The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-09

giohs than there follow fast on the
!t"!S II the compromise rulIors of Il
rpnilsnatlon among the great carrying
lines TO advance prices.
And if these things were not enough
10 harry and imbitter the souls of all
people who own disclaimers or who
wrretle with furnaces. while their Jan
,tcrS enjoy the sudden lethargv Of
mixed ale" slumber. the theoretical
scientist breaks loose ever and anon.
ana proves by statistics" that yarue
phrase with which every crank and en-
'HnsiaSJ Of the day essays t. coniure>
mat III a certain period If time. VARYING
from i've decades to five thousands of
SearS. the bowels of the earth will have
yielded up their last bucket of dusky
diamonds and the race If man will
freeze 10 death. the ultimate argument
"eliis that the line of frigidity is stead.
Il" advancing toward the tropics.
While the nervous householder isn't
worrying over this speculative pos.ibil-
lty Of a relmot future. he is tormented
ny the vaSar1es of the reports about the
zee crop. As surely as he wants TO be
warm IN winter ne desires to keep cool
III summer, and when his paper tells
him during January that there is a
shortage i'll the supply of frozen water.
owing to the ''openness Of the season."
lie groans aloud. Yet he ought not TO
borrow trouble, for there will he coal
tor fuel and ice for comfort long ages
after he and you and | are forgotten
and nndiscoverable c~olnponents of that
Tiny speck in the universe that we call
the world.
= Bnt suppose frost does in suir- far of
epoch run down t. ;ic equator, ur, on
the other hand, suppose that heat I'M
clasps the fierce grip with which cold
now tbrottles and defends the poles:
what then: Well. man by that time
WI! lie ready TO cope with either emer-
Sency. Already he has demonstrated his
AFFINITY TO counterfeit the cdprices of
nature and has sEcwn that he practical
mot theoretically scientist can store heu,
or store cold at vii! and bring either
into use as needed.
Already, do | say: Why, re settle!
the principles Of the problems axes ago.
when the Arab distilled o Subtle spirit
ana called 1t al kuhol. and the Hindog
Tened torrldlty by evaporating water IN
hinge shallow vessels ana tlerefrom
gathering ice at dawn when the Their
thad there been such an i'll
Ill those times would have
SHOWN a temperature of 30 to 100 deps,
Today alcohol can he made even from
wood; it will not freeze, it can be car
led Ill a glass bottle, and IL tiny cook
tove In which to burn il can be bought
or twenty-five cents.
remember once VIXEN with IA cavalry
,olu1nn in Dakota chasing Indians A, ,
how these little cG~atrivances ,
'ctually saved our lives. The tempera- ,
ure must awe been 90 degs. below zero
and officers and horses alike s
we're fighting TO keep off that deadly a.,
lumber that is natures last warning f., :
he victim Of cold. We reached a snow 8
'ank in a coulee; a halt was called. and ,
ON a led mule a demijohn Of alcohol
md a score Of these little stoves were ,
lLpacked. .
with numbed fingers we poured the F.,
plrlt into he receptacles and applied :
catches to the wicks. Snow melted in =
ne tin pans placed over the grateful r
ames; it boiled and we added the con. +
-nts OF several cans of beef extract. d
ach man drank his fill of the cheering a
raft, and after that the horses whin- a
led their thanks as they plunged their O
oses In buckets of warm water. Three q
ours later Dull Knife's band of fugi.
We C~heyennes had been rounded up,"
nd we set faces toward Fort Robin
IN aud comfortable quarters.
As for ice. the Hindoo maker either O: d
ncient or modern times, isn't in it F
18th the Yankee of today. The ques- +
on of its use has been debatable through II
lie ages. Aristotle said it was unhealthy, f,
1t opposed to the dictum of the Won 81