The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-23

and that the reckless young man from
Montana might be acting upon Informal
ton of a definite character But among
the veteran spectators the feeling was
conservative. Before buying they pre-
ferredato wait some sign that the advance
had actually begun. The conservatives
were mostly the bald old fellows. Among
the Illusions that rarely SURVIVE a mans
hair in Wall street is the one that sure
things" are necessarily sure.
Percival watched Consolidated Copper
go back to 10, and bought again-10. 900
shares. The price went up two points the
day after his orders were placed, and two
days later dropped back to no. The con-
servatives began to agree with the young
er set of SPECTATORS in SO far as both now
believed that the stock was behaving in
an unusual manner, indicating that
something was doing" that manipulation
behind the scenes was under way to a
definite end. The conservatives and the
radicals differed as to what this end was.
But then, Wall street is nourished almost
exclusively upon differences of opinion.
Percival now had accounts with five
firms of brokers.
"Relpin.'' exclaimed Uncle Peter,
lis a foxy boy. He's foxier than a
fox. He not only tried to hedge
on what he told me,-said he'd been drink
ing absinthe frappe that day. and 1t al
ways gets him dreamy,-but he actually
had the nerve to give me the opposite
steer. OF course he knows the deal clear
to the center, and Shepler knows that he
| knows, and he must have been afraid
| Shepler would suspect he'd been talking.
So l only traded a few thousand shares
with him. didn't want to embarrass him
| Funny about him, too. I never heard be-
| fore of his drinking anything to speak of
And there isn't a man in the street comes
so near to knowing what the big boys are
pu to. But we're on the winning cards al
right I get exactly the same inforna-
ton from a dozen confidential sources
some of 1t can trace to Relpin, and some
of it right to Shepler himself
Course I'm aleavin' it all to you,,' an
swered Uncle Peter; and I must say.
do admire the way you take hold AMI
get things on the move. You don't let an,
grass grow under your heels. You got !:
good head fur them things. I can tell b,
the way you start out-just like you
pa fur all the world. "I'll feel safe enougI
about my money as long as you keep you,
health If only You got the nerve. Nv,
known men would play a big proposition
haf-thru and then get scared and pull
out. Your pa wa MT that way He coult
get proposition right by its handl
every time, and they never come any to-
big fur him; the bigger they was, tn
better he liked EN- That's the kind o
genius I think you got, You amt afrai
to take a. chance.
! Percival beamed modestly under prais
of this sort which now came to him daily
It's good discipline for me. too, Uncl
Peter. It's what needed, something t
put my mind on. I needed new inter
est in life. You had me down right.
wasn't doing myself a bit of good wit
nothing to occupy my mind. - ~
well, I'm mighty glad you thought u
Sci
ness habits and experience, say nothin
of doubling your capital" sE
e. 'And I've gone in with Burman OH hi
corn deal. He's begun to buy, and he ha
, it cinched this time. He'll be the cor
king all right by June list; don make an
mistake on that. thought as long as "
were plunging SO heavy in Western Tro
ley and Union Cordage. along with til
copper. we might we'll take the sic
: line Of corn. Then we won't have oil
eggs all in one basket
: All right, son, all right! I'm trusti
you. corner in corn is better'n corns
in wild oats any day; anything to kee
you straight. and dom something.
don't care how many million YOU pile VI
hear the Federal Oil peoples back of Il
! copper DEAL
That's right: the oil crowd and She
Y Ter. 1 had it straight from Relpin tn.
l night. They're negotiating now with ii
S Rothschilds to limit the output of the r
Tinto mines. They'll end by controlli1
r them. and then-well, We'll have a roll
d the yellow boys-say. We'll have to Il
e quiet for a year just to count it,
r DO it good while you're dom it, urg
e Uncle Peter. cheerfully. II rely so nu
|. on your Judgment, I want you to get acti
y on my stuff. too. I got a couple millio
e that ought to be workin' harder than tn
r are -.
Good I didn't think you had SO rnu
: gambler in YOU
. It's fur worthy purpose, son. Al
70 it seems too bad that Pishy can't pull o
q something with her bit. when it's to
y had so easy. From what that spang]
g faced beau Of hers tells me, there's got
d be some expensive plumbing done in til
IS castle he gets sawed off on to him.
y We'll let in sis in, too,'' exclaimed h
l. brother. generously, "and ma could use
little more in her business. She's sitti
W up nights to corner all the Amalgamat
It F1ardluck on the island We'll pool ISIS,
If and say, we'u make those Federal Oil pi
is ers think we've gnawed a, corner off t
l. subtreasury. I'll put an order in for 20,
e. more shares to-1norrow-among the thr