Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-12-18
A CORNER.

TURNING A CORNEk
Peter Dnkc, OF the firm ofDuke
81 Co.-(his only son Philip,s.yS!'ii.Is'
rFcompanM) ,was.at hNsyssDsll sl,ge sss
peruus man. The firm was making
money very fast in the soap line.
and desired to make more. TIC
was PLAN, honest and hard work
ing man, apt to boast that he had
started business with only hun
bred dollars in cash and now had
multiplied the original capital by
thousands. He spent little time in
boasting, however, being too busy
in his effort TO make the whole
world wash itself clean with Dukes
lIimolia, as he called his soap, and
to force every laundress to use his
Konia, a powder whose detergent
qualities were well known. Peter
did not know tile meaning of these
words, but they sonnded well. He
had paid il literary Bohemian ten
dollars to invent him something
sonoruus. The latter had turned
TO IL Greek. English dictionary, and
found these under the head "SOnp."
Peter was pleased and so was he
Bohemian with the ten dollars
and dozen cakes of the so Up
thrown in. The soap itself was
good. The aim of an expert soap
boiler is to reconcile solldity of
structure with Il large volume olln
closed water. Sulne of them in
creased he weight Of The compound
by he addition OF eXtraneouS mat
ter, but Peter was honest aud left
out tile dirt. His sale Of Klmolia
was great, and SO WAS he profit.
liesltleS IL sou, Peter had IL fair
languter, and, next to his soap fac.
tory and shckels, he loved her.
And Mil1icent-her mother, now
dead and gone, had picked up The
name from an English society nov.
el-waS quite Il lovable person =
She was good looking, fairly edu-
Gated and put on Il good style
Through her school acquaintance
and her fathers money Sue WELT
into very respectable set, and DIS
she looked well, dressed well and
talked well, had plenty of picket
money and IL prospective portion vi
son,c size, aud Il presilt tongue Of
her own, Ii needed, they forhpre a'
turn up their hoses at soap. AT
first those who were poor and
proud-alld proud poverty is ire
quenIly insolent- undertook to snub
her Il little; but she gave snub Tor
snub, and then, leaning against the
valuable pile OF soap bars, defed
them. Whether because of her
manners or her fathers money, She
had many masculine admirers
Chief among these was Myudert
Van Slopel, the great operator i'll
Wall street, whose huge fortune
WAS built up of the wrecks OF rail
way and other corporations. He
had met her at Long Branch the
summer before. and thought, to
Use his own words, that SHE had a
heap OF 20 III her," MSndert,
though lie p'ided himself on his
noble Dutch ancestry--tlle first vi
his foretatflerS was Colnelia Pic
tersle, with no Van at although
more OF Strengthening the bears III
.'Lhe Street. And he had slaugh-
tered them to some purpose. He
was forty years old,Short, stout aud
red faced, with loud voice and Oh
.lluctive nianners-everything but
t lie imaginary, Shrewd locking man
OF affairs. lie bad begun as Il boy
III u brokers' Office, rose to be a
clerk, weut from here To the curb
s,une and then To IL seat i'll the Elk
change, and his wealth was very
far up III the millions, lie had
been too busy to think of marriage,
but he had arcmarkably fast horse
and Why should he not buy Il w!fei
MiIlceut rather rebufied his adj
yances, but he knew Tile value ol
money aud blded Ills time.
There was u rival i'll the field
Myndert did not know it, though
| il he had known he would have de
slpiSed such a competitor. This
was Frank Moore,the general mall
ager employed by the tirnl, who was
highly valued because he WAS faith
Enthusiastically and knew all about
the work. He had a good salary
and IL Slight commission on the
sales Of the Konia, which he had i'll
vented. Prudent, though not par
nlonious, Frank had managed to
save some money, aud had s2O,0Ot
saved i'll bond and mortgage, be-
side over $1,000 III bank waiting
Ior d good investments. a very
good mach he might hope to make
tut to h.hk Of lnallSins 6illilceni
and IL handsome fOrlLne stelned
prcpostclous.
MiiIicent didlot think so. Frank
who came and went IA ZANZIBAR Wis
i;or to HE mousse and a great crOnJ
of Philip, had known her Sliice snt
WAS I. little girl, and in this case al
least familiarity did not breed coli
tempt. The Two had a yers gout
understanding with one another
and the senior Duke, for Il time
MAS not we'll informed Ill The prem
lSes. But such things Will leak out
and ut last the elder Duke liei,lt
OF if. lie buUbled up like the coin