The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

Copyright, 1904

sailor were upon this dray. The sailor
letter.
This stuff he announced, 'is for
You. It's most Particular
rms stuff was none other than sew
eral large bales of green leaves, partly
sure?' = 80
Sure. answered the jacktar, land
II s most important, so understand"
Lorimer read the letter. Then he
iooked in puzzled way at the bales.
Well" he said, dump 'em in at any
rate Accordingly they were Dump
ed in.
It's queer proposition said John
Lor1mer to himself, but there may be
something in it. But who the dickens
is the Akoond of Swat?
1t was late spring-almost early sum-
mer-in the city of Monroe. That same
day John Lorimer sailed forth to the
OUTSKIRTS of the town and dipped up
ABOUT gallon of dirty ditch water.
Ih1s he took back to his little shop.
He lit an alcohol stove and adjusted
upon 1T small standard Then he
poured small quantity of ditch water
into one pan and a small quantity into
another. Beneath them he kept a very
moderate heat. Into one pan he put
seVeraI OF the greener and fresher
leaves, which he distracted from one
of the bales. He left the other pan I'M
touched. The next day he lifted the
pans off and watched them carefully.
From one of them now and then very
small insect would rise and spread its
tiny wings. From the other nothing
rose. Lorimer secured the insects
which rose from the former pan and
placed them in a box near the open
window. Then, having mascerated
some of the leaves in mortar and
mixed the moisture with little wa
ter, he filled small spray syringe and
cautiously opening the box sprayed the
Vapor into 1T. He noted carefully the
result
So far, so good" he acknowledged
to himself, and not a bad idea.n
He went back to the letter again.
Again he read it. This is what it said:
Dear Sir: Monroe is a large city and a
prosperous one, 1t has always prided it,
vantages and none of the disadvantages Of
other places of its size. have some fpri-
vate information that there will be in
Monroe M M this year an epidemic, a scourge
OF mosquitoes. No matter how 1 know
II, you can rely upon my information.
Down in this .principality the natives use
the boughs Of certain tree to keep the
MOSQUITOES offEthere are plenty of them
mere, both trees and mosquitoes So far I
simply state the facts. You are a chem
Isl. ship you quantity OF these boughs,
may possibly be induced to grow in your
climate leave the rest to your inge-
nm,.yt h Inere may nay; be popular demand for
send word to the Sarah Margaret. - Pier
AZ, Monroe. Yours,
-Akoond of Swat.
must be divided into three parts; one. To
you, one to me, and one to another. an
shall explain this later. See what you can
There may be something in this"
said Lorimer to himself, slowly. rye
never turned down any chance as yet
and I'll take this up
About this time one of Ellington
OKeefes servants ran into him.
Your pail of waters smoking, sir"
he said, come and take look at it..'
O'Keefe went. Above the pail how
cred small dark cloud that appeared
to be nothing more than smoke.
O'Keefe bent cautiously over it.
Suddenly he Strengthened up and be-
gan to. slap his face right and left
Swat, swat, swat, went the hand OF
Ellington O'Keefe upon his face and
neck.
Mosquitoes" he spluttered "moso,if-
toes. And by this time the scheme OF
constitutional Smith becomes quite
pain.
Constitutional Smith had first-class
remedy for mosquitoes and mosqito
bites. He desired to market it. It
was necessary to have market and
man to market it. There were but few
mosquitoes in Monroe-the market was
lacking. They did not feaZe Smith. He
knew way to make a market. He
had the supply. He purposed to cause
the demand. He had the cure He
would furnish the epidemic. go"
He had used Ellington O'Keefe, an
honest man, to make the market. He
used John Lorimer, an honest, man, to
furnish the commodity. He had there
fore both demand and supply Consti-
tutional Smith was living, walking
ton of commerce.
Actually, he was mere amusing
himself, but in SO doing he was build
ing better than he knew.
To Be Continued -