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Show By FranR H. Sweet (Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) "You take dot girl I broke your head," cried the little German, fiercely, fierce-ly, as he made a sudden and determined deter-mined rush forward with the rake he bad been using. But the young man only reached out and caught the rake handle in a firm grasp, at the same '-ie smiljiyi-iLs-' at his wrathful assJ 4vr"" - Let me explain, A "There ain't no o , the German. "You gA. My girl ain't for no won't work, dot play iw. and wear white clothes v business. She better as dors fader make rich money, mid gir hei everything to earn und to travel, und to wear. Dot all a mistake. I not go-ing go-ing haf no lazv man round mit her. "But I merely called to pay my re-" re-" xspects and" "Und make promise to call mlt her some more, und ta!k, und talk, und pretty soon when we not looking there be-a run off for marry. ' B'h! I got no use for college man who haf no strength for work." . The young man stretched out an arm suggestively, j -"Pretty good specimen, that," he re-T re-T marked. "It helped do some record breaking In the college nine, and went wvitb me into a good many football SIs. Just try the rrtuscle." face showed 'his disgust.; " . , "Und mayblt fine to hold a golf 6tick," he sneered, "und swing a vaue. You ought to be "shamed.". . " The young man laughed-. - ; "Look here, Mr. Strohm," he expostulated, ex-postulated, "can't you and I manage - to hit It off In some way? Haven't I heard Lena Miss Strohm say , that you need more laborers 'in " the haymaking?" hay-making?" , " ' ' ' "I notvr? ,1 you,""' grimly. "I hire ' wrrTt , , , I ;;.";' 1 , v-s." boldly. "You have ' sr ;',-. . -A'-'rus who have to learn. it a lean rate wages accord- v-, yi u . ti fir to be mlt Lena." y ' - M i. j Strohm go out to the .. 1 ' '.'. . : the laborers visit your ' .- I "Mine gracious!" with some little heat: "ain't there difference mit circumstances? cir-cumstances? Of course I dress better as my workmen." S""' "Exactly. erfectly--r smiled ' Se-M to twr he hat fv V- The farnrS. agricultural colv yfethere was no satlsfaoiS y& for the crops. One day ajNgdr came of an enterprise being parted In the nearest near-est village thafjromised to solve this Hifficalty, anr as the rumor gained stability farmers became more and bore f ibilant. ' Hans could talk of little" .!5r One moon he took dinner with thfx men at the manager's as was cftenVTis custom. tell you this Is going to be the greatest thing for famers around here that ever was," he cried, striking his closed fist upon the table for empha-y empha-y sis. "Dot man, Tie going to build a packinghouse two hundred feet long und. -ninety wide, und he going haf offices und a factory to make barrels und boxes und crates und everything. All the farmer haf to do Is to carry his crops to dot packinghouse und sell for cash, und let dot man pack up und send wherever the . farmer say, und then take his commission. If it be one bushel apples, one pound of butter, or one thousand ' bushel of wheat, It all right. Everything sell. Ain't you see all dot Is being spoil on the farm now going be save?" "But won't this man try to skin you like the commission houses have been doing?" asked one of them. "No, no, people don't talk dot way. They say he own most all the big railroad rail-road dot run through the next valley, und dot he tell our railroad If It don't give him good freight rate he going build a branch over to his own road. He say dot he like for them to make fair profit, but not to make everything You know how it been mlt us. When we go to the- railroad und say you charge two, four times too much, the railroad laugh und charge two time more. This man send off by train load, und he make do what he say. What he save on rate going make good profit for him and more profit for us. People say he rich man, und while he want some profit he doing this more to develop country und help the farmer. If only the thing don't break through now und give up." . "Oh, it won't do that," declared another an-other workman positively. "I was in town last night and bought a paper, and there are two columns in it about this very matter. The ground is already al-ready bought and lumber ordered for the building. I only read part of it last night, I was so sleepy. I meant to have let you see the paper, but forgot for-got when we started to work this morning." He rose and went out to where his coat was hanging on a nail by the door, soon returning with the paper which he passed to his employer. Hans took it eagerly and ran his pyes down the columns. Presently he gave utterance to a low gasp, and his eyes rose from the paper to seek Billy, on the opposite side of the table. Tren he looked at the paper again and then at Billy." "Mine gracious!" he cried, amazed-ly, amazed-ly, "the paper say dot man who own the railroad und is building up dot enterprise-is name William Rayner." The men merely stared at him. To them the name meant nothing." "Ain't you know?" he cried. "Our Billy is name William Rayner. Billy," sternly, "is dot man you?" "Why, if you mean the railroad in the next valley, I, believe I do own some Stock in it." "Und dot enterprise?" "I'm thinking of starting a sort of forwarding house, yes." Hans rose and stretched his arm across the table. "Shake hands, Billy," he said. "1 haf try you und you can work, und I find your clothes fit to your station, und you think 'bout other peoples mit your money. Dot is all good. Now you may go und speak, mit Lena," "Shake Hands, Billy," He Said. parlor?, I understand they eat with your farm manager. If I am not at work I shall very likely be loafing about with my golf sticks, and will be sure to meet your niece occasionally." i - "Yes, dot be so," reflectively. "If e working you need not see Lena more, und we make you work so Or dot you think more 'bout sleep- Itjg v-Ven night come than 'bout going ' for wafk. Ye-es I think I do him dot way, Mr. . Rar, or whatever your name may be. I "lake you for my hired man, und I pay you maybe, 50 cents for day more than you be worth." "Very well; that will be perfectly satisfactory. You may fix wages according ac-cording to my services. I shall come on this afternoon. But you needn't use the word 'mister;' just call me Bill." Hans grunted. "Ain't no need say dot," he answered. an-swered. "We ain't haf no mister In our hay field. But we haf one Bill now, so we shust call you Billy." The first day Billy did hi3 work awkwardly, though his trained, knotted knot-ted muscles enabled him to do a larger amount of it than most of the old hands. But before the end of the second sec-ond day the same faculties which had brought him to the lead in college and other contests set him to taking the lead in the field. Hans looked on with wonder, a little disappointment, but finally with approval. Above all things In his estimation was a good workman. "If you not dress so well, Billy," he remonstrated one day, "you be more like good workman. Everything you wear seems like it made right on you." "Which, In a way, I suppose It was," laughed Billy. "But look here, Hans, I beard you tell Tommy Dodd yesterday yester-day that he ought to dress a little better, bet-ter, and there was Pete Duffy right beside be-side him whose clothing wasn't nearly so good. And yet you said nothing to Pete." "Because Pete not able to buy more and Tommy is. A man mit good wages like Tommy und nobody to look out for ought to dresa respectable." "Yes, 1 think so. But the other workmen dress better than Tommy, and you dress better than the othei workmen. 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