The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-21
WENT INTO WHEAT DEAL
A New Workers. Experience With
a Wayback Arkansan.
A MATTER OF DECEPTION
full Working-The Arkansas Man
Died just as the Other Mans
Hair Was Getting Gray.

Three men i'm the visitors gallery IN
the stock exchange talked about max
ing money. The experience of one Is
worth repeating. says the New York
sun.
The people of this earth" he said,
"are still divided in their opinions
about what constitutes legitimate busi-
ness or trade. You hear a good deal Of
a man earning his bread by the sweat
Of his brow. And when somebody re-
peats tina rundown saw you think,
unless you have knocked about every
where in all kinds OF weather. OF saw
ing wood. or harvesting. or log rolling
In a lumber camp. although log rolling
I'm a political convention or In the LOBBY
of a legislature will bring out the
beads on the man who follows either.
There is nothing that will keep a
man awake at night like scheming.
Maybe you thing that scheming Is not
legitimate work. | had a scheme which
was legitimate. and the bottom fell out
of II Just as | thought the project roof
ed i'm. | was on the road TO be the Joe
Letter Of the time. when Joe was on
top. | mean. was at the head OF a
big transportation business. had
contracts with some Of the biggest
shippers in the country. One OF these
was a man to whom a confidence man
would offer a gold brick hands down.
but Lord what a mistake. When any
body undertook to play that old man
for an easy mark he was throwing
away time. He lived in Arkansas
when knew him. I shipped many cars
of cattle for him. sold for him and
] never had a penny's difference with
him in the settlement.
'One day he walked into my office
un%announced. I had not supposed he
ever went 500 miles from home. But he
| came In nearly 1000 miles from home.
and Was as cool as a fan. | remember
well the conversation. for he was the
last man I'm the world ] would suspect
of scheming. lie was whiting. 1
never saw him when he wasn't.
whats wheat WORTH" he asked, as
deliberately as he would ask the time
of day.
What grade?' j asked.
mo. 2 red on Inspection
II looked over the reports. but I was
not in the wheat pit then, and found
that the grade Of which he inquired
was worth so cents.
"'Going up any? ne asked.
'Of course. | did not venture to pre-
I uAAA III aAA'A ~ 80
TO find out the probabilities and let
him know on a mentioned date at a
%third-rate downtown hotel. i reckon
II cost him si.5O a day TO stay there.
everything included. The day l called
he was eating a dinner that ! would
not have offered to a yellow dog. |
gave him the result Of my investiga-
tlon. il there is any such thing as a
man investigating the price Of wheat
three or four months ahead. Some
men claim 10 have that down nne, but
| never DID.
"He questioned ne as IL he had been
a lawyer. The result OF that meet
ing was a date TO meet him in his
house in Arkansas within three weeks.
was met at the station by his boy,
who had picked me out by his faith
er's description. and he drove me 10
the farmhouse. Is miles distant. Ii
was late In the night hen l arrived.
lie led me into the spareroom. lighted a
! candle and made IL fast in the old way,
in its own tallow.
Do you known No. ? red when you
see it, he asked. renewing the con-
versation We had In New York abrupt
ly.
Il acknowledged that / was not an
expert. but that / had acted as in
spector. Then he opened q small bag
OF the cereal and asked me h |
thought Of IL. | did not pass Judgment
on il until daylight. when / told him II
vas Nc. 2 red.
Bet your salvation in heaven 1t is?