Show 0 HAD DONE THINGS MAN NOT THE GOOD FOR NOTHING NOTH-ING HE SEEMED Record of Achievements Should Have Convlnrid Judge He Was Wrong In Making Hasty Judgment by Appearance A prominent judge once arrived In a strange town and wishing to ascertain ascer-tain the way to the best hotel stopped before a luzy looking cumbersome follow leaning on the corner tenet This follow answered his queries In such n drawling apathetic way that tho Judge with growing repugnance wondered what till man might bo good for So looking him over with allot too kindly eye he asked him what ho wan working at 0 replied tho other with n broad yawn Im tnkln It pretty easy Dont you know sir that we are all put here to toll demanded tho judge somewhat testily Were here to keep agoln the other rejoined lobbing over the fencepost fence-post I dont believe though In RO In anybody elses I believe In actin natural If you mean Now when I was young the fellow fel-low drawled on Ignoring tho Inqulsl tons last attempt when I was young everybody said I was cut out for a oodfornothlng nn I lint done what Id call a hard days work since Still Ive managed somehow to git pmiugh eat nn drink to keep ngoln 1 let things come an go casyllke an leave the worryln to others Therell come a day of reckoning my man put In the judge with unsuppressed un-suppressed disgust Reckoning His eyes languidly gazed afar off Now some folks not n-ot of emstew about that I dont When the Lord calls me up to throw my load In on the weigh scales Il throw lt right in an pick out a shady cool spot where I can take it as easy as I do now with a lazy chuckle And what have you got to the good to weigh what have you accom Pushed Insisted the Judge hotly Accomplished Now as I said before be-fore mister work never worried me much but heros this house here pushing a thumb wearily over his shoulder Jim Stetson put that up several years ago an I stood round an watched an put In a word now an then as to how Id put er up It 1 I was doln it myself Then theres hem two stores an barn over yonder worth nigh onto 6000 Stetson had them built Next ho put up the bank the opera house an then the hotel youre lookin for I I suppose you stood around and threw Inn little advice as usual interrupted in-terrupted the judge sarcastically I did that the drone rejoined with an unexpected burst of enthusi lasm An I was there when they built Stetsons big mill round the corner there That mill was nothln but a shack when Stetson started It uphe was a young manbut it grew an grew an ground out nough money sos Stet could build pretty much the whole town StetsonI Let up on Stetson man hes n capltain of industry The question Is what have you accomplished uttered the thoroughlyharassed judge The others enthusiasm suddenly died down as he looked away and said carelessly Me 0 yeswell Im Stetson Spare Moments |