The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-06-09

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Yesterday. Up 10 the |sl Of n'
I MONTH. replied Rollins ''Whyz'
because there ore 20 be no more
Collect your lal rate and keep 4
without single exception. We've
won.H
Rebate to the United Food com
phny. as usual, Rollins" interrupted
Breed, with q chuche. That's ny
only profit on bread now. you know
since kelvin reduced Il 10 cost. AMI
rebate In casf; Rollins, always y
rashl
SHUT don't quite tinde rstand, pro
tested Rollins. Can't they iegis lgtg
ngaihst us enc ttyely rio8ias
i Scarcely returned Kelyin. with 4
Enite. since we ourselves are the law
making body, so long as we keep thy
4 public from elamoring too much e
,tlieit servants IN Washington. I've
4 Just purchased stock in the govern
ment- former assets Of Hepperdon and
i Raymer and their fellow bandits-to
/ give Us control
4 Rollins looked troubled. u don't
4 likett,n he said.
.'Nonsensels declared Kelvin. @We'ra
using 1t to a good end. You can estab'
lish your dat rate now as you planned
in the first place. We're going to be-
A gin the battle Of the trusts in earnest
fThe battle Of the trusts" repeated
Rollins musingly. ut sounds interest
ling atleast.n
at won't be, though" replied Kel'
1 vim, with contempt. There will be no
battle Whatever. I'm merely going to
4 clloroform them on the eve Of the
presidential nomination. About tile
4 most popular idea that was ever put
before the vast, unsuccessful MAORI
ty of the voting public is the graded
4 property tax. Well, I'm going to flame
| into print with the suggestion for q
graded corporation tax and then have
Mr.. Breeds carefully tanned leglsla.
4 tors frame that suggestion into q bill
and pass 1t into law. The Weather
4 the corporation the more It will be
taxed pro rata until toward the top
4 the tax will become prohlbitiye. The
7llay is already as good rs passed. and
/ i imagine that it will be quite n shock
to your old friends Hepperdon and
Valentine and Raymer, Speed, Melton
Sears & Co. and few others. Ed,
Mr.. Breed"
/ But Henry Breed did not hear Phil.
llip he had just taken from the
DRIVER of his desk handful of pho
tographs, n piece Of red wax crayon, a
hammer and some tacks and was
starting for the rear study. As he
passed Phillip caught glimpse Of the
top photograph. 1t was u portrait Of
Hepperdon.
A cheaply dressed fellow, a big man
with a thick neck and broad shoulders
and arms that hung crooked at the el.
bows. alIghted at u little wilderness
station on the Long Island railroad
jI,bebipds Kelvin, sf 5g
like native approached the more pros
t,bero6s appearing Phillip:
.,You. Mr.. KelyIn?" he demanded
sThq .same.p replied Kelvin, This
! is Mr.. Purser.i i believer N
81 reckon so,n admitted the Other,
"old Hayseed Purser." ss /,
Kelvin claInbered into the front seat
1 Of a dilapldhted surrey. Mr.. Purser
fixed upon Kelvin a contemplating
4 gaze. Qs s3d Z. b2rN y, I,
I "You don't want to sec that scrub
oak land we wrote each other about'
! he suddenly advised, with enguglng
lbluntness. you're no cheap lot
.Iboomer. You're l6okin' for a summer
home" = AZ
NO" objected Kelvin, still smiling,
"ITI look ut the scrub oak property, !
think" s,.s. a.a
At this moment the big, workman
looking fellow stepped up to Mr. Pnr'
ser. could you tell me where I'd find
few acres of cheap ground ct for
market gartlening?' he asked.
There amt any such property left
ON Long Island" declared Mr., Purscr
emphatlcally. "The land between this
railroad and the water amt cheap,
md the land back o. that you couldn't
grow anything on. 1t is all sand
Dunes"
"l'l look at what you have any
how" replied the other.
All right" said Mr.. Purser rcluc'
tantIy, "Just crawl in. the buggy
there"
they drove from the station and
turning from the highway by and by,
strucI, off into a scarcely defined roal
through the wilderness of stuntcd oaks
and pines.
"WelI, here you see it." said Mr..
Purser deprecatIngly. II might drive
you for hours, and it's all just like
t.hls.'
"Whatis 1t worth?" asked Kelvin.
~ reckon 1 could turn over a thou,
sand acres of it runnin' around forty
and fifty dollars an acre"
"a thousand acres" unused Kelvin.
GLOW much money, on the average, do
make year?"
"That's pretty nigh a personal CUES
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