The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-21

merely reaping the fruits Of his labor
The genius who first discovered tn,
fact that butter could be counterfeitet
successfully by manipulation ofscrap
from the butchers block, is Q poor devi
living in q Jersey howell now, while for
tunes are being made on oieomar garine
He was paid for tho idea, he says. ant
was content at the time to take $20t
for it.
When the survivors of the Army o
Virginia came North this Spring, ant
several of them were entertained by thu
army oftheP Potomac veterans, the writel
met q Virginian named Lick, at whose
residence an army corps commander hat
made his headquarters during the winter
Of 1862. Lick, who was really a guerilla
regularly enlisted figured during tn,
winter as an honest noncombatant, stay
at-home farmer, and did some gooc
spying service for his side; but that il
immaterlal now-it was all forgotten
and forgiven in the touching of glasse.
and clasping of hands at q grand Army
campfire. The guerilla Johnny" il
reconstructed and the triumphant
"Yank" is satisfied. AS this Lick stood
in front of the Fifth avenue hotel one
day .during these reconstruction festiv'
tiles, a tramp staggered up oand spoke
to him, and after a brief confab gave
the ragged. bloated object a $40 green
back, and he futtered away around the
corner of T~wenty-third street.
"Don't you know him?" said the reb
returning to us.
Know him" What do you take u.
for-tramps?" we calculated laughing
ly.
well, he was n of your men, sah,'
replied the Southron with a maliciou.
little smile.
Gone of our menu"
Eyes; he was an orderly on the stat
of your general who stopped so long a
my house. He was an INVENTOR
genus" u.
"Oh! That fellow that would ge'
drunk?"
Eyes. You remember him now
Well, the general didn't mind hi.
drunkenness. He kept him at head
quarters"
"Yes, because he was handy anG
adroit."
II know. He used to invent things
For instance, he invented a corkscrew
that pulled a cork without any effort
1t was considered a toy by him, but the
general had an agent and partner SO
cure q patent for himself all the same,
And then in one of his crazy drunken
moments the orderly made an ingenious
walking doll"
"And that was patented, tool"
"Yes-by tine general, through 8
third party. And the genius kept il
up all through that winter. He invent,
ed 9 new cavalry bit, a novel holster
a trick cigar case, and numerous me
chanical toys"
"All of which were patented"
by the general"
We'll, what then?"
II lost sight of you Yanks in the SO
cial circle when the spring campaign
opened, and didn't meet the orderly
again until a couple Of years ago wher
he reeled into my store in Richmond
and introduced himself to me. He wa.
strapped-hadn't q dollar, and wa.
tramping to New York. Every time
come to this city he meets and strikes
me-"
"And the general?"
Hes among you still. He's rich
away up at the top of the tree-a mil
lionaire-soldier, and consequently
great patriot"
He has made his fortune on the in
ventions Of the orderly?"
Dust so, the money keeps pourin
in"
"And the genius who conceived thes
ideas-what does he get?"
"Oh, he gets left. You saw him jus
now-he's q wreck, a drunken, hall
starved tramp"
"But why doesn't che General d
something for him?"
sob, the general doesn't know hir
and declines to be introduced"
"And that is the difference betwee
the genius and the fly man of th
world?" 4
"You betit is, every time," said th
reconstructed. Heaven preserve GU
children from being geniuses. As til
governor of North Carolina said to tn
governor of South Carolina, gentle
men-n
And at the bar the assembled heroe
and veterans pledged themselves owe
the flowing bowl to stamp out all symp
toms of genius in the natures of thei
children and their children's children