Show F MR BOWSER IS 1 RUINED and dh he hd lays ys it t all to iti I 1 to mrs bow bowser r of C course arse by M QUAD Q 1121 1921 by ilc sic Clure r syndicate 1 I um tim a ruined man luana I 1 sir mr bowser throw away ills newspaper and cigar as he fie uttered the words they were spoken as solemnly BS as a young man speaks when alien he be asks it a girl to be his wife and she tells him to ta go to texas mrs airs bowser looked up and turned a shade paler yes I 1 am a ruined man and you are arc the cause of it I 1 do you mean that you have gone into bankruptcy no not exactly but nevertheless you liae ruined me financially cant you pay two cents on the dollar it that but you have ruined me by ruining my prospects what arn am I 1 today I 1 am working my brains out and receiving only a small 1 income all the best years of my life have passed away and I 1 have not taken advantage of the many golden opportunities held out to re me I 1 have been thinking things all over and I 1 tell you mrs bowser I 1 feel very bitter I 1 if I 1 have to go into bankruptcy it will be your fault it if we become paupers haupers no one but you tou will be to blame 1 I dont know that I 1 have done anything to prevent you from getting on she said in a very calm olce loice oil oh you dont ehl eh well inell we will go over the case some years ago I 1 wanted to become an apple grower I 1 got all the facts and figures and brought chein to lo you apples were then on the rise and have been ever since I 1 saw a chance to become a millionaire I 1 wanted to get a thousand acres of land and set out apple trees each tree would have yielded me ton ten bushels of fruit and I 1 would thus have had bushels to sell I 1 was all ready to go into it nolien w lien when when I 1 figured it out interrupted mrs dowser bowser 1 I figured that you a tenth of the money to buy the land with you the tenth of the cash to buy the trees with you have paid the men for settle sett setting lu them out it was vias simply a wild drea dream it i of youri yours never mind the wild dream said mr bowser with a wave of his hand what you term a bad dream may turn out a golden dream I 1 wanted to go into peach brandy it had just been disco wred and was taken up everywhere whisky gin eurn rum beer and nil fill other drinks were nere giving way to peach brandy even the president of the united states kept his bottle my aim was to get a corner on the peach crop of the united states for five years there would ouid be millions of bushels there would be millions 0 ofa barrels of peach brandy I 1 would put the price up and hold bold it there the papers would hae glien ghen ni me e the name of teach peach brandy bowser and you would have come in to share my fame but no no no you must get out pencil and paper and do some fl figuring ui I 1 by that figuring you cost me millions I 1 yes I 1 remember answered mrs bowser you had about at the you have ruined hulked me financially time you had need ot of about I 1 simply risked you where here you were going to get the money from rom and you got mad lind and went out for a walk 11 never mind the madness nor the hie Tr money ioney mrs airs dowser bowser I 1 am sure I 1 could have pushed through in some way tiny and been reveling in my el at this fills moment other men hae raised and why I 1 and there was the potato caso potatoes were ere high and going higher lil gher it needed no figuring to show that they would come to 3 a bushel potatoes could be raised at 50 cents a bushel lind and by selling belling at 1 M 3 a bushel why a man could have arranged to raise bushels a year and that would have given me a clean profit of over you stop me from going luto tills this scheme why answered mrs bowser 1 11 I figured that you raise 30 bushels a year you had no land you see you had no capital to use ks AS a matter of fact cotatges ces are cheaper now than they were then lien have lave thought that they could make diamonds out of pebbles but 11 py y have liever bever succeeded yet never mind the mou lanil irm wes dies continued continue a air bowber loa have ruined me and ot of course cours e yo you u are trying to find excuses excused but I 1 s shall hall hold you guilty 1 I 1 could have made three or four our million dollars in bacon but you must get out pencil and paper and show me that I 1 hops were then alien very cheap you rould could buy a fat hog for about a dot dol lur jur you could cut him up and smoke the meat and make it bring you about 12 wily why it was as ery as turning your kiamil over but no no no again I 1 you said I 1 would lose I 1 put into it and toni tonight lit you are facing the fact that bacon Is CO 50 cents c r pound and your husband could hava hav been worth as well as n pot hotl in mr jr bowser what you always lacked was capital you had bad no monee to buy hogs nor to handle the meat aud and you were going into the scheme without vilt hout any any experience I 1 advised yu you not to do it find and again you got go mad and left the house I 1 think I 1 santa your bacon if you go into bacou bacon never mind my bacon mrs bowser serl 1 but for you I 1 would be able to buy out halt half th i town tonn now BOW find and it roust must be a great satisfaction to you to know kilow it vt will take another case when I 1 saw abat war was coming which was vas before anyone else I 1 knew there would tie be a creat demand UC f S el it nn ten carloads of cucumbers for cucumber pickles to send to the soldiers I 1 bantell to get acres of land and plant it all in cucumbers I 1 would thus raise enough to sell to the government at least ten carloads or of cucumbers the govern government men t would d huy buy and pickle them tiey they would have paid me millions ot of dollars I 1 had everything worked out even to the last cucumber but I 1 met your op again you be began figuring on the cost of the seeds the land the cultivation the gathering and selling and you made out that I 1 would lose about what was the result 1 p 13 illy bomani woman 1 why cucumber pickles sold for a quarter apiece and the government get enough of them at that priece every soldier wanted his pickle morning noon and night and some of them positively refused to foght without a pickle in ID their pockets all ali but how can you sit there w calm and cool when you have worked such black ruin you can thank me that you are not in the poorhouse quietly observed mrs bowser never mind the poorhouse but listen to met me there Is just one chance of my recouping myself just one chance if you prevent me from taking this chance nothing will be left to roe me but suicide mrs bowser do you know that horseradish horse radish Is selling belling at 25 cents a bottle when it used to sell at five all the doctors in the country are recommending it it Is found the greatest cure for many all ailments aliments ments I 1 want to make horse radish troches I 1 want to make them by the billion I 1 want to flood the whole bole world with them the profit li Is 00 per cent now then are you going to oppose me sirs mrs bowser could contain herself no longer iler her tough was almost by hysterical ter ical leal mr bowser looked at her anti and gave up all hopes lie ile heard her laughter and knew lie he was ruined for ever ile he left the house to suicide tut lut up to date his body lias not been found dangling from the limb of a F soft ft maple shade tree |