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Rats dislike creosote and corrosive sublimate, and as for human beings " He shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "Then I have been dreaming," said Unorna, attempting to look relieved. "Tell me about him. Where is he?" "In bed at his hotel. He will be perfectly well to-morrow." "Did he wake?" she asked anxiously. "Yes. We talked together." "And he was in his right mind?" "Apparently.
And her writing table! the famous one given by Louis XV to the ancestress, who refused his favours A mass of letters and papers, and reports, a bottle of creosote and a feather! A servant in black, verging upon ninety, brought in the tea, and said Madame la Duchesse would be there immediately and she came.
The smoke contains creosote in the form of vapor, and the same effect is produced on the meat or fish by the smoke as if they had been dipped in a solution of tar with this difference, that they are dried by the smoke, whereas moisture favors decomposition very greatly. I can show why a fire from which there is much smoke is better than one which burns with a clear flame, by a simple experiment.
Jack Goodheart followed the gun-barrel road into a desert green and beautiful with vegetation. Now he passed a blooming azalea or a yucca with clustering bellflowers. The prickly pear and the cat-claw clutched at his chaps. The arrowweed and the soapweed were everywhere, as was also the stunted creosote.
The sprained leg should be kept in a horizontal position. When a leg is broken, tie it to the other leg, to keep it still till a surgeon comes. Tie a broken arm to a piece of thin wood, to keep it still till set. In the case of bad burns that take off the skin, creosote water is the best remedy. When a dressing is put on, do not remove it till a skin is formed under it.
This merely confirms the general conclusion which has been stated under the head of creosoting, that nothing but the impregnation with creosote, and plenty of it, is an effectual protection against the teredo. Numberless experiments have been tried abroad and in this country, and always with the same result.
It would appear that a tremendous amount of optimism, energy and self-reliance lay in the leaders of the small community, in digging through the bank of a stubborn cliff, in throwing a rude dam across a great flood stream and in planting their homes far out on a plain that bore little evidence of agricultural possibilities, beyond a growth of creosote bush, the Larrea Mexicana.
A fence post can be treated with creosote for about ten cents, a railroad tie for twenty cents, and a telephone pole for from seventy-five cents to a dollar. In every case the timber treated will last twice as long as it would without such treatment and in view of the present high prices it is bad business policy to use timber in such a way that it will need replacing soon.
There was no vegetation around us except the sickly green of the artemisia, or the fetid foliage of the creosote plant. There was no living thing to be seen save the brown and hideous lizard, the rattlesnake, and the desert crickets that crawled in myriads along the parched ground, and were crunched under the hoofs of our animals.
Indeed, the only drawback to their delightful home was the general unpleasant smell that pervaded it a smell that arose partly from the photographer's chemicals, partly from the cooking in the little kitchen, and partly from the ether and creosote of the dentist's "Parlors."
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