Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1911 — Sun Victim Spends Summers in Cave [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Sun Victim Spends Summers in Cave

KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Alone in an underground cave, studying the Bible and occasionally painting a little in oil, H. H. James of this city, sixty-five years old, passes the hot summer months, afraid to come out into the sunlight. He knows that the blistering rays of the sun will cause his death If he is exposed to them. ' James suffered a sunstroke while at work in a wheat field near Ottawa, Kan., 27 years ago. The prostration was so severe that for weeks it was thought he could not recover. He finally recovered, but doctors told him that exposure to the hot sun would aggravate his case and probably kill him. James resolved to keep out of the sun, and for 26 summers he has escaped the sweltering beat that other persons in Kansas have undergone. James had saved a little money. He

came to Kansas City, Kan., about fifteen years ago and one of the first Improvements he made at his home place was a summer cave. The cave resembles a cyclone cellar. It is a large excavation In the yard at the rear of his home. Grass has grown ovjer the cave for many years and one must look elosely to discover ft. The entrance to the cave is a door like that oh an outside cellar and steps lead to the Interior of the cave at one end. The temperature In the cave never gets above 60 or 66 and day after day, when everyone around him is suffering with*the heat, James reposes on a cot, reads his Bible, to which he devotes most of the time, or paints pictures. Mrs. James and children Hve In the house. Mrs. James prepares the meals and the children carry them to their father, and on hot afternoons the entire family gatltqrs In the cave to escape the heat, ahd - neighbors also drop in often. On cool nights James leaves the cave and walks about the neighbor* hood or visits his own home, but the approach of sunrise is the signal for him to hasten to the retreat During the winter James worts as a laborer.