Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-06

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 Miss Octavia was in the gayest spir- its at dinner that night, and struck afeld at once with one of her amusing dicta
 Human beings she said "may be divided into two groups-interestiug and minterestng, but idiots abound in both classes
 Cecilia and I discussed this with more or less gravity, until We had eI- hausted the possibilities, Miss Octavia following with apparent interest and setting us of at new tangent when our enthusiasm Jagged She referred in no way whatever to her chimneys, nor did she ask me how ] had spent the day. l felt the pleading of Cecilia's eyes that ! should accept the situation as 1t stood. and having already agreed to WigginS' suggestion that l abide in Miss HoIister's house as spy-fOr this was the imohle fact-I felt the threads of conspiracy binding me fast So far as my hostess was concerned, was now less a guest than a member of the household.
 The variety of subjects that Miss Ortayia suggested was amazing From uerouuuucs Go the negro question, from polar exploration to the political conditions i'm Bulgaria, she passed with the jauutiest iuSouciance and apparent ly with considerable fund Qf infor- nation to support her positions She knew many people i'm all walks of life
 As We rose from the table Miss Oc- tayia declared that she must show me the pie pantry ] was now so accus- toned Co her ways that ] should not have been in the least surprised if she had proposed opening steel vault filled with @ mummifed Egyptian dy- nasty
 "The gentleman who built this ! house." she explained, had already | grown rich in the manufacture of the famous ribless umbrella before he ac- ! quired second fortune from a nos uum warranted to cure dyspepsia. He was inOrdinately fond of pies, and in | order that this form of pastry might ! never be absent from his home, he had l a special pantry built to which he | might adjourn at his pleasure without any fear of finding the cupboard bare DO ] She led the way through the buffers pantry and into small cupboarded room adjoining the table linen closet. l At her command the butler threw open ] the doors and disclosed lines of shelves SO arranged as to accommodate in the most compact and orderly form imag- ] inable several dozens of pies. These pastries. in the pans as they had come from the oven. peeped out inviungly. l Miss Ocavia explained their presence ] in her usual impressive manner.
 "lt was one of the conditions of the sale of this house to me by the origi- 1 nal owners executors that the pie vault should be kept filled at all times whether | am i'm residence here or not He felt greatly indebted to pie for the success of the dyspepsia cure. lt had widened and steadily increased the market for the cure, and pie was to him a cOusecrated and sacred food. li was his habit to eat a pie every night before retiring and on the nightmares thus inspired he had planned the strat egy of all his campaigns against dys' pepsia. The man had elements Of
 greatness, and these shelves are
 monument to his genius. In order tc
 keep perfect my title to this property
 it is necessary for me to maintain a
 pastry cook and as l do not myself
 care greatly for pie the total output
 is distributed among the people of the
 neighborhood every second day. The
 station agent at Bedford is a heavy
 consumer. and a retired physician al
 Mount Kisco has % standing order foi
 a dozen a week My niece Hezekiah
 Of whom you have heard me speak !.
 partial to a particular type of pie and
 one only. lt is the gooseberry that de