Show I Cleans s Up Million Mon by Bulge in Cotton Coton I N Y T Cor Chicago Mike Thomas is now hailed as the new cotton coton king He already ranks as the bull bul leader at the cotton exchange and Wall Wal street is expecting him to start the fireworks going soon Now he e is rated as a millionaire with wih other millions in L sight In July the Texas law abolishing brokerage offices went into effect and Thomas Tomas came caine eme on to New York York He got the reception of ot his life le He put new life le into the market from the moment ho he stepped upon the floor foor of ot the cotton exchange ge He has been the dominant figure ever since he ha Mike Thomas made good because he was steadfast He believed he had planked down his money on the win winning winning winning ning color and he let it I ride rde Others grew gew shaky and sold out and went short Mike Ike simply bought more mor When Wen the te wires brought him the news that the leading bulls buls had sold out and turned bears a little above 11 1 cents he sized up his profits up to that point They were big bigger than he hedared hedared hedared dared ment believe beleve It I was the critical mo moment moment moment Puts Grizzlies Grizzles to Rout RoutHe RoutHe RoutHe He had haq a chance chan e to join in the move movement movement movement ment to force a decline and shake out the little fellows or take the brunt of ot the selling run of ot the big biG fellows He chose the latter later course He dou doubled doubled doubled bled trebled his holdings He lIe bought cotton coton by the tens of ot thousands of ot bales The market responded to his hla enormous purchases and md ho he knew know he had won out A few more big buying buy ng orders and the big grizzlies were in full retreat and Mike Thomas sold them the cotton coton they wanted in order to cover shorts Mike Thomas is from Dallas Dala Tex where for years he has conducted a brokerage business He is the head of the firm of ot M 1 H Thomas Co Throughout the cotton trade he ho Is known as Mike Thomas Thom s and he Is proud prud of ot it He is the Mike that ever bore the te Celtic cognomen He signs his name Mike His cable address is Mike He would rather be called caled Mike Ike than be president King Bull Bul of the Herd Her Of all al the bulls buls that ever sounded the slogan for higher prices pries Mike Thomas is the tle most bullish He is a abul bull bul by nature instinct training and profession No one ever heard him say that cotton was high enough If I he thought so he kept his opinion to him himself himself himself self He can kill ki a crop in more ways than Lucretia Lucreta Borgia could get rid rd of her enemies And above all al he knows cotton coton He Ho has common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense Like Brer Rabbit he lie was bawn an bred in a cotton coton patch In many respects ho Js Is the most picturesque picturesque esque figure in the cotton coton world today The only way to describe Mike Ike Thom Thomas as is to say that he is Mike l e Thomas ThomaS and therefore different from anybody else In Wall Wal street he is as much of an anachronism as s Sam Houston was was In hi congress He has h the homely wit o ot of David Harum His language is as as picturesque as that of the old cattle cattlemen catte cattlemen men in Alfred Henry Henr Lewis Wolf Wolfville Wolfville ville yarns and jo no man In the coun country countr country try tr cantel cantell tell a a story stor better beter than he Can Preach and Play Poker He began life as a newsboy in the streets of ot Dallas Dalas and afterward be became became became came a cowboy He is a versatile citi citizen citizen zen He can read Greek preach a a ser sermon sermon sermon mon make an speech that thai will wi set the coldest audience in a roar play poker catch as a many fish as 3 a Grover Grovr Cleveland and kill ki as many birds as a a professional marksman He HeIs HeIs HeIs Is not afraid of anything that walks crawls or flies With Wih all al the interminable statistics of ot the cotton trade at his tongues enc enche end he never uses ues any except the final trial tria balance which goes to show that there wont be enough cotton coton to supply the worlds needs He will wi let you talk as much as you want to about bearish bearsh statistics and favorable weather wether anc and then he will wi demolish your argument by a story stor about a man that lived up upon upon upon on the Vest West Fork of TwoMile Two m creek and when he gits through with wih his story stor you have been converted into buying cotton Takes Two Guns to Pit There are arc many man members of the cot cotton cotton cotton ton exchange who can remember the day Mike lIke Thomas first frt appeared on the floor foor after aler he was elected ele ted There al at always a ways is fi a good deal of ot genial horse horseplay horseplay horseplay play directed at new members which passes for initiation Hats Mats are smashed collars colars torn off of and various other marks mars of ot comradeship are The cotton coton exchange royster ers era were not quite quie at their ease easo wIn the new member from Texas walked up to the pit pi They saw that his wide wid brimmed hat was a mans size and there was something peculiarly dis disquieting disquieting quieting about the rough hewn coun countenance countenance of the new comer He looked like a cross between a gentleman genteman farm farmer er and a road agent Finally one of at the bolder young members took a crack at the hat He was promptly tossed over to to the other side of thi tt pit pi Two others came up and grabbed the Texan Look Lok out hes got a gun ex cx exclaimed claimed ono one of them Hes got g t two of ot them yelled No 2 who had come into contact with wih the theother theother theother other hip pocket There was no more hazing haing |