Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1909-05-28
THE JUNE "EVERYBODY'S. -

"Robbing the Hand that Feeds is
a bitter arraignment of the Commits
sion Agent by Forrest Crissey. "ln
every honest heart" says Mr.. Crissey,
lis the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF a first
debt of gratitude to those who grow
things. The man of the garden, the
orchard, and the field, who sets his
wits and his toll against the odds OF
weather and weeds and pests, is a
figure to whom all give increasing
honor. That peculiar homage which
the civilized world pays to Luther
Burbank. the wizard of the plant
world. i. a significant evidence o. the
almost universal prevalence of this
sentiment.
"But there is one place in which it
is smothered and outraged the mark
et place to which the grower sends his
goods represents "a consistently low
an order of commercial morals as
may be found in the whole country.
Mr.. Crissey then shows how growers
and small shippers are defrauded Of
their profits by these ''unspeakable
prowlers in hegardep.' - HeinstanceS
a woman cruelty deprived of her all,
OF a grover who finally came to let
ting his crops rot on the groundrather
than submit TO the deyilish practices
alleged against the dishonest commits
sion agent. 1t makes an interesting
story. but if rue great many ap-
parently respectable business men de-
serve the restraints oi prison.
The number is lightened by history
ofSamuel Blythe's frantic trip through
continental Europe in search of a
hard-boiled egg. If Mr.. Blythe knows
how funny he is. he must be man
born TO the ioyou, life.
Containing the fight against margin
gambling. Frederick Upham Adams
takes for his text The Tricks Of the
Wall Street Game" he publishes
for ~, Gr,t time record of the tran
Sc ioas Of \. O. Brown * Company
on the day ot their failure. August 2S.
1905. Eight hundred thousand -har.-
i, a fair days business ior the whole
Exchange. yet, although this was Sat
urday. when the Exchange was open
only two hours, this firm bought and
sold |. 466. 900 shares Of stock for one
dummy account alone. This could
have been accomplished only under
the machinery OF the New York Stock
Exchange, operating in connection
with It's Clearing House and the sup
port of banks" Mr.. Adam, admits
that there are honest brokers. and
that a properly conducted exchange Is
necessary in our business life. but he
says that under present conditions,
sit j. practically impossible 10 verify
the report of a broker" and that "thc
first utility of a dummy account IS 10
facilitate the bucketing of orders by a
house with a Stock Exchange conncc-
ton. despite the rules of that organi-
zation." The reader is left with an
impression that until the Exchange is
regulated by law. most brokers will
carry dummy accounts, and the lay
customer never can be sure just where
his money is going.
Stalking the Gentle Orchid, by
Franklin Clarkin, while told as fact
amounts in realty to a series OF tales
Of thrilling adventure. Murder. star
yation and sudden death follow in the
wake of the man who searches for rare
plants. Men die and send others tC
death for a root that may never
bloom; women spend hundreds o
thousands on their collections, an(
rugged empire builders come under it,
sway. We are tod, by way OF con
trast, that the ultra-refned type o
man prefers coarser plants. Surely
curious side light on human nature
And it is startling to learn that Mrs
G.. w. Wilson, Philadelphia, Pa, ~
continually increasing her posses
sions," although she began by pur
chasing the y. II. Smith and TN
Erastus Corning collections, the latte
of which was gathered at an expens
of $500, ,000