The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-08-11

Of his investment At the end of tho
week he received polite note from
( Take-it & Keep-it, informing him that
his hundred dollars had been put in TO
make up a cooperative fund" in
| which twenty-five or thirty persons
were interested. There was already a
! profit of two hundred dollars to his
/ credit. but if the cooperative fund.-
| could be doubled, the manager would
be enabled to exert powerful pressure
on the stock market and send prices up
with rush. The profits would then
QuadrUple. Ii was an unusual oppor-
tunity, and the writer of the letter
suggested that if Mr.. Pitchfork did not
happen to have one hundred dollars on
hand il would pay him to borrow it for
q few DAYS. But Mr.. Pitchfork did
have the hundred dollars, and sent il
on with joyful eagerness.
The days crept slowly BY, and Tim
othy's watchful sister began to wonder
what it was that made him so nervous
and absent-minded. At the end of the
second week Timothy received tele-
gram instead of letter. The telegram
read:
NEW YORK. Nav n. 1Ss--TimOfhy Pitch
tHE5G;. Send Us another hundred dollars at
INA. Criry cf members of the "cO-0per:itGVt
sand have resolved 10 take fullest advant-
age Of tie rise. i Will pay you 10 be prompt.
TAKE-IT \ hEEP-IT.
The voung farmer was not exactly
satisfied with this second pOstpOnement
OF the realization of his profits. The
telegram. however, was an intimatiOn
that hasty action was necessary, and he
hurried 10 the village, drew out a third
hundred dollars and dispatched it to
New York. That night he wrote a
note to Take-it d Keep-it, instructing
them TO close out his share in the eco
operative fund.- at once and send him
what was due him. He found that the
anxiety was wearing on his mind, and
disturbing him in the performance of
MS everyday duties. The answer to
his letter came two days afterward. 1t
was telegram saying:
The market has gone against US. Unless
you send us two hundred dollars more you
will be wiped out entirely. Can get you out
with profit II you send us two hundred dol
lars. TAX"
This phase of the case was a severe
blow to poor Timothy. He had not
calculated on losing anything. His
Imagination had reveled simply in the
probable extent of his profits. Now
his only thought was to save the three
hundred dollars he had invested.
Still blindly confident of the integrity
of Take-it & Keep-it, he allowed him.
self no rest until he had drawn two
hundred dollars more of his savings
and sent it to his tempters. The fol
II TO
reflections on Timothy's part, which
were not lessened by the receipt of still
another telegram worded something
like this:
The evil one seems TO have his grip
on the market Still going down.
Must have two hundred dollars more
or all is lost. Will not have to call or
you again"
In sheer desperation Timothy tele.
graphed back:
Il haven't got two hundred dollars
left"
Some innocent dupes. under the cir.
cumStances, might have thought OF
mortgaging the farm. but, fortunately,
Timothy's love of money was not as
great as his reverence for the old home |
stead. In few hours after the young |
farmer had sent his telegram an answer |
came back. He tore it open and read, |
with mingled feelings of sorrow, Shame |
and relief, this terse announcement OF |
the result of his brief session of specu-
lation in stocks:
You are wiped"
The lesson had been a severe one,
hut 1sonn1nl
with it philosophically. He congratu-
lated himself that he had got 1.-The con-
sarned thing" off his mind. The next |
day. however. new emotions were
stirred by the receipt of the following
letter:
NEW YORK, May Is. 1ss-.-Mv Dear limo
by:;,,I know that you will be surprised and
perhaps panied at what am going TO say.
am going 10 ask you'to lend me one hun
dred dollars, and L will tell you why. Since
! have been here, now nearly year, have
been doing nicely in the store. My employer
was very kind and was getting good wages.
Until q few weeks ago 1 had one hundred
and twenty dollars saved up. OF course.
became acquainted with the other girls in
five other girls in making up cooperative
fund" for a safe investment in stocks-I
mean those things that they buy and sci, and
bet on in Wall street. One OF the girls read
about the cooperative fund" in a weekly |
paper. and afterward she saw a circular
which showed how large sums of money
could be made with small investments. The
circular was signed by Take-it a. keep-it |
bankers and brokers" on Broadway, and il
was addressed especially TO ladies: put in
ten dollars with the five other girls and we
each expected to get one hundred dollars by
the end of the week. We only got FIVE dol
lars apiece, but the manager for the firm
wrote US that he would reinvest our original
fund, and as the prices Of stocks were going
up with q rush he would advise us TO send
him as much more as we could and we might |
easily make several hundred dollars.
Well four of US girls wanted to send
twenty dollars more each. but two out of the
SIX did not have it. / thought il was per-
fectly safe, so told the two girls who had
money that would advance their share out
of my savings. In few days we got a nice
little note from the firm, saying that our
money had already trebled, but that il would
be bad policy TO close the transaction, as the
market was bound to go higher. OF course,
we ali felt very jubilant and happy. It so
happened that the superintendent Of our
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