Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-09-27
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additional colors she wants time Il
think the matter over. Every expert
ment was failure, but that only mad
the colonel aud his gardener the NOR,
determined. especially the gardener.
II was his duty as an employed
TO give his master all his ideas. but be
made an exception In this one case
he chung 60 IL with logged obstinacy
but he kept Il as secret as the grave
lie might have CLING to 1t year or 50
longer had not the colonel become i'm.
patient He said something one June
, day about giving up the experiments,
aud the gardener replied that he would
have some news for him next day. He
asked the broker to come home an
hour earlier than usual and to come
directly to the large farm barn.
At the hour named the colonel was
there. He bad scarcely entered the
barn when M received a crack on the
head that made him unconscious for
the next quarter Of an hour. When he
came to he had been stripped of coat,
vest and tie and was bound hand and
foot. He had not caught sight of his
assailant before being struck but now
found the gardener lowering over him
with murderous look on bis face
"Will you tell me what this means,
Henry?" asked the victim.
Eyes, sir. / have finally found how
to grow four-colored apples. 1t has
been long time but have struck
IT at last. | hope to have fifty bushels
on the market this fall"
well. let's hear about it,
"Ali the apple trees are now In bios
som. The red ones are all right, and
the yellow ones are all right, and | |
have found a way to make the blue
and green ones all right l have sim |
ply to sprinkle them with the blood of
man wearing side whlskers A drop
OF blood to blossom will do the trick,
and once the apples start to growing
that way they will continue"
Now, the colonel had a growth of
side whiskers that were the envy of
Wall street and a matter of joy to
himself. Whenever you saw the colo
mel you saw his whiskers. He might
forget his Communication ticket now and
then, but never his whiskers. The
two were one and inseparable, He
didn't like the gardeners reference to
those sacred objects. 1t smacked OF
and there was covert
threat behind the words He was at {
first inclined to buster. but another t
look into the gardeners face satisfied
him that the man had become crazy.
He therefore changed his tactics and
quietly said.
"All right. Henry. We will go up to \
the orchard and experiment am de-
lighted to find that you have achieved 1
success at last"
"But how can you go when want :
7our blood?" asked the man. "You !
zee, you are the only man around here 1
With side whlskers. If the coachman !
II the butler had 'em. that would do. 4
tut they haven't. you know. They are I
Inc ones. colonei-fine ones" 4
And Chapman bent down and ten Z
erly caressed the iron gray side 4
1hiskers that foated away from each
heck and were gently stirred now
nd then by the June breezes blowing
ito the open door. Never had another
ian on this earth except the barber
AIRED to lay his sacrilegious hands ON (
lose reyerenced objects OF the money I
inter of the world
"8ut we Will look up some one else,"
lid the colonel as he felt a sinking Of (
e heart II know of several men I
18th side whiskers. and will coax one !
them home with me tomorrow"
But | must have the blood today. )
lionel. Besides. for this first expert
ant we must have the incest sort OF )
liskers. There is nothing in the state
New York to compare with yours.
le papers have said so over and over
ain. How soft they arei How lux
antly they grow How the breeze
rs with theml Your blood Is all
hit. and the first bushel of four-color- 4
apples shall be deposited on your
we"
But want to see the trees you
re selected / may decide TO make IL
ne changes" T.
The trees are all right colonel. az
re Is knife to open an artery. and
c is pan to catch the blood. What 81
u ! DO with your whiskers after
are deads IL seems pity TO bury
Ike so much horsehairv IL
You blamed fool. this has gone
enough." exclaimed the colonel. GO
TO the other extreme. ''Unbnd me
nee or III have you sent TO prison
lfer'
I won't do" replied the gardener,
} shake OF his head and taking up
1fe he had made ready for the pur-
/. you are as anxious for the four
red apples as am. aud you mustn't
& all our iabors 10 naught. Here T
for the blood" fl
e colonel began yelling for help, n
fortunately the coaehman was ut CO
TO respond. He entered the barn az az
run and narrowly escaped being W
bed. and the crazy gardener had 10 sv
nocled down with club before or
)uld be secured lie was found to / DO