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Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
TALES OF YANKEE ENCHANTMfNT.
Tarkus Greenwich Gets Hold OF Imitation Liquid Air
BY CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
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out behind the Mason's barn, smoking corn
silk cigarettes. Say, felers, I've got her.
Maybe we won't be hot any more"
II was intolerably hot The thermometer
was up in the ninetes and the air was damp
and muggy. Just the day for moderate
application OF liquid air. Tarkus had read
the article about Tripler's liquid air to the
boys and he supposed that he had a bottle
of the real thing. What say we do. Just
get cool or try coasting?"
"Coasting!" yelled Billy. you forget
you're hot II you're coasting."
The Mason's pump stood at the brow Of
a steep hill that ran down in the form OF a
lane to what they called the might lot"
where the cows were turned after evening
milking
Now you two boys pump for all you're
worth and I'll freeze the water until we have
coated the whole hill with a sheet of ice."
said Tarkus.
The boys threw away their half-smoked
cigarettes and sprang to the pump. The
water poured forth in a copious stream and
trckled down the hill, but not nearly fast
enough to suit the boys, 90 they overturned
the drinking trough which was full OF water
Then Tarkus poured little of the imitation
liquid air out. II it had been the real thing
1t would have rolled out like smoke and
would not have frozen the water. but as 1t
was. the water froze solid, so for the boys
purposes the imitation was better than the
real article. Then they filled the trough
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

Copyright, 1899, by Charles b. Loomis)
1t is a foolish thing to let a boy have
just what he wants. or course there are
some boys who never want anything they
ought not to have, but they are so few in
number that 1t is not worth while to take
them into account. One OF the main reasons
that boys have parents is so that they can
with becoming frmness refuse to let them
have the moon and cigars and night key
and other injudicious things desired by
young men from babyhood up. But Mr..
Greenwich was old enough to be a grand
father when his first son was born, and as
grandfathers are notorlousy easy with chill
dren, he let Aristarchus-for such was the
outlandish name that he gave the boy
have anything in reason or out OF reason or
in season or out of season that he expressed
a wish for.
Now 1t was about the time that Aris
tarchus was thirteen that liquid air began
TO be talked about and after a while 1t be-
came possible to buy 1t in small quantities
with certain restrictions a man can't rush
into drug store in great haste and Gay
give us quart of laudanum or strych-
nine,' and get 1t, you know. The druggist
will have a lot of questions to ask. "Do
you intend to take 1t all yourself or will
you share some with your family?" he will
say, and after the intending purchaser has
satisfied him that he does not want II for
himself alone, he let's him have it and takes
down his name and address
So IL Is with the liquid air shops The
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fight. And they yelled to some of the city
children TO come out and play with them,
but they shook their heads and said mamma
wouldn't let them. And they probably would
have frozen to death.
or course all the boarders were interested
and several got their toes and ears frosted
and before the ice was melted people be-
gan to come from all over the country, for
the news had been telephoned everywhere
and toward night reporter came out from
the city and Tarkus was pointed out to
him as the one who had caused the dis
turbance. Trees coated with ice in August
are an unwonted sight and many a snap
shot was taken of it all.
Tarkus found that the reporter was a
chummy sort of fellow and they became
friends at once. I'm sorry didn't have
gallon Of the stuff for I could have frosted
the whole state just as easy and given you
lots of pleasant work writing it up. It's a
peachy sight, isn't it?" said the boy.
Yes" said the reporter "but the joke of
it is that it was imitation liquid air."
We'll, l had just as much fun as IL it
was real. There wasn't any imitation about
the cold, anyhow"
And there wasn't any imitation about the
sum that Mr. Greenwich had to pay for sew
eral barrels Of frozen apples and corn and
beans and he now feels that there are some
things that he ought to refuse the boy here
after. And liquid air, imitation or other
wise, heads the list that he has made out.
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once more and again upset it and after a
while the whole hill was glare of ice. Then
Billy got his double ripper out OF the barn
and with loud cries of joy they coasted down
hill on ice in midsummer.
If the affair had ended there, all would
have been well and old Mr. Greenwich
wouldn't have gotten into trouble, for the
ice would have melted in a little while,
the boys would have had their fun and no
one would have been hurt in any way, but
Tarkus, instead of putting the bottle in
some safe place, carried it in his hip pocket
and at the fifth or sixth coast he tumbled
off the sled and broke the bottle. In an
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instant the mercury in that vicinity dropped

hundred degrees.
AS bad luck would have it, summer
shower had just begun and the rain
turned to hail in a twnkling The boys
gazed at each other in silence for minute
and then looked at the fields on either side
OF the lane. On one side had stood tasseed
corn, on the other pole beans. while at
the extreme foot of the hill was an apple
orchard. They would have waited to watch
the leaves and the corn and fruit blasted
In the bitter cold, but they were afraid OF
getting blasted themselves. They were
freezing and almost too benumbed to get
up the slippery hill and into Billy Masons
house.
Mrs. Mason, Billys mother. was putting
up tomato ketchup and the prespiration
was rolling from her forehead as she hustled
about the hot kitchen. with all the windows
open and the torrid sound OF the locust fill
ing the air with its shrilling.
To be confronted with three blue Tipped
boys, who. with chattering teeth told her
they were freezing to death, was to make
her believe that she had gone crazy And
when she felt their poor numb hands and
tho coldness OF their summer shirts she
was sure OF 1t.
For the land sakes! Are you bewitched?
Where have you been and what has hap
pened?"
Billy explained that the bottle OF liquid
air had been broken and then she was as
much in the dark as before, for she had
never even heard of such thing as liquid
air. But she knew what to do in cases of
frost bite and she soon had the boys hands
in basins OF cold water and had heated milk
for them TO drink.
Then she went to the door to see what
had happened The pump was thick with ice
and long icicles hung from its lips The
hired man stepped up to it at that minute
and the next moment he was coasting on his
trousers down the lane and when he picked
himself up he began to rub his ears and
put for the house as fast as he could.
In violent contrast to this she could see
people on the piazza Of the boarding house
fanuing themselves vigorously, while in the
hen yard Of the Leonards' the hens were
walking about with open beaks. sure sign
Of unusual heat.
While she stood gazing there came a sound
OF an amazed voice from the COW lane and
then Billys father. his black beard coated
with frost, ran in out of the hail. followed by
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were removed entirely from the body through
an incsion made in the side with a sharp
Ethiopian stone. The intestines were
cleansed and washed in palm wine, and, after
being covered with powdered aromatic gums,
were placed in CanoDlc jars. The body was
then filled up with myrrh and cassa and
other fragrant and astringent substances,
and was laid in natron for seventy days. 1t
was then carefully washed and wrapped up
in strips OF fine linen smeared with gum
The cost OF mummifying a body in this
fashion was talent Of silver. about 81 200
In the second method the brain was not
removed at all, and the intestines were
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Snip. the collie. covered from head to foot
with ice.
This beats ALL" said Mr.. Mason, slapping
his hands. "A blizzard in August. Where's
my Pontiac mittens?"
II was a full hour before the liquid air
ceased to act and by that time the fields In
the vicinity of the place where the bottle
had broken were covered with a foot OF hail.
1t didn't take the boys long to recover
from their chill and then they put on warm
clothes and went out and had an ice ball
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Teacher-Now, little girl, I have told the
class about the wicked place being paved
with good intentions. Now, what do you
suppose heaven is paved with?
Little Girl-(with a delightful recollec-
tion of fresh-air picnic)-Ham sandwiches,
bananas an pie.
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Hazel is just 6 years old. She goes to a
kindergarten and is just learning her letters
The other day the teacher was endeavoring
to teach her the latter part of the alphabet
and held up block with big ct" painted
on 1t.
Hazel, what letter is this?"
Hazel thought long time and called it
a."
mo, no, Hazel. You ought to know what
this is. What does your father drink every
night for supper?'
"Beer!" shouted Hazel, and she wondered
why the teacher smiled.
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HOW MUMMIEs WE'RE MADE.
Methods the ESyptians Practlced 70
Preserving Denl lOdiea

There were three different ways of num-
mifying the body practiced by the ancient
Egyptians, the price being the chief mark of
distinction and cause for the differences. In
the first and most expensive method the
brain was extracted through the nose by
means of an iron probe, and the intestines
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why don't you get a pair OF mittens for
your dollie?" asked one little girl of an
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Cause" replied the other, "if did then
couldn't make believe it's the cold that
makes her fingers stiff"
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why, Harry, what is the matter?" asked
lady of her small nephew, who was crying
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PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS

What is the meaning OF the word luke
warm, Willie?" asked the teacher OF small
pupil.
'Lukewarm," replied the little fellow, sis
when 1t looks warm but isn't"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

IN mamma whipped mme," sobbed the
little fellow, "an' I'm cryin' c-cause wasn't
b-born a orphan
The age-herald., 1899-01-15

there; there were no hardships that need to have been endured, and yet the percent age of illness and of deaths in that camp became frightful-so frightful that all the troops were taken from it and scattered here and there throughout the country. We say that the use of beef other than fat cattle issued on the spot had nothing to do with the losses in that camp?
 If the present agitation leads to re- turn to wholesome bee-to beef known to be wholesome under all circumstances-to the beef that Hannibal and Napoleon and Lee and Grant used-then Algerism, includ- ing Eagan-will not have existed in vain. The whole category of meats prepared in packing houses and transported regardless of supplies of ice should be abolished, no matter how valuable the contracts may be or how much the party in power be at tached to them. The dreadful stories of Santiago and Chickamauga alike condemn the new process stuff, and return to beef on the hoof Is demanded by all the known facts in the beef supply of the re- cent campaign. The quarrel between Gen eral Miles and General Eagan may serve to bring this about.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15
Mir. McKinIey's Scapeqcats.

William Mckinley Is chiefly remarka ble for the facility with which he puts his sins upon others. When the trusts plotted to secure his nomination to the presidency through the republican rotten boroughs of the south, the business was placed in the hands of MT. Mark Hanna, and all the vir- ,uous indignation of the best men in the party was expended upon him. Upon him.
 too, fell the curses that sixteen million dollar campaign fund necessarily entailed
 The election was based upon an unprece- dented corruption fund--a fund so large that the attempt was made to buy voters by the wholesale in Kentucky and Illinois. After his election. the trusts demanded a tariff bill that would protect any home combina- tions they might desire to make, and the disagreeahie task was assigned 10 the lamented Mir. Dirgley, who had honestly niseduca:ed himself into sincere belief in such work?. Later on, the war with Spain and all of the mismanagement and cor
The age-herald., 1899-01-15
The Army Beef SuppIy.

From Hannibal's time al least till the war with Spain armies in the field have been supplied with fat beef cattle, issued as such and killed on the spot. The experience of all the ages has supported the belief that more wholesome, better food for men who Fresh beef is as good in the hospitals as it is in the trenches; it is good at all points where men have hard work to do or severe illness to overcome. It is especially adapt ed to campaigning in a hot country, because it goes on foot and always ready for use in the best possible condition. In the case of Santiago, there could have been an abun- dance of fat cattle on board the transports and Porto Rico is famous as the home of such cattle. It is well-stocked country in this respect. Its hills are covered with cattle.
 And yet refrigerated beef was sent down by ship loads and the holds were filled with canned beef that excited to rebellion every stomach that received it. This Is the testi--
 
 Colonel Roosevelt and of other regimental officers on the spot. The men on the spot and the men a thousand miles away--In Chicago or Washington-do not agree in their testimony. The one lot holds that the beef, both In and out of cans, was good: the others say it was vile alike to the senso of smell and of taste
 Its results are the best evidence in inc case. A picked array of 20 900 of cminently healthy American young men were sent to Santiago, where they stayed fifty-fve days. They were fed on refrigerated beef or canned beef, eithr or both. At the end of hfty-fve days that army was a wreck. the men were skeletons. They could scarcely stand alone The Rough Riders and the regulars alike went down. Does anyone he. lieve that fifty-five days campaign would have wrecked such an army if it had been properly fed?
 Take the corps at home. Take, for ex- ample, the great camp in the hills of Chat tanooga. There was no need of priyation
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ruption connected with the army were promptly and duly unloaded on MT. Alger. a man who had sold the negro delegates that procured MT. MeKinleys nomination. The latest scapegoat of the series still bears upon his head the sins of William McT1in- ley. and the only relief promised him is report from the board headed by Credit Mobilier Dodge.
 The seapegoat business has been over worked. In every instance William McKin- ley is the responsible party. He alone is guilty of all the acts of omission or commis- sion that the public have condemned, and it is high time that the condemnation be properly placed.
 The country has never had such an ex- ample of jelly-fsh presidential one who not only has no backbone, but who does not pretend to have one. His friends do not claim for him the qualities of leadership. They claim that he studies public sentiment and follows it. He is an opportunist first, last and always, of the genuine French sort He has reduced the presidency to the French level. He is lgure-head who could creditably and successfully serve under the English system of the Victorian age.
 The trouble with the opportunist scheme is, the responsible party escapes punish ment. The public whippings are expended on irresponsible Hannas and Algers, and the jelly-fish floats along in the smooth waters of public favor And yet the jelly fish was in every condemned act, from MT. Hanna's first dealings with the negro poli- ticians to the Eagan episode, although he has managed to escape responsibility there for The country cannot afford to indulge in spineless and irresponsible chief four years more.
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hen that cackles the loudeSt that lays the largest egg.
 God rest the stranger who came to amuse the club coterie upon the far shore of the far world. Flippantly, unwittingly, he taught lesson as great as that impressed upen my youth by the honest man who wrought under the spreading chestnut tree where the village smithy stood The stran- ger with his wines and songs has gone his way. l. with much suffering and many heart burnings, have gone mine. We two shall not meet again in this life; but will remember forever that you can't judge the cigars by the pictures on the box. That declaration of the stranger, delivered in happy song over the walnuts and the wine, is intensely human. It has been ap pealing to me through all the years and still calls to me across tho low marsh of life like the lone bittern's lonely cry. It applies, indeed to all the relations of this earthly existence, and as such it takes It's place in philosophy. I do not recall the name of the stranger who sang to us down by the strand where rolls an alien sea, nor is his name of moment, but he taught a truth the which could not be washed from my memory by all the waters of the rough rude sea. Unto me. he in his way, and un- consciously, administered the balm of an, anointed king. That balm was truth in new light. "You can't judge the cigars by the pictures on the boxi' He did good, the stranger did, by coming frivolously enough to the little coterie by the far-spreading sea in the west of the east the yesteryeari
 THE MURMURER
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From the Fort Payne Journal.
 The Fort Payne Journal, speaking of Hon, John w. Tomlinson for railroad commits sioner. says: "The editor of the Journal was with him in the Chicago convention in 1s96." The Journal doubtless saw MT, Tom linson in the Chicago convention, for he was there as member of Senator Jones' silver steering committee, but he was not a delegate from Alabama.-Mo Ad- vertiser.
 Tn your issue of April 2S 1896, you say among other things:
 Delegates to the national convention: Ninth district, c. E. Waller, of Hale, J. w. Tomlinson, of Jefferson. Alternates, A. P. Hawison. of Bibb; L. L. Lee. of Perry"
 MT. Tomlinson was a delegate to the Chi cago convention from the state of Alabama and a very influential one at that He is an extremely pleasant gentleman and a man of extraordinary ability, and his ap- pointment as railroad commissioner would be eminently fit.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15
Cotton Mills in Alabama.

All things cannot be accomplished In a single year or single age. Time is an element in all human undertakings. But Alabama, it must be admitted, is taking rather more time in the work of spinning the home crop of cotton than her sisters are taking That this is not matter of estimate, glance at the figures of the closing six months of the dead year will show. In that time the Dwight company at Gadsden decided to add 30,000 spindes to it's plant; Mobile got together capital for 5,0OO-spindle mill; Talladega began the erec- tion of a new mill to hold 1000 spindles, and Fort Payne discussed the formation of a mill company. That was all. This sums up the new mill work in this state from July down to the opening of the present year.
 Let us see what Georgia did in that time. The buildings for new mills were started at Americus, Gainesville, Columbia, Column bus, Covington, Douglasville, Forsythe Hampton, Heardmount. Kensington, Lns- dale, Malena, Rockmart, Rome, Rossville and Thomaston. An almost equal number of mills were in a formative state, or were in contemplation.
 In South Carolina new mills were in course of construction at Bennettsville, Charleston, Clifton. Clover. Columbia, Edge field, Fountain Inn, Greenville, Greenwood, Mccall, Rock Hill, saluda and Yorkville Other mills are in prospect, but those named are in the actual building stage.
 In North Carolina the list is even larger. The foundations of twenty-six mills were actually laid In the last six months of 1898 in the Old North State
 There is really no reason why. Alabapa should be so far behind Georgia, North Caroina ana South Carolina in mill con- struction Water powers are as abundant here as In any other state, and the coal supply is absolutely unapproached in the cotton states. The supply of cotton exceeds annually a million bales, and better cotton is grown in the black belt than can be found in most sections of the other states named And yet Alabama lags in the race The spirit that builds from home capital mills in Talladega is needed in evry other county in the state. The gathering of capital on the installment plant. and the erection of small spinning or knitting mills on the North Carolina plan, should be inaugurated in this state and pushed forward until such mills become settled industrial policy in the state. There is nothing of tentative nature in such mills. They are money makers in North Carolina, and they would earn even more money in a state that can furnish steam coal below one dollar ton.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15
DEATH OF MISS HALSEY.
Young Lady of Huntsville Succumbs tt
 Lagrippe in Cincinnati.

Huntsville. January 14.-(Special.)-News of the death of Miss Corinne Halsey, of pnuemonia, in an infrmary at Cincinnati was received with profoud surprise and sorrow by her friends and relatives here last night.
 Miss Haisey was daughter of Charles H. Halsey, a prominent business man, and was young woman of unusual talent. She was the leading lady in many amateur ep- cratic productions and concerts, and no en- tertainment of this nature was complete without her. She had many admirers in Huntsville society.
 A few weeks ago Miss Halsey went to Cincinnati to teach vocal music in the Cin- cinnati Conservatory. which she had at- tended 0 few years ago.
 She was taken i'll with Ia grippe and within short while it developed into pneu- ynonia, resulting fatally. Tho remains will feach here this afternoon and the funeral &lll prohablx bs conducted Sunday.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15

There are those who believe the Cameron ian dynasty will be re-established in case been in the hands of boss so long she dare not trust herself alone.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15
CHANGE THE ELECTION DAY

From the M0D1le Herald.
 A move towards decreasing elections would be to return our state elections to November. It was changed from November to August some twenty-five years ago so as to prevent interference by federal authori- ty, the national administration being in the hands of the republicans, and a force bill threatened. There is no danger now of fed eral interference, and there Is no reason why we should not elect state officers and congressman on the same day.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15

Millionaire Clark and Millionaire Daily are competing for the Montana senatorship, and the air is full of thousand-dollar bills. And yet there are people who are opposed to the election of senators by the people.
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From the Montgomery JournaI.
 The announcement of the candidacy of Hon. Ross c. Smith for mayor of Birming- ham seems to have thrown that city into Q whirI of excitement. It looks as though Mr. Smith was going to have an easy walk over. But you "can't always mostly tell" MT. Smith has many friends throughout the state and they would be pleased to see him thus highly honored.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15

One year ago scarcely man knew that a man lived bearing the name of George Dewey, and now a man cannot be found who is not ready to toss up his cap for him.
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years more

General Eagan is an Irishman. He en- tered the army as lieutenant in the Wash ington Territory infantry, and in 1865 was transferred to the regular army. Promotion after promotion followed, until he became commissary-general.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15

A spellbinder who struts will make run ming mate for Senator Billy Mason. The spelbinder who struts in from Indiana and his name is Beveridge.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15

The biggest railroad in England has adopted our system of checking baggage, and the belief Is that it will now spread all oyer Europe.
The age-herald., 1899-01-15

Aggia is a good deal of a freeman, but if he attempts to use the cable he must accept the services of the blue pencil of General Otis official censor.