Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
WALTRE's SPECULATION.
A IIfe sketch.

''Walter, | wouldn't do II. It's n
business that we aint iit for. We are
doing very we'll now; nj any rate. we
arc walking with our eyes open and
managing our own affairs. Think how
we have worked and contriscd. and al
most stinted ourselves to get that thou
sand dollars into tho bank And what
have we done II ior2 Don you still de-
sire TO own the Cranston meadow, and
don't you mean TO put up the new barn?
y. Waltcrl II You will listen b me YOU
will tell Mr.. Plausible Spartler 10 take
care OF his own business and allow YOU to
take care of yours. Lot us own the beau
tiiul me ldow, rs we have so long talked
of, and LEI us have barn-room enough
for the cattle We can keep when that
meadow IS ours. O, think. my dear
husband. Wen have one of the best and
one OF the handsomcst farms i'm this
whole region"
Eyes, ] know, Jennie: but YOU don't
exactly understand You don't take
into account what IS sure to come hacL
90 US. Think of the thouS ands well
have where now wp've cot little or
nothing. Why. bless YOU look nj IL.
MIR. Sparklcr has iuatlc me a grand Of
fer. lie lets Iuc have the stock Cor f,po
dollars and a-hd'f nnd tho 1,ar value ia
twenty dollars. Why, Id he n fool NOT
10 take IL. lie wouldn't do that to many
now, you bet" u n
waiter, You are entirely carried
away BY that mans wonderful talk.
Now, will you just listen 20 me for n few
moments. In thoJirst plaor, YOU know
very well that Plausible Sparklcr
wouldn't give you dollar 10 save YOU
He Is not one Of Tint kind. Now.
about the price of the stock. Look me
I'm the eye, Waltor; would that man sell
you n horse for one ,uart n or one-half
OF what u was really WORTH All. You
know he wOuldn {. No, the very fact
that he oilers the shares at that psice h
proof that they are good for pOthino.
And now. there's lust ono n,orr thinS.
IL the land Of which Sparkler tells was
80 rich In minerals. i'm coal. and oil
nnt In such mngnih ,nnt lumber. do Won
suppose hs aud his mates would be
around among poor folks like us picking
UP dollar by, 90 lar9 M, you know
they would easily lind tho capital ncccs-
sary TO develop t."
"Ah! but, my dear wife. the very OBJ
jet Of this company i To- keep out these
wealthy capitalists. These men haro
been poor themselves and they are
bound To givc poor men chance. And.
you see. they musi have money-capi
tal-with which to dcyc'op the proper
W, aud put II into working order. There
are steam engines 90 DO put up, and
furnaces and forges O. be built. aud a
branch road must be built. Don't vou
toeP Our two thousand dollars will
"ItcO thousand Why. IL was only a
thousand the other day"
Eyes, l know; but a. Won see. I've
Just concluded that two thousand will
give mo just double what one thousand
will give; aye. anil more. too: for they
wiz MAKO me present OF fifty shares
outright " put In two thousand dol
lars. That would be eight hundred and
hity shares; and In less than "A year that
stock VIII BE- worth t,sn dollars In two
years u will be nc part And we'll live
10 see Il worth an even hundred. tell
you, Jennie. it's big thing"
But where arr you 20 raise two
thousand dollars. Kalter2'l
Why, we've got thousand In the
bank and can raise n thousand-on tho
house and farm"
Jennie wlthcreTi turned pale and
trembled. She was frightened. for She.
saw that her husband was entirely in
fatuated, Waller wsls thirty years Of
ngo; strong. steady. Industrious. sim
plo-minded man and she, the wife. WAS
two years Younger. They had been
married eight years, aud three boalt;ful
children blessed their home. Walter
had received the farm with his wife. II
had boon her fathers. but there had
been a thousand-dollar mortgage on n.
and that mortgage no had llffed with
money OF his own when they were mar
ried. taking the utle-deeds In his own
name. Thus far in life he had been
content 20 work honestly and indus-
triously. seeing his store increasing
slowly but surely. He was an excellent
mechanic "A hoose-cArpentsr - and
when there was buildlnG 10 be done be
could assume direotion Of the work. r.
ceiving for his labor sufficient TO hire
three strong men on his farm for the
same tina: He. had ne best bnoed OF
sheep In the county, the best cows for
milk and butter, and some Of the very