Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-05-08

check book, and q little fat. Now !
amt maxim any kick. I got no right
to; but l do hate to see you leadin
this life of idleness and dissipation
when you might be maxim sometime
OF yourself. Your pa was quite a man
He left his mark out there in that
western country. Now you're here
settled in the east among big people
with barrel of money and fine
chances to do something, and you're
jest layin' down on-the family name
You wouldn't think near so much o1
your pa If he'd laid down before his
| time and your own children will al
ways have to say: Poor pa-he had q
good heart, but he never could amount
to anything more'n three-spot; he
didn't have any stuff in him. they'll
be sayin'. Now, on the level, you don't
want to go through life bein' just
| known as good thing and easy
money, do your
why, of course not, Uncle Peter;
only had to look around some at first
for year or So"
well, if you need to look any more
then your eyes amt right That's my
say. amt askin' you to go west.
don't expect that"
Percival frightened.
But I am tryin' to nag you into
dom something here. People can say
what they want to about you," he coz
tinued, stubbornly, as one who con-
fesses the most arrant bigotry, "but
know you have got seme brains, some
ability really believe you got q
whole lot-and you got the means to
take your place right at the top. You
can head 'em all in this country or any
other. Now what you ought to do,
you ought to take your place in the
world of finance-put your mind on it
night and day-swing out-get action
and set the ball to rolling. Your pa
was big man in the west, and there
amt any reason as l can see of why
you can't be just as big man in pro-
portion here. People can talk all they
want to about your bein' just q dub
I won't believe 'em. And there's Lon
don. You amt been ambitious enough.
Get down-hill pull on New York, and
then branch out. Be man of affairs
like your pa, and like that fellow
Shepler. Let's be somebody. If Mon.
tana City was too small fur us, that's
no reason why New York should be
toQ big." .
Percival had walked the floor in deep
attention to the old mans words.
you've got me right, Uncle Peter"
he said at last. "And you're right
about what I ought to do. I've often
thought I'd go into some of these big
operations here. But for one thing
was afraid of what you'd say. And
then, didn't know the game very we'll.
But see l ought to do something.
You're dead right"
And we need more money, too,"
urged the old man. Il was reading q
piece the other day about the big for
tunes in New York. Why, we amt
one, two, three, with the dinky little
twelve or thirteen millions we could
swing. You don't want to be piker,
do you? If you go in the game at all.
play her open and high. Make 'em
take the ceiling off. You can just as
we'll get into the hundred million class
as not, and l. know it. They needn't
talk to mel know you have got some
brains. II you was to go in now 1t
would keep you straight and busy, and
take you out of this pin-head class
that only spends their pas money"
you're all right, Uncle Peter! I
certainly did need you to come along
right now and set me straight. You
founded the fortune, pa trebled it, and
now I'll get to work and roll it up like
big SNOWFALL"
"That's the talk. Get into the hum
dred million class, and show these
wise folks you got something in you
besides hot air, like the sayin' is.
Then they won't always be askin' who
your pa was-they'll be wantin' to
know who you are, by Cripes! Then
you can have the biggest steam yacht
afoat, two or three of 'em, and the
best house in New York, and palaces
over in England; and Pish'll be able
to hold up her head in company over
there. You can finance that PROPOSE
ton right up to the nines."
by love! but you're right. You're
a wonder, Uncle Peter. And that re-
minds me"
He stopDed in his walk
Il gave it hardly any thought at tho
time, but now it looks bigger than a
mountain. know just the things to
start in on Systematically. Now don't
breathe word of this, but there's a
big deal on in Consolidated Copper. I
happened on to the fact in q queer
way the other night. There's broker
I've known downtown-fellow by the
name OF Relpin. Met him last sum-
mer. He does most Of Shepler's bust
ness; he's supposed to be closer to
Shepler and know more about the in
side Of his deals than any man in the
street. Well, l. ran across Relpin'
down in the cafe the other night and
he was wearing one of those gents:
nobby three-button souses. Nothing
would do but should dine with him.
so I did It was the night you and the
folks went to the opera with the Old
akers. ,Relpin was full Of lovely talk
and dark hints about q rise in copper
stock, and another rise in Western
Trolley, and a bigger rise than either
of them in Union Cordage. How that
fellow can do Shepler's business and
drink the stuff that makes you talk
| don't see. Anyway he said-and you