Evening star., 1915-04-03
The re

replace II is n carriage only The re-
suit is that We miss the carrying ca
pacity which the Dayton afforded. Tie
money ! would save by having =
wagon would great deal more
than pay interest and depreciation. not
taking the convenience into account
For instance. IL cost me dollar 10
have the harrow and plow and Guilt
vator hauled from the freight station.
If We had had wagon Jim could have
brought II instead of the buggy TO meet
me and we could have hauled home
the implements without cost and with
ont even an additional trip Feed o.
all kinds, fertilizer and seed potatoes
are other items that would help pay
for a wagon. / can buy these things
IN Washington and have them shipped
ont by freight for from 10 to 20 per
cent less than l can huy them AT Low
etts store. ! am willing and anxious
TO patronize the local store whenever
it is practical to do so, hut I'm not Will
ing to pay big premium for the priv
/ ilege.
The cost OF coal ont here is one item
which always has caused me Assent
ment Lovett charges 20 cents tot
over the retail price IN Washington.
, and charges extra for delivery. accord
Ing to distance from h;s store Th@
delivery cost to me is SO cents tor
| am going in with several Of NV
netghbors this summer to buy a car
of coal II win stand US after pay
ing freight. about 30 cents a ron les,
than the Washington retail price
Each man viii haul his own coal. ami
the saving to me VIII be about St."a
ton. With a furnace aud kitchen
range TO keep going next winter that
Will be a very considerable item.
Ice go Cents Hundred.
As my icehouse remains a yawniuE
void. we have to continue paN.nr
LoVett 90 cents a hundred pounds 10.
ice. but Wen not buy any more nr it
than We have TO. The ice question
also has caused me considerable pc#,
ishness. Lovett's wagon makes two
Trips week to our place. and ip or
der TO be assured of having ice when
We want II We have 10 take a hun
dred-pound piece each trip in hot
weather Lovett always has Justified
the price he asks for ice on the score
or long hails with resultant heavy
meitage- | am al the station twice
a day with the horse, and last summer
proposed that I haul out our own
ice, which would enable us TO get Il;
Just when We wanted IT | inquired
what price he would ke me nj the
icehouse, and after lot ot hesita
| tlon and with evidence reluctance Ia
agreed to throw off 5 cents n hundred
pounds. It didn't seem to me that
eeed very Well with the long haul
ana heavy meltage theory and [ told
| him so. 1t made HIM so EroiIrhy thai
am going to cut my own ice next
year or know the reason why. Just as
soon as ice three inches thick forms
on the pond next winter an, roinc.
TO fill the icehouse. If it gets sfS
lnches thick later on I'll throw out the
thin Ice ana MI the house again
could better afford the double lob than
TO buy Ice at 60 cents a hundred
pounds.
1cehouse Robbers Cave"
] had figured on getting use out or
my vacant icehouse by EMPLOYING
It as a root cellar. but upon further
reflection that scheme seems hardly
practical. / want to grow enough root
crops to feed the COW and chickens
! through the winter. and until grass
starts in the spring. Ii | stored them
in the icehouse and ice OF cutting:
thickness formed early IN the winter
| would have to clean out the cellar
and there would be no place to put
the roots 1t would seem, therefore,
as II L would have to dig a root cellar
permitting Jim and Ned and their
chums to continue using the icehouse
as a robbers cave
That other muskrat, the mate of the
one Bud Brown and Buster Robin
son caught, is still enjoying life. lib
erty ana the pursuit OF happiness. Al
though two traps are kept set, he COR
She) manages to eNade them. Bud
and Buster" are partners in one trap,
and Jim and Ned in the other. and a
is a race each morning to see who viii
be first to reach the creek. Jim and
Ned have geen getting up as soon
as il was light enough 70 see. but sew
eral mornings they have met Bud"
and Buster coming home.
l think all efforts at further haZing
Of Buster have been abandoned. He
Is fat and seems unsophisticated, anu
certainly was ignorant of things per
tanning to country life, bur down at
the bottom he was all boy, and X
doesn't take boys long to recognize
one of their kind. Busters a reg
Mar feiler" now l.. s. N.