The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-08

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"iiave you sent uepperdon and Raw.
mer and the others their rebates,r no
asked. ue
yesterday, up to the LIST OF tho
MONTH" replied Rollins. ''Whvy" '
Because there are To no no M
Collect your fat rate and keen :,
without a single exception. We've
won"
Rebate to the United Food com
pany, as usual, Rollins" interruntod
Breed, with a chuckle. "Thots ~,
only profit on bread now, Won Know
since Kelvin reduced 1t to cost And
rebate in cash, Rollins, always IN
CASH.
But don't quite understand" nro.
tested Rollins. Cant they lerisIoto
against us effectively nowY
scarcely" returned Kelvin. with a
smile, since we ourselves are the law.
making body, so long as we keen the
public from clamorlng too much 10
their servants in Washington Two
just purchased stock in the govern.
ment-former assets of Hepperdon ana
Raymer and their fellow bandits-to
give us control"
Rollins looked troubled. 81 don't
like it," he said.
Nonsense! declared Kelvin. "We'ra
using Ii TO q good end You can estoh.
fish your fiat rate now as you planned
In the first place. We're going 10 he.
gin the battle of the trusts in earnest"
THE battle of the trusts" repented
Rollins musingly. 1T sounds interest.
ing ut least"
1t won't be, though" replied Kel.
vim, with contempt. There will be M
battle whatever. I'm merely going 70
chloroform them on the eve OF the
presidential nomination. About the
most popular idea that was ever put
before the vast, unsuccessful maiori.
ty of the voting public is the graded
property tax. Well, I'm going to flame
into print with the suggestion for n
graded corporation tax and then have
Mr.. Breeds carefully tanned legisla-
tors frame that suggestion into n bill
and pass il into law The Weather
the corporation the more it will be
taxed pro rata until toward the ton
the tax will become prohibitive. The
law Is already as good as passed, and
imagine that it will be quite shock
TO your old friends Hepperdon and
Valentine and Raymer, Speed, Melton
Sears & Co. and a few others. Eth.
Mr.. Breed?"
But Henry Breed did not hear Phil.
lip. He had just taken from the
drawer of his desk handful of pho
tographs. piece of red wax crayon, n
hammer and some tacks and was
starting for the rear study. As he
passed Phillip caught glimpse Of the
top photograph. 1t was portrait Of
Hepperdon.
A cheaply dressed fellow, a big man
with a thick neck and broad shoulders
and arms that hung crooked at the ell
bows, alighted mt little wilderness
station on the Long Island railroad
behind Kelvin and Sam. A farmer
like native approached the more pros
porous appearing Phillip.
"You. Mr.. Kelvin" he demanded.
"The same" replied Kelvin. This
Is Mr.. Purser, believe"
IL reckon So" admitted the other.
"Old Hayseed Purser."
Kelvin clambered into the front seat
of dilapidated surrey. Mr.. Purser
fixed upon Kelvin contemplatiye
gaze
"You don't want to see that scrub
oak land we wrote each other about"
he suddenly advised, with engaging
bluntness. you're no cheap lot
boomer. You're lookin' for summer
home"
NO" objected Kelvin, still smiling.
'I'll look at the scrub oak property,
think"
At this moment the big, workman
looking fellow stepped up to Mr. Pur-
ser. Gould you tell me where I'd find
q few acres of cheap ground ut for
market gardening?" he asked.
There amt any such property LETT
on Long Island" declared Mr.. Purser
emphatically. "The land between this
railroad and the water amt cheap
and the land back o. that you couldn't
grow anything on. 1t Is all sahu
dunes"
I'll look at what you have any
how" replied the other.
"All right" said Mr.. Purser reluc-
family. "Just crawl in the buggy
there"
They drove from the station ana
turning from the highway by and by,
struck off into scarcely defined roau
through the wilderness Of stunted OAKS
and pines.
"Well, here you see II" said MI
Purser deprecatingly. Il might drive
you for hours, and it's all just ike
this"
"What Is 1t WORTH" asked Kelvin
81 reckon l could turn over thou-
sand acres of it runnin' around forty
and fifty dollars an acre"
"a thousand acres" unused Kelvin
"How much money, on the average uo
make a yearT"
"That's pretty nigh a personal queS'
ton. amt it?"
Tt's a business question" returheu
Kelvin. 81 want to buy all this sor'
of land you can secure within eigh'y
five miles of BroaLway. Ia IKE "