Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-03-24

ing a thirteenth Of n cord zach, aud one
oi those boxes retails at thirtv.three
cents. Over 1000 OF these boxes have
been sold and ] 300 more are rendy to
supply The demand. which Is increasing
daily. The Lafayette and Colonnade
Hotels receive all their kindiiuu wood
from this yard, and n good trade among
private families is being gradually built
up w II. Magilton, tSe MANAGER of
the yard. keeps q list OF ali men sent
there, together with AN account OF the
date OF each man application. his trade
or business, the length of time the ap-
rleapi worked fAy.his last efnpIoyer
has habits and whether he appeared 10
deserve help or not.
These books show that w. H. Brown
worked fourteen years for one railroad
company, got tired, quit, idled a year;
concluding 10 resume work, visited the
wood pile, when lac changed his mind
and resolved not 10 do anything until
he Ends q position where labor will be
light and the remuneration handsome.
John Day worked thirty years for one
man md then a spirit Of idleuess came
over HIM aud for two or three years he
has done almost nothing. lie drinks
and doesn't Ike TO push saw through
pine wood even II he does make an
honest living BY it. IL took Lewls
Netn twenty-une years to find out that
he didn' like his employer aud that his
wages as shoemaker would not allow
h,m 10 live like ROthschild After
idiing some months he viewed the wood
ricks, examined the saw buck, borrow
cd chew of tobacco and has been gone
two weeks in search OF n bacon rind to
grease his saw with. James Mooney,
after working for seventeen years for
Camden contractor, discovered that
Stone-cuiting is poor trade. He pro.
fcrrod the free aud independent lifo OF
a yagranti but a'ter summering IN the
Berks County Jail, being perforated by
bird-shot In Jersey hen-roust, and
spending thirty DAYS in the House of
Correction. he went down and
had talk with Mr. Magilton about
the Utopian happiness wood sawyer
enjoys. He promised TO begin work in
the yard as soon as he "gut rested ="
The scales fell from Thomas j. Jones
eyes after he painted houses and signs
eleven years in Paterson. New Jersey.
Iio tramped four years aud turned up
az the woodward one day last week
ambitions 10 work like steam saw
mill. He slashod through two small
sticks and then made his escape by
c,ambeiing over back fence A few
mornings ago one fellow begged Mr..
MagiitUn TO allow him TO earn iifty cents
Ia order that ne might have money
enough 10 90 on fishing expedition.
In pressing his case he said: IL don't
care TO work more than a day, but
must do that for | met the fellows last
night, who told me trout were biting
like fury up the country. and wouldn't
miss good days fishing for all the
work in the world. His request was
granted, and after receiving the money
and buying few hooks and line, and
spending The remainder for proyender,
he started 70 walk to Bethlehem, near
whore, to use his own language, he
"knows the boss trout pond of the
State. These cases are fair samples
of about scyenty-dve per cent, of those
who apply, but wood savings is not easy
work, aud the tranps aud loafers soon
leave. -Phitaieighn Times,