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After completing his experiments, he exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never make another pencil.
The consequence of this was, that many false certificates were sworn to, as few persons or magistrates would be at the trouble and expense of travelling thirty or forty miles back into an uninhabited part of the country, to ascertain if the parties had sworn truly or not.
"She asked me to put it somewhere, on Tuesday afternoon.... It was forgotten, I suppose.... I laid it in a drawer of the library table.... What did it contain?" I managed an evasive reply, for the discovery opened possibilities that disturbed me. "Some certificates, I believe," I said. My sister made a little pretended gesture of dismay.
He told me afterwards that the letter contained the request that his brother lived to make personally to him that the child should be brought up as his ward; and that he had handed the certificates to a lawyer, who had, however, received copies of them from the Colonel himself before he went down to see your father.
Since that time the trustees of the ore lands have executed other leases, and the Great Northern ore certificates are bringing in a substantial return to their owners. The three Hill lines the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy have been unusually profitable.
Hurrying back to the inn I avoided observation by entering by the side door, skipped up to our rooms and there you are! I did run a chance, of course, in climbing down the ladder, but all's well that ends well. I exchanged our new bank notes for sixty well-worn one-thousand-dollar gold certificates negotiable in all parts of the republic.
An additional motive to Scripture study is furnished by the "Religious Knowledge Examinations" instituted by Conference; certificates, signed by the President, being granted to teachers and scholars who succeed in passing the examinations.
Blendershin stared at Lewisham for a moment. "What's he done in the way of certificates?" asked Mr. Blendershin of the assistant. The assistant read a list of 'ologies and 'ographies. "Fifty resident," said Mr. Blendershin concisely "that's your figure. Sixty, if you're lucky." "What?" said Mr. Lewisham. "Not enough for you?" "Not nearly."
"Does it matter to the Syndicate who pays the money?" "Of course not." "Thanks." Teddy brought forth a couple of bundles of bonds and share certificates. "How much is the debt?" "Twenty-four thousand and seventy-five pounds." "Wish I had that much," said Teddy, "but I can only give what I've got." He rose, placed the bundles on the desk, and sat down again.
"There is somewhat of hardship in this matter of certificates," says the same very intelligent author, in his History of the Poor Laws, "by putting it in the power of a parish officer to imprison a man as it were for life, however inconvenient it may be for him to continue at that place where he has had the misfortune to acquire what is called a settlement, or whatever advantage he may propose himself by living elsewhere."
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