The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-22

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of what he had found, under an
agreement that the seal was not to
be broken for five days after his de-
parture. At the appointed time we
opened up the facts which had been
detecked, and we give the informa-
ton, as it was in fact for the pub
lie benefit that we brought the
sleuth to these parts.
Paddy, the Irishman, Deteck.
Anything Unearthed.
The Press and Banner,
Abbeville, S. c.
Dear Sirs,-I am ready to tell
you something which will startle the
natives from Norris Creek to Rich!
ard Sondley's goat pasture. You
have a big man in your town NAM
ed Calvert. He has made a. big
bunch of money selling wagons,
buggies and furniture. He has had
the confidence of the public be-
cause he sells fine goods and puts
them. up in the right kind of pack
ages. He is still in the same bust
ress as heretofore as his advertise
ments in your paper will show, but
| Mr.. Calvert has capitalistic tenden-
cies, and since the outbreak of the
war whep everybody has been get
ting rich by going into new and un-
tried experiments, Mr.. Calvert has
been looking around for a chance
tc make a killing. He at last decid-
ed to make a drive. Like most men
who get rich, he decided to make
his money out of something which
has been lying around useless all
these days, and which anyone else
might have taken hold of if they
had had the same capacity for big
business. He decided to 60 into
the fur business.
Now, Mr.. Calvert had been watch
ing the fur market for some time
and he saw rapidly rising market
all the time. He kept advised and
knew that the animals commonly
called fur-bearing animals were rap.
idly becoming extinct, and he con-
ceived the idea of making fine furs
out of cat hides. ~
His idea was that he would buy
up all the cats east of the Mississ'
ippi River and South of the Mason
and Dixon's line, as he had learned
that the cats in this section have
finer fur than some other cats. That
is why he took his recent trip to
New Orleans Of course he put II
out that he was going down there
on a visit, and as he has a daughter
down there, this story worked pret-
ty well, but he was down there in
truth to commence big buying
movement, knowing full well that
when he launched the scheme ne
would be compelled to buy all his
cats at once or the market would
advance as the people would suspect
that cats were getting valuable fol
sausage, or something, when SC
many were being bought.
Then again he had to arrange fol
the feeding of these cats, and ne
figured it out that, there were
enough rats in the same section to
feed all these cats if he could only
get them in hand. His plan, there
fore, was to get all the rats under
option, and to plan big move
ment for catching these rats as
needed for the purpose of feeding
the cats. He figured that the rats
would multiply as fast as the cats
and that there would always be
feed for the cats if only he could
get all the rats and all the cats
sewed up under a proper contract
Now the rats were to be fed too
and he had consulted several horse
doctors and had found that by pro-
per training a rat could be taught
to eat skinned cats, so his idea was
to feed the rats to the cats as they
were needed, and as he skinned the
cats to get the furs there would. DC
enough cat meat to go around with