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[ BOWSER 15 He Trie/ to MaJce Hi/ Is Ms^de li [Copyright, 1903, by C. B. Lewis.] Bowsers had spent a pleasant hour after dinner, he with his newspaper, she with her book, and the cat purring on the hearth, when a sudden gust of wind rattled the windows, and he looked up and said: "Spring is at hand, and I'm beginning to think of the sugar bush.- We used to make about 500 pounds of maple sugar every year when I was a boy." "But you didn't begin to make it the 1st of May, did you?" asked Mrs. Bowser. / "Always, 'unless that day fell on Sunday. Yes, father began tapping the trees on the 1st, and for the next six '? lirnH ir? fha entrap wetfKS >v*r aiuiusi m ?o? bush." "But I think you are wrong about the season. We also used to make i "I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY MY OWN WIFE THAT I Ail A JACKASS." maple sugar, and I've known father tG tap the trees in February, while there was yet plenty of snow on the ground." "Then your father was an ass, and I don't believe he ever made ten pounds of sugar." Mrs. Bowser knew that she was right, but she thought to drop the subject and avoid a dispute. Mr. Bowser wouldn't have it that way, however. After a minute's silence he said: "I can remember one or two years when we were making sugar on the Fourth of July, but we generally ended about the 25th of June. What was your father wading around in the snow ror.'" "To tap the sugar maples." "And did no one ever tell him better? He mj^ht as well have been looking for green corn in December." "I have known of his making a hundred pounds of sugar the last of February," she quietly replied. "What nonsense. Come, now, but what is maple sugar made of?" "From the sap of maple trees, of cvurse." "You happen to be right about it, for "SAY, OLD MAX, WE ARE TWO j AND SI' a wonder, but isn't there just as much sap in June as in March?" "More, perhaps, but after about the 1st of April it has circulated all through the tree, and if you get any at all in the buckets it soou sours. It's when the sap is coming back up from the roots that it is sweetest. After the buds have started no one can boil the sap into sugar." "What! Do you mean to say we didn't use to make sugar in May and June?" "It wasn't possible. You are simply mistaken about the time. The season is from about the 20th of February to the 25th of March. If it becomes very warm, the season is shortened." "Then I am a lunatic and a fool, am I?" "No. of course not. As I said, you are simply mistaken as to the season. Any farmer will tell you that." "Indeed! It seems that I have a living encyclopedia for a wife. Perhaps you can give rae pointers on the plant ing of corn and potatoes. Did thai wonderful father of yours sow wheal in January?" Mrs. Bowser had nothing to say ir reply, and after walking up and dowr for awhile Mr. Bowser started for his hat and overcoat. "Are you going out?" she called. "Yes, madam, I am going out. ] ? .. ?ffft . WORSTED 1 Wife Think Maple Sugar In June & have been told by my own wife that I am a jackass. It may be true, but I would like to have the unbiased opinion of others before I beiieve it. As I may be gone a couple of hours or so, you needn't sit up for me." It would have been useless for her to try to detain him. He had made sugar in May and .Tune, and he proposed to bring back evidence to overwhelm her. lie did not have to go far to get liis first answer. He met a pe destrian between his house and the corner, and he halted him to say: "My dear sir, did you ever live in the country?'' "All my life till a year ago," was the reply. "Did yon ever make maple sugar?" "Thousands of pounds." "What time of the year?" "February and March, of course. I'll bet the sap was running to beat the band today. You didn't think anybody tried to make sugar in July, did you?" Mr. Bowser didn't call the man an idiot, though he felt like it. He turned the corner and applied to the butcher for information. "Maple sugar?" repeated the man of steaks and bones. "Why, I have gathered and boiled more barrels of sap than you've got nairs on your ueau. "Was it in May or June?" "Of course not. No one except a fool would try to make sugar in those months. You might make buttermilk out of your sap. but you couldn't make sugar. Have you been buying a farm ?" Mr. Bowser turned red and coughed uneasily and left the store without replying. There was a plumber's shop next door, and the plumber was working at his books as the seeker after information entered and inquired: "You know what maple sugar is, of course?" "I ought to," smiled the man. "as I still own the old farm where I helped make the sweet years ago. Do you want to buy a hundred pounds?" "No. I got into a little dispute as to the season. I contend that it used to be made in May and June." "In what country?" "In this, of course." "Well, I wasn't alive then. The people on my farm tapped the trees three weeks ago. and two or three weeks more will end the season." "But it used to be May and June." "Yes? And geese used to have four legs, you know." Mr. Bowser got out without a row, but he was not at all satisfied. He stood on the corner for five minutes and then tackled another pedestrian with: "My friend, let me ask you a question." "Well?" queried the man as he came to a halt. "Do you know anything about maple sugar?" "By George, but that's funny. It wasn't over an hour ago that I had a dispute with my wife over maple sugar. She said it was made in February 1SSES. AND LET S GO AWAY BACK T DOWN." and March, and I said it was made in May and June." "That's exactly my case, and I know I'm right. Have you looked up any authorities?" "I have and am now on my way j home." "To prove to your wife that you are j right, of course?" "No, sir; to prove to my wife that I ! didn't know what I was talking about, and you'd better do the same." "But I say"? "So do I." "What do you moan?" ? "Say. old man, we are two asses, and j let's go away back and sit down." Mr. Bowser found Mrs. Bowser still , j reading and the cat still purring when j he softly entered the house. He went i J to the sitting room and sat down without a word, and it was five minutes bej fore Mrs. Bowser quietly asked: ?(Ml, uiu JUU 11IIU uui auuui. **.. > "About what?" "The maple sugar season." t "What have I sot to do with the mat : pie sugar season?" "Why, you contended that maple t sugar"? i "I contended nothing. I know noth> fng of maple sugar. If you feel that your mind is going, why don't you kend for a doctor to find out what's I wrong?" M. QUAD. J^RECTSCS?^5EHS0B2araiE52SfflEaBaa And lookec Once more Vggi&^T? Although'1 The Read maKes comfort po on a sweltei ^ KoIds Him to Keep C "' Force' is a blessing to hot hui r H since eating it?and I want it ev< that I am able to go through a hot < more comfort than when I used meat breakfasts. It has taught^n W?3 McLaurin Sells Out. New York, May 11.?There-organization meeting of the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad today developed another surprise. Former Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, went into the meeting slated for the presidency and general managership; but came out an hour later without any interests either in the road or the Merwick Street company. McLaurin was offered a proposition to sell out for cash. He accepted and resigned the offices. Robert Fairbairn, the New York banker, is ~cting president. McLaurin said tonight: "Arrangements were all amicible and perhaps I am better fitted for farming in South Carolina than for railroading or "Wall street. I shall return to South Carolina shortly." A Sure Thing. It is said that nothing is sure except death and taxes, but that is not altogether true. Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption is a sure cure for all lung and throat troubles. Thousands can testify to that. Mrs. C. B. Van Metre of Shepherdtown, W. 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