The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-21
HIS Pa BUSTED.

in the store and pulled from his vest
pocket a document printed on
parchment paper, and representing
several thousand dollars stock in a
silver mine.
"Lookahere," says the grocery
man, as he turned pale and thought
OF telephOning to the police station
for q detective, f'You haven't been
stealing yonr fathers mining stock,
have you? Great heavens, it has
come at last! l have known all the
time that you would turn out to be
a burglar. or defaulter, or robber
of some kind. Your father has the
reputation OF having a bonanza in al
silver mine, but If you 60 Juggling
his silver stock around he will be
ruined. Now, you go right back
home and put that stock in your pas
safe, like good boy"
"Put it in the safe! Oh, no, VIC
keep it in a box stall now, in the
barn. | will trade you this thousand
dollars in stock for TWO heads of
lettuce, and get pa TO sign it over to
you if you say SO. Pa told me |
could have the whole trunk full if
l wanted it, and the hired girls are
using The silver stock to clean Win
doWs, and to kindle fires, and pa has
quit the church, and he won't be-
long to any concern that harbors
bilks. What is blk ?" said the boy,
as he opened candy jar and took
out four sticks OF hoarhOund candy.
"a blk" said the grocery man, as
he. watched the boy, "is a fellow
that plays man for candy, or
money, or anything, and don't In
teno to return an equivalent. You
are a small-siZed blk. But what's
the matter with your pa and the
church, and what has the silver
mine got to. do with it,"
"Well, you remember that eX-
horter that was here last fall, that
used to board aroundWith the church
people all the week, and talk about
Zion, and laying up treasures where
the moths wouldn't gnaw them, and
they wouldn't get rusty, and where
thieves wouldn't pry off the hinges.
He was one that used to go home
with ma from prayer meetings
when pa was down town, and who
wanted to pay off the church debt in
solid silver bricks. He's the blk
l guess if pa should get him by the
neck he would jerk nine kinds OF
revealed religion out of him. Oh
pa is hotter than he was when the
hornets took the lunch off of him
When you strike p;ous man on hi!
pocket book it hurts him. Tha
fellow prayed and sung like an an
gel, and boarded around like {
tramp. He stopped at our house
over week, and he had specim n
| of rock that were chuck full of sill.
yer and gold, and he and pa used tt
sit up nights and look at it. You
could pick pieces of silver out o
the rock as big as buck shot, ant
he had some silver bricks that WerI
beautiful. He had been out il
Colorado and found a hill full ot
silver rock, and he wanted TO form
a stock company and dig out mil
lions of dollars. He didn't wan
| anybody but piouS men, that be
longed to the church, in the com
| pany, and [ think that was on
thing that caused pa to unite witt
the church so suddenly. [ know b
was as wicked as he could be, a fey
days before he Joined the church
but the revivalist, with his word
about the beautiful beyond, wher,
| all shall dwell in peace, and sin,
| praises, and description Of tina
| Colorado mountain where the silve
| stuck out sOIyou could hang your ha
on it, converted pa. That man
scheme was to let all the churcl
people who were in good standing
and who had plenty of money, int
the company and when the mine be
gan to run dividends by the car loaC
they could give largely to TIA
church, and pay the debts O
all the churches, and put dow
carpets, and fresco the ceiling. TIL
man said he felt that he had bee
steered on to that silver mine by
higher power, and his idea was t
work it for the glory of the caust
He said he liked pa, and Woul
make him vice-president of til
company. Pa, ne bit like bas:
and 1 guess he invested $4,000 i
stock, and ma she wanted to com
in, and she put in a thousand dollar
that she had laid up to buy som
diamond earrings, and the man CAV
pa a lot of stock to sell TO Othe
members of the church. They ar
all into it, even the minister. H
drew his salary ahead, and all til
deacons they come in, and the ma
went back to Colorado with aboU
$30,000of good pious money. Yes
terday pa got a paper from Golorad
giving the whole snap away, an
the pious man has been spendin
the money in Denver, and whool
ing it up. Pa suspected somethin
was wrong two weeks ago, when b
heard that the pious man had been O
a toot in Chicago, and he Wrot
to man in Denver who used /
get full with pa years ago, whe
they were both on the turf, and pa
friend said the man that sold til
stock was fraud, and that he didp
own no mine, and that he borrowe
the samples Of ore and silver brio
from a pawnbroker in Denver.
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