The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-01
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Christian man, said, Come, children
let us all kneel down and pray. Afte
prayer we piled more pine into th'
heater.
tsFather said to mother: 'Whe1
Elisha Kent Kane was in the artic'
he said that he found that fatty mat
ter was better than fire and he made
his crew stuff themselves with whale
blubber and seal oil and grease and il
saved their lives. And so, mother
you had better bring us all the grease
in the pantry Mother turned US al
loose on her lard and butter and fat
meat and we crammed it down and il
did do US good But the mercury
kept dropping. Father had an old
donkey that brayed necessarily all the
forepart Of the night, but about J
o'clock he ceased and father said
My children, the poor old donkey is
dead About 4 o'clock there was a
fire in the little village, but nobody
went to it. The family fed to the
nearest house for refuge. Just before
daybreak the mercury began to rise a
little and father said: Come chill
dren, let us kneel down and give
thanks to God for His mercy.
"Well, it was glorious to see the
big, round, red sunrise and shine in
the windows next morning. About
this time we heard a racket in the
barn which was Lear by and father
said: Boys, so out and see if that
donkey is alive. And sure enough
he was and there he stood facing the
door with an icicle sticking out Of his
mouth three feet long and as big at
the base as a coffee pot. His brays
had frozen and frozen to sharp point
and had stopped up his mouth SO
efectually he couldn't bray any more.
That's what my friend told me, but
N. B. he was newspaper man. Well,
I m not going to write poem on the
beautiful snow, for I don't like it, cs-
pecially when I am the boy-the only
boy about the house, and have to keep
trotting to town or the woodpile or
coalhouse, or somewhere. But the
children like it, and there some COM
fort in that, and the other day while
I was tramping slowly to town on the
slippery walk met pretty lady, a
middle-aged matron, and just before
she got to me her foot slipped back
ward and the other extremity had to
bend forward aud she made me the
pretticst little courtesy | ever had
made to me. She never lost her per-
pendicular, but just come down grace
fully on one knee like | have seen
girls in the parlor dance. If course,
I tipped my hat and said "Thank you,
madam She colored up and smiled
and spoilt it all by saying, II dind' t
mean to. / havn't told my wife
about it yet, for our golden wedding
is near at hand and it is no time for
these Irregularities. It was the beau
tiful, the slickery, trickery snow that
did it. I had to shovelit out of the
pathway from my house to the street
80 yards so that my women folks could
walk without wetting their shoes and
stockings, but every one of them, even
to my wife, prepared to wade in the
beautiful snow and the girls found a
ditch where it was knee deep and
waded in that. That's the way they
impose on poor old boy like me.
But there is not so much difference
between heat and cold after all. Both
destroy sensation and vitality and
wither and blast vegetation. They
are very close akin. Not long ago a
man told me he witnessed the expert
ments made in New York with liqui-
fed air. He saw the discoverer place
a tumbler half full Of it in the center
of large pan Of water and in less
than minute the water was all frozen
into solid ice. Then he took an iron
rod three feet long and as large round
as a cedar pencil and put one end in
the tumbler and while it rested there
he touched lighted match to the
other end, and it took fire and burned
furiously until the whole rod was con-
sumed. He declared that teaspoon
full of this liqui6ed air placed in re-
frigcrator would freeze everything in
it and keep it frozen fer three or four
days, and that ice would soon be made
at 10 cents for thousand pounds,
and all the ice factories be closed for
ever, and he said that this liquifed
air had five times the destructive
power Of dynamite. The operator
1oodo oni cocktails for the