Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-24
Matilda Enham, Columbia. Pa, says:
WAS THIS RIGHT?
[Copyright, 1885. ]

lCopyright, lS15.
 "I offered! him a half interest In my in- vent on if he would pay for the rateats" "
 "Oh, Roberti And he refused tk;.t -
 "Ycs, and offered me tho $500 needed for a three-quarters interest"
 "Ch, the mean mani"
 ''The great MT. Havemore mean! Why, he's our liberal public spirited fellow citi- gen.'
 Mrs. Barbour laid her thin check down upon the pillow and wept. Her husband walked to the window and stood there looking at--without sceing-the falling sleet and the hurrying passersby. After a time the thin vail of little child pierced the air, and the mothers voice was heard soothing it. When it's cries had been stilled, she said hesitatingly: "Baby does not seem well. She has cried most of the time since the rooms have been so cold. I fear we will have to get the doctor for her."
 The unhappy father did not answer for a few minutes. Then he replied, 'I will go to MT. Haveinore in the morning and ac- cept his offer."
 "A three quarters interest. An, but that was yesterday! You should have accepted my proposition when 1 was in the humor, but you did not. Strange that you me chanics of all people should not under stand the advisability of striking while the iron is hot. D The rich man settled himself more comfortably in his luxurious office chair, twiddled the big seal dangling on his vest and smiled at his own humor.
 MT. Havemore rightly judged, when he saw the inventor return to him that morn ing the necessity compelling acceptance of his hard terms and shrewdly calculated that he might successfully press his advan- tage still farther. Barbour turned upon him and denounced him for a robber, and as he did so q gentleman-one of MT. Havemore's fricnds-entered the room. When Barbour was gone, the witness MT. Golding-sank into 8 chair gasping: "Good graciousl What violence! And know the fellow. He's tenant of mine. Behind on this months rent, too, and l dares to talk like that to q gentleman!' MT. Golding was an exceedingly conserva- tive man, who never invested in anything but real estate and was sufficiently old fashioned a landlord not to trust much to | an agent, preferring to keep sharp eye | himself upon his tenants individually. "I shouldn't care to have him for a ten l ant of mine even if he paid promptly" | remarked Mir. Havemore, regaining his equanimity, which had been not little disturbed. "I fancy he is sort of an archist by the way he goes on. | Heavens! Do you think so, Mir. Have more? shall not know a moments peace ! until he is out of my house.. He might blow it up at any minute. I'll order my lawyer to dispossess him at once-this very day, if possible"
 
 The miserable household belongings of the Barbours were heaped on the sidewalk. l The thinly clad invalid mother, sheltering l her baby as best she could under a blanket l wrapped about her, sat among them, with | her husband standing near, worthless and seemingly dazed. Round them were group ed q few sympathetic neighbors almost as | poor as the evicted family, to judge from l their appearance, and some other persons stopped by mild curiosity. The spectacle was not novel one. There are, on an aver ago, 24, 900 like it in New York every year. A drizzling rain that was almost ice fell steadily, and the merely curious did not l finger long, A well dressed man, carrying 1 silk umbrella, came along and exclaimed l in q tone of surprise: "Why, Mir. Barbour! /! Is this you?''
 "YeS, D he answered, with dull laconism; then looking up and recognizing the per son addressing him exclaimed hopefully, "Mr. Fangr'
 Dear me!' ejaculated Mir. Fang, "this is very bad, if I may judge by appear ances."
 "The situation explains itself. was just trying to think of some one who might advance me a little money to some what improve it.
 1T would do so, with pleasure; but, un- fortunately, I am bound by a contract with my partner, which forbids either of us lending any money under any circum- stances"
 "I have nothing left to sell, or would not want to borrow-that is, nothing but my invention, which I have not yet been able to do anything with-thc one wished you to makc'the patent application for"
 "I remember it. But as told you at the time it would have been quite unprO- fessional for a lawyer to advance the fees in a patent case, and as you had no money I could do nothing to help you. Can you not sell it out and out? It would take a long time to get patent, yet longer to re- alize anything from it, and you seem to he ! inconvenienced for lack of ready means. should say sell it
 "Who would buy?"
 "Well, cant say. Dealing in inven
 tions is not in my line, but--well, I sym
 pathize with you, and though the thing is
 of no use to me, would give you $50 for
 it myself just to help you along.'
 Don't you think, sir, that $50 is a
 small sum for the best work of Q mans
 brain during ten long years a thing that
 some one will make fortune by?"
 ''Oh, well, if you feel that way about ii
 and sec your way to doing better, would
 not advise you to sell" The lawyer took
 n backward step, lowing, as if about tC
 leave. At tho same moment Mrs. Barbour
 was attacked by one of her violent fits ot coughing, and the baby, suddenly awakened to a sense of discomfort began crying
 shrilly.
 "Never mind how feel about it. I ac cept your offcr,'' replied the conquered in
 ventor, with tears in his eyes.
 "Very well; come along to my office
 where l will draw mp the necessary papers
 and you shall have your $50 at once.'' Two hours later MT Fang received iron } MT. Havemore five times the sum he hat } paid for that paper.
 } In duo time the patent was granted, ant within the year a huge factory gave em } ployment to several hundred men in thu , making of machines under it. The inven tion had proved to be one of the most val uable of the age, and MT. Havemore, as sol,
 owner of it, expected to double his mil
 lions by it.
 In the office of the factory an emaciated ragged fellow pleaded with the superin 3 | tendent for work. "Please," he said, s'set | ME- f1aVomOf0 TOT mel QOn'G tn1nk hl
 would refuse Robert Barbour place at tht , bench.'
 "But you've been sick and are weak a \ cat yet, evidently. You couldn't do full days work, and we couldn't afford tc , pay you full wages
 2 "Pay me anything you like; so that i , is enough for me to live on. I've nobody z but myself to care for now-wife and chil( arc both deadE' J. H. CONNOLLY. I
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