The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-13
MAY SAVE HIS PEARS.
NEWARK MAN'S sc9fgMR REALLY
+ A BRILLIANT oMg.
a. Lsass He 10 Very Sure Tony NTls
Leave Fruit AIonev After He gNs ,
pl&insd cempeSatlon Of Bono .
Fertilizer. -

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Fertilizer. :
A weIEknown gentleman Of Forest
Hill has q baok.lot orchard OF which
he 10 no fonder than some OF the new
corners to these shores. A ten-foot
hedge and o barb-wire fence fail to.
defend his premises against the in
vaders. Even letters in the paper
cannot say his peaches, pears, and
apples from the hands Of the spotler.
In the season when the fruit 10 rip
entng. 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 over
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 Bcold1ng Tomasso in words
to this effect:
go on away from here. Tom, this
Is my pear tree. I saw It first, and
I've been watching 1t four weeks"
Pedro's sons will come now and then
to relieve him in his vigil. The pear
tree Is a family treasure, which they
conserve with true Pinchotian zeal un-
til the fruit Is almost ripe. Then, in the
quiet hours Of q night when Forest
Hill sleeps the sleep Of happy inno-
cence n sits up working on its liter
airy papers, Pedro and his tribe will
hNTn fhrnIJ0h tho hnHon auI aS
the prize.
Despair1ng Of hedge and fence and
publicity. the Forest Hill gentleman
has gone into psychology. One Day
last month he hired a man to spade
up his garden. and with malice pre-
dro's from across the canal to do the
work.
Under the fruit trees while the spad-
ing was going on he scattered bone
fertilizer with great arr.
This is very precious stuff. Tony
he said. as he sprtnkled the odoTous
powder over the broken soil. 1T is
worth almost it's weight in gold. No
other fertilizer In the world will make
fruit grow the way this will. Can you
guess what it is made Of Tony7"
Tony had NO idea.
1T Is made" said the ~veractous gen.
tleman. from human bones. Have
you yer heard OF the catacomhss
Tony?"
Tony had.
IL" II, the American company than
IA actures this stuff has discovered
me catacombs In Italy that nobody
else knows about. The catacombs are.
filed with human skeletons. millions
Of them, and the American company
sends its steamers over there and
brings back shiploads Of skulls and
tiblas and femurs and ribs, and the
factory turns the bones into this stuff
that I am putting into the ground.
Some Of your ancestors, Tony. may
1 mixed up in this bag"
Tony shuddered.
1T 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
anu pears as juicy as watermelons."
Tony's mouth refused to water at
the thought. ,
THE curious thing about It Is that
the trees that absorb this stuff into
their sap are always haunted. If YOU
come around here any dark night next
summer, Tony, you will see all sorts
Of queer things flying and dancing and
swinging up yondeT in the branches
COLLINS. Tony. and maybe the ghost
Of your NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., skip
ping around up there In the starlight
and making faces at you. It gives you
O kind Of shivery feeling. doesn't It.
TonyT"
In such name 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, "a II
were.
After many years Of ~pornicultural
effort, he believes that he win be able
at last to harvest q hne, full CROP
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