Oxford Democrat., 1911-01-24
John,s1sttse.


Not many years ago, while on oul
where We had been jewing the farmer
iu fruit tree transactions, We took foo
train at Green Street, Portland, and GO
off at Guff Street, Auburn. We had ;
desire to travel the way that the pas
generation of farmers bad travelled will
their truck" from wsyback farms. W.
cannot now recall any particular point o
interest, but every step of the way wa
replete with enjoyment until our fee
were sore, and then the mind seemed tt
vibrate from beautiful scenery to sort
feet and back again. We should say
that there are some grand good farms
down yonder.
o, yes! We have been q peddler ol
fruit trees-just one week. But there IL
one extenuating circumstance, which hat
always been comfort to us-we never
sold crab-tree of any sort to any man
whatsoever. 1t took US precisely six
days of labor to become established In
the belief that We were not foreordained
to psddle trees. No man can succeed IN
that business who allows another for
one moment to suppose that be doesn't
want anything in that line. That is the
rock on which we split. When person
tells you firmly and respectfully: "Not
any to-day, sir" you mustn't let that
suffice, but worry him to the limit, and
until he becomes reconciled to take a
currsnt bush to get you out OF sight and
bearing. If there be any young man in
the audience who aspires to the high
destiny of peddling, let him get hint
from this incident.
On the outskirts of Rochester we saw
man who was marked for pears. And
there was something certainly pear
shaped hanging from his ear. He told
us that when pear time drew near the
seeds were plainly visible, and pears he
would have, cost what they might.
Whether he lied about the seeds We
neither knew nor cared. We were boom.
ing "Clapp's Favorite" in those days.
1t was easy getting an order there.
Dear Beginner: Let it be your first
care to hunt for fellows birthmark
and govern yourself accordingly. II it
be strawberry mark, show your pict-
ured Misrepresentation and talk straw
berries with tongue Of fire. II be have
a wart on his nose, talk Kiefer's Hybrid
with JUNCTION, and you are on the road
to success. You have him hooked. Let
him get what he buys, Kiefer's and moth.
irg else-unless it Is better. JOHN.
Perhaps you may have had 1t brought
TO your attention that some men are so
that when, through the good
Offices of friends and partisans, they are
helped forward into the high places,
they strsightwsy show symptoms of
bloat and take no note, and have no
thought nor care for those without
whom they would be as other men,
plodding along in the private paths Of
life where. evidently, they ought to be
and rightfully belong. Sometimes we
almost dare to believe that they are like
the swine that never look up to Him
who shakes the fruit-laden boughs of
autumn, but keep right on munching
with their snouts in the tansy-bed. A
proper thing for swine, and it is to be
expected, as they were built that way,
but for men it calls forth criticism and
contempt.
How noticeably different 1t is with
him who owns a summer home in this
.owu and who is one of the Exes. /.
sn't necessary to call any names. Is
here a man, woman or child in town too
to receive q smile or a
friendly nod from him? 1t has always
been so with him from his youth up,
and his prosperity in life and the high
places that he has been called upon to
ill, and has so acceptably and so ably
illed, have wrought no change in his
attitude toward his humber brothers
and sisters.
We have in mind another Of different
makeup, a certain Caesar who has
grown so great on government pap that
when he returns to his native town he
inds no reaching out of the ''glad
,and," because of no glsdness in him,
no smile, no friendly nod; bringing with
him the air aud the aspect of one who is
better than thou" an equal par:ner
with Omnipotence. We doubt If there be
,ne in his native town who is sincere
nouruer because he has been deprived
,f his pap.
With us il would bring greater and
more enduring satisfaction to be sure of
he friendliness of those within our
United line of vision than of all the
world beside. JOHN.