The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-08-28

$50 oo| ioI the evening. Would he
care to leave the bundle?' The drive
said he had strict orders to get tht
money or bring back the laundry. oh
very we'll said Hopeful"
1he president Of the push took ,,c.
casslon at this time 10 rebuke Masters
harvard, 1900, who was taking dow
some copiOus notes on Hopefnrs tar
tlcs with the laundry agent. Masters
TALES OF 2
put his book in his pocket and VII
llan went on:
cum powder on his face. Honefu1
When the creditors all cot rexr Z
Hopeful and the bill collectors got .
they knew him at sight. he adopred
mother tack. He opened bank ac,
counts, and originated a system nj
banking that couldn't be beaten ont
side Of Wall street.
"Kiting checks was his great snac.
ialty. He often said he never had q
cents In either bank at one time. #
his accounts We're closed, but his
Dank boo looked Is if he were a
bonded %plutocrat. You see he would
give one Of us a check for $40 on one
bank and We would get it cashed. He
would cover that check with another
on his other bank and repeat the Oper-
alton as often as desired. 1t was a
pipeline cinch for the gang TO raise
$40 for a couple of weeks that way.
This got too slow for Hopeful, 50 he
originated another scheme. He would
draw a sight draft on a friend in Mil
pitas, Cal, for $50, get it credited 10
his account at the bank then mail his
MllpltaS friend Il special delivery LEI
ter containing a check to balance the
draft. 1t took a couple Of weeks for
the check to get back t Virginia. and
by that time Hopeful could draw
another sight draft for $50 at the 9TH
er bank, cover the oncOming check of
$40 and have 500 to go on. And so on ad
infinitum.
Masters was agai n caught styling
making notes and was called down
again for disturbing the talker.
And Hopeful never worried while
the checks were III transit said VIII
liams. He knew there would be the
devil to pay and a lot Of hustling
to do when the two weeks were up, but
until that mOmentOus time he would
sit around and enjoy life. Whenever
11oDSLui w. oNSH ~ vain VI q =
over the campus, the fellows would
remark that Hopeful evidently mas 4
check to meet to-day"
There was a time when HODefuIS
financial genius was sorely put to
the test, caused by the all-too- Voci-
ferrous strains Of the old rOtunda. It
was junior week about a month be-
fore commencement when a bunch
Of us seniors were to graduate. You
know what those junior weeks are. A
bazaar isn't one, two, three.
All sorts of social Stunts, and as a
result the ready rhino ran pretty low
in places.
MY roommate that year was a fell
low of the name of Timothy SchOggs,
ir., from ST. 10. Mo. His principal
means Of Identification was that he
had the closest, highest old wad. for
q father that ever stood behind a gro
e counter. He only allowed limo
thy s25, a month, figuring that his
board cost SIS. his DON rent Sc, which
would leave Timothy a whole dollar
to spend foolishly.' He was a tenn
crank, and ! suppose ne
thought his stinginess would force MS
to keep in the straight n mar
path.
Tim was a great social light, and
fellows know what that a II
meant in Tins case that his n,tle
old one-spot lasted about as lonS as
:, SNOWFALL in-PheniX, Ariz. Tim Dor
from every one, owed three
months board. six months room rent,
along came this particular Jun
or uvooE and a steady girl.
Being desperately in live with his
little girl from Maryland. Tim looked
nrettv sad when he saw expenses for
lowers. carriages, &c, loom up Delor7
him He was game clean to the core,
that boy. and was never a gutter, SO
he did what each n OF us ume ana
again had done-he went TO Hopeiul
with his troubles.
Hopeful didn't say much, but re-
marked that the Lord would provide
in some way. He told II u 20
and that he would THINK II
over. ,rin,
rImacine our surprise when I'm
received a note from the Oank that
stating there was SlVO 10
credit which had been received os
telegraph. W.,
There wasn't anything to 90 ouI
20 and get the mon, and then LOOK ap
Honeful and learn now he mad turned
no trick. We supposed it was SIM
DIV some new banking proposition
which he had stumbled upon.
We found Hopeful in his ROOM 1eet
IN the table. pulling away at a PIP
and giving Il young freshman g Enr'tsb
how TO get through an EnSlsn
in composition. Hopeful tod
him 70 commit to memory Emersons
assav ss~elf-reliance,' and when me
asked for an original sp1ei 10
out the Emerson essay.
But won't he recognize me '
saw timidly asked the fresnmah'
q Hell, no. replied Hopeful; tn
professor has probably never read It:
Tim broke in and asked Hopelus
how the devil-but he was cus on
with a majestic wave OF the hahu' do
Hopeful said: ro,.+ rou7
X.vo,,ve cot the mon, haven YOU