The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-05-17
A GLIB YOUNG MAN.
BUT HE PICKED OUT THE WRONG
OLD LADY.

10 On one Of my trips through the hen
nj lock belt" said the travelling grocer,
ay man, Il picked up glib young cha
VINO was passing through that interest
AZ Ing rural district afoot, with an asorte
IN STOCK OF side lines that he insisted h
Is would have no difficulty In dickering OF
II to The unsophisticated jewellers, eithe
for cash or barter, such entire conn
Il dence did he have In the persuasiyenes,
9 or his tongue and the sickness OF nj,
e manner
i 3fie assured mo of this In way tina,
wasn't brought up 10 regard as modest
MS | was giving him lift on his way
toward Geeville, and he was so anxious
70 SHOW me an example OF his irresist,
IDLE style of doing business with tn,
hemlock belters that | stopped at
comfortable looking little farmhous.
near The roadside, where the benevo
fence and sympathy that beamed from
the gold trimmed specs OF the old lad,
VINO stood In the door led the glib ant
cohhdent young man TO remark to III,
as ne got out of the wagon thar IL h,
I ~ q iAOA rs tbsSe ol that ildGt De-
/ lore be got through he had forgotten his
business.
La exclaimed the old lady, as the
confident side line chap approached the |
mouse and saluted her. 'Sellin' things |
Inc glib merchant said he was, and |
she told him to sit down, which he did
In the only chair there was on the little
porch.
| see you are woman of business
ne began at once. and SO there is no use
OF wasting time III get right at 1t,
NOW, here's barometsrs and he pro.
duced one from his stock, with a sly
wink over his shoulder at me. There
ain anything more useful than bar
Fhem's the things that tells you
when the weather's goin' to change,
amt they? asked the benevolent old
lady, innocently.
Yes. ma am replied the side line
nan. There amt anything thatu tell .
he
Oh, yes there Isl the old lady cut in
m him. I've got a bunion. See II
istin' itself there on the right hand
orner o that foot? \
Why. say! When that hunion be-
ms to make weather | kin size up ths ="
ind it's goin TO be three weeks ahead.
n kin generly tell when it's goin' 10 set
|, down TO the littlest part OF minute,
mat bunion took to workin toll
Die early this season, an sent word =
, the creek fer folks to git fer high
oand, FER on March 8, ar jest }: 80 D. m.
the afternoon, the ice would break
ID come down a-hummin and clean ia
ings from A to lizard, but It didn't do ant
not I'LL 2:3l p. III, t
= see TO wunst that there was some eai
IN The matter with that bunion. an so I
Investigated. And what do you think an
1T o that bunion had got little FROST Wit
somehow, and ii sort o stagnated II 6 J
u couldn't work exactly up TO its full rht
and il had fell shy minute on tell sho
the time O the comm o. that Ice low
gn the creek. am
sensitive? That bunion? La me, A
And tell the changes? why, say ana
it bnn-bui there's lots a. folks off
IEd here thar hain't got no bunion rtTe
the family, an | git tired o. their the
min here a-consultin' mine every
they want 10 plant Eaters, or XIII
Ok, or pole beans. or go TO town. an
n folks ought 10 have barometers. W
III jest do You good turn. young of I
j, seem as you're strugglln' to bene- the
d district I'll hang that promoter his S
our'n up here, an when they come $4,0o
after weather they'll see it. an her,
II works, an they'll pine fer one the
II you'll have to do, when you come IN,
q this way ag'il. is to fetch along n Won
',ocN OF rometeis' an you'll ketch more
de that'll skeer you come
Don't thank me! I'd ruther do n On u,
not. | like 10 lift people along that
nd the benevolent and sympathet- mono
lany TOOK The barometer and hung van ,
Il nail against the side of the house. corr.
Sow said she. turning to the you a.
u a"u "H'ihg side line distribu- cent
bet you got cough medicine,'
hats what ! have said the glib ADJ
man, rousing again To duty ltafe a
you are. DR.. Strainem's Elixir under,
yptian Tar! Nothing ever like II admin
hooking a cough or cold endways, Fitzeo
ander
Judge and fiddlesticksi' exclaimed horot.,
nevolent old lady Why don't YOU noa, =
hat cold o your'n. then? -
e don't never have no coughs nor 81, .
DIS round here Why? Cause o. -. =.
x'ur o boneset. allyca mpane and 10y ~
cabbage! That's why, ~ sun
ere you be. young man, See IT, '"'e al
e produced bottle done up in a Gnu il
apper. same a
IRE you be- said she. Fifty cents 10 SAID
Ie. 1t is. but | kin make II three immedl
fer dollar IN voyr ed.
rec. hey? All right! make II DATED
an warrant II. There! They'll 1906.
i in there where you took the
ter out Of Dollar. Thank Won,
Mt fergit when you come agin
the of, ,,o.,... NOTICE
Iown The 90 -, anu ihaue State
d lady gazed after him heard -, :"
ieks! Now, IN Jest bet I thar tai'o
Jest be keerless enough not TO pahy' !
round here agin with them oioak. /