Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-11
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have looked for machine shop-a
suite of apartments in the most exclus-
i've part of Chicago-but the shop was
there, or rather the class of work
usually done in a tinker's repair shop
was being carried on there. Yet the
workman seemed more of a misfit at
his calling than the industry in its To-
cation
Trousers and vest of finest material,
diamond ring flashing from his left
hand, silk underwear in evidence where
his immaculate cuffs were turned back,
all showed that he was out of place,
and he seemed overparticular on the
work in hand.
He had an aluminium pan of the kind
our mothers used to call dripping
pans. to which he was soldering a pair
of rockers" Also he had eight tubes
half inch in diameter that he was
connecting with the bottom of the pan,
so that they stood upright, and just
above the bottom of the pan were per-
forations. so that liquid in the pan
would find entrance into the tubes.
He was manifestly improving his
mind as he worked for propped against
the wall behind the washstand that he
had improvised as a work bench were
five books that, like the learned black
smith, he studied intently: his lips
moving in slow monologues told that he
was imemorizing something of i'm
portance.
Two of the volumes were exposures
of Masonry and Odd Fellowship, re-
spectively; the others were the doc
trines of the three churches having the
largest following in the Southwest.
Scattered about the room were the
country papers from half dozen Ar
kansas counties, with all references to
'our distinguished farmer citizen"
carefully marked. He studied the list
carefully, finally looked up a certain
county on a state map. and then went
out to shop and had a small trunk
THAI would hold the pan he had COM
pleted made to order.
Three days later when the morning
train glided into the principal town OF
the county that had been marked on
the map, a Keen Keyed, prosperous
looking man in correct" attire alight-
ed from the Pullman and ostentatious-
ly inquired for the best hotel in town
where he registered as from St. Louis
Your average landlord of the South
west looks upon registering at his hote
as a merey routine of daily business but
his heart is troubled until he gets d
full biography of every guest. Tn
conscious that he was giving more thar
he received, he soon had the late ar
rivals past at his tongues end, but die
not know that he had steered the ur-
bane gentleman onto a flock of lambs
whose habitat was near an outlying
postoffice.
Next morning the guest visited the
bank patronized by farmers and made
substantial deposit. He chose ar
early hour, when business was slack
and pumped the teller dry as to farmer
depositors. That afternoon he hired
carriage and went to the scene OF
action. but the scenery that the To-
quaeious driver pointed out did no
seem to appeal to him. His nose wal
buried in pamphlet, for he was put
ting on the final touches from hi
manual of Masonry and brushing III
Oh Baptist tactics.
8 He had fallen into the habit of solilo
<quizing like most men who work mucl
alone, and AS the carriage swept rount
d DeIlu III the ROAD anu ne Caught sign
OF the house, he unconsciously spoke:
Here is where / stage the scene an(
get the lamb for sinners shorn."
He explained this lapse to the driver
as quotation from one of the church
books that he had been reading. The
victim was slightly overawed at ths
vehicle that swung through his gate
with the deliberate air of easy opu.
lence. but with true Arkansas hos.
pitaiity he met his unknown guest al
the carriage steps, while his good wife
fluttered from window to window t.
note IT, the neighbors were duly i'm
pressed by the equipage that was
standing at her door.
When the stranger introduced him.
self and made recognition grip Of
the order" part Of the handshake thai
followed. the farmer could not but fee
that fortune was knocking at his door
The grip" was a guaranty of re-
speetability. and when at the supper
tab1e the stranger "snid= grace" and in
ypked 9 blessing on tbs household. and