The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-03-17
THE yAGARIES OF FORTUNE
How Fast and Free the Tickle
Goddess Plays With
Humanity.

AtOuuO cpCSiC anu thO
stones of the world have been conferred
the most stirring scenes ever enacted
from the darkest deeds of robbers and
murderers to the intr;guis of kings.
Offs nature money is mysterious.
There is that about it that feeds the
fancy.
Ifevery piece of circulating med
ium possessed the power Of speech
what tales would be told /; what stories
of suffering, i'll treatment, neglect and
death what histories of liaisons
amours what scandal would be re-
veaIed How the world would be
shocked, both by the great crime ex-
posed and the privation and suffering
that would be brought to view.
One half of the life of every dollar
is spent, directly or indirectly, as a
stimulation to dishonest acts that Op-
press the poor far more than the rich.
1t is because of this that money has
been said to be the cause of all evil.
A fourth of its existence it knocks
along the regular channels of legiti-
mate trade. During the other fourth
it is buried in bank vaults or locked
in misers' Golfers.
The hush money of the arch
criminal or the blood money of the
murderer may within twenty.four
hours be found in the church fund.
The nickle dropped into the cup of
the blind beggar by charity may in
two minutes 90 over the bar for beer.
The possibilities of double eagle are
manifold. 1t is said that all of the
crown Jewels of the world have been
many times bathed in blood. 1t is
said that one jewel was the cause of
forty murders.
However, this is a dark side.
Wealth possesses other phases, more
cheerful and fully as interesting.
Of all those of whom you know that
live in fine houses, employ servants,
ride in carriages, deal with banks, in
short, are wealthy, did you ever have
feeling of curiosity to know how
each came by his fortune. 1t is an
interesting study and there are many
people of means who live or have lived
in Kansas City whose history in this
particular would be worth reading.
1t would not be proper to give the
city, there lived young WV. eo0,orn
possessed all the graces usually Incl
dental to such person, but she did
not have many foolish feminine incli-
nations. She had a strong spirit of
independence and considerable cash.
She was a brilliant, talented woman.
and the life of the social circle in which
she moved.
A great eastern bank failed and
the young widow withdrew from CO.
ciety and to small! suburban cottage.
In the financial complication her
fortune was swept away and she
was left with a bare maintenance.
She dressed plainly and did her own
marketing. She was knoHn then as
the woman who had once been
wealthy and she was respected by her
neighbors. Part of the time, how.
ever, she was away from home and
her cottage Was dark. Whcn she
was absent it was said that she was
looking after her property that had
been involved in the bank failure.
Shortly after the young widow had
moved to her cottage a young man
opened real estate Office ia a west
ern city. He Was handsome young
man. His hair was black and
curly and his frank, open conference
was graced with a slight dark mus
tache. He was a feniaI, companion.
able fellow, but thoroughly business
like and was soon acquainted with
the most substantial business men in ,
the city. He was liked by all of his :
bushes ventures and he made money.
BY bis acquaintance it was notified ,
that the young agent absented him /.
self from the city about every third !
week or so for halt dozen days at a :
q time. He explained his absence |;
by saying that his business in the east !,
demanded this much of his time. He !
became a member of the Commercial :
exchange and joined the different bus. !
mess organizations of the city. Be {
fore he had been a citizen of the !
place two years he became the owner
of a couple of business blocks. About
this time he opened a saloon, and
afterward smother and still another.
These proved paying properties. The q
young man lived in the western city g
four years. At the ent of that time J
he disposed of all of his property and i
returned to the east.
In the meantime in the eastern c
city the young widow had built a
costly home and finally she again ]