Evening journal., 1900-05-16
TCopyrlght, 1900. by c. B. lewis. !

needed this money before you would
have asked for it Not having any
need of 1t and having perfect conf
dence in my financial integrity, you
have held the bill till this date. Ex-
actly ten weeks and $40"
"Yes, sir. So" replied the landlady
as she moved about uneasily.
"While II is only n trihe," continued
the major as he looked the bill over
again, 1T should be paid and the books
balanced-that is, If there is any
thing coming to you 1t should be paid
at once; IL there is anything coming to
me III give you 80 or 90 days to square
up"
"But how can there be anything COM
Ing to you" protested the landlady.
I'VE can't tell until we have figured.
My dear woman, my treasure of a
landlady, let me say at the very outset
that am perfectly satisfied with your
table, and as for my room kings have
had far worse. If you viii kindly go
over the past IN your memory you will
admit that l have not made one single
kick; satisfied, my dear woman, per-
fectly satisfied"
"Then the bill is all rightTs
Perfectly all right-couldn't be bet
ter Let me see. When i organized
the Universal Hand Organ trust let
you In on the ground floor for $4,000
worth Of stock, l believe That stock
ought to have given you dividends Of
at least $1,000 q year."
''But It didn't, major The whole
thing busted up, you know"
"Ah, remember 1t was not bust
up, but the Hand Organ trust was con-
solldated with the Great American
Antiblizzard syndicate. haven't the
books here, but If my memory serves
me right presented you with 100000
worth OF stock. If your annual income
from that stock has reached the sum
Of S1O.OOO-if you have been enabled
to purchase
"But l never saw any stock" pro-
tested the landlady. "You said some
thing about It one day, but a week
later you claimed that you had dropped
the scheme for q better thing. You
owe for ten weeks"
"Let me see," mused the major-"let
me see. Did I drop the Hand Organ and
Antlblizzard trust for surer thing?
All, II comes back TO me! Yes; we let
60 of II TO take up and push TO success
/ the International Nursing Bottle mo-
nopoly. Object was TO control the man
ufacture and sale Of nll the nursing
bottles in the world. Any mother who
I refused to buy one Of our bottles had
to feed her infant from a trough. Each
and every one of our bottles was pro-
yided with a squirt gun, and when the
infant wasn't filling up on milk he was
/ squirting at flies and developing his
craftsmanship. That monopoly was
capitalized at S500O0,OOO, I believe.
You were let 10 on the ground floor.
AS my landlady took you in first Of
all. My dear woman, IL your dividends
on that Stock
"But I haven't had any. That was
another Of your schemes that busted"
The major looked at her for mo-
ment In doubt and perplexity, but then
his face cleared, and, reaching for her
hand, he shook it heartily and exclaim-
ed:
my dear woman, what a business
head you have on your shoulders
what a headl 1t is no wonder that
4 your landlord never has to come twice
for his rent and that the fame of your
table has spread abroad through the
land. Let me assure you that am not
Inly satisfied with everything up to
date, but ! mean 10 continue on with
iou indehnitely-for years and years."
"But you must pay. ! can't run my
house unless my boarders pay"
"While perfectly assured that the In
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