Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — How He Struck a Bonanza. [ARTICLE]

How He Struck a Bonanza.

We had been roughing it around for a couple of months when we found ourselves one evening camped outside of Monterey. Our finances .were very low. There was only a few dollars in the whole crowd, and we felt rather blue. Wo hail been for several days discussing what was best to be done. We knew little of the languago of the country; there was no work that suited us, or that we were capable of doing, and stages in that country wouldn’t pay the wear and tear of robbing them. We were sitting around the camp-fire in a very despondent frame of mind when Mclnnis came in from town. “Hello, boys,” be shouted; “I’ve found it—struck a bonanza. We are well fixed; cheer up. We are all right now, and don’t you forget it.” ‘ ‘ What is it ?” we asked. “ You nover mind,” he replied; “you follow me and I’ll show you.” We filed after him into town. He led us through the main street, across the plaza, and down into the poorest part of the town. Stopping in front of a small adobe store, he marched us all in. Mclnnis stood looking from one to the other as if waiting for applause. We could see no sign of the bonanza, and in chorus we impatiently demanded that he should explain. “How much money have we in the crowd ?” inquired Mclnnis. “ Seven dollars and a half, all told,” replied our Treasurer. “ Well, didn’t I say we were all rich?” “Yes, but we can’t see how we can be rich on $7.50.” “You can’t, eh?” said Mclnnis. “Can’t you read?” and he pointed proudly to a card hanging above the cotmter, on which was printed the legend: “Four drinks for a quarter.” —San Antonio (Tex.) Gazette.