Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — Willing to Work. [ARTICLE]

Willing to Work.

Denver Republican. The people of Manitou were entertained to-day by the spectacle of a man carrying a stone aroynd a triangular track, letting it drop, and shouldering it again at every turn. The performer was a man who lias a reputation for a disinclination to la,bor, and the incident was the outcome of a wail he was making about the hard times and his inability to get work. A citizen told him he would not work if he got n chance, and offered him 50 cents an hour as Hong as he would carry the stdhe.. To the surprise of all *he accepted the offer, anti held out for five hours 'A- liujgeerowd gathered to watch the performance. ...