The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-01-19
Id HILLsBORO. O.-THURsDAY, JANUARY 10. 1899:

free-lunch opening. He loeee al MS
fresh faith and trust In human nature
and has to look up the mortgage reg
isters at the county seat whenever he
gets good order. A man might almost
a. we'll be in politics. Once in awhile,
though, he hnds one Of natures un-
spoiled children, with an inch thick Of
cream on the milk Of human kindness
las did on Thanksgiving"
ut was good liquor. ives IT." asked
the cashier.
The drummer looked at him scorn-
fully. "Thats your idea Of good Sa-
maritan." he said; somebody who will
undertake to all your skin with rum.
This man I'm talking about was going
around doing people good-Ahedding
bright sunshine into darkened lives
a. freely a. a NANCY dog does hair and
acting an example to the community.
He isn't rated above * but that kind
Of . man doesn't get rich. He Isn't
built like you.
II went over to his store Just before
dinner, and found the first thing that
he was going To give his clerk the rest
Of the day OF. No, he wasn't going to
hold out on his wages, either. / saw
that he was getting ready to 60 to dim
ner, too.- and I told him that j hated
to disturb him and all that sort Of
thing, and he just smiled 90 cordially
a. though I had been his long-lost
brother. and looked over my samples a.
patiently as a mother of six at the
county agents. Then he sat down and
strung me off q nice little order
II sort of flattered myself that It was
my winning way that was doing it at
first, but l changed my mind by the
! time l got through with him. don't
believe he wanted those goods any
more than cat wants two tails. He
merely wanted to jolly me up and make
me feel good and thankful. was tear
ing the duplicate out of my book. and
he had got one arm in the sleeve OF his
coat when a fellow comes in who
looked as If he had been up against 1t
pretty hard. He had some kind of q
preparation to take grease and stains
out of clothes, and he wanted to operate
how 1t worked. He didn't have to-.
""Take box? Why certainly I'll
take box says the storekeeper. Ger
tainly will, my friend. It's just what
I've been needing; only l haven't time
to use 1t now. Just rub 1t on, do you?
Does It matter whether you use wool
or cotton cloth? Doesn't, eh? How
much is it?'
Twenty-Five cents says the ped
dler, and l wish you hardened wretches
could have seen the poor devils face
lightup. Itwould have done you good. It
made me glow all through my inside
just as If 1t had been a skillfully con-
cocted cocktail, and had good no.
ton to buy box Of the stuff myself.
"'That's cheap enough says the
storekeeper, giving him quarter
Hold on; I'll take another box, 1 be-
lieve; I'm the worst man to get grease
on my clothes you ever saw So he
hands him out another quarter, and the
fellow goes out smiling 20 that you
could see it with his back turned to you.
AS soon as he had gone asked this no
BILE man II he always bought Of agents
or only on Thanksgiving and Fourth of
July.
why he says, smiling benevolent
ly, 4 don't advertise for them, but
most always buy when they come
goes about selling thing that retails
for IS cents it's more than likely that
he's hard up, and that rs cents is a
whole lot of money to him. It's to his
credit that he does it, because don't
believe it's the pleasaniest or easiest
kind of work. Then l make it work
more than one way. Now, that little
investment was so cents. Are you GO
ing up to the hotel? All right, let's go.
and I'll show you something else.'
"He put the boxes Of the cleaning
mixture in his pocket and we started
out. About two blocks down the street
he stopped and opened the door OF a
little tailor shop and walked in, and /
followed him. 1t was one of the poor
est, bareet-looking places you ever saw.
There wasn't anything in It but some
big shears and smoothing iron and
one or two scanty rolls of cloth, and
the tailor himself looked half starved.
I caught sight Of little girl about four
years old breaking for the living-rooms
back Of the little shop as we went in. !
don't believe the poor little thing had
anything on but thin calico slip, and
her little bare legs were blue with the
cold.
"'Well. Hans said the storekeeper,
cheerily. 'how's everything"
Poorly bad, said the tailor. There
vas no peezness at all NO more
"'Well. there's better times coming
says the storekeeper. Here's some
thing I've brought you. It's grease
| and stain remover-takes any kind OF
grease spot or stain out Of cloth In
simultaneously. There's Q couple o1
boxes. and If II turns out all right ]
think we can manage to get you some
| more
SWELL. wish you could have seen
the tears of gratitude on the poor