El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-06

restaurant where once 1 too had been "sp
Inside / knew my old friend was opening WI
the Broadway phrase And L had eaten nOlul
many hours lie does not know saw MIN
but he may take my warning His IS a case -
Of lost money perspective" Let him check
himself before be. too, becomes dereAcL
After that nrst failure I went out to the
Coast again l had no funds but plenty -
Of credit and backing. And L was youhs- r
! met there Rebeccl McAIullin, the most ! IA
beautiful Of the three McMullin sisters IN
noted for their beauty throughout the W est ~
I started in with railroad propositions N
again, became President Of the San Fran =
cisco and Eastern. built one hundred ana
sixty miles of road and sold out to the
Southern Pacific We made Sl,SOOOUO
profit out of the deal of which my share
was 100000. With this money 1 went TO
England and formed a banking house
1t was the hey-day of my fortune, and
my wife and I lived ut the rate Of from
$4,000 to S75,OO9 a year Mrs Belvin had
been the belle of the Pacific Coast; she
became the belle OF Europe. When she J
was presented to the English Court in N
1892 her presentation gown of point lace III
cOstS25,O0O It was made in Brussels and Ill
took six months TO complete. But that was nv
only item. We entertained laviShly :
and associated with royalty and nobility. lIT
travelled back and forth between II
America and England half a dozen times
a year. and always in princely style. II
OF course the crash was bound to come IN
Ny vision was all distorted I had never M
seen money matters straight since bOyhOOd- III
Big money and big deals had given me -
mental aStigmatiSu Things began to 90
wrong. When they got out OF my range OF :
couldn't stop them And 1 couldn't see anything
OF a few millions from my nose. That's as bad
being able to see more than a dollar away troI
nose. We returned to America IN 1898 WI
fortune sadly depleted.
Now here's a thing to think over Money
mighty dangerous thing TO get too familiar anC
less with Money nowadays is power. There S
thing in it beyond gold itself. Money has
dangerous life Of It's own There's something il
be afraid Of You understand me- Maybe the tn
OF man have dwelt on it so long evil tho
capriciOus thoughts, life ard death thoughts, all
of ambitions and desires-that all this has ere
spirit we can cali The Money Devn." At an!
it's bad to get too careless about the way you
it Carelessness there seems to bring IN other a
The character changes, ideals and ambitions C
Look at the way many people change Whel
get rich suddenly. Sweetness turns to gall, sim
There comes a weakening Of the moral fibre
other directions
And that is when We begin to fall When
turned made in seven years another fortune
gold mines. l had been living extravagautly as
had by various actions killed my wife's love. !
realize it until too late. When I lost it 1 lost th
thins that at that time could have kept me ba
I fought it. because 1 wanted her I lost
began to speculate heavily. / won and los
fortunes in wheat in 1895 and 1897. 1 formed 10
fsh-American Finance Company. Il was a solid C
with good men back OF it. It prospered- was
dent Of it and owned the controlling interest II
in 1906 because l still couldn't see anything les
a million.