The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-07

attendant returned, the young patien
was taken away, and | never heard an
ether thing about him. don't doubt
however, that he quickly gave up hi
sweet young life, for the whole lower
part of his faco was shattered.
Foundations For Fortune.
Congressman Sorg of Ohio, who was
noted as the richest man i'll the last con
gress, tells an interesting story of how
he laid the foundation Of his fortunes.
when about 10 years old, " said Mr.,
Sorg, my father died and / had to &C
to work to maintain large family.
was first apprcnticed to Il molder, but
aftcrward went to work in n tobacco
| factory, and it was i'll the tobacco bust
uess that made my first money. Early
in the sixties Il new tariff bill passed
congress, increasing the tax on tobacco
There was a great rush to have large
quantities of tobacco made up before
! the higher rates went into effect A
young man, a friend Of mine and fore
man in the factory, received an offer to
take charge of Il new factory which had
been opened to take advantage of the
opportunity offered for large profits on
manufactured tobacco. My friend was
to keep things running day and night
until the new law went into operation,
for which he was offered salary and
part of the profits. 1t was Il busy time
i'll the tobacco business
II knew one man who made $4,000
u. r., 4 t,l.
to furnish Il certain number of boxes of
tobacco, and fixed his price so that if
he only finished half the number by the
time the old tariff rate expired he could
afford to pay the increased tax Oh the
other half ont Of his profits, but luckily
for him the government delayed putting
the new tariff law into effect for 80
days, and he made an enormous profit
on the whole contract This was Il piece
of luck, and it frequently happens that
people who are in Il hurry to make big
profits pay more in the end than if they
had waited, as in the case of the whisky
people, who We're badly bitten by the
recent tariff. The whisky people drew
out large quantities of spirits, the mar
ket was overstocked, notes became due
and they lost money finally. They would
have been much better off if they had
allowed the whisky to stay in bond and
paid the 20 cents extra tax to the gov
ernment
"Woll, to return to the sixties, con-
tinucd Mr.. Sorg. MY friend kept his
factory running day and night and
when it was finally closed after the new
law went into operation the owners
compromised with him for So, 900 as his
share of the profits. He and then start
ed III business for ourselves on that cap
ital. The business was necessarily small
at first, and after buying machinery wo
had just enough money left to buy one
hogshead Of tobacco. We made that up,
and then had to shut down the factory
until we could sell it, and as the mar
ket was overstockcd it was some time |
before we could dispose Of it. With the |
returns of our sale we bought another |
lot of tobacco, made that up and again |
shut down until we could sell our stock. |
Neither of rs was known in the com
mercial world; consequently we could /
get no credit and We're obliged to work
along slowly. After a time business
picked up and we became better known,
but i'll two years my friend became tired
of the business, and bought out his
interest. | hung on to the business, NOV
ing to Middlcburg about this time, and .
my factory has been growing ever since.
,nti1 .t tl,, -, 7 n,,,>1aN- .
| 900 hands. My taxes to the govern
ment III single year have amounted to
Us high as 81 200, 600. | calculate this /
IS part Of my Investment, and | get it
back from the consumers. "
Congressman Coopcr's First Lesa! Victory.
A fe0d between town boys and conn
-ry boys gave Congressman Cooper of
Indiana the opportunity to win his legal
'p9rs. The first case of Importance | /
,yer tried, - said the congressman, land
me which gave me 4 reputation through
Dut the state, was in defense Of Alfred
Barren, the son Of ~ widowed mother ;
whose husband had hcen killed at the
,attle Of shiloh. He was a country boy, I
md one Gar there was to be some sort !
If a country festival, Tho town boys
ent down word that they were coming a
Town =. run things their own way '
among the town boys was the son Of an :
x-county judge who had recently died
They came down booking for trouble !
5arren WAS whiting Il stick when the y
own boys set un him, teasing and badg- =
ring him. and finally the ex-iudgc's v
on reached out to hit him. Barren,
With quick movement, pushed his b
nite into the boy. and he fell with a
ry. He was i'll for some time. and
nally died from malpractice, believe, 4
81 the physician instead Of leaving an "
pcnln2 for the pus of the wound to es- S
ape, allowed the lips of the wound to Fl
lose up, and peritonitis set in, which s
asult"d III the death Of the boy. The II
ountrv lad was put on trial for muir =
or, and | defended him. In conducting
~ case | made the most of the facts II
lat tho town boys had come looking for ''
lischief and that the mother was
idow and the father had died in the q
lrvice of his country. I offered the
lea of self defensG, and argued that
arren had had no Intention of inf1ict. ~ ~
lg a dangerous or fatal wound The X
ldge, however, apparently thought it d
as his duty to stand by the son Of his dl
rdecesscr, and 1 thought went out of s.
S way to insure conviction of Barren. vi
e gave no less than 125 charges to the In
ny and pu' them in such a way that
Q jury could not do otherwise than
nvict. Upon failure Of acquittal il N
e lower court l appealed the case on nj
e ground of prejudice, as well as upor
e fact that the judge had not taken 81,