Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-11-26

Tor YOU" ne said II ana Mr.. Long
worth-John Longvorth. Of the city
and member of the London syndi-
cate. Two names were proposed
Sections and yours. l voted for you;
not that 1 knew anything about you.
but some of the others seemed very
c~v'ous that Scotton should go, SO |
thous '-et to vote for you. There
fore, you sec, ! said before, l am
partly responsib.- .crr being
hereS
'I hope you will not be dissatisfied
with the result, Mr.. Longworth."
'I hope not myself. | can see that
you are cautious man. and those who
recommended you vouched for your
capabilities, so with canton and Gu
pacity a man should succeed. l intended
to visit the properties, but l was de-
tanned so long in the west that | did
not have time to go north. How did
you find the mines ?'
''Since you complimented me on my
| caution, Mr.. Longworth, | should be
sorry to forfeit your good opinion by
| answering your questions"
Quite right: quite right" said the
elderly gentleman, laughing again.
That's one for you, and a very good
one, too. l must tell that to my daugh-
ter; and here she comes. Edith, my
dear, this is Mr. Kenyon. who went
out to examine eur mines. Curious,
isn't it, that we should have been talk
ing about them this very morning2
! Mr.. Kenyon, | call my daughter my
confidential man of business; she has
been all over the world with me.
never make any investments without
consulting her, SO / warn you that she
will ask you more ipsidious questions
/ about the mines than | shall"
| John Kenyon had risen 10 his feet
to greet the girl and TO offer her his
| chair.
NO, thank you," she said. 81 want
to walk. | merely came to see if my
father was all right l was very much
disappointed that we did not go to
Canada this time, as wished to
see something of the snow-shoeing and
| tobogganing there. | suppose there
was no tobogganing where you were?"
"Oh, yes" said Kenyon; even out
among the mines they had a tohog-
gan slide, on which one trip satisfied
me; and on several journeys ] had to
wear snow-shoes myself"
How interesting" said the girl.
And the next thing John knew he was
walking the deck with her, relating his
experiences. This walk was the first
of many, and from that time .orward
Kenyon did not miss his friend Went
worth.
Edith Longworth can hardly be called
typical representative of the Eng
lish girl. She had an English girls
education, but she had not the train
ing of the average English girl She
had lost her mother early in life, which
makes a great difference in a girls
training, however wealthy her father
may be; and Edith's father was
wealthy, there was no doubt of that.
Ask any city man about the standing OF
John Longworth, and you will learn
that the "house" is we'll thought of.
People said he WIS lucky, but John |
Longworth asserted that there was no |
such thing as !; in busipess-in |
which statement he was very likely |
not coryect. He had large investments
in almost every quarter of the globe.
When he went into n thing he went |
into it thoroughly. People talk of the
inadvisability of putting all ones eggs |
into one basket, but John Longworth |
was a believer in doing that very thing |
mend ne Md IN aaH aHaifehtgg the t-,.Nat that
even one kind of a basket, but when
John Longworth was satisfied with the |
particular variety of basket presented
to him he put a large number of eggs |
In it. When anything was offered for
Observation-Disclosures it was a mine, a
brewery or railway-John Longworth
took an experts opinion upon 1t, ana
then the chances were that he would
disregard the advice given. He was in
the habit of going personally to see
what had been offered to him. Ii the
enterprise were big enough he thought
little of taking voyage to the other
side Of the world for the sole purpose
of looking the investment over.
When Edith Longworth was pro-
nounced finished as far as education
was concerned, she became more and
more the companion of her father.
She went with him on his long jour
news, and so had been several times
to America, once to the cape, and one
long voyage, with Australia as the OBJ
iectiye point, had taken her complete
ly around the world. She inherited
much of her fathers shrewdness, ana
there is no doubt that IL Miss Long
worth had been cast upon her own re-
sources she would have become an ex-
cellent woman of business. She knew
exactly the extent of her fathers in
vestments, and she was his contidante
in way that few women are with
their male relatives. The old man had
great faith in Edith's opinion, al
though he rurely acknowledged it. Hav-
ing been together so much on such long
VOYAGES, they naturally became, in
way, boon companions. Thus Edith's
education was very unlike. that of the
ordinary English girl; atraining which
caused her to develop into a different
kind of a woman than she would have
been II her mother had lived.
The friendship between Edith Long
worth and John Kenyon ripened SO rap
| idly that on the day Wentworth had his
| last disquieting interview with Jennie
Brewster they also were discussing
mining properties, but in somewhat diff
ferent fashion. Kenyon contided to the
girl that his own hopes and fears were
wrapped up in a mine.
After completing their work for the
London syndicate, the young men had
transacted q little business on their
own account. They visited together
mica mine, which was barely pay
ing expenses, and which the owners
were anxious to sell. The mine was
owned by the Austrian Mining com
pany whose agent, Won Brent, had met
Kenyon in Ottawa. Kenyon's educated
eve had told him that the white
mineral they were placing on the dump
at the mouth of the mine was more
valuable than the mica for which they
were mining. Kenyon was scrupulously
honest-a quality somewhat at dis
count in the mining business-and 1T
seemed to him hardly fair that he
| should take advantage of the ignorance
of Won Brent regarding the mineral ON
the dump. Wentworth had some
trouble in overcoming his friends scru-
pies He insisted that knowledge al
ways had to be paid for, in law, medi-
cine, or mineralogy, and therefore that
they were perfectly justified in profit