The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-02-12

the man what wants to see you. He is
sitting down now ..f..,-.-,if 80.
Sure enough it was the. big boy
from Calaveras. He arose to receive
us, and we stood looking up to him
like rats looking at an elephant 1oi
.t Il want to get a. suit LOT clothes,
came rumbling down from the sky
where his head was sticking. svas +
ii Geiger fell back into my arms inH a
dead faint. While he was coming to
1 noticed that the big boy needed a
suit rather bad. All he had on was
several window curtains and table.
cloths. iii .H7i'i ia i'-'i' ~
n The first words Geigergasped when
he revived were: 'A'- ''l' - ''.'--
HE wants suit of clothes.'
'Have you anything that'll fit me-
asked the big boy. ...-....
That riled Geiger. He thought the
fellow was making fun of him, and he
yelled:
do you think make clothes for
the Sierras and keep 'em In stock 2
tThen you must make me suit,
said the big boy. 'li 'Hss.s-.'.
Make you a suit said Geiger; why
it would cost you about three thousand
dollars, young man. 20 80
sAll right said Calaveras I must
haye suit of clothes =; besides, my pa
is rich -,
He won't be, though, if you tackle
tailor very often,' muttered Geiger.
Well, to make long story. short,
bargain was at last struck. .Geiger
was to make the suit, and the Calaver-
Gus youth was to pay one dollar yard
for the cloth, three dollars q day to
the workmen while the suit was build
ing, and all incidental expenses. He
was to pay $1,000 cash, $1,000 in two
years and the balance in three years,
to be secured by mortgage on his
fathers farm. 3oa Las ssstss
sOh, John, arn't you-' -a5
sNow, don't be skeptical, wife, I
might not have believed it myself II
I hadn't been there to see. Well, as I
was sayingAiet's see; what was say
ing? Oh, yes. Well, Geiger he sent
the boy right back to town with in
structions to bring the surveyor, but
The surveyor, Johnl What for2'
why, to take the young mans
measure, of course. The tape measure
method was clearly out of the ques.
ton, and it would have taken too long
to have scafIolded around the fellow
as you would do in painting church
steeple. 1, myself, suggested the sur
yeyor as the best and quickest way Of
having it done. Well, the surveyor
came with his tripod, compass, tran
sit, sextant and such things. He stood
Calavaras up hundred yards away,
and began to bear upon him with his
transit, right and left, taking distances
and marking angles. Geiger, who
was noting it down IN his order book
said it was the first time in his life he
ever heard the measnrer yell. AZ
feet, six inches. lis h9-91q91
Three yards, one foot ~ i.9t'o= o1 p,
'' 1.-TWO rods. twenty four inches,'ial
st took almost half a day to make
the survey, and the engineer said he
guessed the suit would fit if he hadn't
strained his instrument in taking the
distances. It was an instrument made
for surveying ordinary town lots, and
this was the first hard test it had been
put to. -. ...,.... .....I.,..--.
y well, the suit was made, but the
scaffold had to be built after all. 1t
was queer sight to see twenty tailors
on scaffolds all around that young
man, sewing away for six days. Dur
ing the job scaffolding was changed
fifty-three times. At last, when the
job was finished and the scaffolding
taken down, Geiger got mad and told
Calaveras he had better take the lum-
Der home, and next time get carpen-
ter to fence him instead of busting up
q tailor. .uss.. ts sst,
why. did it break Geiger up. John
'Just the same thing. His stock
was exhausted when the suit was done
and he closed up shop. aa .-s.-'
He got his money, though, for the
clothes? -.-r. ....f .l...ra.
Well, yes, but not without FORE
closing the mortgage and forcing the
old man Calaverous into bankruptcy.
Then the old fellow swore he'd shoot
his boy if he had cannon handy.
No need, however, t.ls
'Why?'
Because the lad died the next
spring. ....,
tOf what2' ''.
He growed so fat one day that he
split open like a roasted chestnut.
That was the day when the greatest
windstorm ever known on the Pacific
Slope swept over California,
And John
Yes, DEAR ...... .r,......
Was this young man Christian p
He was born Christian. but
whether he outgrowed it couldn't
say. f.I..., ......l-.....-
Do you think he went to heaven?
No doubt of it-that is, he went
there but whether he got in is anoth-
er question. Ill bet st. Peter had to
unlock the carriage-gate or lay down
twenty panel of fence if the young
man became an inmate of that country
When l go up there 1 shan't be one bit
surprised to find Calaveras' spirit
camping on the commons just outside
the walls. Oh-a-yah,' yawned John,
tguess I'll go to bed. t'. h'
St' Do, dear. You must be so tired,
murmured Mrs. Sanscript.
Children are often puzzled by ques-
tiOns which are not understood, by