Evening star., 1901-07-13
HAD A sURFElI OF COLD

- SNeaNhi SiSSp. <AittI toSSitS dDOut ou
the hot sheet for couple of hours, and
changing pajamas, and poking his head
under the cold water spigot, all to no avail
he gave it up, put on his lightest suit of
Clothes and went out for the air 1t was
about O'Clock in the morning. He strolled
over to Lafayette Square and took seat
on one of the benches alongside a hobo,
who didn't appear to be much bothered by
the heat. The hobo was leaning back with
MS arms over the back of the bench, his
right heel superimposed upon his left toe.
He was clipper and broad awake.
Evening said the citizen, painting and
| mopping his brow
Thanks" said the hobo. Same to YOU"
Warm said the citizen
"Cm-well, said the wanderer. delber-
| ately, maybe 1t is. But like it,
~, Ike 1I 1T it? exclaimed the Citizen paus-
| the salamander family, them
Nope-nane's Allen-Bill Allen" replied
the pilgrim. But the weather suits me all
right. Hotter the better Ysee, I've had
SO many cool jobs in my time that now
when m taking it easy, enjoy the heat
the sizzlinger the better
Cool jobs, eh?'' said the citizen. For
instance%'
WELL said the hobo gazing dreamily at
the red hot tlaring moon. the last time
was in France l held down for six months
a JOB in Rheims wine cellar. 1t was in
d
| call-'em-some kind OF old ruins. anyway
They stored hundreds of thousands of bot
ties of new champagne in these cellars
The temperature of the cellars had to be
maintained at an even 40 degrees, or the
champagne bottles would ha' buste ed and
the product lost. 1t was my job to pass
along among the racks from morning un-
til night, picking up the bottles and giving
EN- little joggle, SOS the sediment
wouldn't settle. Nice job, in some respects,
too. Got % francs week, and all found
But couldn't get used to the chill of those
| catacombs or hetacombs or what-d ye-call-
| EN-. Made my bones ache. Gave me the
blues | hankered for the sunlight all the
time Worst of it was, when l quit the
| JOB in December, there l was face TO face
| with winter, and l hadn't enjoyed any
| summer at ALL for I'd put in most of my
| time down there in a temperature of 40 de-
grees."
Yours" put in the citizen, sis sad,
| sad story
We'll, yes. it is, kind o. admitted the
hobo Il figured, however. upon enjoying
the heat of the next summer to make up
| tor the summer l had lost, but it was not
| TO be. When the following summer set in
found myself in Persia. Persia's a right
hot country, and 1 was just in my element
but l had t. get some kind of job, of
course, to keep a-Soing, and. luck would
have it, the job that 1 nailed was one that
Kept me in a state of chill all the rest of
| the summer
And that tob was?" languidlv mt in tho
| citizen
Gold air pumper, replied the hobo. fish
| ing clay pipe out of his tattered gar
| ments and filling it with the fragments of
cigar putt. You see, the Shah of Persia
mad had plate glass house manufactured
1or MS use during the hot months. The
piate glass house was sunk in forty-eight
| 1athom Of water in a lake near the shah's
| palace. There was an elaborate apnaratus
for pumping air into this water-tight house
| OF plate glass when it was lowered in the
| iahe, put none of those Persian gezabos
Knew the hrst thing how to manage the air
pump. So they seized upon me because 7
was an American-they correctly figure
| over there that an American can do any
oid thlng-and practically made me accent
tne Joo OF cold-air pumper in ordinary to
| his sun-and-moonlets the shah 'Twasn't
such bad job, at that though it was
mighty cold down there. The shah seemed
| to enjoy the cold immensely-he and 1 were
the only two occupants throughout the
| summer of the submarine house-but
didn't. for I'd lost one summer in those
fhelms wine cellars, and it kind o. made
| me sore to lose another that way TEMPER
atuIe OF that plate glass house beneath the
waters OF the lake averaged about forty-
| Two and three-eighths. However, 1 was well
PAID for the job. Got the equivalent of
forty scads per week in American money
a,ou iia "a sulereo good deal more from the
emu IL the shah, my only companion down
| tnere, hadn't kept me pretty well boozed
up an the time Fact is the duck had a
pretty good edge on himself throughout the
| VIC spent UeIealn the water nj
he was a rafting good fellow. at that 7
dont suppose you know it, but he talks
| Irish like bird Yam"
lis, Is that so?.' put in the citizen, who was
| peglnhlns to feel fairly cool.
Yep, said the hobo Talked Irish ius+
llke Connemara man. Well, 1 was per
lnltted to leave the Persian capital behind
me when the raw weather set in ovarhaad
| although the shah kicked furiously over
my leaving his domnions, and wanted to
appoint me brlgadier general in his army
ne was SO stuck on having me stay along
with him. in fact, that l had to leave he
| tween two days. l was just bound and
determined that I'd go some place then to
get good and warmed up, but luck was
against me-"
"Ah. yes, yes" put in the citizen, sighine
| sad lot!' "N'
i meant to make a swift jump then for
central India, where I could get good and
warm. but the fates were again against
me. Only a week later 1 awoke in Paris,
without cent, and of course l had to i'm
mediately look for work. Would you be-
| I I1eve II, the only job that / could get in all
that great city was In cold-storage ware
house. packing eggs in lime? Fact! The
temperature of that cold-storage ware
house was gallingly raw-never above Is
or 30. And the worst of it was that 1 had
to accept the job just when the summer
was setting in. L kept the job until Jan
| uary, and then I came back to the cold
| states and crossed over to California. so 3
| to get away from the snow. Went broke
| in California-it was during one of the
| hard years out there-and the best | could
| do for subsistence was to ship as bo'suu's
| mate on one of the internal revenue cut
| ters bound for the Aleutian Islands to
| protect the seal fisheries. And there
| rolled around on the deep, in the cold and
| fog. for nine long months, until
my friend,' interrupted the citizen, ris-
| ing, you'll do. I have heard enough 7 am
as cool as a cucumber, and cooler You
have accomplished the seemingly impossi-
BILE. Here's dollar. I doubt not you know
in which direction the barrel house lies
And if it's as hot this tomorrow night
and you're sitting this bench at this
time, there'll be another dollar for YOU
Good morning"
Bounds of Creation.
From the Atlantic Monthly.
1t may occur to some persons that we
cannot conceive of an end of SPACE and 1t