The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01

do such a fool thing as that? Even in
this land of rapid money making, can
you conceive of such an act as that?
I guess not. The most avaricious
American owning a bird of that sort,
would have kept her alive in luxury,
fed her on the fat of the corn-feld, clad
her in purple and fine linen, and hour
after hour would have studied the
breed until he was in a position to
have some of those eggs Matched with
a fair prospect of continuing the Spe-
cies. Instead of killing her for pal
try advance in eggs, he'd have manipu-
lated her diet, by lingo, until she and
her children and her grandchildren
would have laid radium eggs, silver
eggs, copper eggs, platinum eggs-eggs
of every known kind of precious metal
until the day finally dawned, when men
instead of going to the Klondike or ne
gotiating q note at a National Bank
to get money to pay their bills would
nave merely to go out to the goose
coop and get the wherewithal. When l
think of what we of to-day have to suf
fer because what might have been has
been made impossible by that Get Rich
Quick idiot of centuries ago, I want
to die right away, so that l can get
over the dark river and lick the life out
of him for his murderous crime. Think
of all the evils that have resulted be-
cause that goose died without off,
spring! 1t is to get money or It's
equivalent that most of the great
crimes of the day are committed.
Avarice, personal and political, has
grown out of the desire for greater pos
sessions and the value of these is meas
ured by gold. If there had been a
goose with a golden lay in every fam
lily in creation, all the misery, crime,
suffering and woe of poverty would
I'll
system forever-and yet with this fact
before your eyes. you indict your own
day as being inferior to that one!"
I'VE still have geese even If we get
only base metal from EN-" said Mr.
Brief. drily.
Fright you are" responded the idiot.
And like other birds of a feather we
are still putting up at the same board
ing house. But there is a great deal
in what you say about people neglect
ing the every day opportunities, Mr..
Brief. We have on every side of us
neglected fields of human endedvor,
fields that, if cultivated, would return
Ian abundant reward to those who
chose to avail themselves of the OPP
portunities they Offer
II believed it until you said it," said
Mr. Brief. II find myself becoming
sceptical, however, after your pro-
nouncement."
well, suppose / name a few" said
the idiot, land in naming them con-
Wet myself of turning my back upon
a steady income that is twice as large
as / enjoy now. In the first place.
take these Accident Insurance Com
panies that confront US at every step.
There's a chance for heroic soul to
make a big living without getting out
of bed more than once a month"
"Oh, Tommy Rot!" calculated the
lawyer. There isn't any money can
wasting for Accident Insurance Com
panies. Solicitors commissions never
made an Independent fortune for any
body
"Who said anything about solicitors
commissions asked the Idiot. I'm
sure l never did"
Then how can you make this in
come you speak of in the accident in
surance business?" demanded the law
yer.
simplicity itself" said the Idiot.
LAS one of the insured 1t requires a
lot of nerve, but 1t can be done. You
take out an accident insurance policy
that costs you about $40 and If you
are hurt in an accident, the company
pays you $50 a week until you get well
again. All you've got to do is to go
out the day after you've paid your
premium and break a leg or an arm
or something of that kind and there
you are. You are laid up for six weeks
and while you lie there in bed reading
Tolstoi or a comic paper letting your
leg knit itself together again, in comes
cheque for fifty solid simoleons every
Monday morning as regular as clock