Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-11
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The Story of Prince Fortu1atus and
Silas the Saver, as 1T Appears in
the Cosmopolitan MAGAZINE

Rhino. all he has to do is open the Tin Boz and
sell Something. 1t was Simple.
The Receiving Teller and Silas we're lust like
Pals.
The Paying Teller began sorting out the Yellow
Boys when he saw Claude approaching the Win.
dow
silas was Oatmeal Fan. and Claude was get
ing so that he could tell one Vintage from an.
other with his Eyes shut
Claude knew his Europe, but Silas knew two
Live Wires in the World Of Finance and was get.
ting ready to use them.
And now, grabbing the License afforded every
writer for the Movies, flash Subtitle, Five Years
Later and dissolve into Closeup Of Claude
seated in Booth at the Safety Deposit Vault
anxiously shutting his Securities.
Let the Picture reveal the Fact that he is
alarmed over the High Cost of Living High
He has Fifty Thousand of the Original Stake
His Income has been sliced in two. the same as
Cantaoupe.
His Expenditures have doubled. He Is think.
ing that probably he had better do quick Sashay
into the Street. fill couple OF Sutcases and then
get out again. just like that
1t was a very pretty Inspiration. OF the Kind
that enables the Stock Broker 10 play Golf every
Summer for Box OF Balls Hole
Just as Claude started out TO place an Order
for Thousand Shares of anything that was sure
TO go up, he met Sias coming in to plant the
Deed for Desirable Corner.
Claude did not speak to Silas. He could not
ne expected TO know Grubber OF the Middle
Glass, who controlled only about Twenty Thou
SAND ana never had Dined Out.
SilaS did not pause to envy the Social Leader
He was too busy with his Mental Arithmetic
figuring what his Real Estate would fetch ten
Uptown
Without going into all the Details OF eating the
Tape it out OF the Ticker the occasional
call for Bromo Settler. and inside Tips from
prominent Barkecps, i, may be announced with
out fear OF Contradiction. that Claudes Oper
atoms on the Exchange did not lead up 10 any
extensive Killing.
Broad and Wall that he had been sitting in
Claude knew it, however, because he had so
much more Room in his Tin Box.
3 When Sas was 20 years old. he met Claude at
Dinner given by Prominent Citizens to a States
man from Washington who had Hopes
They were brought together because each was
trembling Conservative
Claude had Twenty Five Thousand Bucks Of
the evaporains variety. which he wished TO re-
tain as long possible.
Silas had Forty Thousand Iron Men trained to
work - Hours every Day. which he proposed to
pyramid into Million, if Congress did not get
J Fidgcty and Spill the Beans.
Silas no longer hated Claude He did not so
much as recall the Day when he CRASHED his
Teeth at the Young Swell in the Driving Toys
AT this Stage OF the Game. Silas reserved his
Envy for some one who could show more than
Forty Thousand
1t was Claude's turn to be set back into the
Two Hole
Maker; it being fairly we'll understood between
them that one was a Conner and the other was a
Goer.
In fact. they closed a little Deal involving two
encumbered Lots right there at the Table.
me Reader will be given Three Guesses as to
which OF the Traders had an Ace In Reserve.
Tho Shift from Crackers and Milk to Guinea
Heh can be managed nicely. learn by
glancng into any First-Class Hotel
'ut n jump from Guinea Hen to Dairy Products
by one never having gone against the Lacteal
stun Is what Sherman said about People shoot
ing at One Another.
Ssh Shortly after Claude went limping past the
1nth Mile Stone he had to blow the Whistle on
FRIEND FRIEND Wife. who was getting ready to send
Laughter TO Europe and put Son in Yale
ne FAMILY threw three individual Fits when
me Producer showed them his Stack and warned
'hGin 10 get braced for rafting good Bump.
RE mad few scattering Assets, but he could
holders or when the Paper fell due.