The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-01-25

L ...,. WIN soHie little
neat amt there difference NIT cir.
cuhstances? or course dress bette,
as my workmen."
Exactly. and perfectly nronar +.
smiied Billy as he threw the tooth n,
lis rake over the swath between the
"lndrows and began to rake back
across the field. Hans looked after
MIN with line gathering between his
eyebrows.
Whatever's the boy limiting at
now?' he thought perplexedly. He's
smart as Lena is nit words and dot
way ne switch me of hat some mean.
Ing to 1t. II | 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 a 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
dificulty. 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.
i tell you this is going to be the
greatest thing for famers around here
that ever was" he cried, striking his
closed fist upon the table for empha.
Sis. Dot man, he going to build a
clearinghouse two hundred feet long
und ninety wide, und he going hat
omces und factory to make barrels
und boxes und crates und everything
All the farmer hat TO do is to carry
MS crops to dot clearinghouse und
sell for cash, und let dot man pack VI
und send wherever the farmer say
und then take his commission. If il
be one bushel apples, one pound Of
butter, or one thousand bushel oil
wheat, it all right. Everything sell
Amt you see all dot is being spoil
on the farm now going be saver"
But won't this man try to skin you
|. like the commission houses have beer
doing?" asked one of them.
No, 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 dom
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. Wher
We go to the railroad und say yol
charge two, four times too much, the
railroad laugh und charge two time
more. This man send OF by trair
load, ,und he make do what he say
What he save on rate going make goot
profit for him and more profit for us
People say he rich man, und while hi
want some profit he doing thi
more to develop country und help thu
farmer. II only the thing don't breal
through now und give up"
"Oh, it won't do that" declared an
other workman positively. Il was IL
town last night and bought paper
and there are two columns in it abou
this very matter. The ground is al
ready bought and lumber ordered fo
the building. | only read part OF i
last night, | was SO sleepy. | mean
to have let you see the paper, but for
got when We started to work thi'
morning."
He rose and went out to where hi
coat was hanging on a nail b. thu
door, soon returning with the pape
which he passed to his employer
Hans took it eagerly and ran his eye
down the columns. Presently he CAV
utterance to low gasp. and his eye
rose from the paper to seek Billy. OF
the opposite side Of the table. Ttei
he looked at the paper again and thel
at Billy.
Mine gracious," he cried. amazed
ly, the paper say dot man who Owl
the railroad und is building up dot en-
terprise is name William Rayner.'
The men merely stared at him. II
them the name meant nothing.
! Amt you know" he cried. GU
Billy is name William Rayner. Billy.
sternly, lis dot man you?"
why, if you mean the railroad Il
the next valley, l believe | do owl
some stock in it.
"Und dot enterprise"
I'm thinking of starting sort Q
forwarding house, yes
Hans rose and stretched his arm
across the table.
shake hands, Billy" he said.
hat try you ind you can work. und
find your clothes fit to your station
und you think bout other peoples mi
your money. Dot is all good NOV
YOU may go und speak NIT Lena