Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1881 — Traveling on a Motto That Would Not Wash. [ARTICLE]

Traveling on a Motto That Would Not Wash.

“Ven I dink us dose dimes at Vicks-, purg,” said Hoffenstein, “I veels sorry'' for Jake Villiams. I vent to him ven he opened his adore und I says: “ ‘Villiaun, I dells you de brine'pal segret us d • wholesale grocery pisness. Ven you buy von dousand parrels us bork (’alio den bounds out us each dose parrels und you make vifty.’ “Veil. Herman, ven I dold him dot he says* ‘Hoffenstein, my name was Villiams, motto vas honesd *in eferydiug nud don’t get scared in nodIng.’ Hoffenstein,' my vrent, I don’t can swindle.’ “I nefer say no more to dot man, Herman, und at the end us dree years he sell de grocery pissnes?s oud, und obened a soda vatter sdand mit de motto, ‘Houesd in eferyding und don’t git scared in nodding.* Efery day vat t>assed dat moddo vas getting avay mit Villiams. “At de end us seex monds I met Villiams on de sdreet und vour dogs mit de mange und dwo different colored batches de seat us his bants on, vollered vere efer he vent.

•‘Herman, ven efer you see dogs mit de mange vollow a man he don’t own noding in dis vorld but de esteem us de dogs. You don’t can keep a poor dog und a poor man avay from von onudder unless you boison von us dem. “ ‘Villiams,’ says I, ven I met him, ‘lf you had dake my advice ven you vent de grocery pisness in, you don’t 1)000 dis yay. 1 “ “Veil, Hoffenstein,’ he says, ‘I don’t can swindle, and all I has got vas doso dogs, und I has all de vaek been drying to sell dem.’ “Ven a man. Herman, goes around drying to sell old vorn oud dogs, he vas poor, qnd I say to myself, Villiams vas hard up und I’ll buy von us de dogs shust to encourage him in pisness. “Herman, I gif him vifty cents for a vatch dog vich he says nefer lets a ties come de house around. Vat you dink, Herman, Villiams swindled me in de drade. Ven I dook dot dog home mit a sdriug he vas plind. ' “Afder Villiams swindled me mit de dog he let some udder man use his moddo, ‘Honesd in eferydiug, upd don’t get scared in nodlDg,’ und now he vas brospering mit de insurance pisness. “Nefer dalk about honesty, Herman, beople vill dink you vas a sardine fish.”