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I BO HI LPS COBBLER His Advice as Followed Out by Hans Proves a Winner. BUSH OF BUSINESS GREAT. Enough Work on Hand Now to Keep tho Wolf From the Door?Tramp Rei turns and Is Given the Glad Hand and Some Beer. C [Copyright, 1907.] I shust have one cement patch to put on for a week, und it looks ash if I' must shut oop my shop und drive a coal wagon vhen a tramp comes into der shop und says he likes to get a lift put on his heel. ; "ft vhas 20 cents," I says. ; "It vhas nottings," says he. "I don't work for nottings," says I. ^ 1 "Nor I either," says he. ^Vj"Yhell?" ?' "Yhell, you see who I vhas. I vhas nn old tramp, und my Indian name Thas He-Who-Sits-Down-und-ThinksI i / 1?I ! 7* "XOU SHALL HAF BTEFTt," I SAYS. Awhile. Sometimes I think one thing tmd sometimes anoddef. Shnst now 1 vjias thinking dot you vhas an old tiootchman dot won't have anything - in der house to eat in a week longer it you don't wake oop imd bring some * peesness here. Begin on dot heel while . I talk jto you. It vhas 20 cents, but I . gif you two hoonered dollars' worth of advice instead df der moneys I looked at him for awhile und den * took his shoe, und purty soon he-says: "Cobbler, don't you make a study of der people?" ^ . "If I cobble shoes dot vhas all I can do," I says. "Dot's where your h^ad vhas scre^- , ed on 'der wrong way. If you doh't study der peoples you don't moke a sooccess in peesfcess. Der first thing 1 you have to learn Is dot der peoples alvhays vbant vhat dey can't, get ? Dot's vhat makes me a tramp*' I like to be president of a savings bank, r can't get der job, und so I goes tramping. Anybody can come in dis shop." "Of course." ' ' "Una so only a few come in. Suppose it vhas locked oop nnd had a sign [ , on der doqr dot nopody could come in?" "Deh I -vhas a bankrupt" . V "Den you vhas i getting ready to imflirA fl Jot of money. vNow. you listen to me. I vhas nobody, und yet I study human nature. If 1 don't I vhas starved to death) in a week. If I vhant to sleep in a farmer's barn, do you belief I ask him? No, sir. I ask him if I can sleep under a tree In his yard. Dot makes him say I * shall sleep in der barn. If I want a good meal I don't ask his wife for it I say I would like a drink of sour buttermilk. She likes to have it her vhay, und so she makes me sit down to der table und"" eat a v good square meal." "Vhell, mebbe dot vhas so," I says. "So? Of course it vhas so. If you like people to do one thing tell 'em to do anodder. In dis world we all like to have our vhay. If you keep dis , shop open some one comes in vhen he likes to. If you shut him oop a hundred peoples come here und pound on der door to get In." Vhell, dot tramp talks to me for two hours. Before he comes I don't belief dot "a tramp knows anything. After he goes avhay I belief dot a tramp knows all about it I talk things over mit my wife, und she says go ahead, und so der peoples who pass my place next morning find my shop shut oop und a big sigif'in der window which reads: ^"Notice to . Some Publics.?Der German cobbler has gene out of peesness. No more cobbHng done here. You Thill find a dago shop one block down." *.5 Shust ash soon ash I eats my breakfast'I put on my Soonday Clothes und take some walks. I stop in effery . store und bouse and saloon und say:' "I rhas here to say dot I vhas gone I . Dot of peesness. Fleas? don't onng any more shoes to my shop," 'jfc" Stepped by People. ^ More ash feefty people like me to atop and tell why, but I pass along. X go tor half a mile around my shop, and I speak to children on der street, and I keep avbay from der shop all day. My wife says somepody vhas knocking at der door all der time in der afternoon, but sbe don't mind it tVhell, 7 like to tell you dot der first thing in der morning a man comes In tnft three pairs of shoes und calls ont: "Here, now, but That vhas all dls about?" "I shust go out of peesness," I says. , "Vhatfor?" 1 "Oh, I vhas gbetting old!" "Nonsense! Yon vhas going to stay tight here for five years yet. Here .Vhas some shoes to fix oop. You can't \ m , SBggpww?? ?? go out of peosness in no sooch vhay. I guess der peoples liaf sometings to say about dot." "Vhell, I sit und smoke my pipe, und anodder man comes in. He vhas in a hurry, und his face vhas red. "Vhat does dot sign mean?" he shouts at me almost before he vhas in der door. ? t- ? ??A /In ** T rinT-c "it means nae sue ieuu?, x o. "But you can't do things dis vhay. | Who said you could go out of pees- i ness? By vhat right do you do it? One day you vhas all right and vhant our custom; der next you vhas going out of peesness to suit your own convenience. Yhell, you can't do it Here was some shoes to fix oop. See dot you do a good job und haf 'em done by Friday." If dot tramp vhas around I pat him on der back, but I don't see him anywhere. I vhas looking at der fife pairs of shoes on der counter vhen a womans comes in mit two pairs more und says: "Vhell, cobbler, I like your nerve to put oop n sign telling me to go to der < dago mit my shoes! Do you belief you run dis town?" "No, ma'am." "It looks as if you did, but you shall find out different You don't go out of peesness until you fix dese shoes und three more pairs dot I shall send in. It vhas for you to accommodate der ; -peoples. It vhas for der peoples to say , when you shall shut oop shop. Don't , talk back to me, but get a hustle on you." Der next caller vhas also a woman. She keeps a boarding house two blocks ayhay und alvhays takes her shoes to a dago. She comes sailing in mit a i basket of shoes und says: i "If I had found der door locked like yesterday I should hare kicked it open. Cobbler, That sort of a shoke do you call dis?' 1 "Yhas it some shoke if I like to go out of peesness?" I says. I Hans Is Warned. 1 "You try it, and you won't find it much of a shoke, I can tell you. Your shop vhas to accommodate peoples. It yhas your peesness to be here. Yhen der peoples say you can go out of peesness it vhas time to put oop some signs like dot Fix oop dese shoes und don't be all der year about it." -1 Der next caller vhas a nice little girl. < She has a pair of men's shoes to be j heeled und half soled, und she says to me: "Please, Mr. Cobbler, but my papa vhants you to fix oop dese shoes." "T vhas cone out of Deesness. my ! dear," I says. , "Yes, papa said that you 'might say dot, but if you did to say to you dot he come around here dis evening und. put you back , into peesness mit six broken ribs. My papa is a bad man if any one , goes out of peesness mltout asking him about it" Before noon 'even d$r fat policemans on der beat comes in. He owes me $2 for a year und won't pay. If I speak about der debt, he shakes his fist at me und says he vhill gif it avhay dot { I Vhas making counterfeit money. Dis 1 time he comes in mit a smile on his face und hands.me a dollar und says: i "Cobbler, I don't like to see you sent to prison for three years. You must 1 stay right here und keep dis shop run- j ning. I pgy you dot odder dollar next week." . I Und dot, evenings dere. tramp "comes , around to see how it vhas, und vhen I tells him he laughs und says: "Haf you got some water handy?" "You shall haf beer," I says. "So? Dot vhas vhat I wanted all der . time. See? That you vha t don't ask , for it und der people vhill aiways gif it to you." M. QUAD. v / 1 An All Round Article. 1 'They do say," said Mr. Torkins, "that peanuts have great possibilities as food." "I should think so," answered his wife. "After you have eaten the ker- ( nels think what lovely patent food the shells would make."?Washington Star. 1 V, J Rsh scrap is used ii jB balanced and carefully i LJJjV vBEMHi Mr. Kyzer Recalls Interesting Incident. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I so often think of my old native State and the many pleasant reminiscences of my life and my friends that I once loved so dearly. I was reading in a Nashville paper of Feb. 10th, 1908, of an incident that occurred in the Senate of the United States in the 3Tear 1856. The incident that I refer to is this: Mr. Preston S. Brooks, a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina, after the adjournment of the Senate, came into the hall and said to Mr. Sumner, who was seated at his desk : "Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech carefully and with as much calmness as I could be expected to read such a speech. You have libeled my State, nnf? nlnnriprpri mv rplntivp is ? ?J -?? aged and absent, and I feel it my duty to punish you for it." Whereupon he struck IVJr. Sumner with a walking stick and gave him several severe blows, which] prevented him for a time from attending to his duties in the Senate. Committees of investigation were appointed, and the House committee adopted a resolution providing for the expulsion of Mr. Brooks, but he was promptly returned by the people of his district, and, before the close of the session, -was permitted to qualify. This incident occurred when I was a boy, but it is still fresh on my memory. I recollect very well when Mr. Brooks made his appearance in old Lexington, that the people rejoiced and gave him a grand reception. With best wishe9&and kindest regards to thfe Editor of The Dispatch and its many readers, I am as ever, Yours most respectfully, J. ED. KYZER. Rutherford; Tenn., Feb. 17, 1908. The Optimistic Farmer. We don't know who the author is, but he hit upon the happy condition of the average South Carolina farmer in the following lines: "Talk about the banks a-breakin' * When the Wall street fellers roam, We're happy as creation With the tater7 banxs at home, rhe hives, they hold the honey, An* thar's plenty in the comb, An' we're never overdrawin' On the 'tater banks at home. Cotton warms the weather When the frost is on the loam, An, we're singing all together Roun the 'tater banks at home. ?Exchange. < i ? Simple Remedy for La Grippe La grippe coughs are dangerous as they frequently develop into pneumonia. Foley's Honey and Tar not only stops the cough but heals and strengthens the lungs so that no serious results need be feared. The genuine Foley's Honey and Tar contains no harmful drugs and is in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes. Derrick's Drug Store. Silled Baby Brother. Flossie Ford, 6 years old, shot and instantly killed her 3-year-old brother with a revolver at Whitestown, Ind. The father, Quincy Ford, was so shocked by the news of the tragedy bhat he became a^aving maniac. Sold Robbefs. Five masked men shot up the town of Willayd, Mo., cracked the Willard, bank safe, and got away with ten thousand dollars. ^ OLD TIME FISH Gl wenty-three years idard of the Souths. ii every ton of Farmers9 Bone* mixed,insuring bigger yields withJe TRADE MAI _ #40 REGISTER fhat this trade mark is < S. Royster Gi Norfolk^ Virginia Morgan Boyleston Acquitted. Aiken, Feb. 14.?The jury in the case of Morgan Boyleston, charged with the murder of Chief of Police "Wade Davis of Salley, returned a verdict of not guilty this morning about , 10 o'clock, after being out all night. On the night of December 13 Chief Davis was shot with a load of buck shot by a man who stepped out from behind the guard house where Davis had gone to liberate a prisoner. Be- \ fore his death Chief Davis made a | statement implicating the Boyleston ( 1 ~ 3 * J 1 A. 1 ?'L. A A ? "VT ^ I uuys anu saiu ne uiuugni it was morgan Boyleston. Several parties tracked the murderer to within about 800 feet of Morgan Boyleston's house. Pavis and Boyleston had had several difficulties and were known to be enemies. * Nino Man Hilled in Mine Esplosion. Nine men are dead and one in a dying condition as the result of an explosion of gas in the White Mine at South Carolton three miles north of Central, Ky. Ten men were at work in a shaft 180 feet deep in a room apart from the rest of the mine and three more were irr-a different part of the mine. Suddenly they heard a terrific explosion and all were hurled to the ground. Recovering, they rushed to the rescue of their companions, only to find the room filled with fallen coal, and to hear the cries of the dying. Appelt's Mistake. The greatest mistake that EditorSenator Appelt made was in not giving the names of the lawyer-members of the legislature who represent the whiskey houses and who are opposing the investigation. If he had done this he would have made good'. As it is, he fell down.?Anderson Mail. It will be unnecessary for yon to go through a painful, expensive operation for Piles if you use ManZan. Put up in collapsible tube with nozzle, ready to apply to the soreness and inflammation. For any form of Piles, prices 50c. guaranteed. Children Should Bead Papers. An experienced teacher says that pupils who have access to newspapers at home, when compared with those 'who do not, are better readers, better spellers, better grammarians better punctuators, and read more understandingly, and obtain a thoroughly practical knowledge of geography in almost half the time it requires the others. The newspaper is decidedly an important ? . ? j mu.'. ?ill i. iacior in mouern 111c. iuib win uui be disputed by anyone who has taken the trouble to investigate the matter for himself.?Ex. Many Sleepless Nights, Owing to a Persistent Cough. Belief Pound at Last. "For several winters past my wife has been troubled with a most persistent and disagreeable cough, which invariably extended over a period of several weeks and. caused her many sleepless nights," writes Will J. Hayner, editor of the Barley, Colo., Bulletin. "Various remedies were tried each year, with no beneficial results. In November last the cough again put in an appearance and my wife, acting on the suggestion of a friend, purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The result was indeed marvelous. After three doses the eough entirely disappeared and has not manifested itself since." This remedy is sold by the Kaufmann Drug Co. If mno^INI Properly ss acreage* ^Hlr ftf I ED on every bag. land Co. 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The experiences of 1 farmers, government experts, and agricultur- ( alists. every- i jfvi where confirm < ilf^pT ^ie ^act that 1 Iplants, like ani- c 'pljBE mals, need the "! jjE \// p fullest possible i jijjlgr . amount of nour- 1 rwF 4^' ^ment that c 1 wi they can obtain a if they are to be j developed to the utmo(st. t * The economy in fertilizers is not in the amount used but in the ratio of quality to cost.* s ^Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers c are the best in ""the' world for thejeast HKSS ,'money. - More { than ^KtofrCar one nnUionJons.wWL Nitrate of SodaGerman Kainif? Genuine Peruvian ( Fertilizers of Ail K Wn qnn llnorfminnfr VvD Qiu iicauquanc Write us for Price; The L D. C BATESBUI f 375< H Square Feef of Floo PUMPS, PULLEYS, | AND TIN I I Plumbing I I Southern State I COLUMBL A. H. BALL. P. C. PRICE COMMUNITY SILVER. Ll Table ware that will wear, , and give you perfect Batisfation. B: Tit Spoons - $2 half doz Dissert Spoons or Forks $3.50 h d . 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Write today to the nearest office of the Vir- - * jinia-Carolina ^ Chemical Com?any for a copy udicedinformaion for planters and farmers; virginia-carolina' (chemical co. , "" ichmond, Va. 1 Durham,"N.c\ orfolk, Va,^ Charleston, S. C. olombia, S. C. v ^ ^ Baltimore Md.,j - Atlanta, GaNf^~"^""~' : a Columbus, Ga. Savannah. Ga. m Montgomery, Ala, | Memphis, Tenn. I ===k\ ?? p. lUano=?. I inds?^ I irs J H iullum Co. I r Space Covered 11 ICKING, ROOFING 11 Supplies. II ? Supply Co. II STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, HH County of Lexington, II Court of Common Fleas. II Ua Hunter, Harman Hoover, and H. Hunter in his own right and aB^H administrator of the estate of Yerne<|^H| lia Hoover, deceased, plaintiffs I against irnie Hoover, Bates Hoover, anc^^^H Davis Hoover, defendants. Partition of Real Estate. fn obedience to the judgment of^th^^^B Art in this case, signed by ilson on Feb. 9th, 1908,'I will sell t^^^l e highest bidder, at public out fore the court house door in Lexinjl I a, S. C., on the first Monday in Marc^HB xt, during the legal hours of sale: ^J^B All that tract of land situated in th^^^H ate and county aforesaid, containin^^^H :ty five (65) acres, more or less, an^^B| unded North by lands of said estat^^^B nth by lands of J. M. Jefcoat, EaBBH lands of J. J. JefooAt W?sf hv L. M. Jefcoat. rerms: Cash. Purchaser to pa7 fcH^H SAMUEL B. GEORGE, 0H C. 0. Of P. Lexington, S. C., Feb. 10, 1908. A.. D. Martin, Esq., Attorney alntiff. Chamberlain's Never fails. Buy it uow. It may save life* r