, 1880-11-20
Joaquin Miller.
How He BoEsh' Wabash ana Tiaaneo
city.

But tn return to my subject. Finding
hut iit,lp interest iii this great maeistrohl
excitement without linking part, l, under
the advice OF INV broker, b0Iish. bt1is
Wabash. | bought Wabash because 1t
sas lie hys, oi, the list which could dis:
tin.,l,sh from ,hs liner ~ tho huudres'
names. And came to remember 1t he
cause | had been born on its bank, as 1t
we're, lnaeed., on the very banks OF the
Wabas., ...i!tr have ssen My father fur
row the field for corn M tis Stirring. whie
INV mother foI!rned after, dr"pping u.c
corn in the furr"u; while Il rec little boy $
toddled after. myself Of the number and
covered the. grain that lay in the little
sai,iares sf .le. i;ielloN. earth. And So it
was with, :. t'niiAf ~, tenderness tfat |
bought Wabash, and bsC.ii!;s hhf % The
, eager party holding on to the tape-wa'e,.
inc, waiting the tu;u IT fortunes wheel
She lid nr: bcfray me. Ny stock be-
oan >. "a iib fn,m the first. II Was
not SO dull now. Nov :::ifs-s.tins it al!
was, called tie click # the ''tieA,I
the ulse and heart beat of the nation.
If the land Was healthy and prosperous,
,le bslsp heat high and buoyant If the
land was ti1icatetiea rith .lraught. short
crops: of iiiiiisfnrttiue q ans kibd tbs paIsr
was low: trrerish add dull 1t was Ike a
pofma T., . .t.i.a... "a :. ~. ..... :. :.
of the land beyond a $ nii.r!e,,t :: WIS. :
part OWNER If a thrussnd miles Of railway
in America. Frem that day forth !
studied the geography Of my country As
never before. My little uptown room III
the fourth story WIS lined with maps 81
American railway. In less than week
could quote the opening or closing wices
Of half the stock on the list.
Hote pa,iently ! held on to the tape
along with THE other timid and hopeful
little k:u,!.s. We noit.d efchaEge ri'in
ions, enc,nIaee ee each other, aud lag grea'
plans Tor the future. We became very
confidential, cur little knot around thai
| ticker; and when one Of our set lost money
he had cur honest sympathy. They wert
pleasant days, the first, for stocks wen
! M steadily. and it seemed at last wheI
and where had least expected If, Vas
/ to make a fortune without either care ol
toll. | am perfectly certain that in those
few weeks | grew t. be better man.
At last clnsed out. had in nv hant
more than ten Thousand dollars l ha.
not invested s., many hundred. Whai
scribe had ever been so fortunate. Stocks
still advanced 1t seemed as if they
would never st"p going up.
Isat down and tried for days to decid.
what to do. Coolly, deliberately, and at
ter as much and as mature thought as
am capable of, | went back to Wall street
with my money. / had no Use for Tel
Thousand dollars had great use fol
fifty Thousand. hing myself in satisfac
ton now, to remember that thought n"
so much OF myself as Of my friends a
this TIM. | could get on with that sun
we'll Bat away out on the great gold
shere of tie vast west sea wanted Il
build home-a city. would gathel
about me the dear spirits of Old. In som,
sweet spot where there were woods An,
cool waters, warm sun prolific soil. vi
would meet aud build a city-a city o
refu.e-where every Bohemian nigh
come and have 4 home. res., peace, plen
". So lnns as he or she lived or cared Z,
stay. | even drew up a plan Of my city
and framed few brief laws for It's govern
ment named il Utopia.
On returning t" Wall stree, l chos
three different brokers s-one a bull
house, one 'besr' house. and one
CONSERVATIVE" house. rot them.
With nv clears, sold ST. Paul short
There Was talk Of rust, grasshopers, rain
and foods. st. Paul would tumble 4
the center. IL had already advance'
from eighteen 10 sixty-nine so,d a
sixty y-nine, seventy and seventy-one
With the "bul!s, | bought Pacific Mail
No danger of grasshoppers on Pacii
Mail No drought, no floods or rus;
Pacific Mail had fallen from siIty-two
and wouid surely 20 hack up to eighty
| l bought Pacific A;ail and sat down {
wait fer it to 81 up and St Paul To g
down.
Things began 10 move my way. i b
gan to work vigorously ON the plans t.
my city. | had arranged TO bring IN
dear old parents away from the Far We.
wilds of Oregon, where they had dve.t (,
quarter Of eentuafy. They had nevs
seen the great :ity. Now they should &c