The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
WENT BROKE" ON HOPS.
ST Coles Literally Rolled In Money
and Couldn't Stand Prosperity.

and Couldn't Stand Prosperity.
From the New York Sun.
To the average observer there is
nothing in field of hops to suggest
the spirit of speculation. But in the
seventies before hop growing was
developed in the West-those were the
times. Men were poor today and rich
tomorrow Went to church one Sun
day in lumber wagon and drove to
the tavern the next With team and
landau, bought farms and houses and
pianos and-then came the change
and all things went from many men,
and mortgages sat and glowered upon
the ruins of past prosperity.
Old Ezry, the dean of the hop-dry. ne
faculty, tells the story of 81 Coles
mop deal, interspersing the relation
with frequent interjections Of quail
he'd surprise, which may be regarded
as inspired by his own eloquence or
by the exciting nature of the history
which he unfolds.
"Speakin' of maxim money on hops
makes me think of old ST Coles Golly,
haow he did raise hops! Big yard and
more paounds to the acre than any
body raound. The second year l dried
TOR him hops was worth rs cents a
paound, and. golly, ST had 10000
paounds good, clean hops as I ever
burned sulphur under. He had worked
hard for years to pay for his farm
and he had whitfield and Whitfield at
his mortgage until he had got her down
pretty small. so that year he did not
waste no time foolin', but the first buy
er that offered him rs cents, gollyi he
let EN- go bang; delivered 'em to Utiky
an come home with fifty-tew thaou-
sand five hundred dollars an seventy
five cents. All good long green money.
Wal, naow, that was a fairish sum
all in one lump, an eff you could have
seen SilaS come drivin' ina drivin'
of his boss with one hand and wavin'
Of the roll with the other-trewly-I
thought he had gone crazy. 'Hoorah,
boys" he says 'Hoorah. Golly! Hoo
rah" And then-golly!-h run in the
haouse and he called his wife and he
called his eldest son and he called his
youngest son and he called his daugh-
ter and golly.-they all come, and Silas
says, golly! says he, Come here and
they all went into the parior, and ST
did not say a dumbed word, but he
took the money and begin a-spreadin'
of it aout on the floor Layin' of it
daown until-golly!-the parlor carpet
was more than half covered. Then,
when he had her all spread aout, ST
says. 1Oily nave always
folks talk about rollin' in money. Naow
there's the money all spread aout and
-golly! boys-roll"
Then old ST he got daown and he
rolled and rolled, and Mrs. ST she got
daown and she rolled, and the two
boys rolled and the daughter rolled
and, by Jimmy Ginger! even the dog
rolled, and, golly! they all rolled in
money.
wal, Silas he picked her up again
and put her in the bank, and then
golly!-look aout-things had to fly.
ST got hisself plug hat and his oldest
son got plug hat and his youngest
son a airgun and his wife and daugh-
ter wore silk dresses all the time and
got palmer and begin both takin'
lessons. Then 81 got ter likin' to wear
his plug hat pretty well and he did
not work much because he did not like
to dirty it, and he begin to hang
around the tavern and then goin' to
races and then-golly!-he bought his
self a racehoss fur 81, 900 and begin a
racin' hisself. Wal, the money raced
faster than the boss, and Silas'. bank
account begin gettin' low, but Silas
he says, 'GOlly! Wait says he, till
sell my hops ag'in.' But when fall
golly@hops was only 10 cents
paound -golly!-the next spring
81 was sold aout for 10 cents on a dol
lar, and the racehoss and the silk
dresses and the palmer and the plug
hats-golly!-th all went and Silas
and his folks went West somewheres
and-golly!-I never heard of them
since
"Naow it does seem to me that If I
was a heavy raiser of hops and had
a big yard and sold my hops once for
80 cents paound or more and got a.
good pile of money-golly.- wouldn't
buy no racehoss or plug hat I would
just salt the money daown and-golly!
quit raisin'"