Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-03

| suddenly asked Mrs. Bowser
 "Of course not. but 1 have no desire to kill l don't believe I could smoke 1 a cigar if tried'
 He then arose and walked down the 1 hall to the hatrack to see if his hat was there.
 It was. and Ee wandered back and 1 looked out of one of the rear windows and swallowed the cloves and substitut- ed some orange peel Mrs. Bowser was | immersed il her book and paid no heed. but he turned to find the cat i looking at him with grin on his 1 face.
 By thunder. I'll break your neck for hat"' he exclaimed. Why what do you mean?' asked 1 Mrs. Bowser as she whirled around.
 Becomes Uneasy.
 "Oh, l was just thinking of some thing and spoke my thoughts. be- lieye will walk down to the corner and see if that house with the bay windows is for rent yet
 What do you care whether it is or not? You don't want to rent a house. Il might want to sell it to some one who was looking for q house. you know
 ! Mr. Bowser went.
 The house on the corner was still for rent.
 On the way down he felt an aching void
 On the way back he felt two of 'em.
 A pedestrian who was smoking q good cigar passed him. and he leaned up against a shade tree and swore.
 As he stood al his gate he remember ed how good the taste of cigar was on the hind platform of street car in the morning. and he kicked himself three times before going into the house
 He devoted five minutes more to the paper and then said he guessed he'd go downstairs and see if the furnace was all right.
 He found the furnace in the same old spot, and it looked as natural as an old hat. The water pipes were also all right; also the walls.
 ''If you are going to find it too hard to stop smoking I'd give up the idea" observed Mrs. Bowser as she came up stairs.
 "Who's finding it hard to stop?' he demanded. with considerable heat ''I haven't the slightest desire to smoke If the president offered me dollar cigar 1 wouldn't touch it."
 Well, that's certainly heroic in you The people around here won't believe you have so much stamina.''
 Had Mouth Full of Cinnamon.
 Mir. BoWser had a mouth full of cin- stairs instead. He went up to see if all the bedrooms were in their usual places.
 They were, and he came down again and forced himself to sit down for as much as ten minutes. Then he got up to go down the hall and see if any one lad stolen the front door off it's hinges Mrs. BoNser l.2a:d him signing and @HoannG and when he wandered back sle said:
 "I'm tired tonight and want to go to bed early. You can sit up as long as you want to-
 The cat griuned and chuckled at the words, but Mrs. Bowser was hardly upstairs when that feline was flying for his life. He got away by narrow margin, and then Mir Bowser rushed down to the dining room, where he knew he had left a big black cigar that morning, and. lighting it with trembling hand, he made a sneak for the back yard. The moon rode high, and there were the usual number of cats on the fence, but he minded them not He simply sucked and puffed and went Yum, yum," down in his stom- ach and said to himself:
 "How on earth I was ever such fool as to tell Mrs. Bowser that was going to stop smoking can't under stand. Stop! Why, I'll smoke three times as many as l ever did before, and If she asks about that increased pin money I'll tell her she's the most grasplng and eXtravagant woman in America" M. QUAD.