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Evening star., 1907-06-23
He Lost His Wits

TOHN LAW the Scotsman, who went over to France
) early in the eighteenth century to work financial
magic that ended in ruin, began to reel beneath the
pressure before the crash came. Laws head is SO
heated that he does not sleep, and has terrible fits
of frenzy" wrote contemporary. " He gets of
bed and stark staring mad about the room,
making a terrible noise, sometimes singing and
dancing, at other times swearing and stamping.
Some nights ago his wife, who had come into the
upon the noise he made, forced to ring the
bell for people to to her assistance. The officer
of Laws guard the first who came, and found
Law in his shirt. He had set two chairs in the mid
die of the room, and was dancing round them quite
out of his wits.
He had to work it off through the muscles like
partner of J. R. keene's, who repaid treacherous
action of Jay GouldS by Selling the wizard collar
and breeches and dropping him down areaway;
like that magnate who, in meeting of the drec-
tors, when he the control of great life insurance
company's assets slipping away from him, stiffened
in his chair kicked out his feet and yelled, Wow,
WOW, wow!
But these are heroic figures compared to some
Norris says that, his hero beheld more and more
OF the spectators he had broken "a vast contempt
for human nature grew within him. Some few were
ness or with sphinxiike indifference, or even with
airy Jocularlty But for the most part their alert,
eager Difference, their subservence, the abect
humility and debasement of their bent shoulders
drove Jadwin to the verge of self CONTROL Prob
ably 1t is true that the Almighty hates qutter.
Men do, at any rate.
Half pathetic and half ludcrous is the portrait we
have of Uncle Danl Drew, who used to pray fer
vently when the market going against him, and
ii his prayers failed of an answer would appeal to
different kind of spirits and then close the windows
draw the shades, and burrow under mountain of
bed clothes. And A. T. Stewart who, like every
great merchant, took chances freely as any Wall
Street man, had soft streak in his adamant; which
showed when trouble came People had told him,
while his great store was building, that it
the wrong side. the cheap side, of Broadway. Prob
ably that worried him more or less, though he
would not admit it. And on the morning of the
day fixed for the opening when he looked out
and saw dreary drizzle OF rain he went away alone
Evening star., 1907-06-23
Misguided Clerks

ALONG with this pride in personal integrity there
f1ourlSheS the financial district habit of help
funess-easy illustrate by hundred incidents, if it
fair to mention names. Once at least when his
chance of profit lay in the direction of panic, old
Commodore Vanderbilt went to a bank president
who tightening the market and, placing large
in his hands, said, Here take this and let out
your money; let the boys have it, One easily
gather seriocomic tales of friends and employees
who wanted to help, but did not quite know how
like those clerks of one of the Streets former great
men, who, in his absence from the city, stringency
developing and loans being called in, Shoveled on
the market all of his securities that they could lay
hands on, and thereby caused panic, SO that when
the master came home he found himself bankrupt
But of course man who enters Wall Street should
that customer of whom Clews tells absurd true
story. This came to the broker and ordered
the purchase of thousand shares of Erie, at the
market. 1t was bought at nlnety-four. Then the
little later ordered it sold 1t brought ninety-two
and half. In less than an hour he had it bought
back again that time at ninety-tive, and before the
market closed he ordered it sold more realizing
ninety Then he returned fifth time, and confided
in Clews First" he said 81 saw a man who told
to SELL l understand one of them is called bull,
and the other is bear. l don't know about those
names; but know now that am jackass
Perhaps the Strangest feature of this episode was
that the victim did not blame the man who bought
and sold the stock for him. broker, said old Troll
lope, is who steppeth in between two men
making bargain, and plundereth BOTH" and
good many thousand losers since his day have tried
to put the burden of failure somebody who was
merely following orders Sound advice is seldom
derful. amazing how people will rush and crowd to
get into hole especially if at the bottom of that
hole there is glistening mystery. Mrs. Howe of
the Womans Bank in Boston, "52o-Per Cent"
Evening star., 1907-06-23

re1nOnStrance with a curse and blow, and then,
hatess and pale, his eyes congested with blood.
rushed into the midst of the traders, and bought,
bought, bought beyond the power of man to
pay for; until, at the sound OF the gavel and
the announcement of his brokers' suspension,
something snapped in his BRAIN and faith
full clerk led him dazed and uncomprehending,
from the floor. He had been mad And even
if do not hold, have argued that
speculation is itself insanity, must admit
that under the stress of excitement, especially
under the strain of loss and failure, spectators
do crazy things.
Panic" is pretty good name for a fnan-
Cial Convusion a commercial crisis, since it
both labels the event and describes the cond-
ton of most of the actors Except to the init ted
the Stock Exchange is Bedlam at the best ,rles
but when fortunes crumbling and feels
safe, the scene suggests Bedlam, with the hospital
at one side and the morgue looming the otner
Not even the big men, leaders who operate, ordi
narly through agents, can quite keep their balance
When things go very wrong, some gesticulate and
swear and yell at their companions; Others pace up
and down, shaking their heads, swapping their fin
gers and muttering to themselves; still Cthers
stand and stare at a spot the floor, and seem to
pay no heed to what goes around them. 1t takes
a physical explosion a mental shock, or both to
set the man right side UP again.
Evening star., 1907-06-23

and relieved himself woman fashion, by good cry.
10 that remedy Stewart often reSorted, they say;
but this did not prevent him from being fighter,
and there is story of his earlier days which shows
the other side of his nature. 1t was while he was in
his first little twelve-foot- front shop, working
salesman, bookkeeper, porter, errand boy, the whole
staff, and a note fell due which he couldn't pay.
Times were dull, his friends were short, the banks
wouldn't be bothered with him. He marked every
article in his store at the wholesale price and plas
tered New York with handbills telling what he had
and how much he wanted for it. The selling out at
the contents of the handbills They found real bar
gains at the shop too and carried away everything
Stewart had to sell Not only did he pay his note,
but he bought his new stock better one for cash.
and never afterward purchased anything credit.
1t took resourcefulness we'll as sand to meet
crisis in this fashion. Somehow it recalls the
French Chamber of Deputies, who, the moment
after the Anarchist Valiant had exploded bomb
in the chamber queled the terror and confusion
with four words Gentlemen the sitting continues!'
And to go back some years. to of our own people,
it brings up Jacob Little, once the Great Bear of
Wall Street, who made nine fortunes and lost
many, but never lost his nerve; Walking, up from
the Stock Exchange day with friend, he passed
through Union Square, where the richest New
Workers then lived Looking at the rows of fine
houses, Little remarked Il have lost money enough
to-day to buy this whole Square-yeS, and half the
people in it" Little spiritually akin to Marshall
Field and Levi Z. Letter, who, while the Chicago
fire still ragged northward had rented old street
car barn at State and Twenteth-sts., and were
doing business.
Escaped Lamp Post
THESE all good losers as the gamblers
J. phrase puts it. which means that they did not
howl when they were hurt. Perhaps it may we'll be
admitted that the average is not good loser,
and therefore is the readily overawed by assur-
and show of force. Following the great fire
of 1896 in New York, the banks knew they ought
to suspend specie payments; but they would never
have done it without the support of the militia
which lined up in front of Trinity church and warned
peaceable citizens to go home Whether Jay Gould
would ever have been heard of, after Black Friday,
but for the deputy sheriffs who gave him chance
to run, is problematical. Spectators who had suf-
fered were hot after him and his partners and, as
Henry Clews has pictured the situation, had any
of the gentlemen appeared outside the chances
were that the lamp post near by would have very
soon been decorated with a breathless body"
Could personal magnetism have saved them? It
is much to be doubted; and there none of it in
that gang. anyhow. Those wonderful black eyes of
Gould's had hypnotic power. but they could control
only one man at time; and though Jim Fisk, the
Prince of Erie was very potentae of bluff, nobody
can imagine him swaying maddened crowd If
one of the conspirators had been Charles H.
Schwab however, and if he could have had time to
Evening star., 1907-06-23

? HEN the hero of Frank Norris 5
novel, The Pit" made his last
desperate stand against the fall
ing market that was crushing
him, he met his best friends
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

says wood Alcohol, Fifty cents
a gallon" A year ago the price
was dollar and fifty cents a
gallon. This dividing by three
the price of alcohol affects more
people than the tariff on iron
and steel. Itlightens the expense
account OF hundreds of thou
ands of families in the United
States. The tariff stand-patters
did their utmost to defeat the
bill placing alcohol on the free
list because they knew it would
lead indirectly to a discussion of
the tariff schedules on many
other articles for which the Am
erican householder is paying two
or three times more than he
ought to pay.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12
To Stop Land Frauds

The Los Angeles Examiner OF
February 5th, states that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has issued the
following executive order to the
secretary of the interior, under
date of Jan. IS, 1907, which is
of general benefit to all who are
in any way interested in govern
ment lands:
"To prevent the fraud now
practiced in the acquisition OF
public lands of the United States,
| have to direct that hereafter
no final certificate, patent, or
other evidence of title shall be
issued under the public land laws
until an actual examination has
been made on the ground by an
authorized officer of the govern
ment; but the following shall be
excepted from the force of this
order:
'First-All claims which have
heretofore been examined on the
ground by an authorized officer
of the government whose report
is found satisfactory.
"Second'-All claims where
heretofore an officer of the gov
eminent other than officers au-
thorized to take final proof shall
have been present at the taking
of final proof to cross-examine
claimant and witness, if such
proof is found satisfactory.
"Third-Allclaims where claim
ants compliance with the law
has been established by contest
or other regular adverse pro.
ceedings.
"Fourth-Entries which may
have been confirmed by virtue of
any act of congress.
administrations and entries
in which no residence or i'm
provement is required by law,
when the lands embraced therein
are strictly speaking in agricul-
tural. districts, or when their
character has been fixed by in
vestigation and classification
made in accordance with law.
"Sixth-Cases of resistance of
patents because of some clerical
error occurring in the patent here
tofore issued.
"Seventh-All Indian aIlot-
ments which have been regularly
approved in accordance with i'll
structions of the secretary of the
interior"
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

There is one daily paper in the
country that is ignoring the re-
ports of the Thaw trail. 1t is
the Congressional Record.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

Chicago is having an epidemic
of disease from drinking infected
milk. One nevers hears of these
distressing conditions in Mil
waukee.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

Instead of getting excited
about the reports that the coal
supply will be exhausted in two
hundred years, it should afford a
comfortable reflection to some
of us.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

1t is reported that the Rock Is
land has sold its spur extension
from Enid to Billings, Okla, a
distance of forty miles. to the
Santa Fe. This line is now be-
ing extending to Bliss, Okla, on
the line of the Santa Fe, and un-
der its new owners the connect
ions afforded will form when
completed very important link
in Oklahoma railroads.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12
OFFICIAL PAPER OF NAVAJO COUNTY

The next millionaire who
Graves an outlet for his money
might found a school in San
Francisco for the Japs.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

Fifty members of Congress
will leave Immediately after the
close of the session on a journey
of inspection to Panama. That
will make just fifty more people
to tell just how the Canal should
be dug
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

That strenuous American
woman, the Duchess of Marl-
borough, is anxious to engage
in slum rescue work, and this in
spite of her failure to rescue the
Duke.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

President Roosevelt, on ac-
count of pressure of business, has
conveyed information to the
Arizona legislature through his
secretary that he cannot attend
unveillng ofthe equestrian statue
of Bucky O'Neill, which ceremony
will occur at Prescott in June.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

The japanese are being urged
by their Government to marry
American wives in order to i'm
prove the stature of their people.
They are also advised to marry
the daughters of American mil
iona1res to improve the finances
of their country. The PROPOSE
ton is a little ahead of time
though. A Japanese title will
have to get an increase market
value in America before the girls
will begin to buyup the little Japs.
An advertisement appearing
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

THE ARGUS only So per year.
Holbrook argus., 1907-03-12

An advertisement appearing
in thousands ofgrocery windows
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26
Court House Situation.

Il is extremely doubtful If either
usitiun or those opposed To the project
fully understand and appreciate the
gravity of the situation. as regards
the care Of the records aud the facili-
ties for expcditing county business.
II is 50 easy tn lose sight of these
matters while magnifying local issues
and threshing the vermont straw of
municipal envy and discomfort. 1t
unght to be understood that the mat
ter Of location is not in issue in this
campaign. Nor is it a question more
nf expenditure than of economy. The
present building has always been in
ADEQUATE to the needs of the county.
More than S., 200 has been paid out as
rent for the Office Of county Judge,
and the building outside has been con
>tructed in order that the county clerk
could haue room i'm which To transact
the county business in his department.
As il is not an officer, except perhaps
the sheriff, has sufficient room. The
advent of Il couple of persons in an
office stops all recording and all at
rempt to east up columns of figures
kept with the expensive machines
until they take their departure, be
cause they are in close proximity t.
the clerks and conversation renders
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26

relieved of the presence of interested
persons, it can make up it's verdict or
reach its conclusions in a definite and
proper amer But our board sits
i'm the common court room and is
forced to consider all matters in the
presence of parties interested, and
with influences brought to bear that
are inimical to proper action and re-
suits.
A casual visitor to the county judges
Office at a moment when no case is be-
ing heard may easily conclude that
the room is abundant and sufficient
for uncounted years, but If he were to
realize that two hundred cases are
heard in that little room each year,
and that every one of them is inter-
rupted, and that only n of several
possible things can be attempted at a
time, and that clearness of Judgment
must needs he impaired by the i'm
proper conditions, he might be led to
take another view of the matter.
The two big safes furnish, to his
mind, abundant safety to the records,
but he should know that they are
full to the last inch of space and that
records are being piled on top and
around that are very valuable now
and whose value will increase with
the years.
And he should he informed as he
takes his departure that not a single
probate file is in fire-proof quarters.
The certified and filed papers in every
I estate that was ever administered in
the county are at the mercy of any
midnight cOnilgration that comes tu
the court house, and after such de.
%struction the end Of difficulty and dis.
aster would never be reached.
The economical question is the chief
question, after all. The matter OF
bonds or direct tax, the amount pro.
posed, less or more. is not of the most
vital Importance. To provide for those
who shall take up our work and who
shall inherit our lands proper facili'
ties and uIquestionable titles, is the
chief consideration, and to this we
should address ourselves at this time
and use properly the opportunity pre-
scented at the election to be held mex,
Tuesday.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26
Deaths and Funerals.
lothian Martin.

lothian Martin died last Sunday at
his home in Blue Hill, aged 80 years,
8 months and l2 days. Funeral serv-
ices were held from his late home on
Tuesday, conducted by Rev. g. w.
Hummel of this city.
Deceased was born in Green county,
Pennsylvania, October s, 1918. He
was married to Rebccca Clegg, March
IL, 1s42, and they came to this county
in 1884, locating at Blue Hill, where
they have since made their home.
He was the father of thirteen chill
dren, eight of whom survive him, and
has forty-three grandchildren and
twenty-nine great-grandchildren liv.
ing. lie was one Of the wealthiest
men of that neighborhood and was
well known throughout the county.
ne having at one time been supervisor
for Potsdam precinct.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26

ManIan Pile Remedy put up in con
venient collapsiblc tubes with nozzle
attachment so that the remedy may be
applied at the very sea of the trou-
Bile, thus relieving almost instantly
bleeding, itching OF protruding piles.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money re-
funded. Sold by Henry Cooks drug
store.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26

Your money refunded if after using
three-fourths ca of a tube of ManZan
you are dissatisfied. Return the bal
ance Of the tube to your druggist, and
your money will be cheerfully return
ed. Take advantage of this offer. Sold
by Henry Cooks drug store.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26
A ChallenSe.

S. q. Thomas, whose school in dis
trict Al closed last Saturday, issues a
unique challenge. At the eXamina-
ton last Friday two pupils success
fully passed the eighth grade examina-
ton who have remarkable records.
They are Eustace, Bean, aged II, and
Cecil Bean, aged 10, sons of Everett
Bean. These two boys have attended
school in district Al, four miles north
and a half mile EAST of Inavale, for
five years and neither of them has
ever been absent or tardy. Mr.
Thomas challenges any school dis
trict in the state to produce two pu
pills with as clean records.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26
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The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26

''Pineules" (non-alcoholic) made from
resin from our pine forests, used for
hundreds of years for Bladder and
Kidney diseases. Medicine for thirty
days, 81. Guaranteed to give satisfac'
ton or money refunded. Get our
guarantee couron from Henry Cooks
drug store
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26
Bonil!a Flees to Mexico.

Mexico City, April 20.--President
Manuel Bonilla, who is fleeing from
Honduras, will arrive in this city to-
morrow. He now is in Las Esperan-
gas. 4 story published here that Bo-
nilla had gone to C~oatzacoalcos and
there boarded a ship for Belize, where
he intended to reorganize his army, Is
untrue.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26
Nav for Sale.

Good prairie hay in stack on section
80, town 3, range ~; is good, bright
draw hay. Phone or write to c. +
Gather, Red Cloud, Neb.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26
Thomas W.. Bishop Dead.

Sioux City, April 23.-Thomas w.
Bishop, one of the best known news.
paper men in South Dakota. died OF
paralysis at Salem, S. ID.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26
II Keeps the Feet Warm and Dry.

Ask today for Aliens Foot-Ease, a
powder. 1t cures chilblains, swollen,
sweating, sore, aching, damp feet. AT
all druggists and shoe stores, 25c.
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26

Unless there is daily action OF the bow
els, poisonous products are absorbed
causing headache, b~iliousness,% nausea,
dyspepsia. We wish you would ask your
doctor about correcting your constipation
by taking laxative doses OF Ayers Pills.
M by tho j. c. Aver Co., Lowell. Mass.-
The Red Cloud chief., 1907-04-26

Total .SlG61I
Mortgages filed, $625O.
Mortgages released, S67i0.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-06-20

lots J block from court house.
$3.50. Ought to double in vaule in
side of IL months.
A snap 10 acres of decided land
with water rights y miles from
postoftice. 5000 cash.
New 4 room plastered house, lot
5ox12o $1o5o; J cash.
$500. room house With ?
acre of land. $11o0 cash.
Snap. 5 room house with 6 lots ;
$3.50 worth of good furniture goes
with the house. All for $3.50.
Look this up.
100 acres close in with 80 acres
water right paid for; so acres un-
der cultivation best of soil. All
Tor $1,000 cash. You cannot beat
this price. This place is worth
$4,000 of any mans money.
Business Chance. $500 will buy
a good business in Mountain Home.
Yearly sales $40, 600. You had
better investigate this as it is a
snap.
have for sale a few good buys
in stock ranches.
ALBERT JOHNSON, Real Estate.
Mountain Home, Idaho
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-06-20
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