Show prom A NOTEBOOK NOTE BOOK asparagus la ii ripe now the bare announcement no Is IR weaker than twenty cent coffer coffee as compared with the his value tile of oc the fact what tho the dealers call ns asparagus has been on thi the market for some ume time it looked like e small kin kindling ailing ent in imitation ot of the w nl 1 cle it like oregon pine flavored at it thi the up tip with diluted it had aber like jute and would have made an excellent article of wrapping paper it if treated properly the price ws wnm in inverse ratio to its it eatable noss the asparagus which IS 13 ripe now grow grons s in a bed put in thirty seven years ago it would not be wise to tell just where tile the bed Is because the owner would have flave to sit fit up of t nights to protect pr hect it but it Is IR on nn tho ea katt eat t side th the guardian angel of this epicurean product la is a moth erly old englishwoman with a voice and accent that might come from devonshire on shire she has seen peen utah from its parly early days knows the Terri torys lit history by personal empei lence a and nd treasures her ber garden as aa worth all the toll and anxiety she ahe has seen ono one could easily eally amft imagine ino that tile the trim patch of I 1 well tilled ground indicated her character the old fashioned flower borders bespeak a love of oc the beautiful the house li iq evidence of 0 scrupulous clean linear the ro rows avs of vegetables argue a pleasing appreciation ot of the good things of life the asparagus itself Is a marvel of flavor showing thrift energy vigilance find and a hundred other virtues of 0 the cultivator it Is all asparagus no no fiber nothing but the pure fruit with just enough body to make you enjoy it if it were in any town east of 0 kansas city and south routh of 0 the ohio river it last any longer than a patch ot of ripe water melons on nn the edge of a negro settlement the mystery Is that it should remain undiscovered all these thirty seven years and then be found by a a stranger 0 0 the lord william beresford Berrs ford who marrley marr lei the duchess of marlborough Mail borough in london londen the other day has a brother in the british navy if the notebook note book li iq right his name la Is charles and hes all right As the record stands he would pas in salt rait lake for an allaround dead game sport a sta staler cr a plain everyday every day good man charles came through this country once looking for fun and novelty ile he stopped in nw now york but the society people took him in tow and it wa was so 90 much like london he got cot tired then he struck chicago he saw raw gore at the stock yards yarda and other things dear to chicago but they palled on charles finally finan fillan he met the night newspaper g gans an at the central pollee police station and they wit waked ked him up ile he rodo rode in the pa patrol arol wagon going on tile hie dead jump he saw paw the wheel go round in the wickedest wick edest way possible lie he helped arrest two or three desperate criminals and life blossomed like the cabbage crop in the chicago suburbs suburb the delirium of joy tor for charles was reserved tor for the lost list of his big visit lie he happened to be with a newspaper min at the central insurance patrol on monroe street when an alarm came in that patrol crew Is a wonder it Is the pick of the whole department every man is a well paid athlete in con contant constant tant tr alting the big sorrel team be bought ht for money and the whole outfit answers an alarm like a idt id t wit olt of n a jr ann in it was said eald charles was there when L an alarm camp came in and the patrol patro went out lit lie he caught his breath a little tried to look unconcerned and then said with a strong victorian accent 1 I say ray but that jolly the newspaper man said it was jolly only it was a little slow the sailor finally asked if he go out with the patrol hims elfand and after some at lie was ulas gi riven n a berth in the barn and the firemen took charge of him they showed him the shiny brass pole leading from the loft to in the floor door show showed ed him how to alido down it with 0 one ne hand lira liral l feirt and dress elress with the other hanl as he alad ald then they made him practice with the newspaper news paper gong gang for anA lie was guyed most unmercifully but it he stuck to it with johnny dull bull obstinacy obstinacy e the firby night call th thit it came in found charles sound na t e I 1 uy by the time lie he had balleu down t the li e brass pole and reached the front door lie he could hear the ho gong rattle around the corner a block away the next ehno he did better and reached the floor ns as the red wagon went out of the door don I 1 tb the third rio time lie he was quick enough to catch on behind and after that he was in clover one ol elf the sights ot or a lifetime life time timp was mas to see the birz bl borrel team going down the street with grevi greyhound lound I 1 ipacs ps charles beresford BiT PEford beside heilda the d deriver bareheaded blue yelling from sheer enjoyment in del defiance lance of department regulations it Is said paid on good authority that no firemen ever lived quite as a well a as the central patrol did duiane the week of 0 Beros fords stay w the d drath dath ath of it a salt lake man who had studied theosophy an all experience per peri ence lence the stronger stranger once had in southern california i ile he knew a phy there alo was a buddhist nu a 1114 t a student of 0 it may have hav been a trick hut but apparently this thin doc tor a man of high standing could communicate muni cate though space b by thought transference ra re or whatever what ver ono may call it tile alir stranger has known him to I 1 J tu 11 at aa 1 ha U AMA AAL eiju his family at it a distance with perfect accuracy although he had bad no vi visible S ible explainable means ot of knowing w what ha t they had planned it was uncanny to the lie verge verce of frightful to hear him describe minutely the approach of 0 isi sl tors torb then miles away and entirely unexpected and his ability to get fret rood whisky of which he was fond was miraculous considering the hie difficult difficulties les in ills his way lie he was twenty miles from a biloon his wife managed the household including the two carr lapS teams ile he hated to walk more than a block tit at a time there were dal da s weeks when no visitors came to the house ile he a hiding place in his office and the family had no liquor and yet that man managed to get cheerfully full live five says in the week he had income enough to do without practice and sf seemed emed to devote all his leisure to outwitting his wife and acquiring loads of spirituous joy this thing thine had pone gone along alone tor for perhaps two months and had become one of the wonders bondi of the valley when the mystery was waa solved the family had 2 a coachman it a broad faced wide eyed innocent looking swiss named jacob one morning jacob appeared in a hopeless state plate of inebriate allis he was so pa happy his eyes overflowed with tears team and beguiled by my lady he gave the whole snap away the doctor had bribed him liberally to cupply liquor to get it jacob walked to the va valley hey village five miles hired a bronco and rode fifteen miles more to got a jug of whisky he had to make ills his trips at night to keep from being discovered find and on this fatal night was tempted fell and drank a a good part of the jugs contents before he reached home jacob lost his job and the doctors nocturnal pipeline pipe line was cut oft off he la Is dead now |