Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-31
A Garden sketch.

The chief charm Of having garden of
your own is the FRESH state Of tho vegeta.
bles which daily garnish your table.
Anyone who has always depended upon a
store for bis supply, does not have the
faintest conception of the superior favor,
tone, and elasticity Of vegetables gathered
every morning from your own garden.
Aside from this benefit, gardening 10 most
health giving occupation known to man,
unless w accept that Of q physician
Which We don't. There is \ man who
lives on tho other side of our street, who
has = garden, and the fresh vegetables
every morning, our folks say. We don't
know anything about that but We do know
he has garden, because We sec him out
in it every morning, in shirt sleeves and
clippers, picking cucumber and squash
bugs. We know when he gets hold, by
the way he shuts up bis mouth and fin
gers. Sometimes he does not catch the
ono he is after. and sometimes he makes a
half dozen passes at one bug. Every time
he makes ono of fthese passes he says some
thing. The 6rst remark is not very plain
y heard, but the next is quite 80, and the
observation chat follows after the sixth
" through our head. He Jumps atouud
this way for about an hour, and having
got up his blood to fever heat, goes in
and drinks u cup Of coffee, and then goes
to bed.
At noon he goes ont there to kill cou.
pie more bugs, but doesn't do IT, He finds
two hens from the next house in the toma-
to patch. They have scratched down to
the cool earth and thrown the parched
soil Of two cucumber hills over their
backs, and, with ono eye closed in q spec.
ulatlve way, are thinking of tho intense
heat and the shor, grass crop. When
they SEQ him and the preparations of vel.
come he has hastily got together, they ret
up and leave. The FIRST thing he throws
ut them knocks a limb from choice pear
tree, and the next thing, which is general.
ly pail, goes through q glass cover to
some choice flower seeds, and loses its
bail. He then goes into the house and
gets some more boiling coffee, and says
the man next door is something we never
put in print, and goes 10 business again.
At night he comes homo aud kills bugs
until supper time, and then goes in with
his fingers smelling a. if he had shaken
hands with q hundred bed bugs. lie
keeps his boy homo from school to watch
the garden, and guard it against the en-.
croacbment of strayiDg cattle. The boys
get several other boys to como over and
help him. They take half q dozen
sheets out Of the wash, and put up circus
in the back part of the yard, and some
vicious boy who hasn't pins enough to
get in, leaves the front cato open, and
when the circus is in tae midst Of ita glory,
the cry Of " u cow in the garden p breaks
up the performance, and sends both art
lists and audience in pursuit OF the beast.
When our neighbor comes home thu,
night to gather vegetables fresh from the
garden, and smash bugs with his finger
and thumb, and goes out and looks ut The
destruction, it is altogether likely the frs,
thing he thinks of is tho danger Of eating
store vegetables which have been picked
some days before, and allowed to swelte,
and wlther in noxious barrels, und how
much better it il to have everything fresh
fron:the garden. But we arc not certain
Neither is the proprietor Of the circus
Dantury Ne,rs.
EnocH M. POWERS, brother Of Hiram
Powers, the sculptor, who cssayed III,
stnge and aftcrward tenor singer, in ,
member Of IN Ethiopian minstrel troupe
and earns u good salery by blacking hi
face and voca],zing under an assume.