Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-07-24
HIS CLIMATIC SUIT.
1rom the Chlcaro Tlmoa.Hornld.

I
asked Harris as he busted of the only
vacant chair in Inventors workshop
and glanced with some suspicion at a
row Of jars filled with leud-smelling
chemicals. 1t was a blistering hot
day, and the sun beat through the
dust-laden windows Of the cosey little
den until the air quivered with the
heat.
pretty hot day." said Inventor, as
he poured small vial of anhydrous
ammonia into a saucer and watched
it svaporate.
IL don't know whether it is or not, :"
said Harris, as he mopped a perspir-
ing brow. 81 am surprised that you
should make such an assertion. Hot
is only relative term. What is called
hot in Chicago would be deemed cool
and refreshing on the desert of Saba
IA. You should be more careful in
your use of language. l should say it
was fairly warm day for this latitude
at this season Of the year. l am not
informed that 1t breaks any records. :"
There are many things on which
you are not informed" said Inventor.
THE man who will compile an ency-
clopedia on the things you do not
know can count on me as a subscriber
and an ardent admirer."
Having said which Inventor con-
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mysteries and Harris had smoked
three portions Of tobacco with such
lerceness that the blackened cernceb
pipe radiated heat like the surface of
locomotive boiler on a cold day.
"What do you think you are trying
to do?" asked Harris as Inventor con-
cluded an elaborate mixture of fluids
and surveyed the result with a COM
placent smile. In the moment of his
triumph Inventor forgot all past diff
ferences and became talkative and af-
fable.
81 have solved .one of the greatest
problems Of the age" said inventor,
and while / am not ready to make
public its details l am willing to ex-
plain to you the theory of my newly
discovered system. The mass of the
population of the world lives in what
is called the temperate zone. l sup
pose they are called temperate by rea-
son Of the fact that they have the
greatest extremes of heat and cold.
As matter of absolute fact, the
highest records Of heat have been TAX
en- in ATTITUDES north of Chicago, and
the lowest records of cold have been
taken south of the British line. Both
of these observations were taken from
the same United States weather sta
tion. As now recall the figures they
were l27 degrees in the shade and 60
degrees below zero, range of l96 de-
grees. This is the kind Of weather
that is served out to the people who
inhabit the so-called temperate zone"
"That is not my fault" said Har-
ris, "and l am willing to do anything
in my power to have the system
changed. What has all this to do
with your latest discovery"
"It has everything to do with it,"
said Inventor. "The extremes Of heat
and cold are becoming more marked,
especially in this country, and unless
something is done the race will be-
come extinct. Have you noticed that
we have reached point where we
have but two seasons in the year, win
ter and summer? That is fact and
there are scientific reasons for the
same. The beautiful spring ETHEREAL
mildness come, and all Of that tommy
rot of which the poet sang fail to come
in these, the latter years Of the CEN
tury. Spring no longer fingers in the
lap of winter. Summer arrives about
the first of April, and before winter
can gather up his snow drifts and
billiards. he gets his nose sunburned,
and on several recent occasions has
narrowly missed being sunstruck.
Two years ago Chicago man was
bduBub CuJ III q bliLAdiu auQ llOLNn W
death. This was on a Wednesday.
The funeral was held on Friday and
one of the pallbearers was Frustrated
by the heat. OF course this was an
exceptional case, but it may be what
we may expect any year. About the
same time party of boys were cut
skating on the lake. When they were
out about ten miles summer arrived.
The ice melted SO fast that when the
rescuing party reached the shore sew
eral of the boys insisted on going in
swimming. Thrifty restaurant keep
ers froze ice cream in snow drifts in
their back yards and served 1t to per-
Think It over.
Have you ever heard of a medicine
with such a record Of cures as Hoods
sarsaparllla? Don't you know that
Hoods sarsaparllla, the one true blood
purifier, has proved, over and over
again that it has power TO cure, even
after all other remedies fail? If you