Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-09-16
A DREAM AND A DEAD
POIN T."

Sometimes the dream Of th,
wife beats TIE pointer obtaineG
by the husband. A case In point
Is found IN a story told me tn
other day by q Comstocker of th'
way in which he LANDED his boat,
high and dry. in 1879 He is al
industrious carpenter and bis wifi,
a frugal and painstaking house
keeper. For years they did no,
touch mining stocks. They were
not rich. bu, had saved up few
hundred dollars, and felt quite in,
dependent. But a dream put an
end to their quiet mode of life and
threw them into the whirling
malestorm OF speculation.
When Sierra Nevada was g. a
share the wife dreamed that the
stock would go to a big figure.
She was so impressed with her
dream that she gave her husband
no peace until he had invested his
savings in Sierra Nevsds Sure
enough the stock went up. When
it reached $40 share the husband
sold it, though the b,om was still
on. The speculation gave the
pair a little fortune of s., 800
The husband earned the coin
home ia a sack and pound il all out
on a table before his wife who said
il WAS all lust a. she had seen 1t
in her dream"
1t was more money than they
had ever before had st one time.
They were afraid TO trust it in any
bank, aud hardly knew what to do
with it. After much reflection
they put it into an unused stove
pipe hole in wall of their bed
room. then fitted over the hole
paper of the same pattern as that
with winch the room was covered.
All seemed secure and they were
quite happy for few days in the
knowledge that they had So snug
sum laid mp for raIny day.
For a few days the husband
worked away at his trade, but he
soon became fidgety Showing a
isck-plain seemed g slow way OF
making money. He began to
imagine that he Was cut out for a
stock speculator. In this frame OF i
mind he quit work and cruised the
streets about the Offices OF the stock |
brokers. He was looking for a
pointer" and IN his search he
mingled with the "cqrbstoners"
Picking up his ears, be in day or
two caught a word or two that gave
him hint The curbstone opera
tor who hal dropped the hint
proved to be just the man he was
in search of; man who WAS able to
give him dead point"
The point was to buy Wells
Fargo stock at 81 share and sell
It in three weeks at s. a share.
No mistake about tit was a sure
hing. He showed his wife how
EASILY they could get $l7,5O0 for
heir Insignificant little s., 500.
"But Wells Fargo is an outside
nine" said the wife" it is wild
,at.r II
"Yes, but the stock is well held"
aid the husband, land I'll be on
he inside; or about the same, as
ny friend will keep me posted and {
8 in with the parties who are
the mine" {
In with them as a eapper most I
lkely," said his wife.
''Capper be blowed! Don't be I
fool! He's q good friend of mine |
nd q perfect gentleman. You'd ]
ever do anything in stocks, you're I
DO suspicious-all women are that @
ray. They can never pull to-
ether as men do, and SO the
usband vent on. As he mounted Y
table, tore the paper from the A
Iall and lifted the sack from +
3 hiding place he said be had D
cen fooling avay his time too
ing, that be ought to have gone G
,to stocks years before as be un- /
oubtedly had Q real genius Tor A