Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-05-09

deposit foe the purpose of getting
gas turned on. We cleaned uI
the kerosene-lamps and decided
to struggle along without gas
We did too; it was two years be-
fore we had the gas turned on
It was hard Shedding, paying
as much as possible on the old
debts and living within the FAM
lily income. But the Luptons
had made up their minds to do
it, and they succeeded.
| Down at the Treasury Lupton
shared desk with an old-tine
clerk who dressed good deal
better than Lupton could. They
became friends. The friend
knew of Lupton's financial con-
EDITION and took an interest in him.
| LUProN's APPLE DREAM.
| At this period it was the dream
lof Lupton's life to get back to
Virginia and start an apple-or-
chard Lupton studied apples,
read apples, talked apples, dream.
ed apples; did about everything
except eat them. They were too
expensive for that. He talked
to his friend and deskmate al
most endlessly about apples. He
was going to start in as he had
a few thousand dollars saved;
which he might accomplish by
the time he was a hundred years
or Whereabouts.
"Lupton,' said his friend one
day, what do you say to my
stalking you to get that orchard
started?"
Have you got the money to
do it?" asked Lupton.
Then the story came out. The
iseat-mate, though he looked like
any other government clerk, was
in fact quite different: he had
| real money. 1t had been left to
him, in the beginning, by an
aunt. who had died in Japan. He
had taken good care of it, made
it grow, had lived modestly and
was worth perhaps 100000.
Lupton hadn't suspected it.
His friend told his story and
again demanded to know if Lup-
ton would use some of his money.
Lupton guessed he would.
But he said, II may be
wrong on this apple dope of
mine," he said. Suppose 1 am
WELL replied the friend,
you believe in it so str ongly
that if you had the money of
your own you'd go into it,"
you bet l would" was the
prompt reply. I'D risk every
cent; but risking somebody else's
is different.
KNEW HOW TO STRETCH A DOLLAR
They agreed finally that Lupton
was to be grub-staked. He went
from around Winchester, in the
Valley, and at length bought $50
acres at $50 an acre. The Treas
ury friend put up the cash.
Lupton scratched and saved;
earned promotion and at length
was transferred to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, where he
got 81, 400 a year. He studied
apples harder than ever, and
presently started planting his
orchard. He didn't do it quite
as anybody else would have done.
He had a tremendous lot of
theories.
He always took his annual va
lcation at the time when he could
make the farm; he made every
dollar go as far as it could pos
sibly be stretched, and he knew
how to stretch it.
1t was during this period of
|setting out the orchard. and
hanging on to it like grim death
! till it could be made to pay. He
| was a good official, having come
into place of some responsible
lily. can't refrain from telling
a little story to show how care
fully he looked after other in
lterests than his orchard.
II One Saturday night in the
spring of 1908 he hurried into my
, Office a few minutes before mid
night. Twas working late. Lup-
: ton was out of breath.
Il Can you get to the President
I uuick?" he demanded.
n ":Not inside of a minute"
I laughed. What's the excite.
$ ment?'
e. Then Lupton told me. Ur
s on the hill,' he sputtered, jerk
I ing his thumb toward the Capt
t toll, they set up job to kill thu
t appropriation for enforcement Of
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