The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-09-15
ALI TIE TOO
WARM
Talk about heat said Abner Byns
By MAX ADEEER

Talk about heat" said Abner Byns.
- ~ sat upon the porch Of Jones'
country store trying to keep cool.
'this 10 nothing At all to what I've
seen; it's GOODNESS. absolute frigidity.
Why, when lived out in the Cannibal
ISLANDS, back here In 1878. IL the poo
pie would see the thermometer fall
70 100 degrees in the shade they'd get
out their skates and begin to consider
the probabilities Of the ice CROP
How high did 1t used to getf'
asked MAJ. Potts.
Generally up to 400 or 500 in the
shade. They never did their cooking
with fres out there. Always baked
their bread in the sun. Lay steak
On the window sill. and 1t would be
done on one side before you could
stick Q fork into It to turn It over
The water was hot. too. People never
thought Of trying to get cold water to
drink Put leg Of mutton down .
veil and it'd come up boiled. and you
could pump mutton soup out Of the
we'll for two or three days. The FIRST
time / went to swim in the ocean out
there I didn't know about 1t. and
vas nearly scalded to death"
Tn The oceanf'
Yea, sir: in the Pacific ocean. Why.
Q dog In that country couldn't put
down four legs at q time. He would
20 on three legs SOS as to give the
other one . chance to cool. 1t was a
common thing for horses to get their
shoes red-hot, and one summer ] re-
member the pavements got SO warm
that several horses had their legs
burned OF clean up to the knee.
'Did they have no cool weather At
am"
-oA. -. Of course. that was in the
rainy season. Then II would get very
cold Sometimes. and this caused Gu
rious phsnomenon. The island lived
- was about eight miles long in win
ter time, but the heat Of summer was
% intsnss that II would sxpaVd the
islanl to the extent Of about four
uilee. and 20 she'd 70 on expanding
and ccntracting from year to year in
the NEST extraordinary manner.
know tust after I went there l bought
Q plaee q II acres Of . man. It was
summer time. and l paid him 30 much
a sere. when the cool weather came
I fond that It wasn't moye than half
IL oine Il ought to be. and the trees
veeo crowded up together so close
that you couldn't walk through them.
Took advantage Of me. the man did.
ought TO have bought in the winter"
was II . prolific soil?"
wall. yes, when the season was
gsol. In real hot weather things
were slow in growing. But ordinarily
~ Oogn would BE- between 400 and
~ fest high. and the stalks from six
- nins fest in diameter at the base.
We ous e with axes. The ears were
gsnsrally about the size Of q large
IsSsesr. There was . man over on
enc e - Islands. named Smith. who
use1 - raise one turnip year. and
- ~ enough. because . single tur-
- voulA cover three-Quarters Of an
0GrN But one good growing season
SMITHS turnip grew 30 fearfully that
q csvsrsd the entire island. and Smith
~ b move on and 60 up on the side
e volcano back Of his place. How
sver. he turnip would grow: couldn't
- sesDpsd. you know: and It did grow
untll AnaIiy Il got 20 heavy that II
Ounk tAs island.
sDll vhatf"
sunk the entire island. and that,
yuu hnov. let the ocean into the vol
oano. This generated steam 30 fast
that the whole thing exploded. and
Smith was blown s. miles out to sea.
and picked up. discouraged. by San
Ifancisco ship. He told . friend OF
mine that that was the last turnip he
would ever raise.
"Yss, sir. II was hot in those re-
gions. Let . man in good health step
cut a doors in the middle Of the day
and he'd come back all black and
wrinklsd. exactly like dried beef I've
Known men who cured themselves in
that way % that with q couple of days
IN Q smokehouse they'd keep for 200
years, alive and good ~ ever"
"Alivsr'
"Yss, alive. And evaporation was
- great that I've seen the ocean fall
10 fest under . hot sun until you
could wade 20 miles from land"
did you ever do itf" asked the ma
~.
often. I've waded 20 miles out"
Z thought you said the water was