The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-11-08
CHAPTER -XXVI.
TRAINOR IN TROUBLE.

An<AlNO1I LIN IROUBLE.
MIR. Trillion was not without good natura,
(, impulses, but his education and experience
had been such as to develop only the SHARP
| and selfish traits of his character. An or
phan at the age of II years, he was placed
in shop under the charge of grasping, un
| scrupulous man, where he learned the rule:
of business which he followed afterwards
with so much success. The old-fashioned no
tons about the Golden Rule he was speedily
well rid of for when his indiscrete frankness t.
customers was observed, the rod taught him
the folly Of untimely truth-telling, if not the
propriety of smoothing the way to bargain
by glib falsehood. With such training. he
grew up an expert salesman; and before he
was Of age, after various changes in bust
ness, he became the confidential clerk in g
large wholesale house. Owing to unexpected
reverses, the house became embarrassed
and at length failed. The head OF
the firm went back to his native
town broken-hearted man, and not lone
afterward died, leaving his family destitute.
But Irillion, with Junior partner, settled
with the creditors, kept on with the business,
and prospered. Perhaps if the widow had
received what was righfully hers, the juniors
would have had smaller capital to begin
with-Trillion knew; but the account. if
there was one, was past settlement by human
tribunals, and had gone upon the docket in
the great Court of Review.
Wealth grows like the banyan. sending
down branches that take root on all sides in
the thrifty soil, and then become trunks
themselves and the parents c ever-increas-
ing boughs-a sturdy forest in breadth. q
froo in, 60 T,1 n
ished. At the time Of our story he was rich
enough to satisfy any moderate am.
bitlon; but he wished to rear CO.
lossal fortune, and the operations he
was now concerned in were fortunate
beyond his expectations. But he was not
satisfied. He concluded to carry on the same
Misrepresentation on larger scale. and made
an arrangement with one of the leading
"bears" of the city; but he was careful to
keep this secret, most of all from Trainor
and others of his associates. Fortune
favored him, as usual, and he promised
himself a success that would make him q
monarch in the financial world. Under the
excitement Of the moment he had filed the
baby hands of Trainor's child with pold
pieces. 1t was as Trainor said; his head was
fairly turned by the glittering prospect be.
fore him.
His associate proposed to Trillion the pur-
chase of controlling interest in railroad:
and Trillion, believing that the depression
had nearly reached its limit and that affairs
would take turn, agreed that it was beet
now to change their policy, ard to buy all
the shares in this stock that should be offered
while the price was low, and keep them as
an investment. He felt sure that
he with his capitalist partner, had
now money enough to Saving" all the
shares in the market, and they each agreed
to purchase all that should be brought to the
hammer. Following up his promise faithful
~, Trillion bought all the stock OF the rail-
road that came into Wall street. and in this