The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-05-11


well as in face and figure" he declared
"Sbe has developed remarkably" ad-
mitted Kelvin. "She was little girl
in shoe top dresses when boarded at
their house. Even then ! thought her
pretty hut ] never suspected that she
would become such beautiful won.
an"
''She II much more than beauti-
full" insisted Rensselaer,. "Sbe is the
sort of woman who would spend her
whole life In the endeavor to make her
husband happy and she would sue
ceed. would swear that she Ia Of
even temper and unfaltering steadfast-
ness. Moreover. she Is intelligent
enough to keep pace with her husband.
no matter what his progress"
''She is tine girl" admitted Kelvin.
"1sn't 1t startling, though, to think
how much her mother must have look
ed like bar at the same ager
mo" stoutly maintained Rensselaer,.
"Her mother Is only a pitiful example
of what worry and hard work and
damnable poverty will do for a wom-
an. Right now the girl would marry
you In a minute. and you would In
sure yourself life of happiness"
you have rather a romantic imag-
ination. Bert" laughed Phillip. where
upon Rensselaer, gave up the topic
with disgust
II did cot take long for the street to
know that there was new bear" In
: A,,A ~ s9lr ehn Assoe
morning some twenty stocks were sold
in 1000 share lots no attention was
paid. When. however. on the second
and third and fourth mornings the
days business was opened by the offer
Of 1000 shares of each of these stocks
the coincidence began to be noticed,
and when the same phenomenon oc-
Cured on the fifth and sixth and sew.
enth mornings It began to be not CO.
incidence. but design. and all the
: floor was talking Of It
The stocks had been disposed Of
! without difficulty though there was no
particular eagerness. for the market
was worse than sluggish. Now. how
ever. certain "bull' coterie of the
railroad crowd. scenting here a delib-
crate attempt to force the market.
combined in a more or less aggressive
counter attack and within another
week did actually succeed in forcing
up the entire line some ten points
/ This action. however. had no effect
upon Phillip Kelvin. Every morning
he sold the monotonous 1000 shares
: of each of the twenty stocks which
had been chosen for attack. On the
day that the bull movement had forced
stocks the highest Galleon remon-
strated.
Look here. Mr. Kelvin" said he;
'you are bucking up against some Of
the biggest men on the street, a group
OF half a dozen men. each Of whom
could probably swallow you whole In
financial way. II they get after
your scalp I'm afraid you are in for
losing a tremendous amount of mon.
ey."
"You have everything margined fifty
pointsf"
YES But have known this same
group to manipulate the market to a
seventy goint rise"
Young Kelvin was quite complacent
about 1t. "They are doing me a serv-
ice." said he. "The margins | have
put up on the stocks previously bought
are ample. They are not going to
force prices far enough to make you
call for more margin, but II they do
the margin will be forthcoming. In
the meantime, however, they are en-
abling me to sell at q much higher
price. They are playing my own game
for me-"
fro BE Continued