The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-05-31

dared confess it because he couldn't
see his way clear to ask them to leave
the village academy and brighten .
home for him.
Monday morning it didn't bother
him much when he was repeatedly
called from footing a column OF hg-
ures to 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.
when his lunch time came he went
to 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 cashiers
check TO his own order for $50, paying
for it with gold; in another he got
demand G.. ID. for 500 to his own or
der; in a third he got cashiers
check for $500.
Then he went to national bank,
the ca1hier 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., $3.50 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 a
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 set rid of all
his gold but the odd five dollars, which
he kept as a 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 S., 900 and resigned his position,
opened 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 a clerk to his force
and went back east to see his mother
and the gray-eyed girl. He took the
| gray eyes long drive in the coun-
| try, and when they got home the eyes
were very bright, and the owner
wrote the trustees of the academy
that she couldn't teach there next
term.
I'm September he went east again
and took her back with him, and in
little cottage in quiet street, from
the window of which were to be had
| glimpses of the shining river and the
blue Iowa hills, they set up their
| household goods and were very happy.
"All this time he had kept his capt.
tai Invested in city property, and aft
er his real estate Office had been open
for few months he made all his ex-
penses out of that, so all the gain
from the original $1,000 was added to
! it. AS soon as he sold a piece of
property he bought more with the pro-
ceeds, and whatever he bought went
up, so every transaction increased his
capital, mis- commissions on sales for
other people giving him fair in
come, so they could buy books and
pictures now and then and keep a
horse and take occasional runs back
east or to the cool of Colorado.
Just before the panic of 1913 he sold
out all his holdings except some good
rent-paying business property and
| few in dwellings that rented well, and
| after n bit put his funds into first
class stocks. By that time his $1,000
had grown to sum the income from
which would support him and his any
where, so they lent their house to
some friends that wanted to be mar
ried and started out to find all the
things there were to see in the world,
and are doing that yet.
mo, he never knew anything about
! the previous history of the money, but
he supposed it was buried by some of
the Mormon crowd that stopped about
! there for time on their way to Salt
Lake; the dates of the coins were old
enough, and that seemed a probable
solution"
did it ever get out abaut his gold?"
asked the man by the window. Did
he always keep it a secret?"
Nobody ever learned any more than
he chose to tell. He told his wife;
there was no use telling anyone else.
| knew about it at the time. I was
his closest friend then. OF course, /
wouldn't have told you if you knew
him.
II think ! have met him" / said.
Perhaps" he answered, as he rose
to go, ''but you do not know his
name. "--Boston Globe.