The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-12

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+ packages. which he put in the Office
care. behind tho books, SO II by chance
any one opened 1t before him Ia Tho
morning they would not see It. You
+ f. srssJ > Ss sI-s &c ~Gs certain the sac,
was locked before he left the Office.
B he went to newsroom and bonpht
. magazine, paying for 1t with SIS
eoiaplfce. and hc paid his check at the
restaurant where he got supper with
another, putting the change he receiy-
cd and money from his purse to make
up the amount spent with the other
gold IN separate pocket.
Then lie went to his room. a little
naA bedroom. but all the home he had.
went to bed and lay until after the
high school clock struck 1, thinking
about his future and planning how he
shouiH invest his little fortune.
BE must change his manner OF liy-
Ing gradually. It wouldn't do TO ieaye
MS position at once. People must get
used to his having money by degrees.
ne felt. There was boom on then In
Omahn, and South Omaha was Just
rising out Of the prairie, and he knew
ne could very soon double his dollars
and double those by judicious manage
ment.
"He thought of the Office he would
have-his own off1ce-where It would
&c f0T him 60 Command insiend or To
OBEY; where he would not have to
swallow as much rs he had been doing.
but could talk back; Of the long vaca-
ton he would take after few more
years Of hard work; OF the green fields
Of England and the sandy wastes of
Egypt; Of the flords Of Norway and In
dla's coral strand; Of the Louvre and
the Vatican: Of foreign railway car
riages and p. md o. steamers, and In
oil his thoughts there was mixed I'D q
pair OF gray eyes IN which he had read
hfe's meaning some yenrs ago. but had
not dared to confess 1t, because he
couldn't see his way, clear to ask them
to leave the village academy and
brighten home for him.
He went tc sleep th.nEing how he
was going to get rid Oh his gold with
out attracting atten lion. for, of course,
he didn't want any one to notice 1t.
Monday morning It didn't bother
him much when he was repeatedly
called from footing column Of figures
to answer the phone or when one of
the partners criticised him for not at.
tending to matter that had meyer
been brought to his knowledge.
when his lunchtime came, he went
to the savings bank where his few dol
lnrs were and deposited 500 in Did
and the $40 for which he had exchang-
ed gold the night before. at one M
tional bank he got q cashiers check to
his own order for $50, paying for it
with gold: In another ne got q demand
@. D.. for $100 to his own order: In q
third he got cashiers check for 5000.
Then he went to 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 demand @. D..
$lbO In gold and $50 In currency, for
which he had exchanged gold ut the
Office. This took him half an hour; the
other half he spent in buying five lots
for total Of $35J, which he paid in
gold, thus getting rid Of $1,000 alto
gether. and in buying some doughnuts
at bakery, from which he nElle his
lunch later IN the dny when he was
alone In the Office.
In two weeks he had managed after
this fashion to get all his gold but the
odd So, which he kept for q relic, into
circulation without any ones COM
menting thereon to him. In three
months he sold his first lots that cost
him $3.50 for an even $1,000 and resign
ed his position. opened real estate
ofhce and was soon railing in consider
able In commissions, besides his profits
on his own investments, in which he
was exceptionally fortunate.
.:'If you know anything about what
Omaha was In the latter half OF the
eighties, you can understand how rap
Idly one could double few thousand
over and over; ii you don't. there's nc
use in my trying to explain.
BY spring he had q stenographer
AMI 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. Ee took the gray eyes
q long drive into the country, and
when they got home the eyes were
very bright, and their owner wrote the
trustees Of the academy that she
couldn't teach there next term.
TN September he went east again
Ind took her back with him, and In a
little cottage In quiet street, from the
window Of which were to be had
gllmpses Of the shining river and the
blue Iowa hills, they set up their house
hold gods and were very happy.
"All this time he had kept his capital
invested in city property, and after his
real estate office had been open for a
few months he mnde his expenses out
Of that, SO all the gain from the origi-
nal $5 ,00o was added to it, AS soon
IS he cold piece of property he
bought more with the proceeds, and
whatever he bought went up, SO that
every transaction increased bis capital, |
his commissions on sales from other
people giving hin fair income, SO /
they could buy books and pictures now |
and then and keep q horse and take |
occasional runs back east or to the |
cool of Colorado.
nJnst before the panic of 1893 he