Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-17

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HfRbsN investin' 10 min
~ in stocks and one
~ fool project and
another" said
Deacon Hayseed.
w. 'I used TO think
that the man who invested his
money in these here mimi stocks
that air hoatin' round the country
wuz simply q tarnal fool who Wuz
soon parted from his money. /
never knowed q man who ever got
a cent cut nv one nv them there
mimi schemes an l hev knowed
q good many people who heV lost
all they put in. But as l say, l
hev changed my mind somewhat.
There is Zeb Watkins, fur the last
ten years to my certain knowledge
Eeb has been investin' his spare
cash in one mimi deal and anoth-
er and never got a cent back.
sTother day I seed Zeb in the post
Office. He he'd just got a letter
inclosin' some stock in the "Little
Napolean Copper mine" located
som'ers out in Arizona l think. l
asked Zeb how much stock he had
and he told me that he had 5000
shares"
show much did it cost ye, Zebi
I says, saysI.
"Twenty-ive dollars" SEE he.
"Here's the prospectus, deacon"
saws he. "Right neaI to one OF
them big lodes that hez made Clark
the richest man in the world per-
haps. Some Nv the stock in them
big mines heZ sold fur a hundred
dollars a share and there amt rally
no good reason accOrdin' to this
prospectus, why this here mine
shouldn't be worth as much as
that. In that case, deacon, these
here shares will be worth FIVE hun
dred thousand dollars. Just think
of it, deacon-half million dol
lars-an' then again, this may be
worth more than any Of them big
mines; it may be worth two hun
bred dollars q share, no tellin'."
"Zeb,' 1 says, says La breakin'
in, ''yOu hev been %inVestin' in
mimi stocks to my certain know
ledge fur the last ten years. Hev
you ever drawed out a single soil
tary cent in the way Nv diVi'
dendsf"
oNary a cent so fur Deacon" he
SAYS as cheerful as a iaybird in
spring time, ''but that amt nc
particular reason why I never will
And then, deacon, takin' the wOrs
view of the case possible igurt
that I'm ahead on the hui deal"
Chow is that" says /, yO1
must hev paid out a good man.
dollars fust and last; the hui sun
must be up in the hundreds ant
mebby in the thousands. If yoV
hev never got a cent back I dom
exactly see how you figure tina
you air ahead on the hui DEAL"
Well, it's this way, deacon
You heard my figures on thi
mimi stock that Ihev here in m.
hand. Well, there amt rally n
good reason why them estimate
shouldn't come true. There ]
Just as much reason to suppOs
that this mine will pass out a
there wuz to suppose that one u
Senator Clark's mines would pa
out before the ore was discovered
Clark wuz aguessin'; he happens
to guess right; why shouldn't
I hev this much advantage u
him: When he first invested I'll
mines want developed in that r.
giOn; now they be. When his fe
lars commenced to dig, the
didn't know fur sure that the
wuz any considerable amount U
copper in that country; now v
k4OW buul luOAC Ae3 bn0O ~ WAOAO
hev the advantage Of Clark, 70
see. But speakin' Nv the none
Ihev heretofore invested. WhC
I invested in any one nv the
mines the prospect seemed just
good as this one does now. I j
vested irum twenty. five to IF
dollars in each one. Fur 5
months or a year after l invests
in any one Nv them there mines
WIZ worth anywhere frum fl
hundred thousand to q MILF
dollars-in my mind-I took E
CursiOns to Europe and travel,
round through England, Fran
and Germany; lOaied round the
in OF Greece an Rome, an 90
where they used to heV the a.
patheater and the Olympic
games. I he'd q little the riphnOl
INCEST time q traYelinr you ev
hear uv-in my mind. I b.
durin' the past ten years bui