Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16

resented in this way. The work is
easy enough, and the pay varies in
proportion to the clients ability TO
pay. Sometimes don't get paid any
thing; at others I occasionally earn SIS
much as three dollars in a day"
''Then why don't you stick to it
and build up business for yeurself2"
Because, as told you before. I
dislike work; besides, / have an ins
come"
''Surely you are joking9"
mot at all, although the idea no
doubt strikes you as novel. / am the
legitimate possessor by inheritance of
$50, thanks TO the generosity of
maiden aunt whom never saw. Per-
haps if | had had the pleasure of her
acquaintance [ might never have had
the $3.50. This fragment of letter
(taking out an envelope from
well-worn wallet is all that remains
to me of family association, and this
is only reminder by proxy from our
family solicitor at home But what's
the use of dwelling on bygones."
''Then [ suppose you draw your
money at stated periods9"
"Once every three months, from
the New York agent. expect to be
ia funds In day or two before start
ing for the country, although l have
known more than once what it is to
suffer the pangs of hunger when I
knew there was money waiting for
me in this city"
"CoUldn't you send for it2"
"No; [ must apply personally.
Just fancy the opportunities I have
for doing the summer resorts upon
the quarterly remittance plan. 1
guess that racket's been worked with
even less capital than I've got"
Sat all events the money keeps you
from starving"
"That all depends on my inclina-
ton. Sometimes it doesn't last more
than week, although [ have made
the .$37. sc. last as long as two months;
but it's very seldom [ get an econ~
omical fit for that length of time"
"You don't seem to have any re-
grets on account of your limited in
Gomez
whats the use of regrets? lean
enjoy nature as well as most people,
and fancy l can take as much com
fort out of the country as any one else
far more than your fashionable
folks who visit it because the custom
of society takes them there. There's
one thing, however, [ have occasion
ally noticed about the country; there's
more meanness about the ordinary
farmer than there is in q dozen city
people,"
''In what particular?"
They'd get more labor out of a
tramp and pay less for it than any
class of people [ ever saw. Talk about
dignity of labor as embodied in a
country farmer! Why, sir, that talks
the scurviest kind of rot. He has
about as much appreciation of dignity
as prize hog"
81 imagine, then, your experience
with farmers hasn't been of pleasant
nature?"
"What my experience has been has
no bearing on the general proposition.
I simply make the statement 1t is,
perhaps, needless to say that I never
work for them. I manage usually
to get what [ need from them in an
other way"
Would it be presumptuous to ask
how?'
Simply by fattering their vanity
according to the inspiration that is in
me; for by preserving an innate dig
nifty [ endeavor to make them feel
that [ am as good as they. It's tact,
and tact is just as serviceabie to me
in my line as it is to politician in
his. The average farmer never heard
of it, and that's where I fetch him
every time. You know the old French
proverb: L'GdUersite .f0it les hOn1n1e
ct Ze bO11heur les n1O11Stres. (Adver-
sity makes men but prosperity makes
monsters.) Perhaps you may have
your doubts about the truth of the
former part of the proposition as ap-
piled to my case, but yoa wouldn't
have any doubt at all as to the correct
application Of the latter part Of the
proposition as exemplifed ia farmers
as class"
SIN view Of your observations of
farmers it would be still more inter
esting TO know how you get along
with we'll educated people?"
'J avoid them, SIR"
For the first time during thls Gu
rious conversation a flush of some
thing like shame suffused the mans
features. This part of the subject
was evidently unpalatable to him.
but his confusion was only momen-
tary, aud with a CHEEKY smile he add
ed: 'I'll now take a look at the ad-
vertisements. Evidently the choice
of summer resorts is quite large. No,
I don't think shall GO to Europe this
year"