The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-17

straight, thin-nostrilled rose. the broad
 forehead, the square. full jaws almost
 as low as the points where they come beneath the ears as at the chin, suggest ed dignity and high resolve, coupled with
 power of purpose rare in woman The combination of forehead, jaw and nose
 was seldom seen Had it been possessed
 by man it would surely have driven him to the tented field for his profess
 sion.
 But the greatest glory of Beulah Sands was her eyes-large full. very gray, very
 blue, vivid with all the glamor of her
 personality; full of smiles and tears and
 spirituality and passion; one instant
 frankly innocent they illuminated the
 face of a blonde Madonna; the next, seen
 through the extraordinary long, jet-black
 eye-lashes underneath the finely penciled
 black brows, they caress, coquetted, al-
 lured.
 "I afterward found much of this girls
 purely physical fascination lay in this
 strange blending of English fairness with
 Andalusian tints, though the abiding
 quality of her charm was surely in an
 exaltation of spirit of which she might
 make the duliest conscious. As she stood
 looking at Bob in my office that long ago noon, gracefully at ease in a suit of
 gray, with a gray-feathered truban on
 her head and tiny lace bands at neck
 ana NflSl, Sile WdS very eNQulSlle, eN-
 oeedingly dainty, and though southerner of southerners, very unlike the typical
 brunette girl who comes out of Dixie land"
 Randolph waited two hours while Bob and Miss Sands talked That evening on the yacht Bob told his friend that the girl had come because her father,
 who was trustee of many estates in Nir-
 ginia, had been ruined by a squeeze in
 Seaboard Air Line. engineered by one Reinhart of Baltimore, and that the
 funds of which he was the trustee were in jeopardy. Judge Sands could conceal
 his condition for six months. and his
 daughter had come to New York with s6O,000 the familys all. to try to recoup
 the losses. She needed $2O00,0OO. Her idea was to take position with Ran
 dolph X Randolph, open an account in
 her own name, "hurl the last of the
 Sands fortune at the market and await
 success or ruin
 Miss Sands was hired as confidential
 secretary to the firm. Of course Bob
 Brownley fell in love with her She showed marvellous acument in speculating and by October 1 had increased her s6o,
 GOO to sf00, GOO. with three months still left. Her views of Wall street are eX-
 pressed in the following remarks made
 by Bob to his friend, Randolph:
 Jim, if all Wall street had a code
 similar to Beulah Sands to hew to in their sambles. ours would be a fairer and more manly game. and many of the multi-millionaires would be clerking, while lot of the hand -to-mouth traders
 would come down town in a new auto every day in the week. She does not be- lieve in stock gambling. She has worked it out that every dollar one man makes another losesi that the one who makes
 in et1 for tpb bo atc away with; and that the other fellows loss makes him and his as miserable as
 would robbery to the same amount. Yet she realizes that she must get back those millions stolen from her father and is willing to smother her conscience to
 attempt it, provided she takes no un- fair advantage of the other players. The
 other day she said to me- T have decided
 because of my duty to my father to put away my prejudice against gambling, but no duty to him or to any one can justify me iIl playing with marked cards. Jim, there is food for reflection for you and me, don't you think so?e
 Soon after this Bob figured out that sugar. then selling at 110, would jump to 175 if certain legislation then pending in Congress were passed. Here are a few of his comments:
 Standard Oil and the sugar people know whether t is going through, for they control the Senate and the House. and can induce the President to be
 good. When No. 26 Broadway gives the secret order to the Washington boss am. he passes it out to the grafters, there will be a quiet accumulation of the stock. won't there?'
 He knew the senators had begun buy ing, and he decided to buy 10000 shares for Miss Sands and 10000 for himself, n md 1n1fa aaI f. t,, fa,. M
 more in the name of the firm. In the next two days sugar went up to 1S5, mak- ing Q profit, at the prices at which he had bought. of $i.400,0O0 for Miss Sands and Sl,S00,000 for him and Randolph But in the afternoon Barry Conant the Stand ard oil broker. jumped into the ring and began pounding the stock down. It developed subsequently, that his clients. deciding there was good money in smash ing the market had cut the expected dividend and had induced the senate to kill the Legislation on which the stock had risen. Playing with these marked cards,' Conant sold sugar until the price dropped away down. In the panic that resulted Bob threw over all the stock he had bought. wiping out all Miss Sands fortune but $50 GOO and entailing a terrific loss on himself and on Randolph &; Ran dolph.
 "Jim. don't talk to me" he said My conceit is gone. I have learned my les son toGay.f My plans were all right and sound but. poor fool that I was, I did not take into consideration the loaded dice of the master thieves. I knew what they could do, have seen them scores of times. you have. at their slaughter; seen them crush out the hearts of other men just as good as you or |; seen them take them out and skin and quarter slice them, unmindful of the agony of those who were dear to and dependent on their owners, but it never seemed to
 strike me home. It was not my heart. and somehow. I looked at t as a part of the game and let it go at that '"Today I know what 1t means to be | put on the chopping block of the system l butchers. I know what 1t Is to see my