Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-07-21

here you say: Don't Asst fer Credit
with two DIS"
"Oh. shucks!" said the storekeeper.
All right, if you say So said Han
cock, but if was you I'd take them
signs down. You can't make nobody
believe your prices is the lowest in
town by printin' it with shoe blackin'
on a piece of cracker board an it's
no good sayin' you aim to please If
you hide away the pail of finecut an
put wire cage over the prune barrel.
Actions speak louder'n words an fresh
dairy butter speaks fer itself if man
has got a nose on him-an' so does
the axel grease you sent over to the
house yesterday. | don't b'lieve in
signs myself
Butter seemed all right to me-"
said the storekeeper. ut was some
Bert Hinckleys wife brought in. I've
been usin' it myself an didn't taste
nothin wrong with it."
TASTE an try afore you buy"
quoted Sol Baker, raising the lid of
the cheese box and slicing off a sam
pie. where's your crackers, Rufe?
You ought to put that up as a motter."
Il don't need to-" said the store
keeper.
mo sir l don't b'lieve in signs"
Hancock went on Makes me think
of Sam Hollister an his woman when
l see these notices. You know Sam.
Sam blieved in notices. When him
an Mrs. HOLSTER was merried some
body started 'em out with a God Bless
Our Home done in red, white an
blue yarn on cardboard, with blue an
yeller an green mornin glories all
around it, Sam lowed it was the
purtiest thing he'd ever seen, an had
it framed an hung up over the melO
deon.
"One day not long after that Sam
was in Tarkio an come back with
another motto: "Willful Waste Makes
WOeful Want
What's that for?' asks Mis- Hol-
lister.
81 thought we might hang it up in
the kitchin, says Sam. Seems to me
there's a right smart O. sense in it. l
seen Huidy-that was the hired GAL
THROWN out cold buckwheat cakes
into the swill the other morninn'
Mis- HOLSTER didn't say nothin',
but the mex trip he made to town he
come back with A Penny Saved Is
Penny Gained an tackled that up.
It's Jest as we'll to watch ourselves an
keep things in mind, he says. 4 could
"a bought that turkey red a cent a
yard cheaper'n you got it for at Cur
ley's. | seen some in at Perkins for
II cents
What did you pay for that motto?
asks Mis- HOLSTER
1.-Two bits, says Sam.
Didn't they have one that says:
"A Fool and His Money Are Soon
Parted?'" she asks.
mo says Sam, lookin at her
sorter s'picious Why?
"'Oh nothin', she says.
Not a great while after that Mis-
HOLSTER went to town and brought
back The Lord Loveth a Cheerful
Giver an Sam comes back at her with
Wives, Obey Your Husbands They
had more or less trouble together after
that and A Soft Answer Turneth
Away Wrath went into the settin'
room.
1T got pretty bad in the course of a
year or two an it might "a ended up
in one or the other gettin' bill an
dividin' up the estate, but one day that
lunkhead Sam found a place on the
wall that wasn't ockerpied an he got
another motto for it. Maybe it was
because he'd got about all the others
there was-maybe he didn't think
nothin' about it, but 1t wus What Is
Home Without a Mother
when Mis- HOLSTER seen it she
was jes' hoppin' mad. Next day while
Sam was out in his wood lot she went
to the barn an hitched up a horse TO
the oil pheaton an about noon she
come back bringin her own mother
with her an bundles enough for a
months stay. Sam wasn't the best
pleased when he come in to dinner an
! don't know whether he was any bet
ter pleased with the talkin' to the oil
lady give him. But she wus a right
smart OF lady an | reckon it done
Sam good. Anyway, them notices all
come down off the walls an went into
the settin' room heatin stove, mornin'
glories an all. AS near as l ever
heard, Sam an his wife has got along
fust rate ever sence."
You'd better fire up with yours
Rufe,' suggested Baker.
1T wouldn't make no difference to
you," said the storekeeper. I'm
: a-goin' to shut down on this credit
business, anyway, Chicago Daily
, News.