The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-10-26
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There's nothin' to it," said the man
with the last seasons derby hat.
Amt, eh?" said the lunch counter
proprietor. I've known men to get
rich that way"
i've heard of men gettin' rich by
tendin' to their own business" said I
the man with the last seasons derby I
hat
II didn't mean to butt into yours,
said the lunch counter proprietor. Il
don't care whether you blow all you
make or not, but you'll be workin' for
wages all your life If you don't put
somethin' by"
That's good enough for me-" said
the shabby man. But I've tried 1t an
there's nothin' to it. / don't say
nothin' about putin it in bank an
havin' the president take it abroad
with him; that's somethin' anybody's
got to take chances on, but there's
other ways that savin' money makes
trouble for a man. saved up money
for mighty near year once"
Yes. you did"
II certainly did I put 1t in the
bank, too, an had it DRAWN 3 per
cent. interest. Sure thing. Every
once in a while you'd see me standin
up at the little winder an pushin
good crinkly green stuff through at
the man with the double jointed
fingers. I had a nice little leather
covered book with red blottin' paper
every other leaf an my name wrote
across the front of it. / used to carry
it around in my inside coat pocket an
flash it on my friends when / got
good chance. / guess / got the name
o. bein' a capitalist. That's how 1t
seemed to work anyway, an I've been
sorry for capitalists ever since"
You don't need to be-"
I'm sorry for 'em all the same"
said the man in the last seasons
derby hat. I'll bet they haven't got
no friends. ! had quite a bunch be-
fore l got to savin' money an then ]
began to lose 'em. First one nd come
to me an say, Jimmy, I've got good
thing I'll let you in on If you like. ]
wouldn't take in everybody, but you've
always been a good friend O mine an
| b'lieve in dom a friend good turl
when l get chance
What is it?' I'd ask him.
WELL he'd say, it's this way: A
friend o. mine has got patent for an
egg holder lever try to take an egg
out of kittle o. boilin' water with a
teaspoon and then try to break it and
scoop it out in glass? Well, II you
ever did you'll see we've got bird.
You ask your landlady where you
board. There's millions o women all
over the United States this minute
that's burnin' their fingers an mussin'
up tablecloths with yolk of egg tryin'
to do that trick. My friends inven-
ton takes 'em out with claw spring
an holds 'em just like one of these
meerschaum pipes with a hens claw
holdin' an egg. Same principle, ex-
actly. Then you go to work an take
knife an open 'em just as nice as
you please. No mussin' an no'cussin'
How does that strike you? Well, I'm
in on this an all we need is little
more capital than we've got to put
Il on the market You put in 800
an I'll see that you get a third In
terest.'
well I'd say. 1T looks good to me,
but don't blieve l want to put any
money in 1t just now. l don't see
what's to hinder putin the egg under
the cold-water tap an coolin' the shell
an then holdin' it yourself. 1t may
be all right, though
1.-The long an the short of 1t was
he'd get mad an go around backcap
PIN me every chance he got.
"And the next thing another guy
would have a saloon proposition-best
: location on the west side, low rent an
! receipts $50 day guaranteed. Some
| body else would want me to stake him
: to a barber shop. Then they'd come
an strike me for loan of anywhere
from a quarter to $50. Why, say,
didn't have no peace at all with 'em
An as sure, as / refused I'd lose an
other friend. l got worse name thar
Russell Sage"
Il wouldn't have quit for that"
"Well, don't say l would. But this
feelin' of havin' money in the banl
kind O. swells a Teller up. l had 3
pretty good job. easy hours an fail
wages, an I'd prob'ly had it right nov
, IL hadn't been capitalist, but one
time the boss got to calm me dowr
about somethin' an l thought to my
} self: L don't have to take this. I've
got money saved So j told him t.
go chase himself an took my time
: Well, inside o. two weeks / wa
! broke an ! didn't have another jol
either"
, 1T didn't take you long to ge
through you savin's," remarked thu
lunch-counter proprietor. How mucl
: did you have sailed DOWN.
Il don't exactly remember jus
now" said the man with the last sea
: sons derby hat. 1T was nearly five
years ago an I've forgotten, but 1
comes pretty close to s25.'