Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-09-12
LOSING 4 VACUUM.
How Miles, KIoanoso WaS ROwardod -
IN UnET1teful Creature

How Miles, KiOdn0s0 WaS Rewarded ~
m UnS1Atefnl Creature.
The teacher of the RosevilIe High
School was q young man with an
ardent love OF science. and the boys
and girls had all caught something Of
his spirit Twenty homes Ia Roseville
gave evidence Of the experimental
work which was being carried on by
the young people, and mothers and
aunts held indignation meetings over
the bugs and toads and snakes and
birds, alive ard dead, that appea ed in
unexpected places One day Frank
Newman found an unusually handsome
mud-turtle. nearly as large as his hat,
In which he carried it home.
That evening after tea there was an
excited meeting of young people on
the lawn. Tennis was forgotten as
tho boys discussed ways and means of
preserving this turtles fine shell.
Finally they decided to and asked their
teachers advice. Mr.. Dean was full
OF interest He told them that he had
once cleaned shell of this sort very
easily. after he had killed the turtle
by putting him under glass receiver
and pumping out the air with an air
pump.
Next day, therefore, the zoology
class assembled after school in M.
Dean's classroom to witness the ex-
pertinent. Frank Newman put the
big tortoise under the receiver, and
Mr.. Dean pumped out the air until the
creature lay limp and hfeIess, sprawl
ing out OF Its shell.
at Is a painless DEATH" said the
professor. eve will leave him here
until morning, TO be sure that life is
extinct, before we remove the body
from the plastron and carapace."
On his way to the classroom, early
the next morning, Frank Newman met
the jarito", with his dust pan full OF
fragments Of glass
''Sure, Masther Newman, it's throuble
you're maxim with yez animals and
the glass BELLS" said he. Thai big,
expansive one in Misther Deans room
Is smashed In sIivereens by that shalled
basic you left shut up-and here they
arer'
"But he was deadr' cried Frank.
''How could he break the receiverP'
Faith. fetched him to life. the
poor craythur! 1 found him there
a-gaspin' when Invent to sweep out the
room yesther evening, just afther ye'd
gone, and thought you'd been forget
ting him, SO 1 saved his life fur him;
and then look how he broke the glass
bellr'
You saved his life for him! HowP"
"Sure and 1 just slipped thin book
under one side of the glass, to give
him q bit of fresh air. And to pay me
he had to go and hump himself up
and kick over the bell and Gmash 1t.
bad luck t. nim!''
"Where is he 1owP"
Hes found the bad luck" said
Mike. with q slow smile. "Iwas some
mad, to spake the thru, when saw
what he d done, and before l stopped
to think I'd picked him up from the
floor where he was prancing about and
give him fling out of the window.
And there see one of thin little ras-
Gals from the patch a-licking off down
tho road wild him"
'Well, Mike, [ hope that in the
future you'll not NEEDLE with our ex-
periments," said Frank, with some
irritation. 1--WE left the turtle over
night in the receiver because We
wished 1T to be there. II you hadn't
let in the air the accident would not
have happened. You see we had a
Vacuum" he concluded, condescend-
ingly.
"Sure, was the craythur vacuum"
said Mike, with great respect 81
thought twas just O common mud tur-
tler'-Youth's ompanion.