The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-05-31


Ism . hour merchant Ny oficc q
warehouse ere on South strsst 10 Bostor
bay ssd s<ll -four ia thu corn sxchAne'
also ssll Il through my correspondent
Springfield. Mass wsS where Edwards n
sided.
Every man has his own peculiar busines
history, and have mine. Not long sg
Edwards became singularly connects
with my business career; and aimee peopl
keep ssking how il came about. ! will .ol
the plain truth about it. because Edward
vas silent
From my earliest childhood ] desired :
be q miller. There was . fascination
about the rumble Of the millstopss. th
endless mounting up OF the elevator cups
the perpetual sitting OF the long. whit
bolts. and the clalter Of the coopers Ant
their barrels. II VAS this that made me
-four merchant.
Every one thus lies his peculiar taste il
early life. which IN general Affects all tha
follow. Ny taste wss for the mill enc
-four, snd have retained il oil through
life.
But this taste for -four and the mAnuisc
turs OF it leads sometimes 70 quite unex
pected results. ] was ssti5ded with th1
working Of tho little. old-hshiooed. eouS
try mill and water power until made
some money. Then wanted : bigger
better mill, 30 that could make money
faster. Some said. go to Ohio Olhers
said, Minnesota is the best state in wheat.
But old Bruce. who had been nearly every.
where. said, "You go TO Illinois. and you
will like il better than anywhere else. y
OLD Bruce was right.
went TO Illinois. aud liked it 30 well
that had no thought Of going elsewhere.
l made some money on every barrel oi
-four turned ont OF tho mill for four years.
II was good luck. But somehow oil the
luck, good or bad. seems 10 como togeth-
or. About this time invented the mem
orable Bran Duster, and that was the
greatest luck OF all
People outside OF o Touring mill don't
know much about bran. and less about the
machine called the Bran Duster.' But
the miller knows all about it, aud knows
that II will save hundreds and hundreds OF
dollars every year in large mill.
Our fathers thought il they sifted the
-four from the bran by sitting it through
fine silk boiling cloth Of Dutch manufsc'
turo. they hsd done oil that could be done
--Aour-msking was perfect. II was mis-.
take, aud the bran duster proved it.
Ny Bran Duster was called the lnvinci.
ble Bran DuSter. because it appeared to
clean the bran wholly from the hour. 1t
was great saving. and millers knew il. !
sold those machines for five hundred per
cent profit. and was not wholly satisfied
then. But when little cross.eyed Chica.
go man with his pants tucked into his
boots. and borrowing fne-cut from every
msn he met. went up stairs and down, oil
over my mill, and asked questions till ]
was tired out answering, offered him a
machine at cost to get rid OF him.
But he didn't want machines; lie wsnt'
si to buy the patent and have the thing
10 his own hands ssked that GROSS.
syed man fifty thousand dollars for my
patent, and laughed to think that be must
zee at last how bored was.
"Yes, my friend. just pay me the fifty
thousand dollars, and you shall have the
patent, and the independent fortune it
will bring you"
"Thats what I'm going to do, reaching
Tor another mans fne cut and making very
'res with it. "You fx the papers and the
money is ready for you"
Ihave bad q kind feeling for Chicago
,ver since. But when that little cross-
,yed man sat down and told me such .
ong story about his wife-"the smartest,
,rsttiest best little woman in the state
felt guilty, and il seemed somehow like
was robbing that nice woman. But then
he couldn't have been so smart, or she
would never havs married such fool Is
10 was.
was an old bachelor then, and West
I'm bachelors always despise themselves If
hey think they have cheated woman. 1t
3 oil right to cheat man in trade-he
must look out. But / continued to have
hat guilty feeling about thst cross-eyed
mans wife, and hoped to meet her some
ny. Then l intended to act the part Of
n honest man by her l sent $4,000 OF
he money paid me by the cross.eyed man
0 Dewey / Blossom. my New York CORE.
with instructions to deposit It
q some good bank, there TO remain to my
redit until wanted. Then l felt less gull
, toward that injured Chicago lady.
A man in business never knows how
auch money be wants; nor does he know
I all times how much he may use In his
BUSINESS. That was why put that money
way in New York for the cross-eyed
mans wife,
II is true that q rumor came that the
ross eyed man formed stock company
4 capitalists. aud sold them bis patent for
l0O, 900. don't believe it-who would2
I he did Il. he could not Be such fool as
.e looked. And Chicago men are not 80
liable to be fools. either.
l had been doing business with Dewey
nd Blossom Of New York for many years.
nd found them reliable. But OF late
heir account sales we're not quite satisfac-
ory, and the money was never ready when
Inc. Something WAS wrong. They owed
ne great deal ols money; and while 1t
night not be vis6stp press the immediate
,ayment. II would - prudent not To in