The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-31
"BUsTED IN GOLD"
ny HARRY WILDE.

SRU0TED IN E0Ln.S ~
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ny HARRY WILDE.
Click, click, click, went the electric
wires throughout the land and the news
came.
4Smith, Jones & Wiggletail, bank
ers, London, Liverpool and New York.
BROKE, with debts amounting to more
than ten millions sterling. The news
created the widest excitement ON
Change"
Well, and SO Moses & Co. stood
through it ail, ever ready, smiling and
afIablc, pow their great antagonists,
Smith, Jones s. Wiggletail, were broke,
ssutterly dead,' as was said they once
more than flourished, and their word
was as good as their bond.
was q young man then, Just starting
into business--rather bad time, YOU
say, just at the close Of our war; but
young men are hopeful, you know, and
besides, was in love. Emmie was her
name. and 1 loved her truly, as may
say with my whole heart, aud with that
incentive any one will attempt almost
everything. You see, I then thought,
in my youthful ignorance and folly
that to be earnest in love was quite
right. l have since learned from the
papers that it is not, and such things 20
quite by the fashion. f2e-
All welll To make q long story
short, her family was rich and was
poor, so had to make my fortune be-
fore could win my prize. y-e
l went to New York in the spring
to buy goods for INV business, and then
1 first met Moses & Co., or rather the
Co., Mr.. Rhinehart, who was the very
personification Of bustlinc business
man, German, one who evidently
sought to please, and who reached its
fulfilment. do not think l ever saw
man to whom on first sight took
such liking. sMoses,o as he was in
variably called, by clerks and ali. and
to whom was afterward introduced.
was quiet little fellow, in a fur cap
and blue CT with brass buttons
quite an oldi4shioncd little chap; In
deed, something like the pictures Of
men we see on old-fashioned snuff-
boxes. So Quiet was he. in fact. that I
at first took him for one of the under
clerks, or something Of that sort. 81
takes no interesth, he said, 81 only sits
and looks,D and i thought he did he
had something SO peculiar and fixed
about his ewes; somehow these ewes
became fixed i'm INV mind. and always
Connected with them some misfortune.
However. to continue. / was so mnch
pleased with Mr.. Rinehart that I in-
trnsted ali INV affairs In New York n.
TO Moses g Co.'s hands. AMI aided nv
them. or rather him. / was soon enabled
to purchase what stock I wanted and
return.to New Orleans.
III On INV arrival. T. or course.
gSulaeAsfESNU0on Emmie. who met me-
srriiIinr at the s1oor and who After
hearine Of INV vfsit.ta. Naus York -
all about 4. said ssfgow' sfnca v5sis ES 81
made no sr,ccessfnl- = start. mana eavs
when yous can show that Won have
made ten thousand dollars in business,
we can be married. and then we Will,
be 90 bannv ! wn,,t wn lovs y, s,r;.
lingly kissed her. and renl;ed . aYcs
sweetheart and Ief. nc hone that n viii
be soon"
Every one viii remember how darl
for commercial enterpr;ses was the
winter succeeding our war and so, lin
in conjunction with ALI other bnsines,
men. FOUGHT hard for existence ~ AM
our prospects in the sprinp a little
brighter, and our way clearer ahead.
Moses g. Co. still flourished. and fbei,
quotations and bulletins Sin gold, were
known wherever there were busines.
circles or business men.
So the wears passed. aud for vonno
house i stood well; but / was still mn.
married, having never vet cleared 4
sufficient amount 70 enable mo m mars,
Emmie, while she grew loyelier and
lovelier every day.
II was one evening of the winter n,
'67 that / shut nv office door with 4
more satisfied feeling. had that IA,
remitted to Moses n Go. nv hill Of ey.
change for all / owed. and INV hook.
showed clearance Of nv more thar
the desired amount, and. az have said
/ was n ore than happy.
deferred nv joy In telling Emmie
until to-morrow. as knew by that finn,
nv exchanges wouId he received ani
then could claim her as nv bride,
do not remember whether slept ns,cl
that night or not nrohahlv a wa,
then i'm earnest. and moi In the fa.b;on
I Law awake.
/ have forgotten Ia sav that Moses &
Co. had agone iato gold. .Aand -vere m, |,
leading men of "the Iinu nv f,;end,
had warned me- nf this Int I daem;nt
them nerfcctIv safe left ali nv hns;nes
in their hands.
Next morning went smiling I.
work. thinking with 4 Glad heart ~ m, n
ioy i'm telling Emmie In yhe evcn;n.
how nj, stooI
Well. the dav wore on and the Nav
York disnatches having arrived 7 we,
out to hear the news. AsI was mass
| ing along. 7 met mn acnn.;ntanca er.
asked him WAS thare snvth;ns nav ,
from New York. ann he he,;eve,
\ not : YES. there was. too. Moses q Cn'
| bankers and brokers have .hnsfnd 1,
eold!D aNobody hnrt - hastenc,
10 the hank. nv EXCHANGE had hoo,
drawn: was 4 ruined man.
l returned to my Office. buried m,
face in nv hands, and burst into tears
1t was my first loss. and felt II most
maybc we grow callous ma we Orov
older. Presently recovered mvseli
and began to think. Not SO had ne
was at first; there were my ten thous
and dollars which ! Ind saved---(
thought Of it with sight must 81
to save my credit, and we, Emmie an,
| must wait.
In week L had paid every cent
owed, and still had enough to carry ol