Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-06-17
NAY SAVE HIS PEARS
NEWARK MANS SCHEME REALLY
5s,5 ID. Is A BRILLIANT ONE. Il 2. Nj.
AZ Least He 10 Very Sure Tony VIII
Leave Fruit Alone, After He Ex- I
planned Composition Of Bone
Fertilizer. st5l ~

+ A well-known gentleman Of Forest
Hill has a back-lot orchard OF which
he Is no fonder than some OF the new.
Corners to these shores. A ten.foot
hedge and q barb-wire fence fail to
defend his premises against the In
vaders. Even letters in the paper
cannot save his peaches, pears, and
apples from the hands of the spoiler.
In the season when the fruit is rip
ening, he has discovered that his trees
will be watched day and night by self
appointed guards, who warn other
fruit fanciers away. One day he ever
heard q hot quarrel just outside his
grounds, and, understanding a little OF
the strange tongue in which the argu-
ment was carried on. he made out that
Pedro was scolding Tomasso in words
to this effect: S5.s al = sia}: .t,.S5
sssS$"Go on away from here, Tom, this
is my pear tree. saw 1t first, and
I've been watching 1t four weeks. III n
Pedro's sons will come now and then
to relieve him in his vigil. The pear
tree is family treasure. which they
conserve with true Pinchotian zeal un-
til the fruit is almost ripe. Then, in the
quiet. hours Of a night when Forest
Hill sleeps the sleep of happy limo
scence or sits UP working on its liter
airy papers, Pedro and his tribe will
bore Though the hedge and garner
the prize, Il 81 .Ef 5s5, 4
Despairing OF hedge and fence and
publicity. the Forest Hill gentleman
has gone into psychology. One day
last month he hired q man TO spade
up his garden, and with malice pre-
pense he selected a netghbor Of Pc
dro's from across the canal to do the
work. 5sss* "a VIII 81
Under the fruit trees while the spads
ing was going on he scattered bone
fertilizer with great care. II
"This Is very precious stun, Tony
he said, as he sprinkled the odorous
powder over the broken soil 1T 10
worth almost its weight In gold. No
other fertilizer in the world will make
fruit grow the way this will. Can you
guess what II IS made Of Tony Z" \, s$
To,ay had NO idea. y ok
""It is made" said the veracious gen.
tlemen, from human bones. Have
you ever heasd 8of the catacombs.
Tony p B }5s \. 4. 5s@$I
Tony had. lsss s55. "
well, the American company that
manufacturer this stun has discovered
some cataco1nhr In Italy that nobody
else knows iahon:- The catacombs are
filled with human skeletons. millions
OF them, and the American company
sends its steamers over there and
brings back shiploads OF skulls and
tibias and femurs and ribs, and the
factory turns the bones into this stun
that / am putting into the ground.
Some OF your ancestors. Tony. may
be mixed up In this bag u \:
Tony shuddered. M " {
L. ut seems too bad to. use human
bones in this way. but wait till you see
the fruit these trees will bear next
fall-apples as big as your head, Tony,
and pears az Juicy as watermelons:" 5
Tony's mouth refused to water NJ
the thought. sAs sssa 81. Z vi a "a.
1.-THE curious thing about It is that
the trees that absorb TINS STUN lhto
their sap are always haunted. Il you
come around here any dark night next
summer, Tony, you will see all sorts
OF queer things flying and dancing and
|, swinging up yonder In the branches
goblins. Tony, and maybe the ghost
OF your great.great-grandfather. skip
ping around up there in the starlight
and making faces at you. 1t gives you
4 kind OF. shivery feeling. doesn't It,
Tony p u s$5 # u, ST sE.S ..Et !.
In such manner spoke the Forest
Hitler, and from the look on his labor.
er's face he felt that his talk had not
been in vain-had borne. fruit, as II
were. sSSs: M u II
After many years Of horticultural
effort, he believes that he will be able
at last to harvest . fine. full crop
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