Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-28

practice OF brigandaee, hdd cone 70
look on il as legitimate, lawful bust
ness. and on laws forbidding OF ham
pering it as outrageous. sociaIistic, an
archistic. attacks upon the social or
derl"
Roebuck had given me the impress
sion that it would be six months. at
least. before what ! was in those fatu-
GUS days thinking of as our plan for
putting the coal Industry on a sound
business basis" would be ready for the
public So, when he sent for me short
ly after | became engaged to Miss FL
lersly, and said Melville viii publish
the plan on the first OF next month and
will open the subscription books on
the third-a Thursday" | was taken
by surprise and was anything but
pleased. His words meant that, if
wished to make a great fortune. now
was the time to buy coal stocks, and
buy heavily-for on the very day OF
the publication of the plan every coal
stock would surely soar Buy | must;
not to buy was TO throw away a for
tune. Yet how could | buy when
was gambling in textile up to my limit
of safety. If not beyond?
| did not dare confess TO Roebuck
what was doing in textile He was
bitterly opposed to stock gambling.
denouncing it as both immoral and
unbusinesslike. No gambling for him.
When his business sagacity and fore
sight 90 informed him certain stock
was going to be worth a great deal
more than it was then quoted at, he
would buy outright in large quaint
ties; when that same sagacity and
foresight of the fellow who has him
self marked the cards warned him
outright. But gambLe-neverl And ]
felt that, if he should learn that had |
staked a large part of my entire for
tune on a single gambling operation, |
he would straightway cut me off from |
his confidence, would look on me as |
too deeply tainted by my long career |
as a "bucket-shop" man to be worthy /
Of full rank and power as a financier.
do not gamble. Their only !
vice is grand larceny
All this was flashing through my 4
mind while / was thanking him.
81 am glad to have such long fore
| was saying. Can | be of /
Use to you? You know my machinery
S perfect can buy anything and in
my quantity without starting rumors
Ind drawing the crowd"
NO, thank you, Matthew" was his
answer. Il have all of those stocks
yish-at present"
Whether it is peculiar to me, | don't
not-but my memory
s so constituted that 1t takes an in
lelible and complete impression of
whatever is sent it by my eyes and
.ars; and just as by looking closely
'ou can find in a Photographic plate
hundred details that escape your
lance, so on those memory plates of
nine l often find long afterward many
nd many a detail that escaped me
shen my eyes and ears were taking
he impression. On my memory plate
f that moment in my interview with
| find details so significant
hat my failing to note them at the
ime shows how unfit | then was to
uard my interests. For instance, |
nd that just before he spoke those
lords declining my assistance and
implying that he had already in
reased his holdings. he opened and
losed his hands several times. finally
losed and clinched them-a sure sign
f energetic nervous action. and in
nat particular instance sign Of de-
option, because there was no energy