, 1890-09-21

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at sea level with a temperature OF 65
dogs. Another important fact that should
not be lost sight of, this able Teller says,
by those affected by pulmonary diseases
is that three or four times as much oxy.
gen is consumed in activity as 10 repose.
(Hence the hornets nests introduced by
me this season. Then IN climates made
stimulating by increased electric tension
and cold, activity must be followed by an
increased endosmose of oxygen
so you decided to select and furnish
e~ndosmose of oxygen to sufferers?"
~ es. | went INTO it with no notions
of making n 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 lib
eTal, and that il they can come out and
get all the buttermilk and straw rides they
want, and a little flush of color and a
wood tick on the back of their neck,
they don reck a pesky reck what it costs,
That Is only occasionally so. Ark any
doctor You know of if the average man
won { give most anything to save his life,
and then when it is saved pct his prop.
ertY into his womern's name. That's hu
man. You know the good book a Y a
pure man from New York is the nOblest
work of God"
well, when did this desire to eudos-
NOSE your fellow man first break out on
your"
About a year and a half ago it begun
to -Eikle in my mind. l read up every
thing | could get hold of regarding the
longevity of such things to be had here.
In the winter ! sent in a fair, honest
advertisement regarding my place and
Judas H. PRIEST Before l could say
scat in the spring here come letters by
the dozen, mostly from school teachers
at first, that had a good command of Ian
guage, but did not come. | afterward
learned that these letters was frequently
wrote by folks that was not able to 90
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.
Il took one young woman from town
once. and allowed her 25 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 a good deal by storing up in her mind
a lot OF membIanous theories and dam.
aged facts that ought TO be looked over
and disinfected. She was the most hope
less case l eyer have saw, MIR. Nye. She
was a METROPOLITAN ass You know that
a town greenhorn is the greenest green
horn in the world, because he can't be
showed anything. lie knows it all.
Well, Etiquette McCrscken very Diph
paralyzed what few manners my chill
dren had. She pointed at things at ia.
bic and said she wanted some O. that.
and she had sort OF a starved way of
eating and a short breath and seemed
all the time apprehensive. She probably
ct off the top of a -four barrel at home.
She came and staY-d all summer at our
house, with a wardrobe which was in a
shawl strap wrapped up in a programme
OF one OF them big iheaters on Bow
cry street. | guess she led a gay
life in the city. She said she did.
She said if her set was at our house they
would make it ring with laughter. |
said if they did I'd ring their cussed
necks with laughter. Why she says.
don't you like merriment? Yes |
says, I like merriment well enough, but
the cackle of a vacant mind rafting
around in a big farm house makes me a
fend and humans me, and l gnaw up
two or three people a day till l get owe
it, | says"
We'll, what became OF Miss Nc.
Cracken2"
"Ob, she went up to her room in Sep
TENDER, dressed herself in a long linen
buster. did some laundry work and the
next daY, with her little shawl strap. she
lit out for the city, where she was en-
gagged to marry u very wealthy old man
whose mind had been crowded out by an
intellectual tumor, but who had a kind
heart and had pestered her Il death for
years to marry him and inherit his wealth.
| afterward learned that in this matter
she had lied
Did you meet any other pleasant peo-
pie last season."
Yes, | met some blooded children
from Several Hundred and Fifth street.
They come here SOS they could get a
breath OF country air and wear out their
old cloze. Their mother said the poor
things wanted to get out of the mawlstrum
OF metropolitan life. She said it was
awful where they lived. Just one round
of gaYety all the while. They come down
and sailed my hens, and then turned in
and chased a new mulch COW eight miles,
with two Of EN- holdin' of her by the tail
and another on top of her with a pair of
Buffalo Bill spurs and a false face. Yelling
like a volunteer fire company. Then the
old lady kicked because we u short Of
milk. Said it was e - of a note il she