The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-11
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"Mr. Mac Arone, cannot do w1thou
that house. l thought it was alread
mine. | offered thirty-seven thousan
five hundred dollars for it, believing tina
| the owner would soon and surely come +
terms. But there is no hope of starvin
| you into an agreement; so without fur
| ther preliminaries, want to offer YOU al
advance of fifteen thousand dollars OF
your bargain"
Fifteen thousand dollars coming to me
l scarcely knew what to make of it.
who had so much trouble to procure work
|, who had to toll so necessarily for seven
ty-five dollars month
Although but little acquainted witt
business, saw in twinkling the advan
tage to be derived from my position, ant
replied:
cit is impossible, sir, for me to give yo,
an answer just now. Return by fiv,
o'clock. Meantime / will consider tht
matter"
AT quarter before the appointed houl
Mr.. Hardcash was before me.
az had no wish for that house." sale
/, "and did not even think about i
when the owner came and begged me to
buy it. AS it suits you, and as any other
will do as well for me, I accept your
Offer"
"You shall be paid in two weeks, in
paper on ST. Louis" said the purchaser
delighted with my promptitude in bust
ness.
Paper on st. Louis | was so little &C.
customed to financial nomenclature and
proceedings that imagined / should send
it thither for payment.
/ accordingly wrote to banking house
not far from the post-office, stating that
had certain funds to invest, and asked ad.
vice on the safest mode. 1t appears, the
phrase "certain funds" has different ac-
ceptations "on Change" according to
the name and the position of him who
employs it.
The news Of my inheritance must have
reached ST. Louis. No doubt it found its
way into the missouri State Items" of
the papers Perhaps the mercantile agen-
cies became posted. "Certain funds"
situated as was supposed to be, was a
modest manner of specifying a considera-
BILE amount. At least supposed SO, on
receiving an answer from the house to
which / wrote.
They said my letter had just arrived in
time to take one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars worth of Iron Mountain
Railroad stock just offered on Change
If | thought that too much, large profit
might be Immediately realized, as it had
rapidly gone up. A Postscript IN the
writing of the President, who was an oily,
hypocritlcal financier, congratulated me
ON my accession to fortune!
A hundred and fifty thousand dollars !!
The letter fell from my hands. The
amount frightened me. telegraphed in
stantly to my correspondents that so large
a sum was beyond my means; that / had
no remittances as yet from Helena, Mon
tana, and that was not then able to salts
fy their claims.
A reply came in a couple of days, say.
wish, they had disposed Of the stock at
profit of seventy-fve thousand dollars,
which was placed to my credit They
begged of me not to be uneasy, as they
were aware that in consequence Of the
troubles on the overland route (the Union
Pacific Railroad was not yet in Operation),
remittances were slow from the Wess.
The prospectus of a new German bank
was inclosed, in which one hundred shares
were secured for me.
Seventy-five thousand dollars! Did the
clerk put in few cyphers too many? My
situation became embarrassing. | was
overwhelmed with congratulations, par
ticularly when donned the suit of black
the black silk hat, with broad Grape,
black kids, black tie and studs, dainty
boots, ct cetera. The editor of one of the
thought himself obliged to
give biographical sketch of my uncle,
and asked me for additional particulars. /
was besieged with annoying questions of
every kind. In what way would l fur
nish my house? Samples of cloth, grocer
les, ETC., ETC., were submitted to me for
l never knew of so many
churches in course of erection that were
short of funds! so many public institu
tions with depleted treasures so many
orphans who wanted fathers, and widows
who wanted husbands, at the impover-
ished asylums, who would bless my bOun-
ty! Missionaries told me narrowing tales
of the poor children in Timbuctoo dying
of cold in the dog-days. Pews were ten
dered to me in twenty-seven churches in
st. Louis and Kansas City. would be
second Peabody. l would be the Roths-
child of the West, the Astor of the Missis-
sippi Valley, the Vanderbilt of Missouri.
pared with what my piles of correspond
ence made me. But was ruined In post
age stamps and stationery. In the midst
of all my riches, whether real or imagi-
nary, | had no money! Fortunately,
from the moment I was held to be rich no
one would take cent from me. Every
body counted upon the honor of my
patronage.
At last decided on going to st. Louis.
Immediately on my arrival l went to my
bankers, who received me with all the
warmth due an inheritor of great wealth.
81 regret" said the President, "that
you mistrusted that speculation for rail-
road stock has again gone up. No mat
ter, however, you have some left"
"Will you have tile goodness" said /,
to tell me precisely how much all these
funds are worth which you have bought
for mes"
out a pencil, he cipherGd on the back of a
blank check for few minutes, and then
said; -Four hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars"
opened both my ears and eyes.
"You say four hundred and twenty
thousand dollars-are you quite certain ?''
Perfectly"
Not wishing to appear too startled, re-
piled briefly:
"That is well. You spoke also of a
bankg"
ayes; the establishment of the bank
has met with some difficulties; but the af-
fair is not less good. We are on the eve
of terminating it, and scrip is well up"
Gould that scrip be also sold?"
Yes; and holding as you do, one hun
dred and fifty shares-one thousand dol
lar shares-which are tolerably up, you
can realize thereby eighty thousand dol.
lars"
although as yet 1 have paid nothing p
Undoubtedly"
"All right, since you say so. Now,
would like to make a good and safe in.
vestment Qi the whole, be SO kind as to
tell me what you think"
"YOu will need home here. Reserve
enough for that, and invest the balance in
five-twenties, seven-thirties and ten -forties
e. -. A l. II