Arizona republican., 1893-01-27
MUD LAND STOCKS.
One Experience on Change Was
 Enough for Mrs. Curtiss.

"BeyOnd making a SunclenI allOW- ance for all ordinary household eX- penses, will have nothing to do with it."
 "I understand. l am quite willing to accept the entire responsibility.
 "Then, if you like the house, accept the agents offer, send to the warehouse for the furniture. have the house put in order by Jayne's people, pack your trunks, hire your servants and move in. l shall be absent ten days or longer. ! shall find you there on my returnP"
 "Yes l shall lose no time."
 Mir and Mrs. Curtiss had been ma ried five years. During their first year of housekeeping, Mir. Curtiss discov- cred that the drainage of the house in which they were living was defective. He notified his landlord. He waited a month. No notice was taken of his complaint, He promptly cancelled his lease, sto ed his furniture, and took his wife to a bOarding-house.
 Mrs. CurtisS, after a year or two, found the life wearisome one. She longed for the comforts of a home, and the agreeable occupation of the home maker
 MT. CurtiSs, on the contrary, pre- ferred boarding He was man who disliked the small responsibilities of housekeeping. His business, he urged, was sufficient to occupy his mind
 Yet now, to gratify his wife, he had acceded to her desire, stipulating, how ever, that he was to be utterly free from all the daily cares. Mrs. Curtiss gladly agreed. She dislilled interfer- ence, and welcomed the assurance that she was to have the sole charge of the establishment,
 A year elapsed. The contract was scrupulously carried out by both par ties Mr Curtiss provided ample means, Mrs Custiss gave time and en- ergy to the making of pleasant home.
 At the end of the year, Mrs. Curtiss had a balance of two hundred dol lars. Do what you will with it. It is yours," her husband said You have earned it."
 She was planning the uses she would make of it. when a friend came in. She could not resist the temptation of tell ing her how well she had managed
 "What shall do with it?" she asked. You know all about money, Aurelia. Advise me-
 Aurelia wore eyeglasses. She specu- lated in stocks. fer friends said she made enormous profits; her enemies declared her grandfather would turn in his grave could he know of her losses. He had been day laborer in his youth, they added.
 "Stoclis, of course" replied Aurelia.
 "Stocls?" hclplessly.
 "Stoclls, with decision. You have two hundred dollars, you say. You shall buy twenty shares of the Mud Land Company They are a sure thing. It is bul market now, you know
 "Dear mc," ejaculated her bewild- cred ""stener
 "The bears have had it quite too long," continued Aurclia. "Evcrything is booming now. Put on your bonnet at once. Delays are fatal, will go with you"
 Mrs. Curtis hesitated. 'I do not think l can spend all the money that way, Aurclia."
 "Why not?" sharply.
 ''I ordered a new silk yesterday from Madame Grettine. It will cost sixty dollars"
 Madame Grettine must wait for her pay"
 "Oh. nom shuddering. "I have never had a Lill unpaid
 "Youu clear it fast enough. Mud Land can be bought to-day for nine and thrcc-Cuartc~s It is worth more; it will be worth twenty next week. Put on your bonnet"
 The stronger will conquered. Mrs Curtiss yielded. In week she should have four hundred dollars, she reflected She would pay madame, send ton Of coal to the widowed washerwoman she occasionally employed, and put three hundred dollars in savings bank. Her husband would have his little joke about her capacity for business, but what mattered that?
 Aureha broke in upon her pleasant meditations "Ilurryw she called, from the foot of the stairs. "Mud Land may go up couple of points while you daily
 Aurelia prided herself upon her knowledge of brokers phrases.
 "What's a point?" asked Mrs. Curtiss, coming downstairs, her gloves in her hand.
 Surely you lxpoy. We must take a carriage. It may score twelve, if we wait for. the right car" ,.-
 Score Was Greek to Mrs, Cartiss She had a confused feeling that it had something to do with base ball match, but she asked no questions.
 At the brokers office, Aurelia gave the order. Mrs. Curtiss signed it, a feeling akin to terror sweeping over her. If it rIses to thirty! she thought notification of the purchase of twenty shares of Mud Land at pa reached her the next day. She carried it to Au- relia. "What must do now?"
 'Pay for your stock, of course. You could have bought it on margin. l should, but" with Q laugh, ''1 am used to taking flyers"
 NNps " with a feeling of humility