Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-07


my wife says dot peespess vhill shump
ahead like kangaroo. Dot door vhas
oop half an hour when a man comes
In my shop und says:
"Cobbler. see you haf some screen
door. What you put him oop for?"
"To keep Ger flies oudt."
"But Why shall you keep der flies
oudt? Dis vhas free country. 1t
vhas free for men und free for flies.
Don't you know about Lexington und
Bunker Hill? We lay down our lives
dot America shall be Free Der fly also
lay down his life. Do you belief il
vhas right to shut him oudt"
"But a fly don't haf some feelings"
says.
"You vhas mistooken. fly can feel
glad or feel bad, shust like person.
If you let him in your shop. he vhas
your frendt; If you keep him oudt, he
vhas full of sorrow. Cobbler, do your
duty by some flies. Take dot door
AWAY und gif him a fair shoW."a
I don't like to do It, und dot man
goes AWAY mad. He says he has ten
shildren. but he vhill gif me no work.
He goes aroundt der corner, und fat
womans comes along. She has a book
und pencil in her hand, und she looks
at dot screen door und looks at me und
says:
"Cobbler, vhas going to ask you to
subscribe to our Sunday school picnic
for crippled children. but see 1t vhas
no use. A man who vhill put oop a
screen door vhas murderer Mt heart" /"
"But I don't vhant some flies in my
shop" says.
mo, Of course not. You vhant to
keep der flies oudt in der sun und rain
und kill him off. You vhas shust der
sort of man to hit crippled shild
NIT crowbar or to stab a parrot nit a
clothes prop. Maybe you can do some
peesness here, but don't you belief you
can get any cobbling from me. When
you vhas on your deathbed und no
frendt to gif you glass of water,
maype you vhill remember vhata hard
hearted villain you vhas"
l can't make oudt how 1t vhas aboudt
flies. I go oafer to see dot plumber,
but he vhas oudt. und when I goes
back to my shop q man comes In und
says:
"Vhell. cobbler. come to congrntu-
late you. goes areuudt der world dree
times. und pledge you my word I
neffer see screen door like dot before.
She vhas beautiful she vhas shenteel;
she vhas modest; she vhas sooch a
door ash maype vhas put oop in der
palace of an emperor. Let me shake
you by your hands und Wish you some
lucks."
| feel pleased NIT dot. but in two
minutes dot man says:
"vhell, how aboudt dot beer?"
(Which beer?"
Don't you ask me to 60 oudt und
haf some beer init you because of dot
door?"
"Of course not"
"Vhell, den, you vhas some frauds
und liars, und can knock you by der
middle Of next week In two minutes.
( 1t vhas shust like belief before ! come
In here. You vhas bad. selfish man.
Ii you find some grasshopper nit his
back broke. you would shump on him
NIT both feet. tell eaferypody
aboudt you, und in two weeks you
vhas in bankruptcy"
Und he shakes his fist under my
nose und kicks dot screen door open
und goes oudt. My wife says 1t vhas
better dot we let some flies In und eat
up der stock und bite der baby. but
hold on leetle, und an old man nit a
cane und lame leg comes in. He
looks kind und shentle. .und he sits
down und wipes avhay some tears be-
fore he says:
"Cobbler, vhas come to appeal to
your humanity. You vhas man.
You haf some wifes und a baby. If
dot baby die Of measles. your soul vhas
Jared"
'Vhell, how vhns it?' says.
at vhas dot screen door. IF you
like to put him oop, dere vhas no law
TO stop you. but 7 vhas here to ask you
In der name of common humanity to
take him down. Don't advertise tC
der poobllc dot you vhas cold und
cruel und selfish. Don't let some peo
pies say ash dey pass your door, Here
lives man who would shed der blood
Of an infant Don't do it. cobblcr."
"But dot door keeps der flies oudt,'
I says.
"It does, cobbler-it does; but, alas
II also keeps oudt der beetles vhas
no fly man. don't care if you keep
oudt one t'ousand files. but vhas here
to plead for der beetles, A beetle don't
bite nopody. He don't sing aroundt.
He don't eat some cement or wax or