Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-27
By RoxANNE LEE

! IL SO1ilS " LIE CITY lOluOlloW ulOIb
ing to make my fortune"
"Got anything to make it with, Jim?"
"Only strength and pluck:
"I'm afraid strength and pluck alone
won't go very far toward making
fortune. I've heard my uncle. who
was a city man, say that the first
thing necessary to make money is to
get money to make it with"
'"Then must begin by saving
He had no right to spend his time
chatting, so he shook the reins over
the horses backs as a signal for them
to go on with the work. Annie turned
away. asking what. time of the day he
was going, and he said. ION the 8
O'Clock train" She bid him goodby
with mist in her eyes and went back
to the farmhouse.
The next morning the young man.
was staying and struck a path leading
across lots to the station. Coming to
q stile, he saw lying at it's foot with
one corner wedged in under the wood
which protected it from blowing away
what looked like bank bill. Stoop-
ing, he picked it up and found that it
was what he had supposed it to be,
and the denomination was $50. He
looked about him for the person who
had dropped it, but no one was in
sight He was puzzled to know what
to do with it. While pondering he
heard a distant whistle Of the coming
train. Having no more than time be-
fore its arrival to reach the station, he
put the bill in his pocket and proceed
ed on his way. On reaching the city
he wrote the postmaster Of the town
he had left Of his find and said he was
ready to return it on proof.
Joshua secured place as porter in
a store, holding on to the bill for a
claimant who never turned up. One
day the owner of newsstand died
and his stand and stock were offered
for sale. Joshua gave the $40 for Il
and entered upon the work connected
with it. He proved to be shrewd
business man. was polite and attentive
to his customers, and. having an hon
est way with him. rapidly built W
the business. He added stationery
and graduallysincreased the variety Of
his stock until he was obliged to take
large store The thoroughfare or
which he was located became more
and more valuable. The result was
that within five years Joshua had
what he needed for his private ex
penses and was laying up money
More than this, one Of his customers
taking a fancy to him, gave him in
formation as to certain investments
all Of which brought him good inter
est, and some Of them increased con
siderably in value.
When Joshua became prosperous b.
bethought himself that. being a mai
Of business with no bachelor tastes, b.
would better marry. He had no won
an in view, his object being to have [
home. Thinking the matter ever, h
happened to remember Annie Saun
ders, who had on hot morning five o
SIX years before brought him that cul
Of buttermilk. He remembered how
cool it had tasted and how pretty An
ME looked as she handed it to him
The city girls cheeks in comparison
with hers, made rosy by the countr,
air, looked very wan. He wondered |
she were still where he had left her.
Joshua kept Annie in mind til
one day he decided he would go an
see her. He did so and as soon. as b
reached the place where she live
learned that she was still at the farm
He started out to find her, his wa,
leading him across the stile where h
had found the twenty dollar bill tina
had been the basis Of his prosperity
Sitting there, he fell to musing on hi
find, and. suddenly looking up, he say
Annie coming along the path. he ros
to meet her. and she recognized hin
at once.
Sitting together, Joshua told her o
his finding the bill. how be had writ
ten with view to tracing its owne
and how. fnding no owner for it, h
had invested it in business that wa
making him, if not rich. at least we
to do. The morning was pleasant, tn
birds were singing in the trees, an
there was distant sound of mowin
machine Joshua could not be lon
away from his business, aud, assiste
by the surroundings, he made shor
shrift Of telling Annie what he ha
come for. She didn't ask for time t
consider. but told him she had love
him ever since he had been farr
hand
This was surprise to him. but
greater one was in store, She confess
ed that on the morning Of his departur
for the city she had preceded him Q
the stile and had placed there the bi
he had found-one which she had say
ed for a new gown. She asked him
her uncle's theory that it takes none
to make money had not been proved.