The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-20
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F" proprietor I've known men to sc
rich that way
i've heard Of men gettin' rich b.
/ tendin'sto their own business sale
the man with the last seasons derh!
hat,
II didn't mean 10 butt into yours,
said the lunch counter proprietor. -
don't care whether you blow all YOU
make or not, but youll be workin' fol
wages all your life If you don't put
somethin' by o.
That's good enough for me- said
the shabby man. bat I've tried 1t an
there's nothn' to it. | don't say
nothin about putin it in bank an
havin the president take it abroad
with him; that's somethn' anybody's
got to take chances on, but there 5
other ways that sayin money makes
| trouble for a man | saved up money
! for mighty near year once.
Yes you did -
81 certainly did. ] put it in the
| bank too, an had 1t DRAWN per
cent interest. Sure thing. Every
! once in a while You d see me staAdin
! up at the little winder an pushin
good crinkly green stuff through at
| the man with the double jointed
| fingers 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
II around in my inside coat pocket an
flash it on my friends when | got
good chance. | guess got the name
o helm a capitalist That's how II
seemed to work anyway, an I've been
sorry for capitalists ever since.
You don't need to be-
I'm sorry for EN- all the same,
said the man in the last seasons
derby hat I'm bet they haven't got
no friends | had quite a bunch be
fore ! got to sayin money an then J
began to lose EN-. First one nd come
to me an say, Jimmy, I've got a 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 doin a friend a good turn
when | get a chance.
what is it? Id ask him.
Well, he'd say, it's this way: A /
friend O mine has got a patent for An I
egg holder lever try to take an egg /
out of kittle o boilin water with a
teaspoon and then try to break il and
scoop 1t out in a glass? Well, if you I
ever did you'il see we've got a bird
You ask your landlady where you
board There's millions o. women all I
over the United States this minute
hats burnin their fingers an mussin' /
Up tablecloths with yolk Of egg tryin'
o do that trick My friends inYen-
ion takes EN- out with a claw spring
an holds EN- just like one Of these
pipes with a hens claw
loldin' an egg. Same principle, eX-
ictR. Then you go to work an take
! knife an open EN- just as nice as
'ou please No mussin' an no cussin
low does that strike you? Well, I'm
n on this an all we need is a little
more capital than we've got TO put
! on the market You put In 800 4
IN I'll see that you set a third in
afest. els9 gf Rit
Well I'd say, IT looks good to me,
nut don't b'lieve | want to put any
money in it just now don't see
what's to hinder putin the egg under
he cold-water tap an. coolin' the shell +
n then holdin it yourself 1t may
e all right, though
"The long an the short of 1t was
ed get mad an 90 around backcap-
in me every chance he got
And the next thing another guy
.ould have a saloon proposition-best
,cation on the west side low rent an
eceipts $50 a day guaranteed Some
ody else would want me to stake him
, barber shop Then they'd come
n strike me for a loan of anywhere
ON a quarter to $50 Why. say, /
dnt have no peace at all with EN-
N as sure as I refused I'd lose an
her friend. | got a worse name than
ussell Sage"
Il wouldn't have quit for that
We'll. / don't say would But this
elm of hayin' money in the bank
nd o swells a teller up. | had
-etty good job, easy hours an fair
ages, an Id probly had il right now ,
I hadn't been a capitalist, but one
me the boss got to calm me down
,out somethin an | thought to my q
II: I don't have to take this I've ,
It money saved So / told him TO ,
chase himself an took my time }
ell. inside o. two weeks was ,
oke an didn't have another job :
her"
1t didn't take YOU long to got
rough you savln's." remarked the f.
lch-counter proprietor How much
you have sailed down.
4 don't exactly remember just q
". said the man with the last sea I
MS derby hat 10 was nearly FIVE
ars ago an I've forgotten. but it D
mes pretty close to SO"