The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-06-20

day II the captain kad enough callers.
but long about quittin' time he'd geh
downiearted and glum, and I'd say:
What's the matter, Bill? You've had
the captain upset all day, you ought
! to be happy-hear him kickin' now.
Yes says Bill, but he's gettin' about
| $40 minute for kickin'.'
EFF we ever had long stuck-up job.
/, Nll got so cantankerous there was
| hardly any livin' with him. One after
| noon the captain was gone and We
was workin' along as peaceful, and
suddenly Bill stopped his work and
fairly roared at me: What does he
know about trouble? He never had
any
| 81 didn't know what he was thinkin'
about in particular, but it wouldn't
have made any difference If had.
cos Bill had on sort of blanket
grouch-it covered everything. So
says to him: You don't know what
you're talkin' about. heard the cap
tain tellin' a man this morning what
an awful time he had playin' golf yes
terday. He said he got in highly
critical place-them are his words
and he couldn't tell for the life of him
what golf stick to use. He could re-
member just exactly how the play
ought to be made, but he couldn't re-
member what to do it with. First he
thought twas the driver-then he
thought 'twasn't. It kind of seemed
like twas the brassie. and then al
lowed twas the mid-iron; then he felt
positive twas the putter. I didn't hap
zen to hear what the right one was,
but judgin' from some of the language
I heard him use after he specified, he
didn't get it.
"eNow, Bill I says, that's trouble
and it's just as bad trouble as you
have when you can't tell what tool to
use, and after you've tried everything
from a rabbit plane to gouge, find
out you've fooled the door jamb.
Them woes are alike says, and you
ought to be more considerate.' But
Bill was a little short on good COM
mon sense at times.
''There was something about Bill
you couldn't help likin', but if anybody
else d had his notions I would o. been
all put out with them. Of course, I
didn't like 'em in Bill, but somehow 1
always felt he wasn't so bad-just
young and little misguided.
"Once he come in where I was. just
as forlorn. I didn't stop work. just
said Well?
"'What chance have I got with
them college fellows?' he demanded.
"'Oh, shucks,' says I, because he did
try my patience lot at times. If you
want somebody elses chance, pick ON
q chap your own size.'
cit seems he drove a nail more than
he'd intended to; he'd made up his
mind to do JUS so much that day, and
he got to thinkin' about his wrongs
and forgot and went right on workin'.
He said if you went to college they
taught you to concentrate, and If he
could have concentrated on not doin'
the work as he'd figured, it would o
been all right.
'Well, 1 was sick for a spell and
Bill kind of drifted away from me.
He fell in love with a girl who was
pretty ambitious and she liked him,
too, but she saw his faults. He was
ratin' around one day about capital
to happen to them, and I tell you
Sodom and Gomorrah got it light COM
pared to what Bill was goin' to hand
out. Hit it easy, Bill she says, 'as
smart man as you ought to be q
plutocrat himself some day; maybe
you're only plannin' suicide
"That made Bill awful mad, but I
guess on due deliberation he seen
things little different. He never let
on, though, for long time. She went
out west and got the second prize in
a land drawin,. He tried to hate her
because she wasn't poor and down
trodden any more, but she just laugh
ed at him. -. ~ Fsssssl =
''They got married and went out to
live on the ranch. Out o. doors seem
ed to do Bill lot of good, and things
kept comm their way right along.
He made lot Of money on sheep, and
guess by this time he's rich. The
last heard about him he was goin' at
a pretty rapid clip and lookin' over
.airship catalogues.
Calf Simmons stopped to see him
when he was out west. He says Bill
sent me a special invitation to come
an visit him. ALI says I ought to go:
says he's just as sociable as can be
and amt changed a bit toward the old
crowd. He says, though, that Bill has
acquired ravenous appetite for lot
of things he used to think was poison.
"His last fad was fancy hens, and
ALT said when. he was a-goin' through
the henhouse he saw a dull mahogany
frame with dozen solid pearl push
buttons in it; that every time hen
lays an egg she has to press button
so Bill'll be advised right up to date.
calf told me how nice he was Twin:
told me all about his house, mahogany
trimmin's all through, and everything
nice. OF course l know he was just
havin' little fun with me about them
hens, but I would like to know IL Bin