The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-07
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 ruined oy mixing politics vith then bus sons which each fAiiare ought to give are thrown away on business men, tcr each yeAx knds more men entering poll tics and consuming time and brains thai ousiness sAould have. The editor of the Sss speaks teelinsly on tAis matter from having failed almost disastrously On Ais 6rst entry into b0siness circles, at :he age cf twelve years, simply by mixing politics tn . business that would have been pro ncunced . suecezs had the politics been ieft out. It was during the kan.as ex- citement, when the country vas worked up over the question as to whether kan- sas should be free or slave state. X circus vas advertised to show at Waite water, and the boy. who no~ ~ieids the the pen on this paper. decided 10 go into ousaness tor one day oaly. and make quantity of money with a lemonade stand on the sidewalk. There is probably no boy w,th any business in him bas has 4, some time run a lemonade stand, and had visions of wealth and . prosperous future rise up before him from such a small beginning None of the boys have ever made much money, but they have got experience. The writer sot more ex. perience that c,rcus day than he could shake off in . lifetime, and the lessons had purioined for Assnt behind the coun- ter improvissd of dry goods boxes. can never be forgotten For that occasion he coneoe,ed wash tub full ot cider hy soaking dusd apples in water and squeea- ing out the Julce. putting n sugaI and other ingredients. that was we'll calculated to deceise. Relieving tha, the circus going people of Whitewater vas above plain lemonade, he spared no expense to prepare beverage out of dried apples that could leave noshing to wish for. h order to test It. and demonstrate that IL would pass tos cider, he drank several quarts of the mixture. and let other boys sample it, and the unanimous verdict was that If 1t was not cideS, what in thua- der was itg There was an old fellow around town named John Friday, who used 10 have its. and every body fel, sorry for him. He was invited 10 take dnnk of the cider, just to get his unbiased opinion of the merits of the beverage The new business man wanted to thos- oughiy test his goods before throwing them on the market. Friday drank A couple of glasses os the cider when sn expression ot astonishmeut took posses- sion of his face, he gasped a couple of times and then vent into . ht right in front of the tent. A ero~d collected. and t seemed as though Fridays tt was going 10 be big advertisement for the new business house, when some enemy started the report that the man ~As pois- oned by drinking some of the s,uf tor sale in the tent. and there vas talk of mobbing the concern. But better eoun. sel prevailed owing to the efforts of the village constable, who was an uncle of the new business man. The man Friday was removed to the rear of the tent, where he proceeded with his it. though the fAo, that he commenced that fit right in front i of the business place of his benefAeior, VII, had treated hln to the cider, created eoldness between them tha, was only healed by time.
 i The young business man hoi,ted red flag over his grocery, on which VAS pasted large yellow letters. cut from Il i fourth of july poster, as folloss: "k m sas Mus, and Shall he free." Oieours- he did not expec, to free kansas. though the cider. if fired into the prc -.lAvery party Jud.oiously. would have done much ! to accomplish that result. The ,dea was to attract the attention of circus goefs to the place Of business. by ,ensa,ionai methods, and As kansAs was the one thing people were thinking about, Inc device was used. lt was a great mistake. one of the greatest mistakes of the youag life. As the circus procession moved by ! the grocery, no attention va, paid 10 trade. and somebody sneaked in behind the tent and stole a lot of pennies that had been provided Gos change, a big. footed county fellow fell over the guy ropes, and knocked half the tent down into the cider, and the sheet had 10 be wrung out to save the cider. Everything seemed to % wrong. The only bright spot during the day, was when old Deacon Potts, an old aboiissoniss, vas a.- tsacted by the sign, and came up to pafronise the young business man, who was not afraid to nad his colors to the mast. |, will be hard job to fosges the old deacon, as he called for q glas. of cider. and pulled out one of tAose old twisted leather purses and produc ced the pennies to pay for IL. Meyer will the ex- precision oo his face, as he swallowed the first mouthful of the dried apple cider, be forgotten. He looked disappointed, and plainly showed that he vas martys to his political oonvictioas, bat he vas bound to go through his part of the pro- gramme, aad drank the cider to the dsegs, beczuse he had paid fog iG The deacon did not have . if in fSons of the teat, though the cider dispenser conhdently expected such . resuIl but the deacon did 20 home real spry for aa old man, and was not sen again that day. and the next day at school his grasddaughies said her grand6ther vas sick all night from excitement over the circus. This is the first that the world will know that the eolic oi Deacon Potts, during the Kaasss tYsubaep, was owing to his dissspssioas 6is taking to drink to encourage young aboliiioasss. The deacoo's encourage ment, and thas of good old Bspssse