Delaware Valley College - Cornucopia Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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8 THE GLEANER Most of my time was spent in looking through the window. While engaged in this pastime my attention was carried to an enormous factory, with this sign Alcornoats Products Co., A Goldston, Prop. I wonder- ed if this could be my old friend,, Abie the agent. As we had an hour's stopover, I made inquiries about the large factory and its history. In the office! I was told that Mr. Goldston was in China, investigating some choice Chin- ese varieties of Chop Suey alfalfa. Wonderful claims had been made foij it and, with the terrible business in- sight that Abie possessed, he could let no such matter go unnoticed. For at school had he not almost persuad- ed the graduates to buy a, carload of Corno before they had their jobs? -I tried to learn the secret of his remark- able success. I was introduced to the vice president, whom I immediately recognized as old Sam Fine. I was pleased to meet him and asked him about it. He told me it was a secret and, after promising not to divulge it, he told me how Abie made good. After Abie had made good selling Corno he denim. ed to start for himself, he began. So he started in a small way selling similar feeds. He just about managed to get along see, when I heard about it. I always had a wonderful idea about feeding and I thought Abie might like! to have it, see. CSam had not lost the old, habit of saying see after every twenty words.J' So I said that if you accept my idea you must take mfe in as a mem- ber of the firm. This is the secret. He bent over and spoke softly into my ear for fear some spy might hear. For every carload of feed you sell you must send enough green cow-eye-glasses along. When the cows eat the feed, made mostly of sawdust and ground leaves, they will think it ground alfalfa and yield a whole lot of milk, see. From then on the company grew and now you can go anywhere and see the cows with green eye- glasses eatingi our wonderful feed. I congratulated him and told him to send in a Gleaner subscription. Upon reaching Chicago I stopped over for a few hours at the Hotel Highball, completed on July 1, 1919. Being rather hungry after my long ride I ordered dinner, including chicken soup. The waiter began placing the dishes on the table and, while doing so, his tray tipped to a frightful angle and the unruly bowl of soup careen- ed over the edge and took a course downward along my neck. The waiter offered apologies. Excuse me, sir, ah-ah-ah-I c-couldn't help it. Thec-co-cook played a-a- a trick on me. He gre-gre-greased the bottom of my

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