The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-01-15

LOVE AND RAT.TRAPs
BY cLAuDINE slssoN.

There wasn't citizen Of the village
| who was not ready to admit that
Henry Gregg was smart young fel-
low.
You keep your eye on Henry. He
Is bound to be a rich man some day.
they would say.
The young man was engaged to
Eunice Rathbone, and had been for a
year. People were wondering why
they didn't get married but no one
guessed the true reason. 1t was be-
cause Henry was too smart At the
age OF twenty-one he had been left
$1,000 in cash. He was then teaching
the village school He had once
bought hog for SO and sold 1t for
S.; he had bought horse for $25 and
sold it for $50; he had bought SIS
worth OF geese feathers from the
farmers about and shipped them to
the city and made a profit of 81.
Therefore, he felt that he had right
to class himself as a financier. and to
resign his school that he might de-
vote all his time and energies to
speculation.
The ex-schoolmaster had devoted"
and six months had gone by when on
one OF his counting nights he found
Eunice looking very sober and evil
IDENTIFY troubled in her mind. When
he had begged her to tell him what
was the matter she answered IT'S
matter | don't want to speak about,
but | feel that ! must. 1t is about
our getting married"
"Yes?"
81 am asked almost every day when
the event is to take place"
well"
II cannot answer, and folks have
come to regard 1t as strange"
But 1t is the understanding that
when | am $4,000 ahead OF the game
we are to we'd"
And that leads to another matter
Henry. You cannot doubt that ] love
you, but am going to talk plainly to
you. AS school teacher you were a
success as financier you have been
a failure"
What right have you to say that?'
he asked as he flushed
you began your financial career
with thousand dollars. How much
of it have you LETT"
you mean how much have made
don't you?"
Il mean to say that you haven't
fUn hnp nj
See here, Eunice-!"
Don't buster, Henry There Is
general opinion that you are sue
cess. but | know better. AS your
pledged wife have right to know
certain things. AS | said before, you
are failure as financier, and the
first step Is to admit it,"
Henry sat with very red face and
sulked.
you are a moral, upright young
man. You have a very good educa-
ton. You are spoken Of as smart
You started out with little worldly
experience, however, and too much
confidence in yourself. You argued
that because you had made money
on hog and one or two other things
you were financier."
I'll not take that talk from any
woman!" said Henry to himself.
you did not consult any Of the
business men here" continued the
girl. nor did you ask my advice.
You just went ahead with feeling
that you knew 1t all. You bought
wheat on a margin for raise when
there was no logical reason to look
for a raise You invested in silver
mine stocks that had been published
as fraud You put money into 9th.
er things without serious investiga
ton, and the result is-the result"
And you don't want to marry a
failure. OF course" said the lover.
You are not failure. You have
failed in only one thing. Ninety men
out OF hundred do that You may
yet be success as flnancier If you
will be content to accept and follow
the advice Of a conservative person.
"As for instance?"
am tnat person.
ooh. you are financier, are you?"
Mighty funny that I should have
heard nothing about It, | thought
you might have fifty dollars laid by
but never had hint that you were
specializing"
There's a matter I never told you
about, Henry, and I haven't been dis
loyal In keeping 1t secret. About
the time we became acquainted an
aunt died and left me $4,000 | want
ed to add to 1t, Of course. have a
cousin over at Enfield He had just
started a dairy, and wanted me to put
In as partner and enlarge the bust
ness. I went over there and spent q
week posting myself Investigated
the business from every point. and
then ! invested my money"
"And how much did you lose?'
81 can sell out today for $3.700."
But your cousin has been the bust
ness head"
"On the contrary, he has done the
work while have done the planning
or most OF It. I wasn't going to say
word to you till the day we were
married, but It seems that the time
has already come. | want you te
show yourself and others that yor
can make money instead OF losina
It."
And am to 60 into the dairy
business,"
Not at all. am going to sell GU,
and furnish you the capital to carry
through a scheme. We shall be mart