Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-11-20

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IF you've got dollar, nail it up"
name had always stood for honesty and
fair dealing and conservative business.
It was half an hour before the stock
exchange opened. but the dingy little
office was packed with an excited
crowd of customers.
The doctor followed old Dugro. the
head of the firm. into his private office
and asked his advice. He got it-sharp.
short and to the point
'Go home. doctor. and stay there.
This market is no place for an anna
teur. It's all can do to keep the wolf
from my door in these days."
But I've received some important
information"
keep it DARK" old Dugro scowled
Don't tell 1t to your worst enemy. II
you've got dollar. nail it up and sleep
on the box"
"But I've some information ! think
I'm going to act on and want to open
4 small account with you"
"All right. I've warned you" was
the grim answer Il wish you good
luck"
The doctor drew his check for $4,000
and smilingly took his place among the
crowd before the board.
The ticker would tell the story IN the
first hour. II stocks should sell of
three points before noon. he would
know lie determined to put this to
he test first He would not sell thu
market short. He would he content
with the big jump the market would
make upward when it started.
AS the noon hour drew near the doc
tors heart was beating like a sledge
hammer. Bivens' program had been
carried out to the letter. Stocks had de-
clined for the first hour point, and in
the second hour suddenly smashed
down two more points amid the widest
excitement on the exchange.
The moment to buy had come. The
doctor was sure of it. Stocks had
touched bottom. The big bear pool
would turn bull in a moment and the
whole market would rise by leaps and
bounds.
He called old Dugro.
BUY for me now Amalgamated Cop
per, the market leader, for all I'm
worthv'
The broker glared at him.
BUY! Buy In this market? Man
are you mad?"
~ coid h,,vV, ~uoa Aho a.,o os~..
"What's the iimit?"
mot share without a stop loss or
der under It."
"WelI. with the stop2"
I'LL buy you 400 shares on a -four
point STOP"
"And when it goes up five points p
the doctor asked eagerly.
: I'll double your purchase and raise
. your stop, and every five points up III
keep on until you are millionaire!'
The old broker smiled contemptu
ously, but it was all lost on the doctor
e do it quick"
The order was scarcely given befor,
] 1t was executed. Dugro handed thu
j memorandum to WoOdman with =!
3 grunt
ut don't take long to get 'em today r
The words had scarcely left his lip
D when hoarse cry rose from the Grove
hanging over the ticker
J. Copper had leaped upward who'll
point between sales. A wild chez
y swept the room. For ten minutes ever.
y stock on the list responded and begal
II to climb.
The doctors face was wreathed Il
e smiles. Men began to talk and laug
o and feel human for the first momen
u in two weeks.
8 Dugro grasped the doctors hand
re and his deep voice rang above tn
roar:
t you're a mascot You've broke
e the spell! For Gods sake stay wit
y us!'
% Suddenly another cry came from th
% crowd at the ticker. The boy at tn
IL board sprang to the instrument wit
'e a single bound. his eyes blazing wit
excitement. His cry Of "Down!'' piert
10 ed every ear in the room with horror.
=. The panic had come.
In ten minutes stocks tumbled fV
&c points, and the doctors last dollar wa
d swept into space. while the whole ma
e ket plunged down. down, down into til
lg abyss of ruin and despair.
I'd Men no longer tried to conceal thel
u emotion. Some wept, some curset
ID some laughed: but the most pitifl
&c sight Of all was the man who coul
e. do neither. the man with white liz
d. and the strange, hunted expression
his eyes who was looking death In til
! face for the first time.
ly A full quarter Of an hour of the pan
b had spent itself before the daze
ne crowds In the brokers' Offices read tt
e- startling news that caused the 81
n break The tic ker shrieked its messal
IL above the storms din like lit
e laughing demon. a.., Va = ~ :...> 81.
'The Van Dam Trust Company q.