The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-09-18

them frogs didn't know what to max,
of the water. Finally l took up /;
couple of them and threw them into
a pool of rainwater and blamed il
they didn't sink and would have
drowned if ! hadn't pulled them out
before it was everlastingly too late.
The hottest summer the tempera-
ture run from ITO in the shade on the
cool days to $50 in the shade when it
really got down to business. There
was big Teller by the name of Pete
Hobbies come out there with his fam
lily to locate. Pete weighed when he
hit that part of Arizona $50 pounds
net When he had chew of tobacco
in his mouth he weighed little more.
Somebody had persuaded Pete that
it would be good thing to go out
here and take a homestead, though
what anybody wanted with home
stead in country where it only sprin-
kled once or twice in the course of an
VI lllCIlilCJ L u see. pul
Pete and his wife was hopeful and
located on government quarter. Pete
never had been on such blamed good
terms with work, but his wife kept a
prodding him to do some work on |
their homestead so that Pete just had
to make a pretense of toll. Well, l |
never saw man who sweat like Pete.
As soon as he would step out of his
shanty into the sun the water would
begin to run off him in streams. One
day ranchman happened to run
across Pete's trail and stopped, Won
dering: Blamed if there haven't he'd
a shower here, he said Well, there
hadn't been no rain. 1t was just the
from Pete's frame that
made the ground he walked over look I
as if there had been rain. Times
was pretty middling close with Pete
and his wife had to use all sorts of
economy in order to keep the family
supplied with something to eat. Lard
vas high and hard to get and Mrs.
Hobbies had work to get enough for
cooking purposes. Finally happy
hought struck her. In the hot even .
ngs she would have Pete sit in a hot
orner and then she would set pan !.
md catch the sweat. Pete would beat .
Norman boss sweating and fire. :
uently Mrs. Hobbies would catch as i
much as two quarts of perspiration I
t sitting. Then she boiled that $
weat down and saved the lard, for C.
he had discovered that when Pete
,as perspiring freely there was a ).
cap of lard mixed with the water ;,
etc yielded about pint of pure leaf
lrd per day, according to Mrs. Hob II
less report to me. So she had plenty Il
Or cooking and baking purposes, but "
was more or less hard on Pete. AS &c
IRIS. Hobbies saw the quality of the
nd that Pete was yielding she SEEM
/ to get more or less avaricious and F
he would put up jobs on Pete to get al
i'm located in hot places where he ci
ould give down free She discovered st
lat she got enough lard in this way eli
use for cooking and baking and she pr
I'd quite lot over to sell. But she fe
,erdid the thing. Pete commenced pc
dry up. He was running out of wi
I'd. You could hear his joints crack wi
he walked. Then he commenced to
IL off in weight. He run down from
70 pounds to $50. His skin hung on
m like wagon sheet on rail ba
nee. Mrs. Hobbies saw when it was CIR
o late what mistake she had made OF
d tried to fatten Pete up again, but er,
was too late. She couldn't start oii
e lard deposit. He was also sweat -,
t-got so that he couldn't sweat a dis
OPP, but he kept getting drier and sid
Ter till there was a case of spon- fie
1eous combustion and Pete was no
,re-just little pile of ashes mark rof
the spot where he had been stand c''
{ a few minutes before"