Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-25

and when the mine begun
TO return dividends by the car load,
they could give largely to the church
and pay the debts Of all the churches,
and put down carpets, and fresco the
ceiling. The man said he felt that he
had been steered on to that silver
mine by higher power, and his idea
was to work it for the glory of the
cause. He said he liked pa, and
would make him vice president of the
company. Pa bit like a bass, and |
guess he invested five thousand dol
lars in stock, and ma she wanted to
come in, and she put in thousand
dollars that she had laid up to buy
some diamond earrings, and the man
gave pa lot of stock to sell to other
members of the church. They are
all into it, even the minister. He
drew his salary ahead, and all Of the
deacons they come in, and the man
went back to Colorado with about
thirty thousand dollars of good pious
money. Yesterday pa got paper
from Colorado giving the whole snap
away, and the pious man has been
spending the money in Denver, and
whooping it up. Pa suspected some
thing WAS wrong two weeks ago, when
he heard that the pious man had been
on Il toot in Chicago, and he wrote to
Il man in Denver who used to get full
with pa years ago when they were
both on the turf, and pas friend said
the man that sold the stock was
fraud and that he didn't own no mine,
and that he borrowed the samples of
ore and silver bricks from pawn
broker in Denver. ! guess it will
break pa up for awhile, though he is
we'll enough fixed with mortgages and
things. But it hurts him to be took
in. He lays it all to ma. He says if
she hadn't let that cxhorter for the
silver mine 90 home with her, this
would not have occurred, and ma says
she believes pa was in partnership
with the man to beat her out of her
thousand dollars that she was go
ing to buy pair of pious diamond
earrings with. o, it is terror over
to the house now. Both the hired
girls put in all the money they had,
and took stock, and they threaten to
sue pa for arson, and they are going
to leave tonight, and ma will have
to do the work. Don't you ever try
to get rich quick said the boy, as he
peeled herring and took couple of
crackers.
"Ncvcr mind me-" said the grocery
man. "They don't catch me on any
of their silver mines. But | hope
this will have some influence on you,
and teach you to respect your pas
feelings, and not play any jokes on
him while he is feeling so bad over
being swindlcd."
90, | don't know about that. |
think when man is in trouble, if he
has good little boy to take his mind
from his troubles, and get him mad at
something else, it rests him. Last
night we had hot maple syrup and
buscuit for supper, and pa had a sau-
Ger full in front of him, just steam
ing. could see he was thinking too
much about his mining stock, and |
thought if there was anything that
| could do to take his mind off of it,
and place it on something else, | would
be doing kindness that would be APP
preciated. sat on the right of pa,
and when he wasn't looking | pulled
the table cloth so the saucer of red
hot maple syrup dropped off in his
lap. Well, you'd died to see how
quick his thoughts turned from his
financial troubles to his physical mis-.
fortunes. There was about a pint Of
hot syrup, and it went all over his
lap, and you know how hot melted
maple sugar is, and how it sort Of
clings to anything. Pa jumped ur
and grabbed hold of his pants legs tc
pull them away from hisself, and
he danced around and told ma to turn
the hose on him, and then he took Q
pitcher of ice water and poured il
down his pants, and he said the con
demned old table was getting so rick
ETY. that n saucer wouldn't stay on it
and told pa if he would put some
tar on his legs, the same kind that h,
told me to put on my lip to make my
mustache grow, the syrup wouldn'
burn so, and then he cuffed me, and
think he felt better. II is a grea
thing to get a mans mind off his trou
bles, but where n man hasn't got any
mind, like you, for instance"
At this point the grocery man pick
ed up fire poker, and the boy wen
out in hurry and hung up sign il
front Of the grocery, Cash paid fo
fat Dogs,"-Peck's Sun.