Show THE ICE HAD VANISHED pleasure of ant ci pation all thirsty man got can you imagine having a burning fever and no ice within a hundred milesa began the man from mexico at a dinner the other night did it give you a foretaste ot hadesh asked one no foretaste he declared it was hades itself I 1 was stricken in a new mining camp in thedr yest part of the mexican mountains there was no ice the drinking water was lukewarm and worse there is ice to be had at the coast said one and the coast was a hundred miles away I 1 offered a fortune for a single piece and a relay of indian runners was arranged they were to get as big a piece as t ey could carry and run it into the camp with all possible speed wager you enjoyed ita said the hostess oh yes I 1 enjoyed it that ice ft hen it reached me was nothing but a steaming hot rag |