The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-02-22

mot In the least. BY the time you
get out there Mr.. Gillian will have the
hayseed all brushed out OF his hair.
and the price Of the farm will be S12,-
O0O You say there are thousand apple
trees, and you propose to make the
number 10.OO0T
II do. may even double that num-
ber."
"Have you figured on the cost Of
nine or nineteen thousand young apple
trees and the cost Of setting them
outg"
Mr.. Bowser hadn't Therefore he
began to turn red and white and glare
at Mrs. Bowser and finally said:
'There you go, Just as thought you
would. You've always got to drag In
some outside matter"
IL think 1t quite necessary to drag
In the apple trees. Do you know how
many years 1t is before a young apple
tree begins bearing at all. and how
long after that before you could pick
a bushel to tree?"
"Why don't you say that an earth
quake may uproot every one OF the
treesY
"That may possibly happen. but is
not likely to. And has It occurred to
you to figure on how many apples Mr..
Gillian will have to sell next season."
Anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000
worth naturally"
Apples Are Uncertain.
"Thnts where your naturally Is
way off, Mr.. Bowser This was the
bearing year with thnt orchard Next
year it will be hard to pick five BUSH
els; also apples are scarcer this year
than for ten years previous. Another
time he may have to pick his apples,
barrel them and send them to mar
ket."
Anything more to get of"
"You always figure on income and
not on outgo Doesn't 1t cost anything
to keep up farm? Isn't there lots OF
work to be done In an orchard Of a
thousand trees? think 1t would keep
two men pretty busy at grafting,
spraying and cutting out. Then there
are seasons when apples are so plenty
that ii don't pay to barrel them up.
Again, a frost will kill all the buds or
drought bake the young apples on
the trees. Aren't you going to take
contingencies into considerations"
"No. ma'am, I'm not Did Napoleon
take contingencies into consideration
when he crossed the Alps?"
..D al arn fxs,x, Itf-
ferent men,"
"Oh, we are? That's another per-
sonal shot at me-"
Not at all. Your objects also differ.
You want to go out to point near
Buffalo to raise apples. He wanted to
get into Italy to raise Cain. II you
wish to sit down here with pencil and
paper and fig
"But I don'tv he shouted. 1T has
been already figured"
"And how does 1t come out?'
II make $4,000 year, as told you
In the beginning. Now you hear me.
IL I have q million different enter
prises on hand after this, not one SIN
gle one of them shall yon know any
thing about. II I'd have gone ahead on
my own hook, I'd be worth ten mil
lions today. What In blazes Is that old
cat trying to do?"
"She's chuckllng"
ooh, she is! You've pitched into me
so often that she thinks I'm weak In
the head and is chuckllng over 1t.
S.s.s-c-a-tw
The feline jumped over two chairs,
darted under the lounge and out again
and then went down the hall like a
shadow. Mr.. Bowser followed her to
the hall tree and then put on his hat
and overcoat and went out He knew
that his family butcher used to be u
farmer, and he went over to the shop
to tell his story. The butcher heard
him through without interruption and
then laid hand on his shoulder and
said:
"You can hide when they come after
you, II you want to-"
"Hide! Hide! What in thunder do
want to hide fOrT'
$50 as to keep out Of the lunatic asy-
lum" NJ. QUAD.