The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-11-23

Ut you've got q dollar, NAH u up.
name had always stood for honesty and
fair dealing and conservative business.
1t 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 it 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
small account with YOU"
''All right. I've warned you" was
the grim answer II 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. If stocks should sell off
three points before noon, he would
know. He determined to put this to
the test first. He would not sell the
market short. He would be 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 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
WORTH
The broker glared at him.
Buy! Buy in this market? Man.
are you mad?'
II said buy was the, firm answer
whats the limit 2"
"NOt a share without a stop loss or
| der under it,"
well. with the stop"
I'll buy you 400 shares on a four
point stop"
And when it goes up five points 2"
the doctor asked eagerly.
I'll double your purchase and raise
your stop, and every five points up I'll
| keep on until you are a millionairew
! The old broker smiled contemptu-
| ously, but it was all lost on the doctor
do it quick
The order was scarcely given before
| it was executed. Dugro handed the
memorandum to Woodman with a
| grunt.
at don't take long to get 'em today"
The words had scarcely left his lips
when hoarse cry rose from the crowd
| hanging over the ticker
Copper had leaped upward a whole
| point between sales. A wild cheer
! swept the room. For ten minutes every
| stock on the list responded and began
to climb.
The doctors face was wreathed in
smiles. Men began to talk and laugh
| and feel human for the first moment
in two weeks.
Dugro grasped the doctors hand.
and his deep voice rang above the
roar:
You're a mascot, You've broken
the spell. For Gods sake stay with
u.s.
Suddenly another cry ca ne from the
crowd at the ticker. The boy at the
board sprang to the instrument with
single bound. his eyes blazing with
excitement His cry of Down pierre
ed every ear in the room with horror
The panic had come.
In ten minutes stocks tumbled FIVE
points and the doctors last dollar was
swept into space. while the whole mar
ket plunged down down. down into the
abyss Of ruin and despair.
Men no longer tried TO conceal their
emotion. Some wept. some cursed,
some laughed; but the most pitiful
sight of all was the man who could
do neither, the man with white lips
and the strange. hunted expression in
his eyes who was looking death in the
face for the first time.
A full quarter of an hour Of the panic
| had spent itself before the dazed
c-oy-6S IN tho b-nI-ar'S ofSoas road tho
startling news that caused the big