The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-11-10
WILL GIVE LUCK A CHANCE.
ne Tried Hard Work With Wells and
Lightning Rods and WindmIlIs.

used to think that hard work
counted Tor more than luck" said the
man VINO mad throw-down appear.
auce' Dut after bucking against the
.uea ior ten years I've had to give
up. m out of job and dead broke.
oul III going to walk around on nv
ME. "--' Wv ioi
went into drive wells a few years
ago lie continued as he jingled three
;! iour cents in his palm. Bought the
llsnt Tor four counties in Kansas and
coulG see $4,000 profit year. Put in
NY last dollar and started out to
urlVe' In driving well for farmer
you may calculate on striking water
wlthm thirty feet That's what YOU
Dase on When you figure on a Job. A
farmer won't pay by the foot. It's
50 hifch for Wei yielding all the wa.
Ter he wants. | put down thirty feet
d my first well and only struck dust.
Went down sixty feet and could smell
niue damrness. The pipe was down
q luil hundred feet before we got wa.
Ter. | put down fourteen wells and
was Jeetotaly busted. | had picked
/ put ne counties myself, but they were
Ile oiEest IN the State. | drove 40
: feet OF pine for the last without get.
ting any water,
Then l turned to lightning rods I
I got an agency and an outfit and start
/ cd ont 10 do the farmers of Illinois.
say, you may not believe me. but out
Oh eight barns which | protected in
/ one township six We're struck by light.
/ hlng during one storm. The farmers
! got after rae in a mob, and. besides
/ having my leg broken and nv nose
/ Knocked out Of plumb. was hauled in.
TO court and broken up in business.
AS soon as I could limp around
/ again | gOt IN agency of a windmill
/ for part Of Indiana. The only one
| | put up was for IN old farmer who
/ wanted 1t to drive a saw for cutting
wood. had to warrant so much pow.
! en-, YOU see, and he had his saw ready
/ as soon as the windmill was up. All
the time We We're putting up the mill
/ it blew gale, but no sooner had we
finished than the gale dropped to a
zephyr. Say, now. well for fifteen
/ straight days there wasn't wind
enough to rulle duck pond. and the
made me take it down.
After | had been out of a lob for
year an old uncle started me in the
/ chicken business Ever figure on it?
| Bless your heart, but the man who
| can't figure clear irofit of $1,000 a
| year has no business to live. There
/ are so many hens. so many eggs so
many chickens. Easiest thing in the
world to figure on, especially where
/ an incubator goes with it, | leased
/ five acres of land. got an incubator
and 200 hens, and for few days had
my hat on my ear Did you ever hear
OF the chicken disease called pip?
/ Well, it broke out among my hens,
and they went pip, pop, until the last
one turned up her toes. | didn't get
! two dozen eSs-s out OF the whole lot.
Then ! fell back on my incubator to
! batch and grow a new lot Hatched
out 1870 chicks, and then-excuse my
/ emotion. One day that incubator
/ blew up with bang and scattered my
hen farm all over the county and laid
me up in bed for three months.
Il have been offered a patent churn,
a washing machine and a hay-forlS
agency but have respectfully de.
clined. No more hard work for me
/ I'm walking around looking for lost
/ pocketbooks and big rewards and
count on luck to uncover a gold mine
or notify me Of legacy. IN Y. Sun