New-York tribune., 1904-09-11

up | noticed that not one of them insects
crushed-they died like if they had been smothered
Then | went eXpermentin, and learned that the
plant the insects natural enemy
That's how made my great discovery, Mr. Todd.
NV plan is sell beans envelOp for quarter
| calca I'll clear about twenty-five thousand dollars
this summer easy whstlin. Every housekeepern
want them beans. plant in every room and two on
the porch will kill more muskeeters than a blizzard
Think of the hotel men who'll grow them in
every nook and corner as inducement for guests?
Instead of poted pa ms around beer gardens you'll
my Biscay bean plant.
Then he pictured Atlantic City before and after
usin his bean 1t struck me that the councimen at
seaside would vote to pay fifty cents apiece
for EN- if necessary. The limited quantity might
get them all a-biddin' and they'd bring dollar 1t
would pay plant EN- the waters edge and keep
the annoyin' insects out
But / didn't say nothin' l thinkin' if the
citizens along the bayous of Alabama knowed of the
beans there would be money lyin.
The Legislature of Jersey. said Scott has voted
thousand dollars for experiments on how to git
rid of the muskeeter only account of his bitin
habit but because scientists say he's full of disease
Entymolvgists have studied themselves thin tryin to
exterminate him. OF course | could relieve their
distress if | foolish enough but I'm not doin it,
not at this psychological moment.
There is a bacterylygist who has discovered
red-headed parysite which he SAYS is goin up
the muskeeter and leave nothn but memory. 1t
can't be done The muskecter is a man-eater by
occupation, and these little insects will be just pie
for him Oil won't drive him away. neither. He's
been plungin' his probosCis through old clothes
long that YOU can't stall him grease of any kind
go Consider the millions my bean will save In doctor
bills and muskeeter- -nettin'l could claim the Legis-
lature's ten thousand dollars tomorrow by provin'
the efficacy of my plant but Legislature buy
my brains and ingenooty for ten when / make
dealin direct with the people There won't be
a muskeeter in New Jersey by the middle of August
He shut his eyes a mint as if he was thinkin
1t would be wise to buy real estate in Atlantic
before unload the beans. They're bound to Jump
real estate, he said,
Il got suspicious for a bit when he told me he
goin to demminstrate the virtues of the bean here
In this poky place." | asked
He looked at me pitiful, | thought Where
Mr. Todd? he asked
'Swampton, of course | answered
Nov, you understand, he said soft-like.
He made me feel ashamed for doubtin' him.
He said he would like to hire respectable
person who well acquainted with the citizens to
sell the beans when they sprouted and proved their
worth, he could git TESTIMONIALS Such a man he
might he willln to take in partner.
Il tremblin' for fear he might give some one
else the job.
As he happened to have peck of beans in his
trunk | made houSe-to-house canvass NV, there
a 'eml Everybody knowed me- Abner
Thomas, the Mennonite, the only who looked
queer at the beans You kin buy them at the store
for four cents quart, Joachim he said Just
laughed.
II sold out in three days. and Scott took me up
to the city to org gnize the company, he said.
There five of at the meetin' and they
voted to make him president and treasurer and one
Of the other men secretary, although Scott made a