The Huttig news., 1908-11-14

Mighty tough luck, 1 call it, said the dseonsolate-looking young man.
 Well, l guess you might call t that agreed the philosopher with the brier pipe. It never happened to you before, did it?s
 ''I shd say not, said the young man. How often do you think thing like that is going to happen to a man?"
 T don't suppose that particular thing would happen very often" said the philosopher with the brier pipe, but in a general way misfortunes will happen and after awhile you get used to them You can get used to any thing, and once you do get used to 1t you don't mind it. You won't get roped in just that way again, but you'll get roped in some other way, and pretty soon you'll kind of look for it, and when it happens you won't say much more than That's what l ex- peeted So the old man bunkoed you, did he?"
 Yes, sir" replied the young man. Right on top of that I got the bounce"
 You'll get used to that said the philosopher. You won't mind it near ly so much after you've been hunting l it a week or two. I knew a fellow once who was fired from almost every 1 job he got. The first time be felt l mighty bad about 1t and went around thinking he was disgfaeed, but in a year from then if he stayed a month in one place and wasn't fired he'd iuit anyway It's all what you re lsed to-
 How long do you think it would take for you to learn to like it?" sneered the young man.
 "I couldn't say" replied the phil. osopher T never tried it myself, but 1 I've had lots of other m'sfortunes. lost pair of overshoes yesterday. l guess I've lost more pairs of over shoes than anybody else in the coun- l try. 1 take them off somewhere and then go away and leave 'em, ard for get where You see, my feet get too warm. l don't mean to say that's anything serious. but it's happened to me so often that 1 hardly notice 1t now 1 just go and buy me another pair of overshoes. But l can remem- Der the first pair lost and 1 was sick over it.
 Maybe you didn't have the money to go and buy you another pair in them days suggested the young | man.
 That may be true. too, said the philosopher. But you can get used to being without money. It's incon- venient, but it's inconvenient to go without eating for meal or two. You can get used to that and be the better for it. When you talk about eating there's the things that you cat. 1 can eat laore burned steak and sour, heavy bread and not mind it than anybody you ever saw. Why? Be cause l live out where you cant hire cook for love or money Even the poor ones quit, and I've got so used to their quitting that it doesn't put me out We have to bear things which are very painful to us at first, but our feelings get blunted Perhaps, too, our troubles are imaginary to a great extent. ] saw a lumber-jack who'd just been paid off sit down in restaurant and after looking all over the bill-oi-fare order pork and beans.
 I've been kicking on pork and beans for the last two months he told me. but I don't see anything here that l want more. after all Some how, l just feel like pork and beans now 7"
 T won't call for any more deals like l got, said the young man. You can bet on that.
 You'll get married some of these days, shouldn't wonder pursued tine l philosopher. But you'll get used to that Alter ten or twelve years of 1 it you'll hardly murmur. Yes. trouble comes to all of us, but we get case hardened to it. Things that hurt us like the mischief at first We get so we don't notice"
 T know one thing that hurts like the mischief at first and you don't get used to 1t, either
 What's that?"
 "A mustard plaster" replied the young man.