The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-28


Awhile. Sometimes think one thing
und sometimes anodder Shust now !
vhas thinking dot you vhas an old
Dootchman dot won't have anything
In der house to cat IN week longer
II you don't wake oop und bring some
peesness here. Begin on dot heel while
l talk to you. 1t vhas 20 cents, but
gif you two hoonered dollars worth
of advice instead of der money"
I looked ut him for awhile und den
took his shoe, und purity soon he says:
"Cobbler, don't you make study Of
der peopler
'.lf l cobble shoes dot vhas oil con
do" says.
"Dot's where your head vhas screw
ed on der wrong way. II you don't
study der peoples you don't make q
sooccess In peesness. Der first thing
you have to learn is dot der peoples
ALWAYS vhant What dey can't get.
Dots What makes me a tramp. like
to be president Of n savings bank.
can't get der job, und so goes tramp
ing. Anybody can come In dis shop"
"Of course"
"Und SO only few come In. Sup
pose 1t vhas locked oop und had a sign
OH der door dot nopody could come int"
"Dcn I vhas bankrupt"
"Den you vhas getting ready to
make lot of money. Now, you listen
to me. vhas nobody, und yet study
human nature. If don't vhas starv-
ed to death In week. If vhantStO
sleep In farmers barn, do you belief
ask him? No. sir. ask him II
| can sleep under tree in his yard. Dot
makes him say / shall sleep In der
barn. If want good meal don't
ask his wife for It. say ! would like
drink Of sour buttermik. She likes
to have 1t her vhay, und so she makes
me sit down to der table und eat u
good square meal"
"Vhell, mebbe dot vhas So" l says.
$50? OF course 1t vhas so. II you
like people to do one thing tell 'cm to
do anOdder. In dis world we all like
to have our vhay. II you keep dis
shop open some one comes in When he
likes to. If you shut him oop hun
drcd peoples come here und pound on
der door to get in"
Vhell. dot tramp talks to me for two
hours. Before he comes don't belief
dot tramp knows anything. After
| he goes AWAY belief dot a tramp
| knows all about 1t. talk things over
NIT my wife, und she says go ahead,
und SO der peoples who pass my place
next morning find my shop shut o0p
] und big sign In der window which
reads:
"Notice to Some Publics.-Der Ger
man cobbler has gone out of peesness.
No more cobbllng done here. You
vhill find dago shop one block down."
Shust ash soon ash I eats my break
| fast I put on my Soonday clothes una
| take some walks. stop In cifery
store und house and saloon und say:
II vhas here to say dot vhas gone
out of peesness. Please don't bring
any more shoes to my shop"
Stopped by People.
More ash feefty people like me to
stop und tell why. but pass along
go for half milo around my shop,
und speak to children on der street
und ! keep avhay from der shop all
day. My wife says somepody vhas
knocking ut der door alI der time In
der afternoon, but she don't mind It.
vhell, like to tell you dot der first
thing In der morning man comes In
NIT three pairs OF shoes und calls out:
Here. now, but What vhas all dis
about?"
II shust go out Of pecsness." says.
"vhat fort"
/ "Oh, ! vhas ghettiug oldw
| "Nonsense! You thns going to stay
right here for flye years yet. Here
yhas some shoes to ,dx oop. You CAM