The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
WALTERS SPECULATION.
4 Life sketch.

"Nalter. ! wouldn't do it. It's
business that we aint tit for. We ar,
doing very well now: II any rate, we
sre walking IA our eyes open and
managing oUr own affairs. Think how
we haze worried and contri, ed. and nj.
most stIntcd ourselves 10 get t,at thou.
sand dollars into the bank. And what
have We done 1 for? Don't you still de-
rlre TO own the CranSton meadow. and
don you meant o put up the new barn
., Walter, ii YOU will listen to me YOU
will tell Mr.. L auSible Sparkler TO take
care OF his own business and allow Won 10
take care of yours. Let us ownthe beau
tltul me dow. a. We have SO lonr talked
Of, and let us have barn-room enough
tor the cattle We can keep when that
meadow Is ours o. think. NIX dear
husband. we'll have one OF the best md
one Of the handsomeSt farms in this
ShCic region
"les, ] know, Jennie: but you don't
exactly understand. You don't take
into accoun what is sure to come back
20 Us. Think of the thousands we Il
have where now we've got little or
nothing Why. bless you: look ut ii.
Mr.. Sparklcr has made me a rrand Of
Ter. He lets ne have the stock FOR tao
dollars ald a-haf and the par value is
twenty dollars. Why. I'd I've a fool not
10 tax it lie wouldn't do that to many
how, you bet"
w ter, YOU are entirely carried
away by that mans wonderful talk.
Now, will YOU Just listen TO me Tor a few
moments. In the first place, You know
yer. well that Plausible S~parkler
wouldn't give YOU a dollar TO sage YOU
He is noj one of that kind. Now.
about the price of the stock. Look me
III the Eve Walter; would that man sell
q a horse for one uart-r or one-half
u! what L WAS really WORTH All. YOU
know he wou!!n L. No. the very fact
that he o'ors the shares ut that price is
proc. that they are good for nothing.
And now there : JUST Hre more thing.
Ii the land of which Sparkler tells was
50 rich in minerals. in o and oil.
an in such II agniiicen lumber. do Won
suppose he and his mates would be
around among poor folks like Us picking
up dO.'ar by do ar? NJ. YOU know
they would easily lind the capital neces-
sary 10 develop it."
All, but. Ly dear wife. the very OBJ
sect of this company is TO keep out these
wealthy capitalists. These men have
been poor themselves. and they are
bound to give poor men a chance. And,
you see they must have money-capi-
tal-with which TO deve op the proper
", and put it in.o working order. There
are steam engines To be put up, and
furnaces and FORCES to be built, and a
branch road must be built. Don't YOU
.aa9 I,,r s,-n .l,-,,l lJI.. J
"TUCo thousand. WHY. il WAS only a
Thousand the other day."
Yes. / know; but d YOU see. I've
just coaclUd d that two thousand will
give ne just double what one thousand
VIII give: aye, and more. too: COR they
VII make me a present OF fifty s!ares
outright If 1 put in two thousand dol
lars that would be eight hundred and
f!itE shares; and IN less than a wear that
stock W Il be worth ten dollars. In two
years Il. NIL be n par. And We'll live
70 see II worth an even hundred. | tell
You. Jennie. its 4 big thing"
but where are YOU 10 raise two
Thousand dollars, Wilter?"
Why We We GOT a thousand in the
bank. ami can raise Z thousand ON the ,
Eopse and farm" +,
JENNIE WithereIl turned male and /,
tremoled. She WAS frightened. for she j
saw that her husband was entirely in +,
fatuatcd. Waller was thirty wears of /,
age L strong. steady. industrious. SIM
ple-mlndcd man; aud she, the wife. was F.,
two years Younger. They had been +,
married eight wears, and three bealt ful >
children blessed their home. Walter .
had received the farm with his wife. II :
had been her faith rs. but there had !,
been a tnOu>anG-dollar mortgage on II. q.
and tha: mortgage he had lifted with
money o hi> " when they We're mar q
ried, taking the tit.e-decds in his own i
name. thus far in life he had been i
crntent TO work honestly and indus I
triously. seeing his store increasing /
slowly but surely. He was an ex client 9
hanic- houSe-carpenter-an and :
there "aS building TO be done he G
could assume direction of the work. e.
for his labor sufficient 10 hire y
tnree strong men on his fam for the y
time ia had the best breed of t