The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-11-08

Mas possible foH II E@ONEeOAaH w y
h@ Nt3} studied me d~NhiooslN, Whsn ey
ghNnsst / wasn't SCetnE AIM Au" a.
g@Nsa ,tst he said ou>e IT'S your
! 1asu Nlae&lo1S, II YOU Sool" Su,n
ss,amsSc ~ look less like n spanish wv
Sash;vE iwtA the rims, s3&onG 1oNtul,N.
As,,yat far somebody to Gorn anu tess!
'1Sat | eau't,' said l. NM WS"'o-
/ M h %oaHi@NecAuSe THAT'S me-
Nne SATURDAY he brought q 1a,'Slhs
ynsSteY down I nay country place
! rSwn R}l, which | hought OF the bu-
! Seeak estate and completely Feuho"-
| &eA ! saw what the mans ouslhess
] MSS tNe instant l locked at htmN
| sNf ann in The hail and TOOK Mo"So"
NGt for me-" / protested, "rhere's
where / 6raw the line
~NNu Cent understand he urged,
r~TNls Io)}ow, this Alphonse Lynch, OUT
/ IN the hail there, isn't going TO 'eaen
SoW dancing SO that You may aan9e'
0ut 50 that yoa shall be less a"N-
/ wS-; III sTsS9Sg& company,
NY walk suits me-" said l. "And
| SaN't talt over furniture or trip peo-
| pie u}s' .,,.
von haven't the complete controi OF
vz,lr body teatll make YOU uncon-
s,,sa,s az il when you're suddenly shot
w a butler Int a room fun or people
| ynu suspect OF being unfiiendly and
! Critical"
No. until he used his authority rs
| Observation-Disclosures, did i NieIo. II
| may seem absurd to some FOR a serl-
| Gus man like me solemBly 30 caper
shout IN imitation OF a scraping, grim
/ acing Frsnch-IriShtman;; but MonsSn
WAS right. and / haven't in the least
minded the ridicule he has Dug on
| me by ;attling this and the other THINGS
| ~eNe1ywhere, since he turned AGAINST
-. -, ,,%u~ ,,rrihY tho SIN
| for the crowds of ch~uckleheads TO
/ laugh where they ought TO applaud:
tne3r habit Is to laugh and to applaud
In the wrong places. There's no part
! 81 MY career that I'm prouder of than
| the whole of this thorough course OF
| e~3Gcation in the trifles that are yet
| not tribes, To have been ignorant is
/ no disgrace; the disgrace comes when
] one persists in ignorance and glories
! in i,
Yet those who make the most pre-
] tensions in this ~topsy-turvy of q world
| regard it as a disgrace to have beeT
! obscure and ignorant, and pride them
selves upon their persistence in their
own kind of o~bscurity n ignorance!
Ne wonder the few strong men do
i about as they please with such a race
OF nliscompoopery. If they didn't grow
old and tired, what would they not do?
All this time / was giving myself-or
4 lAEIl-1LI 4 &sS SiN4AIS Lay ~
MY business. as usual. / know now that
the new interests had in fact crowded
the things down own far into the
background, had impaired my judg-
n7ent, had suspended my common
sense: but ] had no inkling of this
then. The most important matter that
was occupying me down town was
pushing Textile up toward par. Lang
don's doubts, little though they infiu-
| snced me, still made enough of an i'm
preston to cause me TO test the mar
ksL l sold for him at ninety. as he
had directed; l sold in quantity every
day. But no matter how much I I'M
loaded. the price showed no tendency
10 break.
This" said I to myself. "is a testi-
naonial to the skill with which 1 pre-
pared for my bull campaign" And
that seemed to me-an u~nslspicious as
| then was-a sufficient explanation of
the s~teadiness of the stock which /
had worked to stablish in the public
confidence.
/ felt that, IL my matrimonial plans
should turn III as I confidently ex-
peeted, I should need a much larger
fortune than I had-for I was deter
mined that my wife should have ar
establishment second to none. Accord
ingly, I enlarged my original plan. ]
had intended to keep close to Langdon
in that plunge; I believed / controlled
the market, but 1 hadn't been in Wall
street twenty years without learning
tina the worst thunderbolts fall from
cloudless skies. Without being in the
least suspicious of Langdon, and sim
ply acting on the general principle thai
surprise and treachery are part of the
code of high finance, l had prepared tc
guard, first, against being taken in The
rear by a secret change of plan OF
Langdon's part. and, second, agains1
4 hasy,r In, y-n1yn1 and 0ynT1y h n1Yno1 nv 9
sudden secret attack on him from som
associate of his who might think h
had laid himself open to successful
raiding.
The market is especially dangerous
toward Christmas and in the spring
toward Christmas the big fellows Of
ten juggie tbs stocks to get the none.
for their big Christmas gifts and aims
toward spring the motive is, Of course
the extra summer expenses OF thei
families and the commencement gift
to colleges. 1t was now late in tn
spring.
I say I had intended to be cautious
/ abandoned caution and rushed Il
boldly, feeling that the market was
In general, safe and that Textile wa
under my control-and that I was on
of the kings Of high finance, with m
+ lucky star in the zenith. / decided t
continue my bull campaign on my ow
) account for two weeks after I had un
loaded for Langdon, to continue 1t un
til the stock was at par. I had no dill
. fculty in pushing it up to ninety-sey
en-, and I was not alarmed when
found myself loaded up with 1t, quote
at ninety eight for the preferred an
: thirty for Thu common. / assumed thu
I was practically it's only supporte
and that 1T would slowly settle BAG
as I slowly withdrew my support.
i To my surprise, the stock did M
r yield Immediately under my efforts
v depress it. / sold more heavily; Te'
tile continued to show a tendency
j rise. I sold still more heavily;
: broke a point or two, then steadied al
rose again. Instead of sending o.
along my secret lines for inside info
4 nation, as I should have done, al
q would have done had I not been In
7 state OF hypnotized Judgement we
y to Langdon! ! who had been studyll
d those ~scoundrels for twenty-odd yeal
and dealing directly with and for the
IS for ten years!
d (Continucd Next Week.)
Safe.
From Harper's Weekly.
An official in the land office at Washia