The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-16

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"Heaven help the simple
minded old couple now! What
is "business" to them but q
mysterious wonderland, full Of
pyramids and sphinxes and
statues Of Memnon? What is
a business man but a priestly
sorcerer, with his offerings and
lamentations, living ever among
the mysterious? y .s,.o.is,.......
But heaven did help them.
Sometimes it seems to fail peo-
pie in their sorest needs; and
lyet things work obscurely and
very far around, and who as yet
has seen the end of anythingi
Aunt Dolly in her wood rock
ef, knit silently on the socks
that would bring her seventy
five cents q pair. Uncle Lipha-
let drank in the mans words
with child-like credulity. ~.
"Let me tell you, sir, manu-
featuring enterprises are the
life ofour villages. Compare 7
Mr.. Swinton drew his compari-
sons Auently and correctly.
"Were we to locate elsewhere,
stock would be rapidly taken
up, but owing to our most sim
gular and unfortunate fires
loss of confidence in the loca-
toni am strongly desirous Of
comforting the advantages d
the mill upon my native village;
citizens must subscribe" .sI
GAS for the risk--how can
there be any risk? Let me ex-
plain" Mr.. Swinton was a
man Of facts, unimpeachable,
immovable facts, that there was
no going back or around. "That
doesn't admit Of a question. |
know it to be true-why, we've
demonstrated it, sir. Do you
see." a''e
Uncle 'Liphalet thought he
saw. Who could avoid seeing
a square, sharply defined fact,
that was nowhere allowed to
melt away into suppositions or
uncertainties"
''I hain't but leetle money
anyway" said uncle 'Liphalet,
pushing back his rough, gray
locks, with his rough, trembling
fingers. "Mother an me saved
up enough, leetle by leetle to
eddycate Rube with; but he
Rube) died, you know, and
the money has lain in bank" +"
GA thousand isn't much, any
way" said the man Of tens Of
thousands, tipping back his
chair, and picking his teeth ele.
gantly; but the morale your sub
scription lends is something,
Our very singular and very un-
fortunate fires, you see. The
fact that men like ourselves
have intrusted their savings to
us give us desirable standing"
Uncle Liphalet's vanity was
touched, but Dolly, with closed
lips, counted her stitches. ...
"What do you say, Dolly?"
"I've said my say, 'Liphalet.
In sickness and misfortune we
might fall back on Rube's mon
ey, otherwise I'd rather it re-
NAMED in the bank" .jiamo
"a thousand dollars, sir"
continued the old lady, suffi-
GENTLY humbled before this man
of means, Ga thousand dollars
that's been saved, bit by bit;
and laid up in five dollar bills
for a pertickler object, seems
different from a thousand dol
lars that's just one of many 60
ing up and down and trucking
around in business, sir" ~,,,a
The llght-eyed Swinton's
small, light eyes could detect
weaknesses; Artford Swinton's
quick apprehension and tact en-
abled him to work up those
weaknesses to his own interests.
When, a half hour later, he
passed out between the lilac
clumps, he carried on his pa
per uncle 'Liphalet's subsorip-
ton, and in his pocket uncle
Hiphalet's hank book. qmi.
My hand trembles so / hain't
made all the letters very good"
uncle 'Liphalet had said, as be
removed bis spectaoles and crit
ically surveyed his labored sig.
nature. ascol hae h.doayH
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