The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-03-22


people at time, sell all / can, watcl
people who steal the minute your ey'
Is off Of them, not let any body fee
neglected, and see that get casl
from everybody who isn't good pay
When there isn't anybody here Nv,
got to keep the books, sec that the
stock don't run down In spots, ant
stirup people that are slow pay. The
only way can do it all is by taking
something to help me. hate whis-
ksy-Pm going to try to leave II alone
but tell you, Dominic, its going tt
be one of the biggest fights you ever
knew young man to go into"
The reverend listener was as easily
depressed as he was exalted, and
Doughty's short speech had the effect
of greatly elongating the ministers
countenance. Yet he had q great
deal of that pertinacity which is as
necessary to soldiers of the Cross As II
is to those of the bayonet; SO he be.
gan nlanfully TO search his mind for
some weapon or means of defense
which the clerk could use. Suddenly
his countenanes frightened, his ben
eyolent eyes enlarged behind his glas-
ses, and he exclaimed:
Just the thing-my dear young
friend, the hand if Providence is in
this matter. Your worthy employer
was the chairman Of our meeting last
night-certainly he will be glad to
give you such assistance as shall les
sen the amount of labors. Here he
comes now. Let me manage this af-
fair-l really ask it as favor"
I'm much obliged, but l think
confound it," calculated the young
man, as his companion fastened out
of earshot and buttonholed Squire
Tomple. Half smiling and half
frowning, Doughty retired from the
door, but took up a new position from
which he could see the couple. To
the eyes of the clerk, his employer
seemed rock in his unchanging pose,
while the old preacher, rich in many
grace not peculiar to tho country
storekeepers, vet utterly ignorant Of
business and such of its pervsrsions as
are called requirements, seemed u
mere lamb a fancy which was
strengthened by the incessant gestur-
ing and change of position in which
he INDUCED when in conversation
The pair soon separately; the minis
ter walked away, his step seeming not
SO exultant as when he approached
the merchant, while the latter, ap-
pearing to his clerk to be broader
deeper and more solid than ever, ap-
preached the store, lifted up his head,
displayed the face he usually wore
when he found he had made n bad
debt, and said:
"George, | wish you wouldn't try to
talk about business to ministers. Old
Wedgewell has just pestered me near
ly to death--says you complain OF
having too much to do, and that you
have to drink to keep up. It'u be
just like him to tell somebody else,
around about the chairman Of a tenn
perance meeting"
~ didn't mean to say anything to
him" replied the clerk, "but he made
me drop the shutter on my toes, and
guess that loosened my tongue lit
tie. didn't tell him anything but
the truth, though, Squire. l signed
the pledge last night, hoping you'd
help me through"
"What do you mean, George?"
asked the merchant, in tone which
defined the word conservative"
more clearly than photographer ever
did.
IL can't work 80 many hours a day
without drinking sometimes" replied
the clerk. What ask of you is to
take boy. II l could come in \
couple of hours later every morning
and there's next to nothing done In
the first two hours Of the day could
have a decent amount Of rest, not
have TO hurry 40 much, and won't
break down SO often and have to go to
whiskey to be helped up again"
"A boy would have to be paid" re-
marked the Squire in the tone he hab-
itually used when making = peniten-
tial speech in class meeting, land
here's summertime coIning-there Ii
not much business done in summer
you know"
"a boy went cost more than dol
lar week the first year" replied the
clerk, "and you'd make that out Of
the people who sometimes hare to &C
somewhere else to trade on days when
you're not here and I'm too busy ts
wait on them. There isn't so much
money made in summer, but women
| come to the store then good deal
more than they do In the winter, and
they take up an awful amount of time
Besides, the store has to be opened
about two hours earlier every morn
| ing than it does in winter"
The merchant pinched his gloomy
brow and reflected. Doughty looked
at him without much hopefulness.-
The Squire's heart might be all right
but his pocket-boOk was by far thu
more sensitive and controlling organ
At last the squire said.
"Well, if it's for yo,T good that yo,
want the boy you ought to be willing
to pay his salary. Besides-"
Excuse me, Squire Tomple," in.
terrupted Doughty, 'tisn't for m.
good alone. 'Accursed be he VIII
putteth the bottle to his brother
lips heard you quote that to NOR
than one man right in this store
That's what you're doing to me if yo
keep on. You sell half As much agai
as any other storskeeper in town, an
why because I'm smart enough t
hold custom. l haven't cared to d
anything else. I've given myself u
to making and holding custom fo
ysu, and / took to whiskey to kee
me up to my work"
"Well, haven't l paid you for a
you've done ?' demanded the propri'