The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1892-12-07
etc, and / will come afterward and

Il think two or three days out I
had to stay over night at place
where they charged shilling for a
supper, shilling for lodging and
sixpence for breakfast. l explained
the arrangement for payment and
took my book out to enter the
amount of the bill, but the man
who kept the house declared with
an oath that he would not have any
thing of the kind,
You don't know this man, said
he. He has failed three times. You
have got the money, l know you
have, and 1 want my bill
had not cent, and pulled my
pockets out to show him had not,
and I said:
You must trust me- He Answer
ed:
We'll, I will trust you, but I won't
trust him
This had such an effect upon me,
continued Mr.. Gould, that it SEEM
ed to me AS if the world had come
to an end that day. I did not know
where I was to get dinner and I did
not try until long after 3 o'clock af-
ter this rebuff. / was naturally a
timid boy and it had Il great effect
on me then debated about throw
ing up the whole engagement, but
went out and had a good cry where
nobody could see me. Then l got
down and prayed and l felt better
afterward. SO I made up my mind
to go ahead-maie up my mind to
die in the last ditch. was hungry
and decided to go into the first
house l came to and get something
to eat, and 1 did So The woman
treated me kindly, gave me some
bread and milk, and when went
away l told her to enter it down. In
the meantime her husband came in
and had got about four rods away
from the house when I heard him
halloing after me. With the morn
ing S scare III my mind I thought
that he was going to finish me
laughter, but lie said: 1 want you
to come back and make me a noon
mark / don't know whether you
know what that Is?
Yes, I know" said Senator Blair,
'but explain to these gentlemen
what it is
1T is line north and SOUTH y
said Mr.. Gould, "by which the farm
ers can regulate their clocks, the
sun being due south at noon. I went
back with lny compass anS made him
n noon mark, and when 1 got
through he asked me how much was
to pay. I said Nothing
o, yes, said he. I want to pay
you:our surveyor always charges 81.
The food I had eaten was / shil-
hug and he paid me Z shillings, the
balance of the dollar. This gave me
an idea aud from this time I went
on and paid my expenses making
noon marks for the farmers. When
I had flushed my survey the man
who employed me failed and could
not pay me, but there were two 9TH
er journeymen he had employed to
make the surveys and l proposed te
them to go on and finish the map.
They decided to do so, but they
wanted their names to do it alone ]
said: Very well. I will sell out to
you,' and I sold out my interest in
the map for $500.
/ This was the first m ey I evel
earned went on and helped them
finish the map, SO that I sold out
my interest in perfected map. ]
then went forward with this little
sum and made similar surveys Of a..
bany and Delaware counties and
made up my mind to go alone They
, yielded me very well and I soon &C
cumuiated $1,000. At that tim.
t while I was carrying on these sur
r veys. I mean a gentleman who seem
ed to take fancy to me-one Zado,
Pratt, of Prattvi!le, and who owned
S one of the largest tanneries III III
. co:,nfry T had fI0yf,s snfns. s,-r-za--;r,t