Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-09-02
lBrooklyn Eagle.
Hunting For 6 Market.

al say, stranger, you wouldn't like to put
little money out a, four hundred thousand
per cent. interest. would you?" asked a
seedy looking customer. edging his way
through a crowd of advertisers to the cash
ier's desk in the Eagle counting room,
yesterday.
IL don't know" replied tie cashier, eye
ing him suspiciously "what have you got2"
Got! What have got? I've got the
deepest, widest. straightest ledge in the
Territory Of Colorado"
I'm not buying any mining stock" said
the cashier, running up a column of figures.
Right YOU amt :" CALCULATED the million
are. "Leastways you amt buying any
stock in my mine. cause it amt for sale.
wouldn't part with half share in that ledge
for all the money cooper could barrel in
eight years. Blu, I've got some quartz here
that's going to make your eyes bile over
when YOU see it. BE careful how YOU look.
now. I've seen seven men fairly blinded by
this chunk o. wealth before nine o'clock this
morning. Just throw your hand 10 your
forehead, SOS TO kind O. shadt our squin,s
while turn one end loose. See this now"
And he turned back the paper around a
piece Of limestone and let it project slowly
"Are YOU gettin' accustomed to il, pardner
Think YOU dare take a wink at the whole
racket See the silver glisten all along
here? That's the dirt I'm diggin'. and I'm
going TO let you have this stuff economical.
You can get this corner lot away from me
for four hundred dollars. | was offered a
thousand, but I've saved il for YOU, stranger,
cause | knowed you was deservn' young
man"
"Where'd you find that dornick ?" asked
the cashier. contemptuously
"Outen my ledge right in the Territory Of
Colorado. Amt she II handsome piece Of
gilt? Look at them speekles. stranger , let
your lashes rest on them speck2es Of future
wealth and ambition gratifed, and then
reason to yourself that you're goin' to get il
for four hundred dollars"
Don't want it," responded the cashier
carelessly. hunting through his figures for
an error.
"She pans out 5000 ounces to the ton.
eighteen hundred dollars to the ounce.
Would YOU please cal'late that for me in
money, stranger9 | have been fgcrin' so
much that I've lost all run Of these small
amounts"
Sixty four million eigh, hundred thou
sand dollars" replied cashier.
Just so. And this we're quarter section
of rollin' in luxury, wha, do YOU estimate
it, weight p
Six or eight pounds said the cashier
eyeing the rock.
Never mind pound or two, call il six"
SAID the seedy man. That's ninety-six
ounces. That would make this lump Of
human happiness worth hundred and fifty
odd thousand. Gimme seventy five dol
lars p
oh go throw it away :" said the cashier
Il don; want it at all
I'm tired carving il around" observed
the seedy man. five got so much of this
key to bliss that don't mind partin' with it
cheap. Say four dollars"
Get out. will YOU? can't bother with
YOU any more. | don't want Your cobble-
stone at any price. calculated the erasper-
ated cashier.
Say, stranger" pleaded the seedy man
after moments pause, II want to step up
street and pay the mortgage OFF the church
my poor old stepmothcr goes to. Could
YOU lock this round on the ladder to ac-
complish hopes in your vault till come
back won't BE- more'n an hour and
The next instant he rolled off the curb
stone, with his piece Of cheap pavemen, rat
tling round his head
Il don't believe anybody'll interfere with
II here" he sighed. as he brushed of his
clothes and dropped the rock into the nose
bag OF truck horse. II reckon its safe.
say he continued, sticking his head into
the counting room door. and haiing the
cashier again. Il say. pardner, you wouldn't
mind keeping an eye on this horse for an
hour and half, while step up to the
church -
Then the deepening shadows of the
gathering gloom absorbed him.