The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-03-08

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u - 70 experience.
i was a THIS ume that Dr.. Wei
come calns along to bay potatoes Il.
vas AZ Old bachelor living By rs4.el
away He also had Commercial
dreams and ambitions de also had
decided % experiment sally Al
dridge had no potatoes 70 sell Hei
pees had taken precedence Of the ta.
bers. She ard Mr.. Welcome had Z
tAlE. however. he was 4 pretty blunt
nan. ana before goins away be asked
permission 70 call and get better nc
QuzinIed
on yes but It won't DO you any
good, vas the reply.
Bur should our friendship riDen in
70 ioEez be asked.
But il ROn't
But Il ll should 7 should certainly
ask you 10 be ny wife"
An I SHOULD just as certainly say
10 10 H.
I simply shant marry until have
found bigger fool than ! an.
he laughed and went bis way. and
Miss Sally sent IN 10 read up ON poul-
try raising for market Nothing 10
Shakespeare compares IN interest u
a poultry book TIE reader feels like
growing with the roosters. cGuckfng
vita The hens and piping with the
chickens.
She took 500 head OF poultry, three
inenbators and several barrels OF
dope The dope wasn't needed for
the chickens-they were never sick
an houE-but for the buyer There
were grounds 70 be laid houses
70 build-wire fences to put up. No
trouble at all. as the books say ANY
child 10 years old can run the ma
chine after i've minutes.
Miss Sally was no child. Neither
was she a chicken. For 10 long
months she was hen. She was with 4
them All day and q part Of many
nights She got to know what pip
and gapeS are. There were hun
dred motheriy cld hens that did moth
Ing but sit around and have chills.
soft corns. backaches and fits Of va
rlog- a:nds. they must be doctored
by day and sympathized WITH during
the long hours Of night Some Of the
lncabators roasted the chicks, and
some froze them to death.
The chickens didn't last as long as
the bees. There were few eggs. and
Few broilers. The hospitals and ho-
teis that had contracted had to turn
70 mutton to hll up their guests.
There ought to have heen profit OF
s5 900 the arst year according to the
seller, but there was loss OF hun
ireds the other way.
Miss sa3iy had dead horse" to sell.
and she sold it, and few weeks later
ried her third commercial expert
nent. Il was ginseng this time. The :
little roots came from Persia and cost
iollars and dollars per pound. but
wo acres Of Persian ginseng would y
net the grover about $1,000 clear I
5rofit. S
The ginseng roots from far-off Persia j
urned out to be burdock roots from i
learby Michigan
Meanwhile, Mr. Welcome had made
EXCUSES to drop in now and then He
1--we up one day With look Of de-
ermination on his face Many a
goman has seen that look and real d
zed that the crisis was at hand The y
I'd bachelor had hardly entered the Ii
louse when he was greeted with: Il "
ave you my answer long ago +,
"ExapfIy Miss Aldridqp hava
ome to claim the fulfllment of your
romise" "
"a am bigger fool Than you are. :"
1T down while prove it to you You
new nothing whatever about bees. b
nd yet you went into honey-raislrg." NJ
You had 20 old hens around your in
lrE. and you figured that you could
ianage a thousand"
"You didn't know ginseng root from "a
!,
NO, didn't. and that's where -
m safe Where Is bigger foolgy
fright here. my dear ! was let in ~
n the ground floor on blue roses: i ~
vested In a banana orchard Ia Ohio
lat was to be run by steam: fought
lahogany trees to set out IN my
lrm: / bought mushroom seeds that en-
lrned out to be turnips; ] raised and Ch
I'D squads for "A cents each that cost 90
e 49, My last experiment was try fal
g TO grow celery on a sandy side asl
H. am here to claim your handi" =,
well, / said"
"a bigger fool than you were.
hose we're your words Sally shall
me courtin three nights week. tri
id in three months we are 10 be mar 81
ID ST.
And matrimony proved a successful y2l
pertinent for both Of them
Hia Bumfn@mm moo