The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-11
GRAND PROMOTER.
He Lets His Chiropodist In For a
Good Thing.


Copyright, 1902, by C. B. Lewis.)
Major Crofoot, grand promoter and
general organizer, was seated in his Of
fee with the stub end of cigar and
all the world before him when the Chi
ropodist from the floor above entered
with slip of paper in his hand.
by George" exclaimed the major as
he got his feet off the desk and wheeled
around, but was thinking of you this
blessed minute There must surely be
something in mental telegraphy. Five
minutes more and 1 should have been
up stairs to see you"
This bill has been running for a
year, and 1 want to know what you are
going to do about it." replied the Chi
ropodist as he handed it over.
"To removing two corns, 81 Yes,
you removed two corns for me about a
year ago. You couldn't change TWEEN
ty dollar bill, l remember"
You didn't give me the chance"
Perhaps not, but there was some
| trifing reason why I didn't settle on
the spot. Sorry to have given you any
| trouble over the matter. You might
| have sent it down any time. One dol
| lar-one dollar. Yes, you removed two
corns, and they haven't bothered me
| since"
This bill has been sent to you about
a dozen times" said the chiropodist as
be pointed to it.
Can that be true?" replied the major,
with a fair show of concern. Il pre-
sumo l was out or forgot it, and 1 am
glad you finally came in yourself. 1t
| shall be paid at once You are one of
| the few men who had confidence in
my integrity when I was down to my
| last shilling, and 1 wish to show you
that am not ungrateful. My dear sir,
l was just about to apply for articles
| Of incorporation for
| Il don't want to hear about your
schemes. You owe me a dollar, and
want it."
MY dear sir, allow meadow me.
| Although 1 have foated fourteen diff
ferent money makers during the last
year, / have kept the best one for the
last. 1t is one in which you shall par
ticipate. Your trust and confidence in
me shall net you a thousandfold. What
1 am working on is the storage power
idea, and have it almost within my
grasp. It's the biggest thing you ever
heard of-the biggest thing on earth.
I'll let you in on the ground floor and
make a Rothschild of you in three
MONTHS
by thunder, but you mean to talk
me out of my dollarw exclaimed the
chiropodist in great indignation, though
at the same time he sat down and pre-
pared to listen.
How much power do you suppose is
going to waste every day in America p
softly Queried the major as he smiled
lat the ceiling. LET me answer.
Enough to run the machinery of the
whole world if it could only be stored
up for use = yes, enough to run four
times as much. As it is, we are losing
the power of the wind, of the tides, of
a thousand other things. Every time
you walk up or down a pair of stairs
there is enough extra power lost to
run coffee rooster for two hours.
When two men fight on the street, the
surplus power would run a sawmill
half day. For every 10 cents worth
of lettuce he sells a street peddler
wastes a dollars worth Of power. Dc
you catch on%
There may be power wasted" re-
luctantly admitted the creditor.
But there is-millions of horsepow-
| er daily-enough to run every factory
in the world if it was stored up.
That's the idea-to capture it and store