Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-29

berry at Bonsall's clothing store; where
he kept tho stolen goods in his barn COW
cred up with hay for nearly week. 1t
would be good thing for Tim othy
Barker to understand that somebody
else besides me knows about that bust
ness, and if you bring it in right it will
fetch him around sure
II kept quiet for q minute or two, and
then l said:
Z" Mr.. Spotl1irk, this is an important
business. l can't touch it under hun
dred dollars He looked hard at me,
and then he said:
"'Do it right, and hundred dollars
is yours'
After that I went to see Timothy
Barker, and had a talk with him. Tim
city ,ras boiling over, and considered
i.:.,,cif tho worst-chcatcd man in the
world. He had only lately found out
how Spotkirk made his Boilinc, and
v hat d hig sale he had for it, and he was
Gc:criained to have moro OF the profits.
'..!st look at it, he shouted, when
Spotnirll has washed cut my gravel it's
worth moro than it Wa; before, and he
sells it for twenty-five cents Il load to put
on gcntlcmen's places. Even out of that
he makes o hundred ard fifty per cent
profit
Il talked good deal more with Tim
othy Parker, and found out coed many
thing; about Spotllirlls dealings With
him, and then in an otT-hand manner
mentioned the matter Of the stolen
goods in his barn, just as ii had known
all about it from the very first. At this
Timothy stopped shouting and became IS
meek IS & mouse. lie said nobody was
as sorry rs he was when he fCu-li tho
| goods concealed ir his barn had be: II
! stolen, and that if he had known it be-
| fore the thieves took them away he
| should have informed the authorit tics;
| and then he went on to tell me how l!o
got 50 poor and SO hard up, by giving his
whole time to digging and hauling gravel
for Spotkirk and nogiectinS his littio
farm: that no did not know what was
going to become OF him and his family
if he couldn' make better terms with
Spotkirk for tho future, and he asked
me very earnestly to help him in this
| business if l could.
"Now, then, / set myself to work to
consider this business. Here was a rich
man expressing poor enc, and here
was this rich man Offering me one hun
dred dollars, which in my eyes was a
regular fortune, to help him get things
so fixed that he could keep on expressing
the poor one. Now, then, here was a
chance for me to show my principles.
Here was q chance for me to show my
self what you, madam, call rigid; and
rigid l was. l just set that dazzling one
hundred dollars aside, much as 1 wanted
it. Much as 1 actually needed it,
wouldn't look at it, or think of it.
just said to myself: II you can do any
good in this matter, do it for tho poor
man. and did do it for Timothy Bar
ker, with his poor wife and seven chill
dren, only two of them old enough tt
help him in the gravel pit. l went te
Spotkirk and I talked to him, and l lei
him see that if Timothy Barker showed
up the Boiline business, as he threat
ened to DO, it would be bad day for the
Spotkir]1 family. He tried hard to tall
mo over to his side, but 1 was rigid
madam, 1 was rigid, and the business
ended in my getting seven per cent. o
tho profits of Boiline for that poor man
Timothy Barker and his largo famil.
and their domestic prosperity is entire
ly duel say it without hesita tion-t
my efforts on their behalf, and to m.
rigidity in standing up for the poo
, against the rich
> "Of course here remarked, "yo1
don't care to mention any thing abou
the money you squeezed out of Timoth.
, Barker by means of your knowledg
that he had been q receiver of stolc1
goods, and l suppose the Bolino maj
gave you something to get the percent
ago brought down from ten per cent. t.
, seven"
, The tall burglar turned and looked &
: ME with an air of saddened rcsig nation
a "Of course" said he, tbs of no use fo
= a man in my position to endeavor TO st