The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, December 13, 1911, Image 4
BOWSER LIVES ON'
Although Folks Thought His Time
Had Come.
INS ALARMING SYMPTOMS.
. What Happened to His Wife, the
.Tramp, the Cat, et a!.?But H:s Unprecented
Attack Proved to Be Only
a Temporary Seizure.
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> By M. QUAD.
v - * {Copyright, 1911, w.by Associated Literary
{ * - Press]
WHEN Mr. Bowser came up
from the office the other
evening he had an air about
him that puzzled Mrs, Bowser.
He was quiet and subdued and
jet Dot sorrowful. He was dignified
*nd vet pleasant. He had found the
gate open, but he did not mention the
fact. He had noticed an old can on
the steps, where some boy had thrown I
but he <lid not jump up anu uowu
and take on about it.
At the dinner table he praised the
coffee and steak aud suggested to Mrs.
Bowser that the cook's wages be raised.
A tramp called while dinner was
te progress and talked loudly aud iiupedently
to the cook at the door. Mrs.
Bowser expected to see a rush on Mr.
Bowser's part, followed by a body beheaved
over the fence, but nothing J
"THEN TAKE THIS QUARTER TO ENCOURAGE
YOU."
at the kind took place. A bi? sandwich
and a dime in cash were sent out
to the tramp.
*'You will have to order coal in the
morning." said Mrs. Bowser after a
-ML
"Very well, my dear."
Xo springing up and shouting that
/ -aise had been selling the coal out of
qpite?no charges that it had been
poked down rathoies in the cellar.
"During the rain today I saw that
the kitchen roof leaked."
"I will have a man up here tomorrow/"
No roaring and shooting. No declaring
that Mrs. Bowser had been
. .galloping around on the roof in order
to do all the damage possible. Not a
word about being on the road to the
poorhouse.
"la cleaning house today the cook
somehow broke a rocker off a chair."
"It had been loose for a long time."
iTUiU iiV H .
Mrs. Bowser was perturbed. That
wasn't the way for Mr. Bowser td act.
He was a\lion instead of a lamb. Ilad
fce heard of the death of a relative?
Had some doctor told him that both I
tangs were gone? Had he lost a lot
of money?
On a Mission of Peace.
Mr. Bowse?"usually drops his napkin
on the floor and shoves his chair back
with a scrape when a meal is finished.
bat on this occasion the napkin was
rolled and the chair gentlv handled as
he quietly said:
, "I am going out for a little while
this evening, and i hone you won't he
'lonesome."
"Gding to a club?"
"No. I hare about concluded that
it's a very selfish thing for a husband
to belong to three or four clubs. His
place of an evening is home with his
wife. I just want to walk around a j
bit."
"If you are in trouble let me know.''
trouble, dear. livery thing is
o. iC.y
Mr. Rowser hadn't been drinking root
> beer, and there was nothing in his
bearing to show that he was losing his
mind, but Mrs. Rowser followed him
A 1 ?*> 1 ?f ??/-! ^ /I ? P eV-A wamM
TO toe uuur uuu \\ ?.-?j ia sue iivuiu
ever see him alive again.
Oo the corner was a tramp waiting
to strike some one for a dime. lie
started for Mr. Bowser, but. recognizing
liim, fell back to the fence. Two
months ago he had rung the front
doorbell to ask for old clothes and had
been chased ten blocks.
"Did you wish to speak to me?" asked
Mr. Bowser as he halted.
"Nope."
"You are bard up?" *
"I'm on my uppers."
*4While you look hard up. yon at tue j
same time strike me as an honest j
man."
"I'm all that, sir."
"Then take this quarter to encourage
you."
The Tramp's Collapse.,
The tramp fell back against the fence
and gasped and chok<?$, and it was
fully five minutes before he could head
for the saloon on the corner.
Mr. Bowser's family druggist stood
at his store door. He got ready to say
something mean, as the two have t
MTer beta b agreement, ud fa* wns
therefore faftocked oat when Mr. Bowser
extended bis hand and said:
"We don't want to lose one of the
best taggists In the City, but we are
going to nominate and elect you to the
legislature. You are a gentleman, sir,
and an bonest man. I shall take off
my coat and work for your election."
Tbe druggist was too dumfonnded
to reply, and Mr. Bowser went on. At
tbe next corner be slipped and jostled
an old woman with a basket. She bad
opened her mouth to give him tits
when off came bis hat aud be bowed
and said:
"Lady, 1 beg of you to excuse the accident
It was unavoidable oil mv
part."
"Lady!" she echoed. "The good man
takes me for a duchess," said tbe woman
to herself as Mr. Bowser passed 011.
"but he's kind hearted and a gentleman,
and I won't hurt his feelings by
calling him back and explaining that 1
do family wash by the dozen and don't
use any acid to loosen up the dirt."
vnwrmy vnv w?
On the corner was a policeman. He
had a downcast look, and Mr. Bowser
walked up to him and said:
"I think there are enough of us
around here to get you promoted to
roundsman/'
"But?but"?
"And then to a sergeantcy. We have
,had ou~ eyes on you for some time, and
we like the way you do your duty."
"But six weeks ago, because I had
to jerk a drunk around rather lively,
you threatened to have me bounced."
"Just my impulsive way. you know.
Didn't mean a thing by it Hope to
see you captain in a year from now.
Continue right on, my good friend."
The next was the dairyman. Ho had
been told that Mr. Bowser had charged
him with selling sour milk and oilier
grave things, and his jaw was set
and he was ready for a row when
there came an extended hand and the
words
"Gocd evening. Brown. Glad to see
you looking so chipper. Was told today
that you were never so prosperous.
That's right; that's right Best
cream, milk and butter in the town. 1
wouldn't order from any one else."
"But you said I sold sour milk for
sweet." \
"Pooh. man. pooh. Little joke of
mine. Don't mind it. Hope to see you
alderman of the ward uext spring."
Not a Case For an M. D.
When Mr. Bowser got back home he
was more smiling and good natured
than e^er. As he sat with the cat in
his lap and stroked her back and called
her fond names Mrs. Bowser was trying
to figure things out. She suggested
ginger tea, but Mr. Bowser laughed
She hinted that he might go around
and see the family doctor and ask him
what he thought of Taft's vetoes, but
the seed fell on barren soil.
Mr. Bowser continued to be good.
His stiile didn't come off. He hugged
the cat and bade her good night as he
went to bed, and he didn't cuss a cuss
when his collar button bothered for
five minutes. There was a tear in Mrs
Bowser's eye when she fell asleep. She
mtfrhf- Trflke nr> a widow. But she
didn't. Sbe awoke to happiness and'
to tlie real living, breathing Bowser,
who was out of bed and exclaiming in
his good old hearty way:
"By the great horn spoon, but you
must have got up in the night and
thrown my socks out of the window to
a tramp! I've looked around for more'n
an hour, and 1 can't find hole or hair
of tbem."
"Why, you've got "cm on your feet,"
replied Mrs. Bowser as a glad smile
came to her face.
"Best On Earth"
Tills is the verdict of B. J. Howell.
Tracy, G., who bought Foley's Honej
and Tar Compound for his wife. '"Her
case v a? the worst I have ever seen,
and Icoked like a sure case of consumption.
Her iuii^s were sore an'
she congheci almost incessantly* d
her voice ./.is hoarse and weak. Fo
ley's Honey and Tar Compound
Drought relief at once and less th.n
three bottle-; effected a compete cur;."
Kaufniann Drug Co.
Trespass ITctice.
All r *%r-T,nr- ' mr by notified no1"
to -iv'> -*>h by ou.itiug, ti hior a y
' t w..poo u:.- H r- of the
un 1-. L I>. W. Lindlt.r.
\V*. F. Lmdler.
J. H. Lindler.
4wSo S. W. Koon.
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rcusbing i" tr.
Hepburn in an e-->
qiie::: address at Clurinda pointed out
the many artistic tic-feats of WusL';,tlon.
I u :bo course of his amoves?, whi h
advocated a government board of artists
for Wash in e ten, Mr. I lent, urn said:
"Our ugly capital is not a lit place
for statesmen of learning and culture.
It is only lit for backwoods statesmen,
coarse railers like Brown and Robiusun.
"Brown and Robinson, members of a
backwoods legislature, always mistook
abuse for argument. Brown, though,
once went too far in a rate bill debate.
*T~ f.101N- /..aiufl T?r.li5nsrm M "backUSS
iie il JttUillJ vu.ivu ? ..
and ; donkey. The bouse, of <. our -o.
was at once in an imroar, and the
speaker said:
" 'The nt:oman from iho yinetyLintJi
must v." ilia I raw that expression."
"'I do/ said Brow*'. 'but 1 sri'l Tnah:tain
ibat the ;p ntieinan from the vifik
is out 01 order/
" "How am 1 out of order?' s
Itobi.oson, stiil smarting under the
names he had been called. 'J low am. T
out of order, sir?*
" Triba.L'y a veterinary surgeon
could tell you/ Brown replied/'?Minneapolis
Journal.
The finest lot of Christmas crauh ><ever
shown in Lexington at. The
Bazaar. The prices will please.
DOCTM Tailed.^
RESTORED BY PERUNA.
Catarrh of the Lungs
Threatened Her Life.
Mis3 Ninette Porter, Braintree, Vermont,
writes: "I have been cured by
Peruna.
"I had several hemorrhages of the
lungs. Tho doctors did not help me
much and would never have cured me.
"I saw a testimonial in a Peruna
almanac of a case similar to mine, and j
1 commenced using it.
<;I was not able to wait on myself |
t k^rrin nsin<? it.. T rained verv I
nvu a. ? O ? O X
slowly at first, but I could see that it !
was helping me.
"After I had taken it a while I com- j
menced to raise up a stringy, sticky
substance from my lungs. This grew :
less and less in quantity as I continued j
the treatment.
"I grew more fleshy than I had been
for a long time, and now I call myself
well."
Ari Embryo Humorist.
Willie ?May 1 go and play now.
ma?
Mother?What! With those holes in
your trousers?
Willie?No: with the boy next door.
?Boston Transcript.
That's Different.
"I don't believe in luck." said the
optimist.
"Then how do you account for the
success of other people?" asked the
pessi mist.?Pli i la del phia R ecord.
? The Library Hog. f
I "Books will soon be printed on ;
? metal leaves," says Mr. Edison. ?
| Which is about the only way to I
? get ahead of the book borrow- ?
er wbo marks his place by turn- I
? ins down a corner.?uenver ice- i
publican. i
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Worse.
"Why are you so downhearted? Has
Miss Millions rejected you?"
"Well, not exactly."
"What do you mean?"
"Her father has."?Buffalo Express.
If Dreams Came True.
If dreams came true
What should we do?
Well, I for one
Would have some fun
And do small hurt
Parading in my undershirt
And now and then
I'd startle men
By twirling high
Ud in the sky
In pleasant weather.
A-kicking my two heels together.
Then possibly
You'd see poor me
Stand on my toes
On some one's nose
And there recite
The "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight"
And there's no doubt
Some evening out
You'd see me stir
Some theater
By going there
Arrayed in my pajamas fair.
tJpon the whole, 'twlxt me and you,
'Tis well our dreams don't all come true.
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property hr-ivr a part oi the personal
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I loirs, thi'oo Wagons, ]3u?rr,ies. Ka mi- j
in<t Implements, Harness, K*c.; Hay, :
Fodder, Cora, Cotton Heed, Flack- j
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KjiisL'hold and Kitchen Furniture.
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farm :r price anywhere
in South Carolina,
call on or write us. If you
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tor cask, ntakc your prico
a;i?l wo will ?ell it for
yon, no mr.rrer whore located.
Wo soli okoico city
property, too.
Dickert & Eargle,
'.?07 Main Street, I
Columbia, - South Carolina.
"Always Hustling."
Trespassing Forbidden,
This is 10 notify ail pei>cas that lishii.j:
and shoo line; ducks in my pond or
hunting or trespassing on n-y premises
in any manner whatsoever is l'crbid<Tn,
and all person> violating this notice
will be prosecuted to the fall extent
of the taw.
Mrs. Les-io if. Fort.
iVliou. S. C., Xov. ';S?-i\v7
Fine lot of candies just received, an
The Bazaar.
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Now is the time toonll at The Bazaar
and select your Christmas goods.
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