Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-11-24
"For my bread, sir and to keep the little

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"True; but you can do better"
Gas how, sir, if you please'' queried Joe
"Do little more head work, and less Of
this hard toll will be needed, Joe. Buy 9
cargo of sugar, for instance, aud make few
hundreds or thousands Of dollars by the ope
ration, to begin with. Then 60 carefully
shave and ssve as respectfully as may be ne
cessary according to the times the demand
and supply, and you'll get rich" :.
Excellent advice, this, sir, and for which
I am greatly obliged to you. But, perhaps
you will lay me under further obligations to
your kindness, by informing me where I'm
to get the means to purchase this cargo, and,
consequently, to realize all these hundreds or
thousands of dollars, as the case might be-"
Easiest thing in the world, joe"
"Is it, sir?"
"You don't want any money"
"No" exclaimed Joe, astonished. "Why,
I always thought these things cost money,
sir"
"True; but still you won't want any ready
money, if you follow my advice"
"Then I'll do so, surely sir"
"Very well. Tomorrow, at eleven o'clock,
there is to be sold at Packet Pier, cargo OF
sugar on board the brig 'Percival.' Go down
and buy it,"
"What, the brig, sir?'
"No, no! The sugar"
"How much, sir?'
"The cargo, Joe, the whole Of it. I'll
take it off your hands, at cost, if you don't
want it, afterwards"
"But-pray, sir. How shall I pay for it p
"It is to be sold on approved credit, at
sixty days. If.hey ask who is your endorser,
say it's me, joe" .....
"Thank you," said Joe, feebly, and utterly
at loss to comprehend what the old gentle
man was driving at.
Joe Warner went home that night, per-
picked. But before eleven o'clock next day,
though he did not see his employer in the
meantime, he made up his mind how he should
act. And at the hour of sale, he went to the
dock, in his old blouse and slouched hat, d.
rect from his ordinary labor.
There was splendid company present at
the sugar sale, for there was but little in
market, and decidedly speculative feeling
was current in sugars at this time. Joe loi
tered along did not see Mr.. G. there, but
recognized a great many other gentlemen,
who did not then care to know him, particu-
larly.
"Gentlemen," said the fashionable auction
eer, rising, at length, 1--WE have a very fine
cargo of sugars to offer you here to-day, on
board the Percival, and I am happy to meet
so goodly a company this morning. We
shall sell for cash, for all sums under FIVE
hundred dollars, and at sixty days for all
purchases made exceeding that sum-with
endorsed notes, as usual, to he approved by
the auctioneer. And now, gentlemen, if you
will give me your attention, we'll commence
the sale, with the understanding that we sell
FIVE boxes, O more, as the buyer may elect
when the lot knocked off. And, to begin
with, what 81 all have, gentlemen, for the
first lot-6ve boxes, or more. Speak it.,
gentlemen-how much ?"
-Four CENTS" said somebody.
"Four cents, I'm offered, gentlemen! Four
cents-four-four-four and quarter, and
a half-thank you, sir-now 6ve2 -Four and
a half-three quarters, three quarters-say
five? Five, Eve, five, FIVE cents pound"
and here it seemed to stick fast. The bid
was Joe Warmers, and everybody knew it..
The knowing ones said, "Knock it off; let
him have it, He was poor looking man,
and evidently didn't want more than five
boxes. Let him have it low, and they would
thus get rid Of him-and down it went
"Name, sir ?" said the auctioneer, roughly,
and at the same time, eyeing his customer, as
much as to say, "you're beauty to be here
buying sugars, to be sure "
Joseph Warner, sir.'
20, | see, yes. Warner-Joe Warner.
How much do you take Joe?"
"Ill take the whole, sir"
"Whole what ~ exclaimed the auctioneer.
"The whole cargo, sir"
"The whole cargo is not selling, sir"
"Your terms were five boxes, or more,' |
think, Mr.. Auctioneer."
"Yes, yes, yes!" shouted dozen voices, at
once
"Very we'll, then, if you claim it, sir"
"Of course claim it. take the lot, at
FIVE cents"
"And who is your endorser?"
James G., of Market Street." SAID Joe,
proudly, making his way through the crowd,
who gathered about him.
Mr.. G. was among the lockers on. The
auctoneer said, us this so, sir ?" The mil
lionaire nodded assent, and the knight of
the hammer added:
"Mr. Joseph Warner, gentlemen, takes the
entire cargo at five cents ="
A shout rang up from the multitude at
this announcement, and Joe Warner soon
found himself busy.
"Do you want this sugar, or any of it p
asked Joe Of his employer, few minutes
after this. II am besieged to sell, at an ad-
vance, and have, at the very least, forty
customers, who are pressing me with offers,
SIR"
"Sell it. Joe; don't keep it over night.
You can do better than care to do for it,
now. So make your hay while the sun is
shining"
Warner disposed of his entire purchase
before he left the dock, to half dozen diff
ferent merchants, at handsome advance
and turning over their notes to the auction
eer, he realized the surplus from them in
cash, and went home that night thirty three
hundred dollars better off than he was in the
morning! He gave up portering from that
day, and commenced to grow rich, off hand
He finally went into business with an estab
lished firm, as junior partner (when he had
accumulated twenty thousand dollars by him
self,) and from that time his fortune grew
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