Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-06-23

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his broker closed out his account, leaves
ing him in debt for something like &c.,
coo.
This time when the market reached
low tide it remained there for a long.
while. But this did not make any diff |
ference to Julian, for even II It had !
gone up again he had no 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 nu-t
merous credits and numerous charges
Julian didn't try to decipher 1t. He
knew that his fortune had died as sud
denly as 1t had been born, and he -wasTI
too sick at heart to dissect the corpse.
Julian's girl turned out to be trumpu
THAT is, she wGs a trump for Jim IL |
not for herself. She, had not shared
her lovers wild enthusiasm while be |
was building an inverted pyramid Of /
air. but now that he had gone under
she did not desert him. ~ '''Tas
) ;"It's lucky 1t, came to you early iff
life, Julian" she said. 81 think you
are naturally visionary and that 1t sWass
sure to come in time, Besides, eyen.if'
you had for the present kept fora
tune made in this way it would have
taken wings later on. Now you can
begin life on a more solid though d
much slower basis"
Julian secured a position at $25 u
week, and on this he married Rose
Meriweather. She proved an excellent
manager though the hardest thing she
had to manage was her husband. Itis1
not to be expected that man who has
made m0pey at the rate Of $1,000 an
hour and for the time being considered
It as easy to produce as pumping wa ]
ter from a well WIN at once look out
for small change. When Julian went
home Id the evening and reported that
he had spent 80 cents for luncheon, 10
Cents for car fare and % cents for two /
cigars, Rose figured that this totaled
% cents. or about 500 year. Other
EXPENSES in proportion would bring
ruin. =
After many backslidings Julian got
himself, down to hard pan and many
an evening when dead tired permitted
Z 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 IA
baby brings added expense, which I'm
creases and ,multiplies till the child
has grown and left the parental
abode. Notwithstanding Roses man
lagement and that she got Julian pref
ty well trained as to expenditures, they
had hard time of it. Doctors bills.
which are hard TO take. into considers
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 .in5,
surmOuntable obstacles, broke down.
Julian was provider so far as he was
able, and Rose was dispenser Mel.
ther could supply the others places
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. I
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 ONCE.
During his wife's illness he was one
day reading the financial news-from
force Of habit-when he saw it 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 ne 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: ~N3'
Dear Julian-Our venture after a long
period OF distress has at last made good.
Under a REORGANIZATION our interest IL
Lon shares As soon as the new scertin-
Gates are issued will send you your 500
shares, Since the recent advance the mar
ket price Is 30 This makes your lot worth I
$4,000. The eason I haven't given ycu
any information before is because there
was no good news to report. Yours with
congratulations i'm.
'What does It all mean?" asked Rose.
81 don't know. Some one has mede
a blunder."
Rose suggested that he go next door,
where the Inmates had a telephone, |
and call up Erskine. he did SO, and
Jim undertook to remind him OF the
check for $500 that Julian had given
him when he was making money on
the ticker at a thousand dollars an |
hour. But Julian had no remembrance
OF the incident and could not recall It |
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