The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-07-18

take twenty-five thousand ooli<rs for
the patent"
Daniel rubbed his head. ~ s'p'oss
not, sir. lou-you won't mind accept
ing q little money from me, Miss
Polly, for tho time you couldn't work on
account OF your hands? ',lt lin sorry
what are you doing?"
Polly was unfastening q jar OF pickles
She turned around. 1T Is q cover "a
ther liked for me because II was such
hard work 70 unscrew tho Others. You
press on this spring. you see. and Il
slips right of. Its ever SO much easier
than the old way. Why. what's the
mattcr?.r
She was hardly prepared for the ex.
element with which Mr.. Latha.a
sprang to his feet my land. my
land'" he exclaimed. Here you and
your father have been puttcring along
for months, not knowing from one day
70 another where the next meal was 70
come from, and right here using an in
vention worth a whole fortune in itself.
Heavens and earth, want there M
body 70 tell you abou. it?~
Mr.. Spriggs laid down the wrench he
had been using. do you mean the can
Govern be asked. calmly. II did think
OF Il, but IL wouldn't be gcod for any
thing you wanted 70 keep air tight.
You-~
Air tight?" interrupted tho me-
chanic. .Air tight? And do you mean
q say q man who's got such a taste for
inyentlng machines with one thousand
five hundred parts 70 them didn't know
enough 20 put a rubber around and
make i air tight. That's the invention.
Miss Polly. and ! bet my bottom dollar
IL makes your fortune"
''Wa.al. il docs beat all what luck
some people have" observed Jim Bates
20 the usual audience at the store, a few
months later. NOW. there's John
spriggs ben workin' fur years at sew
ing-machincs. an cyclometcrs an half
a dozen other inventions that neger
brought him in a cent. and when he hit
on a can cover. that any Of Us could hayH
fixed il we'd only thought ont. hes
offered six thousand dollars fur tho
patent the first thing. six thousand
dollarsi ! wouldn't believe it If hs
hadn't told me SO himself. 'Spriggs'
Patent Cans they're going to call
them
'Polly's Patent Cans. thought to be-
piped the storekeeper- They say he'd
never done a thing about it if IL hadn't
BEN fur Latham's thinking Of the rub
Der. an If IL hadn't ben fur Polly he'd
never hey concerned himself with
Spriggs' inventions. OF Spriggs either.
They're going into partnership now. he
an Latham. an cackelate to make a
mint o money. But twas Polly started
it in the first place
AN its my opinion Polly had the
biggest interest In II" grinned the post
master. Her fathers peryided fur
now, m nothin' to hinder her marryin'
when She wants to; an you can't make
me believe they're movin' into the city
jest 70 be near Dan'l Latham. Not so
long as Polly's BEN writin' letters to
George Remington. New York City
ever since she come from there in the
spring. wa-al." refiectivcly. lit amt
much 70 invent a can cover. any way;
tat ! guess wnat credit there is to il be-
longs more to Polly than it does to
Spriggs.~
That's So" assented the crowd. But
Jerr.v Tolles, seated in the corner. paid
no attention 70 these derogatory com
mentS, Il alters said the boy would
noun TO somethin' yit,r he chucklcd,
srmbling for his pipe.-Leslie's Illus.
trated Newspaper.