Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-06-09

OOWn IL went * q stack OF card
houses. Just before the closing hour
his broker closed out his account, leav-
ing him In debt for something like S1O,-
900.
This time when the market reached
low tide 1t remained there for q long
while. But this did not make any diff
ference to Julian, for even if it had
gone up again he had nc money to buy
with. At the beginning of the next
month his broker sent him an account
current showing his Indebtedness and
asked him to pay up. There were III
merous credits and numerous charges.
Julian didn't try to decipher 1t. He
knew that his fortune had died as sud
denly as it had been born, and he was
too sick at heart to dissect the corpse.
Julian's girl turned out to be q trump
that is, she WIS u trump for Jim If
not for herself. She had not shared
her lovers wild enthusiasm while he
was building an inverted pyramid of
air, but now that be had gone under
she did not desert him.
Its lucky it came to you early in
life, Julian" she said. 81 think you
are naturally visionary and that 1t was
sure to come in time. Besides, ever If
you had for the present kept a for
tune made in this way it would have
taken wings later on. Now you can
begin life on q more solid though q
much slower basis.'
Julian secured a position at $50 a
week, and on this he married Rose
M~eriweather. She proved an excellent
manager, though the hardest thing she
had to manage was her husband. 1t Is
not to be expected that q man who has
made money at the rate of $1,000 an
hour and for the time being considered
1t as easy to produce as pumping wa
ter from a well will at once look out
for small change. When Julian went
home in the evening and reported that
he had spent 30 cents for luncheon, 10
cents for car fare and % cents for two
cigars, Rose figured that this tOtaled
Go cents, or about 5000 q year. Other
expenses in proportion would bring
ruin.
After many b~ackslidings Julian got
himself down to hard pan and many
an evening when dead tired permitted
a trolley car to go by him while he
walked the two miles between his
business and his house. But a baby
came, and everybody knows that a
baby brings added expense, which in
creases and multiplies till the child
has grown and left the parental
abode. Notwithstanding Roses nan
agement and that she got Julian pref
ty well trained as to expenditures, they
had a hard time of 1t. Doctors bills,
which are hard to take into considera-
ton in laying out funds, came in, and
every cent went for ordinary essential
expenditures.
But the hardest blow came when
Mrs. Stafford, struggling against In
surmountable obstacles, broke down.
Julian was provider so far as he was
able, and Rose was dispenser. Mel
ther could supply the others place.
When under such circumstances the
woman has to throw up the sponge
the bottom drops out of the household.
The couple could not afford a servant,
and when Mrs. Stafford was unable
to be up to cook the meals her hus-
band was obliged to handle the skillet,
which he did unsuccessfully, spelling
many a meal. This was hard both on
his wife and himself.
Julian was too poor to buy a news
paper, but during the noon hour, while
eating a lunch brought from home, he
looked over the paper In the Office.
During his wife's illness he was one
day reading the financial news-from
force of habit-when he saw 1t stated
there had been a sudden rise in jim
dandy Automobile. The company had
succeeded in purchasing valuable pat
ents and for a year past had been
earning large profits. Julian finished
browsing over news that he had no
reason to suppose concerned him and
his luncheon at the same time and
went back to work.
A few days later when Julian had
prepared the breakfast and was taking
some toast and tea up to his sick wife
he stopped at the front door to answer
the postman's whistle. He was hand
ed a letter, which he carried on up
with the breakfast. Having put the
breakfast down beside his wife, he
looked at the letter. On the left hand
corner was printed, "Jimdandy Auto
mobile Company, James G. Erskine
Secretary" He opened the letter and
read aloud:
Dear Julian-Our venture after a long
period of distress has at last made good.
Under a reorganization our interest is
1000 shares. AS soon as the new certif-
Gates are issued I will send you your SOC
shares. Since the recent advance the mar
ket price is SO. This makes your lot worth
10000. The reason I haven't given you
any information before is because there
was 10 good news to report. Yours, with
ono ~ tux tinna I'M