Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-13
Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Company.
CHAPTER VII.-CONrINUED

CHAPTER VII.-CONTINUED..
'Of course it's art" Percival agreed;
-all-hand painted, 1 suppose?"
''Sure! that painting alone, letters
and all, cost $3.50. I've just had 1t put
up. I've been after that place for
years, but it was held on a long lease
by Max, the Square Tailor-you know.
You probably remember the sign he
had there-'Peerless Pants Worn by
Chicago's Best Dressers,' with a man
In his shirt sleeves looking at a new
pair. Well, finally, got a chance to
buy those two back lots, and that give
me the site, and there she is, all fin
fshed and up. That's partly what l
come on this time to see about. How'd
you like the wording of that sign?'
N"Ffne-simple and effective" replied
Percival
That's it-simple and effective. 1t
goes right to the point and it don't
slop over beyond any, after it gets
there. We studied a good deal over
that sign. The other man, the tailor,
had too many words for the board
space. My advertisin' man wanted it
to be, first, 'Higbee's Hams, That's
ALL But, don't know-for so big a
space that seemed to me kind Of
well-kind of t1ippant and undignified.
Then l got it down to Eat Higbee's
Hams That seemed short enough
but after studying it, 1 says, What's
the use of saying 'eat?' No one would
think, says, that a ham is to paper
the walls with or to stuff sofa cushions
with-so off comes eat as being SUI
perfluous, and leaving it simple and
ignified-'Higbee's Hams -"
by the way" said Percival, when
they were sitting together again, later
in the day, where is Henry, now?"
Higbee chuckled.
That's the other thing took me back
this time-the new sign and getting
Hank started. Henry is now working
ten hours a day out to the packing
house. After a year of that he'll be
taken into the Office and his hours will
be cut down to eight. Eight hours a
day will seem like sinful idleness to
Henry by that time"
Percival whistled in amazement.
Il thought you'd be surprised. But
the short of it is, Henry found himself
facing work or starvation. He didn't
want to starve little bit, and he final
" concluded he'd rather work for his
dad than anyone else.
"You see Henry was doing the
mt n
York-being gilded youth and such
like. Now being a gilded youth and
"a well-known man about town is
something that wants to be done in
moderation, and Henry didn't seem to
know the meaning of the word. l put
up something like $4,000 for Hanks
gliding last year. Not that I grudged
him the money, but it wasn't doing
him any good. He was making mon
key of himself with it, Henry was. A
good bit of that hundred and eighty
went into a comic opera company that
was one of the worst I ever did see.
Henry had no judgment. He was too
easy. Well, along this summer he was
on the point of making break that
would-well, I says to him, says L:
Hank, I'm no penny-squeezer; 1 like
good stretchy legs myself says; I
like to see them elastic so they'll give
q plenty when they're pulled; but I
says, If you take that STEP I says,
If you declare yourself, then the rub
Der in your legs says, will just nat
urally snap; you'll find you've over
played the tension I says, and there
won't be any more stretch left in them
1.-THE secret is, Hank was being
chased by whole family of wolves
that's the gist of it-fortune hunters