Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-01-03


Human nature is great institu-
tion," observed the druggist. "The
more ! study my fellow men and re-
mark their curves, the more respect
and admiration have for them."
Every now and then feel and
talk that way" said the county sur
veyor. "and whenever that occurs
somebody is sure to come along and
sell me gold brick or burglarize my
hen roost. I'm naturally optimistic,
even enthusiastic, where human ma
ture is concerned, but have had so
many umbrellas swiped by bosom
friends that there are moments when
take a pessimistic view.
"Just now am feeling that human
nature is greatly overestimated, and
doubt whether there's man in the
United States who won't bear watch
ing.
yesterday | made trip in my
auto to rather desolate and unten-
anted part of the county on official
business. On the way home some
thing went wrong with the engine Of
my car. l am pretty handy at fixing
such things, and began tinkering
away. Now and then grand old
farmer would come along in his car,
and he'd always stop and get out and
ask whether there was anything he
could do. Two or three offered to tow
me to town, fourteen miles away, and
several of them got themselves all
creased up reaching around in the en-
gine to find out what the trouble
was.
"Thus they would come and go
away, kind, considerate, anxious to
help a brother in distress, and you
will not be surprised when tell you
that / sat down on the running board
of my car and wept out Of the fullness
Of my heart. The goodness of man
filed me with emotions couldn't con-
troll.
"Well, tinkered ana fused and 1t
seemed that couldn't get the engine
to going. The afternoon was growing
old, and was long way from shell
ter and refreshments. So at last
concluded that would walk to a
farm house and telephone to town for
help. The nearest house that had a
phone was -four miles away, and 1t
took me some time to make the trip,
for / had to climb barbed-wire fences
and was treed for while by a dog
that hadn't had anything to eat for a
long time.
"At last l got to a phone and got
connection with garage in town,
and received promise that man
would be out to haul me in immedi.
ately, so i walked back to my car,
Imagine my emotions when I found
that during my absence it had been
stripped of it's tires, which were new,
and lot of my best tools.
II was standing there wringing my
hands and gnashing my teeth and
wishing l had some sackcloth and
ashes when the garage man arrived
He sized up the situation at once and
began doing some sleuthing. He was
naturalborn Sherlock Holmes
Without the aid of a dark-lantern OIL
even false whiskers. he announced
after examining the tire track around
US, that he knew who had swiped the
goods. 1t was Wolfman, a farmer
some miles away. He has a three
cornered patch on his tire that ! put
there myself said the sleuth, and he
stopped here about half an hour ago
and his tracks are here, where he pul
led your tires
I'VE went to Wolfman's and fount
the missing goods under a pile Of hay
didn't say nothing much to him.
felt too sick.
For it was Wolfman's generou.
conduct more than anything else thai
had made me sit down on the running
board and cry. There wasn't anything
that man wasn't willing to do to hell
me out Of my predicament.
when thing like that happens tt
man it takes him about three
weeks to recover his faith in human
nature"