The daily Alaskan., 1910-12-15

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 ! an or vas telegraph operator | bad been marrg0 long enough 70 be tla father gg a small boy and know what l Is to have coal bills, doctors buIs clothing bllls, grocery bllls-la- leeJ. ail kinds of bills coming in and small salary with whlcb to pay thcm Ny wife proved financial gem oe ] don't know how We should have made eads meet [ turned it all over Co her. and she brought the ends together as weu as she could felt chat a nest egg should be started. but every tlme We tried To start one some of 0u small family was taken ID and a doctor must be yallcd in and paid or extra e,t,l.ug must be purchased or soue one oE tbe many extra uecessiries must be provided and it didn't look as e that nest egg would ever be started ur .JL Il were started that it would be youJWUed
 Then another ghld a girl, came along aad what before was an even thms between salary and necessities began to be a gradual running behind
 One day a gentleman eame into the teleeuaph oGl.c where | worked and sat down ay desk to write a mes- sa-e He s.emed yo be doing more thinking than writing AtJeC sitting there aa hour og more be s0t up and went out In another hour he came back. wrote out a message aEd handed i, a Co ue
 .I should Use a cipher for that he saaI -bu- haven't one. NouH have ta send !. u plain English, as ! have written D. There's no Jime Co com ua.eare by uaL'
 I eguassi tle words, tod hln the cost which he pad ue, and took his JeTEuge
 ssw that tbe message was an ina- p..sul eae, considered n financial seu Is was the announcement co uasl.es ja New Yogk thag the sender LaL eguPlesel the aualsama-jon or number .ot companies into one trust provided his aeJ51D were raJl1ed oy the New NoEs parties, ln order Co close the deal he must explain what was urupgseJ and se, their authority to dg SO It occurred Go ne that an ouerglar tn a financial eente- miShI se.L gat his secret for a big price and make a I0t vf money out 0t iL It dtd noJ occur ca me Jo take advantage og my position Go make money, for the reason that have always been oE- posed Co making money disaonesrly- Bus | saw Do necessity for sending the message In sueh torm that it could be used by any except the parties for whom It was intended We operators are useJ Go various devices for keeping such le,esrams nom the public, and ! knew a yery simple method oE sending the message whereby 0Rly those for whom ic was intended could beEedr by lt. 2 sent i- by this method
 In rhe afternoon the gentleman came u and asked If ! had sent bis Cele- gram
 -yes, ! said ~I have. bur not just the way you wrote sL'
 How diJ you send iJe' he asked brlstug
 ~I ltnt thlak ot suggesting a sate way ulI you had gone cut So ! acted without your authorization,
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 ~I sent tae dgst. the thrd the atrh worI aud so oa Co the end, by oar company aud save the second the fu4tl. tbe sixth and so on by an other comnaEy or course neither ot che two dispatches alone means any .lls ra5D sent a thICd telegram yeIas the parties how to read the two torue- ones There Is a cost ot 60 cents t1r tae gAlrd message"
 He s,gyl gaping ag me for a few nc ueals tj he got the scheme through a.s legl chen pulled Go eeals out ot his pocket aud save ig Co me
 "Nula 9oased be said T wonder 2 JJul think ot that myself
 E,e was gv,DS out when be turned and sail Give ne your name. relSau 2 owe you a box 0G cigars for yh1J
 ! wrote uy name 0R a telegraph blank and handed it Co him. rsj0icing la tle prgsUecg of getting box of el- gars. iE be remembered the matter, ] love cigars. but couldn't aford to smoke anything but pipe and poor Vogac-o al that
 This was along a September. ] pulled away au uy pipe for a couple cE months, hopns each day w0uh bring the box ot cIgars But they dllu'r coue. Indeed. they never came Things looked rather blue for Christ mas that year The children were get tus oII enough Co expect gifts, and ! wished ! could give something t0 ny wife as some return for doing aB the work n lieu oe a servant One morn ing received an envelope stamped @The Consolidated Copper and Lead Company ! opened tC and found a . certf6eare for a hundred shares e the