The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1900-08-17
fellows to steer them clear Of conse-

fellows to steer them clear OF conse'
quences, public sentiment generally over.
looks such trifiing faults, just so they
carry out their plans. tell you, Bill,
don't want you to imagine for minute
that I am one of the kind that can be
switched Ioff by any sentimental CUFF
1 know teo we'll that It's money that gives
a fellow standing In any civilized Gem.
munity to-day. without 1t man might
as we'll be dead. To tell you the truth,
I've laid awake too many nights figuring
out how long 1t will take for capital OF
next to nothing to roll up into Million
"You don't pretend to tell me that you
intend to make whole million out Of the
people Of Kanoka and vicinity!"
II expectto start branch banks in other
brand-new towns, lust as my increasing
capital. demands"
"And now do you expect to meet your
equally increasing expenses If you keep
! your capital rolling up continually at q
fixed rate?''
"Why, Bill, I hope you're not such .
tenderfoot as to imagine that I don't make
anything out of deposits, to say nothing
Of collections or exchange. Between
ourselves, it amt any cussed big trick to
make the custodians of the public funds
see it to their interest to let me use their
idle money; and then turn right around
and buy up the interest bearing warrants
of the county, towns and school districts
at handsome discount. Sect Don't
you fret about my going short on expen.
$685."
"But, Jonathan, looking at the matter
from a strictly practical standpoint, 1t
does seem to me that it would require a
good many natural lifetimes for capital
of next to nothing to roll up into mill
lon even IL kept continually piling up at
the maximum rate of interest allowed
by law"
"Law, nothing! You do make me con.
founded tired, Bill. You must be a
sheephead of lawyer If you don't
think there's any way to get around a
law without breaking 1t. Why, man,
there's where a live Americans ability
counts, whether he's lawyer or q bust.
ness man. You don't suppose that the
successful men we read about let little
things like that throw them off the
track, do you? Money is worth just
what it will bring, like anything else ;
and nearly ali the settlers of any new
country have to be accommodated. tell
you what Bill, If money should continue
to be worth what it has been ever since I
started up here, and If could keep it out
right along for rs years, the original
$4,000 capital of this bank would grow
into nearer hundred millions than q
million in that time!"
jonathan Grabbed" exclaimed the
young lawyer, rising and beginning to
pace the floor, 81 am really at a loss to
know which to pity the more, yourself
or the victims OF your beastly greed!"
"Great cabbsges and little taters!'
shouted the young banker, laughing out
right. "There you 60 again. But, Billy,
you may So we'll keep your valuable pity
for yourself, for I've an idea you'll need
it before You die"
"10u say that you are ald1E2 our
struggling settlers to develop this new
rich country" continued the young law
yer, somewhat excitedly; "but If your
words express the truth the only de-
velopment you are aiding is that Of its
asylums and grave yards! The only es.
innate by which you seem to value a
human life is the degree of support it
may give you as a stepping-stone to for
ture!''
SHOWS my time II ever!" CAPPED the
shivering listener without; and he
knocked loudly on the door.
"Who's there ?" shouted the gruff voice
Of the banker.
"Peter Poore!" answered the hoarse
voice without.
"Come in, Pete I" cried Jonathan hur-
riedly rising and going to the front.
Peter Poore entered. He was COM
pletely hidden within a long, battered
cowskin overcoat from which everything
but the skin itself had vanished, and IN
der big torn fur cap from which the fur
itself had disappeared. He stamped the
snow from his ragged overshoes, drew
the thin, patched yarn mittens from his
hands, raised the old cap sufficiently to
expose bis eyes, and united and turned |
back the great, habby coat collar far