Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-16

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wall street has lived through many
black Fridays. Some of them have been
thirteenth Of the-month Fridays, but no
Frisay yet marked from the calendar. no
Saturday Monday Tuesday. Wednesday
or Thursday yet garnered to the store
house Of the past was ever more jubilant-
| " welcomed by his Satanic Majesty than
Yesterday We pray Heaven no COM
ing day may be ordained to go against
yesterdays record for tigerish cruelty and
| awful destruction. IL is rumored that
Mr.. BROMLEY OF Randolph & Randolph,
either for himself or his clients cleared,
| s25 00OO 900 Of profit. We believe that this
| estimate is low The losses coming
through Robert Brownley's terrible on
| slaught must have run over 100000 900.
wall street and the country will do well
| to take the moral OF yesterdays market
| TO their heart IT is this: The concen-
tration of wealth in the hands OF a few
! Americans is a menace to our financial
structure. II is the uEaninoas opinicn
| OF the Street that Robert BROMLEY could
| lever have succeeded in battering down
! the price of sugar in the very teeth of
the Camemeyer and Standard Oil support
as he did yesterday, without cash back
| ing of from $50 600 900 to $780, 900. 900. If a
| vast aggregation of money owners delib-
prately place themselves behind an on
slaught such as was so successfully made
Yesterday, why can that slaughter not be
repeated at any time, on any stock, and
against the support Of any backing?"
When ! read this and listened to
talk along the same lines, was puz-
zled. l could not for the life of me
see where Bob BROMLEY could have
got five to ten millions backing for
such a raid, much less fifty to a hun
dred Yet / was forced to confess
that he must have had some tremen-
dous backing; else how could he
have done what had seen him do?
Bob left his wife at his mothers
house while he went to Sand Land
ing to the funeral After the old
Judge and his victims had been laid
away and the relatives had gathered
in the library of the great white
Sands mansion, he explained their
Sinswoman's condition and told them
that she was his wife He insisted
upon paying all Judge Sands debts,
over 100000 of which was owed to
members of the Sands family for
whom he had been trustee. Before
he went back to his mothers, Bob
had turned a great calamity into an
occasion for something near rejoicing.
Judge Sands and his family wers
very dear to the people of the sec
ton. but his misfortune had threat
ened such widespread ruin that the
unlooked-for recovery of million
and a half was a godsend that made
for happiness.
Two days after the funeral Bobs
dearest hope fed He had ordered all
things at the Sands plantation put in
their everyday condition. Beuah
Sands, uncles, aunts and cousins had
arranged to welcome her and to try
by every means in their power to coax
back her lost mind. They assured
Bob that barring the absence of
Beulah's father, mother, and sister,
there would not be a memory-recaller
missing Bob and his wife landed
from the river packet at the foot of
the driveway, which led straight from
the landing to the uncovered, white
pillared portico. Bob's agony must
have been awful when his wife clap.
ped her hands in childish Joy as she |
exclaimed. "Oh, Bob, what a pretty |
place." She gave no sign that she |
had ever seen the great entrance. |
through which she had come and gone
from her babyhood Bob took her to |
the library, to her mothers room, to |
her own, to the nursery where were |
the dolls and toys of her childhood,
but there came no sign of recognition.
nothing but childish pleasure. She
looked at her aunts and uncles and
the cousins with whom she had spent
her life, bewildered at finding so many
strangers in the otherwise quiet place
AS last hope they led in her old black
foster-mother, who had nursed her in
who was the companion of
her childhood and the pet of her
womanhood There was not dry eye
In the library when she met the old
outburst OF JOY with the puz-
zled gaze OF the child who does not
understand The grief of the old ne
gress was pitiful as she realized that
she was a stranger to her honey
bird" The child seemed perplexed
at her grief. II was plain to all that
he Sands home meant nothing to the
asst of the judges family.
Bob brought her back to New York
and besought the aid of the medical
experts of America and of the Old
World to regain that which had been
recalled by its Maker The doctors
we're fascinated with this new phase
If mind blight, for in some particulars
3eulah's case was unlike any known
instances. but none gave hope. All
agreed that some wire connecting
heart and brain had burned out when
he cruel System" threw on a voltage
beyond the wires capacity to trans
Iit All agreed that the woman-child
wife would never grow older unless
through some mental eruption beyond
human power to produce. Some Of
the medical men pointed to one posi-
bility but that one was too terrible
FOR Bob to entertain.
The first anniversary of their mar
rage found Bob and his wife settled