Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-23
THE OTHER SIDE OF IT.
a FARMER TELLS BILL NYE ABOUT
SUMMER soARDERS.

The Sad Tale of a New Mich Cow
Some Boys and Some Other Things
Deacon Decker and His Thumb; Ais,
Jay Gould.
Copyright by Edgar w. Nyel
I'VE KEEP summer boarders the pas
season." said Orlando McCusick, of Eas
Kortright, to me yesterday, as we sat il
the spring house and drank cold mill
from large yellow bowl with white
stripes around it; 1--WE KEEP boarders from
town all summer in the Catskills, and
that is why don't figger on doing of il
next year. You fellers that writes the
pieces and makes the pictures of us folks
that keeps the boarders has got the laugh
on us as general thing, but would
like to be interviewed little for the
press, SOS that can be set right before
the American people,"
well, if you will state the case fairly
and honestly | will try to give you a
chance"
''In the first place" said Orlando, tax
ing off his boot and removing his jack
knife, which had worked its way through
his pocket and down his leg, then squint-
ing along the new "tap" with one eye to
see how it was wearing before he put it
on, 81 did not know how healthy it was
here till | read in railroad pamphlet,
| guess it is you call it, where it says
that the relation of temperature to oxy-
gen in certain quantity of air is of the
highest Importance. In a cubic foot,
it says, + air at 5000 feet elevation,
with temperature of SO dogs, there is
as much oxygen as in n like amount of
air at sea level with temperature of 65
dogs. Another important fact that
should not be lost sight of, this able
Teller says, by those affected by pull
monary diseases is that three or four
times as much oxygen is consumed in
activity as in repose.' Hence the hor-
nets pests introduced by me this season. }
Then in climates made stimulating by
increased electric tension and cold, ac-
tivity must be followed by an increased
endosmose of oxygen
80 you decided TO select and furnish
endosmose of oxygen to sufferers"
Eyes. ! went into it with no notions
of making Il pile of money, but argued
that these folks would give anything for
health. We folks are apt to argy that
people from town are all well off and
liberal, and that if they can come out
and get all the buttermilk and straw
rides they want, and little flush of
color and wood tick on the back of
their neck, they don't reck pesky reck
what it costs. That is only occasionally
so. Ask any doctor You know of if the
average man won't give anything to save
his life, and then when it's saved put his
propity into his womern's name. That's
human. You know the good book says
a pure man from New York is the noblest
work of God"
well, when did this desire to endos-
NOSE your fellow man first break out on
your
about year and a half ago it begun
to rankle in my mind. l read up every
thing | could get hold of regarding the
longevity and such things to be had
here. In the winter | sent in a fair.
honest advertisement regarding my
place and Judas Fl. Priest! Before /
could say scat in the spring here come
letters by the dozen, mostly from school
teachers at first, that had good COM
mand of language, but did not come.
afterward learned that these letters was
frequently wrote by folks that was not
able to go into the country, so wrote
these letters for mental improvement.
hoping also that some one in the country
might want them for the refinement
they would engender in the family.
II took one young womern from town
once, and allowed her % per cent. off for
her refining influence. Her name was
Etiquette McCracken. She knew very
little in the first place, and had added to
it good deal by storing up in her mind
lot of membranous theories and dam
aged facts that ought to ben looked over
and disinfected. She was the most hope
less case | ever have saw, Mr.. Nye. She
was a metropolitan ass. You know that
town greenhorn is the greenest green
horn in the world, because he can't be
showed anything. He knows it all.
Well, Etiquette McCracken very nigh
paralyZed what few manners my chill
dren had. She pointed at things at ia
BILE and said she wanted some O. that,
and she had sort of starved way of
eating and n short breath and seemed
all the time apprehensive. She probably
ct off the top of -four barrel at home.
She came and stayed all summer at our
house, with a wardrobe which was in a
shawl strap wrapped up in a programme
of one of them big theatres on Bow