Show JEM SMITHS PIG senator sawyer tells a story with a tangible moral to it senator philetus sawyer is agton and has been moved to tell one of ids stories with a moral to it to the correspondent spon dent of tha kew york tribune A well known politician was ostensibly backing a friend for an emco omco which it was believed ha wanted for himself he was also advising the friend to do certain indiscreet things which would surely cause him to lose tho coveted appointment it was up in wisconsin said senator sawyer when neighbors on tho farms used to lend one another a helping hand chere was ono fellow named jem smith who was pretty lazy too lazy to provide fodder for his own stock ho had ono pig mat was a beauty lord only knows bow 0 o got it but it was his he used to borrow feed from the neighbors by promising that when butchering time came he would share he animal with them when butchering timo did coma he found that ho nad promised more pork than a dozen animals would provide he went to a friend who was a sort of labye and asked him what to do now this man had wanted jem smiths pis for a long time you can fix it easy enough he said just go ahead with your butchering and let all your neighbors see you at it then want to hang the carcass out aver night in the morning you can tell the people who want a share in it that some stole the pig during tho night they only had a share in that particular pig and it it is stolen they cant hold you for their bhare jem thought this was mighty shrewd advice he did just as ho was told invited the neighbors in to the butchering and left ano carcass hanging out over night the next day he went to his advisers house with an awful long face its gone he said somebody took the pig last night even leave me a slice pretty well done said his friend did you tell that story to the neighbors as straight as you have to me but its gone roared smith 1 I tell you somebody did steal it last night 1 keep it up that way replied the friend and never suspect you 7 it do any good for poor smith to explain that he was in dead earnest the man who had advised him to leave the carcass out over night kept insisting that ho was acting first rate and the neighbors would never catch on but as he left the house he caught the odor of spareribs spare ribs he same back for a parting word by the blank he said to his friend 1 I believe youve got my pork now 1 but ho prove it I 1 suspect said senator sawyer iu concluding the story that a good many people who are advising other people to do certain things are looking out for those other peoples pork |