The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-11

'whether he would like to leave You here, and
how YOU would like TO go into the shops, and
learn, before you are y man, how we silver
steel, how We melt and mold silver, and how
We make the knives aud forks and spoons for
hungry people"
"And l said. to Uncle Nahum. y said Mr.,
Throop, that you should como to him II YOU
chose. But l said Won ware a New York boy.
and perhaps You would like betssr 10 go BIS cki
with me Tomorrow. ! can not take you into
the bank we have nothing for, boys to do there,
But / can find some one who will teach you
what your friend Milkrip never taught you,
and you seem already not to lilo and not to
stesl.h
Then followed q long talk with which the
reader need not be troubled. But it was pretty
clear all along where the boys affections were.
great city whose streets lie knew only too well.
The two gentlemen nodded to each other, and
Mr.. Hume said:
New York it shall be, my boy; to sysa YoK
'You are not mad Wit, mc?" ssfd- Dick,
turning eagerly to Uncle Nahum. 'You have
been SO kind. l will do just as you say"
mo, Dick / am not mad at all. l say just
what he says Go to New York and grow to be
a man there; and when You are q man, Dick,
look out Cor the little fellows who want .
home" asN HH .Nts Ea HH'
y--TnE SHAH.
And go Dick went 10 New York. All, mel, il
he would only take time enough to-day only to
tell the story of what fell 10 his 10. not so many
years afterward. Gil Bias himself could not
tell u more varied tale!
The smallest errand boy in the largest
wholesale grocery in the city. 1t WAS hard for
Dick to get that sensa OF the AVE- without
which such u concern never really prospers.
1t WAS not in ono month, nor in two, that Dick
learned TO say, "Wc telegraphed to-day for
twenty cargoss of coffee bur the store was in
gool training, and in time Dick learned this
trick as well as the bigger BOYS had learned it.
Everybody in theory meant eGgbe kind to-
him. As often as once q monfhs Mr.. Roche,
the junior partner, TO whom MsAA ulnse had
iutrusted him, remembered to aek him how he
was getting on, and il he had a good boarding
house. After u wear John Roche, u son, came
into the store. He took to Dick, took n fancy
to him, saw to the boarding houss, hadtDick in
his own Sunday school class. wrote to Mr..
Brace about an evening school, aud in genera!
saw that the boy did not soitu the dogs. John
Roche, under Providenca, was the making of
Dick, and the boy grew up a ready thrifty.
kind hearted, willing boy. a boy whom no one
could spare, who, helped along where he wa,
who did not make reply, aud did not question
why, but found out I'LL the moro because he
did not question. @
A sad day it was for Dick when John Roche
made his first voyage to the East p
sDick," he said, 81 am going 10 see our own
coffee people. l am going 10 see where coffee
grows, and how"
.Oh, Mr.. Roche, take mc?"
"Dick, that was tine first thing l proposed.
/ ADu MT. bdlcStl6E really tuOuPut Oh III. l. nOpou
you conld come. But they sent for old Portman
here, and he said that the could not do without
you. He said that since young Sweeney
ran. away he could not spare yon. l said it Vas
hard on you that you should lose the voyage;
aud that all ends by this: you are to have 4
hun 'red o year added to your pay from the
first of last month, aud at Christmas another
lift. But, Dick, you know that ! shall miss you
sadly, and YOU must writs to me. And what
shall l bring you? l would say cheroots, if
you smoked. - - .t - .TE Il.
Bring yourself. Mr.. John. and a feather
from a roc's ta'l." b.. i1e.
Dick, you shall have the largest roc's egg l
find"
And so John Roche sailed, and Dick was left
behind. All the better for him, Now he was
nobody's pct He was an important factor in
the concern Old Portman had been made to
confess his importance; that was u great thing.
! Mr. Balestier had learned his name; that in
Itself was u gr at thing. From that moment
Dick was on his feet III the store. FN"
And from the beginning no ono IN the estab-
iishmont had more letters from John Roche, or
fuller, than Dick had
! And when John Roche returned, when Dick
met him at quarantine TO come up thebay with
him in the ship, was not csch of them proudsof
the other? IL
ssDick, !" said Mr. John, after the first greet
ing, II believe | have made your fortune"
II hope you have made your own said the
tov.
Dick, l was back in North Borneo, the
W1tueSl region Won GVt / saw. n ruin Oh calal,
with eaven knows how many Black tnen in line
nf battle, maie II swell dinner party for me and
FORESTER and aaL 1t was tho right.thihg for us
all to carry present. OF com plimcnt One man
took . reSolyag. and one took q set of chessmsn.
Poor me, / did not know what to take; but
Forester said The. rajah would like your new.
\ pattern for q mousetrap. We'll, / knew it would
please you 10 have The thing go so far, So,
though it WAS your present to MEL took that"
please me- cried Dick: II tnink 80! But
since YOU went away / have had no heart tor.
that. You told me to take out a patent, but l
have d me nothing. " ,f-+..,. xa.. rs4,.t
Lime for that now" replied John Roche.
II tell you, Dick, your fortune is made. We
eh,wed tue black kx,ng how to set it with little
scraps OF lump sugar, as You taught M.
Well, We all went to bed early that night IN
the old sachem's hacienda. And, DickT l
s ~ss full to you Of ' sosAr "ssi m'F" %S.,s tss' s sssg
not know. This l kuow-that his COCK
reaches are as big as mice. While they were
rampagiug round i'll your trap, and nibbling at
sprang the thing, and 80 calghgt, themselves
aud a hundred or SO OF their mothers and
graudmothcrs all together. Dick, the nest
week this shah, or rajah, or sultan, or what
ever he is, sent down TO tho ship, oh, 1 do mol
know how much cinnaman. to say he wanted a
thousand of the American Snapdragons' l
sent word that we had nome left, but that a
thousand should 80 out TO him as soon as l
Z TttuGueu. ana now III EeeulS ,Ulak you nave
not even a patent, Dick"
But, as some readers may recollect if they
will try, a sufficient patent was soon obtained.
What South American country seat, what
palace in Maiag. scar, what elegant HACIENDA IN
the Philippines, is now without ''the Shah's
Christmas box
For this was the name at last given to Dicks
clever contrivauce. They studied over several.
One was tho llajah's Repose,".en was saahs
sultan . Soiace, one was the nahe tAe ltSah
called it, "the American Snapir&4n.p "
But Dick wen. foaaly back to &fl,at Niast
Christmas, of which the reaier has heard. As
no said that tho experiment. was first tried by
the ''si,ah of Persia and that ''rhe Shah's
ChIistmas-box' it should be.
So "The yShah's, Christmas hex it is. ~
And SO this little story approaches its end.
Hume who' gave the shah to iDIGK, WHO, 1T 10
proved, SC changed DICKS life that he became
tie great ~ioSen,orlttlat he is, iau1nercr asnc-
cessful coffee merchant, as he seemed likely
to do. p..tt,t .F ~ r],yt;i(,D o4y =,
Atleast people Gay it was The shah.
Truth is, i was al in Ilio boys b ie1. Ihs
shah was tho first sIcc ssh it-eif a very
trivial matiefg But, really, every jib:key and
cutoff aud smoke consumer, and overy vafuabfe
eccentric or double reacting combination, which
has spruus sfrom that quick creatures READY
brain. all the relief which his quick wis have
given to tired hands or weary feet,
every prompt answer which has coma from
him when a fast aud eager world has asked
him for hs help, has beeu born from the same
native passion to act and to oblige-promptly,
swiftly and VIC -which earned for iiW sa.is
thraehing from Mickiiss, .hich carried to Mice
her doll at whatever risk, and which, atAhe
right moment, made q muuse-trap from q
checker board.
A great inventor tho boy became.
When he invents a way to make time, and so
sits down TO write that story which, as above,
is to eclipse Gil Bias. he Will tell you more
than | can. He will tell us how, even as n little