ally excited when, on the tenth of September, it was learned from the morning papers that Russell, the new capital of H

r-spout, had swept the city entirely away, and that its evening edition would print full details of t

hat only the Daily Planet gave. Let us quote, in order to

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wenty miles of the ill-fated city, but it is impossible to re-establish it at present. There are forces at work as yet uncatalogued by scientists. There is a definite circle drawn about Russell, and to cross it means death. Two men repairing the C. H. & S. F. tracks dropped, smitten by a mysterious and invisibl

ot. Many shook their heads. While those who had relatives or friends or business

membered, closed its lea

presidential election. But when the news that an inscrutable fate had overtaken this fraudulent State (we may be pardoned for saying that it seems to us a sor

iction of the uncomprom

's information was true. Again that enterprising daily had mad

y up your water supply. This has been conscientiously attended to, and the natural consequences have followed. Science can eliminate the simooms that strike Bombay and Calcutta at such a day year after year, by simply flooding the desert of

d of affording surer protection, murders more men in one way or another than barbarism, only in the present case the victims are not eaten; the coffins are sumptuous; the processions decorous; the mourners in good form; the b

report. It will be recalled that all the railroad tracks entering the doomed city were twisted as if clawed by a maddened monster. It presented a similar appearance to the South Carolina railroad on the day of

from Russell. The way

could comprehend the encroaching dead line of the spreading yellow fever bacillus. But this fearful death, that brooded silently, impenetrably, mysteriously and occultly over a vast area once the garden of civilization, baffled all attempts at explan

fatal line. A convulsion of all the members followed, as if in an epileptic fit,-insensibility and, generally, death ensued. Many who were with difficulty rescued, an

no solution. It is only too well remembered that the newspaper bulletins were besieged in our own cities, but these offered no further information or encouragement. Was advanced civilization responsible for this disaster or not? That was the burnin

a did the city of Jericho, as the settlers did the Territory of Oklahoma on th

spatch to the office of the Daily Planet, its chief, obviously nervous for the first time

han described. Will penetrate to Russell o

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