The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-05-10
Seltrf Story.
Ny Correspondent Edwards.

Ny Correspondent Edwards.
I 1 am a flour merchant. My Office and
warehouse are in South Street, in thil
city. I buy and sell flour in the Corr
Exchange; / also sell it through my
correspondents, both home and abroad
Edwards was one of my country cores.
pondents. Springfield, Mass, was where
Edwards resided. Sd $50 -- discs. 80
Every man has his own particular
business history, and L have mine. I g.
Not long ago Edwards became singu-
larly connected with my business career
and since people keep asking how it
came about Twill tell the plain truth
about it, because Edwards is silent
From my earliest childhood l desired
to be miller. There was a fascination
about the rumble of the mill stones, the
endless mounting up Of the elevator
cups, the perpetual sitting of the long
white bolts, and the chatter Of the coop
ers and their barrels. 1t was all this
that finely made me a -four merchant
Everyone thus has his peculiar taste
in early life, which in general effects N
that follow. NY taste was for. the min
and -four, and / have retained it all
through life. sa 80. 80 si.l-s ..a.-is.
}; But this taste for flour and the manu-
Scture oft leads sometimssto quite un.
expected results. / was satisfied with
the working of the little cid. fashioned
country mill and water power until i
made some money, Then 1 wanted
bigger, better mill, 30 that 1 could make
money faster. Some said: go to Ohio"
others said: Minnesota is the best place
for wheat" but old Bruce who had been
nearly everywhere, said AYou 20 to
Illinois and you'll like it better than any
where else.' And old Bruce was right.
1 Iwent to Illinois, and liked it so well
that / had no thought Of going else
where. made money On every barrel
Of -four turned out of the mill for four,
years 1t was good luck. But some
how all the luck, good or bad, comes to.
gether. .....s5 .;.. ...---g z Z. III!
About this time 1 invented the in.
Sincible Bran Duster, and that was tho
greatest luck of all. --..- .-.-.-.. ....
e.. People outside Of a Touring mill don't
know much about bran, and less about.
the machine called the "bran duster."
But the miller knows ali about it and
he knows II will save hundreds and
hundred Of dollars every year IN a large
mill. 1ai .li@-.-..i . i.'s ~ -- as;1
Our fathers thought if they separated
the -four from the bran by sifting IT.
through fine silk boiling cloth Of Dutch
manufacture they had done all that
could be done-four making was per
feet 1t was a mistake, and the bran
duster proved it .s ...-e ~ ..=l.-e
My bran duster was called the Inyin-
eible Bran Duster because it appeared
to clean the brand wholly from flour. 1t
wasa great saving, and millers knew it.
sold those machines for 500 per cent.
profit, and was not wholly satisfied then.
But when little cross eyed Chicago
man. with his pants tucked into the
tops of bis boots, and borrowing fine cut
from every man he met, went up stairs
and down, all over my mill, end asking
till was tired out answering,
/ offered to sell him one at cost to get
rid Of him., a-s.- - % .l. :! - .--.
But he didn't want machines /; he
wanted to buy the patent and have the
thing in his own hands / asked the
eros eyed man 6fty thousand dollars for
that patent and laughed, TO think that
at 1dst he must see how boredI sss.ri
Yes, my. friend, just pay me fifty
thousand dollars, and you shall have the
paseht and the independent fortune il
VIII bring YOU" -a go Il 2 CT
s1hate what i am going TODD, reach
ing ior another mans fine cut and max
ing fery free use with it, HYou fix the
papers and your money is ready for
yon-fd = II; - o.zDC- en- sn-os 51!ed
: Iiaye had q Kind feeling for Chicago
esersince. But when shst little man
satSdpwn esnd told me such long story
about bis wife-@the smartest, pret6est,
and best little Homan1in the State"--I4
felt guilty, aud 1t seemed somehow ihe4
I Iwas robSing that little woman. But,
then, she couldn't be 30 smart or she
never would have married such fool a.
he was. !H. - 3 f-i-;..-a.-..;a s.ii5 5-.l-'
I was an Old bachelor then, and
Western bachelors always despise them
selves if they think they have cheated
q woman. 1t is all right to cheat q man
in trade-he must look ont. But 4
continued, to have that guilty feeling
about that Cross eyed tnanis wife, and e
hoped to meet her some day. Z Them 4
intended 10 act the part d an honest
man by hero Iasent $3GD0 of the
money paid me by thenroe eyed man
to Dewey& Hoasom. my New York
correspondents, with Instructions 10, do
posit it in some good hank, there TO re.
naain 70 my credit nntA wanted. Il Then
l felt esi guilty toward thst injured
Chicago hdy. buag2 5c 57a a7sET .gnfI
A man in business never Lnows hovv