Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05

a moonlight night. / shall take a seat
beside these tomato plants and onion
sprouts for an hour or and observe
/ what influence the moon has on them.
will continue the experiment for week,
ana by the end OF that time snail know
one way or the other. l suppose yon'h
can it one of my fads but | can't help
that steam and electricity were fads
once
Mrs. Bowser sighed mournfuly, but she
realized that it was no use to raise op1ec-
lions. Mr. Bowser decided to do his
watching from to II or later, and he car
,-ried out a chair and got q notebook and
pencil ready before the hour. When he
finally passed out, he expected the cook,
who had been watching proceedings.
would say something. ana she did Toss
ing her head and giving her WORKS tiirge
Of contempt. she said:
I'm leave the back door open so YOU chm
plunge in at any time,
But why should | want to plunge in?"
he asked
because theren be a bust W of some
sort. of course
Iie gave her glare and passed on. and
after walking twice around the newly
maae bed he sat down in the chair 10
closely watch any effect the brightly shin
ing moon might have on his crops Mrs.
IsoWser was watching him frol, a back
"lndow, and after about i've minutes she
saw him make a note. 1t probably read:
NO particular effect as yet.
AT intervals of ten minutes for the next
hour he 1otted down memoranda and was
<Vigilant and solicitous Then she Looked
out after little to find that hook and
pencil had dropped from his hand and
thst he was leaning back against the
renee sound asleep. She saw no more
tofhcat whose curiosity had been aroused
showed up on the fence and then iumned
softly down to Investigate He had
scratched up about half the bed whom hc
was Joined by second, and in quick sue
ceSslon came grlmalkins Nos 3, T. 5 and 6
heN rolled over and over in the fresh
e3rth they raked that bed fore and aft
WIN tnelr claws, they scratched and dug
ana devastated, and yet Mr.. Rowser slept
on II was an armed truce between the
cats until the destruction was compIete
iHeh they called each other horse thieves
ana mars aud went in fer battle rayal
vi course the fight had to begin right at
MI Bo~sers feet The first mad grappIe
aroused MN from his agricultural dreams.
ana AS he sprang up he stepped on a bun
die OF cats as big as barrel and pitched
forward and rolled over There was =
ions minute in which Mrs Rosvser saw
legs and arms and bald head and Eve
cats adi mixed up and rolling over the
grass. then something struggled up with
Il Whpop and dashed for the back door
WNh the cats in pursuit 1t was Mr. Pow
scr He entered the kitchen with a cras,,
closed the door behind him with a bang
and she got down from her room lust as
ne tumbled up the basemen; stairs He
was licked man. He WAS an ex-savant
lie was played-out agrculturist and a
busted experimental. She estimated the
number of scratches in sight at $50. ana
the cats hadn't been sparins Of their bites.
Well the moon got in its influence. |
see, she remarked as she wondered where
she could find rags and sweet oil.
Re locked around in "a dazed way. but
did not answer
Is IL Savant Bowser or who
scored expression came into his ewes
and he shuddered, and she led him IN
stairs TO so into hospital for treatment.