The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-11
COST OF SEEDS
Woman SENDS a Bill 20 Senator Bur-
ton for Damages.

! Everybody who has received garden
seeds will appreciate this dispatch from
Abilene:
Abilene. Kan, Msy Io.-one Kansas
woman appreciates what It means 10 re-
ceive flower seeds from the government.
/ Senator Burton was seated too late 10 re-
ceive a quota Of flower seed. but he did
not escape. for there was dumped on him
a lot OF seeds left from Senator Baker,
apportionment. He took his pen in hand
and sent them out, one Of the recipients
being the wife Of Senator Henley OF
Lawrence. He has received from Mrs.
Henley the following letter and bill Of
expense in connection with the flower
seeds:
My Dear Sir-Your very kind donation
Of flower seeds received. This is a gen
erous gift, but thereby hangs a delusion
and a snare. must first invest 81 in a
spade and then hire a boy at so much
per hour TO dig up a flower bed. Then
send a man to the forest with a team
after a load Of leaf mold and then 20 the
river for load OF sandy loan az 50 cents
a load. For we have always read that
leaf mold and sandy loan are necessary
to flower beds.
aforesaid spade must at 50 much per
hour incorporate these materials together
IN suitable manner in tie aforesaid
flower bed
Then il the congressional flower seeds
ever do sprout and send Up little green
shoots the next investment VIII be FOR a
watering pot OF garden hose and a boy
20 be hired By the hour 10 water the flow
OF garden while the family Is absent dur
iugthe summer. And the neighbours huge
dog finding that a cool. moist spot SPENDS
pleasant hours there while the tender
green sprouts. unlike ruth when crushea
to earth. 90 not rise again. And the town
COW on its way 70 the sumner resort con-
ciudes 10 make o short cut across this
same flower bed. followed by boy ana
pony. The surviving piants. should they
escape the ravagss u siugs. scales. green
Zee and TED spiders. zo1I4- afouE Ia SO
Fember. show q vast range o. foliage ard
a few green buds. vhi1h 4 the sumner
were long enough in this lstitu1e Tou.
burst into bloom. But an unl4ueiy frost
cuts down these buds of promise ard ts.e
garbage man IS paid 70 haul them away.
arf the garden hose and spade and rske
are hung in the woodsaed % BE stolen
later s. the season.
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moon thess seeds should % planted.
whether they Or best VIXEN ths uaou is
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