Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-08-11
EVENING STAR
wEDNESDAY......Auguss II. ls.A
A Young NouteSristo.

Dumas wild story of thu adventure Of the
oouni or Monte cristo, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, has generally been regsr lei
as an example OF the utmost eNtraNagarce
OF romance. But the plain, unvarni>hei his
tSTs OF The career OF tie boy specu a,or
Shafies hGchel, as reveale 10 tie public
Wlthin a lew days, discloSes features scarcely
less eNtravagsnt and Incredible than the
Sfaf &c and high wrought fiction OF the re
Iowed French novelist. Here we have a
Toy OF IL. without capital or available means
al MS own going TO the stock market nd
ottraling on Scole scarcely inferior 10 the
ming OF The Ccmstock' or the chief mag
rates OF California street. This adventurous
ana enterprisiDg youth. a mere brokers
clerk. with TO capital save his native ar
uacity and craft, actually riVallei in the
magnitude Of his stock transactions t1s
veteran millionaires who are popularly sun
posed To control the market. make corners
ana send stock up or down accounting - their
pleasure. His operations thus far aScsr
Joined, during the first two weeks OF last
January amounted To SiSs 90, while lurin,r
the months OF May and June they fcurai
mp Ia tie incredible sum ofSS ~ Nn0. His trans
actions from the beginning of The year 10
p OF July amounted Ia over II leo .O00. But
these tEnres, stunning as they may seem.
only cover his sales and purchases
Trough Two brokers. lie is known
also - have operated throu OH Others anA
lie iUll extent OF his stock dealings has not
Yet be aSceriained. While carry or luSi-
ness upon this magnificent scale. Young
Monte CTisto lived like prince OF the blue>t
blood he drove high spirited trotterS on
the CHI road. AMI is said 10 have been the
owner Of TO less than three dashing double
teams. He was GorCcously apparelei, farcI
sumptUously every day, and had tie best OF
everything going that could be obtained Tor
money. There was nothing uiESar!lN about
THIS precious proiigal. II he lavished
money freely, IL was not all expended upon
hlmself and his irdiN dual pleasures. only
ii few weeks ago he sent his mother an!
SISTER Oh UIon European tower. and his
main sOlicituGe when arrested seemed Ia be
lest they should hear OF lis disgrace
The tact that the boy was able to continue
such career so long undCtcc;ed. using the
slecks ana the Credit OF his employees on such
an extensive scale, seems ineNpiiCable II
all brokers evince this confling and un-
suspicious disposition toward their clerks
they simply offer almost iTresiSt IDLE tempta-
lions 10 dishonesty, and are IN a measure
morally responsible for the l8pSeS OF YOUNG
people IN Their employment. IL is also siugu-
lar that brokers should receive and exec NE
heavy orders from clerks without a word of
Notification 10 tie supposed PRINCIPAL The
eNCltcmcntS of stock gambling have a fatal
fascination. To live in the midst OF Il. anc
breathe lis CircoaE atmosphere. j a moral
poison calculated 10 sap the founda-
lions OF setter integrity. The hahltual con
temptation Of ventures which. II successful
bring sudden aitluence, produces a disgust
lor The patient and industrious efforts the
economy and self-denial by which wealth or
competence can Be safely and honestly won
II klndies fever for speculation which per
tuThs the conscience and the Judgment and
makes men reckless in regard 10 risks of
means and even OF reputation. Ii Induces
especially IN the young, a mood in which
they tall an easy prey to temptation and op-
rOrtunIty. II l. no wonder that these re-
neciiohs should have suggested themselves
forcIbly TO tie lefraUded broker, or that
when friend applied 10 him asking the
situation made vacant by kuchel'S d,.fe,-
ton FOR another youth, he made answer. ..If
you have boy that you care anything about
SCI him at anything but the stock trade Put
him INTO gambling den if you like, set him
10 deal faro, but don't make a brokers clerk
of him. The real gambling will oe less try
ing 10 his morals than the Ease California
street imitation