The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-09-15

Il invented lndL LICK myself slHleu
Blackie complacently. Its the great.
est mine selling scheme on earth. and
/ lost n fortune by not patenting It,"
Brother Ralph was working no
harder than they were in Dougalville.
however. Laborers Hocked there in
shoals and were either put into the
mines or chased down the track to the
jccrs of the rapidly growing p%opulace.
Wallingford, for the time being. did
nothing but sell houses-for cash when
he could. on instruments when he must.
For S70O he could sell n house and lot
that cost him SEQ and n share Of stock
that had cost him $50. He obtained
copies of the charter, constitution and
bylaws of the KimDcly Mine com
pany. and every time he read them he
frowncd yer just one puZZllnG prob.
lem; tlten he vent out and mingled
anew with his tcnantry. for every
householder would be n voter IN the
approaching stockholders meeting. He
got n grocer, q butcher. n baker md
other entcrpriSing merchants to buy
bungalows and open shops; a lawyer
and four doctorS-all0pnth. h~Omcopnths
%osteopath and horse-cast their lots
with him. and carpenters. brick.ayers
and stOnemaSons fairly swarmed to the
place. .
Even in the early days. before the in
rush began, W'allingfOrd occupied him
self very fully by spending as much
time as possible IN and about the mine,
although nearly always under the
watchful eye Of one of the D0ugalbOb-
bers. He noted INT very peculiar thing
TIC chemist WIS employed, and no.
body interested seemed at all curious
regarding the quality Of the ore. When
he wanted to take some of 1t away to
show prospective citizens, however,
they evinced n sudden jealous regard
for 1t and positively refused to let him
have my. He obtained some. though.
through the efforts Of Toad JeSS0p,
who brought it away a lump ut Il time.
1t looked like any other iron ore. so far
as Wallingford could see. but he was
very curious about 1t.
When the influx began Wallingford
became the patriarch of the town, Its
founder and father. its chief bencfac-
tor md adviser, and in the first two
weeks Dougalville would have. elected
him unanimously to be president OF
the United States. At the end of two
weeks, however. Big Bill Slammed
came t o town. with one wife. six chill
drcn. three dogs and s., and sought OPP
]portunities for Investment. Big Bill
buSying himself on the investment
proposition. Mrs. Slammed, Il woman
as faded and decrcpit as Big BIZ was
flamboyant and hearty, came to Wal
lingford and obtained II house on shee
d~cfcnSeIcssncss. Big Bill, having
found the only easily o%btainaDle form
of investment in the town to be whls'
Ky, invested his 81 in that commodity
for the use and benefit Of himself and
various sundry kindred spirits. Short
~ upon the heels of this he discovered
Wallingford and Immediately made a
speech.
lie was from Cinderburg, Big Bill
was. and he knew this man Nalllng-
ford of old. lie was a common graft
er, this ]. Rufus person. Il who rob-
bed widows and orphans and honest
laboring men like him out Of their
hard earned money. In Cinderburg
Wallingford had organized n concern
known as the Bang Sun Engine COM
pany, which company was 4 fraud and
a SwindIe from beginning to end. Big
Bill fairly frothcd at the mouth i'll
telling Of the i%niquitics Of WallingfOrd.
,,.I 81. Ia boF1 81 uNNI Hnrnar tlgt ha-
tween the Miners Club saloon and the
! Merchants cafe. he had n rapidly
growing and highly gIceful audience.
Wallingford and Toad Jessop. taking
an evening constitutional in the pleas
ant silence that comes to friends or
long standing who have no question
of each other, came upon the orator III
due time and were just about to join
the group when WallingfOrd heard hiS
own name and drew Toad quickly into
the shadow Of Il high pile of beer caSes
ut the side of the Merchants cafe,
where he listened a moment.
The Dougalhobbers hurried into view
| Just then and stopped Mt the edge OF
the crowd to listen. Toad ran out ana
brought them back to the shadow or
the beer cases.
You have Il bunch Of hired wallop-
ers, haven't you?" asked WallinSford.
"Wcll. we don't call 'em TINT" re-
turned Frank h%eS:tantly, They're IL
watChmcn."
where are they:
Wherever the most excitement is,
returned Frank, with a grin. II reCE-
on that's right here. | saw two or
| three Of 'cm MS we circle! the herd"
II want to borrow them
81 should say you would" responded
Alec. And. stepping over to the edge
of the crowd. he lifted up his Shrill
nasal voice with:
Soak 'im. boys! Soak i'm! Soak
I'm! Soak i'm"
The response was instantaneous. A
raw potato hit Big Bill Slammct IN the
teeth. He turned, full Of rage, to dis
cover the vandal il he could, when.
from the other edge of the group OF