The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-11-24
VOL -UME XXI.


influence of one of Sam WARTS dinners
) the other day erhc fac, ia that no matter
how clever and thorough a mans system
: OF stock operations NAV bc. there Is always
occurring some unforeseen and apparently
insignificant circumstance that is forever
knocking the best laid plans into cooked
up hat
As howf"
well, for instance, about year ago
was doing good 10 in Lake shore, aud
counted on making good clean mp.
discovered, however. tha, there was some
hidden Influence in the market against me.
II didn't exactly defeat my plans. but il
lesscned the profits soon saw tha, there
Was some operator who WAS kept we'll in.
formed as TO my movements in time 10
mako me pay for his knosledse,"
did the broker give you away asked
several
Not at all. never gave an order ia
advance; aud besides used. a. now, hall a
dozen brokers. and slso gave 'cross and
dummy orders in plenty Ono day,
while ! was standing in the window Of my
uptown place, cogitating over this state Of
effairs, an elegant private coupe drove past,
aud stopped just round tho corner from
my door II contained richly dressed
lady and ragged little girl. The latter
got out, rang my basement bell and was
admitted ! sent for my man servant aud
inquired who the girl was. :"
"'She comes for the wash, sir. was the
reply"
"'Does she generally como in coupc9'
I inquired"
Why, no sir, her mother, tho washer
woman is very poor, said my man much
surprised"
''Just then, my own carriage drove round
for me, and, as passed the other. could
nee the lady eagerly sorting the soilcd
clothes in the coupe on her lap, This eI.
cited my curiosity, so ! had the driver fol.
low along behind. Pretty soon tho coupe
stopped and the little girl got out with the
bundle and went into brown stone front
on Twenty-ninth street The coupe then
kept straight on down TO Wall street aud
stopped in front of a brokers office, where
the lady alighted with my entire lot Of
soiled cuffs in her hand
"Your cuffs2" cried ont the entire com.
pany.
Exactly; shirt cuffs. saw through il
all III moment. You see, l amor rAth-
or was "a great hand. while at dinner or
st the theatre in the evening, to think over
my plans Tor the next day, and to make
meiLorsndums on my cuffs 10 consult be.
fore starting down town in tho morning
My washerwoman had found this out and
had been quietly 'coppdrinc my game for
upwards OF year
"Well, by Jove!' said Sam Ward, paus.
ing for moment in the sacred mystery OF
salad dressing.
'Its tho cold fact, continued Keene; lin
less than eight months she had cleared
over 5000, 900, and was washing my clothes
in 800, 600 house, She had plenty OF
diamonds and horses until You couldn't
rest
"You didn't make any more cuff memo
randnms after that we warrant" said sov'
eral
"Well, not many Just few" said the
great operator. 81 believe kept II up
about month longer, at the end OF which
time had raked in the washerwoman's
bank account, and even had mortgage on
the brown stone front. II was queer CO.
Incidence, wasn't it? But perhaps the in
formation she found on the cuffs after that
wasn't as exact ~ it had been, somehow,
nor as reliable"
And the king OF the Street" emptied
his glass with an indescribable wink,
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