The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-11-24

Mine gractOus!" with some little
heat; "ain't there difference NIT cir.
cumstances? OF course dress better
as my workmen."
Exactly, and perfectly proper"
smiled Billy as he threw the teeth of
his rake over the swath between the
windows and began to rake back
across the field. Hans looked after
him with line gathering between his
| eyebrows.
"Whatever's the boy limiting at
now?" he thought perplexedly. Hes
| smart as Lena is NIT words and dot
| way he switch me off hat some mean.
ing to it. If don't drive him from
dis farm right away quick, he's going
to twist he round NIT his finger like
he hat Lena und all the men,"
The farm was in the midst of rich
agricultural country but where there
| was no satisfactory market for the
| crops. One day rumOr came Of an
enterprise being started in the near
est village that promised to solve this
difficulty, and as the rumor gained
stability the farmers became more
and more jubilant. Hans could talk of
little else. One moon he took dinner
with the men at the managers as was
often his custom.
Il tell you this is going to be the
| greatest thing for tanners around here
THAI ever was" he cried, striking his
cloA:d fist upon the table for empha-
sis. dot man, he going to build
pack:lghouse two hundred feet long
und i:inety wide, und he going hat
Offices und factory to make barrels
und btIxes und crates und everything.
All the farmer hat to do is to carry
his crops to dot clearinghouse und
sell fer cash, und let dot man pack up
und then take his commission. if it
be one bushel apples, one pound of
| butter, or one thousand bushel of
wheat, it all right. Everything sell.
Amt you see all dot is being spoil
on the farm now going be save?"
But won't this man try to skin you
like the commission houses have been
doing?" asked one of them.
mo, no, people don't talk dot way.
They say he own most all the big rail.
road dot run through the next valley,
und dot he tell our railroad if it don't
give him good freight rate he going
build branch over to his own road.
He say dot he like for them to make
fair profit, but not to make everything.
You know how it been NIT us. When
we go to the railroad und say you
charge two, four times too much, the
railroad laugh und charge two time
more. This man send off by train
load, und he make do what he say.
What he save on rate going make good
profit for him and more profit for us.
People say he rich man, und while he
want some profit he doing this
more to develop country und help the
farmer. If only the thing don't break
through now und give up"
"Oh, it won't do that" declared an
other workman positively. II was in
town last night and bought paper,
and there are two columns in it about
this very matter. The ground is al
ready bought and lumber ordered for
the building. l only read part of it
last night, was so sleepy. l meant
to have let you see the paper, but for
got when we started to work this
morning"
He rose and went out to where his
coat was hanging on a nail by the
door, soon returning with the paper
which he passed to his employer.
Hans took it eagerly and ran his eyes
down the columns. Presently he gave
utterance to low gasp, and his eyes
rose from the paper to seek Billy, on
the opposite side of the table, THEN
he looked at the paper again and then
at Billy.
mine gracious!" he cried, amazed.
ly, "the paper say dot man who own
the railroad und is building up dot en-.
terprise is name William Rayner."
The men merely stared at him. To
them the name meant nothing.
"Ain't you know" he cried. Our
Billy is name William Rayner. Billy"
sternly lis dot man you"
why, if you mean the railroad in
the next valley, l believe I do own
some stock in it."
"Und dot enterprise?"
I'm thinking of starting a sort of
forwarding house, yes"
Hans rose and stretched his arm
across the table.
Shake hands, Billy" he said. ~
hat try you und you can work, und
find your clothes fit to your station.
und you think bout other peoples nit
your money. Dot is all good. Now