The Southern herald., 1886-07-31
MAKING A FORTUNE.
How Plain Samuel McFadden Rose to Al
fiuence and RespectabIlity.

HOW Plain Samuel MoFadden Rose to Ar
fluence and Respectabllity.
Samuel McFadden was a watchman
In bank. He was poor but honest,
and his life was without reproach. The
trouble with him was that he felt he
was not appreciated. His salary was
only four dollars a week, and when he
asked to have it raised, the president,
the cashier and the board of directors
glared at him through their specta-
cles, and frowned on him, and
told him to get out and stop his inso-
lence; when he knew business was dull
and the bank could not meet its ex-
penses now, let alone lavish one dollar
week on such miserable worm as
Samuel McFadden. And then Samuel
McFadden felt depressed and sad, and
the naughty scorn of the president and
cashier cut him to the soul. he would
often go into the side yard, and bow
his venerable twenty-four inch head.
and weep gallons of tears over his in
significance, and pray that he might be
made worthy of the cashiers and
presidents polite attention.
One night a happy thought struck
him; CLEAN of light burst upon his
soul, and gazing down the dim vista of
years and his eyes all blinded with
tears, he saw himself rich, honored and
respected. So Samuel MeFadden
fooled around and got a jimmy, a
monkey-wrench, a cross-cut saw, a
cold shisel, drill and about half ton
Of gun powder and nitro-glycerine.
and all those things. Then, in the
dead Of night, he went to the fre-proof
safe, and after working at it awhile
burst the door and brick into an i'm
mortal smash with such perfect success
that there was not enough of the safe
left to make carpet tack. Mr.. Nc
Fadden then proceeded to load up
with coupons, greenbacks, currency
and specie and to nail all the odd
change that was lying anywhere, SO
that he pranced out Of the bank with
over one million dollars on him. He
then retired to an unassuming resi-
dence out of town, and sent word to
the detectives where he was.
A detective called on him next day
with q soothing note from the cashier.
Detectives called on him every day
with humble notes from the president,
cashier and board of directors. At last
the bank officers got up magnificent
supper. to which McFadden was in
Vited. He came, and as the bank Off
GERS bowed down in the dust before
him he pondered over the bitter past,
and his soul was filed with exultation.
Before he drove away in his carriage
that night, it was all fixed that McFad-
den was to keep half a million of that
money and to be unmolested if he re-
turned the other half. He fulfilled his
contract like an honest man, but re-
fused, with naughty disdain, the offer
of the cashier to marry his only daugh-
ter.
Mac is now honored and respected.
He moves in the best society, he browses
around in purple and fine linen and
other good clothes, and enjoys himself
first rate. And often now he takes his
infant son on his knee and tells him of
his early life, and instills holy princi-
Piles into the child's mind, and shows
him how by industry and persever-
ance, frugality and nitro-glycerine,
monkey-wrenches, cross-cut saws and
familiarity with the detective system,
even the poor may rise to afluence
and respectability. y.-Mark TWGin, in
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