Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-08-12
CONSIDERING THE CHANCES.
The Man Who Did Not Have Impllc
Coniidenc, In His Wife.

The Man who Did Not Have Implicit
Conhdenc, In His Wife.
We'll, what is itP" said the money
clerk at the United States Express office
the other day, rs man with pro-
truding under lip and defiant con-
tempt for grammar halted before him
and put his dinner-bucket on the
counter.
'Iain't this the place where you
take money that's to be sent some rsp"
said the man, standing on tiptoe and
speaking in low tone, rs he leaned
forward over the counter.
Eyes; id YOU want to make a ship
mentP"
"Huhp''
I'D d you want to send some money
awav?"
"Well. no; not this mornin'; but l
reckon | will shortly, an so l dropped
IN as was goin' along to git few
items about it. 1t was all right for me
to drop in, wasn't itp"
"Oh, yes; certainly. What did you
want to know"
"Well, now. s'posen | send forty
dollars or SIGH matter to my sister in
Waukegan, an she never gifts it?"
''But she will get it il you send it."
YES; but how do l know that.
thought S'posen the train runs aga n
sumpin. stands on its head. kctches
fire an burns up, where's my forty
dollars thenp'
'In that case the company would
make it good"
'Huh?"
81 say the company would pay it
back.
''But | wouldn't want it back. I'd
want my sister to have it. That'd be
my main reason for sendin it,"
she would get it. The company
would pay it to her"
That's all right, then. But s'posen
somebody bulldozes your man on the
cars with club, as l heard was done
some'rs not long back. an slides out
with the money, who stands the racket
then-mc or the company?"
THE company, of coursep"
whether they ketch the man or
notp"
Yes"
"IIa mt there no giggin' back on
that?"
mo; not bit of it."
mo comm back Mt ME with draw
backs, or per cents for this'n thatP'
"Not at all"
cts every dollar of it forked over
to my sister is it. no matter what hap
pcnsp"
Yes; every cent"
"ls it list the same in case of be n
struck by lightnin'p"
Certainly"
MY yves half brothcr-the ono in
Michigan-had barn struck by light
min oncst, sot on fire an burnt down,
an I'm switched if the company he
was insured in didn't crawl out of it
somehow or luther, an he's he'd his
nose TO the grindstone ever sense on
accounts of it. You say your company
never takes a man bv the napc OF the
neck even if 1t gifts chance toP''
mo. The company guarantees to
put your money through, and it will do
it. or make it good"
That's all right, then, an my ole
woman hain't so tormented smart as
she TN nks she is"
why sop
''Shc said there wasn't no safe way of
gittn' the money to Liza Ann but to
have her 90 an take 1t to her. But l
thought could see through her Little
game, an so / concluded I'd Ct few
items and find out for myself how the
TN NC onravclcd. Between you an me.
I've 90, n bulky sort of notion the ole
woman want, 10 flare out little with
some new duds an II she was to ct
her claws on TO that money / don't
b'llcvc Liza Ann would ever SEQ red
of it. notw thstand n she was good
enough to lend il TO me quito spell
ago, when was considerable hard up.
My ole woman Is wcll-mcanin' an a
m ddlin' pr mp housckccpcr but she's
rather too deep sot on tomfoolcry to be
trusted much IN money matters. an I'd
about rs soon put money into q bank
an give up hopes of II at onst. as to
have her z her hands on IL. She
don't mean nothin' wrong about it
reckon. but s'posc she Jest cant help
IL, an she wouldn't have that money
about her ten minutes before she'd &c
TO foolin' IL away on bustlcs an back
ha an sch other ronscnso rs She
happen to get her m nd sot on. I'm Q
good deal much oblccgcd to you. SIR.
an I'll q W. you tho handl n OF thar
money : come along tomorrow.
Even you rue on gh,nin Idr 81
it blame ;lll quick I'm wo' II Tho
! ole wnmap - Fts'1s, H. '"f