The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-13

the potato. Very WE'LL am going to
make the change. There on my desk
are the articles of incorporation of the
Great American Colored Potato com
shares OF 500 each. 1t viii furnish the
world with blue, red, green, purple
terra Gotta and other colored potatoes.
Seven or eight different colors, and you
pays your money and takes your choice
Now do you see2"
How'll you make the colors?" asked
the man. Interested in spite of HIM
self
Easy as rolling off a log, but that's
my secret. It's an invention of my own
It's nothing but a fad, but It's going
to take like wild fire while it lasts
and bring millions of dollars into my
purse-iuto the purse of the company
The poor banker for change in the
color of potatoes as well as the r1chN
Blue viii probably be the popular col
or with the poor, While the rich VIII
take EN- all and use 'em in rotation.
When the grand dinners are given you
can imagine the effect Of seven or eight
dishes OF different colored potatoes on
the table. GeOrgeoas won't be any name
for it Just the potatoes alone will do
for an ordinary banquet while a we'd
ding breakfast may be composed of six
varieties OF potatoes and a dish OF
fried cakes. My dear man, have
struck the biggest thing on earth.'
And you say you want me in it?''
I want you in it biggern a house.
WdAl SOA AOA VICE PACSlQCnl ana IIlcl-
ager. You are the man who'll have 10
lease the ground and oversee the plant
ing and digging and shipping to the
factories. We shall plant one million
acres the first year, and double that the
second. I give the fad only two years
to run. but that Will be long enough
for US. We then drop the colored po-
tato fad and bring out the blue and
cry Toothache. Why, man, there's
millions and millions of dollars crying
out for you to pocket EN-! You are
just as sure of a fortune as If you held
a royal flush and there was billion
dollars in the pot. Why don't you get
up and swing your hat and yell?'
What salary do l get?" asked the
man. as he removed the rag from his
"Ah. you are there, are you
thought you'd be. You get $4,000 the
first year and double that the second.
You also come in on the ground floor
for hale a million dollars worth of
stock and your dividends will not be
less than 80 per cent per year My
friend let US shake hands. The Great
American Colored Potato company is
bowling success. Do you bank any
Nav! What have got to bank?'
Then I shall take you to my bank
and introduce you tomorrow. You
must have a bank account, Of course,
and I viii advance you $4,000 if you
wish I will also recommend you to
my Taller. JeWeIer ana shoemaker can
you be ready in one week to take hold
of affairs2"
sure, Mike, but this thing seems too
good to be true. You never saw me
before, and yet you engage me right
off the reel"
MY way. my dear sir-my way"
laughed the major. as he walked
around and rubbed his hands togeth-
er; Il either like and trust a. man on
sight or have nothing whatever to do
with him. / always select my own
men, and recommendations from
Odell or Platt don't count AS I said
at the beginning, there are the papers
of Incorporation AS a mere matter
of form, and to show that you are sin
cere. you will have to advance five
dollars That sum goes to the Secre-
taching his signature. Mere formal
ity under the law, but we must leave
no lOopholes- You get thousands
millions back, you see
Il don't know about that was the
dubious reply.
My dear sir, are you going to cavil
about five dollars when you have five
millions at stake! 1t is impossible.
You are not that kind of a man. If
you do not understand matters to your
satisfaction come in tomorrow and let
me go over them again. Salary $780,,
/ 600 per year, for the first year, and yet
you hesitatel Salary doubles the sec
ond year, and vet you say you don't
know A chance for you to come in
I on the ground floor and clean up half
a million dollars a year in dividends,
and yet you"
The man handed over a ragged five
| dollar bill
"Ah I knew / could not be mistaken
| in you. The papers go off within an
\ hour, and tomorrow you call for fur
| ther instructions. Once more, shake
hands. And now as this is my busy
day and you will want to go home and
| tell your wife"
And two minutes later the man had
been crowded out of the Office. He
went slowly down stairs and was gone
ten minutes. Then he returned and
pounded on the Majors door, and said