Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

s4&yGV tie with divided thought, most
WNA usual condition for that astute man.
LANAI while in the reception outside
6WIS2 numerous prospective clients OF the Port
ESMSN Hatch Land Company awaited inter
N0e&9 views. Some of them scanned the print
ed matter that the Burmah Jones
had written with great sapence for response to these
same circulars they had from all quarters of the
United States, little army of those who sought to get
rich quick There farmers from Illinois, noun
taineers from Tennessee, planters from MISSISSIPPI
cattlemen from east of the Rocky Mountains, and
number of those refugees who had escaped from the
conservative States of Massachusetts,, New York, and
Connecticut. The latter sat sty in their chairs with
a godke air of knowledge, superclous and thoroughly
convinced that outside OF the very wards which they
had lived there nothing worth knowing
These particularly those from New York would be
the first and easiest lambs be shon by the Kansan
In his classification the easiest would be those from
the South; while the cattlemen OF the West would be
the last whose pockets he would pick. For long time
his assertion had been this Life is too short to waste
the wise guys. There's place in the world where
the market for gold bricks IS good in New York.
because in the big jay they're too they know
it all to ever know anything
On the desk in front Of Jones lay handbook neatly
balanced its figures disclosing the fact that he had
cash enough hand to go back to Kansas and open
First National Bank in small city. In his own mind
he thoroughly convinced that the time was ripe
for his DEPARTURE and yet being good gambler, he
restrained by the very fact that the outer waiting
room there money to be had through his
failing and constantly seductive line OF argument. He
virtuoso in playing upon the weaker strings Of
humanity. He could talk religion preacher, ortho
doxy to priest, horse racing to urfman the price
of and bacon to grocer. He could discuss stocks
with broker, the best method of sailing gold
with bunko man. He could be firm with fnancier,
obstinate with the obstreperous deferentia to the
great. He could browbeat pugilist cry like an
undertaken Furthermore he knew exactly the man
that he should introduce Colonel Hatch seated COM
fortably in the inner sanctorum, and also the hundred
others to whom the Colonel should be introduced
LIE passed industrious days, and evered nights financ-
- ing Port Hatch in the three months that had so
bthely passed since that day he had calmly stripped
the Todd brothers of five thousand dollars The golden
harvest beginning to rush in, flood OF yellow in
for the money he had spent extensive news
paper and magazine advertising; a federal inquiry as
to whether not he using the mails for fraudulent
purposes had been utterly routed and the cashed
by two banks had been deity met. The wages of that
army of employees, which he had driven to the point
of heartbreak and without the remotest idea of
paying, had been paid, which he considered piece of
misfortune. No man had come seeking employment
whom Burmah Jones had not employed, and with the
rapidty OF dollhouse flower, fortified and nurtured
Pert Hatch had become city The magic of a magi-
Clans wand seemed vested in the fat hand that now
toyed with the ruler in the private office of the Pert
Hatch Land Company.