The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-12-19
LOSING a VACUUM.


How Mikes Kindness Waa hewhrueo ~
an Ungratenal Creature.
The teacher Of the Roseville High
School was g young man with an
ardent love Of science, and the boys
and girls had all caught something OF
his spirit Twenty homes in 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 tosds and snakes and
birds, alive ard dead, that appeared In
unexpected places. One day Frank
Newman found an unusually handsome
mud-turtle, nearly as large as his hat
in which he carried 1t home.
That evening after tea there was an
excited meeting Of young people on
the lawn. Tennis was forgotten as
the 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 a 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 Mr.
Deans 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 lifeless, sprawl
ing out OF its shell.
at is q painless DEATH" said the
professor. 1--WE 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 jaritor, with his dust,pan full oi
fragments OF glass.
'.Sure, Masther Newman, it's throuble
you're maxim with yez animals and
the glass BELLS" said he. ''That big,
expansive one In Misther Deans room
is smashed insIivereens by that shelled
baste you left shut up-and here they
arer'
..But he was deadr' cried Frank.
'.How could he break the receiver
Faith. ] fetched him to life. the
poor craythur! / found him there
a-gaspin' when Invent to sweep out tht
room yesther evening, just afther ye't
gone, and l thought you'd been forget
ting him, so / saved his life fur him
and then look how he broke the ,glas
bell!"
.YOu saved his life for himl How?
"Sure and / just slipped a thin bool
under one side of the glass, to Civ
him a bit OF fresh air. And to pay IN
he had to go and hump himself u
and kick over the bell and smash Ii
bad luck to him.
4 aWhere is he nowpn
Hes found the bad luck" sait
Mike. with q slow smile 81 was SOM
mad, to spake the thrrsh, when say
what he'd done, and before / stoppe'
to think I'd picked him up from tn
floor where he was prancing about AM
give him a fling out OF the window
And there / see one of thin little ras
Gals from the patch a-licking of dow
the road wild him. /"
well, Mike, | hope that in tn
future you'll not meddle with our ex
periments, said Frank, with som
irritation. 1--WE left the turtle owe
night in the receiver because W
wished it to be there. II you hadn'
let in the air the accident would no
have happened You see we bad
vacuum" he concluded, condescent
ingly.
Sure, was the craythura vacuum
said Mike, with great respect .
!, thought twas just a common mud tul
j tler' Youths Companion.