The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-01

this time--the new sign and getting Hank
started. Henry is now working ten hours
a day out to the packing house. After
year of that, he'll be taken into the office
and his hours will be cut down to eight
Eight hours a day will seem like sinful
idleness to Henry by that time
Percival whistled in amazement.
II thought you'd be surprised But
the short of it is. Henry found himself
facing work or starvation. He didn't
want to starve little Bit and he finally
concluded he'd rather work for his dad
than any one else.
You see Henry was doing the Rake,s
Progress act there in New York-being a
gilded youth and such like. Now being a:
gilded youth and a we'll known man about
town is something that wants to be done
in moderation, and Henry didn't seem to
know the meaning of the word. l put up
something like a hundred and eighty
thousand dollars for Hanks gliding last
year. Not that l grudged him the money.
but 1t wasn't doing him any good. He
was making monkey Of himself with 1T.
Henry was. "A good bit of that hundred
and eighty went into comic opera COM
pany that was one of the worse l ever
did see. Henry had no judgment. He
| was too easy. Well. alorg this summer
he was on the point of making break
| that would-well. I says to him, says l.
! Hank. I'm no penny-squeezer; like good
stretchy legs myself says; L like to see
them elastic SO they'll give a plenty when
| they're pulled; but says, If you take
that STEP says. If you declare yourself,
then the rubber in your legs says, will
just naturally snap: you'll find you've
| overplayed the tension I says, and there
won't be any more stretch left in Them
The secret is Hank was being chased
! by q whole family of wolves-that's the
gst Of it-fortune- hunters-wth tushes
| +1,o ~, A fri1 -. oro~
jungle. They were not only cold, stone
broke. mind you, but hyenas into the
bargain-the father and the mother and
the girl. too.
They'd got their minds made up to
marry the girl to good wad Of money
! and they'll do it, too, sooner or later be-
| cause she's q cOrker for looks. all right
and they'd all made dead set for Hank;
So quick as 1 saw how it was, says.
| Here T says, is where save my son
and heir from a passel of butchers !
says. before they have him scalded and
dressed and hung up outside the shop for
| the holiday trade / says, with the red
paper rosettes stuck in Henry's chest
says"
asked Percival.
! rs Higbees ham good to eat?" replied
Higbee oracularly.
So he continued, when made III
my mind to put my foot down /, lust cas-.
ualy mentioned to the old lady-say. she's
got an eye that would make LIQUID all
shiver-that cold blue like an army over
coat-well I mentioned to her that Henr,
was a spendthrift and that he wasn't eve
going to get another cent from me tina
he didn't earn just the same as if h,
wasn't any relation of mine. I made. i
plain. you bet; she found just where littl
Henry-boS stood with his kind hearted
!. liberal old father
), Say. maybe Henry wasn't in cold stor
age with the whole family from that mo
ment. I see those fellows in the labora
tories are putting around just now tryin
to get the absolute zero of temperature
say, Henry got it, and he don't know
thing, about chemistry.
Then / jounced Hank. / proceeded t
let him know he was up against it
right close up against it. so yo
; couldn't see daylight between 'em. Your
twenty-five, l says, and you play til
best game of pool. I'm told. of any q
the ehappies IN that Father Made the
Money club you got into says; blu
I've looked it up I says, and there ain
really what you could call any great flu
ture for pool Champion says. and
you're ever going to learn anything else
it's time you was at it.. I says. No,
you go back home and tell the manage
to set you to work. I says, and YOU
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interesting to any skirt dancer. either
says. And you make a study of til
hog from the ground up. Exhaust hi
possibilities just like your father don,
and make man of yourself. and the
sometime. 1 says. you'll be able to Civ
good medicine to a cub of your own whe
he needs it,
And how did poor Henry take all that ?
We'll. Hank squealed at first like
; was getting the knife; but finally. when h
see he was UP against it, and especial
when he see how this girl and her tamil
throWed him down the elevator shaft frol
the tenth story why. he come aroun
beautifully. He's really got sense, tn