Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — A Cunning Milkman. [ARTICLE]

A Cunning Milkman.

An observant milkman, who has long made the weaknesses and foibles of human nature his peculiar study, recently came to the conclusion' that it would be well to have a more romnntib‘‘Sort of driver on one of routes up near Union Park than he was then «m----ploying. Accordingly be went round jn person and left wo*aat fech of the houses that he had engaged a> Russian Count, whose haugfaty mother had disinherited hinvftr:fepi#R te, jWifltjh « surpassing beauty. The old Countess, he continued, knouted the unhappy girl to death, and. her lover fled to, the United States. At the,fieifh of Hla ma, the Count will return to enjoy 7 his ancestral estates; meanwhile he is seeking to find some one who, not suspecting his junk ami wealth, will love him !or ; himself alone,Vantl to to* end has the *arvlce. Having imparted this information in strict secrecy to pvery'housemaid on his roote, the wily; milkman went home, poured another bucket of-health-giving water into the milk-tank, and instructed the Connt (who is a’native 6f Kankfikel) that to hold up his dfid tis thd business* all he had to do was tosigh j deeply when he served out the alleged lacteal fluid, and say nothing. “If you want to give short change, and they find eilt that you’te frying to knock down.on them,” explained the employer, “say ‘Ah, yes—five copecks more,’ahd sigh.” Hie experiment has proved wondrpusly successful. All the impressionable servant girls on the route declare to their mistresses that this particular milkman gives better measure than any other, and furnishes a superior article (which, indeed, is not the case), so that hq has acquired about twenty new customers, anti when he' comek clattering along the street in the early morning, ana raises a yell in the purest Russian dialect of “ Mj-jlkoffskil” dozens of young ladies who have heard and. Veen toucheaby* his romantic story; come* to the gates with pitchers their fair hands, ana, wherfhe sighs, say to themselves, “Ah, he js thinking of his sunny Moscow!”—Chicago Tribune. '* ’