“Mr. Harum examined as best he could the glucose the Ger¬ 
man student had made, and then he watched the whole experi¬ 
ment worked out over again. What the particular ingredients 
were, was still a secret. The man would not sell out; he wanted 
to organize a manufactory and take a certain per cent, of the 
profits. David had a thousand dollars, saved out of the wreck 
at East Aurora; but he knew if he could show certain men that 
the scheme was genuine, he could be able to raise more. 
“Five thousand dollars was secured. But the man who ad¬ 
vanced the four thousand dollars demanded an insurance 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 thousand 
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 expenses. 
“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 graduated, 
for a matter of say a thousand dollars a year and expenses, and 
the two started back for America. 
“From 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 million dollars were invested. 
Our East Aurora hero sold out his interests in 1890, for some 
such bagatelle as thirteen million dollars. The German student 
is back at Jena taking a post-graduate course in chemistry—the 
first one is still dead.” 
Thus Elbert Hubbard, in one of his “Little Journeys,” in 
which 172 great men and women are biographically described 
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