The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-03-17
The MILLIoNAIRE,s HARD DAYS.
"Bonanz4" Mackay Saw the Time When
lie Had Nothing to Eat.


When John w. Mackay worked as
poor placer miner he was always care
full to put by enough when he could,
to put him in position to seize an OPP
portunity when it offered; or, saving
that 70 have something laid away for
a rainy day. But prudence can't put
virgin gold in the ground, and Mr..
Mackay's claim on the Feather petered
out. He worked at it for months. and
pan as he might the color got fainter
and fainter. He sat in his lonely
cabin one rainy night supperless,
reading by his last tallow candle Il
work on mineralogy. which he had
borrowed from a lordly and surprised
engineer. Above the noise of the
storm came knock on the door.
Andy Hepworth. keeper of the All
Souls saloon at Thompson's Bar, stag
gcred in. His stagger was caused by
several things. One of them was lot
of his own whisky, which was under
his skin; the others were two sides of
bacon and sack of flour, which
weighted his shoulders and hands.
'John,n he said. you never spent
dollar over my bar or any other bar
at tie camp. and that shows your good
sense. But the boys tell me you're in
hard luck. and | know n man when |
see one. Here's something to keep
YOU going" And he threw on the
rough floor the sack of flour and two
sides of bacon. He retained the
whisky.
1t was a good many years later,
when Mackay had become rich man,
that he again met llepworth. gone in
health, crushed in spirit, loungiug
among the crowd of hopeless ones
who hang like flies about the bung-
hele of the stock market, sugarless for
them.
"Hullo. Andy cried John, delight
ed.
You don't mean to say you remem-
Der me?n said the broken man.
Remember youl" laughed the
millionaire. You bet do. and that
flour and bacon, too. Broker
Flat
I II carry you a hundred of Con-
Virginia"
Good enough, John. You've res
cued me from hell. When shall sell?"
When | tell you
But he wouldn't sell when he was
told, and Mackay had to pay the loss.
This happened three times.
Then the millionaire put his arm
through Hepworth's and took him up
TO his office one day.
Andy" he said, seriously. "has
whisky got you. or can you let it
alone?n
Yes, | can"
Honest Injun'"
Straight
"All right. There's no use irwin.
TO help you in stocks. You're gamb-
Ter, and when the fever gets hold of
you you won't listen to me or ANYBODY
else. All Souls was first-rate saloon,
and you knew how to run it. That's
your forte. I'll send Dick Dew out to
md good place, and you put YOUR
self behind the bar. Come back in two
days-3:3o p, ~"
ct the hour appointed Mr.. Dey and
Hepworth were there
Here" said Mr.. Mackav, DRAWING a
check. There's $4,000. Andy. Dick
struck an Al place on Market street.
You can buy it and have sometime
left to stand a run of barasca. if need
be. Keep the bottle for other folks
and you'll be all right. II You don't
but hope you will for YOUR own
sake. And don't you ever forget
Andy, that flour aud bacon will always
be draft at sight for grub stake"
I'm happy to say that new All Souls
is success. that Andy is as temperate
as parson. and that he's done the
manly thing aud paid back every cent
OF the $4,000 out of less yirtuous
mems pockets. If YOU don't believe it,
ask Dick Dey.-Saa Francisco Neus
Letter.