Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-11-08

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leaves of the maturing corn and resting
on the long, dusty road with a some
what dreamy glow that seemed oin-
wife repose in the shade.
On the porch of the country store at
the Center" sat two old and gray
bearded men. Around a bend in the
road beyond third old and gray-beard-
ed man had just come into sight.
Hes a-comin'," said Isaac.
$50 he is" said Uriah.
Thetwo old men turned in their chairs
to watch the others approach. AS he
drew near they could see that he car
ried some round and shining object in
his hand and that his face and clothes
were strealSed with black.
The newcomer stopped before them.
his face beaming with smiles, and with
an air of conscious pride held out for
their inspection what proved to be a
highly-polished stove lid.
There she isl" he cried. 'The pref
test and cheapest stove polish ever in
vented. / lnow'd the minnit I'd put
that taller and vinegar in the last batch
that I'd got it,"
"Thunder" exclaimed Uriah, in adj
miring wonder.
ut does look nice" said Isaac, blink
ing from one to the other.
"Nice!" echoed Jethro, the inventor,
seornfully. "Why, it beats anything
of the kind / ever see. Just you try
these stove polishes you git out of the
stores and you'll see the difference.
Why, this one shines brighter, polishes
easier; there hain't no dust about it,
and won't wear off for six months.
Nice? Umph!"
"Now, Jet" said Uriah, taking an ex-
ira chew of finecut and leaning back in
his chair, "as you're the one that has
got this thing up, what's your idea of
getting it out? How has it got to be
made and sold?"
"Well," said Jet, squaring himself
back, my idea is just to take some of
the stuff and go out and sell it."
why, yes, of course" returned Uriah,
slowly, as if the idea had not occurred
to him before. "But what's it going TO
cost?"
Jet sat down on the porch and 'got
down to business" in way to excite the
admiration of his listeners.
1--WE fggered the whole thing out
and it just amounts to this: 1t will
cost Just one cent cake to make the
stove polish. We sell it for ten cents.
That gives us profit oftwelve dollars
and ninety-six cents gross. Now,
each one of us ought to sell gross
every day, mebbe more, but Wen put
it at one gross, to be on the safe side.
Now, say our expenses are three dollars
a day. That leaves us ten dollars day
profit, all but four cents, and that beats
farming all hollow"
"Jet, old boy, we're with you'll" cried
Uriah, slapping the other on the back.
"What's the first thing to be done?"
'Well, the first thing is to order some
stuff to make up into polish, and l
thought I'd order about fifty dollars
worth. Then we must have some print
ing done"
"Well, I'm going to the Forks to-mor-
row and I'll see to that" in8
''Then we must get some place to
make it," continued Jet.
IF my wagon shed was cleaned out
it would do first rate" said Isaac. ''Tll
attend to that" ~ II
That's the ticket" cried Jet, en-
Enthusiastically. 81 tell you, gentlemen,
we're bound to make something out of
this. Just to think, ten dollars day
is nearly three hundred dollars a
month, more money than we take in
now in a year"
"That's So" said Isaac, rising slowly
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