The Cairo bulletin., 1910-11-01
.SIXTYBUSHELS
OF CORN
BY M. QUAD
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Copyright iglo by Associated lit
esary Press,
By M. QUAD


the village Of Bryon. She had three
small children, and the world was not
going very we'll with her, Her COW
had been taken on debt, there was II !
mortgage Of 500 on the place, and
the holder was threatening to sell her
out.
One day fat man arrived In the !
village and took rooms at the tavern. |
He was tat and jolly and gossipy, he
was also sympathetic. He happened
10 hear Of tile Widow Glenu's troubles
ana after three or four days he saun-
tered out that way and found her seat
cd on the doorstep with tears IN her
eyes.
| widow" said he after introducing
himself and sympatLizing with her
about the loss of crops, I'm a fat
man. I'm good man l have a
heart. You are not getting o fair
show In this world am not here to
ask your hand in marriage, for Cupid
is not for me. | am here TO say that
those who go out to shear shall be
| SutEn, VI NptuS w hlipt SiiNNt'
II don't understand you," was her
reply.
.And those who go out to STAY shall
come back home slain themselves.
While | am fat man and a good man
and have heart, there ave times
when do little business on the out
side. This is one of the times.
want to rent your barn for week,
and then | want you to act as my
agent for perhaps two more | will
pay you 500 a week and perhaps
more
But you can't mean it!' exclaimed
the surprised woman.
But | can. widow. / want the barn
to store corn In. 1t is shelled and will
come in sacks. There will be many
come to buy it for next years seed.
The price will be $40 1ushel
las my agent you are to sell 1t at
$40 a bushel, and | am to pay you
$500 for so doing"
why. III do that, of course. but
'Say no more. widow. Rest right
! there. Here's s. for the rent of the
, barn till we get married. The corn
: will arrive on the railroad, and teams
will draw ii up here
Next day the fat man and the good
man and the man with heart pre-
pared an article for the village paper.
He also got out circulars to farmers.
: The inventor Of new breakfast food
= wanted 1000 bushels of corn next
\ year He wanted red corn exclusive
ly. He would pay $15 per bushel for
it, The red corn was fad, but New
3 York was willing to pay for IT'S fads
t The Widow Glenn had been made the
agent OF the Great American Red
. Corn Fad company and had red seed
1 corn to sell at $40 per bushei Call
, before it was all gone. Not more than
three bushels TO any one buyer. as the
company wantSl to give all farmers q
chance.
q The fat man with heart disappear
ed. The widow had her instructions
"a and she obeyed them. The red corr
was in two bushel sacks, and the farm
IL ers tumbled over themselves to take
them away.
The widows roll of ten and twenty
n dollar bills grew larger every hour, ant
If her heart grew lighter. There was
n mystery about her being appointed
I. agent, but no one had any time t
20 talk about it. 1t was the red corn fat
# that was ON tap all the time. Man.
of the buyers thought there might b.
- demand for blue corn within two 0
three years and wondered how 1t coul,
be grown. In ten days every bushe
of the corn was sold, and the widow
had 5000 deposited in the postottic
safe. Then the fat man showed ur
He was just as fat and jolly as evel
| He said at the tavern that the da
seemed to have dawned when red cor
must take its place in the social an
commercial world and he intimate
= that the stock he had secured in tn
Great American Red Corn Fad con
pany would pay dividends of so pc
cent within two years. To the widow
when he had sauntercd out TO be
house and received the roll of greer
backs. he said:
widow, / am n fat man, goo
man and q man with a heart. Her
is S225 to clear the mortgage and II
terest off your home"
"Oh, but it's too much'' she reptile,
widow, there's those around hel
who have sought to shear you. The
win lose their own wool. Take til
$T5 to fit up the children and you
self.
eThere are those around you WI
have sought to STAY you, and now thu
have slain themselves. Take anoth
hundred to build new fence, pal
the house and get some new furr
ture."
"But that's S400"'
widow, your figures are correC
The $500 | keep will pay for the cor
the frcightage and my summer vac
~. ton. ] was in the lightning rod bu
M ness once, but my conscience dro
me out of It, | am now simply
man, good man and man with
heart. Widow, orphans, fare tn
well"
And about the red corn? Il had be
dyed red! And about the farmer