Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-22

go around among some cobbler shops
| ind see how it vhas. Don't you know
| dot der man on der next block is CITING
| away shoebrush, a box of backing
| und pair of shoestrings to eafery
| customer? He vhas a liberal minded
hustler 1t vhas sooch men as him dot
make millionaires. Will take my jor
down to him."
He goes AWAY, und / vhas hurt in
| my feelings, und while I vhas trying
to figure oudt how cobbler can gil
AWAY twenty-five cents on feeften
cent job woman comes in. She wants
a child's shoe fixed for ten cents. II
vhas no profit, but takes der shoe.
She sees dot sign und dot backing, und
she looks at me in a cold way ind
says:
How can you expect customers to
come here if you insult 'em?"
But how vhas it," says /.
How vhas it? Do you believe
should gif you my work und take box
of blacking when other cobblers are
offering granite ware tea und coffee
pots? 1t is cheap offer. 1t makes a
cheap shop. 1t shows you vhas not up
NIT der times. Gift me back dot shoe!
But how can l take in ten cents
und gif AWAY twenty-flve?" / says.
dot vhas your peesness. If you
can't do like other folks, you had bet
ter go oudt of trade"
see how she vhas. Der next caller vhas
a man who wants pair of shoestrings.
/ make shust one cent on dot pair,
Hnd vhas almost happy, when der
man sees dot free backing und says:
"Vhell, Well! So it yhas a box free
to eafery customer! Well, 1t vhas a
good idea. I'll take box along NIT
me, und, as my brother und sister
Will be in some day dis week, I'll
take three boxes now. You vhas a
hustler, Mr. Cobbler, und l belief you
Will get along like grease"
lost shust 'leven cents by dot trade,
und dot hurt me in new spot. My
wife says maybe dot tailor don't know
his peesness, but l don't gif oop yet.
l vhas pegging AWAY When in comes a
man NIT twenty cent job, but he
keeps der shoe in his hand und says:
my frendt, MAYBE you wasn't long
in America"
"Only three years." says I.
"Und maybe you belief you know
der people und can deceive emp
Il neffer deceive somepody."
ooh, you don't! Look at dis sign
und dose boxes und tell me you vhas a
square man. 1t vhas a Cheap John
trick to beat innocent peoples. Do you
belief | leave a job for you und ac-
cept a fife cent box of backing When
some other cobbler Will glf me a gas
stove or a refrigerator"
"But how can he do it?" / says.
dot vhas none of my peesness SO
long as he does it. You vhas evidently
selfish man und want to make 10000
per cent profit. Vhell, you can't shark
me. If go by some day ind you vhas
giving AWAY ice chests NIT brass
hinges on EN-, maybe l come In und
get patch on my shoe"
Der next caller vhas womans. und
she vhas mad because | don't gif AWAY
sewing machines. Der next vhas a man
who wanted a bicycle free, und der
third vhas a womans who said IL ] gif
AWAY pianos / shall repair all her chill
drens shoes If | don't get mad und
lock oop my shop. | belief somebody
Will come along who WANTS a house
ind lot Dot eafenings | goes by dot
little tailor und says:
'Nhell. it vhas free gift to eafery
customer, und how yhas it? All der
peoples vhas mad, ind | yhas in der
soup"
How vhas dot?" he asks.
Il told him all about 1t, und he
looks wise und says:
"'Hans, | can't make her oudt !
vhas in America for 20 years, und all
der peoples vhas glad TO get something
for nottings. You are sure dot sign
vhas all right?''
Yes"
"Und der backing vhas all right?'
yes"
"Vhell, dot beats me. know all der
womens in town will pay out ten cents
street car fare und push und jam for
two hours to safe cent on cake OF
soap"
But MAYBE 1t vhas der Difference
between store und cobbler shop"
| says.
by golly, Hans, but dot vhas IT,,
Yes, sir; dot makes all der deeference
in der world. A cobbler shop vhas not
a store. und peoples expect too much
of it. and you go home und tear down
dot sign und let peesness go TO Texas il
she don't want TO come By you