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'Five thousand dollars better, my friend from the rural districts what do you say NOW? 'I CALL you! said Backus, heaving his golden shot-bag on the pile. 'What have you got? 'Four kings, you d d fool! and Wiley threw down his cards and surrounded the stakes with his arms. 'Four ACES, you ass! thundered Backus, covering his man with a cocked revolver.
Backus' life for the last twenty years has been almost exclusively devoted to his profession. When the railroads were projected which made Cleveland one of their terminations he embarked in the enterprise of their location and construction, and was early retained as their attorney and counsel, and has been acting as such to the present time.
Let us change the subject, Mr. Backus. It was pitiful to see his confusion and hear his awkward and shamefaced apologies. I was as much distressed as he was especially as he seemed so far from having suspected that there was anything improper in his proposition. So I hastened to console him and lead him on to forget his mishap in a conversational orgy about cattle and butchery.
Backus's deceased husband, who had been associated with the business and had remained with the company after his death. The letter was written without any solicitation whatever on my part, but I have since received permission from Mr. Backus to print it. It is followed by extracts from affidavits made by the gentleman who conducted the negotiations on behalf of Mrs. Backus.
I know of the fact that about a year and a half previous she had offered to sell out the stock of the Backus Oil Company at from 30 to 33 per cent. less than she received in the sale referred to, and the value of the works and property sold had not increased in the meantime. I was well acquainted with the works of the Backus Oil Company and their value.
He took his hand, glanced at it, and his dull eyes lit up for a moment. The gamblers observed it, and showed their gratification by hardly perceptible signs. 'How many cards? 'None! said Backus. One villain named Hank Wiley discarded one card, the others three each. The betting began.
Isaac Backus of Middleborough, "religion is ever a matter between God and the individual; the imposing of religious tests hath been the greatest engine of tyranny in the world." With this liberal stand firmly taken by the ministers, the religious objection was speedily overruled.
Miller, with Marcia Fenton and Ella Backus; and after the two young ladies had come over to ascertain how large an affair it was to be, so as to know what to wear, Ethelyn began to take some little interest in it herself and to give the benefit of her own experience in such matters. But having a party in Mrs. Dr.
John Backus, I guessed, from his clothes and his looks, that he was a grazier or farmer from the backwoods of some western State doubtless Ohio and afterward when he dropped into his personal history and I discovered that he WAS a cattle-raiser from interior Ohio, I was so pleased with my own penetration that I warmed toward him for verifying my instinct.
Backus by her request, as she told Mr. Jennings that she wanted to deal through you. I was in favour of the sale from the first. I was with Mrs. Backus all through the trouble with Mr. Rose and with Mr. Maloney, did what I could to encourage her, and to prevent Mr. Rose from getting the best of her. Mrs.
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