Show ON A MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT I Struggle for Wealth Almost Equal to Wall Street Frenzy A young fellow a fellow passenger was leaning upon the rail beside me looking upon the scene below Ho told mo to watch and he would show me somo sport He drew a dime out of his pocket lIe waved his arm to attract at-tract tho attention of tho negroes down upon the lower deck and then he flung the coin It fell tinkling and rolled between two cotton bales With yells the negroes rushed at It tumultuously tumul-tuously piling over one another n tangled mass of waving arms and legs whenco Issued muffled groans and grunts Then suddenly the mass dissolved dis-solved again Into a mob of rousters gaping up at us with rolling yellow I eyes and heaving chests and dilated nostrils Another piece of silver twinkled in the air and fell among them Leaping nnd grabbing the negroes snatched at the falling coin then plunged again Into heap By this time others of the passengers passen-gers had heard tho noise and tho scuffling and soon quite a crowd was gathered along the rail A shower of change began to fall upon tho deck I below and Into the crowd of now Unit frantic blacks It was a comical spectacle A ittlo while before the negroes had been quietly busied about their own affairs a handful of cheap silver had fallen among them and in less than a minute min-ute their small world wan transformed Into a pandemonium I have heard It said that the same phenomenun occurs sometimes on the stock exchange Harpers Magazine |