The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-10
~gIprAYLoRnved in a sector OF

hard work and many KINDS Oh seAA"e
aiaI Chip had succeeded by the ume
he had reached his 18th year In sav'
ing about SIS, which made him seem
acapitalistto all the other boys and also
10 a great many men, and as eVeryone
knew hat Chip was a wideawake fei-
low who was anxious to get into steaay
business for himself. so that ne couiu
make life easier for his widowed moth
Ar and his little sisters, there was NO
md of acquaintance who tried 10 se'
Into partnership with him ana neip NALL
ypend his money.
Rut Cbip's father had always SAIL
that partnership was a hard snip 10 sS4i
in: he had tried 1t, and ne knew 50 'ne
how looked persistently for some ous
ness in which he could make his OWE
way. and one day be found II ny pur'
chasing a small secondhand camera
and becoming 3 tramp ph~otsSTapasr-
ChIp's customers had to pay foE as
education, for some Of TIE paeNw
which he took during bis nre rev
weeks were about as dreadful As
be Imagined by q uan vita . ats2
mare, but the customers were n"N
critics; besides. Chips pze>es N
cheap, and he was tie oaly nan IA *
business, 50 be made a little noaSs
from the very start which q more hAa
some Of the worlds greatest ArGs
have done
The young photographer Aad 8 se~a
head for business. too: he I'D not set NJ
a studio and smoke bad tobacco AID
Rrumble about tie duIlness OF fGs-
ness. He took his whole kit IL As
hands and roamed about b coeht[s'
In search Of people who he hongA
would be the most likely customer
farmers with horses which me!
thought would sell well in the city Il
dealers could know how they
women who thought their babies z
the prettiest that ever lived and yoEns
people who were in love WIZ eseh
other, and who, therefore, mi 10
exchange pictures.
Anyone who has tried amateur pho
Biography knows that there are many
slips tween the cup and the lip. or,
to speak more to the point, betEeea tAas
plate and the finished picture There
are about as many ways Of spolilAg
characters, and Chip. without ulesnins
TO do anything Of the kind, tred them
ell.
Practice makes perfect 50, in tie
course of time, Chip found himself
clearing about 81 g day. which IVES 8
lot of money for anyone to earn ia iaat
part Of the country
Little by little he learned thai p"f
traits of young people were The mHS4
profitable part of The business, ana |.
began to be smar enough to take TIE
pictures of pretty girls on credit or Tor
nothing, trusting TO luck TO find cut
which young man was nrst or nest
"gone'' on each girl. Then he would
offer the young man, in strict conn
dence, to get him the girls portraif al
the customary price.
Chip tried the system in reverse
h a is, by taking" some OF the more
popular young men, trusting 10 SorE
ST The Sc susceptible girls, but
somehow this plan did not amount 10
much.
Either the girls hadn't any money,
which is quite likely, or, stu more
ly, they didn't want young mems faces
badly enough TO pay for them, 60 Chip
gave it I'D as a bad job and left bis lat
est plates Of young men to be deTel-
oped when he had nothing else 10 do
one of these undeveloped plates was
of Frank Wilsey, the bestlooktng and
the most popular store clerk in the vi
lage. Almost any girl would pay 8
cent a yard extra for material for q
calico dress for the pleasure Of pur-
chasing from Frank Wilsey. and she
would walt an hour to be served By
Frank rather than buy OF the propris-
tor himself.
Frank was a great catch" in the e.
timation OF all the girls and their moth
ers, and he became all the more SO be-
cause he declined to be caught.
Suddenly, however In the way that the
unexpected has Of turning up in even
the least promising places, something
occurred which set ali the village girls
to become jealous and enyious. Some
people who seemed 10 be rieh, for they
were travelling by carriage. with two
rya in a buggy following. were
obliged to stop In the village and call q
physician for one Of their party. an OLD
lady.
The physician said the invalid must
rest for several days. SC there was a lot
of scurrying 10 ind proper aceonmoda.
tons for the party. there being no hotel
in the place. They were nnally accom-
modated by old Mrs. Trewley. whose
husband had built the biggest house In
the town and died just as the house
was completed.
Old Mrs. Trewley quickly became the
most popular woman IN the village;
neighbors who had almost forgotten
her soon found excuses TO borrow some
thing, or to ask d question which they
had long wanted TO ask-anything, for
an excuse TO find gu about people
whom they had never seen, but who
seemed to be rich.
The village interest ia the strangers
Increased when one Of the ne weouers.
a handsome young woman who seemed
to wear her Sunday clothes all the time.
appeared on the main street Of the vi
fage and dropped into the two or three
stores, apparently because she could
not amuse herself unless she was buy.
ing something. D
OF cours Frank wiisey did his best
30 sell her something. and sell her as
much Of 1t as possible; people who paid
cash, instead of having things charged,
and who did not try to beat down"
the prices asked, were as scarce In that
village as saints In rum shops.
1t did not take the village girls and
other gosslps long to learn that the
young woman, whose name was Eu-
nice Trait, did most of her purchasing
at the store In which Frank Wilsey
was clerk. and that anyone else who
went into that store while Miss Trait
was there was obliged to wait until
the stranger had made her purchases.
They also learned, or thought they did,
that the young took as much
time as possible in transacting her