A CYCLONE MADE A RICH MAN OF HIM.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2489, 12 July 1909, Page 6

A CYCLONE MADE A RICH MAN OF HIM.

He was a Western man, and he was telling several gentlemen in the smokingcar all about the natural advantages of the wild and woolly West. “ Don’t you have cyclones out there iOmctimes ?” was asked of him. “ Cyclones!” was the reply. “ Why, of course, we do; but you’ll never hear me complain about that, for one of’em made a rich man of me.” “ Would you mind telling us about it T 1 queried one of his surprised hearers. “ Certainly not,” was the reply. u Five years ago I bought a prairie farm out in Kansas. There were no buildings of any kind upon the place when I bought it —at least, nothing but a cyclone cellar. In this cellar the former occupant of the place had been content to dwell with his family, and here, too, my wife and I and our two small children passed our first night upon the farm. “Now gentlemen, conies the strangest part of my story. As 1 emerged from our cellar on tie following morning the first thing that my wondering eyes beheld were a beautiful house and barn upon my place. I entered the house and found that it was furnished throughout in the most elegant style, and a fine stock of provisions in the pantry. “ After going through the house I next visited the barn. Here, too, I found everything in first-class shape. Standing gently in their stalls were two fine cows and a horse, and in the mows I found hay enough to last ’em for months. “ You see, gentlemen, there had evidently been a cyclone in the night, and this house and barn had come to me from eleven knows where. As the whole lay* out was worth perhaps ten thousand dollars, you can plainly see that I have no cause to kick about Western cyclones.” “ But,” said one gentleman, in a hesitating way, as if he hated to suggest the idea, “are you not afraid that another cyclone may come along some time and take the house and barn again ?” “ Gentlemen, replied the Kansas man, as he calmly bit off the end of a fresh cigar, “ I shall borrow no trouble in regard to the matter. I am one of those kind of fellows who believe in letting well enough alone. I shall sell the place at the first opportunity/’— JVew Ycrk Sunday Mercury , . ...