The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-22
COUNTRY LUCK
BY JOHN HABBERToN,
Author of ''HeIen's Babies Etc.
Copyrighted 1ippincott Company Eubsh and Pub
Hshed by Permission, through the

ST it's as expensive as that, I'm not going,
said Phil looking very solemn and beginning
20 reconstruct the demolished stack.
eyes, you are, sir I'll 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, suiting 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 start
with, and more afterward, if you need it, as
l know you will The first thing to do when
you get to the cityis to go to the best looking
clothing store you can find, and buy suit
such as you see well dressed men wearing to
business Keep your eyes open on men as
sharply as if they were bosses and clothes
were their only points, and then see that you
get as good clothes as any Of them. 1t don't
matter so much about the stuff; but have
your clothes fit you, an cut like other peo-
PIES"
81 don't want to put on city airs, said Phil
That's right-tnat'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 rs they do. I'll trade watches with
you, to trade back after the trip; mine is
gold, you know You'll have to buy decent
chain, though
81 won't take your watch, father. can't
that's all about it"
'Nonsensel of course you can if you try.
1t isn't good manners to wear silver watche;
in the city"
'But your watch Phil could get nc
further; for his fathers gold watch was ven
Grated by the family as if it were May
flower chair or the musket of soldier Of the
Revolution. Once while old farmer HayI
was young Capt. Hayn, of the whaling ship
Lou Ann, he saved the crew of sinking
British bark Unlike modern ship captain:
(who do not own their vessels, he we went in
the boat with the rescuing party instead OF
merely sending it out, and he suffered SC
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
imperiled crew and slowed them safely in hi:
own ship.
The circumstances of the rescue We're so un
usual that they formed the subject of lone
columns in foreign newspapers; and in few
months Capt Hayn received through the
state department at Washington a golC
watch, with sundry complimentary paper
from the British admiralty. The young sea
man never talked of either; his neighbour
first learned of the presentation by coming
their favorite weekly newspapers; neverthe
less the papers were framed and hung IN thu
young captains bedchamber, and, however
carelessly he dressed afterward, nobody eve
saw him when he had not the watch in hi
pocket.
Father" said Phil, after some moment
spent in silence and facial contortion, g
can't take your watch, even for little while
You've always worn it; it's your-the fami
lys-patent of nobility"
''Wen, u said the old farmer, after contem
plating the toes of his boots few seconds
Il don't mind ownin' up to my oldest sol
that look at the old watch in about the sam
light; but patent of nobility is disgrace t
= family if the owners heir isn't fit to inheri
. it. See! Guess you'd better make up you
'>mind to break yourself into your comm re
sponsibihties by carryin' that watch in New
York Wonder what time 'tis?"
The question was good pretext on whcl
to take the patent of nobility from his fol
pocket and look at it. He did it in a wa.
which caused Phil quickly to avert his fac
and devote himself with great industry t
stacking corn Half minute later the oil
man, cutlass in hand, was cutting corn as
his life depended upon 1t.