The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-06-15
OLD DAMS PLAN.
BY KENNETT HARRIS.

AA7 pdt'h VI DdIBhlh announcement g.
If find anybody what amt hao
one OF them bills by tonight III have
Sim Halliday put you In the lock up
for obtaining money under false pro-
lenses"
The boy grinnel and clumpod out Of
the store and Hancock turned % The
storckeeper. Seems Ike you're
aimin' 10 discourage that kid. Rufe."
he said reproachfully. THAT aint no
way % arouse his ambition Give him
the ideo that you're a lb'rai OPEN
handed sort o feiler He's young an
you might make him blioyo IL 'thout
goin 10 much expense There's ways
o doin' H. Member how OF Dan
Wedler trained his boy. sol?"
Who's Dan Wedler?" asked the
siorekeeper
You can't interest him Ga gro
cclies." replied Hancock. Hes three
lots south from the Crewds0n moni-
mcnt next 20 the fence swelgart's
used 70 be his farm. all 'ccptln' the 30
he's got % wheat this year It's too
bad you couldn't have known Dan.
Rufe. II was a privilege, an YOU an
him dickerin' over q three-dollar Bill
o. groceries would have been wuth the
loss OF half-day's work 10 set around
an listen 20. But OF Dan had his
idee az 70 what was fair an lbral an
he certainly done well by Jake Jake's
IN Kansas City now an he's got more
money n some folks has hay"
There was girl. too. wasn't thore.
Wash?' asked Baker.
"Aryille; yes" answered Hancock.
He done well by Aryilla. too. After
Mis- Wedler wus took 70 the insane
asylum Dan got the gal trained SOS
she could do more work at II than any
woman In the township. He encour-
aged her by bein' nb'ral. She done q
right smart of the chores an he'd
give her an interest In the stock-a
shote here an a cat there, an when
no sold 'em he'd put down Just what
they brung to Aryilla's account In the
books he KEEP an fgger out the inter
est due 70 her an compound It wunst
a year. She's got quite a pile o. spon-
dulix laid up. an there wasn't any
grass a-growin' in the path up to the
front door when she got growed. Ma
ror was one o. the fellers uster go 70
see her.
But Dan wouldn't have no trifin'.
He said any man that got Aryilla had
got TO show himself a man an when
any Of her beaux got too pertickler
IN their attentions he give him q trial
workin' on the farm 'thout wages for
a week or two. He got a right smart
Of his work done that-a-way. The
boys a split themselves shown how
husky they wus. but the only one that
stuck out the pace Dan set 'em was
Cal Sinclair. Cal wus dead in earnest
an ne bumped hisself TIL he'd get the
OF man an Jake both clean tuckered
out Then Dan allowed that him an
Arvilla wus both young an II she wus
havin' she wus wuth worlin' for. He
said he'd make contrack that Ca
should work for her seven years. same |
as Jacob aid for Rachel In the old days.
an fn'ly they compromised on three
years. but By the end Of the fust year
Cal and Arvilla skipped TO Tarkie an
wus merried by the baptis' preacher |
Dan wus 80 mad about It he swore she
shouldn't never get a cent Of the |
money that wus comm 10 her-an' |
she never did-not from him Jake |
paid II up afterward. though
Jake wus kinder trinin' an nO-ac-
,ount when he was eight or ten years |
old. Seemed like he hated 20 work
He'd sooner 90 fshin' than shuck corn
)r feed the hogs. Pore or Dan uster
worry about It. But he started Jake |
% savin'-got little bank for him an
et him work for the neigbhors when
here wusn't nothin' special for him
% DO at home. an for every penny
,r dime that he earned the OF man put
n another penny OF dime That way
le got the boy sorter stimmyated-
worked up an ambition in him. BY
he time he wus 10 years old he must
lave had nigh onto $50. countiD' the
" mans half.
"He wanted 10 Quit the farm an
70 10 work In the store here In town.
,ut the OF man talked him out Of the
him summer wages
III be was 21. and then. he said he'd
iouble the accumulated capital an
hered be enough for him % start
nter some business OF his own right
ake thought that was liberal so he
i've up the notion he'd got o. skip
in' out an stayed. an' Dan kept ac-
cunts with him same's he did with
.rvllla. Long eTbout the time Jake
vas q he had erbout $500 comm 70
i'm that he'd earnt an another $500
rom Dan. but when he spoke erbout
! the OF man put him OF As 10 the
xtro $500 be lowed that wusn't
.ess'ry. bein' as Jake had done so all
red well by his own eXertions.
Then give me my own $500 an
Fl me 60 says Jake.
Plenty O. time. says Dan. III /
.ay your wages right along-least-
ways III credit you up with EN- No
ush'
An he did credit him"
L q {
eeper
Jake Quit anyway. though. didn't
e2" asked Baker.
Later on he DID," said Hancock.
The old man sold a patch of white
ak 70 Ab Towner for $4,000 an put
he money under the settin' room car
- for safe keepin over night Mex
lornin' he found f4oO an Jake's re-
elpt for 81 600 under the carpet. but