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try, via the Cunard line. arriving In New
York day or two since. l dropped in
here to see the capital city again. | was
here at the grand review of the army in
50. when but ten years Of age. Although
l am forty-siX years of age / feel, after
this trip. that / had grown backward ten
years. | am inclined To think the nearest
approach to the water of everlasting life,
for which Ponce de Leon vainiy sought, is
constant change of scene. L have never, in
the course of my entire life, made more
valuable investment than the expenses of
this trip"
William NJ. Harris. a broker. of Boston,
was at the Raleigh. and said concerning the
recent furry in the stock market:
1T is only the reaction which is always
bound to follow a too high manipulative
market. The inside people have always,
and always will raise and lower the prices
of stocks in such a manner as to place to
their credit the profits of the market
whether the course of the price be upward
or downward The outsiders are mere
guessers. A man of limited means has no
business In the market at a time like this
unless he has sufficient funds to protect his
deals by very large margins. Then. again.
no man should attempt to play the market
unless he can be on the spot to watch the
quotations. Many man who few days
ago was comfortably situated is now PEN
great excitement and saw many pathetic
scenes in brokers' offices there. Men who
had drawn their last dollar from the bank
and then borrowed to protect their hold
ingS had their trades exhausted, and now
find themselves unable to meet the daily
expenses of life, much less to discharge
obligations of loans. People who had never
been in brokers' office and scarcely knew
the meaning of the phrase. lost heavily
through their loans to operators, many of
which will. of course, never be repaid.
Il take present Indications to mean that
a still greater slump will hit the market
before great while. 1 think the stocks
even under ordinary market conditions
have too high quoted value. and are
bound to reach a reasonable level"
That there Is nearly always that in a
man which will respond to kind treatment.
and that no matter how low his social con-
dition, helping hand will stimulate him to
efforts at lettering his condition." said
DR.. William B. Martin of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
at the Arlington was clearly proven to
me during the first grand rush for the
KIondike gold fields three years ago. A
party was organized in my city and took
along as cook a man who had for years
been a hard drinker and fallen so low as to
always 10 loafing about saloons on the
lookout for a drink. He was only taken
along at the urgent solicitation of one Of
the party who had known him in his more
prosperous days, and upon the promise
that he would leave liquor alone He made
good his promise from the time they start
ed When the party had covered about
three-quarters of the journey from the
point where they were landed by the Seat
tie steamer the provisions gave out and
some of the party had to go on to the near
est Indian village. something over a hun
dred miles distant. in order to secure food
and dogs with which to continue the Jour-
ney- The man who had been a hard
drinker insisted upon being one OF the
party to go ahead. And he did and when
two days out between the camp and the
Indian village the two who ACCOMPANIED
! him became so footsore and Ill that they
could neither 60 forward nor back This