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Show A Store That Colt IO.OOO. Sometwenty-fiveorthirty years ago," remarked G. S. Hubbard, Jr., "Mr. Har-risou Har-risou owned eighty acres of land which is dow on the line of the Burlington railway, rail-way, between Chicago and Riverside. I eaw that the property was bound to in- i crea.se in value, and po I made op my mind to offer Mr. Harrison fc.'Oo an acre for it. 1 found him in his oiiice, seated tu a rickety old sofa beside a dilapidated desk and warming himself before the fire ; contained in a disreputable looking, ; rusty, begrimed old stove. Well, I made my offer and he promptly rejected it. He said he wanted $350. 1 saw that he meant what he Baid, and the conversation conversa-tion soon drifted to other topics. Presently Pres-ently I remarked the ancient and hardly creditable appearance of the stove. " 'Yes, Carter,' said he, 'it is pretty tough, but it holds the coal, and that's all that'B necessary.' ' "You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' your-self,' 1 returned. 'I'll tell you what I'll do. Ill just go out and buy you a stove ae a present." " 'You will?" he eagerly asked. 'Honest.' 'Hon-est.' 'Well, then, if yon'll do that, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll let you have those eighty acres at $200.' "So I went out and bought a stove and had it put up in Carter's office. The whole thing cost me $14.23. As soon as the fire was burning brightly in it I de-. de-. manded the deed to the land, paid the : money and walked out of the office the ; i absolute owner of tbose eighty acres. "Within a twelvemonth 1 was offered $400 an acre for the land and refused it The next time I saw Carter after this offer had been made I told him about it. j " 'You don't sayl' he exclaimed. 'Come i 1 down to my office.' ! "We went. Carter took down his books and in my presence made the entry: " 'To one office stove $16,000.' "And he carried it right through his books too. Afterward 1 sold the land for 1200,000." Chicago Post |