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Show SfilL STREET.: ,f Men Who Manage to Live ftJ Use of Their Wits and a 'proper Exercise of Cheek. . . jjlS DECESSAEY TO SUCCEED. fill Give You Trustworthy Infor-' Infor-' . if You Promise an Interest in Your Purchase. J .IIE evolution of the Wall J l treet tip has been curious aud Viilcrnsting. Starting years ,,, in a little speck known .1 '''private hifonnation,"it jL developed into a system. Til0 svstem, according to the vcW Vork Times, is headed i,v bo'S tipsters and footed m,,rflcVmcu tipsters. There are 1 have made iiunien.se They don't call thimi-Tupsters. thimi-Tupsters. Neither does any i!e,lse but the irreverent ones. But Caetipeters, or they have been. And L h, tipsters who are worse off now I ckfly and morally, too than when Kfciweer business. Tobeasuccess-I Tobeasuccess-I teter requires many accomplish-lZ accomplish-lZ The one who travels tranquilly I t),e road to fortune is he who is III educated, talks well, dresses well, I above all, knows well the man to L be presents his Zips. The business L tipster is to give information as to L fflobable course of tho price of stocks ifo (scare an interest in any purchase Lie made by the moneyed individual Lorn he imparts the information. If I jjpsier is right oftener than he is L, then he makes money and in re-Lai. re-Lai. If his tips are bad oftener than Erin good, why, he is despised aud Cn bated, and, instead of truffles, he L on coffee and cakes, and is a prophet Lit honor in any country. 1 I HIS STOCK IN TRADE. J I Ibe tipster requires no financial capi-1 capi-1 l Cheek is what he needs a hard I L md plenty of it. Whether the 1 Q a natural or whether it is acquired no difference. Many a timid, I lijing young man has gone into Wall ( Lt, from some cause or another, and I I few years has cultivated a facial de-' de-' Lment which would crack a paving Lif it came in collision with one. Ie las gone into Wall street and he L staid there. No genuine, simon lie tipster ever retired from the street, Li though they grow old they never lit, Their cheek is a barrier between l?m and the old man with the scythe. bM the cheek there must always be action. The cheek that carries with I tbc undesirable attachment known, as freshness" is of no value. I It most be a well regulated cheek, a :k always under control and always L readiness to respond to the call of lit? when opportunity comes. Profes-IomIIv, Profes-IomIIv, this quality is not known as Leek. It is called "a good business pence." But it is cheek, just as much I stock speculation to the great majority major-ity is gambling. And the crack tipster Lust also have a well developed f aculty fcr erplaining' defeat. He must never limit that he was wrong. That would fatal. He must say that somebody fee was wrong, and he must valiantly tier to prove it. If his cheek is properly rjnkted and serves him well, the dis-Ippointed dis-Ippointed principal will listen to him mi accept more tips from him. I itisnot a profession that can be master-h master-h by books. Experience only brings fcaftery. There is a certain zest about 1; a sort of fascinating uncertainty . The ting man gets what he thinks is some prate information regarding the future M say, Hohokus third preferred. Here-inber8 Here-inber8 that a certain man once told m that if he ever happened to hear of railing good to let him know. Perhaps IMbody ever told him that, and perhaps p makes up his mind to go to a stranger. (Wore he goes he probably site down and mm on the possible profits. The pasuresof hope are his for a few mo-pts, mo-pts, Then, a little bit rattled andun-leasy, andun-leasy, he starts for the lair of the capi-jtalist capi-jtalist I HOW HE PBOCEEDS.- I His reception is not enthusiastic; it is I'M encouraging. The bloated bond-plder bond-plder merely nods at him and grunts. ' 'k Bir'" Boys the yun man' I Hat I have some very good information IWng Hohokus thirds." I "You have, hey?" growls the man with luck "Well, what is it and where did Jgetit? I "Hohokus is good for an eight point I" answers the callow tipster, with h confidence. I "Oh, it is, is it? Where did you find I 'Wont?" I Tie tipster asks of the capitalist a ?mise of secrecv and the capitalist haughtily. "Then he tells how a I wend of his is a clerk in the office of the I ndent of the Hohokus railroad, and I J mend has happened to mention to I that "the old man and his friends I e been buying Hohokus thirds on I thfi I1119 8lamP a11"1 h naa overheard I J mai advising its purchase." I we capitalist grunts and says h'm a I 4 many times. He observes that he I snt take much stock in that kind of I ration. The tipster who is being I nthf1 now 18 a Btudent of hwxuw I re' and has discovered as time has I rZ1 tlmt a capitalist isn't such a I bTt?inent dfridual afttr all, and he I j, "fcome so absolutely certain that I Li " Soing np that he begins to Independent I tpHA11 rigllt'" 110 olJy wi8h 1 j mney enough to buy it myself. But some" 1 0811 26t Bllly Blobbs 40 me capitalist hates Blobbs, and as the j1,1 is about to leave he calls him wck. 3 ell," he says, "if you are so sure I Kj a few hundred on joint account." does buy it, and Hohokus does ad-aoee. ad-aoee. Thereafter the tipster is a wel-, wel-, e guest, and he continues as such so w his tips are right w5? Successful tipster is s man who Ud excite sympathy if it were not Mrfil Varying confidence that he is wiV0 ,bta;m a Joint some time that a" ff him on fcs feet-1- |