Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-01-27
Button Interests the Club.

al HncctiHS VI thc mum Ciuo
held Tuesday afternoon Preston
Button had the following to say
about cold weather:
There's quite little snap in the
atmosphere today, but when l call
to mind a piece of weather we had
in 1859 this seems like good day
for picnic" said Button as he came
in where number of boys were
gathered around the stove discuss
ing the weather. II never knew un-
til the next spring how low the ner-
curry did get that year" continued
Button. I'VE had thermometer
big enough to keep account OF the
weather for the whole state. 1t was
three feet long and had bulb at
the bottom as big as turnip. We
didn't bother with degrees on that
thermometer. We always said it
was so many inches above or so
many inches below zero. The Their
mometer hung on an apple tree in
the garden at our old place. In the
spring of 80 / was spading up the
garden. Under this apple tree 1
struck vein of quicksilver. l
thought I'd uncovered mine of the
stuff, and says to myeelf. This ends
the farming business called out
the old gentleman and told him I'd
struck a quicksilver mine. and that
when the company was formed to
work it l would take nothing less
than treasurer of it. He didn't say
anything, but he looked at the
quicksilver had in my hand, then
at me, then at the thermometer that
hung on the tree. looked at that,
too. The bulb had bursted. Then
| understood the situation. The
mercury had settled foot and
half below zero on the thermometer.
That wasn't as low as the weather
called for, so it pushed the bottom
out of the bulb, went down three
feet to the ground, and dropped six
inches below the surface before it
reached the level of the tempera-
ture."
Il have always said that these lit
tie thermometers we have nova
DAYS are no account" said Bill
Woodrum. What chance has the
weather got on thermometer six
or eight inches long. anyhow
at don't have no chance at all"
said George Black. "Down to my
house where there amt no Their
mometer to bother with the weather,
I'll bet. b'gosh, that it's fifteen de-
grees colder than it is up here"
do YOU remember the winter Jim
Moore was chased by deer in the
Tar creek timber, and had narrow
escape from death, all owing to the
cold weather." asked Button. Gold
as it was, Jim was out hunting. He
shot a big deer and the deer got
mad and took after him. Jim
dropped his gun and made for a
tree. 1t was so cold that the breath
from the deer's nostrils froze as it
shot out in streams of fog, and be-
fore the deer reached Jim two pieces
of ice, fifteen inches long and two
inches and quarter thick, stuck
from the animals snout like the
tines of pitchfork. Just as i'm
reached the foot of the tree the deer
caught him. One of the pieces of
ice went on one side of Jim and one
on the other. The tree was just big
enough to fit in between the ends
of the two prongs of ice and hold
the deer fast. There they were. Jim
couldn't move nor the deer couldn't
move. The deer's breath kept on
freezing, and Jim looked back over
his shoulder and saw ice forming
all around him. He expected to be
frozen to death. By and by, when
the circle of ice had grown so tight
around him that it was hard for
him to breathe, he saw that the
deer's nose was being rapidly closed
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