The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-02-11

man. with the shiny silk hat pulled
aggrcssively forward. the cigar stuck
upward to meet the hat. the big watch
chain. and the wide-striped trousers.
He Is always at the ticker, too. He
swaggers around with an air OF indif-
ference whichever way the figures 60.
and orders wine in loud voice. and
Is full OF vtips' about the state Of the
market He looks so much like the
pictures that have been drawn Of some
Of the moths that flutter around tho
gaming table candle. and some day the
figures come wrong for him and he
drops out Of sight and the moth has
been drawn into the candle ut last
There is the beardless clerk that comes
running in while his employer has
gone TO lunch. to see how Louisville
and Nashville. on which hc has placed
all his weeks salary In margins. Is
coming on. II comes on very badly
sometimes. and the clamor of tho
broker Is silenced with money that the
clerk never earned. and pretty soon
people talk about another young man
who has betrayed his employer. II Is
just like the stories that have been
told about the gambling fascination.
isn't itp
| This foolish man from the country
said that he heard stories everywhere
about people who had toyed with the
buzz wheel OF this kind OF specula-
ton and. had been hurt He said he
heard that not one story in hundred
ever got to the public. There was one
of the old man that hung ebout the
ticker in Broadway brokers Office
who was on the verge OF starvation.
who. he was told. used to have good
business on Twenty-third street and a
nice house n little this side OF the
Harlem. He had lost his business and
his house and his family and himself.
because no couldn't leave that little
machine alone. Our friend heard about
man who got the fatal fascination
and sank everything he had and finally
went up into the wlds of Vermont
and started dairy. He lived there in
peace and quiet for years and was get
ting along nicely. But one day his
nephew invited him to como down
to the city. and then invited him
TO go into neat little thing
in Lackawanna. and the uncle went
in with all his money and q mortgage
OH his Vermont farm and bill OF sale
for his cows. and when Lackawanna
broke three points he went back up in
to Vermont and killed himself He
heard lots of queer things. this man
from the country. He heard that the
number OF county bank cashiers who
are regular customers of Wall street
brokers would be very surprising TO
the bank depostors OF the county II
their names were dvulged. He heard
that there wasn't bank cashier. who
makes sudden and shameful flight 10
Canada, whose ruin has not been dis
counted long ago by the astutc tele-
graph operators Of Wall street. who
have taken his orders to buy and sell.
He heard that. at tho present time. II
one could know all that the telegraph
operators know. one could pick out the
next county cashiers who would join
the Canada contingent. He heard an
old. gray-headcd operator say that. OF
all the mon who persislently speculate
ed in Wall street. there was not ono
out OF one hundred who was not ruined
by il eventually. aud that this fact was
we'll known and undcniable, and that
In spite OF it. people were failing over
each other. with money in both hands.
in their haste TO toy with the same old
| buzz-saw.
You have known all those things so
long. and soen all these people about
the ticker so often, that you have
ceased to pay any attention to them.
The man from the country had never
seen anything like II before. aud he
thought that IL was pretty significant
sight He said that wherever hc went
no heard OF some kind OF operation
going on by which money could be laid
on chance. In a saloon he heard men
betting quarters on the height Of hat;
betting on tho number OF cracks Ia a
floor. betting OH the number Of white
horses that would pass the door Ia ten
minutes; matching dates on coins; bet
ting that the next man who came in
would or would not be rcd-headed;
betting that President Clcvcland's mes
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