The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-08-02
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Thousand Dollars ant7 LunntiS.
It was q brokers' Office.
1he droning announcements OF the
young man with the chalk; intervals
1 nlled with conversation that soon as
sumed anything but business charac.
ter. Would you believe it? The broker
and his customers were involved in a
aabyrinthian argument relative to the
nature of the deity. and this was sue
ceeded by abstruse speculations on the
s probable consequence of an irresistible
force coming in contact with an I'M
movable mass.
lisa fascinating topic--at least we
found it so-and I cheerfully recon-
mend it for trial when conversation flags
around the cracker box in the corner
S grocery or when you cant get fourth
hand for what In the club. The dis.
.scnssion was switched back so the mar
ket by an occurrence that partook 81
the tragic, an episode that left ghast
ay impression on me, If not on all.
The door opened, and in walked .
man who was laughing and fairly
glowing with merriment. His laugh
Ter was infectious, butt was the only
m1an who smiled. The others turned
uneasily in their chairs, and stared out
OF the windows and began to read the
newspapers.
Good morning, hal hal Charley. ha.
ham giggled the newcomer; chow. huh
thuh! huh! how's u. P, ha! ha! this
morning? ha! hal and he went on In p
mild paroxysm of cachinnation.
5 -. He's struck it lucky" thought
and, as remarked before, could not
Z help smiling and feeling glad with
him. Not so the broker. With trou-
bled look he took the joyous man by
i the hand, spoke to him in a low tone.
and led him out, the latter continuing
to bubble and spntter like an over
wrought tea-kettle. Presently the
: broker re-entered, shook his head, and
sighed.
THAT poor chap gives me The shiv-
ers," he said; 81 wish he would keep
out of here" Then he went on TO eX-
plein TO me what was familiar
TO MI his regular visitors. ''That
= man" he said, was Spectator. He
had never made much in any deal and
was generally on the losing side. a
few years ago he came in just before
the opening and put up one thousand
dollars, all he had, to sell U. T. II
stood at one twcnty-four. He left the
p room with kind of desperate air.
saying if U. p. rose point and wiped
him out he should never speculate
!. again, for the thousand was the last he
had. Well. sir, on that day U. 2. went
down in tho most sensational way on
record; not an eighth at a time. or by
Jumps of point, but by ten points at
lick, and when 1t stopped it was down
TO sixty. Every point meant one thou
sand dollars for that man.
Toward the close of business he came
in. He hadn't been watching the mar
lrct during the day, and he couldn't I'M
derstand it when he looked at the
board. We had to get around and eX-
plain things to him as if be were
<. child. When finally gave him check
for sixty-three thousand dollars he be-
gan to laugh. He laughed when he de-
posted the check at his bank, and he
hasn't stopped laughing yet"
1t was comforting to know that this
unfortunate, turned crazy by good l'lcls'
-nettcd enough by his prosperous ven.
ture to keep him and his family in good
circumstances during his life.-Chicago
:, Times.