The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-22
YOU SHALL HAT BEER" | SAYS.

awhile. NOIIlcllIueS ! tuluk one tuluS
und sometimes anodder. Shust now |
vhas thinking dot you vhas an old
DOOtchman dot won't have anything
In der house to eat in a week longer
II you don't wake oop und bring some
peesness here. Begin on dot heel while
l talk 10 you. 1t vhas 20 cents, but !
gif you two hoonered dollars worth
Of advice instead of der money"
I looked at him for awhile und den
took his shoe, und purity soon he says:
'Cobbler. don't you make a study OF
der people:"
IF l cobble shoes dot vhas all l can
do" l says.
DOTS where your head vhas screw
ed on der wrong way. II you don't
study der peoples you don't make a
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. l like
to be president of a savings bank. I
can't get der job, und so l goes tramp
Ing. Anybody can come in dis shop"
"Of course"
'Und SO only a few come in. Sup.
pose it vhas locked oop und had a sign
ON der door dot nopody could come In"
Den l vhas a bankrupt"
Den you vhas getting ready t.
make a lot Of money. Now, you listen
to me. vhas nobody, und yet l study
human nature. If l don't l vhas starv.
ed to death in a week. If vhant te
sleep in a farmers barn, do you belief
l ask him? No, sir. l ask him if
can sleep under a tree in his yard. Dot
makes him say l shall sleep in de,
barn. II l want a good meal l don
ask his wife for it. say l would like
q drink of sour buttermilk. She likes
to have it her vhay, und SO she makes
me sit down to der table und eat 4
good square meal"
''Vhell, mebbe dot vhas So" l says.
80? or course it vhas 50. If yol
like people to do n thing tell 'em tt
| do anodder. In dis world we all like
to have our vhay. If you keep dis
shop open some M comes in when ht
likes to. If you shut him oop a hun
dred peoples come here und pound OF
der door to get In"
Well, dot tramp talks to me for tWt
hours. Before he | don't belize
dot a tramp knows anything. .AfteI
he goes AWAY l belief dot a tramp
knows al! about it. talk things owe
nit my wife, und she says go ahe&!
und so der peoples who pass my plac,
next morning find my shop shut ool
und a big sign in der window whicl
reads:
"Notice to Some Publics.-Der Ger
man cobhler has gone out of peesness
No more cobbling done here. ln,
Will find a dago shop one block down.
Shust ash soon ash ! eats my break
fast l put on my Secondary clothes uN(
take some walks. | stop in elfer,
store und house and saloon und say:
Il vhas here to say dot l vhas gon'
out of peesness. Please don't brin.
any more shoes to my shop
Stopped by People.
More ash feefty people like me t
stop und tell why. but | pass along
| go for half a mile around my shol
und l speak to children on der stree,
und | keep AWAY from der shop Il
day. My wife says somepody vha
knocking at der door all der time i
der afternoon. but she don't mind il
Well. l like to tell you dot der frs
thing in der morning Il Ia i
NIT three pairs Of shoes und calls out
Here. now. but What vhas all II
about"
II shust so III of peesness." | says,
what for:"
"Oh, l vhas ghetting old".
"NonSeuse. You vhas going to sta
right here for five years yet. Her
vhas some shoes to fix oop. You q