The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-10-22

this evening""
But why don't you 90 ahead and
tell the what all this is about?' pro-
tested Mrs. Bowser.
''I'll do it at once. but you are the
only human being I'd trust with the
secret just now. Mrs. BOwser. we
burn coal in the furnace and in the
range. don't we?"
''Of course"
I'VE burn 1t because we can't get
wood to burn. Wood has become so
scarce that they are using coal even in
the farmhouses. Do you know how
long the coal supply of the world will
last at the present rate of consump-
ton?"
Several hundred years, | believe"
You are way off, my dear | fig
ured it up three times today, and can
give you the exact figures. 1t will last
exactly thirty-one years, four months
five days, seven hours, fourteen min
utes and thirty-nine seconds. Nothing
like being exact about these things
And after the coal supply is gone
what them"
1--WE must get something else"
surely we must, and can't you see
that the man who invents and pro-
vides that substitute In advance is GO
ing to reap a tremendous fortune?"
"And you think you are on the track
of IT,"
Il only need about two hours for ex-
pertinent and the battle is won. Be
fore you go to bed tonight you will be
a rich woman, also n proud woman-
proud OF your husbands success"
Mrs Bowser didn't enthuse. but he
was not discouraged As soon as the
cook could vacate the Kitchen she gave
1t up 10 him and received permission
to 20 and see her mother and remain
away MI night. Mr.. Bowser seemed
to know just what he was doing. The
mixture in the jug and the asbestus
were mingled with the sawdust from
the bag and stirred around and poured
into the box TO make Il solid cake.
ed. and he was ready TO see what viz
tue there WAS In his new discovery. At
this junclur", alt hough she had been
warned to remain upstairs, Mrs. Bow
ser came down to view proceedings.
She shifted and snufled and remarked
that there was II bad odor in the kitch-
en-, and Mr. Bowser replied:
Never mind about the odors. As
soon as the stuff is lighted the odor
will disappear. Can you catch on to
what | am doing
"You are pressing the stuff into
brick. and the brick is to go into the
range. but how about the COST"
"When get TO making them at
apiece, and one of them will burn all
day. Two of them will run the fur
mace twenty-four hours. One hundred
of them. at II cost of So. will run II
steamer across the Atlantic. Mrs.
Bowser. the possibilities of this thing
are appalling absolutely appalling"
well put in the brick and light 1t
and let's see
Fire Engines on Scene.
The compound took fire as soon as
lighted paper was held to it. and Mr..
Bowser had just uttered yell Of vic
tory when there came "A great puff of
smoke ANA flame The smoke was
chokingly acrid. After one Whit of
1t the kitchen was deserted in Il hurry
1t didn't stop I'm the kitchen. In five
minutes 1t was permeating the whole
house. and in ten the BOwserS were
driven into the front yard. It didn't
take long for crowd to assemble and
for some one to turn in a fire alarm
and bring three engines Gathering to
the spot Mr. Bowscr attempted TO
explain matters, but he was elbowcd
aside. and the fircmen dragged their
hose into the kitchen and drenched
things with hundred barrels of wa
ter. When they were through the
chief turned to Bowser with:
What in thunder have you been up
to around this house,"
81 was trying to discover a new
fuel"
"Well. | guess you have succeeded.
The hole top Of your range is melted
with the heat. and if you get rid of
this smell and musS inside Of week
perhaps you'll get little sense into
your fat head. Lord. what lot of
idiots there are in the world! AS you
were monkcying around you'll get no
insurance"
When the firemen and crowd had
departed and Mr.. and Mrs. Bowser
were left alone to wade around kitch-
en- and dining room and pick up the
pieces she quietly remarked:
well. would you call your expert
ments SUGGEST?
Woman don't think | can't see
your fine Italian hand in this.' he
turned and shouted to her. "It needed
but this one thing to take us into the
divorce courts, and here it isl
NJ. QUAD.
Dull Oays at Zoo Beach.