Connecticut western news., 1911-08-17

crush me to the earth. No, suh; no mo. It Is now my pat to transmit to you, not you to me"
 With warm pressure of the hand he went to the door, where he turned and made me formal bow.
 How the colonel secured the little capital necessary to begin operations did not know, but within a month he sent me n sample bottle of his grease remover" neatly done up, with 1t a note saying that he would accept one more favor. If my conscience and my honor would admit of my signing q statement for publication that I had analysed the remover" and recon mended it he thought that 1t would make n great difference in the facil- ity with which it could be introduced. I wrote the required statement and recommended his remover in as strong language as could command.
 Not long after this I received an offer of q professorship on a small salary in Il college in South America, and during the next seven years made several changes, returning to the Unit ed States at the end of this term as poor as when went away. I had not even a tutorship to rely on. ....
 One morning, taking up n newspaper. ! glanced at the personal column. was surprised to see an advertisement intended for me. If would send my address to a certain street and num- Der would oblige some person. for whose name the letters x. Y. 2. were placed. Who was desiring to find me and for what purpose could not con- ceive. at once mailed my address as requested and waited in anxious ex- pectation.
 The next afternoon a carriage was driven up to my house by coachman in livery, and a handsomely dressed man got out and came to my door. was looking out of the window at him, and 1t 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 my self. As soon as opened it the gen tIeman said:
 "Ah, Professor Pengree How do yo' do, suh?"
 Where had I heard that voice, that accent2
 Come in, sir" I said.
 ''I doubt, suh, if you remember me-" he said, with look of disappointment.
 'T do and yet don't. can't place you. You are"-
 "Yo' partner, suh."
 'Partnerr
 'Yes, suh. To partner in business"
 "What businessfr
 "The manufacture of the Achme grease remover. Some seven yeas ago, you may remember. we fo'med a part nership fo' that pu'pose, you furnish ing the receipt and so' professional recommendation. The business has prospered, and have be4n hunting yo' for long while in order to render yo' an account. Fortunately have at last found yp' by means of a personal ad- vertisement. Advertising is great thing, suh. Next to yo' receipt and professional recommendation l have found it my chief element of success. Here, suh, is a balance sheet I have had taken of the books of the Achme Grease Remover company" He hand ed me n paper. "The capital stock is $1,OO0,00O, consisting of 10000 shares, 5000 of which are in yo' name"
 I wondered if I had not been op- erated oR in a hospital and was recov- ering from the effects of an anaesthet- ic. took the paper, but did not even glance at it. looked ait the man before me, expecting to see him go up in cloud of blue smoke.
 'The stock is not on the ma'ket, suh, but have been offered 200 fo' mine"
 Then for the first time it 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 he had not. had taken a great fancy to him, and he had inter ested me as q study of man reduced from an importance sustained by wealth to the pathos of poverty. But never for a. moment had remembered him as anything but fine specimen of the shabby genteel
 Would you mind explaining what all this means" I asked, endeavoring to throw off n dazed condition.
 'Tt means, suh. that with yo' valuable assistance entered upon the manu- facture and pe'sonal sale of the grease remover. I never solicited any one who refused me"
 Quite likely" I interrupted
 q soon accumulated sufficient capi- tal to enable me to manufacture in large quantities and, what found to be equally essential, to advertise. In two or three years I built extensive wo'xs, and from that time fo'wa'd money has been pouring In on me. At that time, suh, I called upon you at yo' labo'ato'y and was disappointed to find that you had left. I obtained yo' address in South America and wrote you there. After going to other places my letter came back to me with many postofFice marks on the envelope. have been inserting personal adyer- tisements fo' yo' fo' years. I am much aN fnf sa