!Bowseir- Mmiliaited
He Prepares io Surprise His Wife oi Ancient History, but
She Comes Across His Notes, and He Meets
With zl Complete Failure at Her Hands
! Copyright, 1904. by C. B. Lewis.' "I'm not- You intimated that I knew
THE other Sunday afternoon Mrs. nothing about Agrippa, and I simply
Uowser hotlced a rather queer ' wanted to show you to the contrary.
, action on -Mr." Bowser's part. ! Being that we have started the sub
Ile made sly notes with nencil I iect and have all the evening before
and afterward consulted .several vol-j us, let me ask what you know abouc
ume9 in the library, and his desire for i Archimedes?"
concealment was so evident that she. ! "I know all about him, of course. He
of course, determined to solve the mys- i was the man who said 'Eurekar "
tery. How she secured and made a "Why did he say 'Eureka?' "
rnnv of his memoranda must remnin a "Because because he had found
family secret, but for the tfext three . wmething."
days "she was preparing herself for "And what was it?"
what she knew must come. J3n the ! "Woman, do you take me fdr a kid
third evening, after Mr. Bowser had learning my A B C's?" demanded Mr.
been reading the newspaper for awhile,
be laid It aside and carelessly said:
"I suppose you are reading a love
sfory, as usual?"
"If you call a history of China a love
story, then I am reading one," she re-'
plied as she exhibited the title of the
volume.
"Humph! Taken up something new,
eh?" ,
"Not so very. I have read the his
tories of England, France, Germany
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CHANCES AND DANGERS. I HIGHER SALARIES PROPOSED.
A
YtThat May Happen In Cotton A Time
to Keep Cool ana Hold the Rein. .
The present high price of cotton will
prove a blessing or a curse -according
to the use we make of it. If we decide
that we ought to strain every effort to
produce cotton, even to-the neglect of
other crops, it will be a curse.
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Senator Gallinger Thinks the Presi
dent Should Have $T5,oao.
Washington, March 5. Sena- j
tor 'Gallinger , has introduced a
bill, which; was referred to the
committee on the judiciary, pro-
What has produced this sudden irise i viding for increases of salaries
hin price? The staple is no better, and as follows: The president of the
the goods made from cotton do not United States, $75,000; vice-pres-last
any longer or do any better serv- ident, $15,000; speaker of the
ice. ne rise is rne natural consequence House of Representatives, $12,
fromthe scarcity of the cotton.-From (XX); Cabinet officers, $15,000;
senators, -representatives and
causes is that we have quit planting delegates $8,000. The bill pro
all cotton and began to plant a variety vides that the new salaries shall
of crops. take effect March 4, 1905.
We are giving more of our time and . Bfl . p--ifn,
thought and land to producing food A Y s OmpOSiUOn.
crops and? cattle. The result is that Water is found everywhere! es-
we are very much better off. We have pecially when it rains. There is
something to live on, at home. At the L jrnrvl manv lrinila nf water in
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HE WAVED AND MOTIONED AND GESTURED.
and Russia within the last year0 and
.found them" very interesting. I wonder
that you don't pick up a book of that
sort occasionally."
"It would be useless, my dear worn,
an. I have read them through and
through a dozen times. I will compli
ment you, however, and yet at the same
time I wish you would post yourself
on other things. People seldom talk
Bowser, who would have given $50 to
! look t his. memoranda. "It isn't what
I know, but what you don't know1."
"When and where was Archimedes
born?" she continued
1 tit A 4- - n tri f mo T !"-
X.L y JX Ullic LUUl luuc 1
fuse to answer." . v-
"Then I will answer for you. He
was born at Syracuse in the year 2S7
B. C. and was the greatest mathemati
cian! of the century. His demonstra
tion' that the area of a segment of j a
parabola two-thirds of the inclosiag
parallelogram is the first real example
of the quadrature of a curvilinear
space. In his treatise on spirals he
rises to yet higher investigations,
which, however, are not very easily un
derstood, even by masters of the sub
ject. He first established the truth
. that a body plunged in a fluid, loses as
much of its Weight as is equal to the
weight of an equal volume of the fluid.
It was by this law that he determined
how much alloy the goldsmith whom
Herod had commissioned to make a
crown of pure gold had fraudulently
mixed with the metal.
j "The solution of the problem had
. suggested itself to him as he was en
I tering the bath, and he is reported to
1 have been so overjoyed as to hasten
home without waiting to dress, ex
claiming: 'I have found it! I have
found itr ('Eureka! Eurekar) Prac
tical mechanism seems to have been an
equally new science in the days of
Archimedes, for his boast that if he
had a fulcrum, or standpoint, he could
move the world betrays the '.Npthusiasm
with which the extraordinary effects
of his ' newly, invented; machines in
spired him. Among the numerous in
ventions ascribed to him is that of the
endless screw and the cochlea, or water
screw, in which the water is made, in
a manner, to ascend by its own gravity.
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same ume me seasons uuu uie the vorldrairi water. Soda wa
hole water, and brine. Sail-
If the seasons had been about the ors use it to go to sea. If there
same as usual and the boll weevil did was net an ocean the ships could
no damage to the cotton we would I not float and they would have to
now be selling it at 8 cents. stay ashore. Onions make your
We can bring the price down to 8 eves water and so do horse rad
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area and buy a great quantity of fer
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will be down. .
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In particular went wild on . fertilizers
last season We do not need to buy
more fertilizers, but to use what we
buy more economically and wisely. We
should use more per acre, but the acre
should be better prepared so as to get
more profit-from the use. We should
not buy any more fertilizer than we
flood.
Proof Positive.
Willie -and Tommie are two
Micmgan youngsters wno are
pugilistically inclined.- The other
day the following conversation
can pay cash for. Buying fertilizers pn took place between them.
you're afraid t' fight that's
what it is." - ,
"Naw I ain't," protested Tom
my, stoutly, but if I . fight my
ma'll find it out an' lick me."
"How.'ll she find it out, eh?"
"She'll see the doctor going' t'
your house."
Died at Dowie's Zion.
time is a hurtful business. It is not
good farming. Every note given for
fertilizer is a mortgage upon the crop
before it is planted. These notes hurt,
us in many ways. Again, the cotton
seed from last year's crop will pay for
the fertilizers for this year. . The farm
should be self supporting. Buying fer
tilizers on time encourages laziness and
thrif tlessness.
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heads cool and do not rush madly into
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the trap of "all cotton," then we can ter otMrs.Sallie Parr ish, died car.
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IixllvUuals of ancient times. , "omaus lb "tinu "
Hip office a eentleman ; tno aerense or city, iroivus, xivj
Only today at
came in t9 make inquiries about Herod
Agrippa, and I was the only one in the
whole building who could tell him
whon Agrippa 1. died. " Suppose we
had been out to a party and the ques
tlon had been asked you. I can. imag
ine how small you would have felt."
'But I can't," she quietly replied. "1
'think I could have told them a thing
or two. What year did you say he died
in?" ,
"In the year 150 A. D.," stammered
Mr. Bowser, who hadn't looked at his
notes for an houf and had forgotten
several dates. j
"You are wrong.'- Agrippa died in the
and Plutarch speak with astonishment
of the machines with which he opposed
the attacks of the enemy'."
l Mr. Bowser sat benumbed. He had
come out to slay and had been slewed.
He. tried to' rally, but before he could
t do so Mrs. Bowser went on:
' -"You are, of course, familiar with the
history of Aristippus, and if you went
out to a poker part and anybody asked
you about him you could give him ail be reduced- Then next fall we
continue to prosper. But if we go wild last at 7i0n Citv. 111., where
on cotton because of the jump in price she had been for several months
and proceed to plant an increased area der treatment of John Alex
in eotton and buy increased quantities , , . . mL , , -
of fertilizers and pay increased wages ander Dowie. The i young lady
for labor and succeed in raising a large has .been badly afflicted for a
vield then the whole face of the thing long time, and was once treated
win be changed. " . in a sanitarium at Battle Creek,
We, tIll have on hand a crop that Mich.
has cost us more than usual to raise,
and the price will go down and down
and prosperity will give place to ad
versity. We will work, out our own
ruin.
First the cry will be raised that wa
have increased the acreage and the
fertilizers, and on that cry the price
- T Ti 1
snrtS'Of pointers. You may tell me
what you know about him."
. "Woman woman"
"Perhaps , you are not feeling well
this evening. Mr, Bowser, and, if so, I
' i
will see a wild rush to sell. Every man
will be afraid that the price ,will go
down before he gets his cotton sold.
This very rush will cause enormous re
ceipts, and that will cause prices to go
down, so that at every step we will be
whetting the knife with which to cut
our own throats. This should not be
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that diversity is the only safe plan for
the southern farmer. Everything shows
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forty-fourth year of the Christian era."
"What! You dispute with me?"
'I differ fron you. Let me give you
a few pointers. Agrippa, who was the
son of Aristobuius and Berenice and
grandson of llerod the Great, was edu
cated at Itorne. He lived there in a
very extravagant style, giving splendid
entertainments, especially to the prin
ces" of his Imperial family, and scatter
ing his money lavishly in gifts to the
will take the job off your hands. Aris
tippus, who was the founder of the
Cyrenaic school . of philosophy among
the Greeks, was the son of Aritaces, a
wealthy gentleman in Cyrene, in Afri
ca, and was born in that city about the
year 424 B. C. Having come over from
Greece to attend the Olympic games, he
heard so much of Socrates that he was
filled with an eager desire to see the
sage and hurried to Athens and became
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freemen of the emperor until his debts ! one of his pupils. He remained with
rendered it unsafe for him to remain Socrates ud to nearlr the last moments
longer in the city. He then took refuge
In Idumea. From this period almost to
-the death of Tiberius he suffered a va
riety of misfortunes; but, having form
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ter, on his accession to the throne, gave
him the tetrarchles of Abilene, Ba-
tanea, Trachonitis and Auranitis. Hi
government was mild toward the Jews,
with whom he was remarkably popu
lais ' but he severely persecuted the
Christians. He caused James, the
brother of John and the head of the died at the age of sixty.'
church at Jerusalem, to be beheaded When Mrs. Bowser finished, Mr. Bow
may be at hand. The north half of the condition ; you feel like a different
ridge should remain undisturbed so as PStto?
to shelter the young plants on the south uYoFraEOPTES
side, and in case the nigh are very AFTER THE STKYouwm
cold or there Is real danger from anun, mindthat youwifl be cured,
expected frost the plants can be easily ' T m. Brown, of DeQueen,Ark.,
, auaa .,v,,-,r,iTr h.. Waal and ouicklv covered with large sheets . tover seven vears ago I was
the. obiect of stron- dislike both to of dally or weekly newspapers and the cured Qf the opium habit by your med
tiAS!Jt Stoic He Plants thus be effectual protected. icine, and have conUnned .in the very
Whenever tne mercury in uie uieruwwi- oest oiuwuju . T , vintrtn
,na n lnw fta 34 decrees tne vr. vv. ivi. iuusw , w
of the great teacher, though he does not
at any period seem to have followed
his doctrine or practice.
passed a considerable part of his life
In Syracuse at the court of Dionysius
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the Tyrant, where he acquired the rep- plants should be covered ImmedUtely JJ "gtgS f am entirely and
utation of a philosophic voluptuary, as ' . . permanently curea 01 me unu. uauu,
to the date of his death, It is not given and two or three inches In. height scat- g j haye never eveQ so mu?h as want-
and Teter to be thrown into prison. He
died at Ca?sarea, In Palestine, while
celebrating games in honor of the em
peror; in the fifty-fifth year of hia age
and the rne-teurth of the Christian
era." -. 1 '
Mr. Bowser's face haA been flushing
from red to white and back again as
Mrs. Bowser spoke, and when she had
finished he sprang up and exclaimed:
"By thunder, woman, but you are
trying to make a fool of me!"
utation of a philosophic voluptuary. As
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in history, but he is supposed to have xer enougn mwu : eda lnKinany ior i--;
Blue oi tne piauu w I your eraaicaiur, uuw cigucc uiv -
grayish appearance and work it Into I affQ. it was the best dollars I ver in-
t - 4- a Tr.T-.Ph nitrate I Mrs. Vireinia Townsend, of Shreve-
with the stem or roots oi uieuus ; " "and x make no mistake when I
As originally outlined In Farm and J" . lthl better now than
UMrside- this plan was for the fall. .. ' m- ijfe. and I owe it to
when the soil If of clay and not under- ou and youP remedy. It has been 12
drained received a heavy coating of year8 since I was cured by your treat
well rotted barnyard manure which ment." .
aft-ht. Woolley, 201 Lowndes Bldg., At-'
sr stood up and waved and motioned
and gestured and tried to say some
thing, but as it was impossible he pass
ed down the hall, put on his overdoat
and hat and banged the door behind
him. He had oo sooner reached the
gate than h etpled a tramp, and with
a yell that was heard a quarter of a
mile away he made a'dash for the un
fortunate and had run him seven blocks
when Mrs. Bowser received the latest
dispatch. ... . M. QUAD.
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