THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTOKIA, OREGON.
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1909.
Mr. Bowser
And Poultry
He Reads All About Vast For
j tunes Made Out of the
Chicken Business.
DECIDES TO ATTLMPT IT
Tells Mrs. Bowser to Prepare to Mov
and Goes Out to Consult
Butcher About Hens.
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Copyright 19ns. by It B. McClure
R. BOWSER lmd Iwn reading
his evening imper for half an
hour wheur he suddeuly
brought bis fist down on his
knee and exclaimed:
"By thunder, but that proves what I
have always told you!"
"What have you always told me?"
queried Mrs. Bowser.
"That there was money big money
lots of money lu raising cbickeus. 1
was a fool not to go Into it ten years
ago."
"What have you found In the paper?"
"llere Is a column or more devoted to
the subject, and it makes me waut to
kick myself when I see what a chauce
I have missed. The man who lets his
wife out-argtie him in matters of com-
"DOM G1UEVE, PooB W01U.N.
mon sense is an Idiot. I've wanted to
go into poultry sewral times, but you
always opposed it and blocked my
plans."
"Well, does the article say there Is
money In It?"
"Of course It does. Here Is the ease
cf a young married couple who started
ten years ago with six hens. What do
you suppose they are worth now?"
"If they have lived on raw turnips
1 for ten years and he has had steady
work at a dollar a day they may be
worth ? 1,000.'"
i "Woman, I'd advise you not to fool
. with this question. You may find It a
' serious one before you get through. In
ten years, starting In with six hens,
they have sold enough eggs and poultry
to come to $2i.,000, and their income
next year will be at least $15,000. They
Lave bought a fine farm, built a new
house and now ride in their own car
riage. Suppose we had started with six
hens when we were first married?"
"We'd have owned a whole state by
this time and we could give away a
million eggs and not miss them."
"Sneering again, are you? V'e, you
can sneer and be hanged. If we are
Tint millionaire roii nr to blnme for It.
Correct Gothes for Hen
Outing
Tro
users
Golf, Tennis, Cricket,
etc. This label
Says they're better than
any others. If they are
not, what is the use of
spending money to telh
you about them?
The makors' quarantee, and ours,
with every garment. We ate ex
clusive agents here.
n mi m
1
IJredpenjamin
MAKERS flEWyoRK
r Jim a Hv umm
s. js.IJ. -j war ' - - - mm&ir s
Cures all Kidney and Bladder Diseases-Guaranteed
Charles Rogers. Druggist.
Here is (mother case. A uiotvunnt falls
in business and commit suicide. After
his funeral expenses are paid his wld
ov has just $7 left. She use?." ol
that to build a hencoop, and the othet
goes to buy chickens. She starts
with four hens and a rooster. That
was nlue years ago. Today she Is
worth ?1S,000 and rides about after a
spanking team. I wanted t go iuto
poultry twenty years ago. but you hnd
your arguiueuts all ready to dissuade
me. If I bad gone my owu way then
I'd have a barrel of nioney by this
time." ,
"Any further instances?" quietly
asked Mrs. Bowser as he grunted his
disgust.
"A dozen of them, madam. You dou't
class me as a boru fool, do you?"
"Certainly uot."
"Weil, here is an instance where a
bom idiot escaped from au asylum. He
stole two hens and weut into poultry.
That was thirteen years ago, and today
he has 000,000 hens and Is selling a
thousand eggs per day. Thluk of that
If a fool eau do that, what couldn't I
have made In the thirteen years? By
the seveu knee sprung cows, but I'se
let a woman pull me this way aud that,
aud here's the result of It! One more
instance. A woman sixty years old
who has asthma and rheumatism so
that she can hardly get around is ad
vised by her doctor to go Into the eouu
try for a year or so. She goes, aud one
day she finds a lame ben In the road.
She takes it home to make a pet of,
aud when the hen began to lay from
twenty-four to thirty-six eggs per day
the woman got the idea that there was
money in it. That was nine years ago.
It was not believed that she could live
a year, and she had only 70 cents to
her name. Today she is tn the best of
health, not looking a day over thirty,
and her Income from the sales of eggs,
chickens, milk and butter Is over $306
a day. Think of that over $300 a day,
aud mine is not $10!"
'How does she manage to milk the
hens?" was asked.
"What! What!"
"Yon satd milk and butter. I was
wondering how sh did it"
"I said nothing of the kind, or if I did
it was a slip of the tongue. I see you
are ready to pick up the slightest thing,
but let me tell you that I'm not to b
turned aside from my purpose this time.
I'll put uu ad. in the papers touior
row,"
"For a lame hen to start the poultry
business on?"
".No, madam!" he thundered. "You
are determined to treat this matter in
sarcasm, but I want to tell you that
within a mouth I'll have this house sold
and le in the chicken business. When
a person can sit lu a rocking chair and
see money coining in at the rate of
$l.i 0 per mouth he's a fool to keep on
uigj.'eriiig for a bare liviug. We won't
start with a lame hen, but with a thou
sand healthy nud ambitious birds."
Mrs. Bowser made no reply. She
could have gone at It aud destroyed bis
arguments in a mlmita-, but she decided
not to do so. He turned to his paper
and reread the poultry statements,
made either In sarcasm or by some one
who didn't know a heu from a brindled
calf, and bis ambition and greed be
came so great that he couldn't sit still.
He got up and walked around the room
for several minutes and then paused to
say;
"Yes, you can begin to pack up. We
will be sold out in two weeks."
"Very well," she replied.
"And I think I'll drop over and sef
the butcher for a few minutes. He'll
know the best breed of fowls to star'
in with, and I might as well advertise
for them at once. We can keep a thou
sand of them down cellar for a moutli
if we have to, and during that time we
ought to have half a million eggs."
He took his hat from the rack and
started off for the butcher's, and when
the door had closed behind him the cat
came out from under the lounge and
sat up and looked at Mrs. Bowser In a
sorrowful way aud seemed to say:
"Don't grieve, poor woman. The
butcher is a hard headed man, and Mr.
Bowser will hear something drop be
fore he comes back."
The butcher was about closing up for
the evening, but he cheerfully agreed
that he would answer a few questions
about poultry. He had known all
about poultry since he was a chicken
himself. Mr. Bowrfex handed him the
paper and asked him to read the artf
cle. He did so, and when he had finish
ed he burst into a guffaw and saidr
"That was written by a fool for fools
to read. Tou slou't tell me that you be
lieve such statements?"
"They strike me as reasonable and
truthful."
"Then the fool killer ought to strike
you with a club. Did you ever see s
hen?"
"Sir, don't insult me!"
"I'm not Insulting you. Did you ever
have a flock of bens around your
house'"
"No."
"Well, if you bad you would realize
what nonsense this is. Why, Bowser,
you couldn't make your salt at the
poultry business. There are twenty
failures to one success, and It's harder
work than sawlug hickory wood with
a dull saw."
"I beg to differ with you. I say there
Is money in it. If a woman sixty years
old can start with one ben, and n lame
one at thut, and make"
'Make your grandmother:"
www mm c
"But do you uiean to say that I'm a
fool:"
' .o, Bowser, but you are an oa.
mark, a good thing. You want wMglit
011 your feet to keep them down, tilve
it up. Co home aud ask Mrs. Bowser
to make you some catnip ten aud tuck
you up In your truudle bed."
"You are a liar, sir! You are you
are"
But the smiling and good nntured
butcher pushed him out of the door aud
looked It against htm, aud Mr. Bowser
was forced to walk uwny. Ho thought
of appealing to the druggist, but be
knew what the man would say and
say It gladly. The plumber might pos
sibly sympathize with Ills desire to
make $'Ji 1,000 lu two years out of ten
or twenty hens and a blind rooster, but
he had closed his shop ami gone home.
There was the tailor. But what did a
tailor know about liens that laid twen
ty eggs a day and were ambitious to
do bettor? The world was against the
man who w anted to go Iuto poultry.
The April breeses sighed and moaned,
the last of the January snowdrifts
were runulng Into the gutter, and with
his hands locked behind him he walked
up and down nud thought of the thou
sands of dollars that were slipping
away from him, nud lu Imagination he
was followed by a Hock of hens that
cried out to him to grasp his fortune at
the flood aud uot change off poultry for
coonsklns. M. QUAD.
Aarrrd VII k Her.
Clara-I can't see why people tliluli
unimer Is duller than winter.
Harold No, considering so many
things come off In summer! New Or
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Tltr the Man.
Dyer So her father gaw his con
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Kyr Yes.
Dyer-Has he a grudge against you?
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