LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



advanced the four thousand dollars demanded an in- 

 surance policy on the life of the German chemist. 

 This appealed to our David Harum as an excellent 

 plan; if the man who held the secret should die, all 

 would be lost save honor. 



They insured the life of the chemist for twenty thou- 

 sand dollars. 



In a month after he was killed in a railroad wreck on 

 a Sunday-school excursion. And the moral is but 

 never mind that now. 



The twenty thousand dollars insurance was paid to 

 David Harum. He immediately repaid his friends their 

 four thousand dollars, and reserved for himself, very 

 properly, the sixteen thousand dollars to cover ex- 

 penses & js, 



He then started for Jena. Arriving there, he found that 

 the making of glucose was no special secret, and to 

 manufacture it on a large scale was simply a matter 

 of evolving the right kind of system and a plant. 

 He hired a young German chemist, who had just grad- 

 uated, for a matter of, say, a thousand dollars a year 

 and expenses, and the two started back for America. 

 QFrom this arose the Glucose Industry in the United 

 States. In ten years time twelve million dollars were 

 invested in the business; in 1903, over a hundred mil- 

 lion dollars were invested. Our East Aurora hero sold 

 out his interests in 1890 for some such bagatelle as 

 thirteen million dollars. QThe German student is back 

 at Jena taking a post-graduate course in chemistry 

 the first one is still dead. 

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