Show MR USHER GOES ON STRIKE no regita ble bl 6 garden for him this yr year if he H knows know anil and tie H thinks think he H dot does A seed catLI catalogue ogue arrived in this mornings mall mail remarked mrs usher to her hus husband baill we might plan out our tpring spring garden while these long winter evenings last we will start the fire with the seed catalogue in the morning returned usher there thera willbe no garden this year it la Is all we can do to buy vegetables without buying seeds last year we bought 10 worth of seeds 12 worth of tools and about nine dollars worth of digging and we had to buy our vegetables just the same this year we shall do away with tho the seed the machinery and the hired man and have more vegetables darn it last spring after the man had dug nine dollars out of me and the hardware man had bad tooled me out of 12 and the seed man had seeded me to the tune of 10 I 1 went out one balmy saturday afternoon to look at my garden there was nothing to be seen there except one beet and a few million weeds while engaged in killing the millions ot of weeds I 1 exterminated the beet crop wil with one fell swoop of my trusty but inaccurate hoe but the vegetables are so BO sweet and fresh out of your own garden pleaded mrs usher oh yes yea they are sweet and fresh al all I 1 right bleated bleared her husband we had bad a tomato bush last spring we had bad the bush while the stores had the tomatoes wo we buy any tomatoes we had our own and they would soon eoon be ripe hucksters brought tomatoes to our door and the neighbors bought tomatoes piled up so high that they spilled on tcp sidewalk 1 I went out and looked at our bush we had two little green tomatoes that looked like peas when tomatoes were a nickel a peck one of those tomatoes sickened and died and the other got nearly ripe on one side when aunt eudora brought us five bushels of tomatoes from her farm our tomato bush took a sudden start and shed tomatoes in abundance as long as aunt eudoras Eudo rag tomatoes lasted the way it Is with our garden the digging around la Is all the fun we get out of it anybody who thinks that digging Is in fun has a keener sense of humor pan than I 1 have |