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Don't You Meed a Ne* Pair?^^**
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C. K T. Pape,
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FIRE and LIFE
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BUTLER PA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, IQOI
IN LO*E S CONFESSIONAL.
T* yon, who** fterr word «n<i and thought
R;<iC* tnie tn l honeot ai thrice tented p> !d,
Tbe tale of my ebortremings I have brought;
Kow you haT* given the pardon I beaougLt
Forgive the little ains I have nut told!
Th* foolish, p*tty faolt* I scarce can name;
So mrau and paltry are they that I fear
You u><uld n-t think tbcm worth a word of
blame;
Vou would t-ut pity and—dcapiae them, dear.
And «ince I v\e you §o la w-man'i wise
N r am from w .man'a nine of pride exempt
1 w uld far rather read *itbin your eye#
Hatred, my beat belovtd, than contempt!
Wheref re. to you, whose erery deed and thought
]« rry»tal clir —you, whom I loved too well—
Hi** tale of tny i.iortcoming« I have brought,
And jrou ha\c giv -u the pardon I besought;
Forgive the little sins I < annot tell!
—Ailecn Heath in Smart Set.
rriiirsr;;
o ...By A\. Quad...
Copyright, 1901, by C. B. Lewis. >
To bolont; to the Pace club was to b«
kiiowu ns a sporty young man, even a
ru leless young man. We drank, gam
bled and vagered, and there were wine
•uppers to aetrenses and borrowing
money of Shylocks. It was by long
otitis the fastest club In fast London,
ami that It did not have the entire ap
proval of solicitoux mothers and staid
fathers goes without saying. Our
•ninrtness. however, should not be con
founded with anything dishonorable.
There were no card sharpers or debt
shirkers among us. When a member
could no longer go "the pace" financial
ly ns well as socially, he had the good
taste to himself and drop out of
sight until things bettered themselves.
Archibald Queen, a bachelor and a
man of M\ had been a member for
three years when I was elected. He
was the leader of the fastest, and prob
ably flung away twice as much money
as any other Individual. He was the
eldest son of A "sir" and had beeu
"T.ET rs DIIIXTC TO THE—TO THK LATH DS
( EABAD I"
left a good bit of money, and the way
be made ducks and drakce of It was a
caution. Al>out the time I came Into
the club he bad ran bis race and wao
tangled up with the note shavers. Six
months later he waa known to be flat
broke. The man had a keen sense of
humor, though obstinate as a cauls
about taking advice, and It was doubt
less his desperation that drove him
Int > cheating at cards. The Incident
did not happen at our club, but at
another, though we were speedily In
possession of the proofs. It meant his
doom. Even If he had not been down
to his last dollar he would have been
tabooed everywhere As It was, with
no hope for the financial future, hs
had only to sit down and plan how he
should dlrappear from the sight of
men.
Queen hat! been a hot favorite In the
club, and many of ua hoped he might
bring forward a pood defense, but aa a
matter of fact he made none. There
was no other way than compulsion,
and while tome of the voter* thought
he might drift out to the colonies and
make a new start others were con
fident that a man of hla temperament
would not try to outlive the disgrace.
About a week after Queen had been
officially notified of hla expulsion be
met a member of the club on the street
and through him extended an Invita
tion to fire or six others of ns to par
take of a little farewell dinner wltb
him, aa be was on the eve of going
away. It seemed a queer move on hla
part, and you may think It queer in
our accepting the Invitation, but we
who had been moat chummy with him
could find excusea for him. It waa
decided to drop in on htm as individ
uals and In no way binding the club,
and when the evening came around
live of us were on hand. Queen had
spacious apartments in t fashionable
thoroughfare, and he welcomed us
with the utmost heartiness. The five
of us went in together, and we found
ourselves the only guests. On arriving
we were ushered into his sitting room,
from which moat of the furniture had
been removed. It was being packed
for storage during his absence, be aaid,
but we knew that it had gone to tha
auction rooms instead. Uad there
been a suspicious man among na he
would have wondered that no odora
came from the kitchen or noise from
the dining room, and he would have
noticed that Queen seemed a bit nerv
ous and uneasy and was doing hla
best to appear serene. We had gone
in a friendly spirit for a pleasant hour,
and why should we feel suspicious of
our host?
We were offered cigars as soon as
we got seated, and as we smok
ed and waited for the dinner
Queen was bright aud chatty and
something like hla old time self. lie
had said that he was going away, but
he did not give further particulars, and
of course no one asked him. We some
how gathered the Idea, however, that
he was going out to South Africa.
Dinner seemed a long time In coming,
when Queen himself brought La wluo
«nd glasses and explained that he
wished u« to drink to a toast lie would
give, it struck us ns strange, but bo
had always been a queer fellow. We
rat in a half circle about the table, and
ns the gl:i i i-s were tilled and we wait
ed f<ir the Igliul to rIM- to our feet the
and. stepped hai'k until
■is r!l>uw on the mantel
aud then «|tjl< tly said:
"Gelitlciiu u. keep your seats. I have
tn -ay regarding the action
i f the I'm-e club or any other club, and
I n. i p; 1 nf the fact that a few of
)>< : are in re to ne me off. It wan kind
of yiti to come, uud rest assured that 1
f ''y nppn <-late It. The toast I pro
pose is i. ' «-r odd perhaps, hut every*
tiling goes, yuu know. I.et us drink—
let us ilrlnk to the—to the late de
ceased!"
Queen was a left handed man. He
held the glass in his right hand, and
as lie hi stated over his words his left
went back to his hip pocket, and out
came a pistol. We realized lu a flash
what he niennt to do, but It came so
suddenly that no one could put forth a
hand. There was a grim smile on his
face as he placed the muzzle of the
weapon to his temple, but he did not
pull the trigger. Outside a thunder
storm had been working up over the
grvatclty. We had heard the low rumble
of thunder and caught a flash or two
of li|[htn!ng thrvugh the windows. As
the pistol went up to the man's temple
there came a tremendous crash, fol
lowed by what seemed to be balls of
fire floating around the room, and all
of us were knocked atw>ut nnd more or
less stunned. As we recovered our
selves and relighted the gas we found
Queen lying on his back on the floor,
with the pWtol clutched In his hand.
The weapon had not been fired, and
yet ho was dead. A thunderbolt uud
struck the chimney, followed It down
to the second floor and then, tearing Its
way out, had struck our host as he
leaned on the mantel. Two or three
men ran for doctor*, while the others
chafed the man's limbs, nnd It was a
quarter of an hour before we were
sure that he was dead. A search for
wine to aid In reviving him proved that
the bedroom, pantry, dining room r.ud
kitchen were dismantled and thai no
dinner for us had been prepared Lie
had simply invited us there to witness
his death and a dramatic finish to a
wasted life, but at the Inst iusmui had
been saved from self murder and the
curtain rung down by the hand of
fate.
TAv \o>. Far \,W|.
A young uian ». »w info Journal
ism lutebt ou uu.l~: a reputation uud
being something nitre than a uivra
amanuensis or cepjiat must Wave a
prompting Ijve tor Li* work, a tjuick
perception < / wLat La to L* selsaJ uu
In event* and the abillt? ac
cural e.» !h n.! .-•;» or tlwacribe oa pa
per th.lt v» ,;Ul> >.m l-.aa >imu or which
lias I.j.j to. I Sr.::i.
But I.ear three uaaeutial* are not
provided by :»ay college course. Any
editor tin wll true ktoriea of tueu
from the beat eaaleru uuivwraitles. ujeu
With trained tuluda auJ well stocked
vocabularies and a vat; assortment of
general Wuowle.lfe. who were of no
vuluj In a newspaper otScr because
they were not Able to Klrutify a piece
of news oven when It was lylu* iu
front of them and beckoulug to them,
or perhaps because a eritlcai self
consciousness prevented them from
writing a simple Impersonal aecount
of an everyday happeuiug. It cannot
be said that such men are "Inferior"
to the other rneu whe fill the paper
with valuable aud enlertalalLg mat
ter. All we can say Is that the/ are
not adapted to tbla peculiar grind.
They were not "cut out" to be news
paper men. The soouer they get out
of the work the better.
Fortunately getting out Is Dot usual
ly delayed. Tlit ease with which a
young Diau burst* Into journallam la
only equaled by the auperb eaae with
which be la sent through the atreet
door If be fails to show a quick and
enthusiastic graap of the requirement!.
Many are called, and few are chosen.
It la truly a survival of the Attest—
not neceaaarlly of th« best or the
brightest.—Gsorgs Old la Saturday
Evening Post
Grins, bat 5o Tip*.
"No, sir." remarked the waitress In
the quick luucb restaurant as she slip
ped a dime Into her apron pocket and
gave the donor a smile In return, "we
don't get many tips uor half as many
as the meu that work here nights after
we're gone home, though they don't
wait on half an many customers as we
do In the daytime. It Isn't right, either,
because their wages are higher than
ours, and we can find Juat as good use
for n dime as they can—better, 1 say.
"But that's Just the way It runa A
man gives you all aorts of trouble get
ting what he wants and getting It In a
hurry, and then he gives you a grin, as
much as to say. 'You're a real nice girl,'
when you band him his check, and be
seems to think you ought to think your
self well repaid. If you were a man,
he'd turn up something much more
valuable. Grins are cheap and don't go
for car fare."—Nf York Sun.
Wtrt There * A Celtaf
Anthropologists are pretty well
agreed that there Is not and probably
never was a Celtic variety of man.
"There Is neither a Celtic type nor a
Celtic race." says Denlker In his work,
which Is the latest word on the subject
There Is a language which has eouie to
be called Celtic by teholsra. but a lan
guage may be spoken by auy race that
acquires it. and how or where Celtic
orlgluated Is a mystery. There are
some millions of people In Brittany and
the British Isles who still speak this
tongue, bnt they all differ from each
other In race, presenting the very ex
trentes of the European peoples, and
to call them Celts as if they belonged to
one race, with the like physical and
moral characters. Is perniciously mis
leading and false.—London Glob*.
fVealer * Book Lover.
Wesley was to the end of his life a
lover of a good book. Though the Bible
was his chief study, he would have
agreed with Matthew Arnold that a
man who did not know other books
could not know that book as It should
be known. lie constantly nrged his
preachers to read. "You can never be
a deep preacher without reading." he
used to say. "any more than a thor
ough Christian." To a young man who
said that hla work as an evangelist left
him no time for reeding be wrote:
"Hence your talent In preaching does
not Increase. It Is Just the same as It
was seven years ago. It Is lively, but
not deep. There 1s little variety. There
Is no compass of thought." What would
not some of us give for that volume of
Shakespeare, annotated throughout by
his hand, which John Pawson destroy
ed after his death for fear of scandaliz
ing the weaker brethren?— Temple Bar.
Rui and Cnrloni Gents.
The rarest and costliest of gems,
though not always esteemed the most
beautiful, are pigeon's blood rubles,
fine opals and diamonds that are pure
bnt shed a distinct glow of blue or
pink. A very perfect pearl of generous
sice and lustrous skin, tinted a rarely
beautiful golden green, was valued un
set at over £3OO. A faultless green
pearl Is very rare.
A cnrlous stone Is the alexandrite.
It Is a dark green stone that is polish
ed. cut and set. very like a fine topaz
or amethyst, In large showy rings sur
rounded by diamonds. By the light of
day the alexandrite has no special
beauty save Its tine luster, but directly
a shaft of artificial light strikes the
dull stone deep gleams of red flush out
of the green, and under the gas or lQ
the firelight one Ignorant of this va
gary would Instantly pronounce U a
ruby.
A TliorouaihlirrA.
Don't be a thoroughbred. A thor
oughbred Is well enough In cattle and
hogs, but very disgusting among men,
for the reason tliat among men u thor
oughbred means a man who devotes
too much time to having fun, to being
a good fallow Make a specialty of re
liability. Industry, fairness. Make your
speclnlty a worthy one. lustead of
seeing how late you can stay out at
night go to bed at regular houra Sleep
will do you more good than a good
time There la no better man than the
good citizen, the good husband, the
good father, the good son. A thorough
bred Is never uoted in these directions.'
A NORTHERN FRUITHOUSE.
A Building For Home Storage of
Fruit, Kapeelally Ayplea.
Every year there ia more Interest In
home fruit storage, especially for ap
ples. An account given by Country
Gentleman of an unusually good fruit
house successfully operated at Abl>otts
ford, Quebec, will doubtless be of In
terest to fruit growers tp many parts
of the country.
This is a frame building. 30 by 20 feet
outside. It Is built with eight foot posts
FBurrHorsa.
and double boarded with Inch hemlock
laid In two tiiieknc.-xes. with tar paper
between. The whole la roofed with
cedar shingles.
There Is a cellar or basement under
the whole house. The cellar wall Is of
stone and mortar, 0 feet high and 2
feet thick. At the lower end It rises three
feet above the surface of the ground,
at the upper end about a foot. Tbe cel
lar Is tile drained, has a good cemented
bottom, is lighted by three windows,
with double sash for winter, and Is
ventilated by two 4 Inch tiles, which
are closed Iu very cold weather. The
floor over the cellar Is 2V.j Inches thick,
inch lining with tar paper and IVj
Inch plunk. The floor above the pack
lug room la of two layers of Inch
boards, with tar paper between.
The p.icking and sorting room above
the cellar is lighted by four windows.
The upper sash drops six iuches for
ventilatiou. There are wo doors.
The loft or upper story is approached
by stairway at end of packiug room.
The only approach to the cellar is near
the cwnter of the building, by a lift
which consists of a section Oi the
floor cut 4 feet by 4 feet 2 Inches and
supported by four five-eighth inch Iron
rods, one at each corner of the platform.
These pass through aud up to the ends
of two stout cross arms made of white
ash G feet 0 Inches above the platform,
and on the top and the center of the
cross arms is attached a nine Inch pul
ley. This platform, or open cage, runs In
grooves of the frame of the shoot,
which consists of four upright scant
lings 5 by 2 Inches, one at each corner,
firmly secured to both upper aud lower
floors and to the bottom of tbe frame
In the cellar.
The platform, being a section of the
floor for loading and unloading. Is held
in position by a brake and lever attach
ment on top of the drum In the loft and
Is operated from the floor of the pack
ing room by a Inch endless rope,
which passes twice around the drum In
the loft and down through either side
of the platform to the bottom of the
shoot over two small pulleys to keep It
taut. The lowering and raising are fa
cilitated by a 200 pound counterweight
attached to the shaft by a rope and
pulley.
The cellar will store 260 barrels of
apples. Last winter apples In barrels
In the cellar suffered no damage,
though the thermometer went down to
27 degrees below zero for a short time.
No heat was given, and no artificial
refrigeration was required.
Han to Mis Poisoned Bran Batt.
In making the poisoned bran bait
(1 pound of pails green to B0 pounds
of bran) for use against cutworms a
convenient and well recommended
method la to dampen the bran slightly
with water containing a little sugar.
After mixing thoroughly so that the
whole mass may be permeated very
slightly with moisture add the patTb
green by shaking on a very little at a
time and stirring It In. If the parls
green be added to the bran when It Is
perfectly dry. It will, owing to Its
weight, sink at once to the bottom
when stirred. If It Is desired to use
this mixture as a wet application, more
sugar and water must b© added nntll It
is of about the same consistency as
porridge, but If to be used dry a little
more dry bran may be added until the
mixture will run through the fingers
easily. The advantages claimed for It
dry are that It Is eaaie-r to dlstribnte
and lasts longer without becoming
moldy.
Maicla* Alfalta Slla«*.
From tests carefully made tbe Colo
rado station finds It fair to assume that
with a good tight »110 well made silage
from cut alfalfa should not make a
larger loss than about 10 per cent of
Its feeding value.
To make good silage from whole al
falfa is a much harder proposition. It
requires that the alfalfa be quite green,
that the silo be both tight and deep,
that the alfalfa be thrown Into the silo
in small forkfuls and carefully tramp
ed and that It be weighted by four to
•lx feet of some heavy, tight packing
material like cut corn fodder.
If the alfalfa Is put up In the middle
of the summer In clear, bright weather,
It must be raked and loaded as fast as
cut. One lot tried was too dry for
■liage two hours after it was cut.
Experience of strawberry growers In
dicates that strawberry root aphis la
most serious on land planted to corn
the previous year.
THE COST OF SPRAYING,
Kiperlfnoe I'rom Different Moarotl*
Ke-v<*tt tud Cents m Trtf,
As to the cost of spraying trees a '
Pennsylvania correspondent writes to
Rural New Yorker: "I have kept a
very careful record of time and ex
pense on my own trees, so ran tell ex
actly what It cost ine. My oldest apple
orchard contains 440 trees 2f> years old.
They are large and thrifty. It required
two days for three men, a two horse
wagou and barrel pump throwing two
streams to go over It once. Allowing
$1 per day for each man and 75 cents
for each horse, the cost of applying the
liquid was $1». It required 22 barrels
of liquid, or one barrel for 20 trees.
One barrel of sulphate of copper solu
tion cost 20 cents; one barrel of parts
green and lluie (one-fourth pound parls
green and three pounds lime), 8 cents;
one barrel bordeaux mixture, 3d cents;
sue barrel aninionlaenl solution carbo
nate of copper, 24 cents, so that It cost
me to spray this orchard of 440 trees
with sulphate of copper solution $13.40;
with parls green and lime, $10.7<1; with
bordeaux mixture, $10.02; with nramo
nlacal solution, $14.2 H. The cost per
tree would vary, according to the size
of the orchard, the size of the tree, the
character of the ground, the ease with
wuirn wator could l>e procured and the
time required to got to and from the
orchard."
Professor Blair of Illinois says In the
same Journal: "Our best orihardlsts In
thin state are spraying their trees at a
cost of aliout 7 1-5 cents per tree for
10-year-old trees, three sprayings, using
bordeaux-paris green solution. Many
t>eople in this state do uot succeed In
making the three applications for less
than llVa cents, some even getting as
high as 20 cents per tree."
FANCY STRAWBERRIES.
An r C«refnl Person Can Grow Tktm
and Make Money.
If a poor man Is Industrious and will
ing to work, let him move on to a small
piece of ground where there Is a com
fortable house for his family and go to
raising fancy strawberries, and he will
be more Independent and make a bet
ter living than in town, says a writer
in GaidenliiK In connection with the
following items:
A glossy appearance goes a long way
In attracting the attention of passersby
to a fancy grade of strawberries, and
the merchant who linndles them can
always get from 2 to 3 cents more per
quart.
Clean and attractive boxes are neces
sary to make even a fancy strawberry
look well on the market. While box
material Is so cheap it would be mis
taken economy to use any but new
boxes.
When growing fancy strawberries on
poor soil, I prefer barnyard manure to
any other material for a winter mulch,
as It contains numerous fertilizing ele
ments to be washed into the soil.
The grower of fancy strawberries re
ceives more profit from one-third of an
acre of land than the person who grows
a common grade receives from a whole
acre.
The careless person cannot grow fan
cy strawberries because he never gives
them the right kind of attention at the
proper time.
If the right conditions are provided,
one person can grow as many fancy
strawberries as another.
THE HOPPER DOZER.
■orel Kerosene Pan For Destroying
Grasshoppers.
By all odds the best method for de
stroying grasshoppers after they be
come half grown Is the use of the
"hopper dozer," or kerosene pan, which
Is shown herewith. This is made of
stovepipe Iron by turning up the sides
and ends about four Inches so as to
make n long, flat pan about four Inches
in depth. This Is then mounted on
runuers varying In height according to
requirements. On the frame back of
the pan Is stretched a piece of cloth
to prevent the Insects from jumping
over the pan. When ready to begin
work, the pan Is partially filled with
A HOPPZH DOZER.
water, and some coal oil Is added. If
the ground Is level, no crosspieces are
necessary, but If the pan is to be used
on sloping ground It should be made
as indicated In the Illustration to pre
vent the oil and water from running
to one end. The height of the runners
will necessarily vary from two to
eight or ten Inches, according to the
crop to be protected and the age of
the Insects to be captured. The ma
chine may be of any length desired up
to 10 or 18 feet. If small. It can be
drawn by hand, but when larger a
hone or two Is desirable. When full,
the Insects can be removed, a little
more oil added and the machine start
ed afresh. In this way a number of
bushels of hoppers can be captured
and destroyed In a single day. The
cost of running this machine is trifling
and the remedy very effectual.—Ne
braska Parmer.
Agricultural Nates.
The application of sulphur to soils
for the prevention of potato scab re
gardless of the character of the soil Is
liable to occasionally cause much In
jury.
Bordeaux mixture has been found of
value in stimulating tomato plants to
more rapid growth. Increasing their
.Vigor and of particular merit in keep
ing down the attacks of flea beetles.
Spraying with parts green destroys
the asparagus fly.
Interest la farming is undoubtedly
reviving In New England.
A WONDERFUL HORSE.
He Was Gettlas Hid of His Ailments
at a Great Rate.
The colored man was driving a llmpy
old horse along the street In front of
a Junk wagon when a pedestrian halt
ed him to ask:
"What on earth ails that horse of
yours?"
"Dat hossT Why, sab, what's de
mattah wld dat boss?" was asked in
reply.
"That's what I want to know. Look
at his hair."
"Yes, sah; he's shed Jin his coat, yo'
know."
"But he's full of limps."
"Yes, sah; but let me tell yo* sun
thin. Dat boss gwlne to shed all his
limps along wld his ha'r if he keeps
on."
"I never heard of such a thing," pro
tested the pedestrian.
"Same wld me; but he's gwine to do
It He hain't bin sheddln but a week
ylt, and he's got shet of poll evil, blind
staggers, a stiff knee, a bad eye and
about fo'teen other ailments. Whoa,
dar, Ca?sar! Hole yo'r head up and
bite on de bit and prance around! Yes,
sah, yo' kin see It in him. Jest yo'
wait about seven mo" days, and If dat
boss doan' run away and bust de wag
on and kill two men I'll go outer de
blzness and let bosses alone."
M. QUAD
That Bent Ba Off Smart.
The Masher—Does your sister know
I am out here waiting for her?
The Boy—Oh, yes! She gave me
penny to tell her when you had gone.—
Boston Globe.
Ilnsh-a-by.
"I've Just come from Mrs. Newpop's,"
said Miss Oushiey. "I Just can t Imag
ine a more charming picture than a
young mother putting her l>al>y to sleep
It's Just sweet!"
"It Is so." replied Mrs. Malaprop,
"specially if she's singin a pretty alibi I
to it"— I'hlladeluhla i'resa.
BOWSER, THE SAVANT
HE STUDIES THE MOON'S INFLUENCE
ON VEGETATION.
Tbr Kiprrlitirat \V*t» to Continue
For n Wt-fL, hut llr Found Out All
He lVuufed to know on the Subject
In One XlgHt.
[Copyright, 1901, by C. B. Lewis.]
Mr. Bowser had come home at mid
afternoon with spade and rake on his
shoulder, and closely following him
was a boy with several pots of plants
and a package of seeds. Before Mrs.
Bewser could ask for an explanation
she was Informed:
"You were saying the other day that
you wished we had a bit of a garden.
LAID OFF A PLOT IN TEE BACK TABD AND
BEGAN WORK.
I'm going to make one. I've got It all
planned out, aud I'll fix up something
to be proud of."
"But our back yard is no place for a
garden," she protested. "It's mostly
in the shade, you know, and the soil
must be very poor. I wish you bad
spoken about It before you bought
these things."
"Don't you worry about the shade
or ("lie poor soil, my dear woman. I
shall grow only such things as love tbe
shade, and a little guano will make
tbe soil get up and hump in a way to
astonish you. Besides, I have a spe
cial object In view. I will now get
Into an old suit aud prepare tbe various
beds. Digging and raking and smell
ing the fresh earth will carry me back
to the old farm days again."
When he had changed his clothes, be
laid off a plot In the back yard and
began work. The brickbats, old bot
tles. slates and broken kettles bad
remained undisturbed for years, but
Farmer Bowser persisted until at tbe
end of three hours he had prepared
a bed 10 feet long by 3 feet wide.
During his labors be burst bis suspen
ders. broke his spade, pulled tbe han
dle out of the rake and lost an eye out
of his spectacles, but be won out In
the end. When the bed was ready,
he called Mrs. Bowser out and said:
"This, you understand, is only pre
llminary. I have prepared this for an
experimental bed. Later on I will lay
the whole yard out Into circles, cres
cents, crosses, etc."
"What sort of experiment?" she
asked.
"I will Inform you later on this even
ing. I shall rather mix things up In
this bed. I shall set out onions, toma
toes and flowers, and I shall plant the
seeds of cucumbers and melons and po
tatoes and add a few hills of corn."
"I should think that a few apple
trees, a grape arbor and an artificial
lake would help things along," she ob
served.
"Just so. I was expecting you to say
something mean. When you under
stand my object, however, you may
change your mind. I shall now proceed
to sow and plant, and when I have fin
ished you can send the cook out to gath
er the 5,000 clothespins, the 3,000 forks
and tbe 2,000 spoons I have dug up in
making this small bed. I do not wish
to find fault—no husband ever does—
but If you could only manage to plant
what few dishes we have left out here
somewhere we could eat off tbe ironing
board with our fingers."
There were two clothespins, one old
fork and a broken spoon in sight but
Mrs. Bowser didn't dispute his figures.
He bad regained his good nature be
fore dinner was over, snd after the
meal be assumed tbe patronizing air of
tbe average husband and said:
"I Informed you tbat I bad a special
object In mixing up things In tbat bed,
and I will now explain It Did you
ever give a thought to the vegetation
around you?"
"Yea several of them."
"I am glad to know it and I will
mark it In your favor. What theory
have you got as to why seeds grow?"
"It doesn't need any theory. Nature
Intended everything to reproduce Itself.
If a seed Is planted in fertile soil, It
will produce again."
"But there must be favorable Influ
ences."
"Of course. It needs sun and rain."
"Anything else, Mrs. Bowser?"
"Nothing special, I guess."
"What about the moon?"
"Why, I believe that some old gran
nies contend tbat the moon has some
sort of Influence on vegetation, but I
don't think that any level beaded farm
er believes it"
That was the point Mr. Bowser bad
been leading up to, and there was the
light of triumph in his eyes as he walk
ed back and forth and said:
"But if the moon does Influence vege
tation, If it exercises the greatest Influ
ence over the planting and growing. If
It would make a difference of SIOO per
year to every farmer to consult the
moon, then what?"
"Why, It would be a good thing for
the world at large to know," she re
plied.
"Exactly, and the man who proved It
to the world would become famous and
renowned, wouldn'i he?"
"Certainly. But what has all this to
do with your planting a dozen different
things in one bed?"
"Just this: I am going to prove the
truth or falsity of this moon business."
"But bow can you prove or disprove
such a thing?" asked Mrs. Bowser.
"By experiment, of course. Tonight
Is a moonlight night I shall take a
seat beside those tomato plants and
onion sprouts for an hour or two and
observe wh'at Influence the moon has
on them. I will continue the experi
ment for a week, and by the end of
that time I shall know one way or the
other."
Mr. Bowser decided to do his watch
ing from 9 to 11 o'clock or later, and
he carried out a cbalr and got notebook
and pencil ready before tbe hour. When
he finally passed out be expected the
cook, who had been watching proceed
ings, would say something, and she did.
Tossing her head and giving her words
a tinge of contempt, she said:
"I'll leave the back door open so you
can plunge In at any time."
"But why should I want to plunge
In?" he asked.
"Because there'll be a bust up of
some sort, of course."
He gave ber a glare and passed on,
snd after walking twice aroupd tho
n e.wly made bed he sat down ,n 4 '
No 25.
cbalr to closely watch any effect the
brightly shining moon might have on
his crops. Mrs. Bowser waa watching
him from a back window, and after aa
about fire minutes she saw Mm make
ft note. It probably read:
"No particular effect as yet.**
At Intervals of ten minutes for tho
next hour he jotted down memoranda
and was vigilant and solicitous. Then
she looked out after a little to find
that book and pencil had dropped
from hU hand and that he ww lean
lng back against the fence and
sound asleep. She saw no more. A
tomcat whose curiosity had been
aroused showed up on the fence and
then jumped softly down to investi
gate. He had scratched tip abont half
| the bed when he was joined by a leo
and, and in quick succession came
grimalkins Nos. 3, 4, & and & They;
rolled over and over In the fresh tartly
they raked that bed fore and aft wtUi
their claws, they scratched and duff
and devastated, and yet Vl r. Bowser
slept on. It was an armed trace be
tween the cats until the destruction
was complete. Then they called each
other horso thieves and liars and wenfe
In for a battle royaL Of course the
fight had to begin right at Mr. Bowser's
feet. The first mad grapple aroused him
from his agricultural dreams, and as
be sprang up be stepped on a bundle of
cats as big as a barrel and pitched for
ward and rolled over. There was a
long miuute in which Mrs. Bowser saw
legs and arms and a bald bead and fire
cats all mixed up and rolling over the
grass, and then something struggled
up with a whoop and dashed for the
back door, with the cats in pursuit It
was Mr. Bowser. He entered the
iltcben with a crash, closed the door
behind him with a bang, and she got
down from her room just as he tum
bled up the basement stairs. He was
a licked man. He was an ex-savant.
He was a played out agriculturist and
a busted experimenter. She estimated
the number of scratches in sight at
850, and the cats hadn't been sparing
of their bites.
"Well, the moon got in it« influence,
1 see," she remarked as she wondered
where she could And rags and sweet
ell.
He looked around in a dazed way,
bat did not answer.
"Is It Savant Bowser or who?"
A scared expression came into hla
eyes, and he shuddered, and she led
him up stairs to go into hospital for
treatment. M. QUAD.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
A Pugilist Explains How He Was
Given a Blaclc Bye.
I had gone Into a Boston gymnasium
to Inquire about a punching bag, and,
Beeing a man there with a black eye, I
ssked If he bad met with an accident.
"I'll tell you what's de matter wid
me," he explained after a bit "I was
a-boxin here two or three days ago wid
de St. Joe Kid, as be calls hlsself, and
he struck me foul and blackened me
eye. I'm a-layin for him here dis
mornin, and if he comes, say, I'll put
him to sleep in de middle of de first
round. I'll show you how he hit me."
He got up, pulled off his coat and
vest and pulled on a pair of gloves, and
about this time I remarked:
"I'm perfectly willing to take your
word for it. You needn't go to any
trouble to demonstrate."
"Oh, it's no trouble 'tall. Come inte
de ring and I'll show you how he did
It"
"But, you see, I"
"Come into de ring. What's de use
of askln about me eye if you don't
want to know how de kid blackened
It?"
He had gone to considerable trouble
on my account, and I felt it was ojjly
fair to step into the ring. N
"Now, den, put up yer dukes," heN
said as be squared off at me.
"But, my dear sir, I never"—
"Put up yer dukes. Do you want
me to knock yer jaw off at de very
first clip?"
It looked to me as if he was an only
child and not used to being crossed,
and so I put up my dukes to keep him
good natured.
"Now prance around," he said as he
began to dance and skip and feint at
me.
"What's the user I protested. "I
can stand still while you explain mat
ters."
"Prance!" he yelled.
It seemed policy to humor him In hla
absurd theories, and so I began pranc
ing.
"Dat's de idea," he called as he dodg
ed about "Now, den, hold yer right a
little lower. Dat's it Up a little wid
yer left Dat's de way."
"But I assure you, my dear fellow t
that I didD't come here to"—
"Lead for me wid yer left!"
"What for?"
"Lead for me, I say! Do you want'
to stand dere like a chump and let ma
do all de work?"
I didn't want to hurt the young
man, but as he was willing to take the
risks I led for him. I expected to knock
him head over heels, but he was still
circling around me after I got through
leading. This astonishing fact led me
to remark:
"I think I will go now. I've got to be
down at the house in Just 15 minutes.
I can plainly see BOW how the kid"—
"Swing yer right for me Jaw!" he
yelled as his dancing and prancing
grew more vigorous.
"But I don't want to break your
Jaw."
"Swing wid yer right!"
He had requested me to kill him, and
I swung. I was wondering what the
coroner's verdict would be when the
roof fell In and everything turned dark.
It was eight minutes afterward, as a
small boy with a very honest face in
formed me, when I awoke and found
the roof al) right The boy and I were
the only ones In the place, and he said
my Jaw wouldn't bother me over two
weeks. He was a good boy. He rub
bed me with liniment brought me a
glass of brandy and afterward helped
me down stairs, called a carriage and
told tbe driver what hospital to bring
up at M. QUAD.
Information Wutd.
Mr. Clubman (to sergeant at police
station)-! would like to have an inter
view with that burglar you arrested for
breaking Into my house last night
Sergeant—l don't know that I can al
low you unless you first tell me what
you want to see him about
Mr. Clubman—Oh, there's nothing se
cret about It I just wanted to flna out
bow he got Into my house so e&slly.
It's more than I can do at night—Bos
ton Courier.
■ade a Bad Matter Worse.
The honeymoon was over, and they
were comfortably settled In their snug
little home. The husband, returning
from business, was grieved to find his
little wife crying bitterly.
"Ob, George," she sobbed, "a dread
ful thing has happened! I had made
you a beautiful pie all by myself, and
Fldo went and ate it"
"Well, never mind, my dear," he said
cheerfully. "We can easily afford an
other dog."—Exchange.