The Press., 1891-03-05
THE CATNIP GARDEN.

Once upon 8 time there lived in the beau tifu city of Denver certain gentleman of the name of Toll, and he was judge. All over the state of Colorado and elsewhere, too, the judge was famed for his goodness and his learning. In fact he was so good and so learned that one Christmas eve Santa Claus came and brought him sweet little baby son.
 The judge was very proud.
 "I will rear this little son to be good and great jurist," said he, land when am old and feeble he will be the staff and com fort of my age"
 One of the first things Judge Toll did was to hire nurse to take care of the pretty little boy, for it so happened, sadly enough, that the baby's moth TT was not strong enough to carry the baby and amuse it all the time. The nurse was a kindly old lady, who had lived away down east, where there were many, many baby girls and some baby boys, so she knew about babies and just how to take care of them.
 This baby was very fond of his nurse, and he would lie in her lap and admire her antique style of architecture, or would pat her wrinkled cheeks and COO the sweetest baby music imaginable.
 This made Judge Toll very happy.
 "How handsome the baby is," he would say to himself, land what a great jurist he will become"
 But one day the old nurse came to the judge and said We must do something for the baby"
 The judge was vastly astonished.
 'You surely do not mean to tell me that the baby is sick?" he exclaimed.
 "No, not exactly sick" said the old nurse, ''but he needs toning up. He is fat and strong and contented but there is kind of look in his eyes that tells me he needs tonic."
 ''Then we will call the doctor"
 ''There is no need of that" protested the old nurse. ''The doctor would laugh at you and say the baby is all right. But know just as we'll as I know anything that the child needs toning up!''
 'Well, then, what shall it be?" asked Judge Toll. "Paregoric, squills, castor oil, hive syrup, belladonna?"
 ''None of them," answered the old nurse, "for they are all drugs, and he doesn't need drugs. What he needs is toning up."
 The judge said nothing-he did not know what to say. Of law, of politics, of mining, of literature, and of other worldly things he knew much, but of baby tonics he sim ply knew nothing.
 "What the baby needs is catnip tea,'' said the old nurse.- "Nothing will tone up baby's system like catnip tea Down in Vermont an Maine an Massachusetts, they always bring up their babies on cat nip tea, an that's why their babies make such smart men an women."
 sBut I thought catnip was something cats ate,'' interposed the judge.
 Claw me, an so it is," said the old nurse, "but it's just as likely living for hu- man folks. Why, there's nothin' in the world thaf111 tnT1n n n a weak SvStArn like a bowl of strong catnip tea. hate to see this blessed child pinin' for wha d be the maxim of him"
 q know nothing about it at all" said Judge Toll, 'but if you say the baby needs catnip will get some for him." EA
 Judge Toll went all over town for catnip into every drug store, every grocery and every doctors office, but not sprig of it could he find anywhere.
 "You will have to send east for F." the druggists said; Git doesn't grow out here in Colorado"
 ''Then send east for it willp' cried Judge Toll. And so he did. That very night he wrote to an old college friend in Massachusetts informing him of his dilem- ma and asking him to send forthwith 8 goodly supply of catnip, no matter how much it cost. T
 We'll, in about three weeks time. there came along large express package from the east, and when the judge opened it he found that it contained forty nine punches of green catnip. Oh! how fresh and fra grant they were, and how their green leaves and assertive odors took one back across the arid plains and muddy rivers to the ferny wild woods of dear old Yankee land! ..r--
 ''The baby shall have catnip tea three times day nowr' cried the judge.
 Here's enough to last year," said the old nurse ''I tell you what we'll do, we'll plant some of these punches in the yard, an whenever we need few leaves for tea we can step out and pluck them. So we will have an ever increasin' supply"
 ''Thats a good plan,". said the judge. "We will plant these healing herbs at once, and they shall beautify and perfume our premises" That afternoon Judge Toll planted the catnip herb in pretty rows in his front yard and thereafter carefully irrigated them every morning and evening. It was surprising how soon the plants took root, and in less than seven days they were as | fourishing in their adopted soil as they | would have been on the hills of Vermont. Whenever the old nurse wanted to make a tea she stepped out into the yard and | plucked few catnip leaves, steeped them | in hot water, and there it was, as natural a catnip tea as ever simmered on 8 stove or trickled down baby's throat. The catnip bushes meanwhile thriFed and shot out fresh sprigs and leaves, and their frag- rance filled the air for great distance. Uncle Seth Cooley, who lived on Capitol hill, one morning hobbled down to the Toll place and leaned over the fence and gazed tenderly at the thrifty herb.
 ''Jest as nat'ral as ever, said Uncle Seth slowly and sadly, as his nostrils dilated ."Jest as nat'ral as when Nifty an I used to go huckleberryin' in the medder, near the plum trees, out in Pelham. Say, jedge, you wouldn't mind givin' me bookay on lem, would ye? I'd kind O like to smell lem and take lem home to Mitty." And old Mrs. Baxter came over from Evans addition and begged "bookay,," too. She cried softly over the coarse, green leaves, as if the sight of them awakened memories of the time when old Uncle Dan'l and she started out in life together in a little frame GUARANTEED CURE FOR LA GRIPPE-W author. ize advertised druggist to sell you Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, upon this condition. If you afflicted with la grippe and will use this remedy according to directions giving it fair trial, and experience no benefit. you may return the bottle and save your money refunded We make thls offer, because of the wonderful success Nf np Nnrr l1rir,< 1oat 0Qn0 0rvts