The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-08-03
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SPENDERS
A Tale of the Third Generation
BY HARRY LEON WILSON
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Copyright. by Lo,hrop Publishing compan,
CHAPTER IX.-CoNTINuEp.


Oldaker, wincing and turning to Miss
Bines for sympathy, heard her say:
"Yes. do, Mr.. Higbee! l do love
those ragtime songs-and then have
them play Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
and the 'Intermezzo.'"
He groaned in anguish.
The talk ran mostly on practical af-
fairs: the current values Of the great
staple commodities; why the corn crop
had been light; what wheat promised
to bring; how young Burman, of the
Chicago board of trade, had been
pinched in his own wheat corner for
four millions-'put up" by his admir-
ing father; what beef on the hoof
commanded; how the Federal Oil COM
pany would presently own the state of
Texas.
Almost every Barbarian at the table
had made his own fortune. Hardly
one but could recall early days when
he toiled on farm or in shop or forest,
herded cattle, prospected, sought adj
venture in remote and hazardous wilds.
"'Tain't much like them old days,
Ell, Higher" Queried the crown prince
of Cripple Creek-"when you and me
had to walk from Chicago to Green
Bay, Wisconsin, because we didn't
have enough shillings for stage fare?"
He gazed about him suggestively.
Corn beef and cabbage was pretty
good then, eh?" and with sure, vigor-
GUS strokes he fell to demoiishing his
filet de dinde a la Perigueux, while a
butler refilled his glass with Chateau
Malescot, 1878.
We'll, 1t does beat the two rooms
madam and me started to keep house
in when we was married." admitted
the host. "That was on the banks of
the Chicago river, and nov we got the
Hudson fowin' right through the front
yard, you might say, right past our
own yacht landing"
From old days of work and hardship
they came to discuss the present and
their immediate surroundings, social
and financial.
Their daughters, 1t appeared, were
being sought In marriage by the sons
of those among whom they sOjourned,
"Oh, they're a nice band Of hand
shakers, all right, all right" asserted
the gentleman from Kansas City. zone
of EN- tried to keep company with our
Caroline, but / wouldn't stand for IL
He vas q crackin' good Skinny player,
and he could lead them cotilion dances
BLOWN a whistle and CALM. All right,
Up!' or something, like a car starter
but, Tell me something good about
him. l says to an old friend Of his
family. Well, he hemmed and hawed
The was a New York gentleman, and
says he: I don't know whether l could
make you understand or not he says
but he's got Family jest like that
bearin' down hard on 'Family'-'and
you've got money he says, and Money
and Family need each other badly in
this town. he says. Yes I says. :.
met up with a number Of people here,
I says, but l amt met none yet that
you'd have to blindfold and back into
q lot of money J says, family or nc
family l says. And that young man,
he says, is a pleasant, charming fel,
low; why he says, he's the best
coated man In New York Well,
looked at him and / says: WELL sayi
I, he may be the best-coated man n
New York, but he'll be the b~est-bootet
man in New York, too says, II HI
comes around trying to spark Carolin,
any more-or would, be II l had m,
way. His chin's pushed too far bach
under his face / says. and besides.
says, Caroline IL being waited on b,
. young hardware drummers . good
steady young fellow travelling out o
little old X. Co. I says, and while b.
amt much for family I says. he'll
have one OF his own before he get
through I says; we start families
vAers ! come fron.sI sasA-