The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, February 19, 1908, Image 10
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.
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[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
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"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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. <
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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
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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 (
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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.
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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
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Pound at Last.
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"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
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and has not manifested itself since."
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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
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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
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