The Newtown bee., 1879-04-22

| uOn G kIlOW 6AdCIIy Wllitb pit ulI Dut I think something turned up" few days afterwards, for I heard him say he had made "raise," and he showed me more than a thousand dollars in gold notes, and for day or two he carried them in a side pocket and mostly kept his hand over them. for fear they would jump out and fly away; and pa bought me some shoes and hat, and stuff for aprons, and I made them myself, and l never saw pa look so happy since ma | ent away, and one day he said to me: "Vevie, have bought the store on Polk street, and you are to be my sales woman and partner"
 And sure enough, in a few days we went into the store, and over the door was great big sign of "Jones & Co.," and pa said I was the "Co." And when said, And so, pa, you are Jones, ''he blushed, and 1 guess he didn't like his old friends to know that he was selling needles, and thread, and tape and things.
 We had two snug little rooms in the back of the store to sleep in, and I made pas bed and swept out the rooms and tidied things. At first pa shut up the store when he had to go down town on business, but after a little while 1 tended it, and when there was two customers in the store waited on one, and it wasn't | long before 1 could make change and sell | things and add up almost as good as pa could; and bye-and =bye whenhe went down town 1 tended store, and we had splendid times, We went out to a nice place across the street for our meals. 1 tended store when pa went, and pa tended store when I went.
 One day pa came in and looked dread fully troubled, and then I said: ''Pa, aint l partner, and don't partners have a right to know everything, and ain't | you hiding something about Jones x Go. ?" And then I found out that pa had bought too many things for the store, and that a note for thousand dol lars had to be paid, and there wasn't any money to pay it with; and that's what made pa feel bad And then I thought and thought and wondered how 1 could get thousand dollars; and l kept on thinking over everybody that guessed had thousand dollars, and every one I guessed had it guessed wouldn't lend it to pa. And then I thought about NIT. Flood, and said "Ill go down to his bank and get it, for he's got more than a thousand millions; and down in tLc Bank of Nevada the cellar is full of goId, and of course he don't use it all the time, and I'll borrow thousand dollars for pa, and before MT. Flood wants it I'll take it back and pay the interest,"" And then l jumped up and hurrahcd for "Jones & Co.,, |" took my best bonnet and put on my gloves, and took off my store apron, and combed my hair, and got into a car, went to the Nevada Bank and told the clerk l wanted to borrow 8 thousand dollars; and he laughed and said lie guessed l had better see MT. McLane And I asked who Mir. McLane was. The clerk said MT. McLane was the president, and was in the back room; and 1 went into the back room, and MT. McLane said:
 Well, little girl, what can I do for you?"
 And I said "I want to borrow a thousand dollars"
 MT. McLane opened his eyes and screwed his chair around and looked at me, and said, :" A thousand dollarsw with as much surprise as though thousand dollars was all the money he had in the bank. Then 1 began to get scared and cried; and then 1 told MT. McLane all about pa and "Jones & Co.," and what we wanted to do with the money, and that I would pay it back to him; and he looked kinder puzzled and asked me what my pas name was; and I told him, and where the store was, and all about ma and Maud, and how the baby died. l guess that was not very much like busi- ness, and I don't know what MT. Me- Lane wanted to know all that for. Then he looked at me again, and I guess he wasn't going to let me have the money. when gentleman at the other desk came up to where I was sitting on a chair. and MT. McLane said: "Wcll, Flood, what do you think of this young merchantp' And then l knew it was the rich MT. Flood; and l looked into his eyes, and they kind of laughed, and he said: "Let her have the money; will indorse her note" Then I jumped up and kissed him, and he kissed me back; and MT. McLane made a note for ninety days, and I signed "Jones & Co.," and MT. Flood wrote his name on the back of it. Itook the money away in a canvas bag that MT. McLane said must bring back, and 1 took the money to pa; and didn't he look surprised when I poured out the great big gold twenty-dollar pieces on the cOunterp
 Then l told him what had happened at the bank; and when I asked him if he didn't think I was pretty good business woman after all, I guess he felt real ashamed.
 After this, never see anything like it such lots of carriages and such nice ladies kept coming every day, and most all of them traded with me, and pa was just as pleased and happy as he could be. Jones & Go. was making lots of money. When I took MT. Floods money back, I just marched right through the bank, past the big coun- ters, into MT. McLane's room, and took very good care to let the clerk that laughed at me before see the bag MT. Flood was in there, and Mir. McLane, and I opened the bag and turned out the money on MT. McLane's desk, and MT. Flood came up and laughed, and MT. McLane laughed, and I heard Mir Flood tell MT. McLane they would have | the lunch to-day. And then MT. Flood told me if wanted to borrow money again not to go to any other banks, but come to his, and I thanked him, and MT. McLane brought my note cancelled by a great blue Paid ," stamned across the face right oyer