| Show WHAT A VERY ODD MILLIONAIRE The most remarkable millionaire in America is s dead With an Income of ot 1200 a month the chief concern of John Tediman the eccentric foreigner who settled in I Llamo Tex Tea was that he should not be beable beable beable able to spend every cent of it I. I And the only occasion on which his friends ever saw this interesting spendthrift angry was when he discovered that his income had been suddenly multiplied by six He did not see how he he could dispose of ot it I. I I During the first firt year of his career creer TedIman Tediman Tedman Ted- Ted Iman man spent 2000 a month besides more than that he invested in lands buildings and cattle He ordered dered beer by the carload and had It to his ranch in il ice wagons especially constructed constructed con con- for the purpose A faithful servant followed him from place to place never neer offering the slightest protest protest protest pro pro- test against his most extravagant ca ca- ca- ca pers When in town he changed his clothing cloth cloth- ing three o or 0 four times a day and he would often go in the same barber shop four or five times In succession in the course of ot a few hours and take a bath and a shave neV never r failing to leave a handful of ot silver siver or a gold piece with wih the tonsorial artist artst Frequently he would arouse a bar barer barber barberat er erat at midnight for the purpose of ot taking a bath and perhaps a nocturnal shave He had a horror of ot small smal coins and when he threw down a a- piece of piece of money or a bill he meant for that to pay for whatever he had purchased purchasEd and under no clr circumstances would he take change Though making no pretensions to employment employment employment em em- of ot any kind he was always in a hur hurry y and never without a cigarette cigarette cigarette cigar cigar- ette between en his teeth Owing to a singular singular singular sin sin- gular habit he had of ot never smoking but one cigarette from the same box a crowd of little boys folo followed ed him from place to place to gather the fragrant little packages that he strewed upon the floor foor and the pavement about his feet When he wanted to smoke he would hand a silver siver dollar dolar to the first little boy whose face pleased his fancy and send him after a box of cigarettes The fortunate youth always got 95 cents for tot his trouble Upon one occasion while at Austin he cabled to some sonic member of his family in Europe for one or two dogs Soon afterward he was notified that seventy- seventy five dogs had been shipped to him and that the remainder would be forwarded as soon as they could be collected Through some error of ot his own or the cable operator the message had read one or two hundred when it reached Europe Of course such a man soon became w well wel ell known and he was often ofen grievously grievous grievous- ly imposed upon by worthless characters characters characters charac charac- who took advantage of his liberal liberal- ity Iy He would bow t to a drayman with withas as much politeness as he would to a cattle catte king He was fond of children and pretty pretty girls They all al knew him and they were not afraid of him He frequently threw a handful of ot silver siver among a crowd of school children as they ran through the street Whenever anything pleased him no matter what it was as as a horse or a steamboat steamboat steamboat steam steam- boat he would would certainly buy It i if the owner could be induced to part with it at any price After passing about abot a year in Llamo something happened over in Europe which greatly greatly Increased his wealth and it made him very angry I I cant can't spend what I am getting now he said what on earth am I to todo todo todo do with five or six times as much It I is said that he spent at least 1 during the last year of ot his life He acquired the habit of secreting sa sacks 1 s of t gold and rolls rols of bills bis in se secluded secluded secluded se- se nooks about his big house and barn before he died A great deal of this hidden treasure has been found but there Is no telling how much has disappeared forever A garde gardener er found a sack of gold in a pot flower flower pot and a laborer discovered a large sum scattered scat scat- t red over the bottom of of- ofa a well wel A I hundred hundred dollar dollar bill bi was taken from an anold anold anold old fiddle and a Government bond had hac been folded and used under a clock to tomake tomake tomake make it sit level The mantelpiece in his library was covered with golden gods There were many nany golden idols of Hindu workmanship on oi an altar of ivory vory in a small smal ap apartment which he frequently visited From a relative who came over from Europe to adjust the dead mans man's affairs the people of Texas only learned that they had been associating with wih a man who had been reared In a palace with kings and princes Over the door of his library was written in Greek Everything Every Everything thing is nothing Tediman had many warm friends in Texas but the great secret of his life was sas never revealed to the most intimate of ot his associates When perfectly cool which was not often ofen he carried himself himself him him- self with lofty lofy princely dignity His thirst for be beer r was a cea ceaseless eless bewildering bewildering dering craze which he never made the least effort efort to control In his happier moods he was wax Inthe in inthe inthe the hands of his friends and nothing was easier than for them to induce him to buy a gold mine a calliope calope a steamboat steamboat steam steam- boat or a mouse trap To please a comrade comrade comrade com com- rade he would do anything but sully suly his honor or his Immaculate shirt front Many simple folks regarded the man with wih superstition They actually thought that he could transform Iron or any other other oth oth- er en metal into gold The truth made a avery avery avery very plain tale Mr r John Tediman Tediman- which in all al probability was not his name nam hid nam-hid hd hid inherited an Immense fortune fortune for for- for for- tune a large portion porton of which had been so eo wisely invested that it yielded a princely income The man had evidently done something some some- thing that had aroused the auger nger of his sovereign a and d he had either suffered banishment or chose voluntary exile He died w with th his hand within exie easy reach of his favorite elixir Scrawled upon a slip of paper found under his pillow were his favorite words Everything Everything Every thing Is nothing to which he had added added added add add- ed but love love Nev New New York World |
