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

did not know. but within a month he
sent me sample bottle OF his grease
remover" neatly done up. with II n
note saying that he would accept one
more favor. IL my conscience and my
honor would admit of my signing a
statement for publication that | had
analysed the remover and recon-
mended II he thought that IL would
make a great difference In the faciI-
ity with which IL could be introduced.
1 wrote the required statement and
recommended his remover In as strong
language as i could command.
Not long after this I received nm
offer OF professorship on a small
salary In college I'm South America.
and during the next seven years mads
several changes. returning to the Unit
ed States at the end OF this term as
poor as when I went away. had nor
even n tutorship TO rely on.
One morning. taking up newspaper.
| ] glanced ut the personal column.
was surprised TO see an advertisements
intended for me. IL would send nv
| address 10 a certain street and num-
Der would oblige some person for
whose name the letters Y. Y. z. were
placed. Who was desiring to find me
and for what purpose l could not con-
ceive. j at once mailed my address as
requested and waited In anxious ex-
pectation.
The next afternoon a carriage vas
driven up TO my house by coachman
In livery. and handsomely dressed
man got out and came to my door. I
was looking out of the window at him.
and it seemed that had seen him or
some one like him before. Having
neither the luxury of a servant nor
anything to do, i went TO the door N.Y.
self. As soon as / opened it the gem
tleman said:
"Ah. Professor Pengreel How do
yo' do. subj"
Where had heard that voice, that
accent?
Come In. sir" said.
al doubt, sub. If you remember me-"
he said. with look of disappointment.
81 do and yet l don't. / can't place
you. You are
"Yo' partner. subj"
'PartnerT"
Eyes. sub. Yo' partner In business"
what business?'
"The manufacture of the Achme
grease remover. Some seven yeas ago.
you may remember. we fo'med a part
nership 70 that purpose. you furnish
Ing the receipt and yo' professional
recommendation. The business has
prospered, and have been hunting yo'
for long while in order to render yo'
an account fortunately have at last
found yo' by means of n personal adj
vertisement. Advertising Is great
thing. sub. Next to yo receipt and
professional recommendation have
found 1t my chief element of success.
Here, sub. is a balance sheet / have
had taken Off the books of the Achme
Grease Remover company" He hand
ed me paper. 1.-THE capital stock is
81 100000, consisting of 10000 shares,
5000 OF which are In yo' name"
i wondered if l had not been op-
Grated on In hospital and was recov-
ering from the effects of an anaesthet-
ic. i took the paper. but l did not
even glance at II. looked at the man
before me. expecting to see him go up
In n cloud of blue smoke.
The stock is not on the ma'ket. sub,
but have been offered 2GO TO mine"
Then for the first time Il flashed
upon me that this man was the shabby
genteel Confederate colonel who had
called upon me years before. In one
sense he had passed out of my mind,
IN another no had not. I had taken
great fancy to him. and he had inter-
ested me as a study of a man reduced
rom an Importance sustained by
wealth to the pathos of poverty. But
lever for moment had I remembered
him as anything but fine specimen
# the shabby genteel.
would you mind explaining what
III this means" asked, endeavoring
o throw of dazed condition.
1T means, sub, that with yo' valuable
l entered upon the manu-
acture and pe'sonal sale of the grease
never solicited any one
Who refused me-"
Quite likely" interrupted.
Il soon accumulated sufficient capt.
III to enable me to manufacture In
lrge quantities and. what found to
equally essential to advertise. In
wo or three years I built extensive
'oks, and from that time fo'wa'd
loney has been pouring in on me. At
nat time. sub, called upon you at
o laboratory and was disappointed to
nd that you had left. I obtained yo'
idress In South America and wrote
'u there. After going to other places
y letter came back to me with many
'stoffice marks on the envelope.
i've been inserting personal adver-
sements TO- yo' TO- years. am much
lieved at finding yo'. To- I began to
ar that my honah would be impeach-
by not rendering yo' an account of
y stewardship"
The colonel paused. I stood mute
r awhile, then asked:
And do you mean to say that for
Q trihing service did you am now
g possessor of 5000 shares OF stock
Drth $1,5O0,OO0Y
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