The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1884-07-20
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circle of . persons teeth the throat
kicks. 1t puts up the shutter and closes
the door. 1t apparently desires to go
out OF business. The same throat may
take In chunks of Unbelievable beefsteak
as big as hickory nuts, and other stores
for the interior department by the side
OF which \ pill the of largest growth
would seem an insignificant affair, but
1t draws the line at pills. It shuts up
shop and says to you just as plain Ms
can be, "You don't send any pills past
me If l know it." This action of the
human throat in the matter Of pills is
very curious and mystifying to the ordin-
AIRY mind, and we wonder that Matthew
Arnold and other great thinkers have
not given 1t more attention, and sought
to make clearer for the rest OF us the
reason why the human throat is thus ap-
parently so unreasonable.
You get about eleven or thirteen Of
these pills, big smooth fellows rolling
a6out in some sort Of a yellow powder,
n you go home and take one of them
according to The rules and regulations
on the box. The whole family come in
to the room to see the performance. OF
course. They have taken pills in their
time, and they know there is fun in a
pill performance when they are specta-
tors only. You probably say that you
are not going to have any foolishncss
with that pill; you are just going to
swallow it right down and be lone with
it. Then you take IA pill out Of the box,
open your mouth. hold your head back,
drop in the pill and make seven or eight
desperate swallows. The pill comes up
smiling with its yellow overcoat and
a good deal OF its high favor worn of
on your tongue, aud you look u little
disappointed.
Some one who has had a wider erper-
fence than the others with pills will tell
you to try n swallow OF water with it.
All right. You're willing to take advice
in this hour of need. You drop the pill
into your mouth again and hastily drink
a half glass of water. Where is the pill
now? Oh, it is snug enough down by
the side Of your tongue. 1t didn't 90
down with the freshet. 1t is not travel
ing by water this season. .'Try some
grated apple" suggests the person with
the advice on tap. All right, bring on
your grated apple. You are willing by
this time to try anything that promises
to deceive your throat to letting that
pill through. 1t is covered nicely in the
very center off spoonful of grated apple
and with n weak sort Of smile you throw
your head back, put the contents Of the
spoon on your tongue, and swallow
all the grated apple. The pill fingers
for an instant about the palate, as if it
had forgotten the password, and then.
zones slowly mp to the teeth, leaving Il
good deal of its individuality oil along
its track.
Now bread is suggested for a disguise
for the pill. This is a good idea. Why
didn't some one think Of that before?
You chew up a whole mouthful of bread,
put the pill in the middle and make
the greatest effort Of your life in the
way Of II single swallow. But the result
is not satisfactory. The bread goes
right along according TO schedule, but
the pill is sidetracked-held for further
orders. BY this time a good part of
your taste or IA bad part OF the pill is
worn away, and you feel that you would
know the rest Of it by taste at any future
time in your life. Further, there are
the marks of bitterness and woe and
hatred Of the inventor Of the pill plainly
stamped upon your countenance, and
mayhHp your feelings are such that you
cannot with seemliness express them in
the bosom of your sympathizing family.
At last, just as you are about to give
up IN despair, some one suggests that
the pill be smashed up and clothed in
jelly. That is the best idea yet. Why
wasn't it thought of soorcr2 The Dill
is smashed and clothed in jelly, and
in n moment it has passed the guarded
precincts OF your interior department.
1t has gone at last, not in its original
form, but ns a broken package, and
when you realize that the Performance
is over your face lights up like that oi
the i~mpeCunious man, who, in the dead
of winter, and at the dryest hour Of a
mighty dry day, finds O short bit In
the pocket Of n long.discarded vest. To
many Of us there is not much fun in
taking n pill.
A Wood River paper saws: Some
thing Of n curiosity presented itself to
the eyes OF the passengers on the south.
bound train, about six miles below Pa
gori, in the shape =. NO very large and
ferce-looking mo intain lions. They
stood on a large pile Of lava rock about
n quarter Of a mile from the track, and
viewed the train rs II passed with grave
dignity. We understand these lions are
quite numerous in the rocky country he
tween Shoshone and Big Wood River.
A Salt Lake dispatch or July 9Th says:
Nellie White, inoarcerated in the Peni.
Tertiary here on May rs, for contempt
OF court in refusing to answer certain
questions before the Grand Jury tonch.
ing her polygamous relations with Bish.