Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — WHITELAW REID HOME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHITELAW REID HOME.

He Brought Whiskers From His Trip Around the World. Whitelaw Reid, editor of the Tribune and last campaign's Republican candidate for the vice-presi-dency, arrived recently in New York from a year’s trip abroad, wearing a brand new set of whiskers, grown in the land of Egypt. Advance notices had it that they had been developed as a hedge against Sahara sand. While Mr. and Mrs. Reid were encamped in the desert the whole party were very nearly overwhelmed by a sand storm. It began in the middle of the night. The first gust swept the tent from its fastenings and spread the suffocating canvas over the sleepers. Then it was swept away into the night, leaving them all at the mercy of the blinding, choking clouds of sand. The minute particles cut into their flesh, got in

their eyes and mouths and buried them in its drifts. It flowed down their backs, filled their shoes and every foldin their clothes. The force of the blasts blew the particles even through the chinks In their trunks, and when the bags and boxes were opened later they were found to be full of sand. The almost imperceptible particles were driven between the leaves of the books in these bags and boxes. The storm lasted seven hours. At the outbreak of the storm the camel drivers, who had seen such things before, piled the camel saddles about Mr. and Mrs. Reid and covered their heads with blankets. Thon they built up a bulwark of trunks and lay prostrate while the suffocating blasts continued. The seven hours of the storm were hours of agony. Everyone in the party was almost suffocated by the sand and when it was over they arose as from the dead. The faces of all were cut and sore fr m the flying sand and their eyes were red and aching.

HON. WHITELAW REID.