Show I 1 ON THE GROUND FLOOR 1 how I a widow jurado use of f what she heard lEall road d dirtat ili S sy YI few years ayo ago a widow and her da daughter 1 ahter acre ocic occupy occupying in a letioa tion in a allman thim air sleeper on the id alls uri railroad the section inthis 10 this assy lal 13 happened to be occupied by a co comple aple of the diree directors tors of that raili railroad ovi T tl 3 partition pit b between twe c n the two sect sections ous wf ay i 1 so thin that it was not difficult for conversation aon on car carried led on in one sf tol hotbo J be heard in tse the other tha ugly lady CrI jeler heard the alv two 0 dl directors ector discuss ia hie a plan of consolidation where whereby bir tl tt stock of the missouri ouri pacific was rd b aill to be greatly enhanced in value it was then worth but two or three ce cents its on the dollar she was then on trip to her home in hartford conn the conversation of the jwj directors preyed on her mind sha revolved it over and over again until het home was reached about which time a five thousand dollar note d due u I 1 hel was redeemed she sent for her attorney detailed to him th the e conversation t S she he had heard and said she was wa 9 almost resolved to invest the five thou jasd dollars in missouri pacific raci fic the attorney mistaking her announced resolution for irony laughed but the w weman I 1 of wealth persisted at is but five thousand dollars she S said ald and if I 1 lose I 1 shall have just jus t as ai maeh to eat as I 1 have always had and just jua aas as much to wear if the plans b le e ar troyed a c d by these two directors work out A t I 1 shall make a good deal of money buying bli missouri pacific rhe fhe attorney obeyed the instruct instructions instruction io ns offis client invested the five thousand dd dollars lIars and in less than one month the p proposed I 1 sed consolidation was consummated and the hartford widow realized for her ber five thousand dollar investment atthe first fint blush this inci there was no lucle luck about it it was assim simply an unexpected exhibition of what in in wall street vernacular is termed nerve on the part of a quick eared an and a quiel quicker witted woman not one person in in ten thousand would have given any heed to the conversation referred to and not one of a thousand who might have heard and heeded and who happened to have the money as the widow had bad it would have dared invest it these incidents and illustrations might be expanded until volumes were filled the evidence e would woul d be cumulative that eyes and ears and brain in make ake what the thoughtless term luck |