The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-01
CHAPTER xxxVU.


CHAPTER x<xvIl.
The Departure Of Uncle Peter-And Some
German Philosophy.
The Bineses, with the exception of |
Psyche, were at breakfast a week later.
Miss Bines had been missing since the day
that Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil G. H. Mauburn
had left for Montana City to put the |
Bines home in order.
Uncle Peter and Mrs. Bines had now
determined to go, leaving Percival to fol-
low when he had closed his business at
fairs.
It's like starting west again to make
our fortune said Uncle Peter. He had
suffered himself to regain something of
his old cheerfulness of manner
II wish you two would wait until they
could get the car here, and go back with
me- said Percival. 1--WE can go back in
style even if we didn't save much more
than getaway stake
But his persuasions were unavailing.
Il can't stand ii, another day." said
Mrs. Bines land those letters keep COM
ing in from poor suffering people that
haven't heard the news"
I'm too restless to stay declared
Uncle Peter. 81 declare, with spring all
greenin up this way I'd be found
campn' up in Central park some night
and took off to the calaboose. I just got
to get out again where you can feel the
| wind blow and see hundred miles and
| don't have to dodge horseess horse-c cars
every minute. You come on in the car
| and do the style fur the family. One of
| them common Pullmans is good enough
| fur Marthy and me. And besides, I got
to get Billy Brue back. He's goin' plumb
| daft lookin' night and day fur that man
! that got his thirty dollars and his breast
Epin. He says there'u be an ambulance
ha olS6 at tla 1ryha, Il
| hinl-makes no difference if it's right on
J Fifth avenue. Billy's kind Of near-sighted
! at that. so I'm mortal afraid he'll make
a mistake one Of these nights and take
some honest mans money and trinkets
| away from him. ~
| well. here's a Sun editorial to take
back with u.s. said Percival; "you re-
member we came east on one" He read
! aloud:
| The great fall in the price of copper
| western Trolley and Cordage stocks has
ruined thousands of people all over this
country. These losses are doubtless ir-
reparable so far as the stocks in uues-
| ton are concerned. The losers will have
to look elsewhere for recovery. That thew
VIII 40 so with good courage is not to be
doubted. 1t might be argued with rea-
sonable FEASIBILITY that Americans are
the greatest fataltsts in the world; the
readiest to take chances and the least
against them. - 2
"A case in point is that of a certain
western family whose fortune has been
swept away by the recent financial hurri-
! cane. If ever man liked to match with
| Destiny, not for the BEERS but for bic.
STAKES, the young head of the family in
question appears to have been that man
He persisted in believing that the powe,.
and desire of the rich men controlling
these three stocks were great enough to
hold their securities at a point far above
their actual value. In this persistence he
dlsplayed courage worthy of a better re-
ward. A courage, moreover-the gam
pier courage-that is typically Ameri-
can. NOW he has had a plenty of that
pleasure of losing which, in Mr.. Fox's
estimation, comes next to the pleasure
of winning.
From the point of view of the political
economist or the moralist thrift, saving.
ana contentment with a modest com
petence are to be encouraged, and the
propensity to gamble is to be condemned,
we stand by the copy book precepts Yet
1T is only honest to confess that there
is something of this young American MS
love for chances in most of u.s. Ameri-
!, can life is still so fluid, the range of op-
portunity so great, the ma tionaI temper
ament so buoyant daring and hopeful,
that 1t is easier for an American to trv
, his luck again than to sit down sn11glv
,, and enjoy what he has. The fun and the
excitement of the game are more than
the game. There are Americans and
plenty of them who will lose all they have
| in some magnificent scheme, and make
, much less fuss about it than a. Paris
shopkeeper would over bad twenty
franc piece
Our disabled young Croesus from the
f west is luminous specimen of the type
$ The country would be less interesting
without his kind and, on the whole, less
I healthy-for they provide one of the need
: ed ferments. May the young man make
! another fortune in his own far west-and
, come once more to rattle the dry bones OF
! our bourse.'
He'll be too much stuck on Montana
; by the time he gets that fortune OBJ
served Uncle Peter.
!, Il will that, Uncle Peter Still it's
pleasant t. know we've won their good
opinion
: Excuse me fur swearin', Marthy,'' SAID
r Uncle Peter, turning to Mrs. Bines. ''bu1
8 he can win better opinion than that ir
Montana fur damn sight less money
Z That editor is right" said Mrs. Bines
: what he says about American life beins
q fluid. There's altogether too much
: drinking goes on here, and I'm glad m,
s son quit it,
Percival saw them to the train.
M