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Five years ago a certain Lincoln man
hvas worth ttvooruhree thousand dollar?.
Today he hasn't a cent. It happened In
this way.
He had always been an Intensly rcllR
lous man, had made a great study of the
Bible and especially the book of Revela
tions. He had become tired of business
and 'turned his grocery store over to his
son-in-law. He was restless, however,
and wanted to ba doing something. Then
the minister suggestel hl3 writing a
book. It was Just the thing and the man
took to literary work in dead earntst.
He first bought every book published on
Itevelatlons. I: took him three years to
complete his study and produce his ex
position and by that time half his money
was gone.
He spent a year trying to find a pub
lisher to take hold of his work. At the
end of that time he had to bring it out
himself. The edition of one thousand
copies ate up another thousand dollars.
But he had the pleasure of seeing his
name on the title page and his own
name In print.
He sent fifty copies to prominent edi
tors and divines, and his friends bought
twenty-five copies just to see what the
work was like. The other nine hundred
and twenty-five copies are piled in the
store-room oft the kitchen. And now
he and his wife are living with his son-in-law.
A tenth street saloon-keeper also saw
his money melt away with nothing but
experience to show for It. But It was
In an entirely different way.
The man had saved six or seven thou
sand dollars and decided to go out of
'business. He had had enough of It. In
tended to cease for good. Then the
craze for speculation struck him. He
took his seven thousand, borrowed seven
thousand from his brother in Wiscon
sin and went to Chicago. He Invested
in buckwheat. The whole sum went In.
That was Monday. Buckwheat went
down. On Friday, the man sold out
Tils exchange privilege for enough to
get back to Lincoln.
"Scheme was all right," he said in
telling about it, "but I Just struck hard
luck. As soon as I make the cost I am
going back and try it again, and it'll
pan out this time.
Two little tits were buying Christmas
presents in Herpolsheimer's one day
this week. They had just fifteen cents
between them. A tray of gaudy jewelry
caught their eyes as they passed a
show-case. In the center was a brass
stick pin set with a big oblong piece of
green glass.
"How much is that?" one of them
dsktd the lady clerk.
"Fifty cents." was the reply. The
children said nothing but srood silently
gazing at the bit of finery.
"Diamonds," whispered the boy in a
tone of awe and wonder.
"Yes," his sister answered equally
Impressed; and then they turned toward
the toy counter.
Down in Ashland, years ago "Dad
Hardin" a little dried up, sharp-featured
man was night watch of the town.
While going the rounds of the stores
one night he suddenly heard a shouting
up the street. It was intensely cold,
with the wind whipping little bits of
ice through the aVr. and Dad wondered
who wa3 out at such a time.
He ran up the middle of the street and
found a man muffled up on a horse
standing in front of Scott's grocery
The man said he lived three miles out
in the country and had come in to get
some things for hls sick wife. He was
ItUmPtln J to call air. Scott down from
upstairs to get them for him.
Hardin said he would go up and
arouse Mr. Scott and he soon had that
gentleman plunging shlverlngly into his
clothe" Then the night watch came
down and began to talk to the man on
horseDack until the Proprietor arrived.
It does seem a pity" said the horse
man, "to pull a man out ol : bed a igh
like this for five cents worth of crack
"Flve cents worth of crackers'."
shouted Hardin. 'Thunder! Is that all
T0"ye7tha't's all." said the other in a
rnTgiTwatch started onhe run
&" hVS, 55t
"completion of the business transac
i Tn fact he never knew how it ter
m, -fid for he asked Mr. Scott no
in goniH h0 rl(je3 three
SETS aght 5S that for five cents
worth of crackers ought to be accomo
dated. "Belay all!"
The call came down from the deck
above about one o'clock of a clear, still
night In September. It awoke me and
I lay there In my stateroom a long time,
listening to the hurrying back and forth,
the sliding of things about the deck and
wondering what It all meant at that
time of night.
But I found out before long. Toward
morning a hurricane struck the steamer
and I do not remember much from then
on. The steamer rolled and pltchtd and
tossed like a ball, creaking and jerking
as if about to fall apart. At one time
I was standing upright on the foot
board, and again I was sliding down In
a heap at the head of the 'berth. I
sprawled all over tht floor and then
took a lunge toward the ceiling. AH the
time my head seemed to be drawing my
spinal cord tighter and tighter, and I
was as weak as a drowning man. and
then there was a lull, tht steamer
pitched less, the booming became faint
er and the storm had rolled off toward
the south. H. G. S1IEDD.
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