Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-15

he began to suspect that he had been
f1imhammed in his initial deal But he
was of a stout heart, so he continued on
his way. determined to win his spurs be-
fore he returned home.
All summer long O'Hair rode through
the southern section Of the state trading
horses. He "swapped" with farmers,
gypsies. race track followers and timer
ant traders. In all he exchanged just
eighty-three horses. Late fall found him
with one horse, worth, he judges, about
$500. set OF harness and a cart and he
was out his original investment. With
light heart, he turned the animals nose
to the north. and started to drive back
to his home in Paris. Ill. His plan was
to sell the horse on his arrival in Paris
and pocket his share of the profits. which
he calculated would be about $500.
Late at night he drove into the sale
a hired hand, dismounted from the cart.
pulled off his buckskin gloves. stamped
his dusty feet like regular horse buyer
and to the little party that had come
down to welcome the traveller home he
said:
"Well. boys. the old place looks natural
I'm little tired tonight. SO I'll have to
go home and rest. See you tomorrow.
Bill. take good care Of that animal. He's
worth $500 of any mans money"
That extra 500 he attached to the
horses value proves he was a near horse
trader, but 1t also was to prove his un-
doing. So impressed was Bill with the
fine horse that he gave him a very large
feeding of unripe corn that night, and
the next morning, when OHair arrived at
the stable, the profit Of his summers
work and 500 was lying on his back with
his hoofs pointed toward the sky. The
corn had killed him.
After that" OHair said. II decided
horse dealing was too hazardous for me,
and 1 switched my ambition to another
line"
In the youthful days Of Alben w. Bark
ley of Paducah, KY, who succeeded Sena-
tor Ollie James as the representative OF
the first congressional district of the Blue
Grass state, he had an overwhelming de-
sire to be clerk in drygoods store sna n. He
if good job as janitor of a college had
not turned up and given him chance
to build fires and earn his tuition while
he studied law.
LAS a boy" the representative said, II
lived on farm near Loves. KY, and
like all farmer boys had to do great
deal of rough work, got little money and
could not wear clean collars and pressed
suits and keep my shoes shined and
fngernails manicured.
This state of affairs was not exactly
to my liking and / had an intense desire
to obtain gentleman's job where l
could go trigged out all day long. l used
to go into town Saturdays and there see
clerks in stores wearing nice clothes and
holding down what l thought were easy
jobs. And l wondered why ], too, could
not do something like that and have a
little share Of the soft side of life. Hence
/ determined that sooner or later I would
get position as a clerk.
For a long time l nursed this dream,
and when we finally moved to the town
of Clinton, which was larger than Loves.
l thought that at last, being in a me-
tropolis, 1 should be able to land in just
such position as that to which 1 had
aspired But before got time to procure
a place clerk my ears were attracted
by the ringing of the Marvin College bell.
The idea of going to school then occurred