The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-06-05

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'sects that crawl or Gy and bite and
make lie miserable Suppose that Il
lies in The power 81 your husband q
make this world; insectle 81 4,
You can;timean IT., whispered Mrs
Bowssr. g!s;i
That Is exactly what mean. While
other men have been on fishing this
summer ! have been engaged 10 seeing
what could be done toward Improving
the physical state of the world We live
IN. While you have looked for sixty.
I've cent stockings reduced to 90 cents
! have delrtd Into statistics. TonIsli,
Is the crownlng point. Ere another
twenty.four hours have passed the
name Of Samuel Bowser Will be spoken
all around the world"
"But what on earth Is It? What have
you done:r
Produces a Powder.
Mr.. Rowser took from bis coat pocket
a package be had carefully concealed
up to this moment and removed the
string aud paper Mrs. Bowser saw a
powder-aboEt y pound Of grayIsh pow.
der. In Color i looked Ike ashes. but
was more weighty. Size wet her finger
and touched The powder and-then her
tongue aud sl'at IN disgust aud er.
claimed:
THAT'S skunk cabbage powdered
up. Mother us-ti TO give It to us in
molnsscs When we were children and
appeared croupy. Where did you get
It. and What are you going to do With
1T"
"3lrs. Bewser, this Is a powder made
from n plant grown In Persia. aud mo-
where else Oh the face Of the earth. II
Is q rare plant even there, but Per.
sian doctor whom | met few days
ago gave me this and told me the Sc,
cret OF It. One pinch OF this powder
burned on 4 hot shovel will rid a
house Of every insect In It in five min.
utes. Two pfnches burned IN the back
yard will clear the nelghborhood for a
block around. Half a pound OF It viii
Kill every fly aud mosquito In whole
country. Ill can get hold Of ton OF
It, and ! am arranging to do so,y | will
clear the whole OF America, beginning
next June. After that will see to
the rest Of the world"
Calls Il a Fake.
q tell you It's skunk cabbage pow.
dered UP. and II you go TO burning any
Of II we shall be driven out OF the
house. Your Persian is fake. Why do
you let people impose on you this
wayTr
THAT will do, Mrs. Bowser," said
Mr. Bowser as lie rose up Ia his stiF.
ness and dignity. Some Of this pow.
der will be burned within ten minutes
In this house. II you prefer files, mos.
qultoes md cockroaches to a clean
house you can go elsewhere. I don't
propose that anything you can say
shall prevent me from attempting u
world interest experiment"
1t was useless for her 10 say more.
The cook had finished with the dinner
dishes and gone upstairs. air. Bowser
began at the top of'the house and clos.
ed all doors and windows and then pro.
cceled to the kitchen TO finish. Mrs.
BOwser slipped ont and into n neigh.
boris, while the cook leaned out OF the
window Of her room and scanned the
landscape Of the back yard md wished
the cavalier who was going to marry
her would come along.
When n quarter OF an hour had pass.
cd pedestrian passing the fsowser
house halted to sniff suspiciously. He
was soon Joined BY second, third and
fourth. Then smoke was seen issuing
from around the windows, and more
snilIers and suffers Joined the crowd.
Then there poured forth such smell
as n wholesale drug store might make
II on fire from top to bottom, and
amid It Mr.. Bowser staggered from
the basement door and fell on the
grass and rolled about md wheezed
and coughed like IN old horse with tho
collie. Then It was TINT tn ambulance
was rung for by one man, the fire en-
glnes by another, and a policeman
came running up and headed a forlorn
hope into the house aud brought out
smoking shovel aud demanded explana-
tons. In demanding them he slung
Mr.. Bowser around on the grass, stood
him up against the fence and called
him names md threatened him With
his club, and there was an excitement
lasting u good half hour. When the
Bowsers were finally left alone md he
had quit Wheeling and coughing be
pointed bis finger ut Mrs. Bowser and
was going to tell her that their re.
spectlve lawyers would settle the di.
vorce business, but she stopped HIN
by saying:
"Now, then, you md your Persian
and house flies and mosquitoes and
cockroaches had better walk right up
stairs and SO to bed. This house has
been upset enough for one night"
And she threw the rest Of the pow
der out OF n back window, and Mr.
Bowser went. NJ. QUAD.