The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

have the moon and cigars and a night
key and other injudicious things de-
sired of young men from babyhood up.
! But Mr.. Greenwich was old enough to
be q grandfather when his first son
was born, and as grandfathers are no.
toriously easy with children, he let
AristarehuS-for such was the outland-
ish name that he gave the boy-have
anything in reason our out of reason
or in season or out of season that he
| expressed a wish for
Now il was about the time that
Aristarchus was Is that liquid air be-
gan to be talked about, and after
while it became possible to buy it in
small quantities with certain restric-
tons. 4 man can't rush into a drug
store in great haste and say Give us
quart of laudanum or strychnine,"
and get it, you know. The druggist
will have a lot of questions to ask.
do you intend to take it all yourself
or will you share some with your fam
ily?" he will say, and after the intend
ing purchaser has satisfied him. that he
does not want it for himself alone, he
lets him have it and takes down his
name and address.
So it is with the liquid air shops.
The fluid is kept in open bottles-for
you can't pen up liquid air, safely, and
the clerks in charge won't sell a bit
until they are satisfied that you are
a reliable person, with no mischievous
proclivities.
Then the clerk makes you sign a
receipt for it, and after you have paid
$50 for pint, $500 for a quart, $3.50 for
a gallon, and $500 for a peck-if my
liquid measure is wrong it's because l
was absent from school with the mea-
sles when the class took up liquid
MEASURE say after the proper pay
ment has been made the purchaser is
rr-s~ ,.
many cautions against its improper
use.
One day Arfstarchus read in book
that liquid air was as cold as p de-
grees below zero. 1t so happened that
the day was insufferably hot. A few
lines further he read something like
sick rooms may be cooled by the use
of LIQUID air.
He dropped the book and jumped
from the bed where he had been swell
tering. If sick rooms, why not well
rooms, any old rooms, in fact? I'll
make papa buy me a bottle of this
air"
Now, if Aristarchus' father had been
a man of the normal age for parent
that is anywhere between % and 81 he
would have said no Stree when Tarkus
tfor by that hideous nickname he was
KNOWN asked him for pint bottle of
liquid air. But as Mr.. Greenwich was
-, he smiled pleasantly and said, TIL
get you some next Saturday when 1
come up again" Tarkus and his mother
were boarding for the summer up in
the country.
The clerk in charge of the store was
all out of liquid air, but he had some
thing else Just as good So if the
effects of this fluid are not according |
to Tripler, it is no fault of the real |
liquid air The clerk was in a hurry |
to shut up shop--it was Saturday !
afternoon and he wanted to go to.the /
ball game-and he did not ask Mr.. |
Greenwich a single question or make |
him sign any receipt. He told him not |
to drop the bottle and then followed |
him out to close the shutters and shut |
up shop.
Mr.. Greenwich fastened to the train /
and was soon hurrying up into the |
country. The cars were so hot that |
he longed to open the bottle and pour
a little air on the floor, but he knew /
that Tarkus wouldn't want any one to |
use the air but himself, so he re- /
Trained.
AS soon as he reached the boarding
house Tarkus ran out to the wagon
and said. Did you get my liquid air?"
Ssh. Yes, / did, said the old gen.
tleman in low tone. He must have
felt that the other men who had come
up to spend Sunday would feel nervous
if they knew that Tarius was to have
a bottle of unlimited mischief about his
clothes.
There were two or three choice spirits
known of Tarkus and with the bottle
resting securely in his hip pocket he
went forth to find them. They were
boys. There were city boys
at the boarding house but they were
fretful. sickly fellows and Tarkus
avoided them when he could.
He found Dick Leonard and Billy
Mason out behind the Mason's barn,
smoking corn silk cigarettes. Say.
Tellers, I've got her. Maybe we won't
be hot any more
1t was intolerably hot. The Their
was up in the nineties and
he air was damp and muggy. Just
he day for a 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
If the real thing. What say We do.
lust get cool or try coasting?'
.Coasting" yelled Billy. You for
get you're hot if you're eoasting."
The Mason's pump stood at the brow
# a steep hill that ran down in the
or1n of a lane to what they called the
night lot where the cows were turn
d after evening milking.