Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-20
INV TWO FRIENDS FELL OUT.
nv oprE READ.

Il ana ~ ash other Balbo was success
ni,'in' ..s,,,thing, as miner In 49, as
s ,nerchant afterward' ana 'hen ~ ~
,omder. He became SO wealthy
n w ~ could not afford to be idle he
va much that he could not AFFORD
y nAr Il But how different 1t was
70 r..,t As miner he found no
WIZ ,,erchnnt he found no Gus
. Golni tts me was a failure. lie
ioinehtS, friend drlfted apart but came
ana ~ whom they were both well adj
tosslns ~ life Trent went TO the
Nanse vbere his friends mills We're
lty,meatsa and lived there on smali
ss,,s,ronre granted him by klnsinhl'
mo attempted to set MN up IN Vusl-
ness actually star teu nm, -
w. ssllad Then he gave MN a posi-
soon IN His mills. but the old fellow
wv WA not abide the harness OF regular
VI GUY n,o,gment. and so quilted the job.
III Ky dav while they were at dinner,
"a I'm said, John. do you remember
- we lised to sit under the OLD syca-
r,nre tree and tell each other OF our
,ssrnings. Of what II was our ampi-
ion to becomef .,.,,,,,.,. ,h,+
N Ia mite fix upon any ambition. l
I'D ssit know what 1 wanted and CON
IA doi .,tie have never been good for
hing more than another. You
~ ~. more fixed. more settled in your
determination, and that accounts Tor
sour success. l don't think that |
E" 80 e,ar been able TO crafty one
h l1nr,a whim. Come to think OF 1t, l
dnr't think that l ever had very
. dear whim until lately"
. aAnd YOU have one now, eh?'
" ,Gyes took Il up in recent years, and
my f0ndness for II Is the cause OF my
. nat being able to serve you as de-
p nsttment manager In your mills-in-
.N AKA, it was the cause of my last fall
Ri ure IN business.
M i'Well, you have kept IL pretty close
What Is that whim p
|U vou but II Is whist. 1t may sound
4 ioollsh. but really If / could play whist
m inst had enough money to enable
81 me 10 play all / want to, ] would ask
IN nothing more. | care nothing for
a. schemes that may tend to advance the
world. the progress Of science is moth
ing. Me is nthing without whist"
sThats strange" said the million
N ARE. "Whist; why 1 never played a
IA game OF Il In my life. John, l have
been thinking for some time that 1
III would do something for you In a sub
stantial way, something to make you
happy In your old age. think the
" world OF YOU. would do anything for
III Won and am never so happy as when
. | think that l have made you more
M eohtented with life. / feel thus in
splte too. Of the fact that you care
W nothing for business and you Know
Il that In my mind there can hardly be
+ a greater crime than failure on the
part OF anyone to appreciate business
relations between man and man. But
"a rs say, think the world of you, ana
~ want to do something for YOU"
sam. you have already done more
n Than enough. You'd better just keep
. On with your schemes, your money
making, and not think of me at all"
Il Il can think of you and still con-
F unue to make money He meditated
Fl for few moments and then continued;
q and so whist is the ambition so
4 long delayed in coming. l CAD, you
shall hav It, ! want to hire you this
very day
IA ldDon't talk about hiring me, Sam.
| You know that l am not fitted for any
rs thing
E whist"
why what do you mean?'
"Jusi what say. Now | will pay
" you SIS a week 10 play whist for me
" Your time doesn't belong to you, un-
& ierstand. but to me, and expect
PA yQu 10 put In SO many hours a day
M DO YOU mean this?''
rs "Of course | mean II. and / want
YOU to begin at once. Is there "a place
81 here where You can 20 and play reg
ularlyg'
Is Eyes, there's the whist club. and l
Is am already n member OF IT,"
Good, Now you go there this after
noon and begin your engagement Do
W SAN tie old follow cried iumplnr
IN end ,grasntng bis fricnd,S bsnd
' won make mo Tho bonniest man in
/. The world ynu have t,irned n charm
M Ing dream int n tbritiins raaiitv, ,,ou
III M the nobisst man aiiSe X6ers 10
ny hate I'M 90 a. once
LA "All right Jobn. and sov do the
&Y best YOU can--plav vour hest Tet
them know that vou are nIovinp for
m, nv WIN elYe you sort OF prestige-
rs he sat smol,inp a his iIbrarv lie
'1 had lightenea his MIRA iliuminsd he
VA latter.dnv iife az Me IA srin,,d - q
soothing balm stole over bis own
III spirits And dozIng In bis cbnit. here
|& alone by the fre he dremamed Of he
y termination 10 becnne ,n ,,' iS,y u
IA Again he heard the soft snringtime
L .oolng OF the dove ana tba rInniing IN
l the water I'm ~ e,a go '"Y 'Pp'lne va
hight Of the asbshnwl hoard tbS tan
hs ' era 81 5ge %9odpeGker ana down
maiden cor,inn n, Pa.n ne saw
d her smile he ~, NJ bi ,.ls
and again he ,o,,oh3 o. ~. ~ III,
that bound his iIfe 10 No, oS,,, IL