The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-13

| which was to be sold at auction, and in
which he himself owned a large number Of
shares and bonds. He took me with him,
and on the day Of the sale, as we were
standing in one Of the rooms OF the county
| court house where the company was was TO
be knocked down to the highest bidder, a
| gentleman approached and saluted ham as
| follows:
Il understand you are intending to make
] an offer for the road. It's pretty big one.
You have large interest in it, s1pposeP
mo, none at all, " replied my father.
mot a cent of interest, but l have quite
a big principal in it.
CALLED A LUCKY MAN.
| Because he had made what was In those
days large fortune before he was IS years
| old my father was, of course, considered
lucky man. He had by the time he had
reached that age gone into number OF
schemes which had proved successful and
come out OF them with successive profits,
although his greatest income came from his
| paper business
He was always attracted by novel ideas
and the suggested application OF untried
principles IN finance as well as inventions
| in the worlds Of mechanics and industries,
and his Judgment was not often IN error.
It certainly was not when he
looked into the idea of life insurance In it's
earliest infancy Gad became one OF It's
strongest supporters. He was one OF the
1 requisite number Of men wishing to insure
| themselves, TO form a mutual insurance
company, and his is the thirteenth name on
| the list of membership of one OF the most
| successful insurance companies Ia this
| country.
In talking of his joining the association
on the evening Of the day he became mem
Der, while sitting about with his family, a
sister who was present said:
| "Cyrus, even with the number thirteen
/ han0iDO 0var v0nr haad 7 heliaya Won are
such lucky individual that you will die
within week and make that money"
"Are you not afraid, Maryr she laugh
iegly added. turning to my mother.
''Ol no." replied the latter, "Cyrus will
make great deal more than that some
day and let us not joke about it."
My father outlived every one of his asso-
ciates in the formation Of the mutual society
and at his death his policy was the Oldest in
| the company.
When my father was In the paper manu-
| featuring business, with his Office in New
York, among his customers whose trade
was most extensive was q Philadelphia
Quaker. He was the striotest observer of
all the outward forms and teachings OF his
| faith, and never did he use other second per-
sonals than "thee," thou" and thine"
His appearance was most solemn and
wholly theological, and to the outsider his
| conversation was highly amusing.
| gain, however, and after he had traded for
a number OF years with my father it was
| discovered that some of his transactions
were rather shady. In fact, investigation
made 1t too apparent that the drab COS
tuned customer from Philadelphia was a
| sharper.
When he next came to New York my
father asked him to come into his private
room as soon as he arrived at the office.
| Then my father related the facts just made
| known, and concluded by telling the Quaker
that he was dishonest The guilty dealer
saw at once that his past actions were too
| we'll understood to be explained to his credit
| in any way, and that denial OF the charge
was useless. He therefore, acknowledged
that the complaint was well founded, and
| added:
"But, Cyrus, bet ween thee and me, let US
not forget one thing. Dost thou not be-
lieve that thy brother hath been as honest
as the times do permit"
OLD TIMERS STORIES.
The stories that the old men of this time
tell Of our country and the things of twenty
and forty years ago oftentimes sound alb
surd. The use of the inventions Of the gen.
| GRAFTON before US and our present ciYiliza-
| ton have become so natural that tale of
a time not accustomed to them seems
strange. So my fathers account Of a visit
to st. Paul, MINI. in 1913, sounded to his
| younger hearers.
In that year, accompanied by his wife,
Mr.. Field took western trip, ia the course
of which business made it necessary that he
see the governor OF Minnesota. He went
up the Mississippi river on the Benjamin
Franklin No. =, an old stern wheeler. On
reaching St. Paul he learned that the gov
| ernor was in the northern part of the ter
ritory, his mission being to negotiate a
| treaty with the Indians in that section.
The treaty was one of great Importance,
and was the current subject of interest
among the inhabitants OF the territory.
st. Paul then consisted Of only few little
| huts and traders tents pitched along the
| bank of the dig river. Thinking that many
would avail themselves of the opportunity,
my father chartered the Franklin No. 2 for
| an excursion $50 miles up the river to
| where the white and red men were having
talk, 80 that the party might see the
| signing the peace document. Tickets were
advertised at IS for the round trip and
| many were sold. The day before the one
appointed for sailing the captain Of the
steamboat found he would have to steam
| down the river a way to get sufficient wood
to last through the trip, for progress could
only be made in the daytime and the wind
| ing course by the river was long.
When the inhabitants of st. Paul sa W the
steamboat swing off and turn down the
river they thought they had been tr cked
and my father was sailing away with their
money paid for the passage UP stream.
There was tremendous cutlery and gath
ing on the bank Of excited pioneers, who
threatened death and wild western punish
ment for the people on board if they did
| not turn back and return the money. OF
course the disturbance was soon settled, ana
at the end of the next two days the Benja-
min Franklin No. 2, with its deck filled with
people, was within signaling distance of
the temporary camp. where the hundreds of
Indians and the governors party Of whites
could be seen.
A steamboat had never before gotten
further up the river than st. Paul. This
invasion Of new territory and the nature of
the meeting struck the captain as eminently
worthy OF a fine salute
He pulled the cord and gave ia long,
shrill blast from the whistle, finally broken
into series Of sharp screams in rapid sue
cession. The effect Of this greeting was a
| tremendous surprise. Before the captain
recovered from it sufficiently to collect his
| senses and drop the cord every one OF the
hundreds OF red men had entirely disap-
peared from view. Not a sign Of one was
left The unearthly shrek TO them had
seemed the voice Of some frightful monster,
and, terrified, they fed to their woods. So
serious was their scare that it took the
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