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Show CORNET BROUGHT ABOUT PEACE. Spite Controversy Happily Ended Without Legal Warfare. "Follow wns raising bcos back in , the foothill country," remarked Frank H. Short of FTCsno. "Plenty of sage-brush; sage-brush; sago makes clear, delicious ; honey. Got In a row with a neigh- i bor; shot his dog; said its bnrkiug ; annoyed his queen bees. Neighbor waited a wbolo yeor to got even, , plowed up n big patch, planted wild ; mustard; grew. One. Bees thick on mustard flowors. Mustard makes bit-tor bit-tor honey. Llko to ruin the bee man's sales. Bee farmer came to mo, wanted to suo for damages. 'What can I do?' ho asked. " 'Nothing,' 1 said. 'Ho has a right to grow mustard on his own lnnd.' "'Well,' ho said, 'I'll get somo scheme to annoy him.' I "So he got a cornet; used to sit up from midnight till four o'clock In tho i morning practicing 'Wearing of tho Green.' Fellow with tho mustard was j an Englishman; stood it for three weeks; went out with a scytho'and ! cut down all tho mustard. They've been good friends evor slnco." San j Francisco Chronicle |