Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-11-19

Concerning the man you call your
friend-will he be with you in the
hour OF distre So? Will he faithfully
reprove you to your face for actions
for which others are ridiCuling or CEN
surfing you behind your back? Will
he dare to stand forth in your defense
when destruction is secretly aiming
its deadly weapons at your reputation?
Will he acknowledge you with same
cordialty, and behave to you with
the same friendly attention in the
company Of your superiors in rank
ard fortune, Us when the claims oil
pride or OF vanity do not interfere
with those Of friendship? Ii misfor-
tune and losses should oblige you to
retire into a walk of life in which
you can not appear with the same
distinction or entertain your friends
with the same liberality as formerly
will your friend think himself happy
in your society, and instead of grad,
ually Withdrawing himself from an
improbable connection, taking
pleasure in protesting himself youl
friend and chcerfully assist you te
support the burden OF your affection!
When sickness shall call you to retire
from the gay and busy scenes OF the
world, will he follow you into your
gloomy retreat, listen with attention
to your "tale OF symptoms" and ad-
minister the balm of consolation to
your fainting spirit? AND lastly,
when death shall burst asunder every
earthly tie, will your friend shed a
tear upon your grave, and lodge the
dear remembrance of your mutual
friendship in his heart as treasure
never tc be resigned. The man who
will not do all this may be your COM
panion-your fiatterer-but depend
on it, he is not your friend.
There are not many liquids which
can be mentioned with which Ritz
vile people are not acquainted, but
one which very few OF them know
much about is liquid air. Liquid
water is common enough here, but
liquid air has never come into fashion
as a tipp!e, and partly on this ac-
count and partly because it is SO
scarce it has never been introduced
here. 1t is the antipodes of hot air,
which is plentiful here, it's tempcra-
ture being 1926 degrees below zero
and the thermometer which measures
this temperature goes down SO fast
that it has to be hung in an artesian
well. Liquid air is made by com.
pressing atmospheric air until all
warmth and dryness are pressed out
OF it, when it assumes liquid shape
with the temperature, as has been
stated, at 1926 degrees below zero-a
degree of GOODNESS impossible to be
imagined. In comprising air into
liquid it is forced through three
miles OF pipe. and the power required
is so great that. the machines can
hardly be made strong enough, and
so keep breaking down, and it is very
difficult TO accumulate much liquid
air. The stuff cannot be bottled OF
confined in any way and under con-
cussion explodes. This makes the
transportation OF it very difficult. 1t
is used to freeze ice cream and by
surgeons to benumb limb to be am
putated, etc. A beefstcak dipped in
liquid air and dropped on the floor
breaks like a sheet OF ice, which is a
reason why it should be, kept in cheap
restaurants, but it is not likely to be
used for drinking or washing purposes.
Over eight hundred dollars worth oil
new books just received at Gritman's
Any book you may want we have or
can oct IL in a 1av or two