The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-06-08


dared confess IL because he couldn't /:
see his way clear 20 ask them 10 le- &c
the village academy and brighten =
home fer him.
Monday morning IL didn't bother
him much when he was repeatedly
called from footing u column of fig
ures 10 answer the phone. nor when
one OF the partners criticised him for
not attending To "A matter that had
never been brought TO his knowledge.
"Whcn his lunch time came he went
70 the savings bank where his few
dollars were and deposited 500 in gold
and the ten for which he had ex-
changed gold the night before. At
one national bank he got a cashiers
check to his own order for $50, paying
for il with gold; in another he got
| demand {. ID. for 500 to his own or
der; in third he got cashier's
check for $500.
Then he went 10 national bank.
the cashier of which he knew, and
opened an account, saying that he
was going to do something in the real
estate line. Here he deposited the de-
mand c. d., $50 in gold and $50 in
currency, for which he had exchanged
gold at the Office. This took him half
an hour; the other half he spent in
buying five lots in South Omaha for
total of $3.50, which he paid in gold,
thus getting rid of $1,000 altogether,
and in buying some doughnuts at
bakery, from which he made his lunch
later in the day when he was alone
in the Office.
"In two weeks he had managed,
after this fashion, to get rid OF all
his gold but the odd five dollars, which
he kept as relic, into circulation
without anyone's commenting thereon
to him In three months he sold his
first lots that cost him $3.50 for an
even $1,000 and resigned his position.
opened n real estate Office and was
soon raking in considerable in COM
! missions, besides his profits on his
own investments. in which he was
exceptionally fortunate.
by spring he had stenographer
, and an Office boy, and when June
. came he added clerk to his force
! and went back east to see his mother
and the gray-eyed girl. He took the
} gray eyes a long drive in the coun-
try. ard when they got home the eyes
were very bright and the owner
2 wrote the trustees of the academy
{ that she couldn't teach there next
term.
I In September he went east again
> AMI took her back with him. and IN
' a little cottage in quiet street. from
7 the window of which were to be hac
I glimpses Of the shining river and the
c blue Iowa hills. they set rup theil
!; household goods and were very happy
I; "All this time he had kept his CAPT
G tai invested in city property. and aft
c er his real estate Office had been opcf
G for a few months he made all his cx
u penscs out Of that. so all the gan
d from the original $1,000 was added Il
G il. As soon as he sold piece o
T property he bought more with the pro
e ceeds. and whatever he bought wen
4 up, so every transaction increased hi
= capital. ais commissions on sales 70
q other people giving him fair in
p come. so they could buy books an
Z pictures now and then and keep
y horse and take occasional runs bacl
east or TO the cool Of Colorado.
u ..Just before the panic of 1913 he sol
= out all his holdings except some GOO
= rent-paying business property and
y few in dwellings that rented well. an
y after bit put his funds into firs'
q class stocks. BY that time his $500
- had grown to Il sum the income fror
y which would support him and his any
re where. so they lent their house I
= some friends that wanted TO be maj
" ricd and started out TO find all IN
- things there were TO see in the worlt
y and are doing that yet.
mo. he never knew anything abou
le the previous history of the money. bu
re he supposed it was buried by some {
of the Mormon crowd that stopped abor
rs there for q time on their way to Sa
ri Lake: the dates Of the coins were oil
" enough. and that seemed a pro5abl
:. solution"
did il ever get out about his gold
- asked the man by the window. "Di
(" he always keep it secret
NODOuN ever i'dlith any i''i' '"'
'e he chose to tell. lie tod his wifi,
:" there was no use telling anyone els
'e | knew about il at the time. ] W;
ie his closest friend then. OF course,
e wouldn't have told you ii you knc
him"
- II think have met him" ] said
:" Perhaps" he answered. as he ro
- to 90. '-bnt you do not know b
namc."-Boston Globe.