh, the drummer, uttering a shriek of wild, animal terror, fled past them into the 1 street, and on?on?still shrieking, in a voice that held no human sound, until he stumbled and fell, dazed and stunned, in the dust. # In the other man, the lust of killing woke, and he struck, deliberately, igain and again, until the shrieks were stilled, the last frantic grasp gave way somehow, and he stood looking flown at the silent heap on the floor, and struggling with an insane desire to kick it and trample on it. He laughed?the instinct of slaughter all alive?laughed, and turned to find the man. He was gone. A noise of horror-stricken voices in the street fell on his ear?of voices and of running feet?fell, and grew louder, j With the light of murder in his eyes ?the joy of killing?he strode from the room, and flung himself upon his horse, as a crowd of men raced toward him. Straight at their midst he dashed, but with no sign of wavering they came on, and horse and men met, with a shock that nearly unseated the rider. Maddened by the spurs, the horse shook off the clutching hands?the man, with the frenzied light still in his eyes, turned in his saddle, and laughing gayly emptied his revolver into the crowd. There was a shriek, a groan, a scurry of hoofs, and then silence?for a space. Beyond the town the desert stretched away?a level reach of sand and alkali baking under the pitiless sun. The man, on a jaded horse, spurred desperately toward the line of jagged rooke nt the northern ship, that rose like a palisade built by bands, clearcut against the cloudless sky. He looked often over bis shoulder as be went, and cursed, under bis breatb, the gasping animal on which be rode. The lust of murder was gone, and only the instinct of tbe hunted remained. A mile from the rocks, where comparative safety lay, the horse stumbled and fell. Mechanically the man swung himself free as tbe animal went down, md stood a moment watching it. It lay still, with a stillness he had seen before. Suddenly a woman's face came between him and the dying beast?her face, with the great gash on the temple and the awful fear in the eyes. Curse her! If he had only had time to square his account with the man, too! He laughed grimly at the memory of the disfigured face that was not an object for anyone's kisses now. Again he looked behind him, and stood rigid as he saw, far in the distance, a line of dots creeping nearer. "The posse!" His hand went to his belt?it was gone! In a flash he remembered that the strap had given away in their last desperate stniggle, and she held it now, no doubt, clenched in her stiffening fingers?she held his life in her hands until the end! His revolver he had emptied into the crowd us tie lieu. With tne eyes of a trapped animal, he looked about him. A mile away were the sheltering rocks?a mile in this heat! A mile through the biistering sand. Behind were the relentless men. There was no choice. He clenched his hands, and then gave the horse a savage kick. With a faint moan of pain the dying brute struggled to rise, fell forward, and lay still? Quite still?even under the blows and kicks the maddened man rained upon it. He ceased, finally, from exhaustion, and after a moment's breath started forward over the yielding sand. The sun had nearly set, but the heat was stifling, his breath came in gasps, and his eyes were blinded by tbe water dripping from his forehead; but he stumbled on, and fell, as the horse bad fallen, under the shadow of the first great bowlder, at the foot of the rocks. For a moment he lay helpless, then slowly raised his head and looked back with an evil chuckle. They were cut in that heat and glare, while ho lay "in the shadow of a great rock in a weary land"?when had he heard some one say that? "A weary land!" God knows, it was that! The few cactus plants shriveled and grew grayer in the heat, which had a weight to it?a weight under which no living thing could stand erect. Even the coming of twilight brought no relief. Oh, if he had a drink; a cup of cold water. He had heard some one say something about that, too?somewhere. What was it? Who was it? His mother? He must go on* higher up among the rocks, where safety lay. He turned weakly 011 his elbow, but stopped half way, as a sharp, ominous sound pierced the heat?a sound that somehow seemed the intensification of cold?a cold that Hashed through his fevered brow and froze him into a statue as he lay. It was the warning of a rattler. Beside him. coiled, ready to strike, with its head on a level with his eyes, lay a snake as thick as his wrist. His brain whirled for a moment, and then suddenly grew strangely clear. Was there nothing which could face this heat? Here was one thing no Arizona sun could shrivel?one thing the fires of the hereafter could not warm! Its head was proudly erect, as the rattler and his human prototype looked lr>+A AO rtll rvflmv'o AVAC5 Th A firoo Af? iiiiu CilCii Vilitl C I'; to. xuv Vti V4 the snake were cold and still, and in a moment the eyes of the man grew dreamy, and then?then the eyes of the snake began to glow with a tire which crept . through the man's veins like wine. Was he exhausted? No. that was his body. Now, he had no body?he was a soul?the preachers said he had a soul?this must be it, before him on the sand. A soul from out whose eyes looked a knowledge of sin of which even he had never dreamed! He? whose name was a terror for miles about! What did they know of sin back there in the town? Here was the fountain?head of all evil, at which he could drink forever and never be filled! Of sin?of sin The head of the snake began to sway slowly back and forward, and to thrust itself out toward him. The head of the man followed its movements as though drawn by a magnet. The two heads had each the same narrow temples, the same sinister jaw, the same crpel mouth, but the eyes? the eyes of the man had much to learn. A shout came over the desert?came slowly?for even sound shrank back from the heat?and pierced its way into his brain. They had found the linrsp. But they did not know of the empty revolver. They would think twice before they ventured into those rocks in the dark. They would wait?would wait until the light came. He must go higher up?he started slightly, but froze again before the warning whirr. When the light came they would come, and he would die like a rat in a trap. There was no escape. Yes, here was one way?just one. With a sigh of despair he stretched out his arms to the snake as a lover to his sweetheart! Again the warning. For one instant he looked into those marvelous eyes. Then he deliberately cuffed the evil head lightly with one hand. Swift as lightning the snake struck! When the light came, the pursuing men moved cautiously forward, hoping to reach a sheltering rock before his bullets found them, but their leader started back from a motionless figure lying in the shadow. As they stared, the man's shirt heaved slowly, as though he had breathed, and from out its folds a head with narrow temples and sinister mouth lifted itself, and with languid insolence, the huge rattler passed like a giimpse of hell, down the man's side, and vanished into a cleft in the rock. The men stood rooted to the spot. AS Uje crawling liunoi. uisappcai cu, their leader wrenched himself free. "Merciful powers, I believe it was his soul," he said.?San Francisco Ai> gonaut. Nothing In It* A certain young wife helps out hei husband's somewhat slender income by doing dressmaking for her friends. Upon coming home one evening, he found her cutting up a piece of goods for a waist, and inquired: "Well, dear, what do you expect to get out of that?" "Oh, two dollars, I guess," was the reply. Later on, the parents observed their little iive-year-old daughter engaged, with a pair of scissors, in cutting into | small fragments a scrap of the same goods. "What are you doing?making your dolly a dress?" the father asked. The little girl sighed. "No; I was trying to get a penny ont .of it. but I haven't found it yet," was the disconsolate reply.?American Spectator. Garibaldi's Will Disregarded* Garibaldi left directions in his will j for the cremation of his body, but' his wishes were overruled by the Ital- j ian Government. The soldier's in-1 struotions were minute and perhaps | a bit self-conscious. "Facing tbe sea, you shall erect a pyre two metres high, built of acacia wood, myrtle and other aromatic trees and plants growing at Caprera. On this lay a sheet of iron, on which shall be placed my body, dressed in the red shirt. A handful of the ashes place near the coffins of my daughters Rosa and Anita." The rest were to be blown away by the wind as seeds of liberty for other parts of the world. Tttllest Man in tbe Army. William Finley, late of the Life Guards, London, England, was admitted to the Hacknty Infirmary suffering from consumption. A special bed I has had to be made up for his accom- j modation, as his height is six feet j nine and a half inches. he for twelve j years holding the distinction of being the tallest man in the army. Heaviest Man in England. A man weighing (130 pounds, the heaviest human being in England, was buried the other day at Dover. His body lay in a coffin that was seven feet long, three feet wide, and two feot three inches deep. Twelve men lifted it, and it was passed out through a window into a hearse backed up on tbe sidewalk. | jPalmetto State News[ 4-v V V v V V * v ?V' V V -* I Quits One Race for Another. L. M. Smith of the house of representatives, has announced his withdrawal from the race for governor. He gives ill health as his reason for the decision. He will, however, he .1 candidate for the state senate from Kershaw county to succeed J. T. Kay, who will not stand for re-election. * * * Prosecutions Are Ordered. As the result of disclosures before the dispensary investigating commit tee Governor Heyward has authorized the attorney general to prosecute H'. ; H. Evans, L. W. Boykin and J. B. Towell, former members of the dispensary board, for malfeasance in office. * * * Tillman Declines to Make Race. Considerable interest has been manifested in the recent tentative announcement of Colonel James H. Tillman of Edgefield that he would enter the race for congress. The announcement comes fron. friends of his that he has decided not to enter politics again at this time, and will not be in the race. He was strongly endorsed by the Edgefield county democratic convention for the office. * * * Hands and Feet Were Tied. With hands tied behind and feet 4-si am TTii<?V> Aff n nfi mjjjcu lugciuci, ^viiLiaca nuguco, a nt- i gro, 50 years old, was found in Tiger river, in a remote section of Union counts'. It is believed that the negro was murdered on suspicion of being implicated in an incendiary fire in which valuable property in that section was destroyed in April last, at which time a lynching was narrowly averted. A son of the dead man, along with two other negroes, is now in jail, charged with the burning. According to the story of a negro woman, thought to be the wife of the dead man, two white men were seen with the negro in charge, going to the river. An investigation is being made in the case which it is believed will result in startling disclosures, involving prominent persons. * ? Pro Rata Not Forthcoming. W. A. Clark, president of the Carclina national bank, testified before Mm Hicnoncorv inv^stieafina' commit VilV J mm? ? w v ? tee that he had had frequent conversations with S. L. Lanahan of William Lanahan & Co. of Baltimore, and that Mr. Lanahan complained 'that although he had over $200,000 invested in manufacturing enterprises in Columbia, he could not get his due proportion of orders from the dispensary. He put in evidence a letter which he had received from Lanahan and had turned over to Governor Heyward. The latter declared his intention to remove the purchasing board if Mr. Lanahan would furnish specific information. That was in December, 1904, and in the month following Governor Heyward recommended to the legislature that the entire purchasing system be changed. * * * A Liquor Tax Decision. A decision was rendered in the United States district court at Charleston a few days ago of interest and importance to the liquor dealers. The court ruled that the payment of the tax by the house at its place of business did not cover the sales of solicitors or drummers in other communities, and unless the opinion of Judge Brawley is reversed, th'e busi* J J-1 nAAnlft Ttrill ness ci me suu*uisycu&a; ji ???.? be greatly handicapped all over the state. The matter came up on a case against M. Manheim of Marion, who solicited orders at that and adjoining places for a Wilmington firm, and the verdict of guilty was found upon the instruction of the court, which took the position that the solicitors should have a retail license, although they do not carry a stock or handle the J liquor addressed to the consignors in any way. * * * Arrested for Contempt. Lewis W. Parker, president of the largest cotton mill syndicate in South Carolina, was arrested on the charge of contempt of the legislative committee while investigating the affairs of the state dispensary. The committee demanded of him certain information as to secret rebates passing Deiweeu liquor houses and dispensary officials. Mr. Parker said that this question had reference to a private conversation, and declined to answer. He was then arrested. A. A. Bristow of Greenville testified before the committee that C. Abe Hamburger of Baltimore paid $S,000 in rebates on a $65,000 order and adulterated the whiskey in order to make his profits. * * * Degrees for War Students. An interesting feature of the clos ' r ' ' "" "-.v.^5-si.L.?i-.r'-5c?Va ,gggsr ing exercises of the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, was the conferring of the degree of bachelor of arts upon the surviving members of the class of 1862, which left the institution to take part in the war between the sections.- When the institution, under an amended charter, reopened as the University of South Carolina, in 1866, these gentlemen did not return to get their degrees. The surviving members of the class are: M. A. Carlisle, Newberry; Weston Gibson, Charleston; Iredell Jones, Rock Hill; R. DeTreville Lawrence, Marietta, Ga.; Thomas John Moore, of Moore and John Henry Townsend, Anderson. * * * Cotton Manufacturers Organize. The Cotton Manufacturers' Association of South Carolina was orsran ized at Greenville a few days ago, representing over two-thirds of the spindles of the state. Important resolutions were adopted affecting hours of work and pay, and proposing to the legislature the enactment of three important laws. Several important resolutions were adopted, among which one provided that the running time of mills in the state shall be reduced July 1 to sixtyfour hours a week; two years later to sixty-two hours and July 1, 1910, to sixty hours, with no reduction of wages. The manufacturers pledged themselves to observe strictly the state law limiting the age of child labor employed to twelve years and over; they approved a compulsory school law to apply to all children under twelve years of age and recommended the enactment of laws re quiring the registration of all births and marriages. A committee was named to urge the passage of these laws by the general assembly. Permanent organization will be effected and officers elected at a meeting June 28, the place of which will be decided later. SHERMAN'S "MARCH" BIFFED In Speech During Memorial Exercises at Camp Chase. The annual memorial services were held at the confederate cemetery at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, under the auspices of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Colonel James Blackburn of Kentucky was the orator of the day. He criticised the Rev. Sherman, son of the late General Sherman, for having planned a trip with an army escort, over the route of General Sherman's famous march to the sea, and which was attempted, but abandoned. "Christ never taught any such outlandish lesson," Colonel Blackburn de clared, commenting upon the incident. WAR O NMOS Q UI TO ES BEGINS. New Orleans Officials Determined to Forestall the Stegomyia. A summer sanitary campaign, having among its special objects the extermination of mosquitoes which transmit yellow fever, was inaugurated in New Orleans Saturday. The city proposes to spend ab'out $900 a day on this work during the summer months. This is the first time that sanitation work on a big scale has been taken up by the city in advance of any outbreak of disease. Mayor Behrman and a committee decided to use 125 laborers and 40 carts daily in addition to the regular street cleaning force. FOR FORGERY AND PERJURY. Former Officers of Mutual Life Are Indicted by Grand Jury. At New York Monday, indictments for forgery and perjury against Dr. W. G. Gillette, and for forgery ahd filinc false statements against Rob ert A. Grannis, both KDrraer vice presidents of the Mutual Life Insurance company, were returned by the special grani jury. Both defendants Immediately surrendered and were admitted to bail, Dr. Giliette In $10,000, and Mr. Grannie in $5,000, their cases being put over until the first Monday in September. GROWING COTTON IN KOREA. Japs Thinks Staple Can Be Profitably Produced Near at Hand. The members of the Japanese house of representatives, who have been visiting Korea to study the'cotton prospects, have returned to Tokio with a honeful report They think that at a moderate estimate the crop ought to be worth $4-0,000,000 annually. Japan now imports yearly f?om India and elsewhere $55,000,000 worth of cotton, which probably will be largely replaced by Korean cotton should the estimate be correct HIGH COURT ORDER SERVED. Marshal Dunlap After the Alleged Lynchers of Ed Johnscn. At Chattanooga, Friday, United States Marshal Dunlap served a supreme court order on all the defendants cited to appear before the supreme court in October to answer for contempt in the Johnson lynching case. The marshal was aided in locating the defendants by the sheriff's deputies, all of whom, in addition to the sheriff, are included in Attorney General Moody's information. I ?*. BRYAN HEARS NEWS ? m This is So Sudden," Said He, When Told of Boom. SHIED AT DISCUSSION^ i Telegrams and Letters Caught Hlne in German Capital After Merry Chase?Will Return Home in August . _ . 7. .. "This Is too sudden," said William J. Bryan with a laugh when hewas told at Berlin, Germany, Monday -' < of the adoption by recent state conventions of resolutions favoring hisnomination for the presidency of,the United States in 1908. "This is the first announcement of :;hls news to me," Mr. Bryan concluded. "I have been off the main caravan route for some time and have been absorbed in what I have been . seeing and doing." Mr. Bryan had been moving so rap| idly since he left Vienna on Saturday J that letters and telegrams for him [ did not reach him until Monday. As to the possibility of his nomination, he had little to say, declaring* l It is too early to speak of that question, but taking up the subject of thepolitical requirements, he said: "Before leaving home I tried to distinguish between democracy and what can properly be called socialism. Dem ? /inmnallttnn as lA. | UtTrtt\y wiupvuuvu *w- ' :>$ gitimate and tries to preserve the competitive principle from attack. So- v cialism sees competition as an evil to . be eliminated by public ownership 0 and operation of all means of pro- j# duction and distribution. While this \| distinction between democracy and ; socialism should not be overlooked, the democratic platform must be one ?^Sh of progress and reform, and not merely of opposition to republican policies or socialistic ideas. I nour fight for . 7* the absolute elimination of private monopolies and for the regulation of / ^ corporations in general, it is necessary tjhat the party shall be free from any 'W% suspicion of alliance with the corporate interests that have been domlnating American politics. To this end campaign contributions must be limited to those who have the public interest to advance. I trust that public sentiment will require all parties tc ' keep their books open so that here- -;|w| after no party shall be under private ' ^ obligations to shield corporate offend- . jjf ers." 'cgiM Alluding to conditions in the meat industry, JOX. myuu oaiu. "ir*? "The beef trust is not different in character and methods from other trusts. The tendency of a private ^ monopoly is to increase the price of a product and to lower its quality,. Why should any one expect anything else from a trust than the lowering ^ of quality when a monopoly is established. Observe tl have -used the words private monopoly < not public, ;fjg In a private monopoly a private in- -|S terest is set up against those of the whole people. Quite a different principle comes into operation when the " j, interest of all is alone In view." Mr. Bryan left Berlin for St Peters* v , burg Tuesday morning, and from . . there will visit Sweden and Norway. He will arrive in England early in July, and then will visit France, Italy * 1 and Switzerland. He expects to sail \ on the steamer Princess Irene from Gibraltar on Augst 20 and to arrive in New York on August 29. _ . NATIONAL T. P. A. MEETS. ^ ' Convention of Travelers' Protective Association in Buffalo. The annual convention of "the Travelers' Protective Association assembled in Buffalo, N. Y., Monday with more than one thousand delegates In attendance. Considerable interest centers in the selection of officers. Norfolk, Va., is putting in a strong . bid for the next national convention to be held there during the Jamea> town celebration. STRIKE OF VAST EXPENSE. "* Miners in Alabama Lost $499,029 the Past Year. The ninth annual convention of k the United Mine Workers of America, District No. 20, Alabama began at Birmingham, Monday. President Flynn, in his report, said, that the strike inaugurated July 15, 1904, at thp mines of several large mining corporations in the state, continues ' without material change and with no prospect of a termination v v The report of the secretary-treaa- * rZ urer showed that the strike in Alabama has cost the miners $499,029 ? HAULING WATER BY TRAIN. A Little Louisiana Town Buffers || Drought from Hpat Wave. Arrangements to carry drinking | water by train load from New Or-. 1, leans to Milenberg, a fishing village about ten miles distant, on Lake Pontchartrain, were made Monday in . "J response to an appeal from the 200 inhabitants of that place. The water famine is due to the prolonged hot wave.