The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-06

ilne, and | don't know how,far behinc
inside. mere is a good fertile country
q healthy climate and the best gam.
preserve on this earth. For the frs
collers that interior will be just {
sports.nan,s paradise.
Wy idea is twowise. First sell the
efeahl OH the sport. Some men vii
give anything for shooting, and in thi.
case there VIII also be the glamour OF
oel1g pioneers. Each one will start de.
.eFhllIeq to write a book OF his opin.
IONS and doings when he gets back, E,
Gil9flefhlg a steamer and treating then
wen on board they would have sport
IlS 3e luxe. one ought 10 get five and
twenty chaps at 500 guineas apiece.
nat gives the first crop. For the
second buy up an tract of
t'oihlng-say, 10 or 10 cents an acre
boom it and resell it in lots to hug
slhses. They'll fancy they'll grow
oranges, as all Englishngen do who try
btorlaa. Perhaps they may grow 'enl,
VINO knows, if they keep off whisky and
put IN work? But that won't be the
promoters concern. They don't adver-
Use that the land will produce ranges
Ihey only guarantee that it would if
" was given a chance, and that's all
correct.
Perhaps this is rough on the lug
sinses, but as they crowd the British
iSialds IN droves, and are always on
the lookout for some one to shear them.
/ oon see Why an Everglades mpa
StoQldnt nave their feeces as we'll as
llgood else. They're mostly MASTERS
ana wouldn't do any good anywhere
ana It's a patriotic deed to cart them
over our boundary ditch away from
local mischief. Besides even if the
worst comes TO the worst and the
orange industry of Florida still refuses
70 make Roadway, the would-be grow
efS heednt starVe. Nor need they even
90 what thyH probably hate more, and
u g S work. There's always sweet po-
tato9s INK muliet ard tobacco to be
got, and if that diet doesn't clov. a
MAJ can have il there for mighty little
eXertioa.
cone, now. That's the pemmican
OF me plan. What do you think OF it?''
much capital would be needed.''
CafApei shrugged his shoulders.
some, naturally. or l shouldn't have
ON 70 you. II I'd seen any way to
all the piunder single handed,
you may bet your little life. Mr.. Theo-
core Shnlf, l shouldn't have invited
you into partnership"
returns, too, would be very Slow
Not necessarily. Float the
and then turn it over TO another com
pany for cash down"
Moreover, when tle-er-the young
men you spoke about found that the
Grange groves did not produce at once
IN la3!ag quantities, they would write
Aon2e, aai their parents would de-
aounce me IN the papers as a swim
NO, not you, the other conapanv-the
one You sold it 10. But then apoiogists
would arise to show that the Jugginses
don't shy at the word, sir-werc law
n Ignorant, n also that they alb
sofoed the corn whisky of the country
IN excessive quantities. And then that
company could smile smugly and pose
as a misunderstood b-enefactor. So it's
profits wouldn't be snlirched in the
least. Grasp tilat?"
Yes, yes, l dare say you have work
ed 1t all out TO yourself and thought |
out the details so many times that the
8hoIe schene seems entirely plausible.
but, looking at il from the view of a
business man, cannot say that it ap- |
pears TO be an enterprise l should care
TO embark in. You see, it is so very
beyond the scope of my general
operations that I-er-hesitate-er- !
you understand I hesitate"
Yes said Patrick Cambel. quietly
you hesitate because you've got some
thing ten times more profitable up your
Shelf. started and shivered slightly.
may as well be candid and sopen
with me" Cambel continued, and tell
"no Soo aie dIIVlHg at. If 1t
suits me, III say So, and if it doesn't
Ill let you know with surprising
And. again, lie we don't
trade. you may rely on me not to
about what you uggest I'm
not the stone throwing variety of ami
NAL. You see, 1 live in a sort of semi
green house myself"
There was a minutes pause, during
which Theodore Shelf shifted about az
though his chair was uneven rock be-
meath him. Then jerked out his
ale sentence by sentence, squirting
sideways at his companion between
period.
You know. I'm a shipowner in a
arge way of business?"
Cambelsnodded.
Ships are occasionally lost at sea-
steamers, even, new steamers straight
DIT the builders slip and well found in
very particular"
50 I've read in the newspapers"
.And every s%hipowner tnsures his
.,essels to fife full of their value"
Except Wren he has a f%oreboding
hat they will come to grief ION a vow
lge. Ihen, 50 runlor says, he usually
Jas the forethought to over-insure."
Mr.. Theodore Shelf passed a hand
Serchfef over mis- forehead and started
Nhat was apparently q new topic,
'Ihere Is a silver crisis on Just now
r the United States. and by this NOR.
ng's paper the dollar is down to "a
,ents. American gold is not to be had.
tngilsh old is always worth it's face
'alue. What more natural financial
'peration could there be than to sbin
tut sovereigns and profit by the dis
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