St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-01-26
Misttllanp.
The Lost Inheritance.
DY Ell MIN HASSES.

The father of Dick Hanson owned a
thrifty farm in Snugtown, and having
q few hundreds deposited in the coun-
ty bank against a wet day." deter
mined to give his son an education.
If Dick wanted to be a farmer, the old
man would say he'd no objection : but
farming was hard life to live, and if
Dick preferred u profession he meant
to educate him for one. Accordingly
he was sent to the high school in
ncighboring town, and being naturally
apt to learn, made rapid progress.
At nineteen he was prepared for
college, and entered with high hopes
for the future. Two years of college
life wrought great changes iii the
plant youth and in the last year Of
his minority bachelor uncle dicd-in
the most uniavorabic time he could
have chosen on Dicks accouut--and
left few hundred dollars to be divi-
dcd among his kindred.
Dick was one Of them, of course,
and accordingly received his share of
the Inheritance. | say his mcl" died
at very unfavorablc time for Dick ::
for at that precarious age, young mcn
are more unsettled than at any other
time in life. They are older than ever
afterwards, more confident i'll their
own strength and independent in their
own estimation. Now this was pre-
ciseIy Dicks case, aud five hundred
| 4 II n n
was to Dick a fortune.
Two long years more of college life
seemed intcrm;nablc. He had already
sirhcd for the freedom of manhood,
the liberty from books, and was III
haste to take up his thread in the
great loom of life The more he
thought thereon, the more irksomc
grew its studies, and he at length re-
solved to abandon them and establish
himself in business.
1t required little argument to CON
vince his father of the utility OF such
an arrangement, and accordingly D'ck
withdrew from college and commenced
looking about for some suitable occu'
patton The peculiar merits OF this,
that and the other employment were
discussed but all to no purpose. Dick
was wholly undecided At last there
Ihappened a circumstance which might
prove favorable or otherwise for the
capitalist, which we shall determine
by the result.
About that time Dick searched tho
papers diligently to discover som,
iiattering inducement which might bt
offered to spectators. At last he no
ticed an advertisement somewhat lik,
the following:
RARE CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY:
S25, 900 made IN a fec months !
Great Inducements to Agents:
FOR PARTICULARS ADDRESS
GENERAL AID SOCIETY,
| Box 2234, Chicago, H.
Accordingly he addressed the Gen
cral Aid Society, and received iron
thence II pamphlet containing culoS
ums from various parts of the tnltc'
States, setting forth the peculiar meI
. its of llarts Gazetteer Of the World.
- Reached its fifteenth thousand th
pamphlct stated. Most valuabl
5 work ever offered to the public; 90
4 agents wanted Immediately. Person
S dcsirous of travelling, would liud 1t
: most lucrative and agreeable employ
mcnt. Highly recommended 10y Rev
I. c. Bcechnut, Prof. Andrew, Hon
It Jas. Winter \. b. Uighlord, &c.
h In fact, the notice seemed 50 Hattie
, inc and the inducements so adval
, tageous, that our hero was quite (;
. vorabIy inclined toward the cntcrpris'
u He had always desired to so Yves
&c and thought this favorable opport,
n nitv. So, after few more inquire
=. on his part, and the most tlatterin
4 prospects from the publishers, he co
y cludcd to go to Chicago, obtain
5 agency and travel awhile,
Of Dick, though cautious youth, w;
s. not naturally timid, besides he kne
~ the value of money when anon
= strangers, and So, notwlthstandu
= the pcrils of robbers, he placed h
81 whole Inheritance in Il strong belt $
I'd curcly fastened around him, and stal
$ ed on his mission. Now | may ;
n | well say mere aS cisc" hSi', t""' ~
" cago is something Of a place, and
a New Englander going west wi
at the image of Boston the Great stamp
SO ON his mental retina, presents rath
is an imposing appearance.
80 Dicks ideas of life were conlin
W chiefly to the aforesaid metropol
d. Therefore it is little wonder that t
N. almost princely dwellings and mag
nd ficent warehouses of the Queen OF I
=, Lakes should so impress our NJ
Englander, that for a time he alm'
''o forgot business i'll the pleasure OF nj
ny city.
IA That the mushroom like growth
, a this, of all western cities, its wca
i, and intelligence on one hand, power
' and degradation on the other, sho,
ol seem almost unreal to one whose
lb- had been passed in the slower pae
g towns of New England.
,o Bat in due time, Dick having p
% chased an unlimited stock of the c,
uo bratcd work in question, started
his to make his fortune. His course v
wo still westward He very diligen