The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-16
I OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY l6 1878.

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window with her knitting, and
watched the man as be struck
. light for his cigar on her gate
post. ss9 .a *.A'
Mwish we hadn't done it,
I'Liphalet,' said she. rs aa' u
N "Oh, don't say SO, Dolly
don't 4 aa 20 Ni aoaa 4
q don't like his eye, and for
lall he talks 50 open and honest
The seems to me like a close
man, o man who keeps some
thing back" ..'.',
"Yon mustn't be prejudiced
agiD him, Dolly, because he
appears a little vain and tlashy.
Men amt now what they we're
| in our days. He comes of an
honest, obleeging kind Of fami-
lly, and they call him a very
smart young man." 4.
Tine with incidents and ac-
lcidents went on, and aunt Dol
Ily grew used to thinking Of
Rube's money as in Swinton's
hands. This certificate of
stock in the 'tNative Village
Manufacturing Company" was
carefully laid away, and she no
longer spent sleepless nights
over it, nor sighed when the
matter was mentioned. ta5I
The mill went up, and the op-
eratives came; real estate rose
again, and the Native village
AOurished. Uncle 'Liphalet ped
died out early potatoes, sweet
corn, and mutton by the quar-
ter; and Artford Swinton, though
he had president, and directors
and clerks, and heaven only
knows what else around him,
was ~The Company" and
smoked cigars-best brand or
none--gave the company's
notes and forever stroked the
foxy-dolored moustache. While
he carried on the cotton manu-
facture, he did a more flourish
ing business in the manufacture
of facts. He heaped facts upon
facts On the head of the presi-
dent until he smothered that
gentleman in facts; he piled
bales of facts before the direc-
tors until they couldn't see
over the, pile; he threw facts
into the eyes of the stockhold-
ers until they were stone blind;
he gave banks and creditors
security Of facts, and his friends
quaffed down the facts in
the social glass. Days when
croqueting was dull, % the
books were 'tfixed." Book
keeping, once a science, design
ed to show the pecuniary stand
ing of individuals and compa-
nies, now became an easy and
economical method of fixing"
things. Now and then a divi-
dend was declared, and the
stream that turned the mill
glittered in the sun like the river
Pactolus. Uncle 'Liphalet put
greenbacks into the contribu-
ton box, and thanked the Lord
daily that he was giving him
increase of substance.
Then there began to be a
haze in the air through which
had glittered the river Pacto-
lus. Swinton said it was smoke
from the Boston fire. It grew
denser and denser.
"Smoke from that-Boston
fire; wind blows it this way
YETI said Swinton, between the
puffs Of his cigar.
5 But smoke has an unpleas-
ant effect in mems eyes, and
meeting after meeting was held
to devise measures to get out
of it, Uncle Liphalet, at these
meetings, sat silent and trem-
bling, listening to talk that he
could no more understand than
the chattering Choctaws, and
was shown statements that he
could no more comprehend than
the inscription on Pompey's
pillar. The man offacts lounged
in an attitude Of such elegance
as men are wont to assume
when by themselves, and agreed
with everybody, and was for
putting this through" and Of.
fered his facts for this latter
purpose with astounding liber-
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