The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-15
VARIOUS HAPPENINGS
YARNS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE
 SUMMER TIME.

salt atoms of the briny deep. wherever she is high temperatures addle her wits. At ss in the shade little Willie can fall into the horse trough wearing leaden boots, and nature will fairly grcw him fins to shoot him out. With the thermometer at S9 he'd have drowned. He may fall out of the cherry tree, and IdeftIy nature will wlIisk pile of bricks beneath the boy to break his fall and save his life. She is deep in her mid summer madness. It is the season of the sea serpent. Col. Gaston thinks again of the governorship. The Jaw of gravity the bacillus. all depart the spot where the winds stays when it doesn't blow. and leave behind them nothing but the abiding, steadfast, sempiternal ten commandents, which no tempera- Iture will dislodge. And now that this particular summer verges toward her Iclose it comes time to count what has lbeen her harvest of the cheerful mad
 house.
 The bird is best for lyric poetry; the leat for the darksome epic; but for conn
 merce give us the plain nonunion hen.
 Somewhere in neither Massachusetts labides a man who is beloved by his poultry. These hens may view painting and poetry with the contempt of old
 King George. Yet their strong practl- Ecal sense is not without a touch of the remarkable Their owner keeps bees, land always has permitted his hens to lexplore the bee yard, whenever they Ichose Tn their youth these hens some times would bounce upon bee and lpick it up. They would also some times quickly drop the acquaintance
 and rue their enterprise for many days lBut with taking on years, they seemed Ito take on wisdom passing belief. The Ebeekeeper began to note a marked in- lcrease in the yield of honey from his l500 hives. The number of his daily find lof eggs also mounted rapidly. He found lthat his hens had learned to disting- Iuish the harmless, honey consuming Idrone. The one. they cut direct; but the lother with his bad habits and worse appetite, they assiduously ate up. Not merely that. but the hens have taught their young chicks to carry on the trade Fabulous wealth has come to their ow- lllGI llOIcyt CSt5sy anu lAOll Ithe sale of this instructed poultry. He loves it all to his hens, of coursei but they simply present their bills to the bees
 Of the extraordinary friendship that moral man will strike up with members Iof the brute tribe, there is no end. They Iare the common run, the, accepted rule, land not the madhouse. There was that Kansas lady who valued dog highly, llso highly that when she felt death draw lnigh she perpetrated on the animal what their belief used to force on the widows of India Knowing that she
 would be safe beyond the reach of the Us. F. e. A. she made her sons promise Ito chloroform poor Towser when she .lherself gave up the ghost. Yesterday lshe was buried with Towser at her feet. IA man, also from the West, was haled 'lbefore the police with pocket full of Ibull snakes. The desk sergeant was taken with heart failure on searching lthe culprit. The culprit himself died lof broken heart a few minutes later, lwhen another officer seized a baseball lbat and killed his lifelong friends where #I they T6pOSGQ# III Ills UIGtSl pOChSl.
 It is police court and hospitals that
 are the stamping grounds of errant { fancy Not far from here the other day Ia man was hurried to an emergency hospital, stricken with paralysis in his left leg. He groaned at every touch, an lunmistakable symtom of that disease. The examining surgeon observed that lilies were thick upon the overall cover ling that particular leg, and that the lcloth was streaked with some sticky ex- Iudation It was cough medicine, the Ilong-lost cough medicine that weeks before the gentleman's mother-in-laW had asked for and not obtained. Break. ling the bottle accidently while at work 1.-the man had been paralyzed" instant fly on feeling that creeping, numbing tchiIl sensation insidiously reaching to- lward his heart. The fellow might have Ebeen dismissed with the adjuration not Ito cry over spilled cough medicine, but Ithat the medicine" had blistered his Ileg into pathologic anomaly.
 THE TEXAS ENGINEER.
 That it is not necessary to drowr
 ones self to recall any forgotten date
 Tor incident which will not suffer itseli ito be remembered, Texas locomotive lengineer gives testimony beyond dis lpute. He had been running a trair
 from Galveston to Santa Fe, and work ling hard-up five nights without g
 wink of sleep. At the last stop before . lthe experience which we are now about Ito detail, the fireman had to wake hin ] Iup when the signal to go ahead wa' Egiven. At the very next station his trair
 Twas to pass a. flying special that was ) lhurrying the president of the road tt
 his dying daughter. As they approach ] ed this station the conductor gave tht l signal-or claimed he did, when all wa: , over. But they slid through the towr lgoing a placid forty miles an hour. A minute or two afterward the engi
 neer jumped to his senses, and incl l dentally to his throttle, at hearing tht downbrakes signal, underscored. A the same instant he saw the specia rounding a curve only 300 yards in iron , He threw on the brakes and reversed It was too late for him to do more. Tht | fireman jumped, but he himself wa : fixed, paralyzed, unable to move, wait , ling for-blank. "~ 7's~
 7 The two engines rushed together lik 5 angry bulls. Yet in that mere flash O , time the whole of his life history rush ' Iad :e,y y,aiyI IJa bie mot ao