The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-26
TOO HOT FOR Him
A MISSOURI FARMER REwTTfHEn
BY A PRANKIsH aoUNG-
STER.
HooDo0ED ON HALLOWEEN.
STRANGE CASE OF PALMER DAVIS.
WHO PERsPIREs FREELY THIS
COLD WEATHER.
1T PUZZLES THE PHYSICIANS,
Inclined to Join an Arctic ExDedfz
ton to Discover u Comfortable
Climate.

It's very cold day when Palmer
Davis, farmer who lives near Column
b1a, Mo-, doesn't perspire.
BY some inscrutable process his sus-
cepubility to low temperature is total
~ lacking. He goes about in an UNDER
snlrt persp1ring profusely on days when
otner mortals are wrapped up snugly
IN furs. To him winter is summera
The colder the weather grows the more
ne suffers from the heat. Hebhas no
IeVer, and the temperature Of his blood
IS normal. He perspires freely eand Ia
continually hopping his brow with a
handkerchief. Davis is in splendid
health. He sleeps well, eats with
good appetite and aids hired man in
feeding fifty head of hogs every MORN
ing before breakfast.
My principal inconvenience. said
MT Davis to reporter. wiping tho
perspiration. mingled with snowf1akes.
from his brow, lis that I am exiled
from those about me. / cannot sIeen
IN the same room with any other MEM
Der Of the family for the reason that
must keep the windows up and have
no Hre frequently, even when tho
mercury is below freezing point, sleeu
without covering with my bed drawn
across-a window. Even then am often
Obliged to use fan, so intensely do
l suffer with the heat 1 do not take
my meals In the dining room. but haya
them served to me In a cooler place
on the porch or in the hall, with thu
door open. feel precisely as you would
feel on an intensely hot, suItry day,
with the thermometer, say, at log I'm
the shade
Now, I am going to tell YOU lust
when and how my trouble originated
but want to say in advance that I do
not wish you to think for a moment
THAT am superstitieus. am an edu-
Gated man, as you can tell by my Ian
guage, and am still, thank the Lord. In
my right mind. 7 prefer to call what
am going to tell you a coincidence.
MY trouble dates from the night of
Oct. 81, and have since that time had
cause to remember a remark made by
q little redheaded rascal whom I was
chast1s1ng with a hickory for Hal
loWeen prank. Let me say right here
That L don't want you to put in any
rot about me being bewitched by the
COLLINS OF Halloween; but, to tell the
truth of the story, this little scamp said
with considerable emphasis that he
would make it hot for me, and the
amusing part of the affair is 1 have
been hot ever since.
"On the morning of Oct. 81 a hired
man informed me that he had over,
heard a plot among several boys sons
OF neighbor, to remove my 'front.'
gate from Its hinges that night I am
not usually severe on boys but this
plan to destroy my property angered
me considerably, and l decided to take
an active part in the Halloween prank.
Securing long hickory switch, con-
cealed myself behind a bush near the
gate and lay in wait for the boys. It
was clear, frosty night, and, though
L wore heavy overcoat, I suffered
severely from cold, for L was obliged
TO wait over an hour before the
marauderS put in an appearance.
waited until they had removed the
gate from its hinges and started with
1t down the road. I then sprang from
behind the bush and gave chase Down
went the gate with crash, and away
they scampered like rabbits from q
brush pile. 1 gained on them steadily.
but they had good start and gave me
a long chase. 1 overlook the oldest
after run of several hundred yards
and Piled the hickory. He struggled,
a tiger
sWore with distressing f1uency.
- your sou1!' he screeched as 7
wrapped the hickory around his legs.
You ugly old fool, If I don't make il
hot for you, somebody will
The chase had heated my blood.
Big beads of sweat stood on my brow,
and | felt uncomfortably warm, I re-
leased the urchin and retraced nv
steps to the gate. / had considerable
difficulty in again adjusting it to it's
hinges
L removed my overcoat and mopped
my brow with a handkerchief. When
l had finished my work on the gate. I
hastened to the house, fearing that T
might catch cold II cooled off too sud-
denly.
las entered my bedroom, where a
fire burned in the CRATE, 1 felt as lie
had walked into furnace Ny wife
was astonished at my appearance, and
very much afraid that I would catch
cold. In spite Of her protests tore off
my clothes and opened a window. Still
| got but little relief. My blood seemed
like fire and the cold air felt sultry and
oppressive. That night I slept on a
sofa in the hall, vigorously welding a
ian at intervals when 1 awakened and
perspiring freely all the time The
next day I mounted horse and rode
to the home Of DR.. J. M. Garner. NV
family physician. When he saw me
coming in my shirt sleeves, he con-
cluded that I was crazy, and appeared
much alarmed when he opened the door
for me-
When I explained my case, he was
decidedly puzzled, and still more sur
priSed when he found after careful
examination that I had no fever. He
could do nothing whatever to relieve
me, and the only advice that he gave
was that join the next arctic expedf-
ton and try to get cooled off. Since
then have consulted other physicians.
but to no avail. They examined me
closely, held consultations and took
profound interest In my case. but
none of the medical remedies I have
tried has brought me the slightest re-
lief"