The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-02

| FAVE Meals a Day ana Best OF EV-
erythinE to Eat.
Nearly a score of the men who were
sent to the Kansas harvest fields by A.
B. Jamison, superintendent of the state
employment bureau, visited him recent
| ly. They had returned to Kansas City
after the work ran out, and they We're
elated with their experience in the
wheat, says the Kansas City Star.
They laughed at the idea that the work
was too hard. One of the men had
gained more than ten pounds in weight.
That man had been working in
packing house at Kansas City, and he
found the heat of the open fields trying
at first. The harvest work stopped for
two hours in the middle of the day,
however, and that respite each day
tided him over until he became accus-
toned to the sun
The men said that they had five
meals a day. and were given the best
of everything to eat. One man said the
farmer he worked for produced a case
of beer the day the harvest ended.
An idea of the fierce pressure of the
harvest work." said one young man,
may be gained from the fact that
when 1 got there a girl was holding
down my job-and she was a college
girl at that. Furthermore, and sur
mounting everything else, she was pref
ty.
eyes, sir, the girl was student in
one of the colleges in Wichita and was
visiting a friend whose father was
wheat grower When she heard the
farmer deploring the scarcity of men
and signifying his willingness to pay
50 a day she volunteered to do mans
work on the header box. She knew how
to drive and how to handle a pitch
fork, as many a Kansas girl does who
also knows how to finger a piano or
paint strange flowers on china.
ct need the money to help me
through college, and can do the work.
said the girl.
"'But what will people say about
you and about us for letting you do
such work?' protested her girl friend.
Nonsense said the wise old farm
er, who admired the girls spunk. If
she wants to work she can And so
she did her part for four days until l
and others arrived upon the scene and
there were plenty of men for all the
jobs.
"Of course l felt small in supplant-
ing a girl, and if my back had broken
or my hands blistered to the bone l
would not have dared to squeal."
after l had been in the fields two
days." said another youth, Il began
praying for rain. 1t was not that l
thought the crops were suffering, but
| knew l needed a lay off badly. Well,
It did rain. And with that rainy day
and q barn session with harvesters
was glad to see the work begin again.
All the real thoroughbreds Of this lit
tie country were in that bunch. No
matter what subject came up there
was some man in that crowd who
knew more about it than any other
man in Kansas.
II decided to shave off the beard
that had accumulated during my
whirl at the simple life One Of the
other harvesters saw me whetting my
razor All wrong He showed me
how. He was the only man he had
ever seen who really knew how to
sharpen razor. The motion is like
this, not quick, but steady. Anything
else ruins razor Now it would split
a hair. Shave my neck and see how
it goes said the expert.
$50 l shaved the wondrous blade
sharpener, and then 1 discovered an
other remarkable thing about him. AS
made a hesitating stroke the razor
jumped from one hair to another with
an uneven movement.
The razor is dancing on YOU re-
marked.
'''That is because | have so much
electricity in me- he replied. 1 at.
tract steel. 1 have lots Of electricity
in me. guess l must have $50 volts.
A current strong enough to kill an
ordinary man does not affect me, and
/ cannot feel an ordinary battery
after / had finished shaving this
electric eel he confded to me that he
was the only man who knew how to
shave another with a touch soft enough
to put him to sleep. 1 let him shave
me, and 1 couldn't sleep for week,
my face was so sore. He simply tore
the beard off Later I heard him tell
ing the farmer that he could stick a
pig, scald it and scrape it quicker
than any other man living. He was
a butcher by trade. 1 recognized his
touch then. Later on he was trained
pastry cook and an expert grain