The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-08-02
AN ELECTRICITY YARN.
WHY eyENTEsKYs GARDEN WAS
ALWAYS AHEAD OF SEASON.


Trolley Company for Three Years-Hard /
Matter for the Courts to Decide Upon.
Mlchaells Quentesky. a Bohemian, /
Is being sued by the Bordentown Troll |
ley company for the larceny Of cleo
tricity, and Judge John MCGEE, In or
der to ascertain the actual amount due
the trolley company, is Obliged to
iudicially determine what number OF
amperes Of electric current equals one
months natural growth In a sandy soil
upon the nine-lnch Raphanu5 Sativus,
or the June radish. says the veracious
Trenton correspondent Of the New
York Sun.
Another question in the case de-
manding a judicial declaration before
the actual damages can be fixed is:
II on acre Of sown radish seed is
| pluckable as marketable radlshes In
six weeks by natures own course,
what amount Of electric current was
necessary to force vegetation to ena-
BILE the said nine-inch Raphanus Sati-
yus seed to be pluckable in marketable
radishes In 10 days? Also the relative
value of radishes duly produced by
unassisted and unmolested nature and
those produced by the injection into
a loamy soil of a manufactured cleo
trio current, and those produced by
terrestrial magnetism oozing natural
ly from the earth's bowels, and cap
tured, harnessed and sent thrilling
/ through said loamy soil and into the
seed of the Raphanus Sativus, thereby
producing premature but refreshing
radshes.
And the court seems to be a trifle
perplexed over the matter.
Michaelis Quentesky is a goth cen
fury farmer in every sense Of the
word. He has a small place on the
Crosswicks road along the trolley line
near New Egypt, and it has long been
the wonder of all the Burlington coun-
try farmers how Quentesky managed
to have vegetables on the market even
before the southern crops arrived
north of old Mason and DiXon's line.
But Quentesky allowed his neighbors
to do the wondering, while he went
on producing early vegetables and
growing rich on the fabulous prices
he received in an early market.
For three years past the trolley COM
pany's electricians have been puzzled
to explain how it happened that it re-
quired a greater amount of electric
] current, propOrtionately to the length
Of the line, to run the BOrdentoWn
, branch than it did to run any other
road of similar length and grade in
the country. After many Intellectual
l efforts to locate a serious leakage OF
: the electric currents direct from the
l feed wires, the several expert electri
. clans sent over the road all came tc
+ the conclusion that the feed wire was
4 tapped at some point, and that some
: person or persons were stealing enough
+ electric current daily to run any ordl
! nary manufacturing establishment.
a All the roads detective talent was
s distributed among the several factor
= les along the line, but it was reported
+ that none of them was using or il
, fact had any use for electric current
q The matter was finally given up a
:. one of those unexplainable freaks Il
= the manufacture and measurement o
q electric force, and the company cor
J tinued quietly to do business withou
= trying to secure further costly eXper
~ opinion or to learn the why or wner(
:, fore of the "leakageS."
= One day, two weeks ago, Henry W
- Hart, a former stakeholder of the roa
= who was much concerned about tn
- increasing expenses of the powe
- house by reason of the enormou
amount of electricity it was necessar
to generate to run the branch, an
who was familiar with the subject {
o. the supposed leakage of electricit
o. happened to pass Quentesky's true
10 patch and he remarked the radisht
- advanced beyond all notions Of seaso
The fine condition of the Bohemian
NJ truck excited Farmer Harris curiosit
and he made some inquiries amor
or his own and Quentesky's neighbo
no regarding Quentesky's wonderful trut
In patch and early vegetables.
A He was informed that Quentesl
al could grow the nine-inch radish in
I'M days, and that he had peas and lin
5s beans on the market even before Il
be southern crops reached this sectio
and, further, that it apparently ma
-oe no difference to Quentesky's tru
ro1 whether the spring was late or ear
III. On again passing Quenteskys pla
the next day Mr.. Hart saw that t
soil of Quentesky's patch was rath