Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-08-20
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 ana deposited 500 in gold
and the ten for which he had eS-
changed gold the night before. Al
one national bank he got cashiers
check to his own order for $50. paying
for IT, with gold; in another he got
demand c. d. for 500 to his own or
der; in @ third he got a cashiers
check for $500.
Then he went to q 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
mana 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 a
total of $3.50, which he paid in gold.
thus getting rid OF $1,000 altogether,
and in buying some doughnuts at a
bakery, from which he made his lunch
later in the day when he was alone
| in tie 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 a relic, into circulation
without anyone's commenting thereon
| I To-, hn
first lots that cost him $3.50 for an
even 81 eco and resigned his position,
opened a real estate Office and was
soon raking in considerable i'll com
missions, besides his profits on his
own investments, in which he was
exceptionally fortunate.
"By spring he had a stenographcr
and an office boy, and when June
came he added clerk to his force
an(, went back east to see his mother
ami the gray-eyed girl. He took the
gray eyes a 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.
SIN September he went east again
and took her back with him. and in
little cottage in a quiet street, from
the window of which were to be had
glimpscs 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
or his real estate Office had been open
for few months he made all his eN
penses out of that, so all the gain
from the original $1,000 was added tf
it. As soon as he sold piece OF
property he bought more with the pro
ceets, and whatever he bought went
up, so every transaction increased his
capital, 4is commissions on sales fol
other people giving him a fair in
come, so they could buy books ant
pictures now and then and keep :
horse and take occasional runs bach
cast or to the cool of Colorado.
",)ust before the panic of '93 he solo
out all his holdings except some goot
rent-paying business property and
few in dwellings, that rented well, aDt
after a bit put his funds into first
class stocks. BY that time his $1,000
had grown to n 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
rieq and started out to find all thu
things there were to see in the world
and are doing shat yet.
mo, he never knew anything abou
the previous history of the money. bu
he supposed ii was buried by some o
the Mormon crowd that stopped abou
There for ime on their way to Sal
, Lake; the dates of the coins were ole
enough. and Ihat seemed Il probable
solution"
did it ever get out about his gold?
asked the man by the window. "Di'
. he always keep it sccret?'
"Nobody ever learned any more thai
he chose to tell. He tod his wife
there was no use telling anyone else
| knew about it at the time. | wa
his closest friend then. OF course,
wouldn't have told you il you kney
him."
81 think | have met him." / said.
"Perhaps." he answered, as he ros
to go. ''but you do not know hi
name. "-Boston Globe.