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Show , A .i going to be with him." . "But yon can't boy less than 100 shares ' at a time," be was told. "All right," he replied; "I guess I can stand it if the rest can." i "We don't take checks on out of town , banks," he was again informed. It was i thought that would settle the matter. "Well," he said, "I brought the money along with me." .... Then begun a wondrous display. Bills, gold and silver coins came out of one pocket after another. Trousers pockets, ! vest pockets, coat pockets, were all filled ! with every variety of money. The bills j were of a small denomination, and when j the farmer bad emptied his pockets a j large table was covered with money, mostly of very old issue. "They told me up country that I'd better put money in every pocket, so if them pickpockets got the best of me they'd only get part of my savings. There's Just $7,000. Count and see if you don't believe me. Now, you just go and buy some of them stocks old Jay's been buying, and I'll be around in about o month and put my profits in some more of the stocks. I ain't slow, you bet, and I'm in with Qonld every time, don't you forget itt" New York Telegram. Aa Incident sf the Wall Street Depression. . A man wearing a slouch hat, ill fitting clothes and having ths general appearance appear-ance of a countryman entered the office) of a prominent Wall street broker. "lathis here one of the places where you buy stocks?" he asked. He was informed in-formed ttiat it was. No one, however, was encouraged by his appearance to make a customer of him. He looked around curiously for several minutes and then said: "Well, I came in from ( the country to buy some of them cheap tocks. J read in the papers that Jay j Gould was buying: lota of railroads now, ltad.Ms arfittr emarUI -coat, aaa n . . (- - - ' ': I I v |