| Show SECRET SERVICE WILLIAM for space bpi in your with I 1 to remark for paper of 6 that I 1 have ever dever fic the t to the regularity entertained a doubt SO as it the o business is continued of 01 the Bc avenger monotony of it that I 1 object announced as ae an e ex KM it to IB now of our brevet councilman that he has been iu in the horat iea service t ot of our respected national h abis 8 be true me bow often e it nt barp parent the old gentleman have been most moat mus grievously perturbed by th the dereliction of his wayward soni an aa we have not board beard of the paternal 1 fl blauel auel I beilig seriously sick mok until enss I 1 joy un undergoing under dergaine der goina goine thu int gold cure amest confess to tn a little skepticism as to abla the reason for the existence of the barin barnacle sele on the municipal ark I 1 understand though ahat as a compliment mont to his hie experience in the detective business he has baa been tendered contract to catch a few a fat r for borders borde to to the boulevard personally I 1 doubt if be could oven even will be resolved oaten h a 1 49 I 1 d this tai ho however ky by the next 24 vew her I 1 1 wish to SUM test in an unobtrusive e manner that it is not good jockeying 94 rs X to dope hill hia nor ii it lt policy in friend so RO early in ane race lor the goal I 1 would train him for fora a while and exhibit his stride and points to the she admiring gaze of his hie of the first precinct before sending bending him to the post poet with so few preliminary remarks marka re the scavenger having been the usual time in a nuisance notice to ariae and explain the hayseed edla ma ado ailed laslea being precluded by his bli innate modeen mo deet 1 I proceed to elucidate the mystery mya tery the legend gotes goes that once up dpn n a time on the banks ot olf the B ar arrive river riu in the wilde wilda of western wyoming might have been seen numerous nunie roud kine lowing on many hills hilla their nomadic owners considering the inclemency ot of the winter in that region concluded it was wag not meet to be without hay bay at that reason peason of the year and therefore to provide tor for a tabt long tell felt by these theme kine desired their range laud land to assume that appearance a pleasing t tj a bench farmer armer with that view they proceeded to have lucern wave where wild wormwood worm wod exhaled its fragrance on OD the evanston Eva naton air pursuing this thia laudable oba tot ot they advertised for some ex pert bay maker to bring about the desirable sitti situation WOOD our scavenger laving having in his youth seen a copy of the IRr merla boy who could plough and sow BOW and having heard beard of breely on farming be with vicious of vast fieldg of waving lucern its beautiful trefoil clusters re tig oneff one of his native gaul with hla file aniere t modesty waltzed in and the job AP af is usual in subduing the soil in the wild and woolly west the aage brush was remo removed veLi the furrows turned and the bay producing seed committed to the genial earth presumably to be nourished in its boom awaiting the lapse ot of time and the action of the elements to bring it forth what must have been the feelings or of these moab ites ilee when utter alter the expiration of a few weeks a most moat remarkable spectacle was waa presented to their vision the entire tract had the appearance of a oaie came of 0 sporadic measles the landscape appeared as if all the and speckled giue in the universe had bad cast their spots spot upon it acres upon acres were as bare of 0 vegetation as is ou r city treasury of coln coin many Lb labois ois were advanced adva to account for the phenomena some na bay seel experts claimed that the in ested awitin ants and that anat they bad devoured the seed aeed others teu that the soil might contain alkaline inimical to the germination or 01 the seed some averred that the gebena aa bad scratched it up aud and fud fed upon it and one crank advanced adva too the theory that the seau had been caught up j in a cyclone or whirl and o carried crded about one hundred and twenty miles milea and ejected on to a tract of country where a new dow ranch was wag taking on the appearance of beina beenu cultivated however none of these theories was wae accepted as explanatory and alter after various experiments the bare a ota were subjected to applications of a universal pla ater said eaid to have bem beba invented by oi 01 e S P chase and then the barren places began to take on the appearance of the surrounding verdure and nd alan uh being of a lighter and more vivid green the landscape loon obtained its ita proper color and all was serene v X |
