Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-16

tiny that shapes our ends.
On my part 1 tried to help. On ont
occasion, without consulting her.
put her account in on a sure thing
underwriting, wherein she stood t.
make a profit Of quarter Of mil
lion, but when Bob told her what
had done, she insisted with great dig.
nifty that her name be withdrawn
After that neither Of us dared hell
her to any short cuts. Bob was deep.
lily impressed by her principles, and
commenting on them, said: "Jim, II
all Wall street had a code similar tc
Beulah Sands to hew to in their gam
bles, ours would be a fairer and more
manly game, and many Of the multi
millionaires would be clerking, while
a lot of the hand-to- mouth traders
would come down town In new auto
every day in the week. She does not
believe in stock gambling. She has
worked 1t out that every dollar one
man makes, another loses; that the
one who makes gives nothing in re-
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that the other fellows loss makes him
and his as miserable as would rob-
berry 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: I have
father, to put away my prejudice
against gambling. but no duty to him
or to any one else can justify me in
playing with marked cards. Jim,
There is food for reflection for you and
me. don't you think?"
| did not argue with him, for. after
that Saturdays outburst. had made
up my mind to avoid stirring Bob up
unnecessarily. Also, had to admit to
myself that the things he had then
said had raised some uncomfortable
thoughts in me, thoughts that made me
glance less confidently now and then
at the old signs Of Randolph & Ran
dolph and at the big ledger which
showed that I, an ordinary citizen Of
free country, was the absolute pos
SCISSOR of more money than hundred
thousand Of my fellow beings together
could accumulate in a lifetime, al
though each had worked harder, long
er, more conscientiously, and with
perhaps more ability than l.
AS to how Beulah Sands code had
affected my friend, I was ignorant.
For the first time in our association l
was completely in the dark as to what
he was doing stockwise. UP to that
Saturday 1 was the first to whom he
would rush for congratulations when
he struck it rich over others on the
exchange, and he invariably sought me
for consolation when the boys upper
cut him hard" as he would put It.
Now he never said q word about his
trading. I saw that his account with
the house was inactive, that his bal
ance was about the same as before
Miss Sands advent, and I came to
the conclusion that he was resting on
his oars and giving his undivided at
tention to her account and the exc
cution Of his commissions. His hand
ling Of the business Of the house show
ed no change. He still was the best
broker on the floor. However, know
ing Bob as 1 did, could not get 1t
out Of my mind that his brain was
running like a mill-race in search of
some successful solution Of the tre-
mendous problem that must be solved
in the next three months.
Shortly after the October l state
ments had been sent out, Bob dropped
in on Kate and me one night After
she had retired and we had lit our
cigars in the library he said:
"Jim, 1 want some Of that old fash
ioned advice of yours. Sugar is SELL
ing at 10, and 1t is worth 1t; in fact
1t is cheap. The stock is we'll distrib-
uted among investors, not much Of 1t
floating the street A good big buy
ing movement, we'll handled, would
Jump it to It's and keep 1t there. Am
sound?"
I agreed with him.
"All right. Now what reason Is
there for a good, big stiff uplift? That
tariff bill is up at Washington. If 1t
goes through, sugar will be cheaper
at IT'S than at no."
Again I agreed.
"'Standard Or and the sugar peo-
pie know whether it is going through,
for they control the senate and the
house and can induce the president to
be good What do you say to that?"
20. K," l answered.
No question about it. is there?'
Not the slightest"
Right again. When 26 Broadway
gives the secret order to the Washing
ton boss and he passes it out to the
grafters, there will be a quiet accumu-
lation Of the stock. won't there?'
You've got that right, Bob"
And the man who first knows when
Washington begins to take on sugar Is
| the man WHO SHOulu lOdu up quiSh
and rush it up to a high level. If he
does it quickly, the stockholders, who
now have it, will get a juicy slice OF
the ripening melon, slice that other
wise would go to those greedy hypo-
critics at Washington, who are always
publicly proclaiming that they are
there to serve their fellow country
men, but who never tire Of expressing
themselves to their brokers as not be-
ing in politics for their health"
so far. good reasoning" l COM
mented.
Jim. the man who first knows when
the senators and congressman and
members Of the cabinet begin 10 buy
sugar is the man who can kill four
birds with one stone: Win back a
part of Judge Sands stolen fortune;
increase his own little pile against the
first of January. when. If the little Vir-
ginian lady is short a few hundred
thousand of the necessary amount, ne