Daily Republican., 1879-11-07

"Vevie, I bought the store on Poll
, street, and you are to be saleswoman an
partner"
And sure enough in few days W
went into the store, and over the dool
was great big sign of "Jones & Co., ;
and pa said | was the 60" And
when said, "And so pa, you are
Jouesi" he blushed, and / guess b,
didn't like for his old friends to know
that he was selling needles, and thread
and tapes and things.
We had two snug little rooms in the
back Of the store to sleep in, and
made pas bed and swept out the room
and tidied things. At first pa shut W
the store when he had to 60 down towI
on business, but after awhile tended
it, and when there we're two customers
in the store waited on one, and il
wasn't long before | could make change
and sell things, and add up almost as
good as pa could and by-and-by when
he went down town tended store and
VIZ had splendid times. We went out
to nice place across the street for our
meals. tended store when pa went,
and pa tended store when went.
One day pa came in and looked
dreadful troubled; and then | said,
"Pa, amt Dartner, and don't part.
ners have right to know everything,
and amt you hiding something about
Jones & Corr And then found out
that pa had bought too many things
for the store, and that note for a
thousand dollars had to be paid, and
there wasn't any money to pay it with,
and that's what made pa feel bad
And then l thought and thought, and
wondered how | could raise one thons-
and, dollars, and | kept on thinking
over rybody that guessed had a
thousand dollars, and every one gues-
sed had it guessed wouldn't lend it
to pa. And then | thought about Mr..
Flood and said: "I'll go down to his
bank and g.t it, for he has got more
than a thousand millions, and down in
the Bank of Nevada the cellar is full
of gold, and of course he don't want to
uss it all the time, and I'll borrow
a thousand dollars for pa, and before
Mr.. Flood wants it I'll take 1t back and
pay the interest" And then | jump
cd up and hurried for Jones Il Co.,
took my best bonnet and put on my
gloves, and took off my store apron and
combed my hair, and got into car and
went to the Nevada Bank and told the
clerk | wanted to borrow one thousand
dollars; he laughed and said he
"guessed had better see Mr.. McLane," "
And asked who Mr. McLane was.
The clerk said Mr.. MG.ane was the
president. and was in the back room,
and Mr.. McLaDe said:
"Well, little girl, what can | do for
you ?'
And | said: 81 want to borrow thou
sand dollars"
Mr.. McLane opened his eyes and
screwed his chair round, and looked at
me, and said, "a thousand dollars ~
with as much surprise as though a
thousand dollars was all the money he
had in the bank. Then began to get
scared and cried, and then told Mr..
McLane all about pa and "Jones X Co."
and what we wanted to do with the
money. and that | would pay it back to
h IN; and be looked kinder puzzled and
asked me what my pas name was, and
| told him, and all about ma and Maud
and how the baby died. l guess that
was not much like business, and don't
know what Mr.. McLane wanted to know
all that for.
Then he looked at me again, and |
guess he wasn't going to let me have
the money, when a gentleman at the
other desk came up to where | was sit
ting on a chair, and Mr.. McLane said:
"Well, Flood, what do you think OF
this young merchant" And then |
knew it was the rich Mr.. Flood, and |
looked into his eyes, and they kind of
laughed, and he said: "Let her have
the money. will endorse her note"
Then jumped up and kissed him and
he kissed me back, and Mr.. McLane
made u note for ninety days, and
signed it "Jones q Co.," and Mr..
Flood wrote his name on the back of it.
took the money away in a canvass
bag, that Mr.. McLane said must bring
back, and | took the money to pa, and
iidn't he look surprised when | poured
,ut the great big twenty dollar pieces
On the counter.
Then told him just what had hap
pened at the bank, and when | asked
him if he didn't think | was a pretty
good business woman sitter all, | guess
he felt real shamed.
In few days a beautiful carriage
drove up to the door, and young lady
came in and bought nearly twenty dol
lars worth of things. never sold so
many goods to any one person before,
and the young lady was real kind and
helped me to add up the bill. | saw pa
lidn't offer to help me at all and looked
sinder comical when She and me was
puzzled over the figures to get them all
light.
Ths mines troubled me dreadful in
ldding, and so have got in the way
# making figures either fves or moth
ngs, so that will add up easier. When
he young lady drove away, | went to
he carriage and saw the letter "F."
N the panel and on the harness. "F.'
aid to myself. | wonder who it can be
should have thought it was Miss
'lood, only she hadn't any diamonds
n her ears or on her fingers, and was
ressed only just nice and plain; and,
f course, said it wasn't Miss Flood.
After this never saw anything like
lots of carriages and such nice
aides Eept coming every day, and
u, ~ th.,n trsdad with me, ana |