Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-10-18

didn't have to buy no moro n,ee,..
after that until got married-nigh on to ten
years"
"If it's as expensive Is that, I'm not going"
said Phil, looking very solemn and lightning
to reconstruct the demolished stack.
'Yes, you are, sir III have you under.
stand you're not much over age yet, an. have
got to mind your Old father Now, let that
corn alone. If it won't stay down, sit on it
this way-see." And, suitiDg the action to
the word, the old man sprawled at ease on
the fallen fodder, dragged his son down after
him and said:
You shall have hundred dollars to star.
with, and more afterward, if you neal it, as
lAnow YOU will The first thing to do when
you get to the cityis to goto tile Gest looking
,lothing store you can find, and buy a suit
such as you SEQ well dressed men wearing to
business Keep your eyes open on men as
sharply as if they were HOSES and clothes
were their only points and then see that you
get as good clothes rs any Of them. 1t don't
matter SO much about the stuff; but have
your clothes fit you, an cut like other peo
PIES"
I 81 don't want to put on city airs" said Phil
That's right-that's right; but city clothes
and city airs aren't any more alike than
country airs an good manners. You may
be the snartest, brightest young fellow that
ever went to York-as of course you are,
bein' my son-but folks at York'll never find
/ it out if you don't dress properly-that means,
dress as they do I'll trade watches with
you, to trade back after the trip; mine is
( gold, you know You'll have to buy a decent
! chain, though"
! Il won't take your watch. father can't;
that's all about it"
! "No1sensel of course you can If you try.
! 1t isn't good manners to wear silver watches
/ in the city"
"But your watch Phil could get no
| further, for his fathers gold watch was VEN
Grated by the family as if it were a May
/ flower chair or the musket of q soldier of the
| Revolution Once while old farmer IIayn
was young Capt. Hayn, of the whaling ship
| Lou Ann, he saved the crew of sinking
| British bark Unlike modern ship captains
| twho do not own their vesselsl, he we went in
the boat with the rescuing party instead of
merely sending it out, and he suffered SO
much through exposure, strain and the fear
of the death which seemed impending that he
abandoned the sea as soon thereafter as pos
sible. Nevertheless he thought only of the
work before him until he had rescued the
imperile,l crew and slowed them safely in his
| own ship.
| The circumstances of the rescue were so un-
usual that they formed the subject of long
columns in foreign newspapers; and in a few
months Capt. Hayn received through the
state department at Washington q gold
watch, with sundry complimentary papers
from the British admiralty The young sea
| oil Nf I'LL
first learned of the presentation by coming
their favorite weekly newspapers; ncverthe-
less the papers were framed and hung in the
| young captains bedchamber, and, however
carelessly he dressed afterward, nobody ever
saw him when he had not the watch in his
| pocket.
Father" said Phil, after some moments
spent In silence and facial contortion, ~
can't take your watch. even for little while
You've always worn it, it's your-the fami
| ly's-patent of nobility"
SWELL" said the old farmer, after contem
| plating the toes Of his boots few seconds
II don't mind ownin' up to my oldest son
that look at the old watch in about the same
light; but a patent of nobility is disgrace to
family if the owners heir isn't fit to inherit
it. Sect Guess you'd better make up your
mind to break yourself into your comm re-
sponsibilities by carryin' that watch in New
York Wonder what time 'tsf'
The question was a good pretext on which
to take the patent Of nobility" from his fob
pocket and look at it. He did it in way
which caused Phil quickly to avert his face
and devote himself wi.h great industry to
stacking corn. Half minute later the old
man, cutlass In hand, was cutting corn as if
bis life dcpended upon it.
To be continued.