The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-09-05
THE SAD CASE OF THE SUCCESSFUL BUsr-
NESS MAN.

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"Well," said the business partner
of the successful man, chow did you
enjoy your trip? Seems to me you
don't look quite as yellow as usual. !"
'I don't notice any improvement
in my health myself" said the sue
cessful man. Native air may suit
some people, but it's my impression
that man has to stay in it all the
time to get the good of it. If I'd
never left it in the first place I'd
have been all right today. They're
a sleepy lot down there, though.
They don't seem to notice that the
worlds moving or to care continen-
tai if it does. Ninetenths of them
don't know the meaning of the word
'hust1e.''
well, we know the meaning of
it here, I" said the partner. Look II
that patch of contracts piled up since
you left. Look over the papers, now
will you ?"
Whats the use?" said the sue
cessful man, fretfully. eff you ever
want to realize what failure you
are just go to your home town and
interview the village loafer. I did
that.
II hadn't seen Billy any time
since left the place to come to Chi
cago. remember him as llulking,
overgrown boy, about FIVE years older
than l was, and even then he had ac-
quired reputation as the trifingest,
no accountest cub in seven counties.
II ran across him while 1 was out
walking. He was sitting with his
back against big willow, we'll in the
shade, fishing, and the minute he
turned his head knew him. Isaid:
Hello, Bill What luck?"
"He looked at me in a puzzled way
and pointed to the string of fish he
had tied to a root of the willow. Then
sat down by him and began to talk
to him. After awhile he hauled in
big two-pound bass. That's good
enough to eat, Henry he says. It's
about noon now, reckon
He started fire. Then he CROP
ed in hollow of the tree and pulled
out about dozen ears of green corn
and frying pan and some salt pork.
He had some tins of stuff hidden
there, too, and big mushmelon and
chunk of bread rolled in a news
paper. First of all he coated the ears
of unhusked corn with the mud from
the bank and covered them with Goals
and then he cleaned and cut the bass
and got some slices of pork to frying.
Next he shook out some corn meal
on the newspaper and rolled the fish
in it and got that to frying and in
about twenty minutes there was a
meal ready that I'd have given $50
to eat.
I was asking him questions while
he was cooking. He said he wasn't
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summer. Not much of anythin',
any time. He hadn't never married,
so there wasn't no need Of it. There
was always birds in the air and fish in
the river an rabbits in the ground
an there was corn CROWN in the
fields, an melons, an such. No
need O. goin' hungry, and man
could alway peddle string O. fish
or suthin' for what terbacker an
store truck he wanted. Winter time,'
he said, I en- do few chores for my
board an 1odgin' an I play the fiddle
for dances. But what's the matter
with you, Henry? Why don't you
eat?'
81 told him my diet was principal
ly oxygenated wheat germs.
What's them?' he asked.
II explained and told him what
dyspepsia was. He didn't know.
Happy man
"Then he began to eat.
"'What are you doin', Henry?'
he asked, between mouthfuls.
II told him, but the fact that had
been successful hardly seemed to i'm
press him. He kept on question
ing me.
$50 you work all day from 7 or
8 o'clock in the mornin' an some
times till late O. nights?' he said.
Then you have to eat this truck you
tell me about an have misery in your
stomach half the time An you lie
awake nights an can't git ter sleep |!
Can't eat good vittles, can't sleep an
work all the time What dye do it
fer, Henry?'
I don't know I said.
"He threw away the last of the
melon rind, sighed contentedly, and
pulling a corncob pipe from his pocket
filled and lighted it. Then, leaving
his seat on the log, he stretched him
self out on the grass and smoked,
looking at me thoughtfully the while.
Presently he took his pipe from his
mouth and said: Henry, I'm mighty
sorry for you.'
"I've been sorry for myself ever
since" concluded the successful man.
SHE BREATHED WRONG.