The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-23
A Good Investment.
THE DOLLAR THAT SENATOR SAW YER 5
BROTHER LOANED HIM DREW
GOOD INTEREST.
From the Cleveland Leader.

From the Cleveland Leader.
A friend of Senator Sawyer tells me
of an incident of his generosity to his
brother a year or two ago, and the
neat way in which he gave him
present, making it appear debt. Sen
ator Sawyer hardly knows what he is
worth, save that his pile runs pretty
high up in the millions. His iather
was hard-working man, kept black
smith shop, and at the same time did
number of other things, making CON-
Portable little income. Philetus Saw
yer was born in Vermont, but when be
was still baby his father moved to
Essex county, N. Y. When he was II
wears old Phile,us bought his ,ime of
his father until he was 2l, paying him
500 for it. His elder brother loaned
him the money for this, and he struck
out for himself He engaged in var
ious kinds of work, among which was
numbering, and when he was 81 years
old he paid back his hundred dollars
and had amassed little over two thou
sand dollars more. He then concluded |
to 90 west. In the mean time he had |
been married and had child or two.
On his way to Wisconsin he stopped
at his brothers, and upon asking him
how much money he had, he answered
that he had two thousand dollars in a
belt around his waist and under his
shirt, and be had been paying out a
good deal, but he thought he had still
about two hundred dollars in his pock-
cts. ''Count it, said his brother.
Sawyer counted it, and figured up just
'one hundred and ninety nine dollars
HIS brother gave him dollar, tell
ing him that that would make up his
$4,000, and that he would know Just
how much he started away with. Saw.
yer took it, and the next day went on
to Wisconsin. He bought farm there,
and in time got into the lumber bust
ness, became wealthy, and now has
been for years in the United States
Senate. In the mean time his elder
brother stayed in New York and tend
ed to his farm. He still lives there
and has farm worth about $4,000.
He is one of the respected citizens of
his county, and his note is as good as
gold any day. Sawyer comes out to
visit him every year or two, and thinks
a great deal of him. Two years ago
he asked him how he was situated fl
naucially, and after much pressing,
found that though there was no mort
gage ON his farm, he owed two notes
amounting, with interest, to about ST..
100, and that be was troubled by the
fact that he could not get enough a.
head every year to pay more than the
interest on them.
Senator Sawyer said nothing, but
the next morning on the pretext of
wanting to see some old friends, he
slipped away from his brothers house
\ and bought the notes. That nj ight
he asked his brother in the course of
l their evening chat, whether he had any
A other debts whatever. His brother re-
piled that he was owing about 800 in
debts here and there. Senator Sawyer
hereupon took out the two notes, a.
: mounting TO Sl,lOO, and placing 500
3 on the top Of them, he handed the pile
to his brother, telling him tina. would
make him even with the world, and he
|, then continued:
1 "You need not feel backward about
taking this because it is merely the pay
: ment of debt When | went West
0 you gave me dollar, never expecting
Y TO get it back. i considered that dol.
/ lar as loan, as an investment, as a
!. part of my capital. AS far as | can
estimate now, each one of the $4,000
which 1 carried away with me has
a swelled into 81 200 and in giving you
t this $1,000 am only giving you your
: share of the profits"
81 asked Senator Sawyer" said this
t gentleman. "what his brother said
: when he did this, and he replied; He
/, did not know what to make of it al
| first, but he finally took the money aud
. the notes, saying he wished he had in
D vested $1,000 instead of 81"
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