Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-10-13
III GIVE LUCK A CHANCE.
su Who Tried Hard WORK win
,ys,,S and Lightning RODS
M and Windmills'

81 ,,sed TO think that hard work
.,,,,ted for more than luck" said the
IAN who had a thrown-down appear
~nce "but after bucking against the
;5se for ten years I've had to give up
rs al of job and dead broke but IN
9oIno TO walk around on my uppers and
e. What luck will do for me-
{ invent into drive wells few years
.oon he continued, as he jingled three
= four cents in his palm. Bought the
v;,ht for four counties in Kansas and
conld see $4,000 profits year. Put in
Nv last dollar and started out to drive
a driving a well for farmer you may
calculate on hitting water within 81
feet. That's what you base on when
YOU figure on the job. A farmer won !
pay BIZ the foot. It's so much for well
rie]ding all the water he wants. l put
down so feet of my first well and only
str,,ck dust. | went down 60 feet and
'eou]d smell little dampness. The pipe
On Down a full hundred feet before we
~ Mater. put down IA wells and was
foefotally busted. l had picked out the
oo6nties myself, but they were the
dryast in the state. drove 140 feet of
tio8 for the last without getting any
"Then I turned to lightning rods. |
cot a. agency and an outfit and started
az IL do the farmers of Illinois. Say,
YOU hay not believe me, but out of ten
tefns which l protected in one town
stln eight were struck by lightning
L. one storm. The farmers got
d{ter me in mob, and, besides having
nt 1eg broken and my nose knocked
dit b plumb, l was hauled into court
aid Broken up in business.
Az soon as | could limp around again
|I25 agency Of a windmill for part
4 1diana. The only one l put up was
"a old farmer who wanted it to drive
4 61V for cutting wood. l had to war
r4nt 80 much power, you see, and he
had His saw ready as soon as the wind
mill Was up. All the time we were put
ting up the mill it blew a gale, but no
sooner had we finished than the gale
dr0pped to zephyr. Say, now, well for
IS efraight days there wasn't wind
ono1th to ruflle a duck pond, and the
faf1n>r declared my mill fraud and
n1ade me take it down.
Ter I'd been out Of job for year
uncle started me in the chicken
ss. Ever figure on it? Bless
heart, but the man who can't fig
Pit clear profit Of $4,000 year
b business to live. There are so
hens, so many eggs, so many
Ems. Easiest thing in the world to
on, especially where an incu-
goes with it. leased five acres
ound, got an incubator and 200
MA and for a few days l had my hat
"a N ear. Did you ever hear of the
4}c4en disease called pip? Well, it
out among my hens, and they
vertpip! pop! till the last one turned
up 1er toes. didn't get two dozen
sggs put of the whole lot. Then / fell
PACK on my incubator to hatch and
r0W a new lot. IIatched out $50 little
hicks, and then-please excuse my
Smotlons. One day that incubator blew
UP viii a bang and scattered my hen
1arm all over the county and laid me up
N ped for three months.
W have been offered patent churn,
wqshing machine and a hay fork
ency, but have respectfully declined.
more hard work for me. I'm walk.
Found looking for lost pocketbooks
Pc rewards, and ! count on luck to
Mayer a gold mine or notify me of a
3cy."-N. Y. Sun.