St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01

Clinton made known his poverty e Harding
will dispossess you and swoop down on the
stuff. can get you eighty dollars at forty
per cent. for six months on your goods
and that will pay your rent and help you
OUT
''But if I can't pay when it's due?' urged
Clinton. IS
''Well, you'll be dead broke, that's all, and
your pretty near that now" said his friend
'sThe only trouble about that is that want
to keep the true state of affairs from Edna
Why. she doesn't know I'm out of work I
couldn't find it in my heart to tell her." said
Clinton.
''But what has that to do with the chattel
mortgage?"
cit has this to do with it, that to give it
value, it must have her signature"
s'Wel?"
''Well, can't get her signature without
explaining"
''You cant?"
eNo."
''Then your wife doesn't trust you as much
as you think. Go to her, tell her in coaxing
way, its a little business matter to which YOU
want her signature, and that as it may be a
pleasant surprise to her, after bit, and all
that sort of thing and she will sign it without
question. She'll fall in with the Joke" urged
the friend
Clinton Weldon followed out these instruc,
lions to the letter. He made out a chatteI
mortgage for everything but the baby's crib,
'got smile onto himself as he facetiously
expressed it when telling the story, and asked
his wife to sign
''She wanted to read the whole thing, but
with sweat on my brow in big globules and
forced laugh on my lips, begged her not to.
and to my great relief she signed, saying "a
she did so, L am sure this means fortune.
Clint " explained Clinton to his friend.
1t was twenty minutes past three of the
last day when the young man exchanged the
chattel mortgage for eighty dollars, nearly all
in crisp, new one dollar bills
Placing the money between the leaves of
his receipt book, he pulled his hat over his
eyes, and with the book grasped tightly in
his hand, he fairly flew for the real estate
office Of Mr.. Harding. To his horror it was
twenty-five minutes to four when he reached
there, and the boy in charge said that his
employer had just gone out.
Questioned as to where he had gone, the
boy said to an auction sale of real estate on
the next street.
With visions of his wife and little one being
thrown into the street that night, Clinton ran
in breathless haste to the auction room. which
he found crowded
Standing on tiptoe, he saw Mr. Harding
far to the front, eagerly watching the auc-
tloneer, who was shouting: ''Six thousand, 1
am bid six thousand, 1 am bid ! who will
make it sixty-one hundred?"
Clinton threw up his hand in his eagerness
to get to the front, and in so doing displayed
the book and the bills s'Ah thanks, Mr.
Weldon, sixty one hundred; do 1 hear
sixty-two. Sixty-one, sixty-one Going and
gomez
By this time every eye was fastened on the
young man, and he looked to be so awfully in
earnest that no one dared bid against him.
Little did they know the cause of his great
anxiety.
''See here, Weldon, I'll give you two hun
dred and take your bid - said Harding, wheI
Clinton reached his side
Quick as flash, the position and it's DOS
sbilities darted through Clinton Weldon'
mind
''No, Sir, he said, waving above his head
the book with its interlining of new bills
''cannot think of it,
''Three?"
''No, sir" with rising emphasis
''Four.'
ssNop'
"Five?"
''Make it thousand Mr.. Harding and can
off the rent of the fat and it's yours" said
Clinton.
They compromised on eight hundred and
the rent, and the young husband went home
that night happy man.
After this Clinton Weldon gave up all
thought of working for others. He was
taken into partnership with Mr.. Harding,
and through land spaculations he has be-
come the richest man in upper New York.
LEON WILLIAMS.