The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-05-11
OLD DAMS PLAN.
BY KENNETH HARRIS.

| loI ODldlHluS money uHuef ldlse pre-
/ lenses.
The boy grinned and dumped out o
| the store and Hancock turned to tn,
| storekeeper. Seems like you're
amin to discourage that kid, Rufe.
he said reproachfully, THAT amt NJ
| way to arouse his ambition. Give hin
The idee that you're libral, open
handed sort o Teller. He's young an
you might make him blieye 1t thou
goin to much expense. There's ways
o doin' it. Member how OF Oar
Wedler trained his boy Sol?"
Who's Dan Wedler?" asked the
storekeeper.
You can't interest him in gro
ceries, replied Hancock. He's three
lots south from the Crewdson moni.
ment next to the fence. Sweigart's
used to be his farm. all ceptn' the sc
he's got to wheat this year. It's too
bad you couldn't have known Dan.
Rnfe. II was a privilege. an you an
him dickern over a three dollar bin
o groceries would have been wuth the
loss OF a half-day's work 10 set around
an listen to. But OIL Dan had his
idee as to what was fair an libral 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 a girl, too, wasn't there,
WASH? asked Baker.
"ArYille; yes, answered Hancock
He done we'll by Arvilla, too. After
Mis- Wedler WIS took to the insane
asylum Dan got the gal trained SOS
she could do more work at IA than any
woman in the township. He encour.
aged her by bein libral. She done
right smart OF the chores an he'6
give ner an interest in the stock-a
shote here an ca'f there, an when
az sold 'em he'd put down Just whas
chey brung TO Arvillas account in tho
books he KEEP an fgger out the inter
est due to her an compound 1t wuns
a year. She's got quite pile o spon
dulix laid mp, 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 ulster go to
see her.
But Dan wouldn't have no triflin
He said any man that got Arvilla had
got to show himself a man an when
any of her beauX got too pertickler
in their attentions he give him 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 d split themselves shown how
husky they wus, but the only one that
stuck out the pace Dan set EN- was
Cal Sinclair. Cal wus dead in earnest
an he bumped hisself till he'd get the
Of man an Jake both clean tuckered
out. Then Dan allowed that him an
Arvilla wus both young an If she wus
hayin' she WIS wuth workin' for. He
said he'd make contrack that Cal |
should work for her seven years. same
rs Jacob did for Rachel in the old DAYS |
m fn'ly they compromised on three
Years. but by the end of the fust wear |
Cal and Aryilla skipped to Tarkie an |
vus merrled by the bapts' preacher |
Dan wus so mad about IL he swore she |
shouldn't never get a cent of the
money that wus comm to her-an |
'he never did-not from him. Jake
,aid IT up afterward, though.
Jake wus kinder trnin' an no-ac.
.onnt when he was eight or ten years
I'D. Seemed like he hated 10 work
He'd sooner go hshin than shuck corn
n feed tho hogs. Pore OIL Dan ustei
worry about It. But he started Jake
O sayin'-got little bank for him an
ct him work for the neigbhors when
here wusn't nothin special for HIN
O do at home, an for every penny
n dime that he earned the oil man pui
n another penny or dime. That way
le got the boy sorter stimmylated-
worked M an ambition in him. BY
he time he wus l6 years old he must
laye had nigh onto $50, countin' the
u mans half
Gle wanted TO quit the farm an
% to work in the store here IN town,
,ut the Of man talked him out of the
him summer wage
III he was 81, and then, he said, he'd |
louble the accumulated capital an
herc'd be enough for him to start
inter- some business of his own right
lake thought that was liberal. SO hal
live up the notion he'd got o. skip.
lin out an stayed. an Dan kept ac
cunts with him same's he did with |
Aryilla Long erbout the time Jake
vas q he had erbout $500 comm tc
lin that he'd earnt an another $500
rom Dan. but when he spoke erjoui
t the oil man put him on As to the
xtra $500 he lowed that wusnl
Iess'ry. bella as Jake had done so all
red we'll by his own exertions.
Then give me my own $500 an
e. me go. says Jake.
Plenty o time says Dan. ~
,ay your wages right along least
ways I'll credit YOU up with EN-. N
ush
An he did credit him"
Pretty good" chuckled the store
eepcr.
Jake quit anyway. though. didn't
e. asked Baker.
Later on he did" said Hancock