The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-05-18

sf.econa shirt had btassaasbout the
first shirt, Is his back. Jobs turkey
wasn't IN II with Jerry allus used to
call him Jerry s@p The spd "a cali me
Hirall There warn't no mistera he
tween us them days. Some Of Won
poy4 think yourselves smart, Init there's
none q ysacould hold : candle q, Jmre--
mlan horton. No, SIR. Last lection.
when there was talk Of running jerry
ZOE guvhen knowed~ Jerry vonldn;t
take no snDmination. WHAT did IA
care about being guvnor? Why, Jerry
l'olton could buy the hull state eff he
wanted to-. :,
Most OF the governors have to do
that said bvstander.
well, Jerry amt that kind of man.
Fact is, they don't build men like Mr..
Bolton nowadays. Why. remember
eleven years ago, before Jerry took out
his patent. an he was feelin, kind q,
discouraged, I says to him: Never YOU
mind. Jerry, your times a-comin'.
ou'A be. able tog5buys out the county
some OF these days Why, there wasn't
man in this town believed in jerry
but me, There was old Deacon swines
gam that's dead and gone. He used to
@y tome: Hiram, can't imagine what
ne devil you see in: that wuthless coot,
Asrry Bolton Tia deacon. used. to
swear JUST q rfttle. cause He'd been
lumb erman once, and a man has to
swear when he's bringin' down a raft.
put he never knew he swore, and no
body liked totelly him, and him dea.
con: Why, the preacher. he used to-"
ny, ,,Mh Re,. did !, you say to the deacon
"oh. says to him: Deacon, you're
~ gaGht at sesin, thing that's right
under your nose, but you're no good at
dealin' with the future
THE preacher ahttenaedsto futurity,
suppose"
jess so,7 Jess So But the deacon
could never see why l took such trouble
with Jerry, but knowed ho wasn't no
common kind of man. He had q way
OF lookin' past you and of not hearin'
what person was sayin' to him
| that
Lucky manv'
Exactly. He was always a-studyin'
and a-studyin' in his mind. We used to
talk about his patent, and, though he
neverd tell what he was fgurin' on,
you could tell which way his mind was
turned sHiram,' he used to saw to me,
great inventions, like the air brake and
the telegraph and the standard oil COM
Pany, they's only thought out once in a
life time. 1t takes big man to invent
Them sort Of things, and I'm only q
small man, Hiram He was always q
modest man, was jerry"
| THAT was because he was so much
in your company" Z
| "Well, anyhow he used to say that
| what he wanted to invent would be
some little thing that every body would
want to have and couldn't do without
once they had it, and that wouldn't
cost much, and wouldn't last long, and
yet would pay fifty per cent. to the
maker of it. Hiram he used to say to
me, If soap wasn't invented, that's
what would like to invent~and get a
patent on He never could have lived,
eft it hadn't been for me. Lived in a
house I owned at that4tim and most
they got to eat come off my farm. l
never bothered him about no rent nor
pay, and when he was troubled about it
I used to slap him on the back and say:
You wait till your ship comes in"
didn't he pay the mortgage on your
farm, Hiram?''
'WeH, that S neither here nor there
That's private matter 'twixt him and
me. Besides, it was like this: put
that mortgage on, to get the money for
his patents"
""Why. it was in the papers that the
man from New York put up the cash.
Nov young man, you keep your
shirt on, and don't be too smart.
didn't need to use no money for that,
because brought Jerry, the man from
New York. Twas me introduced 'em.
The man from New York made a good
enough thing out of it, and he can
thank me fur it, not that he's ever done
it,"
but Jerry was grateful"
"You bet he was. And he didn't
want to hurt my feelings nuther. His
wife she came to my wife with the pa
pers that Jerry had bought up and she
says to my wife: Hiram was good to us
when we was poor, and so you give hirt
these ERE papers fur present. Then
Jerry's wife, thinkin' of the hard times,
suppose, she breaks down and cries,
and my wife she keeps her compa my,
and them two women had a good cry
together"
''Over your goodness, Hiram, l sup
pose" -
! "Well, that's neither here nor there.
Jerry knows who backed him up when
it was hard sleddin' fur him, and now,
by gum, he's rich enough to buy us all
out and never feel it, and has big
house in New York. allus said that's
what he would come to, and eft the dea-
con was alive, he'd tell you the same