The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-09-14

sell piece OF property, told LaS nepn-
ew that he would give him a commits
sion if he would make sale. Billy
sold the property and received $500
commission.
This uncle of Billy's was a practical,
matter of fact man, and Billy asked
him how he could best invest the mon
ey paid him.
Billy said his uncle, every man
should use what he has on which to
build. The only thing you have is the
entree into society. There are persons
who would give you fortune for an
introduction to the gilded world. But
you couldn't deliver the goods. Still,
in society lies your field. My advice
is for you to spend your $500 in suit
able clothes for yourself and wife and
other necessities in keeping in with
the swells. Meanwhile keep your eye
skinned for chance to make a prof
liable deal. Some financial magnate
may take fancy to you and give you
a tip"
Billy saw the drift of the advice,
and Billy's wife advocated following it
with all her heart Billy's investment
in clothes was confined principally to
a dress suit, and the rest of the funds
devoted to apparel went to his wife.
After this the names of Mr.. and Mrs
William Saxton were to be found quite
often in the society columns Of the
newspapers.
One day James Edgerton, business
acquaintance Of Billy's, called upon
him and told him that he was about
to place a very large order for goods
dealt in by the John Goodwin COM
pany. He intimated that if Billy could
get him satisfactory figures he would
give him the order. Billy figured that
the commission involved would amount
to small fortune. He called on Mr..
Goodwin and submitted the matter
Goodwin was eager to secure the or
der. When the bids were all in Ed
gerton said to Billy:
''By the bye, Saxton, is Mrs. Mont
gomery Saxton relative of yours"
'She is my aunt"
81 see by the papers that there is to
be a wedding in that family in June,
and all the swells will be there. Are
you going?'
Certainly"
Then the conversation turned again
upon the bids. When Billy went home
that evening he told Eunice about this
mention of the wedding
did you tell him you would get him
an invitation?" asked Eunice
"Why, no; didn't think to do that.
He is only business acquaintance"
Stupid! Go ask your. aunt for an
invitation for him and his wife. if he
has wife, and tell her that this order
you are expecting from him is de-
pendent upon her sending him one"
Billy hurried off to his aunt and upon
making known his reasons for asking
for the invitation received it and the
next day when he called on Edgerton
to talk business tossed 1t on the desk
before which he sat. EdgertOn put 1t
in his pocket, and before Billy left him
he had the order he coveted. But there
was a condition attached to 1.-THE
must place it with Sampson, Bliss &
Co., firm Edgerton wished to favor.
Billy reported to Mr.. Goodwin the
result Of the negotiations, much to that
gentlemans disappointment. Goodwin
had mentioned the matter to his wife,
and when she asked him if he had re-
ceived the order he was obliged to
make known why he had not received
it. He told the story Billy had told
him, including the exchange of the
wedding invitation for the order.
There followed storm In the Goodwin
family, during which Mrs. Goodwin
said she did not believe that Billy had
been forced to give the order to Samp-
son, Bliss & Co. and if her husband
had followed her suggestion to invite
the Saxtons to dinner his firm would
have received the order.
This put a suspicion into Mr.. Gold
wins head that Billy had favored an
other concern in preference to his en-
ployer's, and it ranked In his heart.
Billy's services were easy to replace,
and when he went to his office the next
day his employer showed his spleen by
discharging his clerk. Billy was told
the reason for his dismissal and was
very much hurt thereat. He told Ed
gerton about it. and Edgerton went to
Sampson, Bliss & Co. and secured him
a position at double the salary he had
been receiving.
Billy's commission on the order was
some $4,000 and a new salary at 500
a week. But this was only the begin
ming of a successful career. 1t was
known that he had controlled an order
amounting to several hundred thousand
dollars, and a number of concerns of
fered him better salary than that Civ
en- him by his new employer. But by
the advice of Edgerton he declined
them ALL The truth is that Edgerton's
wife was woman well calculated for
a social sinner, but had needed start,
a first appearance, to enable her to get
her tentacles on those she would utilize
for climbing The invitation that came
thrOIIoh RilJy Saxton was all she re-