The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-03-05
eral sending in their bids at 105 and 100

eral sending in their bids at LOO and 100
and 107.
But when at Washington the bids
were opened, the weary clerks hearing
"107 TO, ""1O4 11-12," till they went
almost to sleep as they wrote down the
scarcely varying numbers, all of a sud-
den bolt fell like lightning from Ju-
piter. The reading clerk, almost as
sleepy as the rest, cried out: Zone hum
bred and twenty five Mr.. George Lar
kin Of New Bedlam offers 125 for 10
bonds of the new issuel''
Every sleepy clerk in the room start
cd up in amazement. "Who is Mr..
George Larkin?'' And his bid was en-.
tered as by far the highest bid in the
calendar. II ss-- ~-~F
The next evening every journal in
that great empire, which extended from
ocean to ocean, had a biography Of Mr..
George Larkin. These biographies were
made up generally from the informa-
tion given in the directory Of New Bed
lam. One Of them therefore described
Mr.. George Larkin as the leading man
at the Varieties. Another said that Mr..
George Larkin was engaged in profit
able thread and needle business in the
lower wards Of New Bedlam, Another
said that Mr.. George Larkin had won
his distinction as reporter for the
press. But all persons agreed that Mr..
George Larkin was person Of great
Importance in the financial community,
and that he was a patriot Of the first
water. It was generally agreed also
that his foresight with regard to ma
tional affairs was well nigh perfect. and
that no person knew SO we'll as he did
when stocks would rise and when they
would fall. "Our readers will remem-
Der how on a previous occasion the
whole turn of the stock market was
changed by the sudden purchase of P.
F. and L. This purchase is now attrib-
uted to the foresight of Mr.. Larkin. "
Gertrude. OH that particular evening,
did not happen to open her newspaper.
If she had. she would have known that
her lover was that day the man most
talked about in the whole world. After
this, she was SO overwhelmed by her
correspondence from different people
who wanted her to introduce them to
Mr.. George Larkin that she had no
time to open the newspapers for six
months. She never knew, therefore, why
Mr.. George Larkin suddenly attained
the prominence in all social walks, IN
walks of finance and indeed in the es-
TEEN of his fellow countrymen, which
she bad gained. She did know that, two
or three days afterward, he came in to
see her looking like a new man. He
stood erect where his head had hung
low, he had cheerful smile on his face
where he had looked detected when she
snubbed him. In fact, she did not dare
to snub him. She knew that he was a
person Of much more Importance in the
estimate of the world than she was And
when George Larkin, for the first time
in his life, gained the courage to ask
Gertrude if she would marry him and
make him happy for the rest Of his life,
Gertrude had no thought Of saying any
thing but yes. So much is even a good
girl governed unconsciously by the tone
of the people who are around her.
1t is an unimportant thing to add, but
this great empire rose from its depres-
sion on the strength Of Mr.. George Lar
kin's offers to the treasury. Everybody
saw that he was right, and nobody else
was right. Four per cents rose to a high
er line than had ever been known in his
tory. The reputation Of Mr.. Larkin as
fnancier was established. Rothschilds
and Belmonts and other bankers Of the
world begged for his advice, and offered
him places in their firms. These he was
not SO foolish as to accept. But he lived
happy life with the woman he had
loved, and he had the glad consciousness
that, by the way, he had saved his coun
try.-Edward Everett Hale in Chicago
Inter Ocean.