The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-06-22


vators, step into cages furnished in
the most elegant manner, and at sig
nal they are sent flying at the rate of
500 miles an hour. They feel no mo-
ton. They play poker or read their pa
pers or magazines, and the first they
know they are across the continent
The carrier pigeon isn't In IL. The
thundcrbolt has got TO hump itself TO
keep ahead Two hours from New
York to Chicagol Can you find any
fault with that?"
"Not bit" replied Mrs. Bowser.
"We charge the same as the rail
roads. but reduce the time more than
one-half. Five hundred million pas
sengers carried every year, and acci.
dents utterly impossible. We take
away every pound Of freight from the,
railroads Receipts amount to Billions
and billions of dollars. Any fault to-
fhld with that?'
"None at all. Whose idea is it?"
Mr.. Bowscr drew himself up and
slowly lifted his hand and pointed n
finger Mt his forehead and whispered:
"Mine-all mine! It suddenly came
to me two or three days ago when |
was eating luncheon, and the vastness
of It took me like blow i'm the solar
plexus. can hardly grasp 1t yet, but
| realize that the pyramids of Egypt.
are not in It. Columbus was not In
it when he discovered America. It's
my idea--it's Bowsers idca-thc same
Bowser you have sneered at. Am | n
fool, Mrs Bowser, or have ] got a
brain or two in my headf"
"But you haven't paid out any mon
ey yet?" she asked.
"Only trife. l have paid n drafts
man $50 to draw me n section of the
| tubes to be used. Fifty dollars against
n billion! Ha! Hal Ha! Well, where
do your arguments come in? Got any
facts and figures to prove that ought
| to be in an idiot asylum"
mo. You seem TO have struck 1t at
| last"
"Then I'll run over and state the
case to the butcher He has always in.
| timated that hadn't brains enough to
take care Of fifty cent piece. want
him to gaze at Billion Dollar Bowser
for a minute. BY George, Mrs. Bow
| SER
But he was too excited to finish, and
Mrs. Bowser did not seek to detain
him. On the contrary, she was glad he
was going to the butcher, even though
she knew what would happen when lie
returned.
Mr.. Bowser reached his family
butcher shop treading on air. The
butcher was having an easy time of It
| as he waited for customers and be-
grudgingly cut out and threw aside a
! few bones. He heard the story from
beginning to end without comment and
then looked up and dryly asked
. "Mr. Bowser how many million dol
| lars have you got on handp
"Why, what has that got to do with
itT
Who're Was the Money to Come From
"Who Is going to pay for the tubes,
the land, the cars, the stations, the
machinery"
"Why-why"-
"You can figure on at least half
million dollars per mile, and 1t will
take cold cash. If You have got $780,
100000 handy, you can start your line
to Chicago. If you haven't, you'd bet
ter go home and play Mrs. Bowser n
few games of euchre and then soak
your head and go to bed"
"Thls to me, slr-this to mew ex-
| claimed Mr. Bowser as he turned
whittier than the dead.
"Yes, you might come off the perch"
"Sir, you are an Infamous scoundrel,
and l can lick you in two mlnutes!
Then Mr.. Bowser left the shop TO
walk up and down the streets He
scented the budding foliage; he heard
of some night bird came plaintively to
his SOUL but he needed not these
things He knew that Mrs. Bowser
had played II low down on him, and
he wanted TO fall on her like brick
house and crush her all at once. Then
along came n young man who had an
appointment TO meet some ones hired
girl at the gate. He was whistllng
and feeling at peace with all the world
when there was war whoop In his
ear, somebody grabbed him, and then
woman looking out of the window
saw two human figures locked in a
deadly struggle. One of them was
Billion Dollar Bowser. He wanted
gore. NJ. QUAD.
The Exhilsrston of the Woods.
"DO Won find hunting and fishing