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 a
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 a 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 q,
| gded 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. put up
something like a hundred and eighty
| thousand dollars for Hanks gliding last
year Not that l grudged him the money.
but it wasn't doing him any good. He
was making a monkey Of himself with it.
| Henry was. A good bit of that hundred
and eighty went into a comic opera COM
pany that was one of the worse I ever
did see. Henry had no judgment. He
was too easy. Well, along this summer
he was on the point Of making a break
that would-well. says to him, says L,
Hank. I'm no penny squeezer; like good
stretchy legs myself says; I like to see
them elastic SO they'll give a plenty when
they're pulled; but says, If you take
that step l says. If you declare yourself,
then the rubber in your legs I says, will
just naturally snap: you'll find you've
overplayed the tension says, and there
,, won't be any more stretch left in them.
The secret is, Hank was being chased
by whole family of wolves,-that's the
gist Of it--fortune- hun ters-with tushes
like the ravening lion in Afric's gloomy
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 a good wad of money
and they'll do it. too. sooner or later, be-
cause she's a corker for looks, all right
and they'd all made dead set for Hank;
So quick as saw how it was, says.
Here 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 TO,
the holiday trade says, with the red
paper rosettes stuck in Henrys chest |
says.
Are the New York girls SO designing? ''
asked Percival
rs Higbee's ham good to eat?" replied
! Higbee. oracularly.
: So he continued. when made up
my mind to put my foot down L Just cas-
ually mentioned to the old ady-say She
got an eye that would make liquid all
shiver-that cold blue like an army over
r coat-Well.I mentioned to her that Henry
| wsss a spendthrift and that he wasn't evel
going to get another cent from me thai
5 he didn't earn just the same as if he
t wasn't any relation of mine. I made ii
e plain, you bet; she found just where little
I lienry-boy stood with his Kind hearted
: liberal old father.
;. Say, maybe Henry wa sn't In, cold c+>,
! age with the whole family from that mo
ment. | see those fellows in the labora
tories are putting around Just now tryins
y to get the absolute zero Of temperature
E say, Henry got it. and he don't know
thing about chemistry.
Then ! jounced Hank. proceeded r
let him know he was up against it
: right close up against it, so yo,
: couldn't see daylight between en- You r.
twenty five l says, and you play til,
best game Of pool. I'm told. of any O
the chappies IN that Father Made-the
Money club YOU got into I says; .bu
I've looked it up, I says, and there ain
really what you could call any great flu
ture foe a pool champion, says. and i
you're ever going to learn anything else
it's time you was at it, I says. Nov
you go back home and tell the manager
to set you to work I says, and YOU
wages won't be big enough to make YOU
interesting to any skirt dancer. either,
I says. And you make study of The
hog from the ground up Exhaust his
possibilities just like, your father done
and make a man of yourself. and the1
sometime 1 says you'll be able to give
igood medicine to a cub of your own wher
he needs it,
And how did poor Henry take all that?,
well. Hank squealed at first like hi
: was getting the knife; but finally when he
see he was up against it. and especially
when he see how this girl and her family
throwed him down the elevator shaft from
FL the tenth story. why. he come aroune
beautifully. He's really got sense, tho