The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-09
OFFICE: 112 JEFFERSON STREET. ROANnI
"What's it for?" they asked.

IL AOrg Iuey aSkcQ.
why, to save farmer from getting
down off a load of hay or off his wagon.
''Um! Yes!"
isn't it good thing?'
"Mobbe."
"But it must be. Can't you sec the con-
voniencc at glance! The farmer
doesn't have to get down."
''No. sec he don't, and he's burned
idiot! He'd better git down thousand
times than to pay So for that gate!
What's he there for but to git down!
Hes got lots of time to git down and
climb up again"
In about ten minutes they knocked
the underpinning away and let Mr.
Bowser down with a dull thud. He
didn't let go altogether, however, until
after he had taken the model to the
hay-marllet and secured further opin-
ions. One OF the last farmers to ex-
anime it turned to Mr. Bowser with:
"lf we want to catch the farmer, in
vent sunthin' that will fodder the stock
and feed the hogs afore daylight on a
winters morning. Might make the
same invention bring wheat up to 50 a
hushcl, do his plowin', run the cider
mill and pay off the mortgage on his
farm"
1t wasn't long before Mr.. Bowser in
vested in patent farm-fence The
model showed three boards and two
lines of wire to section, and he
bought six county rights at about S10O
each. He came home on trot, brimful
of enthusiasm, and as he took mo out
to see the model he explaincd:
"a farmer can get along without n
patent gate, but no can't do without the
fences. He can't wrigglc out of this, no.
how. He's got to have it, and he's got to
como to mo for it,
YES"
"The agent wanted SIS, 900 at first for
the counties, but he soon discovered
that know a thing or two. shall be-
gin tomorrow to turn tho barn into a
factory. l shall supply this country
from here"
Has any farmer seen it?" 1 asked.
mot yet; but three or four of them
will be up pretty soon, and I have no
doubt that every ono will order mile
of it,"
Three solid looking agriculturists put
in an appearance after awhile. They
gave tho model careful looking over,
and then one Of them took out pencil,
and said:
Its mighty purity fence, and it will
stand, but let's figger a little on the
cost.''
Tho result of tho figuring proved that
it would take about the value of an av-
erage farm to fcnco it with that sort of
fence, and the model is upstairs in the
barn to-day.
Among Mr.. Bowser's investments was
patent gate spring. He brought the
sample home under his arms having
bought the State right to manufacture
and sell, and he was hardly in the house
before he said:
Mrs. Bowser, will you have the kind
ness to make some figures for me? Put
down ], 42S,260. Now multiply that by
CO. The totals is cents; you will divide
by 100 to get it into dollars"
Its over $3.50, 1000" replied.
Exactly but call It an evon $500, OOo."
"Nhat for?"
ITO represent the sum shall make
within the next year on this patent gate
spring. figure that there are l. 1928, 200
gates in this State which need springs.
This spring can be sold for 81, and the
profit is sixty cents. just like rolling
off log. Mrs. Bowser, we've struck it!''
CT hope So"
II know it! feel it in my bones! In
year from now we'll be able to walk
on diamonds!"
Three days later Mr.. Bowser had dis
covered that out of the 1, 42S, 2GO gates in
Michigan only the owners of about 1OO,-
600 thought it necessary to put on
springs, and that a two-shilling spring
worked just as we'll as his dollar one.
He came home sick and laid abed all the
afternoon, and toward night, when 1
asked him for 50 to get some notions. he
roared out:
"Two dollars! Two dollars! You
want two dollars'
YES"
Il never saw such woman to want
money, nor to spend it so extravagant-
ly! Mrs. Bowser, you let 'em rob YOU
right and left! You don't seem to have
any idea OF values. You have got to
make a change, or I'll do all the buying
myself. They know better than to try
any trickery on me, and don't you for
get it!"-Dctroit Free Press.
Waiter {cXcitedly)-our restaurant is
on fire.
Customer-Comc, then, hurry up, and
perhaps at last we may be ablc to got
something hot.-Thc Jury.