Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-09-16
A TRUTHFUL MAN
Ho would Not Romance Even In Telling
His Lies Sorrows.

Ho Would Not Romance Even In Telling
Ills LIES sorrows
He wasn't tramp exactly. but he
was nearly one. He had struck tho
merchant for a dollar and the mer-
chant was rather interested in him,
says the Detroit Free Press
II don't see, he said, ''why you
60 about asking for money or help.
You are an intelligent man and /
should think you could get something
better to do"
II don't know about that. was the
Respondent rejolnder. The Lord
knows tried hard enough 20 get
along before / lost my heart en-
tirely"
"What did you do?n
We'll, little Of everything. l
had some money and thought I'd
70 10 raising rico in South Carolina
and show these people down there
how 10 do il right. He was a nice
looking man from New York. and
liked his style, He liked my style.
too, he said, and would sell me tho
exclusive right to handle his stun in
south Carolina Ii was something
new. a seed that could not Do exposed
to the light, bur that would yield
three times as much as the old
varieties. That was what ! was
looking for, and very quietly / took
It IN, paying 500 for the right and
four sealed cans Of seed. did all
the work al night. and when IL was
/ finished | sat down 10 walt and 10
chuckle over my enterprise. But |
waited and waited and nothing came.
and one day | looked into the old
cans and found had been stuck with
some mean little wheat grains and
you might as well Try - raise icicles
Ia the bad place as - raise wheat In
South Carolina rice swamp
That was bad luck, said the SYM
pathizing merchant
$50 thought, and / left the state
and went 20 raising eat.!e Ia Western
Kansas liala't more than got ms
( herd set ont before u cyclone came
along ami blew every horn 81 4, clear
over into the next county. and when
. Weaal A4th"H atA Haaf a q H'HHaaH Wv
boy. who had gathered them In with
his own. informed me that they had
been sent % him by Providence and
he'd ike 90 see any son u o gun try
81 take them away As he bad d
I Winchester aud lot % friends with
/ him didn't SEQ my way clear % Ia.
;ertcrng with tho ways Il Prov
iieuce. ana left the country
"lts pretty hard whca Providence
7 goes against d man, ycutared tho
mcrchaa, kindly.
.Ycs. but that isn't all sighed
the diseon-glata ono with what
/ little / had lei, ! went % pcnnsyl-
+ yanie and bought watcrpOacr grlst
mill in the mining regions fixed
II up with ncw machinery. and FOR
awhile IL looked as 70 M luck had
7 changed and was going 10 come out
on top q last. But onr night big
mine lying under tho stream that
gave me ms mill power caycl III or
sunk down just enough 20 change tho
lay o! the land. and by gum tho
water began % rgn the other way.
and when | got 90 .hc mil. IN tho
morning the water ggte4 wcre open.
the stream was raining up hill. as
7 II were. and my mill machinery had
\ been running backwards until every
blamed wheel was busted and tho
I whole shebaug was wreck
The man wiped tear from his eyo.
Then II was. nc went on. that
my heart broke aud laid right down
and quit Now. do you blanc mo
for what am dojug2'
Tho merchant gave him az. and
the man was in the police court next
morning.