The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-10

- ~ AF&1El& @GAEA ADMIT
That If elected President
lie wouldn't make i hit
I've heard men grant ina they ala not
Quite understand finance.
And couldn't manage newspapers
IL once they had the chance
I've heard them say they didn't know
How dry goods stores are run.
And that a Legislators job
Is anything but fun.
I've even met some who'd confess
Iney never yet had told
Their friends, because they didn't
know,
Just how to cure a cold.
But never have / met a man
Who a the slightest doubt
That he could start a poultry farm
And glorioasly Win out
lie Was IA Real Adept.
Give me the man who PLAYS his
game Well, no matter what that game
i. said TIE stock broker - respect
such a man. / take OF my hat 70
him every time. and last night l gave
him a cigar. Just about a year ago,
as | was coming cut Of a cafe on the
avenue late one night. a stranger spoke
10 me. He was a Vell-dressed fellow.
and he accosted me with the name
Of an equal and a brother He wns
stone broke. he said, and he would es-
TEEN it a favor II I'd lend him enough
to take him back TO his home in
Pennsylvania. He didn't tune his harp
TO any heart interest lay about being
out of work. and he didn't War6ie
anything in a minor key about the
bedside Of any dying parent. He
hadn't wen been robbed. He told me,
genially. that in addition to being a
Il - MIA acG he gAaE the rGHLiRA-
Clarence Of his whole township He'd
come 70 Washington to see sights, and
he'd been up against a faro game.
Hadn't sense enough to quit, he slid,
till his last cent rs gone. had money
at home. he conhded to me. but did
not dare telegraph his father, the
judge. for fear of ructions. He didn't
seem much worried. aud he seemed as
sured that knew exactly how it was.
He even limited that I'll been young
once myself. maybe. ard | didn't deny
it. | went down into my pockets and
found just fifty cents. l apologized
and he apologized, and we parted
amicably. Last night | met that same
fellow again, and I'm blessed If he
didn't step up t. me with the same
merry tale.
look here said. that story's
no good. You tried i, out with me a
year ago
stun him Not a stun. He just
laughed INC slapped me on the shoul-
der.
That a funny coincidence he
said. This is tWic within a year
I've gone broke in Washington. and
both times I've run against you. Well,
wellt'"
Gift For the Motoring Man.
I'm always pleased when some
body tells me of q new sort of Christ
mas present suitable for a man be-
cause every year ! expect the supply
of cigar cutters to give out before
Christmas shopping is half done. Marie
is making something which l am sure
will prove a regular sine qua non, or
wade mecum, or je ne sails quai. or
something of the sort to some suffer-
ing man. It's d pair of things, to be
exact. and each of the pair is a cir
cular piece Cf handkerchief linen,
button-hole stitched about the edge.
An inch or SO inside the edge there is
a narrow casing with d ribbon run
through it. l said as soon as / saw
the thing it was q bag to hold soiled
white muslin %cravats. and almost any
tidy man would rather use one than
throw his discarded neckties on the
floor, as is the present custom. !
was wrong. Marie's idea is a pair Of
fog s~trainers, if I may use the express
sion She says that when her broth
er Jim was motoring through New
England last summer. he discovered
that the lamps on his a would pierce
a fog or night mist three times as far
when he covered them with his hand
kerchief, as when they shone unpro-
tected. He used to tie his handker-
chief oVer the lamp with a string, but
Marie's ribbons will be ever so much
more convenient. 1 don't know wheth-
er .Jim'S idea is founded on scientific
truth or not, but hose button-holed
circles certainly do make pretty Christ
mas presents. And one great beauty
of them is that. being adjustable, the
man who receives them won't be
obliged to buy a new automobile to fit
them.
Awful One on Boston,.
"When we want to say something
whitening about any one who hap
pens to come to Boston, says a Mass
achusetts woman who is here for the
winter, I'VE say he's provincial. II