West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-09-03
DOWSERS SUNHONER.
he Was Raising It As LPst When 1t
disappeared, Much To HIS
Sorrow.
OfCourse II Was Conspiracy and His
Wife Was TO Blame for II.

Wife Was 20 Blame for IL.
Among the things Mr.. Bowser
planted in his back yard, when the
showers and sunshine of May
brought up recollections of his DAYS
on the farm, was paper of sunfiow-
er seeds. After couple of weeks
single sunflower made its appear
ance. The other seeds were scrath-
ed up by the cats or trampled half
way down to China by the heavy
foot of the cook as she looked
around for lost clothespins.
That stalk was treasured as some
thing more precious than gold. He
walked out to gaze upon il before
breakfast, and he sauntered out to
look after its welfare after dinner.
Sticks were stuck around it to pre-
vent the cats scrathing their backs
or indulging in athletics, and Mrs.
Bowser and the cook were given
strict injunctions not to go within
FIVE feet OF it.
Isn't 1t going to great deal OF
trouble to raise an old sunflower2,
asked Mrs. Bowser on one of III,
occasions when she had heen car
toned.
i'd go to fifty times the trou.
ble," he retorted. "There is no
vegetable or flower that brings the
old days back to me like the sun.
flower. AS child l played beneath
their shade. AS youth watched
their golden heads follow the SIN
nom east to west. AS young man
II
"You didn't eat THEREOF
mo, ma'am, l didn't. The frs,
time told my love was among q
patch OF sunfowers, and can new
er, never forget it."
"Did you tell it to sunflower7,
asked Mrs. Bowser after she 90,
through laughing.
"Never you mind" he replied.
II wouldn't trade that sunfiower 70,
me best horse in town, and il anv.
'ning happens to it you'll here from
me- If l catch our blamed old ca,
out there walking around it again
she'll need nine more lives"
"As the days went by that sun.
Hover reached up. 1t got tall ant
fuzzy and put forth leaves. 1t.
roots reached down into the earth
and entwined themselves around old
bottles and brickbats, and the stalI
stood up stiff as crowbar. Now
and then boy took shy at it with
stone from the alley, and. now
and then the midnight cats circled
around it when ploying tag, but /,
escaped injury.
AT length it got head on Il. Il
was small head, but il was in III,
ngnt spot to grow bigger. Mr.. Bow.
ser grinned and rubbed his hand,
as he saw it. 1t was in the greer
yet, but he knew that the day mus
come when it would turn the colo,
ct gold, and be studded with tbou.
sands of black seeds.
"By George, but she's a success
an unqualified success" he said /,
Mrs. Bowser that evening, and h,
was good-natured over It that sb,
asked him for 81 to buy stocking,
and got it.
The other evening Mr.. Bowser
came home With a headache ant
forgot his sunhower until twilight
mad begun to gather. Then he walk
cd Out to see what changes a da,
had brought forth. There had beer
2 thunderstorm during the day, anc
during the prevalence ne had beer
somewhat worried for fear that ;
thunderbolt might 90 astay ane
damage his pet. Shifting the ali
Tor odor Of birthstone he saunteree
to the back end Of the yard, and .
moment later was stuck 50 helpless
that ne had to lean Up against III,