Evening star., 1907-07-28
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY 20. 1907

SONDA1 MASALlNE FOR JILL 20. lSOl
scrap which empted from the wood box, and
there found the original of the stock certificate
That was welcome as removing any chance of COM
plCatlOns IN the way OF litigation. The same mail
brought the astonishing word also that Mother Lode
had scared up to SIX hundred, and that an extra
dividend of thirty per cent. would shortly be de.
clared The shaft had struck great body of
almost pure copper, and nobody could predict the
future of the company.
Mary said Thomas Bu1lsrnith that night to his
wife, were millionaires and in the same breath,
We must move to Chicago at once
On the Lake Shore drive in Chicago big
white marble house just finished by man who had
guessed that the wheat crop would be small He
had made poor guess, or other men, with more
money had guessed the other way, which amounts
to the thing, and the house was for sale The
Bullsmiths bought it and moved in; they hired an
English butler and other man and maid servants;
little Busrnth set up silk hat and a long black
coat, round little paunch, and impressive white
mutton chop whisker; Mrs. Bullsnith had maid
and carriage and pair; the Bullsrlth boys were
dressed and beservanted as behtted the scions of
family whose income was upward of sixty thousand
year.
So the goddess with the golden sandals prop
ery housed at last and one might have thought that
there nothing more for her to do. But that
would have been a sad mistake.
BuSrnth voted into several smart clubs. In
the smoking of such resting places for af1uence
along the path. of the days duty the little man
loved to sit and tell stories of the remarkable bus
judgment and provision he had displayed at
various stages of his career. Naturally the Mother
Lode mine the most frequent subject of his
tales Never did he tire of relating how he had
foreSeen it's future prosperity its earliest begin
nings and how he had stuck to that belief through
struggles that would have beaten down less de-
termined and self confident spirit, until finally he
got his reward.
Presently Bulsrnith won a reputation as stupid
and blatant little bore Men lodged when they
him coming when he suddenly lifted his
straight little figure from the depths of big loung-
ing room chair. His associates in the ownership of
the Mother Lode grew ashamed of him and tired
ming to float big twenty million-dollar company,
and decided to put up job on Bullsmith and get
him out beforehand
Called into conference with his shrewder partners,
Bullsmith had enough left to listen and
acquiesce, keeping that deceptive silence which is
nearest kin to depth and profundity. The conspira-
tors hid smiles they the little mans chest
swell when the twenty million dollar proposition
was laid before him. He agreed also, as they had
calculated, when Miller the president suggested
necessary to send up an expert mining engineer and
make thorough examination of the property
We'll send Dodson. them Miller added, when
the vote taken, and looked at each of the
about the table for confirmation.
He's good man, said one, and, The best pos
sible" confirmed Busrnth, who had never heard
of him.
Dodson properly instructed as to the kind of
report wanted before he started, and thirty days
later he sent word that it ready. Bullsnith
almost collapsed he the faces of his
fellow capitalists when the meeting finally came to
order.
Il am sorry to report the official document
began, that the prospects of the company are by
SO bright has been imagined. | find
in the first place that the great body of almost pure
copper, discovery of which recently announced,
pocket, and pinChes out entirely three hun
dred feet from the first cross tunnel. find also