The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-01
DER GERMAN cOBRER.
He Is stim STRIVING TO Push HIS
Business.

A mans comes in mein shop and
wants a shoe-string and because I
con't charge him for 1t he says:
''Hans. tell you something's Ben
jamin Franklin he keeps an umbrella
gore in Philadelphia. Peemess vhas
mends umbrellas for widow women
free Of charge. In one month he vhas
rich mans"
"But how? ?" asked.
Because everybody says he has
some heart in him and rush to his
store Think 1t over, Hans"
"All der shoes for orphan children
shall be fixed oop free of cost"
1 vhas pleased und my wife vhas
pleased und we go to bed happy. II
vhas a great advertisement for my
shop If all der orphan children in town
came in NIT DER shoes. don't eat
my breakfast before somebody knocks
on der door. und when I lets him in
he vhas a mans NIT q tear In his eye
und six pairs Of shoes in his hands.
"Cobbler. I hat come In to take adj
| vantage of dot sign" he says. You
vhas a cobbler NIT a heart, you vhas.
vhas an orphan for 48 years. but dis
| vhas der first time anybody vhas good
to me. You can mend Oop my shoes
while wait"
But how can you be some orphan
children" says.
der or mudder, und vhas child In
my heart. Would you like to hear
me say Mary Had Little Lamb z
Yes, I vhas ash innocent und tender
hearted ash a child 2 years old. und
your goodness brings tears to my eyes.
Hurry oop init my shoes"
don't do 1t. tell dot mans he
vhas a fraud und a deceiver und he
shumps at me und shakes his fist In
my face und says he can break eafery
bone in my body in two minutes. It
takes me ten minutes to get him out of
corner before q young mans init his
hat on his ear und bad cigar in his
mouth comes in und says:
"Vhell. old mans, vhas looking for
an orphan as.-lum more ash four years,
und I vhas glad to find you at last.
dot right shos und six on der left,
| und den you can take me out for some
beer"
How vhas your" says.
IT vhas a poor little orphan boy 4
years old und der cold. cruel world
vhas crying because don't have moth
To to eat All, cobbler. may you nef-
fer know how she vhas to be left a
young orphan!"
"But you vhas a young man."
says.
/ OOL WAS I'll yum CyOSp AAS 10
piled. "You don't see straight. I may
look to be %, but, alas. I vhas hardly
more ash a baby. Please hustle on
! dose patches"
| He can't fool me dot he vhas
some children, und When I say SO we
hat a row. If I don't hat my shoe
knife in my hand he would hit me In
der Jaw. When he goes out, he says
he Will hat me arrested for false pre-
lenses und my wife vhas SO scared
she shakes all oafer. Maybe had
better take dot sign down. but after
two minutes an old wOmans comes
in. She hat cane in one hand and q
says to me:
"Cobbler, der orphan girl vhas
tcome."
How you vhas?" I says.
| Il vhas some orphan children to
get my shoes fixed oop free"
But you vhas an old womans."
"Ah, cobbler, do not speak like dot
to me! 1t vhas because I hat on my
grandmudder's clothes dot look sc
old. You don't know how he vhas
to be little girl und hat no home
Do you hat some beer in dot pail?"
| "Of course not"
"vhell, I like some beer to make
me forget I vhas some orphans, but
neffer mind. If you fix oop my shoes
heaven shall bless you.'
1 say she had better go out and
| try some games on der drugstore
i und she gets mad und screams und
yells till more ash one hoondred peo-
pies come around. She don't go out
till she break my lamp und calls me
names, und 1 shump oop and take
dot sign down so queek as neffeI
!vhas. She vhas shust down When dot
fat policemans comes along und says:
"Ho! Ho! So you hat some more
row. eh?"
1T vhas all oafer." says.
But let me see. So you fix ooI
shoes for orphan childrens free OF
cost? Why don't you tell me aout
dot?''
Because you vhas no orphan chill
drens."
"Oh, I amt? Maybe you DOM
know dot vhas an orphan for forty
years but I soon show you"
But you vhas no children"
Don't talk back to me. 1t make.