The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-05

III udu Deen run over Dy brewery
wagon. boy had shot himself In the
hand. a married man had eloped. an
old gentleman had broken his neck
while trying to bow to chorus girl
In the street. but nothing to explain
the Bowser mystery.
"Did he get swizzled now and then2"
WAS his q happy homer"
Had she, Mrs. Bowser. called him a
liar just as he was leaving home that
morpingf"N
Had she any suspicious that he was
stuck on some other woman?"
Had he seemed off his head for
few days past?"
Mrs. Bowser answered the above
questions and then sat down and
wept She had been pretty good, but
she could have been better to Mr..
Bowser. For instance, when he want
ed to buy a chicken farm It was her
duty to have been enthusiastic about
1t instead of figuring out that he was
bound to lose $1,000 year. His man
gled remains were being hidden by the
falling snow now. and her conscience
was crying out.
Eight o'clock, and no Bowser.
The cook came upstairs and said
that she once had sister who started
out to buy forty-nine cent corset and
was missing for months and months.
Finally man was about to be hanged
for murder and confessed that he had
decoyed the woman into a cooper shop
to get glass of soda, and that while
she was drinking Il and exclaiming
"Yum, yumr' between swallows he
struck her seven blows with Ave
cent tack hammer and then sold her
body for mummy. Gould Mr.. Bowser
be enticed? Did he ever drink soda
water? If he saw a blow from tack
hammer coming could he sidestep it?
Would anybody buy him for mummy
IL he was dead?
Half past 8. and the strain was be-
coming intense.
Nine O'Clock, and the police tele-
phoned that a man had just leaped
from the forty-eighth story of a sky
scraper and that his remains had been
picked up in hat twas supposed to
be case of unrequited love. Might
or might not be Mr.. Bowser-what did
she think?
Half past o, and Mrs. Bowser called
up the family doctor on the telephone.
Or. Sokem on the Phone.
Eyes, this is DIR. Sokem. What's
wanted? Who is It? Oh. Mrs. Bowser,
eh? Well, has Bowser started for the
north pole yet? Hasn't come home
this evening and you are worried?
Don't you go into fits over Bowser
Never can tell what he'll do next, you
know. Dead? Nonsense! He'll come
home all right and explain things. May
have stopped somewhere to look at a
flying machine. Good nightp'
Ten o'clock, and no Bowser. The
wind was now moaning like a lost
soul. Mrs. Bowser listened TO It and
wished she had let Mr.. Bowser buy
that squash farm. He had never been
the same since mentally, and she was
to blame for II.
Had some one come across his frozen
remains in snowdrift? Were they
now lifting them up tenderly2 Were
they now wondering if an extravagant |
wife had driven the poor man from
home? They probably were, and Mrs.
Bowser wept and resolved never to |
pay over Z cents for another handker-
chief.
Eleven o'clock by the booming bells. |
1t had been a night of terrible ankle
ty. One-two-three doomed the bells, |
and the cook, who had been asleep on
the kitchen table. came up to go to her |
room and halted to say:
IF he's dead then he is dead, and |
we can't help 1t. Let us hope that he
perlshed happy and that his last |
thought was Of u.s."
Bowser Falls In.
Half past II, and something bulky |
fell against the front door and paved |
around. Why keep the world on
tenter hooks? 1t was Mr.. Bowser.
With great sigh Of thankfulness Mrs.
',OWSci optncu tut uoOT, TedCQeu OuJ |
FOR coat collar, and then with a great |
Jerk at 1t she announced:
"Come in here. young man. and ex-
plain yourselfw
Mr.. Bowser came In. He made rail |
fences through to the sitting room,
dropped into chair. and after looking
around the room in vacant way he
asked:
"Am homer"
"Yes."
"Are you Mrsh. BowsherT
EYES"
"Well, I'll tell you whasher mazzer.
Joined club tonight-new club--club
called 'Shober Old Dubs.' Over forty
shober old dubs there. and never had
sho much fun in my life. Mrs. Bow
sher. IL you was only shober old dub
I'd have you join. Would f'r fack.
wanted TO come home. but they
wouldn't let me- They stood me on |