Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-05-12

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country in early spring for the express
purpose of duping people. The sub
urban householder's only safety is il
purchasing from well know and reliable
establishments.
An establishment, somewhat similar
in appearance to the one in Arch Street
three years ago, has lately made its APP.
pearance upon one of our principal
thoroughfares. The seeming proprietor
is Frenchman. the plants are all of the
marvellous order and all come from
across the water, and the walls of the
store are brilliant with plates of man.
moth fruit, flowers and vegetables. The
proprietor stated yesterday that he would
remain in the city but Il few days longer.
HOW TO GIVE A VINE A SCENT.
Not only the suburban householder,
but every lady in town who finds delight
in the odor and brightness of well APP
pointed garden, should beware of the
willy horticulturist. Even the street.
vendors are not without guile. A few
weeks since Mrs Green, of \. Fourth
Street, while walking along Eighth
Street, noticed a man holding in his
hand large sponge, from every pore of
which sprang beautiful vine, circling
around and having the appearance of a
solid ball of bright green. The odor of
teaberries filled the air around. The
man said il came from the vine. For Il
small sum he evidenced his willingness
to part with one of a number of pack
ages of seed, which, he said, when
placed in a moistened sponge would
bring forth rs a vine on the following
day, and would scent every room in the
house. Mrs. Green purchased a pack
age. Arrived home "a large sponge was
obtained, the seed sprinkled through it
and it was then hung in the yard. Three
weeks afterwards weeks of anN-
ious waiting and fast-dying hope-little
green sprouts made their appearance
upon the sponge and soon the vine was
a reality, but it was as innocent of even
the semblance of scent rs
was Mrs. Green to the
nurseryman's wiles. Day after
day Mrs. Green crept quietly INTO the
yard to try to sniff some kind OF odor
out Of that renegade vine, but she smell
in vain, and the vine-clad sponge refus-
ed to smell at all. Her spirits dropped.
One bright morning she took an early
sniff, and, wonderful TO relate. the odor
of the teaberry stiflcd her. Eureka!
Mrs. Tompkins, next door, could laugh
at her no longer, and so Mrs. Green ex-
pressed her joy while her husband, who
had purchased some oil of teaberIy and
poured it upon the plant, rolled about
the parlor floor trying TO keep his sides
from bursting. Every man, woman and
child in that household had to sniff at
that sponge and be convinced of Mrs.
Green's triumph. In a few days the
wonderful vine was again odorless and
Mrs. Green was perplexed. 1.-The scent
viii RETURN she confidently remarked.
and her prediction was fulfilled after
Mr.. Green had again visited the neigh
boring apothecary and purchased more
oil of teaberry But this plan of proce-
dure was expensive, and so, when the
vine again relapsed into its original
ordorless condition, Mr.. Green deluged
it with assaf9tida The look Of disgust
that corrugated his estimable spouse's
face the following day when she took
her early morning sniff may be imagin-
ed, and when the vine blackened and
breathed its last she wept long and bit
terly. She still thinks that was re-
plant.