The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-04-24
Flesitating Sim
He Never Knew Exactly What
He Wanted.
By KENNETH HARRIS.

lneFe had been an undecided Gus
toner in the store who had way
cred for ten minutes beiWc n two
grades Of draw shaves and had ended
by saying that he would look around a
while and sec if there wasn't some.
thing over at the hardware store which
would suit him better.
Hes like Sim lIoisington. remarked
Wash Hancock when he had gone sim
was that kind of a foiler. He'd start 20
build fence around hawg lot an
use up the best part of week tiggerin
whether to go to the sawmill an get
him load O. elghtinch stuff or to
idea an then a neighbor I'D come
along an allow that by The time he'd
got ali the rails split he'll wish he'd
jest hitched up his team an got boards.
You get board fence an you've
got suthin that's hawg tight, the
neighbor'd say Put up a rail fence
an mebbe you'll keep your hawgs in
side of it an mebbe you won't. an
you'll waste more time chasin' EN-
than the mmber'll cost You.
Then Sim nd scratch his haid an
he'd say by iucks! reckon you're
right. III hitch up the team this after.
noon. I've ben needin bunch O
shingles, anyway
Erlong about noon Sans hired
man nd come along up from the field
an Sim nd tell him he'd changed his
mind about them rails, an he'd fence
with boards
ut don't make no difference TO me,
the hired man nd say. but | hearn
tell they're askin $40 thousand for
rough boards now an youll need n
couple O thousand foot The rail
amt goin to cost You nothin,' but the
work o gettin' EN- an the roads is
bad betwixt this an the mill
"Sim nd scratch his haid again an
study. Then he'd say, I dunno but
you're right, Bill If don't use up
that there white oak for rails there
amt nothin' ! can use IL for, less n
it's frewood I'd hafter buy nails, too.
/ never thought o that Wen grind
them axes an put a new handle in the
maui first thing after dinner
Then while they was grlndin the
axes the schoolmaster d stop TO gas as
he went by an he'd nachally asst EN-
whore they was goin' TO chop an what
they wanted the rails for.
I.sl 90. i1,p,., 4 h.Fnft M
farmer, but seems like to me that a
rail fence is the wastefulest kind OF a
fence. You take 12-foot rail and lay
ii at an angle o. IS degrees an then
count in the lay an you''e wastin
about three foot of II. Three foot
morn If you were building straight
fence. If you stake and rider IL you've
wasted q foot o rail on each panel
Then you count your land yuth soth
in don't your
az cert'nly do Sim nd say.
Then you've got the jog on each
side o. the fence 10 figger IN That II
make a strip o land four foot wide
that you can't Use You take the Zenith
o. YOUR fence an see how much that
comes to at $50 an acre.
"Sim I'D stop right there an send
Bill OF to harrer or suthin' while he'd
go into the house an put In the rest o
the day figgerin'.
That's how sim was about every
thin'-politics, religion. temp'runce.
horse tradin', food for his stock an
food for himself. an gals an curing
hams. an hail insurance an the race
problum an bone fertilizer. Sometimes
somebuddy nd come erlong an talk
TO him an he'd change right over an
take the op'sit views. Fiuerly he got
married
How did he make out to settle on
the woman that he wanted2" asked
Hank Tulliyer.
We'll. that's suthin' a Teller don't
ailus settle on himself" replied Han
cock. Seems like Sims woman done
the settlin'. Sim was kind y soehuble,