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The Mena weekly star., 1907-04-25
News Notes and Personals

Sam Goodner of Odeu was in the city on business Tuesday.
 w. w. Townsend went out to Ink Friday to visit his parents.
 Dr. James of Wickes was trans acting business in the city Mon day.
 Jack Embry, of Bales Scott county was trading in the city Monday.
 John Mckinney and Eli Turner were in from Rocky last Satur- day morning.
 James Lowthers and daughter of Rocky were in attendance at court Tuesday.
 Judge Shaver is in De Queen this week, where he is hold ing chancery court.
 Attorney Will Steel, a promi- nent young lawyer of Texarkana, is in the city Saturday
 Tilden and NJ. l.. Standridge from near Eager were in attend. ance at court this week.
 w. l. Collins, a merchant oi Granniss, was in Mena Tuesday buying big bill of goods.
 w. T. Bradbury arrived home last week from an extended busi- ness trip to points iu Texas.
 John Pugh, progressive farmer of Pughtown, I. T.. ,sold a bale of cotton in Mena Monday.
 w. W. Martin and J. T. Woods were over from Mount Ida on a few days business trip Monday.
 Wesley Williams came up from Gillham Friday with the in- tention of making his home here.
 Bert Stewart, attorney from Winthrop is attending circuit court, arriving h the city last week. @
 Mrs. Jennie Whayne and daughter, Mrs. Macon, are visit. ing at the home of $. B. Robert son.
 A car load of household effects billed to this city for I. Saucr- baugh of Tangier, Okla, arrived last week.
 D. C. Golf of the firm of Golf x Gamble at Gillham, was trans acting business in the city We'd nesday.
 Tom Reece, a prominent busi- ness man of Black Springs, was trausacting business in the city Monday.
 Tom Knight, a prominen citi- zen of Oden was in the city on a few days business trip the first of the week.
 Willis Thompson drove out to Board Camp last Saturday to bring his mother to the city for a few days visit.
 Eugene McCann left last week for Chicago to take six months coulse iu the Chicago School of Engraving.
 w. F.. Warren, a merchant of Mimosa, was in Mena Friday buying a big bill of goods from our merchants.
 J w. Lacefield and family of Umpire, Howard county, are in the city the guest of Mir. and Mrs. T. B. Faulkner.
 Zack Yeargan left Saturday night for Kosoma, 1. T. to accept a position with the Pine Creek Lumber Company.
 Mir. and Mrs. B. Lassetter have returned from a two weeks visit to their old home at Oden, Mont gomery county.
 Deputy Sheriff William Little returned from Rich Mountain Monday, where he spent Sun. day with his family.
 Mrs. Joseph H. Cox left Fri
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 No. 3 Sunday from Kosoma, l. T., where he has been in the em- ploy of the Pine Creek Lumber Go.
 Dr. Vandivef reports the ar rival ot a fine~ baby girl at the home of MT. and Mrs. Judson Thomas in Halls addition last week.
 BIG. Wootten, who is in charge of the Mt. Meua hotel, was in Mena Saturday and called at the office of The Star, and arranged to receive the paper regularly.
 K. H. Templeton was in from his home at Iuk doing some trading Wednesday, and placed his name on the Weekly Star sub- scriptson list.
 Mr. and Mrs. w. c. Rowton returned to their home at Black Springs Wednesday alter few days visit with relatives and friends in this city.
 Mir. Parsley was in from Fughtown, I. T., last week with a bale of cotton which he placed on the market at 9 1.2 cents per pound.
 Dr. w. P. Parks arrived home from Texarkana Friday and reports having left Mrs. Mack Davis still imprvoing from the operation of the first of the week.
 Mrs. Lottie Beemer and little daughter, Miss Janice, arrived Saturday night from Ocean Park, Cal, for q couple of weeks visit the family of her brother, T. J. Webster.
 NJ. Barnard, wife and daughter arrived ia the city late Sunday afternoon from Oden, to attend court. Mr. Barnard reports the fruit in his vicinity as being quite badly damaged.
 Emmett Lindsay, who has been working in his brothers job printing office at Texarkana since its establishment in that city, arrived on No. 5 Tuesday after. noon for a short visit with his parents here.
 Mrs. Dr. A. J. Pool and little daughter, Clover, also her married daughter, Mrs. Carrie Johnson, of Hatfield, are over at Oden. Montgomery county, visit ing at their old home, expecting to be absent about two weeks.
 George B. Dennis is going to fence, level anG generally clear up his 7-acre tract of land just across the railroad tracks east of town. He thinks 1t would be a fiue place to hold the annual fair and offers the free use of it for tbat purpose.
 Dr. A. J. Pool was called to the home of William Davis, who resides on farm about six miles east of Page, I. T., last week, to render medical aid to MT. Davis, who is suffering from severe case of dropsy. The doctor reports that four gallons of water was drawn from his body.
 w. F. Graham of Howard is serv- ing on the grand jury this week. He states that he has just deeded some land to the school district at Howard and that school house will be built at once. Mr. Howard says that all fruit in his neighborhood is uninjured so far. He is particularly interested in peanuts, as he finds them a profitable crop.
 Mrs. Swayder died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tom Mi- lam, last Friday evening and was laid to rest in the Daniel cemetery Saturday, Rev. Lee Daniel con. ducted the funeral services. Mrs. Swayder was a native of Ala bama. She was a true worker for God, having professed a hope m Christ when only fifteen years of age. She was about fifty years of age. A large number of rela- tives and friends mourn her loss. TO CELEBRATE SETH ANNIVERARY Lii
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FOR SALE. Entire stock of Plymouth Rocks Chickens.
 NJ. :. Schermerhoru, l6 1t go 6t Oakdale Fruit Farm.
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D. w. Proctor arrived in the city Saturday morning from Ida, La, for a visit with his wife, who came to this city several months ago and rented and is now running a rooniug house
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here. MT. Proctor is well pleased with Meua and will prooaoiy locate here permantly.
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w. w. Mills arrived in the city Tuesday from his home at Win throp and will remain here few days looking after business matters.
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Emmett Lindsay, who has been working in his brothers job printing office at Texarkana since its blishment in that city, arrived on No. Tuesday after. noon for a short visit with his parents here.
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NJ. Barnard, wife and daughter arrived ia the city late Sunday afternoon from Oden, to attend court. Mir. Barnard reports the fruit in his vicinity as being quite badly damaged.
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Monroe Pettitt, deputy sheriff of Scott county was iu the city last week and was the guest of his friend, pr. A. ]. Pool.
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Joe Gooduer arrived home on No. 3 Sunday from Kosoma, l. T., where he has been in the eni- ploy of the Pine Creek Lumber Co
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1nward1y thanked God that Bob was
In his Office instead of on the floor Of
the Exchange. His whole appearance
was frightful He showed in every
line and lineament that he was man
who would hesitate at nothing, even
at killing, if he should find human
obstacle in his road and his mind
should suggest murder. He was the
personification of the most awful mad
ness. Even when he caught sight of
me, he hardly moved, although my
coming must have been a surprise.
$50 it is you, Jim Randolph, is it?
What brings you here?" His voice
was hoarse, but it had metallic ring
that went to my marrow. Bob Brown
ley in all the years of our friendship
had never spoken to me except in
kind and loving regard. looked at
him, stunned. I must have shown
how hurt was. But if he saw it, he
gave no sign. His eyes, looking
straight into mine, changed no more
than if he had been addressing his
deadliest enemy.
Again his voice rang out, What
brings you here? Do you come to
plead again for that bastard Reinhart
after the warning I gave you?"
I clenched both hands until I felt
the nails cut the flesh of my palms. 1
loved Bob BROMLEY. I would have
done anything to make him happy,
would willingly have sacrificed my
own life to protect his from himself
or others, but this madman, this wild
brute, was no more Bob Brownley as
I had known him than the bowling
northeast gale of December is the
gentle, welcome zephyr of August;
and 1 felt resentment at his brutal
speech that I could hardly suppress.
With a mighty effort I crushed it
back, trying to think of nothing but
his awful misery and the Bob of our
college days.
said in firm voice, Bob. is this
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the way to talk to me in your own of.
f1ce?" At any time before, my words
and tone would have touched his all
generous southern chivalry, but now
he said harshly-"To hell with senti-
ment. What" He did not take his
eyes from mine, but they told me that
he was listening to a voice in the re.
ceiver. Only for a second; then he
let loose a wild laugh, which must
have penetrated to the outer Office.
Eighty and coming like a spring
freshet, he said into the mouthpiece,
and the boys want to know if I won't
let up now that Reinhart is down? Go
back and smother them with all they
will take down to go. That's my an
swer. Tell them if Reinhart had ten
more wives and daughters and they
were all killed, I'd rend his damned
trust to help him dull his sorz4gW. Give
the word at every pole that 1 will
have Reinhart where he will curse
his luck that he was not in the auto
mobile with the rest of his tribe
ITO hell with sentiment!" He was
speaking to me again. What do you
want? If you are here to beg for
Reinhart and his pack of yellow ours,
you've got your answer. wouldn't
let up on that flendish hyena, not if
his wife and daughter and all the
dead wives and daughters of every
System man came back in their
grave clothes and begged. I wouldn't
let up share gasped in horror.
When did these robbers of men
and despoilers of women and children
ever let up because Of death? When
were they ever known to wait even
till the corpse stiffened to pluck out
the hearts of the victims? It is nv
turn now, and if let up hair may I.
yes, and Beulah, too, be damned.
eternally damned"
I could not stand it. If stayed. I,
too, should become mad. I reached
for the doorknob, but before I could
swing the door open Bob was upon
me like wolf. He grasped me by
the shoulders and with the strength
of madman hurled me half across
the room. I sank into chair.
mo, you don't, Jim Randolph, no,
you don't. You came here for some
thing and, by heaven, you will tell
me what it is! You know me; you
are the only human being who does.
You know what was, you see what
l am. You know what they did to
me to make me what am. You
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all the real money, and that any at,
fempt upon the peoples part to reguI!
late and control the new system Of
robbery, would be fraught with UNI
paralleled .disaster-not to the "Sys-
tem," but to the people.
Since Bob's return from Europe I
had seen him but a few times. Up
to October LIST he had not been near
the Stock Exchange or "the Street."
Shortly after the listing of the sPeo.
pie Be Damned as "the Street" had
dubbed the new trust, he began to
show up at his office regularly. This
was the condition of affairs when
Fred Brownley called me up on the
telephone, as I related at the begin
ming OF my story which I did not real
ize I had been so long in telling.
My thoughts had been chasing each
other with lightning-like rapidity back
over the last five years and the Is be-
fore them, and each thought deepened
the black mist over my present men
tai vision. In the midst of my re-
nectlons my telephone rang again.
"Mr. Randolph, for Heavens sake
have you done nothing YETI" 1t was
Fred Brownley's voice. Things are
fr1ghtful here. Bob's brokers are sell
ing stocks at five and ten thousand
lot clips. Barry Conant is leading
Reinhart's forces. It is said he has
the POOLS protection order in Anti
Peoples and that it is unlimited, but
Bob has the Reinhart crowd pretty
BADLY scared. Swan has just finished
giving Conant hundred thousand off
the reel in 10000 lots, and he told
me a moment ago he was going to
get Bob himself to face Barry Conant
They're down 20 points on the aver
age, although they haven't let Anti
Peoples break an eighth yet They
have it pegged at 106, but there is an
ugly rumor just in that Bob, under
cover of general attack, is unloading
Anti::People's on to the Reinhart wing
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CHAPTER TX.

The governing committee was hold
ing meeting in its room. Bob rushed
IN unceremoniously.
One word, gentlemen" he called.
Il have more trades outstanding, both
buys and sells, than any other mem
Der or house. Before deciding whether
to adjourn in an attempt to save the
Street, I ask your consideration of
this proposition: If the exchange will
suspend operations for 80 minutes,
and allow me to- address the men,
bers On the floor, I will agree to buy
stocks all around the room, until they
have regained at least half their drop
all of it, if possible I will buy un-
til l have exhausted to the last hum
dred my fortune of billion dollars
This should make an adjournment un-
necessary. I know that this is a most
extraordinary request, but you are
confronted with a most extraordinary
situation, the most remarkable in tho
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.of the one to whom he had sold, and
the price cut in two. The man who
was short" and who few minutes
before had been eagerly counting his
pronts now knew that they had been
turned to loss, because the man from
whom he had borrowed his short
stocks for delivery would be in no
condition to repay for them, the next
DAY, when they should be returned to
him. The Short man was himself,
therefore, ''long" stocks he had
bought to cover his "short" sale. In
depressing the price he had been
working against his own pocket in
stead of against the bulls he had
thought he was opposing. All was
confusion and black despair. There
is, indeed, no blacker place than the
floor of the stock exchange after a
panic cyclone has swept it, and is
yet lingering in it's corners, while the
Survivors of it's fury do not know
whether or not it will again gather
force.
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TEN by which the few take from the
many the results of their labors. The
men who take have no more license,
from God or man, to take, than have
those from whom they flch. They
are not endowed by God with su-
perior wisdom, nor have they per-
formed for their fellow-men any labor
or given to them anything of value
that entities them to what they take.
Their only license to plunder is their
knowledge of the system of trickery
and fraud that they themselves have
created. No man can gainsay this,
for on every side is the evidence.
Men come into Wall street at sunrise
without dollars; before that same sun
sets they depart with millions. So
all-powerful has grown the system of
oppression that single men take in a
single lifetime all the savings of q
million of their fellows To-day the
people, 80,000,000 strong, are shaving
for the few, and their pay is their
board and keep. I saw this robbery.
I felt the robbers scourge. l sought
the secret. I found it here, here in
this gambling-hell. found that the
stocks we bought and sold were mere
gambling chips; that the man who
had the biggest stack could beat his
opponent off the board; that his op.
ponent was the world, because all
men directly or Indirectly played the
stock-gambling game. To win, it was
but necessary to have unlimited
chips. II chips were bought and sold,
on equal terms, by all, no one could
buy more than he could pay for, and
the game, although still gambling
one, would be fair. A few master
tricksters, dollar magicians, long ago
seeing this condition, invented the
system by which the people are ruth:
lessly plundered. The system they
invented was simple, so simple that
for a quarter of a century it has re-
NAMED undiscovered by the world at
large-and even by you, who profess
to be experts. No man thought that
free people who had intended to al
low all the equal use of every avenue
for the attainment of wealth, and
who intended to provide for the safe
guarding of wealth after it was Sc
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for Rogers and Rockefeller, and the
rumor is getting in it's work. Even
Barry Conant is growing a bit anx-
ious. The latest talk is that Reinhart
is borrowing hundreds of millions on
Anti-People's, and that his loans are
being called in all directions Do you
know Reinhart is at his place in Vir-
ginia and cannot get here before to-
morrow night? If Bob breaks through
Anti-People's peg, it will be the worst
crash yet"
"All right, Fred" I answered. Il
will go over to Bob's right now.
hate to do it, but there is no other
hope"
l dropped the receiver and started
for Bob's office. AS I went through
his counting-room one of the clerks
said, They have just broken Anti
Peoples to 80 on bulletin that Tom
Reinharts wife and only daughter
have been killed in an automobile ac-
cident at their place in Virginia. They
first had it that Reinhart himself was
killed. That has been corrected, al
though the latest word is that he is
prostrated'
I raped on Bob's private-ofice
door. I felt the coming struggle as 1
heard his hoarse below, "Come in"
He stood at the ticker, with the tape
in one hand, while with the other he
held the telephone receiver to his ear.
My God, what a picture for a stage!
His magnificent form was erect, his
feet were as firmly planted as if he
were made of bronze, his shoulders
thrown back as if he were withstand
Ing the rush of the Stock Exchange
hordes, his eyes afre with a sullen,
smouldering blaze, his jaw was set in
a way that brought into terrible relief
the new, hard lines of desperation
that had recently come into his face.
His great chest was rising and falling
as though he were engaged in a physi-
cal struggle; his perfect-ftting, heavy.
black Melton cutaway coat, thrown
back from the chest, and low
turn-down white collar formed the
setting for throat and head that re.
minded one of forest monarch at
bay on the mountain crag awaiting
the coming of the hounds and hunters
I hesitated at the threshold to catch
my breath, as I took in the terrific
figure. Had Bob Brownley been an
enemy of mine I should have backed
out in fear, and I do not confess to
more than my fair share of cowardice
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history OF the stock exchange. AL
ready, if what they say on the floor
is correct, over 200 banks and trust
companies throughout the country
have gone under, and new failures
ere being announced every minute
Halt the members of this and the
Boston and Philadelphia exchanges
are insolvent and have closed their
doors, or will close them before three
o'clock, and the shrinkage in values
so far reported runs over fifteen bill
lions. Unless something is done be-
fore the close, there will be a similar
panic in every exchange and bourse
in Europe tomorrow"
The committee instantly voted to
lay the proposition before the full
board. In another minute the presi-
dents gavel sounded, and the floor
was still as tomb. All eyes were
fixed on the president. Every man
in that great throng knew that upon
the announcement they were about to
hear, might depend, at least tenn
porarily, the welfare, not only of
Wall street, but of the nation, per-
haps even of the civilized world. The
president spoke:
members of the New York Stock
Exchange: -.
"The governing committee instructs
me to say that Mr. Robert Brownley
has asked that operations be suspend
ed for 30 minutes, in order that he be
allowed to address you. Mr.. Brown
ley has agreed, if this request be
granted, he will upon resumption of
operations purchase sufficient
amount of stock to raise the average
price of all active shares at least one
half their total drop-all of it, if pos
sible. He agrees to buy to the limit
of his fortune of billion dollars. I
now put Mr.. Brownley's request to a
vote. All those in favor of granting
1t will signify the same by saying
Yes"
A mighty roof-lifting eyes" sound
ed through the room.
"Al those opposed, No."
There was deathly hush.
"Mr. Brownley will please speak
from this platform, and remember, in
80 minutes to the second. will sound
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the gavel for ths- resumption Of bus1-

the gayel for tha-resumption Of bus1-
ness"
Bob Brownley strobe to the place
Just vacated by theS president. The
crowd was growing larger every min
ute. The ticker was already kissing
q tape biograph of this extraordinary
situation in brokerage shops, hotels,
and banks throughout the country,
and in a few minutes the news Of it
would be in the capitals Of Europe.
Never before in history did man have
such an audience-the whole civilized
world Already arose from Wall,
Broad and New streets, which sur
round the exchange, the hoarse bel
low of the gathering hordes. Before
the ticker should announce the re-
sumption of business these would
number hundreds of thousands, for
the financial district for more than an
hour had been a surging mob.
For once at least the much-abused
phrase, HE looked the part" could
be used in all truthfulness. AS Rob-
ert Brownley threw back his head
and shoulders and faced that crowd
of men, some of whom he had hurt,
many of whom he had beggared, and
all of whom he had tortured, he pre-
sented picture such as a royal lion
recently from the jungles and just
freed from his cage might have made
Defiance, Difference, contempt, and
pity all blended in his mien, but over
all was an Iam-the-one-you-are
many atmosphere of confidence that
turned my spinal column into a mer-
curry tube. He began to speak:
Men Of Wall street:
"You have just witnessed record
breaking slaughter. I have asked
permission to talk to you for the pur-
pose of showing you how any mem
'ber of great stock exchange may at
any time do what I have done to-
day. Weigh well what I am about to
say to you. During the last quarter
of century there has grown up in
this free and fair land of ours a sys-
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the arbitrary manufacture of stocks,
and by their manipulation did to me
what I afterward discovered I could
do to them, without any resources
other than my right to do business on
the floor of this exchange. You saw
the outcome, in the second Sugar
panic, of my first experiment. In a
few minutes cleared a profit of S1O-
100000. I could have made it fifty mil
lions, or one hundred and fifty, but I
was not then on familiar terms
with my new robber-robbing device,
and 1 had yet heart To make
this ten millions of money, all
that was necessary for me to do was
to sell more Sugar than Barry Conant
could buy. This was easy, because
Barry Conant, not knowing of my
newly invented trick, could buy only
what he could pay for on the morrow.
or, at least, what he believed his
clients could pay for; while I, not in
tending to deliver what sold-unless
by smashing the price to point where
I could compel those who had bought
to resell to me at millions less than
sold at-could sell unlimited amounts
literally unlimited amounts. When
Barry Conant had bought all that he
thought he could pay for, he was
obliged to beat retreat in front of
my offerings, and was able to smash,
and smash, until the price was so low
that he could not by the use of what
he had bought. as collateral, borrow
sufficient to pay me for what I had